The Sharealedger Vision working group, including vision, Goals and direction meetings, included Jon DeLashmit, Neil Beesley, Adeolu “Ade” Alao, Sandy Peresie and Kip Twitchell

The first several meetings participants discussed vision and goals at a very high level. In these discussions it was determined that there are 2 distinct branches of the Share-a-Ledger constituents:

  1. A multifaceted community of contributors focused on innovating in the opensource shared ledger realm.
  2. Actually developing a product.

Before a vision could be designed the group had to define the audience. This simple question helped drive the importance of distinguishing between the end customers of ledger solutions and the open source developments and others who will build those tools.

With these high level concepts in mind the participants developed a vision statement intended to be a long term, optimistic, achievable statement of the impact Share-a-Ledger will have when the defined goals are achieved.

Shared ledgers provide transparency, consistency, and accessibility to transform the financial world and will bring one billion new people into the digital economy; not just through transaction payments and receipts, but also through measurement of what they do well, what they don’t do well, and what they should do differently to prepare for the future.

The participants then added further definition to the goals with a focus on the actions, responsibilities, and influence that could be necessary to complete each of the goals.

To accomplish this, Sharealedger.org must

  1. Develop the community to 
  2. Innovate truly shared ledgers,
  3. Curate a library of shared resources for bookkeeping, and
  4. Facilitate adoption by lower cost and fewer constraints than today’s existing systems

Through out the discussions there was a focus on designing a vision statement and curating goals that could be used as a standard to help determine next steps, and help filter out activities that do not contribute to the overall goals and vision.

The vision and goal work is not complete. As circumstances change and more information becomes available, the vision and goals will need to be refined to maintain agility and progress in the right direction.