Meeting Agenda

GivingSpace Concepts and Development

January 11-12, 2001

Benton Foundation

950 18th St. NW

Washington, DC.  20006

(202) 638-5770

Purpose of the meeting: 

To bring together people of good will who are interested in creating an open, scalable, Internet-enabled infrastructure to support humanitarian and development activities on a global scale.  To discuss notions of trust, community, and accountability in the context of a self-organizing, adaptive context in which those patterns of activity which successful transformational activities could be replicated. To examine possible technologies, such as a Philanthropic Markup Language, that could serve as a foundation for a global community that would create a space within which philanthropy can occur.

A $25 fee for lunch and food expenses will be collected at the meeting

Friday, January 11, 2002

8:00 Continental Breakfast, Registration

9:00 Introduction:  Tom Munnecke.  Background and introduction to GivingSpace

10:00 David Ellerman topic “How to make help helpful”

10:30 break

11:00 Jan Hauser: Self Organizing Networks of Trust

11:30 David Brin: An Outsider’s Perspective on the Future of Philanthropy (Teleconference)

11:45 Stuart Kauffman: Self-Organizing Philanthropy (Teleconference)

12:00 Harold Koenig: Organizational issues (Teleconference)

12:15 Lunch/time for informal discussions

1:30 Dennis Whittle: What can be done now?

2:00 Mike Litz, Experience with Markup Languages

2:15   Roundtable discussion: Tom Munnecke, Moderator

            Markup Language,  Trust Networks,  Complementary Currency

            Organizational: what would a GivingSpace look like?

3:00 break

3:30 Continuation of discussion

5:00 Adjourn

7:00 Optional dinner at local restaurant 

Saturday, Jan 12, 2002

9:00   Continental Breakfast/informal discussions

10:00 Follow up discussions on topics from Friday

12:00 Lunch

1:30 Continued discussion

2:00 Plan for future activities

3:00 Adjournment

Speakers

Tom Munnecke founder of GivingSpace, has a 30 year background in the design of large scale health care information systems.  He has become interested in ways of creating "spaces" on the Internet for global transformation.  GivingSpace is one such space for philanthropy.  Some of his ideas may be found here. He can be reached on his cell phone at (858) 342-8860

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.  This is his presentation at the Human Generosity Project in Banff, Canaday, Aug 2001  He will be discussing a paper by Mark S. Miller and Marc Steigler, The Digital Path: Smart Contracts and the Third World

David Ellerman is Chief Strategist for GivingSpace, and Economic Advisor to the Chief Economist at the World Bank who has been a speech writer and assistant to Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics.  David has written extensively on the issues of development and autonomy, at his web site www.ellerman.org

David Brin is Chief Futurist for GivingSpace and is a scientist, public speaker, and author. His 1989 thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and the world wide web. A 1998 movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on The Postman. His fifteen novels, including New York Times bestsellers and winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards, have been translated into more than twenty languages. Some of his thoughts on philanthropy can be found here.

Dennis Whittle co-founded DevelopmentSpace with Mari Kuraishi after extensive activities at the World Bank, including the Development Marketplace which is occuring in Washington, DC, January 9 and 10, 2001, just before this meeting.

Michael Litz is CTO of Benton Foundation and Managing Director of Oneworld.net US He leads the GivingSpace Philanthropic Markup Language effort, and has been active with other Foundation CTOs in defining other XML standards.

Stuart Kauffman, is Chief Science officer and Founder of Bios Group, is a leading theorist in complexity science. Dr. Kauffman was a founding member of the Santa Fe Institute and a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory.  He is the author of several highly regarded books on complexity science, including At Home in the Universe (1995) and Investigations (2000).

Adm. Harold Koenig recently retired as Surgeon General of the United States Navy, and was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for health affairs.  He is an active member of the advisory board of GivingSpace.

Heather Wood Ion is CEO of the Real Woman Project, and author of Third Class Ticket, a book about her experiences traveling around India in a train 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. 

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Agenda updated 07/15/2003