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"Power to the People" 2.0

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This is the living and expanding version of "Society 2.0: designing an action research into the next civilization" talk that George Pór gave at 2gether08, an unconference held in London, July 2-3, 2008,which was "a festival of ideas, popular technologies and progress." The original slide presentation can be downloaded from Jump Time Players, where "Society 2.0" is blogged about.

 

Taking down all the Berlin Walls

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Society 2.0

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2gather08 was a remarkable, high-energy unconference in London, July 2-3, 2008, "a festival of ideas, popular technologies and progress."

Inspired by meetings I had the week before at the Shambhala Insitute of Authentic Leadership in Nova Scotia, about the Collective Intelligence Convergence website in Montreal, and the "Café U" action research in Boston, I decided to sum up my current thinking on the issues that I started exploring in Spiraling up.

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Submitted by George Por on July 6, 2008 - 10:14.

Evolutionary Nexus as an infrastructure for transition managers

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This message started out as an email reply to Erik Mathijs' blog post on the Art of Hosting Transtions, and when I finished writing it, I realized that more people maybe interested in it, so decided to post it here.

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Submitted by George Por on April 1, 2008 - 11:32.

Art of Hosting Transitions

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A transition is a process in which the existing system of structures, institutions, culture and practices are broken down and replaced by new ones. This shift is a non-linear process in which a system moves from one dynamic equilibrium to another one. Transitions thus concern large-scale processes that cover at least one generation with interactions between different scale levels.  read more »

Submitted by Erik Mathijs on March 30, 2008 - 19:56.