Hi. I am iteratively playing with an idea, and I hope you don't mind me asking whether you have any ideas on co-cultivating it
I mix in a junior way with a few experts who are passionate about transparency, but like big neighbouring words like Open it covers a spectrum of human meanings which we don't always agree on simply enough so that teachers of 12 year olds would understand this is one of the biggest words in the democracy of work, play and learning A simple meaning I hope is if the world was 100% organisationally transparent one, then every human being would be facilitated to make the most of their unique work and learning talents, access at the right time to meeting the right people, communities of interests , networks to maximise that most valuable and constrained personal capital- our lifetime. On such a transparency map: I guess the two most miraculous tools I'm aware of that people can work with are open space and email's way into virtual connections (if in doubt, see one European Union view of 12th grade of email at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/community/zones/sig/kmei.html ) If you let me jump from this basic definition, what I want to do as one parallel project of 2004 is help start TRANSPARENCY REGISTERS that basically have 3 columns: 1 Nomination of a great Transparency experiment 2 The conflict barriers its trying to warp through 3 Observatory: People who have communally made the nomination who also take observer responsibility to report back whether it's still on track or lost its way in warp space To take a specific example relevant to Open Space community's recent discussions: 1 Nomination of www.deanforamerica.com <http://www.deanforamerica.com/> 2.1 Finance campaign for president by people not big organisations' interests 2.2 Return to Truman view of how a superpower behaves trustworthily globally 3 ?? The idea of setting up Transparency registers -if we can format them openly - is that they can go global and local, any space, any time. Almost any open community/network/blog-newsletter could post one taking some of the most general big ones and adding on some of its most special ones. Perhaps the format is almost a way of summarising the big reason that particular Open Spaces are run- if so there would be lots of ways that I could explain open space to transparency people and vice versa starting with when I have a chat with Don Tapscott and others meeting at Hamilton's World Congress on Human and Intellectual Capital in January, where I am one of about 20 speakers discussing how to change transparency of corporate governance http://worldcongress.mcmaster.ca/whatsnew.htm Sincerely Chris Macrae, [email protected], www.valuetrue.com <http://www.valuetrue.com/> , London & DC PS I should declare a vested interest , as a mathematician I am one of 3 co-authors of a book to be published by John Wiley summer 2004 called something like THE MAP - of trust flow, transparent people relationships and corporate governance of future value. A wee David & Goliath story: unfortunately we are going to be beaten to the bookstalls by the opposite Balanced Scorecard Harvard camp of Kaplan and Norton (Strategy Mapping) who are trying to connect strategy, map and human capital in what I expect will be the opposite to my human meaning of transparency. THE MAP seeks to present in the same facilitation kit a way of mapping back any big 50 global conflict and the way of mapping forward whether any particular global 1000 organisation is going to destroy another 10 billion dollars over the next 5 years by eroding what its biggest human deign was supposed to do. (Ask me at [email protected] for our draft pamphlet on 10 billion dollar audit if you want to see how our maths open sources). Finally, The MAP links its minimum maths to an open register calling for every human facilitation method, and indexing which of 10 value multiplying coordinates that method is known to systemically connect together, in contrast with the great separatist "need to know" professions of our recent past. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
