Open space world people are, if I understand it correctly, passionate about innovation especially opening up structural (networking, deep or inter-local) ones where conflicts need overcoming before humanity can wholly connect around the innovation's benefits in the most cut off and needy space/communities.
Ever since I foresaw there would be an internet http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com , I have been watching how we are connecting the emergence of commons inventions for humanity. My view is we are getting worse and worse at this globally compared with how open the world needs to be for the 2 billion at the bootom of the pyramid. Of coure, I am delighted to see you link us to where I am mistaken. Equally, I am going to volley a few examples of potentially great initiatives which I feel are not going to sustain the connection waves they could. The conflict mission impossible, should you wish to accept it, is to suggest how these cases can be nudged into sustaining connections ratrher than stopping at their first accomplishment. Case 1 World Challenge Sponsored by BBC, Newsweek, and Shell and other world class sponsors. Here's where it's at as far as I can see- in fact as far as I can question one of the people who did a lot of its researcher groundwork. What happens next is an open question - do the original powers that be have a connecting move? if not does our open space network with its connections with innovations and desperate needs in 70 countries? Dear Juhi I see that the World Challenge sponsored primarily by BBC, Newsweek and Shell that you worked on as a researcher has come up with a winner Coconets in Philippines.http://www.theworldchallenge.co.uk/finalists4.html I am keen to connect understanding of wider and more enduring motivations of those who developed this competition stage regarding such issues as: *sharing all commons understanding that can wave out from the winning projects *keeping open links going between all the contributor subnetworks that reported candiadte projects in *what the media does next in terms of keeping breakthroughs for humanity in the worldwide public spotlight and locally everywhere this could connect people's desires for a better world at the bottom of the pyramid where billions of beings have the most desperate needs *drawing up lessons on how social innovations require different sustenance that product launches, often being in conflict with old powers that were profiting from the lack of commons/community in some missing sense If you know of others who are asking similar questions, please circulate chris macrae, [email protected] http://worldfirsts.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.easynetdial.co.uk * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
