Future of BBC by People for Public Broadcasting

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Mass Media's Truth Tipping Point

Can Broadcast TV Support Human Sustainability?

So far every truth and sustainability crisis has been amplified by mass media. http://futureofbbc.blogspot.com Its a future shock to every Brit we have never debated sustainability's future openly - that the BBC as world's largest public broadcaster has been so little help compared with this 25 year script http://normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687

Latest resources : top 100 videos on sustainability and human empowerment http://www.valuetrue.com/home/community.cfmtravel guides to the the topping point crises of learning being played out by and for children all over the world http://www.valuetrue.com/home/gallery.cfmLatest thread : how does your personal brand charter vis a vis world citizen goals you may wish to network for sustainability http://passports.jp http://erworld.tv http://ecomap.tv http://apps.facebook.com/causes/view_cause/6719?recruiter_id=2212610Can facebookers help us find the number 1 cause connecting grassoroots fire and empowerment projectshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJUBpg2xcf4April 25 Amerucan Idol Presents Truth of Africa Chils story to 32 million American Youth. Elen G who hosted the Oscars hosts an Idol's night of stars for Africa. Bono predicts the world of Africa and America will collide. This time no sustainable American can afford for him not to be right. Discuss! Linkin! Tell us how to edit http://africanidol.tv http://kibera.tv

Ironically many of the BBC's veteran experts have been too nice (eg senior n ture correspondent David Attenborough, whose brother Richard Attenborough is the English speaking's world's chief correspondent for Gandhi's Satyagraha - how gorefully (exponentially http://changeworld.net ) compound truth determines human empowerment and hi-trust mapping of where elades are communally taking us let alone sustainability of next and net gens ) about the duty not to exploit influence in a way that would not consciously occur to vets at commercial tv worldwide.

Sir David Attenborough's reasoning for only coming out to bat for global warming crisis last year was that he felt he had too much influence to debate this until he was beyond all reasonable doubt. Trouble is if we wait on globalisation crises until we have exponentially compounded such risk, we will all be too late to reverse human sustainability. Meanwhile April 25 is in all likelihood the last tipping point on whether American broadcast tv will find truth in time. When will your country's mass media tipping point happen and how can we as world citizens or journalists for humanity connect every wave for truth? http://crisismedia.tv http://worldclassbrands.tv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CToYjQFRxXE

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Which will be the meetings with the most impact for humanity in 2007? - one of the most critical years of the decade of truth our future historians, economists, entrepreneurs and internationalists forecast 2005-2015 would need to be if the networking revolution is to integrate a sustainable globalisation rather than one that terminates future generations?
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

Our FutureHistory affiliates wish Davos' World Economic Forum (WEF) well.
http://futurehistorian.tv http://futurehistory.jp
Indeed in its early days before it was famous , my dad helped out as a speaker more than once. However, absent of reformation, it has to be reviewed as potentially slipping out of relevance compared with meetings that did not even exist when the millennium began.

First there's the league of inspirational intiative meetings such as
Clinton Global , http://changeworld.net/_wsn/page5.html
microcreditsummit, http://microsummit.tv http://thegreenchildren.com
ted.com http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page3.html
whose world citizen research rankings we maintain here http://sustainabilityclub.com/_wsn/page4.html

Second, this year it appears have become subject to a triple whammy of coincident events. Afirca's first ever world social forum; and India taking the lead with a sustaianbility forum that has bagged that most intriguing duo of climate 007: Nicholas Stern and Gordon Brown. Against which WEF's Lord Browne of BP and Blair look more like history's wisdom than the searching future's - unless this pairing is going to stand up and offer a converted view than any of they have previously mailed us.

Third unlike recent years when a key theme had been clarified and new data collected, and moreover a key speaker from another side of the world made extraordinary challenging contributions, WEF's pre-conference web this year sent me to sleep when I started reading the PCW 90-page knowledge concierge document (in transparency I must admit to potential bias: when I was employed by what became PCW in the early 1990s it was both the most boring and least entreprenurial career move on my vitae)

Nobody will be more delighted than us if WEF pulls a rabbit out of the magiician's tophat. Klaus is an a-list good sort, and whilst media coverage of economics was a subject entrepreneurially concerned with transparently investigating progress for all humanity WEF was the most exciting way to begin every New Year (apart from what each family chose to celebrate on January 1) We will be watching the WEF website http://www.weforum.org which is potentially a hidden jewel as a platform compared with all other meeting formats

Meanwhile, we've been frantically busy trying to sign up a quorum of world citizen future reporters from the World Social Forum in Kenya. What we don't care about is getting the scoops from the next 7 days. what we do care about is identifying the lasting comon actions troughout 2007 and how they connect with other extraordinary events being celebrated later in 007 both:
in Africa such as http://www.ted.com/tedglobal2007/
in the 5 years Passports to Sustainability http://passports.jp being launched as a round the world countdown to London's Olympic year with the goal of persuading the BBC that sustain ability's league heroes demand every bit as much hourly programming of the leading public broadcaster and world service channel as sports. After all's said and done, if we play any more inconvenient games with Truth on climate or the jigsaws of peace there will be no sports for future generations

Should you wish to keep linked in to the very occasional future events preview our networks will be issuing, please go and register at http://groups.google.com/group/maclink/topics?lnk=li&hl=en

Chris Macrae, info@worldcitizen.tv

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This week Jancis Roberston broadcast on public sector US tv (Charlie Rose) said :the British people will not fall for a media trickster like Tony Blair again. We think of him with that feeling of betrayal of a lover who cheats on you. It seems that he was driven mainly or solely by a vain attempt to make his mark on history. And yes because of that he became President Bush's poodle compounding tragic consequences for peoples and cultures around the world .So where was the BBC?

Haven't the British people in my life-time invested billions in public sector tv to openly question and represent all views not to be controlled by media tricksters and commercial image makers? The BBC was near to being the first to find out that the chances of there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were very low, but then Blair ordered it to be silent like a naughty child sent to see the headmaster. Nor did the BBC need to muzzle its main correspondents of nature until we got to the stage the Stern report of HM Treasury now confesses that 1% of GDP will be need to be wholly invested in new ways if climate crises are not to lose 20% of GDP.

In the spring of 2005, I remember one of the greatest tragic-farces I have ever attended as a media expert. There was I representing one of the 300+ charities of Make Poverty History. I objected to being told that the 20 second advertisement on Make Poverty History would need a hundred thousand of media spend out of charities' coffers on commercial TV. Partly because the amount of awareness you get with that amount of money is negligible. But mainly because why wouldn’t the BBC carry that humanitarian message - one child dying every seconds you click you finger - for free. Isn't world service freedom of speech something we the British people invested in. I was told to shut up. Particularly because the Make Poverty History web was being designed on the cheap by the Red Nose Day team who are the BBC's one and only charity that gets lots of air time. From that second on I realised that the traditional Western NGO is part of the problem. It no longer questions the grassroots crisis but in its own currying of favours with philanthropists dares not ask politicians the questions that would reveal the deepest of transparency crises.

It is way beyond time that the British people took back the BBC from politicians. The number 1 job of public sector broadcasting is to mentor peoples and childrens to be media literate so that we are not led by poodles. The aunty of all media crises is at the moment the BBC needs mentoring in how to do that job. Worse I know for a fact that in the early nineties the same global accountants that knew nothing about how wealth and health compounds went in and chained the BBC to reallocating its spends away from smart tv programming towards commercial trivia. The BBC no longer has a public sector dna and sustainability goals that differentiate it from the dumbing down culture that excessive commercial tv operates. The kind of tv which has editorial instructions like do not show news that tries to learn because this can cause viewers to switch channel.

WE ARE AT BROADCAST MEDIA'S FINAL TIPPING POINT

We the people need to go to the streets to refuse to pay the licence fee until it is written into every governor's job and agreed by every MP that the primary job of the BBC is never to be gagged from questioning politicians or commercial vested interests. Sustainability offers no other way to save ourselves from addictions like that of petroleum economics that has brought the world to the final precipice of climate meltdown at least 24 years after it needed open debates propagated on weekly shows so that nightly news tacitly dared to ask innovative question rather than being so silent that it brainwashed the majority of Britons into a state where we no longer knew how to learn anything of vital human import. It is not saving 20% that is now at issue, it is saving 100% of species before poodles and media make George Orwell's scrip look like heaven on earth. http://crisiseconomics.tv

DOUBLE LOOP CRISIS OF HUMAN IDTo terminate our species because we did not know how to question media so as to ensure media is used to explore and question rather than accept sponsorship of monopoly views by global market sectors interested only in getting bigger is an epic mistake of the sort that dinosaurs - or bleared civilisations or bush-whacked nations - make.

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How the governors need to unchain themselves from BBC Slavery

Under viciious circumstances, the 2 great slavemakers of the BBC as the people's world servive broadcasters are: 1) national governments (particularly the House of Parliament) and 2)_ Global Corporations (and any professions or acdenics they buy up).

The first slavemaking whammy operates on the BBC by censoring questions when there are global crises that no single side knows the answer to - maddeningly destroying the greatest value of public media to keep open space (and conflict resolution) debates going. They then reduce so-called balance of debates on popular issues to one dimensional left versus right, and short-term historic perfomances which have absolutely nothing to do with most worldwide or suistainable challenges.

Meanwhile corporations double the slavemaking whaymmy by complaining if the BBC ever gives free coberage to publishing a story that turns out to have even a whiff of commercial matter to it. They also insist or analysts never questioning them about their future sustainability as if how much mkoney they extracted from the last quarter was the only way a business organsiation should deine its purpose. This is the mathematically certain way of ensuring all long term investors (including healthy society and penioners to be collapse). It is how speculators take over from why and how people sped their lives work in what could otherwise be joyful and emotionally smart relationship service patterns. This attrocious mathematical mistake being ruled by global corporations on finacial steroids was never the view of British Economics from Adam Smith on nor of any of the world's greatest inventors or entrepreneurs.

If the BBC's governors can be helped to unchain themselves from these 2 great slaveries they can get back to mapping how public service broadcasting can chnage the world by asking questions that sustain cross-cultural harmony, that empower those who wish to innovate futures beyond the somg of petroleum economics and polluted waters, and enable a newtorked world to exchnage courage instead of fear; love instead of war; goodwill instead of badwill; invest exponentially in compound cosnqeuqeunces that appeal to the common human sense of sustainable progress for all our childrens instead of destroying the world through a globalisation that puts ever less tralsparent people in power, and stops using media to ask questions around which we can all p[articipate openly in active elarning.

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Annual Report extract from Year 22 of Humanity's Greatest Communications Revolution

At the end of the day, let alone the end of the world it is not large organisations that systemise compound consequences but individual people's decsions (of commission or omission)

Now that the BBC's senior nature correspondent (David Attenborough) has admitted the inconvenient truth that global climate instability could soon be irreversible ending the sustainability of future generations of the human race, it is time to face up to the responsiblities of another Inconvenient Truth : that of being the world's largest public broadcaster and world servant agency (meidator as well as media)

If the world loses its sustainability, it will have been root caused by a premier league of badwilled or powerfully incompetent people (such as FEMA's head at the time of Katrina whose previous career had been sorting out the non-critical politics of the arabian horsebreeding association)- the BBC should be fearlessly investigating their stories be they alive or dead. This kind of investigation is not suited to daily news healdines but long term news inquiry teams, and empowering the web to join in searches for cluies of jigsaws with 100 missing pieces across different countries, and time zones. It involves open spacing debates on the web where people vote for candiates who should at elast go through one round of investiagtive inquiry. In the case of Ken Lay, the jury is back. If the world ends, this typology of personal shredder of transparency will have been one of the 20 do evil gamesplayers who compounded the copnsequence of lost sustainability. Has the BBC got a long term news team working out what we must learnj never to permit a Lay to do again with the same intensity that we have over the last 60 years sought to learn how never to have anothyer Hitler of Stalin in superpowering badwill all over the known world

Here are some start up windows on Ken Lay; do you have others; and is the BBC listentining to this inconveneint chore on which the transparencuy of everything indluding world service knowhow and cross-cultural harmony depends

KEN LAY, RIP -for sustainability’s stakes of global village transparency I am angered by you so - see video on transparency gatesways to change the world http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3407997752764644269

Whether blind or badwilled this man governed over what was at one time one of the top 25 economies in the world in a way that terrorised free market truths and professional Hippocratic oaths with at least as destructive consequences as Saddam Hussein.

Far worse was whoever in Arthur Andersen put the following accounting rule up for bid. It is you see quite arbitrary which quarter you book a sales gain into that has taken you as a Utility years and many millions of sales efforts and which promises a utility 20 years of revenues. Prior to paying to own this accounting rule, Enron had been a small respectable company. About 30 compound quarters later it was a top 20 economy which had brutally sold in contracts across the developing world brokering conditional aid - buy Enron or your US aid will be cut. How many more Enrons may be smoking compound guns?

Enronism is beyond reasonable doubt one of the root causes of the tensions between East and West- because the East has several multibillion dollar white elephant dams courtesy of Enron - and multibillion dollar waste in poor countries translates into many thousands of lives lost that could otherwise have been sustained with true investments.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bbush+%2B%22kenny+boy%22&btnG=Google+Search
I am actually prepared to believe it likely that Ken went round feting Texan high society and did not know how his company grew so fast. His death today should be a warning to any global 1000 corporation leader who does not know if the goodwill valuation of his organisation is truly as valuable as the shards of the first US election of the 21st C or the shreds of Andersen reports. He also permitted the greenwashing of SCR league table which Enron nearly toped to the day before it died. A turning point in the CSR industry after which its greatest journalistic fan Marjorie Kelly decried that CSR1.0 is fluff with no systemic relevance at all.

If sustaining the world is civic society's number 1 mission impossible we will need to turn to Beyond CSR , thanks Kenny boy for the lesson.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6180036948830658291

There is a valuation of the nation brand USA within its lands and in the rest of the world. Ken Lay and his segment of corporate leaders have cut the external valuation of USA as a partner in anything by at least 25%. Perhaps July 5 should be named Interdependence Day so global corporations have an annual opportunity to ask themselves : whither sustainability governance :
Lay, Andersen and alumni network
or something mathematically completely different
http://asinworld.blogspot.com

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4482/215/320/employeedestroyers.jpg

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Hey I love David Attenborough - transparency declaration: when I was a nine year old his son was in the same school class as me. But how on earth is it that the BBC's senior observational reporter on nature, has left it so long to come out and question climate change http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5012266.stm extract : Sir David:when we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather."

Sir David, whose distinguished broadcasting career spans more than half a century, says everyone has a responsibility to act: "What people (must) do is to change their behaviour and their attitudes.

"If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.

His comments came as a UK parliamentary body, the All-Party Environment Group, issued a report labelling the government a "climate laggard" for its record on reducing emissions.

Sir David, whose natural history programmes have been watched by millions of people around the world, is the latest high-profile figure to say the world is facing a climate crisis.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams; the government's chief scientist Sir David King, and former Royal Society president Sir Robert May have all expressed public concern on the issue.

This week, former US Vice President Al Gore (all, news) has been at the Cannes Film Festival to promote a documentary on climate change.

Mr Gore told festival goers that the world was facing a "planetary emergency" due to global warming.

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It is not David's fault that aftre 54 years as BBC's nature correspondent, but it is the disgrace of the BBC's system. Every journalist who could be capable of far the deepest questions of what's going on around humanity's world is muzzled by two forces:
never get into a political debate; this is the monopoly preserve of left versus right national politics. What XXXing nonsense; left versus right do not have any interest in the 10 greatest human crises impacting all peoples today; because like global warming they are worldwide and long term exponential crises where the people who are making 4 yearly left and right judgements within national bounadries are both the least rewarding and the least deep people on earth to want to hear a monopoly of answers from

the other muzzle is global business; that great externaliser of industry's deepest compound risk onto whatever community of people has least knowledge about the risk or can curry the least favours with the political powers that be

as a Scot I feel betrayed that the BBC funded by the peoples money should muzzle its deepest correspondents - the one's who can ask the biggest questions which the lives of our children most need open debates on; Tony Blair, who declares himself a media literate person, has to take the wooden spoon of shame (unless you have other nominations to post) for increasing the muzzle on the BBC - help us write to the governors and take back the BBC to be the world service for the people; and never muzzle a David again however greedy or speculative the golliaths may be

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resources:
algaeworld maps
macrae-nets - launching a new colaboration community to (log and lob) question the world needs answering every month
sustainable map co-edited by Scanadaniavia's most missionary sustainability entrepreneur
social entrepreneur olympics and changemakers world-for-all web jam contests
choose your club of city to collaboratively journalise for humanity out of
train up with Einstein's nomination of number 1 global village champion - your gandhi

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search bbc2.0 -alltime; in the news -megatrends by date

links to some powerful commentators - The Economist on BBC2.0; commentaries by other social entrepreneur correspondents (the alumni school of James Wilson , The Economist's founder); Beyond-Branding's views; gameschangers' views

pledge to keep the conversation going with BBC governors ;

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changemakers is one of the best of web happenings I've seen in 12 years of searching -Here -it is interesting to see views on what health for all means to citizens of 23 countries

one of the world's leading jams on health for all projects enters it last few days of the season

if you agree that project searches on such vital human endeavours should also be scaled with the help of world service public broadcasters, pelase consider pledging here (no money's involved just a bit of your time if 2009 others agree to network in support of what the British Broadcast Corporation could be doing with its world service)

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wave 1 of 7 that will sustain or exterminate us all - is the BBC on the story and propagating questions the correct ways round- by all means add questions but here's what we have learnt to search through on the first 22 years of death-of-distance mapmaking on climate change, written up as a question to London's Be The Change network . This is a 3-day event in May that hired the same hall as Gandhi did for his huge revolutionary roundtable convened in London in 1931 - one small step in the peaceful freedom of India from British Empire - in those days a bigger tick that sustaining 6 billion beings through cliamte change, but ceratinly both are relentlessly worth question for any organsiation chartered to be a world service provider of conversational openings for all peoples and across all cultures - the mission impossible that only the BBC can initiate
cm World Class Brands and Social-Entrepreneur Olympics

As per my open space project of BTc 2005, we peoples need to prepare to close the BBC down unless it spends as much attention and budget on social entrepreneur olympics as sports olympics before London 2012

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
previously


Climate - Be The Change but which way?

Rick (Robert), have you be invited to this in a flowing role?

Nick: since my father and I's 1984 book on death of distance's 7 collaboration waves: climate change sustainability has depended on:

1 photosynthesis energy replacing carbon energy - Rick is epicentral to that map- as scripted in our 1984 book 1

2 getting top professionals and CEO to understand that nature's networks demand that one industry's global waste is another's input (ie the externalisation must be internalised maps of Ray Anderson that Colin brought over to London last year)

3 empowering education of 9 year olds up about flows, networks systems of sustems of systems so that they never get controlled agian by someone who emasures a flow with a number - a bit of a tricky syllabus until the BBC promotes social entrepreneur olympics or is closed down: but where in the USA micro-finance and social entrepreneurship are retranslating Gandhi into american - see 4 hemisphere's model at http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com

so who are your speakers? are they in one of these dynamic flows? have climate wave revolution mapmakers 1 2 3 missed a trick these last 22 years?

cheers
chris macrae

http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com and mac ids of http://worldclassbrands.blogspot.com

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Quoting "Nick Hart-Williams (Be The Change)" :

With Be the Change just a week away, we wanted draw your attention to some
of the most exciting elements over the next few days ­ and as always ask you
to tell your friends and colleagues. The full timetable is now up on the
website (http://www.bethechange.org.uk) - and attached here. And though the
Sunday Symposium is sold out, there are still tickets for Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.

On the Saturday morning of Be The Change (May 13), we¹ll take a look at what
climate change really means for us ­ and at how education has to change if
we¹re to have any chance of turning back the impact we¹re having on our
environment. The day will be filled with people buzzing with ideas and
relevant experience ­ but for now, let me tell you about the two giants who
will lay out the central issues for us. As it happens, they are both
academics ­ but there¹s nothing academic about what they have to say.



Prof. Tim Flannery, as he nears the end of his world book tour, has gathered
unprecedented praise for The Weather Makers - the one book which, his
reviewers agree, could persuade the world to tackle climate change head on.
The praise comes from Tony Blair, Robert Kennedy Jr., Jared Diamond and Bill
Bryson; from climate scientists Stephen Schneider and Thomas Lovejoy, from
the US heads of Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund; and from a host of
newspapers across the English-speaking world. And in Australia, he¹s
credited with changing the government¹s stance on global warming. What¹s
amazing about Tim Flannery is the combination of skills and experience ­
literally, a great scientist and explorer (ranked with Livingston by David
Attenborough), a brilliant writer (see the reviews attached) and a
compelling advocate of positive action by all of us. Towards the end of his
new book, he writes, ŒIt is my firm belief that all the efforts of
government and industry will come to naught unless the good citizen and
consumer takes the initiative....we are now the weather makers, and the
future of biodiversity and civilisation hangs on our actions.¹



Prof. David Orr, the man acknowledged to have taken the lead in
re-fashioning education to respond to environmental imperatives, presents an
uncompromising message. He believes we are facing Œthe end of education¹ as
we know it. ŒNo amount of tinkering with curriculum will adequately equip
students for what they must do ...This is a crisis of education, not in
education¹. David Orr is professor of environmental studies at Oberlin
College in Ohio. And he walks his talk ­ apart from writing several key
books around the subject of education and environment, he commissioned the
top Œgreen¹ architect, Bill McDonough, to design an absolute
state-of-the-art building to house his department at Oberlin.

In his seminal book, Earth In Mind, David Orr wrote of the possibility Œthat
in the long gestation of humankind we acquired an affinity for life, earth,
forests, water, soils, and place ­ what E. O. Wilson calls biophilia. That
is more than an interesting and defensible hypothesis. It is the best hope
for our future that I know. For real hope, as distinguished from wishful
thinking, we ought not look first to our technological cleverness or
abstractions about progress or one kind or another, but rather to the extent
and depth of our affections, which set boundaries on what we do and direct
our intelligence to better or worse possibilities. The possibility of
affection for our children, place, posterity, and life is in all of us. It
is part of our evolutionary heritage. It is embedded in our best religious
teachings. And it is now a matter or simple self-interest that we come to
realise the full extent of the obligations that arise from an alert,
thorough, and farsighted affection.

Against considerable odds, the outlines of a global ecological enlightenment
have begun to emerge....Still, I think H. G. Wells had it right when he said
that we are in a race between education and catastrophe. That race will be
decided in the classrooms around the world ­ and in all of the places that
foster intelligence, thought, and good heart.

So that¹s how the day begins! The rest of the day will be filled with a
panel involving David and Tim, plus others who are working to change
education; a whole series of presentations and challenges by some very
inspired young entrepreneurs; a long World Café discussion; and a final
presentation on Œevolutionary leadership¹ by Peter Merry.

For further information or to book: http://www.bethechange.org.uk
phone 0845-4585925 - email: info@bethechange.org.uk

posted by ... @ 11:27 AM 0 comments

a preview of 7 waves that will exponentially sustain or destroy us all depending how openly we collaborate (map how networks as systems of systems of systems flowtrue)

Reflection to social entrepreneur network gravitating around children's education:
probably the greatest mortal sin that educationalists, parents and governments can make is refusing to include in a schools curriculum (or searches across networks that kids can have fun exploring diverse answers to) a change agenda we don't know all the answers too -do any you agree/disagree?

clearly there are at least 7 such agenda's today that were mappable and chattable since 1984 by death-of-distance (network , global village) editors and entrepreneurs and we have stalled or censored all of them at a time when the most open questioning is needed by every grade because this is a system connecting system connecting system challenge - get one wrong and it crashes the world and not just financially

A clean -energy-climate-water = photosynthesis, algae, nature's networking science (biodiveristy models always search to have one waste ouptut as another's input even if on opposite sides of globe - the sun drenched and the sun starved)
B make systemisation of poverty's terror/hoplessness history
C stop making cultures/religions/deep identities boundaries even if community up governance becoems at least as vital as national politicians
D stop brainwashing kids with wrong definitions to explore human relations system*system change with
E shut the BBC down unless social entrepreneur revolution olympics gets as much time and budget as sports, encourage idol 2.0 through co-mentoring formats and stages like http://universityofstars.blogspot.com
F take back monopoly licences and royal charters from professions unless they are transparently charter oaths that people want and trust-flow around them ; and show some sort of ability to be able to adapt environmental laws (so as to internalise global externalities rather than spin their risk onto the most disconnected) instead of writing down in stone that human sustainability is legally avoidable in any big organsiation's business model -not the economics that James Wilson would ever have let his brand be linked with staging
and whetever number 7 on is because I am sure 6 is too much to have to try to map openly anyhow

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

http://futureofbbc.blogspot.com
http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com
Quoting wcbn007@easynet.co.uk:

Hello all

I have an unbearable problem. Do you have a solution by any chance?

In its small but cancerously molecular flow round human relations systems,
this problem goes critically to :
*customers and the soul of the american education system,
*the catholic church's teaching on social studies
*and economics including valuation of risk, new media or any humanly living
sphere

...to name but 3 powers whose open editors for humanity need to connect in
trust-flow like never seen before, if sustainability is to be our generation's

gift to our race

The classbook apparently used by all catholic schools around Washington DC for

9 year olds to study social studies defines ENTREPRENEUR as : man who starts a

business and invests his money in it. My 9 year old's weekend homework was to

learn by heart that definition as a keyword in social studies vocabulary.

