It starts at 530 EJ auditorium MEC CUNY 1638 bedford avenue brooklyn ny11225 ; will likely go on past 9

mike - the hour from 8.00 may be the most relevant for observing what youth future movement is being opened up (most of the time before is the showing of michael moores film where to invade next)- there is a chance that moore will trust alumni of this event to help him reach a million activists and even if we dont make that it will be an interesting rehearsal of how mass audiences of movies can empower action alumni networks of community building 

if due to your day job you can only come nearer 8. it would still be great to see you- in the event that people are being turned away due to full house, sure it would be all right to mention  for dean rolle or john kiehl or miles mcafee

 joe (tedx ny suburbs) -are you able to come

to all friends of startup brooklyn - do come if you can or tell us what you are doing that startup brooklyn youth may enjoy knowing about

- anything you can send before tuesday helps with a high level debriefing in DC amy and I need to make tuesday as well as amy exploration of who's collaboratively who in millennials open space china-brooklyn-vatican worlds

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People: this list could have hundreds but for now just folks that are relevant in the near future

• Hélène de St Front from Paris (fairly new to Open Space, extremely vibrant and intelligent like you) - will be in New York. When she was in America the last time, she took the train from New York to Washington to meet Harrison. 
• Chuni Li (teaches organizational development at NYU and works full time at Monmouth Cares in New Jersey) - from Taiwan, speaks Chinese, will be in New York. Chuni and I brought Open Space to New Jersey in 2010 under the theme Revitalizing New Jersey.  I will call Chuni to ask her if you can join us overnight at her house before New York. Doug and I will be staying there. WE might be staying at her house on the night of January 13 and 14.  On the 14th Doug is a Keynote Speaker with the New Jersey Human Resources Society.
• Lucas Cioffi (creator of QiQoChat) doing amazing virtual work that applies to Open Space – I will send an email introducing the two of you. It is with him and Michael Herman (creator of the Open Space World website that we hosted Harrison’s birthday party. Lucas lives near Washington in Virginia. I want to introduce you to him. 
• Jasmina Nikolic, Serbia, Host of the World Open Space in 2014 (in Serbia) a dear friend and colleague and a major force in Education (mega projects in technology with Belgrade University, European Universities, Kahn University, Wikipediea – trailblazing in the world , Agile/Scrum technology (an expert in bringing the value of these processes to work outside of technology into schools and businesses), one of the leaders in the #2 political party in Serbia known as Enough is Enough, a champion figure skater, etc. etc. and a very close and dear friend. Her resumé here. She is trailblazing the most innovative political engagement approach in the world I think using Agile methodologies. 
• Sharon Joy Chao, hosting the World Open Space in Manila (beautiful video introduction) for 2016 (November 9 - 12). Next week they are hosting 150 youth learning event in Open Space for SouthEast Asia. Mich a young woman will be facilitating. She learned Open Space from Gail West in Taiwan (a great friend of Harrison and I, an elder) and Sharon Joy.
• Kennan Salinero,(click her name to hear her introduction to the First Open Space on the Future of Science. She is founder of Yamana Science and Technology now called Reimagine Science dedicated to reinventing how we do science; works multigenerationally, lives in San Francisco, I am hoping she will come to New York. I facilitated 2 Open Spaces in the Washington area with her and with amazing people. Here the talk that Harrison gave at this Open Space in 2010.
• Doug Kirkpatrick, (you can google him; he writes often for the Huffington Post (sample); has done a Ted Talk on self-management). We are partners at NuFocus Strategic Group in the US, company headquartered in Canada.  He has written a book about his “self-management” work at Morning Star where he was for more than 25 years – one of the companies most talked about in the world, in Harvard Business review, etc because of their very progressive leadership practices. It is what our company in the US is all about. 
• Harrison (who you know) and Karen Davis (who you will soon meet, the official host in New York). 
• Sudeep Vyapari, Associate Executive Director at National Council for Science and the Environment; Sudeep is the most amazing ageless connector I’ve ever met. Young and old alike working on amazing world projects. He is a very real, kind, smart and innovative person.  Lives in Washington. He is connected to all those who co-hosted our World Open Space (about 30 many of whom were in the leadership of student government at University of South Florida – the 9th largest university in the country). I want to introduce  you to Sudeep
• Gail West in Taiwan, she hosted the World Open Space in Taiwan in 2009; she is a close friend of Harrison and has decades of experience in Open Space, like Karen Davis. my first; here an event that she was involved in recently with schools 
• Many others coming to New York who you will enjoy from Florida, from Canada, from New Zealand, from the US; we’re still inviting now. 

Books/Links/Events:

• Wild Swans http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Swans-Three-Daughters-China-ebook/dp/B0036QVOIW
• Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux (Doug’s Company Morning Star is included in the 12 worldwide companies discussed here; Sun Hydraulics is in my city here in Sarasota Florida (highly innovative working practices). Google Laloux
• Beyond Empowerment by Douglas Kirkpatrick
• The Tao of Open Space by Chris Corrigan (free pdf attached here)
• Chuck Blakeman, an advocate for the workplaces and businesses of the future. A regular contributor on line to Inc Magazine, writer of books, consultant and this Ted Talk; I will be in Denver Colorado next week with a small group of 18 people who are involved nationally and internationally in progressive work practices working not on theory but in practice. 
• Mr. Zhang Ruimin, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Haier Group, delivered a keynote presentation this past September titled "Rendanheyi 2.0: Building an Ecosystem to Co-create and Win Together.”  He was one of the speakers in Vienna at the Drucker Forum. Extraordinary article. 

  http://www.druckerforum.org/fileadmin/user_upload/2015/files/zhang_ruimin_speech.pdf

  
  
• Very lengthy book by Harrison Owen to read at your leisure in the future Free PDF  SPIRIT

Sample Books of Proceedings (important) capturing the essential ideas after an event:

• Creative New Jersey – a 2-day event that became branded throughout the state and continues more vibrantly than ever – 106 page document
• World Open Space 2013 Florida - http://osius.org/sites/default/files/WOSonOS_2013_%20Book_of_Proceedings.pdf – 200 page document (p. 82/83 in Chinese); Planning and hosting a World Open Space with embedded links. For the first time in the world we partnered with community and co-hosted with students. This is a picture book of that event from 2009 to 2013: http://www.flipsnack.com/76EE6B7EFB5/wosonos-usfsp-host-partners.html (double click to enlarge and turn the pages)
• Science Open Space in Washington 2010 - https://www.dropbox.com/s/vg368dxbfv27hpw/Yamana_UnSummit_2010.pdf?dl=0 – 33 pages

Short videos

• Mayor Chuck Chiarello Mayor, Buena Vista Township, President of New Jersey State League of Municipalities
• Elizabeth Murphy formerly Executive Director, Global Arts Exchange and now Director of Creative New Jersey
• Harrison inviting to a learning Open Space in East Asia (also describes OS) https://vimeo.com/35438206 – 2.58 minutes
• Open Space in Action :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTEO9CQe7Mw – 1.57 minutes
• Open Space in Egypt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l7iZ955QH8 (Claudia Gross a German who lives in Egypt is amazing- opening spaces during the Tahir Square Arab Spring)
• Harrison Owen Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APD7oQ3xrSA
• Invitation from Florida in 2013 (Ms. Song and Hulu) for a future Open Space in China (in Chinese); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkga6tnsQSM&feature=youtu.be

Is it possible to Open Space Education

Is it possible to Open Space Education? personal experiences of this curious question always welcme isabella@unacknowledgedgiant.com

I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowled over by this 23 year old chinese lady Amy the week before Independence Day 2015. It was her first trip abroad and she was interviewing anyone she could from over 50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated on the Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but there were also elders   like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5 billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 years muhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William a Chinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building friendships out of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of the Mandela extranet and the free university of entrepreneurship for the underprivileged. Amy seemed to grow about 10 years in self-confidence by the end of her 10 days in DC, but as she flew back to China I never really expected to see the likes of her again

3 months later i got a whats app message, it was Amy:  is there anyone more innovative I can interview on my second trip. I said the only person i can think of is Harrison Owen in Maryland . She said what? Why didnt I see him first time? I said he lives summers on a boat in Maine . She said what?

...Thankfully they had lunch on her second voyage abroad. And he said to her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come to Beijing and observe open space china with me. Amy gulped: am I a right person? of course, yes please. At the airport she said to me I will be back and next I want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said what? But while Amy was observing Harrison magic in Beijing , i was being debriefed on some research at the Vatican University . Their information was that the only college leadership team in USA they had found to be up for the pro-youth curriculum transformation of Pope Francis was in Brooklyn , thanks to the extraordinary female Dean there.

So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's first gig in Brooklyn and the Dean's review.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8&feature=youtu.be       https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card  What will happen next could be fun... 

startup kenya

Dear Startup Kenya Erastus (and African women Entrepreneurs) Waithe , and friends of start up new york and everywhere that dean rolle alumni or friends linkin

Here is a primary list of people I respect and in some cases have active connections with in Kenya- each one is a somewhat different connection story- so happy to take more detailed questions and also sort out who makes most relevant first contact due to locality, practice interest etc. I would not claim to have grounding in Kenya in ways that many of you do.  -again if you wish circulate selectively but note reporting errors mine alone! chris macrae

1 I have known and be inspired by ingrid munro the founder of jamii bora slum and youth banking for a long time.. in 2009 probably ingrids last trip to new york she told big bankers this

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she was asked to be main host of 2010 african microcreditsummit-  a gigantic task that did not improve her health- although queen sofia had wanted ingrids model to be benchmarked in over 60 most slum impacted cities in southern hemisphere- the leaders of microcreditsummit failed to find funding for that . Jami bora innovations included huge youth programs -for example with her then friend Wangaari Maathai. Ingrid was inspired to empower youth from kibera to build a solar ecovillage kaputei which I believe has 2000 family units -ingrid also led one of the largest cooperative health insurance contracts ever bought for the poor - a win-win with missionary hospitals that had become under-cliented

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she is now quite old and i am not sure how actively involved she is in operations- probably the best way to contact her is to phone her head office and mention i personally suggested senior or local people in your networks connect and try and get a meeting or her mboile phone- she started jamii bora in 1999 after a career at unhabitat. Its probable her work kept regulations open enough for mpesa to succeed but that is a complex story. 

2 My understanding is Dianne's networks have contacts with unhabitat and its hq at many levels because its the main network of goal 11 sustainability communities and cities - and the one we all see some quick ways in connection youth networks with

3 I have briefly met rachel ruto and have email contact of her secretary. I understand http://www.joywo.org  table banking is currently as exciting as sustaining poorest banking for women gets- the strategic architect of scaling that is naila chowdury who john , amy and I know- for 16 years with yunus grameen phone in dhaka she now lives in DC region. Amy's us-Ethiopain friend at the satellite learning facility www.yazmi.com hq's in silver spring md were involved in piloting a satellite channel for table banking with Naila  www.women4empowerment.org . Thing is after the killing of 130 students at time of announcement of Obama entrepreneur summit, I necded to stop publicly sharing best leads on kenya as I dont feel i understand local safety issues particularly in education formats like bridges schools which I had been wanting to actively understand especially as obama was promising to integrate khan academy maths with them

4 On both of my visits to the vatican facilitated by bernardo and his friends I have been told that romes health service nuns are currently building a lot of capacity in kenya. Antonio is in charge of italy-kenya investment networks but he only speaks italian. Whilst I was specifically told to help promote these nuns networks , my lack of italian has so far slowed down understanding of best way to make a local visit to the chapter in the bronx. While you might have hoped Pope Fracis visit would change curriculum of development economics=  i havent found any college leader in spite of a years us searches other than dean rolle doing that. I thin lum school in berkeley can be a tipping point on that and amy and I are hitting every dc latin american network youth empowerment we can towards that convergence. Give us 2 weeks to report back

