Together We are Building a Better World for Us and the Future

Why You and Your Community Should Join Place4Us

Join the global community of communities working to create the future we want on a healthy planet. Our civilization is impoverishing most of us while enriching a tiny global elite and simultaneously destroying the Earth's life-support system that all human and non-human life depend upon. A global citizens movement is necessary to transform this unjust and badly designed system into one that is more just, fair, and peaceful - and to heal the Earth’s life-support system.

Place4Us is a novel Social Collaboration Platform (SCP) with the mission to facilitate the Global Citizen Movement (GCM). This GCM could lead the transformation from the current system to a new system of humans meeting their needs while safeguarding the Earth's life-support system. The platform is designed to host a global ecosystem of Virtual Community Centers (VCCs) that collaborate at many levels and through self governance maintain open, inclusive and just interactions. Together, the VCCs make progress towards a joint vision of a future that brings humankind into balance with the Earth's life-support system where the purpose of nature including humans is clearly articulated, respected and protected.

VCCs are virtual buildings for community members to interact, learn, work together and act together. A viable GCM depends upon strong local communities and the VCCs are designed to enable those local communities.

Place4Us is different from other existing and emerging SCPs. While there are increasingly more SCPs, there are few, if any, that are both mission-based and designed to facilitate collaboration between communities. Unlike the other SCPs, Place4Us has a clear vision and a focused mission, and Place4Us enables broad collaboration between the VCCs.

You can easily sign up and become a member of the Place4Us Community. Most of the existing VCCs are open for new members. Look around and see which of the existing VCCs are of main interest to you.

Signing up makes you also a member of the Place4Us Plenary, the main decision body that decides on how Place4Us is further developed into the global infrastructure the GCM needs. There are annual virtual meetings of the Plenary. You also can apply to be one of the main committees that focus on core tasks in further developing and maintaining Place4Us.

If you want to bring your community to Place4Us, you can establish a new VCC by simply completing the Open New VCC form. Note that you can only complete this form after you have signed up and logged in as a Place4Us user.

To learn more about Place4Us and the VCC, have a look at the Place4Us and VCC Primers.

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