JOHN POWERS WWC DEBATE

(It was the inspiration of so many of John's ideas that prompted me to start this workspace - and I love double entendre)

The WWC idea needs Chunking if it is really to catch on, just as a Coal fire needs Kindling

This workspace is intended as a place for brainstorming or jotting down or juggling ideas about KINDLING ENTHUSIASM FOR THE WORLD CONNECTORY PROJECT.

Please add your thoughts.

Since this is a workspace, feel free to change anything or remove anything. Nothing gets lost: anyone can revert to an earlier version of the workspace simply by clicking on the revisions button.

Ideas of what might be used as Kindling

DB wrote this in the intro to the discussion thread:

... kindling will involve a range of practical publicity techniques or strategies. Among those that I think need to be recruited to the cause are the following:

Others whose support could be invaluable might include

So, what is it that can ensure that the WWC idea most easily catches fire and burns ever more warmly and brightly?

• Practical suggestions for actions in the Users Manual (i.e. the WWC)

  Please list ideas here:

• Using non profits etc as kindling

  How might this be done?

• Creating a kindling media

  How to do this?

• Enlisting institutional support

• Royal Geographic Society
• AFSC or other similar international organisation
• An academic institution
• learn from the experience of Global Voices
• BBC or other major broadcaster

• Ideas for Flipping the Funnel

• Securing the agreement of an internationally respected organisation to act as guarantors of impartiality in the allocation-of-areas process
• Setting up Advisory mechanisms for working out with key groups how to enlist the support of their members:
  • NGOs(list here)
  • world organisations
  • newspapers/media
• Develop (one or more) pilot areas/pilot mutualities
• Plan completion of the WWC manual
  • Updating List A - find replacements for Serbia & Montenegro
  • Complete guidelines for action
  • nonprofitslist
• Strategy for development of the WCP in non-English-speaking countries
• Promotion of WWC
  • Online presence (Website, networking, blogs)
  • Developing a printed paper version of the WWC
  • Effective publicity methods
  • Pitching for a TV programme based on the WWC

A Simple Idea

SHARE OUT THE WORLD'S POVERTY

Give more prosperous communities a moral & practical responsibility for for those with less wealth & with less access to revenue-generating resources