Connecting before, during and after the UK government barcamp

G20 to we20

Hi, Some of you may be aware of a public project which started out as Bretton Woods 2.0 which has now become we20. The UK has presidency of the G20 in 2009. This means there will be various meetings of global leaders in London, including Obama, to try and find solutions to the global economic crisis.

We are building a platform to build a bridge between the G20 and the public. We20.org will facilitate groups of 20 people to come together around the country and world to discuss their futures in their own contexts. Results of these meetings will be aggregated and amplified at we20.org. We expect that we20 meetings will cover local, regional, national and international issues.

We have events specialists opening up a series of venues around London (and hopefully the UK) for we20 meetings during the first meeting of G20 leaders which takes place on 2 April.

We have some developers, marketers, networks etc involved already and are constantly looking for more people to join. We want to launch by early March which is no small task - particularly on the web-build side.

I would like to either participate in an appropriate session or if there is sufficient demand, run a session on g20 and progress of we20.org. As far as I know, a number of people at UKGovWeb are already involved with we20 or have shown interest.

Thanks
Paul

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Permalink Reply by Dave Briggs on January 24, 2009 at 12:27pm: Hi Paul

I think there would be enough interest in this to run it as a session. I'd be there, anyway!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by david pinto on February 9, 2009 at 4:18pm: interesting...
i trusted evangineer to get on with the connections to you
but saw some call wrt education
and being a teacher in my past life
couldn't help but track back through twitter links

dave and you seem be big thinkers...

i had my own ideas about we20 before evangineer got back to me
and thought that the we20 was about small groups self-generating from now
so while i am in edinburgh
i shall attempt to rustle up a little interest amongst friends and family
it will take weeks!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Paul Massey on February 9, 2009 at 4:51pm: Hi David - self-generating is we20's middle name! We are also going to be nudging self-organisation with initiatives such as teachers packs, opening venues ourselves and working with established networks etc to encourage self-organisation!

It would be fantastic if you could build support in Edinburgh!

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Permalink Reply by alex stobart on March 17, 2009 at 6:58am: Paul and David

Another guy in Kirkcaldy, Fife and I ( who lives in Edinburgh ) run this very infant-version site

http://scotweb2.co.uk/

If David is interested to do some stuff in Edinburgh, please get in touch - alex dot stobart at btinternet dot com; ▶ Reply to This