CHOOSE A REAL ISSUE · WORK WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE
Do not carry an issue you care about alone; work on it with people who bring different skills.
Choose a real need—from children’s digital safety and education to professions, food and the earth. Listen to the people living with it, form a team and develop a useful product, service or method.
From a shared concern to shared work
Choose a real issue that matters to you and work on it with a team instead of carrying it alone.
Missions bring different professions, ages and production skills together around a clear need. You can begin with a small task, join the research or help a product or service take shape.
A Mission turns a large concern into small, continuing responsibilities.
How does an issue move forward?
Understand the need, form the right team and produce a concrete result.
A Mission moves through listening to real people, taking a manageable responsibility and making the resulting work usable—not through large slogans.
Understand the Need
Speak with the people affected by the issue; learn where it is experienced and what has already been tried.
Form Your Team
Bring together the professions and skills the work needs; agree on responsibilities, timing and the result you will pursue.
Keep the Result Alive
Try what you produce with the people who will use it; continue what works, improve what does not and name who will care for it.
Who can take part?
Anyone who cares about an issue and wants to contribute knowledge or effort can begin in a suitable role.
A teacher may describe a need, a researcher may study the sources, a designer may make a solution understandable, a developer may build a tool and a practitioner may share field experience. A Mission brings these contributions together around one real outcome.
You do not need to know everything; you only need to be clear about the responsibility you can carry.
How can you contribute?
Take on work of different sizes, from understanding the issue to developing something people can use.
Contribution is not limited to expertise or full-time work. Finding sources, conducting interviews, testing, explaining and caring for what has been built are all real contributions.
Research the Issue
Make sources, existing work and different views from the field visible to the team.
Listen to People
Speak with the people affected and separate genuine needs from assumptions.
Join a Circle
Discuss the issue regularly with others and add what you learn to the team’s shared knowledge.
Run a Small Trial
Test the idea at a small scale, discover what does not work early and revise it.
Develop a Product or Service
Create a guide, course, piece of software, game, media work, tool or field practice.
Carry the Next Step
Help the result move into publication, use, maintenance, WAQF or NEMA when appropriate.
Work you can explore
Browse published Mission records by subject and participation path.
Only reviewed and published records appear here. Each one explains the issue, possible contributions, intended team, present status and next step.
Types of Mission
Not every Mission produces the same thing; the issue opens a different path of work.
Knowledge, professional practice, technology, fieldwork, youth and enterprise each call for different teams and results.
Knowledge and Translation Mission
Develop sources, concepts, library collections, glossaries, translations, learning materials and access to knowledge.
Professional Practice and Service Mission
Work with KARDESH professions to produce health, education, food, care, legal, construction or other services.
Technology and BA Internet Mission
Develop data, models, software, media, tools, devices and open technical infrastructure.
Place and Environment Mission
Work on neighbourhoods, KAHFE, Valley, agriculture, water, energy, construction, nature and accessibility.
Children, Youth and Family Mission
Create age-appropriate, multilingual work with two-guide safeguarding and clear protection measures.
Enterprise and NEMA Mission
Test real enterprise, livelihood, production and employment against sound practice, risk and HAYR.
Mission team and roles
Every Mission makes clear who carries the issue, field knowledge, production and continuity.
People do not all perform the same task. From the beginning, the team can see who follows the need, who knows the field, who builds and who takes responsibility for care.
Mission Lead
Keeps the need, team, timing and intended outcome in view together.
People and Field Knowledge
Bring the experience of people living with the issue and the real conditions of use into the team.
Professional Guide
Makes field knowledge, sound methods and the limits of the profession clear.
Production Team
Develops the research, design, content, code, data, tool or field practice.
Trust and Resources
Keeps privacy, consent, budget, documentation and rights of use clear.
Care and Handover
Takes responsibility for updates, transfer and, when needed, closure.
From learning to a working result
Learn together, test at a small scale and turn what works into something people can use.
Circles open the issue and shared knowledge, Labs test an idea and Build carries a validated need into a usable result.
Circles and Labs
Learn and test
- Listen to the people living with the issue
- Compare sources and different points of view
- Run a small and reversible trial
Build and real use
Produce and sustain
- Release the smallest working version
- Gather feedback in real use
- Name who will care for it and carry the next step
Go into the field
Meet the issue—and what you have produced—with real people in the place where it will be used.
SAFAR is the path for listening, working and testing in place, then carrying what the team learns into its next decision.
Firsthand Field Understanding
The team sees the place, workflow, people, natural conditions and less visible constraints firsthand.
Meeting the People Involved
Instead of presenting at people, the team listens and discusses use, objections, acceptance and remedy.
Production and Care
Installation, training, repair, testing, harvesting, construction, documentation or service is completed in place.
A Bridge across Languages and Professions
Different Circles and KARDESH members work face to face in a shared Mission.
Safe and Respectful Participation
Travel, accommodation, children, health, privacy, recording and local ways of life are respected and protected.
The Next Responsibility
SAFAR is not merely a closing event; what is learned in the field returns to the Mission and informs the next task.
Output, outcome and learning
Measure not only what you produced, but what changed in people’s lives.
Numbers alone are not enough. Use, access, new burdens, unintended harm and people’s feedback are considered together.
What Was Produced
What was completed, at what scale and against which quality and acceptance criteria?
Use and Access
Can the intended people reach it, understand it, use it and raise objections?
Rights and Harm
Who benefited, who was left out and did any harm arise around data, labour, the environment or representation?
Practice and Institutions
Was this only a temporary use, or did it improve learning, professional practice, institutions or decisions?
The Cost of Care
Whose time, money, devices and continuing responsibility does the system, service or place require?
HAYR and UMRAN
Did the outcome help people, families, professions, communities and places move towards a better order?
Complete, hand over or transform
A Mission does not remain open forever; its outcome and responsibility move through a clear transition.
The work may be completed, handed to another team, developed into a lasting service or stopped with its reasons made clear.
Completion
The intended outcome and acceptance criteria have been met, while remaining risks and the person responsible for care are visible.
Handover
The team transfers authority, documents, access, budget, relationships and open work to the next responsible people.
Opening through WAQF
Sources, methods, code, data, guides, glossaries or maintenance knowledge are shared when rights and privacy allow.
Transformation
The Mission may become another Mission, a lasting institution, a KARDESH service, a NEMA enterprise or a new programme.
Stopping and Remedy
A Mission that cannot be sustained or causes harm is stopped; affected people are informed and harm is addressed.
Shared Memory
Successes, mistakes, disagreements, negative outcomes and reasons for closure are preserved for future Missions.
From a Mission into the field
Continue to SAFAR to meet the issue in place and work alongside the people involved.
SAFAR is where a team listens in the field, tests its work and carries what it learns into the next responsibility.