Santosh Vempala
Director, Algorithms and Randomness Center and ThinkTank

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Dear Mr. Vempala

Thank you for your time on the phone today. This site www.jobiz.org  is a mock up for an experiment I am working on. A charitable organization that acts as  interactive and collaborative method of business management.

I need help setting up the software that will make this site interactive. I am currently just posting details and information onto the web as I receive them through messenger or email. The goal is that each enterprise have it own chat room and some sort  proposal and choice mechanism for the participants...  an online bookkeeping,  accounting, and record keeping system that is transparent and open to all. Although all the proposals are real,  the only business that actually runs like this is the pizza parlor in Chile. Each enterprise could have different forms of governance to test which work best.

The capital for these enterprises is raised through donations as well as the income the business generate. Donations can be moved from enterprise to enterprise by the donor, assuring that donated capital is used in the for the donors most effective charity. 

Anyone can suggest a project or business plan that has a charitable theme that it works to realize. If  the  main organization accepts the project then it's put in to play on the website for participants to work with.       

It also has occurred to me that this would be an excellent way of teaching business to a class. Students can actually study a business and its history and then manage it for a semester.

 

Sincerely,      Claudio Avendano