Friday, March 24, 2006

Breaking Views from ClubofLondon current #1 in collaboration knowledge city bookmarks (votes over 40 million)

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

Monday, March 13, 2006

Join our treasure hunt and map of the global top 10 learning villages

(terminology : as well as vilages in their own right, research on cities suggests that a learning village is one of 5 leading components that seem to be essential for collaboration knowledge city:

the other 4-5 (in detail) roughly summarised are:

1 authority to put global village commonwealth and sustainability investment above short-term economics , collaboration (focues on the greatest innovations humanity is dying out for) as a higher order value multiplier than competition alone now that we are in a highly connected world with 7 waves due to pass through every society before 2024 uptilting or downtilting us all -example ecosaintjames - you may call me biassed as a Scot but I do believe the largest Kingdom accidentally ruled the last half century by women (Queen Elizabeth, Her Mother, Lady Di radiates such authority especially with the Queens courageous end of 2005 broadcast to the commonwealth : is globalisation turning humanity on itself?; and buoyed by incredibly geberous ex-commonwealth branches active in London- including the world's leading photosynthsesis architects network from Canada, the world's deepest medical and youth cultural reconciliation networks from Australia, and the most extraordinary examples of community-up being as important as top down set by alumni of Gandhi's India

*2 global broadcasting scale with which deep lessons can be interconnected -again the British as owners of the world's largest public broadcasters could exemplify a world service role but not if short-term politicians or their global commerce lobbyists steal the mediation waves

*3 Large halls and open spaces and capabilities for thousands to join global vilage dialogues and emerge with the peoples project experiments to specific contextual crises.

*4 Crosscultural collaboration hubs where anyone can raise a community-up project idea; and see if anyone else already is developing solutuions either within the city or across the world

*5 And deeper centres of gravity of lifelong learning (family values, lifetime curricula, co-mentoring training that is as virtual as it needs to be real) which Espoo

I said 4.5 because from my one visit to the Espo region I feel it straddles 4 and 5 - and may be both. Jolly good for Finland to find such space for both. Many cities find it hard to recover enough socila space for just one of tehse collaborations.

so who else is in the top 10; in my view:
definitely Lucknow -the world's largest montesorri, and 5 years into annual congresses of world citizens of learning nets
probably part of Barcelona
probably some geek Silicon Valley kernel gravitaing around web2.1
definitely the 100 rural village cluster at visa
probably a jewish community in New York or elsewhere since the 20th centur beras witness to familly learning as a Jewish characteristic par excellence - my dad did the biography of John von Neumann (so I will paste an extract on what learning environments were once like when children came first if you were rich enough to choose, and in some cases even if you were not)
some part of Nigeria represented by Kind's womens hub and cheered (intimately co-mentored) on by one of America's great female activists of the last half century
definitely not anywhere the EU has funded most

but hey this is an exploration game and collaborative treasure hunt (think like children can around the abundance economics of learning as that which gets multiplied in hi-trust use not consumed up by one side extracting from another!) going on over at this map where we can see where everyone's coming from and what gravitational interests in learning they commit to collaborating around lifelong

Sunday, March 12, 2006

extract from this current top 10 rating of 40 milion bookmarks on collaboration knowledge city


LIFELONG LEARNING, KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND COLLABORATION IN THE eLEARNING CITY Katriina Schrey-Niemenmaa1, Michael Duhaime

The Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology (EVTEK) is developing the Education IndustryUnit, which will be a place for the development and production of educational material and abusiness incubator to support the needs of the Learning City. A key element of this initiative is adigital content service (The eLearning City) that is related to and supports the lifelong learningof individual’s, families, SME’s, corporate and educational institutions. The objective is to combine informative, educational and entertaining content with a technical platform thatfacilitates cross media content distribution and a business model that enables the collaborationof producers, distributors and users of digital learning content. The cross media focus of this project is relevant because of emerging technology trends resulting in a demand for content that can be delivered across available digital channels. This implies an importance for an integrated approach to learning content

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Ways you can collaborate with Club of Espoo and with 40 million bookmarks loosely linked by collaboration knowledge city worldwide - part 1

we are always interested in suggestions, but here's part of an occasional series to illustrate

1.1 question hosts of big leadership conferences: do they have motivations 1 like Clinton's Global Initiative of developing project initiatives that change the world? do they expect the audience to become alumni and connect with other leadership networks or any of the missions of the speakers; -here's a sample mail on how it only takes 5 minutes to question a conference host, and how we can link the authority of collaboration knowledge city and project30000 and death of distance scripts for globalcharters since 1984 to your own reasons for asking

1.2 As our Death of Distance & Entrepreneurial Revolution archives of scripts at globalcharters since 1984 confirm, we believe that 7 waves are causing an unprecedented revolutionary challenge to our generation 1984-2024. If citizens everywhere connect in collaboration we may make a better world, otherwise the sustainability of future generations is in doubt. This is why we love to hear of any open space races that people and their social networks are piloting, and to circulate actionable project information. If this is your sort of endeavour with some of your time over the next 10 years, why not join our collaboration knowledge mapmakers
http://www.frappr.com/knowledge
cheers
chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk valuetrue.com