Blog year2008 in october is about ending poverty http://events.takingitglobal.org/20255 so we hope this week's syndication to 100 blogs will exponentialise to tens of thousands of blogs by then, with a little help from friends like you

sustainability club http://sustainabilityclub.com/

social business club http://www.socialbusinessclub.net/

collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I

yunus 10000 http://yunus10000.com/ collaboration coordinators for youth dialogues in that city and between cities together with invitations to action specific to each video good news story - eg if you want microcredit to beat off big banks why not help any school try out micro credit with the world's simplest program small change, big changes - a microloanfoundation franchise

Peers across hemispheres and I are far more interested in ensuring that each of these intercity movements vetoes any uses of 20th c failing system methods that the majority of club coordinators -or where elected an honorary board - vote against, than prescribing revenue models.

OPEN SOURCING THE CLUBS
Obviously we should want coordinators to make a living out of work input whlst at the same time recognising that being a club coordinator is probably worth more than having many a professional qualification - or needs to become so if this world is to be sustainable. Equally where profits are repeatedly generated I assume we can find a way iof agreeing some sliding scale that should be contributed either to your favourite grassroots organsiation in bangladesh or to a small list of other potential grassroots partners of future capitalism which should probably need at least 75 of members refendum to confirm

I am very happy if people will negotiate what other rules they would need to want to participate as well as to clarify where they want diferent contant at the mother webs. The main web system I use costs $35 a year per web so its not difficult to imagine that major cties will also want to set up their own branch web or of course a free blog - either of which we will happily linmk from the top of the mother web.

Obviously some of our constitution needs double checking with for example the 100000 bangladeshi's and other Gandhians who are the main practical exemplar of the values we seek to network worldwide so that the future sustains 7 billion brilliant jobs and goodwill multiplying across all women, children and even men.

We wish to learn from each city's most successful ways of mobilising and cross-cultural celebration, as well as metods for ensuring that any action network actually reaches to those in most desperate need of its service. This is one of the big lessons of bangladeshi experience -reiterated by every micro-system designer in bangladesh we have interviewed - once a networks starts empowering the entrepreneur inside it will never get deeper than the deepest needsholders it begins with. This is a lesson that many global NGOs seem never to have begun to grade.

chris macrae http://worldentrepreneur.net/
washington dc inquiries desk usa 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv
y10000 at facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22045349892

Here's my uplinking attempt on the conversation openings we need all over the global villages, more urgently in 2006 than ever before if you accept the end of 2005 message of Queen Elizabeth 2: please make time , space and community to debate how to stop humanity turning on itself. Of course to network, much more interesting than mu conversation menu is: what is yours?

1 You are my sunshine and my waters
People have no health without clean water, and neither our machines nor our bodies have any power wityhoput sunshine. We have been debating why photosynthesis whould be the main energy supplier of 2000-2025 since 1984 in these preneurial and future history circles. Water's waves (their cleanliness and their compound network comnsequences) need mapping mathematically and smply enough so that every local community is empowered to respond ahead of time

2 You are my learning and my health
Vilages of up to 3000 people seem to thrive commnunally when the most respoected and valued person is a doctor or teacher in the traditional senses of loving to see everyone helathu and learning to connect their greatest differences. How do we build this from grassroots conetxts up before we make any other globally powerful performance decisions from the top of the world or its nations or its corporations. -best web destination for peope's projects? 1 2

3 You are my safety, my family's sustainability and my co-mentor, my cultural guide and collaborating missionary spirit.
No community or being has a chnace to make the most of life if there is corruption. If a group is born criminal or an underclass in the eyes of all its neighbours. Before we let global finace loose, microfinance those in each global village who are:
its bedrock
encourage one for all and all for one truths as well as loving diversity
those that historically the society has been most coinflicted with
-all this provided we believe in the golden rule of relationship reciprocity, which history tels us all sustaining religioons or cib=vilsations have enjoyed being.
The world's biggest differnnce in millennoum 3 is that we are all now connected beyond geography in what we can productively and demandingly syystemise. We shopuld network to discover our own most fit mentors through life to make a difference and help others do likewise.

4 Service Economy : You are my open space, my medium, my community's constitutional links for experimenting, prenuerial living, my globe of locally enrichening exponentials
...of as much of my life at the edge of experiencing what I can most serve and multiply actionable learning around. This comes to what one world of people who wish to live without wars negotiate as constitutions for knowledge city collaboration . Because Britain got this so systemically wrong with 19th C Empire (eg slavemaking et al), sice the birth of mass and globaly connecting media, we together with past commonwealth countries have invested more in every level of socital collaboration and sustainability than other countries of the world, apart from a few places where people's cultures had to colaborate to survive like the Nordia region. We'd all be delighted to hand over leadership in the colaboration stakes but for now may we be your guide:
why not learn from what Queen Elizabeth start 2006 message is:

use every conversation moment of being on the quest to prevent humanity from turining on itself

Benchmark world service media (50 billion dollars invested in the world service -BBC as largest public broadcaster; how could that collaborate in animating global village storoes with India's DD the world's 2nd largest investment in public broadcasting , or any internet company that believes the web is the peoples transparency media connecying all futures where economics of abundance suceeds in replacing economis of scarcity. Deep in the London village of EcoSaintJames a preneurial revolution sees its 30th birthday this year - chnage from global power economics of valuation to all the peoples economics and all the people's open spaces. We commend 5 villages that and multicultural city will need to sutain if humanity is not to turn on istelf, if indeed any great cities of century 21 are to collaborate without terror lurking in evry underground.

Understand the collaborative movements founded by women and or propagated by conflict resolution alumni : Gandhi (referee Einstein, a leader of beings the likes of which the competitice world has never experienced)

Link with future historians who say stuff like: Green is the Next Red, White and Bliue; Collaboration is the new competition; China is begging for collaboration but with deep contexts of global vilages and specific innovation networks not with nations per se ; map the real hubs and the web jams that social preneurs spin revolutionary waves of no degrees of separation with to bridge digital divides; -what change the world controversy would you like to simpol cafe with 10 people until it becomes a wave of collaboration all round the world -mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you need help in start a collaboration debating wave with humanity

These papers are being debates at the World Citizen virtual congress ongoing through the month of July at this bookmark

Strategic considerations
Taking democracy global: assessing the benefits and challenges of a global parliamentay assemblyby Andrew Strauss
Global Governance and the Simultaneous Policy (SP)by John Bunzl
World Healing: some remedies for a healthier worldby Doug. N. Everingham
How do we get there from here? – A Community of democratic nationsby Chris Hamer, President, World Citizens Association (Australia).
A model of work projects for Global Democratization: a graph and explanationby Kenneth J. Kostyó
Earth Federation – A two track Strategy by Dr. Roger Kotila
The road to survival – World Federation by Benton Musslewhite
Towards a World Parliament: a summary of the debate and a proposal for an electronic World Parliament on the Internet organized by civil societyby Dr. Rasmus Tenbergen
How world federalism will likely come into existence.by James T. Ranney, Chair, Citizens for Global Solutions (Philadelphia Chapter); President, Global Constitution Forum.
Statement for Unity of Actionby Josep Ll. Ortega
Proposal for a resolution of the participants of the First Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and Democratic Global Governanceby Otfried Schrot
Moving from national political systems to a human political systemby Lyndon Storey
Sovereignty, self-government and global government: A democratic world federalist perspectiveby John O. Sutter
From national sovereignty to Global Government: is there a plausible transition path?by James A. Yunker, Professor of Economics, Western Illinois University.
The importance of establishing a participatory model of World Democracy or Global Governanceby Rob Wheeler
Immigration clandestine et mondialisme (in French)by Roger Winterhalter, President of the People's Congress (Congrès des Peuples)
Reflexions on necessary changes
A practical alternative: new cosmic system for human Governance to achieve harmony, peace and prosperityby Ashok
Dialogues and Conversations: Participation and moderation/mediation: ways and means towards re-inventing Democracy and Good-Governanceby Heiner Benking, Independent Scholar, Berlin
The Society of War and its transformationby Dieter Duhm, presented by Monika Berghoff
The Friends and Foes of Human Rightsby Demetrius Klitou
Rights, Responsibilities, and the Global Governance Enterprise by Eric Mousset
Systems of voting: is there a bug, there?by Antonio Rossin, Jan Gieszen and S'ace
Basic components of the humanist transformation of societyby S. Semenov
New voting systems and organizing processes could lead to solving our primary global Problemsby Rob Wheeler
Global Justice
New citizenship, New Societyby Janos Abel
Transforming World Bank, IMF and WTO for social equity, ecological safety and distributive justice for renewable resource based livelihoodsby Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar Alam
Global ecological safety, sustainability index and one World Governance protocol : towards a comprehensive solution in monotheistic frameworkby Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam
Methodology of valuationby Peter F. Womack
Education for world citizenship
Planet of Education for World Citizensby Talgat Akbashev
Global Democracy & Sustainability literacy learning: why they must go hand-in-handby Eric Schneider
Declaration of Education for World CitizensPresented by Nina Goncharova and Claude Veziau
History of world democracy
The long and little known history of the work for Democratic Global Governanceby Kenneth J. Kostyó
Mundialist projects
Planet 3000: Experiment of collective actions on the way to a New Worldby Nina Goncharova, Edited by Claude Veziau
Religion, spiritualy and change
Prerequisites for Synergy of the diverse variety of eco-social-political movements on their common path towards human emancipation: Resonance & Grace, the creative principle of Evolution & the agent which wells from alignment with Cosmic Lawsby Wolfgang Fischer
The importance of Human Culture for the Existence of Mankindby Hadrian Judge
Seven tasks to be carried out for the Common Goodby the Institute for Planetary Synthesis Geneva
Brief explanation of the humble constitution of the United Nations in simple termsby Peter F. Womack

I would be very interested to receive postings from people in any country who
feel that parts of their media are coming out and asking big questions that
nobody knows the answers too. For 23 years now we have been debating the net
as the greatest communications revolution to wave tthrough one gereation of
humanity

Its only a small tide but in countries I know best there does eeem to be a
trend developing to tell politcians to come off it-
-where they sound too certain they have an answer or trying to con the public
-where old left and right views are part of the mental blok of finding
sustainable answers
This apppiles particularly to a catalogue of inconvenient truth issues around
which globalisation must be chnaged with 10 years if sustainability of our
species is not to be put at irreversible future risk:


To cite a minor example, I note that the BBC radio 4 is co-sponsoring
an "Iconoclast Series" with the Royal Society of Arts (one of London's most
open minded clubs), and in particular an MP who has adopted simpol is one of
the speakers at the environmental session Tues 19 Sept 7-8.15pm

