Its beginning to be clear that some of the new media's newest vocabulary connects way beyond words in what impacts it can have for empowerment networking - hub is my favourite word of 007 to make maps of where these systems are being planted to connect worldcitizens and revolutionise transparency of flows particular on challenges where the highest trust is needed between active social networks and crisis teams- what yours?


Has everyone heard of a HUB in the sense of a citizen space run for and by the community but intending to flow knowledge with other internetworked hubs.

Two years ago, I was not consciously aware of how to certify a hub. Then 2 odd things happened. At omidyar I was inroduced to a Brazilian one, and though I haven't visited http://www.catcomm.org , I have met and talked with its founder for 3 hours. Then a Northern hemisphere hub started in London. Since then about 30 chnage networks which I had known as separate have all connected through there as a favourite meeting space, and the London hub has multiplied wings in 4 cities last year and is targeting 24 this year. With a handful of other hub-watchers, we can easily bmap over a hundred in existence. The beauty of a hub is that its coordinator is of the culture, and ideed the hub is not sustainable unless she or he is. So for example by collating a panel of hub coordinators around you; any worldwide learning philanthropy could start to flow much more local intelligence than could be socially and entrepreneurially accessed before hubs took off.

In fact, hubs turn out to be one of the key solutions to the 24 year death of distance (yup I am aware that some Americans have recently rebranded DoD, world is flat) puzzle of how to revolutionise economics which my dad first posed here http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

and which a book updated a quarter century later for his 85th birthday previews here http://www.omidyar.net/group/economics/news/28/

I am only just catching up with the emerging vocab of the tens of thousands who network around the identity and purpose of changemakers (a culture that Bill Drayton founded in 1978 and has propagated to 40 countries and very deep contexts of human/social need)- so do tell me how to edit this at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk and/or see serch exercises for changemakers on right-side of table below

I define a hub as that physical social or open space that you love most for cross-cultural networking and discussing projects you want to form or join in team development of. This definition has been influenced by studying what young people who achieve extraordinary social missions appear to need most to multiply their networking relationships sustainably. We can choose different hubs*A*B*C - example: A may be the cities you know best or the virtual communities or webs you host B may be co-mentors in your family or if you have been taught at school to use the net to find your deepest mentors through life and help others likewise, your extended family of near 0 degree of separation C might take you to contexts or sub-missions for life since mapmakers see social networks like trees branching by context as well as having overall connections or how you focus your lifelong exponential Between 1976-1984, my father who deputy edited The Economist 1 2 for nearly 40 years wrote an entrepreneurial revolution trilogy, whose 3rd part I co-authored. Our aim to open debates on how service and network industries of the future are revolutionarily different from every past industry and organisational model. Today the chief asset is : how you spend your time and action your learning focus with others whom you choose to lead or be led by most. So the Hubs*A*B*C exercise is a fundamental one to navigate round as we transparently enjoy mapmaking each other's social networks- this thread looks forward to hearing how (where, which, why, when etc) you- and the peers or co-mentors you trust most - explore ABC

Changemaker * Ashoka Exercise 1 : What's your favourite search of changemaker*...? Entrepreneur Gandhi .. leader .. Einstein Truth .. love .. fear Drayton Omidyar micro revolution .. transformation .. nonviolent health .. sunshine .. water .. algae village global network .. mapmaker mentor .. hubs +search +trust If I understand my first conversation with Sushmita 1 1omidyar 2 3 correctly then changemakers live for the reality of another world is possible - where anyone with a deeply gravitated idea in diversity or deepest human rights is empowered to experiment with it and co-mentored. The world's leading open experimental space on that as far as I know is http://www.changemakers.net though again I am delighted to register your votes for other bookmarks that merit being on the same surfers line Log of Thematic hubs of changemakers Health for All Disaster Consciousness Markets Serving Poor Sustaining Ethical Society End Human Trafficking Citizens for Organisations Exercises 2: What other resource areas do you know of for enabling people to gop on package tours of project themes humanity has much urgent need of opening up worldwide discussions and developments? A So that transparency mapmakers and I can lobby social entrepeneurs, future history scriptwriters, public media and others financing the most courageous of changemakers, what thematic network would you most like to see hubs or jams identifying with? Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

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I first understood the idea of jam early December 2005 from http://www.habitatjam.com see some corespondence on this below

I first explored the cultural creatives ideas of inner-city hubs in London around 2002 where various fine examples have been tested by people losely linked to The Cooperation

Where do you discuss hubs? eg 1 2

The Characteristics I value most (tell me yours!) of hubs:

Safe for youth of every culture to hang around until they have an intercommunal project idea

Uses open spacee and collaboration cafe methods to find a pioneering project team

<;i>from experience of collaboration cafes as the hi-trust molecule in every person's social network, extend the methods of collaboration to include collaboration story and any of the 40 million bookmark flows of collaboration knowledge city through co-edited blogs we call CLUB OF city village country
Will help you find some microfinance the first time you have a deep idea that needs it, knowing that because you are aiming to resolve a conflict that local government has turned a blind eye to it will be necessary to co-create alternative philanthropic flows or grants than those that democracy's powers that be are budgeting with

Ok, so that's the kind of role of a hub in bringing back heroic youth to richer inner cities before we blow each other up; over in Rio Catcomm 1omidyar 1bornstein is another type of hub; clearly the issues are at a different order of extreme poverty's risk to life and may require the wisdom of elders and not just truisting in the new inspiration of youth . Hubs assemble reality-making projects. They need jams so that diversity of information is 360 dgree checked by those at global vilage grassroots before the broadcast media or power that be start raising disbelievers questions. This is also where the story of the second type of risk analysins systemises networking transparency for all our souls' sakes.

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Correspondence on JAM
for want of a better word, I use jam to mean point the worlddeep's global
village reporters to linkin to a website to catalogue/testify on one issue
from every diversity perspective- www.habtatjam.com did quite well in having 3
days to testify online about slums but having spent many previous months
making sure someone from ever slum city had been round surveying the voice of
people in slums (more at http://collaborationstory.blogspot.com )

VOW
Welcome this will always be the top post of ValueOfWeb.
Your feedback (or feedforward because we love future history) will help edit VOW. We are concerned with co-organsing purpose, and contents (the map our co-editors share recognises that contents includes links within value web and across the whole of www, and that the sidebar assists the top post and vice versa)

Ourbiggest reason (for continuous interactive editing) is to be one of the simplest and universal glossaries any person connecting with the web needs. We will assume that universality online starts with what everyone uses - email and webs. We will try to use words that a teacher of 10 year olds can use. We will stick with Enblish language, but if you wish to volunteer to open source a translateion in another language mails us via wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

In forming this content, we are co-editing a very few other spaces in parallel. Currently these are:
valuecivil - purpose a conversation space (everyone's invited) around one big question: what will it take for people everywhere in 2099 to agree that the 21st Century was more civil (or civilising) in connecting all peoples than any previous century

We will also have a top 5 or 10 of links elsewhere. Currently these are 2! (mail us so we get to 5!)
A search of Berners-Lee - general and news as he gave birth to the web and so interconnects idedas on what it can be
A space where we ask what links on learning web or network would teachers or parents of 10 year olds find inspiring to browse -tell us of better spaces to links as long as you understand them to be free to use and as open source as practical

Whilst most glosary words will appear in the sidebar. It seems that we need to make a start on these here

context - context defines what meaning is ived through you and me and all we interact with as we co-organise purpose; because our over-arching context is what can we all intercoonect and do so that our children's children enjoy a more civil world, some of our glossary definitions will seem peculiar to those who compile a completely general dictionary

weblog (or web) -we map the weblog as themost basic free tool of the web alongside email . This means that we do not believe all weblogs need to be constrained like a diary by time. As you can see, this top post is not the mkost recenet post though we think more about continously making it friends to intercoobect with than any other post. Probably 99% of users of weblogs assume their vaklue is newsy or like a diary. That assumption makes their practices and word meanings different though intercoonected with VOW.

email

map

space

love

future history

charter

risk

molecule

(we'd rather this opening list does not go much beyond 10 but we'd still love to hear which word you feel is most missing so we can make sure it is one of the first connections linking people and this space)

Social Entrepreneur

This is a term which rewards exploration before we try to define it.

Between 1976-1984, why did editors at The Economist pen a trilogy on Entrepreneurs?And in 1984, why did they and early learners of networking's new worldwide maps write up "death of distance's" first future history, whose denoument included the forecast that the Social Entrepreneur would emerge during the decade 2005-2015 to pattern the most valuable and revolutionary practices of leadership expereinced in human history?

Why was I never told about this?

Entrepreneurail Revolution - see also 1976 survey in The Economist by my father Norman Macrae, the first of a trilogy we at macrae.nets wrote
1) Entrepreneur is a system word that can be mapped at any level from what one person does to what the world of over 6 billion beings interact. Systems are always revolving usually in fairly predictable ways but at tipping points or global singularities or other chnages that interconnect across the world in waus that require a simultaneous transformation.

With such a broad compass over value multiplication and everyones lives, people define the word entrepreneur to mean different things. It needs its own family tree. When we were writing the future history risks and opportunity's to humanity's sustainability in 1984, we had George Orwell's Big Brother in mind as well as Einstein's cautions that a revolution in chnages of the order of death of didtance networking cannot be managed with constructs that used to serve 20th, 19th leaders well. If old men and their nationally-based geographic laws continued with their monopoly of rules and professional views, they could be the biggest risk to the world of humanity failing to evolve with noth nature's globe and humanity's new way of exploring being whooly interconnected instead of culturally separated. Whether we sustain lives of our childre's children is the principal question that the generation 1984-2024 bears through all 6+ billion beings alive today. We saw interlocal entrepreneurs as the globalsiation faciliator but since the term social entrepreneur has become practiced and popluar, we celebrate its emergence

2 The question is how can we find people who have spent their life connecting socila entrepreur and search what they sugest its practice meaning and reaoning links together when it expoentially compounds trusting human relationships. One mentor on this is Bill Drayton - what searches around him do you like best 1 2 3
4 Pot luck connections a b

The Peoples Web

As far as we can see,taking the long view over several decades, all media end up spiralling exponentially one of 2 ways :

sustainably, to the transparent human relations benefits of the the people they interconnect

unsustainably, to the benefit of the big gets bigger, which ulimately alos bubbles up and bursts

There's no reason we have been able to think of in the 25 years we have been exchanging scripts on all things net and web to suppose any consequence other that one of these 2 end trajectories ; however the difference is that online links together so much of people's evolving 21st C productivities and demands that if the web and net compound round the big gets bigger, the consequences for many of us will be terminal, and indeed the survival of our species and nature's harmony will be exponentially in doubt a few generations out

So the web made transparent for and by the people is just about the most important new revolution ever to have hit one generation of humanity around the world

Some First Examples:
John von Neumann - The computer as facilitator of greater collaboration between people
Tim Berners Lee - the structure of the www and flexing its open futures
Vinton Cerf - one of the fathers of the net
Doc Searls - one of the world's leading journalists - blog and real - on open source and co-author of cluetrain hi-trust community needs
Lawrence Lessig - Creative Commons, ie keep learning multiplying openly not too blocked by copyright
Linux - epicentre of main open source program language
-values of do no evil google and search
future historians??

Collaboration Application Waves
(advance work for safe cross-cultural globalisation - Gandhi, Einstein; James Wilson)
omidyars - media for microfinance and grassroots up investing
cross-cultural social entrepreneurs- Bill Drayton
health??
children's learning??
Professions 2.1 - restoring hi-trust hippocratic oaths?? interfacing ssytemically rather than making busienss case out of silos
photosynthesis clean energy?
conflict resolution - Gandhi alumni, Harrison Owen (open space), Myrna Lewis (Dee Democracy)
sustaining investments in the most vital secxtor visions??

We'd be interested to hear whom you trust most in keeping the web open for all peoples as well as how we map all the differing aspects of this. For example, while our death of distance dialogues over the last 22 years confirm the view that broadcast tv was a minor revolution compared with the web, we can look back and see how asepcts of tv evolved almost without people realising their compound conseqeunces. Let's hope with this medium which enables us to co-mentor each other's searches and ways of mapping what's going on, we can collaborate in seeing every type of consequence the web weaves. Even failing to see one worldwide consequence could have disastrous spirals over many cycles of time from now.

Over-governed or under-governed

Wherever a systemic implosion happens or wars start – transparency’s first open learning question should be: were any of these systems over-governed or under-governed? Typically over-governed is most likely in a system*system crisis where one or more of the systems had very large financial top-down power resources; under-governance can happen in places ranging from extreme rural to slum areas in big cities that have been digitally and reality-divided

Any large service of knowledge work organisation founded before the worldwide web is likely to be over-governed unless there is proof that it has already transformed through one or more systemic revolutions:

To those who have either openly debated global charters or passed 6th grade mapping the maths of networking, it is simple to see that the huge risks of 20th C organsiational hangovers apply whether the typology of organsiational being is: .com .gov .edu .pro .media .charity/ngo

For example homeland security gov in the USA has seen serial implosions of horrific kinds because the system (too much top-down or too much rule based silos) couldn’t cope with long-term opposites such as terror or nature’s crisis waves. When Nasa lost their last spaceship because foam rotting had become a serial occurrence , over 50 different aspects of too top-down management were reported in the inquest. Essentially safety the biggest connecting and sustainable goal of Nasa went unmeasured quarter after quarter whilst spread-sheeters controlled Nasa’s 2 tangible goals costs and frequent schedules. These professional measurers claim not to even have examined how their maths was perfect over time for causing all the separations that made safety as impossible to achieve in a crisis as it would be to drive an ambulance in a highway system where every bridge was broken.

Media’s brands is another disaster of over-governing – since 1989 I have been studying the various models of over-branding –written up in 4 books – or which I will guide you round by email if you want to check whether brands around sug=fefr from this architectural problem. Note companies literally become hi-jacked to ad agencies when they are over-branded.

The intrapreneurial revolution changes management from bossing to facilitating deep teamwork; from investing in machines and things the corporation extracts to investing in people; where this has been don over the 20+ year period that intrapreneurial systems have been mapped – long-term (sustainability) investors have seen 100 fold returns but only because service marketing golden triangle has multiplied even more value between employees who love learning from customers who happy to be fussiest in the way which future society most wants that service sector to revolve. Trust-flow or intangibles governance/auditing is needed for emotionally intelligent relationships to connect. Intangibles does not mean invisible it simple means not governable by tangible auditing’s separation assumptions. Connecting multiplicative and future exponential modelling, not involving only separation and adding up through spreadshhets

For many years peoples economist have argued that we should aim to reduce the total taxes ministered over by one prime team to 20% that already 50 days per working year. Please note we are quite capable of believing that peoples should want to invest another communal 20% in social value multipliers but they should devise different system from gov 1.0 which was rewarded to make short-term decisions, argued over 1-dimensional conflict dimensions oddly called left and right. Both extreme left and extreme right in a system that needs multidimensional care ends up causing the same destruction of the people the government enslaves

What are some examples of how to spend the extra 20%
The British people had a very good one – about 2% on the world’s largest public media capable of world service inquiries until their government whether lest or right continued demanding the annual fee but censored the peoples medium

What could be done with very small monetary amounts at the fringe of the official school systems o that early teens love in-the-community projects instead of becoming gang outcasts –see some benchmark examples of inner city hubs. Similarly a very small amount of rich people’s money in tropical mega-city’s could now help to remove all slums. We say now since algae architecture will is no more costly than other architecture but it collects power from the sun, airconditioning , collecting water from the humidity, cleaning up carbon for each algae architected building. Too good to be true I hear a heckler say. Entreprenurial revolutionaries have always had to suffer from over-governing societies blindest or most vested-interested hecklers. First Lord Wellington (he of waterloo) opposed trains – my Lord’s these things will enable the working classes to move around. Then London lived through an early 20th C scare that the streets would drown in horse manure if any more horse and carriages were licensed.

Main lessons:
The question – was a disaster of over- or under- is very contextual. Nonetheless we should be able to learn from analogies rather than suffer from serial over-governing destruction

The problem is worsened by networks where the bridges between different organisations or organisational typologies become very weak points over time unless someone is governing the interface instead of as in USA constitutionally requiring that global corporations externalise their sector’s greatest risk to humanity.

Many of the revolutionary typologies need to be looked at from double loop views – eg media and education are loops of te same double helix
Exercise what double loops might you want to explore?
Examples might be

Learning Game

I would like to dip into an example before we come to big questions such as can we design some learning games that would oinspiore most cross-section of 6 billion people to play? collaborate? ... towards gravity pursuits instead of trivial ones, towards searched that value the courage of a child's biggest questions on being humans before we rush the search for excelence and close down the boundaries on context that any such rush assumes (knowingly or unknowingly)

AN ONLINE FACILITATORS LEARNING GAME
Accidentally I came across this game's main rule. I had just submitted quite a rude post to http://goodwillwars.blogspot.com/ on whose communities of practice should humanity trust, and whose should it openly and systemically innoculate itself against?

GAME Play Rule 1 what combination of keywords input in google lead you to fullcirc.com ?
(explanation Nancy Whiteof fullcirc.com is one of the most dedicated faciliators of the human possibilities of online faculiation I have met; I don't need to shout about this - just explore some of the application areas/countries she has spebt her lifetime serving- equally nobody will help shout louder than me if you wish to nominate others who merit being known as in the same inspiring class of mentors as nancy)

example if you multiply these 4 :
community of practice*trust*conflict*love
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%2B%22community+of+practice%22+%2Btrust+%2Bconflict+%2Blove&btnG=Search
you will find 15000+ bookmarks led byhttp://www.fullcirc.com/community/communityfacilitation.htm
Facilitating and Hosting a Virtual Community Nancy WhiteLast edited 4/03/04

From Webster's: Facilitation \Fa*cil`i*ta"tion\, n. The act of facilitating or making easy.

From Wordnet: facilitation n: act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something "to free from difficulties or obstacles" "to make easy or easier"

------------------------------How would we score whether your discovery was more interesting (valuable to collaboration practices of OF) than mine?Several different scoring algorithms might be collated before we decide?
1) The search that produces the most bookmarks with fullcirc at the top
2) The search with fullcirc at top that associates the most interesting combination of vocabularies with why we all want to get better at online faciliation or help others get better at exploring this exponentially emerging communal practice
3) Please suggest 3 on...

Is there space for advanced variants of the game? I suppose so. I would love to see some maps of what it is you are most deeply exploring when someone says go forth and multiply by - BEing online. It could be that faciliation depends on the driving reason why you spend time online or advocate that online can change the world - eg www.changemakers.net is a reason why for me - it would take an email exchnage to explain why because like many emerging inspiring and sustainable human uses of the net, high design is not the first communal mobiliser. I am at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want to ask why I submit nearly 30 years of work by Bill Drayton's friends is converging on this as one of humanity's best USA uses of the net or web http://valueofweb.blogspot.com

ONE BRIDGE MORE Emotionally I am webbed - not to say wedded - to a 22 year old bias towards this script myself - would of course love to see some other time-tested scripts (of course mine is hopelessly biassed; if that's not evident in any nomination please clarify):http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
further clarification of Scot's network origins http://clubofarran.blogspot.com/

What helps games propagate everywhere?

A
Simple (word-of-mouth or word-of-net ) rule at least to play at level 1 - Noughts & Crosses is a very simple paper-and-pencil game (probably one of the ten most universally known)

putting someting into the number 1 search website may be the analogy when you're omnline instead of on paper

B
Unlike Noughts & Crosses - is capable of leading to inspiring new explorations -rather like travel the amateur and the expert have at elast to their own senses as much chnaces of a fun or a great discovery; and one worth sharing with all their peers or people who network around a simnilar learning concern

C
A game that enables you to find mentors through loife and help others likewise around those contexts that emerge as being more and more vital to what you wish to do and learn, play and work at, love to serve and where humanly necessary invent beyond the current rules

To tell you the truth, I had no ideas whether this is the ABC we need. Do you have a view on how to edit it?
although it deels valguely right in what I am searching for if democratic learng games are going to be open;y shared worldwide- some ref s to Democratic Learning games: e-democs?

Worlds Worst

This is one of the simplest but deepest mathematical games you will come across - tell me others at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

2 questions in one:

when I say : what's the worst scarciest thing you have seen peoples of the world do to each other (or stand by and let happen):

what is it?
and
can you think of some opposite force that makes the scarciest thing likely to happen more and more often

example (note I wish I could word this in a non-controversila manner but that is only becasue I am by nature a shy person; in a world that celebrated thos who raised big questions caringly I dream that the shy and the extrovert would both free each other's excesses);
in my view which I could link with my heros including Gandhi and Einstein, terrorism is the scariest thing man does to man; if religions are pathways to true humanity (living your life to maximise the difference you can enjoy serving), my number 1 for a value uniting religions of the world would be zero terrorism;

however, I don't believe terrorism would be so likely to spread all through the world if more people at the top of the world's biggest organisations posessed the courage to be openly questioned about the rules they are operating; instead many of these people spend more an more of their organsiation's money blocking questioning; when we look at what 21 vital global market sectors are compounding, it is less and less productivity and value for more and more people; such loss of hope of progress- such systemic destruction of human freedom and happiness- is a root causes of every other bad consequence including terrorism whether man-made or nature's destabilisation

this analysis needs to be discussed everywhere the word democracy is spoken; and yet by and large the media is not doing this: why because it too has become governed by the same blind men at the top of power who do not have the courage to be transparently questioned

if the world is to be served by networks expert at disaster prevention, then all this suggests that those who select and reward experts in tehse netwokr must not be those people who are the top of powerful organsiation but those people who are most deeply trusted in diverse communities- one reason why I am pasionate about any method anyone has of mapping global billages as a way forward of progressing humanity, cross-culturally, loving diverse contexts, caring for those with the smallest voices (including our children) and not biassed just towards the images that powerful men wish to project

mathematically, we can map how both extremes multiply each others blindnesses and badwills

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Now stand away from the example I have chosen

if you can think of one trouble that really disturbs you and then an opposite force that may be in the same causal loop (even if its people have exactly the opposite constitutional intents) then you will have freed yourself from being stuck inside a system box rather than being able to put your head above it to gain some fresh air; sadly nothing in our schools seems to give us any practise at this "lift your head" above the conflict box exercise; I will be delighted to detract that remark if you can link me to school learning games that do

chris macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

follow up exercises: what's your favourite search of "beyond the box" --- 00 0 1 2 3

Conversations - most of this section is not about any particular defintion but rehearses 13 years of experience we now have on why we hold such pattern rules as:
all real and virtual modes of conversation interface; so don't feel ordered by anyone as to best ways of individual tool use because the combinations and how you flow them is more important; try in particular not to get prejudiced against virtual versus real (a lot of social time redundancy goes on in real life conversations!); consider that electronic mail at least between frimnds is an opportunity to make the best of sriting and speaking not the worst) In many cases elder peope are less practised than younger people on all modes web. This is a revolutionary knowledge circumstance! It can explain many biases against virtual modes as can other old system powers like the way mass media often blows up risks and trivia of new media and seldom educates how to use it.


The devil is in the details- conversation on conersation 1

The subject came up of whether a volunteer organisation whose management board of 10 I am on should transfer its main virtual mode from an email circulation list of all 10 of us to eg a closed yahoo registration of 10 of us (which would eg enable people to chosse a 1-day omnibus post instead of separate mails)

I think the proposer had no idea of what dynamics over time immediate accep[tance of his suggestion might irreversibly impoverish conversationally as well as actively. I know this from experience but come to think of it do not know how to explain all the sub-flow subtleties

Have you ever seen a complete catalogue of differenecs made(it must be something that many groups have been through)

In the absence of knowing where this is written down, I spent 10 minutes trying to give some illustrations of my conceren. Don't know if they are easily digestible, but here they are anyhow in case this issue concerns you

I am not wanting to be too presciptive

I believe that a duty or job of a management board is to flow communications

What modes do we have for doing this at our organsiation of 2006:
note meetings have been cut due to time concerns even though we have grown in size and funding

this suggests more will need to go by virtual mode

1 boxing virtual mode into yahoo only sounds like another way of cutting the flow; as does raising the view that there is too much email to cope with (I note a prejudice among all sorts of people agauinst email even though they spend far more time on socila politnesses in real meetings and never start cutting those the way they do when a flurry of email seems to have been more than usual)

2 the challenge of working out what communcations flow we want overall starts with mapping recognising there are some different subflows

2.1 I do believe that anything that our founder wants to send out to management board should go directly to all of them in separate mails not bundled in a daily omnibus or potentially left for read only on yahoo koomarks

2.2 I see occasions when people need action responses whether its to what copy goes in newsletter or folow up actions from committe meetings etc

2.3 Then there is the issue of how do we actually develop conversations that need discussion or link our network colaboratively with other networks; a compulsory move to yahoo is likely to make all that more and more inbred

3.0 I think there are other dynamics when the direct group is the better way. For example, suppose everyone converts to a 1-day omnibus. That means no conversations happen anywhere near real time the way they do if someone sends out a mail and another person responds nearly as they recieve it. The sequencing of conversational mail gets reordered by a one-day omnibus in ways that impoverish the q&a dynamic as well as the likelihood that those most passionate about a particular subject will be core in animating that sub-flow

3.1 Communications flows are subtle , interpersonal, interactive and culturally contextualised dynamics. But over and over I have seen an email group who transfers just to yahoo cutting down on the interaction values that real conversations need to challenge out our co-creativity as well as activation with. Life goes out of the parts of the communications that needed the most evolutionary communal sensing

I have studied different types of media ll my working life. It has slowly dawned on me that the greater the gravity of a purpose or identity that a group co,mmune around the more extraordinary are the conflocts. A nation identity such as the USA is one that eg 250 million people commune around internally and another 6 billion are impacted by its superpower flows externally. We ae not just talking about what the image and erality of the deined purpose are over and baove what a nation does naked of conversation, but whose weight opf conversation is ever heard, whose needs are ever even given ond understanding outing, let alone who decides what and , who writes up what laws, and wherher executions match decision-makers intents, or permit people to take a second look a few years later when fifferent infromation may be aviable

But it would be a mistake to believe this occurs just at a national level. Consider a marriage of 2 people's identitioes- how conversations flow in that.

Over time I have become extraordinarily interest in methods that clarify conflicts so all can see them as core to true conversation. Very much the simpelst method is open space; ten year olds can take to it like ducks to water as can any age up that cares about conversation and innovation.

This is not the place to explain open space- coming soon some links

but here is a conversation on conversation that incliudes open space in its orbit
I think we "undersell" how having experienced one whole open space changes the
way people if they have a choice convene all future meetings, now that we are
well and truly into what Peter Drucker caleld the knowledge worker age

i am going to make hypothesis that at least the top people at google are not
the ordinary big org leaders that are often part of the "confusion" block that
the open space is politically innovaing everyone's way through. Our experience
is that where someone whop people looked up to knows that a transformation
goal is about resolving conflicts and system chnage then this process can work

The leader with deep authority in an area of importance to the organisation
annouces that a cofee-tabled size gatehring is being hosted on a specific
innovation challenge, and asks the whole organsiation to help in finding who
are the rihht people to be there

The host defines the challenge in terms of conflict questions; then
essentially people postit other questions or mini-session discussions they
would want; these can be clustered while people are at the table; photo the
output of the tabletop and put it up on an internal web; ...

There's room for ad libbing a bit more what goes on at such a lunchour
roundtable but already I suggest meetings just don't get hosted this way
unless an organisation is open space experienced

chris macrae
http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com
http://valueofweb.blogspot.com

(maths or science)*learning

Let's use this space to try to address 2 question-in-one (designers or leaders of organisations and lively systems often need to address many question in one (resolving the biggest conflicts between their most precise-looking answers but the big initiation in this skill is managing 2, after which mediating conflict will continuously be with you as a great way to innovate or open space for other people)

question 1 What can maths help you to see about learning
question 2 What can science help you see

we'll have a quick first encounter with q1 and suggest an open space race for q2

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Question 1
I would love to see a survey of today's most powerful 1000 leaders which asks them: if you could have a conversation with 3 people who lived and died in the 20th Century who would you choose.

The way different clusters of leaders answered this question might actually become a basis for a high school course if not a whole 1st to 40th grade curriculum. However as someone interested in the maths of valuing entrepreneurs and the hi-trust leaders that empower them: I would look at leaders who mentioned at least one of these 3 men first:
Gandhi
Einstein
Von Neumann
Some notes:
First (particularly because I was ruthlessly trained/teased by female psychology students whilst practising my first tutoring and networking job) I simply wish I hadn't chosen 3 men. Better yet, if this question gets asked and answered in the 22nd C I expect the answer may be 3 women but for now : what has maths and learning got to do with these men

Well: von Neumann was the mathematician more than any other who bridged learning pre- and post-computing. I may be biased because I helped my day do a biography of von Neumann but the story is amazingly human of how one of the greatest mathematicians was nurtured, how he was just about the last mathematician free to choose what he studied in academia (and the way government funds academia), how many cultures he passed through before he became a young man, how whilst he tried hard to be both a man's man and a woman’s man of the three he was far and away more of a mathematician's man according to all the gossip that can be collected but which do not wish to relay (note to other biographers: there’s no point in asking us to open up on that because my father studiously stopped conversations that were gossiping as opposed to understanding what drove so much future mapping- if ever there was a mathematical entrepreneur John von Neumann was both that man and the time that open computing most needed it. He made sure that many universities and many big businesses knew about his research into computing much to Princeton's annoyance. That is a slightly incorrect note: at the particular time that Von Neumann knew he was dying of cancer and had to speed up his open sourcing the most famous mathematical people in Princeton did not like computers. They would have rather that side of his research had been buried in dusty papers for a decade or three. Long enough to ensure you would not be reading this now online)

Because Entrepreneurs spend lifetime resolving conflicts to ensure their greatest innovation replaces the old's vested interests in some far smaller (loser's game), conflict resolution methods are the ultimate skill and systemiser of Entrepreneurial Revolution needs access to, especially the greatest ER practitioners of 2005-2015 which we discuss at Social Entrepreneur . Gandhi is the greatest facilitator of conflict resolution on the largest stages of humanity's history - at least of any people who have been around sufficiently recently to be able to check how and why he practised the future ways he did. Gandhi is also quite simply all of these talents:

a trained lawyer who cares about the biggest social questions he could get relationship permissions to be involved with

An educator who founded a university and a whole schooling system with the 1920 mission statement: knowledge is that which liberates us

The person when I need to refresh my memory of what democracy or cross-cultural love revolves round, I go and search for first. In other words, he is the best dead mentor I have so far found. One reason why this seems to be is that everyone who met him or who was parented by someone who met him seems not only to have hi-trust things to say about the man but to have some familial learning story which is past through generations to this day. As far as I know, there is (or at least in the pre-mass media times of Gandhi was) no more interesting yardstick for testing a man's wealth of learning multipliers than this.

Einstein is interesting because he revolutionised more scientific maths that any other man. He proved that the 100% certainly of Newtonian mechanical maths was precisely wrong if you wanted to study at the more interactive combinatorial level of particles that make up matter. Perhaps because of this he was concerned that an even more tricky maths or mapmaking would need to be developed if mankind was to service technology's revolutionary connectivities. His correspondence with Gandhi and why he regarded Gandhi as a far greater practitioner than anything his mind had scientifically discovered appears here. He is famous even among leaders who have never passed beyond 7th grade in maths as having coined the sentence you cannot design a higher order system with the thinking or skills that are successful in the current system

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Q 2 what can science do for learning

Well President Bush has made one of America's 2 great space 1 2 races of 2006-2010 - do what you can to help our children love exploring science as much as they currently idolise sports or pop. He used slightly different words but you can look them up in the sate of the Union speech of 2006. He was advised that this was one of the 2 most tempestuous/revolutionary challenges of the present-future by a team of 20 leaders who are listed here (national science academy gathering storm report) and here.

Because of the mass media (or for some other reason such as I am a scot who prefers to have moved beyond our nation's capability as warriors to help all peoples flourish with economics sound enough to encourage every level of entrepreneurship -see our call for an Olympics of entrepreneurs to be covered by public broadcast media with more time and care than sports have hitherto), I do not always understand the implementation of GWB2's greatest missions. So whilst I wait to read the bestseller of what science curricula map out to be in Bush's circle of leaders, I will see if I can get a publisher to solicit an equivalent of what Gombrich did in the 1930s so that all children could love to exp=lore history if not the dark 30s present to the future of science. Meanwhile we can also explore great experiments in schooling from that being tried out by social entrepreneur Tiger Woods to that at Montessori's 30000 children experiment at Lucknow to that of Foz's near 80000 children experimenting with projects in the water basin communities of the world's largest dam. Biodiversity's greatest experiments only work when they connect the open collaboration of observers and learners and testers from every longitude and latitude the globe permits- so it is doubly timely we have the net to help revolutionise learning modes as well as learning contexts.

no end to competitions hosted for and by virtual change communities?

http://www.netsquared.org/projects/vote
Projects that caught our eye:
1. SourceTree
2. FreeCycle
3. Hooze
4. Hear Our Pain
5. Genocide Intervention Network
6. FamilyFarmed.org
7. Social Source Commons8. The CTC VISTA project

Regarding all the Micro terms: Microfinance, Microfranchising, Microcredit, we wouldn't dare define these. Help us suggest a guided tour: eg goto omidyar.net then search Grameen reading Bornstein's biography of "The Price of a Dream- The Story of Grameen Bank" and tell us what a trustmicrofinance blog's core questions or links could be

Regarding sustainability investment- we dare say this is systemically the opposite of speculative investment, and requires an ethical transformation of most professions if goodwill wars are to overcome badwill wars in a world of networks mapped as systems of systems of systems:
mathematically Sustainability Investment requires exact opposite auditing of the traditional tangibles/separation monoply . This second audit begins and ends every cycle with detection/resolution of emerging conflicts between those making demands and those serving productivity. It model what exponential is compounding into the future - sustainability win-win-win for all or bubbling up to implode over all (with those who short making the one certain type of market killing)

it requires governance that loops every loop between top down, communal context up and inter-organsiational transparency at boundaries

in service economies if you are prepared to invest in people before machines AND sustain the truly deepest value multiplying purpose of such an emotionally energising relationship system over a generation then sustainability investors can enjoy 100 fold returns but only because even more value than this is compounded around the golden triangle of employees, customers who fussily know what the big picture future societioes want from the sector's innovation and a harmony of what all societies want as world best and what is always differentially valyed depending on local diversity factors

some groups standing up for sustainability investment appear to be here http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A4205819

and when we have time we map core networks inner relationships in more detail here http://asinworld.blogspot.com

Poor old John Logie Baird. With his birth of tv 75 years old this month, you might think he'd head Scotland's Entrepreneurial rankings if not the world's

Yet unlike any inventor's hall of fame, we feel that entrepreneurs must ultimately be valued by all the people according to future history's valuation primary criterion - mapping the social revolutions that compound out from their origin.

The predominant lesson from tv's mass broadcasting age seems to be that all media should carry a public health warning. Media after all seems to begin by defying the coventional wisdom of there's no such thing as a free lunch. For a few years, it looks as if everyone's gaining, then it dumbs you down or adds cost all the way down its chain of command or ends up as tv news in the USA - having by law no duty to tell the truth and no interest in freedom of speech even though its licensing the publics airwaves which might be argued to be any cultures most commonly owned intellectual property. Why have the silent majority become so blindfolded to media's second loop duty of mediating democracy's deepest trusts and highsest ethical standards of leaders?

If tv ever has a chance of renaissance, paradoxically that window of opportunity can come when an even greater media than global broadcasting comes online at every worldwide coordinate . That one last chance has been mapped and relentlessly debated since the early 1980s as being what we now call the internet or the web. Could it be that a medium beaming-our learning gravities up - and interactively across every global village - will turn out to be the saviour of the human race from broadcasting's dumbing down?

Not unless we cherish every internet's tool's greatest difference from mass media rather than aping any similarity

For example, if the internet get's quickly taken over by videos as its primetime content instead of opening spaces for fearless conversations -and above all searching communally for the next great question before someone edits an answer (where encylopaedic factuality rushes to into denila of probablity that there may be many different answers interacting with deeper contetx) - then that will end equality of participative interaction at a stroke. Commercial mass media's power will have transformed the internet into its image inseatd of the internet's realtity-making transforming mass media.

EMAIL CRISIS AS THE OPEN (bring down degrees of separation to zero on life critical queries) STANDARD- more on how to use teach kids how an email world is about finding their own deepest mentors through life and helping others likewise

BLOG CRISIS AS A KILLER APPLICATION
If people are convinced that the raison d'etre of weblogs is to give any person a chance to star for a day like some jounalist newshound of a soundbiting world, they will forget that the most valuable property of true action learning is that it multiples value in colaborative use instead of getting consumed up and chained to whom has the greatest broadcasting power. We may lose the destiny that early 21st C earthdwellers could have co-created of transforming from rule by economics of scarcity to economics of abundance

Unlike John Logie Baird, James Wilson's ranking as near the top of all time Scottish Entrepreneurs merit being safe. It was always his wish that The Economist be closed down if ever it ran out of social entrepreneurial missions. This adds a touch of irony to our critic of the 2006 Survey of New Media, published in The Economist April 2006

After a great opening section on media revolution, the writer let conventional (non-revolutionary) wisdom spiral the reader completely off course. This is a pity since James Wilson founded The Economist to keep readers and leaders ahead of every social and entrepreneurial revolution. And your paper’s own writing connected this altogether between 1976-1984 by wholly visualising the greatest revolution one generation of worldwide humanity 1984-2024 is being challenged by with globalisation consequences that will sustain or end future generations.

Historically, the greatest revolutions have been about either media (ed printing press, tv broadcasting) or transport (discovering the new world was round in 1492 or how Watts steam engine begot railways and so the industrial revolution and the agrarian to urban revolution). However, Death of Distance, as Norman Macrae mapped from the early 1980s, is the two-in one transformation of media and transport revolutions. In this context, the big picture of weblogs is not about how well every person becomes an authentic day by day newscaster but the fusion of webs for all at no monetary cost, and navigators’ logs beaming us all up from every diverse coordinate on this earth.

Drawing on Einstein, Gandhi, Orwell, Schumacher, Von Neumann and many others who have presciently questioned whether mankind will succeed in reinventing every historical cultural and communal sustainability to fit higher order harmony, Norman clarified what examination the simultaneous changes to economics, media and all 21st C professions would need to pass. Will we develop just-in-time maps and humanity's 30000 most openly inspiring projects so that the peoples of the world are liberated by a transparent 21stC world trade that sustains 2 million global villages? Be these networking villages communities connected to real places or virtually linking through any resourceful context that collaborative action learning can multiply human value around. Productive and demanding human relations of the hyperlinked service economy cannot be bossed nor ruled solitarily by macro (top-down) metrics. Open governance maps of systems will need to integrate empowerment of community-up (micro) sustainability and inter-local gravitational waves. If these golden triangles, composing double helixes of true human endeavour, can loop hi-trust flows every interlocal way round, then economics and globalisation will interconnect above zero sum energies through every human relationship, otherwise you all will externalise risks that will feedback terrifying depressions just about anywhere.

THE COMING WARS OF GOODWILL VERSUS BADWILL NETWORKS
Networks are systems of systems of systems. Worldwide technology, hand in hand with mankind, will spiral either the win-win-wins of goodwill or the lose-lose-loses of badwill but not some average of both. The job of the coming decade and every new media collaborator begins and ends with the networked searcher’s Hippocratic Oath : collaborate simply in conflict detection and resolution. This is the only way ahead we humans have of preventing cataclysmic disasters of living in a world where trust is wholly devalued whether death’s viral waves are propagated by are Bin Ladenesque merchants of hopelessness, nature’s fury at our inability to innovate collaboratively around the abundant clean energy and climactic harmony of photosynthesis, or plagues that fly like birds paying not an interactive molecule of interest to where man draws boundaries on owning land or lifeless capitals.

Emerging Experiences we dont have vocab for yet

when I co-authired the first death of distance future history in 1984 we imagined when would the world have the open source right to demand the end of privacy; for example after a great scientist of explorer died, copuld we not have someone caringly edit all their googketracks so we could see what they browsed and connected immediately prior to huge innovations

as obvious demand like that becakme clear to develop, how would we enable much more l;ivetime sharing - isnt it a disaster for humanity if the 2 most brilliant people ihn a filed of dsicovery never connect ebcause they have mbeen made rivals by nation or corporation or academic rush to be top man of their dioscipline's century; is there any way that 5 year reviews might help mediate wehere their ides coukd innovate far higher through come connections than always being separated

at much lower levls of recording personal logs including my onw, this email I sent out to one great colabotaion space for advice may have some cluies once we have tidied it up - or do you know anyone who has already defined this neatly including its vocabulary - pklease provide links if you do; I have no lifetime left for reinventing wheels

1 I believe the (common)Wealth of Experience is a very big topic -perhaps one worthy of dedicating its own open space. I have put Common because one thing I don't enjoy about scientists is those whose experimental perfection came because they put boundaries around what they were judging and then forgot to make it clear from the top how narrow the transferability of their truth was. But then I am just a maths man concerend to see/map every system's interface from all its riskiest outside externalities, and compound consequences
2 Another look at this comes from learnings forced on me in recent weeks. I realise now that I have been playing with at least 3 different levels of the experience of inter-networks and the globale village world they require us to stand up and web together flowing across all our deepest diversities:
LEARNINGfrom 1973 when my first job (Uk National Development Program of Computer Assisted Learning) put a young me in charge of mentoring female psychologist students just as we were debriefing them a guinea pigs of the first 100 people learning networks that universities had developed
PROFESSIONAL FUTURE SHOCKPROOFING, specifically around mediaform 1983 the book I oc-authored with my father, The Economist's chief future historian, which explored teh scenario that the colaboration challenge of the internet was the greatest crisis one generation of humanity had ever been delath responsibility for , with chances of warping sustainably through that mathemstaicians from Einstein down have reated as less than even money
more on 200 years of media game Scottish Economists and Community Facilitaors have a world responsibility to and for http://clubofarran.blogspot.com/ http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com/ http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com/
PLAYING INCUDING OPEN SPACING/SOURCING COLLABORATION EXPERIMENTSfrom 1994 playing on the interent: A self-challenge I have come to -and would love to know if anyine has an answer to - is how do you use a blog to provide a messy record of all your experiential uops and downs when confronted with something like the interent which by its nature means we will bubble through more human failiings before we warp through the other side to successful harmony, if indeed we ever do http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com/1994_12_01_chrismacrae_archive.html I have started an idea here which will try an re-create the 120 or son experiments I have loved being most involved with on the interent since starting to be experiencing this pkayground in 1994
but I would love to see other people;s examples of how they open out their navigation/searching experience -through blogs or any kind of logs - for all to criss-cross and link future and history through as much as joyful open source power human beings can do
chris macrae wcbn007@
Quoting Andrius Kulikauskas <ms@ms.lt>:
This last week I had the great fortune to speak with several profound independent thinkers and sign them up for our LivingByTruth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingbytruth/ working group: Ronald Stamper, Mark Johnson and Peter Gardenfors. Welcome! I look forward to writing more about all that I learned from our conversations and what I look forward to working on through our lab in support of our various efforts. Today I submitted my abstract "The Wealth of Experience" for Paolo Pumilia's workshop "Preserving Quality in an Open Environment", June 9, 2006, in Como, Italy (not far from Milan). I will be writing more about this and how the online learning environments we are building may serve us all as public domain repositories for our projects - accumulating, testing, engaging, applying knowledge - and help us connect many great ideas on how our minds integrate knowledge from a variety of dimensions and resolve tensions between them. Andrius ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Wealth of Experience ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The reproduciblity of experiments allows scientists to build on each other's objective results. How might we similarly share our personal experience as a public wealth? Is there a way for us to show each other how we have acquired or are acquiring our subjective experience? The Minciu Sodas online laboratory, http://www.ms.lt/, serving and organizing independent thinkers, is tackling these questions in developing an online learning environment for the Wales Institute for Community Currencies. In particular, the goal is to help people understand their "money mind" (the various ways they think about money) and design community currencies for themselves that might best reflect and serve their principles. The emphasis on personal grounding of knowledge is especially important in community currency where theoretical positions may be quite removed from practical realities. To what extent are we able to find universal forms for personal outlooks? More than eighty participants of Minciu Sodas have been able to identify a "key concept" in their life which for them encompasses all other values, is the deepest value in their life, and they feel comfortable identifying themselves with. Almost forty have one or more "investigatory question" that they don't know the answer to, but intend to answer, and are interested for others to help them regarding. The key concepts and investigatory questions help people appreciate each other's vantage points and maturity, support each other directly, and recognize whose leadership is relevant where. A subsequent challenge is to foster different modes of self-learning: taking a stand, following through and reflecting. It seems that different types of support is warranted at these different stages, so that, for example, one can test one's principles thoroughly and conclusively without second guessing them. A major difficulty is that people are rarely conscious of the relationships between the modes in their learning process. Even when they can make explicit the principles they live be, they often find it difficult to illustrate their principles, and especially, how living by their principles yields outcomes which reenforce them. Currently, we are working on techniques, such as collection of personal stories and anecdotes, which would help document principles and the outcomes which validate them. The goal is to accumulate first hand material that could be studied to uncover patterns, in the sense of architect Christopher Alexander, that resolve tensions amongst sets of conflicting principles. Taken together, the principles would explain why, the patterns would explain how, and the observed outcomes would explain what we are experiencing. First hand subjective experience validates such knowledge as meaningful for one of us, hence important for all of us. Without such personal validation, many recommendations may be empty, contrived, counterproductive and even harmful. At this point, it is still unclear how to elicit and present personal experience in a format that would make clear how one personally acquired it and how others might likewise. ---------------------------------- Andrius Kulikauskas graduated from the University of Chicago in 1986 with a B.S. in mathematics and a B.A. in physics. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at San Diego in 1993. In 1998, he moved to Lithuania, the land of his heritage, where he founded Minciu Sodas, http://www.ms.lt/, an online laboratory serving and organizing independent thinkers around the world. Currently, Minciu Sodas has 100 active and 1,000 supportive participants. There are working groups for global villages, open economy, online learning environments, holistic helping, creative collaboration, leadership development, conceptual frameworks and loving God. Minciu Sodas has served 20 clients with web programming, community organizing and other services. Andrius is the author of "An Economy for Giving Everything Away", "The Algebra of Copyright", "We Learn to Stick Our Necks Out". His quest in life is to know everything and apply that knowledge usefully. Andrius Kulikauskas Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt/ ms@ms.lt +370 (699) 30003 Vilnius, Lithuania

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Some sample cards by theme
Water, Warming, Ecologies
Food, Extreme Poverty, Corruption, Slavery
Health & Plagues
Stage 2 Games emerging from Pack of Cards
TV Quizzes: if the BBC tested the nations with intelligent humanitarian questions drawing on cause networks stories of diversity rathr than trivia, what sort of quiz would we see?