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Saturday, September 18, 2004

thanks...
Whilst the questions raised by our correspondents are theirs and their grassroot sources to choose, we would also like to thank networks whose knowledge sharing and encoragement have cheered us, as well as update a diary of events where you can find our correspondents are participating in exploring who cares deeply about which contexts. If you need futher connection details, please email Chris MacraeLondon September 21 Simpol Collaboration Cafe 3: Subject How Open Space turns 100 people meetings into action networks: facilitator Bridget Peake; co-producer Chris Macrae; participants include Bruce Nixon, John Bunzl, Peter Lewis, Peter HuttonDave PendleEdinburgh September 21 (GUOP correspondent Irina) : 2 meetings whose guest of honor is Hilary Benn UK Minister for International Development: 1) ID Group of the Scottish Parliament @ Holyrood & 2)delegations from India, Kenya and New Zealand is organised by CBS Network of Scotland. The visitors will be: from India - HiLDA Trust (Kerala), READ Center (Karnataka & Tamil Nadu), Janarupam (Bangalore), Jagran Jan Vikas, Samiti (Rajasthan); from Kenya - Ecodev, from new Zealand - Community Employment Group.London August Simpol Collaboration Cafe 2: Subject Distributing knowledge research to best value sources across the globes multidimensional economy: facilitator Andrius K, co-producer Chris MacraeLondon June Simpol Collaboration Cafe 1: Subject- how teams can practice colective Intelligence: Facilitator- George Por- Co-Producer Chris Macrae------------------------------With special thanks to the following networks and alumniOpen SpaceGlobal Reconciliation NetworkLondon, First Collaboration Knowledge CityClubs at the Ecademy including Emancipation, & (virtual) Collaboration CafeUniversity of the StarsWater Angels of the EU, and University of Starsand all open networks, and future friends of 30000 ideas for resolving Global PovertyMedinge & Beyond Branding Networks
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Top 10 Bookmarks for leaders connecting the future
The problem with most readership booklists that we've seen is: they connect with worshiping the past, and thereby fail to give emerging clues wherever wholly new solutions and deep human systems are needed. Recently this seems to have gotten worse the more worried academics or mass media compile these lists.So a universal net & web opportunity (thanks be to google's Do No Evil for leading us out of the non-transparent era of Enron & Andersen) is to compile: the top 10 links for leaders connecting the future, and specifically how to resolve the greatest value crises eg wherever poverty rules the world. We need help in nominating a top 10 list (expect frequent chamges to this league table) and hopefully more entries soonCurrent Top 10 for Leaders Connecting Productive Human Futures#1 David Weinberger's connecting to The End of The Broadcast Nation : Student Heritage & Practitioner Trail: cluetrain, Beyond-Branding, Million People Webs, Simpol,shortcuts ... #2... Harrison Owen's Open Space archives - est. 1985 as real communities' open source antidote to head of a professional association compled ajudication "Open Space promotes good sense for future of knowledge workers & productivity's emotional intelligence needs in service economies, but it means that 95% of what we profited from teaching MBAs on industrial age management will be proved wrong. Traditional accounting and all its performance metrics & timesheets will then become systemically insufficient for transparent leadership and compound value multiplication in a networking age. It looks as if a crisis in governance will emerge as youthful cultures & popular opinion recognise that global and local flows must be openly mapped. The future of any human value exchange is measurable provided equal attention is granted to truth and fairness by all stakeholders sustainably linked together by a great trustworthy context."
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Friday, September 03, 2004

CSR by Country
Corporate Social Responsibility is a strange term. After Enron headed the league tables to its very last days, it is clear that you must always ask is a company's CSR all about image-making, or actually systemic reality-making. However, we note the emergence of an outstanding group CSR CountryBrazil AsiaChina Romania (local language)
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Thursday, September 02, 2004

which countries/leaders do & dont stand up for poverty at global summits?
Please report cases you hear aboutexample & extract, sept 04 UN: The summit also heard an appeal from Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who gave support to Lula's proposal to "increase the availability of resources to address those challenges," to "examine alternative sources to finance development"and to come up with "innovative ways" to fund the struggle for development. At the UN meetings, the leaders of France, Spain, Brazil, and Chile, appealed for new thinking on global financing. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, who co- chairs the International Labor Organization's World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, and Finland's President Tarja Halonen, called current disparities between the world's rich and poor countries politically unsustainable. "For me and for the people of Africa, the status quo is not an option," he said. Mkapa and Halonen hosted a separate, special event on "A Fair Globalization: Implementing the Millennium Declaration." The Poverty Declaration committed governments to take "resolute and urgent actions" to ensure the 2015 goals are met, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where the need is greatest. "The greatest scandal is not that hunger exists, but that it persists even when we have the means to eliminate it," the declaration says. "It is time to take action. Hunger cannot wait." The U.S. delegation refused to support the declaration. 'The White House criticizes Lula's proposal against hunger,' read a banner front page headline in Brazil's influential O'Estado de Sao Paulo September 21. The headline on the Sydney Morning Herald read: 'Missing signature mars launch of war on hunger." The decision of most of the major U.S. media to not relay to the public the thinking and action of most of the rest of the world and the stance taken at the summit by the Administration doesn't do much for its reputation.
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Biggest 10 Questions to ask of the world today?
Updating as we recieve nominations...YES, these are rude first cut ideas for you to polish if you feel the will....1 Will someone help us get America & Russia to make up as friends at the top level so that the Russian people can get on as having access to trade and knowledge. The Russians and all their old empire are the most sincerely educated people not to be openly welcomed in the rest of the world's trading patterns. How can the world's sustainability afford not to include all these productive agents? People who might help investigate this story are:near the top of Googlelinked by various Mikael Gorbachev Think tanksin the vicinity of Geoger Soros?out of such wonderful wisdom centres as Budapest (without which we wouldnt have computers today and our understanding of human systems would be quantums poorer) (tell us whom else)Open source brand architecture/chartering expert networks from Ukraine to Russia2 Will Women's lib get real for global poverty? Wherever poverty lurks or societies are closed; it's always women and babies who are most abused first- and yet even in the most developed nations, women do not have an equal sense-making impact on policy ( time to rename a DC building White & Black House and see half of its people being women but omnes who have travelled to every coordinate of the globe and not be protected in Princetons or Soldiers Fields). Lynne (quarter century servant leader of www.thp.org) Twist for President 2008 please. Let's see all big countries: end this pretence that the top of the Right & Left reflect any major differences and have tranparent parties for all our people's.Good news references on women: over 1 million now elected to India's local governments3 What's the highest return investment that can be made in poverty? Your views welcome, example:-
1 Investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.-Lawrence Summers, then Vice-President of the World Bank, speaking before Pakistan Society of Development Economists