Before moving on to this letter, may I mention that if you are looking for methods we can colaborate around as opposed to network contacts, please go to http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com

Dear Jennifer
Could you confirm whether this mail gets through to you and whether it is in a suitable for to give to Bill
Dear Bill
Since your kind letter to me of march 7 I have been pondering how the networks around both of our family's/co-mentors' trees could test collaboration with each other
A possibility- if it makes sense to you -is that I donate 15 man days of my time before the summer to being somewhere in your offices with a view to trying to map how your networks systemically connect locally and globally with other ones I am intimate with
Since my father's start of the Entrepreneurial Revolution trilogy in The Economist 30 years ago, I have understood that Entrepreneur is a system word: ranging from how individuals entrepreneur to how globalisation as the mother of all meta-systems exponentially rewards or conflicts with every sustainaining entrepreneurial dynamic;
to make progress I need to translate our common languages at the many Entrepreneurial (macro, micro, inter) levels from being to 6 billion beings; to check whether we use approximately the same governance/audit methods at each level; to understand say the top 30 missions that your 1500+ individual fellows have each networked over many years; and to see how these connect with the 7 collaboration waves which since 1984 we have believed will propagate through the 1984-2024 (network revolution generation worldiwde)uptilting or downtilting the sustainability of every community's deeepst diversity:such waves include photosynthesis and clean energy; education modes and curricula of networked children; global media; professions and transparent goverance; moving beyond a world where the 2000 top powers are either nations or global corporations and neither typology accepts that the biggest needs to be most ethical in colaboratively internalising its sectors most risky externality
Quite a mouthful. Still by being able to look at your 20+ year history of biggest breakthroughs and how you see future colaboration priorities today, I am confident we can find many connections especially since -thanks to Bornstein's chap 5.6 - it is clear that gandhi -and Einstein's mathematical endorsement of his view of human relations transformation http://clubofdc.blogspot.com (eg from rules to empathy or trust-flow) - are common clues we navigate the new world's mapmaking around
sincerelychris macrae
tel 301 881 1655
http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com

Dear Friends

Jennifer: please could you give Bill a paper copy of this as I am not sure how
the time dynamics of the different communications modes work, and eg people
like S returns to India before I return to DC

1 Bill: I have just received your kind letter of 7 April on my letter of March
29 - A's mosaic process (group/collaboration entrepreneurship far more
than solo efforts) moving up through large scale change (the grassroots
valuation needs of each global market sector if it was transparently sustaining
(instead of externalising its greatest human interest?); mention too of youth
ventures (a map of extraordinary interest to me - are you already connected to
the youth at www.takingitglobal.org ). Yes the mosaic looks like a great
themed guide for microfinance-type projects that change the system within the
system

2 On May 5 I go to London for a week to see if my dad is well enough to plot a
revolution of shareholders of the Economist at the early July AGM or
subsidiary goals like trying to get (viscount) Matt Ridley to do a book of 100
2 page scripts on science for (teachers of ) children (in the absence of better
knowledge on my side Matt Ridley (long the science editor of The Economist) is
only the source I can think of to out-scoop Bush's gathering storm leaders for
schools science curricula. Returning a week later, S will already be
back in Calcutta

3 On meeting S yesterday, there are about 10 action ideas on my side I
will try and write up before 5 May but perhaps 2 are worthy of a preview now

-around the world, do we know who is the open uni educator whose alumni over
25 years know most about each of your changemaking project themes? On Health,
I'd bet that Paul Komesaroff- Monash Uni Australia is close enough and
www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org is well linked on health for all projects
visiting many places where people are most suffering from tsunami coastline
restoration to Sarajevo -as a hobby Paul convenes the once a year
annual global reconciliation congresses eg the one in India 2004 I documented
for S; and empowers cross-cultural youth movements, as well as
overseeing a few dozen voluntary service graduates who leave Monash/Melbourne
for overseas experience each year. I will try to introduce S to him by
parallel main. It is not just that tacitly Paul may already know of 100 heath
for all projects around the world but he might be able to give a second
independent opinion on which corporate partners to avoid at all costs as
sponsors woo your health for all epicentre. My 1990 book on World Class Brands
started the subject of how do we look out for global and local brands marrying
into each other and the extreme risks to the bestwilled brands of being
polluted by the bigger budgeted image-makers. The subject was extremely
unpopular for the 4 years I consulted on it at Coopers & Lybrand, which is
where i learnt how the maths of global accountants is perfect to destroy every
sustainability exponential http://exponentials.blogspot.com human beings value
most

By talent, I am just a wee free mathematician, but I do know when people or
media are lying to me with numbers (that's probably god's gift to me). I do
also know that its important to keep questioning openly what the networking
world (mapping system*system*system..) mathematical antidote's molecular
structure will be to current's accounting extreme separation of everything. I
gave S a sample of that yesterday. Its flows offer the mission
impossible (Entrepreneurial Revolutionary) the way to spiral up by simply seeing how leaders can do risk analysis to include every global village up and side to side and not just ruling by top-#down. I am happy for it to be examined by any truly simple mathematician but not complexity ones who don't know what assumptions are built into their economics or accounting models.

If we were now to dramatise our (death-of-distance future history entrepreneurs) as 1984 storyboarded http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html :

back then, we forecast that there's a 66% chance of children existing in
century 22 depending on whether overpoweful men are sensibly questioned openly
by the world's media waving out of broadcasters like the BBC and DD and
through whatever google or www.changemakers.net huge broadcast audiences are
directed to jam entrepreneurial grassroots projects into; looking at how far
we are infrastructural behind trust-flow mapping that group entrepreneurs need and whilst simultaneously being destroyed by wrong maths of professionals like the global accounting monopoly and the paucity of world-scale open public media, then at 2005's half-time report on the first worldwide generation: children's chance of existing in C 22 is down to under 33%. In other words, the failure to debate what is the correct open source maths to govern the human relations systems world of trust-flows, transparency and global sustainabilities of every sector (in which I also include national govs as one group and all world religions as another) involves the future risk of killing a million people a day (circa 365 mn*18 =whole human population) , with
2025 the end of the game in terms of what globalisation will spin through to
century 22's children existing or not. Pity a networked (system*system*system)
world in which we have no curricula for learning system mapmaking through grade 1 to 40 even with such obvious cases as water and photosynthesis as the only clean energy worth open resource projecting for all. Back in London photosynthesis architects tell me we can have abundant clean energy and their grassroots projects have advantages in extreme climactic places which become the collaboration epicentres that places who believe they still have normal
climates will need to learn most actionably with - an interesting cross-
cultural crisis which will require reducing the power of nation states as the
only way to be governed! oops can deep democracy go beyond left and right, and
4 year binges that are constitutionally perfect for riddling homeland security
with dis-trust whether you are in DC or in London (our be the change main
facilitator was lost 7/7
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4741333.stm - conversely, ashoka
S.Africa member Myrna Lewis reconciliation work on that is beyond any other known to me. She's been over to London to train people but when she was over in Dc in October nobody seemed that interested (unless I am not uptodate!).

sincerely
chris macrae
301 881 1655
wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://worldclassbrands.blogspot.com world class brands networks since 1991
http://extinctionrisk.blogspot.com
4 hemisphere model emerges out of http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com

http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/03/21.html
circa 1711 first scottish entrepreneurial revolutionary?
Thomas Ken
Awake, my soul, and with the sun
thy daily course of duty run.

sunshades of Gandhi 1 2? Prayer (traditional language)
Almighty God, who didst give to thy servant Thomas Ken grace and courage to
bear witness to the truth before rulers and kings: Give us also thy strength
that, following his example, we may constantly defend what is right, boldly
reprove what is evil, and patiently suffer for the truth's sake, through Jesus
Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one
God, now and ever
more at http://clubofarran.blogspot.com

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Parallel mail to Matt:

Dear Matt

Chris Macrae , son of Norman here

I don't know if you ever read the 1984 book my father written and idea-led (to which I contributed network scenarios since I had worked in 1973 on the UK's national dev program for computer assisted learning ) to 2024 Report. It was the third in his Entreprenurial Revokution Future History series, the other 2 being 1976 and 1982 surveys http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

A lot is systemically coming back NOW with a vengeance including

3 when Bush announced Jan 2006 in State of Union address - the need to get kids to love science as much as sports, his gathering storm committe of www.nap.edu mentioned death of distance scenarios as revolutionising their view. I am worried that there will be an extreme difference between the science curriculum they will stitch up, and say what you would if you collected 100 2 page scripts for teachers of 100 year old children up - are you or anyone connecting such a project together?

2) 2005 as our "make poverty history year" forecast in 1984 as man's biggest risk has come and gone; global NGOs are not the best catalyst for such a revolution, and the BBC as cheerleader of open grassroots up crisis project discussions has been scared out of its governors people-conscious wits by its battles with Blair (and Murdoch )

1 And The Economist has been drained of journalists who enjoy asking questions that revolt against the biggest powers in the way that James Wilson always intended the paper to do, or be closed down

In 1984, roughly we estimated 66% chnace that there would be children in the 22nd century; although my maths of sustainability's exponential consequences is only approximate, we are so far behind every global-village timeline we set in 1984, that I believe that chance is 33% and going down. WE haven't even addressed the first one our book assumed of introducing photosynthesis' abundant clean flows of energy, water, climate (even though I know photosynthesis architects who seem to have all the experiemnts done to plant this everywhere now if anyone was interested)

Is your view on collaboration and the future crisis waves similar or different? I have been looking for people who are as extremly geared up for Gandhian type revolutions to higher order systems for humanity and have found a few groups such as www.changemakers.net and www.ashoka.org who have been working since the start of my dad's Entrepreneurial Revolution trilogy, and who now have a lot of support in microfinance and social entrepreneur world championship worlds http://clubofoxford.blogspot.com . If you know anyone who is concerned about the transparency mapmaking risks for humanity as much as I am could you inform me?

many thanks, and apologies for the belief that it is time to turnround apocalytpic storyboard, ideally co-opting John Micklethwait's team into it

chris macrae

A mail sent to livingtruth network late April 2006

I have 4 queries - while they are linkied in my mind and recent practices, I am not sure where they fit exactly in the sequence Andrius is building up -please relay now or at a future time if relevant

1 I am several working days into a correspondence course coordinated by the university he founded in 1920 (around the vision knowledge is that which liberates us) on everything Gandi meant by practical networking/community sustainable development around experiments with the truth. I would love to swap notes with others who specifically feel that Gandhi experimented with some clues which in Einstein's appraisal of Gandhi show he may be the only 20th C leader who provides us with sufficient emotional and systemic bridges to higher order system harmony of the kind that networking through global villages certainly requires in very transparency map I am ever invited to join in co-developing. I guess we can work out how to swap notes and future links such as the cenetnary conference being organised out of Gandhi's ashram 1 2 in Oct 2007 (as well as report backe) wcbn007@easynet.co.uk ref Gandhi 2-4 link with some clues from Gandhi

2 For 28 years now Bill Drayton at http://www.ashoka.org/ has connected Social Entrepreneurs in 40 countries (1500 of them who priparily open source projects for humanity from global vilage to global village). I am seeing the president of ashoka tomorrow who is also the Indian lady charged by the microfinance philanthropists investing in http://www.changemakers.net/. The idea of this space is to jam in projects on rotating themes currently "health for all" to ultimately ensure all heeath for all project developers are networked up http://www.changemakers.net/journal/300603/health.cfm

and across from the grassroots, and that there is a central clearing house of learnings and investment in them. Bill's 2 guiding lights from his student days in the 60s are Gandhi and ashoka, a 3rd? century leader whom Gandhi drew on a lot. I will be trying to test out how all these networks collaborate with others and how contact protocols work . I am also resting out a 4 hemisphere met-network and collaboration knowledge city map which any humanitarin network may want to linkin tio at http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com Of course if you want to bean up cross-sections of this map from your collaboration city coordinate, please ask fo0r the html or any other programming code you need to get linking for humanity and exponential sustainability of all our futures

3 I have come across a golden triangle which has been starting me in the face for the 30 years since my father's trilogy in The Economist on Entrepreneurial and death of distance revolutions became a shared storytelling and maths mapping mission of mine to explore. As with Gandhi apex 1 insists we start with the smallest voice with a diversity right to be included but let's look for ones that can be seeded interlocally across many global village. For example as a father of a 9 year old daughter - what should all mentors of 9 year old daughters be uniting behind as the number 1 chnage-question on future learning curricula that will make us proiud of what our millions of daugthers achieve as well as enable them to co-mentor each other in sustainability and conflict resolution etc. The second apex is any media who you can lobby until it is committed to openly raise the question with the global leaders of the 1000 top-down large organisations most relevant to futurising contextual progress for humanity. The question should be raised in such a way that it is made clear that the elader's own future valuation will depend on how transparently his organisations answers and actions and collaboratively (around any risks of losing sustsainability (win-win-win) for all). Do you have a small voice that you most passionately represent seeding across millions of beings. Let's hear of it so we can test out which its 2 other triangle apexes may be mail wcbn007@easynet.co.uk my small voice apex that diversity needs planting all over the world is

4 A collaboration networking sub-theme of what 9 year olds need to be trained in and indeed all grades up to 40th is how to use media especially revolutionary new media. If you have seen last week's survey of new media in The Economist, I must say that its first section was brilaint and all its other sections were in my view disastrous in terms of how to use new media tools such as blogs at least for all of us connected by reconciliing crises or culturallty transforming living the truth goals. If you share my concern about The Economist survey- perhaps we could huddle and work out how to develop a training outline that is the opposite of that implied by the surver's modes of operandi of new media tools- wcbn007@easynet.co,uk subject new media
cheers chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

http://globalcharters.blogspot.com/

http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com/

http://worldyear.blogspot.com/

http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com/

It's rather an odd feeling when The State of The Union discovers death of distance scenarios I co-authored 22 years ago. http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com/ As system mapmakers and students of Entrepreneurial Future History economics: we still contend that 7 interconnecting waves will sustain or destroy the globe for future generations, and that by 2024 the globalisation we live and die with from every community up will be irreversible. From this http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.htmlYou may feel some of my views on the media and learning network waves. I believe I also know the only people capable of photosynthesising clean energy in time to end all countries petroleum economics addiction - if you know anyone who cares passionately about photosynthesis and its unique collaboration advantages of improving the lot of peoples who connect from extreme climates please ask them to join our collaboration map http://www.frappr.com/algaeworld

We can talk about collaboration research -a passion of transparency
communities worldwide linked through my web www.valuetrue.com and 100 global
village club blogs. My other over-passionate discusion topic for 2006 is
putting the mathematical economics of recursion and cross-cultural conflict
reconciliation into surveys that propagate wherever they may be of most open
concern to the good times the great. Here are some examples. As with all
emergent catalysts of networks, constructive criticism loved at any future
time.

Recursive Exercises in Collaboration
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Do you have one?

Eg 1 preparing a letter to be sent to every survey journalist at The
Economist : Do you have a common map connecting Queen Elizabeth’s Inquiry
Mission : “Is Globalisation Turning Humanity on Itself” to the papers’ 140
year history as the epicentre of economics for Entrepreneurial Revolution –
more background on that at http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com and
http://clubofmountainview.blogspot.com Dear XXX As a shareholder and archivist of
The Economist's first 144 Entrepreneur-Championship years we...

Eg 2 preparing for an interview with the American with the most social
entrepreneur network and intrapreneur service economy connections around the
world: if we were to design a social entrepreneur Olympics what would be the
top 30 arenas (grounding the games theory, team practice and performance
benchmarks through time)
-more background on that at and http://clubofperth.blogspot.com and
http://clubofbrazil.blogspot.com

Eg 3 preparing to survey all alumni who will meet as Gandhi’s ashram for the
centenary of seeding revolution against apartheid and 20th Century's accidnetal systemisations of slavemaking – what’s the component curriculum you would want to see in a Gandhi MBA wiki – more background emerging on that at
http://clubofdc.blogspot.com and http://clubofahmedabad.blogspot.com

Chris & Norman Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
Entrepreneurial Revolutionaries since 1976; World is Flat "Death of Distnace"
Mapmakers and open network surveyors since 1984
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Help on emergencies of such recursive exercises in Collaboration welcome

1 What does your social network believe is the next exercise worth propagating
2 Whap Maps in the Round help us to see the who’s who of lifelong learning
contexts and global change waves
-eg http://www.frappr.com/
append any of our top 6 crisis waves of 2006:
algaeworld , aka Bush State of Union 06 Space Race 1 Clean Up Energy Markets
brand aka people for public broadcasting and internet mediation
gandhimba
knowledge aka preventing European Union Crashed Vision of 2010
entrepreneur aka knowledge workers for Drucker21
younghubs , aka Bush State of Union 06 Space Race 2
& preventing EU lifelong open learning networks crash of 2010

Case: How can I help ensure that a non-Indian community of Gandhi-inspired collaboration projects and practices is not contrived?
By which I mean: of course Indians are most welcome but the purpose of the
community is to deeply imbibe non-Indians in enough common understanding to
colaborate around be the chnage projects they are each giving a lot of time to.

To this extent, I have set myself this project :

Its social network started in December 2004 when I spent a week in Delhi at
the annual congress of www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org . This network was
founded by an Australian professor of medecine who the day after 9/11 picked
up the phone and didn't stop until 200 groups concerned with peace or medical
or youth or indigenous rights work in the field agreed to connect the kinds of
collaboration project that none of their organisations could do on their own

Delhi woke me up to understand (I need to ask what I don't know): how can eg
50 year old white Sottish male (or others not born in India to Gandhi's DNA )
understand enough of Mahatma's constructs to know that any be the chnage
projects we come up with are natural as opposed to contrived.

I'd love any advice (either to this group or personally at
wcbn007@easynet.co.uk or if you are in London or Washington DC over a coffee)
of parallel inquiries CoP people may have gone through in terms of:

I don't want to reinvent the wheel. But equally before I went to Delhi I had
invited about 40 of 400 people who came together for the 3 day event
www.bethechange.org.uk in London - now in its third year. But the person I had
most understood at the epicentre of this London group was killed in the 7/7
bombings last year and it may be that Be The Chnage London is a naturally
useful group but it hasn't connected us with any grassroots cases of Gandhi's
life or works. Its number 1 communal method seems to be spiral dynamics which
is OK but I am not sure its where Gandhi would start practice today.

I am going to try to get to the centenary of Gandhi practice that India is
hosting next year http://clubofahmedabad.blogspot.com -this town being where
his practice Ashram for peaceful revolutionary projects against the Brits was centred as was the University he founded in 1920

RoI is quite difficult for social entrepreneurs to value. I assume that people respect the preneur word's origins as being a systemic inquiry into what society needs to take back before people can be productive at a higher order or sustaining economic harmony through time - something that I assume India clearly is now enjoying having taken back its country from the Brits nearly 60 years ago
http://www.frappr.com/entrepreneur
http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com

We do have informal virtual gathering starting at http://www.frappr.com/gandhimba/

sincerely
chris macrae

FEB06, blairband: Come back to Washington Tony - a new American Revolution is happening - one that could change your legacy for ever if you help join all Brits aboard

Take a quick virtual trip to Bethesda or have a look at the bottom section of the revolution being planted across Europe now peoples of 25 countries are simultaneously waking up to how their piublic funds have been misinvested in machines before people, an everpresent danger while politicians suck up to the kind of global accounting system that denies the beginning of service and learning economies by insisting that machines can be entered into the boardroom's books as invetsments but that people are always costs, never investments. ( Dear Tony - if you could change such Humpty Dumpty rules of corporate goverance tomorrows global company would be worthy of people's lifetimes instead of a system for deskilling and robbing society of pensions and trust in innovation and science)



Intro: Which of these connected coordinates of open productivities of knowledge and work do you want to cross-examine first:

K1*(individual being) K2*(group being - eg team)K3*(one systems gravity of leadership) K4* (global business sector's future for all peoples) K5* (how sustainability of local societies interacts with global sectors)

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The Networks of Messrs DeSkilling .. tell us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk which searches you most value in this blog eg Drucker Love Commonwealth .. Are European leaders announcing any space races as revolutionary and imaginative as those of President Bush (version 2006)?

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How the EU turned against Human KM -a case study in compounding economic destruction by investing in machines and power, whilst cutting down people and transparent networks.

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Most of my learning (or knowledge exploring) around the value multipliers of peoples economics comes from reading my father's thousands of leaders at The Economist- many of these are freely useable today (eg the death of distance series are causing a new American Revolution as you click, whereas the Entrepreneurial Revolution catalogue were used as early as 1976 by Romano Prodi in leadership roundtables across Italy) to open up future history debates we could describe that flow into this weblog as being inspired by what Drucker meant by knowledge work and co-working and social ecology and against the kind of manager who empires over people with the IT budget or spreadsheeted numbers. Then my mother's family brings several generations of links with medicine and constitution of India and British Raj - not least that she would have been classified as Indian not British in nationality if my grandfather hadn't been responsible for doublechecking integrity of the constitutional laws which Britain drafted for India's independence. Kemp and Kemp: My mother's brother was also a lawyer whose crust was earned as a mediator of big business disputes; but whose hobby -or passion for good law - was to write up the precedents of compensation for people who suffered lifelong personal injury's. One of David's last crusades for individual rights provides the networking lead that unseated the British Lord Chancellor who almost destroyed personal injury compensation because his own understanding of compound arithmetic of lifetime costs was not as future-deep as it needed to be. Strangely to my mathematician's eyes for truth-testing connectivity: it is this misunderstanding of exponentials and potential risks to humanity due to compound loss of transparency mapping that is the weakest link and today globalization's greatest people risk wherever we cannot see wholy enough because lawyer or economist failed to sustain the highest trust by imposing rules that may have perfectly fit their past but were mathematically wrong to try to be precise about for evolving all our future's goodwill.
Others may want to understand the more nuanced leadership dialogues of 30 years of debates around Entrepreneurial Revolution (watch out for 2006 30th birthday parties, or help co-create one); Death of Distance network wires and future history scripts (22nd year young including humanity's sustainability Project30000 being collaboratively co-edited by bloggers at Club of Village * City * Country); or are latest professional work of goodwill mapping of global sector exponentials (where the future is upcurving or downcurving) due to contextually fit governance connecting the trust-flow of intangibles, network transparency across organisational boundaries, and global*local sustainability interactions which require a simultaneous end to economics of externalities being indulged by every top 10000 organisation. These are all dynamics that value exchange 1 2 mapping of valuetrue trasnparency communities can open source around any global industry context or network leader.Hi-trust investment over a generation returns 100 fold to investors but only by multiplying ever more value for society.

