John Steiner: September 4-Week Online Conference, City 2.0 Expo

Access, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Culture, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
John Steiner

FYI and do share.  Many bows to Marilyn.

From: Marilyn Hamilton

Dear friend,

I have big news to share! After months of hard work (well, more like decades actually), I am excited to announce a whole new phase of our Integral City work!  This September I will be hosting an online conference called the City 2.0 that will bring together 50 visionaries and hundreds of representatives from cities from around the world. And I want to invite you to join me!

www.integralcitycollective.com

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As you know, for years I have been writing, teaching, blogging and preparing for new ways to answer the challenges that city stakeholders face—and we are all stakeholders in our planet’s cities.  This September’s conference is the biggest thing to happen in my work since the publication of my book: Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences in the Human Hive.  My colleague Dr. Don Beck remarked that “Marilyn’s two decades of work has created a compelling and important integral and holistic package designed to deal with the unique problems that confront cities”.  And it is that design that I want to co-create with you and other citi-zens from around the world. So we've created the conference to allow people worldwide to participate via web and phone or Skype.

The City 2.0 Expo is a 4-week online conference where we will combine our collective best thinking to envision the future of the city and begin to make plans to build it and make it real.  As someone who has been following my work (and my blog), I'm imagining you are the perfect person to join us.  Don and I will be joined by 50 other authors, experts, and leaders including: Buzz Holling, Bill Rees, Hazel Henderson, Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Barrett Brown, Jean Houston and many more.  Will you come and help me help the emergence of the dream of Integral City in a global community of practice? Just click the link below to find out more or join the conference.

www.integralcitycollective.com

I am so looking forward to connecting with you at this event!

Meshful blessings,
Marilyn

P.S. Please think about who else in your network would be interested in this. We are always asking “Who else should be here?”

Yoda: Understanding & Appreciating Reddit

Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

Inside the Reddit AMA: The Interview Revolution That Has Everyone Talking

It’s the new “Colbert Bump.” The new “Inside the Actor’s Studio.” Possibly even up and coming replacement for oft-sought Rolling Stone cover/interview.

Reddit Sticker (Photo credit: cambodia4kidsorg)

I’m talking about the Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything).

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Note to celebrities: Redditors (and the world, frankly) don’t care about the things you are plugging. They are interested in the opportunity to interact with you, the person. If you provide interesting answers to other questions, whatever your plug may be will be warmly accepted. Promote yourself authentically and openly first and then Reddit will find your projects the same. Just ask Louis CK and his $1 millon. Give and you may receive.

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Reflections on United Nations Intelligence & Counterintelligence

All Reflections & Story Boards, Economics/True Cost, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
Robert David STEELE Vivas

Your Aide Memoire came to my attention today.  Apart from wishing you every success, I thought to contribute a few ideas.

01  The new meme that has replaced Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) — I taught this to 90 countries including all NATO/PfP and six UN missions in Lebanon — is M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making).

02  Government is the least important of the eight communities (I used to call them tribes) of information and intelligence (decision-support).  The eight communities in alphabetic order are academia, civil society including labor unions and religions, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non

03  Governments have failed to be relevant or progressive for two reasons: first, they confuse intelligence (decision support or the outcomes) with secrecy (the method or inputs); and second, most government do not actually make evidence-based decisions, but rather decisions of convenience driven mostly by a mix of ideology and corruption–decisions that favor the special interests of the few against the public interest of the many.

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Patrick Meier: Crowd-Sourcing, Crisis Mapping, & Sustainable Resilience

Geospatial, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
Patrick Meier

Could Social Media Have Prevented the Largest Mass Poisoning of a Population in History?

I just finished reading a phenomenal book. Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, was co-authored by my good friend Andrew Zolli of PopTech fame and his won-derful colleague Ann Marie Healey. I could easily write several dozen blog posts on this brilliant book. Consider this the first of possibly many more posts to follow. Some will summarize and highlight insights that really resonated with me while others like the one below will use the book as a spring board to explore related questions and themes.  Read full post.

Crisis Mapping for Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Resilience

Crisis mapping for disaster preparedness is nothing new. In 2004, my colleague Suha Ulgen spearheaded an innovative project in Istanbul that combined public participation and mobile geospatial technologies for the purposes of disaster mitigation. Suha subsequently published an excellent overview of the project entitled ”Public Participation Geographic Information Sharing Systems for Co-mmunity Based Urban Disaster Mitigation,” available in this edited book on Geo-Information for Disaster Management. I have referred to this project in count-less conversations since 2007  so it is high time I blog about it as well.  Read full post.

Michel Bauwens: Elinor Ostrom discusses commons, climate change and green politics with Derek Wall 2012

Access, Economics/True Cost, P2P / Panarchy, Politics
Michel Bauwens

Interview with the late Professor Elinor Ostrom, to date the only woman to win the Nobel for economics, on environmental issues, commons and her time at Beverley Hills High. The interview took place in the Excel centre, London. March 2012. Sadly Professor Ostrom died in June 2012, she was a visionary who put her ideas into practice dedicated to creating a sustainable future for all based on human creativity. She discussed some of her key ideas with humour and clarity with Derek Wall.

Michel Bauwens: RSA Animate – The Power of Networks

P2P / Panarchy
Michel Bauwens

RSA Animate – The Power of Networks

In this new RSA Animate, Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world. Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima as part of the RSA's free public events programme. Listen to the full talk: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/the-power-of-networks…