This is critical!
Nice to meet you, @Zhanna, and thanks for your thoughts. What you describe is familiar to many of us. I hang out with a bunch of people that call it “collective intelligence”, and yes, it’s exhilarating.
We do always strive to connect more people in ever better ways, and to foster more collaboration – for example, we are considering a Futurespotters project on digital literacy and the diffusion of open source software (over pirated proprietary code), which came up in the context of Georgia but it could well involve Armenia and Egypt too. The initial writeup is here.
I am not sure about face-to-face meetings, though. They are expensive and slow, and the better ones require a lot of online interaction before they happen (to make preparations and ensure everybody makes the most of the facetime) and after (to write and share documentation so that the results achieved are available to all and don’t get forgotten). We are Internet people, we work mostly online.
That said, the Georgian futurespotters have decided to hold bi-weekly physical meetings, that then are reported on this platform for interaction with the broader Edgeryders community (their group here on Edgeryders is quite active). They had 3 so far, and it seems to be going well. 