Maps

From espians

In 1989, when Tim Berners Lee discovered the www, the world needed a whole new atlas of maps, of far greater significance to the future of humanity than when 500 years earlier navigators first found out the the globe was round. Now these new maps are needed, it is absolutely critical for everyone's participation in open knowledge to prioritise key “death of distance” questions such as

1 Transparency’s Goodwill multipliers: which maps do we most urgently need to invite the world to join in trust-flowing first?

2 No digital apartheids: how do we empower context detail from every local community up and thereby ensure that globalisation’s integral systems do not rush past particular diversities and contexts, wherever these involve life or death saving connections?

Back at the start of the 1970s, several universities in Northern England hubbing around Leeds started decades of experiments round a micro www. When I worked there in 1973 this already connected up to a hundred students simultaneously - across all major educational discplines. It iteratively studied their online learning patterns. Future shocks emerged such as:

• • • People were much smarter at learning than the computer program except when it came to a matter of detail - a mental block : that stopped an individual –or group of peers - from correctly competing a logical task. The fact that the computer could spot mistakes and help mentor people not to repeat them caused fury. How was it that on certain bits of vital understanding this computer machine knew more than I or any educated learners did?

• • • The very worst thing of all came to interdisciplinary or cross-cultural flows where professional people needed to unlearn part of their expertise (even the truth of their assumptions) before they could teamwork in meta-disciplinary ways. The computer was better at spotting such missing hub-flows than even the professors. There was an extreme tendency to be a luddite at this stage especially if you had just paid and studied for 3 years to get a first class degree –or a Master of Business Adminsitration - only to find that the computer asked you to unlearn before you could do and systematically interact in any wholly practical or innovatively human work

What's tragic is that once the macro www was discovered in 1989, people did not spend time reflecting on these micro web learnings - and the quest for new trust maps which two decades of research had commended. It’s particularly shocking to me because in a small way I helped ensure that the Leeds research http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html was written up from the desk of The Economist's number 1 interviewer of innovative leaders, future system transformation and entrepreneurship. In 1984, the future history of the net made it clear that one generation between 1984-2024 would either become known as the sustainability generation or the terminator generation depending on how collaboratively you and I search out hi-trust maps.

LET THE INTERACTION LEARNING GAMES BEGIN

Contents include:

• Following mapping clusters
• Empowerment wars
• Peer collaboration curricula
• Responsiblity at global market sector level of a kind that matches Yunus Seb standards

I believe there may be a simplest way to share mapping knowledge in survey form - at least it is simple enough to survey 1000 people with if Londoners are convening such a network summit as promised

quite simply what we need to collaboratively action is to keep a catalogue of maps people want to pin their name on but they need to be specific enough so that we don’t mix up people who have a critical conflict reason why they can't afford some opposite type of flow on their map's circulation list

for example when I say I am interested in transparency/empowerment up ending MALARIA and want to share network listings with anyone else with the same interest, I do not want anyone on that map who is interested in perpetuating only global-aid down malaria charities or govs ofr NGOs. Such people are welcome to have their own map but my valuation of them is that at best they are continuing however blindly holocaust of thousands of children per week and in worst cases some of their corrupt bosses in local states etc have actually killed people in the field that are working on empowerment up are  ; for the moment on cluster 1 type maps only I suggest peter, Guilhem and I need to triage prospective applicants to these map's contexts before that are confirmed as in the map’s club of circulation permissions  

as we start to list maps, a survey exercise that hopefully we can do as networkers meet, we can anticipate several clusters

the empowerment/transparency type is the hardest because of the above reason just stated; if you want to define why empowerment needs such deep contextual truth, help us collect empowerment's 100 greatest 2 minute video youtubes http://www.valuetrue.com/home/community.cfm

the peer to peer collaboration curricula 

http://www.valuetrue.com/home/gallery.cfm which Taddy Blecher of CIDA free university has already contributed 10+ map listings on usually doesn’t have the same problem; it can cause noise when different people are debating eg a sustainability action learning course but anyhow we can leave it eg learning professions to decide how specifically they put criteria on who can contribute top open source curricula

a 3rd type of map is what the newest work of Yunus is about and what Alan Mitchell and my 7 year book is about - essentially it is defined by every different global market category people wish to name but filtered by those who want to debate what is a concept that a coal business enterprise stockmarket would accept as an entry in that sector because the business model 

can be seen to be http://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=B NOT compounding external risk and is “whole truth” advance human progress with the unique characterised which that global sector could bring if it included integration of every community in its economic model

Now in 2007, we are entering a compound end game with sustainability tipping points crashing all around us at every locality that nature’s world coordinates. Espians http://wiki.espians.com/Maps invite you to save the world through the simplest mapping games –with open architecure designs, we can unite worlds of humanity in time. All people really need - to truly value goodwill mapmaking - is to love big daring questions and openness as much as we love answers and secret strategizing. I realise that is a big ask but I hope within 12 months to meet 1000 espians or human beings that feel it’s a game of life worth rehearsing with utmost care and speed. Some trust maps that motivate me first are end malaria and give orphans of the world a chance to demonstrate great peer to peer vocational learning. But what’s so exciting about trust maps is that any context which revolves round love has priority urgency. http://kibera.tv http://africanidol.tv http://universityofstars.tv http://passports.jp http://www.tr-ac-net.org/