Dear Louise cc Charles
Let's be clear about 2 issues
1) Unlike your reviewer, I am a mathematician. What I talk about is founded in logic not in polemics
2) I am also a practitioner not an academic. Since 1984, my five co-authored books (includiong the first future history timelining the revolutionary challenges of "death of distance" aka The World is Flat) have clarified that we have both a media and valuation problem beyond posed by death of distance networking. http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687If we are to move away from:Queen Elizabeth (2005)- Is Globalisation turning humanity on itslefPresident Bush (2006) - end USA addiction to petroleum economics and do what you can so children love exploring science as much as they currently idolise sports and celebrities
We need to move to a higher order system of leadership than professional and academic separability is capable of offering. Specifically, we need a frame of governance which everywhere shines 2 types of transparency that have gone missing (as far as I can see in all valuation and reputation algorithm). Mathematically, that can be designed once you accept the specifications. In terms of lenses to be taken to all old literature, we advocate that these 2 cautions are uppermost for all concerned with compounding future sustainability:
1 how do we free ourselves systemically from be ruled by an economics which is designed only around compounding big gets bigger, instead of community-up and people sustainability?
2 how do we pervasively audit emerging conflicts before the next cycle of the system compounds them destroying trust , transparency and exponential sustainability http://exponentials.blogspot.com
Since 1984 we have predicted that the middle of this decade will constitute peak crisis years for chnaging economics and all valuation algorithm. We remain in a world where standard accounting devalues people as costs only booking in investments in machines. Externalises boundaries. Does not model trust=flows as multiplicative and so makes such risky decisions as Anderson did where they assumed 0 social value times billions of business value was additive instead of multiplying to zero
If you are ever convening a conference space where everyone stands back to look at all the human relationship (trust-flow) errors that are lurking in the business administration literature instead of defending the compounding of the mathematical errors of seaparbility, then please tell me. There is no data to suggest that globalisation is helping trust to be restored in any context...
cheerschris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

Hi Nick

Since my family and I have been cataloguing 30000 open projects to network around for humanity since 1984 http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html in the 2 previous years I used to exchange an advance briefing with Colin

I guess that I could talk at much more detailed menu levels around the sketched map, but my top 4 to consider interesecting with London BeThe Change would be:

In 2007 Delhi is hosting a centennial event for Gandhi alumni, it would be good to see a pivotal organiser of that from India. The guy I know best involved with that is also the senior cilvil servant involved with reparation of Bhopal for 20 years. That links with a vision we used to share of announcing a gandhi.edu sustainability business school curriculum that baneed economics of externalities from business cases in the way that Ray Anderson (your spweaker last year) and Sir John Banham (Whitbread chairman) are the only 2 corporate Chairmen who I have ever heard spewak up for

Photosynthetic energy: London is investing a fist wave of 100 millions of pounds of sustainability investment funds so I hear on this and it was always assumed in 1984 to be the main energey sector of 2000-2025 by the economists I listen to most http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/1999/12/make-your-foundations-transparent-more.html This could also be great to connect with Al Gore's march annual lecture to Tomorrows Company , the Royal Society of Arts Offshoot

Microfinance and the amazing encouragement the founder of ebay are giving to that, and social hubs like www.catcomm.org in Brazil is an area every individual personal chnage agent can play with especially as the UK www.pledgebank.com can be very useful in getting networks of people matched with microfinace foundations and deep grassroots up projects http://trustmicrofinace.blogspot.com

Since my family is now 2 generations into specilaising in the economics of media models, the number 1 challenge around London this year is returning the next decade's licence of the BBC to the people and world service not for politician's governing use. Over our lifetimes, the cumulative investment in the BBC made by the Bristish people is about 100 billion dollars, not to get the BBC investigating the Queens end of year mission - Is Humanity turning on itself would be the biggest failure we Londoners could commit by failing to interact. http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com

sincerely
chris macrae

How this blog works for my social network's biggest innovation challenges- could a similar format work for you?

I try to help plant deep microcommunities for sustaining change around exponentially critical human challenges all round the world, gravitated by people whose lifelong mission I have been debriefed on. Wherever its not in conflict with confidentiality, I try to copy my email correspondence here. Where a mial seems particularly important, I promote above its send by date so its seen early on if people are browsing this blog top-down. When I have time I also use the sidebar to roughly remind me who's most active and deepest within my probono life connections. 100 is ythe most intimate I get (near zero degrees of separation and as certain the person and I yrust each other on the deepest conflict resolution context they talk about). Of course there are people out there doing far greater stuff whom I dont know, so scores represent questioning of my own ignorance but I need to recolect whose change-activation and communal relationships within my reach to try to focus my time on now.

This helps my memory at least see network connections between peoples, and systemic transformation methods, and who can co-mentor whom. This also connects with other catalogues co-editors at Club of City bloggers maintain - eg the 200 collaboration networks we believe may most help link together a better world for humanity simultaneously at all localities

If this is the sort of thing you need to do with your virtual life, and want to understand more how this format could work for you- ask me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk Also if you have a better way for a hi-tech dummy like myself to recall who amongst thousands of virtual cionnections to try to be the chnage with when, then I am all eyeballs if you have time to mail me!

28/12/05
Thanks Rick, currently I shuttle between London & DC mainly for family reasons though it does also help meet 2 sides of every argument. Did anyone see the Charlie Rose interview last week where Thomas Friedman called Green the Next Red White & Blue? http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=15737
DOES ANYONE HAVE SOME DC FRIENDS I SHOULD MEET?I want to try to meet Friedman because he lives about 4 miles away in the Washington DC region and currently his future history the world is flat (which he has indicated he will update annually) gets read by over a million Americans. Moreover, my dad's a future historian eg this 1984 passage timelines today's global challenge http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
Another interesting transatlatic exchnage is when Al Gore comes to speak at one of our influential London networks in March http://futureoflondon.blogspot.com Gore & Richard's friends at www.omniworldview.com probably influence more sustainability investment funding than any 2 people we can so far find at aSIN http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A4205819
As I am shuttling back to DC tomorrow, what I intend to do is take a few days searching through links to you all and then try to come back with some colaboration questions within a week; if there's stuff etc I should erad firts please say
One of the games I play is http://project30000.blogspot.com and I would like to theme say a top 10 project streams that are coming out of algae woprld such as:ecosheltersabundant green garden cetresabundant desert farms of clean gas/energy
If you have ideas in this albeit popularised vocabulary on what the ten menu list of algaeworld should be, that will help me try and link change conversations in the many spaces that don't even know they need them!
cheerschrishttp://algaeworld.blogspot.comhttp://clubofcity.blogspot.com http://clubofusa.blogspot.com

I believe that brand architectures needs to be mapped as whole organisation-wide systems - what else is living and learning brand vision for

10 years ago I wrote Brand Chartering.
COMMN'SEssence ID System Heritage Future
ACTIONSMasterbrief Quality Know-Flows Extension
LEADERBrand Architect Strategy Architect Org Architect Leadership Drama
Though some of these chapters need updating - eg masterbriefing would now include web media as well as traditional media - the idea that everyong in an organisation should be able to question what to action next in the name of teh brand's values, competences, and links with strategy etc remains one that can improve the world wherever it is truly practised

Unfortunately many professions have over the eyars profited from working to separate what they do with the brand from others. They will not like this book nor the ideolgy of chartering how to live and lean the brand, and form both extrenal and internal partners with its architectural intefaces

COMMN'SEssenceID SystemHeritageFutureACTIONSMasterbriefQualityKnow-FlowsExtensionLEADERBrand ArchitectStrategy ArchitectOrg ArchitectLeadership Drama

year 22 of the greatest communications revolution humanity has ever encountered -will this crisis of Opportunity and risk sustain or destroy us all?

12th grade format for each year
The format our web-log at worldservicenet uses is to log up correspondence each year on this theme; rougly speaking we put the most challenging perspective at the top (ie dec ) and the most elementary pieces at the bottom (ie january). We welcome comments if you feel we have got the 12th grading out of sync.


section 5 is the most relevant in this correspondence though its all interconnected
comments, questions, places to relay this conversation are welcmed by me at chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Dear L

Thanks for the inspiring conversation today.

1 Please send me your email so I can write a co-mail introduction between you and Sushmita Ghosh, a long-time president of ashoka.org’s 1500 social entrepreneur mapmaking out of DC, and now coordinating Ashoka’s and Omidyar’s http://www.changemakers.net out of Calcutta. I confess a dream vision is to quest for 8 women to change the world. I am quite confident that if you and Sushmita find your journeys match in changing the world, there should be ways through to progressively link in:
Pam Omidyar , a co-sponsor of changemakers.net
Mary Robinson – the New Yorker who has done the most to make corporates get inspired by the triangle of : Annan Global Compact, Eigen’s Transparency International, and Clinton’s Global Initiative
Thence on to Melinda Gates, then through highest trust Africa women…

2 I want to raise a question in all the caring networks I correspond in; draft version is ?0.1 What’s the most entrepreneurial concept you've seen for bringing selected global corporate leaders together to transparently benchmark the WWINTAT (Why Was I Never Told About That) : IS OUR SECTOR’S COMPOUND VISION SUSTAINING OR EXTINGUISHING THE WORLD?
Draft answer: best entrepreneurial concept observed to date is leadersquest
I am wondering how to reword this question. I am not bothered by the funny acronym which links down to lots of references, but I am bothered if the wording might scare your potential clients

3 In a few days, I will send my survey on who your Gatesways: the 7 collaboration agents you find currently find most vital for advancing the leadersquest mission . I am trying to get Bill Drayton to help fill it in for his 6 primary change the world agents whose video extracts can be clicked to in the map I have attached – Yunus Microfinance, Abed Microfinaced Privatization 2.0, Eigen Transparency, Grajew Developing forum so that economics and civil society valuation auditing meet each other and global corporates benchmark their sector’s greatest compound irresponsibilities; Bill’s 30 year treasure map of the 1500 deepest social entrepreneurs his net can discover; a 6th person I don’t yet understand. Each of the video clips is about 5 minutes long and perhaps Diana? Could review them for critical connections. ( I mean to write up the transcripts one day but…)

4 I had some questions about London networks and people who may get leadersquest : eg peoples world, be the change, royal society of arts and its sister tomorrows global company, the young cultural creatives who have made the hub in Islington a world class project formation centre, Harrison Owen’s number 1 open space facilitators in the UK, Myrna Lewis’s Deep Democray Alumni, and a few worldwide networks that I am the London news-linker for etc
– these can keep until you decide if any of the above work ; I am working back from a deadline of 10 sept -the 85th birthday competition on changing economics for my father http://normanmacrae.blogspot.com

5 Any ideas or questions for me always welcomed. LeadersQuest is a systemic missing piece in humanly reconciling globalization's conflicts and systemising new action learning opportunities that I would feel very comfy talking up anywhere. One of my father’s 1984 scripts was on reality tv shows needed to change the world between 2005-2015 – I could imagine leadersquest being the Globalisation Apprentice game. ( Don’t worry I am old fashioned marketer who throws out dozens of concepts knowing at most one may strike the time and the need of your 7 deepest collaborators., and who hopes to get better at concepts the more I understand of what your future aims to compound.)

6 There is a view emerging in the USA and the UK that I intend to help time how to propagate that the next few years will evolve like a Global Baldrige/Benchmarking movement for Sustainability Quality Leadership. Those global 5000 corporate leaders who join in earliest will have huge competitive and collaborative gains. They will have joined the 21st century’s most valuable marketing media early on to gain from all its open innovation and networking opportunities. Those who leave it past 2012 will have devalued their corporations to next to nothing. Our maps (and method if only my journalist friend would complete the 7 year long book that’s now 4 years overview on sustainability’s goodwill antidote to being boxed in by 90 day historic accounting) forecast the zeroisation of Arthur Andersen as a very conflicted organisation many quarters ahead; the same value multiplication logic (billions of worth to business stakeholder*zero worth to society leads to 0) reflects that most human beings value sustainability for future generations above all other performance systems applies; conversely the same logic suggests that should our communications networking fail to convene this mother of all quality benchmarking movements locally to globally, the chances of there being any children in 2100 are decaying exponentially to zero. Anyway, open sourcing the simplest global sustainability/exponentials investment audit explains the professional side of the rest of my working life though how to design a service network to achieve that is a question I have not yet got a view on.
C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net (CM1) and N.A.Macrae.42@cantab.net(NM1) ... aSINworld: association Sustainability Investment Networks http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A4205819

Dear Traci

Congratulations

At the same time, are you aware of the intrapreneurial movement which my
father helped to co-develop Gifford Pinchot with his article in The Economist
back in 1982 http://www.normanmacrae.com/intrapreneur.html ?

Regarding transparency: we are exponentially compounding one hell of a system problem that see-through organisations most appropriate for sustaining service economy have not been supported for reasons that include:
shareholder value analysis has been corrupted ; its actually speculator
analysis ; the last thing it cares about is a company improving over time for
anyone

several big professions have joined in (knowing or unknowingly and its
certainly true that blindness by numbers dates exactly to the introduction of
the spreadsheet when all decent market tresearch and innovation methods were thrown out if they incoveniently sugested local societied didnt want what a globalising company wanted to control) this corruption- principally global accountants who did not want their audit monopoly challenged by the inconvenient truth that even in a service economy they are stuck with permitting investments in machines but never in people (who have to be booked in as costs to cut); mathematically Brookings & Georgetown Law School confirmed in 2000 that leadership teams of
large organsiation have no information relevant to waht compounds 90% of why
their comapny's valuation will head up or down; this research was released
before Andersen obliterated itself demonstrating just how little it understood
about value of an organisation that loses all the trust of society; hardly
surprising that so many dot comns burned give the wrong maths their chief
accountanting firm was ordering them to lead with

So as far as I can see everything that organisational democrats and
intrapreneurs argue for makes sense for everyone apart from:
speculators
-a few bosses who might find becoming facilitators difficult
a few corrupted professional segments which includes:
*global accountants who want to protect their monopoly with the baord
*those lawyers who have requotred CREO's job to be about chasing historic
numbers
*ad agencies who have done a deal with accoluntats to value the brand as if
its all advertising: all image no reality
*part of the knowledge management industry that wanted to seell in machines

etc

Can you tell me:
do you agree with the above diagnosis or have you a different one? If you have
a different one, what's it basically about?

cheers
chris macrae
301 881 1655
http://exponentials.blogspot.com -is any of the 21 humanly most important glopbal markets sectors sustainably directed (valued around) making life better any more?
http://civil-society.blogspot.com

Hello Friends,

On Tuesday, I gave a lunchtime talk at the Berkman Center on Internet and
Society at Harvard University's Law School. They have it posted as a
podcast, so if you'd like to take a listen to what I have to say about
organizational democracy and the future of work (instead of morning radio!),
I invite you to click below. It's about 25 minutes long.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/audio/podcast2?wid=12&func=viewSubmission&sid=8
5.

I spoke at Harvard at the invitation of David Weinberger who is also a
fellow there. David is the author of a couple books including, The
Cluetrain Manifesto. He also gave an incredible opening keynote at the
WorldBlu Forum in October. He blogged in real-time about my presentation on
Tuesday which was also attended by friends from the WorldBlu Forum (Susanne
Goldstein, Stephen Shapiro, and Erik Muten. Great to see you all!). You can
read David¹s summary below.

I would love to hear any thoughts, comments, feedback you made have to share
after you listen ~

All my best,
Traci

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http://hyperorg.com/blogger/
David Weinberger¹s Blog
[berkman] Traci Fenton on organizational democracy
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Traci Fenton, founder of WorldBlu.com, is giving a Berkman lunchtime talk
about organizational democracy. Excellent turnout, especially for the most
beautiful day of the year. I'm especially glad to see that Traci has drawn
first-timers, from union reps to workplace managers, in addition to the
usual Berkpeople. [I'm paraphrasing throughout this post. As always.]

She says: In a democratic workplace, people get to decide which projects
they work on and have access to the financial info about the company. This
is the case at the GE Durham plant ‹150 employees and one manager. They make
jet engines. All future GE plants will also use a democratic working style.

Organizational democracy = "democratic principles applied to a business
context." She cites Drucker, Wheatley, Senge, Hock, Semler, Collins,
Fairtlough and Bower as sources of the idea. It's not about everyone voting
but everyone having a voice. It's about operating out of freedom, not fear.
Peer-to-peer, not paternalism. Humility and resolve vs. ego. Transparency
vs. secrecy. Fluid networks, not hierarchy. It can become the norm, she
says.

David Isenberg points out that the managers at GE (for example) get paid
disproportionately high. How does this growing gap fit with the idea of
democratic organization?

Traci says that people are rebelling against this. Whole Foods, for example,
caps the disparity. Fairness is one of the characteristics of organizational
democracy. GE overall suffers from the disproportion, but GE Durham does
not. She points to other companies, too fast for me to keep up, except for
Southwest Airlines...

Why should any one care? Context, cash and change.

The business context is changing because of technology: Employees have a
voice on the Net and want one in business. Also, there's been a reaction to
Enron. And more of the world lives in democracy. And Gen X and Y have
different expectations about work. And there's a search for meaning going on
(embracing our humanity). She says we're going from the industrial age, to
the information age, to the democratic age ‹ networks, engagement,
individuals...

Semco in Brazil flattened its hierarchy, gave employees a say in decisions,
started job rotation, let people choose their boss, and let people choose
how to be paid (e.g., hourly, by goals, royalties, etc.). As a result, their
sales doubled, they launched 8 new products, and revenues went up 35%. Traci
says that within this freedom, there is a tremendous sense of discipline.
This happened because Ricardo Semler, the owner (his father founded it), at
25 was killing himself with stress.

Organizational democracy leads to more cash because it increases engagement.
A Gallup poll showed that 73% of US workforce is not engaged by their work.
Five years ago, that was 54%. This drives down revenues. Organizational
democracy increases retention, increases efficiency, increases competitive
advantage...

Organizational democracies have a positive ripple effect on their
communities, decreasing corruption and increasing peace and stability.

WorldBlu wants to build 1,000 organizational democracies by 2020.

Q: People have been saying this for a long time. What's the resistance?
A: People don't understand how. Business leaders freak out because they
think they have less control. I tell them they're just giving up the
illusion of control.

Q: People running the companies would have to give up a substantial amount
of money personally.
A: At organizational democracies I don't hear people complaining about the
money piece.

Q: Does this work for low-skill or only for high-skill?
A: Atlas Container makes boxes. The average worker hasn't finished high
school. But they're run democratically. Everyone knows what it feels like to
be disengaged.

Q: (me) Is this a cultural change or can it be done incrementally?
A: It usually starts at the top, although I've blogged about how a junior
employee can get involved. It can be rolled out at various paces.

Q: At GE Durham, people divide into teams and are given quotas. The team
decides how many hours they're going to work, they cover for each other, and
suddenly they're peer-accountable. I got the religion when I heard that.

Q: What's the role for labor unions?
A: [Union organizer in the audience] This kind of model can work with the
union. It seems like a natural pairing.

Q: Is this equally appropriate in rising and falling industries? And how
does this play out with globalization and outsourcing?
A: I don't know. How do the ethics of capitalism and the ethics of
organizational democracy work together?

A: [audience member] Outsourcing can increase the knowledge work done by the
people in the home plant.
Q: Are the outsourcers part of the organizational democracy? [Ouch!]

Q: Are these principles transferrable to very fluid industries where the
parameters are changing rapidly?
A: Pandora is a startup using organizational democracy. It allows a company
to adapt very rapidly.

Q: What's your advice to new companies that want to start out right?
A: It's not a matter of having standard processes that can be put in place
but in adhering to a set of principles. At Gore, they use a lattice
structure where everyone is related to everyone else. They share knowledge.
"You have to find an answer that works on the scale you're at."

Q: What are the most common problems democratic organizations face?
A: At Pandora, the make-your-own-radio-station, people feel so engaged that
they can be over-confident about the value of their participation.

Q: There are parallels between organizational democracy and the organic
movement. The organic movement got coopted by the FDA. How are you working
with large organizations so that the concept of org democ isn't diluted?
A: You are in my head. We're working on some proprietary tools that we hope
will create a standard.

Q: Seal of approval?
A: There can be a backlash to that.

Q; Saturn seems to have gone from democratic to undemocratic.
A: At one company, they axed the CEO after the company missed one quarter,
and the board brought in someone with a command and control background. I
asked the old CEO if the employees had the strength to go forward. He said
that there aren't other job oppportunities. It's unresolved still.

A: I love the idea of org democ, but it seems like it only works so long as
the guys at the top say it's ok.
Q: Yes and no. The movie The Take is about workers in 200 companies in
Argentina demanding organizational democracy. Southwest Airlines also
survived the replacement of the CEO.

Q: Why would the board care so long as the company is generally delivering?
I something else going on?
A: Probably.

Q: Is one of your 12 qualifications having a certain percentage of staff on
the board?
A: We don't have set policies or processes. We recommend the adoption of
principles. The Orpheus orchestra in NYC has no conductor. But their board
doesn't get it.

Q: (me) To what extent does the lack of democracy have to do with the fact
that most companies are run by men?
A: Male CEOs who can run their companies democratically have this wonderful
balance of the masculine and the feminine. They don't have anything to
prove, which is an important characteristic of leaders and workers in
democratic organizations. Democratic organizations need a blend of
compassion and discipline.

Q: What happens if the workers don't accept change? Suppose they just want
to follow rules?
A: A democratic company is not for everyone. Employees need a high degree of
self-knowledge and confidence. Sometimes people have to leave companies that
make the transition.

Q: I think this would work better in America than in some other countries.
For one thing, when you're responsible, you have to manage stress.
A: I don't believe it has to do with culture. I think it has to do with the
type of person you are.

Q: Does this work better for particular sized companies?
A: Smaller companies frequently are democratic just naturally.

Dear Prabhu



How are you?



