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XL Nation – The Transformation Nation
Do you believe that you have the power to end world poverty? To reverse the effects we are having on our environment? To achieve the United Nations Millennium Goals within your lifetime? Not alone, but together. How can we collectively achieve these big promises? XL Nation is our answer. We are a community of social entrepreneurs, change makers, leaders and ordinary individuals spanning over 30 countries committed to extraordinary results.
XL Nation launched as a non-profit, for-social-profit community simultaneously in every country around the world on 31st March 2009. It is the first global nation, with no land, no army, nothing to fight over, everything to live for. We have linked the circles of trust that are at the core of every community with the power of technology to share our learning, opportunities, successes, measures, causes, connections and experiences. Like cells that each receive, process and transmit energy while preserving and replicating through their own integrity, each XL Circle is a regular meeting place with a rhythm of flow. Each carries the DNA of the whole – our mission of World Wide Wealth.
In a world where everything has decentralised – from our markets to our communication to our entertainment to our means of production – the only centralised function left is government itself. XL Nation is structured to be the first global real-time democracy, with all XL Founding Members and XL Leaders having the power to effect change and shape history through our global Forum & Senate Sessions.
As XL Citizens we have our own code of trust, our own language of wealth, our own currency of trade, our own constitution of change. We connect through the trinity of truth, trust and trade. We collectively vote for the changes in structure and systems that connect us: A scalable system from thousands to millions, not relying on a centralised leadership but on one global voice.
Watch the video Intro of XL Nation
A Brief History
In 2002, Roger Hamilton and Dave Rogers founded XL with the simple idea that, by connecting with like-minded social entrepreneurs around the world, and committing to regularly show up, step up and give back, we could create a global community of go-givers that could achieve whatever we put our minds to. This was before Bill Gates & Warren Buffett joined forces to give, before social enterprise and social media had entered our lexicon, and before youtube, facebook and twitter. In fact, yahoogroups was cutting edge technology at the time…
In 2009, seven years, two wars, a tsunami and a global financial crisis later, XL had grown into the largest social entrepreneur network in the world, spanning 30 countries and hosting 2,000 events in 2008. In wasn’t all plain sailing though. As we grew, we came across the same challenges that every global organisation faced as social media made the traditional channels of flow redundant. No point having a garden hose if it’s raining.
So in March 2009, we took the combined learning that seven years and over 5,000 events with over 400,000 people had given us and in March 2009, XL Nation was launched. The Founding Members to this launch numbered 3,300 in the XL Nation Senate (compared to 26 in the first US Senate), over 100 Trustees representing every XL country, and a Transformation Team meeting virtually to set up XL Nation, from London, Melbourne, Hong Kong, South Africa, Singapore, Bali and led by Michelle Clarke in Freckleton, North England.
We are now in the very exciting stage of multiplying XL Circles around the world, writing the constitution and working towards October 13th 2009, when the first Bali Convention will be held to sign the constitution and vote in the first global and country leaders for 2010. You join us at an exciting time, and we hope you’re ready to play!
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