200 Gravity networks collaborating for humanity

2007-10-13T13:43:00.000-07:00

Dr Yunus of Grameen and microcredit and Nobel peace 2006 is setting cities and citiens around the world an interesting challenge. If he is passing through your city would you be able to find 1000 people who all wanted to collaborate with each other as well as him in empowering a good global world instead of the bad one currently compoundingSynonyms for good are win-win-win, sustainable, empowering every community up, one where hi-trust people transparently win over low-trustSo 2 questions:if Yunus was passing through Africa cities, which do you think would produce the most collaborative impactsif you are a twin national

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2516276605 - eg living in a rich city but with family roots back in Africa - how ready is your big rich city to represent Africa interests when Yunus hosts his Forum 1000 there.My friends are particularly working on London and New York as 2 test cities; partly because a London University student spent the summer interning in Dhaka on this project. One intercity collaboration idea is collaboration cafe - see those we have already hosted and tell us at info@worldcitizen.tv if you want to replay one in your city or virtually http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page4.html

Another collaboration idea is can we produce a good global idea to heroes, their projects and networks for humanity. Why do people all over the world know the top 10 sporstmen for 50 different sports but not top 10s for different vital issues of human sustainability? http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5475184122

http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page2.html

But the best truth about collaboration knowledge cities http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bknowledge+%2Bcollaboration+%2Bcity&btnG=Google+Search in the 5 years that I have been searching the peoples and communities that weave them is that if any city does a great job in turning round a beter Global with Yunus we can all learn from what it did and work out how to invite the 1000 most relevant citizens when Yunus passes your way. http://grameen.tv/

2007-01-01T05:27:00.000-08:00

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

2005-12-25T11:04:00.000-08:00

Due to a google meltdown of this and 100 co-eedited blogs on 9 Dec 2005, we have decided to continue this blog's mission primarily within project30000

This section is under reconstruction after a google meltdown on 9 Dec 2005, that impacted over 100 blogs of our co-editors

email wcbn007@easynet.co.u if you need more detail than currently posted or if you have a nomination of a network we should consider featuring in gravity 200

G1 Meta-networks
G1.1 Global Reconciliation Network The people's ethical professions led by medical experts and youth, connecting over 200 Global Charities, Nobel peace Laureates and other powers for good. If you have a connection that is directly relevant for GRN to colaborate on, we will relay your mail through to GRN's founder in Australia. We've attended 2 of the alst 4 annual get-togethers (Delhi 2004, London 2003). Next is Palestine-Israel 2006; most recent Sarajevo 2005

G1.2A Macro Conflict Resolution -largest practitioners network - Open Space (facilitators in 70 countries)
G1.2B Conflict Resolution - Deepest Facilitators network - Deep Democracy
G1.2C Micro Conflict Resolution -alumni networks of Gandhi, Be The Change
G1.2D S.Africa avpinternational

G2 Societal & Corporate Change
G2.1 Tomorrows Global Company
G2.2 Royal Society of Arts ... cafes
G2.3 Preneurial Revolution Nets - eg Organsiational Democracy in DC specialises in Intrapreneur (service economy cases)

G3 The People's...
G3.1 The People's Politics -SIMPOL
G3.2 Youth world's - takingitglobal & GloYo
G3.3 The Women's
G3.4 Sothern Hubs - Catcomm
G3.5 GivingGlobal

G4 Microfinance - see our blog catalogue

----------------practice nets partially founded by your co-editors
G5.1 Blog Media - Club of City
G5.2 Branding Chartered - for organisation-wide reality and goodwill multiplied
G5.3 valuetrue: Valuation and goverance of transparency, sustainability exponetials, and service economy trust-flows
G5.4 Future History Storytelling & Mapping since 1984- DoD syndicated monthly
G5.5 Sustainability Investment Net - aSIN
G5.6 People for Public Broadcasting

Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, ClubofCity Founding co-editor

2005-05-29T15:08:00.000-07:00

Pioneers is a fascinating network. In any city that it has already taken roots its definitely worth particpating and while its target is for 20-30 year olds, I have not experienced rejection of anyine who is young in heart and pioneering in aims of connecting a more human world

What's fascintaing about the pioneers is that their practice origins seem to been co-founded in several places including Brazil, South Africa and Sweden; and at the same time some of its cecomdary branches like London appear as lively as the original spaces

Its worth understanding its 5 founder origins though they take pains to have quite a back-seat in how the community organises http://pioneersofchange.net/aboutus/peoplebehind/founders

Hitorically there has been no charge to join each city's list-serve Barcelona Boston Brazil Cape Town Denmark Egypt Germany Johannesburg London The Netherlands Stockholm Toronto Vancouver

I note that tehre are now other emerging virtual communities and to be a full member a suggested contribution of 10 dollars or up is made http://pioneersofchange.net/aboutus/peoplebehind/

These links to affiliated ventures look interesting - would love to hear of some user reviews - chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Pioneering Ventures
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In this section we show you the stories of Entrepreneurial Ventures - new projects and organizations - and Intrepreneurial Ventures - Change within Existing organizations. The idea is to profile and promote examples of initiatives (past and present) started by Pioneers in a Pioneering spirit. We hope that the section will inspire others and bring energy to the initiatives themselves!
Entrepreneural Ventures
Adaptive Edge is a consulting firm devoted to helping organizations across sectors develop better strategic foresight, innovation capabilities, and a longer view of the contextual change. Adaptive Edge is set up and lead by Nicole-Anne Boyer.
Aina Arts is a not-for-profit organization whose aim is to provide the benefits of an arts education by promoting the use of local art forms, materials and methods with children in marginalized communities globally.
Bigger Picture is a consulting company based in Scandinavia. We provide visual learning and dialogue tools and consulting services enabling ongoing sustainable organizational and personal change.
Centre for Human Ecology is a Scotland-based organisation carrying out action, research and education for personal development, ecological sustainability and social justice.
The Charter for Change was established by a small group of students, headed by Waive O. Benjamin in Ebonyi state University of Nigeria. They saw the need to foster and improve educational opportunities, career development and life skills for at-risk youths through focused programs and initiatives.
With the Escape Club Satu Kreula and Alok Singh wanted to help people who were uninspired in their work to ‘escape’ into fulfilling and meaningful work. Satu now runs her own workshop series under the name kickstartyourcareerchange.
The Diversity Caravan is a project to connect the local to the global by documenting how diversity improved several communities in South Africa and making these practices visible for the rest of the world through the media.
Fathet Kheir is an innovative development initiative in Egypt whereby the majority of its staff is made up of volunteers. It aims to create a successful and replicable development model to reduce poverty by empowering a community through the complementary values of volunteerism and development.
Hand in Hand Arts offers and creates artshops and community art happenings with and for people of all ages. It is about creating space for learning from each other and sharing ideas, for that is when real change can arise.
The Living Peace Foundation exists to empower youth in becoming catalysts of peace within international conflict zones by engaging youth in intensive online and face-to-face reflective-based education, evoking a unity-based awareness within the individual, and empowering youth with the knowledge and structure in taking sufficient action to create sustainable and lasting peace.
Mission Des Jeunes is a non governmental association established in 1999. MDJ favors cultural exchanges through international workshops -a blend of volunteers from all over the world gathered in a specific location to work and to exchange ideas and cultures.
Mutiny Arts is a not-for-profit mixed media arts organisation. They aim to encourage and educate people from varying backgrounds in audio-visual media productions and mixed media projects while addressing international and local issues.
Sea Change Consultancy works from the principle that each individual or organisation possesses the power to create positive change, and that one can faciliate this through creative means. It offers Mediation, Facilitation and Coaching and is run by Odilia Gartner
The Shire in Canada is a protected ecological learning community, leadership training ground and venue for the common good. The Shire is an exploration into the best of human potential and an example of how self-reliant living could be.
SolarGen is a community of Professionals and Academics working together to develop an effective and affordable way to provide solar power in settlements that currently have no electricity. The principle of the design is to use readily available and low cost materials to build a system that can be constructed without any overly complicated manufacturing processes.
Sweet Mother Tour The Sweet Mother Tour (SMT) is a project launched by a group of artists and activists in Boston, MA with roots in Ghana, the US, and the Caribbean. The founders of the SMT recognize that no society can develop without an understanding of its own worth and that cultural empowerment is a crucial ingredient in the successful political and economic development of any society.
Waterlution engages individuals, organizations and communities in exploring issues facing our local and global water supply with the goal of developing solutions that respect our water and ecosystem for many generations to come. Waterlution’s purpose is to inspire pattern-making and pattern-breaking change towards a healthy and sustainable relationship with water
World YES Forum has as its vision to set the basis for establishing an international training center for Education for Sustainable Development at ETH Zurich and to build up a global network of sustainability leaders: young academics who actively work to foster the viable development of our society.
Intrapreneural Ventures
When Christel Scholten joined ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam in 2001, she felt a strong disconnect between her values and purpose and those of the financial/corporate sector. She joined with the intent to influence the company to integrate the "triple bottom line" or social, environmental and economic dimensions into the organisation by working from within the system.
Generon represents a new breed of international consulting firm—one that is motivated by a desire to create a more equitable, non-violent, and sustainable world. Pioneer Zaid Hassan is part of it.
ImagiNation aims to generate thought-leadership and action on how to build broad prosperity in South Africa. It forms part of the Dialogue-Circle, a series of programmes, at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (Johannesburg), within which emerging and senior leadership in business, government and civil society interact to build a better national future.
Young Professionals Forum is a series of learning events with the purpose of providing a place where new professional employees (23-27 years) can engage with each other, speakers and facilitators to build proactive young leadership with an awareness of societal and organisational issues

AB

2004-12-31T22:07:00.000-08:00

AB listings:
headed by http://www.ashoka.org ; unusual network -local members elect each other to the high standards of being one of the 2000 deepest social experiments to be found ; fascinating to tour ashoka's web of fellows in a particular poor country and get an overview of development priorities; if you are not a lifelong social entrepreneur in a poor country, ashoka is expanding opportunities to collaborate such as:

volunteer with various worldwide service duties
enter a virtual competition at http://www.changemakers.net to see how close you get to ashoka's grade of social entrepreneur
learn how to teach social entrepreneurship at http://universitynetwork.org
young people are often welcomed as apprentices by local social entrepreneurs

This video of ashoka leader Bill Drayton speaking at google.org is probably the best introduction you can click to; at http://humanityrising.blogspot.com we have listed samplers of 16 dvds that ashoka has made of those socila entrepreneurs who have achieved most worldwide scale: Yunus, Abed, Drayton, Eigen, Grajew, Tepper Marlin. Full sets of the dvds can be bought at http://www.dvd.ashoka.org Ashoka is the subject of David Bornstein's journey book : How to Change the World

We log up many more stories of social entrepereneurs at http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com http://grameen.tv http://worldcitizen.tv http://er100.blogspot.com

2004-12-30T20:43:00.000-08:00

AIESEC, the world's largest student organization, is the international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential so as to have a positive impact on society. In addition to providing over 5,000 leadership positions and delivering over 350 conferences , AIESEC also runs an exchange program that enables over 3,500 students and recent graduates the opportunity to live and work in another country.Oddly this network retains more of the dna of what Europe intended to harmonise across nations than the European Union today. Doubtless the experience varies by country and even citizen branch. But for example, in many American cities , Aiesec is seen as opening an opportunity to experience true multicultural understanding abroad that many othewr American institutions have somehow lost, and none of which wave so simply through youthful peer-to-peer identification with each other's challenges

2004-12-29T20:46:00.000-08:00

BRAC - largest world citizen organisation

2004-12-28T21:21:00.000-08:00

Africa Progress Panel summer 2006 took up the mantle of Make Poverty History and Africa Commission 2005. This time it has a lot more sustainabilty bite. Technical expert Peter Eigen of Transparency International. Funder Bill Gates Foundation. Channel : Kofi Annan, & Global Compact. Media spokesperson Geldof. Judge the G8 permissions : Tony Blair. Early African pilot - president Nigeria.

2004-11-30T20:57:00.000-08:00

Clinton Global Initiative

2004-11-29T21:00:00.000-08:00

Civicus

2004-11-28T21:01:00.000-08:00

CharlieRose

2004-10-30T20:52:00.000-07:00

Ethical Global Initiative

2004-09-30T21:27:00.000-07:00

Global Reconciliation Network
includes 2003 annual Congress Collapsing World
2004 annual congress noted at ClubofDelhi
2005 congress in sarajevo
Youth wing Gloyo 1

2004-09-30T21:04:00.000-07:00

Gandhi Networks

You would think that with 007 being the centenary celebration year of Gandhi's Satyagraha, that this might be a productive time to search alerts to satyagraha as a way of mapping which alumni networks of gandhi love his deeepst systemic and collaboration networking contribution

2004-09-30T20:48:00.000-07:00

Grameen
microcreditsummit

2004-08-30T22:26:00.000-07:00

2004-07-30T22:28:00.000-07:00

mn

2004-06-30T20:24:00.000-07:00

microcreditsummit is the annual network meeting format of grameen; we are intrested in discussing how microsummit formats translate for other social entreprenurial compasses

muhammadyunus.org is a web that is innovating the idea of citizens fan clubs in this case of Yunus and grameen; one of the modes for popularising Yunus' projects is thegreenchildren.org whose pop songs are promting work in microcredit , health (eyecare hospitals) and education

Net Impact is a network of more than 10,000 new generation leaders committed to using the power of business to improve the world.

Its well worth finding out whether your city has a branch; and my experience for example of activities in London and DC is that activities can be quite different. In some ways its easier to network within netimpact if you are at or an alumni of a university that has a netimpact chapter.

