Mapping the Future of BBC - world's largest public media
01-Mar-05
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First Published August 04 , Revisiting March 05 with UK government's Green Paper on Future of BBC
When you look at expert debates (1,,2), on the world's desperate need for some institution to moderate the excess vicious impacts of nation states, religions and commercial media, it is ironical that the BBC should have been kneecapped by Hutton. Still all we need is for one huge idea for the world service to break free and serve people of Britain and humanity of the world not local politicians who have absolutely no right of wonership or interference.
What's your big idea? Back in 1984, we proposed that in 2005 man's greatest risk would be gaps in incomes and expectations between rich and poor nations. We also proposed the BBC start a reality tv game on 30000 ways to eliminate povery systemically. One we believed could soon be freely syndicated to 60 nations, 600 million viewers in a way that integrated tv and internet conversation. Let's discuss variations on that idea, or any other breakthrough one you suggest. As well as respond to any queries you may have as to why the BBC may be the only organsiation with relationship permissions to help the world out of the battles beteen West & Eastern religion, irresponsbile global business and the need to love people at every locality, a commercial media that hoists most superficial celebrity superstars on us so that we no longer know the stories of real heroes and the lifetimes of work it often takes to seed small acorns of change for humanity. Unless the public's largest media stands up for valuing what makes the human race greatest rather than all the powers that make humans very small minded.
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Indeed whenever a Britain meeds an MP or prosepective one, they should make it quite unambiguous that political influence over the BBC is tantamount to theft. It is the people that own the BBC, and human rihhts have neever needed a greater world service champion independent of politicians and the increasingly big business interests they seem so often to align with as a second betrayal of the public's rights.
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All in the Family (Part !)
Dear fellow-citizens of the earth, please, here is an immediate antidote in respose to the activities from the entity of terror-anti-terror. The motion is to apply transparency in going from the domestic oppession powers to domestic health and happiness of the Faculty of Living. We presently have in Canada, a perfect conjuncture of two separate conflicts that establishes a perfect, live educational link for all of the French-Anglo-Abotiginal-Spanish-Commonwealth-Francophonie-Europe-Americas-Australia-Middle-East-Asia connection to unravel. The individual case is of a former national grand Chief who yesterday was convicted of a hate crime against the Jewish people. This case deals directly with the dark effects of the Judeo-Christian history unknown from backroom deals, while maintaining mostly smoke and mirrors of politics kept the "public opinion" informed enough for satisfaction. As an individual judical case, it then stetches into a collective-national juducal case under the form of the national unity sponsorship scandal. The judge of this inquiry is presently simmering its report, to be readied for December. This local legal-politico-socio-cultural-econo conjuncture offers a perferct opportunity for www open source to come alive and relevant for all, viewed from one angle or any other. It hereby opens to us a window to connect transparently from the deepest levels of accumulated divisive mistrust's consequenses, which sits us in Europe and North America, on the verge of tipping into an all out surrender to the reactive powers of frustration. Our native population has accepted a treaty of non-violence with the Crown. They have kept their end of the bargain under genocide circumstances; so far that is! The Crown is dissolving in front of their eyes and what's coming behind is even worst from their point of view. Who and what else can they now turn to, as they are forced into the same mentality as those who just dished out some of it upon London's people?!? Please UK and your majesty, my Queen, I realize that I am nothing more than a visionary with my ear on the ground, but here is an opportunity for all of the inspirational content that I read in our common history, to unearth from this opportunity, the solid ground to move from local conflict resolution to a perfectly adaptable globalizing embryo for the BBC and CBC to join in with ...cleasing our vision of the Crown... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 This conjuncture provides us with "the" case study on how to free knowledge from military reflexing, with the pausing capacities of intellectual honesty and all the way to the drive of clarity in the balance of IQ-EQ, as to where and how we host knowledge in the completing application of love's intelligence. Can this entry move to harness the energies from such an organism and to brew from near-cahos into an initial micro-community of universal sustainability? What do we think?
