The Manifesto of the COBIOM network

I) Our vision is a society that exists in a harmonic, mutually beneficial relationship between humanity and nature. We do this by educating thought leaders that inspire and empower people to take responsible and conscious actions to smoothly transform society into an aware and meaningful part of this world.

II) All our work and activities are defined and directed by the values we strive to establish in society, companies and organisations. Our success is measured against these hallmarks and every action towards the outside of the agency has to be in alignment with them. The highest quality in all processes and products we deliver, is key to our success.

III) We believe in our ability and trust in our potential impact to work towards this goal as a community based on mutual trust and reliability according to the values of the coworking manifesto: collaboration over competition; community over agendas; participation over observation; doing over saying; friendship over formality; boldness over assurance; learning over expertise; people over personalities; value ecosystem over value chain.

IV) All our actions are driven by the desire to achieve a sustainable existence, be it ecologically, economically, or personally. Thus, we value individual needs, personalities, diversity and exchange as the highest human goods where they are in accordance with a sustainable state of the comprising system. Health and well being of every member, as well as the balance of life and work desired and required by every participant, is the goal of the internal work.

V) Monetary value obtained by the work of the network shall be distributed fairly. Data acquisition, storage, application and change is transparent and debatable. Additional payments and agreements have to be documented and made fully accountable.

VI) Everybody acting in the name of the network is accountable for their own actions and those of every other member. With freedom and ownership comes responsibility. Everybody is responsible for reputation, legal integrity, and data security of the network. The guidelines of our security and privacy policy are part of this manifesto.


What we are

The Responsible Innovation Network is an ecosystem that provides conditions in which cooperation can grow, individuals can develop and ideas ripen to economically viable solutions that have impact for a better world for people and planet.

Values

The network serves to create conditions in which society, nature, economy and governance can thrive. To achieve this, it strives to create self-regulative, regenerative systems by following the principles outlined below, based on the Life’s Principles and Nature’s Unifying Patterns:

  1. Optimise rather than maximise
  2. Build on abundance
  3. Be responsive and adaptive
  4. Leverage interdependencies
  5. Design for resilience
  6. Fit form to function
  7. Use information over material
  8. Be locally attuned
  9. Reduce consumption and devaluation
  10. Use cyclic processes and harmless substances

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Apart from these thorough guiding principles, the world starts to agree to the framework of the Sustainability Developmental Goals of the United Nations. The Network selected the following SDGs as its goals:

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Mission for the community

The aim of the network is to help its members provide their services to clients in order to create, propagate and promote responsible innovation and development on all levels. The network functions as an enabler to create and pass on profits to its members in accordance with the aforementioned premises. It is explicitly not the goal or purpose of the network to maximise and extract profit.