A is for social Action teamworking

The greatest social action team I have ever heard of began in 1976 in Chittagong and then Dhaka - four people worked for a few years to design rural banking for the very poorest what the world now calls microcredit- this has compounded over a third of a century networks linking into the safest banking ystems known to man, and the only sustainable investment ones

queries - mail info@worldcitizen.tv , washington dc yes we can bureau 301 881 1655

C Future Capitalism (FC) as a leadership strategy is the connecting of partnerships between world's most resourced organisation and world's deepest grassroots network serving life critical need- governed by social business auditing they aim to innovate the most responsible case a global industry sector has ever served and helped replicate locally. the media implications of this are extraordinary - think about it.in the first year of FC"s hi-trust innovation in leadership about 20 worldwide future capitalism partnerships have started up and provide the most exciting stories for journalists of above zero sum economics

INVITATION TO DR YUNUS 69th Birthday Party with the 1976 Social Action Team, 29 June 2009, Dhaka
if you are a student or help students with social action networks, OR yes we can green america or anywhere not yet green then please know that Nobel Peace laureate is hosting a day after 69th birthday party in Dhaka to connect anyone whose peer networks want to collaborate and compete to be the social action team that develops the most replicable francise for ending poverty ever seen in our mobile age - when dr yunus and his team built their first 100,000 community centres round microcredit and 60 village women microentrepreneurs per centre - there was no mobile no internet. It was 20 years later in 1996 that they started using mobile connectivity and helped make Bangladesh the world number 1 partner in mobiling for the poor. Obviously if they were starting to design microcredit today an even more heroic benchmark for social business networking's jewel in the crown is possible.

Our transparency communities and associates are the original home of the million people web - how do we network a million people's common concern for a global injustice, so that once a million have signed up we pledge simultaneously to try as hard as we can to change something that we vote for everyday anyhow (eg which if 2 brands we buy)

The idea piloted well but the first individuals behind this idea didnt have the funds or the technological with to scale up the administration. So what we are doing is to relay the idea to those who do Firstly you can enact simultaneous policy for all our world's humanity HERE at simpol

Secondly, we are getting behind one big humanity crusade a year - to see if a million people's success with one change theme can relay across themes from year to year- until summer 2005 the theme is everyone's rights to water (especially the billion who currently have none and the irresponsible global corporation policies that are spinning this worse - if the Coca-Cola's and Nestle's and other companies profiting from water-based markets are prepared to be judged openly by experts on their impacts on the billion without water- let them say so as one collaborative industry that knows the real costs of water everywhere better than politicians, societies, peoples). Otherwise, we infer that the world's largest liquid companies are part of the humanitarian problem on water, and their consumers should be more caring and sparing in choosing brands from these companies -please bear this reality first before other social image choices. Why would your family -and all its cares for - want to identify with a brand that is actually competing for water sources the poorest billion in the world need first?

If you are part of a web or network that supports Humanity of Water 04/05 -tell us what bookmark to list here.

2009 update on exponentials destruction of hi-trust, sustainability and transparency - all the dynamics that communications need over time for anyine to lead anything that improves prospects for next generation

1989 - our first book warned of billion dollar implosions of brand early in the millennium we case studied 10 billion corporate destructions- providing years of advance notice to those who took our advice

since 2008 we have been most concerned to prevent trillion dollar meltdowns at global market sector levels -notoriously banking and insurance and the global mba-professions - hence our new web trilliondollaraudit.com

Why not email us to start clarifying which 10 billion dollar mapping application interests you most:

• societal ones ranging from what the world's largest publicly owned tv medium would do if truly loved human communications to forward-looking schools curricula to connecting the rights of a billion people currently without freshwater
• auditing the trust-flows of global corporations in the minimum way that ensures no more vanishing acts of leadership - eg Andersen, Enron, Worldcom & 50 others in our riskbank
• systemising open source design of the next greatest entrepreneurial innovation so that only who network energy around it gain from transparent participation

30000 project reference km15/30

Here's an early experiment concerned with mobilising a million people to act for a cause. We've learnt a lot in the last 2 years. Why not share your knowhow with us if you have a humanitarian network that plans to act with a million voices?

As a consumer, we sign this pledge that once a million people have joined up at this and affiliated web registers, we'll try as hard as we can not to consume from any global company which is prepared to spend over $250 million a year on advertising but not to allocate 10 per cent of this to promoting a (poor) world responsibility collaboration project.

SIGN UP HERE

A concept example of a world collaboration project is clean drinking water for the world's six billion people, click to EU Water Angels
If you want to know more about how/why we decided on this, web expert David Weinberger has set up a discussion area _____________________________________

Signees: Norman Macrae, CBE; Thomas Power,ecademy network founder; Chris Macrae, David Weinberger, John Caswell, Phil Dwyer, Jack Yan, ,Steven Howard,Dr M Painter-Morland(SA), Sicco van Gelder (NL), Greta Thomas (Aus), Helen Baxter(NZ), Freyja(NZ), Matthew McCulley(USA), Hernani Dimantas, Laura Guimarães (Br), Kate Larsen, Dorothea Gosling, Angus.M., Chris Klopper(SA), Ben Koot (Nl), Kirsten McSwein, Julian Bond(UK), Kathi Huber (USA) ...

Families: The Lesters (Tanya, Paris, Myra, Robert) Aus; The Jensens, USA; ...

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Supporters comments include:
Using everyone's peer to peer networks I'm sure we can get to a million people quite quickly. I'm one of the 'CFC Generation' the ones who were taught that CFCs were killing the ozone layer and by refusing to buy products with CFC's in we stopped their production almost overnight. Not enough people realise the power they have in their pockets but that's a perfect example of how not spending on certain products can help on a global scale

this is something that's worth doing in a big way...much more than you display here...Here's my own offer of help: I can help write the text; that's how I make my living. I can help get this thing hosted on its own url. I can find people who'll do a scalable, easy signup-and-tracking mechanism. I can help publicize it. I can help find other people who are willing to donate their time and expertise.

We cannot rely on political and government bodies to fix the problems of the world, even though the world today needs a \"Marshall Plan\" to fight global hunger and to protect the earth's environment. Perhaps this initiative just might get enough corporations, and shareholders, engaged in helping those who desparately need help.

If we expect our free market and our global society to work - given the opposite to this is a regulated economy and closed sovereign states - then we, as consumers, need to prove it. It isn't done by being suckered into the next big marketing gimmick without considering the type of firm(s) behind it. It is done by real action - and pledging to support our fellow world citizens is the right way to go.

So, we in Brazil live in a third world country. We cannot develop without the approval of more powerful countries. Our dependence on credit lines from international banks seems like a marked cards game. We need more transparency in collaboration efforts to balance and democratize the investment flux to the poor world
DISCUSS

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Sister Site : S. Hemisphere If you want to join as a pledge collector, please email me, Chris Macrae

These are Big Responsibility/Reconciliation spaces for human common sense where we believe we keep most closely in touch of breaking news on calendars of activities. To check the latest on any of these, email it in subject title

Harrison Owen's www.practiceofpeace.com - supported by thousands of alumni in 80 countries
Paul Komesaroff's collapsing world supported by over 200 NGOs, 4 Nobel Laureates and others of deeply expert humanitarian passion- front page news here --World Youth Movements of The Global Reconciliation Network --Purposes of London's St Ethelburga's Church for reconciling religious conflicts (itself once blown up by the IRA)

We also rely wholly on you sharing local connections of equal human depth. email us We also rely on your feedback in acting as one open source synndicator for raw information around which to plot Social Network Maps on the 50 Biggest Humanitarian Issues.

click flag-map if you want updating and linking ppt version of the 10 Billion $ Network's fit with advancing an open networking world of leadership where zero sum economics and less-than-inspired globalisation battles are consigned to history books.

Inter-disciplinary leadership networks are a devil to find the simplest common language for - please ask any questions that might help you participate in 10 Billion $ Network

We're cataloguing names of coordinators of youth movements for peace around the world -please email us info

VALUEtrue=Productivities (Know) * Demands (Value)=K1*K2*K3*K4*K5*V1*V2*V3*V4*V5

This model is the simplest way to predict whether the whole value of any organisation is going up or down. Click any link to understand systemically how people value the ways their trust, time and other resources will be spent when choosing a purposeful relationship with an organisation. Ask for advance news of clicks

The 10 Billion Dollar Audit Trust

Could the human relationship decisions your organisation systemise over the next 5 years have an upside/downside of 10 billion dollars? For example, you may be global 5000 CEO or a policy maker for the social/human capital for a nation, or responsible for the safety of a mass transformation system or developing the network or media technology on which hundreds of companies strategies are interdependent.

Mathematicians have made an interesting discovery concerning the open sustainability of corporate governance. The transactional measures of global accounting have an unfortunate side-effect. This erodes the value multipliers of a company’s human relationship structure over time by failing to detect conflicting interests and then compounding their dynamics. In truth, the systemic valuation of relationships used to be wholly respected by identification with goodwill, until specialist business cases got divided up by spreadsheet algorithms that claimed to separate out particular intangible assets. Today, disaster reports on organisations that humans depended most on safety such as NASA, railways, nuclear are using phrases like weak management culture. What they actually mean is loss of systemic measurements that sustain a company’s primary human purpose.

A while back, the networking nature of global 5000 corporations meant that they passed across the barrier of being valued mainly according to historical transactions to being valued mainly for their unique trust-flow gravities in compounding relationship multipliers of productivity and demands. Over a 5-year period, the differential of governing only by transactional performance metrics compared with incorporating system governance by the value multipliers which compound trust-flow exceeds 10 billion dollars for each global 5000 firm.
Spaces where management can regularly cross-examine the 10 billion dollar audit:

• Breakthrough Uni Alumni Open Spaces
• Eurofocus Webcasts

• the mathematical maps open sourced by valuetrue which coordinate the dynamics of value multipication as well as ensuring conflict detection and resolution at every audit period
• interfacing methods-sample of open catalogue here- for investing in the human relationship quality of an organisational system above machine-age prioritisation
• deep contextual understanding that usually comes from an organisation enjoying the most intimate trust with stakeholders and surrounding societies, especially those which are most capably networked around deep human concerns

Take the 10-slide tour: 1 2 3 4

Research shows that in service, knowledge and globally networked markets, businesses can only systematically sustain growth over time if they promote trust and joy of focus. These two human capital flows impact far more value over time than financial capital alone can, but most critically of all: financial metrics of performance are now provable to be the worst possible maths for cultivating these relationship drivers. Specifically transactional accounting, ruling in the absence of transparency measures, is the perfect maths for compounding conflicts between stakeholders over time. Sildes:

• 1 What Measurement Designs
• 2 The irresponsibility of ruling only by accounting's transactional metrics
• 3 Valuing trust-flow is only difficult if you can't let go of control by numbers
• 4 If joy of learning to make a difference sustains human productivity, why don't we design organisations that way?

Tangible accounting’s primary assumption of numerical precision is based on separability, whereas relationship value is primarily interacted by connectivity. The risks of over-control by old numbers increase as environments change rapidly or as people under high and separate pressures to perform hide errors or fail to share the most crucial question on which behavioural learning depends in healthy human systems. Our databank reveals over 100 cases of organisational meltdowns in the last 3 years ranging from NASA’s safety-conflicted culture to Andersen’s socially-devaluing one to National power-grids that are too brittle to network to retailers who turn their suppliers against them to dotcoms that needed far more communal partnering capabilities. 5 meltdown slide

Trust is needed at interpersonal levels of networking such as sharing knowledge or making investment decisions that are strategically robust because they have connected enough people in adaptability as well as uniquely grounded competences. Joy of focus is needed to make the most of any expert, and probably of any human being whose innovation or commitment you care to have serving the organisation. 6 networking 7 open space

Openly cataloguing the system methods that restore and sustain trust and joy is amongst the most exciting human work that organisational designers, facilitators, mentors and people who value human society can do. We invite you to join in this open source initiative classifying methods by the 10 greatest value multipliers that human system mappers use to ensure that the value dynamics of people relationships is communally purposeful over time and architected to ensure that no destructive conflicts compound at the interfaces between systems or networks. 8 catalogue 9 10 10 billion dollar audit

Further refs: 1...2...3...4

This may sound arcane but it effects everyone - next time you see a global corporate headquartered in America doing something evil - see if it was licensed in Delaware. A company goes to be licensed in Delaware to get the least responsible corporate licence of almost anywhere in the world and so that a few managers can ride over the votes of everyone else including the company's breadth of shareholders

My number 1 lead source on this is Marjorie Kelly, author of The Divine Right of Capital and 15 years into editing the journal and web of http://www.business-ethics.com . Marjorie believes that average CSR itself cannot be trusted to be systemic since even Enron was high on the Social Responsibility league tables - and she is staring a new movement Economic Democracy ( a CSRT 2.0 so to speak)

I have just got a flier in announcing a California protest meeting on this issue and speakers who appear to be on the democracy side include: Jamie Court Executive Director, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) Author - Corporateering: How Corporate Power StealsYour Personal Freedom and What You Can Do About It

Robert Benson Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Director, National Lawyers Guild Project HEED Author - Challenging Corporate Rule Co-Author with FTCR - California Corporate Three Strikes Act (S.B. 335)

Margaret Strubel Director The Oaks Project Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights

Ramona Ripston Executive Director American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California

------------------------- Further links we've noted on this theme but not followed up yet to check on currency:

• [1] Jane Anne Morris is a corporate anthropologist working on corporation issues as part of Democracy Unlimited of Wisconsin Cooperative. [Join them: 29 E. Wilson, Ste. 201, Madison WI 53703; phone (608) 255-6629; fax (608) 255-6643]. She is author of NOT IN MY BACK YARD: THE HANDBOOK (San Diego: Silvercat Publications [(888) 299-9119], 1994).

People's power over corporations.

1. We the people can demand that state legislatures, the most direct expression of the people's will, use their "reserved power" to revoke the charters of errant domestic corporations. (A domestic corporation is one chartered in that state.) The people of Delaware and a few other states with "easy" chartering policies would have a more exciting time than the rest of us here, since the overwhelming majority of offending (U.S) multinational corporations are chartered there.

2. In other states, citizens can demand that their attorneys general (or whatever agent is specified in their state laws and constitutions) revoke the permission of errant foreign corporations to do business in their state. (A foreign corporation is one chartered in another state in the U.S. Those chartered in other countries are called alien corporations.) Such actions have already been initiated against Weyerhaeuser, WMX (formerly Waste Management, Inc.), and CSX corporations. [8] (See REHW #455.)

** Annul "rights" given corporations by judge-made law. We can work for state constitutional amendments that underline corporations' status as subservient to the people and the legislatures, and assert that corporations are not legal constitutional "persons" and thus are not protected by the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution.

** Re-open corporate affairs to legislative scrutiny. At one time, all corporate records and affairs were open to legislatures or other designated state officials so that state governments, on behalf of the people, could monitor and evaluate corporate actions. We can reinstate such provisions in state corporation codes.

** Reinstate stockholder/owner control over corporate management and policy. For decades, concerned stockholders have attempted to curb some of the worst excesses of corporate policies, only to find their efforts thwarted by corporate management. We can modify states' corporation codes to return a modicum of control of corporations to their putative owners, the stockholders. Some basic provisions might include a) a one stockholder, one vote policy, b) prohibitions against issuing non-voting stock, c) removal of obstacles to stockholders' access to information, initiation of policies, and removal of unsatisfactory corporate management.

** Give state courts clear authority to hear all corporation cases. State courts, more sensitive to local needs and conditions and more accessible to citizens, once heard most corporation cases. During the last years of the nineteenth century, numerous unsuccessful attempts were made at the federal level to reinstate this practice. Both federal legislation and federal constitutional amendments were proposed. Either one would do the trick.

** Reinstate historic limits on corporations. State corporation codes and/or corporate charters can be amended to include provisions such as the following: a) Require corporations to have a specific purpose, with a penalty of charter revocation if said purpose is either not fulfilled or is exceeded. This would include a prohibition on the kind of "look how ethical we are!" advertising that currently dissipates stockholders' dollars and discombobulates public perceptions. b) Require a percentage of stockholders to live within the chartering state. c) Prohibit corporations from owning stock in other corporations. d) Issue corporate charters for only a specific term of existence, perhaps ten or twenty years. e) Limit real estate holdings to that necessary for corporate purposes. f) Prohibit any and all political donations by corporations. g) Prohibit all civic, charitable, or educational donations not specifically provided for in the corporate purpose. h) Impose strict liability for all corporate officers and/or stockholders.

The Million People Web is one example of an inspiring array of ideas we need for every human being to become actively social/responsible in transparent systems (ie ones built to commit to a social need in an economically sustainable way whilst priortising human being's discretionary energies towards others most in need of help)

We guess that the best ideas will come from ordinary people who care deeply about something they have experienced not governments or big businesses in ivory towers or Summiting. So please tell us your idea (rehearse it with us however creative as long as it has a transparent goal)

Example: Twin the world's richest cities and poorest rurals

So cities twin internationally but why don't the big cities twin with poor foreign rurals. Imagine if New York chose 10 foreign poverty areas to twin with. What a chance to exchange real understanding and plan social good. Now we are networked: wouldn't this be a simple (direct) way of developing information channels and projects for young New Yorkers with extra time on their hands to engage in. Imagine other cities ASPing similar experiences. And wouldn't this be one of the best ways of promoting the humanity of activism worldwide? Get to it you tourist boards and city governors. If you can twin with foreign cities, why wouldn't it do a world of good -and boost tourist feel-goods - to twin with poor foreign rurals?

Example: The 100 Biggest Risks/Responsibilities League Table & Matched Company Threads

I was at a risk association conference (Survive) where the keynote was made by a CEO who said companies cannot avoid risk this side of heaven. The system logic of this is that if you seek to be an industry (sector) leader you should work out what the biggest risk (aka responsibility) being in your industry (and having your people -their knowledge-networks - and core competences) should be about; ... become a centre of excellence for this risk, inviting even competitors to collaborate in it. He went as far as saying that savvy companies would present the biggest risk at annual shareholders meeting etc. Nicely putting a new conversational spin into the dynamic of what analysts chat about and what shareholders are proud of. I believe he is absolutely right. Indeed you could say that any company that thinks of itself as a leader that doen't promote and thus care to prevent its largest risk - or to proact collaboratively its greatest responsibility - brings the whole of business into disrepute and puts society in danger due its like of leadership ethics.

One day I think we should build a web - start with Fortune's 100 largest companies in world; have a thread discussion against each of what's its largest risk is and grade its standards on how well it systemises its responsibility. Very quickly companies valuation should go down until they did take responsibility

How would one popularise this? eg find a young people's magazine that serialised the 100 biggest risks? Tell us your popularisation suggestions to make the world a safer and more responsbility-collaborating place

If you'd like to propose a transparency definition, please email us . Contributors of selected definitions can choose whether they want to be contacted by those interested in their definition.

Whilst in 'A' space, refer to ACTIVISTS. Here we list current activist campaigns against those global brands which most of our transparency community feels have been too eager to promote themselves and not caring enough about a social responsibility. We are directly helping to form one of these - please see A Million People Web 2002 and choose if you would like to sign our pledge.

Other special spaces you may wish to visit are "T" Space where we register some of the world's biggest Transparency Collaborations and "Z" Space where you are invited to register as a friend of The Transparency Standards Community. One more experiment in one-world spirit: if as a foreign visitor you love a country, tell us briefly why ...you'll find country testimonies of love appearing with a pride of place in this glossary.

About Valuetrue.com and Million Person Web

HI-TRUST ENTREPENEURS URGENTLY CALL FOR MEDIA TRANSPARENCY
valuetrue.com was founded in 2002 to celebrate the 2nd annual meeting of medinge - this was a retreat for practitioners of global branding who believed that Naomi Klein was more correct than The Economist in the debate over whether global branding was compounding goodwill and trust all over the world, or hate and distrust including loss of responsibility and ultimately the end of human sustainability. When communicating truth becomes inconvenient amongst the majority of most powerful leaders of the world be they corporate, government, professional or in between, valuetrue economists go back to viewing the most productive and demanding videos ever made not image-ridden deviations from reality-making

Let us be clear The Economist, Naomi Klein and as far as I know everyone of 50 people I met at Medinge whilst I was co-host of this event understands that global brands are huge powers, greater than any power peoples have played with. So we understand that history shows that great power can be used to compound good or bad ends. The founding idea of valuetrue.com was to open both space and mapmaking sources for everyone who wanted to explore how can we connect transparency and media; if everyone connecting through powerful brands understood their future consequences as compound forward as exponential systems up or down, we could use all our roles as customers, communities, employers, societies as well as owners, pensioners to be, savers for a rainy day ! to ensure that the world's biggest brands compounded the most goodwill including human sustainability which in all past generations has been the number 1 valuation and need uniting our species as fitter emortonally and intelligently than any other nature has so far put in play. Morever, we can help you find a 207 year old school of living systems mapping inspired by Scots including some of my ancestors called entrepreneurial revolution - this shows that heathy empowered societies compound strong economic as well as human sustainability but not vice versa

MILLION PERSON WEB At our 2002 meeting, we agreed our first furtres projects would be to track any and every emergence of million people webs. By this we meant people connected by the net who were pledged to colaborate around some good that almost anyone in the world could indepently audit and agree as human. For example, wanting all our children to grow without dying or becoming addicted is as far as I know a simple good that every culture with any history can agree on without needing any evidence.

log 007 most exciting milion person web http://24weeks.com log up to 006 we haven't found any million person web that scaled and sustained though we have seen emerging tools such as http://pledgebank.org. And recently for the first time in many years, world class brands has been able to identify some brand systems such as grameen (see our tracking of this at http://grameen.tv) which unite hundreds of millions of peoples in sustainability investment

Historical Record: We thank others collaborated with million person web along the way-eg quicktopic dialogue area on million people webs that cluetrain co-editor David Weinberger helped us launch

May our gods love be with you, Chris Macrae 1 2 3 chris.macrae @yahoo.co.uk - also the elder one at facebook.com

A one hour cafe invites a roundtable of people to come and join in only if they are urgently concerned by the same specific challenge. Once you are at 12th grade as a cafe host, anyone famous for humanity visiting your town and relevant to your learning should be a target of your networks' and your own cafe hosting capability

It takes practice, but remember it also tests out how supportative all you co-mentoring peers and networks are. So its a practice that win-wins all around the network of 12th grader alumni

Here's an example: suppose I know the man who has done more across the South American continent than any other to share actions people can take to keep water clean and free as a human right, and that he's visiting London where my home networks happen to intersect. For example this man encouraged the Catholic Church to make 2004 the year of water in Brazil and animated water conversations through its 7000 local parishes. Or he can tell you how 80000 children of the river basins of Foz (the world's largest dam) are assembling the most interesting curriculum on water for every grade from 1 to 40!, its waves, its nature, how all health is sustained by its cleanliness, how its system knows no boundaries that men or nations set, how water networks! So I ask myself and my co-mentors and all the networks we link through who are the 10 people most interested in the future of water who might want to meet this man in a one hour cafe. We send them invitations. From those who do not reply, we find out may be they weren't that deeply interested anyhow. From those who say great but not at that hour, we say well let's connect you to our S.American friend by email. And among those who come to the cafe, we hope to find one projjevct that unites London as a premier knowledge collaboration city around the world and with Brazil in particular.

So that's what you can do if you practice 12th grade email and cafes. If this sounds interesting, I am always here to swap notes - chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

Transparent organisations openly strive to keep every promise they make. Transparency becomes the most valuable evolutionary driver of organisation wherever these system responsibility standards are truly governed and relentlessly mapped:

-A-relationship and social capital are defined in terms which include the right of everyone to open information access so that potential conflicts are detected instead of compounded

-B-community and trust values are integral responsibilities- defining leadership capabilities at society and environmental interfaces

-C-connectivity drives interpersonal productivity and innovation as well as the identity of global wellbeing. All can now be win-win amplified by humanly exciting knowledge spaces whose dynamic facilities range from interpersonal networks to the respect human beings pay to the integrity of global and local cultures

These are very new qualities for most people and companies to fully value. Consequently, our glossary aims to focus on reframing old managerial terms with newly transparent meanings.

HTML Helpcsramericas The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has primary responsibility for organizing the CSR Americas conference. The IDB's two major partners in this event are the Organization of American States (OAS) and the World Bank.

Other sponsoring organizations, such as the Government of Canada and U.S. based Inter-American Foundation, are actively collaborating in the organization of the event.

A Steering Committee of representatives of governments, multilateral agencies, foundations, and business networks and associations has been formed to provide advice and guidance for the conference. Members of the Steering Committee include, among others, the following organizations:

Acción Empresarial, Chile AliaRSE: CCE, COPARMEX, CEMEFI, USEM, IMPULSA, AVAL, Mexico Avina Foundation Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), USA Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Canada Consejo Empresario de América Latina (CEAL) Consejo Interamericano de Comercio y Producción (CICYP), Argentina Council of the Americas Forum EMPRESA, Brazil Fundación Corona, Colombia Fundación Empresa y Sociedad, Spain Fundación Empresarial para la Acción Social (FUNDEMAS), El Salvador Esquel Foundation, Ecuador Governments of Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico and the United States Government of Argentina (invited) Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social (ETHOS), Brazil Organization of American States (OAS) Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores, Paraguay Peru 2021, Peru Republic Bank, Ltd., Trinidad & Tobago Social Entreprise Knowledge Network, Harvard Business School The Gleaner Company, Jamaica The World Bank United Nations—Global Compact and Business Partnerships Program VENAMCHAM, Venezuela

Coalition Asks UNICEF to Cancel "McDonald's World Children's Day" Nov 20, 2002.

The international coalition of public health professionals and activists petitioning Unicef to think again about this co-branding promotion includes: Enola Aird, Director, The Motherhood Project, Institute for American Values Monika Arora, Programme Director, HRIDAY-SHAN, India The Honorable Danielle Auroi, Member, European Parliament, France Belen Balanya, co-author, Europe, Inc.: Regional and Global Restructuring and the Rise of Corporate Power Peter Barnes, Co-founder, Working Assets; author, Who Owns the Sky? Medea Benjamin, Founding Director, Global Exchange Stephen Bezruchka MD, MPH, Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington Louis Borgenicht, MD, Member, Board of Directors, Physicians for Social Responsibility Brita Butler-Wall, PhD, Executive Director, Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools

Generally as a parent, what could you do? (please tell us suggestions to feature) This parents bill of rights (pdf) provides one exciting pathway - click for more details

Nancy Carlsson-Paige, EdD, Professor of Child Development, Lesley University Vittorio Carreri, Presidente, Giunta esecutiva, SItI; Head of the Sanitary Prevention Unit of Lombardy Region. Joan Claybrook, President, Public Citizen The Honorable Ian Cohen, MLC, New South Wales Parliament, Australia Ronnie Cummins, National Director, Organic Consumers Association Donald R. Davis, PhD, Research Associate in Nutrition, Biochemical Institute, University of Texas Erica Frank, MD, MPH, Vice Chair and Associate Professor; Director, Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine Gary Goldbaum, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington Joan Gussow, EdD, M. S. Rose Professor Emeritus, Nutrition and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Andy Harris, MD, Board of Directors, Physicians For Social Responsibility

The average child sees more than 20,000 commercials a year, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Total advertising spending in this country (USA) is about $100 billion a year, approaching $400 for every man, woman and child.

Paul Hawken, Natural Capital Institute Michael F. Jacobson, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, Associate Clinical Professor, Yale School of Medicine Joe Kelly, Executive Director, Dads and Daughters; and Publisher, Daughters Newsletter: For Parents of Girls Michael Kieschnick, President, Working Assets Jean Kilbourne, Author, Can't Buy Me Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think And Feel Ronald M. Krauss, MD, Senior Scientist, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley Velma LaPoint, PhD, Associate Professor of Human Development, Howard University Pieta-Rae Laut, Executive Director, Public Health Association of Austrailia Diane Levin, PhD, Professor of Education, Wheelock College Jane Levine, EdD, Founder, Kids Can Make A Difference Lida Lhotska, PhD, Regional Coordinator for Europe, International Baby Food Action Network Susan Linn, EdD, Associate Director, Media Center of the Judge Baker Children's Center; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Alison Linnecar, International Coordinator, Geneva Infant Feeding Association Alan H. Lockwood, MD, Professor of Neurology and Nuclear Medicine, University at Buffalo; Past-President and Chairman, Environment and Health Committee, Physicians for Social Responsibility Ben Manski, Co-Chair, Green Party of the United States Mohamed Marwoun, MS, Specialist, Community Medicine, Ministry of Public Health, Saudi Arabia Bob McCannon, Executive Director, New Mexico Media Literacy Project Robert McChesney, PhD, Research Professor, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; author, Rich Media, Poor Democracy Mary Anne Mercer, DrPH, Senior Lecturer, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine Jim Metrock, President, Obligation, Inc. Mark Crispin Miller, PhD, Professor of Media Ecology, New York University Diane M. Morrison, PhD, Research Professor & Associate Dean for Research, University of Washington School of Social Work Keven Mosley-Koehler, MS, MPH, Grant Project Manager, Group Health Community Foundation Robert K. Musil, PhD, MPH, Executive Director and CEO, Physicians for Social Responsibility Peggy O'Mara, Editor and Publisher, Mothering Magazine Sheldon Rampton, Editor, PR Watch Mike Rayner, DPhil, Director, British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group John Rensenbrink, US Representative, Global Green Network The Honorable Lee Rhiannon, MLC, New South Wales Parliament, Australia Gary Ruskin, Executive Director, Commercial Alert Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Science Director, Science and Environmental Health Network Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology, Boston College; author, The Overspent American and The Overworked American John Stauber, Executive Director, Center for Media & Democracy; co-author, Trust Us, We're Experts and Toxic Sludge is Good for You Vic Strasburger, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Univ. of New Mexico School of Medicine; author, Children, Adolescents, and the Media Karen Valenzuela, MA, MPA, Washington State Public Health Association Susan Villani, MD, Medical Director, Schools Programs, Kennedy Krieger Institute; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Robert Weissman, co-author, Corporate Predators; Co-director, Essential Action The Honorable Matti Wuori, Member, European Parliament, Finland

Would Krok Approve?

Signatories Dannielle Blumenthal, Institute for Brand Leadership , Washington DC, dblumenthal@instituteforbrandleadership.org ; John Caswell, Group Partners Ltd , London, john.caswell@grouppartners.net ; Thomas Gad, Brandflight, Stockholm, thomas.gad@brandflight.com ; Sicco van Gelder, Brand Meta, Amsterdam, sicco.van.gelder@brand-meta.com ; Nicholas Ind, Futurebrand, Oslo, nicholas@sdg.no ; Tim Kitchin, brand-learning.com, London, Tim timkitchin@btopenworld.com ; Chris Macrae , ValueTrue.com, Washington DC, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk ; John Moore and Alan Moore, Our House, London, johnm@roundourhouse.com ; Anette Rosencreutz, Brandflight, Stockholm, anette.rosencreutz@brandflight.com ; Jack Yan, Jack Yan & Associates , Wellington, jack.yan@jyanet.com

Extract of Medinge Communique 2002 : financial measures were designed for an industrial economy and do not work in a knowledge economy, in which honest creativity and trusting relationships are the foundations of lasting value. They endure over the lifetime of a pensioner, not just the contractual-cycle of a CFO. In this real economy, around 85 per cent of market capitalization cannot be meaningfully measured or managed by accountants. The resulting financial knowledge vacuum is randomly plugged with snippets of corporate transparency, leading to further stakeholder confusion. In short, human beings are a primary source of value creation yet their impact, potential and resilience are nowhere accounted for on the typical balance sheet. This leaves responsible businesses with a huge gap to fill

The Unity platform's full text includes the 11-point platform as a common base for unity and action:

1.Separate the Corporation & the State ... 2.Re-regulate Utility Markets ... 3.Redefine Financial Accountability ... 4.Make corporations pay their proper share of taxes ... 5.Establish and Strengthen Legal Liability ... 6.Strengthen Labor Rights and Environmental Obligations ... 7.Make Overseas Operations More Accountable ... 8.Eliminate International Corporate Welfare ... 9.Control Speculative Investment ... 10.Renegotiate Trade Rules ... 11.Overhaul Corporate Governance ...

Click to Updating Unity Register of Signees which include:

50 Years is Enough>< Activist San Diego >< Aid Through Trade >< Alliance for Democracy >< American Lands Alliance >< Amazon Watch >< Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists - Social Justice Committee >< Border Agricultural Workers Project >< Boston CAFTA Coalition >< Boston Global Action Network FTAA Task Force>< California Fair Trade Campaign >< Campaign for Labor Rights >< Campus Greens >< Center for Third World Organizing >< CESTA >< Church Women United - Washington, DC Office >< Chicagoland Greens >< Citizen Works >< Citizens Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools >< Citizens for Kucinich in 2004 >< Citizens Protecting Ohio >< Colorado Jobs with Justice >< Community Alliance for a Fair Economy (C.A.F.E.) >< Common Ground >< Corner House >< CorpWatch >< Corporate Agribusiness Research Project >< Corporate Campaign, Inc. >< Cumberland Countians for Peace & Justice >< Daily Acts >< Design for Social Impact >< EarthRights International >< ECO-Action >< Ecoville Architects >< Eco-Rollins >< Educational Society of Malopolska (MTO) >< Ella Baker Center for Human Rights >< Essential Action >< Food First--Institute for Food & Development Policy >< Friends of the Earth - US >< Friends of Living Oregon Waters >< Global Exchange >< Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space >< Global Response >< Global Economy Project (Institute for Policy Studies) >< Global Village Cameroon >< Grassroots Globalization Network (Earth Island Institute) >< Greater Kansas City Fair Trade Coalition >< Green Party of Mississippi >< Green Party of Ohio >< Green Party of Seattle >< Green Party of Tennessee >< Green Party of the United States >< Hawai'i Sustainable Lifestyle Network >< Heartwood >< Indiana Green Party >< Indiana Forest Alliance >< Infact >< Inter-hemispheric Resource Center >< International Development Exchange >< International Labor Rights Fund >< International Rivers Network >< Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy >< Institute for Local Self Reliance >< JustAct - Youth Action for Global Justice Living Earth: Gatherings for Deep Change >< Made By Hand International Cooperative >< Maine Solar Energy >< Marin Interfaith Taskforce on Central America >< Marin Friends Meeting >< Maryland United for Peace and Justice >< Massachusetts Green Party >< Mexico Solidarity Network >< National Labor Committee >< Nicaragua Center for Community Action >< North Carolina Green Party >< North Carolina Waste Awareness & Reduction Network >< Obed Watershewd Association >< OFM Sacred Heart Province JPIC >< Objectivity, Accuracy and Balance in Teaching about Religion (OABITAR) >< Ohio Fair Trade Campaign >< Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition >< Our Developing World >< Pax Christi Michigan >< Peace Host >< Protect Biodiversity in Public Forests >< Public Citizen >< Rainforest Action Network >< RecycleSource, Inc. >< Regional Association of Concerned Environmentalists >< San Diego WTO Alert >< Sacramento Activists for Democratic Trade>< Sacramento County Green Party >< Student Environmental Action Coalition >< SEED Coalition >< Shoup for Secretary of State >< Southwest Ohio Green Party >< Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (Institute for Policy Studies) >< Tebtebba Foundation >< Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network >< Texas Fair Trade Coalition >< The Big Issue in Scotland >< The Dudley Foundation >< The Utility Reform Network >< United Church of Christ - Network for Environmental & Economic Responsibility >< United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE) >< United Students Against Sweatshops >< Wisconsin Fair Trade Campaign >< Wise Use Movement >< Women's Energy Matters >< Women's International League for Peace & Freedom - Fresno, CA >< Youth for Environmental Sanity

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asia

Thai Labour Campaign (http://www.thailabour.org/TLC/tlc.html

Thai Labour Campaign is a non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to promoting workers' rights in Thailand and increasing awareness of labour issues globally. TLC was started in February of 2000 and is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.

Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (http://www.cic.org.hk/

The Hong Kong Christian Council was established in the 1960s, in response to the severe injustices and intense poverty being suffered by workers in Hong Kong. Soon after, the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (CIC) was born in 1967.

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america

Maquila Solidarity Network (http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/

The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a Canadian network promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage.

Resource Center of the Americas (http://www.americas.org/

The Resource Center of the Americas, the Minneapolis-based nonprofit publisher of AMERICAS.ORG, is devoted to the notion that every person in this world is entitled to the same fundamental human rights. Resource Center programs combine education about social justice issues with activism.

Campaign for Labor Rights (http://www.summersault.com/~agj/clr/index.html

For more than 15 years, the Labor Defense Network (LDN), the organizer of the Campaign for Labor Rights, has been turning the slogans of international labor solidarity into concrete action. This agency has been involved in workers’ struggles around the world to various degrees.

Witness for Peace (http://www.w4peace.org

Witness for Peace is a politically independent, grassroots organization that is working to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing US policies and corporate practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Global Exchange (http://www.globalexchange.org/

Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education, and action center dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the world. Since their founding in 1988, they have been striving to increase global awareness among the US public while building international partnerships around the world.

Sweatshop Watch (http://www.sweatshopwatch.org

Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious and student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry. They believe that workers should be earning a living wage in a safe and decent working environment, and that those who benefit the most from the exploitation of sweatshop workers must be held accountable for their actions.

Educating for Justice (http://www.nikewages.org

Educating for Justice is deeply committed to the belief that all people value justice, fairness and the dignity of every human person. They recognize, however, that many people in our global community are unaware of the social injustices that undermine the unity of our human family. Educating for Justice is working to rectify this problem.

The National Labor Committee (http://www.nlcnet.org

The National Labor Committee's mission is to educate and actively engage the U.S. public on human and labor rights abuses by corporations. Through this education and activism, they hope to end labor and human rights violations, ensure living wages, and help workers and their families live and work with dignity. The NLC works with a strong network of local, national, and international groups to build coalitions that use popular campaigns to promote labor rights and pressure companies to adhere to existing national and international labor and human rights standards.

US/ Labor Education in the Americas Project (http://www.usleap.org/

US/LEAP is an independent non-profit organization that supports economic justice and basic rights for workers in Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. US/LEAP focuses especially on the struggles of those workers who are employed directly or indirectly by U.S. companies such as Starbucks (coffee) and Chiquita (bananas).

Garment Industry Development Corporation (http://www.gidc.org/

The Garment Industry Development Corporation (GIDC) is a non-profit consortium of labor, industry and government dedicated to strengthening New York's apparel industry. Through a multi-tiered strategy, GIDC serves a broad range of industry stakeholders including workers, manufacturers, contractors, private label manufacturers and international buyers.

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africa

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europe

Transnationale.org (http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/default.htm

Transnationale.org is published by Transnationale, a French not-for-profit organization created in October 1999 in Martigues (France). This site searches and publishes relevant information about large companies, and includes information on brands, political influence, factory locations, working conditions, as well as company policies on the environment, global issues, social and financial strategies.

No Sweat Campaign Against Sweatshops (http://www.nosweat.org.uk

The No Sweat Campaign Against Sweatshops website is an interactive online campaign that includes retailer surveys, opinion articles about current labor rights issues, information about upcoming events, and a mailing list, among other things.

Clean Clothes Campaign (http://www.cleanclothes.org/index.htm

The Clean Clothes Campaign is an international European network with the goal of improving the working conditions in the garment industry world-wide. The network is comprised of a wide variety of organisations, such as trade unions, consumer organisations, researchers, solidarity groups, women's organisations, church groups, youth movements and worldshops.

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australia

NikeWatch (Oxfam Community Aid) (http://www.caa.org.au/campaigns/nike/

Oxfam Community Aid Abroad is part of an international campaign to persuade Nike and other transnational corporations to respect workers' basic rights. NikeWatch was initially part of Community Aid Abroad's Trade and Investment campaign which ran from 1994 to 1996. Since then it has been part of the Basic Rights campaign.

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The "Publish What You Pay" campaign aims to help citizens hold their governments accountable for how these resource-related funds are managed and distributed. George Soros and a coalition of more than 40 NGOs (including the Open Society Institute and the campaign's co-sponsor, Global Witness) place the onus on wealthy countries' governments to require transnational extraction companies to publish net taxes, fees, royalties, and other payments made so civil society can more accurately assess the amount of money misappropriated and lobby for full transparency in local government spending. Click for updated signatory list. Signatories at 7 Aug 2002:

Acçao para o Desenvolvimento, Pesquisa e Cooperaçao Internacional (Angola)>< African Oil Policy Initiative Group (United States)>< Africa Centre for Constitutional Development (Nigeria)>< Agência Ecuménica para o Desenvolvimento Social em Angola (Angola)>< Amnesty International (United Kingdom)www.amnesty.org)>< Association Algerienne de Lutte contre la Corruption (Algeria)>< Association Burundaise des Consommateurs (Burundi)>< Association Nigerienne de Lutte contre la Corruption (Niger)>< Association SHERPA (France) >< Banneker Center for Economic Justice>< Berne Declaration (Switzerland) (www.evb.ch)>< Botswana Council of NGOs (Bocongo, Botswana) (www.bocongo.bw) >< Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law (Kyrgyzstan) (www.civilsoc.org/nisorgs/kyrgyz/kabhrrol.htm) >< Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD, United Kingdom) (www.cafod.org.uk/) >< CEE Bankwatch Network (Czech Republic) (www.bankwatch.org) >< Center for Economic and Social Rights (United States) (www.cesr.org) >< Centre for Social Development of Cambodia (Cambodia) >< Christian Aid (United Kingdom) (www.christian-aid.org.uk) >< Concern for Development Initiatives in Africa (Tanzania) >< The Corner House (United Kingdom) (www.thecornerhouse.org.uk) >< Ecological Society Green Salvation (Kazakhstan) (www.civilsoc.org/nisorgs/kazak/grsalv.htm) >< Environmental Defense (United States) www.edf.org) >< Fatal Transactions (Belgium) (www.fataltransactions.org) >< Forest Peoples Programme (United Kingdom) (forestpeoples.gn.apc.org) >< Forum Voor Vredesactie (Belgian affiliate of War Resisters' International) (home.planetinternet.be/~forumvv/index_eng.html) >< Friends of the Earth (United Kingdom and United States) (www.foe.org) >< Global Witness (United Kingdom) (www.globalwitness.org) >< Helping Hands Group (Nigeria) >< Human Rights Watch (United States) (www.hrw.org) >< Iniciativa Angolana Antimilitarista para os Direitos Humanos (Angola/Germany) (home.snafu.de/usp/iaadhpt.htm) >< Intermon Oxfam (Spain) (www.intermonoxfam.org/) >< Journalists in Need (Kyrgyzstan) >< Justica, Paz e Democracia (Angola) >< Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (Tanzania) (www.leat.or.tz) >< Liga Jubileu 2000 Angola (Coalition Jubilee 2000, Angola) >< Medico Internacional (Germany) >< Mineral Policy Center (United States) (www.mineralpolicy.org) >< Mineral Policy Institute (Australia) (www.mpi.org.au) >< National Resources Defense Council (United States) (www.nrdc.org) >< Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (Netherlands/South Africa) (www.niza.nl/uk) >< Network for African Peace Builders (Zambia) >< Novib (Netherlands) (www.novib.nl) >< OIKOS (Angola) >< Open Society Institute (United States and Hungary) (www.soros.org) >< Operation Young Vote (Zambia) >< Oxfam America (United States)(www.oxfamamerica.org) >< Oxfam (United Kingdom) (www.oxfam.org) >< Partnership Africa (Canada)(www.partnershipafricacanada.org) >< Public Policy Research Centre (Kazakhstan) >< Public Service Accountability Monitor (South Africa) (www.psam.ru.ac.za) >< Save the Children (United Kingdom) (www.savethechildren.org.uk) >< Survie (France) (www.globenet.org/survie) >< Tanzania Association of NGOs (TANGO, Tanzania) >< Tearfund (United Kingdom) (www.tearfund.org) >< Transparency International (www.transparency.org) >< Transparency International (Azerbaijan) >< Transparency International (Cameroon) >< Transparency International (Germany) (www.transparency.de) >< Transparency International (Kenya) (www.tikenya.org) >< Transparency International (Mauritius) (transparencymauritius.intnet.mu) >< Transparency International (United Kingdom) (www.transparency.org.uk) >< Transparency International (Zambia) >< United Nations Association (United Kingdom) (www.una-uk.org) >< Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (Ghana)

http://www.ub.es/5ead/organiz5.htm

EAD Committe and International Conference Board (Blac letters means confirmed) · Mike Press (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) · Rachel Cooper (Salford University, UK) · Vasco Branco (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal) · Brigitte Borja de Mozota (Université Paris X Nanterre, France) · Lisbeth Svengren (Stockholm University, Sweden) · Tore Christiansen (Copenhagen Bussines School, Denmark) · Paul Hekkert (Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology, Nederlands) · Patrick Hetzel (Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2, France) · Jack Ingram (Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, University of Central England, UK) · Pekka Korvenmaa (UIAH Helsinki, Finland) · Julian Malins (Grays School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK ) · Jan Verwijnen (UIAH Helsinki, Finland) · H. Alpay Er (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) · Wolfgang Jonas (Hochshülke für Künste, Bremen) · Carmelo di Bartolo (Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy) · Bernhard Bürdek (Fachhochshule Offenbach, Germany) · Mai Felip (Design for the World, Barcelona, Spain) · Jacqueline Otten (Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany) · Yves Zimmermann (Graphic Designer, Barcelona, Spain) · André Ricard (Industrial Designer, Barcelona, Spain) · Anna Calvera (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Barcelona Advisory Board / Comité y secretaria científica en Barcelona · Anna Calvera (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) · Josep M. Martí (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) · Francesc Marcè (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) · Miquel Mallol (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) · Jordi Mañà (Industrial Designer, Barcelona, Spain) · Daniel Giralt Miracle (Art critic, Barcelona, Spain) · Isabel Campi (Industrial Designer, Design historian, Barcelona, Spain) · Dirk Bogaert (Design for the World, Barcelona, Spain) · Josep M. Pujol (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain) · Joan Vinyets (Charmain of the Barcelona's Years of Design Festival, Barcelona, Spain) · Isabel Roig (BCD, Barcelona Centre de Disseny, Spain) · Jordi Montaña (ESADE, Barcelona, Spain)