Collaboration Cafe Festival Oct 11 New York, Washingon Square district: I am writing to you as one of New York’s most collaborative and entrepreneurial networkers for humanity, and in the confidence that you - or someone you know - may be passionately interested in the cafe challenges we are staging in New York as part of a round the world festival among collaboration entrepreneurs

Collaboration Cafe is a meeting format originated in London, 2000. We love open space’s 3-day extreme innovation among large gatherings, but what can be achieved with huge innovation challenges among 10 people in 60 minutes? Emerging answer: at each cafe deeply actionable questioning of a host with a very controversial -and usually lifelong - experience of what sustainability or empowerment will take if globalization is to systemically include every locality and all peoples. Attending cafes is free but we expect people at a cafe to hold a deeply open curiosity about identified challenge. This is the first time a mini-festival of collaboration cafes has been hosted in New York. We'd be most grateful if you pass on our invitation to anyone with interests in the challenge areas.

Date Thursday October 11 11.15 Photosynthesis Cafe (question expert: rick nelson)

12.30 Malaria and community transparency for grassroots health Cafe (question expert: peter burgess)

1.45 Yunus WorldCitizen Challenge Cafe: will your city be first to interact 1000 people meta-collaboration Yunus Forum (question connector: chris macrae)

venue Olive Cafe location: 117 McDougal Street which is close to West 3rd Street just South of Washington Park. ---------------------------------

*More details- 11.15 is a replay of a cafe in London's festival last month. Rick's photosynthesis architecture and agriculture inventions open up a world of clean energy and clean food abundance. But they conflict with most existing channels and professional interests. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C ToYjQFRxXE we believe he's a classic test case of an open source entrepreneurial revolutionary that citizens could network sustainability around - but will we? Rick aims to respond to Taddy Blecher’s request at CIDA Free University (S. Africa) to open source practical peer to peer curricula for sustainability entrepreneurs and wishes to show that photosynthesis architecture around a slum like Kibera would be a 10 times better carbon reinsurance fund than plant a tree.

world citizen calendar homepage for collaboration cafes is at http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page 4.html