Interesting Times Indeed
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We’re taking all of the fish out of oceans
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112 species of amphibians have become extinct since 1980
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We’re cutting down all the forests
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Climate change / Global warming
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Simultaneous food crises / Poor get poorer
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Worldwide depression epidemic
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Financial systems are melting
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More nuclear weapons
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Ethnic cleansing
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New forms of slavery
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World wide rise in Religious Fundamentalism
Interesting Times Indeed
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United Nations
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More countries are democratic
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The Internet
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Global collaboration
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Non-profit organizations, etc.
Civic Intelligence is the name I use
for what it would take
(And different authors have different names for similar ideas)
People Can Be Intelligent
How to Describe What’s Needed?
Looking for a concept or orientation that describes the important work that’s being done as well as the important work that needs to be done.
NOT Civic Intelligence
Some Examples
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Friends of Nature
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EcoMoms
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WikiLeaks
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Anti-Invasion Vigils
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Sustainable Seattle
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Tactics against Torture
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Liberating Voices
Friends of Nature, Beijing
EcoMoms
Worldwide Protests Against Invasion of Iraq
Sustainable Seattle
New Tactics for Human Rights
Liberating Voices
Descriptive Model of Civic Intelligence (1)
Functional Model of Civic Intelligence
Patterns for East St. Louis Projects
(My) (Our?) Next Steps
Civic Intelligence as a Civic Intelligence Project
Finishing up an 8-year Civic Intelligence project (Liberating Voices Pattern Language online system & book).
Sabbatical soon (June 2008 - March 2009)
Case studies and support for people working on civic intelligence projects (whether they use the term or not).
Education projects: Syllabus, curricular design, integrated, multi-disciplinary research
Shared repository, augmented patterns
Workshops and other events
Liberating Voices
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Motivation
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Status
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What’s a pattern? What’s a pattern language?
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Examples