GlobalVillages: Spirit

Spirit

See also DesignAVillage, Investigations, Technologies, Dimensions and Parameters.

What is the spirit of global villages?

See also my proposal to RickNelson to create a Global Villages Index.

AndriusKulikauskas: I am very moved by all of our work on "global villages" and "local circles" and I want to understand this as the next layer of society in which independent thinkers are keen to invest in once they feel able as individuals (which we are feeling). So I will openly investigate a question "What are technologies that support global villages?" and first I will ask "What is the spirit of global villages?" My hypothesis is that a "global village" is a "state of mind" for participants of a local circle that is supported by their activity along multiple dimensions. My plan is to look for such dimensions that I think are essential to global villages, such as:

How intensely do you (your local circle) develop a shared vision?
How do you nurture and enjoy your own creative culture?
How do you help each other address personal needs, crises, challenges?
How much do you help the disadvantaged in your neighborhood?
How much are you a base for social entrepreneurs?
How much are you self-sustaining economically?
How thoughtful are you ecologically?
How actively do you participate in the global world?
How transparent and sharing are you in social networking?
How active are you in local political matters?

I think that all these questions (and more) are essential for global villages, and in each case it's a matter of degree. I think that we can discover these dimensions and then for each recognize "parameters" that express (in terms of recurrent activity) how vibrant that dimension is for a particular village. Generally, each global village tends to focus on just a few and forget the others. I hope to come up with simple common sense metrics (presumably based on intensity of activity) for each paramter that would help us size up a global village. Then we could consider technologies (such as solaroof.org , wikis, community currencies, prodigalart.org ) in terms of how they are intensifying our global village activity along different dimensions, and how they are resolving conflicts amongst those dimensions. I hope this work might be useful for Franz Nahrada's and Jeff Buderer's work on a pattern language for global villages. I hope to conduct my investigation with all of our help collecting examples in ways that might be useful to all of our endeavors.

Note:

How to distinguish the values around a circuit from the value systems that make up a (global) village.
Who decides what are the values in a particular "parish".

what are the core questions to unvail the core values and make them workeable?

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