All in the Family (Part 2)
Part 2
SUBSENSE PUBLISHING and PROMOTION (SPP)
The name SUBSENSE is composed with the words: Substance-essence. Substance from the essence=SUBSENSE. SPP comes into existence to spread the experience of spiritual unity as articulated and/or demonstrated by the existance of Subsense Publishing and Promotion. The question we addressed is: How do we host the discipline of life’s sanctity, from the individual personal care to the maturity of mutuality in the family and in the community, adapting to any socio-cultural context?
The spectrum of our work is focused on verbalizing the answers to the twofold question on the discovery of applicable meaning (essence) and how to cultivate its embodiment to completion (substance), when and where the need arises individually, domestically, culturally or socially.
The service we offer is to develop methods of approach to reach out and/or to train individuals, families and communities to develop healthy lives and conditions, always addressing both simultaneously, until sustainability.
To begin our publishing and promotion service to Canadians, we studied four questions. They are:
1-“What is the essence of a relationship and how do we substantiate its dynamics to go from strangers to family, into the ongoing renewal of a healthy mutuality?”
2-“What is the essence of health, education and environment, and, how do we substantiate personal and communal awareness in the state of maturity and wisdom, free from the confinements of uniformity and of conformity?”
3-“How do we absorb the energies of individuals who are withdrawn in self-destruction and/or violence, in exchange to commune to and with them, in the essence of the inner life that ignites human existence to the substance of complete caring?”
4-“How can the answers to these questions be harnessed, refined and processed as the essence to foster our multi-cultural identity, and to thereby, substantiate unity amongst Canadians, secure in the bond and the growth of our citizenship’s heritage of personal, cultural and social health and wellness…amen?!”
The stages begin with one’s personal Acquisition of the taste for Health. Then, once stabilized into The Faculty of Living, he/she joins amongst the Correctional Family Circuiting until the firm establishment into the Ministry of Reconciliation. Thus is being built the Canadian Health Trail, emerging upon the Land of Emanuel, in the perpetual celebration of Easter.
All in the Family (Part3)
TENTATIVE PROPOSAL
“THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM”
“THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” is the name for the arrow of justice to reach the target of Canada’s constitutional completion. This arrow is made of the hunger and of the thirst for the justice and for the peace needed to be blessed upon the Aboriginal people first, and for all who can relate with the need for the renewal of the mature socio-cultural development of our citizenship.
This is the name of the healing movement entering the multi-generational currents of living nourishing inner waters. We shall start to take Canadian citizenship safely out of the snare of our accumulated past mistakes of timeless proportions.
The target of this exercise is to raise the community life until it reaches the fulfilment of the preamble, at the top of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the moment, that preamble says in English: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law”. In French, instead of “Rule of Law” it says: “The Pre-Eminency of the Right”.
When Subsense Publishing and Promotion is done with their purpose, the preamble will read in all concerned languages as opposed to each its own: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God, the Rule of Law balanced with the pre-eminency of the Right, meeting to be fostered in “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of PATIENT WISDOM”. This will happen as a result of Justice deploying its restoration in the broken hearts and spirits and cause balanced living to grow. The patient wisdom shall guide each open heart from the Road House to the inner home, where the quietning silence is received and causes balance to grow in the joyful fulfilling of serenity.
Then comes the discipline of questing together for home in the Correctional Family Circuiting, by the union of the powerful Spirit of peace, joy, love and wisdom. This is the entry into the Land of Emmanuel, where the Cleansing River is, which shall bring us to the renewal and the transformation from the old to the new living, for all
who so desire to enter into the better future now, the perpetual Easter.
The stability in developing this culture depends on how faithfully the three hosting cultural elements of Canada accept the mutual subjection to one another, upon the integrity of the ground to acquire and to spread the desire to live well and the discipline to foster the taste for health and happiness. Debbie, Benoit Couture and children
From observation to participation
The growing hype caused by the competition for attention in the media, is the perpetuating wheel of subtrations from the whole, subdividing civilization's field of relativity. Substracting and dividing the attention adds up to the multiplication of scatered thoughts, stimulating the dynamics of social reclusion-exclusion that fill in the void caused in the absence of meaningful time, carving seeking identities from a closed in interpretation of all surrounding influences. That was a description of an experience with the desintegration process of the individual's core identity generator, into the illusive nature of television. Psychatry deals with individuals who's identity becomes organically hooked by telivision, causing hallucinations and all kinds of personality disorders. The questions: "How do we recollect our thoughts from the scattered disconnection that such "freedom" caused and how do we bring on a focus upon reality so as to eliminate the artificial nature of relating that generated by decades of mindless market expensions?" The live nature of the image works directly in the spontanious thought process. Spontanious and live work together to unite or to substract and subdivide, there is no neutral ground. Here is a proposal to face up to the situation by aiming to bring democracy up to date. The idea is on stand by, to seek out a window of opportunity to rally public broadcasting, to captivate the live interests upon humanity's trans-generational quest for our global home, with the BBC and the CBC. Here is a suggesting proposal to serve this cause. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A4305917 The complete package begins at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U1590685?s_fromedit=1 It is very personal and intimate, in the way knowledge needs to open in order to manage from the Source to the Suorce...let it be...
knowledge of media - part 2
Overholser urged discussants not to spend their energies trying to remake news the way it used to be, but to think creatively about what journalism can and should look like, given the new environment created by changes in business-model and technology. She pointed to the upsides, including a more diverse news landscape with a proliferation of outlets (with the advent of blogs and cable news) that cover more stories from more angles.
But there are challenges, particularly for international news coverage. International journalism requires more investigation to begin with and doesn?t always fit neatly into partisan reportage. Overseas bureaus ? the most expensive piece of the news suite ? are the first to go when financial pressure is applied. As Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times put it, there are more outlets but fewer inputs; more broadcast and online channels offering news, but but fewer reporters on the ground to produce it -- especially overseas. Thus the stories with the most flash, conflict or partisan bite get disproportionate c overage. The international news that does make it through to the public tends to be episodic, unconnected and even chaotic, and the public quickly loses interest. This produces lower ratings and declining readership, deepening the conviction of corporate boards, publishers, and editors that the public appetite for international news is small and not worth the investment required to improve coverage.
But these trends are self-fulfilling: with less investment in the field, journalists deliver international news without continuity or context, further eroding the public's potential interest. Studies by the Pew Research Center in June 2002 noted that the post-9/11 increase in readership for international news seemed to have leveled out. Why? The public found international coverage "boring, bloody and hard to understand." The world i s becoming more interconnected, and the Pew results -- together with more anecdotal evidence from journalists and editors involved in programs like the International Reporting Project at SAIS -- suggest that the public responds to strong storytelling that goes beyond the ?daily bus plunge? -- a rundown of natural disasters, catastrophic accidents, or coups from around the globe.
knowledge of media -P1
Where in KnowledgeBoard to find discussion of media? Not just the media KM experts know such as community and blog but how all media interconnects, because communications are flows. I see no value in being deeply expert in one type of media to the exclusion of its interface with another type. The days when management could be expert in one way communications are surely gone if you are in a sector that interacts any of the following:
learning with customers, the cluetrain future
lifelong learning with employees, the vision 2010 scenario
global and local diversity, nature's scenario (and since I have faith in humankind what I believe a majority of 6 billion beings would vote as worth sustaining if ever we purpose to be a Human KM of all peoples rather than a KM of apartheids or of valuing machines as a higher order capital than people -that would make science fact starger than fiction if scientists ever knowledge managed such a disaster)
Media from this side of the translantic pond has become very isolated, not good at connecting as you can see from this Gii extract. We wish any Brits -or Europeans- who are trying to get the BBC to take the lead in understanding world service broadcast media all the courage in the world.
backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 2005, 23 July Hammersmith
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/programme/
backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 2005
from UKUUG & NTK. Supported by backstage.bbc.co.uk
we're very much "Open" to suggestions. If you're reverse-engineering proprietary protocols, making useful information
available in a way people couldn't get at before, pioneering unexpected methods of knowledge sharing - or (equally likely) doing
something so cool we haven't even thought of it yet, then please get in touch
Full programme details will appear in early July, along with details of registration.
