Canadian Member, Tim Hurson's summarises the constant
struggle and yet excitement of the creatives at that mysterious thing
they call ..the end product.....In this case, Tim's new book, Think
Better
"This evening I received a UPS box from McGraw Hill with the first
ten copies of Think Better.
It looks terrific � beyond my expectations. After months of looking
at proofs, pre-proofs, and ratty galleys, you get kind of inured to
idea that that's what the final thing is going to look like. The
galleys are cheaply printed with low low res images, on lousy paper,
full of errors. But wow, in it's finished form it really looks
great! (Not that I didn't pick up a typo within the first 30 seconds!
It's amazing, the thing is inspected and reinspected by I-don't-know-
how-many pairs of eyes, I-don't-know-how-many times, and yet, there
it is, big as life, "teacts" instead of reacts.
Michel Bauwens is the Founder of the P2P Foundation and is a Belgian integral philosopher and Peer-to-Peer theorist. He has worked as an internet consultant, information analyst for the United States Information Agency, information manager for British Petroleum (where he created one of the first virtual information centers), and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine, the Dutch language Wave.
In this presentation, he talks about what peer to peer is. There are a series of exteensive interviews at YouTube and a full 40 minute lecture he recently gave atthe University of Swinbourne, Melbourne Australia can be viewed by clicking here.
Karl McPhee, film-maker and CSTC member recently returned from Northern Arnhem Land far north Queensland, one of the remotest areas in Australia where he was involved in making a documentary on "Garma".
The Garma Festival is a celebration of the Yolngu cultural inheritance. Yolngu culture in north-east Arnhem Land — a heartland of Aboriginal culture and land rights — is among the oldest living cultures on earth, stretching back more than 40,000 years.The Garma ceremony is aimed at sharing knowledge and culture, and opening people’s hearts to the message of the land at Gulkula. The site at Gulkula has profound meaning for Yolngu. Set in a stringybark forest with views to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Gulkula is where the ancestor Ganbulabula brought the yidaki (didjeridu) into being among the Gumatj people. The festival is designed to encourage the practice, preservation and maintenance of traditional dance (bunggul), song (manikay), art and ceremony on Yolngu lands in Northeast Arnhem Land.
Garma implies many things for Yolngu, as a practice and as a place. Garma happens when people with different ideas and values come together and negotiate knowledge in a respectful learning environment. The Garma Festival at Gulkula creates this kind of environment for Yolngu (Aboriginal people of northeast Arnhem Land) and Balanda (Non-Indigenous Australians).
The traditional models of Yolngu commerce have been eroded over the last century. The Yothu Yindi Foundation was established in 1990 by elders from five of the Yolngu clans, the Gumatj, Rirratjingu, Djapu, Galpu and Wangurri clans to address this issue.
The Yothu Yindi Foundation saw a need to create a new model that served both the requirements of traditional communities and western financial markets and institutions. The Foundation recognises that organisations that ask questions like “What can we do today to make sure our kids will be productive 20 years from now?” will be best equipped to create businesses that are sustainable from a community and environmental perspective and boost the spirit of the community.
The Garma Festival is the centre piece of this plan is a unique cultural experience. It encapsulates the very essence of how creative skills development might be applied in a contemporary context.
Listen to Manuwuy Yununpingu, a board member of the Yothu Yindi Foundation talk about Yolngu culture.
To obtain a full copy of the documentaryfilm, contact Karl McPhee at mcpheeprod@mpx.com.au
Here is a great review of CSTC member, Gregg Fraley's new book Jack's Notebook by Renee Hoplins Callahan from IdeaFlow.
Jack’s Notebook author Gregg Fraley is the type of person who would ask a Starbucks barista – one he didn’t know – “What is your dream?” When he started researching Jack’s Notebook, he did just that. And, he said in a recent interview, “Not a single person said ‘Oh, I really want to be a waiter’ – they’d say ‘I’d like to start a business,’ or ‘I’d like to be involved in this industry.’
CSTC member, Annalie Killian, Head of Innovation, AMP Australia, one of Australia's leading financial services organizations,talks about her role as catalyst for magic at AMP and the internal AMP Creativity and Innovation Festival that runs from June 25 - 29, 2007 that she created and produced.
This podcast offers an excellent case study on the purpose and the strategy behind concepts of this nature including an understanding of management objectives and a suggestion about how programmes of this nature can be measured.
Download and listen to this 13 minute podcast that will take approximately 8 minutes to download.
Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 12:29PM 