Humanize the Earth!

similar conferences on top of each other

March 9, 2006 at 1:12 am | In humanize, invitations |

In my last post, I talked about the birth of Planetwork in Chicago. What I didn’t talk about there was what Planetwork is. From their website:

• Convenes a unique forum exploring the most critical issues affecting civil society in the context of the strategic use of the Web and information technologies.
• Attracts a multidisciplinary community of highly skilled social change agents to envision, implement and share solutions to the most pressing interrelated crises on the planet.
• Incubates projects that demonstrate the role information technologies play in accelerating implementation of pragmatic solutions to local and global issues.
• Disseminates ideas, examples and case studies of digital solutions designed to bring about ecological sustainability and social justice worldwide.
• Galvanizes a new community; providing a rare opportunity to experience a renewed sense of hope, inspiration and empowerment.

So what if we took that, and wrote an invitation that included these points as Planetwork, and the omidyar.net member’s conference stuff we’ve already written and proposes, why not have these two event right on top of one another. Same location, same circle, same agenda wall, everything.

So it’s not co-located and it’s not co-branded, but it is literally two conferences at the same time and same place. And both invitations on the same page. Crazy? Hmm.