Some Network Research Priorities for 2007

Sometimes in listening to what networks world citizens value most we make the mistake of forgetting that there are network structures ready to be connected into the new world of integrating every local society globally and sustainably

1 Historically The Biggest 3 in the North and West Hemispheres we have not fully interacted with : RSA , Quakers, Rotary. Here is one way we will set amends by offering them free ads in the crisis learning travel guide that London World Citizens are openly publishing 2007 quarter 1
I am also reminded that we are not yet connecting collaboratively enough either with what Rotary International knows and does; nor with Quakers nor with www.rsa.org.uk. One way to do this Sofia is phone them up and offer them a free half page ad in the crisis learning brochure provided its on the deepest question about childrens movements that their organisations will be asking over the next 5 years. Again, tell me which of those 3 organisations you are happy to contact and I will do the others. Any luck with Virgin Unite yet on the parallel question and their connections with CIDA , Mandela, http://herstory.tv (Rebel Billionnaire Apprentice Sara Blakely) and entrepreneurship in S. Africa.

It would be really excellent if London chapters of Yunus could meet with these 3 networks (Rotary, Quakers, RSA) and include education as one of the collaboration topics to debate first. In effect these are 3 of the oldest open space or cafe networks the North West hemispheres have ever nurtured. In this age of fallibility and until or unless the BBC discovers the world service model of being the questioning voice of the peoples not top-down politicians: Open Society, Deep Democracy, Cultural Co-creativity, peace, commonwealth models of trade, Satyagraha and cross-cultural freedom of speech in the community lives or dies with these three network's communal networking structures more than many people will ever know. http://gravity200.blogspot.com

2 Another thing we forget is that there are at least 3 huge flows around which communal life everywhere connects: childrens schools, hospitals and rivers. If these are 3 places that people renew community whenever they make use of their spaces, then it is well worthwhile exploring to see where these constitutional links have seeded exciting meeting formats. On education we are committed to understanding much more fully the renewal potential of Oxbridge, the meetings already invented by the world's largest school, and the alumni being attracted to the first free university ever collaborated around. We are looking g for similar collaboration scoops that the peoples world class wellbeing epicentres and water's greatest natural infrastructures linkin

3 We also invite you to join maclinks in 2 ways 1 2 -we believe most family trees have amazing international peace networks embedded in them, and that yet again google is ahead of all other electronic tools in busting spam so that a mixture of egroups and your personal inbox can make the world citizen most of your interactions rather than the least (this being the sustainability destruction goal of spammers and other commercial interests set on destroying the intern et as the peoples freedom multipliers)

4 There are also jam spaces (peoples world competitions) coming to maturity such as changemakers and as transparency mapmakers and guidemakers we search relentlessly for world citizen meeting formats and the city hubs they leave behind as permanet open spaces where citizens can drop in whenever the lifelong learning curve is most in need of communal reconnecting

5 Finally we believe people are crying out for collaboration entrepreneur mentoring spaces 1 2 3 as well as roundtables where the defining future history1 2 3 scenarios of human sustainability wil be played out, and our species will either win-win-win or meltdown. Watch out for the new colaboration brand spaces of meta-social networking such as the 5 year program Passports to Sustainability and the most collaborative brand space for the future of children UniversityofStars