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Changemakers of ashoka * omidyar
Posted to: Omidyar Network by people power GB - chris macrae (CCAL30) (384), Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:52:26 PDT
Edited: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:00:25 PDT
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Since omidyar and ashoka.org are 2 of my favourite spaces in the world, I would love to understand what collborations are going on between them
I am going to try and study changemakers quite deeply over the next week or two, and as I understand it is one of the collaboration projects, look forward to feedback, correction of any mistakes I make as well as any flows on other bridges between O & A
Level 0 Understanding of http://www.changemakers.net
- 0.1 Uses an interesting jam mode (ie turning the world's local attention on one issue of grassroots change making every 2 months or so). The current jam is on How to Improve Health for all http://www.changemakers.net/journal/300603/health.cfm
- 0.2 I use the word jam because habitatjam.com held a 72 hour session last December of testimonies from all round the suffering world on a handful of topics of which slum-life in Developing countries' cities collated an "unique to the world" body of evidence. It's there to search forever, as opposed to making precise conversational sense as everyone testified
0.3 Changemaker's jam is different as it invites project testimonies from the theme's grassroots changemakers; their projects are available to be questioned; the top few of the session get a 5000 dollar award. The most active project sub-group which may go beyond the prizewiners are encouraged to stay in network as the theme's grassroots pasion leaders. 0.4 Which constituencies get connected by this jam in an unique to the world way? Presumably: *on-subject entrepreneurs to whom 5000 pounds could make a huge difference, and finding their passion network opinion leaders sustains the spirit *worldwide concerned or expert people who may see with someone who is contextually worth mentoring even if they don't get the prize *volunteers who want to represent depth of grassroots context cases (and bottom up environmental observations or questions) to powers on the otherside of the world. All with a focus not on thory but around practical experiments catalogued as rising up from the grassroots
If I have described this nearly correctly; the systemic pattern seems wonderful and unique within my known www; let's give it any support that we can directly as well as ask does its experience multiply particulat work that is being led around omidyar. http://www.omidyar.net/group/localglobal/news/ For example the casa hub of Rio and its catalytic communities might be a systemic win-win with changemakers?
By people power GB - chris macrae (CCAL30) (384), Sat, 20 May 2006 06:47:00 PDT
Edited: Sat, 20 May 2006 06:47:51 PDT
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yesterday I had a great 2 hours with Chris Heuer coordinator of http://www.brainjams.com
its very interesting to ytrack jam movements in terms of what they do in the double life-forms of virtual interface and real world; chris takes news of cutting edge web2.1 from his base near omidyar's redwood and skoll's palo alto to cities like New Orleans that are need of a world of projects
I may get into trouble for saying this, but the way I map the world, the only 3 investments coming out of America that actually care about sustaining local cultures all over te globe are : something begin with micro, eg microfinance social entrepreneur and sustainability investment
what's most important in my view is these 3 world's bridge each other , and we might argue for 22 years now http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687 that the jam is the simplest virtual mode to do that; what's missing is the scale that a public brioadcaster like the BBC could have brought to this world service. http://www.pledgebank.com/bbcgames
topBy Evonne Heyning (CCAL30) (2442), Wed, 31 May 2006 11:18:07 PDT
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I think there's more to it than that Chris, although I agree with much of what you're saying about win-win jamming!
My husband is an amazing innovator. He builds things that blow me away. At midnight last night after a long day of developing new LED projects for a private client he brought home two performer friends, about to go on their first big tour and needing a contraption wired and lit. He doesn't complain and makes every dream happen, every time repurposing effective technologies that have the potential to rapidly change our energy use worldwide.
I think he's a total changemaker; he could just as easily be focusing on doing that worldchanging work if he felt he could make a good living doing it. But here in LA he pro bonos those innovation projects while making a living lighting the top of the Disneyland Christmas Tree or some random space/robot/scifi movie. Even much of his high-tech "industry" work is heading abroad because it's easier to pay someone $5 an hour to do it than make it on union scale. Most of what he's developed has been co-opted, yet on half the movies he's worked they don't even put his crew in the credits!
I think there's a great deal of innovation happening in America but now we're hearing about the innovations happening around the world too. Our planet got a whole lot smaller and now I can easily keep up with my friends in Bangkok, London and Kampala. We can collaborate and blur the boundaries between nations until there's no such thing as a country of origin. Most "Hollywood" films are no longer filmed or made here; only 10% of a film must be made in the US for it to be considered an American movie so filmmakers take XMEN to Canada and only pay for one piece to be made here. It's similar with many industries....there's no longer a simple mine and yours, as much as our institutions would like us to believe otherwise.
So as a culture we find new ways to jam. We mark times on the calendar to remember things, we join Oprah's book of the month club, we do the Ashoka dance. I agree that it would be far more effective to coordinate that jamming across networks, but we've got to get to a place where we're ready to jam first. Most of us are putting our headphones on (and not always in a good way). It's a challenge just to get a common beat going.
By people power GB - chris macrae (CCAL30) (384), Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:57:49 PDT
Edited: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:59:26 PDT
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I don't disagree except it would help me if you said what the 'more-to-it' is. Are we in agreement that people given the time etc were made to be quite capable at jamming but currently the largest organisations man has systemised are in many cases the world's exact opposite - they are not only incompetent at jamming but systemically rewarding destruction of opportunities to jam due to what I call the world's biggest mathematical mistake. http://asinworld.blogspot.com
By people power GB - chris macrae (CCAL30) (384), Sat, 20 May 2006 06:16:15 PDT
Edited: Sat, 20 May 2006 06:16:51 PDT
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great to see that any project jammer will get the benefit of being judged by a panel that includes relevant philanthropy foundations like Gates'
also I feel the story of the epicentre of the peoples world health returning to Calcutta is cool enough to tell peers about http://clubofcalcutta.blogspot.com