Coordinator Team | 23 May 2010 17:15

Minute of CFTT's Meeting

Dear all,
Today's meeting held but the turn out was not too encouraging, but nevertheless great ideas were generated from the meeting. The list you can d is to take a look it and make our own contribution.

1. Without dedicated people it will be impossible to move CFTT forward
2. CFTT needs to identify its niche
3. We need to do an audit of who can contribute what time. How many hours a month from available person
4. We need to establish achievable goals which are not already covered by other organisations
5. CFTT can encourage young people to write articles about the issues and publish them regularly in the Journal. The organisers become mainly editors and publishers. That involves less commitment of time.
6. CFTT need to do more of teleconferencing and presentations
7. CFTT could try to get information in the press/newspapers/TV/radio and provide people for interview (it will be centered around a themes but we will get perspective from various countries and regions)
8. CFTT can also conduct audit of colleges and universities energy policies, and also their teaching materials and priorities
9. CFTT needs lots of energetic individuals to volunteer few hours (maybe 10-15) per month

It will be good if we all take a look and join the discussion.

I hope to hear from you very soon.

Dayo
(on behalf of the coordinating team)

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Coordinator Team | 23 May 2010 15:19

Reminder: CFTT Meeting

Dear Friends,
How are you all doing?This is to remind you of today's meeting.Let us hook up on skype and we will proceed within the next 10 minutes.
Regards

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Coordinator Team | 19 May 2010 10:48

Building on the success of Common Future First Journal

Dear Friends,
Common Future have been lying low for a while, it is quite understandable after all the hard work we all put into the CFTT last year. We did a great work last year and we have the journal to show off for that, but we cannot rest on our oars we need to put up a better showing this year to bridge the gap between youths in the global North and South.
I believe it will be appropriate for us to get together and chart the way forward together.

Please join us on skype Sunday 2 PM for a meeting where we will decide how to get this vehicle moving again.
Hope to see you there.

Regards,

Dayo

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Dirk Heine | 19 Mar 2010 15:26

Corrections about yesterday's email

Dear friends,

Yesterday I sent information about a studentship and a paper for which I was looking for co-authors from Common Future. On both topics my email was very unclear and I would suggest to just dump that email. I will present both more carefully here and would like to request that you do not forward yesterday's email (I hope that's not too late), it was wrong in several regards. But the following is accurate.

Regarding the studentship: It is a mixture between research assistance and study. The PDF contains errors (including linking to an organisation that has nothing to do with it) and it is only for postgraduates. The person from who I heard about it, Tony Lawson, would not want to be associated with it and therefore please do not relate to him in any way if you choose to apply to it. It is just organised by the University of Southampton and it could cost my head if you mention Dr Lawson in relation to it. I, by the way, also now have given up the idea of applying.

Now to the paper: I have attached more description on what it is about in the attachment. As a recap: Guo Xu and I are writing a paper on how the social progress indicators mentioned in the Siglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report (a report on how we could measure eco-social progress and wellbeing) could be turned into an index (now the report suggests a great variety of indicators but there is no index that could be used more easily to measure social progress compactly). We are trying to suggest a solution for the index-weighting problem mentioned on page 59. We believe it could be addressed with a Facebook or Adhocracy-based voting tool using Clarke-Voting which mayh overcome the problems mentioned here.The objective is to find a vote-based weighting of the indicators used to construct a social progress index. If you would like to get involved in this project, please let me know. The most time-efficient way to get into the topic is to check the report first, then the third website and then the attachment. I would love to work on this together and hopefully publish something together.

OK, please forgive me yesterday's email and I hope this made things clearer. I hope you are all well and that we can write good stuff together in the summer.

With best wishes,

Dirk

Attachment (Idea for realizing Vickrey Clarke Groves in voting.pdf): application/pdf, 40 KiB

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Dirk Heine | 18 Mar 2010 11:37

ESRC Case PhD Studentship

Dear members of Common Future,

Attached you find an advert for a PhD studentship on reform for improved labour protection in the footwear-industries, which -as you know- is one of the industries with the lowest degree of labour protection. ESRC is the British research council for economics and social sciences.

In the advert they state that only people with a Master's degree may apply but according to the email below also BA-students may have a chance.

If you reply to this advert, please take out the below email as I am forwarding it just for the BA-reason.

On other CFTT-news: Guo Xu and I are writing a paper on how the social progress indicators mentioned in the Siglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report
could be turned into an index for eco-social economic progress. We are trying to suggest a solution for the index-weighting problem mentioned on page could be addressed with a Facebook or Adhocracy-based voting tool using Clarke-Voting which we believe to overcome the problems mentioned here.The objective is to find a vote-based weighting of the indicators used to construct a social progress index. If you would like to get involved in this project, please let me know.

With best wishes,

Dirk

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Datum: Von: Antwort an: An:

(Fwd) ESRC Case PhD Studentship - Please Circulate

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:58:19 -0000

Tony Lawson <tony.lawson-x/3uuEAja6fQzY9nttDBhA@public.gmane.org>

Tony.Lawson-x/3uuEAja6fQzY9nttDBhA@public.gmane.org

D. Heine <dh363-KWPb1pKIrIJaa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org>

Dirk

Happty to help. But you are right I am am incredibly busy....rushing round like a madman.

How about you draft a letter including all that you think should be included. Then I will rewrite/add/subtract (if nec.) to put it in my own words.

Does the attached (case studentship - also see below) interest you at all? Know anyone it might interest?

------- Forwarded message follows -------

From: "Ruwanpura K.N." <K.N.Ruwanpura-Fv7Bckdh1xP10XsdtD+oqA@public.gmane.org>

To: "tony.lawson-x/3uuEAja6fQzY9nttDBhA@public.gmane.org" <tony.lawson-x/3uuEAja6fQzY9nttDBhA@public.gmane.org>

Date sent: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:34:05 +0000

Subject: ESRC Case PhD Studentship - Please Circulate

Dear Tony,

Hi... Is there any chance we get your help in circulating this ESRC Case Studentship - to be supervised by (Professor) Peter Sunley and I - amongst your graduate students and any exceptionally bright undergraduates? Would also appreciate if you can have this up on some graduate students notice board or some such.

Many thanks for your help, Kanchana

[PS - Tony, will be in Cambridge tomorrow and will look for you tomorrow morning. Hope that you are around....]

Kanchana N. Ruwanpura,PhD(Cantab)

Lecturer - Economic Geography

School of Geography

Shackleton Building 2065

University of Southampton

Highfield

Southampton SO17 1BJ

ENGLAND

T/Phone: +44-(0)2380-597436

E-mail: k.n.ruwanpura-Fv7Bckdh1xP10XsdtD+oqA@public.gmane.org

------- End of forwarded message -------

Tony Lawson

Faculty of Economics and Politics

Austin Robinson Building, Sidgwick Avenue

Cambridge (UK), CB3 9DD

Telephone (direct): 44 (0)1223 335224

Fax (faculty general office): 44 (0)1223 335475

Web site: http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/lawson/index.htm

Attachment (RIBENPhDAdvert.pdf): application/octet-stream, 260 KiB

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coordinator | 28 Dec 2009 13:17

Common Future Journal Weekends Evaluation

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Dirk Heine | 15 Dec 2009 15:18

Video Conference from Copenhagen

Dear all, we had a few issues establishing the connection from the Copenhagen Bella Centre but now it is running. Please enter COP15 by pressing the following link: https://webmeeting.dimdim.com/portal/JoinForm.action?confKey=common_future_video_talk

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Dimdim Invitations | 15 Dec 2009 15:06

Your Dimdim Web Meeting has started

Hello!

Common Future has started the Dimdim Web Meeting. To join the meeting, simply click here

You can also join by entering common_future_video_talk at www.dimdim.com/join
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This is a personal meeting invitation, please do not forward.
Sincerely,
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Niklas Heiland | 15 Dec 2009 13:23

TODAY: LIVEstream from Bella Center, Copenhagen, at the Launch of the South-North Journal - 2pm GMT

Dear Common Future members,

today, the first edition of the South-North Journal, a genuine collaboration of young thinkers from around the world, will be launched.

The event will take place within the Bella Center, where the current UN climate negotiations, (the biggest UN negotiations to date, in terms of numbers of Heads of States) are being held.

Our members Grace (Nairobi) and Qian (Cambridge/Beijing) will present the journal both to you and the audience at Bella Center. For that, we have invited both junior and senior delegates to the Common Future booth, many of which assured to come.

Be there LIVE, interact with these Youth Delegates at the COP15 and peer into the UN conference center through our webcam!

To login, go to

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Time: 2pm GMT (3pm Copenhagen time), TODAY

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Dirk Heine | 4 Dec 2009 00:20

Articles and Photos Deadline

Dear all,

Please remember to send your articles to coordinator-u4fmDS4gQ9UNlTYmwHUcXdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org so that they can be included in the Copenhagen release of the South-North Journal. The deadline for the articles is tomorrow, Friday 04.

Please also remember to send the photos for the global poster (the slogan we agreed on during the JournalWeekend) to the same email address. The photos are needed for graphics processing, so please send them as soon as possible.

Many thanks,

Dirk
(helping out, not coordinator team)

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Coordinator Team | 1 Dec 2009 13:46

Common Future Copenhagen Journal Deadline on 4th of Dec, 2200h GMT

Hello everyone!

Thank you very much for participating last Saturday at our online conference. As mentioned, if you would like your articles to be included in the Common Future Copenhagen Journal (which we would very much like, too), please send in your articles before or on 4th of December, 2200h GMT. We have already begun receiving articles and would very much like to receive more.

Your article can be around one page of A4 size (assuming that you are using 1.5 spacing, font 12 Arial) but if you go beyond one page, it is totally okay. If you are going to use citation, please use the APA format.

As had been mentioned to the Cambridge delegation, you can submit your article by two ways:
a) Join the Common-Future wiki, and submit the text on the Wiki and put a note that you would like to include it in the Common Future Copenhagen Journal (and if you have extra time give us a heads up on this email coordinator-u4fmDS4gQ9UNlTYmwHUcXdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org
that you have uploaded your article on the Wiki).
b) Send a document in a format that can be reformatted (plain text, word, open office etc, not PDF), directly to coordinator-u4fmDS4gQ9UNlTYmwHUcXdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org

To keep it simple, documents submitted to the Wiki should be considered as editable/potentially collaborative (although it is unlikely they will be changed at this late stage). If you do not want your article content to be edited please select option b: those submitted directly by email will not be altered except in minor ways e.g. to put in the correct format or corrected for grammar for the published journal.

Also, please do not forget to send in your delegation pictures! Please observe the same deadline, 4th of Dec 2200h, for your pictures. If you can't make it by then, please give us a heads up when you can give it.

If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to email us at coordinator-u4fmDS4gQ9UNlTYmwHUcXdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org.

Once again, many thanks for your participation and we look forward to receiving your articles and seeing you at your delegation pictures!

Many thanks,
Denise
in behalf of the Coordinator Team

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