where did collaboration cafe movements come from

[chris macrae]

GB : Back in Europe by 1999 the peoples wishes for millennium goals in terms of creative freedoms at the human entrepreneurial level of productive livelihood opportunities- were evidently missing in the investment policies and vested interest macroeconomic frameworks of brussels. Open space movement hosted larges gatherings (up to 5000) people - a process with more innovation but less constitutional change power to the world social forums started out of Brazil's Porto Allegre. (Why note vote for Bula as a top 100 job creator for all his red eye trips between WSF and World Economic Forum) YunusCity

Three halves of the world's populace with less than 10% of voice over their futures isnt what borderless democracy needs if our human capitals and nature's wholeplanet capital are to sustain each other

Open Spaces(since 1984) had been designed around 3 day summits where reconciliation takes place on day 1 before collaborative innovation is trusted by participants on days 2 and 3. The process of collaboration cafe emerged from what can we do in an khour and with a maximum of 10 people who have invited - dont come unless you are passionate to be  disciple of this grassroots method that is already replicating -joyfully and sustainability across communities in another hemisphere. Then a funny thing happened on the way to virtual forums. The EU opened up knowledgeboard- at its peak the most open virtual forum ever internetted. Collaboration cafe events were hosted all across European capitaks and beyond since the method is as humanly common as drinking coffee or whatever is your places favorite legal tipple of all ages. . Cafes also becam the natural space to open source editing of good labs and good hubs guides - that these were open to every innovator to diarise was somewhat more urgently important than the way red and green michelin guides developp their vaut le voyage ratings