BBC Radio 4 Iconoclast series in association with the RSA

Bjorn Lomborg, author of ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’

With Dr Richard D North, Institute of Economic Affairs; Fred Pearce,
environment consultant, regular contributor to New Scientist and author
of ‘The Last Generation’; Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP and Rt Rev James
Jones, Bishop of Liverpool

Venue: RSA London

I am also interested in large scale public events. Two notable ones are:
Gore has promised to train 1000 people in Nashville to present his
inconvenient truth slideshow -please tell me if you know of someone going to
this

Africa's first world social forum happens in January 2007, and what with
Blair announcing that the G8's African Progress will now be monitored by Bill
Gates, Peter Eigen of Transparency International Kofi Annan etc - there is a
revolution brewing in Washington DC around 1500 social entrepreneur networkers
of which Peter Eigen is one of five keys http://video.google.com/videoplay?
docid=-3407997752764644269 a neighbouring interview is with Brazil's Grajew founder of the World Social Forum and one of the few people to have got a whole country's corporations to see social responsibility as a sustainability issue

cheers
chris macrae chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
http://normanmacrae.blogspot.com - journalist space for Entreprenurial
Revolutions and Searcher of megatrends

http://www.frappr.com/africamph - keeping track of trends to revive Make Poverty History in Africa now we know the G8 can't begin to do this without a lot of help

Governance Structure of A*B*C:
A)Sustainability*B)Transparency*C)Gravity of True Purpose

Q1 Is it possible to govern the A*B*C of the local and global networks of civil society without this molecular structure?

continue the debate and finetune the details at http://civil-society.blogspot.com or discuss with me at C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net (CM1)

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

Blackheath & Greenwich United Nations Association invite you to a public meeting:

Wednesday 15th March, The Old Bakehouse, Age Exchange, Bennett Park, Blackheath Village, London (almost directly opposite Blackheath rail station, )
Speaker: John Bunzl, Founder and Trustee
International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
http://www.simpol.org/

"What kind of world are we creating for our children and grandchildren and what we can do about it".

Please bring your questions and answers! For a summary of the Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign, see below. 12 MPs from all the main political parties have so far signed up to SP along with MPs in the EU and Australian parliaments.

Simpol promotes the Simultaneous Policy (SP), which aims to deliver social justice around the world, resolve global problems like environmental destruction and regulate the economic power of international capital for the good of all. Simpol seeks solutions to problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone. This is because the problems transcend national boundaries, and because the global competitive system means that any government that acted alone to try and resolve such problems could effectively make its country uncompetitive.Simpol aims to achieve these objectives by encouraging ordinary people around the world to oblige their political representatives and governments to move toward co-ordinated international resolution of global issues for the good of all. This is because it is only by countries all agreeing to implement changes at the same time that problems no individual government dares tackle alone can be resolved in a satisfactory way. Simultaneous implementation of such policies would ensure that no country became uncompetitive as a result of pursuing policies that were right for the planet and which embodied people¹s higher aspirations.All you need to do is sign up as a Simultaneous Policy Adopter which costs you nothing. By so doing you agree in principle to vote at elections for any candidate, within reason, who has signed a pledge to implement the Simultaneous Policy alongside other governments. Alternatively, if you have a party preference, your Adoption signifies you will encourage your preferred party to make this pledge. This is the simple mechanism Adopters use to advance their cause.Simpol's approach is peaceful, open, and democratic. If you Adopt you will have the opportunity to contribute to the formation of specific policies that answer global problems and join with others in using your vote in a new and effective way to drive the politicians of all parties to implement thesepolicies.

Book Endorsements: "The Simultaneous Policy - An Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet" by John Bunzl. Published by New European Publications. ISBN 0-1872410-15-4. Foreword by Diana Schumacher.

"I thought your proposal was an elegant idea of how change could occur. It reflects the core ideas of how to create consensus around change. This is the biggest challenge that we have"
Ed Mayo. Former Executive Director, New Economics Foundation

"Your idea for a simultaneous policy is excellent. … Lets hope that people start to listen to this important message."
Helena Norberg-Hodge Member of the International Forum on Globalisation and Director of the International Society for Ecology & Culture

"It’s ambitious and provocative. Can it work? Certainly worth a serious try."
Noam Chomsky

"…the basic concept is excellent. … Let me know what develops!"
Jakob von Uexkull Founder and Chairman - Right Livelihood Award Foundation

"The Simultaneous Policy is a creative proposal to accelerate progress toward a sustainable global economy. Many movements and grassroots globalists working for these goals can coalesce around such innovative initiatives"
Hazel Henderson Author of 'Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy'

"I agree with the case your organization is making about the failure of anti-globalization forces to propose effective alternatives to thestatus quo. I believe your organization's proposals are an important step forward. I hope that many of those who took first steps in Seattle, Washington and Quebec City will nowtake the second step and take either the ISPO programme, or anyalternatives they wish to propose, into the political arena.Anti-globalization demonstrators have the attention of the world. If they wish to hold that attention, and start to make an impact on policy,they must now follow the ISPO's lead and propose workable alternativesto the status quo."
Prof. Christopher Leo - Dept. of Politics, University of Winnipeg, Canada.

"Simultaneous Policy is a very stimulating book and by substituting internationalism for globalization, co-operation for competition, humanity for markets and wisdom for materialism you have unlocked a powerhouse for good."
Tony Benn - Former Labour Member of Parliament, UK.

"The really big issues today now cross national frontiers and individual governments cannot cope with them in isolation. This is where Simultaneous Policy comes in. … [It] is the only way a host of problems can now be solved. Simultaneous Policy is the alternative."
Sir Richard Body - Former Conservative Member of Parliament, UK

"Simultaneous Policy is a most promising strategy for discovering and establishing a more equitable, efficient and sustainable economic order."
Shann Turnbull Author of "Democratizing the Wealth of Nations"

"The concept of Simultaneous Policy (SP) is a wonderful way of implementing cooperation which is the new law of human survival in the globalized world. With it goes moral education inducing a new system of values to satisfy the requirements of the New Age."
Dr. Farhang Sefidvash Coordinator, the Research Centre for Global Governance

"Working from an East-West perspective in which the interdependency of Buddhism combines with the economics of E.F. Schumacher, Bunzl argues for a program of restoring social control over the blind destructiveness of corporate globalisation by simultaneous government policies across world borders. The need for simultaneity of sovereign state action is an important new dimension of a debate affecting all planetary life."
John McMurtry Author of "The Cancer Stage of Capitalism"

"With his concept of Simultaneous Policy, John Bunzl delivers an important piece in the puzzle that governments around the world can use to resolve the pressures of increasingly integrated markets. ... It is, perhaps, one of the few workable solutions to bridging the sustainability gap."
Matthias Hoepfl Politische Oekologie Magazine, Munich, Germany.

"This is an important book about a potentially very important idea - the Simultaneous Policy. The author asks the question: how can the world get beyond the escalating problems of global competition to a framework of global co-operation? As we have seen with single issues such as arms control, it is hard for an individual country to justify making the first move. This is where SP comes in. It provides a rallying point for those who would like to see the vicious circle broken and a new world system inaugurated."
The Scientific and Medical Network Review.

Empowerment Jams - what actionable questions should simpol citizens ask first

January06 saw a 5-day mini-emolowerment jam on the net. I sue the word jam for an email or web connected gathering where people jot down any questions and answers on one subject - in this case what sorts of empowerment do people need and where are the benchmarks and conatct points

Here is the main question I threw into the jam. Is there a better question the next time a similar jam occurs? Do you know where other jams occur? Please mail me on empowerment if this is a topoc you want to discuss with me or other people linked around the simpol network

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EMPOWERMENT MY Q1
What sorts of people's spaces and movements sustain empowerment particularly in those places where community has historically been shredded and where can I find the nearest example of each type?
eg is there one web of every civic society association, clarifying which countries it has contact poinst in? does this link with say World Social Forums which started in Porto Alegre and now run about 5 regional events every year; and what does each forum learn , accumulate for the next in building the map; then there are transparency networks like Harrison Owen's Open Space technology movement which has now staged well over 50000 community-up events over the last 25 years with practised faciliators linked through at least 100 countries; or the Royal Society of Arts world citizen program- intended as one of its 5 main members discussion points over this decade (and presumably there are historical traces of citizen movements in many of the countries that were or are part of the old Britsh commonwealth); there's also the restoration after major tragedies like where HIV has spread- some of the networks of medical or missionary people connect night and day in trying to help put the infrastructure of community back
these are a few of the sorts of planting for empowerment that I accidentally know about, but I wish there was one open clearing house providing a package tour to every sort of empowerplant all of us in this discussion group may know of
chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

Can you imagine a bigger open space than a peoples politics sans frontieres -that's the compass that www.simpol.org 1 seeks to collaborate around anywhere people want to develop speakers corners on the issues that go beyond nations and shoprt-term (leadership by =4-year terms) if they are every to be harmoniously resolved. Not that we have ever, now that a networking world punishes every interaction between 2 non-harmonising neighbours.

Unfortunately, powerful people are too busy to find 3 days in their diaries for mutual meetings this side of eternity, so simpol has had to evolve one hour cafes

one of the first of these was help in the Friends house - it was on the human rights to water as connected by the man who has linked more of this topic across S American tahn anyone else even cheerleading the Brazilian Catholic Church to make 2004 the year of water in people dialogues scripted through its 7000 odd parishes.

In March 2006, our Brazilian friend gives us another 1 hour cafe update for those most concerned about this topic. The chalenge is to try and get busy people to join in. Who might this be:
eg someone from tomorrows company, whose annual lecture at the end of mrch is being given by Al Gore
someone from photosythesis water and energy is the number 1 peoples innovation-implemetattion of this decade
someone for Anita Roddick and her troubled waters
someone uniting religions and their views of human rights
someone for the Brazilian embassy who can update theiur latest view on the 100 peoples projects being invested in round the river basins of the world's largest dam at Foz
someone frrom bethechnage if they are interested in linking london and water and Gandhi
someone from GRN if water is a reconcilitaion issue between palestine and israel and simpol Japan's hub
who else?
is there anyone from open space world?

What scripts do the peoples' peaceful revolutionaries need journalists to space now!

Here are some scripts entrepreneurial revolutionaries got 1984 journalists at The Economist 1 2 to place to help leadership questioning involve the widest and transparent participation not the narrowest and most closed

which are tomorrow's world scripts, where and who is spacing them?

1 You are My Sunshine (2024 Report chapter 16 written 1984 commons copyright asserted by macrae.nets)
Sunlight is the fuel which sustains life on earth. The process by which plants extract energy from sunlight, using that energy to build up complex compounds from simper ones and thereby storing the energy which animals, including humans, use to grow and move and see and think is the life-process itself. We (human beings) have always exploited that life-process, but in the past we have only been able to do so by using living plants as our agents. We learned to cultivate them, develop them by selective breeding, and since the 1980s to meddle with their genes, but we have not yet learned to substitute something of our own making for the living plant. We have not found or made a more efficient substitute for chlorophyll itself outside the naturally-occurring factory which is the living cell.Until we design our own systems which can deploy the energy of sunlight as efficiently as humble algae does, we humans have no real biotechnology of our own. We have many kinds of solar cells which can extract energy from the sunlight and store is as electricity or heat, but such devices are very crude indeed beside the technical sophistication and versatility of living plants.We are making a determined effort to capture and use a greater fraction of the solar energy which falls upon the face of the earth every day. We are trying to make plants flourish in paces where at present they can only eke out the most precarious of existence. The ideal situation, however, would be one in which we did not need to work so hard to adapt existing plants to more hostile conditions. If we had our own artificial systems of photosynthesis we might exploit the desert sun ourselves, without using other organisms as intermediaries. Our ultimate ambition must be to make artificial photosynthetic systems more efficient than those which have evolved alongside side us throughout the history of life on earth. Then and only then will we be able to claim that we are technologically self-sufficient. In 2024, this looks as if it might be one of our children's tasks.

For Humanity not to Turn On Istelf : Change Economics & Prioritise The Peoples 30000 Grassroots Projects of Globalization before 2010
Changing Economics (open commons property right asserted 1984 by Friends of Future History)
Changing Economics
The introduction of the international Centrobank was the last great act of government before government grew much less important. It was not a conception of policy-making governments at all, but emerged from the first computerised town meeting of the world.
By 2005 the gap in income and expectations between the rich and poor nations was recognised to be man's most dangerous problem. Internet linked television channels in sixty-eight countries invited their viewers to participate in a computerised conference about it, in the form of a series of weekly programmes. Recommendations tapped in by viewers were tried out on a computer model of the world economy. If recommendations were shown by the model to be likely to make the world economic situation worse, they were to be discarded. If recommendations were reported by the model to make the economic situation in poor countries better, they were retained for 'ongoing computer analysis' in the next programme.

In 2024 it is easy to see this as a forerunner of the TC2 (TeleCommuning & TeleComputing) conferences which play so large a part in our lives today, both as pastime and principal innovative device in business. But the truth of this 2005 breakthrough tends to irk the highbrow. It succeeded because it was initially a rather downmarket network television programme. About 400 million people watched the first programme, and 3 million individuals or groups tapped in suggestions. Around 99 per cent of these were rejected by the computer as likely to increase the unhappiness of mankind. It became known that the rejects included suggestions submitted by the World Council of Churches and by many other pressure groups. This still left 31,000 suggestions that were accepted by the computer as worthy of ongoing analysis. As these were honed, and details were added to the most interesting, an exciting consensus began to emerge. Later programmes were watched by nearly a billion people as it became recognised that something important was being born.

These audiences were swollen by successful telegimmicks. The presenter of the first part of the first programme was a roly-poly professor who was that year's Nobel laureate in economics, and who proved a natural television personality. He explained that economists now agreed that aid programmes could sometimes help poor countries, but sometimes most definitely made their circumstances worse. When Mexico was inflating at over 80 per cent a year in the early 1980s , the inflow to it of huge loanable funds made its inflation even faster and its crash more certain. The professor set Mexico's 1979-1981 economy on the model, pumped in the loaned funds and showed how all the indicators ( higher inflation, lower real gross domestic product and so on) then flashed red, signaling an economy getting worse, rather than green, signaling an economy getting better. ..The professor then put the model back to mirror the contemporary world of 2005, and played into it various nostrums that had been recommended by politicians of left, right and centre, but mostly left. The dials generally flashed red. Then the professor provided another set of recommendations , and asked viewers who wished to play to tap in their own guesses on the consequent movement of key economics variables in the model. Those who got their guesses right to within a set error were told they had qualified for a second round of a knock-out economic guesstimators' world championship. Knockout competitions of this sort continued for viewers throughout the series of programmes.

In the second part of that first programme, the presenters dared to introduce two political decisions into the game. They said that government-to-government aid programmes had been particularly popular among politicians during the age of over-government, but there was growing agreement that government-to-government aid was the worst method of hand-out. The excessive role played by governments in poor countries was one of the barriers to their economic advance, and a main destroyer of their people's freedom. Could anyone have thought it would be wise to give aid to President Mbogo?

ABOUT The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
How Did It Start?
How is ISPO Incorporated?
Who Funds It?
How Can I Contact ISPO and How Can I Provisionally Adopt SP and Get Involved?
Who are ISPO’s Principal Office-Holding Volunteers?
Who are the Members of ISPO's Honourary Advisory Board?

