The archive for education is excellent I'd be interested in the biggest change movements in public or government or international causes where open space has helped turn opinion or give sustainable voice to action networks with clarification as to the extent that youth were involved since I've got a feeling that knitting together youth movements may be the best chance we have of turning the whole world round. Part of my point is to know where we also have continuing contacts in these areas with our 80 country reach- perhaps some of this always needs privacy whereas another side needs celebrating. When youth in a country emerge to say they want to do something , how do we channel that into open space but in a safe a way ; how do we take a humanitarian idea in a country from minority to mainstream? There seems to be a dichotomy between youth in rich cities wanting to help youth in poor countries and youth in poor countries not knowing who to trust to get help. Perhaps I don't quite know how to classify projects in these subsectors of peacemaking as well as may be needed if others who are trying to reconcile these issues are going to get open space.
Perhaps a way to specify would be to communicate someone who I am sure could help if she got the idea -unless we have already tried , what are the 10 most relevant cases in the world of open space that would convince Mary Robinson to start helping eg youth everywhere to open space on the issues she's holding the space for at http://www.egintitiative.org . Basically if we could get one person like her interested then we could ask others like those nominated on the c100 West-East reconciliation initiative of the world economic forum to come out - are they really interested? or? or? Chris Macrae Apart from www.practiceofpeace.com <http://www.practiceofpeace.com/> and www.eginitiative.org <http://www.eginitiative.org/> the meta-network spaces that I currently see similar worldwide patterns include are www.collapsingworld.org <http://www.collapsingworld.org/> www.transcend.org <http://www.transcend.org/> www.gan-net.net <http://www.gan-net.net/> www.simpol.org <http://www.simpol.org/> www.wdm.org.uk <http://www.wdm.org.uk/> -other world or local pattern matches always interest me if you want to chat either across list, or to me at wcbn...@easynet.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of kerry napuk Sent: 18 March 2004 19:11 To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Search Keywords Dear Michael I suggested the possibility of creating accessible archives for specific applications of Open Space, starting with education, which grew into a wiki wiki initiative based on your work on interactive sites. We now have an embryo archive for education which can be visited by going to the following: http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceinEducation Following this thinking, could we access archives on other applications, such as healthcare, communities, voluntary organizations/charities, government (central and local), politics & democracy etc? What other subject areas would people suggest? More importantly, would people post their stories to designated sites? The purpose of organizing around applications was twofold: it promotes process credibility by allowing potential sponsors to see what others have done and practitioners to learn from experiences of other facilitators. Moreover, the interactivity of the wiki wiki allows "dead" material to be brought back to life. This could be a very exciting innovation for our Open Space World and particularly people using the OSLIST. As much of the OSLIST material is very fleeting, it is reassuring to know that the archives would remain available. I also feel this opportunity is very compatible with Harrison's philosophy and shared by many others about giving the process to the World. If the process is available to everyone and truly "open", we should feel comfortable enriching it with our experiences. Thank you, Michael, for taking steps to bring the archives alive. NOW, how do we access them? How about a simple step-by-step procedure to tap into this rich resource? Cheers Kerry Open Futures Edinburgh www.openfutures.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html