This is exactly NOT what my father's life-long reporting of Entrepreneurial
Revolution studies is about; not what transparently mapmaking the future
history of death of distance networking's innovation's crisis revolves
globally times locally around; it is not what the definition of entrepreneur
that the founder of The Economist in 1840s or any self-respecting Scot or
mathematician would be seen dead wearing; and it is not the french origin of
the word entrepreneur (where people take back liberte, egalite from powers
that were resources that are being used to destroy their livelihoods and
compound future prospects for sustaining social progress, and ultimately peace

flows goodwill expoentially across communities). So why is it crammed down my

9 year old daughter's throat in dead-parrot fashion?. Peaceloving as I am sure

Gandhi and Einstein were, I feel sure they would systematically want all the
people to stand up and demand any power that progagated this dumbing-down
definition be retired to cud.

Since education*media is one of the 7 waves that will sustain or destroy all
future generations as mapped back in our 1984 future history, and confirmed
every year of our timeline so far, I am quite prepared to write to everyone
under the sun that I can reach in the catholic education system about this
brainswashing abuse of my daughter and all her peers but
MY QUESTION TO YOU: do you offer a Schools Rebriefing antidote?

For example, if I tell our headmistress and monseignor that I will not be
satisfied unless the whole school attends to someone offering a different view

of entrepreneurial roles in social studies, do you have any lesson or learning

game etc that can be openly presented to bring light to this context?

thanks for any help, suggestions
chris macrae , wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://ninenow.blogspot.com/1999_12_01_ninenow_archive.html
http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com
http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com
http://clubofdc.blogspot.com
http://worldclassbrands.blogspot.com
http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com
http://flowtrue.blogspot.com
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posted by ... @ 12:08 PM 0 comments

Where are the BBC's reporters on the Queens number 1 inquiry : Is (Globalisation) turning humanity on itself?

When you ask the BBC (eg their shop at Broadcasting centre ) on what is published on the world service sphere of the BBC you get blank looks; do tell me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you find anything; similarly ask about who represents citizenship isssues (instead of eternal question time bickering on the single historical dimension of left and right, which is so undemocratic in represnting 21st C aspirations of people as to be nigh on desertin of duty) and its hard to find much; so far we have this:
BIOGRAPHIES

Glenwyn Benson is the Controller of Factual TV. She began her career in broadcasting at LWT, and joined the BBC as Editor of On the Record. From 1992 – 1995 she was Editor of Panorama, after which she took charge of the BBC’s adult educational programming. In December 1997 she became Head of Science. In 2000 Glenwyn became Controller, Specialist Factual in the BBC’s new Factual and Learning division and in 2001 she was appointed Joint Director, Factual and Learning and a member of the BBC’s Executive Committee. She became Controller, Factual TV in 2003.

Polly Billington is a reporter on the Today programme. She has trained journalists in the Former Yugoslavia, as part of the ongoing nation-building in that part of the world. She was a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University. Before that she was Radio1's first-ever dedicated Political Reporter, bringing politics to one of the most sceptical and disengaged audiences the BBC serves. In her spare time she contributes to citizenship education in primary and secondary schools and has worked with the RSA on their CoffeeHouse Challenge project, the British Council in South East Europe and the Hansard Society.

Helen Boaden has been Director, BBC News since September 2004. She joined the BBC in 1983 as a news producer with Radio Leeds. She later became a reporter and then Editor of Radio 4's flagship weekly current affairs programme, File on 4. She reported on BBC TWO’s documentary programme Brass Tacks and presented a series for Channel 4. In 1997 Helen became Head of Business Programmes and a year later she was also made Head of Current Affairs, the first woman to do the job. Helen Boaden was appointed Controller of Radio 4 in March 2000 and Controller of BBC 7 in 2002.

Alistair Burt is the Conservative MP for north east Bedfordshire and the Shadow Minister for Communities and Regeneration. During the last Conservative government he was a junior minister at the Department of Social Security and Minister of State for Disabled People. Alistair is on the Board of Patrons of Habitat for Humanity (UK), a low income housing charity, and also on the Council of the Evangelical Alliance, a multi-denominational Christian body with over one million members.

Mark Byford is Deputy Director-General of the BBC. He has been with the BBC for 25 years. In 1988 he became Home Editor, BBC TV News, London, then Head of Centre, Leeds. In 1990 he was appointed Assistant Controller, Regional Broadcasting (News and Current Affairs). He joined the BBC's Board of Management in 1996 as Director of Regional Broadcasting. He was Director of the World Service until 2002 when he became leader of the BBC's newly formed Global News Division. Mark is a former director of the British Audience Research Board and Radio Joint Audience Research Ltd and a trustee of the BBC Children in Need Appeal. He is a Fellow of The Radio Academy.

Anna Carragher is Controller, BBC Northern Ireland. She joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1970 and has worked as a producer on the Today programme, on Breakfast Time, Newsnight, Question Time and Any Questions. She became Head of Programmes, BBC Northern Ireland in 1995 and was appointed Controller, Northern Ireland in 2000. Anna is a member of the Board of Business in the Community and RAJAR, a Trustee of the Grand Opera House, Belfast and a Committee Member of the Sony Radio Academy Awards Committee.

Professor Stephen Coleman is Professor of e-Democracy at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He was formerly Director of the Hansard e-democracy Programme, which pioneered online consultations for the UK Parliament, and lecturer in Media & Communication at the LSE. He chaired the Independent Commission on Alternative Voting Methods, was specialist adviser to the UK Parliament Information Committee inquiry on Digital Technology: Working for Parliament and the Public and adviser to the UK Government on e-democracy policy. Recent publications include A Tale of Two Houses: The House of Commons, the Big Brother House and the people at home, Hansard Society/Channel 4, 2003; Direct Representation, IPPR, 2005.

David Dimbleby is a major presenter of current affairs programmes and documentaries for BBC Television. Amongst many other credits he has been anchor man for every BBC ONE General Election Night coverage from 1979 to 2005. He has also been the Chairman of BBC ONE's Question Time since January 1994. Earlier this year he presented A Picture of Britain. David Dimbleby is President of the Institute for Citizenship.

Michael Hastings CBE is Head of the BBC’s Corporate Social Responsibility department. Michael sits on the boards of Comic Relief, BBC Children in Need, the BBC World Service Trust, the Fame Academy Bursary Fund and the BBC Appeals Advisory Committee. He is a Trustee of Volunteering England and a non-executive director on BT’s Community Support Committee. He is Chairman of Crime Concern and a former Commissioner of the Commission for Racial Equality. He was a founding member of the Metropolitan Police Advisory Committee and served on the Government’s Social Security Advisory Committee.

John Lloyd is Contributing Editor at the Financial Times. He has held many other jobs at the FT including Industrial Editor and Founder and Editor, FT Magazine. Prior to that his posts included Editor, New Statesman and reporter and producer, LWT’s London Programme and Weekend World. Last year he published What the Media are doing to our Politics (2004).

Kevin Marsh is Editor of Radio 4's Today programme. He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1978 but has also worked for ITN. Kevin was made Editor of PM in August 1989 and moved to edit The World At One in 1993 before bringing the programmes together under a single editor in 1996. In 1998 he developed and launched Broadcasting House. Kevin has produced numerous specials for Radio 4. He was appointed Editor of Today in November 2002.

Geraldine Peacock CBE joined the Charity Commission as a Commissioner in July 2003. She was appointed as its first Chair in July 2004. She is the first woman and person with a disability (she has Parkinson’s Disease) to head up the Commission. Prior to joining the Commission, she was Chief Executive of The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (1997 - 2003), and the first paid Chief Executive of the National Autistic Society (1989 - 1997). She was Chair of ACEVO (1996 -1999).

Heather Rabbatts CBE is Head of Education at Channel 4. Before joining Channel 4 Heather was Chief Executive of Lambeth Council. Whilst there Heather became a BBC Governor, a position she held for four years. In March 2000, she set up a new company which provides strategic consultancy to national and local government, focused on the use of new technologies to improve citizens' access to services. Heather is on the board of the UK Film Council and is also a Non-Executive Director for the Bank of England.

Angela Sarkis CBE is a BBC Governor. She was Chief Executive of the Church Urban Fund from 1996 to 2002 and was a founding member of the Social Exclusion Unit, established by the Prime Minister in 1998. She was awarded a CBE in 2000 for her work in assisting the alleviation of poverty in disadvantaged communities. She is a Trustee of YouthNet UK and The King's Fund, a non-executive director on the Correctional Services Board at the Home Office, a member of the House of Lords’ Interim Appointments Commission and Adviser to the Department for Education and Skills on teacher workload management and school leadership. Angela chairs the NCVO Diversity Project and is a member of the Active Community Unit Advisory Panel at the Home Office.

Maeve Sherlock OBE is Chief Executive of The Refugee Council. From 2000-2003, she was special adviser to Gordon Brown. She has been Chief Executive of the National Council for One Parent Families, UKCOSA and the Council for International Education and President of the National Union of Students. Maeve is a member of the Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration, and a trustee of the independent think-thank Demos. Maeve received an OBE in 2000 for services to the eradication of child poverty.

Matthew Taylor is Chief Advisor on Political Strategy at 10 Downing Street. Prior to the election he was Chief Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister. From 1999 to 2003 he was the Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research, IPPR. He has written extensively on local government and democratic renewal.

posted by ... @ 3:21 PM 0 comments

To celebrate today's start of the Socila Entrepreneur World Championships (University of Oxford hosted by Skoll Foundation) we are starting a survey and campign for the inauguration of social entrepreneur olympics. Why should the deep pursuits of social entrepreneurs get any less media coverage than sports? Which SE arenas are you most excited by? Where do you get a chance to spread the word on how humanity's future depends on these greatest of all collaboration games? Do mail us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want any help in starting up a dialogue script on this (we're into our 22nd year of making connections)

chris macrae wcbn007@easynmet.co.uk

posted by ... @ 10:16 AM 0 comments

Breaking Views from ClubofLondon current #1 in collaboration knowledge city bookmarks (votes over 40 million)

This week saw world water day come and go with less than a ripple. Did Londoners know how they could have contributed more news on this around the world? no matter

Next week is arguably the biggest in the calendar for gifts to the world Londoners as number 1 collaboration knowledge city can start up, and make the next 6 years marathon of make poverty history connect all around the world

With Al Gore visiting the twin cities of London and Oxford, we cannot imagine a better time to Launch the Social Entrepreneur Olympics. The game is to have got 30 gravity pursuits of social entrepreneur world champions into the public consciousness by 2012 as much as the top 30 sports.

All we need is love and courage to cheerlead cross-cultural creativity's waves:

The Livingstone has got us off to a great start; he has declared there will be no sporting Olympics in London in 2012 unless they are carbon free - turn up the heat on every politician since only photosynthesis innovations can produce clean energy of that sustainability magnitude. Make sure all those who host Al Gore events debrief him as the clock to 2012 counts down

The lessons to be learnt from Make Poverty History from pop stars down can be an epiphany if University of Stars and the BBC turn their minds to the greater transparencies (eg end all country corruptions) needed if Make Poverty History is to be a reality network not just an image-making one

So that's 28 more gravity pursuits we need to celebrate around social entrepreneurs with as much gusto as the 20th Century hailed sporting stars

We are reminded of one Harrison Owen story I should tell because open spacing education is a social entrepreneur pursuit every family can stand up for whereas we cannot all help on the ground with projects in Africa or in the roofs that algae use to convert the sunshine into cleansing energy banks.

He was studying to be a priest around the Washington Dc area. It was a time when Martin Luther King was having a dream. Harrison can't recall quite how it happened but he was standing in a civil rights field in a crowd of African Americans - one tall lanky white man. The police were beginning to charge on the crowd and Harrison was feeling quite scared. That is until a 7 year old black girl came up to him - and said Mister will you hold my hand

Since that day, Harrison gave up the priesthood to the chagrin of most of his family. And is one of the handfuls of people who most interconnects conflict resolution facilitators around the world. Their networks criss-cross all religions that believe in golden rules of reciprocity such as so unto another what you want done unto you. They also connect mathematically - if Einstein is correct here at http://clubofdc.blogspot.com - to Gandhi as the greatest inventor of peaceful social entrepreneurial revolution that 144 years of The Economist's coverage of this most productive of all professions.

If some of this post makes sense to you, why not re-edit the parts you like and send it to the board of Governors of the BBC, and should you wish Tony Blair or another politician well with their legacy why not copy them in to. We the British people, not any of our political representatives own the BBC. We have invested way over 50 billion pounds in this corporation. On a personal note to all scots- may I ask whether you feel the inventor of television would feel proud of a television where every big debate is framed one dimensionally around short-term left and right rivals or whomever is looking fore a job with big business if the party does not turn out Trumps for their apprenticeship to network power.