How Did It Start?
The Simultaneous Policy (SP) started as an idea which occurred to British businessman, John Bunzl, towards the end of 1998. The essence of the idea is a viable technology for making the vital transition from today’s destructive global economic competition to a new paradigm of fruitful global cooperation, and to do so within the framework of existing national and international institutions and political processes. This ‘technology’ is set out in brief on this website and in more detail in Bunzl's book, The Simultaneous Policy – An Insider’s Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet.

How is ISPO Incorporated?
The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) is presently an informal, non-profit umbrella organisation for all the many national Simultaneous Policy organisations which are gradually forming in countries around the world. ISPO-UK is due to be incorporated as a democratically operated non-profit Company limited by guarantee in 2004. It is expected that other national SP organisations will incorporate soon along similar lines.
Read the Founding Declarations of ISPO (semi-final draft in Word or PDF) and of Simpol-UK (Word, PDF) – soon to be our first incorporated national Simultaneous Policy organisation (or NSPO) and the model for future NSPOs.

Who Funds It?
ISPO is presently funded by voluntary donations from SP adopters, by proceeds from sales of John Bunzl’s books and by donations from not-for-profit foundations. Neither ISPO nor any national SP organisation is permitted to accept funding from for-profit organisations.
How Can I contact ISPO and How Can I Provisionally Adopt SP and Get Involved?
ISPO operates a number of e-mail lists open to anyone who has provisionally adopted the Simultaneous Policy (SP). There are various lists dedicated to campaigning, SP policy formulation and general discussion. If you decide to provisionally adopt SP, you will automatically receive further details and be invited to join these lists and to become involved in campaigning for SP and creating its measures. To provisionally adopt SP, click here for our adoption form. For useful campaigning resources, visit our campaigning page.
The SP campaign is so far operating in the following countries around the world. Please contact the National SP Campaign Coordinator in your country. If your country is not on the following list, please contact ISPO-UK.


Simpol-UK info@simpol.org John Bunzl

Simpol-Belgique info@simpol.org Georges Drouet

Simpol-Mali info@simpol.org Kiki Paquet

Simpol-India info@simpol.org H.A. Shankaranarayana

Simpol-Pakistan info@simpol.org Mrs. Zubaida Hussain

Simpol-East Africa info@simpol.org Omondi George
Simpol-Espana info@simpol.org Juan de Castro & Teresa Solano

Simpol-France info@simpol.org Baptiste Heraly

Simpol-Canada info@simpol.org Diana Jewell

Simpol-Uruguay info@simpol.org Ricardo Cetrulo

Simpol-Australia info@simpol.org Brian Jenkins

Simpol-USA info@simpol.org Cynthia Josayma (leads out of West Coast), on East Coast Chris Macrae can provide support

Simpol-Nepal info@simpol.org Mr. Gopal Siwakoti

Simpol-Cameroon info@simpol.org Bertrand Tietcheu

Simpol-Italy info@simpol.org Dr. Antonio Rossin

Simpol- Japan - info@simpol.org Modjtaba Sadria

Diary Notes Feb 2005 to September 2004

technical note: these are reconstructed from the first simpol weblog inexplicably melted down in Dec 05 by Google. Apologies for loss of format and occasional missing links in this threa. Google melted down over 100 of our collaboration story blogs giving our Club of City*Village*Country volunteers a lot of reconstrution work in loosely linking 40+ million bookmarks of collaboration knowledge city.