I was wondering if you have been tracking progress made by the global academy of social entrepreneurs whose coordinator Bill Drayton happens to be a few miles away from my US home in Dc region



I am particularly interested in how Peter Eigen of transparency international and Oded Grajew of Ethos and World Social Forum seem to be conversing on sustainability involving global market sector collaborations and also getting Kofi Annan to benchmark this into what he ararnges around the Global Compact



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3321985461393888643



Say if you want to chat a bit more about this. mweanwhile on hearing that teh World Social Forum is coming to Africa - Kenya jan 2007 - I thought I'd have one more go at seeing if I can everyone who cares about some deep concern in Africa to join the same map http://www.frappr.com/africamph If we can table some common questions then my idea would be to get someone to deliver them to all 3 of the above people to see if we could make some cilvil society progress on make poverty history



sincerely

chris macrae

http://civil-society.blogspot.com

http://www.quicktopic.com/37/H/GmhSStbbpqJT
1 thanks for the excellent start up contributions -do drop by sometime to add
your own favourite civic societies

2 An early finding is that we have very particular cluster views -few people
are likely to have the same favourite civic societies or even know of the
various different types. Is this an opportunity for worldcit especially if we
can develop the 16 region branch structure that I seem to recall the Lucknow
meetings called for?

3 One exercise that may help is to step back: if you wanted teachers of
children to know of one hero of civic diversity from the past, who would it
be? then where is the cross-cultural alumni network or civic society that most
lives that person's value or ideals: where is Gandhi's? whyere is David
Livingstone's? where is George Fox of the Quakers? -as well as at Quakers it
is at www.servas.org -get the idea? If you have time to nominate a person
please do it at http://er100.blogspot.com, or register one of the civic
societies most connecting their views or project actions at
http://www.quicktopic.com/37/H/GmhSStbbpqJT

4 At http://civil-society.blogspot.com we have found it is possible to track a
different sort of world news - by googling news on "change the world"; we will
aim to transfer civic societies mentioned in this newsfeed into the quicktopic
survey. The good and the bad news is already clear: the only organisational
typology capable of taking the lead in changing the world is citizens
organisations

chris macrae C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net

Kenneth for about 50 years now my family has been an ardent champion of entrepreneurs as long as the terminology is systemic and transparent. http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com http://er100.blogspot.com We see ER's open maps as the way to make sure that the world works round the idea that healthy societies compound strong economies NOT vice versa. Or in other words, it is urgent and vital for sustainability's future exponentials of our networking age that economics is designed to compound better prospects for all people not just the great mathematical mistake of the big get bigger.
One consequence is that I bought the 16 social entrepreneur dvds co-produced by ashoka and skoll (2 of the world leading social entrepreneur nets) as soon as I found out about them http://www.ashokastore.org/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&Product_ID=295
I have been concentrating first on understanding the 2 DVDs by Grajew because not speaking Portuguese I have historically found it hard to check out what human system/net revolutions he has been connecting including the WSF which originated as an idea of his
Now I have listened to his idea, it seems his goals and that of worldcit are so similar that I believe it would be a waste of time and energy if there are not close enough relations at the centre of each of these 2 worldwide movements in mutually advancing each other and the common cause of world civic society (at least as I understand that!)
I guess my questions are:
Is there enough overlap at the centres of the 2 movements
If not, what is the perceived problem on worldcit side. I would like to try and help remove any such problems if I can think of a way while I spend a lot of my next few months talking with every contact point in Bill Drayton's ashoka that I can make
Please ask questions if this is not a clear enough start to a conversation that needs iteration if it is to have practical inpact
cheerschrishttp://asinworld.blogspot.com World's greatest mathematical mistake

Hi Denise
Wow: what a wonderful trajectory you are on. Give me a few days and I will try and write a longer more personalised introduction on why my dream would be that you and I and Bill Drayton could meet sooner rather than later...
I chronicle many of my favourite collaboration networks at http://project30000.blogspot.com and there are lots of loose intersections with yours; also your experience foci though I am not a live faciliator just a mathematician who knows what questions need debating to see if people are connecting round truth or conflicts.
After 15 years researching what societies wanted in 30 countries, I joined the management consultancy side of Price Waterhouse Coopers in London in 1990 (Then Coopers & Lybarnd) with the aim of changing how branding and goodwill was audited. I wanted to open source the simplest (conflict resolving) maths for doing that but found out that global accountants did not want to lose their monopoly measurement ticket to the boardroom. Unconsciously (and in some cases consciously- I had a chance to read interviews of the top 50 partners at Andersen in 1999 and modelled their imminent zeroisation of their corporate identity as the most conflicted 50 professional leaders ever seen) Global Accountants have spent the last 16 years compounding destruction of the maths of goodwill, network boundary transparency and whether network (including global industry sectors) is compounding exponential sustainability or destruction. I live a few miles from Harrison Owen. I have presented goodwill maths at a Global Reconciliation Conference in India where a fellow virtual presenter was the coordinator of non violent Communication. I will never myself be a live faciliator but I do catalogue system interfacing methods to see which faciliators have methods that are systemically collaborative and agree that conflict ersolution ones are fundamental- I also love Myrna Lewis' Deep Democracy alumni
Back in 1984 when I co-authored the first future hostory of death distance (aka world is Flat) with my father who was economics editoir of The Economist for 30 years, http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
what we knew was that networking would end sustainability of human race by circa 2100 or make the 21st century the best for developing all peoples rights and productive lives; there are at least 3 missing elements to our timelines on how humanity's sustaianability scenario will win out:
1) we need world scale public media - it could have been the Brotish Broadcasting Corporation raising the challenging questions we dont yet have resolutions to with as much attention as spectator sports and with as much joie de vivre as American idol; if that was done by one public broadacster other large public broadavcsters could syndicate it and then all point viewers to the same web to continue project discussions of the sort www.changemakers.net is doing
2) The only energy pathway that will sustain clean (water, air, soil and safe climate) is photosynthesis; it can also co-create abundant footprints, but requires multi-hemisphere coppeorations eg between places with too much sun and too little
3) we must reform all big professions to regain their hippocratic oaths and this will never happen while we have the combination of:missing audit of goodwill networks
speculator value analysis legislated by law (once you see the audit of goodwill networks it becomes clear that all long term shareholders and investors are huge losers of SVA)
other professions (eg advertising) and global consultants who are interested in separating their own business case not the organsic jhealth connecting any organsiationas a huiman relation systems of servioce inputs and value edemaded outputs
So by my book, we are as yet far away from the tipping point though I agree what Drayton has been coordinating oput of DC and likes of Mary Robinson and Clinto have been coordinating out of New York give us some grounds for hope
I am currently working on more notes to put up in the omidyar thread on the ashoka dvds; how about I send you the Grajew dvd for 2 weeks loan if you have a diary slot when that would be useful. Now you've told me where you are coming from I absolutely would recommend finding a way to connect with Bill Drayton. At the moment the person in his network I ost know is former Ashoka president Sushmita Ghosh who has just returend to her natived Calcutta to coordinate www.changeakers.net is to relay more or less this mail between the three of us and maybe you and she was work out a quicker way to discover what connects you need first with social entrepreneurs at the level of the 16 dvds or at more grassroot context thmes or both
Its my view that we will lose unless we who are on the same side in urgency on this matetr colaborate like there is no tomorrow. Tell me if you have some better idea on what would be helpful for me to try to do
chris macrae301 881 1655
Quoting Denise
Hello Chris: Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply. A little bit about my interests. I live in New York City. I pursued my MBA (1998) so I could join one of the large consulting firms in the hopes of learning the tools for creating healthy, human-centered change. I arrived and found that was not happening. I left in April 2002 and began studying on my own in earnest to discover healthier approaches. I found Nonviolent Communication (_www.cnvc.org_ (http://www.cnvc.org) ), Open Space and Appreciative Inquiry and have been working to bring these more into business, especially in New York City in our post 9/11 world. It is so needed. I started a community of practitioners 1.5 years ago and our master list is over 200 who are interested in these dialogue/asset-strength based philosophies and we are having great fun and energy is building. In the meantime, I have been reading and exploring in the CSR arena. I have participated in several conversations around the media (Images and Voices of Hope ( _http://www.ivofhope.org/conversations/miami.htm_ (http://www.ivofhope.org/conversations/miami.htm) ) and Positive Media Network (convened by Tom Munneke and posted within the Omidyar Network --I believe I've seen your writings in there to, although it's been a while since I've been on.) I facilitated last year at the Clinton Global Initiative that was held at the same time that everyone was in for the UN. This was a dialogue like a Davos, however, there was an expectation of commitments by the end. NGO's were included in the conversation with the funders etc. and at the end more than 200 projects were funded for a total of $1.6 billion. _http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/home.nsf/pt_home_ (http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/home.nsf/pt_home) I've also been up to Columbia University here in NYC for a conference convened by Jeffrey Sachs. _http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/sop2006/about.html_ (http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/sop2006/about.html) and many other conferences and dialogues. So, I am still in my preparation mode for doing something ..........still waiting for clarity.... but it is to help create a major shift in the world. I do see very positive signs. There are some new magazines... not sure if you posted them, but in case you missed them. _http://worthwhilemag.com/_ (http://worthwhilemag.com/) _http://www.odemagazine.com/_ (http://www.odemagazine.com/) _http://www.optimistmag.org/gb/0000/index.php_ (http://www.optimistmag.org/gb/0000/index.php) Also, here is a posting I had put on the AI Listserve, about some positive things that are happening at Harvard. Someone had shared the Harvard Positive Psychology course several months ago to the list. I listened to most of the lectures and found it so helpful to our work, with all the citations etc. In the course (which is the highest registration in the history of Harvard with over 845 ungrad. students) _http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?course=fas-psy1504&pageid=tk.page.psy1504.vi deo_ (http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?course=fas-psy1504&pageid=tk.page.psy1504.video) , the Professor, Tal Ben-Shahar, who is a wonderful teacher, also mentions that he is teaching another course _The Psychology of Leadership _ (http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?course=fas-soc186&catalogId=course/fas-soc186) . It took me a while, but found that it was also available on-line. Here is the link. _http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?course=fas-soc186&pageid=tk.page.soc186.vide o_ (http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?course=fas-soc186&pageid=tk.page.soc186.video) Click on the "hi" next to lecture, under the "View by Date" column. The great part is that he really cites David Cooperrider and Appreciative Inquiry in Lecture 6 & 7, on February 15th, 2006, and Feb. 22nd. He makes a brief statement at the 12 minute mark and then speaks extensively from minute 30ish to the end. It sounds like AI will be threaded throughout the remainder of the semester. Also, keep in mind that this course is one of the second highest registration in the history of Harvard and has about 650 students. So Congratulations to David and this is good news for the everyone that 650 Harvard students have been exposed to Appreciative Inquiry.... Have we reached the "Tipping Point" yet???????? I'm not sure how long they will leave the lectures up- on-line as the semester is over. So if you want to see them, I recommend looking at them soon. So, I hope I didn't overwhelm you, but I do see some very positive signs of hope and look forward to continuing our conversation. Oh, and I probably will order those DVD's . So thank you. Warm regards, Denise
In a message dated 6/2/2006 1:10:09 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk writes: Hi Denise Cannot fully answer your question as there was a delay in the dvds getting through to me; in fact I only got my first batch of 11 yesterday! It seems that 5 are still in production, and unless you push them they assume you wish to wait for all 16 (possibly late summer) The eleven I have: look absolutely vital for my own understanding featuring lifelong experiences of people all of whom I feel are changing the world in ways we can learn from Admittedly I am biassed because after years of looking for something that might work, I have in the last few months come to believe that the social entrepreneur networks linked around Bill Drayton at www.ashoka.org and www.changemakers.net together with his connections with the key people in these dvds is the best chance we have. Although I had known of the existence of ashoka for many years, I hadnt fully understood the way Bill Drayton has spent 28 years connecting this until recently Happy of course to exchange ideas on what else works or more details or any of the above as I explore it, or if you want to share more of your (or your peers') focus or particular qesutions The struggle for changing the world is much harder than my father and I expected in 1984 (and if we are correct sustainability's urgency cannot be put off much longer) http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687 especially because of the lack of support for social entrepreneurs and other changemakers in public broadcast media (and the connections that such scale could make if linked with webs).. the media side is as yet one of the gaps I don't see being filled even by the extraordianry works of the people on these dvds http://www.pledgebank.com/bbcgames is at early stage of looking for people to pledge to do some letter writing lobbying on this I will probably start viewing dvds with Grajew, who I have had difficulty tracking by other means because a lot of what's published by him is in Brazilian his 2 dvds: one is beyond corporate social responsibility; he seems to be doing this by getting a thord of all Brazilian corporates by turnover involved; this makes sense to me as I do not believe CSR works at individual corporate levels but at sector or national levels the other tape is on the world social forum that he was a parent of; whilst admiring the idea of developing this space, I have found it very messy at the Europe was held in London in 2004; it will interest me to see what objectives he originally help for it and to try to understand if he still has any unqique goals for WSF, and whether ordinary individuals can actually colaborate with WSF to get anything done or if it has (accidentally) become a sort of insiders NGO club cheers chris macrae 301 881 1655 I would sugest you make a quick dip into the 2 Drayton chapters of the Bornstein book - they may help you decide how big your appetite is for the all Social Entrepreneur area vis a vis other avenues for your attention; and I find his book can be dipped into I dont know spiritual capital well http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1576751384/sr=8- 1/qid=1149224018/ref=sr_1_1/103-1722243-5155815?%5Fencoding=UTF8 if its like the other capital books (social, human, intellectual) the question for me : is there a usable method in this book to introduce a 2nd audit with maths the opposite of all the metrics we are currently governed by which destroy goodwill by separating it in boxes and giving it a 90 days treatment rather than modelling what exponentials http://exponentials.blogspot.com we systemically spin through time when monetary goals are at conflict wioth contextual depth of purpose, trist-flow, transparency of network partnering etc http://valuetrue.blogspot.com http://flowtrue.blogspot.com Quoting : Hi Chris: I just saw your posting on the OS List and was wondering how you are enjoying the DVD's. I have the Bornstein book and have yet to read it (I've got quite a pile. Currently reading Spiritual Capital). While the price is certainly right, I was just wondering if you were finding the time investment worthwhile, especially with all you've read and your father's work. Warm regards, Denise

Reviewing the 16 DVDs on the World Series of Social Entrepreneur Champions (Series sponsors include Ashoka Skoll Changemakers - profiles debated at Calcutta and other Club of City and advocates of help BBC governors to stop being afraid of covering social entrepreneurs - their programmes matter more to kids futures than spectator sports do) DVD 1 GRAJEW BEYOND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY I started with the Grajew dvd "Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility" since he's always been one of the greats whom I have found it harder to get stuff on because I don't speak Portuguese. I love this DVD because this guy has done what some CEOs -and sustainability investment funds - have said is necessary but few have so simply done. Namely while goodwill is wrongly or non-transparently audited, social responsibility puts an individual corporation at a cost disadvantage. What is needed is sector social responsibility, which if achieved is to nobody's disadvantage and the advantage of those who help pioneer its lead. This is what Grajew clearly did first with Brazil's toy industry - his origins are being in the toy sector, then agreeing to be the head of the main toy industry association, convening meetings until sufficient companies in the industry agreed they’d adopt a policy of not sourcing toys that involved child labour exploitation. The stories he tells are so straightforward I could well believe any CEO who cares could gain enormously from seeing this dvd; I wish it could be mass produced and given away with a copy of The Economist or some such mass channel to leaders. At http://er100.blogspot.com we chronicle my family and fellow Scots beliefs that the 1840s founder of The Economist (James Wilson) was one of the world champion social entrepreneurs of the 19th Century - anyway it was his inspiration that encouraged my father's entrepreneurial revolution trilogy between 1976-1984 where needs for social entrepreneurs were forecast if this 21st century is to become mankind's most civilised and best for all people, instead of its worst. It's interesting that Bill Drayton was the only one in the world to pick this idea up all that long ago so of course I am biased towards believing any networks he connects into are more likely to change the world than any other person I am aware of. Grajew has since gone on to involve a third by turnover of all Brazil's business in responsibility programs. I'd love to know if he has converted other whole sectors (still haven't finished DVD). I can also imagine that if a nation gets such a critical mass of companies believing in responsibility it becomes simpler to be an advocate of responsibility as a market advantage even if the whole sector doesn’t come with you. A question I would love to ask is does anyone know of any sector anywhere outside Brazil that has adopted sector responsibility regarding one of its sector deepest responsibilities (ie externality) or even a leader of a large business who is trying to form such a sector collaboration. C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net

Survey of Shareholders of The Economist I am piloting this around questions like these Is the purpose of economics to compound better lives for all people or a few powers that be? Do they have a specific goal or vision for economics over the next decade? Do they agree that the 1840s founder (James Wilson) of The Economist was a 19th C social entrepreneur world champion? At er100 (vote for alumni networks of 100 entrepreneurial revolutionaries you believe children could benefit from knowing of and selectively connecting to before they grow up) we chronicle his beliefs in transparent statistics and sustaining business ethics; and how he died before his time trying to plant these in India run by British Empire I have got the complete listing of shareholders ; if you'd be interested to survey those in your city or country outside UK, please contact me and I wil first count up how many there are, as well as show you the latest version of the pilot survey to see if you feel it can be edited into a jointly user friendly form I have sent a first wave of surveys out to people who recognisably came from quakers businesses if they profile with a distinct response pattern, I will come back and summarise here I am aware that many professions are making a system beyond review - eg global branding -please tell us (C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net) any references you have in this regard whether on economics or other professions that advise leaders

Hi Denise

Cannot fully answer your question as there was a delay in the dvds getting
through to me; in fact I only got my first batch of 11 yesterday!

It seems that 5 are still in production, and unless you push them they assume
you wish to wait for all 16 (possibly late summer)

The eleven I have: look absolutely vital for my own understanding featuring
lifelong experiences of people all of whom I feel are changing the world in
ways we can learn from

Admittedly I am biassed because after years of looking for something that
might work, I have in the last few months come to believe that the social
entrepreneur networks linked around Bill Drayton at www.ashoka.org and
www.changemakers.net together with his connections with the key people in
these dvds is the best chance we have. Although I had known of the existence of ashoka for many years, I hadnt fully understood the way Bill Drayton has spent 28 years connecting this until recently

Happy of course to exchange ideas on what else works or more details or any of
the above as I explore it, or if you want to share more of your (or your peers') focus or particular qesutions

The struggle for changing the world is much harder than my father and I
expected in 1984 (and if we are correct sustainability's urgency cannot be put
off much longer)
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
especially because of the lack of support for social entrepreneurs and other
changemakers in public broadcast media (and the connections that such scale
could make if linked with webs).. the media side is as yet one of the gaps I
don't see being filled even by the extraordianry works of the people on these
dvds

http://www.pledgebank.com/bbcgames
is at early stage of looking for people to pledge to do some letter writing
lobbying on this

I will probably start viewing dvds with Grajew, who I have had difficulty tracking
by other means because a lot of what's published by him is in Brazilian

his 2 dvds:
one is beyond corporate social responsibility; he seems to be doing this by
getting a thord of all Brazilian corporates by turnover involved; this makes
sense to me as I do not believe CSR works at individual corporate levels but
at sector or national levels

the other tape is on the world social forum that he was a parent of; whilst
admiring the idea of developing this space, I have found it very messy at the
Europe was held in London in 2004; it will interest me to see what objectives he originally help for it and to try to understand if he still has any unqique goals for WSF, and whether ordinary individuals can actually colaborate with WSF to get anything done or if it has (accidentally) become a sort of insiders NGO club

cheers
chris macrae 301 881 1655

I would sugest you make a quick dip into the 2 Drayton chapters of the Bornstein book - they may help you decide how big your appetite is for the all Social Entrepreneur area vis a vis other avenues for your attention; and I find his book can be dipped into

I dont know spiritual capital well http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1576751384/sr=8-1/qid=1149224018/ref=sr_1_1/103-1722243-5155815?%5Fencoding=UTF8
if its like the other capital books (social, human, intellectual) the question for me : is there a usable method in this book to introduce a 2nd audit with maths the opposite of all the metrics we are currently governed by which destroy goodwill by separating it in boxes and giving it a 90 days treatment rather than modelling what exponentials http://exponentials.blogspot.com we systemically spin through time when monetary goals are at conflict wioth contextual depth of purpose, trist-flow, transparency of network partnering etc http://valuetrue.blogspot.com http://flowtrue.blogspot.com



Hi Chris:

I just saw your posting on the OS List and was wondering how you are
enjoying the DVD's. I have the Bornstein book and have yet to read it (I've
got
quite a pile. Currently reading Spiritual Capital). While the price is
certainly right, I was just wondering if you were finding the time investment

worthwhile, especially with all you've read and your father's work.

