Global Villages Network2024-03-29T05:28:44ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahradahttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2192350163?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://globalvillages.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=1xhq7csgy66w7&feed=yes&xn_auth=noGLocal and what to do after RIO-20 ?tag:globalvillages.ning.com,2012-07-24:2029071:Topic:182112012-07-24T20:50:48.231ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahrada
<p>Has someone thought about making our motto: "<strong>local community - global networking"</strong> real?</p>
<p>Anyone seen the use of the terrm GLocal "invented" in 1990 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glocalisation#History_of_the_concept" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>) for <a href="http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs10s/lifedisx.php#poin" target="_blank">something real to point at</a> ! even when this seems "…</p>
<p>Has someone thought about making our motto: "<strong>local community - global networking"</strong> real?</p>
<p>Anyone seen the use of the terrm GLocal "invented" in 1990 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glocalisation#History_of_the_concept" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>) for <a href="http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs10s/lifedisx.php#poin" target="_blank">something real to point at</a> ! even when this seems "<a href="http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_day/_w2012-07-11" target="_blank">mind boogling</a>" ?</p>
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<p>I made this assault on <a href="http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_day/_w2012-07-16" target="_blank">bold delegates and media</a> last week as a wake-up call. It was about preparing the UNFCCC COP 18 after Rio +20 in small informal "open" circles..Maybe you like it !?</p>
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<p>take care !</p>
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<p>HEiner</p>
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<p></p> Join me for WizIQ’s first Wednesday Webinar!tag:globalvillages.ning.com,2012-03-20:2029071:Topic:160072012-03-20T22:57:38.055ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahrada
<div class="meta"><div class="clear"><a href="http://6geeks.wiziq.com/online-class/794937-save-time-money-with-wiziq-for-training-and-professional-development" target="_blank">Join me for WizIQ’s first Wednesday Webinar!</a></div>
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<div class="text"><p>Catchy, right? WizIQ Wednesday Webinars…you know, WWW, like the World Wide Web, only different…</p>
<p>OK, well, even if you’re not as impressed with my cleverness as I am, this first webcast is worth attending.…</p>
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<div class="meta"><div class="clear"><a href="http://6geeks.wiziq.com/online-class/794937-save-time-money-with-wiziq-for-training-and-professional-development" target="_blank">Join me for WizIQ’s first Wednesday Webinar!</a></div>
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<div class="text"><p>Catchy, right? WizIQ Wednesday Webinars…you know, WWW, like the World Wide Web, only different…</p>
<p>OK, well, even if you’re not as impressed with my cleverness as I am, this first webcast is worth attending. Titled “Save time & money with WizIQ for training and professional development”, it’s a bit of a departure from the video content I usually share from <a href="http://www.edukwest.com/category/shows/review-ed/">review:ed</a>. We’re going to be talking specifically about WizIQ and its role in training and professional development; although we’ll be recording the webinar so you can watch it if you happen to miss the live show, I’m hoping that there will be some great opportunities for live discussion and interaction around this incredibly important use case for our virtual classroom.</p>
<p>The webcast is public and doesn’t require a signup…just <a href="http://6geeks.wiziq.com/online-class/794937-save-time-money-with-wiziq-for-training-and-professional-development">follow this link</a> on Wednesday, enter a screen name, and join in. As I described in the class writeup,</p>
<blockquote><p>Sometimes training and professional development just has to happen in person. Group work, intensive immersion in a task or project, or training over several days often just works best when you are locked in a room with trainers and colleagues. Most times, though, the expense and disruption of this sort of training just isn’t justified. Instead, using a web-based virtual classroom like WizIQ can allow training to be efficient, effective, and, most importantly, cost-effective.</p>
<p>An added bonus? Trainers can potentially reach more students at once, increasing revenue and reducing overhead. WizIQ also allows the recording of training sessions and content, making review and asynchronous reuse possible.</p>
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<p>Sound interesting? If you’re in the business of corporate training, deliver professional development to teachers, or have sat through interminable training sessions that take you away from your job, this webinar is worth attending. It’s 2012, after all, folks, and fuel prices are high, budgets are short, and time is more precious than ever. Both synchronous and asynchronous training delivered over the Internet will trump in-person training nine times out of ten, whether you’re the trainer or the trainee.</p>
</div> The Gulf Strean & the Global Environmenttag:globalvillages.ning.com,2010-12-13:2029071:Topic:40062010-12-13T17:42:52.000ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahrada
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;"><strong>Hello there ...</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;"><strong>you want to take a close look at this video here so we can discuss these issues a bit more ...</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;"><strong>Hello there ...</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;"><strong>you want to take a close look at this video here so we can discuss these issues a bit more ...</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHfQ00p_LDk&feature=email" target="_blank">The Gulf Strean & the Global Environment</a></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;"><strong>Add what ever information you can bring to this topic.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;"><strong>Thanks,</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;"><strong>Franz Hrazdira</strong></span></p>
<p> </p> Towards Globalismtag:globalvillages.ning.com,2010-11-29:2029071:Topic:40012010-11-29T05:11:27.000ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahrada
<span style="font-weight: bold;">At GlobalResearch.ca you will find the report: </span> <br></br><br></br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Globalism and the New World Order: The Emerging Global Village" by Chuck Baldwin</span><br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2167" style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2167</a><br></br><br></br><span style="font-weight: bold;">It touches on a number of issues, among…</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">At GlobalResearch.ca you will find the report: </span> <br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Globalism and the New World Order: The Emerging Global Village" by Chuck Baldwin</span><br/><br/><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2167">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2167</a><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">It touches on a number of issues, among them the questions about the dominant forces behind the creation of a 'New World Order'.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wouldn't it be best to revitalize an 'International Community' based on a different set of values?</span><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">What's your position on this issue and if you agree, how do you suggest we should go about doing it?</span> <br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Franz Hrazdira</span><br/> Open Source Ecology Updatetag:globalvillages.ning.com,2010-07-25:2029071:Topic:38472010-07-25T23:31:56.000ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahrada
We've been making good progress at Open Source Ecology on the <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2012" target="_blank">Economy in<br />
a Box</a> - the infrastructure tools for post-scarcity, resilient<br />
communities. Our work focuses on the integration of flexible fabrication<br />
with resilient communities. <i>Subsilience</i> is the result: the<br />
combination of resilience with modern day subsistence - a high quality<br />
of life free of compromise, which is feasible with modern technology.<br></br>
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<br></br>Over…
We've been making good progress at Open Source Ecology on the <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2012" target="_blank">Economy in<br />
a Box</a> - the infrastructure tools for post-scarcity, resilient<br />
communities. Our work focuses on the integration of flexible fabrication<br />
with resilient communities. <i>Subsilience</i> is the result: the<br />
combination of resilience with modern day subsistence - a high quality<br />
of life free of compromise, which is feasible with modern technology.<br/>
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<br/>Over the last 3 months, we have managed to scale our progress
twofold. We’ve seen full product release of the open source CEB<br />
press, <i><a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1977" target="_blank">The<br />
Liberator</a></i>, and we’ve had significant progress on the open<br />
source tractor, <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2104" target="_blank">LifeTrac<br />
Prototype II</a>. We also deployed the first prototype of the heavy<br />
duty, <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2037" target="_blank">open<br />
source drill<br />
press</a>, which we’re now using as part of our<br />
fabrication infrastructure. We just reported on Prototype I of the <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2117" target="_blank">150 ton<br />
hole puncher</a> . <br />
These are two additions to the open source, self-replicating Fab Lab,<br />
or <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254" target="_blank">RepLab</a>.<br />
We also got the first <i>working</i><br />
prototype of <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2064" target="_blank">Hexahatch</a>,<br />
the automated chicken incubator, in operation. We also deployed<br />
Prototype<br />
I of a <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2091" target="_blank">honey<br />
extractor</a>.<br />
Plus, <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1636" target="_blank">Sean</a><br />
is<br />
on-site for the summer gathering documentary material, and his <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2104" target="_blank">LifeTrac<br />
II update</a> is<br />
choice. People<br />
are beginning to talk about us in <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2081" target="_blank">mainstream<br />
books.</a><br/><br/>Please view <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2136" target="_blank">this blog
post</a> if you haven't seen it already - for more details on the above.<br />
You will notice that we have put up a crowd funding basket there - so<br />
please <i>chip in</i> if you can. Please repost this on your blogs and<br />
pass this on to others. These are exciting times at Factor e Farm. <br/>
<br/>We have 2.5 people here now, so we're far from a division-of-labor
resilient community of individuals specializing as generalists. We are<br />
certainly are looking for more people for <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=966" target="_blank">Dedicated<br />