Friday, February 04, 2005

Rudi Vis, Labour MP for Finchley & Golders Green, has become the latest MP to support the Simultaneous Policy (SP), an international citizens' campaign for global justice and sustainability, also known as "Simpol"."With massive global problems with us now and providing further tensions and pressures in the future, international and global co-operation will be vital," said Mr. Vis in signing the "SP Pledge" to implement SP simultaneously, alongside other governments. The implementation of problem-solving policies by many governments simultaneously is seen as a way of eliminating the fear of economic competitive disadvantage which presently prevents any government from moving first to solve problems like global warming, corporate abuse, unsustainability and unfair trade.Simpol-UK, the UK branch of the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation, is a movement of citizens who use their votes in a new way to solve these problems, but it is not a political party. Instead it invites citizens to develop the Simultaneous Policy as their own set of policy measures to address global issues. They then vote at election time for any candidate who has signed the SP pledge or, if they have a party preference, they encourage their party to sign the Pledge. "The more parliamentary seats become increasingly marginal, the lower is the number of SP adopters needed for politicians to see supporting SP as being in their vital electoral interests. With citizens' support growing rapidly, candidates who fail to support SP could soon find themselves un-seated by those that do," said John Bunzl, Simpol's founder.Vis joins fellow MPs Tony Wright (Lab. Cannock Chase), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru, Carmarthen East & Dinefwr, Wales), Andrew George (Lib Dem, St Ives), Labour's Anne Campbell (Cambridge) and Mike Hancock CBE (Lib Dem, Portsmouth South), in his support for SP. Members of the European and Australian Parliaments, as well as numerous parliamentary candidates from several parties, also pledged to implement SP during the recent European and Australian Federal elections. Simpol-UK is now gearing up to gain further support in the general election expected in spring 2005
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Saturday, December 25, 2004
Open Planning Great British Meetings of 2005 #1
DRAFT ---SIMPOL-UKThe national branch of theInternational Simultaneous Policy Organisationis organising a Policy Forum, open to all, onREFORM OF OUR UNSUSTAINABLE MONETARY SYSTEM ISNOW ACHIEVABLE THROUGH INFORMED ACTION BY VOTERSat [6 pm] on Wednesday 2 March 2005in [House of Lords Committee Room X / Friends House, Euston Road / ...]Why the system is grossly damaging and exploitative and needs to be changedIt is not widely understood that 97% of the money in circulation in the UK has been created by commercial banks at the touch of a computer keyboard as an interest-bearing loan, and only 3% as banknotes and coins issued by the Bank of England and the Royal Mint. From this arrangement the banking community gains over £20 billion a year in interest from the 97%, while the taxpayer gets £3 billion from the 3%. A comparable situation exists in other countries.Apart from the injustice of exploiting the value of a public resource for private profit, an economy in which most of the money has been created as debt will inevitably experience high levels of public and private indebtedness. It will have to grow ad infinitum in order to meet a growing burden of interest payments on a growing money supply. It will be inherently distorted, inefficient and unjust in various other ways. How voters can pressurise governments to institute reformFor many years a viable alternative to this destructive and unsustainable system has been proposed, but resisted – partly by exploiting a fear that the loss of the present hidden subsidy would damage the international competitive performance of the banking industry and of the national economy as a whole. Now, for the first time, an answer to this is in prospect. This is the adoption by citizens worldwide of the Simultaneous Policy (SP), the new way by which voters, acting together across frontiers, can empower accountable politicians to cooperate globally, and bring pressure to bear on governments to enact saner policies -- such as monetary reform -- simultaneously.First Forum objective: Consider the beneficial reforms proposedThis first objective is to discuss the socially beneficial and entirely practical proposal that national monetary authorities should create non-cash (bank-account) money as well as banknotes and coins at regular intervals, as required to regulate the amount of money in circulation. They should give these amounts to their governments as debt-free public revenue, and the governments should put the money into circulation by spending it. And it should become illegal for anyone else to create bank-account money denominated in the national currency.Second objective: strategies for building public opinion favouring reformThe other objective is to agree ways in which such a major, new-paradigm proposal can be made politically acceptable, first by demonstrating to citizens and business people worldwide that they have allowed their governments to endorse a system that keeps them in a completely unnecessary spiral of debt, and to show how, as voters supporting the Simultaneous Policy, they have the collective power to influence government policies. And secondly to convince politicians, who had a "massive vote of no confidence" in a recent Gallup International poll, that they can restore voters' confidence by supporting such a bold -- and more democratic -- policy.The above views do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO).
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Wednesday, September 22, 2004

A Walk Through Open Space 1
Inspired by all our friends at Simpol & their blossoming events diary, you might like to join us as we develop this blog - as an action-guide to Human Rights for all 6 billion people
What areas of rights most define life's opportunity for every human being? Examples:-
Water
Ending poverty
Personal safety/health
Ensuring genetic engineering isn't big science's next nuclear
Environmental foci...HERE- We'd love you to help us prioritise agendas
What methods do we have for making the most of progress for humanity?
Open Space & Simpol Cafes
Policy Learning Games
Multiplying social networks out of local action projects whose success can be openly replicated through hi-trust 'franchises' anywhere needed worldwide
Storytelling & helping folk like public sector journalists to go the extra mile in investigating untruths or making real heroes more newsworthy than superficial celebs...Here- We'd love to discover which methods work best in your experienceTo get started, let me try to explain why I network with many people who see open space as a benchmark method enabling people to come together and be sure they will help each other discover ways of making a difference.
The two greatest communications miracles that I have been suprised to discover are 1) email, 2) Open Space.For me email goes through 12 grades; you need to describe in your own words what 12th grade practice of email and all things net and web could be. My current attempt: use to find your 10 best mentors through life and help others to find theirs. (More to discuss here)Open Space is much harder for me to describe. Why and when and how do I value meeting 10 or 5000 passionately energised people all at the same time in real places?I am sure there must be many ways of trying to answer that but an easy way is to let my diary do the talking.The first open space I went to was what turned out to be one of many recurring aproximately annually somewhere in or near London called Create the World We Want (2 - I missed the first!) hosted by Bridget Peake & Martin Leith. Perhaps a few other people who have been to a CTW3 or a Bridget Space will drop by and list some consequences for them in the post. I will try and add some of my own afters, but on the day itself:-met 80 people, about 15 of whom invited me to join networks, most of which I treasure to this day-experienced something with more human joy echoing in every corner of the circular hall, than anything else I've seen 60 people do together; is it possible to feel at home with 60 people you've only just met (in the miracle of open space the answer so far seems to have been Yes (8 completely different ones I've been honored to be in)-bought a book on Global Forces from one of the particpants Bruce Nixon. I hope Bruce's copyright holders will forgive me repeating here the 6 quotes he used in his introduction because each has a Simpol relevance, at least as I try to make local sense of this wide-world of ours

Kofi Annan, African saying: "The earth is not ours; it is a reassure we hold in trust for our chldren and grandchildren and their children"

Mahatma Gandhi 1 2 3 : "Be the change you want to see in the world"

Margaret Mead; " Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has"

Theodore Zeldin: "That is the aspect of conversation that most excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, even changes the world...throughout history , ordinary people have suddenly come out with the most amazing statements when they find courage. What matters most is courage."