Warm regards,
Denise

Denise Lalonde
Lalonde Consulting and Coaching

I'd be interested if people in this thread would like to rate themselves by how many years they have been questioning "world is flat" agenda. This can help explain why our greatest concerns and practical challenges as we network around peers may vary wildly. This is no excuse for flaming each other or falling down the pitholes of prejudices stirred up in century 20 or earlier. As science fiction writers, mathematicians and many others have forewarned us, we are all in hyperconnectivity together now that it is webbing ever faster around us. You cannot turn this round (sometimes I wish we could). For a Scottish example, when I was a kid I could fish on the isle of Arran, eat the freshest mackerel on god's earth, enjoy a nutritional meal. That's not be possible for 30 years of pollution now.
My own rankings on world is flat depend on whether you date by my first publication 22 years (the death of distance book raising what collaboration question worldwide peoples between 1984-2024 would need to collaborative resolve when - all of whose main crises have come to pass so far) or my first nets experimentation 33 years (ironically turning undergraduate psychologists (100 at a time across 4 universities) into learning networks' guinea pigs). I have never been particularly worried by rude verbal reactions since that baptism by fire. Whichever ranking you use, my deepest challenges involve such topics as these two:how to arrange agenda where 2 people with meta-network connections get together http://we-you.blogspot.com
what to do about inconvenient truth of global networks as systems of systems of systems at macro, micro and inter level given how frightened people are and with due cause since the people with the most power are the elast interested in inconvenient truths that will sustain or end the future generations of the rest of us. http://inconvenienttruth.blogspot.com andhttp://er100.blogspot.com
C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net

Hi Tav



Have a look at the googles of Devy and Chakravarty

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22ganesh+devy%22&btnG=Google+Search



http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22kk+chakravarty%22&btnG=Search



If you'd like me to send an email of introduction to either, please say. (My geogragphy's not good in terms of matching where they work and where you're going etc



cheers

chris



previously

Dear Mr. Macrae,

We are working with grass root community health
projects, from time to time in various parts of the
country, and at present, in Sikkim, essentially trying
to nourish the endogenous knowledge base. Please let
us have your suggestions.
Sincerely,
(K.K. Chakravarty)

Dear John
Interesting
*1) I will send you (john) a copy of the questionnaire including letterhead as it pilots
*2) It would be great to have any references any of you use to understanding James Wilson to inform the conversation around him that many networks and Scottish/other schools of economics are having – loosely speaking attached as one of the ER100 whose alumni every 21st C child could learn and practice with before 15 years
*3) In the 22 years since my father’s open sourcing of death of distance scripts in 1984, network debates have made it clear that the human race depends more and more on transparent integration of media, and that Britain has several jewels in the crown for collaborative world service evolving out of being the longest-largest constitution ruled by neither 4-yearly politicians nor big business. Any network’s greatest risk of meltdown is : boundaries artificially drawn inside it however much technology’s globalisation over humanity or nature finds that to be an inconvenient truth.
*4) Macro*Micro*Inter – it can apply not just to the correction of Newtownian maths by Einstein but any worldwide life system model mapped so its assumptions are always open to questioning what truth do we need to integrate more wholly next if abundance is to win-win-win over scarcity.
*5) Don’t be sorry. It would of course be good to be on the same side of mapping humanity’s or nature's interest in the transparency of markets, of intrapreneurial multipliers of service economy , human capitals’ trust and other healthily energising flows, interlocal learning networks open collaboration multipliers as clarified by von Neumann and Einstein. I’m just a mathematician; always glad to know other disciplines future navigators; always delighted to meet anyone who is exploring how disciplines interconnect simply around that vision. Meanwhile, 5 years at Coopers & Lybrand taught us what monopoly of measurement communal value multiplying future leadership will not come. Whereas previously 15 years of market mapping, with the first databank software (express), societies’ life-enhancing needs in 30 countries provided a few clues, as written up in 5 books on media, mediation and valuing network architectures as exponentially compounding system time system innovation.
*6) I guess when your grandfather starts by being the British Raj’s judge in the Bombay region and ends up helping to edit Gandhi’s constitution for independence you get very interested in discovering the who’s who of law and media’s two loops round those compound human interests which gravitate each human relations network. Why not join my father’s 85th birthday party at the RAC in September if he gets that far?
Thanks and sincerely, chris macraehttp://er100.blogspot.com http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html http://www.pledgebank.com/bbcgames http://ninenow.blogspot.com/1999_12_01_ninenow_archive.html

Dear Sushmita

just off the top of my head, I would recommend that health for all projects were at least an annual feature if only for a fortnight's jam

its best for a web's sustained growth and gravitational authority to be seen as a world epicentre of a particular project jam as well as a connecting space for many project themes; I can't think of a simpler or more youthful energising one for word of web marketing of changemakers.net than "health for all"; and each wave of interest builds more senior influencers than one wave alone can

collaboratively, most of us (volunteers) in the worldwide web live in a timewarp; even a 2 months period is not long in asynchronous time to try and get everyone who could change the world; would you have expected navigators & captains in 1500 to have logged up a highly trustworthy atlas of the world in 2 months? pity we can't keep all 90 days accountants away from worldwide web organisation once you work through the maths of sustainability exponentials we talked about when we met

I have started a blog on how to map one inspiring network every month; I think it may succeed in connecting people over time; if at any future time, you know of anyone in social entrepreneur worlds who wants their network or alumni featured, please say

http://macrae-nets.blogspot.com

anyhow, just my sample of one view
chris macrae

bbc2.0 and future of public media broadcasters - will it exist?

The way 30 years of writing at The Economist by my dad and I map 1 2 3 the future of broadcast public media sector goes with the BBC - it will either be snuffed out, a poor me-too of commercial media or it will save the world's humanity - not much in between will be with us in 10 year's time.

Should you happen to want humanity's open revolutions for goodwill to win out? why not to get informed now (see searches below the line) and take collaborative action wherever you can post that we do so - eg understand why www jams such as this health for all project catalogue with world funders in the judging panel are the future all peoples can openly source and cross-culturally reach beyond top-down government; read my dad's 1984 script one more time on the media's role in chnaging economics from te power plays of the big to spinning everyone's future interests; and if you are still on board pledge to write to the BBC governors when 2000 others are signed up. We are talking about the BBC and world service owned by all people and not ruined by one Blair or Murdoch dictating teiur voice as if it counts any more than any other Briton who has paid the BBC's licence or listener who has when the BBC's world service worked best trusted this source to be at the cross-cultural crossroads of all humanjity, starting with its smallest voices 1 2 3 4 5

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search bbc2.0 -alltime; in the news -megatrends by date

links to some powerful commentators - The Economist on BBC2.0; commentaries by other social entrepreneur correspondents (the alumni school of James Wilson , The Economist's founder); Beyond-Branding's views; gameschangers' views

pledge to keep the conversation going with BBC governors ;

Hello Marshall

your website came up as a google alert in my ER weblogs- hence this inquiry from out of the blue having seen the inspiring http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/

I am not the writer in my family but my dad penned an Entrepreneurial
Revolution trilogy 1976-1984 : the first 2 as surveys for The Economist, the
third the original death of distance (aka World is Flat) Future History

http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

My emerging objectives in co-producing Close Encounters of ER

series of 3-pager open scripts
favourite coordinates include: James Wilson founder of The Economist, Bill
Drayton of www.ashoka.org current social entrepreneur world champion, Peter
Drucker, why Einstein believed gandhi was the closest to a leader able to help
all to transform to a higher level system

connect through the first 21 decades of entrepreneurial revolution as a way of
restoring economics to benefit all peoples and preventing it from ever
becoming only the compound maths of the big gets bigger; improve understanding
and open debates on why leadership, local-global economics (through whoch 2
million global vilages can communally blossom) and sustainability investment
should focus contextually on future exponentials
http://exponentials.blogspot.com and their transparency across networks as
systems of systems, and the trust-flows gravitating any organsiational system
around streams of knowledge co-workler productivities and stakeholder demands

develop a campaign -current codename social entrepreneur olympics - with youth
to change public mass media starting with BBC and India's DD from dumbing down
with sports idoling, to actively connecting youth's lifelong action elarning
with humanity's greatest global village challenges ... towards a value
multiplying economics instead of one at best zero-sum scarcities

An example of my bad writing but potentially easy to re-edit as series sampler
is at http://www.zeromillion.com/entrepreneurship/interviews/Peter-Drucker-
Remembered.html

Do contact me at any future time if co-working on this series makes sense or
with any other collaboration idea for advancing entrepreneurial vocabula

cheers
chris macrae
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
http://clubofcity.blogspot.com
www.valuetrue.com transparency mapmaking communities

WCBN002
Along the road from brand essence (gravitaional brand DNA- Uniue Organsiing Purpose) through trust-flow to Transparency

Hi Robert, Fredy, co-author Alan of Map - if you are looking inRobert thanks for your insightful mail from the Phillipines perspective

here's a full monty on trust-flow and chartering brand dna as briefly as I can compile in one write-up

The problem of trust-flow (or goodwill connects) is the big black hole (and loss of gravitational whole; core dna) that not only separates marketing from compounding better and better, but all human competences of service and knowledge work.

Today in any service or future knowledge worker sector capable of sustaining abundant value multiplication, at every level : global market sector, corporation, place government about 90% of the value people multiply or destroy is compounded over time by trust-flow. Yet current accounting is the perfect maths for destroying and separating that over time.

Back to brand:This is why brand valuation algorithms that separate actually destroy the possibility of marketing to have an integral goodwill impact on an organisation. My suspicion is if you ask Trout (as one of the ad-spot industry’s strongest ever advocates, or many others –eg most academics have a publishing case based on separation) his views on brand valuation he’ll love it as much as I hate it. I know its origins were in a deal between accountants and ad agencies to promote each other’s separate business cases. John Murphy who invented brand valuation at Interbrand was quite open about that ‘mistake’. John and I had the occasional beer as we worked down the road from each over so to speak.

When it comes to brand DNA or essence, chartering is interested in the brand architecture connections – usually these rotate around a company brand though sometimes megabrands in different sectors

The simplest chartering question to begin with to clarify DNA, vision, the brand as a goodwill or badwill spinning system is: what would the world uniquely miss if this brand ceased to exist tomorrow; probe through any level of stakeholder segmentation : what would they miss

Now I discovered that in about 1992, and assumed if everyone in a company was going to live the brand and connect their competences to it (ie marketing as an organisation-wide endeavour to progress the future) management needs to facilitate relentless internal conversation updating this particular question as environment or competition changes as well as vision or strategy progresses. There should be an internal hotline in any large company so people can say my activity is this , I don’t see how to connect it with the brand dna, I am being measured by other stuff that’s in conflict. This in effect brings the principles of built to last and the power of values to the very specific context of the brand dna

Unfortunately, I made a huge mistake. I had not thought through what if all these different implied promises that different stakeholder segments most want (most need to flow trust) are in conflict with each other. What if the more you question the more accounting measurements and other management non-transparencies get revealed.

Consequently marketing of the kind where brand promise and trust may be tense but are always working to advance each other cannot exist until we have a wholly new audit of intangibles cycling people’s attention as much as tangibles accounting. The maths of this new audit is available. Naturally enough it starts each audit cycle with an appraisal of any conflicts (or separations) that are compounding and how are we going to resolve this. Ultimately a motivation for the board to apply this is that at the limit trust-flow or reputation maths is multiplicative. S Anderson found out: billions of business stakeholder value, 0 social value = billions *0=0 not current accounting’s billions +0

So leaders make very different decisions about risk if the govern trust-flow; and indeed see reputation not just of the company but themselves boomerangs back. When the post-mortem of the last lost of spaceship by NASA was in: the conclusion was a weak management culture; one that was identified to have separated 50 different knowledge flows which in a crisis gave zero chance of even seeing the magnitude of the problem let alone seeing if there was a real time solution involving the cooperation of all specialists. NASA was a perfect case of cost and people cutting where those people that remained were very gung-ho- of course we can still do this. What they actually meant was they retreated into their own expert silos and had over time left out the more time-consuming work of connecting across groups. So current accounting also maximises the risk of networking organisations breakdowns just when going global and local most needs this connectivity strengthened not weakened cycle after cycle

A company does not have to do the full trust0-flow audit if it will trust its chief brand officer to have the right to do all the chartering work to keep connecting and reducing conflict. But that takes the person at the top of the company seeing the whole integrity of the organisation as human relationship system this way. The same molecular structure of trust-flow that applies to an organisation applies at more macro level to global market sectors of how a nation and its largest organisations invest in sustainability of all its peoples; or at more micro levels to where an organisation is strengthening or weakening its most unique competences and the way they combine

Basically I am here to open source this if anyone feels sure that in the places they reach they want to keep at this. I also understand its too big to try to apply everywhere. All I can really advise is if there is a social or other concern that you give your marginal time too, then you should start learning how to map trust-flow around that because over time nothing will get humanly better unless you do find ways of raising transparency’s bar and getting all who could connect around that social concern openly using the same map.

HEALTH WARNINGIt is useful to know that if you are going to fully practice Brand Chartering ( a modular method for integrating more and more questions ) so the whole organisations can trust the answers you are potentially engaging in personal risk just as much as any transparency worker or systemiser. A case in point occurred around 1994 while I was trialling chartering in Indonesia but did not fully understand that I was leading a project team into transparency busting. We had an extraordinarily wasteful brand mix whose share had halved over about 5 years. My ingoing assumption –which is often part of the problem – was that all the different creative agencies had been working on briefs that were not common because they had been written at different times, and had tried to extend brands in ways that ultimately involved different brand managers having their own budgets and not caring what happened next as long as their brand’s budget did not get cut. As we proceeded to ask questions aimed at restoring integrity of the mix, certain managers kept on contradicting themselves even within their own logics of which parts of what brands worked how. The penny ultimately drooped that the number 2 man in the whole company was completely corrupt and anyone working as a marketer under his wing was either corrupt or scared to the wits ends. From that second our team had to have an armed guard to continues its work..

The bottom line is that if an organisation starts up and revolves round trust flow, keeping the integrity of the brand’s goodwill transparent is not particularly difficult, except that you may fall pray to hostile takeovers from bigger but less transparent organisations. However, if you are introducing trust-flow into a large organisation that has never previously been governing this, the work is dangerous and arduous , and may not be worth engaging in unless you do have access to the top people and they are conscious of what will be involved.

( Transparency is a hard ball game -which frankly at my age I cannot wholely commit to so I adopt the facade of a fool the more dangerous the sector that needs unravelling - but if you know folk are up for it then the network http://www.ashoka.org/ (currently number 1 in the brand architecture of how to chnage teh world - see attachment on socila entrepreneur as trojan horse password to reforming superpower economics) does offer some extraordinary regional leads)

Of course, we reach a catch 22 here, because developing nations are not ever going to sustain more people’s livelihoods unless we can restore transparent goodwill governance. And globalisation is now odds on to finish children before century 22, because nature has no time for manlind compounding ever greater conflict with it. In this way the intangibles crisis of unseen wealth measurement is at the gateway of the most tangible crisis impacting billions of peoples lives that I can think of. Just as there is a limit to how much brand chartering can be sold and still have a chance of being proud that marketing is improving folks’ lives; it turns out there is a limit to how much trust-flow valuation you can serve unless we change economics and all leadership professions. This is where the best chance we have is to unite entrepreneurial schools and search out whether there is any public media left to animate this debate or alternatively any superstars. http://universityofstars.blogspot.com/ http://reformeconomics.blogspot.com
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html See also attached.

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://brandchartering.blogspot.com
http://worldclassbrands.blogspot.com/

Jinan

could you tell me if or when you have contacted any of the following (if the interaction goes nowhere I am happy to ask around why)

www.ashoka.org especially the Indian branch; education was the first cluster of these changemakers 28 years ago, and the first Indian member was all about education

montessori education: Gandhi and Montessori combined in the 1930s to develop schooling that sounds like yours: I assume that the folk at the world's laregst montesorri school Lucknow could provide some clues http://www.cmseducation.org/

microfinance; somewhere withing www.omidyar.net - there are lots of people up for finacing small amounts to educational projects

Ashrams, I would have thought these were also founded around the sorts of principles you are evoking - october 2007 sees a worldwide centenary celebration of gandhi hosted at his ashram in ahemdabad

cheers
chris macfrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://clubofahmedabad.blogspot.com
http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com - what's the deepest system revolving questions all children's rights are now asking for the future http://clubofcity.blogspot.com





Quoting ms@ms.lt:

Thank you, Jinan, for sharing the progress you are making in presenting the
creative outlook of children in the villages. I share your request for help
on a website. I am interested in ways that we might reward those in our lab
who help you and others on such projects. Greetings from Cardiff, Wales
where I'm at the TimebanksUK conference. Peace, Andrius

Data , "jinankb" Raðyta:

>Hi
>I have uploaded a site with imges of childrens work done at the workshop
>'Sensing nature;knowing nature' at Aruvacode,Nilambur.
>All the work is done with absolutly no help from adults.
>We begin the sessions with 10 minuts of silence around a beautifully
created
>'pookkalam'. Then the children do various activities like clay
>work,stitching making colour scale from leaves etc.Hope you will find the
>work interesting.
>I think it reveals the fact that children needs to be left alone to create
>knowledge or make sense of the world.
>Children being highly intutive, adults reasoning mind fails to appreciate
>and often destroys childrens abilities.
>The work you see are an example of children's genious.
>
>I am looking for help in doing a website.
>
>http://my.opera.com/jinankb/albums/show.dml?id=65285
>
>Jinan
>www.paradigmsofknowing.org
>www.kumbham.in
>
>Jinan
>www.kumbham.org
>09447121544,04931 221568,0487 2386723
>Aruvacode, Nilambur-679329,Kerala.
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/terracotta_murals/
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrius Kulikauskas"
>To: "jinankb" ;
>; ;
>
>Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:12 AM
>Subject: Documenting natural childhood learning
>
>
>Jinan,
>
>Yes, I was in Bangalore and remember you and your pottery murals
>http://www.kumbham.org It's great to see you on the Learning
>Communities list. I am happy to share your project to document the
>natural childhood learning process as a way to appreciate how we as
>people (and children) are designed to learn, including the importance of
>sensory experience. Perhaps somebody might suggest funding sources.
>
>I myself think that your project is relevant for our literacy flash
>cards that we'd like to introduce in Kenya as a social good and a
>business opportunity for Samwel Kongere. One of the key hurdles for us
>is to find the right kinds of "games" which the children might play with
>the cards and thereby teach themselves how to read at the same time.
>These games may be very much of the kind that you are documenting. They
>may be of local origin, they may be new, or they may be inspired by
>other traditions such as your own. But I think there is a lot of
>promise in linking your natural, sensory approaches with traditional
>literacy issues. We're working with Samwel at
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/holistichelping/ and it would be great if
>you might join us there (send a blank message to
>holistichelping-subscribe@yahoogroups.com) Maybe we can think of ways
>to structure your project so that it might be funded in smaller pieces
>and in ways that develop the assets of our laboratory's network (see
>http://www.ms.lt, http://www.globalvillages.info,
http://www.openleader.com)
>
>Here in Lithuania, Vilija Bortkeviciene is an architect who came to
>realize ideas similar to yours below. She felt that the urban projects
>that we live in are dehumanizing, and that it is important for people to
>live in nature and have their own space, their own land within it. She
>has moved with her son to a small village and they have built a school
>for the children there. Recently they got an Internet connection. She
>talks a lot about the centrality of sensory experience, which goes hand
>and hand with the wealth of such in nature. Whereas in our cities we
>lose both the experiences and the faculties. Perhaps there is a wider
>network of people with your outlook (although difficult to organize on
>the Internet!) who might strengthen each other by exchanging such
>knowlege and sharing that further.
>
>I am very much interested in finding ways to redo education from scratch
>and center it on self-education. I feel I was "self-educated" even as I
>sat through all the years of public school often knowing already what
>was being taught, and so patiently watching the learning methods and
>process of the teacher and students. I feel that even more than an
>atrophy or underdevelopment of our sensory experience, adults in the
>Western society (and the other societies that I am familiar with) are
>not interested to grow in moral thinking, in personal accountability, in
>love, in empathy, in conceptual clarity, in honesty, and so on. I think
>at our lab we've made some documentable progress in helping each other
>as full grown adults to challenge ourselves to grow further. I believe
>that the type of learning that you describe is relevant for us as adults
>and a challenge that we are increasingly interested to take up. Many of
>our leaders are turning locally to engage others and apply themselves.
> I wonder how learning to challenge oneself relates to learning (or
>unlearning) to live through all of our senses.
>
>I ask this question because perhaps it may help us value and apply your
>approaches, and may also express your values in a way that can be shared
>universally, and applied locally as makes sense, by a global network of
>people with shared values. I'm finding that "independent thinkers" have
>all manner of views and private languages, and yet share the same
>existential situation, and so are able to agree based on our shared
>values, starting with "caring about thinking". Also, if we adults
>approach our own self-learning in a constructive way, then we will have
>much better goals for our children.
>
>Thank you for championing such valuable insights!
>I wish you success, and I hope we might find small ways to engage you
>and those you care for.
>
>Andrius
>
>Andrisu Kulikauskas
>Minciu Sodas
>http://www.ms.lt
>ms@ms.lt
>+370 (5) 264 5950
>Vilnius, Lithuania
>
>
>jinankb wrote:
>> Dear Andrius Kulikauskas
>> Were you at the DYD2 conference in Banglore?
>>
>> I hope you wont mind my mail to you.
>>
>> I am exploring the possibilities of getting funds to do a documentation
on
>> indigenous childhood ( Games, toys, song and dance and also the day to
day
>> skills like cooking etc) both in movie and image form with supporting
>> literature. Please go through the proposal and suggest to me who will be
>> able to support this activity. I live in Kerala, India in a potters
>> village for the past 12 years. Please see the site www.kumbham.org to see
>> my work with the potters. I am involved in re looking at the cetrality of
>> education in our lives. reviving traditional craft skills, indigenous
>> learning process(Natural life long learning). I am re looking at the
>> possibility of community as learning space where children are not
>> regimented as is the case now in all schools including the so called
>> alternative ones. I believe unconditional freedom, love and security is
>> what a child needs and only this can bring about free, independent and
>> loving adults. I am also re looking at the role of text/literacy in
>> alienating humans from real eco centric knowledge and how indigenous
>> knowledge is a result of non text mediated or experiential processes and
>> also studying at which age and by what means these secondary means of
>> knowing ( text, computer etc) should be introduced.
>>
>> Most of the indigenous revival/ recovery attempts are taking the western
>> route. Recovering indigenous culture does not lie in getting back the
>> artifacts from the western museums or doing all kinds of researches and
>> documentation or sending our children to the present day schools. There
is
>> no true knowledge in the schools. it distorts the senses our door way to
>> knowledge. It also destroys intuition, our very tool for acquiring ‘life
>> sustaining wisdom knowledge’. In-fact recovering indigenous culture might
>> even mean doing away with the present school system, the present
>> institutions/museums, documentation etc. I feel it is already too late as
>> even the definitions of knowledge, indigenous knowledge etc are also
>> defined from the western point of view and most 'indigenous' people by
>> getting educated ( conditioned) by western knowledge system are also
>> trapped in to believing the western knowledge systems.
>> I have attched a paper on de-textualising knowledge.
>>
>> I work independently with out any organization.
>>
>> Jinan
>>
>> * Documentation of informal learning (natural way of learning)
among
>> rural/tribal indigenous children.***
>>
>>
>> Objectives
>>
>>
>> The documentation of children’s activities has two objectives.
>>
>> 1
>>
>> To understand indigenous knowledge and process of learning, creating etc
>> can be understood by studying how children in these communities make
sense
>> of the world. Happiest and free children are found in indigenous,
>> non-literate communities where children are totally left free to learn
>> about the world all by themselves with out any interference from the
>> adults.
>>
>> 2
>>
>> The second objective is to juxtapose this system with the modern
schooling
>> system where even the best ones are not as child friendly and also to
>> understand how indigenous cultures are dying due to the introduction of
>> modern schooling system in these cultures.
>> This documentation could also used as an eye opener to the mainstream
>> western society / schooling process to understand how actually children
>> learn and are capable of learning with out being taught. children do not
>> need to be “raised” or “educated.” Just as a child does not have to be
>> “taught” to speak or to walk, he does not need to be “taught” almost all
>> the things we as parents and teachers usually spend our time trying to
>> teach. What's more, not only are our attempts to teach children what we
>> want them to learn unnecessary, they are usually paradoxical in their
>> effects and lead eventually to the opposite of what was intended.
>>
>> The human organism has been evolving on this planet for about three
>> billion years and our genetic structure provides each of us with a unique
>> path to actualize our awesome inborn potential. The reason that almost no
>> one actually actualizes their full potential is because we, as children,
>> are not allowed to follow our inborn path. We are forced to follow
parents
>> who believe that they know how we should feel, think and act. Where as in
>> indigenous communities this was the case.
>>
>> Western adult society follows a dictum; we are perfect and now others
need
>> to be perfected.The project to 'civilize', 'Christianize', 'democratize',
>> 'develop' are all extensions of this thinking.
>>
>> This is also applied to their children also by treating them helpless who
>> need to be taught, raised etc. Who ever undergoes through this schooling
>> process also under goes this shift in their attitude to others.
>> This is due to the shift from knowledge as process to knowledge as
>> product.
>>
>> Modern adult has misunderstood the role of toys. First of all toy is a
>> process and making of the toy is as much part of the process as playing
>> with it and often the toy is incomplete with out the player. Toy making
is
>> one of the means of exploring the quality of the materials, various other
>> principles that we have ‘learned’ in schools with out ever understanding
>> it properly nor experiencing it. Laws of motion, gravity, plant behavior,
>> etc are all tested in these activities. Almost all the things we ‘learn’
>> in school- laws of physcics, chemistry about plants, mathematical laws
etc
>> are all experienced in these activities.
>>
>> In fact a child is never given a doll, which is realistic as it is bound
>> to cause confusion to the child.
>>
>>
>> Children in no literate
>> communities.
>> What children in the so-called non-literate communities learn/play/do
>> depends on the nature around them and the activities of the adults they
>> see around them.
>>
>> The purpose of the games toys etc that children get engaged in their
>> settings has two purposes. To know the world and its ways and to develop
>> various skills, and abilities needed in their adults life. This can be
>> compared to the young animals and their activities. This is actually a
>> preparation period. To get to know their territory and to sharpen their
>> tools for knowing.
>>
>> It is as if there is a biological process involved in creating these
>> activities. These activities are meant to sensitize the senses, to
balance
>> their body to plan, to be alert, to take care etc In this process they
>> get to know the nature intimately especially from a functional point
of
>> view. They know the edible and the non edible fruits, leaves, medical
>> plants, various properties of leaves, fruits, nuts, seeds, they get to
>> know the birds, their behavior and mating patterns. Children learn to
>> imitate the bird cries etc. This is the process of knowing the world.
>>
>> The children in my community knows all the trees, plants, birds in their
>> vicinity, the fish, knows how to swim, cycling, cooking etc all by
>> themselves with out the interference of adults. Every year they invent
new
>> games/songs etc.
>>
>> This is a result on keen observation, an interest in knowing the world,
to
>> relate and situate firmly in their immediate envionment. This is a
>> biological need. The principle of life itself.
>>
>>
>> In order to understand this we have to remove our egoistic fragmented
>> blinkers. We will have to resituate ourselves to a neutral plane with out
>> biases/needs and misconception about indigenous knowledge systems.
>>
>>
>> Plan of action
>>
>> 1.The documentation is on various activities/toys/ games/nature used
for
>> sensitizing the senses. (Montessoriens have got it all wrong by turning
>> these in to methods and curriculums. It is in the nature of any child to
>> awaken its own sense, we need not do it for them, Let us first awaken our
>> own senses.)
>>
>> 2.Study and documentations of various things /toys children make and the
>> process of mastering the skill of doing it.
>>
>> 3. The gender-based learning also is to be documented a well as the age
>> factor. What children learn at which age? (Gender again is an issue of
>> modernity now exported to all other cultures)
>>
>> 1. Senses and related activities
>>
>> 2. Learning to make and play tops.
>>
>> 3. Learning to catch birds/ fishing and hunting.
>>
>> 4. Making house, role-play etc.
>>
>> 5. Handling knife.
>>
>> 6. Girl related games.
>>
>> 7. Balance of the body.
>>
>> 8. Learning to climb trees/ swimming/cycling.
>>
>> 9. Leaf games.
>>
>> 10. Stone games.
>>
>> 11. Inventing songs/dance
>>
>> The documentation is to be in still and video format. (5 to
10
>> minutes each)
>>
>> The duration is for three to four years as most of these
>> activities are seasonal and each year they repeat. So a 8 year old
>> learning to do, for example ‘spinning top’ is repeated for three to four
>> years and then that game disappears for ever from the age of 12 or so. So
>> this activity is to be documented through out this time.
>>
>> The purpose of documenting this has several reasons.
>>
>> 1, these activities are disappearing forever with the new agenda of
>> ‘education for all’
>>
>> 2, these activities must be studied in order to understand the
nature’s
>> way of educating the human beings.
>> 3, This natural way of understanding could be used for introducing the
>> modern advanced knowledge with out alienating the learner.
>> 4, To understand the process of acquiring the sense of mathematics,
>> science, language etc
>> Budget
>>
>> EQUIPMENTS
>>

