can we vote for meeting formats compounding most sustainability of the world
futurehistorian.tv
conversational log indicates; how would you make the start of the
conversation more fun? and do you have other nominations for the league
table; Londoners are also beginning to evolve a format where 1000
people meet to train each other around a shared dvd - a bit like Al
Gore's training of the 1000 in Inconvenient Truth but with an open
space menu of about 30 interconnecting methods, projects and crises
debates for the year ahead; once we've tested it our goal is to
challenge any city to just do it http://thecooperation.tv
INDEX
MICROCREDITSUMMIT- Grameen OPen Franchise by Yunus
CLINTONGLOBALINITIATIVE - 7 billion dollar fund raiser at its 2nd
annual meeting and one where the funders get cheered by those with
deepest grassroots projects
TED.COM how Califorina awards the 3 most innovative with a wish that
the whole state tries to help make reality
special mention : World Social Forum - Africa
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At http://sustainabilityclub.com we focus on converging nominations for
those conference formats that can compound most value multipliers for
world citizens - for example our current top 3 in no particular order
are
<a href="http://grameen.tv">*microcreditsummit</a> (the 2000 people
annual gathering that co-created the 7 year goal just ended of taking
100 million families sustainably out of poverty using microcredit and
Yunus-style open franchise methods, *ClintonGlobalInitiative whose 2006
transcripts I try and tidy up at
http://changeworld.net/_wsn/page5.html,
*ted.com without which Larry Brilliant would not be google.org's most
interconnecting networker;
we also give special recognition to the world social forum - some of
regard this as the catalyst without which social and micro
entrepreneurship would not have taken off; others believe that getting
100000 people to meet in Africa is an amazing achievement for January
2007 and the world; the question is how to help spread the invitation
which is as deep human as could be
http://futurehistorian.tv/_wsn/page8.html
I would caution that its a bad idea to disconnect the meeting with the
continuous events that feed it. Like seeing the top of the iceberg not
its base
Most of these events need citizen cafes constantly preparing the next
one or actioning projects and commitments from the last one; and where
smart also connecting across the meetings formats at every level : top
people by which I mean those with the budgets; grounded people eg
social or micro entrepreneurs; media, or others who journalise or stage
connections by and for humanity- for example one of the most exciting
people in this 3rd group I have ever come across uses detailed
knowledge of carnivals in the Bahamas to encourage everyone as a
participant,in nurturing world citizens http://worldcitizen.tv from a
dream into a reality in time
URGENCY
in time? to save all our children's from loss of sustainability-
something that 23 years ago when we first shared views on the
entrepreneurila revolution of death of distance networking generation
was very likely to be achievable but which today has compounded as many
risks of utterly unacceptable magnitude http://changeworld.net
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