Project Visits</a> and <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php/Remote_Collaboration" target="_blank">remote collaboration</a>. You can see how additional<br />
people can contribute to rapid progress, so finding more people is a<br />
priority.<br/>
<br />
<br/>Here is a thought for July - a note regarding becoming a responsible
producer (one of our essential principles). People frequently turn off<br />
at notions of becoming real and relevant producers or<br />
fabricators - or digital craftspeople of the 21st century. However, if<br />
we study the essence of resilient communities,<br />
if we examine geopolitical issues, and if we study <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php/Political_Ponerology" target="_blank">political ponerology</a> -<br />
we cannot help but conclude that we are responsible for getting as<br />
close as possible to real production and meaning, and as far away as<br />
possible from the speculation-bureaucracy-debt-nonproduction-anomie<br />
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matrix.<br/><div id=":z9" class="ii gt"><br/>That's all for now. More news is coming next month. Thanks for your support.</div> New Virtual Classroom launch on WiZiQ - Important notestag:globalvillages.ning.com,2010-07-24:2029071:Topic:38452010-07-24T21:36:51.000ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahrada
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<tr><td height="15" valign="top">The much awaited new Virtual Classroom is finally set for launch on Sunday, the 25th of July 2010. We sincerely thank all the teachers who have helped us with their valuable feedback and suggestions for the new look and feature-rich Virtual Classroom. The new Virtual Classroom has been designed specially for teachers and students, and offers ease-of-use, a rich look-and-feel experience, and smooth interaction.</td>
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<tr><td height="15" valign="top">With only few days left for its launch, we suggest that you start getting acquainted with the new Virtual Classroom right away to get a seamless experience in your future classes. Try the new Virtual Classroom by following the link below or just copy and paste in your browser directly:</td>
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<tr><td height="15" valign="top">You can also send a <a style="COLOR: #3d86cb" href="http://www.wiziq.com/how/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">request for a demo</a> and one of our technical support executives will get back to you shortly to help you on the new Virtual Classroom. A personal invitation will be sent once you confirm your slot for the demo. So please reserve your slot at the earliest by writing to us at <a style="COLOR: #3d86cb" href="mailto:support@wiziq.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">support@wiziq.com.</a></td>
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<tr><td style="COLOR: #444" valign="top" align="left">1) There will be a downtime between 3:30 AM and 7:30 AM (GMT) and 9:00AM to 1:00PM (IST) on Sunday, the 25th of July 2010 due to the upload of new Virtual Classroom to the WiZiQ's server. During this time, you would neither be able to access the website, nor schedule a class. We also request you to make sure that you do not have any class scheduled between the above mentioned downtime. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience.</td>
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<tr><td style="COLOR: #444" valign="top" align="left">2) Our new virtual classroom works with <b>flash player version 10.0.42.34</b> and <b>above</b>. You can download and install the latest flash player from <a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/">http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/</a> for version <b>10.1.53.64</b></td>
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</table> Immigration & Community Development Hubs as an innovative solution for alltag:globalvillages.ning.com,2010-05-07:2029071:Topic:36112010-05-07T16:02:45.000ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahrada
In difficult times like these, when jobs have become an ever more<br></br>
precious commodity, people and whole countries turn to<br></br>
self-protectionism. Many people without sufficient income, especially disenfranchised Communities at so-called Bottom of the Pyramid, have begun however to realise<br></br>
there are new ways, new ideas and technologies - with which to tap into the latent value that<br></br>
resides within their own culture right around them, one that opens the<br></br>
door to many new and…
In difficult times like these, when jobs have become an ever more<br/>
precious commodity, people and whole countries turn to<br/>
self-protectionism. Many people without sufficient income, especially disenfranchised Communities at so-called Bottom of the Pyramid, have begun however to realise<br/>
there are new ways, new ideas and technologies - with which to tap into the latent value that<br/>
resides within their own culture right around them, one that opens the<br/>
door to many new and inspiring opportunities for them to behold. eg.<br/>
re-discovering the Great Silk Road & the Oregon Trails. It is found<br/>
deep within one's own Culture, accessed and protected by one's own language, and is that same culture<br/>
that differentiates us from all other people, other cultures and other Communities.<br/>
Today we all have the technological possibilities available in<br/>
Telecentres or at Home or over smartcells to enable us to monetise our<br/>
own cultural assets and share them, with and through our own online<br/>
global communities, with with a world that is fast becoming one true global<br/>
village. The new earnings will open doors to microfinance to leverage that gain to build our own local economies and then many<br/>
new and greater possibilities begin to emerge.<br/>
<br/>
People in all parts of the world are today very aware, with the advent of ICT,<br/>
of what they have and also what they do not have. They fully appreciate that<br/>
