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| In our family's 1984 book (soon to be updated in 2 versions - one to socially and entrepreneurially challenge sustainability investment and the maths of economists and global goverance wherever it onoits local grassroots integrity of information; and
one with maps which people can unite around sustainability), our future historians suggested integrating best practice of hi-trust communication flows around world citizens and utrith networking would be acheived if innovative people and conflict resolving networkers - particularly those exploring how to sustain humanity - openly shared all correspondence for everyone to learn and choose how to act around except where such correpondence
might put individuals' lives at risks. Subject to this valuation criteria, we will try to publish brief references to the
most interesting mails that pass through our laptops in mapping whether humanity will unite round sustainability in time. You
can help by posting info@worldcitizen.tv similar correspondece connections your sustainability networks make and telling us what link you want recorded
for any mail we catalogue here. | About 25 years ago Harrison Owen evolved open space meetings for hosting the most
innovative network chal;enges. His prior qualifications in deep communal events included training to be an Anglican Priest
and hosting the annual worldwide get-togethers of the leading network of organisational transformation. When around 1985 Harrison
had lunch with a group of Americans most responsible for management education, he thought that they might be interested to
know of open space's new practice: *how to frame great innovation challenges, as taking all sides through a conflict barrier
hosting opportunities so that every diverse experience is heard and flows between experiments that the innovation meeting
promises to network around into the future Instead he was told: Harrison if you are right then over 95% of what we teach about
management education will be redundant. From that day on, open space was more or less banned from management academia in USA.
Entrepreneurs announce
the Peoples Travel Guide to Learning In light of the abpve, it gives us geat peasure to invite Harrison Open
space networks to be a premier league champion of learning Dear Harrison
Nice
speaking to you
Our idea is to do with gathering together in one
travel guide brochure about 10 methods and networks which could benefit every child and teenager up to have
experienced before they leave school. This is a peoples tour of learning as opposed to any particular professional groups.
It will be a low budget brochure - black and white and mainly words on the assumption the people who we give it to will be
passionate about asking : is there more to schooling and learning than is currently systemised?
We are trying to create space for school is more than being examined
on facts and in a network age is also about developing your own social networks, finding your own enterprising or social mentors
through life both through real and virtual methods, cross-cultural celebration, being confident and access positive emotional
energies and teamwork capabilities
The
idea is that any contribution we use can be open sourced across other people's web sites or travel brochures provided
they are broadly helping develop civil society (or whatever is your keyword for the opposite of being bossed -dare I say bushed
- just from the top down, and its standards rather than deep diversity perspective of the world)
One of our scoops is the work by the father and daughter Gandhis at the City Montessori School in India http://www.cmseducation.org/about/jgres.html moreover Sunita, Jagdish's daughter after being brought up is his school in Lucknow
India, was sent off to the world bank for 10 years and has just in the last 4 years been permitted to return to propagate
learning revolutions in any schools anywhere that wants to learn with Lucknow's experience curve which
is now in about
its 50th year; the world's largest school with 30000 children; also a gathering space for annual change world networks
including a chief justices meeting
Another
contribution is coming from a guy in The Bahamas that believes the participation dynamics of carnivals can be brought to work
or school
An ideal contribution is probably at most
500 words (what's sorts of innovation confidences or communications skills is a person who has not experienced open
space at risk of being disadvantaged by) plus a bookmark directory of 10 to 20 contact points if there are that
many passionate and diverse explorers of open space in schools. For example I know of John Engles and he has a great
3 minute video clip of children in circles. I also know that the enterprise for all open space series for inner city regeneration
in London coordinated
by Roma Islander and Lin Grist came up with ideas on hubs in inner cities where youth could open space
It is our intent to print a few thousand of these brochures to hand
out at network events but also to encourage people to join an irregular newsletter which provides say every 6 months any projects
news or upcoming local events
We are trying to seed the idea that travel guides
to world change in areas such as learning , climate crisis, poverty alleviation , peace should become as popular as travel
guides to hotels. That's why we are asking for open contributions so that anyone can plug and play their own travel guide
be it web-based or printed, and be it local by place or application area
I'd particularly like open space represented because I do feel its sad for people to leave schools
at 16 ( in many countries I believe the majority haven’t had this experience at any stage of schooling) never to have
experienced an open space or the confidence of hosting their own events in the community
I also have a personal reason with a 10 year old daughter at US schools, and I would
like to try and get some open space into her schooling!
