2020people co-creating a sustainable world

We often come across situations that require careful consideration of the views of multiple stakeholders and the understanding of a wide variety of constraints and pressures before making an important decision or designing a solution to a problem. But often the groups that are charged with making those decisions have no way of reaching a shared understanding of the problem let alone coming to a reasonable consensus on what should be done about it.

The "wee chat" took place on Saturday May 17th. The participants we had were the right ones, and the discussion was lively and robust. We engaged in several very interesting and enlightening discussions and tunnelled into some of the issues and inter-connections and dependencies around our modern civilisation's "core problem". While much work remains to be done to uncover and define the 1 core problem which is the root cause of all others, significant progress was made.

Several candidate core-problems surfaced during the day including:

One simple thing you can do that will help us enormously in reaching our objectives is to leave behind a list of the issues you think are the biggest problems our global civilisation is facing at the moment. If you have a notion or intuition of what the core problem may be please also add that to the list. You can leave the list as a personal blog entry tagged as Shared Plan Stage "2-current problems (what's not working well now)", or you can contribute the to the forums (http://www.2020people.com/forum/1) where they can be more easily collated and compared with others.

2020people is having its first event on Saturday May 17th in Edinburgh, Scotland. A facilitated discussion to establish the root causes of our civilisation's major problems. All welcome.

For full details, and how to register, click this link:
http://www.2020people.com/weechat

I'm planning an event in Edinburgh in June-July 2008. A series of 4 weekday evening workshop discussion, each lasting around 2 hours. The purpose is to identify the world's core problem - in other words the root cause of the world's collision course with environmental and social catastrophe. If you are interested in taking part or in following and participating online please make sure you are a registered user of this site. I'll post more details shortly.

When the website is finally ready the first task for us as participants in a process of collaborative problem solving is to agree the shared goal of the endeavour.