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D W A R S door Antwerpen, mei 2009
Voor de stadswandeling stel ik de werktitel voor… DWARS door Antwerpen.
Met de bedoeling dwars te liggen…
Met de bedoeling ook echt dwars door Antwerpen te gaan…
En met de stellige bedoeling dat met een ‘bende’ te doen. Met verschillende mensen uit verschillende afdelingen… maar enkel diegene die ervaring hebben met ‘dwalen’ in het gebouw… en dus verlangen naar dwarsverbanden. Tja ge moet ergens selectief in zijn en ik ga het liefst op stap met ‘wakkere’ zielen.
De bedoeling van de wandeling is te vertellen wat de stadsontwikkelingen in Antwerpen ons kunnen leren voor Tilburg. Een andere cultuur ontmoeten doet kijken. En ik wil de gids zijn. Een gids die de vergelijking Antwerpen – Tilburg dagelijks maakt (waarbij het ingebakken zit in de genen). Weet dat ik daar vanaf mijn studietijd aardig wat ‘latijn’ heb in gestoken en ook in alle opzichten een ‘thuiswedstrijd’ speel.
Dwars door Antwerpen kan ons een beeld geven wat strategische planning betekent en laat zien waar dat gelukt is of lukt en waar dat niet gelukt is. We ontmoeten particuliere initiatieven, initiatieven van het Vlaams Woningfonds (een soort van corporatie), en initiatieven van de stadsontwikkelingsmaatschappijen SOMA en VESPA.
Met de bedoeling dwars te liggen…
Met de bedoeling ook echt dwars door Antwerpen te gaan…
En met de stellige bedoeling dat met een ‘bende’ te doen. Met verschillende mensen uit verschillende afdelingen… maar enkel diegene die ervaring hebben met ‘dwalen’ in het gebouw… en dus verlangen naar dwarsverbanden. Tja ge moet ergens selectief in zijn en ik ga het liefst op stap met ‘wakkere’ zielen.
De bedoeling van de wandeling is te vertellen wat de stadsontwikkelingen in Antwerpen ons kunnen leren voor Tilburg. Een andere cultuur ontmoeten doet kijken. En ik wil de gids zijn. Een gids die de vergelijking Antwerpen – Tilburg dagelijks maakt (waarbij het ingebakken zit in de genen). Weet dat ik daar vanaf mijn studietijd aardig wat ‘latijn’ heb in gestoken en ook in alle opzichten een ‘thuiswedstrijd’ speel.
Dwars door Antwerpen kan ons een beeld geven wat strategische planning betekent en laat zien waar dat gelukt is of lukt en waar dat niet gelukt is. We ontmoeten particuliere initiatieven, initiatieven van het Vlaams Woningfonds (een soort van corporatie), en initiatieven van de stadsontwikkelingsmaatschappijen SOMA en VESPA.
Travel to the heart of Europe, april 2004
Travel to the heart of Europe
European Cultural Identity Caravan
April 2004, with 200 people from all over the world.
Travel and preparation 04.04.04 Munich
Two hours walk through the old town on this peaceful and quiet Palm Sunday morning. Every here and there traditional brass bands playing as sensitive as possible. The cafés preparing for the ‘Café und Kuchen’ after the Holy Mess. After the night in the train, moving through the Europe we know towards the start of the Caravan. We are happy to be here and look forward to the travel in the unknown. We also enjoy being together, just the two of us, for the first time since several years. Mother and daughter.
In the train between Munich and Bled. I am writing my key-notes. They are in Dutch and not yet translated. Slowly the landscape alters into the Slovenian mountains. There is also a feeling of making connection with the ages before.
European Cultural Identity Caravan 05.04.04-11.04.04 Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Czech
Introduction on the European Identity Cultural Caravan
By Alan Levy
The Prague Post
(April 1, 2004)
If it's Monday, April 5, this must be Slovenia. If it's Tuesday the 6th, it's Hungary. If Wednesday, Slovakia. Thursday, Poland. Friday, Latvia. Saturday, Czech Republic. Six countries in six days! (Actually six in eight, for there's an assembly day at scenic Lake Bled in Slovenia on Palm Sunday, April 4, and an extra day in Prague Easter Sunday, April 11.)
