You havent lived if you havent tried open space - a way of organisiing meetings so that everyone produces however many
people turn up. Good news is open space is proven for 9 year olds up-(like any core human process there may be grades of experience
though like the net this is one of those ways to action learn that peeks in youth not in elder age. Collaboration Cafe
http://collaborationcafe.tv is the simplest 1 hour version of open space - rsvp if you are a facilitator and want to know what we cut out of a
process that is most fun when people come from around the world to share an annual 3 day networking reunion or to innovate
a solution in a people summit that world leaders cant from ordinary meeting processes
In a place (youth or adult)
where you have a 1 hour break - cc is easy peasy at the invitation process stage. So teachers can just let children use
a notceboard (or a screen saver and internal email ) to announce this circular discussion topic will happen- please
come only if the topic interests you; kids who already do something on this topic will provide examples, then everyone can
joyfully question how to join in. Best circles have no teachers in them though what you can do in large spaces in a school
is runj many circle discussions at the same time place - and teachers could just be there to observe much like they might
in a crowded playground
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AC - DC
How about starting series of http://collaborationcafe.tv in DC .. to energise optimistic connecting people as knowledge-action workers who want to
be collaboration entrepreneurs (a species my dad http://www.worldeconomist.net/ diarised over 40 years at The Economist. Back in 1984 as first journalists of the internet, dad and I mapped
how exciting 2010s can be as worldentrepreneur networks double focused knowledge-sharing
annually around life-shaping goals
I am a system researcher and designer which means I
am not a practice expert in any of the most vital human goals (whose determination by 2020 can make 2010s netgens "most exciting decade" Yunus 2050 person bookclub ) Here are a few ideas (and people) in case some of these are a best first focus for
a coffee debate (love to start with what you want to do, but these are new year action contexts my mind is mapping and which
$300000 of social business loans from my father's estate has started to structure with some advice fro muhammad
yunus and microcreditsummit and social business summit leaders and http://www.the-hub.net/
0 Leadership Quests : eg by writing cheeky letters round DC to whomever I hear to have new
funds (eg shareout of G20's half billion fund) to social (busieness ) entrpreneurs : ask to partner in sharing
open knowledge with deep practice networks my friends or I have inspected on the ground
1 Are you an Editorial Guides to African Century
I would like to see a sub-editorial
board "African Century" of the new journal of social business (more in footnote) my dad's estate
has started with a social busiess loan under the expert stewardship of muhammad yunus 3 partners in scotland - 2 univesrities
and the centre for development scotland a charity that a 30 year long frind and compatriot of dr yunus started about 15 years
ago. My last full year in Lodon was 2005 where I was delegated to atend the main make poverty history meetings and the African
commission report was one of the main suposed contexts. I discovered to my chagrin that this was a movement dominated by top-down
NGOs and that they were part of the problem. Ever since I have been trying to invest in bottom-up connections and open spaces.
For example I made loans to 24 weeks of open space in london summer 2007 where I thought africa networks would linkin. Instead
I learnt from Lesley Williams that grassroots African networks wanted to make a fresh start and would not trust people like
me directly. Net-Net: the 2 people who are already invited to form the African Century sub-board are Lesley Williams
and Ingrid Munro. I suggest they might also choose someone from
- http://www.microloanfoundation.org/ - mainly a malawi-leading microcredit funded as a SB out of london but with links into MIT, and which has
sent delegates both to my dad's life remebrance partsy at The Economist and yunus 69th borthdyday wishes dialogue.
- The
montfort plan - a trilogy of books of a Georgetown-Spaniard whose serach began with 100 interview of microfinance
economists on ideas to move part of the world bank's headquarters to sub-saharan africa.
If 1 interests you its
mainly a case of checking that what you want to connect with african century has enough win-wins with Lesley and more widely
her connections with other hub leaders of which the two I know are: wordlwide founder Jonathan and DC mobiliser Alex
2 PUBLISHER OF CONSIDER BANGLADESH, KENYA AND ...
A pattern i want to explore is what the
net generation can learn from the first 40 years of the grassroots economics nation of Bangladesh - see consider bangladesh
attached; and what African world in particular can learn from Kenya. To advance this pattern I wish to invest in publication
of a Consider Kenya leaflet similar to the consider Bangaldesh one ; and then twin leaflets between any other african country
and kenya. Ultimately I will try to get out of teh way of such a publication series (so that it is led out of africa with
eg Leseyian values) but I do want to hit certain magic moments when these consider african century elaflets can be viralised
2A when
yunus testifies to us congress as genius economist - something (as announced in consider bangladesh) that will happen
in 2011 peobaly late spring ; 2b microcreditsummmit nov 2011 with queen sofia continuing her africa and s.hemisphere focus
on knowledge-doubling annually (dare britain join in summer 2012 as swansong to our dear queen of commonwealth.. )
2B its my belief that the best
thing out of usa for the world : when post-presidency obama turns worldwide presidential summit of entrepreneurship to
something much more grassrooted than the clinton global initiative; demonstrate kenya as a grassroots partners
laboratory to everything hi-tech partners can mobilise the same way yunus is forming sustainability world trades with bangladesh- I
am interested in connecting below the radar any networks that might empower obama towards such a future; and see the publishing
genre of Consider African nations racing to join in African Century as a catalytic mecahnism integrated by the-hub
and sub-networks and emerging partners in peoples tv
Nearly Done : I am old enough to remember
the marketing profession when the prime duty of te marketer was to throw up several concepts that entrepreneurs could test
small and see which one many different constituencies grabbed at the same time as a multi-win way of progressing the biggest
goals we could dream of realising with all tye urgency that individual lifetime missions can focus
chris
PS
two spaces where I multiply more collaboration entrepreneur projects are :
http://jamiibora.ning.com/
http://www.africanidol.tv/ (eg how can we start connecting what monica yunus artist peace corps http://www.singforhope.org/ with partnerships out of africa)
x certificate web emerging as new year present from dad's entrepreneurial revolution: http://www.futureofbbc.com/