http://www.benfranklin300.org/chc.htm

Sorry I did not find out about this earlier in the year, and what a shame the organiser was not into the open space network (or by the looks of the web in many actively linking peoples networks)

coffeehousee challenge is a revolution for self-organising (not to say independence from top-down government that fails community-rising needs) in Britain enabling anyone to name a one hour controversial debate, host it in a starbucks, have it propagated through the other co-sponsor networks that include the Royal Scoeity of Arts - Britain's main association where the great and the good are challenged by ordinary people and a massive online library of innovation scripts is available at http://www.rsa.org.uk/events/ltresults.asp?show=all

another co-sponsor is the online part of the British Broadcasting Corporation ; the BBC's journalists hosted 3 of last year's coffeehouse challenges and were surprised to find that the public knew that the lack of social spaces was root caused by mass media as well as sommercialism taking over ever city's physical open spaces!

Back to BenFranklin300 - for this to have got started in Pennsylvania , it would have needed a viral network who loved open space explaining and propagating the news; that may be why it seems to have only 3 cafes left but end June its closing time. Perhaps John and anyone in the PA/DA area who loves opening cafe spaces can contact the local organiser to se if there remains time to pollinate this seed for liberty and open one hour spaces. Or anyone in the US could start asking for Starbuck's contact point to ask why not in our place too

chris macrae
http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com

Dear Frank

Sounds very interesting- I recall your work as leading edge. That's often
quite difficult to maintain at least in English speaking academic or EU bureucratic worlds

I will have a browse and probably come back with a few questions

Do you have any particular sector contexts or personal missions that you want
to achieve? What sort of organisational model do you want Eliqos to evolve? As
I believe I may have told you, whilst I wish I could contribute to knowledge
work projects of the sort that I believe DRucker construed by his terminolgy,
I do not see KM as right for me to use as the lead label for what my network
of consultants offer. Of those people who do lead a consultancy with KM, the
work and operational model of www.vernaallee.com seems the best (or the area I
like most). I believe I also introduced you to two fine compatriots (though
their areas are specialist) the learning games approaches of Claudia Schmidt
and the virtual training of Oliver Scwabe

I do love system methods, which unusually I define as only working by
interfacing with other providers of system methods. I am trying hard to take
back ownership of the systemic language of entrepreneurial revolution, which
my father wrote a trilogy on at The Economist between 1976-1982

http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com

I haven't yet debated with anyone who is passionate about KM world whether ER
and KM can go somewhere in transforming leadership and global/local that
neither on their own can go. I believe a huge hidden agenda is investing in
people not machines as the defining trasformation of how service economy is
different. Its a hidden agenda because it needs diferent maths of goverance as
well as facilitating istead of bossy methods of management. Its successfl
companies tend to sustain a golden triangle of supporting empoloyees who love
serving those fussiest customers who happen to have the best idea on
innovation of where the future of the company's sector could most valuably lead humanity. Leading such a golden intangobles traingle can repay investors 100 fold but only those who are there for the company and its depth of hi-trust context over a generation time space. My father's 1982 approach to that (similar I believe to Drucker and Claremont logic) is called intrapreneur
http://www.normanmacrae.com/intrapreneur.html

cheers
chris

http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com http://exponentials.blogspot.com valuetrue.com
always interested in hearing suggestions for long-run partnerships in hi-trust, transparency or expoentential sustainabiltity appraches to organisational human relations systems

Dear Frank

Sounds very interesting- I recall your work as leading edge. That's often
quite difficult to maintain at least in English speaking academic or EU bureucratic worlds

I will have a browse and probably come back with a few questions

Do you have any particular sector contexts or personal missions that you want
to achieve? What sort of organisational model do you want Eliqos to evolve? As
I believe I may have told you, whilst I wish I could contribute to knowledge
work projects of the sort that I believe DRucker construed by his terminolgy,
I do not see KM as right for me to use as the lead label for what my network
of consultants offer. Of those people who do lead a consultancy with KM, the
work and operational model of www.vernaallee.com seems the best (or the area I
like most). I believe I also introduced you to two fine compatriots (though
their areas are specialist) the learning games approaches of Claudia Schmidt
and the virtual training of Oliver Scwabe

I do love system methods, which unusually I define as only working by
interfacing with other providers of system methods. I am trying hard to take
back ownership of the systemic language of entrepreneurial revolution, which
my father wrote a trilogy on at The Economist between 1976-1982

http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com

I haven't yet debated with anyone who is passionate about KM world whether ER
and KM can go somewhere in transforming leadership and global/local that
neither on their own can go. I believe a huge hidden agenda is investing in
people not machines as the defining trasformation of how service economy is
different. Its a hidden agenda because it needs diferent maths of goverance as
well as facilitating istead of bossy methods of management. Its successfl
companies tend to sustain a golden triangle of supporting empoloyees who love
serving those fussiest customers who happen to have the best idea on
innovation of where the future of the company's sector could most valuably lead humanity. Leading such a golden intangobles traingle can repay investors 100 fold but only those who are there for the company and its depth of hi-trust context over a generation time space. My father's 1982 approach to that (similar I believe to Drucker and Claremont logic) is called intrapreneur
http://www.normanmacrae.com/intrapreneur.html

cheers
chris

http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com http://exponentials.blogspot.com valuetrue.com
always interested in hearing suggestions for long-run partnerships in hi-trust, transparency or expoentential sustainabiltity appraches to organisational human relations systems

Dear Frank

Sounds very interesting- I recall your work as leading edge. That's often
quite difficult to maintain at least in English speaking academic or EU bureucratic worlds

I will have a browse and probably come back with a few questions

Do you have any particular sector contexts or personal missions that you want
to achieve? What sort of organisational model do you want Eliqos to evolve? As
I believe I may have told you, whilst I wish I could contribute to knowledge
work projects of the sort that I believe DRucker construed by his terminolgy,
I do not see KM as right for me to use as the lead label for what my network
of consultants offer. Of those people who do lead a consultancy with KM, the
work and operational model of www.vernaallee.com seems the best (or the area I
like most). I believe I also introduced you to two fine compatriots (though
their areas are specialist) the learning games approaches of Claudia Schmidt
and the virtual training of Oliver Scwabe

I do love system methods, which unusually I define as only working by
interfacing with other providers of system methods. I am trying hard to take
back ownership of the systemic language of entrepreneurial revolution, which
my father wrote a trilogy on at The Economist between 1976-1982

http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com

I haven't yet debated with anyone who is passionate about KM world whether ER
and KM can go somewhere in transforming leadership and global/local that
neither on their own can go. I believe a huge hidden agenda is investing in
people not machines as the defining trasformation of how service economy is
different. Its a hidden agenda because it needs diferent maths of goverance as
well as facilitating istead of bossy methods of management. Its successfl
companies tend to sustain a golden triangle of supporting empoloyees who love
serving those fussiest customers who happen to have the best idea on
innovation of where the future of the company's sector could most valuably lead humanity. Leading such a golden intangobles traingle can repay investors 100 fold but only those who are there for the company and its depth of hi-trust context over a generation time space. My father's 1982 approach to that (similar I believe to Drucker and Claremont logic) is called intrapreneur
http://www.normanmacrae.com/intrapreneur.html

cheers
chris

http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com http://exponentials.blogspot.com valuetrue.com
always interested in hearing suggestions for long-run partnerships in hi-trust, transparency or expoentential sustainabiltity appraches to organisational human relations systems

Dear Frank

Sounds very interesting- I recall your work as leading edge. That's often
quite difficult to maintain at least in English speaking academic or EU bureucratic worlds

I will have a browse and probably come back with a few questions

Do you have any particular sector contexts or personal missions that you want
to achieve? What sort of organisational model do you want Eliqos to evolve? As
I believe I may have told you, whilst I wish I could contribute to knowledge
work projects of the sort that I believe DRucker construed by his terminolgy,
I do not see KM as right for me to use as the lead label for what my network
of consultants offer. Of those people who do lead a consultancy with KM, the
work and operational model of www.vernaallee.com seems the best (or the area I
like most). I believe I also introduced you to two fine compatriots (though
their areas are specialist) the learning games approaches of Claudia Schmidt
and the virtual training of Oliver Scwabe

I do love system methods, which unusually I define as only working by
interfacing with other providers of system methods. I am trying hard to take
back ownership of the systemic language of entrepreneurial revolution, which
my father wrote a trilogy on at The Economist between 1976-1982

http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com

I haven't yet debated with anyone who is passionate about KM world whether ER
and KM can go somewhere in transforming leadership and global/local that
neither on their own can go. I believe a huge hidden agenda is investing in
people not machines as the defining trasformation of how service economy is
different. Its a hidden agenda because it needs diferent maths of goverance as
well as facilitating istead of bossy methods of management. Its successfl
companies tend to sustain a golden triangle of supporting empoloyees who love
serving those fussiest customers who happen to have the best idea on
innovation of where the future of the company's sector could most valuably lead humanity. Leading such a golden intangobles traingle can repay investors 100 fold but only those who are there for the company and its depth of hi-trust context over a generation time space. My father's 1982 approach to that (similar I believe to Drucker and Claremont logic) is called intrapreneur
http://www.normanmacrae.com/intrapreneur.html

cheers
chris

http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com http://exponentials.blogspot.com valuetrue.com
always interested in hearing suggestions for long-run partnerships in hi-trust, transparency or expoentential sustainabiltity appraches to organisational human relations systems

Dear Frank

Sounds very interesting- I recall your work as leading edge. That's often
quite difficult to maintain at least in English speaking academic or EU bureucratic worlds

I will have a browse and probably come back with a few questions

Do you have any particular sector contexts or personal missions that you want
to achieve? What sort of organisational model do you want Eliqos to evolve? As
I believe I may have told you, whilst I wish I could contribute to knowledge
work projects of the sort that I believe DRucker construed by his terminolgy,
I do not see KM as right for me to use as the lead label for what my network
of consultants offer. Of those people who do lead a consultancy with KM, the
work and operational model of www.vernaallee.com seems the best (or the area I
like most). I believe I also introduced you to two fine compatriots (though
their areas are specialist) the learning games approaches of Claudia Schmidt
and the virtual training of Oliver Scwabe

I do love system methods, which unusually I define as only working by
interfacing with other providers of system methods. I am trying hard to take
back ownership of the systemic language of entrepreneurial revolution, which
my father wrote a trilogy on at The Economist between 1976-1982

http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com

I haven't yet debated with anyone who is passionate about KM world whether ER
and KM can go somewhere in transforming leadership and global/local that
neither on their own can go. I believe a huge hidden agenda is investing in
people not machines as the defining trasformation of how service economy is
different. Its a hidden agenda because it needs diferent maths of goverance as
well as facilitating istead of bossy methods of management. Its successfl
companies tend to sustain a golden triangle of supporting empoloyees who love
serving those fussiest customers who happen to have the best idea on
innovation of where the future of the company's sector could most valuably lead humanity. Leading such a golden intangobles traingle can repay investors 100 fold but only those who are there for the company and its depth of hi-trust context over a generation time space. My father's 1982 approach to that (similar I believe to Drucker and Claremont logic) is called intrapreneur
http://www.normanmacrae.com/intrapreneur.html

cheers
chris

http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com http://exponentials.blogspot.com valuetrue.com
always interested in hearing suggestions for long-run partnerships in hi-trust, transparency or expoentential sustainabiltity appraches to organisational human relations systems

Dear Frank

Sounds very interesting- I recall your work as leading edge. That's often
quite difficult to maintain at least in English speaking academic or EU bureucratic worlds

I will have a browse and probably come back with a few questions

Do you have any particular sector contexts or personal missions that you want
to achieve? What sort of organisational model do you want Eliqos to evolve? As
I believe I may have told you, whilst I wish I could contribute to knowledge
work projects of the sort that I believe DRucker construed by his terminolgy,
I do not see KM as right for me to use as the lead label for what my network
of consultants offer. Of those people who do lead a consultancy with KM, the
work and operational model of www.vernaallee.com seems the best (or the area I
like most). I believe I also introduced you to two fine compatriots (though
their areas are specialist) the learning games approaches of Claudia Schmidt
and the virtual training of Oliver Scwabe

I do love system methods, which unusually I define as only working by
interfacing with other providers of system methods. I am trying hard to take
back ownership of the systemic language of entrepreneurial revolution, which
my father wrote a trilogy on at The Economist between 1976-1982

http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com

I haven't yet debated with anyone who is passionate about KM world whether ER
and KM can go somewhere in transforming leadership and global/local that
neither on their own can go. I believe a huge hidden agenda is investing in
people not machines as the defining trasformation of how service economy is
different. Its a hidden agenda because it needs diferent maths of goverance as
well as facilitating istead of bossy methods of management. Its successfl
companies tend to sustain a golden triangle of supporting empoloyees who love
serving those fussiest customers who happen to have the best idea on
innovation of where the future of the company's sector could most valuably lead humanity. Leading such a golden intangobles traingle can repay investors 100 fold but only those who are there for the company and its depth of hi-trust context over a generation time space. My father's 1982 approach to that (similar I believe to Drucker and Claremont logic) is called intrapreneur
http://www.normanmacrae.com/intrapreneur.html

cheers
chris

http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com http://exponentials.blogspot.com valuetrue.com
always interested in hearing suggestions for long-run partnerships in hi-trust, transparency or expoentential sustainabiltity appraches to organisational human relations systems

Dear Frank

Sounds very interesting- I recall your work as leading edge. That's often
quite difficult to maintain at least in English speaking academic or EU bureucratic worlds

I will have a browse and probably come back with a few questions

Do you have any particular sector contexts or personal missions that you want
to achieve? What sort of organisational model do you want Eliqos to evolve? As
I believe I may have told you, whilst I wish I could contribute to knowledge
work projects of the sort that I believe DRucker construed by his terminolgy,
I do not see KM as right for me to use as the lead label for what my network
of consultants offer. Of those people who do lead a consultancy with KM, the
work and operational model of www.vernaallee.com seems the best (or the area I
like most). I believe I also introduced you to two fine compatriots (though
their areas are specialist) the learning games approaches of Claudia Schmidt
and the virtual training of Oliver Scwabe

I do love system methods, which unusually I define as only working by
interfacing with other providers of system methods. I am trying hard to take
back ownership of the systemic language of entrepreneurial revolution, which
my father wrote a trilogy on at The Economist between 1976-1982

http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com

I haven't yet debated with anyone who is passionate about KM world whether ER
and KM can go somewhere in transforming leadership and global/local that
neither on their own can go. I believe a huge hidden agenda is investing in
people not machines as the defining trasformation of how service economy is
different. Its a hidden agenda because it needs diferent maths of goverance as
well as facilitating istead of bossy methods of management. Its successfl
companies tend to sustain a golden triangle of supporting empoloyees who love
serving those fussiest customers who happen to have the best idea on
innovation of where the future of the company's sector could most valuably lead humanity. Leading such a golden intangobles traingle can repay investors 100 fold but only those who are there for the company and its depth of hi-trust context over a generation time space. My father's 1982 approach to that (similar I believe to Drucker and Claremont logic) is called intrapreneur
http://www.normanmacrae.com/intrapreneur.html

cheers
chris

http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com http://exponentials.blogspot.com valuetrue.com
always interested in hearing suggestions for long-run partnerships in hi-trust, transparency or expoentential sustainabiltity appraches to organisational human relations systems

Dear Rob
Would it be worth meeting some time?
I would like to share our emerging map on how to take back The Economist for social entrepreneurs and peoples economics. It is only the last 2 decades that it has (and all the fashionable MBAs) have drifted the wrong side of the line. And this year's quite a hot time with Bill Emmott leaving.
Its founder in the 1840s was one of the 19th century world's leading social entrepreneurs; in fact he stated that the paper should be closed once it had achieved his 2 editorial leaders goals:repeal corn laws and end capiatl punsihment
whilst my father was deputry editor of the economist through 1950s-1980s - the meaning of entrepreneur (what does society need to take back next from big power - the word is derived from the French revolution's taking back of liberte and egalite) was alive and well; in particular he published thr trilogy
1976 Entrepreneurial Revolution -small organsiations not big always innovates more deeply
We're all intrpareneurial now - guess what the service economy is not the machine age economy - it must invest in people and their trustflows in 1982; tyhis will need a differemnt auditing maths than tangibles
and the 1984 book I co-authored with that started death of distance future history genre now more popularly known as world is flat; our 40 year timeline tracked how the first worldwide generation 1984-2024 would either sustain or end the sustainability of future generations. In particular this decade wss the most critical one in taking back globalisation from the economics of the big gets biggerhttp://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
http://globalcharters.blogspot.com/
So I am looking at ways of connecting all real entreprenurial networks (of which social entrepreneurs were predicted in our 1984 book to be the most urgent in this decade) until we take back The Economist
cheerschris macrae Bethesdatel 301 881 1655http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com/
http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com/
http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com/

I think it would be useful to look at what virtual formats have ever worked in the past. I haven't heard of a 39 day one.
From memoryIt seems that time-constrained virtual congresses tend to work if they are seen by all as a preparation stage leading to the next real event
Another possibility is if a virtual congress is seen as part of a continuous movement that owns a way of gaining ever growing momentum. It's not working yet yet but a lot of us out of London (where the 2 biggest world stages we can gift to the world are the olympics and BBC as world service broadcater) are debating: why do we have spotrts olympics but not humanitarian olympics? Could we propose say 30 classification arenas that the world could be attending to as much as it does every 4 years to sports. (Of course another vital difference would be these arenas were rewarded around collaboration of project participants not just competition)
I am sure there are many other things that could become an ever growing foci of attention, but movements seem to me to need to be seen as having the authority and momentum to be the world stage in some cuch manner
chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com
PREVIOUSLY JB
Josep, www.simpol.org and I remain in favour of this and will do what I can but my time is very limited, I'm afraid.... Let me know any specific actions you want me to undertake. all the best John

To: worldcit@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:00 AM Subject: 1st Virtual Congress Friends, As C. suggested, I think we should get back to the organization of the 1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and Global Governance. To that end, these is what is needed, with my suggestions:: To decide on the dates. I suggest the Congress starts on the next World Unity Day, September 23, and it ends on October 31. This would make it an activity associated to the WUD campaign. To set a deadline for submission of papers and to actually start collecting them. I suggest August 31 as deadline. I will need the remaining time until September 23 to set up the Congress' website. I ask all of you who offered to present papers or to contact people who could present them to do so as soon as possible and keep me informed. To send news of the Congress as broadly as possible, including the list of signatories of the Manifesto, and adding this information to our websites. I ask for a quick round of opinions. I would like to have everything decided by Monday, so as to include the information about the Congress in the first message to the signatories. Regards Josep

This week saw world water day come and go with less than a ripple. Did Londoners know how they could have contributed more news on this around the world? no matter

Next week is arguably the biggest in the calendar for gifts to the world Londoners as number 1 collaboration knowledge city can start up, and make the next 6 years marathon of make poverty history connect all around the world

With Al Gore visiting the twin cities of London and Oxford, we cannot imagine a better time to Launch the Social Entrepreneur Olympics. The game is to have got 30 gravity pursuits of social entrepreneur world champions into the public consciousness by 2012 as much as the top 30 sports.

