Asia Commons Deep Dive

Draft list of proposed names for a regional preparatory workshop for a conference on commons-oriented economics.

Context via Proposal for a Conference on Commons-Oriented Economics

thanks for putting from 1 to 3 stars next to each name according to priority.

What Do We Need To Do

• Agree on names / first batch of 10 by wednesday, June 3

• send out first invitation, send 'save the date' letter, by June 6

• ask for more recommendations

• decide on second batch by June 13

• were booking 16 rooms

• budget via https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhaYViL59NNLdDI4SzFCM1RRRWZ6X2QwamlXcF9rOVE#gid=0

QUESTIONS

- should we have a quota on women (one third) to make sure of fair representation ?

- should we have a maximum on westerners, say one third (to avoid over-representation)

The Room and Date

Venue: Office of Heinrich Böll Stiftung Bangkok Hotel: Salil Hotel, Thonglor 1, near BTS Thonlor Maximum of people is 20, to sit comfortable, including five of us staff members, which means 15 people to invite.

Date: 13. and 14.10.2012 Arrival of participants during 12.10. to have a welcome dinner to together Departure on 14. or 15.10. depending on flights

Proposed names

Australia

• Tasmanian founder of Nutrient Dense Project
• Jose Ramos, Peer Productions documentary, based in Singapore during that weekend ***
• Brian Fitzgerald, Creative Commons, Australia

Bhutan

• ask via Hans van Willewaard GNH movement

should be sbd from the Centre for Bhutan Studies; but perhaps not necessarily Dasho Karma Ura but sbd. younger / Gross National Happiness

China

• Isaac Mao, Sharism ***
• ask Isaac and Richard Hames for reco's

India

• prof. from UNEP, name? it was: Ramaswamy Sudarshan**
• Jagdeesh Rao FES OR sbd. else from FES (a women?) ** ask David (I suggest a conversation with Jagdeesh --David)
• Soma Parthasarthy: New Delhi woman and commons scholar who studies women and subsistence commons
• Shiv Visvanathan, wrote excellent piece on known commons in Common Voices journal
• authors from Common Voices journal ***
• Prabir Purkayasha Prabkant, People's Science Network Forum**
• Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore** (or Prashant Iyengar, who attended Crottorf?)
• Frederick Noronha, Goa, Bytes4All
• Vinod Raina, People's Science and Democracy Forum***
• Kavaljit Singh, Public Interest Research Centre, India .... does anybody know him? hbs worked with him in the past and the India office still, but I do not know if he worked on the commons issue.
• Sunita Narain *

MORE WOMEN?? sbd. related to Vandana Shiva's group??

New Zealand

• Sophie Jerram, artist works on energy/commons nexus ***
• Prue Taylor, legal scholar, specialized on Common Heritage of Mankind; prue.taylor@auckland.ac.nz *

Philippines

1. Roberto Verzola: works specifically around the Commons, and the abundance/scarcity/sufficiency angle***
2. Nina Ramirez: phillipino social-christian activist, works with local communities and created integrated education for grassroots leaders*
3. Nicolas Perlas: theory of 3 forces*

Singapore

1. Michael Heng, michael.heng@energycorp-global.com ("Sustainability consulting and value integrator for renewal energy". [1]

Thailand

• Prof. Surat . Chulalongkorn Uni.**
• Nicolas Mendoza, Colombian, based in Chiang Mai, undertakes research on buddhism economics from commons pov for Hong Kong uni***
• Richard Hames, Asian Foresight Institute ***
• Pablo Solon Why the Green Economy is a wrong path to restore the equilibrium with nature and what alternatives do we have?: ex-UN-Embassador of Bolivia and now (again) working within civil society. Executive director of Focus on the Global South in Bangkok; contact: <pablosolon@gmail.com> ; bridges commons and Mother Earth debate **

Vietnam

• Thomas Leif Olsen, works on Mirror Democracy project, also based in Hua Hin ***

Miscellaneous

• Asia Commons conference participants?

I suggest: Takayoshi Kusago, Kansai University, Japan - I am not sure ...

• Liz Alden Wily, Kenya ? ** yes, would be great, depends on where she currently is ... might be also interesting for the European deep dive

• check Right Livelihood Award winners
• Charles Eisenstein, USA

Organizers and assistants

• Nancy Alexander <Nancy.Alexander@us.boell.org>