If you would like to offer a talk, you can do so through our form.
Already Confirmed
Ted Nelson, inventor of hypertext, on where the web went wrong
The official launch of the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer network, opening up BBC content for you to play with
Plus: able to record an entire week of all Freeview TV and radio channels, probably the UK's largest (fridge-sized) PVR
Thank you for making this thread #3 in Google of Future of BBC
To tell you the truth, I don’t understand this site. I think it says any film producer can make a proposal to reuse any BBC film content for non-commercial purpose.
For example since 1984 we have believed that the BBC should be helped into a reality tv game that connected to the internet and explored 30000 win-win projects for ending extreme poverty; how do we backstage that stimuli until the BBC wants it
If it does, could that change the world. We are aiming to do a collaboration café with one of youth’s leading concerned film producers the coming Friday 12.30 at British Library café – a few hundreds yards from London’s Euston Syation. Confirmation of the café will be made on Tuesday but if you are interested please start nominating yourself, and if you have any views on whether I have understood backstage correctly or wrongly, I always need to learn! Mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk to join us or for more details
Cheers
Chris Macrae
PS closing calls in the government’s public feedback on the future of the BBC at Tuesday midnight-
Easiest way is mail bbccharterreview@culture.gsi.gov.uk
Or you can do the survey at http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/have_your_say/green_paper/greenpaper_home.html#2
life according to Drucker's view of knowledge worker, or life as its being managed out of people
Unless I am misconstruing, Drucker's (who remains my nomination for origin of KM) argument here is very simple:
a knowledge worker is anyone who values her time being well spent on something she has experience of and who stands up for knowledge of this; Drucker has always implied in 50 years of writing since the practice of management (1956) that as we look forward to our networked age of connecting learning and mentoring worldwide, we should invite everyone to be a knowledge worker; and in one talk in Brussels sponsored by the EU knowledge society and keynoted by the Commisioner of Employment, it was specifically stated that everyone needs access to lifelong elearning, and we must discriminate positively towards those who amy not in the past have had that access
yet, 2 million interviews by Gallup in the US show that such is the prowess or power of management there that over 70% of people say they do not regularly get a chance to use their greatest skills at work
And at the UK work foundation, the Chief Economist can show any leader the evidence that 9 times out of 10 when a service sector is underperforming its no longer a worker issue, its a poor management and wrong valuation issue; one that is not caring for how people relationships actually work: emotionally, intelligently or in sustaining purpose
Now what I want to ask you is: has this debate, this contradiction , this issue of how our time is spent been covered in any of your country's television programming? Is any country in Europe broadcasting a discussion on: is the people's time being managed well by large organisations and their powers?
In all my travels around Europe, I can only remember one place where such a television program was being shown. And then only as a 5 minute slot. And then because a guy got so angry in Barcelona that entrepreneurs and the city's most innovative SME's were not being networked to the wider world either by Spain or the EU that he has spent 5 years building that community, and last year they had to satrt doing their own tour to Silicon Valley where I believe 50 local firms joined in
Now that's what television should be heroising. At least the BBC will be told so until it communicates, or dies like some beached community in hyperspace. If you feel that your country's braodcasters need some waking up to on this question about people's time, do tell me. We could even start an intercity and pan-European K-worker club to ask why isnt this issue a topic that investigative journalists champion
when speech becomes expensive -part 2
But there is a perception that it is clearly within our means to do something about the internal axis of evil.
It is a matter of will.
Of good will versus evil.
At this point, half way down the column, out of habit, we are tempted to google each of these categories -- junk food, alcohol, gambling and television -- and come up with the statistics about how they are overrunning the country, breaking up families, creating all kinds of health problems, taking a heavy burden on the poor and the young.
Then, out of habit, we would google the corporations that profit from each of these bad habits, and track their campaign contributions to the two major political parties, to show why we get little relief from our political leaders.
But we know this is true.
And you know this is true.
Gambling is spreading everywhere.
Obesity is well documented.
Alcoholism is rampant.
Excessive television (as well as computer and video game) watching is turning the minds of our children into mush.
Corporations have corrupted the political process.
Last week, we wrote a column titled "A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action."
People responded enthusiastically to our call to action.
But they wanted to know what to do.
Here's a typical response from one of our readers.
"Tell me what to do. I read. I write my two ineffective Democratic Senators. I give money to the point that I have no more to give. I want to think that it might make a difference, but it's hard to see at the moment. I am very frustrated but feel rather powerless. Work and family obligations and travel limit the amount of time I have available to act more than I am -- unless you have some good ideas. Keep writing. Keep telling people to get off their asses, but help me out a little here."
So, in the spirit of experimentation, we say to our loyal readers, try
this: Turn off every screen in the house -- computers, television, videogames.
Cook a healthful meal.
Invite over any group of neighbors, friends, relatives.
If you can, use it as an excuse to invite over "red state" people -- people who listen to Rush, for example -- people you generally wouldn't associate with.
Yes, they exist -- they are half the population, remember?
when speech becomes expensive -part 1
I have seen the corporation twice: Canada's most popular documeentary of all time. Its like a modern day Aesop's fables of the land across the border. Nothing hits a media hack than the high court of the land judged that broadcast tv news is under no obligation to even try to tell the truth.
Now hail this internet journalism on -what it's like to live in the land where freedom and happiness has been usurped by the expenisveness of speech. Let's continue funding a public broadcast BBC but not one that is star struck by competition with commercial media. Stand tall BBC: you represent people not big commecre and not big politics. Over to our virtual source in the USA:
In communities across the country, the talk of the town is not dominated by the war in Iraq, Bush's Social Security plan, or the minimum wage.
It concerns a friend, known to be a heavy drinker, who gets behind the wheel and kills someone, or by some youngster constantly playing video games and watching television and who is uncontrollable at the dinner table, or by a cousin who eats junk foods, is grossly overweight as a result, and is thus putting her life in danger.
When you know someone in your midst who is drinking heavily, or is addicted to junk food, or allows their children to watch television without limit, and play video games without limit, what is the duty of the citizen, or friend, or family member to intervene?
Does it violate some zone of privacy? Or is it not the duty of the conscientious friend or citizen to at least try and help anyway?
The discussion about junk food, alcohol, gambling and television is qualitatively different than the discussion about broader social issues like war and peace.
Even if we wanted to do something about the war in Iraq, for example, it would take a broad-based political movement to change the course of the war.
And even if people agree with you that political intervention is a good thing and may change the course of the war, they doubt that they can muster the energy to overcome the political forces allied against you.
Ides of March on BBC
Join Londoners in the Ides of March on the BBC
example from March 8:
: Our women's networks would like to point out that march 8 was International Women's Day. Did you hear even one second about these forgotten half billion beings from the BBC. If Google can incorporate Woman's day into its logo, why not BBC1 instead of its sickeningly glossy poetry in red breaks between every program?
Notes for future: compile a 365 day calendar of forgotten people's day; send to every BBC journalist at Xmas as an insert to their diary; shame Panorama's Fair Trade program 2 days earlier was more concerned about promoting red noses than the much closer identifier of world's poorest women. This is not world service; unless it links its communications much more caringly, Brits should refise to licence this offence to and waste of our identity in the world. Does the BBC have a women's correspondent? Do they have a youth correspondent? Do they...
2 in google of Future of BBC
This bookmark is currently number 2 in this google search- so your views are important
The other parallel post at European Union's knowledgeboard on the BBC inovlves whetehr the BBC covers its World Service Charter inclusively given that the British Public resouirce the BBC as world's largest public braodcatser http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=137940&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y
The following survey is being circulated across people caring locally about 50 countries via the net:
If you have an issue whose story you feel should be told by the BBC’s world service more often or more inspiringly than it is please tell us You can just reply to this mail – chris macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk http://futureofbbc.blogspot.com/ Or you can add to this weblog or ask for any of the html at this weblog if you want to put part of it up at a web or log orf yours Or you can add to this post space which 6000 Europeans are a member of Or suggest to us how we can multiply voices on this issue http://clubofcity.blogspot.com/ & http://cluboflondon.blogspot.com/ We will be continuing this by contacting relevant club of cities we can find on the web but it helps so much to have your voice if there is an issue that you can express more deeply than a Brit sitting in London!
The British Broadcasting Service is paid for by the British people. Being resourced as the World’s Largest public broadcaster, it is expected to deliver the most diverse World Service conversations. If you feel it doesn’t include a most urgent human concern from your locality of the world, we Britons have been given 80 days to explain what’s being omitted
http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/
(and then the government will not give us another chance to voice worldwide diversity for another 10 years)
and other interlocal groups http://sixbillionstars.blogspot.com/ & http://interlocal.blogspot.com/
Deadline May
With the UK's government of the Green Paper on the Future of the BBC this week, the public can voice opinions until May after which the next 10 years is a fait accompli
Since the BBC is the world's largest public broadcaster, the opportunity to influence knowlende and society in every since including the world service is extraordinary. So if anyone from any countru has a view on what a broadcaster representing people - not government and not commecrial interests - could be exploring please:
state here
or email me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk to join a societal network until May
or look at our blog and tell us if you wnat to co-edit it
http://futureofbbc.blogspot.com/
more on whether aunty has a future
It seems extraordinary in the light of how post-Tsunmai the people are leading politicians, media and corporations that the BBC isn't out there covering the people's stories from the people's social identity contexts.
For example what unites the identity of 3 billion people called women. Our newscasts have endless stories on political analysis and business anlysis but far as I can see next to nothing on women's analysis that matches the core agenda here
If for diversity's sake aunty truly employed women's correspondents ,they would come to a different perspective on almost every business report and many political ones. And more important than the analysis is opening the space for conversation and education1 2.
And so it goes on for any billon people human rights group you choose unless accidentally its fenced in within one nation's land or a few speculators corporation- not the way that nature looks at news, not the way the licence paying public should be abused of open news much longer?
Perhaps also there is a way that the people can quickly change how opinion polling is done.
In fact since I have been inter alia an opinion poller in 30 countries for almost as many years I know there is
My new year's resolution question: will the BBC join this party in time or become utterly redundant as a world service and largest public broadcast media?
Mission Impossible: discovering what's the future of the World Service meant to be?
Today, after being inspired by a storytelling discussion at Blogwalk4 (London Collaboration Knowledge City) I made the time to go to the BBC World Service bookshop which is in the Aldwych and part of the headquarters building of the BBC World Service. First signs looked very promising - the whole headquarter's facades are dressed in 4 flaglike banners saying everyone loves the world service in about 100 languages. I went to the bookshop and asked the following question:
I am asking people around the world what do they like best about the World Service, and I would like your recommendtaion of what one book I should read so I can compare the views that people are webbing to me with what ths history and future beliefs of the World Service or its journalist employees are.
EASY! We don't stock any books on the World Service. As manager of the bookshop, I can't recommend you any book on the World Service. I can suggest you phone this number.
The number phoned put me through a layer of 3 switchboards until finally I was told I would be connected to a unit who just might have a view. Voicecom message: we're all busy, leave you message now please
To be continued... if the BBC knows how to communicate!
but in case this great British aunty doesnt know how to in other than image speak, may I ask: has anyone ever come across a book/biography on the world service, and why it inspires listeners, journalists, every society around the world (if it does or doesn't)?
