Review of 2005

The Coming Wars of Goodwill & Badwill (or just plain blind, or hyper-separated) Networks

My greatest learning of the year started in Xmas week in Delhi in 2004. At Global Reconciliation's Annual Gathering, I had presented my talk on the coming wars between goodwill and badwill networks , where 2 of the 4 people I admire most in India were chief guests and hosts. The person who in my book is most multicutured in the whole world of Km (linking Iran and Frace, China and Japan, UK and Canada all of whose languages he is fluent in) said Chris the number 1 goodwill war could be learning slavery. Audit what governments now fund and will not fund. Look at school curricula and the modes of learning that are permitted and not permitted. Look at all the measurements and what those numbers are constructed to condition (in the workplace investment in machines and the curring of peeople's deepest lifelong learning curves). Clearly then KM has become schizophrenic: there are people who still believe in Drucker's knowledge work or my father's learning network future histories, and there are people who claim to value that but use KM to adminsiter the opposite. I hope you know which side this blog is on. If you are, why not ask to co-edit it at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk. If you are not please go away there are plently of stages who will applaud you for every hundred learning slaves you chain.

The greatest investment stories we have been tracking using our 5 preneurial lens linkin to aSIN where people and communities are suddenly deciding there are contexts so important that the future is worth investing in, and those who stick with it for a generation get 100 times return because they co-create 1000 times with society. Making today's speculative analyst and city news reporter look like a pale and ghsotle scrooge-as if we needed to return to the worst of Dinkesian Time. Queen Elisabeth called it good in her Xmas message- Britons all through next year use every conversation space you can starting with the BBC or the city you commune in : is humanity turnin on itslef. Thorough the net start the same conversations with the Commonwealth or any deep diversity of people you can reach. No question that I am aware of has ever been so urgently or accurately raised by a monarch. Long Live the Queen might have some extra meaning at a few New Years Eve parties, and Long Live Canada (Solaroof open inventors network 1 2 began in Canada) and India 1 2 too for there is nowhere that has been cooperating with humanity's deepest needs for energy and water like some of your citizens

So this is an unsual end of year summary. Let's review some great webs to explore together or not the people at the centre of them would endorse my last paragrph; these people love contexts and whenever I get to meet them I know that learning would be in great hands if we could find them some microfinance

Thank you for your exciting mail . I will try to pick up on one a day from
others who replied but your areas of interest have been on my inquisitive
mind since he first chaired a sig for Knowledge Management of NGOs at the EU's
www.knowledgeboard.com, and gave it a southern hemisphere focus because of his love of Brazil.

I have always said (and will always say to my last
keyboard) that if a web intends to a big open networking region then its
humanity sig needs to be central and free; something all the largest web
communities of 2000-2005 I used to know have systemically abused because of
closed-minded bureaaucrats or greedy investors. Have seen this malaise ever
since my first 1973 job in computer learning networks, so by know I am quite
cross about it because its not the future of transparent networking that I
want my 8 year old to inherit from our generation. Mathematically, we (if we
read von neumann, einstein, gandhi, buckminster fuller, drucker or my dad etc
http://valuesystem.blogspot.com ) can be certain -give or take a blip in time-
there are less than 3 generations left for most of this earth if closed
defeats open and short-term greed defeats long-run sustainable growth for all
http://exponentials.blogspot.com

Fortunately open is quite a simple solution in idea even if hard to practice
when timekeepers pollute your daily bread. Give me the names of the 5 people you trust most for the humanity and what a pyramid of mailing we could start, but be sure you bet everything you believe in for humanity with whomever you select. Before we can play learn or action, we need space opened by conflict resolution facilitators of hi-trust, and love of deep context

Far away from whatever KM has so often become as some abortion of connecting human spirits in favour of investing in machines, I started in computer assisted learning in 1973, so all I can believe is that we should all be openly co-mentoring each other.
These 2 bookmarks of what I believe knowledge work needs provide a start:
http://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=n
http://futureoflondon.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_futureoflondon_archive.html

Whilst co-exploring, I am particularly interested whilst I think of you &
Brazil and global developing villages in seeing whether theer are connections
between 3 areas:

www.cedus.nl which I will go web explore but send me anything else on this I
should read

http://trustmicrofinance.blogspot.com which puts all the links I have found so
far to network openly in this area

social hubs and Jams- the very best Southern Hemisphere hub so far discovered
by me is in Rio at www.catcomm.org ,where I have got to know the founder's
mission and network abilities

the very best jam is www.habitatjam.com - the technology used in this 72 hour
event looked awful but for example all in one web it collated 100 countries
views of the conflicted system that city slums are, so within 3 days a web of
deep multicultural info was co-created unlike any other and it will be used as
input into summer's vancouver meeting of experts in urban conflicts/design


Best of new years to you. I wonder if I should plan a quick trip over to
Netherlands to reconnect with a few people knowledgeboard has banned me from
conversing with within their walls. This year I spend about 60% in Washington
DC about 30% in London about 10% in revolutionary projects -we having a 30th
year birthday parts at http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com , and I
will go to any open spaces that want me to share that sort of learning curve
with them. Meanwhile our book on the exponentials of human*social*intellectual
(they need connecting and conflict ahead auditing for their flows to be worth
anything in the future) capital should be written up Alan Mitchell by next year

cheers
chris