5 At mit there is a small circle of mobile and tech wizards who have all the code started by Nick Hughes that started up mpesa and became the translation to the biggest cashless bank in the world of end poverty www.bkash.org - ofwww.brac.net Bangladesh - mostofa is the person who knows best how to contact local leaders of bkash- naila is best at contacting MIT leaders of mobile banking apps

5a acumen has arguably been the most patient investor US portfolio in kenya until out app'd by give directly. They co-habit huge offices with google and should not be left out of connections but so far I havent found the right way in for someone like me to individually make

6 New york headquartered Give Directly - whose san diego and berkeley origins - amy and I have heard abut at regional presentations in recent months is focusing most on Kenya region at the moment- like Kiva they are involving us students and Kenya diaspora in double checking most trusted recipients but give directly does this at whole community levels. 

7 Both give directly and IHUB/ushahidi are networks where connecting with founders is a dream i recommend but havent found an actionable way to do yet. However Ebola caused new levels of collaboration among the big institutions in DC - innovations around grand challenge of Ebola actually stimulated USAID to  host their first ever  hackathon and they suddenly found youth hubs around the world were locally better informed in key respects than their top experts - also china aid had in some cases better relations with these youth hubs across africa than usaid. Some of this story emerged from Diannes most recent windsor castle worldwide consultation but since chatham house rules applied to the details I am only slowly finding way to make connections in DC that I want to see youth and apps designers empower

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november is prison reform month

eg portugal drugs zero in prison, nt a crime - source MOORE film
usa Enforcing the drug control system costs at least $100 billion a year..

Source Open Society - The report adds: “In the United States, for example, the number of people imprisoned for drug offences has risen from approximately 38,000 to more than 500,000 in the last four decades.

august is millennials demand health solutions month

up to speed on live case on demand solutions by and for youth before briefing obamas woman responsible for this on tuesday - i cant do  nore before tuesday due to daughters college situation

other amemia solutions include http://www.luckyironfish.com/

amy and ivonna please chat to each other about ivonna's anemia solution 

amy - ivonna is  Duke University graduate about your age won the world banks youth competition for a chewing gum that needs fast testing in poorest communities because it may be the most effective way ever designed to economically reduce anaemia - 

could i suggest - we need to open space  friends of ivonna  now! particularly if youth first followers of brooklyn  EEL are to own/bank the future of their social and sustainabiltiy entrepreneur competitions survey of top 20 learning channels with worldwide satellite access

for some reason pen space and youth competition entrepreneur movements never really connected before you amy met harrison owen - dont let anyone tell you otherwise- lets just do it

more solutions worth a pitch alongside michael moores movie are other social business winners in north carolina namely ryan and liz

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fans of followers include elder faculty of MIT entrepreneur networks as number 1 job creating university;

 alexandria graham leader of pharma by and for africans; 

 rosalia regional partner of bernardo (former president) and ecuador's leadership host of first year review of weather sustainability goal 11 is on track for youth and educators to make most of; 

emeka leader of maker faire movements and teds for africa;

 contstant leader ol satellite tv news briadcastibg for africa; 

olao flying doctor millennials nigeria and mit presnter of first folower movements

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places to sample chewing gum to end anaemia 

brooklyn?

baltimore? a first product of la maestra or a bridge to john hopkins  -king or naila

nepal - bhim

india -prita or shelly

somewhere harrison owen suggests

partners in health while we're swarming boston

somewhere sherry tross suggests

somewhere startup kenya suggests

somewhere tebabu , stefanos or noah suggests in ethiopia

cambrdige somewhere sir keith peters suggests

cheers chris  http://sharktankweb.com

july is for education

last week nearly hundred brooklyn students rated education top of the 11 social crises themed in michael moores new film - most memorable of the stories of where childrnb are valued were the stories moore told about finland - can we assemble some more info? and where else has as radical approaches as finlands ban of multi-choice testing and totally different processes of homework

what questions do you have about new zealand's www.thelearningweb.net

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help collect finnish references that a million actovists of michael moores film can use

finland has the highest pisa score

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discovery based education 

teachers no longer main tester- students dashboards like khan academy replace the whole process of examination

dont destroy the maths capability in any child 

 2.  It isn’t about Calculations, Formulas or Factoring!

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Math classrooms in Finland do not focus on calculations, solving algebraic equations, or what I would call formal mathematics. In fact I visited a 9th grade honors classroom where students were learning how to calculate the volume of a triangular prism for the first time. They were also struggling with what I would consider basic algebra concepts that would be simple to my 7th graders.

However, It didn’t take me long to recognize that Finnish math education isn’t overly concerned with calculations or formulas. The kids in Finland don’t do rows and rows of algebraic problems. They don’t sit around factoring complex equations for months on end. They are taught more practical skills and ways of thinking about and learning mathematics.

And if you take a look at the PISA questions you can quickly see why Finnish students are succeeding and U.S. students are failing. The questions do not look like the questions on an American math exam. There are no equations to solve or problems to calculate.

I recently took the PISA exam out of curiosity and to my surprise it looked more like a logic exam than a math exam. There were no what I would call “pure” math questions. They were all logical real life questions. I could do most of the problems in my head. All I had to do is sit and think the question through rationally and use my previous experiences and knowledge of the world to help me work out the problem. I didn’t reach for a pen and paper once to calculate or solve.

This is the KEY my friends. The PISA exam does not measure a students ability to solve a mathematical equation or calculate the answer to a directly given math problem.   It doesn’t require factoring skills or differentials.   The mathematics used in this international assessment of “What students should know” is actually fairly simple and straightforward every day math.

The math itself is not complicated or difficult. The students must read the problem, assess the situation, and figure out the answer. And the Finnish students who have been treated more like adults than children have more real life experiences from which to pull to problem solve. They have been given independence at a young age and have therefore figured out how to deal with real-life issues and problems on their own.

They have also had an education system that has not spoon-fed them all of the answers. They have learned how to read through a problem, think it through logically and actually attempt to find an answer before they give up.

The U.S. needs to focus less on actual drill and skill in mathematics and work more on problem solving and logic.  Our students, who are very good at solving equations and doing calculations, have no idea WHEN to use one equation/ calculation over the other. Yes, they can apply their good calculation skills 30 times in a row, but being able to read a problem and identify which calculation should be used in a given situation is a different story altogether.

Also we need our students to actually read the math questions and not give up when they see a paragraph. They need more mathematical literacy skills and less “formal calculation” skills if they are going to compete globally.

 3.  Physics, Physics and More Physics

In any given week in Finland I will meet or talk to more people who have a degree in physics than I have met in my ENTIRE life in the United States. I swear- everywhere I go in Finland I find someone who studied physics or is currently getting their PHD in the impressive and very allusive field.   It is crazy to me- Physics is not something that is very common in the U.S.

I am a math teacher. I have a degree in mathematics and I have never taken a physics course. Ever. The physics teacher in my high school was crazy so I avoided her class. I therefore was too intimidated to take a college level physics course and opted to take a chemistry course for my science requirement instead.

The concept of Physics is terrifying to most Americans. We don’t know it, we don’t understand it and we assume it is a field for only the highly gifted and talented.  While it is common for U.S. students to take ONE physics course in high school, it isn’t a requirement. They also are not exposed to very much physics before the age of 16.

However it isn’t uncommon for children in Finland take physics classes. As early as 4thor 5th grade Finnish students learn the basics of physics. They have a physics class every year in middle school and high school. Most of the math teachers are also qualified to teach physics.

It is a common subject and one that does not breed disdain and fear. In fact many of the students I have questioned or interviewed stated they actually prefer their physics classes to their math classes. Why? They prefer physics because it is actually APPLIED mathematics. The students can see how math is being used, applied and how it is relevant to the actual physical world in which they live.

When you look at the questions being asked on the PISA test the questions are more geared toward an understanding of physics than actual mathematics. This is the huge difference.

While American 15-year-old students can calculate circles around Finnish students, they are clueless when it comes to physics and mathematical application.   Our students don’t know how to properly apply the math they know so well. Where Finnish students, who have had years of physics classes, understand the questions being asked and know how to apply their knowledge of math in a real and logical way.

would every student have the right to access a hub the minute school is over