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01| IkoCiti works with people, not with target groups. A barrio is rebuilt by residents who take on a role, and the roles are few, plain and open to anybody who wants one. The barrio side of the platform holds three of them: the resident who runs the work, the friends who turn up to help, and the team the work is done in. Everything else in the catalogue of players — the money, the professionals, the staff, the wider public — exists to make those three roles possible. If the

V2-4.02| THE WIDER BARRIO| Sep 05| 01| Beyond the residents who take on a role stands everybody else. Some of them are the pool the Maveriqs are recruited from. Some of them stand in the way. Some of them open the door in the first place. And one group never appears in any transaction at all, although that group is the reason the whole arrangement exists. The wider circle is not organised, does not register, and cannot be managed. The wider circle still decides whether the wo

V2-4.03| THE MONEY SIDE| Sep 05| 01| Everybody on the money side is buying something. The word buying is chosen against the alternatives — funding, supporting, backing, giving — because those words describe a relationship in which the person handing over the money has no standing to complain about what happens next. A buyer has standing. A buyer can say the work was not good enough, can refuse the next purchase, and can compare one barrio against another. THE IMPACT BUYERSWho

01| Somebody has to run the machine. A platform that coordinates thousands of actions across many barrios, holds the money, sets the standards and keeps the record does not maintain itself. The people and the resources on the platform side have the least visible jobs in this book, and their failure would be the last failure anybody noticed. The platform side also contains the two crowds of outside professionals the platform buys in, because expertise the platform hires is a p

V2-4.05| THE ECOSYSTEM CROWD| Sep 04 - C Who already works in these neighbourhoods? 01| The Ecosystem Crowd are independent organisations and social entrepreneurs who offer services the Maveriqs need — mental health support, legal aid, youth work, vocational training, financial literacy, materials, logistics. Many have worked in the same barrios for a decade or longer and know things IkoCiti does not. They stay independent. They keep their own finances and their own clients,