Sounds like American package tourists making a whirlwind Trip of a Lifetime. But it isn't. It's some 140 European civic leaders, businessmen, entrepreneurs, artists, journalists and just plain joyriders (see "If You Go," in margin) taking all or part of a 2,500-kilometer (1,550-mile) journey mostly by train, plane and bus, to and through six of the 10 nations that join the European Union May 1. Charter flights to and from the Latvian capital, Riga, will be a symbolic greeting to the other Baltic nations, Lithuania and Estonia, which aren't on the itinerary, with Malta and Cyprus represented on board if celebrating in the distance.
The originator and driving force of the project, Slovenian-born violinist Miha Pogacnik, 54, calls it the European-Identity Cultural Caravan. But I call it the A-train (A for "Accession").
A rolling seminar
The train will be nine coaches long. Each car will carry a rotating group of up to 20 passengers to develop a specific discussion topic, with two experts -- a host and a moderator -- to channel the conversation creatively. But this is no luxury elitist Orient Express. The cars won't be sleepers but traveling auditoriums. Passengers will sleep in hotels en route.
Tentatively, the topics are "European Leadership" (with Dutch management consultant and trainer Fons Trompenaars and David Kamenetzky of Goldman Sachs), "Innovation and Enterpreneurship" (with Francesco de Leo, who is developing a satellite news network originating in Monte Carlo), "Sustainability and Ecology" (with Dutch environmentalist Ludo van Oyen and Klaus Leisinger, president of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development), "Polyphonic Media" (with Roger de Weck, the Swiss former editor-in-chief of Die Zeit in Hamburg and Tages Anzeiger in Z•rich, and Roland Schatz, founder of Media Tenor, a worldwide media-monitoring organization, and co-inventor of the Caravan concept with Pogacnik in the 1980s), "Education and Learning" (with Hans Siggaard Jensen of the Copenhagen Business School), "Democracy and Constitution" (with Alja Brglez, director of the Slovenian Institute of Civilization and Culture in Ljubljana), "Interdisciplinary Role of the Arts"(with Pogacnik and his magic violin), "The Future of Universities and Science" and "Social Responsibility" (with Nikos Avlonas of the American College of Greece). The working language will be English, with translations provided when needed.
At each destination -- usually the capital, though Poland's is Krakow -- the visitors will be welcomed by high-level dignitaries. Each country will have an "ambassador" aboard the train. The Czech Republic's is novelist Arnost Lustig, whose Geneva-based daughter Eva is the caravan's Czech liaison. Slovakia is sending children's literature guru Dusan Roll; Slovenia is sending Danica Purg of the IEDC-Bled School of Management.
Local hosts and patrons include the president of Latvia and, in Prague, Mayor Pavel Bem, Senate President Petr Pithart and Monika Pajerova of the nongovernmental organization Yes for Europe. Every stop along the way will also include entertainment by local celebrities as well as Pogacnik, usually free of charge. The two-day program in Prague is especially rich and will appear in next week's Calendar pages.
The Prague Post
(April 1, 2004)
If it's Monday, April 5, this must be Slovenia. If it's Tuesday the 6th, it's Hungary. If Wednesday, Slovakia. Thursday, Poland. Friday, Latvia. Saturday, Czech Republic. Six countries in six days! (Actually six in eight, for there's an assembly day at scenic Lake Bled in Slovenia on Palm Sunday, April 4, and an extra day in Prague Easter Sunday, April 11.)
Sounds like American package tourists making a whirlwind Trip of a Lifetime. But it isn't. It's some 140 European civic leaders, businessmen, entrepreneurs, artists, journalists and just plain joyriders (see "If You Go," in margin) taking all or part of a 2,500-kilometer (1,550-mile) journey mostly by train, plane and bus, to and through six of the 10 nations that join the European Union May 1. Charter flights to and from the Latvian capital, Riga, will be a symbolic greeting to the other Baltic nations, Lithuania and Estonia, which aren't on the itinerary, with Malta and Cyprus represented on board if celebrating in the distance.
The originator and driving force of the project, Slovenian-born violinist Miha Pogacnik, 54, calls it the European-Identity Cultural Caravan. But I call it the A-train (A for "Accession").
A rolling seminar
The train will be nine coaches long. Each car will carry a rotating group of up to 20 passengers to develop a specific discussion topic, with two experts -- a host and a moderator -- to channel the conversation creatively. But this is no luxury elitist Orient Express. The cars won't be sleepers but traveling auditoriums. Passengers will sleep in hotels en route.