I am just the amateur in this collaboration. Sofia is collecting together the contents of our London-based team. We have several
quite large citizen and social entrepreneur events in Uk where we know we can place our brochures with networks. We are of course delighted
where any network wants to distribute them.
We
hope one day to pull together a book and map of who's doing what, but learning brochure will provided a test of whether
travel guides to people change is an idea whose time has come. And I am happy to pay for the first print run to see whether
we can make some collaboration waves with it
cheers
chris macrae |
| If children’s world is not to collapse,
we need a three-in-one intervention: WORLDWIDE we need the crisis to be
on everyone's consciousness as much as eg climate is. So we need the same sorts of liberators of worldwide dialogues: where's
the Stern warin in g that we need to wholy reinvest 1% in education to save 20% where's the Nobel prize winner for
children whose stories are so simple and trusted at the grassroots level that everyone can integrate inquiries around them:
the educational equivalent of Yunus on poverty or Maathai on green/environment | PERSONAL Look
down the next table; you don't need to agree with all te entries; in fact all you need to do is agree that one of these
touches a vital concern you have for children; you ned to ask yourself how will this get better unless I help to raise it
through my peer n etworks, wherever I am having conversations on what could be better for my children, the future; you also
need to see this as a dbeate that people, parents, communities need to stage because unfortunately both puiblic servants and
professions are measured in at elast one way that is onstructing the human solutions we need to flow if the issue you have
adopted is to sytematicallly turn round start getting better instead of spiralling ever more colapsingChildren | COMMUNAL Paradoxicfally
if there is once crisis that people of your place, culture or race are bdenating openly - be it climate, peace, poverty -
then the meeting formats and media questions they ask for that crisis can also be translated into ways of raising your chosen
inquiry for preventing colapisng childrem. World citizen can collaborate around tese formats and connect the detauled crises
issues into clusters that one place can try an experiemhtal communal solution, which if it works can be openly waved through
world citizen networks to other communities in need of the same solution We will try and translate what world citizens
are learning from other crises into a colaboration brand network map for futures of all children - this will emerge at universityofstars.tv -click the picture below if you have time  thegreenchildren
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There must be 20 ways to love children & youth -can we map them? -please mail info@worldcitizen.tv if you spot another way or wish to nominate another benchmark for one of the ways listed | Saving lives of world’s
poorest rural children: up to 10% of under 5's would otheriwse have died | BRAC | Origin Bangladesh 70s – now world's largest world citizen organsiations: explanded to Pakistan , Afghanisan;
now also 5 African muslim countries; has also freely licensed solutions such as oral rehydration to eg UNICEF to take elsewhere
| | Informal primary schooling for world's poorest rural children | BRAC | | | worldwide residential orphanage and school | Orphans International | Imagine if orphans alumni enjoyed one of the best multicultural educations a child can get | | emotionally intelligent
education's 50 year learning curve | City Montessori Lucknow | Gandhi and Montessori had a combined dream of cross-cultural and intergenerational learning: one school, the world
largest, has realised this dream for close on 1 million alumni | | Safety of children at risk in Mega
developing Cities | Jeroo Billimoria Childline | Jeroo began in Bombay, forming a childline with extraordinary reach in that the children
themselves took on many of the leadership roles. She now acts as inspirational practitioner to Child Helplines in 150 countries | | Saving children from slavery and prostitution | | | | Saving
Girls | | | | Haiti Circles of Change: Children debate what's cotectually
missing in the curricula; and learn confidence to host dialogues | | | | Info
technology access for disadvantaged teens | | | | Free University CIDA | | | | Scholarships:
Madela Rhodes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
under construction 1 million children brought up in Montesssori way : multicultural, emotionally intelligent, see whole system
views of ecological and peace challenges IT access for disadvatgaed city teens- Brazil Develpin Country’s Mandela-Rhodes – Scholarship pathways Haiti Circles – childrens inputs to experiential cuuricula most needed in their place; encouraging
hostring of project defining meetings among peers Girls specific issues | Among engineers, Buckminster Fuller was a sustainability futurist unlike any other.
His description of global connectivity's system challenge as mankind's final examination remains core to many of us
who believe that it is becoming difficult to overclaim the urgency with which empowerment up system designs need experimenting
and replicating through peoples of goodwill everywhere. This year sees the first BF competition. Here is advance news of one
entry modelled on one of Bucky's exciting experiments (open source conversation supplied by Leon Neihouse
30 sept 07 - mail title te etam is in place) 1 Revisit
the Fuller design for a floating Triton City but reduce it such that it will accommodate 100 people in first class quarters,
100 people in support quarters, a vertical farm to support 500, be called The Virgin Phoenix™, and be outfitted for
travel on the high seas.
