Knowledge Federation Oslo invites you to join (fwd)

[Thomas Gramstad]

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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:23:42 +0200
From: Dino Karabeg <dino at ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Knowledge Federation Oslo invites you to join

Dear everyone,

There has been five of us at the 'KF initiation?' meeting yesterday 
afternoon, a small group but of the kind of people I like to socialize 
and work with, so I felt happy. And we did decide to meet again.

With this letter I invite you to join us. The minimal requirement is 
to be ready to dedicate two hours a month to enhancing the synergy 
between your professional interests and the larger societal ones. One 
specific focus of this group will be the use of new information 
technology and media as building blocks to improve larger societal 
systems (this has been the main focus of interest of the international 
Knowledge Federation). But people who use only paper and pencil to 
write about interesting ideas are just as welcome to this group as 
computer techies ? use of technology to empower interesting ideas will 
continue to be our interest.

I thought of initiating this first meeting when I saw the beautiful 
seminar room we have on the 9th floor of our new Ifi building, and 
thought that it might provide space for beautiful people gathering 
around a beautiful cause. But the main principle of our organization 
will be ? self-organization! So please feel encouraged to invite 
people (professional, students, friends) you feel should naturally 
belong, and to take any other steps towards increasing the prospects 
of success of this initiative.  If one day we see that we have 
regularly more than 20-30 people which is the max. the room can hold, 
we can move to a larger space.

And please feel welcome to propose presentations. I propose to keep 
presentations brief (ideally Pecha Kucha style) and to explore the 
details in a conversation. In that way we will be able to keep current 
with everyone's core preoccupations and ideas.

I am suggesting the name Knowledge Federation Oslo not because this 
group should belong to the already existing Knowledge Federation, but 
because our focus will be on federating knowledge to increase the 
prospects of agile contemporary causes.

Since 'first tuesday' has been taken for a related purpose, I propose 
that we meet each third thursday in a month, 3-5 p.m., with coffee, 
tea and fruit provided. Official languages will be Norwegian and 
English (if someone present is not comfortable with Norwegian, as it 
is the custom in Norway).

Stian proposed that meetings should be more frequent and keep a 
momentum and flow. We may eventually supplement some of that by using 
social media. But for now I propose that we use also the second 
Thursday, and meet in Lorry Pub in the center of Oslo, which has a 
particularly cosy spot some of us used to meet in and talk for some 
time. So each second Thursday 7:30 p.m. the conversation space will be 
open to welcome whoever comes.

To join, please send me an email with Knowledge Federation Oslo as 
Subject expressing your interest in joining us, and I will include you 
into our new KF Oslo Google group. Welcome!

Also pls. let me know if any of the above is unsuitable, and if there 
is sufficient agreement we will change it.

-----   brief report from our first meeting ------

Instead of repeating the Prezi talk 'Knowledge Federation - An Enabler 
of Systemic Innovation' [1] that I gave last July at Stanford as I 
promised, I decided to give a high-level introduction to (what I 
perceive as) uniquely exciting (not one but three!) frontiers for 
creative work that (Knowledge Federation as community for) systemic 
innovation opens up, by showing the prezi 'The Three Frontiers of 
Systemic Innovation' [2] that I cooked up early yesterday morning. 
Since the 'Enabler' lecture complements this second high-level idea 
lecture by showing some of the fine details of our strategic and 
technical innovations, I can offer to give it at one of the 
forthcoming meetings.

[1] http://prezi.com/2z2eksaaq118/thix-kfintro/

[2] http://prezi.com/q06udsukrpgl/systemic-innovation/

------ Seminar venue details ------------------------

Rm. 9460 is easily accessed from Forskningsparken T and tram station, 
enter the tall tower and take elevator to 9th floor. Then call me on 
mob. 412 92 049 tel. 22 85 27 02 to escort you in.

Besøksadresse
Institutt for informatikk
Ole-Johan Dahls hus
Gaustadalléen 23 B
N-0373 Oslo

http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/om/finn-fram/

Warm regards,

Dino Karabeg