Tentatively, the topics are "European Leadership" (with Dutch management consultant and trainer Fons Trompenaars and David Kamenetzky of Goldman Sachs), "Innovation and Enterpreneurship" (with Francesco de Leo, who is developing a satellite news network originating in Monte Carlo), "Sustainability and Ecology" (with Dutch environmentalist Ludo van Oyen and Klaus Leisinger, president of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development), "Polyphonic Media" (with Roger de Weck, the Swiss former editor-in-chief of Die Zeit in Hamburg and Tages Anzeiger in Z•rich, and Roland Schatz, founder of Media Tenor, a worldwide media-monitoring organization, and co-inventor of the Caravan concept with Pogacnik in the 1980s), "Education and Learning" (with Hans Siggaard Jensen of the Copenhagen Business School), "Democracy and Constitution" (with Alja Brglez, director of the Slovenian Institute of Civilization and Culture in Ljubljana), "Interdisciplinary Role of the Arts"(with Pogacnik and his magic violin), "The Future of Universities and Science" and "Social Responsibility" (with Nikos Avlonas of the American College of Greece). The working language will be English, with translations provided when needed.
At each destination -- usually the capital, though Poland's is Krakow -- the visitors will be welcomed by high-level dignitaries. Each country will have an "ambassador" aboard the train. The Czech Republic's is novelist Arnost Lustig, whose Geneva-based daughter Eva is the caravan's Czech liaison. Slovakia is sending children's literature guru Dusan Roll; Slovenia is sending Danica Purg of the IEDC-Bled School of Management.
Local hosts and patrons include the president of Latvia and, in Prague, Mayor Pavel Bem, Senate President Petr Pithart and Monika Pajerova of the nongovernmental organization Yes for Europe. Every stop along the way will also include entertainment by local celebrities as well as Pogacnik, usually free of charge. The two-day program in Prague is especially rich and will appear in next week's Calendar pages.
The themes we worked on together, during the travel.
European
Leadership
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Sustainability and Ecology
Polyphonic Media
Education and Learning
Democracy and Constitution
Interdisciplinary Role of the Art
The Future of Universities and Science
Social Responsibility
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Sustainability and Ecology
Polyphonic Media
Education and Learning
Democracy and Constitution
Interdisciplinary Role of the Art
The Future of Universities and Science
Social Responsibility
My key notes (in Dutch)
You can
find more about the key notes of other participants in the book of
preparation:
“A journey of Exploration: Composing Europe” via (website not found)
There you also can find the final statements of al the discussion groups.
De kracht van innovatie en ondernemerschap
Reizend van Tilburg (Nederland) naar Bled (Slovenië) 04.04.04
Innovatie
Een van de belangrijkste factoren is samenwerking. De grote kracht van innovatie zie ik als een voortdurend proces ‘van binnenuit’. Vanuit de voortdurende stroom van veranderingen enerzijds door de noodzaak gedreven, anderzijds door de mogelijkheden gevormd. Innovatie zonder hoofdletter ‘I’. Innovatie breder dan alleen een technische noviteit. Innovatie als integraal onderdeel van de dagelijkse werkelijkheid.Deze open manier van innovatie is toegankelijk en bij wijze van spreken niet iemands ‘bezit’.
Een voorbeeld:
Tijdens een busreis naar Kroatië, enkele jaren geleden, zit ik wat na te denken over de ontwikkelingen in mijn bedrijf.
Een van de belemmeringen is het ontbreken van adequate software om het gehele projectmanagement, planningen en calculaties te doen. Natuurlijk bestaat een dergelijk geïntegreerd software systeem, maar dat is ontworpen voor grotere bedrijven met bijvoorbeeld 200 medewerkers. In een bedrijf van 10 personen is datzelfde systeem erg kostbaar en moeizaam te implementeren. Bovendien ben je als bedrijf erg kwetsbaar als je het systeembeheer uitbesteed aan een externe partij.
