I need some help.

How to speak on this immense (earth-make or break) topic in 15 minutes at an European Union gathering.

I think the first clue is that the open collaborative tools we need for these sorts of organsiational system of systems will be nothing like what global businesses use.

I am told that of the 4 main value exchnages , global corporates sometimes never get beyond money in how tey measure success whereas perhaps humanitarian networks never really need to go beyond spirit and social respect if their main measurements relate to The Practice of Peace http://www.practiceofpeace.com

This wonderful label came to me by reading Harrison Owen's book of the same title and he makes it clear that both the immensity of visions needed by Peace Movements and their real and virtual practices of networking go beyond any collaboration or spiritual competences global corporates have ever yet needed to evolve. Sustained peace systemisation needs to deeply explore the 3 most valuable human C's - Conflict, Confusion & Chaos. These C's need open planning to evolve healthy human outcomes with; every time some power tries to command & control them from top value destruction compounds over time. We are too culturally located at our grassroots to need to expect global solutions as good enough for every desperately needed peoples on our earth.

Harrison Owen invented Open Space http://www.openspaceworld.org/ for getting a thousand people to join up during an 8-hour meeting in such a way that therir networking around a huge challenged is sustained from that day on. It is clear too that we are in these spheres aiming to dynamise the spirit and the social value not the monetary or the tangible; another reason why we should expect the KM of NGOs and humanitarian networks to require wholly different support tools than those most consulted to big business organisations.

I should admit a bias of passion. Whilst never seeking to have the competence to facilitate 1000 people open spaces - I am a supporter of Britain's Breakthrough Uni that pioneers around the UK every format of O.Space challenge we can imagine - see eg http://www.valuetrue.com/home/GetPDF.cfm?filename=ACFC78.doc



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