I was asked elsewhere to give details on collaboration cafe as a faciliation tool - this answer may be of some value as it blends more understanding on where te tool came from and where londoners 1000 most colaborative networkers wish to go to

technique collaboration cafe:

collaboration cafe started with the view that 3-day open space is sandwiched by invitation before the space and what actions network after the space (facebook group on open space http://www.facebook.com/group.ph p?gid=2336949583

the question : if citizens only have 90 minutes and space for a 10 person cafe- can anything world changing be done?

we decided perhaps it could if we essentially focused on invitation and post space action

specifically what if a group of citizens -such as members of http://www.simpol.org on whose management board I served for 2 years - around a city shared their votes on number 1 trusted people in change world - who, what context, and searched when any of these number 1's was visiting the city ahead of time; and made the cheeky offer to this world#1 host - we cant offer you speaker fees but we can search all our networks and find you the 10 people who most want to action your work

so because the invitation has been geared to a world change person, the group is there to Q&A how to practice or network weave with that world changer and the post space opportunities to change the world flow truly

londoners have now done about 50 collaboration cafes http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page 4.html http://www.ned.com/group/network weavers/news/6/ we were surprised a fortnight ago by a bonus meta-collaboration cafe offer; with enough people sharing lists of world's most trusted people and why, we were asked could we help map who the 1000 most collaborative people around London are -ie people ready to team up for urgent system transformations if Muhhamad Yunus has time to give such 1000 people two hours of meeting time

quite how we live up to that my friend/facilitator sofia bustamante is spending night and day working on http://grameen.tv