Reporting 3.0 Platform

= "The Mission of the Reporting 3.0 Platform is to help catalyze the trigger-function of reporting to spur the emergence of a regenerative and inclusive global economy".

URL = http://reporting3.org/

"corporate disclosure plays a key role in influencing the trajectory of the global economy; so, if the economic design is inherently flawed and unsustainable, reporting can help resolve this dilemma."

Description

"The Reporting 3.0 Platform was established to convene a neutral, pre-competitive, global public good space for diverse stakeholders to co-create solutions whereby the reporting field raises its level of ambition to play its rightful role in spurring a regenerative, green and inclusive global economy. The Reporting 3.0 Platform does this by curating events (such as conferences, labs, and virtual online dialogues) and Blueprint Projects that gather Working Groups to collaborate on designing new structures that build off the foundations of existing standards and frameworks. The platform naturally fosters the type of collaboration that makes a new operating system for future-fit disclosure practices possible.

The Reporting 3.0 Platform was launched in 2012 by BSD Consulting with the aim to create a global multi-stakeholder community focused on identifying and fulfilling the potential of reporting to serve the intersecting interests of sustainability, financial performance, and growth. To better serve this interest and expand its public good value, an independent not-for-profit structure was established in late 2016." (http://reporting3.org/#about-us)

Status: The 2015 Conference

"The Reporting 3.0 Platform was launched in 2012 to test a premise: that corporate disclosure plays a key role in influencing the trajectory of the global economy; so, if the economic design is inherently flawed and unsustainable, reporting (and its interrelated elements) can help resolve this dilemma.

Furthermore, if reporting regimes are not fit-to-purpose, they too can be reformed so as to play their proper function in triggering a green, inclusive, and open global economy.

To explore this premise, Reporting 3.0 (R3) held three major international conferences through 2015, gathering a diversity of international experts from four continents and 15 countries. In addition, R3 convened various Transition Labs and Regional Roundtables during that period. In the process, R3 curated a neutral, pre-competitive, global public good platform for diverse stakeholders to consider solutions that build off the foundations of existing standards, frameworks, and practices whereby the reporting field raises its level of ambition to play its rightful role in spurring a regenerative, distributive economy that promotes thriving for all humanity.

The platform thus performs an “open” research and development (R&D) think tank function where ‘positive mavericks’ – who work productively (not obstructively) toward positive change; challenge constraints, structural limitations, unconscious biases, and shadow agendas; think and act at systems levels; and seek transformative (on top of incremental) change – collaborate to co-create a new operating system that generates fit-to-purpose disclosure practices.

The third international conference in November 2015 represented a watershed, when the R3 community determined that the premise holds sufficient validity to warrant ongoing exploration and advocacy.

Specifically, two determinations were made at the end of the conference:

• First, to better serve these interests and expand its global public good value, Reporting 3.0 spun off from its incubation under BSD Consulting to become the inaugural flagship program of “OnCommons,” a newly-formed independent not-for-profit, registered under German law as gGmbH (gemeinnützige GmbH).

• Second, to shift into a more active “solutions-generation” mode, R3 decided to launch a work ecosystem consisting of four interdependent Blueprint Projects in the areas of reporting, accounting, data, and new business models." (http://reporting3.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/R3_Data_Blueprint_Report-1.pdf)