KyivThanks from Open Space Europe & State of Disunion

In a league table of cities destroying sustainability of youth many, US capitals rank near the top - this makes me urgently more clear that there are collaborations which only new york -and attention to partnering its world class sdg/esg visiotors- can lead worldwide - see picture - ask if you want click through version [email protected]

A-Z IN SEARCH OF PURPOSE -Abed .. Zelenskyy some maths postgraduates leave DAMTP in Cambridge searching for black holes in space, others Unique Purpose on earth -also if you can help with spring 2022's pilot of AI Hall of Fame please mail [email protected]

My 21st C (SDGs) learning curve : Ukraine & Bangladesh -honi soit qui mal y pense how could macron 1 2 give putin so much media time - State of Disunion EURO US eCop

OpenSpace Europe was a collaboration city/citizen movement that existed between fall 2002 and spring 2005 - recall the dates as i helped linkedin various disciplines of truly purposeful organisations/networks across the EU's knowledgeboard. In those days the biggest virtual community of expert conversations was still moderated by humans not an algorithm. (Three yewars earlier while working for teh sorrell largest ad agency empire out of London I had recieved thsi call from a tewntysomething in kiev - he couldnt pay me other than a bucket ticket flight but could convene 500 peers who wanted to debate world calss brands (in 1988 I had helped the economist start the paradocica genere - year of the brand, death ofn teh brand manager, crisis of brand valuation eg ibm goodwill worth hunders of billions one day quarter , zero the next - and my book world class brands had argued - be every careful to make sure you nation's place brand isnt turned into such a yo-yo (its service by and for the people) taht loses whenever people who do valuation rankings are awarded for volatility amd ,multiplying fatalism in a way that 20th c media has so often propagated. )

To those who lead global tech today, a virtual global community board may look very primitive )(after all the smart phone revolution wasn't yet the next big thing and I dont think I ever saw the word cloud in the millions of words filed at KB.

By which I mean since the tech did not yet deep-data matching with rteal-time algorithms, humans actually had to set the protocols - for example to keep out people who wanted to spam a conversations or deflect its focus.

Strangely those of us who spent the most time volunteering also made sure those who tried to filibuster or flame were out. And there was perhaps a culture that the next idea to advance the human lot might come from anywhere. Actually I had been in Delhi December 2004, at a summit global reconciliation which Australian medical networkers -together with gap year students -in australia more students do a worldwide tour before settling down to life than anywhere I am aware of - had designed after 9/11. We were discussing community facilitation with hundreds of Gandhians. Unfortunately the proceedings didnt get published- the week later the tsunami hit the indian coastline- many hours after its waves had begun. The action networkers I had met at the Indira Gandhi national culture center 3 minutes from India's parliament now had a yeat work of disaster relief to do. Mindful if both of these tragedies 9/11 , xmas 2004 tsunami). Out of mu cosy apartment near the national institute of ehalth in Bethesda MD, I launched 2005 new year resolution at knowledgeboard with a short article and urgent search- do any of our 10000 most active members want to strat up a network of practice "water angels"? How quickly can we map a hundred different types of water crisis the world over and see who most urgently is innovating what local to worldwide shared solution.

Another curious thing was that whilst the only people to be paid for work on knowledgeboard had official EU grants and luxurious universioty offices, it had been agreed that anywhere in the world could login - Question as well as Answer. (Transpoarency note - the veiw that teh 21wst C needs to celebrate with the younger jhalf of teh world questioning tyhe elder half is a loifelong bias of mine. Reference: co-authored 1984's book 2025report with Economist sib-editor timelining why suatainability might depend on educationa transformation

Another curious thing, I looked around USA and could not find anything much like knowledgeboard in spite of the valley still designing just about every new media tool (until smart[hones leapfroged with every gps on the planet beaming me up infoprmation of n0ot scotty\s metaphysical body. I did hoever find the Rheingold Community - and a very peculait acronym that I beleive bruan alexander may have coined. Before ever C becaome curriculum there was the idea of Massive Open Omnline Colab - accordinfg to Rhieingoldres extreme avtion learning networks practice a maximum of 300 people at a time in bringing a new to the world innovation worthy of all 8 billion brains social mediating

Fortunately for me 90% of what got posted in KB was in English. I becemae very interested in why did some places like Kyiv and St Petersburg controbute some really deep questions where it obviously took a lot of effort to contribute to acction .elaning and virtual bonhomie in English. Before I really understood what I was doing I coined teh trem colaboration city - these werev places that were really contributing to the emotional intelligenmce sig. There were cities within europe eg bracelona, rome, netherlands (yes I know tahts a nation but where a whole nation brings the same communal values thats fine!)