2. Explain the design objective
to define vegetables, livestock, and fish grown in a 300’ by 100’ six story floating vertical farm that will provide
all food requirements for 500 people while recycling water and wastes such that there is zero release to the environment.
To the extent possible, energy will be provided by solar cells, windmills, and biomass. 3. Point out how the vertical farm can be modified for land placement in either an enclosed or open
setting so as to conform to environmental conditions existing anywhere in the world.
4. Explore how volume production techniques applied to a standard design
can make affordable food and housing available to all people who want it, irrespective of color, creed, or country of origin.
5. In order to “get the word out” emphasize a
plan to invite 40 of the world's rich and famous to purchase passage on a round-the-world cruise in first class quarters
to demonstrate how the farm and support quarters can be replicated for floating placement around the world, how it can be
modified for land placement, how the vertical farm can be modified to grow food with all wastes recycled in any land based
environmental condition, and the housing can be adapted for use in any part of the world such that all people will have access
to affordable shelter in an energy efficient setting (insulation, solar cells, windmills, and biomass) that permits the growing
and preparation of food in an environmentally benign manner.
6. Fuller was a firm believer in lowering prices by volume producing a standard
design. This approach will be used by building a prototype floating and land based design and then adapting each one for volume
production at a manufacturing facility in kit form followed by movement to the site for final assembly. The kits would be
in the form of modules that, in the ideal form, could be continuously updated and improved at the manufacturing facility and
then sent on site for module update and discard of the old modules. The proposal will introduce
a program to tow ten floating kit communities from developed countries to developing countries in a 3,000 foot train
that might best be described as it moves over the sea as a Pelamis, a Greek word for a sea serpent, so it will be promoted
by DEI as its Pelamis Program. In the same manner a kit for a land based prototype would, except for the floating structure,
be almost identical; it would be air lifted to its set up site and promoted by DEI as its Angel Program. 7. In his Old Man River's City (OMRC), Fuller had intended to use a Community Investment Corporation,
or CIC, structure so as to ensure ownership to all those living and working in OMRC. Even though DEI will place all its designs
in the public domain available for use by anyone, anywhere, one specific approach that will be promoted is a CIC, set up by
The Phoenix Development Society, under which stock ownership will be restricted to those living and working in the community
with stock transfer or sale used to facilitate people transferring between communities or leaving the system. The successful completion of this plan will make affordable food and housing available to all people who
want it, irrespective of color, creed, or country of origin. |  | | | |
There must be 20 ways to define an entrepreneur, all of which we fail to debate at school As I looked through my father's thousand+ interviews
with entrepreneurs I got used to the multiplicity of clues to their behaviour and systemic maps. Here goes: Entrepreneurs leap ahead with testing what economists have detected is changing but
in academic circles fail to publish simply until 100% evidence has been collected; by which time the innovation opportunity
to transform a market has gone, and if the need was great the new market is already densely crowded Entrepreneurs
know which of all things to love small, and which great. 99% of breakthrough innovation begins with seeds planted by
one or a small team of people. How to scale that up is the different question where greatness comes in The service
economy requires systematically different organsiational maps and entreprenurial emotional intelligences than capturing mechnaistic
patents Even better entrepreneirship in the knowledge economy flows through value multiplying win-wins with
everyone whose trust you ask for. Truth learning among living people multiplies in use unlike consumtion of things that
only gets consumed up and produces waste. Better for all because it provides the way the 21st Century can escape from dismal zero-sum economics to an age of abundance. However this
will only come to pass if we show much deeper cross-cultural erspcet in integrating the poorest places into the globe,
especially ones that the industrial economy plundered WATER 2006 Letters Include: Dear Franklin ( a Brazilian who networks information
on people's rights to water the world over with the support of various worldwide community movements including bran ches
of the Catholic church and other religions who unite in promoting the sanctity of life in every day local actions) Water Wars & Water Nationalism Have you come across this thesis and writer? Whilst not being able to judge the technical merits it would appear like a work you might want to connect with
both personally and through http://www.water-vis-ability.net/chris | | | | | Dear
Macrae Clan
I just wanted to explore some wacky collaboration entrepreneur ideas
and get
the BBC to help get 1 billion audience awareness of these 30000 peoples projects!
