Reading List- Noah Millman on ratings agencies
- Willem Buiter: Can the US economy afford a Keynesian stimulus?
- Make Architects' zero carbon scheme for Greenwich goes to planning - Building Design
- Michael Lewis - The End of the Financial World as We Know It
- Interview: She's home from jail, but Lynndie England can't escape Abu Ghraib - The Guardian
- Microfinance’s ‘iron law’ – local economies reduced to poverty
- Consideration of Future Consequences
- Wikileaks Posts Secret Bomb-Stopper Report — Did It Go Too Far?
- Black on Murdoch
- China Fears Restive Migrants As Jobs Disappear in Cities - WSJ.com
- Predictions for 2009: we count our chickens before they're hatched. Literally. - January 3rd, 2009
- Georgia: the EU's in the dark - December 13th, 2008
- Look, it's really not easy being a pirate, don't make it any harder... - December 9th, 2008
- "24" rings death-knell for UN peacekeeping - November 25th, 2008
- Old-fashioned nonsensical spy drama! - November 25th, 2008
- Gordon’s growing international credibility
- The superclass
- Who leaks?
- Is international trade next to seize up?
- What Global Dashboard has to learn from one of the most terrifying thinkers ever: a tribute to Herman Kahn
New mechanism for international dialogue: Hoff Space
August 20, 2008 | Richard Gowan | More on Communication, Influence, Leadership, Networks, Off topic |
It’s a cliché that our networked, wired world suffers from a dearth of true leaders - visionaries who know how to use new technologies to build virtual communities on a truly global scale. Leaders, in short, who can say this:
In my travels round the world I have always been surprised that no matter where I go people recognize and know me, from Europe, Australia and India to the Philippines and the Zulu Nation in South Africa. This got me thinking… I realized that while two people from two entirely different countries and backgrounds may seem to have nothing in common, the only thing they might have in common is me… So I decided to start a network where people from across the world might come together and get a conversation started over me. Where it will lead, I don’t know but the world would be a better place if everyone talked a little more to each other…
Yes, the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall is back in the planetary political game. Welcome to Hoff Space.
