The W3C and the Beyond One World Process

I am keen to put together ideas of how the whole process of Beyond One World can be run. Knowing that it is very unlikely that I will get it right and for the fact I have not managed to get any feedback yet I am going to put forward a process that I consider to be the best of its kind - that I am aware of so far. I do know that the process that I choose will completely change if it goes forward, but I consider that the best way of making any progress is to put together my mistakes as quickly as possible and then work towards a solution when the problem is understood better.

The solution I have chosen is as far as I am aware the best candidate to start from - the World Wide Web Consortium Process, the latest version being used is 14th October 2005 . This process is the biggest driver of open source and technology on the Internet and is constantly used and under review and change to meet its objectives. Now it is probably quite a bit removed from the intended use here but I will give it a go and see what comes out of it. What is intended is a process by which agreement and action for global issues and government is possible where every person can take ownership, take part and globally change for themselves in a way that is absolutely fair and efficient - quite a big undertaking... However, if a first attempt is made to create a process by which it can create and evolve itself then as more knowledgeable individuals join in it can be improved to fulfil its purpose.

To start work on this I am happy to put the current document in a Wiki and hack the process where I can see possible matches. Or indeed leave questions for myself or others later to answer where I find any areas of difficulty. The wiki can act as a simple form of version control too, where changes can be explained, noted and date stamped and the full history of it can be followed. In the future I am keen to use the best of breed configuration management techniques to make sure that its evolution is controlled, quickly made and robust.

I have a choice at the moment of where to start this work and I think I need to wait a week before considering where it should go. The building of the idea behind Beyond One World was initiated by the Google Project 10^100 and it seemed appropriate to use Google Apps to get the ball rolling. However, using this is a learning curve for me and I am not sure what support there is where any unusual is attempted. If I were to do this on my own platform then I would be certainly happy to run open source applications on my favourite hosts at Dreamhost, knowing that if there were any problems or unusual programming needed then I could just dive in and do it. The Google Apps however in theory should be far more scalable with a decent level of support. I must make sure I know that this support will be there though. I am not at all confident that this idea will make it to the voting next week on January 27th and if it doesn't, I will be on my own for probably quite a while longer working on the site. In that case I prefer complete control on fixing any problems and will pull the site back to Dreamhost.

Well let's see what happens - they actually had over 100,000 submissions and voting will only be for 100 hence my realism - flatly a 1:1000 chance.

It would certainly get exciting if it were in though...

This is your world - What are you going to do with it?

Hello Dear Reader.

You have unwittingly stumbled onto a page that gives you great responsibility.

As you know this is a beautiful world full of great and good people everywhere - but for some reason or another at this moment in time has so many overwhelming problems.

Unfortunately there is no around who wants to take the full responsibility for it. Some who have put themselves forward recently have failed - mainly because they could not be trusted or their intentions were seen as a little suspect.

So we have all decided that whoever stumbles onto this page MUST take charge.

You are now in charge of the world!!!

For as long as you are here you have complete control to change anything in the world and take full responsibility for it. Please be careful with what choices you make as this obviously has an impact on every soul resident upon it.

There are no rules as to what you can change and how you do it.

But please remember every action you take - or non-action if you are undecisive - will impact the world from this moment forward.

We would all ask however that you make your decisions according to the very best ideals that you can attain to. That your decisions are positive and at the very least will help those less fortunate than yourself. Hose for example who have no power to be able to do what you are doing now.

What are the highest and most positive ideals you can use by which to make your decisions? What issues are important to you?

Please be aware - All of our lives and our futures are in your hands.

These are the most important decisions you can ever make.

Please do not be hasty and rush into decisions we will all regret, but also please do not sit back and do nothing as there are problems in the world that are growing exponentially and something needs to be done quickly. Sitting back and doing nothing has already been tried and tests have shown that this indeed does not return positive results.

Also most importantly, please do not relinquish this opportunity to make the world a better place. If you abandon this post then who can we rely on? Who can we turn to?

To help you focus your priorities in these crucial moments we have put together some information on the problems affecting the world today. These can be found at The Problems Of The World Today Centre. Please understand that this information is very sketchy as we have not had time in our schedules to bother much with it - but promise that we will be developing it in the near future to aid you better.

