Hub Culture Overview
Illuminate. Integrate. Elevate.
Our mission is to help reveal, enhance and expand collective consciousness.
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Hub Culture is a socially operated movement using networks to create and distribute value for members. Over 20,000 global urban influentials are connected, giving the network far reaching ability to build worth.
Hub Culture is the world's first socially operated company and operates Ven, a digital social currency. It is a global leader in networked workspace and knowledge brokerage.
HubCulture.com uses technology to provide efficiency leaps for members. The principal tools involve collaboration: Groups with file sharing and wikis, Knowledge Brokerage to help drive deals, and Ven. These pillars support the Hub Culture Pavilions, real, low-carbon places designed for meetings and connections. Other Hub Culture locations include beach clubs, clubhouses, and the NooRepublic, an island project.
Membership to the HubCulture.com Network is free by invitation. Membership upgrades are available to use the physical Pavilions and some areas of the website, but in many cases these costs can be 'earned' by members who contribute knowledge to others. Hub is a positive, value creating feedback loop. Content is highly curated and often member generated.
See our Wikipedia or Crunchbase, or take a video tour of Pavilions, London, Ibiza or the NooRepublic. See how our digital currency, Ven, can be used.
History
It all began in 2002 with the publication of the book Hub Culture: The Next Wave of Urban Consumers, one of the first explorations of globalized social communities. HubCulture.com was founded at this time to provide a meeting place for the global urban influentials described in the book. Over time, we began to produce functions (such as round table dinners, events and charitable fundraisers), to connect those who wanted to meet like-minded others.
The website became a leading reference point for the uniquely globalized zeitgeist that defines Hub Culture, with curated content and sharp coverage of the global scene.
In 2005 Hub Culture events grew into Pavilions, longer term temporary projects in key places. The number of activities grew into a series of regular projects and events reaching thousands of members. The first Pavilion appeared in January 2005 on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, with others following in Miami and St. Moritz.
In 2007 Hub Culture expanded its social network to include knowledge brokerage, future trend analysis and connection services for a selection of blue-chip clients. In January 2007 the company released its first Zeitgeist Ranking, calling the scene in the world's leading urban centers. That summer the company released Ven, a global social currency first available in Facebook. Today Ven is priced in real time against the markets, with a combination of currencies, commodities and carbon futures making up the value of Ven. Millions of units are in circulation as the world's first knowledge currency, perfect for micropayments, favours and valuing knowledge.
Hub Culture helps members build worth. The website offers an easy suite of tools to enhance collaboration, and content is created with the help of knowledge-rich experts in a variety of fields who publish for themselves and the network.
The arrival of permanent Pavilions in key global cities enhance the mission of Hub Culture to help illuminate, integrate and elevate collective consciousness among the world's global influentials. The Pavilions represent a breakthrough in sustainability, work efficiency, and community development by providing spaces that combine the virtual and physical in a stunning format. Another world first.
Pavilions
The Pavilions are designed to merge virtual and physical environments and create new types of interaction opportunities for the community. They vary in size and operations, but all run on a sophisticated virtual platform that includes a booking system, reservations, online store, proximity management, social media integration and more.
Pavilions offer a new way to work for the networked individual and forward thinking companies. They are a carbon winner - shortening commutes while aggregating resources. They build worth by cross-fertilizing ideas, companies and capital, in a new type of innovation laboratory.
Key Facts
1. Where?
Hub Culture is a network with primary bases in the world's big urban hubs, including London, New York and San Francisco, Geneva, Bermuda, Singapore and Hong Kong. Hub also has over 60 representatives in major cities around the world, who assist other members with advice and knowledge in their home areas. Pavilions both temporary and permanent have appeared in Cannes, Copenhagen, Davos, Ibiza, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Rio de Janeiro and St. Moritz. See upcoming projects.
2. What?
Hub Culture works to create value opportunities for the network by connecting members for deals and value creation through the exchange of knowledge. Hub Culture Pavilions are in development worldwide to provide a physical space for members to connect and work together. Using collaborative technology, Hub provides smart tools to members to assist the production of networked work.
Because our core mission is to help elevate collective consciousness, Hub tries to make sure the projects it promotes and develop have a socially sustainable benefit. The net impact of any project should be positive on five key indicators by which we measure success: sustainability, social good, environmental impact, efficiency and bottom-of-the-pyramid empowerment.
3. Who?
Hub Culture is a network of over 20,000 professionals, executives and entrepreneurs who are motivated for positive social and economic change.
3. How?
Hub Culture links the power of resources, the network and collaborative technologies to achieve aims of the community. By sharing resources to all members, including virtual and physical tools, everyone can benefit.
Contact
Learn: Wikipedia, Crunchbase
Facebook: Application Group Page
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