This document summarizes the story of Simone Cicero and the OuiShare movement, which began in 2012 with one person starting a blog and hashtag. Early followers gathered and eventually met in person, developing the movement further. Over time, OuiShare grew to include summits, conferences, and online communities focused on accelerating the collaborative economy. Key lessons learned include the importance of connecting networks and communities, focusing on purpose and contributions over budgets, and leveraging distributed leadership through transparency, equity, and trust to enable collaborative decision making. The movement now encompasses community building, research, project incubation, and services to structure collaborative organizations.

1. Leveraging distributed
leadership for
Changemaking
The story of
Simone Cicero
Ouishare Connector
@meedabyte

2. Changemakers

3. Changemakers

4. Change?

5. Finding new solutions

6. Confrontation &
collaboration

8. Everything started with
one person, one blog, one #hashtag

9. then early followers gathered

10. The first follower is
what transforms a
lone nut into a leader
DEREK SIVERS

11. then more people got involved and
met in real life

12. then we picked a cool name

13. we had (international)
confrontation in real life
Paris, 1st OuiShare Summit

14. human interactions
started to be again
part of the picture

15. …an open, global, distributed
community of passionate
people (entrepreneurs,
designers, makers,
researchers, public officials,
citizens and many others)
working to accelerate the
shift toward a more
collaborative economy
a shared mission encompassing
our points of view

16. Openness
Transparency
Independence
Impact
MeetPople InRealLife
Action
PermanentBeta
Feedback
Inclusion
Play
a value manifesto?

17. …more confrontation in real life
Rome, 2nd OuiShare Summit

18. Paris, OuiShare Fest, 2nd-4th May
at the end we became
stewards of a movement

19. OuiShare Fest – Paris, May 2-4 2013
the first major european event about the collaborative economy
2 conference days : 700 attendees, 25 countries
1 open day : 3 500 attendees from Paris
150 speakers, 10 satellite events, various activities

20. 3 Summits
100+ OuiShare Events
2 Continental Tours
(LATAM/Europe)
1 Global Conference
In more than 25 cities from France, Spain, Italy,
Germany, Belgium, UK, Netherlands, Syria, Brasil,
Argentina, Chile, etc.

21. Since July 2012
240+ articles (FR/EN/ES)
60+ contributors
30.000 unique visitors/month
Almost 10K Facebook fans
Almost 6K Twitter followers
.net
Think tank = unique deep
insights on collaborative
economy

22. 70+ Online FB Groups
• Local groups to activate cities/regions
• Transversal language groups in English
(Global), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
and German.
• Thematic groups to deep dive on a topic
• Project based groups (video, labs, fest, etc.)
• Organizational groups (connectors, core
team etc.)
Grouping 1500+ contributors
from more than 20 countries mostly in
Europe and LATAM

23. ► community building
► think tank knowledge production
► do thank project incubator
…
► services (structuring)
ouishare today

24. How (the hell)
we did it

25. Stigmergy
Individual autonomy and
freedom to create regardless
of acceptance or rejection by
the group.

26. Hierarchical
group
controlled by
an individual
Consensus
individuals
controlled by
the group

27. Empowerment vs. Control:
just f*****g do it

28. Barcelona, 3rd OuiShare Summit
Challenge: building an inclusive, sustainable organization

29. Bruxelles, 4th OuiShare Summit
OBJECTIVES: define the legal structure, validate open
governance, value accounting & compensation schema
Building a new model for collaborative value making

30. That’s what we learnt
about change

31. Change is about
connecting

32. OuiShare Connectors

33. Change is P2P

34. Change becomes
exponential when you
do that impact

35. Changemaking
is about leveraging
networks and
communities

36. is about Purpose and
Contributions, not
(only) budgets

37. Inspired by simbyosi.com

38. 5
Pillars

39. Find
your North
Star
Be loyal to a
shared mission
(in permanent beta)
Today’s newbies
are more than
yesterday’s core
members

40. Push for
transparency
and clarity
Full disclosure and
understanding of
processes is key
Clarity enables
participation and
help overcome
exploitation
concerns

41. Seek equity
and
solidarity
Bonds grow in equity
and peer to peer
solidarity
You must create
something more
than a work
relationship

42. Enable
distributed
leadership
A do-first attitude
Top-bottom management
should leave room to
consensus and self
directed actions,
independence
& emancipation

43. Build on
Trust and
Reputation
Relations drive initiative
Trust and reputation are key
enablers of a distributed
and collaborative
decision making
process:
leaders emerge
if organizations
run on trust

44. Special Thanks:
- Albert Canigueral
- Benjamin Tincq
- Arthur DeGrave
Thank you!
Simone Cicero @meedabyte