AGENDA
(version of May 9, 2002)
GivingSpace Meeting
May 13 -14, 2002
A Workshop at the Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe, New Mexico
“What was often difficult for people to understand about the design [of the World Wide Web] was that there was nothing else beyond URIs [his name for URLs], HTTP, and HTML. There was no central computer “controlling” the web, no single network on which these protocols worked, not even an organization anywhere that “ran” the Web. The web was not a physical “thing” that existed in a certain “place.” It was a “space” in which information could exist.”[1]
Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web
To help the poor from "the top down" is least likely to succeed. But science and technology are concentrated at the top, making top down the method of choice for those in power. The challenge, he said, is to find ways to help people by providing science and technology from "the bottom up." …Three successful "bottom up" approaches described by Dyson share an important trait: As they succeeded, they spread quickly. Dyson calls this "autocatalysis" -- a chemistry term meaning that as a chemical reaction proceeds, it automatically accelerates. Autocatalysis is a "key virtue to look for in any technology that claims to improve human welfare on a large scale," he added. [2]
Freeman Dyson
Only a few are needed to visualize and to initiate an epidemic of health that would become self-organizing, self-propelling, and self-propagating, as is characteristic of evolutionary processes.[3]
Jonas Salk
The Santa Fe Institute is a world renowned center for thinking about complexity and self-organizing systems. We are pleased to have the opportunity to meet in this stimulating environment for elevated thought in a generous spirit with which we may plant the seeds for a self-organizing, self-propagating space for humanitarian uplift.
Monday, May 13
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8:15 |
Shuttle |
Shuttle from Santa Fe Hotel |
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8:30 |
Breakfast |
Registration, breakfast |
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9:00 |
Welcome to SFI |
Ellen Goldberg, President Santa Fe Institute |
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9:10 |
Welcome to Meeting |
Tom Munnecke, video |
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9:20 |
Introductions
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Each participant introduces self around question, “Describe an act of generosity which was most meaningful in your life” |
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11:30 |
Tom Munnecke |
Introductory Remarks |
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11:50 |
Murray Gell-Mann |
Perspectives on Philanthropy |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 |
Heather Wood Ion |
Can What Counts Be Counted? |
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1:30 |
Duane Elgin |
Experiences in Transformational Philanthropy |
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2:00 |
Nipun Mehta |
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Application: CharityFocus in Focus |
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2:30 |
Paul Chaffee |
Appreciative Inquiry and the United Religions Initiative |
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3:00 |
Open Discussion |
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5:00 |
Reception |
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7:00 |
Shuttle leaves for Hotel |
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Tuesday, May 14 Morning
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8:15 |
Shuttle leaves Hotel Santa Fe |
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8:30 |
Breakfast |
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9:00 |
David Ellerman |
Autonomy Respecting Assistance |
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9:30 |
Jan Hauser |
Scalable Trust Discussion |
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10:00 |
Dennis Whittle |
Update on DevelopmentSpace |
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10:15 |
Stuart Gannes
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Offer to support GivingSpace prototype at Stanford’s Digital Vision Program |
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10:30 |
Break |
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11:00 |
David Brin (dial in) |
Augmenting and Divvying the Philanthropic "Pie" |
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11:20 |
Mark S. Miller |
The Digital Path |
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11:40 |
Jeffrey Ashe |
Banking on the Poor(616-547-9109) |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 |
Open Discussion |
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3:00 |
Discussion of specific projects which may arise |
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4:00 |
Closing comments and offers from audience |
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5:00 |
Adjourn |
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Cost: Registration fee of $75 per person will be collected at the door, which includes breakfasts, lunches, and reception. Checks may be made out to the Santa Fe Institute; Visa and Mastercard credit cards are also accepted. Transportation from the Hotel Santa Fe is included; all other transportation and lodging costs are the responsibility of the participants.
Accommodations: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Santa Fe http://www.hotelsantafe.com/welcome.htm for $129 per night. (800) 825 9876. Let them know you are attending the GivingSpace meeting. There has been some confusion with reservations department; Attendees are all responsible for their own hotel reservations. A less expensive hotel is the Best Western of Santa Fe (505) 438-3822 at $49.50 a night. The reservations clerk may need help remembering that this rate is available. However, there will be no shuttle service from this hotel. There will be a number of folks at the Best Western with cars; please exchange email to figure things out.
