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Critical spirituality as a resource |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Sunday, 26 March 2006 |
Increasing complexities and increasing uncertainty are creating a space that begs to be filled, writes Ivana Milojevic. This is where competing visions for transformation start vying for dominance, and fertile ground for conflict is created. She explores three main visions: (1) bringing back the old/religious fundamentalism; (2) continuing Enlightenment paradigm/secular progressivism (whether modern or post-modern); (3) Eupsychia (perfection and liberation of self) + conscious human evolution/critical spirituality. The direction chosen from these three to be the new guiding narrative will determine the quality of lives of many future generations to come. We desperately need the third story, and beyond.
Journal of Futures Studies February 2005 |
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Culture,not technology,holds back collaboration |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Sunday, 26 March 2006 |
Scientific communities worldwide are not up to the task of huge cultural change, say two British researchers. Cautionary tales surrounding obstacles to trust, security, standards, training and collaboration jolted delegates out of their afternoon torpor in the closing sessions of an advanced computing conference on the Gold Coast.
Sydney Morning Herald 11 October 2005 |
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Global Technological Change: from hard to soft |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Sunday, 26 March 2006 |
In emerging knowledge societies, the "soft" technologies are drivers of physical "hardware" technologies. They include management, organizational design, education for creativity and entrepreneurship, good governance, prudent regulation, as well as systems thinking, ecological and cultural balance. This new book from Professor Zhouying Jin in Beijing is "a powerful reconceptualization of technological options and innovation management," according to Hazel Henderson.
Intellect Books October 2005 |
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Rosa Parkes of this century |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Sunday, 26 March 2006 |
Mukhtaran Bibi is a peasant living in a remote Pakistani village who doesn't know her own age. But she is being called the Rosa Parkes of 21c for failing to be beaten by injustice. Gang-raped on the order of a local council, she prosecuted her attackers and became an effective women's rights leader in Pakistan. She used her compensation money to start schools in her village, and has raised more to "endow" them with cows to generate income to pay expenses.
New York Times 8 November 2005 |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Sunday, 26 March 2006 |
The east African nation of Zanzibar is one of the continent's success stories, writes Jonathan Power, though sensationalist reporting of its recent election may have suggested otherwise. President Benjamin Mkapa attacked the media coverage: "Derision, cynicism, prejudice, stereotyping and hunger for stories of failure rather than of success will be the undoing of democratic progress on the continent". Nonetheless,a lot of good things have been happening in many African countries.
International Herald Tribune 12-13 November 2005 |
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