<span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark,<br><br>I copy your nextnet conversation here as well, <br><br>it seems to me you have thought through an 'integral' or integrated p2p infrastructural strategy?<br><br>as you say, "</span>a global information technology
requirements<br>
specification, in very broad outline, for a paradigm shift tool-set."<br><br>is that available somewhere in a more formal article, for eventual publication?<br><br>what is the underlying logic holding all those different points/aspects together?<br>
<br>Michel<br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br><br>Mark Roest <<a href="mailto:marklroest@gmail.com" target="_blank">marklroest@gmail.com</a>></span>
Jul 31 12:20PM -0700
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Hello Jurai, Rasmus and Michel,<br>
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There are some other dimensions that the discussion is not really
reflecting<br>
yet.<br>
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The 20-planet scenario has a major fork in its path. This fork can be
played<br>
out differently in different places, and the aggregate impacts of the<br>
choices can, in turn, have ecosystem, eco-region, biome, and global
scale<br>
system-disrupting or system-restoring impacts. Nature plays the last
hand --<br>
we don't. Our functional purpose here, on Gaia, is to be stewards of all
our<br>
relations (the rest of life), to live on the surpluses, and to create
and<br>
share collective and universal consciousness. Most traditional,
indigenous,<br>
relatively intact cultures would also say something roughly equivalent
to,<br>
it is to maintain continuity with the contributions of the ancestors,
and<br>
co-create the future with them and with the Great Spirit / Life Force.<br>
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The nature of the fork is whether we coalesce around our higher selves<br>
(think of what infants and close friends and pets inspire in us) or our<br>
lower inheritance from chimpanzees (taking over adjacent territories --<br>
killing the males to take the females and the choice food).<br>
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What I have written below is a global information technology
requirements<br>
specification, in very broad outline, for a paradigm shift tool-set.<br>
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Left-wing or populist organizing is fundamentally about bringing people<br>
together and educating them so they cannot be exploited or oppressed by<br>
sociopathic, racist greed-heads. If we combine this with a few other<br>
fundamental pieces, we have a chance to save the world:<br>
1. Education in how to come from and express compassion and altruism<br>
effectively (curriculum by Stanford School of Medicine's CCARE program,
in<br>
collaboration with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and other Tibetan
Buddhist<br>
scholars). The curriculum has now spread to 2000 schools in the U.S..<br>
Similarly, a program called the Causes of Happiness. This needs to be<br>
'mashed' with education (#6 below) and peacemaking, as well as
community,<br>
political and economic organizing, as it changes perspective in these
areas.<br>
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2. Uncensored information about corporations and governments run by
greed,<br>
and individuals and political groups driven by hostility (Project
Censored,<br>
now collaborating with over 40 universities, and other efforts)<br>
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3. Scientific understanding of habitat loss, ecosystems, carbon and
water<br>
cycles, the soil food web, Permaculture solutions (why do they work?<br>
where?), etc.<br>
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4. A way of organizing information so we can see the part that is<br>
potentially useful to us in the eco-regions and cultures we live and
work<br>
in. It is a combination taxonomy and / or tag system that covers
eco-regions<br>
and cultures, problem types, solution integration options, universals
(the<br>
basics of life support, human biology and instinctual, emotional, and<br>
spiritual nature), threats, conditions and opportunities, and much else,
in<br>
a Geographic Information / Digital Earth Imaging System, to which
everyone<br>
has read and write access at the content level, with the content having
an<br>
audit trail and peer review -- as well as expert review.<br>
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5. An extension of the economic input-output analysis beyond dollars in
and<br>
dollars out at each transformation. It needs to also carry and report<br>
physical types and units of inputs, hours and intensities of different
kinds<br>
of labor, waste and byproducts, quality standards (e.g. organic,
non-gmo,<br>
fair trade), and who controls processes and transactions. It also needs
to<br>
be mashed with the Geographic Information / Digital Earth Imaging
System.<br>
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6. A digital education system, translated and localized for all
cultures,<br>
that fully empowers people to reach their potential individually and<br>
collectively. SugarLabs, which provided the user interface for the One<br>
Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO computer, has one of many efforts in this<br>
direction. It should be built around #1, #3, #4, #5, #7 & #8 in
terms of<br>
content access, and organizing skills should be taught, and their use<br>
encouraged. For reference, check out the ethnic studies program that the<br>
racist Arizona legislature and governor banned financial support for
this<br>
year. There are others.<br>
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7. A health and well-being process that is place-based,
culture-supportive,<br>
unified and fully diverse, which is supported by a Health Care
Knowledgebase<br>
mashed with the VistA EHR (Electronic Health Record) health information<br>
management system <WorldVistA.org>. It needs to fully empower all
the<br>
indigenous healers (often 1 per 100 people in rural Africa, where
western<br>
trained doctors may be 1 per 100,000 to 1 per million).<br>
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8. A taxonomy and database of appropriate, sustainable technologies,<br>
integrated with the information systems supporting the other topics and<br>
organizing initiatives. It should be the information support system for<br>
ubiquitous technology incubators which are devoted to fine-grained<br>
distribution of the power to produce in harmony with nature, from its<br>
surplus. The incubators should work with communities to develop
cooperatives<br>
where possible, and small businesses that work in progressively larger<br>
networks as a fall-back position. The incubators should also be
integrated<br>
with the Unified Field Bank system <<a href="http://unifiedfieldbank.com/mission.html" target="_blank">http://unifiedfieldbank.com/mission.html</a>>,<br>
providing a 'lens'-like system through which community assets can be
used to<br>
generate the capital needed to transform the economy, at the scales
needed<br>
for each different technology and food production system.<br>
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In each of these major topic areas, we need to do an Agile-style
evolution<br>
of tools and content, in a large, open process that includes ample,
'hosted'<br>
and facilitated opportunity for cross-fertilization among topics and<br>
technologies. Charrettes (see National Charrette Institute, Portland,<br>
Oregon) need to be an integral part of the processes.<br>
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There is more, but this is enough for today.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Mark Roest<br><a href="http://www.designearth.net/" target="_blank">www.DesignEarth.net</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a>� - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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