Monday, October 29, 2012

The Chrysalis Campus for Young Social Entrepreneurs | Indiegogo

A great example of locals helping themselves and how the global coverage helps them, from best practice to crowd sourcing. The methodology and framework is non prescriptive but visionary, "simultaneous loose tight properties" as Tom Peters used to say decades ago. Please read and support this and then try and support something similar local to you as well as one global to you!
The Chrysalis Campus for Young Social Entrepreneurs | Indiegogo

Monday, October 15, 2012

Power of We = "Individual knowledge" and "Mutual Knowledge"

"Individual knowledge" and "Mutual Knowledge" thats why the world today is changing POWERFULLY!!
Be it the case where for years no one dare speak up about Jimmy Saville and now today they all can and do! Same for the hacking, the MP's, the priests, the other out'ed recently.
There is so much more of this to come, its great, that why:
"Power of We" #powerofwe #bad12 "Blog Action Day" TODAY! http:/...
/nickhorslen.blogspot.com/
is so important, everyone has a voice and should use it by whatever media!!
If ive not made any sense this breif animation will, especially at the end or more precisely 8 minutes in http://www.thersa.org/events/video/animate/rsa-animate-language-as-a-window-into-human-nature and my blog today " never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed its the only thing that ever has"!!!
 
Its been an interesting blog day today for me!

Power of We!

"Power of We"  #powerofwe  #bad12

There is now no reason for anyone to think that they are "A LONE VOICE"!!!!!

Revelation after revelation is showing the Power of we, from exposure of injustice in Politics, with the Press, the Police, the Priests, the Populists, the People we see today that people who speak up make the difference. http://www.thersa.org/events/rsaanimate

Just with this one letter "P" in one location, the exposure in the UK alone around; MP expenses, Phone hacking, Hillsborough, the Catholic Church, Jimmy Saville, Rochdale taxi's & young girls; we see that where over past decades, adults and children used to be afraid to speak out, now they do AND everyone benefits. So if one little letter and one little Island does it then so we see, everywhere else does.

We see it globally from the Arab spring to the Global Financial crisis, the abuse of drugs in cycling and sport to the shooting of activists and innocent people in distant lands. Great change has been seen in the twelve months leading up to today, all thanks to lone voices knowing they are not alone when they speak up. Knowing this and doing this assures others that they to can and should do it!

At the highest of levels from http://www.transparency.org/ and http://www.globalwitness.org/ to sites like http://www.ted.com and http://www.thersa.org/events/rsaanimate we see great exposure, great sharing, great advancement.

The "Power of We" #powerofwe #bad12 its what we have developed to do!

So in the words of Robert Louis Stephenson, "lets not measure today by what we eat but by what we sow"!

Or the final quote from this animation http://www.thersa.org/events/video/animate/rsa-animate-21st-century-enlightenment quoting Margaret Mead " never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed its the only thing that ever has"!!!

My hope is that the voice of 1.4 Billion people will be saying "they did it for us" in 2015!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3p2VLTowAA Please learn about the MDG's!

These and so many more, form the theme of this blog for the last ten years now. Please do search my archive if its useful for you.


The "Power of We" #powerofwe #bad12


Monday, October 08, 2012

The rise of megacities – interactive | Global development | guardian.co.uk

This interactive tour and the images, narrative and links that go with it are really cool
From NY to Tokoyo, from Lagos to Shenzhen ists really useful guide to the future of cities!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/interactive/2012/oct/04/rise-of-megacities-interactive?CMP=twt_gu
The rise of megacities – interactive | Global development | guardian.co.uk

(Other parts of my blog have covered Charter Cities in the past if you search for it.)