Transportation: We will have a shuttle service from the Santa Fe Hotel to the Institute each day if necessary, or you can use your own car. Special Santa Fe Intstitute rates for rental cars can be obtained at http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/findUs/ground.html Please exchange email if you offer/need a ride to/from the airport to Santa Fe (about a one hour drive)
Location: the Santa Fe Institute is located at 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, (505) 984-8800
Spouses: Spouses are invited to attend the reception Monday evening from 5:00 – 7:00. There will be at least three wives touring Santa Fe during the meeting; contact Cheryl@Munnecke.com for more information.
Special Dietary Needs: Contact Suzanne Dulle, JuanandSuzanne@aol.com
Fundraising Free Zone: GivingSpace is NOT about fundraising. Our ambitious goal is to spend two days talking about philanthropy and humanitarian uplift without mentioning the word “fundraising.” (attendees are encouraged to reflect on the implications of trustraising instead) Attendees who use this word during the meeting will be fined $5.00, our only form of fundraising.
Cell Phones: off, please.
Contact Information: Tom Munnecke, (858) 756-4218, mobile: (858) 342 8860, tom@givingspace.org
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David Brin |
Writer (dial in) |
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David Ellerman |
World Bank |
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Dennis Whittle |
DevelopmentSpace |
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Douglass Carmichael |
Big Mind Media |
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Duane Elgin |
Changemakers.org |
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Eric Smith |
Santa Fe Institute |
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Gavin White |
Credit Suisse |
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Ginger Richardson |
Santa Fe Institute |
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Harold Koenig |
Surgeon General, USN, ret |
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Heather Wood Ion |
GivingSpace |
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Inne ten Have |
Nabuur (Netherlands) |
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Jan Hauser |
GivingSpace |
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Jeffrey Ashe |
Brandeis University |
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Juan Velasco |
Tipuani, Inc. |
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Jennifer Kirk |
United Religions Initiative |
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Kerry MacNamara |
World Bank (former) |
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Lisa Castagnozzi |
Interaction |
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Mark S. Miller |
Combex |
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Michael Litz |
Benton Foundation |
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Murray Gell-Mann |
Santa Fe Institute |
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Nipun Mehta |
CharityFocus.org |
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Paul Chaffee |
United Religions Initiative |
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Sigfried Woldhek |
Nabuur (Netherlands) |
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Stuart Gannes |
Stanford Digital Visions |
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Suzanne Dulle |
Santa Fe Institute |
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Tom Munnecke |
GivingSpace |
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Tony Hoeber |
Dali Lama Trust |
I’ve included the following brief introductions to attendees in order to start the introductory process. Feel free to connect via email before the meeting. Please don’t read anything into the length or tone of the text; this is more a matter of what was available to cut and paste late one night. My apologies if I have given too little attention to some attendees.
