Future Now newspaper
In all three workshops one of the issues that came up is the lack of collaboration between people with similar or related initiatives. Of the many reasons we don’t collaborate more one is that we are not aware of one another’s work and interests, even though we may walk up the same street everyday or work on similar problems, replicating efforts. Another issue mentioned, at least in the case of Egypt was the need for some bigger vision to get excited about working towards.
I think the future newspaper challenge could be a good way to both deliver more foresight study results and actually fostering p2p, both locally and internationally. Because the work of producing the article takes you through a process of taking an abstract wish for change, giving it a tangible goal and a designing a credible path for getting there. Also everyone knows what a newspaper is, the format etc. It was so easy to communicate what to do.
We have already done this in Egypt, and the three articles are being refined and finalised.
- For the 1st time the downtown area is free from harassment: Arabic/Armenian/English/ Georgian/More
- العجوز استرد شبابه : Arabic/Armenian/English/ Georgian/More
- Private education?what does this mean?: Arabic/Armenian/English/ Georgian/More
Each Future Newspaper article could serve as a call to draw out people already working on different pieces of the puzzle and connect them to one another as a starting point for possible collaboration.
Basically we could push each article out and ask/ who is already working to make this true? What obstacles are we coming across and how could we help one another around them? And encourage more people to submit an article to this new newspaper.
People already working on relevant initiatives would be invited to comment the article by telling us about their initiatives on the platform.
And be eligible for
- invitation to a p2p show and tell in each city? What do you say @khatuna @gazbia_sorour @marina.n and @george? Would you be up for organising this with a little help from @inge @vahagn and @ahmed_m_rabie?
- paid travel to the international event at the end of June for those who are active in building the content online here [link coming this evening]