Ik mijmer wat over een mogelijke oplossing. Zou er een oplossing zijn van vergelijkbare eenvoud als een enkelvoudige PC, zonder kostbaar netwerk en dito beheer daarvan? In de bus (die ruime vertraging had) wat rond gekuierd en eigenlijk een beetje uit verveling gaan zoeken naar mensen die mogelijk iets meer wisten wat verband hield met mijn probleem. Binnen ongeveer twee uur, had ik alle technische knowhow bijeengesprokkeld door heen en weer te lopen tussen tot alle puzzelstukjes pasten.
Het probleem was op te lossen in een peer-to-peer omgeving door de gespecialiseerde software daar op aan te passen.Thuisgekomen deze kennis gedeeld met de software leverancier, die direct allerlei aarzelingen en drempels opwierp ………en geen garantie bood. Dat was dus het probleem, nee ik hoefde geen garantie, ik wilde alleen dat ze zouden beloven hun best te doen en samen een pilotproject starten. Binnen enkele weken was het nieuwe systeem in de lucht en werd met groot succes bij veel bedrijven op de markt gezet.
Ook mijn probleem was opgelost, met relatief weinig moeite en véél minder kosten dan de oorspronkelijke ‘mastodont’.
Cyclische innovatie versus hiërarchische stagnatie
In van oudsher cyclische kennissystemen, zoals in de gilden (en waarschijnlijk nog veel oudere voorlopers daarvan) kennen we de ‘leerling – gezel – meester’ relatie. In feite is die ook nog relatief, dwz je bent nooit te oud om te leren.
Een voorbeeld:
De universiteit van Eindhoven voerde onlangs samen met de universiteit van Maastricht onderzoek uit naar de teruglopende tijdsduur dat managers adequaat hun functie kunnen blijven vervullen. Dit in opdracht van de Nederlandse overheid, die zich zorgen maakt over de hoge opleidingskosten van deze managers in relatie tot de ‘opbrengsten’. Tien jaar geleden was de gemiddelde ‘standtijd’ van een manager ongeveer 15 jaar. Ten tijde van het onderzoek was deze ‘standtijd’ teruggelopen naar 7 a 8 jaar.
Er werden enkele honderden managers geïnterviewd en hun functioneren in een grafiek weergegeven. Na gemiddeld 7 a 8 jaar liep de grafiek met een scherpe bocht naar beneden. Echter er waren enkele tientallen uitzonderingen. Hun grafiek boog niet naar beneden, maar liep steeds door. Er werd gekeken naar de overeenkomsten tussen deze mensen. Wat opviel was dat de personen wel enige excentriciteit gemeen hadden, nl de één keek zwart-wit TV in deze tijd, de ander had een vlinderdasje…was excentriciteit de bron waar deze managers steeds uit konden blijven putten….?
Tot ontdekt werd wat deze mensen werkelijk als overeenkomst hadden. Ze hadden namelijk zonder uitzondering allen een ‘leerling – gezel - meester’ relatie gekend. Niet enkel van ouds ambachtelijke beroepen en handwerkers, maar ook artsen, notarissen e,d, kennen een dergelijke open, cyclisch opleidingssysteem.
Heel opmerkelijk vind ik het dat de door de Europese regelgeving in het leven geroepen Nederlandse Mededingings-Autoriteit (Nma) juist deze sectoren één voor één afstraft en belet om dit cyclisch en open patroon voort te zetten. De bouw, administratiekantoren, notarissen, advocaten…één voor één worden deze sectoren afgestraft voor een open kennissysteem. Is dat de bedoeling? Naast de verwerpelijke frauduleuze activiteiten als omkoping, worden ook samenwerkingsvormen die juist kwaliteit en innovatie verhogend werken om zeep geholpen.
Zouden de Delta werken in Nederland tot stand gekomen zijn als de verantwoordelijkheden zo strikt gescheiden zouden zijn als de Nma (Europa dus) nu wil? Wat betekend dit voor de toekomst van Europa?
Aan de top Een ander ongewenst effect van deze hang naar hiërarchische stagnatie waarbij de verantwoordelijkheid niet laag in de organisatie, maar hoog in de top zijn de exorbitant hoge top salarissen aan de ene kant en het verschuilen achter de regels aan de andere kant.
Ondernemerschap – sociaal economisch model Een ondernemer ‘vertaald’ de behoefte of wens van een klant (of klanten) naar een concreet product of dienst. Hij of zij hoeft daarvoor geen openbare verantwoording af te leggen. Alleen intern naar werknemers en/of aandeelhouders. Dit in tegenstelling tot overheidsdiensten, die veel van hun tijd besteden aan het ‘transparant’ houden van hun handelen en daarmee publiek verantwoording afleggen.