All we need is love and courage to cheerlead cross-cultural creativity's waves:

The Livingstone has got us off to a great start; he has declared there will be no sporting Olympics in London in 2012 unless they are carbon free - turn up the heat on every politician since only photosynthesis innovations can produce clean energy of that sustainability magnitude. Make sure all those who host Al Gore events debrief him as the clock to 2012 counts down

The lessons to be learnt from Make Poverty History from pop stars down can be an epiphany if University of Stars and the BBC turn their minds to the greater transparencies (eg end all country corruptions) needed if Make Poverty History is to be a reality network not just an image-making one

So that's 28 more gravity pursuits we need to celebrate around social entrepreneurs with as much gusto as the 20th Century hailed sporting stars

We are reminded of one Harrison Owen story I should tell because open spacing education is a social entrepreneur pursuit every family can stand up for whereas we cannot all help on the ground with projects in Africa or in the roofs that algae use to convert the sunshine into cleansing energy banks.

He was studying to be a priest around the Washington Dc area. It was a time when Martin Luther King was having a dream. Harrison can't recall quite how it happened but he was standing in a civil rights field in a crowd of African Americans - one tall lanky white man. The police were beginning to charge on the crowd and Harrison was feeling quite scared. That is until a 7 year old black girl came up to him - and said Mister will you hold my hand

Since that day, Harrison gave up the priesthood to the chagrin of most of his family. And is one of the handfuls of people who most interconnects conflict resolution facilitators around the world. Their networks criss-cross all religions that believe in golden rules of reciprocity such as so unto another what you want done unto you. They also connect mathematically - if Einstein is correct here at http://clubofdc.blogspot.com - to Gandhi as the greatest inventor of peaceful social entrepreneurial revolution that 144 years of The Economist's coverage of this most productive of all professions.

If some of this post makes sense to you, why not re-edit the parts you like and send it to the board of Governors of the BBC, and should you wish Tony Blair or another politician well with their legacy why not copy them in to. We the British people, not any of our political representatives own the BBC. We have invested way over 50 billion pounds in this corporation. On a personal note to all scots- may I ask whether you feel the inventor of television would feel proud of a television where every big debate is framed one dimensionally around short-term left and right rivals or whomever is looking fore a job with big business if the party does not turn out Trumps for their apprenticeship to network power.

It is high noon for the BBC with its 10 year licence determined by and for the people in the year of 2o06. Please could our world service be one of British Character we can feel both pride and humility in searching for. Please free your journalists for humanity to take a fearless lead in realising this open source script from 1984 , so that trust across peoples everywhere begins to flow through every documentary inquiry that has anything to do with world peace or nightly newscast on poverty's challenges through 2012 - and through these communications help the British to get to know 30 gravity pursuits of Social Entrepreneurs with as much joy and attention as the 30 sports it spend most public licence fees on. Hey when Brits helped to invent most of these sports we surely never intended they would take over from greater British realities of world service, through believing in CommonWealth principles and our Queen's higher order right to ask us as she did in her end of 2005 broadcast to unite in preventing globalisation from turning humanity on itself.

For the same of deeper democracy blossoming and connecting every coordinate on earth, you can also play a jigsaw mapping game aimed at sustaining 2 million global villages. Here's part of my family's tree which may open up some useful connections- what connections could your family tree or that of your peer networks open source. If you can make a "peer or family tree" picture why don't we play the mixed networking games of swap and snap. If we are going to turn around globalisation’s exponentials sustainably in time, we are all going to have to work with whatever grassroots community contexts up we can help each other navigate. No lead is too small as long as it is one you intend to gravitate transparently around as part of you lifelong learning mission. We need to help change children's education now so that the core human rights of freedom and happiness have a chance to breathe nature's clean waters, airs and energies everyone human beings sing her praises. Let's all turn up the courage through every family in the land and into wherever co-mentoring networks in internet space may take A B C D E F you

http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=16690

MikeHave you been given the names (and can we find eg the bio profiles) of the 3 other people coordinating the talks contentsAm I correct in understanding them all to be at Nottingham University? The one thing I know (through solaroof's Rick Nelson cc'd) about Nottingham univeristy is that it is at the epicentre of ecovillage sustainability as it has world class researchers in that field who also collaborate with some of the best financed innovation networks I know ofAnother possibility if we are going to develop an approach of can you join simpol's survey of NGOs is to map what NGOs or funds sources linked to NGOs your 3 fellow talks-leaders are most linked to. The beauty and the beast of academics is knowing who their main funders are because IMO this always frames how open or closed they are likely to be to the chief door-opener or trojan horse of worldwide political revolutions locally (otherwise known as simpol)chris macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.ukIf you want to be a Uniting Nations 2.0 Observer of clean energy and ecology revolutions from grassroots up I would suggest putting yourself on this map (a 2 minute task in the first instance)http://www.frappr.com/algaeworldQuoting Brian WILLS : This looks very interesting, Mike, particularly as it could -- I hope -- enable you to establish working relationships with new activists outside your existing network of NGO contacts. But the payoff at that cost would depend on the further information you now await. Is it yet another gathering of the regulars in the circuit, or does it offer new contacts plus an effective platform to disseminate the SP message where it is so far unknown? And, perhaps more importantly, do you expect it provide you with more insight into SP's credibility problem -- why do some activists 'buy' it immediately; and what might we be doing differently to interact better with those that don't? Anyway, I look forward to your I MOVE proposition when definitive data are available. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Brady To: Jill Phillips ; Barnaby flynn ; jbunzl@simpol.org ; steven@sjtuk.plus.com ; rw3075@bristol.ac.uk ; dhevdhas@talk21.com ; wcbn007@easynet.co.uk ; brian.wills@wanadoo.fr Cc: rad46@cam.ac.uk ; peterchallen@googlemail.com ; patrick@patrickandrews.co.uk Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 7:55 PM Subject: European Social Forum Dear Management Board and Trustees, Action: Approval needed - particularly on funding. The organisers of the European Social Forum have merged the proposed ISPO event with three from Nottingham University's Centre for the study of social and global justice. --- This would bring together the following four proposed seminars: Dialogue as a Form of Resistance? (ISPOs) How do you want the world to be? - building a common vision for the people's globalisation and making it reality. Negotiating different visions of another possible world: activism and 'internal' dissent OSDE: a participatory methodology for Open Spaces for Dialogue and Enquiry (Critical Reflection) --- I have sent a message to them to make contact to see what they envisaged for their seminars. It looks like a good opportunity to work with an apparently relevant organisation and to share the workload of organising and publicising the event. Looking at travel and accomodation costs, we are looking at about £500 for the duration of the event (over 4 days). I am trying to raise some funding to get there as Baby Milk Action. If successful, we could split the costs with Simpol-UK/ISPO. If there are national coordinators or people who would be able to speak at the seminar, we may wish to put up funding for their participation. I know people who will be there from War on Want and WDM so conceivably we could bring them in as speakers in our part of the seminar to help bring SP to their supporters. Can the management board and trustees discuss whether they think it is worth putting any money into this and/or approaching ISPO for additional funds and, if so, how much it is worth spending. When I hear from our would-be partners I'll let you know more about how the seminar would look, how many participants we could expect and what other publicity we could expect to generate. Best wishes, Mike --- centre for the study of social and global justice Abbreviation/Acronym: CSSGJ Address: Nottingham University Country or Autonomous Community: United Kingdom Phone Number: 0044#115 951 48 Telefax Number: Organisation URL/website: Detailed organisation description: Contact Language: English Is your organisation in accordance with the World Social Forum Charter of Principles: True Organisation description: Research centre for the study of issues surrounding global justice Main ongoing projects or activities of your organisation: academic research into the nature and meaning of justice; work on globalisation, anti-capitalism and post-capitalist alternatives; outreach activity on global citizenship. Previous social forum(s) to which your organisation has participated: European SF 2003 - Paris, St Denis, Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) and Ivry (Val de Marne), European SF 2004 - London Does your organisation participate in international networks or other organisations. Which ones ?: Many Organisation type: Research or documentation group Free text description of organisation type: Broad field of activity of your organisation: Global governance Free text description of the field of activity of the organisation: Scale of organisation: National Organisation wishing to invite other organisations to partner in its intended activities or wishing to participate into intended activities of other organisations: True Organisation wishing to organise common activities with other organisations during social forum(s): False Additional description in a language chosen by the organisation:

Now that Ganesh has confirmed that the Gandhi centenary meeting, first
announced at GRN Delhi 2004, will be in Gandhi's ashram at Ahmedabad, I have
started getting quite a lot deeper into my own understanding of Gandhi as a
reconciliation mover without precedent, including a correspondence course from
Gujarat Vidyapith

It seems to me that the entirety of Gandhi's systemic logics are ever more
relevant to local and global reconciliation. There's also a need in terms of
networking to differentiate between those who talk Gandhi as a new fashion,
and those who engage on lifelong missions. I say this as London is into its 3rd year of getting 500 people to turn up to a 3 day meet at www.bethechange.org.uk but I find the delegates well-meaning but mostly mediating up in the sky not grounded around deep grassroots challenges

I am wondering , on the assumption that you are individually too busy, do you
have a research student who would be interested in signing up at
http://www.frappr.com/gandhimba

This takes about 3 minutes to register. After that there is no particular
commitment but the map is a way of remembering who is connected with what
projects or networks that subscribe wholly or in part to Gandhi's ways of
reconciliation. I aim to continue building this space's deep connections with
project recociliations at least until October 2007. It also becomes a sort of
international map of where Gandhi's teachings are being put into practice on
what. Outside India, this does not seem to have been done in any coordinated
way that I can discover.

And through such a map we may see which other meta-networks intersect through
Gandhi. For example, in America almost the number 1 movement for cataloguing & philanthropic investment in diverse grassroots projects now call themselves "social entrepreneurs" http://clubofoxford.blogspot.com , and Bill Drayton in Washington DC at www.ashoka.org has been moved by Gandhi's principles for at least 40 years in the way that he now cheerleads social entrepreneurs. The entrepereneur language is also likely to be the one that will reconcile global economics if this feat is ever to be achieved - I can go into more detail of that road if anyone's interested in the death of distance (networking) or entrepreneurial revolution genres that my family launched out of The Economist 30 years ago.

Thanks for any help or ideas you have on developing
http://www.frappr.com/gandhimba

whilst writing: is there a GRN taking place in palestine/Israel this year ? A
bookmark or expected dates would be useful to know about

cheers
chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

Its rather an odd feeling when The State of The Union discovers death of distance scenarios I co-authored 22 years ago. http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com/ As system mapmakers and students of Entrepreneurial Future History economics: we still contend that 7 interconnecting waves will sustain or destroy the globe for future generations, and that by 2024 the globalisation we live and die with from every community up will be irreversible. From this http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.htmlYou may feel some of my views on the media and learning network waves. I believe I also know the only people capable of photosynthesising clean energy in time to end all countries petroleum economics addiction - if you know anyone who cares passionately about photosynthesis and its unique collaboration advantages of improving the lot of peoples who connect from extreme climates please ask them to join our collaboration map http://www.frappr.com/algaeworld

Dear M Tokyo, cc R London
I think it (cartoon and real terror waves) all starts and ends with what you call learning slavery. Basically the peoples of every country can at least tacitly - see that those in power are not on their side just at a time when all the peoples learning could be multipied. But where they cannot work out this against their own government - which is most countries but in different ways - they either retreat into some thing that appears to provide community-up comfort (eg religion) or externalise their hostility
It is and always has been the catch 22 of networks as the greatest revolution ever to hit one generation simultaneously on earth because both economically and sustainably socially it is both a media revolution and a mobility revolution (the chance to be productive and demanding virtually around the globe as well as in whatever we regard our real place and home culture roots to be). Since George Orwell on - within a generation this can only have spun exponentially bad or wellhttp://exponentials.blogspot.com/more detailed debating scripts from 30 years of dialogues on this
opening up a section on bookmarks to learning slavery and the antidote of global univesrity herehttp://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=u
we need and have always needed to go beyond national power and to distribute trade and learning multipiers around 2 million global villages if networking's expoential is not to make this man's last century. It is interesting that within the last month Bush's 20 gathering stormers have sudeenly found death of distance scenarios key to opening up America's 2 new space races:end addiction to petroleum economy (CC Robert as world most linked person to free this one as well as conecting with inventors who have greate medical ecoshethers that also use photosynthesis architecture - the knowledge innovation to study)
do what you can to get all kids to love exporing science as much as sports
on the second of these given that http://www.nap.edu/ is medically tri-centric, there really ought to be some links through Pauls's networks as well as Americans who have eber graced GRN meetings
chris macrae footnote media revolution of global vilagesmust get back BBC as world service media capable of discussing a different global village culture every night and open sourcing such programmes to any public broadcaster or dvd
get in the face of big power in ways that totally mix up whose authority will they be attacking if they try and meltdown the correspondentshttp://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com/ http://clubofbrussels.blogspot.com/ http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com/ http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com/http://futureoflondon.blogspot.com/

Dear Chris, Good evening, Tokyo time.


Dear Chris,
Good evening, Tokyo time.
Difficult times:
time to think,
time to share,
time to know,
time to ask,
time to understand,
time to act,
time to reach out,
time to take risk. (including of being wrong)
Why religions are coming back so forcefully?
Why these mega-churches, mega-mosques, mega-meditation places, more often full than not. T.V., radio show, Internet pages, buzz words of media. A feeling of powerful return of the religion to the forefront of the public space. I am just asking the question. The same way that I had questions of what secular forefront was doing during the20st Century.
What is happening?
I talked with Ashish Nandy about it. He has also the feeling the we are witnessing a comeback of religious based behaviour in the public space, incomparable to the past few decades.
Then I discussed also with some radical secularist thinkers. For them this was the very tangible indication of defencelessness of religious based behaviour in public space.
If this is true in one, some societies, is it the case of the same everywhere.
This is my first question regarding your interrogation. Need to clarify the context.
Then is all those non-answers that we do not have, for all the large, and minor specific, and immediate issues. Are there many answers that we could suggest to reach both micro, and macro in a immediacy, in fast time, and not in slow time(independent form my own preference for the slow time) Because fast-time has instrument of sensation, even seduction, of people involved in issues of res publica.
These two, the non-answers for the linkage points of micro and macro, and the growing place of religious presence in the public space, are they linked. Or do you think that we are only witnessing kind of anomaly?
I will write to you more,
Good night, early morning, Tokyo time.

Traci

I have been thinking about the two biggest change movements that I have some
sort of access to in London whose projects may connect with and amplify the
kinds of projects that I assume Organisational Democracy seeks to gravitate.
By all means tell me if I am guessing wrong because there hasn't really been a
space for me to access to iteratively understand what OD is continuously
opening up since October's 4 days of presentations (see http://www.worldblu.com and http://clubofdc.blogspot.com )

1 If you have a look at http://www.beyond-branding.com , you will see the
first book that a london-based project team assembloed in the Beyond Series

we desparately want to deepen the Beyond Family

two babies I'd most love to see- though the titles are less clear than who to
invite as chapter writers are

Beyond Learning Organisation - Although every relationship of demand-side and
service-sdie are connected, Beyond Branding was mainly on transparently
connecting conflicts across the demand sides- your governance/valuation can't
leave employees demands out if you want service to live your coprorate brand's
Unique Organising Purpose; you cant' leave customers and societies out if you
truly want to sustain innovation and better lives through what your global
sector could achieve; most of your speakers in October were starting with the
service side - you can't leave out your best workers lifelong needs in the
community; you need to support team-making's decisions; etc the more so if
action elarning's dydnamic gets multiplied in use unlike tangible stuff that
gets used up

Beyond Mono-Cultures and National only separation- unless we open this
governance door , globalsiation will belittle us all

If either of these books sound like something you and your circles might want
to contribute chapters too, perhaps I can fix a small meeting between Beyond's
Londoners and you

2 The idea of www.tomorrowscompany.com is to get benchmark groupings of
companies to come together and say: who has got a collaboration methodolgy
everyone can learn from -eg Ray Anderson at www.interface.com is the American chairman with the world's simplest business casing method for
devleoping a corporation that long-term investors can value sustainability
investment around; perhaps google has some view of how corporations can use
the internet colaboratively and so on

TomorrowsCompany is a small project group but is also a baby of teh 250 year
old Royal Society of Arts www.rsa.org.uk - the only polace in the UK where the good (high
society) and the great(powerful business leaders) want to be seen meeting.
When I say the UK, I sometimes wonder if its the world beacsue I can't find a
similar network in other places, but always looking. If you tell me what to
say I can send an email introducing you to Mark Goydar who is tomorrows
company leader, and who has Al Gore American leader of sustainability investment funding doing our membership's annual lecture at the end of March;
and then at least you know of each other's networking project spaces

cheers
chris

Memories of Simplicity

In 1993, David Weir an engineer and then head of the Management Centre at University of Bradford (at that time a top 5 Uk Business school) was mentoring me- my understanding haflway between writing a trilogy of books on why people should always be questioning the World's most powerful identities was fumbling with global media (its drama of leaderhsip purpose, its branding, its knowledge managing, certainly brand valuation whose global accountants' alogorithm I knew to be the least humanly systemic maths on earth after 5 years of work at Coopers & Lybrand as well as dicussions with those who founded the algorithm's standard)

Chris, David said : you do realise its simple : the tensions of Productive and Demanding relationship systems (be they organisation, global market sectors or any systemic level you map) are such that the system will always degrade unless everyone is attending to detect the next emerging conflict and leadership are prepered to resolve such conflicts before they cancerously compound through the system quarter after quarter

A few years later: Margaret Blair who co-chaired Brooking's Inquest into Unseen Wealth and the Intangibles Crisis of lost trust-flow told me before 9/11: with 90% of knowlwedge worker system's future value being unseen by anything that boards govern with, there will be bigger and bigger disasters every year until or unless this leadership of knowledge management is put right. Having failed to get Texan Bush's then new administration to listen to anything so soft, she said she hoped that the EU's http://www.euintangibles.net would do something. It was until its funding was closed with no explanation yet forthcoming even to those in Brussels who loved Prism

Then since he lived a few miles away from part of my family, I got mentored by Harrison Owen whose alumni have spent 25 years codifying Open Space. To make system governance simply revolve around those who care most deeply for communion round purpose he said: all you need to know first are The 3C's - rather than bother you with that all in an email, I am developing a section of our blog on system on this here
If there is anyone who agrees with how simple open is if you want to look from the gravity of any community's life system up, then why not come and co-edit this blog's section however occasionally your timeless blog inputhttp://valuesystem.blogspot.com/1999_12_01_valuesystem_archive.html
cheerschris macrae

Carol, I think I should introduce you to Steve Brant, a founder member of Systems Club. We met in New York soon after 9/11, and Steve is pretty well on a life mission to simplify what needs to be the newly collaborative systems theory that connects us in a web-based world. For example, he’s been trying to get Hollywood to do one business video with the character licenses with the view that once that rich group see how much their medium could connect the world then one of the west coast’s philanthropists will give systems theory the united crusade it needs. Steve is close to the line of quality system thinking of Deming- Buckminster Fuller and today Ackoff that is quite blunt in saying that web-based connectivity requires higher order mapping in the way all relationship integrate global and local if we are to survive. Refer to very simple paper by Ackoff on how people governed by incomplete system do more damage the harder they work in their professional boxes
Carol is moderating European debates of complexity & system’s theory starting around here http://www.knowledgeboard.com/item/2644/23/5/3
What I find most complex to map is the propaganda of some system theorists themselves, how they have separated so many schools in a period going back to the 1980s when the revolution impacting a single generation which is the web in all senses was clearly going to be the biggest system challenge ever experience by one generation. And history shows that such system challenges can only have one of 2 outcomes- much better for all beings or much worse. It seems that different schools of system theory tend to shy away from at least one of these 4 things:
1 Interfacing with each other
2 Informing leaders of big powers bluntly that unless they audit emerging system conflicts ahead of time they’ll end up both firefighting with all their time and ending up being in play to 2 extreme forces – the most powerful and the most disastrous
3 The bigger your organisation, the more the risk that top gets disconnected in one or more essential flow from the gravity around which the future exponential of the organisation’s life (or capability to serve – eg Nasa-Challenger, or FEMA-New Orleans). Waves cannot be ruled- we don’t need to make Canute’s story more complex than needs be
4 Reforming economics by understanding preneural scripts: since The Economst was founded in the early 1800s its main duty (not understood for the last 15 years) was to animate dialogues in the face of the great and the good on what underperforimg assets or extremely boxed-in law (compounded from backing one-side's rights against another for ever) needed to be taken back by society. Originally the French Revolution needed to preneur back land that royals were not enabling peoples to be productive with
If we cut to the early 1980s, people in service economy need to take back management - if they do results like SW Airlines can be wonderful for workers, investors, custoners, cocieties and all http://value100.blogspot.com
with the web we need to take back nations as the prime intervention in trading strategy, as well as the barrier to crosscultural flows without which the open city of the future is as dead as London 7/7
I am trying to warm the excellent omidyar community to how many ways we now have scripts for taking back at http://www.omidyar.net/group/localglobal/news/34/
Amongst other stuff this community (the philanthropist arm of ebay's founders just funded Rio de Janeiro's leading hub ( it should be only the Angel Isington that has a hub if we want the world to be simple for every microfinace societal intitaive people want to trial deeply in one commeunity and then replicate analagously)
Chris macrae

Dear L
Chris Macrae here
1 My own movements seem to be one week in London and 3 weeks in Dc for the foreseeable future. Next London visit towards end of February. I think it would be good to meet. I know several hundred people in London on various simpol or peoples missions - if you can tell me what matters most to you, I can try and make some mutual introductions
2 Yes people mentioned to me the 85 Ecunemicals. At http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com I am generally listing anyone who comes out to play on the 2 missions Bush announed as America's next space races: end addiction to petroleum economy mad do what we can to get kids to love exploring science as much as they do sports of media idols
It seems to me more broadly its time to launch peoples nomination of open space races of all kinds http://openspacerace.blogspot.com
some of my London notes are athttp://futureoflondon.blogspot.com and http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com
since Bush's 21 Gathering Storm leaders, who were behind the identification of America's 2 space races stated above mentioned they had brainstoremed round death of distance constructs - that started 22 years abo with scripts my dad and I published http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com . I am trying to work out how one plays a game of snap opening up scripts and empowering peoples space races
cheerschris

L wrote:
I'm from NYC and will be in DC this summer on dissertation research. Presently, I'm in
London. When I return home, I'm going to be in contact w/ another SimPol member on the
West Coast regarding organizing. If you're interested, perhaps we can chat as well, either
over the phone or in person (or both!) during my stay in DC this summer.

