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February 18, 2005
Festivals and conferences
This year will be a busy year for conferences and festivals for me. As a blogger it seems I have managed to convince a few people of the benefits of sharing ideas and engaging with the community through a socratic system of discussion and reflection, and this has led me to participate in an advisory role for a wide of range of events. Beyond my involvement in largely academic conferences associated with communications research and practice, and with online education, I've been invited to present on a panel for the United Nations International Conference on Engaging Communities in August. We'll be discussing new tools and mechanisms for engaging citizens in public debate, and we'll be looking at the changing role of participation as a result of emergent technologies. I've also been invited to act as an Ideas Advisor for the Ideas Festival of 2005, taking place in October here in Brisbane. The last Ideas Festival was in 2003, and the Advisors for that Festival were luminaries in their field. It's an honour to be asked to participate in such a forum, and I hope my work in blogging the Festival can help to raise awareness of the kinds of innovations and possibilities that can be realised through networking with all facets of business and research communities.
Posted by jj at February 18, 2005 7:59 AM
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Dear Joanne Jacobs, I have been publishing peace & freedom ideas since 1964 in my PEACE PLANS series, of which all 1779 issues are still in print but only on microfiche, $ 1 each. Altogether they offer over 1/2 million pages.
PEACE PLANS 1-20 and some odd ones are available free via e-mail attachments. In PP 9-11 ideas are offered on how to end unemployment and inflation. (Their 3 main books by U. v. Beckerath are now on www.reinventingmoney.com)
In this Peace Plans series & in my 2 peace books (available on www.panarchism.info) I push especially for a world Ideas Archive & Talent centre. The first book of my father on this, in PP 183, is available in German & English, free, via email, his second book on this only in German. My own book on this, mainly for libertarian ideas, is in PP 20, in English.
Online I know only of the Global Ideas Bank, confined to "social inventions", narrowly defined and thus mostly confined to welfare state and charitable ideas.
I am under the impression that the Ideas Festival, biannual in Brisbane is largely only confined to inventions & artistic efforts.
Many more ideas than in a temporary exhibition & conference could be permanently and cheaply offered e.g. on CDs: The equivalent of 3000 books on one, zipped, or on an external HD of 320 Gbs: the equivalent of 1 million books.
If we fully mobilized all positive ideas and talents and released their creative energies ...
Are you interested in such permanent and wider ideas and talent markets becoming established, very cheaply for all kinds of ideas and also special collections of special ideas & talents?
For most people this idea seems to be too big to fit into their heads.
"The Free Market for Ideas" is so far only a misleading notion, not a reality.
PIOT John Zube
(Panarchy In Our Time or: To each the government or non-governmental society of his or her dreams!
See: www.panarchy.org)
Posted by: John Zube at February 22, 2005 3:19 PM
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