You can answer or open a conversation up in this thread or at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk or my UK mobile ( 0793 144 2446). I have also decided to open up a blog on the future of the BBC in case anyone else has questions or discoveries or human-future scenarios they would like to collect and map intelligence patterns around . WHY? bother to blog- because the commercial mass media and the internet are potentially the 2 violently opposite vested interests in global communications; humanity needs to openly moderate them to make the most rather than the elast of such systemic powers. As the world's largest humanity owned media, that's what the BBC's World Service could be storytelling and investigating at every level up from what educates and inspires a 12 year old. http://futureofbbc.blogspot.com/
Will Hutton's Clue
Below, a clue for the way the BBC could most serve the world as well as Brits from a recent article of Will Hutton. Incidentally, thanks to the enormous conversation created by this thread in syndicated spaces, today we started up a blog - Journalists for Humanity -please help nominate votes for the most authentic journalist in your country
Britain: World Service Mediator- By funding a television World Service, the government would be helping itself and the BBC...We take it for granted that the BBC World Service, based in London, is listened to each week by 146 million people worldwide in 43 languages - but nothing is more unusual. Extraordinarily, a foreign broadcaster is regarded as a more reliable and trusted source of news than their own, a reputation that has been hard earned and is one of Britain's most precious diplomatic and cultural assets...Gordon Brown understands globalisation and the emerging rules of the game. He should declare his independence from neo-conservative foreign policy; soft power in the form of a vigorous BBC World Service may seem expensive, but besides a new aircraft carrier or the Euro-fighter, it is astonishingly cheap and good value.
conversation around bbc brand and country and people's futures
BBC Open Mastermind – what Britain did 1900-1950 in dissolving Empire & systemising what futures many of the world’s nations could have
Some facts to know about BBC:
--World’s largest media owned by the people
--Owns mastermind tv brand – why not apply as a reality tv inquiry to this most vital learning topic; what we could learn from accidental decisions like Britain’s part in locating Israel in a region won from Turkey during first world war might ring some bells on analogous decisions today being made with more inclusive and systemic care for humanity’s future
--Could discover all sorts of untold hero stories at levels of individuals and family clans; could start getting rid of the myth that nation comes before people; the vast silent majority wants to get on with each other; doesn’t want more spent on arms than education; doesn’t want biggest governments siding with big business rather than people; wants transparency; wants to investigate the way that rich people could systemise world trade differently at no cost to themselves whilst improving the lot of the billion poorest ; wants to understand what is collaboratively different now we are inter-networked; wants to openly slay the dragon that competition is always good or collaboration is always bad; wants to see collective intelligence built for all people around programs such as http://www.simpol.org.uk – where we feel that EU citizens cannot afford to look each other in the face whilst we continue to subsidise each European cow with a high income that that accessible to a billion people
I don’t mind at all if your biggest human rights story starts at a different line of thinking than mine but what we do need is the world’s largest public media developing space for such conversations. We need to link the most imaginative possibilities of formats such as mastermind quizzes, reality tv shows geared to coming up with action projects for humanity, internet conversations and networks that link the power of mass media with the power of deep care local group media. And to do this out in the open, so everyone has a right to speak and be heard and to map how what they suggest either compounds good or bad impacts for other people. We can model this through games contextualising possible futures of regions, industry sectors, professional disciplines, communities of interest. This can be the most co-creative time our human race has ever run. But it needs to be an open interconnecting marathon of a race not something where short-run deals are transacted behind closed doors, separating people, profiting from making the disconnected (poorest) ever more disconnected.
a deck of cards, not a plan
I see getting the BBC on the side of humanity as one of the top 5 plays that anyone who feels concerned about the way the world (poverty, politicians for big business instead of for the people, wargaming between rival nations/religions where people become the pawns of terror, etc) is going. So
1) Anywhere that change agents meet or virtually chat, I am up for trying to convince them that BBC is one of the top 5 playing cards they should adopt. Let me give you an example though which shows how I also expect to be frustrated 9 times out of 10. Bethechange(1,,
2) convened London's most powerful 3-day change meeting of the first jhalf of 2004. Most of the speakers were American, and franly admitted they were appalled about where their country is spinning and need help from around the world. One thing they dont have much oif is public media. So when it came to the open space 3rd day, the issue I raised was how the BBC could be the world's other broadcatser stanidng up for humanity. But none of the leaders of the bethechnage movement showed much interest either in my suggested project or as far as I can see what oters suggested. Which is OK except clearly this network didnt even want to sift through answers from within its members to the biggest questions which its famous speakers had raised.
