ATCA and IntentBlog to address complex global challenges
Announcement
London, UK - 5 September 2006, 22:00 GMT- ATCA,
the London based leading global forum to address complex threats to humanity,
and IntentBlog, a group blog featuring unique voices from around
the world from Los Angeles to Mumbai, have begun to share seminal Socratic
Dialogue threads. The dialogue threads seek to address the top ten complex
global challenges of the present age by bringing together important decision
makers in major governments, corporations, voluntary organisations and
NGOs as well as experts from academia and philanthropists. The top ten
asymmetric risks and opportunities identified in the 21st century include
climate chaos, radical poverty, organised crime, extremism, informatics,
nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence and financial
systems.
The
first eleven Socratic Dialogue threads within the 'Open ATCA' series
presented on IntentBlog are focussed on the Hydrogen Economy, Climate
Chaos, Einstein-Russell, New Orleans, Buddha, Blended Value, Iran, Advaita,
Social Entrepreneurship, Unity and Non-Violence. Apparently diverse
on first reading, Socratic Dialogue threads have demonstrated that these
subjects are closely interlinked -- with multiple cross references --
in terms of addressing some of the key global complexities witnessed
in the short and medium term with long term impact.
"IntentBlog is very privileged to collaborate
with ATCA and elevate the level of dialogue that comes to us from this
distinguished group of thinkers," said Deepak Chopra,
Co-Founder, IntentBlog.
"We hope to change our collective narrative
via this initiative so there is deeper understanding of the tangled
hierarchy and inseparability of co-arising complex global challenges.
Understanding is the basis for intuition, love, compassion and creative
solutions. Let us hope this accelerates the formation of a critical
mass of global consciousness to help build a better world."
"We are delighted to start the 'Open ATCA' initiative on IntentBlog
which allows members of both communities to interact with each other
as one and address complex global challenges in unison," said
DK Matai, Chairman, The
Philanthropia, ATCA and mi2g. "Having
reached critical mass, we have been searching for the past year for
an ideal high quality online partner that will allow the ATCA closed
group of distinguished thinkers to engage with the global community
in a positive and meaningful way. After examining many options, we are
delighted to begin the friendly alliance between the ATCA and IntentBlog
distinguished communities."
ATCA: The Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance is a philanthropic
expert initiative founded in 2001 to understand and to address complex global
challenges. ATCA conducts collective Socratic dialogue on global opportunities
and threats arising from climate chaos, radical poverty, organised crime,
extremism, informatics, nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence
and financial systems. Present membership of ATCA is by invitation only and
has over 5,000 distinguished members: including several from the House of
Lords, House of Commons, EU Parliament, US Congress & Senate, G10's Senior
Government officials and over 1,500 CEOs from financial institutions, scientific
corporates and voluntary organisations as well as over 750 Professors from
academic centres of excellence worldwide.
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