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About local nodes

1. How is the FECD community organised in territorial terms?

   FECD aims to be a community that encompasses communities. A distributed system of local nodes that manage the digital platform independently but in coordination with the rest. Legitimate agents, connected with interest groups, with an important social dimension and references in their field of action (cities, autonomous communities, etc.). A network of trusted nodes that serves to locate the digital, providing proximity and specificity, multiplying the impact of collective financing in its territory.

2. Who, and how to create a node?

   Any collective or public or private body can form a local node in a specific place or area (for the moment, only in Spain), insofar as its members share the enthusiasm and the operational capacity to attract people, projects, and sources of funding.
   
   All this is articulated around the commons, open source, and free knowledge, in order to champion community social development by managing both the local FECD platform and the promotion of the projects.
   
   In order to set in motion a local node, the interested agent must:
   

   • Produce a small-scale study of the local context, in relation to project leaders and co-financiers.
   
   
   • Have availability of the minimum funds in order to maintain human resources and the tasks related to the management of the node.
   
   
   • Cover the corresponding part of the social investment fund to which all the nodes contribute in order to support the projects.
   
   
   • Establish a phase in order to familiarise themselves with the platform and the operation of the system.

   
   If you are interested in organising a local FECD node in your area, get in touch with us.

3. Are there any themed nodes?

   As the FECD platform evolves, the themes and areas that different projects have in common can be grouped around small specialized virtual communities.
   
   That is, experts and people passionate about a certain topic who act from any geographical location as prescribers, advising or disseminating projects in the financing phase related to a specific field such as community development in a certain area or place, technology and reduction of the digital divide, healthy production and consumption, community cultural heritage, art, education, reduction of domestic violence, etc.

4. Is there a FECD node near me?

   If there isn't, there should be! We invite you to design and propose it.
   
   Soon we will have news about creating nodes and later on converting those nodes into channels. For now, we recommend you take a look at our 'Community' menu.