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This network is kept for archive purpose - we chose the NING Mini plan and will keep you posted where the new epicenter of the global villages network will be. In the meantime find the many branches with http://www.globalvillages.org. Franz Nahrada
Sorry all groups and pages were deleted by NING because this is only a NING mini plan - no warning issued when it happened.
Blogs and fora are still alive, but we will leave this place as soon as we can.
In the meantime. please follow the preparations for Village Innovation Talk and Village Innovation Summit 2012
The founding declaration of the Global Villages Network (then still Global Village Network) (16th February 1997, Vienna City Hall)
"One of the most powerful potentials that we are just beginning to unleash, is the feeling that in a time of increased global competition, diminuishing resources and growing uncertainty we have to use our local resources more wisely and that we can increasingly do so with the access to global knowledge, the sharing of experiences, the division of mental labour and the local connectedness that new information technologies make possible. The discovery of the full potential of this combination between local resources and global knowledge is the purpose of the GLOBAL VILLAGE NETWORK."
see full text here
visit sister sites:
* Our wiki and our mailing list
* globalvillages@worknets
see full text here
visit sister sites:
* Our wiki and our mailing list
* globalvillages@worknets
Speech excerpts from a Vienna Workshop. Franz Nahrada about the necessity of villages:
Sorry there are two slight flaws in the speech, but I think the big picture is important. "rural areas" and "urban areas" are mixed up twice.
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Rajah Guptara left a comment for Rajah Guptara"Greetings from Sofia.
The pleasure of meeting you was mine, someone who has so long worked tirelessly and at the forefront for
global village renewal network.
I will be back in Austria by the middle of the week and look forward to strengthening our…"
Franz Nahrada left a comment for Rajah Guptara"Hi Raja, it was great getting to know you in person!"
Franz Nahrada replied to Franz Hrazdira's discussion The Gulf Strean & the Global Environment"Franz I think we must move this thing because its out of the scope of a villages network ;-)
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Franz Nahrada commented on Steve Thompson's blog post Occupy Stanhope"It takes the electronic media to discover this. A warm thought to Marshall McLuhan up in the Skies, especially for the amazing things he wrote about the extension of our nervous system in "war and peace in the global village"."
Steve Thompson commented on Steve Thompson's blog post Occupy Stanhope"How interesting Franz. The scene we were re-enacting on Friday http://bit.ly/tgUD7G featured 10 year olds doing what 10 year olds did in the 1800's which was to mine lead in order to make bullets for the Napoleonic wars. I visited a…"
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A new years message to Globalvillagers
A new years message to Globalvillagers
"We are the ones who still seem to be figuring out...
....how to be the ones we've been waiting for."
Tom Atlee, http://tom-atlee.posterous.com/are-we-the-ones
A happy new year 2011 to everybody, be it via the mailinglist or other channels !
I have not written to the communit(ies) for quite a long time and want to give an update on many points… Continue
Posted by Franz Nahrada on January 11, 2011 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment
June 2010 letter to the Globalvillages Community
This post goes -identically - to the members of the NING Group 'Global Villages Network' and to the members of the yahoogroup 'globalvillages'.
This is going to be a rather lengthy letter with many messages overdue - and therefore it makes sense to start right away with a table of contents:
thank you for the effort to read this!
Franz
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1. State of Global Villages Network, NING… Continue
This is going to be a rather lengthy letter with many messages overdue - and therefore it makes sense to start right away with a table of contents:
thank you for the effort to read this!
Franz
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Top News
1. State of Global Villages Network, NING… Continue
Posted by Franz Nahrada on June 2, 2010 at 6:06pm — 15 Comments
Message from Russia.
Recently our friend Gleb Tyurin organized a high level meeting on innovative ways in rural development in the Region of Vologda (between Moscow and Archangelsk). A group of experts and local and federal policy makers awaited dialogue with external participants via videobridge. To my bad surprise, Gleb seemed to be very nervous in the morning when the… Continue
Posted by Franz Nahrada on June 2, 2010 at 10:00am
A clarification (especially concerning our friends in Russia)
I have gained some attention in Russia after writing to the governor of Archangelsk about an opportunity to support sound rural development with the help of a Global Villages Network. This network is supposed to be a network of experts and innovators all around the world that cares about the future of Villages.
I need to make some clarification before going on with this matter. It is very interesting that there was a generally receptive attitude to the existence of such a network,… Continue
Posted by Franz Nahrada on June 2, 2010 at 11:30am
Digital Villages
Thank you for inviting me here Franz. I have many stories to tell and many links to share so this may happen over time. I have been using the concept of "Digital Villages" for a while but it's really a metaphore for something more concrete. You may recall Franz that when you visited Teesside I used the concept of "Rivers" to describe where you were in the world and how my heritage and mindset was focussed by the three main rivers that define my region in the North East of England.
My… Continue
My… Continue
Posted by Steve Thompson on February 22, 2009 at 11:11pm — 1 Comment
Pamela McLean and Post Industrial Development in Africa
The following will be pubished in Michel Bauwens P2P blog and I also post it here:
"That is the opportunity that the development of Africa presents. Rural Africa missed out on the industrial revolution that raised the living standards of the industrial nations. It is a fresh canvas where we can paint a new picture of development. We can work together, learning from the mistakes of the past, using the sustainable technologies of the present, developing the technolgies of…Continue
Posted by Franz Nahrada on October 20, 2009 at 8:59am
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