Een ondernemer kan zich laten leiden door een eigen visie, door de eigen ambitie. Toch is ook de ondernemer afhankelijk van een sociaal economisch krachtenspel, dat er in Nederland ongeveer zo uitziet:
In de moderne samenleving is het de bedoeling dat iedereen binnen de eigen levensloop een zekere balans hierin vindt. Er is sprake van een dynamisch krachtenspel. Uitgangspunt is de autonome, vitale kracht van het individu. Het is een werkmodel, dat mensen kan helpen zich te ontwikkelen. Ongeacht de beginpositie van de persoon en rekening houdend met de motivatie en capaciteiten van ieder.
Ondernemende kwaliteiten
In deze tijd van grote werkeloosheid zie ik kansen om ons opnieuw te bezinnen op de mogelijkheden die het ondernemerschap ons bieden.
De autonomie die de ondernemer bezit, de geheel andere houding ten opzichte van verantwoordelijkheid; motivatie; vakbekwaamheid; kwaliteit en dergelijke ervaar ik als een groot pré. We zijn deze houding wat kwijtgeraakt in de afgelopen twee generaties. Toch bedoel ik niet dat we terug moeten gaan. Er zijn ook vele nieuwe ontwikkelingen, nieuwe beroepssectoren, nog niet geheel te benoemen, zoals bijvoorbeeld verwant aan multimedia. Ook voor velen de als negatief bestempelde ontwikkeling: ‘de individualisering’ van de samenleving ….
Dat biedt ook kansen …..met behoud of door het herwinnen van de autonome kwaliteiten en in een nieuwe balans tussen arbeid en zorg zie ik ‘netwerkachtige’ werkverbanden ontstaan die gezamenlijk een nieuwe ‘power’ vertegenwoordigen.
De onderneming, juridisch Wellicht is het tijd voor een nieuwe ‘rechtsvorm’ voor een onderneming, een juridische vorm voor het samenwerkingsverband tussen deze autonoom (blijvende) mensen. Zoals vroeger de coöperatie ontstond en in vergetelheid raakte, zoals de BV’s en de NV’s nu wellicht hun beste tijd gehad hebben… is het nu tijd voor ‘De Netwerkorganisatie’. Een tamelijk wendbare, platte organisatie, waarbij zelfstandig ondernemende individuen zich kunnen aansluiten op een flexibele manier.
“A journey of Exploration: Composing Europe” via (website not found)
There you also can find the final statements of al the discussion groups.
De kracht van innovatie en ondernemerschap
Reizend van Tilburg (Nederland) naar Bled (Slovenië) 04.04.04
Innovatie
Een van de belangrijkste factoren is samenwerking. De grote kracht van innovatie zie ik als een voortdurend proces ‘van binnenuit’. Vanuit de voortdurende stroom van veranderingen enerzijds door de noodzaak gedreven, anderzijds door de mogelijkheden gevormd. Innovatie zonder hoofdletter ‘I’. Innovatie breder dan alleen een technische noviteit. Innovatie als integraal onderdeel van de dagelijkse werkelijkheid.Deze open manier van innovatie is toegankelijk en bij wijze van spreken niet iemands ‘bezit’.
Een voorbeeld:
Tijdens een busreis naar Kroatië, enkele jaren geleden, zit ik wat na te denken over de ontwikkelingen in mijn bedrijf.
Een van de belemmeringen is het ontbreken van adequate software om het gehele projectmanagement, planningen en calculaties te doen. Natuurlijk bestaat een dergelijk geïntegreerd software systeem, maar dat is ontworpen voor grotere bedrijven met bijvoorbeeld 200 medewerkers. In een bedrijf van 10 personen is datzelfde systeem erg kostbaar en moeizaam te implementeren. Bovendien ben je als bedrijf erg kwetsbaar als je het systeembeheer uitbesteed aan een externe partij.
