« Pourquoi
viens-tu à Strasbourg? Ce qui a motivé ta décision.
Qu'est-ce qui te vient à l'esprit? », me demande mon amie Lyne.
Qu'est-ce qui te vient à l'esprit? », me demande mon amie Lyne.
The
Council of Europe is looking for citizen
experts
to contribute to a conference about the transition of youth to an
independent active life. That’s you: this is our life, and we all
are experts in it. We need session leaders, presenters, discussants,
visualizers, bloggers, social media ninjas, journalists,
interviewers; everything that makes a great conference.
During the
conference the Edgeryders community and European policy-makers
altogether will meet to share and discuss results of the augmented
ethnographic study of European Edgeryders carried out from November
2011 to June 2012. The main result of this conference will be a
structure of a shared document, the final output of our study and
concentrates all the expertise from the Edgeryders communit.
Also, it will be consistent with a shared, negotiated vision of
transition to a rewarding, active adult life toda, as it is depicted
by our citizen experts.
First of all I'm coming to the #Lote
conference because I was personaly invited and warmly requested by a
real pioneer Edgeryder named Lyne. A good and precious friend of mine
though I never met her before, except on Edgeryders via (John F
Moore's) Citizens in the Lab, LinkedIn or Twitter. And this makes
sense for me, because that's for now the first, best and quickest way
we all can meet each other, better know each other, share values and
ideas, and rapidly build something new, something nice, something
great for a greater Europe.
I'm coming to the #Lote conference
because I like bad jokes, then I suppose we all together should be
able to fish for a lot of lotes from river Ill during two fishing
days with a lote of european big fishes...and may-be some young
fishers and future leaders.
Seriously, I'm coming to the #Lote
conference because it is about Europe, Citizenship and Youth and I do
believe in this Only Trinity, since I ever was a fervent European
franco-belgian citizen. And since I am forever young, well, hope so.
I'm coming to the #Lote conference
because I am prepared to and I would like to share on big ideas like
citizen personal empowerment, open democracy and open gov,
cyberdemocracy*, transition initiatives and new political movements,
collective and adventive intelligence in social networks, historical
dissipative structures and event flows, crisis events, migration
flows, social, cultural, communicational, economical or ecological
flows...
A lot of flows for the #Lote fellows! Who have to prepare to pass the rapids and survive, again and again.
A lot of flows for the #Lote fellows! Who have to prepare to pass the rapids and survive, again and again.
Finally, I'm coming because, like most
of you Europeans I guess, I'm now living on the edge. What
else?
HappyJacky (JD)
* Those who should like to read my
French better than my English should be delighted with this extra
task: