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Subject: [humanmarkup-comment] RE: Diplomacy, America's Image, and HumanML
Hi Susan, I would very much appreciate being part of the discussion on the 19th. I think that this would allow me to more closely develop diplomatic scenarios with you and interested parties. This will allow me to get into the loop as well. As Owen mentioned, we do need a much better. We can't fight propoganda with propoganda...at least effectively. A deliberate attempt to manipulate our image isn't the most effective solution for long term relationship building. The ability to present ourselves and our intentions clearly and explicitly can be a far more effective means of successful diplomacy. Today is the deadline for requirements for HumanML, but I will be taking the following weekend off of my paid work to cultivating some of the statements from both you and Owen sent me already for them. We'll touch base soon. Take care, Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga -----Original Message----- From: susan.turnbull@gsa.gov [mailto:susan.turnbull@gsa.gov] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 2:54 PM To: rkthunga@humanmarkup.org; Rex Brooks Cc: ambur@erols.com Subject: Fw: Diplomacy, America's Image, and HumanML Ranjeeth and Rex, We're just getting started in a collaborative space at our workshop (quickplace) on Tuesday. Perhaps you'd like to join our workshop next week via audio conferencing. See Owen's message below. Bob Andrew introduced collaborative tools to Mobil oil. Perhaps by joining our collaborative expedition journey (via audio conferencing, web conferencing, and our face to face workshops, when possible) you could get some ideas of how to address your diplomatic interests and Owen's interest in humanmarkup language elements to enhance the potential of collaborative spaces in trust/transparency dimensions. You're invited. I apologize if I neglected to add you to the listserv. We struggled earlier with audio conferencing, but I'm willing to try. It was hard for remote listeners to hear everybody - and disruptive trying to send the mics around fast enough. Please let me know soon, because I need to set up the audio conferencing. I'm also exploring a second space (movabletype.org) which is both open source and XML. I learned yesterday that its a dream to use for blind lynx users. It's a dream for me to use in terms of posting reference links for use during a teleconference (to get on the same page). I feel the publishing power of a webmaster - without having to learn html. It's at http://people.internet2.edu/~gbh/coexp. The space was established by my co-chair, George Brett, Internet2. Below is the full agenda, including the URL to our collaborative space. Please join. You're welcome learn from our experiences here. I really do have some more feedback to your scenario. I apoloqize for getting behind. Moving into this space will reduce my workshop overhead time tremendously. Susan B. Turnbull Senior Program Advisor Next Generation Strategies Office of Governmentwide Policy US General Services Administration p 202.501.6214 f 202.219.1533 susan.turnbull@gsa.gov Greetings! The new Universal Access Collaboration Expedition Workshops website is now operational. We've set up a Request to Join process whereby you will be able to choose your own username. We will then add you as a member with a temporary password, and you can go to the Members page to change this password to one you'd prefer, in order to keep the number of username/password pairs to as few as possible. Once you've been added as a member, you will be receiving a weekly newsletter each Monday morning which will show you new content. We've also set up the space so people can browse our meeting notes and reference links without joining. We look forward to continuing conversations online between workshops, particularly your ideas for future workshops. Check out the useful tutorial at this site. In addition, Bob Andrew and Karl Hebenstreit, our experienced hosts, will guide us as at the March 19 workshop as we get underway. Please bring your laptop with ethernet card, if available. One laptop/table will enable us to gain experience in this web space during the workshop. http://ioa-qpnet-co.gsa.gov/UA-Exp Please don't forget to RSVP for the March 19 workshop and let me know if you would like to order a lunch. Here's the details: Please join us for the next Collaboration Expedition Workshop on Tuesday, March, 19, 2002 from 10 AM - 4 PM at NSF. The details are below. Please RSVP to me by COB Friday, March 15 at mailto:susan.turnbull@gsa.gov to ensure entry into the building. Please also indicate if: 1) you would like me to order a lunch @$8.00 for you (sandwich and beverage) 2) you will bring your bag lunch; or 3) you won't be joining us for lunch Regards, Susan Turnbull 202-501-6214 Visitor badge and entry procedures: 1. Go to main NSF bldg. at 4201 Wilson Blvd. (Stafford I Building). Enter around the corner at the NSF visitor entrance at N. Stuart and Ninth Sts. After receiving visitor badge, go to 4121 Wilson Blvd. (Stafford II Building), Fifth floor, Room 555 Traveling by -- 2. Car: Parking lot below the Stafford II building, entrance on Wilson Blvd. 3. Subway: Ballston metro station - exit to right along N. Stuart. Walk one block to main NSF entrance at N. Stuart and Ninth Sts, Ballston, VA. UA Collaboration Expedition Workshop #11 March 19, 2002 National Science Foundation Stafford II Building, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555 Workshop Purpose: To explore the potential and realities of community life today. How can intentional communities help us appreciate near-term implications of citizen-centric government, volunteerism, and multi-stakeholder collaborative partnerships? 9:30 AM Coffee 10:00 AM Welcome - Susan Turnbull, GSA, George Brett, Internet2 ( www.internet2.edu/e2epi) and Tony Stanco, Cyberspace Policy Institute, George Washington University 10:05 AM Introduction to the new collaborative tool of our UA Expedition community ? Bob Andrew, ICF Consulting (Note: Please bring a laptop with ethernet card, if available ? one web browsing device per table is needed) 10:15 AM Cohousing Communities in the USA: A Community Building Ethic for Well-being?Tom Lofft, Cohousing Network, www.cohousing.org 11:00 AM Adding Up the Common Elements of Successful Communities: What are the Dimensions in the Physical World and in the Cyber World that Matter? - Dialogue led by Bob Andrew, ICF Consulting 11:35 AM Community Building for Well-being: Bringing Communities the Real-Time Information Needed for Shared Environmental Stewardship - Denise Shaw, Environmental Protection Agency 12:20 PM Who is Here? Who is Missing from this Dialogue? 12:40 PM Lunch (bring your own bag lunch or RSVP for sandwich & beverage $8.00 cost/person) 1:00 PM Open Networking 2:00 PM Overview of Open Source Applications at the Bureau of the Census: A Distributed Peer Production Model Responsive to Communities - Lisa Nyman, Census Bureau and Rachael LaPorte Taylor, Census Bureau 3:00 PM Overview of Open Source Data Base Server at Census, - Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB. 4:00 PM Adjourn - Next worskhop on April 16 ----- Forwarded by Susan B. Turnbull/MK/CO/GSA/GOV on 03/14/2002 02:33 PM ----- "Owen Ambur" To: lillyjr@state.gov, "Susan Turnbull" <susan.turnbull@GSA.GOV> <ambur@erols. cc: com> Subject: Fw: Diplomacy, America's Image, and HumanML 03/14/2002 09:07 AM Jacqui, having noticed your affiliation in your RSVP to Susan, I thought perhaps this might be of interest. Susan, if Ranjeeth is not already aware of the dialogue that Bob Andrew will be leading on the "Common Elements of Successful Communities," it might be worth giving him a heads-up. If the term "community" is interpreted to mean "humankind, worldwide as well as locally" the thrust of Bob's dialogue may be virtually the same at the intent of HumanML. Owen ----- Original Message ----- From: Owen Ambur To: Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga ; Rex Brooks Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:52 AM Subject: Diplomacy, Americas Image, and HumanML Ranjeeth & Rex, Al Kamen's "In the Loop" column in yesterday's edition of The Washington Post prompts this message. The article is at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17220-2002Mar12.html See especially the following passages: "The State Department's been casting about for better ways to project America's image abroad." "... Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Charlotte Beers, the former advertising executive in charge of the conference." "... April 8-10 meeting . . . will improve our ability to convey our policies and values to foreign audiences." "... even the best public relations work won't solve vexing problems that reflect serious and fundamental policy disagreements ..." It is my hope and expectation that HumanML will eventually contribute significantly to the need to specify (make explicit) the elements of "policy disagreements" and, thereby, help to reduce them to truly "fundamental" human values, attributes, and needs upon which it will be virtually impossible to disagree. http://xml.gov/scripts/efforts_detail.cfm?EffortID=23 In the meantime, I fear that those who are looking for PR-related shortcuts may be wasting the taxpayers' money, if not also further aggravating the cynicism (and hatred) of our "adversaries" (real and imaginary). Thankfully, Secretary Rumsfeld pulled the plug on DoD's proposed propaganda shop. While there is no doubt about our need to "communicate" more effectively, I submit that, in the long run, there are no shortcuts and that only the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth will set us free from tyranny and terrorism. Owen Ambur, Co-Chair XML Working Group http://xml.gov/
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