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David Brin d.brin@cts.net is an astronomer and best-selling author whose future-oriented novels include Earth and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and Uplift War. (The Postman inspired a film in 1998.) Brin is also known as a leading commentator on modern technological trends. His non fiction book -- The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? - deals with provocative issues of openness and liberty in the wired-age. |
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David Ellerman has worked in the World Bank since 1992 where he is currently an economic advisor to the Chief Economist. He has been in and out of teaching in economics, mathematics, accounting, computer science, and operations research departments in various universities. |
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Dennis Whittle co-founded DevelopmentSpace with Mari Kuraishi after extensive activities at the World Bank, including the Development Marketplace |
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Douglas Carmichael is a strategic change consultant with expertise in systems thinking and scenario planning. He has a rich background in organizational development and psychoanalysis, and is an avid student of history and the arts. He is the former president of MetaSystems Design Group where he developed his unique capacities for online facilitation and social architecting. |
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Duane Elgin is the author of Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future (Morrow, 2000), Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness (Morrow, 1993), and Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (Morrow, 1981; revised 1993). He has been active with a group defining a vision of transformational philanthropy. http://www.awakeningearth.org |
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Eric Smith is a doing a post-doctorate at the Santa Fe Institute, where he is interested in the transitivity of trust in networks, self-starting engines, and other Santa Fe adventures. |
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Gavin White has worked in development in Latin America/Balkans; as a filmmaker & TV producer in Australia/UK/USA; most recently, he is Vice President of Marketing for Credit Suisse Asset Management. He is interested in applying his knowledge of business processes, audiovisual media & eCommerce to create working models and stories of autocatalytic, scalable development. |
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Harold Koenig, MD is a recovering Admiral and physician who recently retired as Surgeon General of the US Navy and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. He is CEO of the Annapolis Center. |
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Heather Wood Ion is a former CEO, consultant, and author of Third Class Ticket, a book about her experiences traveling around India with people who had never been out of their village. She was also a board member of the Valeo Initiative, an effort to create a "Chaordic" approach to health care. She is author of Against Terrible Odds: Lessons in Resilience from Our Children (with Saul Levine) |
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Jan Hauser, CTO of GivingSpace, has an extensive background in trust and computer security systems, was formerly of Sun Microsystems. He is interested in applying lessons learned from electronic commerce for use in social and sustainable development activities. |
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Jennifer Kirk is with the United Religions Initiative in San Francisco, and has been active in the field of international development, particularly in Asia. |
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Jeffrey Ashe is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Development at Brandeis University. He founded Working Capital, the largest microenterprise program in the US, and was director of the PISCES project, the first worldwide investigation of programs reaching the smallest economic activities of the poor. |
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Kerry MacNamara is a consultant and former leader of knowledge management activities at the World Bank. |
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Lisa Castagnozzi, lcastagn@interaction.org is the Information and Communications Technologies Group Manager for InterAction, a coalition of 125 International NGOs in Washington, DC |
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Mark S. Miller (with Marc Steigler) is author of The Digital Path: Smart Contracts and the Third World. |
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Michael Litz is CTO of Benton Foundation and Managing Director of Oneworld.net US He has been active with other Foundation CTOs in defining other XML standards. |
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Murray Gell-Mann was one of the founders of the Santa Fe Institute, and has been a member of the MacArthur Foundation board for 23 years. He is a Nobel laureate in Physics for his work in discovering the Quark. He is author of “The Quark and the Jaguar.” |
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Nipun Mehta is founder of CharityFocus.org, whose volunteers develop web sites for charities. http://nipun.charityfocus.org/about/index.html |
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Paul Chaffee is the executive director of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio in San Francisco. He has been the secretary of the United Religions Initiative board for the past seven years. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is the author of Accountable Leadership, a book about the legal, financial, and ethical issues of religious leadership (Jossey-Bass), and is a student of appreciative inquiry. |
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Sigfreid Woldhek is founder of Nabuur in the Netherlands. |
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Stuart Gannes sgannes@stanford.edu is Director of the new Digital Vision Fellowship at Stanford University http://reuters.stanford.edu . Prior to that he was Vice President for Advanced Development and Internet Applications at AT&T Labs, Menlo Park, California. At AT&T he directed projects in areas that included e-mail, speech recognition, speech synthesis, authentication systems and user experience. He was an Associate Editor at Fortune Magazine for science and technology. |
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Suzanne Dulle recently retired as International programs development officer at the Santa Fe Institute, and as graciously volunteered to help organize this meeting. |
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Tom Munnecke founded GivingSpace after a visit to India, in which he resolved to apply his skills and resources for humanitarian uplift. His part time “day job” at the moment is as Assistant Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation in San Diego. He has been interested in the convergence of complexity theory and the internet for nearly a decade. |
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Tony Hoeber is a founder of the Dali Lama Trust in San Francisco. |
[1] Berners-Lee, Tim, Weaving the Web, The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, Harper San Francisco, 1999, p. 36 and 209
[2] Dyson, Freeman, from Drell Lecture presentation at Stanford University, March 14, 2001 http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/01/dyson321.html
[3] Munnecke, Tom, and Wood-Ion, Heather, “Creating an Epidemic of Health with the Internet,” US Medicine Magazine, Washington, DC August 1995.