I think you make some good points regarding Bush. Also, don't know if you've seen the
NYTimes article that came out stating that 86 Evangelicals signed onto a pledge to call for a
stop to global warming. Apparently, they're going to be lobbying their Congressmembers in the next several weeks.

Report from moderating one of the 6 threads at the 48 hour TownHall of http://www.omidyar.net

THIS THREAD HAS OFFICIALLY ENDED (hmm doubt if living system threads ever end but...!)

Next link if you summary interests you – local-global conversations
http://www.omidyar.net/group/localglobal/

Click the above bookmark if you wish to view or start Space Races we are openly researching as 6 billion beings go simultaneously ( http://www.simpol.org ) global and local beyond the first two Bush’s Gathering storm team nominated in the State of the Union: end addiction to petroleum economy; change systems of teaching so kids learn to love exploring science as much as sports.

SUMMARY OF THIS THREAD

2 sorts of discussions seem to be going on

How a citizen and netizen can rate her city or other cities for cross-culturally supporting innovation of projects for humanity. What new facilitation methods etc work depending on the maturity of a city’s beliefs in its peoples future histories –the ability to organise around community up challenges and openly franchise what worlds to peoples in other global villages

Why should any humanitarian need to spend time on understanding the interlocal networking quality of her city and how village communities interconnect leadership possibilities? http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com

Here are some possible replies to the second question:

Many of 21st Century world’s greatest challenges wave interlocally : natural disasters, illnesses such as HIV, pollution, corruption –they cannot be resolved only by national governance round man-made borders and discrete 5 year periods of rewarding political parties . Only intercitizens and the media we co-create can integrate the new system needed to sustain any headway with interlocal crises.

Many of the most urgent innovations we need, need positive discrimination of first application geared to places in extreme poverty, who will otherwise die off due to extreme climates or digital apartheids. See Feb 8 Clean Energy petition by 85 Religious leaders – http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com

Other action learning circles- such as those microfinance best invests in systemically (in seeding open peaceful revolutions from grassroots community up -what Schumacher assumed 2 million global vilages would may start in one nation and locality but have potential open source replication interlocally

22 year old resource space –open scripts of networking –death of distance – the key idea adopted by Bush’s Gathering storm leaders : http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com

example media revolution : http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687

energy revolution :
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/1999/12/make-your-foundations-transparent-more.html

http://project30000.blogspot.com

30 year old resource space, launched in The Economist 1976:
open scripts of changing economic transparency to be the peoples economics not that of big power or historic forces that are not what culturally co-creative future architects need to open the next collaborative space race sustaining all of 6 billion beings

http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/
http://normanmacrae.blogspot.com

PS speaking personally on why we commune, net & web2.1:
In this 21st C goodwill networkers help each other to find our best mentors through life. If we fail to increase our urgency and expoential foci of achieving this, Orwell's 1984 nightmare will be with our kids evry day of their lives.

http://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=n
http://exponentials.blogspot.com

Space to Race to Simplicity

It seems odd to many Beyond practitioners, who seek to connect disciplines and sustain organsiation-wide budgets not silos, that many academics insist on calling this subject complexity. Whichever way round you start on this loop, click here to see some of the communities who are simultaneously opening up this space race

Bravo brainjams.com & Hi Kristie
Hi Kristie
Yes as stuff develops please keep in touch in particular I prefer to be over cc'd than under on any collaboration, open participations in web 2.1 etc
The blogwalk which I presumed pivotal is linked herehttp://www.itconversations.com/series/bloggercon2004.htmlDave Winer being a pivotal influence because he first anounced blogs to cluetrainers back in 1999, and may indeed have be one of the co-owners of blogspot before it was solg to google
I am wondering if one way to talk up web21 is clusters of 21. At risk of compounding too many similes , I talk about space races at http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com/ and some of their clusters of 21
For example we identify the 21 people that led bush to his 2 space races announced in the state of the Union : end petroleum economy addiction and make science openly popular all the way up edu curricula. The chair of their panel explained that death of distance was behind this revolutionary needs -cute since we started scripting that in 1984 http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com/
We've 30 years of writing scripts in preneurial language. Basically this is the underknown economics school that demands public debates on what to take back next from one-isded power to benefit innovation for the whole of society
we have always seen nets since 1984 as the mother of all media revolutions (taking back enough public brioadcats media) to scale deep and open sourcing webs -so any way we can share scripts and test out which city wants to braninjam and loosely connect web.21 next would be great (in fact it might just sistain humanity)http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687http://exponentials.blogspot.com/ http://project30000.blogspot.com
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/1999/12/make-your-foundations-transparent-more.html
cheerschris

America's public media is currently surveying sustainability's biggest stories. Someone might drop by and log up that global media is in the top 3 of many sustainability crisis lists; BB welcomes your bookmark if media sustainability is a recognised crisis where you are

Waves of Entrepreneurial Revolution across America

Extraordinary networks appear to be emerging across America. I’ll aim to chronicle updates in the 2 US timeless blogs we co-edit
http://clubofdc.blogspot.com
http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com
Here’s an update of waves known to me. Do ask for more detail if you see something you want to actively connect through, of if you are opening a parallel collaboration movement.

Two worldwide invitations link around President Bush’s State of the Union declarations of the main network-space races of the next few years: end addiction to economics of petroleum and let’s openly inspire children to learn science

Both of these invitations trace back to a Gathering Storm report commissioned from 20 business leaders in October –see www.nap.eduOne of the reports 2 conveners explained that pivotal to all the exponential revolutions now needed is death of distance, which happens to be the idea my father and I first founded in our future history book of 1984 http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com http://exponentials.blogspot.com

These ideas also criss-cross with America’s most popular current Future Historian Thomas Friedman whose book The World is Flat has sold 1.3 million copies; Thomas, like me a resident of Bethesda, urges green is the new red white & blue, and collaboration is the only competitive advantage that sustains in a networked world

Moving Waves:06.1 Californians are identifying with the label web2.1 as the web people want; brainjams originating in silicon valley is an intercity network group who are delighted to open space in any city that wants to hear about how top join web2.1 projects. Open space was founded by Marylander Harrison Owen 25 years ago and now has conflict resolution facilitators in 100 countries who have staged about 50000 contexts (30 to 5000 people meetings for change)

06.2 http://scihi.blogspot.com is a revolution parents of 9 to 13s intend to lead aimed particularly at inspiring girls with what they need to learn science and make it fashionable. If we can convince one large network like Catholic schools to get on board then the relations of community and science will change forever.

06.3 Human rights of water are being championed out of Brazil –more on our co-mentor and his intercity café itinerary at http://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=n which also has one of the Southern hemispheres best city hubs for community up projects founded by Theresa a Washingtonian, and microfinanced by ebay’s founders. The databank cases of what microfinance can do across global villages are extraordinary and Grameen’s worldwide base is in DC

06.4 We’ve learnt that preparing a suitable story ahead and in time is critical . See our script on photosynthesis energy written in 1984 http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/1999/12/make-your-foundations-transparent-more.html We hope we’ve go the simplest maps to ensure that the race to believe in clean energy photosynthesis is won before London’s Olympics carnival

06.5 Modelled on surveying hundreds of networkers in developing London as a number 1 knowledge collaboration city, we’ve also learnt to look for 5 villages/networks in any large city (now testing DC) which wants to help netizens collaborate in turning round globalisation for humanity

1 Are there leaders that the world trust for cross-culturally collaborating in sustaining commonwealth and is there sufficient change going on in network economics advice. Eg In London we have Queen Elizabeth demanding that commonwealth peoples inquire about globalisation turning humanity on itself. Alongside this, its not that well known that the 19th C founder of The Economist was only interested in the next societal revolution that economics could map. http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com

2 Can this city take back enough public broadcast media, link this to network media and to schools so that are children are ever again imprisoned by democracy’s lowest common denominator and backward looking curricula. The BBC must take a lead in scaling awareness of all the new space races whether it thinks Bush announced them first or an uncelebrated deep voice.

3 Do we have large enough open spaces and forum where communities of up to 1000 people can dialogue, and start up waves of projects that give momentum to http://project30000.blogspot.com

4 Do we have hubs where people can form project teams, pilot projects, register projects that are ready to be open sourced; gain enough microfinance for revolutions or community sustainability which historic .gov .com cannot be first to deeply understand

5 Do we have safe cafes where the deepest corruptions can be identified and resolved through ever deeper democracy and the nurturing that women tend to lead better than men (with te possible exception of Gandhi)

This 5 village model (and training needs) is discussed more at http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com and propagated through hundreds of co-editors of http://clubofcity.blogspot.com Join us

help end addinction usa to petrol economy

We introduce our 22 years of death of distance scripts linking networks to this end -now that 21 leaders and president Bush are making their number 1 script, can you linkin to

http://addictionusa.blogspot.com/
We invite anyone from every place to connect with scripts and debates on how to do this. Here are some of our credentials, and why we'd love it if we all collaborate and just do this now. Since we have been working on this openly for 22 years we have a lot of deep contextual linkins if you will tell us where your contribution to ending this addiction (and passion to help people change) starts....
chris macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.ukHundreds of co-editing spaces at http://clubofcity.blogspot.com/ http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com/
sustaining 22 years of DoD script and debates http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com/
sustaining 30 years of ER scripts and open spaces http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/
timeline overview 31 Jan 2006- President Bush asks the world for help in State of Union address - how do we free USA from addiction to petroleum economy and make ethanol (or other green energy) a competitively priced gasoline within 5 years?
2005: dec 25 Queen Elizabeth 2 asks commonwealth: is globalsiation turning humanity on itself- reflecting DoD's 1984 forecast of 2005 as mankind's most dangerous year if we fail to chnage from economics of big power to the open peoples economics http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
Oct 2005: 21 Business leaders publish Gathering storm report - its 2 recommendations to the president free us from addiction to petroleum addiction, and invest in education of those who connect maths, engineering and innovation. One of the report'c co-chairs mentions the buzz phrase DEATH OF DISTANCE 5 times of Charlie Rose PBS interview of 1 Feb 2006
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11463.html
http://www.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11463.pdf
December 1984 : Death of Distance is coined as main slogan of the 1984 future history co-authored by The Economist's Deputy Editor Norman Macrae, and his son Chris Macrae. Death of Distance network maps and dialogue circles have been open spaced ever since. In particular, our 1984 script for energy is reproduced below and helps to explain why hundreds of club of city and village blog correspondents are collaboratively linked in to the most exciting innovations of green energy we can find
page 145-146 of our 1984 book Sunlight is the fuel which sustains life on earth. The process by which plants extract energy from sunlight, using that energy to build up complex compounds from simper ones and thereby storing the energy which animals, including humans, use to grow and move and see and think is the life-process itself. We (human beings) have always exploited that life-process, but in the past we have only been able to do so by using living plants as our agents. We learned to cultivate them, develop them by selective breeding, and since the 1980s to meddle with their genes, but we have not yet learned to substitute something of our own making for the living plant. We have not found or made a more efficient substitute for chlorophyll itself outside the naturally-occurring factory which is the living cell.
Until we design our own systems which can deploy the energy of sunlight as efficiently as humble algae does, we humans have no real biotechnology of our own. We have many kinds of solar cells which can extract energy from the sunlight and store is as electricity or heat, but such devices are very crude indeed beside the technical sophistication and versatility of living plants.
We are making a determined effort to capture and use a greater fraction of the solar energy which falls upon the face of the earth every day. We are trying to make plants flourish in paces where at present they can only eke out the most precarious of existence. The ideal situation, however, would be one in which we did not need to work so hard to adapt existing plants to more hostile conditions. If we had our own artificial systems of photosynthesis we might exploit the desert sun ourselves, without using other organisms as intermediaries. Our ultimate ambition must be to make artificial photosynthetic systems more efficient than those which have evolved alongside side us throughout the history of life on earth. Then and only then will we be able to claim that we are technologically self-sufficient. In 2024, this looks as if it might be one of our children's tasks.

A core purpose of beyond branding: how do networks of people take back the brand to launch what the world needs most? From Bush's Union speech :open branding of ethanol becomes a most urgent case. How do we map who is conecting around the commitment USA is making to the world to ensure ethanol is competitive (in its price and usability and distribution) as gasoline within 5 years? At a stroke, this can end depressing Peak Oil wars and dirty emissions of being addicted to carbon petrols andbeing powered over by the few empires that own oil as opposed to everywhere that can make ethanol.

To recap:
to paraphrase Clinton: the only thing that matters in my virtual life now is to connect change makers and open nets so we sustain expoentials around the peoples economics: prioritising the products the people need around the world. This connects through 2006 with our 30th birthday parties of Entrepreneurial Revolution which my dad 1 2 launched in 1976 at The Economist. The greatest ER of the next decade involves how peoples collaborate in taking back global media so that it is no longer high cost or glossy wherever people are communicating/innovating most openly and around resolving most urgent human need. Let's zing through the energies of people's deepest capabilities and learning curves to make a difference bypassing the cost and emotional addictions of brands that spend so much on image that there is no organsiatuional reality left to develop goodwill or good people's desire to make a difference through their lifetime's and for their next generation. Together with death of distance historians we have been issuing transformation scearios and timelines since 1984 (a Orwellian's reminder that the compound impact of global technology it will by 2024 have ended in very good or bad outcomes for most of 6 billion beings) depending whjat the people collaborate by focusing communal time on most

This blog takes a very small step for the media of humankind, whose co-mentoring dynamics we outline here. It just copies open mails that networks around me are conneting transformational goals around, at the time when they most need others to come in and collaborate, ideally in the case of project30000 so that 2 million global villages own the value exchange instead of one power . See a topic in this blog that you already want to openly collaborate on, then mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk and let's actively link together each of our emerging maps on the who's who of that specific entrepreneurial revolution. If you have a simpler blog format for a non-technical person to use that goodmap, I'd love to know. Neither I nor 10000 virtual networkers that I love most to be loosely connected with want to reinvent the wheel of any aspect of open collaboration

Yes it would be great to meet ; I have some ill family that ties me to Washington DC region about 85% of time and does not let me plan long ahead the rest of the time. In other respects, I probably have to start with more questions (on my mind!) than answers to what your mail raises
I am a rebel with the blog format (is a battle as to whether it will reduce the met to mass media or really communalise deep connections around contextual granbities which are waht nature means by webs, however messy; once your in a deep web you can search and self-organise which linear diarised-blogging does not begin to understand) (as cc jack is fast learning, but then I have been playing with computer mediation of networks since 1973 where my first job was for UK national development program of computer assisted learning: strangely I had to tutor classes of 20 female undergraduates while they tried to learn through a networking interface which all agreed would one be a hotter medium for relating passion’s flow than sex)
my 12th grade practice of email is goodwilled enough in goal: use nets to find your own mentors through life http://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=N and help others do likewise though I haven’t had time to tidy up how passing up each grade moves through one conflict of privacy or top-down dominance that people adopt whenever they try to teach too hard; I can understand what level of dynamic is truly happening all around people but not help facilitate in real time other than note who’s conflicting what on visual maps.
12th grade email also leads to interesting formats like collaboration cafes- open space in one hour where you mainly listen to the deepest person you'll ever be mentored by with 7 co-alumni but that's because the invitation and network process preceeding the cafe has been really cross-examining across who in a city most wants to be there and collaboratively report back through networks
and long-deep learning web2.1 not media or blog soundbiting is my side of the revolution, before all this media dumbs us all down) . I am not interested in diary journalism in the blogs that I co-edit; rather a lifelong experience an events curve around a context
I will be copying you on another mail today which may give some clues of stuff beyond blogs as well as mentioning the brainjams format on the OS list
I have started to realise that for me the osoflondon blog connects 5 villages that collaboration networks across London are finding essential, and once we understand them better we wish to share as vital for any city which wants to collaborate in the economists sustainbility of all 6 billion beings - the ultimate revolution which my father started to script 30 yaers ago - and which I put some notes on at http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com –if all people who belived in ER were to circulate a one-pager on open space what should it say; and how we enough of the most powerful/budget-influential people to attend an open space?
within the 5 villages: http://cluboflondon.blogspot.com - osoflondon is about all big people meetings live and those who need to use that:open space is central as is bethelight –the circle format the quakers invented which is brilliantly subtle Euston Square is where their and the largest open hall in London is located – as probably is www.simpol.org movement of politics sans frontiers and beyond short-termas is what www.collapsingworld.org would need to learn before it brought people from any trouble conflict in the world to testify in front of each other again - this is the greatest practice collaboration network there is starting with peoples medical needs but it doesnt always know how to host live events, though it has one format that is absolutely brilliant-but then only a doctor whose advice the leaders need in other areas could pull that off
and of course for my sanity’s sake osolflondon needs to be a testimony to one of Britain’s greatest community’s spacers and most honourable of marketing guy , fallen in 7/7
bring a few world famous speaker; get powerful local audience seated in a way that they cannot leave; and then throw the floor open to local testimonies before the big speaker come out to applaud
as is the massive gandhi alumni club of bethechange which Delhi is relaunching next year at a centenary of his truth testing community-up system methods, as probably would be the intent of world social forums if we could get the bureucrats out of NGOs (for want of a better description of how NGOs and govs conflict with people up hubs of making poverty history)
The trouble is I need a wall where we stick postits across the 5 villages because now fully connects peoples networks across the city without vibrancy of the others; the good news in that is since no city has all 5 villages zinging, all netizens need each others cities but need to know why eg an open space can work to change something in one on particular contexts but not another
cheerschris

Dear Robertcc chris, Kristie cc jack who is learning about blogs (two opposite passion of chris and chris)
Robert - This info may interest you and your 100 backers of people's world as the next internet interface for all human beings who want to make their difference collaboratively. i was at an extraordinary cooperation meeting which Chris and Kristie hosted in DC which they are developing under the brainjams name
what is great is they have come all the way from california and the epicentre of Web2.1 to start linking cities that may not have the open links to what future's happening in the deepest areas of future webs
so you may want to explore mutual possibilities; also one of their delegates yesterday is a guy who is passionate about how instant messaging intergrates with other tools; I do not if that's one of the 12 tools that's interconnecting through the people's world interface but if so I gusess you should be talking
cheers chris macrae

Lifelong projects emerging this week at our co-edited timeless blog families:
help end networks of those who deskill people -link these 3 cases with Mr Skilling's trial starting todayhttp://kmeurope.blogspot.com/2002_12_01_kmeurope_archive.html
help with http://project30000.blogspot.com which needs filling with 30000 open projects for humanity by 2010 accroding to our 1984 model http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687which built on 150 years of leraning at The Economist and few other testifiers on why peopleseconomics is not the same as economics designed round big power or short-termism
http://thecooperation.blogspot.com is one of the 5 villages that has made London the search leader in collaboration knowledge city - we evaluate the transparency network potential of any city by its ability to connect with the peoples needs that are being debated at the 5 prototype vilage http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com

Do Large Scale facilitators also talk about and collaborate around CONCEPT NETWORKS?

First, concept network is an emerging term. If you already use different language for the idea, why not tell me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
Me no wheel reinventor! That said here are 2 examples of concept networks currently going the rounds. Do you have one to add or want to join in either round?

CONCEPT NETWORKS what might these be?

1
For example, there are about 10 well endowed (mulitibillion dollar) hi-tech philanthropists' foundations. Does even one of them enable a concept virtual community where a thousand or so people could debate ideas and if one best contender got produced a year, the foundation would find some small way of testing it out.

2
we know of many cultural creatives (young at heart in any city we visit who want to change the world's humanity on at least one issue that seems to make common sense as well as provide a bridge to multicultural harmony and ending terror); however if you ask yourself the question, what list of 20 attributes help measure whether a city supports or pollutes the atempts of young creatives to activate such good work for humanity:
where is the listing being commonly debated? if you do have a listing, do you know of one city anywhere whose system supports more of the attributes than it destroys. We don't but our correspondents are looking through 100 cities,-why not join in such a colaboration survey or suggest some young people do?

cheers chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://exponentials.blogspot.com
http://project30000.blogspot.com/2000_01_01_project30000_archive.html

I received the mail below from you. I agree its a good idea but I am not sure why you chose me as there may be many otthers at omidyar more deeply connected with microfinace than me

Anyhow, I assume that we would all need to ask you for some more details so we can look through our contacts and see if we have someone who has been through a parallel experience

which country or city in Africa are you talking about?

are you located in that community? if not where are you and what is your connection with atht comunity?

are you already supported in this project by any other networks? who would be the first recipents of the inrenet cafe you aim to develop - and what sort of use would you expect them to be making of the internet

sincerely
chris macrae

Hello Chris,

I am a member of the omidyar network.Can you please give me leads as to where and how i can obtain micro finance for a community project in Africa that involves the acquisition of used laptops and PCs from developed countries like in the UK to distribute in less daveloped countries and also setting up of internet cafes there?

