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Bio. "Asst. Prof. Surat Horachaikul is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University and Director of the School for Wellbeing Studies and Research. He has master degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science and from London Guildhall University. His recent ...
Definition. "People’s organizations (POs), unlike NGOs, are established by and represent sectors of the population like small farmers, artisanal fisherfolk, slum dwellers and others. POs take a wide variety of forms and exist at various levels. - Community-based organizations (CBOs) mobilize and represent local populations and directly ...
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Franz Nahrada: "The core subject of Global Villages is the way we can live physically ifwe have all the support that the communication revolution can give us. The core assumptionis that we can, for the first time, deeply followthe insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living arepotentially more rich in terms of human experienc...
A contribution of Franz Nahrada, who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy.. "Global Villages (in plural!) (also sometimes name...
Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm(with some additions by Franz Nahrada) 1. Insist on rights of humanity and nature to co-existin a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition. 2. Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design interact with and dep...
Franz Nahrada wrote in 2024 a few lines further explaining the concept: "There are four meanings of the metaphor "global village" in McLuhan's work, and it seems that this ambiguity did not bother him, but even pleased him. ˧Tthe first meaning is "as if": We are confronted with realities in real time that give the impression that what we experience...
More info from the GIVEinitiative: 1. http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; 2. http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages Definitional work at 1. http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition See also related concepts such as Multi-local Societies and Glocalized Networks
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada: 1. Design Outlaws, at http://www.designoutlaws.org/ crossing architecture, ecology and technology. 2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas Schuler Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html
Description Via Hugu Sutej: "The small tribe Qalang Smangus of Atayal people lives in mountain area of northern Taiwan, who has gained great achievement in striving for a sustainable community livelihood and well-being for all beings around us through tribal ...
The OSCOMAK project will foster a community in which many interested individuals will contribute to the creation of a distributed global repository of manufacturing knowledge about past, present and future processes, materials, and products. OSCOMAK stands for "OSCOMAK Semantic Community On Manufactured Artifacts and Know-how". The OSCOMAK ...
2017年9月19日 · Description. Pat Conaty: " Munibnb. Basically this would be an alliance of local authorities working in partnership with local residents who want to let out rooms. Munibnb would like Airbnb fund the allied update of the apps and platform to promote fair and local trade that would also ensure hotel taxes are paid and lettings are ethical.
Description. "Pastry is a generic, scalable and efficient substrate for peer-to-peer applications. Pastry nodes form a decentralized, self-organizing and fault-tolerant overlay network within the Internet. Pastry provides efficient request routing, deterministic object location, and load balancing in an application-independent manner.
