<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">hi Dan,</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div>I'm a fellow fan of social cybernetics and the kind of cybernetic socialism envisioned by the Cybersyn project of Allende and Beer. (Me thinks, if they would be still alive, they'd sure deserve one of the $2 million <a href="https://ai.google/social-good/impact-challenge/">just-announced grants</a> from Google for positive social impact AI projects.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">I'm writing you because of your interest in<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> "participatory democratic governance that was able to take into account all available information and opinion, allowing everyone a say in the ideation process and the formation of policy solutions and decision-making." In my view, that would require people/commons-friendly AI and that's exactly I'm working towards.</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p></div></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> I’m familiar with Kialo, Democracy Earth, Enspiral, Holocracy and many others, though I have yet to do much more than establish contact for the most part. I suspect that perhaps it is time to connect the dots. Should anyone be interested in discussing further please let me know.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm letting you know, also, that I'm a Holacracy practitioner and founder of the Enlivening Edge magazine where we published lots of articles about Enspiral, DAO, blockchain, and similar subjects. I'll be in Shanghai, Nov 2-5, where I will be speaking at <a href="http://forum.chinafuturework.com/">this</a> conference. If you're in town, and wanna meet, that would be cool.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">george</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">--</span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(61,60,64);white-space:pre-wrap"><b>George Pór</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(61,60,64);white-space:pre-wrap">Faculty, Meridian University</span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(61,60,64);white-space:pre-wrap">Researcher in Collective Intelligence & AI</span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(61,60,64);white-space:pre-wrap">Founder, Senior Consultant, Community Intelligence Ltd.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(61,60,64);white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1p3Hy3_vDwna30fvqmRZOzWAFZnvlyMLE&revid=0ByjTs1FV8zaMZ3c5ekVXR2MyaHc2UE5yL3RsK015UzVnSWJZPQ" width="420" height="88"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(61,60,64);white-space:pre-wrap">Strategic learning partner to visionary leaders and changemakers </span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(61,60,64);white-space:pre-wrap">in business, government, and civil society</span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(61,60,64);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(61,60,64);white-space:pre-wrap">Founder and Teal Mentor of the <a href="https://www.enliveningedge.org/" target="_blank">Enlivening Edge</a> media hub </span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(61,60,64);white-space:pre-wrap">for </span><span style="color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:x-small;white-space:pre-wrap">amplifying the evolution of organizations and social systems</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="1">Medium:   <a href="https://medium.com/@technoshaman" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@technoshaman</a></font></div><div><font size="1" face="garamond, serif">Facebook: <a href="https://www.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