Future Historians (since the 1960s when my Dad started hosting roundtable parties of people concerned with his surveys published in The Economist) have predicted 2000-2010 as the Simultaneous decade where the people everywhere need to connect humanity through deep community cataloguing -see project30000, and its forecast need in 1984

Networks change the economics and social trust-flows (including transparency and sustainability) of everything that is most humanly valued. If economics of abundance is to win-win-win over economics of scarcity then the people's globalisation revolution needs to linkin openly at every level of economy - national, corporate, of people's lifelong experience and productivity curves. And we need to support the preneurial sustainability of all those in most urgent need, before nature or humanity turns on itself (search Queen Elizabeth 2 end of year speech for 2005)

Club of Country exists to provide an overview of what is being catalogued at more detailed levels by grassroots future society correspondents:
Club of Village
Club of City -try out these 20 milion searches of catchphrase knowledge collaboration city -shows how much demand is multiplying for people helping each other, and where! -eg London 1 2 3, Delhi 1 2, and 100 more...
Project30000
2006's 30th Birthday parties of Entrepreneurial Revolution of Systems
DoD's 22nd year of monitoring where the future is happening so that everyone can make the co-mentoring most of network's death of distance

In some cases -eg USA, America, Africa we also provide overview maps for large continents of places we would suggest likeminded people visit if passing by

We need co-editors help at all these resolution levels to ensure that every place's open society connections are available on a worldwide atlas

Mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want to help put a community, place or social concern network on the map. We use a timeless blog format so co-editing need only take us as much time as when your network anyway wants to publicise colaboration events or other actions

Bill Drayton Ashoka quoted in the book by David Bornstein-(How to Change the World- Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas) "Gandhi’s greatest insight was recognising early in the twentieth century that a new type of ethics was emerging in the world. – an ethics grounded not in rules but in empathy. It was a change that was necessary as human society grew increasingly complex. In the past, when people lived in homogeneous communities and rarely moved far from their birthplaces, rule-based ethics had been adequate to govern human relations. But the world has become too fast-paced and interconnected for rule-based ethics. There were too many interactions in which rules were outdated and belief systems clashed. The new circumstances demanded that people become more ethically self-guiding: people had to be able to put themselves in the shoes of those around them. Those who could not navigate situations in which rules were changing or could not master the skills of empathetic understanding would find themselves unable to manage their behaviour ethically or wisely; increasingly they would (need to) be seen as “loose canons”, and marginalised within society"

meta-networkers research exercise 1

With the 1984 deadline of 2010 running out for completion of project30000 and identification of the 200 networks with the most collaborative gravities for making poverty history, we need simple to play intercizens exercise. Here's an example. Please share yours with us

The Cooperation runs a 60 minutes circle/cafe having invited participants from every concern network we can find in a city

Its free to participate in but everyone is asked to agree what change network they love being in most, and whether they will happily be a guide round the network for anyone at the meeting who wants to connect. So we get grid pages like the one above (click to enlarge). Then we note how many times the same networks come up from one club of city to another as well as collect feedback on how well people feel the network spends their volunteer time, what's its unique competence is, how it interfaces with other nets... and so on