Please place all your decisions as soon as they are made in our Beyond One World discussion group in the topic entitled If I ruled the world I would .... Others who have a stake in the running of the world will then act out your desires and respond to them.

If you have questions about your new role and responsibilities - and I am sure you will then please post them in the Beyond One World discussion group and someone will get back to you as soon as they can.

Good luck with you new assignment.

If the responsibility is too much for you and you need to pass it on to others as possible then please feel free to contact them to let them know of the vacant position we have. It needs to be filled - for all our sakes.

If you rise to the challenge then good luck in your role - The power is all yours.

In fact - It always has been...

If I ruled the world, I would ...

... fill this space ...

I would be interested in what others would write here - probably very different to what I have put upon the main site but the combination of everyones view is what this is really all about. If everyone agreed on some point then it definitely would be done, if many agree on a point then it is possible...

Come and join the forum I have created to discuss these ideas and let me know what you think. The discussion forum is at the Beyond One World Discussion Forum.. Especially if you can answer the question - if you ruled the world, what would you do?

Internet Marketers are great pioneers! - What an unexpected title to have

I was at a party last night, not a big party but really just a gathering at a neighbours where he kindly invited us over where he had invited friends for a barbecue and I found myself actually talking about the idea for the first time. I realised, through the difficulty of trying to describe the idea that this is really what my next stage must be. Internalising the ideas and seeing the possibilities are pretty much useless now if I cannot somehow bring it into a coherent message. The problem is I can see this wonderful solution and how it tackles all the issues I throw at it but it is of no use to anyone if I cannot pass it on with my poor communications skills and shape it into some coherent message that somehow gets others thinking. I also realised for the first time that I really would love to spend more time on this idea than work on any others because of its potential. A big dilemma...

Back to the plot however...

I am sure that this idea, though using the Project 10 to the 100th as the starting gun, really is not coherent and well planned enough to make it into the final voting that will begin next month. So it needs to get to a stage where it can navigate itself to a solution with with the power of more voices, instead of being some flotsam on the sea of the internet that never gets visited. Well, it did get visited once by someone looking for the 'problems of the world' in the last month but they went overboard as quickly as they came.

So it needs to support itself and it needs to be seen and it needs input, good and bad to shape. In the realm of the Internet today it needs applied to it the skills of the Internet Marketer. These people are really pioneers themselves and it has been so interesting to see how successful they have become using this media to push the boundaries of connecting people to their desires. Often themselves starting from less than zero and pulling their life around discovering new ways of using the Internet to achieve their ambitions. Their methods of reducing complex and often conflicting information into working systems profitably has been a massive achievement and is changing commerce on the Internet constantly. Personally, my favourite at this moment in time is Russell Brunson, the owner of DotComSecrets, who as far as I can tell really has the desire to help others and I have followed his progress for a while now. Though there are many other names in the StomperNet camp who I am sure probably have the same desire.

Again, back to the plot...

For Beyond One World as an idea to survive, evolve and grow it must follow their lead and be made into something initially that can support itself, to pay for itself possibly. I can only dream that somehow it has enough momentum to support us too, so that I can spend the time to help it grow into something that will of use to everyone.

So from today I am determined to follow their lead, to learn from these pioneers and get this moving.

If I do not manage to blog before Christmas and someone bewilderingly stumbles into this in the next few days, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year dear reader, may it be a wonderful year...

And finally, I am sure this doesn't get said very often but Internet Marketers are great pioneers...

Still working on it...

A month has passed and sadly I have not done or presented enough to give this any momentum.

Aspirations and ability are often strangers when it comes to creating ideas.

Also the noise of life take over, all the important and urgent things that must be done - all the things that I am sure will be so important and make a difference in a hundred years time - it's a shame that so much of our lives are taken over by the need to survive, not just physically but financially and socially.

If only we could be free of these bonds,
to be able to achieve all the things that we desire to achieve,
to be able to focus our efforts on helping ourselves and others improve our world,
not wasting any more energy fighting each other and the systems within it.

We are all capable of so many wonderful things.
So many worlds are waiting for us.

Where on earth can it start...