Welcome to the Future Summit blog
Welcome to the new Future Summit blog. This is an exciting time in the history of our nation and, more importantly, our society here in Australia. As many of you will know, Future Summit has been held since 2004 and is being held again in Melbourne on the 18th and 19th of May. Exciting because, even as we continue to contemplate how this Global Financial Crisis and other current world events will play out for us on Australian shores, there is a torrent of positive dialogue taking place within our communities about the different ways we can go about creating a better future together. I’m sure you have felt this too. This leads us to why we have begun blogging.
What will we use the Future Summit blog for?
1) Discussing key topics:We plan to invite a small number of guest writers to the blog to provide different insights and thoughts about our country and its future. We are currently in the process of inviting these bloggers along. Let us know who you would appreciate hearing from by leaving a comment below.
2) Keeping you in the loop about Future Summit: There will be official posts pertaining to Future Summit and the latest information and news from the event itself. This will include debriefs and summaries of discussions at the event, information about how you can come along, reminders about when key dates are and other timely pieces of information.
3) Providing a voice: We plan to open the Future Summit blog up to those who might like to post their content to the blog here. There will be more information on how to go about this a bit later on (after the upcoming event!) but please stay tuned.
How can you get involved?
By clicking on the buttons in the right-column you can subscribe to receive the posts from the blog either sent to your email address or to your RSS reader. Once this is done, you can then comment on any post you like by clicking on ‘comments’ link at the bottom of each post. You can also discuss posting some of your relevant blog posts here at the Future Summit blog by contacting steve.hopkins at ausdavos.org.
We look forward to chatting to you more as we go. Please let us know if you have any ideas about how the Future Summit blog might be used. We are all ears J Until then, this is us, signing off for the first time.
Tags: Future Summit
May 8th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Hey steve,
here are some tips for content out of australia that i read.
The first is Steve Keens Debt Watch - although no being the bearer of good news, his analysis of the current financial crisis is refreshingly contrarian. Check it out. It can get a bit technical though.
The second is Climate Dilemma. I’m not sure who writes it (Peter Wood, apparently) or what his credentials are like, but after studying Australia’s proposed legislation for a Carbon Trading Scheme, I think this guys analysis is on the money and always very current. The Importance of Australia getting the CPRS legilsation right is critical, and information is always better than ignorance.
Here are the links
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/
http://climatedilemma.com/
Check them out.
Alex
May 8th, 2009 at 1:37 am
Oops. I forgot to write FIRST.
Second.
May 8th, 2009 at 7:27 am
I’m really looking forward to seeing what happens here on the blog and on the #futuresummit twitter stream - exciting times alright!
May 8th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Thanks guys,
Alex, those links you sent through are excellent - some great reading there. I especially like the Climate Dilemma blog post by Peter Wood where he discusses the ultimatum game. Excellent take and so well constructued into a great, easily digestable blog piece!
http://climatedilemma.com/2009/05/07/fairness-and-the-ultimatum-game/
Thanks for the enthusiasm Ross - for those that are interested you can see what people on twitter are saying about Future Summit here by searching for #futuresummit on http://www.search.twitter.com (or click on the following link.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23futuresummit
What are other blogs, like Alex’s, that keep you informed about the state of the world?
May 8th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Great links Alex, I really need somthing chunky, I cannot rely just on reuter’s video. Speaking of video; Steve will there be any live vids of all or key forums?
May 8th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Hi Cam,
Great question! No, at the moment there won’t be any live vids being streamed although we do have plans to use http://www.mogulus.com and http://www.qik.com at other events but couldn’t get everything rigged for Future Summit this time around. Watch this space.
At this stage, what we will be doing is using a fleet of flip camera’s to grab interviews with some of the speakers and participants. We’ll blog more info about this later, but we’ll get you to give us your questions for some of the speakers and ask them for you during the event. We hope that work’s for you - let us know if it doesn’t. Again, more info to come.
There will also be a gang of twitter-folk along, who may stream some qik footage if you ask nicely
But they will be tweeting what is going on in the conference and will give you the ability to ask questions of the speakers through them. Again, more on this later.
Finally, our friends at the World Economic Forum have a heap of great content including a mogulus and qik channel including the live stream of their Forum on the Middle East (being held in Jordan) on the 15-17th of May. We’ll be tuning in for that one - which you may also enjoy.
http://www.mogulus.com/worldeconomicforum
http://www.qik.com/worldeconomicforum
May 8th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Great to see the summit embracing social media including Twitter. I’ll be travelling 18/19 May but look forward to following the action online.
May 9th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Great work Steve, and I’m looking forward to seeing some more content
I think using flips is a great and easy way to pull some video content together - one of the guys at RailsConf did this, and screened summaries of each day with a different focus. Two examples (and I feature in the first ;):
http://railsenvy.com/2009/5/6/railsconf-2009-tuesday
http://railsenvy.com/2009/5/8/railsconf-2009-wednesday
May 9th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Fantastic to see Future Summit taking part in the Age of Conversation that seems to be emerging! Often conference participants will note that some of their most significant moments in a conference happen around the drinks after the sessions have concluded or chatting with their neighbour during a meal.
It’s great to really open that element up so that it occurs both before and after the conference and is open to those that aren’t able to make it. It really transforms the purpose and potential of the Summit itself…
May 11th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Hi Pat,
Thanks for the advice and the links - the RailsConf looks like a fantastic event.
We will put together something similar from Future Summit, as well as trying to capture interviews with some of the speakers to give you an insight into what they have been talking about.
More about this soon, so watch this space!
May 18th, 2009 at 11:10 am
First time to be at this blog site heard about it on twitter, look forward to making it to the 2010 summit, too late for us to make it now, look forward to connecting more with you all here at Future summit
May 24th, 2009 at 3:20 am
Thanks for the review! I want to say - thank you for this!
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December 7th, 2011 at 2:45 am
Future Summit has a future ahead of it can’t wait till 2012 as the site grows with new informative information.