Homeshores Direct: a Festival of World Cultures 365

"Open to specialist OUTSOURCING & OFFSHORING SERVITISATION providers seeking to reach-out to the Diaspora (and then Social Causes followed by Social Movements) Communities worldwide. These Services are also available under Package Deals, exclusively from VoxLabs-licensed providers, and customisable to Community requirements - subject to Licensee volumes, royalties, terms and conditions requirements. Licenses are available for all regions, countries, cultures or global affinity groups. Online, offline & mobile availability. Licenses are available for all regions, countries, cultures or global affinity groups. Online, offline & mobile availability. Licensing Payment Terms: O&O services provider royalties of 10% revenues apply, with minimum usage generating €1,000 in flat fees per month per authorised User Community are payable for minimum period 12 months, with 12 months for cost of 10 - ie. 2 months services free. Customisation deposits apply. Brand logo thumbnail included on Portal. Artwork to be supplied by Licensee."

E-CO: E-Communities; VWC: VoxWorld.Coop; VFS: VoxFranchise Smartshop; VLM: VoxLabs Model; FSP: Franchise Service Provider; SCT: Specialist Consulting Teams; CSP: Consumer Service Provider; OMC: Outsourced Managed Centre; PUS - Pickup,Station; WW: World-wide

The above Sm'art Co-op Model's Managed Centre & Services are available through VoxLabs Licensed Providers in Ireland and worldwide, wherever you see the Vox Franchise label - the Mark of Community Co-op Hubs. Ireland, home to the VoxLabs Model innovation, is in a new space today and rapidly rediscovering both itself and its true place in the world, having found itself right in the middle of a great Global Crash in property, banks and stock markets. In its time for reflection, it is re-imagining what its forefathers (Doctors, Nurses, Teachers, Lawyers, Missionaries & Emigrants) all gave and still give to the world, who have already imagined and left to the nation treasures in the form of a priceless heritage. So within Sm'art O&O Services, Innovation has moved to centre-stage - where Ireland is positioned to become a leader at the new frontier in Social Innovation for the giant BOP Social Marketplace - in itself requiring large numbers of available People resource for capacity, high level Technology for capability and high Added Value generation for results. VoxLabs offers four categories of Outsourcing & Offshoring (O&O) services:

With Developing countries having produced their own major MNC's (Multi-national Corps) in ICT for example, and with MNC's themselves morphing into the more fleet-footed GIE's (Globally Integrated Enterprises), right now too there is great scope for GIE's to collaborate with Countries like Ireland today, where VoxLabs® Model was born, to co-create the trilogy of Servitisation (Product services), Productisation (Knowledge products) & Customisation (Culture products) solutions. While Ireland brings high AV Innovation (in intellectual property rights, IPR, and disruptive innovation potential) to the table, the other party brings high skilled People/ Technology Resources to take it worldwide for Communities. Collectively both parties can proceed to deliver one final solution as one Consumer Service Provider to third parties worldwide. In this scenario, one supplier does not become a cheap resource for another but instead become Collaborative Partners sharing one common goal. In this case, the initial target markets are the Diaspora-led Communities within the Developing World, the BOP, and being where the bulk of the new wealth of the world is being created today - as aptly titled in C.K. Prahalad book: "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid". We begin this prospecting with Sm'art In-House Franchisor Licensing.

We call the leading co-created solution 'O&O Servitisation', achieved through Innovative & Collaborative Services; as Products also have given way to Productisation, of similar nature - and all businesses become Services Businesses too. Servitisation in itself is not new, as many multi-nationals and indeed whole Industries have been transformed by its adoption in past two decades; where products have been replaced by purchases driven by the dominance of their associated services; and where even services were replaced by other more dynamic services. Collectively this was often known as the Service Economy. And Outsourcing & Offshoring (O&O for short) is commonplace, though dominated by a few countries or regions; those with lower cost Call Centres, Human Resources, Business Processing, Finance & Administration and more. Now both are evolving and merging rapidly today however - as the elements of Knowledge & Innovation fuse to drive the Smart Economies of the world - and doing for wealth creation today what natural resources did 150 years ago with the Gold Rush.