It is high noon for the BBC with its 10 year licence determined by and for the people in the year of 2o06. Please could our world service be one of British Character we can feel both pride and humility in searching for. Please free your journalists for humanity to take a fearless lead in realising this open source script from 1984 , so that trust across peoples everywhere begins to flow through every documentary inquiry that has anything to do with world peace or nightly newscast on poverty's challenges through 2012 - and through these communications help the British to get to know 30 gravity pursuits of Social Entrepreneurs with as much joy and attention as the 30 sports it spend most public licence fees on. Hey when Brits helped to invent most of these sports we surely never intended they would take over from greater British realities of world service, through believing in CommonWealth principles and our Queen's higher order right to ask us as she did in her end of 2005 broadcast to unite in preventing globalisation from turning humanity on itself.

For the same of deeper democracy blossoming and connecting every coordinate on earth, you can also play a jigsaw mapping game aimed at sustaining 2 million global villages. Here's part of my family's tree which may open up some useful connections- what connections could your family tree or that of your peer networks open source. If you can make a "peer or family tree" picture why don't we play the mixed networking games of swap and snap. If we are going to turn around globalisation’s exponentials sustainably in time, we are all going to have to work with whatever grassroots community contexts up we can help each other navigate. No lead is too small as long as it is one you intend to gravitate transparently around as part of you lifelong learning mission. We need to help change children's education now so that the core human rights of freedom and happiness have a chance to breathe nature's clean waters, airs and energies everyone human beings sing her praises. Let's all turn up the courage through every family in the land and into wherever co-mentoring networks in internet space may take A B C D E F you

posted by ... @ 7:57 AM 0 comments

Across Death of Distance future history in 1984, there were 7 waves that were going to chnage a networking bworld forever

crucial properties of waves by 2024- sytsmically, they will have waved goodwill or badwill threough all 6 billion beings, expoentially one outcome or the other - no in between

they are interconnected

it doesnt matter to us whether you wonder about 7 waves networking the 21st c world as long as its mpore than 2

roughly the waves we mapped are:
education

media

photosynthesis architectures of clean energy, clean water, clean air

cross-cultural conflict resolution and transparency between 2 million global vilages (and if nations take a lesser role in chairing world trade amen)

ending underclasses and stuctiral possibilities for balies to be born into extreme poverty

chaning professions so that peoples premneurial economics always wins out over the maths of the big get bigger

the wave we coundnt yet know, be it microbilogical or other

it was oh so important bthat the bbc stood up for world service education so forgive us a wave newsletter on that topic - or choose more from our archives of scripts on tghe 7 waves at http://globalcharters.blogspot.com

2006:02 Changing schools for ever with the intervention of peer learning nets for every age group

What a future difference a quarter makes except if you are a global accountant!

seriously folks now that Bush and his 20 gathering storm friends at http://www.nap.edu/ have discovered that education curricula will change the world, we need to make sure that changing schools zings with diverse and people enrichening content

if you could do one thing first I'd ask you to register here http://www.frappr.com/younghubs
even if you never interact again with frappr that will put you on the educational map (at least the one I recall)

and then there are a few connections I want to make - Sofia is turning up the courage all over London; specifically hunting out hub spaces where young people can meet and get involved in community rather than fall out of it -please ask her sofia@sofiabustamante.com for more details on that if that's a connection you wish to cheerlead

then there is Lucknow - I have always wanted to go to the world's largest Montesorri school with 30000 students; well now Lucknow is connecting virtual plans all over the world http://groups.google.com/group/worldcit http://cluboflucknow.blogspot.com

last december was if I recall the 5th world congress that Lucknow convened for eductators and justices, and they are moving a world charter for eductaion through 15 regions as a result
some of you may know that my journalist father and I have been debating 7 waves that will chnage the world ever since 1984 and our future history which started the genre of death of distance networking- by a wave we mean something that will connect through 6 billion beings changing all societies exponetially for one of better or worse - let's see if our map can outflank any monotone views of education that a top heavy bush is likely to fertilise
cheerschris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

http://globalcharters.blogspot.com
http://ninenow.blogspot.com/1999_12_01_ninenow_archive.html
http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com
http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com/

posted by ... @ 2:16 PM 0 comments

Hi Londoners and friends gearing up for the greatest preneurial challenges ever to have hit London and Britain

My father and I have been working for 30 years on language as the great integration crisis of leadership as well as system theorists. Every professor needs a different term to copyright their fame and alumni class and journal (sub-discipline, sub-professional business case or startegic power)- we need to open up such intellectual chaining all over the world's web

My father's beginning in this was to publish Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist in 1976. Odd collaborators included Romano Prodi who hosted an Italian roundtable in venice where all Italy's great leaders of the day sung the chorus of 10 green bottles (administrative barriers Entrepreneurs need to open space through). If you think about it now whether people claim leadership or facilitation gravity to unleash wealth or societal goods, they are usually happy to call themselves either entrepreneur (if business audiences are listening) or social preneur - see eg this fantastic meeting in Oxford next month http://clubofoxford.blogspot.com

To celebrate our 30th birthday of ER, which is actually close on the 200th birthday of the founder of The Economnist (probably the world's first social preneur as his only editorial goals were to repeal corn laws and end capital punishment - both Victorian England's remaining slave chains) , we invite you:
to translate what every your system language is so that it connects with preneurs as a trojan horse for changing global economics
and to choose a place name clubof which we can weblog a debate of how your systemic method helps cross-culturally interrate any type of preneur (ideally 2 million club of global villages are needed!)

Above I have put one slide up which shows 200 years of preneurial language revolutions and since we are also mathematicians, we will need to slay the monopoly of tangible accounting which assigns 0 value to goodwill as a system flow and compounds maximum conflicts by separation every quarter. Knowing that's the fina system barrier is the only way that any system's theory can interface with changing leadership atop the wordl's biggest organsaitions be they corporate of government. As well as 30 years of ER scripts we have 22 years of death of distance scripts since tracking what webs will do has been my whole career and in 1984 I teamed up with my dad and a sci-fi writer to write a book on how 1984-2024 would challenge humanity to its wits end because becoming interconnected in obe generation was always going to be the biggest revolution our species had encountered ; and our species copes with revolutions in ways that spin either very good compound outcomes or in this case ones that will mean no 22nd century. So given this is just a language problem of eladership, why not open source the preneur word unless you can sugest one that can flow through more corridors of power without them knowing what confusion has open spaced

I know swapping the language you believe in most is diffciult. happy to try to help with any 1:1 or many:1 Q&A

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/
http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com/
http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com/
http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com/
http://project30000.blogspot.com/

posted by ... @ 3:28 PM 0 comments

So what's the State of The Union now the www revolves all our tomorrows around Death of Distance, World is Flat? connections, collaborations...

Apparently it is facing a gathering storm whose first 2 space races to be free are:
end US addiction to petroleum addiction
do what you can so that kids love exploring science more thah spactating sports or popping idols

That's joy D as it goes. Only trouble is those are system revolution games and one sub-optimal crossroads may like the proverbial snake viciously spiral you in the opposite direction that your faith intended. And faith that excludes transparent mapping's 360 degree Q&A is now the riskest goverance to be led with. Mr Bush early in your first administration researchers at Georgetown Law School & Brookings Economics Institute did inform your executives of the compound risks of Unseen Wealth Governance but they were shown the door as if goodwill maps have no value in exploring entrepreneurial revolution let alone transparently guiding people to feel safe about changing the world peacefully

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Footnote:22 years ago, I started navigating death of distance stories - the 3rd part of an entrepreneurial revolution trilogy with my father who had spent a career inteviewing leaders from all over at The Economist.

It may be very unpopular in some quarters, but scots like my dad and I (probably over 80% of Scots, because that's how many live and network outside scotLAND) think the idea of living in one place is becoming maddening just as the mass media's lowest common definition of most new media tools' use is. Take WEB LOG. WE blog. How did early sea captains log their discoveries of different cities and trading places in a way that integrated a worldwide trading map? Does this not mean there's a double loop to valuing a city or any place: what its inhabitants have spent longest practising, empassiononing "TIMES" what a visitor sees most uniquely useful to collaboratively, sustainably trade with?

This has both theoretical and deep practical applications if you sail with it. In terms of economics, the people -all 6 billion beings of us (and our lifetime's most open projects http://project30000.blogspot.com ) must unite to ensure the maths transparenctly maps sustainability for at least 2 million global villages (whether place or action learning gravitated) not an economics of numbers ruling solely so that the big gets bigger. Where I put economics you can insert other fi-fo--professional words: accounting, financing, investment, governance, law, communications as media and mediation. They are all ruled by a giant mathematical mistake of ignoring compound exponentials - http://exponentials.blogspot.com (please don't ever do that ask Einstein, Gandhi, Von Neumann if you have read one of their works on the subject http://clubofdc.blogspot.com )

In terms of practice: if we want to be world citizens, why not start with collaboration (its the connecting value multiplier whereas competition is the separating one). I have spent quite a lot of te last 2 years searching through the nearly 50 million bookmarks on collaboration knowledge city; if you have generated one of these why not check our our emerging guided tour at http://clubofcity.blogspot.com and if your city or most open network for how to change the world isn't there yet, start it up as ablog and tells us how to co-promote it.

Emotionally most of all (as is our species trust http://trueflow.blogspot.com , http://simplysee.blogspot.com ), if you are an adult do not forget that if you dismiss death-of-distance Q&A (just because most conventional bloggers of even today's economist on new media does): ask what on earth will happen to the education of our children ?(and their compound futures http://globalcharters.blogspot.com , http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com ) should I be at least a few degrees correct in asking -nay begging - you to go beyond only top down nations as a way of democratically mapping world trade.

posted by ... @ 4:59 AM 0 comments

Can children participate in the future of BBC?

Text is taken from this nice pdf doc

BBC Charter Review 2005
The BBC Green Paper1 is 116 pages long.
This summary for young people has been prepared by the Children's Rights
Alliance for England.

The BBC was set up in 1922, and got its first Royal Charter2 in 1927. Its
mission has always been to inform, educate and entertain.
There have been seven Charter reviews since the BBC was set up.
The BBC's current Royal Charter runs out at the end of 2006. This Green Paper
is the latest stage in the current charter review that is being carried out by the
Government.
The growth of radio and television
- Between 1927 and 1955, the BBC was the only TV station in the UK.
- There are now over 400 TV channels in the UK.
- The BBC was the only legal radio station in the UK until 1973.
- There are now over 300 radio stations in the UK.
There are 10 parts to the Green Paper:
1. What the BBC should do
2. Digital Britain
3. How the BBC is set up
4. Paying for the BBC
5. Running the BBC
6. What the BBC stands for
7. How the BBC is organised
8. BBC Programmes and services
9. Selling BBC products
10. Public service broadcasting in the future
1 A Green Paper is a report from the Government. It sets out its plans for a particular area of law
or policy. At the Green Paper stage, the Government asks for advice and ideas from experts in
the subject area, including from members of the public. After a Green Paper, the Government
will publish a White Paper. This sets out firm plans for law or policy. This will be followed by the
Government publishing the new draft Charter that will then be followed by a period of debate in
Parliament.
2 The Queen on the advice of civil servants and Government Ministers grants a Royal Charter.
Only organisations that work in the public interest can get a Royal Charter. The organisation
must have a very special and distinctive role. There are about 400 organisations in the UK that
have a Royal Charter. This includes the leading child protection charity, the NSPCC.
PART 1. What the BBC should do
The BBC makes – and pays others to make – TV and radio programmes. It
runs Internet services; it sells books, DVDs and magazines connected to its
programmes; and it runs projects in local communities.
Right now, the BBC is required to inform, educate and entertain through its
programmes and services. It must make programmes outside of London. It
must make sure there are a lot of different types of TV and radio programmes,
including those that reflect the different people, communities, interests and
cultures of the UK. It must have programmes covering the news and topical
issues, sport and leisure, education, science and religion. The BBC must have
children's programmes.
The Government now wants the BBC to have five 'public purposes'. The
BBC must:
Help people to be active citizens
Encourage people to learn
Support creativity and culture
Show and reflect the different cultures and traditions and communities of the
UK
Educate people in the UK about world issues, and bring high-quality radio
and television to different parts of the world.
The BBC must use the five purposes every time it thinks about what
programmes or services to start, or what programmes and services to continue.
Q1: Do you agree with these five public purposes? Would you add
anything else?
If the BBC wishes to make a programme or launch a service that does not
achieve these five purposes, it must show that it is at least one of these:
- High quality – in how it looks or sounds, and in what it communicates
- Challenging – making you think
- Original – different from everything else
- Innovative – new and cutting-edge
- Engaging – keeping your interest.
Q2: Do you agree with this list? Is there anything else you would
add to the list?
PART 2. Digital Britain
Nearly 60% of homes now have digital television.
Over 800,000 digital radios were sold last year.
People now want more choice. They spend less time watching the main public
service channels. They spend more time recording and arranging their own
radio and television timetables. The Government has said that it wants all
television to be digital in the future. The Government wants the BBC to lead
in making this happen.
The Government is asking the BBC to help inform people about the switch
to digital and to make sure the most vulnerable consumers get help in
making the switch to digital TV.
The Government will need to be satisfied that the interests of consumers,
including the most vulnerable are fully protected before setting the
timetable for digital switchover.
Q3: Do you think that the BBC should make use of new technology and
be at the front of its development?
PART 3. How the BBC is set up
The bit of government that is responsible for reviewing the BBC is the
Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
The group of MPs in Parliament that check the work of this part of the
Government is called the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select
Committee.
This Select Committee has written a report recommending that, instead of a
Royal Charter, an Act of Parliament should set up the BBC. The Committee
thinks this would make the BBC more independent of government. The BBC
would then become like any other public body. The Committee has said that the
Government should renew the BBC’s Charter for five years whilst it writes the
Act of Parliament.
The Government has decided to give the BBC another Royal Charter for
10 years because it believes that setting up the BBC by an Act of
Parliament would make it less independent of Government.
PART 4. Paying for the BBC
Each household that has a television must buy a TV licence.
Last year, the BBC collected about £2.8 billion in licence fee money.
People over the age of 75 get a free TV licence; blind people and people who
live in nursing and residential homes and certain types of sheltered
accommodation all receive a discount. Everyone else pays the same charge,
even if they do not watch a lot of television or they have very little money. There
is some concern about people getting into trouble for not having TV licences.
The BBC also makes money from selling products related to its programmes. It
also gets money for its World Service radio programme from the bit of
government that deals with international issues – the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office.
The Government has looked at three different ways of funding the BBC other
than the licence fee.
Government to pay for the BBC. Some people think this would make it fairer to
people who do not have much money and to people who do not watch a lot of
television. It would make the BBC more like the NHS or schools. The
Government disagrees with this option because it says government would then
have too much control over the BBC.
Advertising and sponsorship. Most people value the BBC because of the lack of
adverts therefore introducing them would be unpopular with the public.
Sponsorship on its own would not pay for the BBC.
Subscription. Some research shows that people might be willing to pay for BBC
services. But this option would conflict with the principle that the BBC should be
free at the point of use. It might lead to low-income households no longer
having access to the BBC. Also, we haven't yet got the technology to regulate
individual use of radio and terrestrial TV.
The Government’s first consultation showed that two-thirds of people want the
TV licence to stay as the main way of funding the BBC.
The Government has decided that, for the next ten years, the best way of
funding the BBC is through the TV licence.
PART 5. Running the BBC
There is a problem with the current system of BBC management. The BBC
Board of Governors has two roles. It has to manage the BBC but it also has to
make sure it is being managed properly and sometimes has to make
judgements about the BBC. It is very difficult to balance these two jobs. That is
why the Government has decided to replace the BBC Board of Governors with
a separate group, called the BBC Trust. There will also be a group of people
in the BBC who will manage things on a day-to-day basis called 'the
Executive Board'.
Q4: Do you have ideas on who the people that run the BBC should
be? Should young people have a say in how the BBC is run?
The Government says the BBC Trust should work first and foremost for
the good of the public. It should be in touch with what the public wants
and needs from the BBC. To help achieve this, the Trust's meetings could
be open to the public; it could web cast its meetings; and it could hold
meetings for the public. It could also publish notes from its meetings and
publish the results of research. The Government says there should be a
fair and open system for making sure members of the Trust are doing a
good job. This could include licence fee payers being able to give their
views on how well Trust members are doing.
Q5: Do you think these are the best ways for the BBC to listen to the
public? Are there any other ways you can think of? What about
people who are not licence fee payers (such as children and the
over 75s). Should the BBC listen to them? Why? How?
PART 6. What the BBC stands for
The Government wants the BBC to continue to be a very important part of UK
life. It should be a major broadcaster across a wide range of channels and
programmes but it should not be linked just with London. The Government says
it may have to change what it does and how it works to keep up with technology
and the public's changing interests. And it will have to be efficient.
PART 7. How the BBC is organised
The BBC must spread itself outside London. It has an important job in helping
to train people in broadcasting and in developing new technology. The
Government says it must do more to make sure that independent companies
get a fair chance to make programmes.
Q6: Do you think it is a good idea for the BBC to have some of its
offices and studios spread across the UK?
PART 8. BBC programmes and services
The Government believes that the BBC should keep all the services it has – TV,
radio, Internet, etc. In the future, when it wants to add a new service – for
example a new TV or radio channel – it must use a public value test to look at
how the new service will benefit the public and whether it is a good use of public
money. The BBC Trust will check to see if individual services meet the test.
The Government says the BBC must get even better at making sure its services
work for people who have sensory impairments (people who are blind or
visually impaired, or deaf for example).
Q7: Do BBC TV and radio stations and BBC services, like the
website, have programmes and information that are interesting to
you? Do you think the BBC should be able to add or change its services
in the future as technology develops?
PART 9. Selling BBC products
The Government wants the BBC to keep selling products connected to its
programmes. It says each type of product should be tested against four rules: is
it related to the BBC’s public purposes (see part 1); is it the best way of making
money, or would the BBC get more money by letting another company sell the
product; does it help or damage the BBC image in any way; is the BBC acting in
an unfair way to its competitors who do not get public money.
Q8: Do think that the BBC should continue to sell things (like books,
DVDs and magazines)? Do you think the BBC should only be able
to sell things that are linked to its programmes?
PART 10. Public service broadcasting in the future
Public service broadcasting is television and radio that helps children and adults
to learn and find out about new things, and it helps different people and
communities understand each other and get on better. As well as the BBC ITV,
Channel 4 and Five have to provide some programmes, for example news,
documentaries and new drama, that are described as public service
broadcasting programmes. However they don't get any money from the public.
They get their money from advertising.
The Government will, in the future, look at whether other organisations should
receive public money to help pay for these kinds of programmes, through the
licence fee for example.
Q9: Do you have any further comments on any of these ideas in the Green
Paper?
Please send your comments by May 31st 2005 using one of these methods:
Web www.bbccharterreview.org.uk
Email bbccharterreview@culture.gsi.gov.uk
Post BBC Charter Review Consultation, Department for Culture, media
and Sport, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5DH.
Phone London 020 7211 2188
Useful links
Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee web link to report on the BBC
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmcumeds/82/8202.htm
Children's Rights Alliance for England web link
http://www.crae.org.uk
If you want to speak with someone in the Children's Rights Alliance for England
about this Green Paper and your rights, please email info@crae.org.uk or
telephone London 020 7278 8222 (open until 6pm every weekday).

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Prior to Google Meltdown day 9 dec 2005, first page of content of future of BBC contained this info, though more nicely laid out. Not all links here work because of other blogspot meltdowns


Help us discuss what you find out at world's largest broadcaster
Does anyone know if the BBC made any programs with Peter Drucker. When you look at the testimonies coming in from around the world on this most remarkable observer of organisational systems and trustworthy leadership - China India Philippines Japan -it's hard to believe that the BBC failed to.

Goodwill's casting waves
We are amongst waves of people (eg 1 2 3) who for several dwecades have been asking this question in the expectation that systems dynamics shows that what we all decide to propagate by 2010, will be the defining paradigm of the networked ageEven if you believe the network's evolutionary window of opportunity extends a few years out from 2010, for those of us who would prefer goodwill to wave through every relationship connection, mapping sources of goodwill cannot get started to early. If you agree, can you help us pin one extra goodwill coordnate on this Map of the USA and N. America?Chris Macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.ukOnce we have a detailed enough map, let's turn to other continents. Due to the personal circumstances of being located in the Washington DC region for much of the next year, I will keep on asking out of this locality. If you are willing to do so from another American locality, please volunteer to co-edit this map.I interpret google (either the number 1 global brand or the fastest growing global brand depending on which valuation school you belong to) as saying go show us what goodwill networkers can do when their email says:It sounds like you are doing some great work with Club of City, and we wish you the best success for your endeavors.Further references to goodwill versus badwill 1 2
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One Year ON - continuing the appeal of faith, hope, love
This post is mainly about whether BBC has any Tsunami remebrance: but we'll gratefully calendarise all commemorations YOU feel a world service should connect in hommage.March: Madrid
What's your bets that in one year on, all of us and all our organisations will be doing anything different because of Tsunami learning?And what's the mass media role in this? Does it cover the moment of fear for a week and then move on to covering the next fear-casting incident. We in London & Britain & Beyond will be watching the BBC in particular for something completely different. For example why not devote one main news program monthly (and a parallel website for including all inspirational stories of heroic work being modestly done- the mother Thereses of the Tsunami aftermath) in perpetuity to what is being learnt and reconstructed from Tsunami or from all other global disaster incidents. That would be real future news (and world service) trustworthy of the British public, who have shown so far more leadership common sense than media or governement one week onLet's hope that other networks like the Church of England will be monitoring the BBC too? The question to ask the BBC is : does your output compound faith, hope and love or the very opposite? On that answer your licence fee and public life depends in our opinion.UNITED we SPACE-: come dance with co-bloggers at any of DisasterGate & future of bbc & Journalists for Humanity & university of stars...& tell us yours
Some Networks that could help co-monitor the BBC:
Parliaments of all religions united - Activation networks starting @ Ministry of Peace (UK Houses of Parliament, Wednesday Evenings),Barcelona post-2004 Dialogues, Delhi in run up to Gandhi Centenary Festival
all change agents that practice Ghandi's Be the Change or the Quakers Be the Light - Delhi is linking up west and east in a multicultural centenary celebration of Mahatma Gandhi- say if you might want to be there
Youth and university of the stars
Women and value coordinators of kind, grace, nurturing...(1)
Active Globe-wide Human Rights Networks - community-up application areas linkingin worldwide: Water, HIV, Listening to Reconcilation Testifiers, Democracy-testing Simulaneity Open Spaces & Searches for Deep Communal Practice-Saints & their Alumni...
PLEASE Tell us which other networks you believe most support the communications of hope, faith and love?
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Interesting slides on BBC's Future from globalchange.comBBC FutureInteresting slides on BBC's Future from globalchange.comInteresting slides on BBC's Future from globalchange.comBBC FutureOne of the world’s greatest and most noble institutions – but challenges aheadRapid shifts in wireless technology, programme storage, competition, audience behaviour and personal values will force changes in BBC programming, production patterns, content distribution, advertising policy and levels of public fundingBBC’s “unique” corporate values will be strongest defence against step-by-step cuts and privatisation, helping the BBC win the war for talent, the continued affection and attention of the nation, and respect from the wider world But these values need to be sold well"F ast"Slide 6Early Warning Radar + RoadmapPersonal and corporate survival20% of risks = 80% of impactSome things change faster than commissioning editors or governors can make decisions2 minute challenge: Invent the worst news headline you can think of – about the BBCWhat happened to trust ?A Fundamental Question for BBC SurvivalIf the BBC didn’t exist – would Britain launch today a new, public service broadcasting empire, funded by “taxing” all TV owners £116 pa even if they never watch channels and are destitute?Winners and Losers in future Ratings War - RepositioningFuture programme ratings will be unstableDon’t believe market research“Opinion Formers” BBC SurveyTop 6 roles of public sector broadcaster“Six Purposes” may not protect BBC from systematic attack /cutsThe Future is two-way VideoVideo call: “Which is the best club tonight?”Impact of videophones on news gathering and live community programming:Instant video of breaking newsSlide 21Demographic shifts and other social trends will transform entertainment, comedy, drama story-lines, production and education / documentaries.The future is about emotionHow will they behave?Will we see deserted play areas?… while children prefer to play in virtual reality worlds instead?Power of a good bookBooks will continue to have huge emotional power in a digital worldNo sign that young people are replacing traditional social interaction with virtual channelsWeb Dating – Search for LoveCDs and DVDs will not survive in a broadband world where all music, TV and video is available online for freeSlide 31Virtual Social Contact is PowerfulEmotional Power of Web ChatEmotional Power of SMSAgeing Audiences“Auntie Beeb” culture has had a sex change and is getting olderSlide 37Tribalism conflictsGlobal instability and new terror movements could result from unsustainable contrasts between rich and poor nationsPressures on BBC World will grow for cultural compromise and self-censorshipPositive Tribalism = ValuesProgramme Schedules will still be important in “TV-on-demand” tribal Britain For live “tribal” broadcasts – national experiences eg Proms or big Christmas movies - everything else can be cannedLive, interactive TV, radio and web transmission will develop greater premium value and democratic power in an increasingly virtual worldInstant national feedback will have a huge (and often traumatic) impact on actors, show hosts, producers, studio audiences, providers and governmentMid-show resignation will not be uncommonSlide 45Impact of large media mergers"The digital revolution created the..."BBC online and BBC World will face growing pressure for cost-cuts – need new strategies to protectBBC Website Will Face ThreatNeeds new rationale to defend huge size / impactSlide 50Death of Political TheoryNew Shape of PoliticsSingle IssuesEvery single issue becomes a regulationHow did this turkey live and die?Did chickens ever run around on these legs?"Let every Kentucky Fried Chicken..."We will need a different kind of relationship of BBC to governmentBBC news and current affairs will be forced to adopt new strategies to stabilise falling audiences over the next decadePolitical Bias is InevitableUnless you rise above those playing gamesBBC News and Current Affairs Future Challenge to Nature of ReportingThe Problem of InterviewsThe Truth about Westminster"Most people believe that elections..."The BBC has a Unique OpportunitySlide 66Slide 67Positive Human Needs in 2030 will be the same"Huge,"Greg Dyke – A Better PlaceNew trend – get a life"6 out of 10 Americans..."1 million protesting about Iraq WarCompanies talk aboutIndividuals talk about…The ultimate sloganConnect with all the passions people have and they will follow you and your programming to the ends of the earth, be devoted to your services, be your greatest advocates– and what is more, be willing to work for you or with you for next to nothing"Fast / Urban / Universal"Slides:www.globalchange.com/ppt/bbc
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april 05= what the people said of BBC in the light of 21st C government to date
PW: Got more to say? On news reporting, and the overall perceptionof its service, yes. Much has changed since the beginning of the Iraq warand the Hutton enquiry, and it's no good rolling your eyes and saying,"Not that old stuff again". This was a watershed for many, many people; meincluded. Up until then I really believed the BBC was the last bastion offree-speech in our ever-shrinking democracy. My naivety was forcefullypointed out by the events that led up to and beyond Hutton's report. Myown feelings of the war and the events surrounding it put aside for thisnote, I now find I cannot trust, in the way I used to, the work of theBBC. That I cannot take for granted its news-reporting integrity; notbecause I think they are lying, but because I'm not sure, after seeing howthe government threw its weight about, just who's pulling the strings ofthis or that report any more. It used to be I believed it was thereporter's honest, first-hand impresssions that I was hearing. Now I heara faint echo in my head "What or who's is the agenda for this one?" andI'm annoyed and upset about this because between them, between thegovernment and the BBC, they've taken away the one sure prop I had whenall else failed; the fact that I was hearing the unbiased, unvarnishedtruth, that all who it touched would face and support its truths becausethey believed that, in a world built on cynicism and doubt, on theadvertiser's gloss and the race to "get on, get honour, get honest" itreally was the truth. Don't blame each other, blame yourselves for thisstate of affairs. This government has been and continues to be underhandin their explanations about the Iraq war, and the BBC were elastic withthe truth about Dr. Kelly; you should both feel ashamed.
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Ides of March on the BBC
+"green paper" +bbcWe understand why the vested interest of commercial mass media is to wholly misrepresent the net and all learning media, but there is no reason why the world's largest public broadcaster should. By not connecting with every way that netizens link together the BBC is missing the greatest world service opportunity (see discussion); we've also set up a space for bloggers or others to list how commercial mass media misrepresents us, and so why we need the BBC to stand up for the online worldThis 2-page submission being debated at the European Union's knowledgeboard looks at the liabilities that will be incurred if the BBC continues to prevent debate of the biggest future stories we -the human race's 6 billion being openly need to rehearse. Briefly coorespondents of the future do not need balance they need to promote diversity of debates. Example: In 1984, London's senior economic journalist planted a future revolt. Across the Western pond so did Drucker, Toffler and other future learning Americans. Networking economics depends on lifetime opportunities linking in productivities and demands of 6 billion beings. We'd need to map how this must-needs different governance patterns from Millennium Two's empire building's apartheids, and non-transparent corruptions. Many 20th C versions of these were not intended but compounded wherever short-term rulers' imagery -or their mass media - took over from openly architecting integrated systemic wisdoms - even such wholly simple ones as inviting communities to always cherish faith , hope and love of each other's being. Journals like Paris Match responded to London's new economics with incredulous front page covers: Demain Sera Rose? Ides Day -13 BBC's FROM University of Stars
Early reports call the green paper: a victory of style over substance- responses from co-blog familiesuniversityofstars ASK:What's a superstar to do. Nobody in sport takes Peace and Poverty more seriously than Karolina Kluft. Even most of the commercial media covered her genuine comments on world peace being more important than world records - if she could have a choice. But have a look at 2000 BBC reports on Kluft- its as if the BBC sports correspondent isnt permitted to cover anything other than the field or the tittle tattleIdes Day -12 From Blog Circles:One day we dream that the head of the world's largest public broadcaster and the head of google would meet, and would not leave until they loved what each other's media could connect for 6 billion beings 1,,2 . Until that day, it seems the world is bound to communicate across 2 silos : mass media journalists and bloggers. Ides day -11 From SIMPOL:FROM OUR MEMBERS REPORT OF 2004 WE ASK:Our surveys of thousands of people show these are amongst the hottest issue uniting publics.
How can we the people get our leaders to listen to us and not just to the rich and powerful? How can we make our values their value, values lik:
fair trade & decent livelihods
respect for life, heath & environmental sustainability
true democracy - not "corporatocracy"
freedom, security & equal opportunity for all
zero tolerance for all kinds of state terror and domestic tyranny
Unity and diversity among peoples, nations and cultures
an end to to so much state expenditire on weapons and the pledge to envision war as an obsolete means of conflict resolution Yet which of these get more than a miniscule share of voince on the BBC? And when they do: which are discussed in terms of constructive ideas for people to particpate in rather than messages of fear and isolation?Ides day -8: Our women's networks would like to point out that march 8 was International Women's Day. Did you hear even one second about these forgotten half billion beings from the BBC. If Google can incorporate Woman's day into its logo, why not BBC1 instead of its sickening poetry in red breaks betwen every program? eg a prominent feature on Mary Robinson's Ethical Globalisation web congratulates 17 tv companies in sharing in broadcasting a documentary on the evil of trafficing in women, a programme hosted by Oscar star Angelina Jolie- there is also a 14 language web site developed by the Swedish charity that coordinated this- why couldnt the BBC have been part of this collaborative tribute?Notes for the future: compile a 365 day calendar of forgotten people's day; send to every BBC journalist at Xmas as an insert to their diary; shame Panorama's Fair Trade program 2 days earlier was more concerned about promoting red noses than the much closer identifier of world's poorest women. This is not world service; unless it links its communications much more caringly, Brits should refise to licence this offence to and waste of our identity in the world. Does the BBC have a women's correspondent? Do they have a youth correspondent? Do they...From Macrae net-learning revolution links: The next decade needs to involve the greatest education revolution in human history. The question is will the BBC show what sort of contribution a broadcaster can play in issues like these listed by thelearningweb.net
1. The world is hurtling through a fundamental turning point in history.2. We are living through a revolution that is changing the way we live, communicate, think and prosper.3. This revolution will determine how, and if, we and our children work, earn a living and enjoy life to the fullest.4. For the first time in history, almost anything is now possible.5. Probably not more than one person in five knows how to benefit fully from the hurricane of change - even in developed countries.6. Unless we find answers, an elite 20 percent could end up with 60 percent of each nation's income, the poorest fifth with only 2 percent.1 That is a formula for guaranteed poverty, school failure, crime, drugs, despair, violence and social eruption.7. We need a parallel revolution in lifelong learning to match the information revolution, and for all to share the fruits of an age of potential plenty.From Global University: The 21st C needs some new institutes that Unite the World not just those mid 20th C designs out of USA, UN, World Bank, IMF. This need is one of the biggest conversations uniting 6 billion people wherever the world's most urgent humanitarian agendas are discussed or explored into action projects. As the world's largest public broadcaster, the BBC is conspicuous in its absence from being a moving facilitator of this agenda. If the reason for this is because the BBC beleives it is owned by the British Government and not the British people, then any such governing view is not world service and not something that the British people should silently accept.
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why not let the good news knight broadcast poverty eradication news game
Blair's theory at the World Economic Forum is a fair starting place, but this is where everyone needs to get co-creative...A couple of weeks ago , Richard Branson pulled off the most remarkable coup ever seen on America's commercial tv. It is worth noting it this weekend as corporate advertisers pay off a million dollars for 30 seconds advertising during the US's superbowl weekendRichard's reality tv show end up with promoting the launch of a women's charity - such US coverage would have cost at least 50 million dollars any other way. I doubt whether US tv barons will ever let Richard play that trick on them again.For the rest of us: let's blog more on how to use reality tv programs to humanitarian ends here; more on why the heck doesnt the BBC do syndicate a really useful poverty reality tv program here. ( clue in the good old days formats were invented like the Eurovision song contest; bandaids were done for global humanitarian crises; now let Richard work out a format for the BBC and India's DD to co-launch and we would have 30000 no-lose poverty reducing projects before the end of the year. Now that would be a real World Forum outcome; with the exception of the extraordinary Bula double act both Economic & Social Fora: seemingly more economical than the other 3996 days of leadership time (100 leaders over 4 days) spent at Davos , and to date the most knowledgeable example of using networks and broadcast tv co-createdSo now we see what a win-win world is possible if public broadcast and internet and leaders really capture the people's imagination, do we really want to submit to machines being accounted for as more valuable than people? I think that is obscene when we could be using 6 billion people's imagination to cure all the world's ills with simultaneous imagines and positive emotional trustflows. Perhaps the problem with Lisbon vision 2010 was that it wasnt heroic enough. I have no doubt that each and everyone of its co-signees (and indeed and WEF delegate) would wholly benefit from the FOZ World Sustainability Forum Lula's planted in September around the world's largest water dam. Slowly, the world congress centre is converging all 4 players above, and of course the big question is who should be depicted as player 5 on at http://worldcongress.blogspot.com/
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University of Stars - consider ways in which broadcast media can influence upcoming stars to have an agenda in life worth heroising beyond narrow showmanship skills - should be a no-brainer for the BBC's future. Is it that the BBC has never thought of the idea? Or that its current governors are blocking it - the public has a right to know.(Until the BBC gets this - do we really have to live in a world of English Footballers' sleaze, Michael Jackson behavioural models etc as well as ignore the possibility for human good that famous people can open doors to). Do you have any sleazy stars in your country, and wasnt it a lot the media fault for spoiling them?

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Wishing the BBC got all the best reasons to link Reality TV

In our 1984 future history, 2005 was a critical year. The peoples of the world woke up to their greatest risk being digital divides of extre povert between rich and poor nations and a reality tv competition linked to viewers jams on the net came up with eventually 30000 projects that made extreme poverty history without making well-off people poorer

Here's some notes we made from a reality tv blog that Google melted -apologies haven't got time to format them nicely again
consequences of reality tv
Sunday, December 25, 2005

the year to start uniting rich and poor with 30000 projects
Back in 1984 I co-authored a future history 1984-2024 on future of global & local networking and real. We only had 2 end scenarios teriible or much better for all 6 billion beings. The crossroads year was 2005. Our postitive scenario envisaged a reality tv show that captured 60 nations attentions, and spawned a virtual community of practice and ideas- 6 million ideas being registered of which 30000 became projects that lifted people out of extreme poverty (connecting the digital divide) without costing the rich a cent.WE are trialling the project debate at the European Union's knowledge space. What we need next is people to lobby a public broadcaster like the Britisih Broadcasting Corporation or India's DD or why not all Eurovision broadcasters - if you can do a pop song contest across nations , whynot poor innovation ideas - and dedicate it to the Tsunami victims - eg project KM0/30K - connect all people communities who share the same ocean with a the equivalent of the network age's bush telegraph system -an emergence just in time hotlinemore here
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Monday, July 18, 2005

Survivor creates Grassroots soccer for HIV African kinds
What real people do with surprising fame seems extraordinary - a chalenge for University of Stars to respond to where those who plan to becomke famous often seem to miss the win-win opportunity to be a hero sponsor of something the world wil love you for connecting beyond your singular skillJohn's Story (New York Daily Star)Grassroots Soccer founder gives new meaning to Survivor: AfricaReality TV show winner Zohn uses fame, winnings to teach African students about AIDS; to speak at Soccer Hall on SaturdaySOCCERBy Joe LemireContributing WriterIt started as a simple game of hackey sack.It’s become a life of charity work.As a contestant on the reality television show, Survivor: Africa, Ethan Zohn chose a hackey sack as the lone luxury item he was allowed to bring. On one of the 39 days Zohn spent in the Shaba Reserve of Kenya, he encountered a group of children in the parking lot of a hospital in Wamba.Advertisement");document.write(" ");document.write(" ');document.write(" ');document.write('');}else document.write("");Pulling out his hackey sack, he invited the children to join him in kicking it around. He saw underprivileged kids laughing and playing along with him, but the joyful game took a sour turn when he learned what all of these children were hospitalized for the same reason:They all were HIV-positive.Zohn recalled that the moment was especially poignant, the way it came during the cut-throat competition of Survivor, a game these kids were playing every day but for stakes much higher than a million dollars.Zohn gave his hackey sack to the children back then, but he’s giving them a lot more now.Upon returning to America as Survivor champion, Zohn helped launch Grassroots Soccer, an AIDS education program that uses soccer to teach children in Africa about the deadly disease. Zohn donated a large chunk of his Survivor winnings — in the hundred-thousands, he said — to help start the organization, which took off with an additional $500,000 grant from the Gates Foundation."I had my 15 minutes (of fame) and my million bucks," Zohn said, "so I got together my old soccer buddies and we decided to do something to raise awareness."Ever since being crowned Survivor champion in January 2002, Zohn has devoted himself to promoting AIDS awareness. The next stop on his tour is the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, where Zohn will speak about his organization at 7 p.m. Saturday. Zohn’s appearance will follow the Hall’s weekly hot-dog dinner, slated for 6 p.m. Saturday. The cost for both events is $10."What he’s talking about is something that kids desperately need to be aware of," said Jack Huckel, the Hall’s director of communications. "(Grassroots Soccer is) a great way to use the accident of fame to make a positive impact."Zohn, 31, played soccer at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie en route to a professional career in Zimbabwe, Cape Cod and Hawaii. Zohn’s life-changing experience in Africa led to his new vocation of AIDS education.Soccer, he said, was a useful tool to start a conversation."It’s instant access into the community," he said. "It breaks down the barriers of class and race."With Grassroots Soccer, Zohn has developed a progressive, game-based curriculum split into four 90-minute sessions. Soccer players who have completed a six-week training course in AIDS awareness then enter African schools and lead children through trust games, poetry writing, role playing and, of course, soccer.More than 20 African national team players have already volunteered in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Botswana. Zohn said this is the key to the program as kids pay closer attention to their soccer heroes. By 2007, Grassroots Soccer is expected to reach more than a million African children."We have found that the kids are retaining the information," said Zohn, referring to results of post-program surveys. "What’s great to see is that we’re starting to be well-known within these communities. Every school wants to have a Grassroots Soccer clinic."Grassroots Soccer is growing, too.Zohn said he’s working to establish the program in South Africa in time for the 2010 World Cup, where he hopes to gain the attention and financial support of corporate sponsors. A similar program is under way in the United States as Kick AIDS aims to teach American students about the epidemic in Africa while encouraging them to hold fundraisers to help those afflicted with the disease."The concept we’re trying to get across is kids helping kids," Zohn said. "We both love the same sport, but they happen to be born in a country ravaged by AIDS."More than 10,000 high school students in 23 states already have gone through a pilot program, in which Kick AIDS ambassadors give short presentations about Grassroots Soccer and the problem in Africa. These ambassadors work with coaches to organize soccer juggle-a-thons and other charity events, which have raised roughly $80,000 through children’s sponsors thus far.Zohn should be able to reach several high school soccer players Saturday night as the Hall is sponsoring this event in conjunction with the Girls Soccer Showcase. The showcase is a tournament featuring top-flight varsity players vying for the attention of college coaches."We’re not educating (American children) the same way," Zohn said. "It’s more about the problem itself and the effect the problem in Africa will have on them in the future. Even the littlest bit of money and littlest bit of equipment goes a long way in Africa. These kids find it empowering to go out and make a difference."
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Saturday, June 04, 2005

Humanitarian World's Biggest Breaking Story over next 3 years
Rick's networkers of innovators could be this. So I guess we could keep an eye out for all news aspects as well as reality tv. Will try and reflect a bit more; also hoping that Maz Iqbal will come into picture because his view would help -the first time this story captures wordlwide imagination seems hard to predict, but that it must is crucial to huge waves of humanity.
The EcoLiving Forum is a program of 10 events, each of 4 days, planned for next summer in cities across the UK and then moving on to other sites in the EU and the USA. The portable facilities will increase awarness of sustainable living issues and solutions by providing an experiential encounter with EcoLiving and at the same time raise funds for EcoShelters and EcoVillages by LifeSynthsis that would be located where there are large refugee (war and natural disaster) and homeless populations. These "field projects" will have the purpose of working on adapting EcoLiving solutions to local cultures and needs. Taken together the program is intended to lead to a widespread adoption of lifestyle change across both sides of the poverty gap and result in a healthy and sustainable convergence of lifestyle which is able to deliver sustainable growth that is centered on the EcoLiving paradigm.We envision the potential of a "reality show" format to bring these programs into the public's eye and to provide more depth of understanding and a movement for universal grass roots initiatives - the key to a soft transition to sustainablity as an alternative to contraction, collapse and conflict - the nightmare future.LifeSynthesis is a sustainable and ethical enterprise network with a program for the commercialization of EcoLiving solutions, which is a holistic package of technologies for "ecological life support" built around the SolaRoof opensource technology and BlueGreen design. More information is available at the SolaRoofWiki (www.solaroof.org) and specifically at: http://solaroof.org/wiki/LifeSynthesis/LifeSynthesis
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Sunday, May 08, 2005

UK Apprentice with Chairman Alan Sugar
Extract of Will Hutton's piece in Observer show that climaxed last WednesaySir Alan has won a big audience but, as Digby Jones accurately comments, he also traduced what goes to make for business success and long-term wealth generation.That shouldn't be a surprise. The show's format is an import from the US, where Donald Trump, an avowed deal-maker, property developer and ultra hire-and-fire capitalist, was the prototype for the Alan Sugar role and where the format is organised around what US TV producers consider its enterprise culture. But there as much as in Britain the narrative unfairly characterises what makes for a great business. Successful American business, as in Britain, is about its leadership team being clear about their company's vocation, understanding its unique competences and capabilities, and then organising a strategy around it and communicating it effectively to the employees. Trump's biography acknowledges that it's not so much hunger for profit that drives him as the pleasure in doing a well-executed deal, yet we all have to make obeisance at a business primitivism that says companies are about profit-obsessed individuals who have the gumption pitilessly to hire and fire. If Digby Jones doesn't like the results so starkly portrayed on TV and wants to dissociate himself from them, then he and the British business establishment had better develop a more sophisticated narrative about what building and sustaining a great business really involves. Yes, business wants the freedom to make necessary business decisions without inhibition from regulation, too much tax and in a culture that celebrates profit, but that is only the start. It also needs to embrace the concept that wealth creation and business building is a social act based on mutual respect between employer and employee; that innovation is a collective act requiring the serendipity of diverse people working towards common ends in teams; that market responsiveness requires the company to be able to construct creative conversations between its various teams and react quickly. In short, people count. A third-term Labour government might also mark and learn. Labour's first two terms have kowtowed to Sir Alan Sugar's cartoon depiction of business; now Labour must see behind his catchphrase to what really drives business success and develop the institutions that support it. And it would be nice if the odd television producer could help the cause.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

tvrealities of Branson, Trump etc
What doesnt interest me is the inane shows; what does is the logic (if any) that the philanthropists chooses to give someone a million dollar projectand whether knowing that logic and the amount of branding that it has got as a start from the show and the celebrity ongonig endorsement, whether the public can then help pick it up in any way that leads humanityUnlike the American public, which loved the first Trump series and poured cold water on Branson's show, I see what Branson ended up staging as very interestingWomen from last night on have a new network for humanity led by the girl (with 750000 dollars budget and a CEO's track record with spankz) who got 2nd prize and Branson's reputation. That could be something worth building on, openly connecting through ets - if anyone reads this with more ideas on how, whynot mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.ukchris macrae, university of stars
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a question to 21st C : will those on top of the world leave the peoples to suffer through all the troubles?

The death of distance future history we wrote in 1984 (the final book of a trilogy whose first 2 episodes were published as surveys in The Economist 1976 1982 ) predicted the next decade would revolve round reconciling this risk. In a networked age the people at the top are not as smart as connecting what we could all observe, question, collectively knowledge work around.

If this decade 2000-2010 fails in this globalisation reconciliation, 1 we will have failed our children's generation and started mankind's destruction of the earth. Call that the George Orwell scenario or which ever scifi apocalypse tomorrow you have had the closets encounter with. If however we succeed in mapping a way through so that the top listen to the people and use media to ask the next big questions rather than to image over reality, then we forecast that the 21st C will be the age when humankind finally grows up in the greatest collaboration and civilisation imaginable.

OUR MISSIONS at MACRAE.NETS

WE will keep circulating our scripts on Death of Distance and Entrepreneurial Revolution for Open Debate wherever people sources linkin or netizens co-blog A B C D

We will develop a website valuetrue.com where all transparency communities are invited to map out hi-trust relationships and transparencies between the boundaries of one place and another, or one competitive corporation and another, or one management profession and another. We will update any trouble stories that appear in the hope that out of conflicts pattern rules higher order harmony can be facilitated. This reflects the number 1 learning about innovation and peace of open space in its first 50000 rehearsals that Harrison Owen's worldwide alumni began about the same time as we started issuing earth of distance debating scripts. May all your good's love unite around large scale people meetings wherever the souls and spirits are trying their best to love one another.

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valuetrue - a cross-sectional sample or troubles- March 2006
March 06 - ClubofPakistan continues to search through how the world could help with people's desperate needs; we hear a lot from Spiral Dynamists and Integral System theorists but clearly their roadshow in Denmark a few years back didn't nurture enough worldwide understanding among the media and cartoon communities; system mapmakers have no business to offer methods that do not open up interfaces with other system methods in cross-cultural ways; we applaud Brainjams for its intent to move its open space roadshow on the deepest possibilities of silicon valley and web2.1 to disadvantaged cities, New Orleans next stop; Oh Paris you are the love and terror of my life and Brussel Sprouts are the one food whose knowledge you are the worst in the world maitre D'

OPEN SPACE RACES
FRAP! & globalcharters: we are starting to map the who's concerned who of waves all over the world - clean energy, education, knowledge, brand
August 05 - Sarajevo's story from Paul -Thank you. I have been here for three days. It is one of the most intense places I have ever been. Sarajevo is itself exquisitely beautiful, with architecture dating from the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires while at the same time everywhere the scars of war are evident. Also, everyone has a story of pain. Together, it is almost too much to bear. The task of reconciliation is certainly a massive one!

Appreciating other's places

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How we announced MyWorldAtlas to The Open Space Community whose shared listserve is as inquisitive for humanity's sake as any yet known to valuetrue transparency communities and ASIN emerging at BBCican.

I have been piloting this systemic construct's components for quite a long while now, and feel confident enough to expose it to your advice. Doubtless it needs huge improvement. I have long believed an open networking world needs a whole new atlas to take economics above zero-sum extraction - our dream journey begins at global university with helping people to develop a different map for every humanitarian agenda that replicates globally but requires active resolution locally. Oddly, as I begin to network professionally with sustainabilty investment analysts - defined to be those whose prime concern is mathematically quantifying future exponentials - I believe that service and knowledge community businesses could learn from this paradigm too. See through maps of how key relationships of productivities and demands win-win-win make a company's most attractive (unique founding) purpose sustainable if it a company is prepared to make its reputation an open gateway to better futures for as many people as possible (an old fashion view of why people commit working lives to organisation). This seems to be acutely true in transformation contexts needing appreciation of Harrison's Triple-C : Conflict-Chaos-Confusion template for reconciliation. The first component of MyWorldAtlas is literally to issue an invitation to a person or people in a network who appear to have a common gravity that I would hope to mutually multiply trust around. In issuing such invitations, its often unclear who needs to co-mentor who first- that is part of the exploration permit or open space dialogue. I am sure, since Open Spaces are the greatest invitation gatherings around, you could edit a better invitation but the one our (1) MyWorldAtlas network uses currently is approximately this Typical Co-Navigation Opening Offer Between Deep Context MyWorldAtlas Cartographers The more I read of your ideas and concerns , the more I would like to work as virtual partners on a deep joint project By a deep issue context I mean: any one that you will be passionate about over the next 7 years and need some joint open searching, linking, promotion, facilitation, action project prooftesting and global replication. I don't particularly mind whether a nomination is commercial or wholly humanitarian as long as it does not close off collaborative learnings and transparency work I try to do with many others and other networks. The bigger the challenge the better as long as you know some of your time/passion will compound around its action learning curve. I have been piloting a rough idea which I call MyWorldAtlas that I can illustrate better to show how to iteratively connect around a context, but I would need to hear or rehearse with you what the deepest context you are interested in from where you observe and experience life and sustainable value development. One reason why big actually helps me is that I mail coordinators of powerful networks with expressions of interest of people I link with giving them a menu which test out whether their network is actually up for action. One example of a target I want to test over the next 6 weeks is (3) clintonglobalinitiative.com - I get to hear of a new one of these almost monthly, and whilst I expect 11 out of 12 won't listen, (4) At Interlocal I later publish the gist of the letters I wrote and so discover who is prepared to work all the way with the people everyplace and who is just in a summit world of their own kind any players? chris macrae , wcbn007@easynet.co.uk - London & Washington DC, Project30000

Our official journalist biographer of Transparency Mapping's first 5 years of learning from all our communal members has just sent me a complete draft of chapters.

If you want to peak at some, say which

1 Intro 235k

2 Maps & Mapping 646k

3 The Secret of Mediocrity 219k

4 Millennium Bug 76k

5 Dog that didn't bark 638k

6 Mind Forged Manacles 838k

7 Building momentum 712k

8 Some outline maps 855k

We ask that however short, you post a comment back to us after reading any chapter. Your comments will not be named anywhere unless we receive your permission

email chris macrae

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Can we simultaneously learn from New Orleans, 77/7, Tsunami, 9/11...? We profile New Orleans here because it may have the most learning loops all the way down from superpower to communities whose fragility may be cause by nature's extremities on man's more selfish divides compounded over many periods of government. In most situations, we have local disaster clubs continuing action learning and regeneration from their epicentre of crisis- ask wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want or can help guiding transparent learning from these situations. Thanks

Exploring New Orleans Future : Doublequotes is full of tense clues

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Sep 16, 2005 — President Bush said Friday that the Gulf Coast must be rebuilt with an eye toward wiping out the persistent poverty and racial injustice plain to all in the suffering of the black and the poor in Hurricane Katrina's wake.

"As we clear away the debris of a hurricane, let us also clear away the legacy of inequality," Bush said during a national prayer service with other political leaders and religious figures from the affected region at the National Cathedral."

Also Friday, White House officials said that taxpayers will pay the bill for the massive reconstruction program for the hurricane ravaged-Gulf Coast and that the huge expense will worsen the nation's budget deficit.

Before Bush's remarks, Bishop T.D. Jakes, head of 30,000-member Potter's House church in Dallas, delivered a powerful sermon in which he called upon Americans to "dare to discuss the unmentionable issues that confront us" and to not rest until the poor are raised to an acceptable living standard.

"Katrina, perhaps, she has done something to this nation that needed to be done," Jakes said. "We can no longer be a nation that overlooks the poor and the suffering, that continues past the ghetto on our way to the Mardi Gras."

Bush, faced with continuing questions about whether help would have been sent more quickly to the storm zone if most victims had not been poor and black, echoed those themes in his brief remarks.

"Some of the greatest hardships fell upon citizens already facing lives of struggle, the elderly, the vulnerable and the poor," he said. "As we rebuild homes and businesses, we will renew our promise as a land of equality and decency and one day Americans will look back at the response to Hurricane Katrina and say that our country grew not only in prosperity but in character and justice."

vt says- lets make as start with some Washington DC cafe circles (and share ideas across other cities like London &...) discussing these intents and also survey what are the most valued humanity networks that invite volunteers to activate thier joint concerns

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Top Billing for Grassroots Testimonies eg this - please email wcbn007@easynet.co.uk others of similar depth or diversity

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The Washington Post of Sept 11 carried a complete calendar of breakdowns between all major organisations in the first 2 weeks of Katrina's disaster. Even more clearly than the tragedy 4 years earlier, this shows how the prosperity of human beings everywhere is declining unless we can learn to value transparency as the new vital dynamic of our networked globe and communities everywhere.

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valuationUSA
What if we explore governing America transparently: as a network of states where people's cultures flourish- we feel that a more human way can be found of sustaining states like Louisiana and cities like New Orleans than today's short-term power-brokering. We have a dream perhaps, but backed up by networking economics we began work on in 1984 that cherishes community-up transparency and enabling people to make a difference and seeks to resolve conflicts of sustainability systemically ahead of time. If this might be a discussion group you want to be in join our egroup valuationUSA here.

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In our networked worlds and interlinking economies & societies 1 2 3 4 5, over-reliance on one system’s command and controls is every being’s greatest risk.

What do New York, New Orleans, Phuket Island, London, Baghdad & Various African States have in common? Were they one-offs or will their compound root causes recur in other cities (or geographically people-tied places)?

Quite simply, we can see that all these geographies of citizen networks (aka societies) were devastated by terrifying acts of man or nature. Some unprepared for a single destructive stroke, many degraded by compounding distrust or short-term monetisation.

Analyse these system crises more deeply for common patterns - and warn yourself by asking would you want your family's future to rely solely on 20th C -pre-networked, pre-global&local - ideologies like these:

National governance – much more local contextual resilience is needed

Nightline, ABC Sept 1: To hear federal & local authorities discuss the plight of New Orleans today is to know that one is seriously out of touch or incapable of confronting the truth

Left versus right short-term constitutions of voting and mass media soundbiting – investment decisions that truly could have saved or ameliorated situations were long-term, structural ; not just about money but deeper human relations investments such as trust in human cooperation, open spaces and learning curves of social capital, cultural harmony and trust as money.

Valuing global corporations' future impacts separately from local societies- any state that perpetuates this governance error will depressingly make globalisation less & less human

Blocking Interlocal exchanges of learning across networks that go beyond national or other geographical boundaries- for example, as human beings are composed mainly of water, we should demand education about whole system learnings to do with water and climate ecologies. Make sure these go beyond nations and other geographical boundaries-indeed when a network of systems times systems sustains the overall value or health being compounded over time, boundary separation is like any other apartheid the area of greatest human risk.

Ignoring nature's cultural order: healthy society is a necessary condition for compounding strong economic growth and sustaining learning cultures, not vice versa

Utellus other learnings from these or other world’s citizens most urgent concerns for humanity

Open Networks that can help share pattern rules of World Citizen Simultaneity include:

Simpol ...1

Global Reconciliation Network...1

Open Space Alumni

Life Synthesis- Photosynthesis Energy Inventor Network

Verna Allee's Expert Alumni of Value Exchange Theory -one of the core advances in valuation/network economics understanding around which all valuetrue cartography and compound risk reduction auditing is based

Tomorrows Global Company

Royal Society of Arts cafe propagating dialogues -most current being : Global Citizenry & Sustainability

European Knowledge Management Survey openly sponsored by Emotional Intelligence Networks on the 5 productive multiplying systems of the companies that are best for sustaining the world and human trust-flows
Utellus of other networks or ask for guiding links around the networks tables

Utellus of summits where top people most need to include the systemic patterning intelligence in their action planning or media informing

September 05

Clinton’s Global Initiative

Tomorrow Global Company’s Wilton Park & Global Compact Networking

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Citizens testimonies worldwide -Utellus who to feature

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1 Sept 2005- UK Channel 4 Snowmail:

New Orleans: Anarchy hits US storm relief
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The news out of New Orleans is getting harder to believe every hour. The world's only superpower seems to have lost control of the situation. Thousands of people are still stranded without food, water or medicine. Tens of thousands more homeless.

Lawlessness is spreading around the city with police and national guard trying to control things but ambulances and rescue helicopters have been shot at by armed thugs. Those stranded at centres like the sports stadium are in appalling conditions with grim sanitation and supplies. There are attempts to get a few thousand people a day out of the city as the Mayor has ordered the forced evacuation of everyone, but it is pitifully slow and the people have little or nothing to go to. As for the bodies - there is still no reliable estimate of those dead. But now the Mayor and a senator have put it in the thousands.

People are starting to ask whether or not the warning and evacuation was mishandled. If people are being forced to leave now then why not at the weekend before Katrina struck? And there are increasing voices emerging about the warnings that were ignored.

Federal funds were denied to strengthen the levees. Was America so obsessed with fighting terror that it forgot what homeland security really means? And does the demographic breakdown of those worst hit - predominantly poor and black have anything to do with how little was done to help them?

It is worth noting that George Bush's new chief of Homeland Security was out launching September as National Preparedness Month. You couldn't make it up. --------------------
Sept 1 New Orleans mayor speaking on radio: I've spoken to them all from George Bush down. I keep hearing help is coming- this is BullShit man, I ask where’s the beef? We need Greyhound Buses form everywhere, they offer a few school buses. There's too much small thinking- I am saying this may the biggest catastrophe ever seen in a modern American city. Let me tell you there is one John Wayne character I trust a General Honore. He's the one gift the nation's top has sent us. I want him to have all the operating authority, then we could perhaps save some people.

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How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

"It is seldom, in the modern day, that one comes across a book with an impact like 'Collapse - how societies choose to fail or survive', by Jared Diamond (an Allen Lane imprint of Penguin books, 2005. HBK ISBN 0-713-99286-7; PBK ISBN 0-713-99862-8). Diamond combines the most rigorous research with a light and engaging writing style that turns this potentially weighty topic into an informative and delightful read. He charts the lessons of past societies such as those of the Easter, Pitcairn and Henderson Islands, the Maya, the Vikings in Greenland, and Papua New Guinea. He contrasts these with modern experiences in Montana (USA), Rwanda, Haiti, China, and Australia. Diamond then provides a compelling synthesis and puts forward practical suggestions as to what governments, corporations and individuals can do to learn from the past and thereby endeavour to secure the best possible future for our world. I thoroughly recommend this book as a thought-provoking read".

William GORDON, co-author of Brand Manners (John Wiley, 2001)

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Tales of 2 Cities

New Orleans News Wires (Several links require free registration to Boston Globe) Katrina's death toll will be way above 9/11 Sept 2 CNN news : Unconfirmed 100 perish in one place while 1500 wait to be bussed-Governor of Louisiana broadcasts today's biggest question: what can we do when network of civilisation falls apart? Journalists report reaching places days before National Guards, Red Cross & Other Resources on US Homeland Security. Convention centre testimony: there is genocide going on around here. Journalist: authorities are using responses designed for the aftermath of a terrorism attack and finding that response needed to a natural catastrophe is wholly different. From catastrophe to chaos: Gunfire, corpses left in the open, and a slow exodus out Analysis: Politicians failed storm victims Katrina will have broad economic reach Foreign governments line up to help after Katrina Miss. struggles to deal with dead bodies New Orleans doctors plead for help Congress to vote on $10B Katrina package Americans open homes to refugees Senate approves $10.5B in hurricane aid Gasoline supplies tighten, prices rise Fats Domino apparently rescued by boat Sewage in floodwaters carries disease From web report of B Kirkman:issues that led to the tragedy in New Orleans will become apparent: 1. After 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency shifted from 75% of its efforts being focused on natural disaster planning, preparation and drills to 75% being terrorism event reaction grants administration and terrorism event planning and preparation. Despite what one might think, there is little overlap between the two kinds of events. There has been a major departure of experienced FEMA managers with knowledge in natural disasters due to the focus on terrorism, and their replacement by terrorism experts. 2. All across the US there is a terrible lack of coordination in issues related to flood control projects between the Federal, state and local government. There is also a lack of coordination between the construction of projects and their day-to-day operational management. In particular, in Louisiana is up to local officials to decide if volunteers will be recruited to stay in flood control stations when major storms approach, at the risk of of the volunteers dying if the stations are destroyed. New Orleans did not ask for such volunteers. Adjoining suburban areas did. The volunteers in adjoining areas were able to activate back-up generators and keep pumps working that helped to avoid catastrophic flooding in the suburbs. In New Orleans the stations were unmanned. The power went out -> the pumps went off ... 3. There had been proposals for over 20 years to build stronger flood control stations and barriers in the New Orleans area. It was not supported by short-term taxation logics. 4. The evacuation plans were all designed on individuals and families driving their own cars out of New Orleans. No consideration was made for the approximately 20% of the city that was dependent on public transportation. No one with knowledge of public transportation usage was involved in designing the evacuation plan until it was very late.

London Former teaching assistant turned bomber slaps the policy of British Prime Minister Edgware bomber kills marketing genius who tried to save the world 1 London becomes test case for future of all open multicultural cities Discuss RSA Speaker's Papers: Sustainability - Discussion Global Citizen - Discussion Restore every person's voice to World's Largest Public Broadcaster

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In 2002, The New Orleans Times featured a 5-part award winning series written by John McQuaid & other journalists: Surging water is a huge threat to New Orleans. The Red Cross says that there will be a very high death toll if a levee breaks unless all citizens are evacuated in time- something more than likely if a category 4 hurricane hits New Orleans directly. Update CNN Sept 2 interview with McQuaid: the response we needed to this problem requires sustained attention and investment from every level of authority. Clearly that response was not achieved within the 3 years since this report.

UK Channel 4 Sept 5: This is the biggest displacement of people since the American Civil War and it must have political consequences as the people are being scattered across the US.

US Washington Post: Sept 8 - Leaders Lacking Disaster Experience- how FEMA's top became jobs for the boys

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