GLOBAL LEARN DAY 2004 
WELCOME TO EUROPE
Heiner
Benking, Independent Facilitator and Futurist, Berlin and
elsewhere.
See also my KNOWMAP Profile as as this is a contribution on KNOWMAPS & KNOWMODELS and what the are good for.
GENERAL REMARKS & ORIENTATION
& CREDITS:
this is after the GLD
II "WELCOME TO
EUROPE" 
my second
appearance as a "Butterfly" (see picture above and OPEN SPACE
Terminology) ON AIR
with John Hibbs a stop-over concerted by the 
and with due
credit to John McLaughlin and Arun Thripati who were incredibly helpful
collegues and friends on the first concepts of sailing the seas and
allowing me to be in the "CROWS" nest of the sailingboad on the
lool-out for alternative futures, technologies, fucntions, features,
benefits. Another credit should go to XENIA STANFORD from
"KnowMap" who was charting with me
the unknown not only in her MAGAZINE some years ago, inviting me to
have a nicely edited trilogy of articles about how my work evolved and
what I am actually doing in more simple words. I have for this special
event downloaded the Trilogy
articles
in her KNOWMAP Magazine, and cordially ask you to subscribe
for more to her E-Zine on KNOWLEDGE ORAGNISATION AND ARCHIVING, MAPPING
the UNKNOWN
and overcomming the Dragons of our Fears and Imaginations. 
<>My Contribution this year,
November 21, 2004 is about: Dialog, Learning, Cognition, about
thinking beyond boxes, mapping paradigms, and
navigating not only "Seas" but deep cultural "waters". But before we
explor
multi-lingual, multi-cultural, transdisciplinary and omniplex worlds
(from a distance) I feel we should say that we need to make words solid
(T.S.Eliot) AND be very concrete and alife in our use of a combination
of words and images. Later we might want to check how images and
symbols through the index" of C.S. Peirce can be conencted and how his
SIGN THEORY might lead to broader understanding and use of MEDIA and
formost to a SYSTEMATIC NEOPRAGMATISM and a more solid ETHICS
(with Space and Time Horizon) see Hans Jonas, enjoy the EWOC
Slides - maybe starting here
- later.. (diving deeper later maybe here)So this presentation is about WHAT, WHERE; WHY AND HOW. and was done jsut a few hours ago when we realized that "thanks" to the BROWSER WARS or incompatibilities, as some of you can not see ealier Powerpoint presentation which are ON-LINE:
my "terse" WIKI- TIKI: profile: http://www.thetransitioner.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Heiner_Benking
Beside Learning and Policy Issues I word on Aternative
Futures and Co-creative Dialogue &
Re-inventing Democracy:
http://open-forum.de/re-invent-democracy.html
maybe you also check later some
links to some Institutions I affiliated with:
OPEN – FORUM, The Millennium Project Cyber-Node,
The TAGORE-EINSTEIN
COUNCIL (TEC), Positive Nettworks (PNW), …
My TOPIC – the GLOBAL COVENANT needed for Integral Learning. Genuin Learning with an eye on good conversations, a better Dialogue and Decision Culture in our Global Society, which need to confront the „Problematique“ (see Oszbekhan, Christakis, Peccei, Club of Rome late 60ies), and keeping Creativity and the Given and Not-Given in Mind, while testing new ways of participation on various floors.
But you do not read all of the above. Just come aboard our Cyber-Raft and sail with me some deep grounds and shallow sees, where we need to KNOWMAP the Terra Cognita of a better Quest for Knowledge (some call it serendipity plus ignorance). This GLOBAL COVENANT session <>is close to what we did „around“ the EARTH CHARTER Meeting in URBINO in the OPEN SPACE in 2003, and the TAGORE EINSTEIN COUNCIL meeting last year, the CYBERNETICS sessions in Vienna and Berlin, and the above mentioned EWOC Video Conference. Pls. Enter the GLD 8 Powerpoint Slide Presentation HERE:
Greetings , Heiner
PS: pls see changes I will do during the next few hours.
AND ülease see
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