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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Today, we welcomed the birth of Club of Greenwich with this opening post

As a death of distance researcher 1 2 over the last 22 years, I have come to believe that collaboration knowledge cities -or at least networks of citizens - learn most about sustaining value multiplication -and other searches for economics of abundnace - from VILLAGES, as well as how these villages connect across the cities vibrancy of cultures and so to love harmony among peoples all over the world.

In fact the chief economist of future historian alumni -who happens to be dad to me -wrote back in 1984 that if the human race is to survive newtorking as the greatest challenge to ver face one genberation of people (1984 to 2024) then we would need to change economics until transparent world trades zinged across 2 million global villages (some geographically twinning rich and poor cultures as a way of bridging digital divides), some connecting professions because the powerfully separatist profession compounds more risk in a knowledge worker world than anything else transparency mapmakers 1 2 can imaginePerhaps there is an even greater game to play where 2 villages also share the same name - were they founded for overlapping reasons? this is a quiz that every schoolchild can search and play as well as every powerful citizen and everyone else in between

Now when it comes to London's Greenwich - we have the great start of being the epicentre of maps (of 0 degree separation). Maps will prove to be even more valuable to 21st C humanity (if such a species is to thrive) because no knowledge networks survive without them; today's greatest investmnent in cpaital is every human being's likfetime and not to have access to transparent maps and searching is the greatest discrimination we could systemis against any peoples, the 21st C apartheid if you willWhen it comnes to Greenwich in New York, another magic happens ; we've taken extracts from 2 Greenwich Village websites since its clear from their passion that they can descrobe their future histories better than any words my friends and I can conjure up from my desks in London and Bethesda and ... and ...

guided excerpt 1 from Village AllianceWelcome to the Village Alliance Web site! We are a not-for-profit Business Improvement District located in the heart of Greenwich Village one block north of Washington Square Park on 8th Street & extending eastward to Second Avenue & St Marks Place. Over the years, the 12 blocks included in the Village Alliance have been home to some of America's most creative minds and artists.Welcome to our Historic Neighborhood! The location where Jimi Hendrix built the Electric Lady sound studios; Where Barbra Streisand debuted at the Bon Soir and where Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Whitney Museum and Andy Warhol and Lou Reed created the citadel of Hippiedom at the Electric Circus on St Marks Place.Welcome to our world renowned community where a clean, safe & friendly environment awaits your visit to a variety of shops, quaint alleyways and a culture of diversity.And welcome to 8th Street, the Shoe Capital of The World!

Guided excerpt 2 from NYCGV
For over 100 years, this small area below 14th Street and west of Broadway has been a Mecca to the creative, rebellious and Bohemian. Although today no starving artists could afford to live here, the vibe still lingers and the beat goes on

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Worldwide, club of city supports collaboration and networkers: to pose serious questions, notably on future curves that seem to be trending down in many places and communities. How do all peoples and media 1 2 3 turnround such examples as:
  • Healthcare – ever increasing costs
  • Children – increased family strain, lost safety of community
  • Professionals- loss of Hippocratic oath, ever more bureaucratic
  • Water – Clean water is getting scarcer
  • Transport – getting slower
  • National Government – Increasingly powering over instead of facilitating what people need next Mass media – dumbing down, loss of social space and transparent debates
  • Food chain – cost of good for you food going up
  • Nations Cultures- love of each other’s diversity going down
  • Pensions (investment in sustainable growth) – going down
  • Adult confidence in making a difference with lifelong learning potentials – seems to be going down
  • Insurance – cost going up, learnings across biggest tragedies seem increasingly blocked
  • Underclass – compounding underclass- their loss of hope in life and mutual risks to all of us in a hi-connected world
  • NGOs/Charity – Global*Local infrastructure further removed from depth of grassroots needs in crisis or sustainability turnround challenges
    We are interested in any city network that either recognises any of these as a problem which it wants to question or has some answers they are happy to share with the world
    Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, London & DC, 30 years at origin of Entrepreneurial Revolution, 21 years @ Death of Distance transparency networking, valuetrue mapmaking 1