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=The First Ten=
=The First Ten=


Batch of names to decide before this Friday.
List compiled by Heike:


1) [[Roberto  Verzola]], Philippine economist, agri-activist, green party, studies abundance/scarcity issues and has a particular focus on both natural and digital commons; I (mb), consider him as one of the foremost global thinkers on this issue.
==3 stars==


2) [[Isaac Mao]], sharing and digital commons activist in China, well-known internationally
Heikes and Michels 3 star candidates: Number 1-5
1) Roberto Verzola, Philippine economist, agri-activist, green party,
studies abundance/scarcity issues and has a particular focus on both
natural and digital commons; we consider him as one of the
foremost global thinkers on this issue.


3) 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
2) Isaac Mao, sharing and digital commons activist in China,
well-known internationally


4) Soma Parthasarthy***: New Delhi woman and commons scholar who studies women and subsistence commons
3) Mr. Luo Shihong,Guizhou , around 40, speaks very good English,
because we need to strenghten female representation
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
4) Pablo Solon, Exec. Dir. of Focus on the Global South, from Bangkok
   
5) Surat H. from Chulalongkorn University (he is three star only as it is extremely hard to find ppl familiar with the discourse in Thailand; Michel tries to arrange a talk with Anan G. from RCSD or with Attachak to find out for himself whether or not to involve one of them, but he can also leave it if we want to stick with Surat as only one person from Thailand, Jost should say something about his take on it.)


5) Shiv Visvanathan***, wrote excellent piece on known commons in Common Voices journal
crucial magazine with commons insights in India


6) Pablo Solon, Exec. Dir. of Focus on the Global South, from Bangkok
==Two Stars==
Heikes and Michels two star candidates, where particularly regarding India we have four or even five strong candidates (Ragdeesh will also feedback to David); 6) and 7) got a high rating from David, whereas Silke finds Raina and Prabir a must, I personally dont know about Raina, except for his article, Prabir (if we speak about the same person) is not only a political activist and thinker, but also a cartoonist
6) Soma Parthasartha: New Delhi woman and commons scholar who
studies women and subsistence commons because we need to strenghten
female representation


7) Marina Durano**,marina.durano@gmail.com ; 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
7 ) Shiv Visvanathan, wrote excellent piece on known commons in
Common Voices journal crucial magazine with commons insights in India
8) Vinod Raina
9) Prabir
10) Marina Durano, feminist economist, good brain, but not familiar with the discourse, but I am sure she can get into it fast...and we need somebody like her
11) Nina Ramirez: Michel met her at PASS, she's a philippino catholic social movement activist working with fishermen and created a wonderful integrated curriculum for engaged social change activists
Marina and Nina are both from the Philippines and would bring in very different experiences.
It really depends what we want, we have two Philip. women here, We could consult Roberto, not sure he knows Marina, but he likely knows Nina or at least of one or even both of them
12)  Prue Taylor is indisputably a good choice, but she does not stand for an "Asian" discourse, she could be invited to any of the Deep Dives, though she belongs to the Asia Pacific Region


8) 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. ; pyipyithant83@gmail.com
13) Jose Ramos is an Australian, but will be in Singapore at the time of the meeting; wrote a PhD on the nine schools of thought in the alterglobalization movement; is preparing a global documentary on commoners; is very specifically thinking about the connections between social change and p2p/commons issues


9) Chandra Nair, HongKong-Singapore, critique of asian consumptionism
14) Chandran Nair, Global Institute For Tomorrow, Think Tank, that combines entrepreneurial thinking with social engagement. in 2011 he published Consumptionomics: Asia's Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet


10) Prof. Surat Hongla?? Chulalongkorn Uni.**/**, Jost should have the address through Pui or Wanan
15) Ramaswamy Sudarshan, the UNDP guy from the BKK conference, Silke and Michel found him to be an interesting contributor, he should not go under India, but under UNDP or international organisations


=One STAR=
16) someone from Myanmar, as discourse carrier, I personally think that Pyi Pyi Thant has the intellectual capacity to "get" into it quickly, particularly if she starts reading in the book, but lets wait what Kay in Yangon will reply to Jost , alternatively, Kay herself if we think of a discourse carrier
17) 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
WE DID ACTUALLY NOT DISCUSS ON HENDRO AS THERE IS NOT MUCH INFORMATION IN THE NET; IF WE WANT INDONESIA; THEN IT IS HIM; BUT THEN IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO BRING FOUR INDIANS; AND WE SHOULD ALSO NOT LOOSE A FEMALE CANDIDATE;
18) Heike was to still get recommendations from Malaysia, shall she or not? The Boat seems to be filling up.
19) Nicolas Mendoza, Colombian, based in Chiang Mai, undertakes research on Buddhist Eonomics from commons perspective for Hong Kong Uni, does he go as organising team? We are five (Michel, David, Nicolas, Jost and Heike); Pui does not count as she does not sit in the meeting, but is organizing staff
20) Nicolas Perlas, three forces, Philippines (Heike: looks pretty mainstream to me, local politics orientation, but not commons based approach). Check with Roberto if need be, he should know.


==Personal favorites==
==Personal favorites==

Revision as of 04:06, 4 July 2012

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

(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/ I agree as well

- 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; I agree - hbf and CSG are in a certain way out of the normal count

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

Departure HAS TO BE ON october 15, you cannot get into in-depth conversation with a new group if you have only one and a half day to work!!!


The First Ten

List compiled by Heike:

3 stars

Heikes and Michels 3 star candidates: Number 1-5

1) Roberto Verzola, Philippine economist, agri-activist, green party, studies abundance/scarcity issues and has a particular focus on both natural and digital commons; we consider him as one of the foremost global thinkers on this issue.

2) Isaac Mao, sharing and digital commons activist in China, well-known internationally

3) 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

4) Pablo Solon, Exec. Dir. of Focus on the Global South, from Bangkok

5) Surat H. from Chulalongkorn University (he is three star only as it is extremely hard to find ppl familiar with the discourse in Thailand; Michel tries to arrange a talk with Anan G. from RCSD or with Attachak to find out for himself whether or not to involve one of them, but he can also leave it if we want to stick with Surat as only one person from Thailand, Jost should say something about his take on it.)


Two Stars

Heikes and Michels two star candidates, where particularly regarding India we have four or even five strong candidates (Ragdeesh will also feedback to David); 6) and 7) got a high rating from David, whereas Silke finds Raina and Prabir a must, I personally dont know about Raina, except for his article, Prabir (if we speak about the same person) is not only a political activist and thinker, but also a cartoonist


6) Soma Parthasartha: New Delhi woman and commons scholar who studies women and subsistence commons because we need to strenghten female representation

7 ) Shiv Visvanathan, wrote excellent piece on known commons in Common Voices journal crucial magazine with commons insights in India

8) Vinod Raina

9) Prabir

10) Marina Durano, feminist economist, good brain, but not familiar with the discourse, but I am sure she can get into it fast...and we need somebody like her

11) Nina Ramirez: Michel met her at PASS, she's a philippino catholic social movement activist working with fishermen and created a wonderful integrated curriculum for engaged social change activists Marina and Nina are both from the Philippines and would bring in very different experiences.

It really depends what we want, we have two Philip. women here, We could consult Roberto, not sure he knows Marina, but he likely knows Nina or at least of one or even both of them

12) Prue Taylor is indisputably a good choice, but she does not stand for an "Asian" discourse, she could be invited to any of the Deep Dives, though she belongs to the Asia Pacific Region

13) Jose Ramos is an Australian, but will be in Singapore at the time of the meeting; wrote a PhD on the nine schools of thought in the alterglobalization movement; is preparing a global documentary on commoners; is very specifically thinking about the connections between social change and p2p/commons issues

14) Chandran Nair, Global Institute For Tomorrow, Think Tank, that combines entrepreneurial thinking with social engagement. in 2011 he published Consumptionomics: Asia's Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet

15) Ramaswamy Sudarshan, the UNDP guy from the BKK conference, Silke and Michel found him to be an interesting contributor, he should not go under India, but under UNDP or international organisations


One STAR

16) someone from Myanmar, as discourse carrier, I personally think that Pyi Pyi Thant has the intellectual capacity to "get" into it quickly, particularly if she starts reading in the book, but lets wait what Kay in Yangon will reply to Jost , alternatively, Kay herself if we think of a discourse carrier

17) 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 WE DID ACTUALLY NOT DISCUSS ON HENDRO AS THERE IS NOT MUCH INFORMATION IN THE NET; IF WE WANT INDONESIA; THEN IT IS HIM; BUT THEN IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO BRING FOUR INDIANS; AND WE SHOULD ALSO NOT LOOSE A FEMALE CANDIDATE;

18) Heike was to still get recommendations from Malaysia, shall she or not? The Boat seems to be filling up.

19) Nicolas Mendoza, Colombian, based in Chiang Mai, undertakes research on Buddhist Eonomics from commons perspective for Hong Kong Uni, does he go as organising team? We are five (Michel, David, Nicolas, Jost and Heike); Pui does not count as she does not sit in the meeting, but is organizing staff

20) Nicolas Perlas, three forces, Philippines (Heike: looks pretty mainstream to me, local politics orientation, but not commons based approach). Check with Roberto if need be, he should know.


Personal favorites

MB

  • Jose Ramos is an australian, but will be in Singapore at the time of the meeting; wrote an Phd on the nine schools of thought in the alterglobalization movement; is preparing a global documentary on commoners; is very specifically thinking about the connections between social change and p2p/commons issues
  • Nina Ramirez: I met her at PASS, she's a philippino catholic social movement activist working with fishermen and created a wonderful integrated curriculum for engaged social change activists

Introductory Letter

  • ask them to read 3 essays: 1) the introduction 2) ??? ; 3) a digital essay
  • look for Crottorf letter as example

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

  • Yang Fuquan von der Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences - Naxi from Lijiang... he is a cultural anthropoligist; email: <yfuquan@hotmail.com

India

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

gave a remarkable speech in Bkk last year, I tried to find out if he is still with UNDP but could not yet find the information.


  • 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?)
  • 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

Malayisa

  • write to Martin Khor, for advice on right Malaysian
  • Balai Pillai, check him out

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.

I have asked Nwet Kay Khine today, she will come up with suggestions in the following days.

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**,marina.durano@gmail.com ; 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]
  • Chandran Nair, Singapore, anti-consumption economy in Asia

Thailand

  • Prof. Surat Hongla?? Chulalongkorn Uni.**/**, Jost should have the address through Pui or Wanan> Surat Horachaikul: surat.h@chula.ac.th or surat247@hotmail.com
  • michel MEET WITH 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

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

Assistant for logistics is Pui from the hbs offic in Bangkok: Suthisa.Pee-artit@th.boell.org

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