Saturday, February 12, 2005
Center of Excellence Proposal
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Where are we
in the Planning Process
Communications on the BCNGroup Membership Drive
Dear Paul
Firstly, thank you for the proposal, I was extremely flattered, your group looks like it is pioneering a very important and special purpose.
Also, although I know the Internet enables intelligent, agile working, it's always still surprising that such a relevant and interesting exchange can be facilitated so quickly from out of the blue more or less, simply through knowledge connectivity made possible by strands of specialism on the net. I guess what you guys are doing is as an instrument were that capability be greatly enhanced and augmented, and shared with the world for common good. [1]
I'd be very proud to serve such a goal.
>>>> We are mostly scientists and technology
innovators and so sometimes what is easy for others to do is not so easy for
us.
Yes I understand. Successful collaboration, commercial or otherwise, always features a user with a problem to solve, the innovator with the solution, and the entrepreneur to find and connect them together. Branding and marketing is simply about abstraction, to make a complex knowledge area simple to the people it can help, and if you are deep in the knowledge domain, it can be very hard to see it from the users point of view. I presume generating this abstraction is what you would like this role to achieve. [2]
Although quite technical myself, my main background and skill set is sales and business management, and so I frequently work in this type of role to help commercialize, accelerate and share knowledge research, which again is simply the process of identifying what problems it can solve and communicating this effectively. [3] My sales career has been in enterprise IT, so I can walk five yards and find a business being hamstrung due to poor application integration. The semantic web is the solution to most if not all current legacy IT problems.
> The position of
Director of Memberships has been discussed over the years by the around 100
informal founding members. Might you
take this position as yours and develop under your own creative thoughts. The Founding Committee will consider this if
you are interested.
So yes I certainly am interested. I'd certainly be delighted to explore further. Shall we arrange a suitable time and initially speak by phone to get the ball rolling? [4]
> Where are you located?
I live in Lanark, Scotland.
> This is an mission that can be expended to all countries, but
will likely > start in the United States.
That is no problem, I work as part of a team with folks all over, including New York. And of course one of the things I could do is begin internationalizing it by localizing it here in Scotland. For example I believe Edinburgh University has a strong AI research program. [5]
Best regards, and look forward to your thoughts,
Neil.
[1] The capabilities of the Semantic Web are currently backward looking and defined in the context of information exchanges supporting an Old World Order. The BCNGroup looks forward also and finds a way to connect groups who have similar interests while reminding us of social value and safety (see d-GBG bead thread on the SafeNet concept and the Knowledge Sharing concept.). By connecting similar social expression in real time, we find a new horizon opens up where the pragmatic axes (where consciousness exists as will as physical reality) is shared at great distances between people who have not meet physically.
[2] Yes, the group in the US and Canada has worked to bring a specific type of language to the discussion about human knowledge sharing. The technology is maturing but is un-connected with the natural science (see Chapter 2, Foundations of the Knowledge Science.) Many scientists and technologist recognize this, but there is no political or social institution to bind our awareness together.
[3] The core problems that we think that the BCNGroup will address are (1) completion of Masters and PhD education and development of thesis on knowledge systems (Virtual University), (2) conferences and distributed collaboration, (3) assistance in developing and filing patents on knowledge technology. Some benefits have been listed by Nathan Einwechter (who is US and Canadian Director of Membership). You would develop out a European Director of Membership as you see fit and have your actions reified by the BCNGroup Founding Committee.
[4] The group uses Groove to telephone internationally and to develop shared repositories of documents and threaded discussions. I will send to you an invitation. I note that Groove currently has bundles of user licenses designed to be purchased by an organization and then used as part of that Organization’s activities.
[5] Edinburgh University is indeed a central place with a good community of students and professors whose interest in BCNGroup can be explored. The Founding committee is interested in exploring with you how you might establish a group at this university, and other universities in Europe, where the Glass Bead Game capability can be developed into a cultural movement.