[VBbuilders] From the Global Village to Glocal Villages

[Mark Petz]

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/index_en.htm

is dg regio - i am sure there will be stuff directly relevant to us.

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On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Giuseppe Silvi <giuseppesilvi at yahoo.it>wrote:

> *Markus and Phil, many thanks for your feed back.*
>
>
> During this week end I'll continue my web research taking into account your
> suggestions and contributions.
>
>
> In the meantime I flag you two old articles in which I tried to outline a
>  possible "social glocal transformation" through a facilitator tool such as
> could be the renaissance of the "piazza" in the digital age as an "urban
> public space" where to share knowledge face to face and at distance and to
> share at the same time many other facilities .
>
> Ref. to the article on wikipedia for the story and recent updatings on this
> initiative:
>
> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_telematica ,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Telematica.
>
> *
> *
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> *1)*
>
> *A Village for every era …. From the Global Village to Glocal
> Villages  (December 1999)*
>
> *The era of generative tech-nets:  bit watt -.- and complexity*
>
> http://www.piazzetelematiche.it/1994-2005/doc_e_genart.html
>
> *2)*
>
> *A GLOCAL Bridge for Italy made up of 8,100 telematic piazzas, one for
> each of the 8,100 Italian municipalities (November 2001)*
>
> http://www.piazzetelematiche.it/1994-2005/doc_ponteglo-eng.htm
>
>
> *
> *
> A good week end to everyone.
>
> Giuseppe
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/bitwatt
> http://stage.spaziopubblico.it/wiki/GJ/HP/01  (beta version)
>
> *NOTE*
> I met Franz in 1996 for the first time at HABITAT II in Instanbul and I met
> him again virtually after  almost 10 years thanks to this link
> http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?FranzNahrada and you can read
> about it here : http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?PiazzaTelematica
>
> The leaflet (printed in 10.000 copies)  that supported me in entering in
> contact with Franz at HABITAT II can be seen at this link:
> *A PROPOSAL FOR THE QUALITY OF LIVING ENVIRONMENTS, NEW JOBS AND TELEMATIC
> INDUSTRY (HABITAT II, 1996)*
> http://www.piazzetelematiche.it/1994-2005/Istanbul.pdf
>
> .... from 1996 (at the dawn of the web 1.0) to 2005 (at the dawn of the web
> 2.0) to 2010 (at the dawn of  *? * )
>
> Franz,  many many thanks for the organization of the GRUNDTVIG WORKSHOP !
>
>
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> *Da:* Phil Turner <p.turner at ruralnet.org..uk>
> *A:* Mark Petz <ravenwyn at gmail.com>; <giuseppesilvi at yahoo.it>
> *Cc:* videobridgebuilders at globalvillages..org
> *Inviato:* Sab 9 gennaio 2010, 00:01:55
> *Oggetto:* HINTERLAND - Germany and Poland
>
> Mark and Guiseppe,
>
> HINTERLAND - I agree with Mark that it is important
>
> See the ECOVAST work on small towns and villages and their surrounding
> areas:
> http://ecovastdiscussion.ning.com/forum/topics/small-towns-draft-position
>
> There you will find two downloads - attached here.
> In drafting these, we were careful not to use the term 'hinterland'
> because of the different meanings in German and English langauges.
> Nevertheless, we used the word in preparatory discussions.
>
> ECOVAST's project ASSET – Action to Strengthen the Small European Town –
> is seeing results from research that show good links between towns and
> hinterland, except where infrastructure is lacking.
> Small Towns fall into a policy gap between Cities and Rural.  They are
> hubs for economic, social and cultural activity, offering markets and
> service facilities, and beneficial to all.
>
> The European Commission (DG REGIO) is considering Territorial Cohesion
> Policy and at recent seminars the following was recorded:
> The area around Prague could be characterised as an urban core with
> suburban places, peripheral settlements and a rural hinterland.  There was
> ‘polycentricity’ of peri-urban and rural settlements.
> Prague (with reference to ESPON work) region has 250 micro-regions based
> on labour markets.
> Rural hinterlands have an important role. A tissue of small towns and
> surrounding areas – POLYCENTRICITY.
> This includes places ‘at the edge’ and at the ‘inner periphery’.
>
> Phil
> ------------------
>
> Mark Petz <ravenwyn at gmail.com> writes:
>
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> >"Social Cooperation Patterns"  that is a great look at what
> >a village is. I think that you should also look at the Hinterland
> model:
> >
> >[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterland
> >]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterland
> >
> >there is a lot of esp. German deductions from this. It may not be
> >accurate, but it informs policy with the idea of a city having to be
> >responsible for towns that are responsible for villages.
> >
> >RATHER than villages interlinking in a network by themselves without
> any
> >cities.
> >
> >My and I think Franz's proffered solution.
> >
> >Incidentally the Digger and Levellers had elements of these village
> based
> >communities in their philosophies as did Pol Pot in Cambodia, when he
> >tried to destroy cities and make everyone part of village community
> life.
> >
> >so co-operation is different if you have a lead village or town - a
> >heirachy is created rather than the peer to peer networking possible
> >between autonomous self-organized local communities - villages.
> >
> >so can you find some examples of this Guiseppe to illustrate these
> >differences, heirachy and peer to peer in practice. And how
> videobriodge
> >woudl be in co-operation for each of these models repsectively.
> >
> >Lastly also look at social cooperation in a village, for example does
> the
> >women's circle talk to the men's drinking group in the pub? does the
> >church talk to the school? Does the garden club interact in some way
> with
> >the aerobics group? And how might video-bridge facilitate or be an
> >element in that?
> >
> >markus
> >
> >On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Giuseppe Silvi <[
> >mailto:giuseppesilvi at yahoo.it ]giuseppesilvi at yahoo.it> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi Mark, Hi all
> >
> >
> >I attach here a .pdf with a first attempt to understand how to define
> the
> >"Social Cooperation Patterns" ... just a kind of personal
> >"brain storming" through looking at some websites.
> >
> >
> >It is just a start ..... and there is a lot of study and research ahead
> >to accomplish my assignement / task.
> >
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Giuseppe Silvi
> >
> >
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> >]http://www.realtimestatistics..org/projects.php<http://www.realtimestatistics.org/projects.php>
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> >Da: Mark Petz <[ mailto:ravenwyn at gmail.com ]ravenwyn at gmail.com>
> >A: [ mailto:videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org<videobridgebuilders at globalvillages..org>
> >]videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org
> >Inviato: Ven 8 gennaio 2010, 14:48:08
> >Oggetto: [VBbuilders] is any HELP needed. what is your status??? URGENT
> >
> >
> >Hi All
> >
> >I have been through all the mails that came re video-bridge and tried
> to
> >assist people in developing the patterns. I know we will do more in
> Vein.
> >BUT in accordance with my task to support you I want to know:
> >
> >1. Is there anyone that has not managed to do any work on their
> >assigments yet? Do you need help with that?
> >
> >2. Particularly to to Franz, but others too, where might most usefully
> >more work time be applied now by me?
> >
> >Ciaokka!
> >
> >Markus
> >PS there does not seem any movement on the follow-up project so I'd
> like
> >some progress on that from others - scope, theme and amount we want to
> >get are particulalry important for me to do follow-up.
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