2) As well as finding breakthrough spaces among chnage activists (and where they are actually networked to do stuff), I beleiev we need to work on the socila networks of inverstigative journalists (assuming there stil are a few)
3) Of course the biggest breakthrough would be to find somebody who knows a BBC Governor enough to be able to make an open mided presentation. But I realsie Hutton has been used to try and handcuff the BBC to politicians; what does the British public think about that
4) If 10 people will sign up for the BBC game which takes about an hour of virtual posting, I believe we will have a good chnace of writing up a whitepaper on the futire of the BBC that various webs will be happy to feature.
5) A question comes back to you (who reads this post). If you agree the world's needs chnaging; is there anyway yopu will continue an email conversation with me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk until you tell me whether or not you see the BBC as one fo the 5 best ways forward we all have of changing the world for humanity.
Chris how do you plan to start promoting your ideas into the BBC?
Chris,
I completely agree with you regarding your ideas on promoting a game on 30,000 poverty ideas to the BBC.
I am also constantly disappointed on how degrading the TV is around many countried. I used to think that Russian TV was an education and interesting one (and it was until recent times) but since I visited it a couple of times recently I have changed my opinon: it is unfortunately as degrading as ever.
I also agree that the BBC has to a certain extent a unique status of the publicly owned TV company with a very good name around the world (unlike quite an often bias of CNN for example).
Do you have a certain plan on how to promote this game into the BBC?
What are the steps you are planning to take and how can we help?
We should certainly start thinking about it on a wide basis.
Irina
powerful voices on the side of all humanity
The world needs a few of these! Is there a more natural candidate the BBC - world's largest media owned by the people?
What ideas do you have on how the BBC could now take the lead with a world service as relevant as its radio once in the 20th C was in days before the net and when countries could be cut off by censoring local media?
Ripe timing to assemble H2g2-BBC-CBC's live democracy
Dear cyber hosts and neighbors,
With the work I do on my space with h2g2 as a stay at home dad with no income of my own, I am offering a volunteer initiative to begin now during the present labor dispute at the CBC (Canadaian Broadcasting Corp) to join with the BBC to gather the owners of the 2 corporations into a local-global complicity to update democracy from self-destruction to sef-control to community self-government. Is it conceivable to make use of h2g2 as the spark plug to ignite the healing movement of quietning silence of patient wisdom on the air from our live, cyber democracy?
England has taken the best of Europe to the farthest extremities of the world and England has also dearly suffered to protect the world from the worst of Europe. From Avalon to the return of the King of kings, the world monarchies have now received lessons of grand humility when needed and of humble grandeur to express the solemn beauty of being servants of the justice and of the peace that secures liberty. Because of Great Britain, all languages of the earth are now offered a practical guide to self-governing to live out the universal Faculty of being human. Because of the Commomwealth and because of the entity of terror-anti-terror working at circling the earth under militarization, humanity is given the opportunity to end the repeat of history's worst memories and to restructure the distribution of wealth with integrity and equity. Canadians are inviting her majesty, Queen Elizabeth to join us in the company of the BBC, to preside over the gathering of the Permanent Pepople Summit to officialy launch"...cleansing our vision of the Crown,,,", with the help of Mr. Bush, President of United States of America and of Benedict the 16th, head of Vatican. As we do, we shall behold the rise of Britania and of Europe's inheritance, joining with the inheritance of Asia into humanity: The muli-culture of humans, rooted in the glory of unity...YES into AMEN...
(to view my invitation, please vivit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A8912117 Thank you for the opportunity!