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Open Digital Villages as Multi-purpose centers for p2p and sustainability convergence
Via Jeff Buderer:
"For me the key point I try to emphasize is this idea of developing nodes
of convergence - that is how can we come together in centers and or
ecovillages that can help us to better synergize. This does not have to
be a life long or long term commitment but rather a focus on how we can
pool our resources on making the urban systems more compact and
sustainable and community friendly/human scale (thus reducing the impact
on rural regions in terms of cities relying on huge amounts of resources
from rural areas to sustain themselves).
On the other side of the coin is how to make the rural areas more
citified and self-reliant in terms of cultural development, knowledge
about sustainability and also the production of manufactured and value
added items.
The idea of fusing agriculture, energy, habitat management and healing
together is vital I believe for making the P2P and Appropedia work as
well as similar efforts like Post Carbon in the sense of facilitating an
effective and well financed model to build a global network of
centers/ecovillages that would focus on the above.
This is my perspective on what the idea of Unity Center that Joy has
been promoting over the years via OVF is all about:
http://www.opendigitalvillage.net/index.php?title=Multi-purpose_Center
"For me the key point I try to emphasize is this idea of developing nodes
of convergence - that is how can we come together in centers and or
ecovillages that can help us to better synergize. This does not have to
be a life long or long term commitment but rather a focus on how we can
pool our resources on making the urban systems more compact and
sustainable and community friendly/human scale (thus reducing the impact
on rural regions in terms of cities relying on huge amounts of resources
from rural areas to sustain themselves).
On the other side of the coin is how to make the rural areas more
citified and self-reliant in terms of cultural development, knowledge
about sustainability and also the production of manufactured and value
added items.
The idea of fusing agriculture, energy, habitat management and healing
together is vital I believe for making the P2P and Appropedia work as
well as similar efforts like Post Carbon in the sense of facilitating an
effective and well financed model to build a global network of
centers/ecovillages that would focus on the above.
This is my perspective on what the idea of Unity Center that Joy has
been promoting over the years via OVF is all about:
http://www.opendigitalvillage.net/index.php?title=Multi-purpose_Center
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Comment by Franz Nahrada on November 8, 2008 at 15:28
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Jeff, we are following this idea almost independently for a long time, and I think its a vital pattern. I agree that every effort to work towards Global Villages has to start with this place of access, learning and encounter. What are the new perspectives that can help us get more energy behind these ideas? Should we write a how-to manual? Should we clarify this is not just a question of poverty reduction but of a valuable resource even for the most developed nations? Recently we had this discussion about "rural hubs" and I think this is a strain of thoughts I will increasingly follow: to combine these centers with social entrepreneurship.
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