The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution › About Vinay Gupta Head over to Re.silience.com. It’s a much better starting point than here! Click through to Re.silience.com. (if you are interested in my professional work, try here) I am trying to keep you alive. There are lots of threats which governments are either ignoring or causing. Nuclear war, bioweapons, even plain old conflict are driven by resource scarcity. A likely response to increasing resource scarcity (manifest as economic problems and rising prices) is centralization of power (fascism). Finding better solutions than centralization and war is my life’s work. To this end I’ve worked extensively with government, the military, some large companies and think-tanks – but most of all with the Free and open source community – to solve real problems. Click here if your browser doesn’t support HTML5 video This video me in action at Surviving the Event. Here is a visual index of my activities. If you are professionally interested in my work, read on. You may find my perspective useful in three areas:
Principles of Engagement Broad principles underpin engagement and a practical knowledge and adaptation of these will increase the effectiveness of your engagement activities. In a review of existing literature and theory, Petts and Leach1 developed a list of engagement principles which includes: a need for clarity of objectives, and of legal, linked and seamless processes consensus on agenda, procedures and effectiveness representativeness and inclusiveness deliberation capability and social learning decision responsiveness transparency and enhancement of trust.Additional principles that apply to the relationship between stakeholders and the organisation implementing the engagement are: A commitment to reciprocity that includes stating what you require of the community, and delivery of what you will provide in exchange. Establish what you are promising as part of the engagement process.
Crowdinvest Microfinance and Microcredit Investment | Microcapital.org The Causemopolitan - Cause-Filled Living Social Work Action Network POCLAD - Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy 15 Shocking Poverty Statistics That Are Skyrocketing As The American Middle Class Continues To Be Slowly Wiped Out The "America" that so many of us have taken for granted for so many decades is literally disintegrating right in front of our eyes. Most Americans are still operating under the delusion that the United States will always be "the wealthiest nation" in the world and that our economy will always produce large numbers of high paying jobs and that the U.S. will always have a very large middle class. But that is not what is happening. The very foundations of the U.S. economy have rotted away and we now find ourselves on the verge of an economic collapse. On the mainstream news, the American people are treated to endless footage of leaders from both political parties proclaiming that the primary reason that we are in the midst of such an economic mess is because of what the other political party has done. Republicans proclaim that we are experiencing all of this economic chaos because of the Democrats. But do you really want to know who is to blame for our economic problems? Both of them.