I will really appreciate this

Gabriel

Dear Marjorie

Jack and I were in touch a couple of years ago, and I regret we didnt get that
meeting to throw a cap on top of the kitsch of Mary Tyler Moore statue. I have
been looking at your slides presented to Creighton Univeristy

I believe there's lots of areas of overlap between our views, as indeed when
you signalled we needed economics democracy -a change in economics which for
decades my father has fought for originally as deputy editor of The Economist (a paper whose founder had only 2 sustainability goals and then expected it to be closed) :

the exponentials of sustainability do indeed make "moving corporate paradigm
toward a just and sustainable economy is (all but) inevitable"

except that we have also been tracking the opposite scenario for 22 or 30
years, 21st Century is humankinds last due to rampant speculators taking over
how we are all valued (they only win through volatility, bubbling up and down,
and they have the power of non-transparent networking and old laws)

http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
30 year co-scripting birthday parties in 2006 for Preneurial Revolutionaries
includes some of our scrips a quarter a century ago on why clean energy
(photosynthesis) comes in over the next decade or ends earth 3 generations out

http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
the 2005-2010 change economics timeline assessed in our 1984 Future History
book, with 2005 as man's most dangerous year iof the survival scenario of
turnning economics round is to happen before Queen Elizabeth's end 2005
christma message: Is humanity turning on itself . Parallels with Thomas
Friedman's current camapign Green is the Next Red, White & Blue
http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=15737

http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com our village approach out of London which any
rich city can use to transparently network with twin poor vilages and
ultimately sustain 2 million win-win global villages of the kind Gandhi,
Trumpeter, Scumacher originated well ove half a century back

depending whether it is networks or service economy that began the revolution
in needing to gover human relationships of productivities and demands as
living systems and not just tangible (lifeless) abtractions that can be owned

That other scenario is that the speculative powers that gain from all the
bubblig up and down (and eg promoting wars if your company happens to be in
infrastructure reconstruction) spin globalisation so far out of sustainability
that human or natural terror takes over; as system thinkers like Buckminster
Fuller back in the 80s, its not clear humanity will survive the final
examination of system connectivity being more valuable than separation

I'd love to share any approaches that could help save humanity

Ones networkers and I are exploring most actively include:

linking sustainability and responsibility investment - see aSIN as the only
investment groups I wholly trust (would love to make the list longer)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A4205819

developing a sustainbility MBA - there's a good chance my contacts up into
the Indian governemnt will do this - perhaps branded as gandhi.edu - outlining
this curriculum should be a wiki or whatever open forum tool you use

supporting all the open multipliers of microfinace networks and community-up
investing

http://intangibles-valuation.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_intangibles-valuation_archive.html
changing corporate governance; we do know what the missing maths is that is
needed to complement the separation accounting of all the Big 5 (now 4 and as
your slides suggest morally perhaps 3 or less). I worked for 5 years at what
was then Coopers & Lybrand and know that tehse firms are not interested in
permitting a second conflict resolving audit alongside their monpoly; we need
to play some sort of traffic light game grading every forum where corporate
goverance is being debated

we also need to popularise exponentials; and this is ultimately the big crisis
in CSR; Corporation is not the level at which responsibility needs to be
introduced, the global corporate sector (colabporation needed to make that
future of the sector value human life as well as money) is where we will
stand or fall http://exponentials.blogspot.com
There are only 2 CEos that I have listened to who are wholly clear of the
sctor responsibility - they are Interface's Ray Anderson in USA (heroised in
Joel Bakan's film www.thecorporation.com) and Whitbread's Sir John Banham

Benchmark grops like www.tomorrowscompany.com which after 7 years of local UK
syndicates starts its first global one this year with Al Gore giving the
launch talk in London in March

I am largely DC-based; if you see areas of overlap in what we are campaigning
for, where's the nearest you get to DC; I am happy to travel. How long has
corruptuion of ethics and separability of professions been going on and the
economics of the big decimating the peoples econimics? Far too long, and if
the internet ever closes to freedom of open space debates the same way
commercial braodcast tv has, that will be when the vicious spin of the global
system is too late for turning! And all because tangible accountant deny
multiplication. Its not complexity, mathematiclaly it is that sime. If you
believe only in adding bottom lines billions of business value and zero social
value adds to billions; andersen would have taken a different decision if it
had undertod billions*0=0 but even today the accounting monopoly drowns the
boardroom in add not the system of multiply. A 10 year old child can do the
maths of global sector responsibility but a 60 year old chairman cannot.

Are you saying that they need to work out the worst case scenario of if they
lose the case that they have infringed someone else's trademark, how much
damage could that someone claim

even this is an odd game because if you go to lawyers court and if you go to
mediation, different stuff can happen, but this also depends on the
communicatios preparations; it also depends on the morals and transparency
pressures of both sides; suppose your friend has actually been doing something
that is seen as socially very valuable locally and there is a news connection
of that with the future vision of the sector of the other company; it depends
if we can find a network that surrounds the other company asking them to look
at the compound reputation angles

if they are only interested in what new York lawyers courts will charge them,
I would suggest they work out what ethnic group they belong to that is
representted in New York and find the lawyer that most cares about that group
and then the economist that lawyer chooses? a route like that - what is the
ethnic group of Aruba, my geography is poor?

on another matter, can you be upfront and explain what motivates your goodbye
of sorts in some of our joint blogs

most bloggers have not a clue of what actually sustains audience reach and
indeed whether hiots or deep inetractions is of more value to their purpose;
it doesnt take long to paste posts (or some of them) into both blogs until you
find how the audience transfers work for the best of both

or there are segmentations:
there are media crisis issues which beyond branding will always be a loose
epicentre of as long as I breathe because for over 30 years that's what my
family links in through many sources wherever we tread, and becaus eunless we
reform the transparency of media, and an economics that lets people have a
look in not just the power of whom,ever is biggest there will be no pint in
designing nice cars or nice categories of any sort. Not being the slightest
bit interested in the main blogsphere's success ratings, I wholly disagree
with the Moore view on blogs. But then I disagree with most peo0ple's view of
email as I have tried to describe here http://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=n

and I disagree with how we teach 9 year olds as I will eventually work out a
collaborative blog format here
http://ninenow.blogspot.com

google' ,meltdown was nothing to do with similar blogs; as I have mentioned
before one group from google even complimented our family club of blogs by
place maps a few months back; m,aps Jack do have common consructs but get down
to very different conections around context; the linked structure of blogs is
vital if blogs are to be communal instead of one person's organ

Google's meltdown in all probabality has to do with someone somewhere
arbitraily blanking out anyine who has more than n blogs regsitered in the
same name but I cannot find out what N is, and indeed if they admitted that
they did that, as you say their own rules of use could put them in quite a
damaged area

chris

Dear XXX
I appreciate you writing; I have many of the same conflicts circling around me plus a few odd ones in that I can see/map system potentials of about 5 networks and innovations that could give the world so much to celebrate and recoonect through networks of goodwill, but I don't know how to help by myself, and I don't know which of the 5 to prioritise telling other people about

You mention survival - could you explain in one sentence (not the details) is that a monetary surbival crisis, or a crisis of keeping open what you want your biggest missions in life to be, or something else. Not knowing I may make the wrong guesses
I will read your links as perhaps they will clarify some of what I don't know (made of couse even more bizarre by the idea of peoplesworld but not knowing whose editorial missions will unify that media's revolution)

I would strongly suggest this bookmark as both a wonderful community and linking a lot where my father and my 30 years of debating circles around entrepreneurial revolution ideas are being planted to see which microfinace networks will commune around which future history changeshttp://www.omidyar.net/group/localglobal/news/

Above all what I want to do around London unless a network there suggests something I can more productively connect with is free the 100 billion pound investment te british people have made in public broadcast media. If we were to arrange an event to do that it would be one open space; the first and last on how the constitution of the BBC impacts the constitution of every Britain, every commonwealth person, everyone who believes that open netowks can stir up humainty to take back the world

cheerschris

This is an update mail to frinds in the Philippines who have noticed youngsters coning up with some great social preneur projects but no way to fund even small experiments into them

I've come across quite a few clues in recent times, not sure which you may want more on1 I believe www.givingglobal.com has a good model. It matches local community intitiatives with what competences global companies ought to be able to easily leverage given their expertise. Would be interesting to see if thye local initiatives they have registered in Phillipines match ones you recognise; or try to get some new ones in2 I believe CSR is flawed in that the greatest compound responsibilities that interest me are sector specific, and involve taking the whole sector trough the conflict its probably short-profiting by externalising whilst putting society or people at risk3 I noticed somewhere that the Philipinnes was noted in an annual worldwide report of microfinance as having started recognised initiatives. Tell me if you need the link4 I believe the Brazilian social hub www.catcomm.org is well worth having in every city. It got some funding from www.omidyar.net which seems to be the most informed virtual community for general debates on microfinance

Hi Robert & PeterWhat's the latest news of PeoplesWorld
I am finding the terms peopleseconomics useful to connect with the changes in valuation systems from being biassed to ever bigger power to networking together the transparency of 2 milion global vilages and communities of future. Some of our advocany and networking spaces includine:
30th birthday of http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
5 London villages crusading around the queen's end of year inquiry : Is Humanity Turning on Itslef includinghttp://ecosaintjames.blogspot.comhttp://osoflondon.blogspot.com -a way to outposition BeTheChange if it will not collaborate more openlyhttp://futureoflondon.blogspot.com
Do you think that any of your systems gurus network would understand the need to collaborate in interfacing their approaches with peopleseconomics
cheerschris macraehttp://exponentials.blogspot.comhttp://project30000.blogspot.com

Happy New year Lyn, Sofia
Hope you are going well
1 America (S, Central) marches onDon't know if you started talking to Theresa Williamson yet but her hub prototype for all S.hemi hubs and community project cataloguing space out of Rio in Brazil www.catcomm.org got funding not only by 200 individuals (an interesting network for the region to explore one day) but by www.omidyar.net (the network funded my ebay billionaire founders for debating microfinancing experiments) as well as getting recognised as a project www.givingglobal.com would recognise in its attempt to match local projects with global corporations specific competences
So I imagine it would be a good idea to get at least one peoples project for Bolivia and Venezuela into her free catalogue . After the google meltdown, i am also just about ready to start regenerating http://clubofamerica.com of an overall links to who's who in supporting peoples Americas
2 My next time in UK is probably first week of February:Lyn, I am still wondering whether I should apply for membership of RSA. Do you know any members who we could group into an email to test out whether the RSA has:
any big projects following up the Queens mission for 2006 to debate if humanity is turning in itself and how to prevent such a global conflict? any way of spreading RSA cafes through US cities particularly DC; where is its global citizen project going - who's at the centre of that and which localities is it improving covic society in and how? is it following up Ray Anderson's change nusiness models of sustainability? are there any RSA members who need to be at Al Gore's annual lecture to Tomorrows Company; is there anyone who want to co-market word of mouth for photosynthesis energy or join in any of the other 30th birthday co-scripting parties at http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com and how are we going to keep the 50 bilion dolars the people invested in the BBC going as the peoples world service media given the dreaded Blair, Murdoch duo are still in power and its ten year licence review ends in 2006
3 I have found a new visualisation game for global system change-facilitators and networkers; imagine London has 5 villages collaborating for world chnage with likeminded global vilages anywhere plus a sixth catch all for any other humanity projects in http://project30000.blogspot.com then what do the 5 villages we use most to connect collaborations through look like - see the menus at http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com to play the game
chris macrae

I have a few emerging projects for 2006; I am assuming that this is the year when the Queen (ref end of year report - her Xmas day speech) asked us all to debate whether humanity is turning on itself, & what we all can do about it; particularly what the UK can help the rest of the world do about it because over my lifetime we have invested more than any other national economy in collaboration:
-we in the Uk have the global honor & responsibility of the world's largest people owned broadcaster and world service-in my life people have invested well over 50 billion dollars in the BBC- so its next 10 year licene must not be dictated by politicians or Murdoch if we are to be free citizens
-we have the largest monarchy, the good side of which is clear versus America, which has the largest constitution driven by big business
-culturally, we may have learnt from slavetrading and other historical externalisation of economics mistakes we made when we were the world's laregst empire; potentially most past commonwealth countries share some of the colaboration culture; India and Canada and the people of Australia are shining examples of global reconciliation movements and inventing stuff like clean energy which may yet take the carpet under all the dirty powered nations
Perhaps you could mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you see one that you want to be involved with:
Project 1what's the greatest conversational topic for humanity that you want to be involved with year-long; being 12 years young on the internet, I can link you in somewhere deep if you want that permission but I need to know your deepest chnage context!co-sponsors the fringe wing of the simultaneous policy which I blog at http://simpol.blogspot.com and on whose formal side www.simpol.org I sit on one of the 3 commiteesand http://futureoflondon.blogspot.com and http://great2006.blogspot.com
Project 2Imagine that London is the test case of whether any multicultural city is sustainable, not too hard to imagine after 7/7. What 6 villages - 5 specific ones and one catch all one would you link every humanitarian network through- here's my first go at this survey http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com
It doesnt matter too much whether my five and your five are the same but how we collaboratively work them; and then how we test any other collaboration city (eg Delhi is a major one on my itinerary as it host a pan-world meeting of ganhi practitioners in 2007 thanks to the current governing powers, and the prime minister's started (in cambridge of the 50s) interest in economics that ends nations compounding underclasses for similar vilages that can nconnect interlocally with or without the power of national goverment; or Melbourne where the world's epicentre of youth networks for reconciling the world is mobilised around www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org and about 1000 university students)
Project3Would you like to co-script a 30th birthday party for one of the 5 preneurial movements that heve emerged since my father launched Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist 1976. Its iterative agenda was to remove economics from being owned by big power to being the epople's economics by 2010 - the test for this is catalguing 30000 grassroots projects http://project30000.blogspot.com http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
Project 4 my 9 year old daughter's project http://ninenow.blogspot.com - imagine reconstructing a 5 year diary as 250 conversation spaces between 9-13 year old peers; what 250 topics shopuld they be questioning each other's self-confidence on in as near as open spaces as adults could facilitae if we remembered why deep experiential learning isnt being examined by facts
thanks you chris macraeand may 2006 be the year humanity wins back

I dont believe the opening para is popular enough to propagate mass adoption

I dont really know what it should say but unlike the lower paragraphs that can continue in the more conventional language of politics, the first para needs to bust through the apathy to give me exan ples that are a crysing shame in my community ; that encourage me to see we at simpol can stand up for people

Suppose the 3 bracketed were changed

Open Peoples Movement
Supporting human rights of clean water and energy -link to http://simpol.blogspot.com
Regulating= Bringing transparency and peoples debates around



Simpol is an [international pressure group] that aims to resolve global problems such as [environmental destruction], [regulating] the economic power of international capital for the good of all, and delivering social justice around the world

Suppose also the first para ended with what's your community's number 1 burning issue for the world - if in doubt that you are a simpol adopter, email it to us so we can tell you who we know who's debating it


overwhelmingly my view of 2006 is we need to encourage people simultaneously to become open journalists & diversity corespondent networkers for their biggest community/grassroots issue in their own languages; 25 years ago media was not closed by false polarisations of left and righ or global corporation knows all the answers; it invited questions with future scripts which are still much more connecting to the people';s future than any of the regulated language ever sees

example 1 from The Economist Deputy Editor's Future History of 1984:

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE
Sunlight is the fuel which sustains life on earth. The process by which plants extract energy from sunlight, using that energy to build up complex compounds from simper ones and thereby storing the energy which animals, including humans, use to grow and move and see and think is the life-process itself. We (human beings) have always exploited that life-process, but in the past we have only been able to do so by using living plants as our agents. We learned to cultivate them, develop them by selective breeding, and since the 1980s to meddle with their genes, but we have not yet learned to substitute something of our own making for the living plant. We have not found or made a more efficient substitute for chlorophyll itself outside the naturally-occurring factory which is the living cell.

Until we design our own systems which can deploy the energy of sunlight as efficiently as humble algae does, we humans have no real biotechnology of our own. We have many kinds of solar cells which can extract energy from the sunlight and store is as electricity or heat, but such devices are very crude indeed beside the technical sophistication and versatility of living plants.

We are making a determined effort to capture and use a greater fraction of the solar energy which falls upon the face of the earth every day. We are trying to make plants flourish in paces where at present they can only eke out the most precarious of existence. The ideal situation, however, would be one in which we did not need to work so hard to adapt existing plants to more hostile conditions. If we had our own artificial systems of photosynthesis we might exploit the desert sun ourselves, without using other organisms as intermediaries. Our ultimate ambition must be to make artificial photosynthetic systems more efficient than those which have evolved alongside side us throughout the history of life on earth. Then and only then will we be able to claim that we are technologically self-sufficient. In 2024, this looks as if it might be one of our children's tasks.

CUT TO 2006/2007
http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com This is relevant today in Britain since about 100 million pounds of events are being co-marketed in the next 2 years so that all the people can carnivalise sunshine and in the process wonder how the heck those atop government or global incorpoartion didnt get clean energy. Remember too that no country in the world has invensted more than Britian in public broadcasting and the kind of stateswoemn who can demand their peoples of 2006 to find every conversational space tio debate is Humanity turning on Itself. The Queens Xmas speech makes a better headline start to simpol than just about any opening quote we could source simultaneous context with

chris macrae
http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com

Personally speaking I do not agree with the 2 words for "International Solidarity" in the title for the Morley prize
I found some of the enlightenment dilaogues Colin took me to quite challenging. However they helped me see Colin's intent was communing (sustaining, propagating, searching -remember networked peoples live in a search age of googling ) a different language which takes us to wholly new places (especially those of bored to death by old political language and its power over someone instead of it connections )
Empowerment as in www.empowermentillustrated.com
It would be interesting to know whether the schumacher society has a key word for the future of connecting global villages - the 2 million that were the simnultaneous policy that globalsiation woud beed to distribute and network
There's a lot of movement going on around civic society , interlocal connecting of global vilages; if we could use colin's word
and schumacher's word
and of course India's gandhi word since Be The Chnage movements all hub through Delhi, in such a way that the BBChttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4741333.stm and Delhi as the world's 2 largest world service (people's owned broadcaster) start to see there are peoples stories that they will never cover while being bamboozled by left right policical language, then we would have a prze process worth of its name
chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.ukwww.valuetrue.com transparency communities
example of search age of googling - 20 million links tocollaboration knowledge cityhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%2Bcollaboration+%2Bknowledge+%2Bcity&btnG=Search

Dear Traci

I expect to be able to make any time other than the first week in February

I think there is one simple biggest thing missing from Organisational Democracy as a network- say a quarterly newletter in which anyone who attended the October event could contribute up to 10 lines. I'd happily be the postbox for that ; collate any inputs; make a rough colage for you to quickly tidy up and send out. I already do something similar for what I believe is humanity's most collaborative network http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org

Collaboration networks are about 4 years behind the 1984 timeline for world and local democracy we set back in 1984, and in earlier preneurial circles since 1976.
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
http://project30000.blogspot.com
http://exponentials.blogspot.com

May not sound much, but globalisation as a meta-system gets harder to turnround, and roughly speaking what we have spinning by 2010 will not be reversible. As Queen Elizabeth demands of all Brits and Commonwealth friends ; converse in 2006 about all te evidence 2005 gives us that humanity is turing on itself

cheers
chris macrae
change life, learning, mentors for kids http://ninenow.blogspot.com
map networks women co-created http://searchtheresa.blogspot.com

I like Kent's questions. I have been thinking round them for several years so here are some clues I have. One bit of background- back in 1984 I wrote a future with my dad, then at The Economist. We made a timeline to 2024 where the system of globalisation (also hopefully power economics being transformed into the peoples economics) and networks ends up compounding one of 2 scenarios:BADWILL SPINS: Orwellian or worse, people are bossed to death by a few big and non-transparent powers
GOODWILL SPINS:The most empowered time for all 6 bilion beings' community-up networks. From our 1984 forecast we know this will require ending extreme poverty aropund 2010
On our timeline , for the people to win we need 30000 openly empowering projects to have emerged by 2010Here's the timeline http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687and how far we are behind with http://project30000.blogspot.com and 2 million collaboration global villages -eg http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com Questions: 1) Where within our communities is there the opportunity for open and safe public dialogue?
I believe you invite people to cafes or open spaces (over 50000 now staged thanks to Harrison Owen and his alumni in 100 countries)- one invitational challenge per group meeting. Then according to Harrison : the people who come are the right people for the challenge or conflict reconciliation. By cafes I mean what this short article describes:http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A4140947Cities are also developing socila hubs such as www.catcomm.org in Rio and http://www.the-hub.net/ in London
London realises it is a test case for all multi-cultural citizens influence in interlocal collaboration across the world. On the bad side because of last July's bombings; on the good side because we have invested about 50 billion dolars in my lifetime in media owned by the people; we're also lucky to have the transparency of a monarchy who can use her end of year message to ask all Brits and Commonwealth people to debate : is humanity turning on istelf? http://futureoflondon.blogspot.com Actually many ex- "Commonwealth" places certainly have it easier (safer) - Canada, Australia, India fore citizens to host open communal/collaboration debates as does the Nordica region. Not sure where else the risks are so small.
2) Without relational trust between citizens and local organizations can anything of value take place? yes all these are vital for organisations = productive and demanding relationship systems to empower great purpose between all: Trust-flow, Transparency , auditing conflicts openly, systemically and ahead of time 3) Do we view everyone as a resource and agent of change? We invite everyone to join who wants to; we talk up inspiring examples of what can be done; we need public media to play the fulest part in this as well as those parts of the internet that are for humanity and learning 4) How do we discover our shared humanity? Go back to children and start a new curriculum from age 9 up is one ide we are looking at http://ninenow.blogspot.com 5) How do we create opportunities to raise our collective level of thinking? I believe context and trust in a founding team up through a community is the key 6) Can we increase our capacity as citizens to collectively take risks? Not if the largest organsiations we have both punish risks and profit from putting people at risk 7) Can we move from trying to fix each other to creating possibilities for each other? we need to get back people's time, their lifetime experience curves to make a difference; oddly networks if they are designed for humans not machines can do this but not while all investment strategies are conditioned by global accountants books as you can invest in machines but never people 8) Can move from silo and single strategy thinking to a cross community and comprehensive approach? Not unless we chnage the great mathematical mistake that almost all organsiations are curently valued by and accounted to http://exponentials.blogspot.com 9) Can we stay away from the narrow single issue focus and keep the larger picture in mind? chris macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk