2011 Target Crucial Challenges : Results of SWOT Analysis for CommunityForge.net CC retreat weekend 2011
A SWOT Analysis was made by the 25 participants, as well as those that joined by skype. Here are the results in order of frequency
Strengths
1. Ideas
2. Communication capabilities/growing awareness
3. Community experience/Sharing/Solidarity
4. Great intellectual capacity
5. Great idea
6. Technical Skills
7. Down to Earth
8. Strength of Belief
9. Creativity
10. International Reach
11. Diverse Background
12. Adaptable
13. Relevant message for commercial and political audience
14. Design and Implementation
15. Research
16. Technical solutions
17. Cooperative organizations and activities
18. Past successes
Weaknesses
1. Lack of concrete tools for design purposes
2. Public Speaking
3. Ideological differences
4. Lack of unified language
5. Lack credibility
6. Confusion with money and currency
7. Lack of funding
8. Public education
9. Learning lessons
10. Knowledge sharing
11. Organization of networks
12. Lack of communication
13. Lack of time
14. Turnover of actors and stakholders
15. Amount of Time and effort it takes
16. Lack of singular vision
17. Endless discussion
18. Past experiences in CC implementation
19. Lack of legal framework
20. Lack of long term planning
21. Limited reach to activists and alternative communities
22. Lack of sustainable resource streams
23. Lack of clarity and vision
24. Need to develop decentralized support structures
25. Vulnerable Government intervention
Opportunities
1. To meet people
2. Programming software
3. Applying new monetary systems
4. Local research
5. Opening up to the whole world
6. Potential of the internet as a communication and organization tool
7. Financial crisis and the need for innovation
8. Growing volunteer potential
9. Collapse of mainstream currencies and financial infrastructure
10. People’s loss of faith in mainstream systems
11. Using past successes
12. People are opening up to alternative possibilities
13. To implement new currency
14. Resources
15. Aid funding
16. Environmental impact
17. Technicalogical advances and connectivity
18. Social disillusion
19. Being here together
20. Collaboration
21. Open source tools
22. Ideological differences
23. Lack of unified language
Threats
1. Discouraged
2. Need for support
3. Need for conventional money
4. Lack of vision from existing members
5. New world order
6. Global banking
7. Potential crisis and chaos
8. Burnout due to lack of funding and support
9. Political and legal threats
10. Governments (France)
11. Not enough money
12. Business and commercial elites
13. Government regulation
14. Isolation
15. Lack of standardization
16. Limited uptake of proven systems
17. Infighting between CC systems
18. Vulnerable infrastructure
19. Corporate and government cooptation