About
BlogHere we discuss topics around society, economy and internet. We ask the question what is human and how do we want to live in a digital world.
How do we want to live in a world that has overcome all material wants?
How do we want to live in a world that has the abilty to digitalize all edges of life?
Platform
The full live takes place in reality. The platform Polly & Bob connects you to the full live in your neighborhood. You can meet new neighbors, chat or make appointments on the platform. You can swap, sell, buy, lend, borrow stuff. You can find and offer neighborly services. You can ask for help or help neighbors. You have access to neighborly events and invite neighbors to your events. You can launch groops or become memebers of groups in your area.
Discover the numberless Opportunities ditectly in front of your front door!
Events
Polly & Bob Events are special. Our events focus on how to bring people together in real life. We want to break up the anonymity in the Neighborhood. We show the hidden treasures which we are and could be, if we knew just a little bit more about each other. We will install and support neighborhood managers in each neighborhood in order to make this vision happen. They will organizs an katalyse similar activities in the neighborhood in colaboration with neighbors, that want to help and be part of theWir werden Nachbarschaftsmanager in den Nachbarschaften einsetzen, die unsere Veranstaltungen zusammen mit den Nachbarn durchführen.
Join us on our events and get to know people!
Spaces
Encounter needs space. A "we" is made by seeing us together. Therfore we need space to meet. More and more spaces degenerate to non-places. That are places where people don't meer any more, just pass by and don't look at "us" in there. A new neighborhood that we want to form need spaces and places, where we don't bypass each other. We engage into the preservation of public places and opening of new spaces to the public. We want to ease the often bureaucratic possibilties to come to gether, which nowadays is endegered by public law. Moreover we want to build a Polly & Bob Club Room in every neighbohood, where people can meet, talk, hang out, co-labourate. Part of this Club room will be a swap shop where we can borrow the stuff that everybody needs but nobody needs to own.
Space is where community grows. Let's meet in real!
Board of Neighbors
The board of neighbors is inviting to participation. We want to put the right for decision into the hands of the users. Users gather into a virtuell board where we put important decision to vote. Imagine the users decide about privacy terms. We will have the best privacy terms in the whole net. Membership is obtainable by a loan. You give us a loan and join the board. Each share costs 50 Euro and counts for one vote. You can buy and hold maximum 1.000 shares
Become member of the board of neighbors and build the future with us!
Organization
Polly & Bob UG is a non-profit social startup. We do not strive for profits. We rather put all our revenues into the new neighborhood, that we want to build: plattform, events, spaces and the people that make all that happen.We want to pay good selaries. As soon as possible we want to spend half of our budget into the nieghborhood managers and give them the opprotunity to help and act in their neighborhood. If we make a surplus anyway, we will give the money back to the neighbors: 50% to those who are active on Polly & Bob and 50% to the members of the board of neighbors.
Polly & Bob connects you to your neighborhood.
Together we build the new neighborhood.
Together we make the world's neighborhoods more trusting, sharing, and connected.
What we want
We want to change the society for a better future.
- We want to improve the way we live together in our neighborhoods.
- We want to improve the economical standard of each neighbor.
- We want to establish a collaborative lifestyle.
- We want to help the shared economy to break through.
- We want to solve environmental problems in using resources more efficient.
- We want to build a better internet with more rights for the user.
- We want users to decide on important things like privacy terms and model for sustainability.
New Neighborhood
Our Vision
We make the world's neighborhoods more trusting, sharing and connected. New Neighborhood means to us: better together, more for each other, less online, more offline.The Story of Polly & Bob
Polly is a single mother in Berlin Friedrichshain. She loves to know her sweety in good hands when she is singing Friday nights. She met her new boy friend on Polly & Bob’s neighborhood brunch, Peter. Peter just lives 3 blocks away. She organizes her Mother-Monday-meet-up and found a capoeira group in the neighborhood on Polly & Bob. She is a singer in a Friday night club band. Bob (36), single, born in Pittsburg /Pennsylvania. Bob is new to Berlin and so he is to her. He likes climbing and hiking. He found his flat on Polly&Bob, and got his furniture for small money and partly for free from some neighbors. Bob always wanted to do design, that’s what he is doing now in Berlin. Found some friends and Deutschlenders on Polly & Bob. Polly & Bob are two neighbors, that found out: it is worth it to take the time. Take the time to share it. Take the time to help. Take the time to play. Take the time to do shit together. Fun in the neighborhood. Everything around you. Everyone around you. Make sense, enrich, and share. Make a Difference. They say: don’t walk by like the other day.
Join the movement
Join the Team! Because we think, that labour is the wrong way, we labour as less as we can. We are active. We are goal oriented. We don't have office hours. We have skype and co-working spaces. You match us, if you match us. If you match us, we will find the right task for you. Help us to grow Polly & Bob! We are hiring talent, energy and experience in the following fields of activity. • Design and creativity • Media prodcution (Foto, Film, Posters, Blog etc.) • Product development (UX, Coding) • Eventmanagement • Communication (stand ups, texters, writers, community managers) • Public relations (Old and New Media) • Neighborhood management • Assitance (people, who get jobs done) • Administration Apply to Volker: [email protected] Join the Movement! We are constantly looking for volunteers. If you like to join the movement, just click here. Together we make the world's neighborhoods more trusting, sharing and connected.
