I seem to be running into a rash of "open" themes recently. Chris Cook
from UK just sent me a paper on the Open Enterprise (cc'd on this
message). And I had dinner with Richard Stallman, a leader in the Free
Software Movement.
http://www.munnecke.com/blog/archives/2003_04.html#000108 He cringes at
the word "open" in the context of software, however, it is very closely
related to the Open Source Software movement (GNU- Linux).
Then there is the Open Biology effort to open up genetic code
information.
http://fling.sanbi.ac.za/pipermail/bioinformatics/2002-July/000369.html
Soros' Open Society initiatives, etc. Perhaps there is a wind blowing
here... (01)
I plan to do a blog entry on this topic, would appreciate links to other
"open" initiatives - is there a general "Open World" model brewing? (02)
Re: Imagine Iraq, Chris Cook suggested that the Western notion of
banking is fundamentally at odds with Islamic teaching. Not being an
Islamic scholar, (is there one in the audience?) I understand that it is
against Shariah to charge interest, and that have established cultural
mechanisms for managing funds. It would seem to me that this could be a
candidate for finding "where virtue is afoot" and expanding for further
uplift activities. If not directly, then to use as a pattern for other
forms of community uplift. (03)
Are there existing social networks in Iraq which we can reach in order
to begin a process of trustraising and understanding? Can we start with
scalable small things which open up the lines of communication to fuel
an expanding network of interaction for positive exchanges which would
be mutually uplifting? Who are the "connectors" in such networks? What
patterns of interaction work successfully across the western/Islamic
gap? What are taboo? How can we connect with our positive core values
in such a way that we build on these values for mutual benefit? Can we
help initiate an alternative financial model which respects the autonomy
of the Iraqis? (04)
These are powerful questions, but not just limited to Iraq. A child
reading "See Spot Run" is not learning about dogs, but rather how to
read. Similarly, our efforts in Imagine Iraq are not just about Iraq,
but a more general way of connecting people in an open manner. What can
we do to support HIV/AIDS Orphans in Africa, for example? (05)
These are great topics for our workshop May 6-7 in Santa Cruz, Ca. ...
you are all invited --- www.givingspace.org/benlomond.htm. Andrius and
Sergio Lub will be there, it would be great to get some others on this
topic, particularly those with an understanding of the Muslim and/or
Iraqi viewpoint. We can spill over to the 8th if there is enough
interest to have an extended discussion. (06)
Mac Odell is the leader of the Imagine Iraq community, by the way... (07)
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrius Kulikauskas [mailto:ms@ms.lt]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 3:49 AM
To: mwl@openmoney.org
Cc: ey@openmoney.org; thinkingrelevantly@yahoogroups.com;
mindecos@yahoogroups.com; ki-work@yahoogroups.com;
yak@collab.blueoxen.net
Subject: [yak@collab] Re: Open Money and Working Openly? (08)
Michael, Thank you for your thoughtful reply about Open Money and, if I
understand, software for alternative currencies. I'm glad you're making (09)
progress, which I share with our lab's working group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinkingrelevantly/ , with Bala Pillai's
international Mind colonies http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mindecos/
(from whom I learned of you), with Blue Oxen Associates
http://www.blueoxen.net (where Tom Munnecke is active, the organizer of
Imagine Iraq), and with a group based in the UK for ki-work (working
wired at home) that's connected with Ecademy. Good to make touch, and
to imagine how we might work together. Andrius, http://www.ms.lt (010)
Michael Linton wrote: (011)
> Dear Anrdius,
>
> Glad to "meet" you, both here and on ecademy, where I saw your blog
> this morning - May 7/8 Uplift/Social Software amongst the Redwoods.
> Sorry for the delay in responding to your message - Easter was
> demanding and I am busy right now building a club on ecademy - "cc".
>
> We are always (in principle) interested in working with others and
> there may well be much common ground between our efforts. However,
> we are entirely focused on the development and propagtion of "open
> money" platforms, and all other applications and agendas are
> considered only in terms of how they support that function. We see
> many initiatives that can follow effectively after cc are avaiable,
> but may not flourish in an economy driven solely by conventional
> money.
>
> As I read (very superficlally) your agendas, they have less direct
> interest in "cc" per se, more on the inculcation of gifting and
> ethical behaviour as end in tiself.
>
> Perhaps the common ground lies in such affairs as "Imagine Iraq". For (012)
> instance, see www.openmoney.org/cw and consider how
> local/regional/national/international CSR could be enabled to
> support project specific aid programmes in Iraq (and elsewhere for
> that matter).
>
> There are some interesting discussions on the Routecause ecademy club
> that you may not have noticed - Constructiveness... Iraqi
> reconstruction by Iraqis [ Rend Shakir ] [19-Apr-03 7:18pm ] in
> http://ecademy.com/module.php?mod=club&op=forum&c=111&t=4936#endm and
> other postings in that thread.
>
> I am also forwarding to you a newslettter that touches on several such (013)
> issues - +++CLEAR PROFIT - ISSUE 8, APRIL 2003.
>
> Our software efforts are coalescing (it seems) in a substantial push
> in the next few weeks and will hopefully geenrate a major advance on
> what we now have in very rudimentary form at
> www.openmoney.org/go/cc.html.
>
> By all means. let's look at the possibilities,
>
> cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 12:24 pm, Andrius Kulikauskas wrote:
>
>>Hi! Michael Linton? and all! I'm glad to learn of your project
>>http://www.openmoney.org
>>
>>Our laboratory Minciu Sodas has a working group to "organize an
>>economy for working openly" http://www.ms.lt/openwork/ including a
>>paper "An Economy for Giving Everything Away" that we presented in
>>Bangalore, India.
>>
>>We're currently doing some work for http://xpertweb.com, a
>>peer-to-peer protocol for providers to give clients "money back
>>guarantees" in exchange for an open rating system. We're looking
>>for XML expertise, etc. and are just plain curious how we might
>>work together.
>>
>>Our laboratory http://www.ms.lt is headquartered in Lithuania, so
>>we're also very interested in European Union projects. We serve
>>and organize independent thinkers around the world.
>>
>>Very good to find you, and please let us know, how might we work
>>together?
>>
>>Andrius
>>
>>Andrius Kulikauskas
>>Minciu Sodas
>>http://www.ms.lt
>>ms@ms.lt
>>+370 (5) 2645950
>>Vilnius, Lithuania
>>
>>----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>The Open Money Manifesto declares that money is just information,
>>and we can design it ourselves. Our money is our word, our
>>reputation within our community. Conditions are ideal where mobile
>>phones are common. The one year (2001) Japan Open Money Project
>>http://www.j-lets.net has ended. There is a money game that shows
>>the differences between conventional money and community money, a
>>college course, a "community way" fundraising model, a presentation
>>by Michael Linton for the Digital Money Forum
>>http://www.consult.hyperion.co.uk/digmon6.html , lots of links and
>>materials.
>>
> (014)
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