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

• we are booking 16 rooms

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

(Jost to check and adjust!)

QUESTIONS

- should we have a quota on women (one third) to make sure of fair representation ? yes, we should aim for 1/3

- should we have a maximum on westerners, say one third (to avoid over-representation)yes, but we can try to put Jost and/or me as host off the list if we are running short as we are already 4 from CSG and hbs

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 (5? Do you count , 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

NDS is an exemplary global cooperation from citizen scientist and farmers around agriculture

• Jose Ramos, Peer Productions documentary, based in Singapore during that weekend ***

JR is the author of a really interesting PhD thesis on the nine worldviews underlying the alterglobalisation movement, very commons oriented, and initiator of a coop for documentary film-making. He also proposes, if possible, a filming of the event for $1,600

• 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 ***

Well-known digital activist from China. Share

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• Mr. Luo Shihong,Guizhou** , around 40, speaks very good English, pretty independent NGO activist affiliated with

Chengdu Shuguang Community Development Capacity Building Center which is supported by Ford Foundation, his email: gzexplor@gmail.com

we would then have a digital and a natural recource commoner from China

India

• prof. from UNEP, name? it was: Ramaswamy Sudarshan**

gave a remarkable speech in Bkk last year

• Jagdeesh Rao FES OR sbd. else from FES (a women?) ** ask David (I suggest a conversation with Jagdeesh --David)

FES is a prominent commons org in India

• Soma Parthasarthy***: New Delhi woman and commons scholar who studies women and subsistence commons

because we need to strenghten female representation

• Shiv Visvanathan***, wrote excellent piece on known commons in Common Voices journal

crucial magazine with commons insights in India

• Prabir Purkayasha Prabkant, People's Science Network Forum**

• Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore** (or Prashant Iyengar, who attended Crottorf?)

crucial networker

• Frederick Noronha, Goa, Bytes4All

• Vinod Raina, People's Science and Democracy Forum***

• Sunita Narain * (has a brilliant mind when it comes to thinking)

MORE WOMEN?? sbd. related to Vandana Shiva's group?? There is lots of suggestions from India, we need probably to choose?

Indonesia

Hendro Sangkoyo***, School of Democratic Economics, hendro.sangkoyo@gmail.com ; he came higly recommended from Larry Lohmann who I met again in Rio recently , not much in the net on him, check this: http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/199

New Zealand

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

Malayisa

Anwar Fazal vom Right Livelihood College aus Penang; wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Fazal ; his email: <anwar.fazal@yahoo.com shall I check in my artist community about a digital commoner in Malaysia, there must be some...???

Myanmar

Mister Win Myo Thu, EcoDev, works among others on collective forestry, winmyothu@gmail.com

Miss Pyi Pyi Thant, hbs alumni, lives and works in Bangkok, did economics of sustainability, she is young and a good brain with local experience we can also check via Nwet Kay Khine, also hbs Alumni and our local affiliate in Yangon to the Bangkok office to suggest names.

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*

• Marina Durano**, Development Alternatives with Women for a new Era; a feminist economist who could bring in the link to care economy and its potential to be organised through commons based approaches instead of market based pricing as it starts being the case here in Germany, just contacted her through facebook to find out about her whereabouts... in 2008 I worked with her as course leader for the Asia Summer school in Manila on Engendering Macroeconomics, she previously worked with UNIFEM, but returned to Miriam College in Summer 2008, here a link to her CV: http://www.wide-network.ch/en/activities/wide_conference_2009/speakers/speakers_day_3.php

She has a feminist approach but is not necesarily familiar with commons based economics, she chould quicky learn this though

Singapore

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

Thailand

• Prof. Surat Hongla?? Chulalongkorn Uni.**, Jost should have the address through Pui or Wanan
• Prof. Anan Ganjanapan**, Regional Center for Sustainable Development, Sopida had given you this contact some time ago for your CNX contacts, his address: anan.g@cmu.ac.th
• Nicolas Mendoza, Colombian, based in Chiang Mai, undertakes research on Buddhist Eonomics from commons perspective 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 *** (For Jost: see my text on the debate with Steiner in Rio where Pablo challenged him strongly on boell.de in the Rio plus 20 section)

Vietnam

• Thomas Leif Olsen, works on Mirror Democracy project, also based in Hua Hin ***
• Madame Luong Thi Truong* <lt.truong@csdm.vn of Center for sustainable development of mountain regions (she is ethnic Dai), for her affiliation see: http://www.csdm.vn/home/index.php?lang=eng and here: http://www.csdm.vn/home/index.php?lang=eng

so clearly IP representative from the region...

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, we have Sulak Sivaraksa in Thailand, but he might be too old, not sure, Pracha
• Charles Eisenstein, USA

Organizers and assistants

Heike deleted Nancy´s address, this must have been a mistake, she is her G20 affiliate in the DC office and nothing to do with this one, she would help organise a book launch with David in DC though... need to consult with Jost, we should put up Pui´s name here as communication point for travel arrangements and other logistic communication