About Yoolk

With Yoolk, everybody wins! The community gets a valuable local free resource, a Yellow Pages changing before your every eyes, always up-to-date. Businesses win by getting an attractive, live, content-rich, and instantly updatable Yoolk listing, with input and feedback from the local community. In effect, what you have is a Local Internet—one that filters out and saves you time spent on the Worldwide Internet.

Yoolk is like a "web-ecosystem", an enabling environment that is planted then grows and evolves independently, nurtured by the users who take it over and develop a unique local community.

By establishing fast and free portal for open access and providing easy-to-use tools for users, a web-based community composed of and serving local businesses is formed.

Users add information into the system and in return become part-owners, gaining shares of the revenue - a cycle is generated where the web-ecosystem evolves with increased use and users become more active in the "tending" of the system resulting in the growth of a diversity of business.

Yoolk's environments are built on the strong informational base of directory services; carefully selected web resources and mapping that provide unequaled local content and context. The energy required is provided by giving users free access to a fast and focused local internet through ISP and local Telcos. The initial "web-biodiversity" is provided through a customizable web portal with a comprehensive set of simple tools fashioned from the experience living in emerging economies.

Yoolk also provides habitat for the eventual expansion and linking of the local environments with the wider world. Vertical linkages of communities of different interest, or with a regional spread are like planting fast-growing trees that shade the jungle floor. Eventually the smaller more fragile local species can establish and grow – this result in cross-pollination and increased diversity and growth.

Yoolk – a “web-ecosystem” for growing local business and communities