[4] Cosmopolitan localism fosters a global network of mutually supportive communities (neighbourhoods, villages, towns, cities and regions) who share and exchange knowledge, ideas, skills, technology, culture and (where socially and ecologically sustainable) resources.
[8][9] The self-organization of people with access to the fostered global network, collaborate and produce shared resources and their own governance systems.
[10] Italian design and social innovation educator and academic Ezio Manzini describes cosmopolitan localism as having the potential to generate a new sense of place.
[11] This form of cosmolocalism is rooted in an emerging productive model that is based on the concept of the digital commons and the motto "design global, manufacture local" (DGML).
Cosmopolitan localism or cosmolocalism has been viewed as a structural framework for organising production by prioritising socio-ecological well-being over corporate profits, over-production and excess consumption.
In this example, if the state were to solve this problem, then most likely years would pass from the decision to electrify the village in the mountains to the end of the construction of expensive infrastructure, which would cost at least several million dollars.
However, self-organization and the principles of cosmolocalism allowed this village to solve its problems within 3-4 months, while the cost of a homemade wind turbine does not exceed a few thousand dollars.
For example, energy consumption is growing faster than global GDP every year,[21] and given the development of artificial intelligence technologies that require many times more electricity, this trend will noticeably worsen.