"Designing the Global-Brain-Application Seed" -- Designing a collective future for our earth and humanity using web-technologies (ID #002) Date: 5/27/2008 to 6/9/2008 Duration: 2 weeks Hosts: Wael Al Saad, Neri Bar-On Topic(s): 2 Overview: Human being the last decades became very much interconnected than ever. Not only between us individually but also between us, the other creations, our living planet and universe. It is becoming clearer that we are one people, living on one planet, with one common destiny. The internet offers activists sites to join conversation, groups and organisation co-creating our global future. The fact that we stumble with the same thoughts, ideas and efforts we have from one web-site to another makes us more aware, that collectively, informally, collaboratively we have to be very much more efficient in our efforts towards the emerging global civilization. This new experience in our history faces new challenges and requires new approaches. We are becoming more aware that so many portals, platforms, information, ideas, conversations, should run in ONE Super-"Application" which I call it here the "Global Brain Application"� (GBA). The best-in-class tool for the fusion of our informal intelligence and possibilities, the multiplexer of our knowledge, for building an effective global movement. In this conversation we will discuss the vision of having ONE global-brain-application, how it might look and the possibilities toward the first collaborative steps to design a "seed" for this application. Topic 1: Brainstorming: What do we already know about this approach? (week 1) Overview: Human being the last decades became very much interconnected than ever. Not only between us individually but also between us, the other creations, our living planet and universe. It is becoming clearer that we are one people, living on one planet, with one common destiny. The internet offers activists sites to join conversation, groups and organisation co-creating our global future. The fact that we stumble with the same thoughts, ideas and efforts we have from one web-site to another makes us more aware, that collectively, informally, collaboratively we have to be very much more efficient in our efforts towards the emerging global civilization. This new experience in our history faces new challenges and requires new approaches. We are becoming more aware that so many portals, platforms, information, ideas, conversations, should run in ONE Super-"Application" which I call it here the "Global Brain Application"� (GBA). The best-in-class tool for the fusion of our informal intelligence and possibilities, the multiplexer of our knowledge, for building an effective global movement. In this conversation we will discuss the vision of having ONE global-brain-application, how it might look and the possibilities toward the first collaborative steps to design a "seed" for this application.   Topic 1: Introduce yourself to the other participants and share what draws you to this conversation. What would be the informal open-source GBA for you? Who has already started such an initiative? Which methodologies are used therefore (Example: integral spirals dynamics)? What further steps are needed to develop the idea of having ONE global platform for global emergence?   Peter Russel, The Global Brain , Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest and WiserEarth , Global Brain, Spiral Dynamics, and Memetic Evolution: Transformation to a Higher Order Existence Technological singularity Topic 2: Pre-Planing: Summerize Topic 1 and set-up concrete action plan (week 2) Summerize Topic 1 trying to - co-create the "genetic structure" of the project "seed" - define the requiered aspects and elements toward an unstoppable growth of the idea - define objectives and set-up concrete action plan