The VoxLabs Model variation is a focus on Social Innovation, encompassing a move away from an 'all for the profit' mentality and towards a more inclusive 'more than profit' approach; recognising the Cultural contributions that so-called Developing Countries (aka. the under-served and under-developed Communities) can again make to the world. To date People have moved around the world to where the Opportunities were - thus America became an Immigrant Nation after the Gold Rush. Indeed today's Migrant Nurses travel the world today to where earnings are greatest, perhaps as much as ten times that of their homeland. And Education in general is now often carried out in low cost Countries by default, with benefits only returning in form of Remittances for subsequently successful employed travel-workers. This need no longer be the case, Communities can now work at or from home.

THE VOXLABS® BACKSTORY IN IRELAND - SOCIAL INNOVATION

Social Innovations are solutions or processes designed to address some of the very many major social problems that society have so far failed to address or otherwise been unable to solve. These global problems continue to grow rapidly all around us and now threaten the world's future stability. The consequences of this in our lives we see seeping-in so many ways every day - for example in airline travel disruption. Yet that is nothing compared to the needs of countless millions of disenfranchised people throughout the world, who have so much to offer to the world - only needing to be asked and supported in their efforts. Today many people among us who have listened and cared enough to ask the challenging questions can and do see the answers emerging; who can lead the path to a new and vibrant future for everybody; so together we can offer these Communities that chance -  in a real and lasting opportunity to help themselves in a spirit of true cooperation and collaboration.

We are all familiar with and appreciate some of the merits of a number of the existing socially innovative solutions - FairTrade, Product Red, Colleges of Internet-based Distance Education, Grameen Microfinance, Patient-driven HomeCare, Foundations, Social Networks and Wikipedia. Yet we are all acutely aware every day and see the consequences of many other major global problems that have yet to be adequately addressed or at all - ranging from the 1 Billion who go Hungry daily, to the Green Issues and the recent Flooding, to Global Shortage of Nurses; from Migrant & Diaspora Communities to Terrorism, to the Poverty issues an dtheir sheer scale among four billion people - the disenfranchised, at the so-called Bottom of the Pyramid - who continue remain under-banked/ under-educated/ under-served and who thus remain outside of the so-called digital divide; outside opportunities to participate in the Smart World Economy. VoxLabs® Model makes its new 'more than profit' solution available to Collaborative Partners in order to form one Consumer Service Provider to address the issues of the disenfranchised of the world, and uniquely to the mutual benefit of all participants - in a Trade rather than Aid Solution.

A recent joint study from IDC & Microsoft reveals the scale of that issue - that in 5 years, 90% of jobs will require ICT skills. These are the primary issues that VoxLabs® Model has been designed to address, a work now spanning two decades. Having focused for many years on becoming a poverty reduction economic model and participating in Remittances Conferences worldwide - in the final analysis VoxLabs® Model simply concentrated on collaborating with Global & Local Corps alike to provide a New Business Model solution for MSME's (Small and medium sized enterprises) everywhere, and accordingly dedicated itself to the promotion of Community Co-operatives in particular, commencing specifically with the Care Community.

It became clear over the years as the West careered recklessly along the path to individualism, that Developed countries increasingly lost sight of fact that the solutions to the many major social issues lay in reality in an actual collaboration or cooperation with the Developing countries. This requires a paradign shift, a radical change in mindset away from 'what one takes out of life' and instead a major new focus on 'what one puts into life'. Thus these solutions that VoxLabs envisages uniquely apply equally to these same problems in every community, both those around us at home as well as communities the world over.

As the old Japanese provert says: 'None of us are as smart as all of us' - VoxLabs® sees that becoming a reality in cross-border collaboration and cooperation, or what we call Community Co-ops or Communities.Coop. Those who wish to see what is wrong with the world can see it now, and so we can collectively focus on the implementation of these new and dynamic solutions with those Communities who already do see the world through such a prism.

The following Sm'art O&O Services are available to In-House Sub-Franchisor Service Providers for Licensing, to be provided within VoxLabs SLA Standards: