:Title: Collaboration Cafe - how easy can we make it for youth demands' of worldwide changes :Author: chris macrae :Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:48:41 PDT :Modified: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:35:25 PDT :URL: http://www.ned.com/group/networkweavers/news/6/ aftre the colaboration cafe tv show on bronx cable tv we were asked to put up a weblog that any colaboratin city could cut and paste theior own concerns searches from - so we've made a start at http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com updates: Sarkozy demands Paris leading business school http://www.hec.fr/hec/eng/news/news-detail.php?cle=74916&num=1213 give students a choice of how to unlearn MBA .. survey debriefs on which other worldwide business schools are participating will appear here http://www.smbaworld.com/id42.html -surveys of how to collaborate round this in other cities follow here http://www.ned.com/group/networkweavers/news/6/10/ 2 rather extraordinary things happened while in London week of sept 11: we got a message that Yunus might want us to search London for the 1000 most collaborative and urgent world changers our http://peoplepower.jp nets can muster whilst hosting a cafe in the Quakers House I was reminded by a participant what happened in 1931 when 1000 networkers met Gandhi ------------------------------------------ Footnote collaboration cafe process: .. raw:: html So we started coining collaboration knowledge cities as places where people knowledge matters most, and collaboration cafes as events that networkers connect across cities. I have now hosted 50+ of these cafes http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page4.html mainly out of London. This year we are offering a fall festival of cafes on 3 consecutive days but we are also wanting to share what we openly learn with hosts/hubs in other cities if we can find any. Typically a cafe: -takes one hour; is free but if we get full the most contextually passionate are served -in ideal form we spot someone famous is about to visit a city and we send out an invitation : we can't pay you but if you will meet 10 of us for a coffe we'll sarch all our networks for 10 people who most actively want to be your disciples In effect collaboration cafes reduce 3-days Harrison Owen "open spaces" to one hour by making the invitation and search process as focused as we possibly can. .. image:: http://mywebsite.register.com/db5/00423/grameen.tv/_uimages/netmap.jpg