Hi, I visited the Dropping Knowledge (dk) event and then followed major parts through the Internet. This is what I found:
1. Wow! The organization of the dk event was more than remarkable. I have never seen something like that before. The great Bebelplatz in Berlin, which is dedicated to the "Buecherverbrennung" of the Nazis (burning of books), with a round table hosting an assembly of 112 very different people, from the Amazon jungle to the top of world executive consulting, dissidents, ex-politicians, weird artists, etc. Everybody with an individual camera focused on them. Then the choreography and the strictness of the two wonderful moderators - a female Nigerian activist and great William Dafoe) - stunning, amazing. All organized by a German maniac who collected millions of sponsor money. Chapeau! And then, all in real time in the Internet (well, you couldn't see all 112 answers to the 100 questions, but a good slice). I remember the Philippine representative of native folks who started his replies with a traditional song, or our great German movie director, Wim Wenders, who just replied on one question - "you'd better ask someone else, I'm not the expert for this. 2. Many of the answers on burning questions ("Is corporate ethical behavior possible?" "What if all Chinese want a car?" " How can we stop war?", etc.) brought me, however, somehow into the mood to ask myself - "Are they really experts". A lot of old, left-winguish statements, which reminded me of the discussion we had in Europe 30 years ago. Maybe they are still relevant, but not really innovative. So, it was not the answers that excited me, but the process. And dk is continuing in the sense that "everybody is an expert". Everybody can raise questions, and everybody can give answers. 3. I hope it will become a movement. It is not Open Space, but it is large scale, maybe rather comparable to "America Speaks", or to World Café. I want to follow it up, support it, critisize it, but definitely see as an ally in the process of mobilization of people. And the mastery of modern technology is certainly something which gives an example how large scale can become global scale. Watch it out! Love and peace, Holger Nauheimer Change Facilitation s.r.o. http://www.change-facilitation.org Global Network for Exploring, Creating, and Celebrating Change. Now available: The Audio Version of The Change Management Toolbook http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/res/audio.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist