Arturs Puga, 28-Oct-09 @ 06:11AM

web address changed

To read the article click
http://forsaita-studijas.org/forwardstudies/introduction.html

Gillian Bush, 22-Jun-05 @ 02:04AM

excellent conversation

I would have thought there must be many countries or regions facing similar chalenges to Latvia; how do we get someone as transparent as Arturs to join in this discussion

connecting clusters of peoples and places with similar challenges is something the network age can open up

Chris Macrae, 21-Jun-05 @ 15:15PM

agreed and

Three cheers for the view: the molecular unit of knowledge-value creation is communal clusters and relationship integrity of the sort you describe

Next trick seems to be opening up power groups at the top rather like a Russian Doll until they see they have many dolls/molecules inside. All the way through to the smallest seeds or the greatest contextual nuances (those challenging the forefront of relevant innovation's conflict or listening to those in deepests sytemically related need)

Governments (worthy of their people) need to find & explore with this new 21st C map of being for and with the people (our real and virtual lifetime connections). Unless every molecule from the smallest community up is sustainabily interfaced with larger ones, then the development policies from the top are ruinous. And it makes life even more degrading if top people spend lots of the public's money shouting that their plans will work, when it is the people at the top that are defying nature's laws of networking and communal gravity. The British people's testimonies on how sick they are with government abusing the media our taxes pay for are a sight for any true democrat's eyes -whether your 2020 vision be local or global. I dont think British people are greater than any other but perhaps by making more of a mess with empires a hundred years ago than anyone else on the planet we have some common sense of learning, a desire to see cultures love each other truly but not from person to person, not just in political summit rhetoric. WE wish to collaborate, network worldwide towards this open connections vision

Its a deep pity that so few people at KB have studied Allee's exchange diagrams until they can visualise the open connectivities referred to above. Open exchanges are not the same map as closed process pictures drawn from the top. Open exchanges live as molecules concerned with quality of interfacing with bigger and smaller insides and outsides. Human relationship exchanges care about and commune around what future is compounding not only what we have extracted from the past. There may be a corrupt kind of knowledge age without visualising exchanges but there certainly is no open learning curve age. And if you look at the big visions promised our 25 countries for 2010 and 2020 they were not about corrupt knowledge ages but opening networks' and communities' learning multipliers.
UnseenWealth...Twin KC Cities: London-Riga

Arturs Puga, 21-Jun-05 @ 13:38PM

Value systems and KM

People exist in communities – in the self-organising and adapting to environment (particularly to spiritual, ideological, economic, political meta-framework established in meta-society – in Eastern Europe that often means a national state).

Such "meta-companies" and interconnected and overlapping communities (see also community of one !) have their "system/systems of values".

I think that in many cases "knowledge" is not prioritised in the established and self-developing "systems of values" in a globalised world. Hence KM is to be elitist phenomena, for a few like the Lisbon strategy’s poor commitment to "knowledge and knowledge economy".

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Value system of company, of community (community of one, community of one plus, community of hundreds or thousands of formal/informal members), their change and KM development is a challenging field of research.

Arturs Puga, 19-Jun-05 @ 12:46PM

thanks

GOD is NATURE, MAN, SPIRIT

In the Bible accumulated tacit and explicit knowledge discovers very important part of ETERNAL KNOWLEDGE UNIVERSE.

We, you, me - everyone is entitled to be proud of being a unique EVOLVING spirit/mission of ETERNAL KNOWLEDGE UNIVERSE.

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"I think understanding is built into knowledge." Ikujiro Nonaka

Chris Macrae, 19-Jun-05 @ 12:08PM

COme and know's edge

Arturs you mention 2 constructs community of me and knowlege as a flow.

Regarding knowledge as a flow, I value 3 multipliers first:

flows need to be open to work; close a flow and you start to destroy its value and life

flows only develop value in activating interactions; life is about connecting; no connections and a flow dies (it may burst, or pollute or...)

flows need a gravitational pattern; if you mix all the colours in the rainbow you get a mess; (multifacted and non-siloised knowledge of) selected interactions are what makes gravitational attractions/exchanges valuable

Regarding Community of Me, I would need to see more of your view of that. Personally, I believe the building block of all networks is the network of me or you. You and I know best who we know, what they are committed too, who has the courage to overturn what kind of wrong, who will work on an exponential that compounds great rewards over time but nothing immediately. We have muddled the hell out of people wherever we measure a communal construct as being performed over short periods, historic quarters separately. Communities nurture and thrive on compound exponentials and hi-trust patterns - the intangibles of Unseen Wealth. So I personally prefer to multiply the idea of network of me times community of whole. Commune does not exist without interactions/exchnages across people, whilst my network or yours exists while we enjoy life

Arturs Puga, 19-Jun-05 @ 11:31AM

now in the EU

Related to
Personal Knowledge Management, KB

In the Soviet time, we did not learn how that (KNOWLEDGE) was/were/is being built up in one’s own community - interacting thoughts, issues, techniques, collaborations, partnership, networking, etc. in one’s head.

Knowledge as a thing and a flow.

We do not like to have a conversation and response - questioning, answering, rethink, redefine, combine, evolve about THAT now, in a new economy.

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I think, how that (knowledge) was/is being built up in a community of one is a crucial societal issue when the European Union is turning to challenge paradigm.

community of one (a Prime Minister), community of one (a leader of project), community of one (a knowledge officer), community of one (an expert at KnowledgeBoard), etc.

Chris Macrae, 05-Jun-05 @ 08:16AM

future ideas need hi-trust markets, and 100 atlases of ideas to live with

Arturs

General challenge: I see world's people facing...

Every "how do we build a better world for human beings issue" needs its own travel guide - literally connecting real world maps of how to meet people pioneering action projects and virtual web links. People in a city need to see for an issue who's most actively concerned and testing open projects. See a level up - say nationally. And then a level "inter" - all around the world. Seeing global-locally is where nature is more powerful than any science : how do holons, molecules spin all that life and cultures go on to create?

I'm told: real estate success is location, location, location. Then success in playing with nature (ie living) is connection, connection, connection. Good news for students of networks! Imagine a top 100 atlases of the world's on future issues that will most make or break humanity. WILL Latvia commit to being the world's editorial epicentre for one living issue? To be known as open sourcing a vitality issue, is to become the world's electronic POBox for developing that Atlas & destination people most travelled to for congresses and fringe festivals. Metanetwork: be an early pioneer of a vitality issue earns openly linking to all 100 atlases!

Why do opinion leading people block Living Atlases as KM's numero uno job description?
Some funded an issue being managed, controlled (spot the social control error- open conversation flows cannot be only top-downed). WHERE'S one usable example of a world activity atlas welcoming anyone who wants to get involved - connecting real meetings to people nearest them & extraordinary virtual learning conversations.

Problem 2: KM is clueless/snobby about markets. Partly correctly: market paradigms of a global brand needing a billion dollars a year of noise to stay in people's minds cannot work for conversing round the 100 vitality atlases globally most needed. But wherever a virtual community lurks & praises paucity of posting THEN that community is breaking the First Clue of Human KM. No openly innovative knowledge flows without conversational channels.

Will Latvia become a voice for youth and what education curricula young Latvians find most valuable to connect with the rest of the world whilst also being proud to redevelop Latvia? Openly designing a huge learning game... Why not: Science's wisdom spacemakers as people's vibrant storytellers not an elite's dusty paper writers?

Five years ago, I was briefed by the founders of this space :Value the http://www.cluetrain.com. I know 2 of the 4 people Cluetrain authors who developed that practice view of community. Celebrate people who volunteer to post because opening up missing atlases is where the race & space begins on all urgent human crises today. Zero need for people who empire build and take funds not to post openly.

Arturs Puga, 04-Jun-05 @ 05:25AM

thanks

Dear Chris,
You know I like hummus.

A gist of our story (including Latvian one) on Knowledge and Knowledge management – from my viewpoint, has been posted on KnowledgeBoard in 2004-2005. More than ten times and these elements and issues are available from

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-site/whoswho.cgi?action=detail&id=102392&authorid=701916

I’ll response to everyone interested in a conversation evolving our thinking systems and communities.

Chris Macrae, 03-Jun-05 @ 20:56PM

inquiry

Arturs

The four hours we spent talking in London were one of the most memorable sessions I can recall for a long time

I'd really love it if you could post the gist of your story over in this group - http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html

I believe the iterative debates of open space can get past most establishment refereeing, and non-innovative habits. Meaning and co-creativity emerges the more people converse passionately around a focus;...

Arturs Puga, 03-Jun-05 @ 10:10AM

We, and enemies of Knowledge

But if the Latvian higher educational establishment poorly helps in preparing specialists, they are not competitive, frankly speaking, in any sphere. For that reason, science is in a very bad state, it, regret to say, slowly dies down. Science has no money(...)

Here are reflections on Latvia in the EU, and how to deal with the Lisbon strategy

http://www.apollo.lv/portal/articles/48955

Interview wirh Mr. Guntars Krasts, Member of the European Parliament, the former President of Ministers of Latvia. Published in "Latvijas Avîze", June 2, 2005 (in Latvian)

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Enemies of Knowledge
We ourselves ?!

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In the context I rethink the thoughts of Dr. Peter H. Mettler - on goals of wars in the coming and revolutionary Global Knowledge Society:

Wars will also be different: their goal will neither be the killing of soldiers or the destruction of armament (or the destruction of industries which built them), but to stop the functioning of knowledge-bases and of institutions for the development of science and technology.

Chris Macrae, 19-May-05 @ 14:14PM

ambassadorial paradigms of virtual

Arturs

Reflecting on the ambassadorial paradigms we discussed late into Tuesday night drawing on your world of experience including the Latvian embassy in Tehran, it seemed to me we could try a connections-connections experiment of twin blog-cities starting with LondonRiga here

Of course this is just a conversation starter - how little London knows of Riga and how too much it may know of its own knowledge pools. But what's transparent online editing for.

If anyone else wants to start a twincity blog connecting London with their place let me know at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

It only takes 5 minutes to get started and as much of the rest of your exploration life as you and fellow netizens & citizens choose after that!

Holo : London Calling

Chris Macrae, 18-May-05 @ 09:34AM

arturs- your puzzle reflected on

Delighted to here other's reflections

To make Riga an epicentre of the world , I would give it a BHAG as #1 in visioning: Jim Collins & HBR calls it. You do this by open space surveys of citizens until they elect one. Crucial about a BHAG is that everyone knows its too big to do without collaboration, but everyone excited by seeing how cloes we can get to being the first to make it happen

I have conceptualised the open source example of ClubofRiga electing to be the world's first sustainability city though you can re-edit that if you all chosen a different BHAG

If you did elect being Sustainability City; we would send out posts to all the world's experts in sustainability to see who would help - in itself a wonderful gravitional exercise in developing a who's who activation network on a subject every person in the world will value more and more (by definition of sustainability)

The world would start coming to Riga to be close to the centre of the debate and benchmark the experiments that you were all trying

We would start a wiki or some such as what are the most crucial educational messages on sustainability that every child of 9 should have internalised for action, a more advanced set for every child of 12, 15 ,18 then harder for eg for the children of out 50s generation where the question is what fo kids of 50 need to unlearn before they can either commune or practice sustainability

There happen to be networks embeded in this community that can give you all a quick start; you just have to choose your Bhag

Chris Macrae, 18-May-05 @ 01:28AM

great seeing you today Arturs

Have been browsing Riga. Use my google to direct me to some of Riga's or Latvia's people who are most passionate about Latvian innovation
https://www.google.com/searchhistory/login
wcbn009@aol.com
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Google Tour

1 good to see Riga is in top 10 for promoting twin city knowledge -who are your partner cities?
The "Golden Stars of Town Twinning" will be awarded this year in the framework of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions General Assembly, organised in Poznan, Poland on 14-16 May. The award ceremony, hosted by the Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture
The city of Riga (LV) for organising an international conference (300 participants, 20 countries represented) on the theme "the city of the future".

2 This Helsinki-Tailinn Brief on how scence twin cities work looks good. Is there a Riga equivalent

Chris Macrae, 10-May-05 @ 19:14PM

rambling aloud

Are there connections between millennium project and Global Compact - see eg interests of community candidate Fred Dubee

I'm in DC often - do you think Jerome's the sort of person who'd spare me half an hour over coffee?

What's your talk or reason for being at the Manchester conference next week? Delighted to try and show you London on 18th

Arturs Puga, 08-May-05 @ 11:20AM

thanks

I thank the Director of the Millennium Project for KM and futures enablers, discovering to me new communities

http://www.acunu.org/millennium/resume/jglenn.html

Chris, I hope to be in London next week

Chris Macrae, 08-May-05 @ 09:31AM

Who's Delphi Who

Jerome Glenn, Director of the Millennium Project, Executive Director, American Council/U.N.University

How do I find out what this person's mission in life is? what networks connect round him? how does he relate to what Latvia or Europe wants?
I ask because whilst I have a green card and all that, I find America's institutions very big, and like all big places that are unchartered territoy for me or for my peers, easy to get lost in both timewise, learningwise, and in terms of trying to liberate sustaining futures whether hi-trus people or mice & scholars of law play

Arturs Puga, 07-May-05 @ 18:51PM

AC/UNU Millennium Project

Planning Committee

http://www.acunu.org/millennium/plancom.html

Jerome Glenn, Director of the Millennium Project, Executive Director, American Council/U.N.University

Planning Committee Meeting, April 15-16, 2005
http://www.acunu.org/millennium/mppc-0405.html

Chris, many thanks for your blogging sharing knowledge

Chris Macrae, 07-May-05 @ 07:34AM

wonderful blog arturs

Brilliant. Could you tell me who exactly heads the association that came up with the top 15 challenges of our lives and times:
the 15 Global Challenges are identified and discussed:
1. How can sustainable development be achieved for all?
2. How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict?
3. How can population growth and resources be brought into balance?
4. How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes?
5. How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives?
6. How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone?
7. How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor?
8. How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune microorganisms be reduced?
9. How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and
institutions change?
10. How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction?
11. How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition?
12. How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises?
13. How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently?
14. How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition?
15. How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?

Arturs Puga, 07-May-05 @ 05:36AM

Futures of Europeans

explicit knowledge, sharing outputs of the conference „The Futures of Europeans in the Global Knowledge Society”, Louvain-la-Neuve, 13-14 April, 2005

http://futurestud.blogspot.com/

Promoting objectives of the conference and understanding relating to futures, foresight research and knowledge management, the k-log has been prepared for the Latvian Council of Science and interested stakeholders to use and comment.

Chris Macrae, 31-Dec-04 @ 17:32PM

thanks

thanks for the inspiring link to where Nonaka actually says:

In my view, management is not about technique or methodology, but about value. What is good? What is beautiful? What is truthful?

This identification immediately explains why many races will need to confess that what they conceptualise as KM is at first practice diametrically the opposite of where Nonaka leads. The vast majority of methods first funded at KB were not directed at Nonaka's expectation, and because of this could never be navigated anywhere near the vision Lisbon promised us (all people of Europe).

I think I have only ever heard one American come up with a wholly practical way out of this mess of organisations (.gov as well as .com as well as .org) that have mechanised lots of unbeautiful and untrue KM, though happy if others sing in that they have too -its a deeply anarchaic seed to put back into an American business culture ruled by such ugliness as the economics of externalities. Anyhow Verna's idea is if you make the molecule of every organisation a value exchange map as opposed to a process map; then it is natural to picture an exchange like a roundtable where all involved in inputting knowledge/service or outputting (ie taking their stake) acknowledge each other by debating what could we each agree on valuing around this exchnage which would make it grow stronger over time rather than emaciate it

Intangibles like learning, being inspired by quality work and team cooperation, having a higher order vision than money alone do in hi-trust cultures(there is great spansih work on this to trawl) live up to the value Nonaka is talking about. They are what puts a company on a compound goodwill path from which all sides gain value.

The green curve not the red curve. And they are very people-centric and society-context enrichening multipliers that we should not expect machines by themselves to have any ability to deliver.

In effect they take us above zero sum rather than below it. And this was always the transformation from industrial age to knowledge working age that underpinned the 2010 vision of KM, and so I would imagine why the workinhg people of Europe fund this space with their taxes, and expect the EU to openly get back on track (rather than to betray the hopes for more humanly enrichening futures)

Doesn't our opportunity to practice other ways out of the mess all begin by openly confessing -in every context we can find to wake up our imaginations - that tangibles measure the wrong thing if you want KM to come alive in all the people.

Arturs Puga, 31-Dec-04 @ 16:27PM

shared context - a year later

Methodological approach and application of research on Social Challenges Facing Latvia are enabling us, and developing Meta context knowledge. The project team and collaborators share evolving Ba - framework for processing, managing knowledge - with many people. A general question is - why to go to ?

Blog for the meta context ‘a learning citizen in the Lisbon process’ - shared place for emerging relationships (physical, virtual, mental):

http://lnels2005.blogspot.com/2004/12/review-of-2003-2004.html
http://arturspuga.blogspot.com/

a happy new year !

Chris Macrae, 13-Dec-04 @ 11:13AM

thanks

I have been interested in futures networks since co-authoring a 1984 on the futures of networking: globally & locally, corporately & individually, economically & socially, innovatively and contextually, entrepreneurially & beyond any one orgnisation's remit. If there are others at KB who are in interested in futures, and specifically the compound scenario consequences for places, why not add your name in this conversation space and we can form an email group

Meanwhile, I had a Latvia question from one of my favourite networks (open space * being the number 1 real method I know to deepen a community's context and regenrate its networing permisssions:

From Jo @ Berlin & OS Dear colleagues,

I have just finished an open space meeting in Riga / Latvia. The context was urban planning for one district of the city of Riga. Where a lot of architectural heritage (old wooden houses) is located. It worked very well. The sponsor claims that this was the first open space ever in Latvia. Is that true? Does nobody of you ever facilitated an open space meeting in Latvia before?

I would however like to ask Americans for an Xmas present. Your country invented spam and most of the machine methods for spamming- could you please clean this up because the rest of the world pities a country that originates such garbage and doesnt make every effort to clean up such pollution when there are so many jewels I'd rather find in my inbox. If you have any knowledge of this, you could by telling us whom the commercial sponsors of spam are because clearly there are some powerfully dark space vaders and not just adolescent boys.

Arturs Puga, 06-Dec-04 @ 20:21PM

untaboo

There are valuable contributions, to advance the conversation
„what reasons makes a subject taboo to discuss the future of?”

Links: (from Australian Foresight Institute)

http://www.swin.edu.au/afi/docs/resolving%20the%20moral%20impediment%20(hayward).pdf

http://www.swin.edu.au/corporate/fpr/docs/Systems%20as%20Foresight%20Indicators%20Submitted.doc

http://www.swin.edu.au/corporate/fpr/docs/adepresen2.pdf

Chris Macrae, 24-Nov-04 @ 08:08AM

culture survey of origin

Probably the most interesting survey we can do of our diverse geo-origins (things that are both great opportunities and threats if we are to become an inter-networking species) is to out what seems to be a taboo from you origin

From my view of the west the great taboo is that because an organisation is big it is unquestionably efficient, productive, controling something worthwhile. This is nonsense unless you ask that organisation to continuously prove it lives a "do no evil" life- continuously searching out its next future conflict between different people whose lives it most impacts and transparently resolving that conflict before it compounds through the system.

We can define any organisational systems as diseased as soon as it lets one relationship conflict compound; in effect its goodwill - ability to be energised by trust wherever its influence flows dies like a hales comet descending in a most vicious badwill spin. So once a big organisation is compounding distrust, it will do untold harm first to the weakest people who unwittingly are contextually within its relationship trajectory.

The taboo thing is that you might hope in so-called free societies of the West that laws were there to help correct or get rid of organisations once they start compounding dis-trust. Unfortunately social lawyers eg http://www.thecorporation.com and ethical people have been reviewing this and the answer in the west is the exact opposite. See also http://www.weforum.org for the top people's spin on this. Laws are not avialable for protecting us when our biggest organisations go deviant. Worse, many big organisations have the biggest pockets to hire lawyers over time to twist the interpretaition of laws that had intended "do no evil" to work in reverse favouring those who want to profit through permissions to compound evil. It is this struictural fault in the West which is the main reason why whatever some extreme people in the East do to the West, any thinking Westerner needs to realise:
-we started compounding these vicious power cycles first
-it is up to ethical people in the west to change the laws that permit organisations to compound evil in non-transparent ways
-we have one ray of luck right now- the only organisation to have compounded 30 bilion of wealth in the last 5 years (as we see what networking can do) does so with a "do no evil" identity (at least better than any other 30 billion dollar organisation I can think of- though I am delighted if people nominate other benchmarks)

http://whatwillgoogledo.blogspot.com/

I will be in Delhi the week before xmas speaking at a conference of 100 reconcilation facilitators on this sort of issue- so if you have any tips that you want to share confidentially, mail is wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

Chris Macrae, 24-Nov-04 @ 07:47AM

Let's untaboo it

To offer knowledge conversation on futures (potential, possible, preferable etc.) one-to-one, groups-to-groups, officials-to-citizens etc. is almost taboo.

In my view the human race stops developing , learning, knowing anything innovative as soon as people feel afraid to hold future debates. Does anyone have a taboo context, and if so why not untaboo it at knowledgeboard?

Alternatively we could start by asking what reasons makes a subject taboo to discuss the future of? As long as participants care -and indeed are impacted by the context - I just dont know of any good reasons?

The most dangerous thought control in the world is where people are or feel no longer permitted to ask questions. And genuinely raised questions are our future. But regarding the transparency of a future debate, if someone funds a specific context, the question of what that funder wants may need to be the first question people start with otherwise the time they spend in that debate and any representation of its conclusions needs to be firstly understood by the constraints imposed by he who paid for that future's free lunch.

Arturs Puga, 24-Nov-04 @ 05:34AM

Foresight: bottom-up

Dear Chris,
thanks for the conversation on KB.

Individual Foresight means to build strategic thinking capabilities. Firstly, as I guess, a question being asked both to a man from establishment ( in the West Europe or Latvia) and ‘knowledge workers’ could be about my, his, her understanding and application of PKM in the knowledge-based age. Particularly, if the person pretends to be between leaders of nation, industry, community, paid by taxpayers. PKM and KM for individual strategic thinking and collective foresight exercises – these topics are between crucial ones to start foresight networking. We know that people like serious conversations on the past, the present, they used to do this from early years. To offer knowledge conversation on futures (potential, possible, preferable etc.) one-to-one, groups-to-groups, officials-to-citizens etc. is almost taboo. Perhaps we can rethink a challenge to manage and advance a particular type of conversation as ‘learning magnet’ that would lead to more sustainable strategic thinking, strategic planning, strategic actions and development.

Chris Macrae, 22-Nov-04 @ 12:48PM

where does one ,link to foresight networks

Your article pleas for more understanding of foresight and investment by the EU in this area. Can you tell me where we find some of the people who you expect to be in such a network or indeed whether they are online somewhere already?

When it comes to foresight on what networks will do I have been studying as well as predicting openly for 21 years on that but then I come from a few particular views:

-you can see change is happening somewhere, and that systems are reolving unstoppably and humanly that way

-its vital to give priority to conversations of such movements, the most particularly where the current establishment is being asked a big question on behlf of humanity

This leads me to make a guess that foresight groups sponsored by establishment bodies like the EU are walking into one of 2 things

-brave debates

places where foresight will be drained out of them

Any comments of experiences counter or confirming this guess

chris macrae, Top 2 google : Valuing intangibles = Trust & Foresight