By 2005 I was in my tenth year of being a netizen. This had hapened by accident: I had written various books questioning the relationshiops between the boardroom , identifying purposeful organisation as an intergenerational value. I hadnt had any help from publishers as these were not the years bestseller - and they were prcatice not academic books. So before the Economist Intelligence Unit published Brand Chartering I published about 100 half page extracts - showing how different functions of an organsiation could work together if and only if they trusted being rewarded for overall purspoe more than 90 day profit talking. In the 1990s I was working at both the world's largest ad agencies and accountants. In the 1980s i had worked worldwide outside USA comilng a databank for MIt on wjhat societies wanted from the biggest multinational companies.

In 2005 I was enetring my 30th years as DAMTP MA in statistics who had foscued on opinjion polling and market modelling. What I had learnt apart from maths was that there were a very fw functions I could do as well as the world's biggest boardrooms needed but knowing what I didnt know how to do I had searched out a newtork of people who did extraordiunary things in their own specialities. Open space of harrison owen is an example of arguably the most exytraordinary method in the world of facilitation. From 1984 wehn Harrison had invented it whilst being conference producer for the profession of system transfornmation experts, if you wanted a 3 day conference to make the most berween 5 to 5000 brains, open space is what you practiced. Knowledgeboard had been launched by brussels and luxembourg to celebrtae linkingt 5000 people around the world that wanted to colaborate with a strange promise made in Lisbon that Euroepans would be world class at managing the knowledge economy

Key compomnemnts of teh virtual communi8ty of knowledgeboard were

good faith citiznes could join from anywhere. In fact the newsletter editir was coordinating her contributions from New Zealand.

abou7t 20 volunteers had been asked to moderate special interest groups- most of tehse were technical such as teh semantic web; but 2 of thjem put human flows firts : the ngo conversations moderated out of netherlands (actually by rabobanks leading technologist) and emotional intelligence by myself. Five yeras earlier I had guest edited a triple soecial issu of journal of marketing management on every fake media error of the 20th C - by which I mean media that multiplied hatred and all the negative miondsets instead of trust and the courage to innovate even in decades of 100 times more etch chnage (the editirial valuation rule von neumann had coached my family to use from my father's first meeting of him Princeton 1951 . Kmow;edge m,anagement (as I quickly neded to learn) had some of its own vocabulary - insteadf of intanngbles auiting that I had spent over a decade on it had 3 ncapitals - intellectual sosian and human - oddly experst in these 3 capitals came from such diferent disciplines that they didnt easily talk to each other and in turn those who were tech nerds did their own thing).

In an attempt to make behavioral conmnections KM people valued gurus of Community of Practice. Once every dew months a world elading guru from COP would publish a paper and this took precdenece as far as brussels was concerned to conversations we voklunteers had been building. However we did manage to get Brussels and Luxembourg to explore 2 "weird" ideas:

In spite of knowlegeboard's remit to understand virtual community about 1% of the whole budget was put into actual conferences. This became quite political - which coity of the now 20+ countries should be a conference host (only about 7 were budegeted for), and on what subject. Someone and I cant remeber who coimnded a new term Network of Practice- the idea was to go beyond COP and seve a life critical need. Fire figheters demanded Beussles host a NOP on after action debriefing - the organsiational mees of 9/11 was still a research area that no single disciplione had a systeematic answer to. Although I was regarded by the techhies as too humanly conscious for the likes of their publications, I was asked to be one of the presenters at arguably the most practical summit brussels had ever convened. 90% were firefigheters. I had only one thing going for me I had now spent a lot of time coaching citiznes on how to host 1 hour colaboration cagfes (a reducation of teh 3 day open space to one hour). But fortunately an elearning summit hosetd in finaland by knowedgebaord had proceeded the firefighetrs summit. There I learnt a 3 minute collaboration method that could get practical audiences like fire fighters taking over what the conference actually dialogued

Embarrisgly I was onlyb of 2 speakers that helped the firefighetrs network most during our 2 days in Brussels. It turned out to be the begiining of the end for networks of practice, colaboration cities. worldwide open space and all that jazz. The same hidden agenda that I had expereinced at the 5 big accountants was coming down from Luxembourg the overall coordinator of eu tech's big investirs. Luxembourg did not want to see deep human mediation integral to designing the coming of smart mobile communications. The sort of leawrning web that berners lee had triued to free was the opposite of what was comning next in mediating society eg facebook. And the idea that the younger half of knowledegboatrd could beceome a movement across national bodres led inside europe by cities such as brcelona ( regarded as not a team player with its capital madrdi was too much for Brussels to stimach). At one last luncheon in brussels I had a final conversation with the guy who had been interestted in my models of expoenetial risk and internal auditing. He said sorry chris -that reasrach budegt has been closed. Eueopea's leading politicians dont think the peopels cae about this. It would take 3 Euroepan Enron colaspses in teh same year before they revist hio-trut hi-tech netwoirk design. Three yeras later when subprime melted down far more than 3 enrons, there was no revisiting of trust or bodererless collaboration or what millennials would most need from con neumann next 100 fold more tech if sustainability is to be their generation's purpose