while Asian & African Nurses, for example, are important in and to western people<br/>
and hospitals - and that remittances have provided a great deal of<br/>
compensation to their families and communities - that there is also a<br/>
huge global shortage of Nurses and a vast unsatisfied demand for all kinds<br/>
of careworkers among Asian and African Communities themselves. They<br/>
know that these services are desperately needed but are not available<br/>
because they cannot afford them. They know too that it is possible to<br/>
at least alleviate that great problem through use of new innovative<br/>
ideas, finding new ways of doing things today such as in tele-nursing,<br/>
tele-care, tele-homecare. They can see that these services would create<br/>
countless of very necessary jobs at home while addressing global health<br/>
issues, ones that increasingly affect us all; providing new jobs, new traded<br/>
services at and from their hometown. They are also very aware of the social<br/>
advantages and much lower cost base involved in working at home and<br/>
from home to the world, and especially online. <br/><br/>Now the means are also there too to
accelerate this activity with the creation of local Community<br/>
Development Hubs, revolving around Telecentres, Coops, SHG's and Social<br/>
Enterprise Centres...that where there is a will there is a way. And it is a<br/>
process where everyone gains.<br/>
<br/>
This is a win-win solution, better than today's automatic emigration<br/>
solution found necessary in creating a life for some hundreds of millions of<br/>
people and their families; those enterprising enough to leave home from<br/>
among the billions of people living in disenfranchised communities,<br/>
stricken by poverty. New poverty reduction economic models are available<br/>
to alleviate or eliminate poverty as we know it in new ways today.<br/>
Whereas those who want to travel for work can or will still choose to<br/>
do so, there are other online options possible now. Now technology allows<br/>
people to avail of online educational and traded services opportunities<br/>
from within their own global community and/or worldwide in a borderless<br/>
world eg. caring across cultures. And then there are a hundred other different<br/>
lifework paths one can follow along the same lines. It is now viable to educate more educators of<br/>
Nurses & Careworkers at much lower cost in Developing World and<br/>
thus bring ever more people into skills to fill great global shortages in<br/>
tacit interactive caring jobs or traded services opportunities in general -<br/>
especially with advent of remote, self-paced, personalised eLearning,<br/>
online ICT like ICDL, and college internet distance education (CIDE)<br/>
based learning opportunities. And where learning is no longer the preserve of<br/>
young students but an ongoing lifelong experience<br/>
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I believe that the potential for impact on lives of everyone involved<br/>
is enormous, especially with the arrival of technology-driven virtual<br/>
offices, virtual workshops and virtual new eBusiness models for<br/>
Communities where you can do-it-yourself as a community and together<br/>
build your own interactive Community Brand. This will undoubtedly<br/>
will eliminate many of the stresses of Immigration on both sides of every<br/>
border, while providing -through ever more ICT innovation- a better<br/>
solution for all. <br/>
Richard O'Farrell<br/>Founder & Social Entrepreneur<br/><a href="http://www.voxworld.coop">www.voxworld.coop</a><br/> Starting a series of articles at CLEAR VILLAGE, appreciating your input !tag:globalvillages.ning.com,2009-10-20:2029071:Topic:29262009-10-20T13:19:54.000ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahrada
The following link leads to a new online community which was installed in conjunction with a workshop in Barcelona in three weeks. I want to write some blogposts outlining principal questions of global village thinking in very short essays, inputs are welcome!<br />
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<a href="http://clearvillage.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-village-as-a-planetary" target="_blank">The Village as a Planetary Solution</a>
The following link leads to a new online community which was installed in conjunction with a workshop in Barcelona in three weeks. I want to write some blogposts outlining principal questions of global village thinking in very short essays, inputs are welcome!<br />
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<a href="http://clearvillage.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-village-as-a-planetary" target="_blank">The Village as a Planetary Solution</a> Chris Holmes of Green Eco Tek, Inc., and Douglas McVickar, owner of Positive Impact Productstag:globalvillages.ning.com,2009-08-26:2029071:Topic:25412009-08-26T21:08:55.000ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahrada
Green Fuel Solutions welcomes special guest, Chris Holmes of Green Eco Tek, Inc., and Douglas McVickar, owner of Positive Impact Products. <a href="http://budurl.com/Greenfuel827">http://budurl.com/Greenfuel827</a>
Green Fuel Solutions welcomes special guest, Chris Holmes of Green Eco Tek, Inc., and Douglas McVickar, owner of Positive Impact Products. <a href="http://budurl.com/Greenfuel827">http://budurl.com/Greenfuel827</a> Better Health for Kidstag:globalvillages.ning.com,2009-08-05:2029071:Topic:24212009-08-05T14:35:58.000ZFranz Nahradahttp://globalvillages.ning.com/profile/FranzNahrada
Around the Water Cooler welcomes Tamara Walker, whose expertise has helped thousands of parents, for a discussion on family, parenting, health and safety with this mom and registered nurse. <a href="http://budurl.com/wc85">http://budurl.com/wc85</a>
Around the Water Cooler welcomes Tamara Walker, whose expertise has helped thousands of parents, for a discussion on family, parenting, health and safety with this mom and registered nurse. <a href="http://budurl.com/wc85">http://budurl.com/wc85</a>