FAILURE TO DO THIS WILL LOSE THE PLANET WITHIN 2 GENERATIONS This is not an inheritance I wish to pass on to my 10 year old; and in America's strange
democracy the next 12 months are so critical on where this supertanker drifts beyond 2008
The system logic back in 1984
(which also has 1930s origins in both Einstein and Gandhi logic) went: if increasingly networked people did not
unite to connect grassroots up projects on life's most vital needs then globalisation economics top down (quarterised
by spreadsheets which propagate really nasty measurement assumptions like externalise risk, never invest in people, box
in never connect) will compound eventual loss of sustainability: back in 1984's story we had 7 crises that
world citizens need to unite round preventing :roughly climate which can only be solved by understanding photosynthesis, poverty's
injustice's which need ending of corruption as well as eg microcredit, war, boundary risks, untrue or image-laden media
messages, teaching children stuff that did not help them network worldwide and adapt to the fastest changing era humanity
has ever communed, professions using spreadsheets to quarterly extract for top-down instead of flow and empower service economy
So given these
crises do seem to be spinning the wrong way for future generations, there can't be any harm trying to map 30000 projects-
how is a travel guide book I am trying to get written for 2008- my dad's 85th birthday party
Here are a few ways friends
and I are currently exploring and I was wondering if you and other macraes might like to join in this round the world exploration
1 can we have a collaborative competition of clans- whose family tree has got the
deepest social network connections across commonwealth countries - a web space for exploring this idea is http://macrae.tv -quite happy to re-edit existing links or newly post anyone's ideas; any chance of also circulating this to other macraes
on email if anyone at your meal or beyond might be interested
what's vital is we keep this question open and don’t
let big vested interests greenwash the debate; there's also Branson's 3 billion share of voice to this question and
his pathway to CIDA university S Africa where he is starting a school of entrepreneurs and has connected his rebel billionaire
runner up in a round the world women's charity. Anyway if you spot any great citizen meetings ahead of time anywhere please
tell me so I can make sure that Passports networks connect them. London is starting march 18 with 24 days of virtual debates on sustainability aimed
at involving a million people and with the greenest building ever erected to house 100 people meetings on the terrace of Queen
Elizabeth concert hall overlooking south bank. By the time Passports returns in 2012 we hope to have convinced the BBC that
sustainability heroes need fan clubs just as much as sports stars do and have found enough famous people lending their fame
to a hero http://passports.jp
3 http://up200.tv is an attempt to ask people to nominate 200 heroes for sustainability they most trust networking around
4 There's also a fill a matrix with your favourite click at http://peacecentury.tv/_wsn/page3.html particularly fun is the click on the top row to the right of HMtreasury - on a good day's broadband you get video
of theGreenChildren as well as audio from the UK pop duo trained at Paul McCartney’s school to help perpetuate
the fame of Muhammad Yunus well past his Nobel year of 2006. There are also some particularly interesting networking events
in Africa this year which may be make or break in terms of Africa Progress Panel as Blair*Brown now call it
London already has a particularly active supporters club of : Yunus Education Revolutions Sustainability Debates I can happily introduce anyone to London contacts if any of these 3 crises interest them
In DC region where
I mail this from there are some very interesting under the radar organisations including the 2000 socila entrepreneurs
of www.ashoka.org and the hosts of the annual meetings of 2000 citizens that empowered microcredit to take 100 million families out of poverty
over the last 7 years www.results.org in Delhi they have the centenary year of celebrating Gandhi's Truth Peace Revoltionaries Satyagraha including a citizens
meeting at his ashram in Ahmedabad in the fall. My grandfather on mum's side first helped imprison Gandhi because of Satyagraha
in the 1920s and later wrote the legal constitution of India's Independence with the Secretary of State for India around
1945 ...So our clan has off links with future history http://futurehistory.jp
Phew! No hurry but tell me if or when you have questions, suggestions how we can multiply these flows
cheers chris macrae us tel 301 881 1655
Coming Valentines Day
(daughter's 10th birthday) greatest colaboration youth brand architecture ever mapped: universityofstars.tv | Changing Media*Economics in 1984 Changing Media*Economics in 2007 Dear Social Entrepreneur Leaders It has come back
into my mind : the 2 main issues that we talked about from my side are gathering storm right now, and may never again be irreversible
if we do not start to wholly play their transparency through in 2007. By we, I mean anyone who searches truth for nurturing
world citizen meetings - their emerging formats and crisis foci and collaboration actions to the fullest interlocal competence
the internet was designed by death of distance's transparency mapmakers to empower http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html FIRST To recall, when we met for an hour , I left with you samples of the audit maths
and maps for any organisational system or network (including global market sector) that wants to compound its deepest
human purpose SECOND When several months later we talked
on the phone and you explained that the Global had not at that time met (and some would connect at ClintonGI) - but even then not
all 6 and not with a day's reflection space to themselves...
