Acknowledging Our Limitations
As believers in the principles of both open-access and open-source, and who wish to we value transparency above all.
Furthermore, many of us come from organizations and movements which promised to bring about the transition, and have all the answers, yet just became ossified and top-down.
While many members of our movement share backgrounds in STEM fields, we want to be clear that we are not claiming expertise in all specialized domains necessary to fully implement this vision.
Regardless, we have seen from previous experiments in cybernetic management and planning, as well as the rapid advancement in computing power, AI, and automation, our vision is not only possible, but inevitable in the near future.
Respect for specialized knowledge
Yet we also know that we stand on the shoulders of giants, who have led science and technology to a level with which we can finally see a world beyond labour and scarcity emerge before us.
Chief among them are:
- The technical expertise of engineers and systems designers.
- The domain-specific knowledge of various scientific disciplines.
- The rigorous analytical frameworks developed by mathematicians and accountants.
- The practical skill of skilled tradespeople and blue-collar workers.
- The insight of sociologists, psychologists, medics, and countless others who taught us more about humans, and their behaviour.
We recognize that true solutions require input from these diverse forms of expertise rather than theoretical models developed in isolation, and we assure those want to work with us to create the software and hardware for an open access economy that they will have the first say in how it is implemented.
Our Current State of Development
While we have developed conceptual frameworks and rough sketches of how resource management might function in an Open Access Economy, we acknowledge that:
- Comprehensive mathematical models for optimal resource allocation at scale are still in the concept phase
- Detailed formulas for balancing complex resource management decisions across diverse domains have not been created
- Many technical challenges remain to be solved through collaborative effort
Moving Forward
We invite those with relevant expertise to join us in addressing these technical challenges. Our approach is not to claim we have all the answers, but rather to facilitate the collaborative process of developing them.
In the meantime, our goal will be to making accessism known to the general public, creating a international political bloc of accessist parties, creating educational resources, building community networks, and promoting the underlying principles that guide our vision, in preparation for the Convergence Point.