Martin Luther King: "We have flown in the air like birds and swum in the sea like fishes but we have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth ;like brothers and sisters"

Archbishop Desmond Tutu; "When you look at a massive problem, it is good to remember about eating an elephant. There is only one way to eat it: one piece at a time. The sea is vast but the sea is just frops of water and each drop counts."

So may I suggest to Social Entrepreneurs , Scots and Entrepreneurial Revolutionaries 1 2 3 mapping the peoples economics of abundance: its never possible to have too big a dream. People around you will help reality test it: so your network of me -the mentors that help you make the most difference you can be - becomes vital, as do seeing open spaces wherever someone asks for a helping and you have a leader's courage to offer it.
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How can we develop The Simultaneous Policy for the World
We love local diversity as you can see -and contribute to - in this appreciative inquiry of each other's countries. Yet the world has become so interdependent in some aspects of policy that for more and more people, it feels like time to open global village consultations on issues that impact all 6 billion people. Question 1 : Which aspects? We dont know until we open up debates anywhere and everywhere--some guesses that will ge re-edited follow...Every being of our species has equal human right to participate in evolution on issues such as:environmentwhat applications of genetic engineering are humanly responsiblewhat global trade justice could lift 1 billion + people out of life-threatening poverty without costing rich people anything other than sharing ideaswaterhealth and other dynamics that flow across geographic bordersWe need transparency for such discussion. We could all work on it and then simultaneouly ask national MPs to adopt these sustainability agendas even if they appear a bit longer term than the mass media covers, or requiring a bit more collaboration than geographically bound people have previously voted for. If you are reading this you spend at elast some of your time in a virtual world where what you co-create with other people isn't primarily tied to a geographic location. To fail to see the world's and human race's systemic needs on any issue can only cause more and more doom scenarios to come closer : genetic plagues, terrorism, global slavery. SIMPOLThis blog is only loosely connected with a worldwide charity called The Simulataneous Policy (more references ). Nothing stated here is an official SIMPOL opinion, but policy makers ,members and adopters will look at ideas linked here, and we will aim to build a team of content co-editors who act as SIMPOL correspondents. Filing grassroot reports from events that they have often travelled to partly to inform Simpol members, partly to bridge conversations, partly to connect together journalists for humanity and others who can help mediate conversations in the deepest democratic ways and over time to help evolve social networks rooted in specific contexts that are fundamental to what opportunities human beings have at every locality and around which any successful worldwide policy will most sensitively linkin.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Every Different way of evolving policy
We'd never wish to discard any tried and trusted ways of developing policy that suits all the people it involvesAt the same time, in recent years networks have multiplied some wonderful new ways in which conversations can be percolated, and strong ideas tested, and where most of their value comes in action-learning which can be freely relayed wherever other localities have vital need of a similar solutionTo complement this, we would like to list and develop information on real ways you have found of making the most of human spirit or mapping connections between myriads of issues each of which have conecting consequences with others. Examples:Open Space - an event where 10 to 5000 people can share their greatest ideas on how to solve a particular problemLearning games, such as Democs currently being used by NEF so that Londoners can have enough information to develop informed conversations on all sorts of genetic engineering possibilities that science is opening upSimpol Collaboration cafes where people from different networks can meet and work out connections across professional or cultural boundaries that would at least be worth humanly exploring
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Friday, September 03, 2004

Simpol events diary
Most recent SIMPOL Collaboration Cafe: London 19 Oct 04 at 13.00 - Brazilian Franklin Frederick explains why he is launching the International Free Water Academy and ways Londoners can help water for humanity.(Please mail direct at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk to participate in this cafe live or its consequent networks)Next cafe: at Brand Identity, Change Globalisation day - 21 January 2005, Friends House London (opposite Euston Station)
Illustrating how Opinion Leaders "word of net" helps us connect the most enthusiastic cafe participantsWe face an open source challenge that SIMPOL started in London but want to linkin worldwide. We welcome ideas on that. So far these have included:-with some of our small funds helping with costs of a Brazilian tour in UK to promote the International Free Water Academy especially at the European Social Forum-developing the Simpol Collaboration Cafe format as one any city can co-produce
Events calendar log:coming soon
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Discussion of priority human agendas
Coming soon -meanwhile do you see any listed HERE that already concern how you spend some of your time??
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Communal register of methods
Expanding here soon:Open Space pure; Open Space morphed to different group's needs - eg the Blogwalks 1,,2,,3,,4across Europe which provide an inspiring example both of morphing open space and of experienced users of a virtual networking tool realising that they need real meetings to, and if these occasional events were going to involve people travelling from all over Europe then we'd better make the most of all of our time and diverse experiences whenever we do meet. Learning GamesCollaboration cafe

Reconstructing simpol's journey with world citizen movements

Most of this journey has been made personally by simpol's founder John Bunzl and team members (where John was not personally able to attend the simpol representative sent is named)

July 2006 http://www.worldunitydays.net/ 1st Virtual Congress of World Citizenship and Democratic Global Governance

Spring 2006 in Athens European Social Forum, simpol rep[resentative Mike Brady

June 2005, Fes Colloquium Round-table on Identity and Democracy, Fes, Morroco: the Voters without Frontiers/Borders expression came up when I was speaking in Fes last weekend http://www.fesfestival.com/ when Benjamin Barber, a fellow speaker on the panel, said in his speech immediately before mine that what is now needed is a coalition of voters without frontiers

March 2005, Committee Room, House of Lords, London

2004 European Social Forum, London