Academy so, we discussed how even with 6 people getting together 25 years and 100000
stagings by open space facilitators (origin Harrison Owen Potomac) says : the co-creativity of issuing the
invitation that most connects them is vital. (And to be a bit blunt if there isn't an invitation that connects the
global academy 6, then their deepest contributions to entrepreneurship are never going to flow as simply as they could across
all their alumni and through citizen supporters clubs. If they cannot discover an invitation that makes sharing a day of their
real time together , how on earth do you expect their thousands or millions of supporters to scale around the most integral
inspirations of changemaking. We know from 17 years of chartering brand Q&A flows that Innovation pattern gravities
of system transformation and entrepreneurship involve critical junctions - timing and connection of deep passions
- otherwise citizen networks either lurk or argue at their boundaries until there are more black holes than cross-cultural
links. Having studied the dynamics of another world class global village meeting format ted.com, why not invite the 6
to meet to each declare their greatest wish and work out how communally all their organisation might collaborate to make
each wish turn something of globalisation round. If there is a possibility that such a meeting will cause conflicts of
priority just make sure that S. African SE Myrna Lewis attends (since that the extra level of deep democracy
is what she embeds beyond the simple communications flow of openness) For example: should it be that Yunus'
greatest wish is now the stock market of social business entrepreneurial organisations then mathematically it is the
case that the audit maths I gave you is the benchmark for certifying entrance into such a market. There is only one complete
simplest zero conflict maths of systems when we define such to revolve round productive and demanding relationships
to transparent entrepreneurial gravity of context. Which is where Adam Smith hi-ethics economics and open entrepreneurial
maps began in the late 1700s If I could hear what the other 5 wishes are, it is quite likely that they interconnect somewhere with
the 31 years of entrepreneurial revolution, risks of globalisation being unsustainable and ways that market compound certain
collapse if falsehoods rather than knowledge truths propagate. It is timely to ask that you all consider this in the centenary
year of Satyagraha , because if we do not turn round goodwill economics during this year, I don't see another year
coming together when so many open questions are being round-tabled by citizens and their governments simultaneously ****************************************** COLLABORATION INVITATION - How do we make this even more inspiring for citizen
roundtables everywhere to host and to share their action debriefings on? London to World Citizen Guidemakers Tour of 2007 and 5 Year Passports to Sustainability to Olympics 2012 Londoners most
revolutionary voice in 2007 starts with climate. Between London and the world http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/competition/climatechange We have a perfect opportunity to explain how HM Treasury's
(Nicholas Stern's) 1% 20% lost sustainability crisis of climate is similarly spinning around lost Africa, lost
peace, lost development economics, loss of public service anchored on protecting the smallest or longest-term constituencies,
lost transparency, lost healthcare, lost relevance of education curricula of the classes of 9 year olds 10s, 11s and
up -------------------------------- Would be good to talk
to any of the three of you if this is not clear as clean air chris macrae us tel 301 881 1655 The 5 year tour continues for those who
want to plug and play where their collaboration wishes will meet http://networkeconomics.tv http://up200.tv http://peacecentury.tv/_wsn/page3.html http://passports.jp http://crisisclimate.tv http://worldcitizen.tv http://macrae.tv/_wsn/page2.html PS I am not privy to the information on whether there have been any major conferences or mosaic gatherings where
the connections between the 16 dvds have been discussed, but as a simple mathematician I have the strongest and longest reasons
for expecting that academic world championships of social entrepreneurs will get every more confusing until or unless your
Big6 have met, wished, and integrated local and global change passports they each interconnect. Why on earth would you expect
academic who have been mainly studying MBA separation courses to be the spaces where you want world championships of SE to
be understood by citizen groups. This is where the extraordinary phenomenon of microcreditsummit probably has clues on a wholly
different kind of world SE championships than you are heading into year 3? |
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