It has an annual meeting geared to connecting a new wave of university students whose alumni it builds out from, effectively providing a syllabus or elarning network that business schools themselves tend to ignore

2004-05-30T21:52:00.000-07:00

oxbridge.tv

help us open up connections with possibly the greatest alumni crossroads of them all

eg Rhodes scholars who passed through

Mandela-Rhodes as a 21st C family branch

2004-05-30T21:43:00.000-07:00

omidyar.net huge virtual community concerned with microfinance and grassroots up projects but very poorly designed in terms of cataloguing what projects its members have helped found or gravitating communal conversations beyond very small threads of people

sponsored by omidyar foundation, billionnaire founders of ebay

Pugwash

2004-05-30T20:55:00.000-07:00

Pugwash

2004-03-31T21:26:00.000-08:00

ST

SIMPOL - Simultaneous Policy
One of those real live networks on a steady exponential connecting the people's politics around national politicians who agree world agendas never get prioritised in national elections, peoples everywhere, local activist groups wherever they are working on the contextual impacts of a global crisis (eg extreme poverty). Some spaces where simpol resources can be discusses or co-edited: 1, 2

Reasons you might be interested:
We know its founder John Bunzl very well, and SIMPOL has evolved over nearly a decade and also one of and Club of City's longest running collaboration cafes (every Wednesday 11.aom Friends House opposite Euston station for over 6 years now)

If you see national politicians deserting people for Big Business, SIMPOL provides a 2nd open party without competing on national agendasSimpol's simultaneous design, is the number 1 pattern rule for turning non-transparenct complexity back to simplicity

It connects 3 groups no other network does, and can collaborate with every NGO of MakePovertyHistory and more:
-National MPs
-Local action groups working on a worldwide agenda
-All people who want to vote for a worldwide sustainability concern, and not just what gets national politicians elected

Here is the news release from Simpol, the day Blair was returned to his 3rd period in power:PRESS RELEASE: 6th May 2005[Please forward to your networks. In case this message should be unwelcome, please reply to this message requesting to be unsubscribed.]Simultaneous Policy Achieves Cross-party Representation in UK ParliamentThe Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign, aimed at addressing global problems such as climate change, unfair trade and unsustainability, achieved cross-party support in Parliament following yesterday's general election. Of the many candidates across 33 constituencies who signed a pledge to implement SP alongside other governments, 10 have been elected. These are from Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and Plaid Cymru parties. Green Party, Party of Cornwall and UK Independence Party candidates also signed the SP pledge (see http://www.simpol.org.uk for full list).The Simultaneous Policy is a package of measures being developed by campaign supporters around the world, known as SP Adopters, and is to be implemented only when all, or sufficient, governments have pledged to do so. Simultaneous transnational implementation removes the fear governments have of becoming uncompetitive and losing investment and jobs if they act alone.MPs are encouraged to support SP on its merits, but there is also an electoral reason for doing so. Adopters undertake to vote at elections for any candidate, within reason, who has signed the pledge to implement SP alongside other governments, or to encourage their preferred party to support SP. It is free to become an Adopter.In Australia where the SP campaign began only recently, 59 candidates signed the pledge during the election last year, bringing support for SP into the senate. East Timor’s Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner, José Ramos-Horta, has also given his support. The campaign is coordinated by the International Simultaneous Policy Organisations (ISPO) and has Adopters in many countries who are in the process of forming national and local groups.Mike Brady, Local Group Network Coordinator for Simpol-UK, formed in March 2004, said: “The Simultaneous Policy is limited to those issues where governments are hampered from taking unilateral action because of the real fear of becoming uncompetitive and losing investment and jobs. These policies fall largely outside the scope of political parties which is why we haven’t formed a new one, but are instead working for cross-party support for SP. SP is not an alternative to other campaigns, but an innovative parallel strategy.”The campaign arises from the 2001 book The Simultaneous Policy, by John Bunzl, founder and trustee of ISPO. Adopters are holding policy fora to discuss and develop possible policies for inclusion in SP on topics including climate change, trade, corporate power and others.

To adopt SP, please go to http://www.simpol.org/dossiers/dossier-UK/html-UK/how_do_i_adopt_sp-UK.html

For further information visit www.simpol.org (global site)and/or www.simpol.org.uk (UK site) Or contact Mike Brady on 07986 736179Simpol-UK 27 London Road, Bromley, BR1 1DF, UKTel. +44 (0)20-8464 4141 Fax. +44 (0)20-8460 2035 Email. info@simpol.org
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Servas
Servas: Though I have never tried, Servas comes highly recommended to me. It was born 60? years ago as a branch of the quakers, enabling people to be guests and guides to others who have matched interestes in peacemaking and are travelling through. A very deep exchnage scheme and quick way to understand new culture's deepest meanings

2004-03-29T21:38:00.000-08:00

Takingitglobal.org - arguably the most influential online youth community

- we welcome your alternative votes info@worldcitizen.tv subject online youth communities

2004-02-28T21:46:00.000-08:00

ubuntu -world forum of civil society networks

2004-01-30T21:41:00.000-08:00

zaadz.com as nicely designed as any social virtual community