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# Sprint 6: Enabling open infrastructure

To establish a shared foundation of societal narrative, effective policies, digital infrastructure, and orchestration capacity that enables exponential change, together.

To mobilise the ecosystem, we must reduce the cost and complexity of making change thereby enabling many actors to solve problems. Aligning the ecosystem with a societal narrative and effective policies reduces silos and miscoordination. Leveraging open infrastructure and sharing resources reduces the cost of coordination and transaction. Every airline does not build their own airport, neither does everyone build their own Internet.

**Pre-requisite:** Actions / initiatives to assess and improve the ability of key ecosystem actors

**Pre-requisite:** An updated version of the design document (SDA5) based on sprint 5 outputs

**Downloadable assets** that are useful for preparing for / facilitating this sprint:

* [S6A1](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FL_6ZYZZyJFEFUVI7gTpmATsrZQI6Q3t/view?usp=drive_link): A primer on the basic principles of open infrastructure
* [S6A2](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AsAujNpkPENtjfdZS3cC4tM4dCZ6hFwU/view?usp=drive_link): Objectives and agenda for the time we will spend together
* S6A3: A slide deck to help identify open infrastructure required 
* S6A4: A guide to enable those who want to facilitate this sprint
* [SDA5](https://drive.google.com/file/d/10y8qmaoIwF_dkMgaZmURZHNQmHczUzV8/view?usp=drive_link): The design document where all sprint outputs are curated

Please email <design@societalthinking.org> to request a copy of A3 and A4 assets.

**Post-work:** Actions / initiatives to leverage / enable / develop various open infrastructure

**Post-work:** An updated version of the design document (SDA5) based on sprint 6 outputs


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