Ik mijmer wat over een mogelijke oplossing. Zou er een oplossing zijn van vergelijkbare eenvoud als een enkelvoudige PC, zonder kostbaar netwerk en dito beheer daarvan? In de bus (die ruime vertraging had) wat rond gekuierd en eigenlijk een beetje uit verveling gaan zoeken naar mensen die mogelijk iets meer wisten wat verband hield met mijn probleem. Binnen ongeveer twee uur, had ik alle technische knowhow bijeengesprokkeld door heen en weer te lopen tussen tot alle puzzelstukjes pasten.
Het probleem was op te lossen in een peer-to-peer omgeving door de gespecialiseerde software daar op aan te passen.Thuisgekomen deze kennis gedeeld met de software leverancier, die direct allerlei aarzelingen en drempels opwierp ………en geen garantie bood. Dat was dus het probleem, nee ik hoefde geen garantie, ik wilde alleen dat ze zouden beloven hun best te doen en samen een pilotproject starten. Binnen enkele weken was het nieuwe systeem in de lucht en werd met groot succes bij veel bedrijven op de markt gezet.
Ook mijn probleem was opgelost, met relatief weinig moeite en véél minder kosten dan de oorspronkelijke ‘mastodont’.
Cyclische innovatie versus hiërarchische stagnatie
In van oudsher cyclische kennissystemen, zoals in de gilden (en waarschijnlijk nog veel oudere voorlopers daarvan) kennen we de ‘leerling – gezel – meester’ relatie. In feite is die ook nog relatief, dwz je bent nooit te oud om te leren.
Een voorbeeld:
De universiteit van Eindhoven voerde onlangs samen met de universiteit van Maastricht onderzoek uit naar de teruglopende tijdsduur dat managers adequaat hun functie kunnen blijven vervullen. Dit in opdracht van de Nederlandse overheid, die zich zorgen maakt over de hoge opleidingskosten van deze managers in relatie tot de ‘opbrengsten’. Tien jaar geleden was de gemiddelde ‘standtijd’ van een manager ongeveer 15 jaar. Ten tijde van het onderzoek was deze ‘standtijd’ teruggelopen naar 7 a 8 jaar.
Er werden enkele honderden managers geïnterviewd en hun functioneren in een grafiek weergegeven. Na gemiddeld 7 a 8 jaar liep de grafiek met een scherpe bocht naar beneden. Echter er waren enkele tientallen uitzonderingen. Hun grafiek boog niet naar beneden, maar liep steeds door. Er werd gekeken naar de overeenkomsten tussen deze mensen. Wat opviel was dat de personen wel enige excentriciteit gemeen hadden, nl de één keek zwart-wit TV in deze tijd, de ander had een vlinderdasje…was excentriciteit de bron waar deze managers steeds uit konden blijven putten….?
Tot ontdekt werd wat deze mensen werkelijk als overeenkomst hadden. Ze hadden namelijk zonder uitzondering allen een ‘leerling – gezel - meester’ relatie gekend. Niet enkel van ouds ambachtelijke beroepen en handwerkers, maar ook artsen, notarissen e,d, kennen een dergelijke open, cyclisch opleidingssysteem.
Heel opmerkelijk vind ik het dat de door de Europese regelgeving in het leven geroepen Nederlandse Mededingings-Autoriteit (Nma) juist deze sectoren één voor één afstraft en belet om dit cyclisch en open patroon voort te zetten. De bouw, administratiekantoren, notarissen, advocaten…één voor één worden deze sectoren afgestraft voor een open kennissysteem. Is dat de bedoeling? Naast de verwerpelijke frauduleuze activiteiten als omkoping, worden ook samenwerkingsvormen die juist kwaliteit en innovatie verhogend werken om zeep geholpen.
Zouden de Delta werken in Nederland tot stand gekomen zijn als de verantwoordelijkheden zo strikt gescheiden zouden zijn als de Nma (Europa dus) nu wil? Wat betekend dit voor de toekomst van Europa?
Aan de top Een ander ongewenst effect van deze hang naar hiërarchische stagnatie waarbij de verantwoordelijkheid niet laag in de organisatie, maar hoog in de top zijn de exorbitant hoge top salarissen aan de ene kant en het verschuilen achter de regels aan de andere kant.
Ondernemerschap – sociaal economisch model Een ondernemer ‘vertaald’ de behoefte of wens van een klant (of klanten) naar een concreet product of dienst. Hij of zij hoeft daarvoor geen openbare verantwoording af te leggen. Alleen intern naar werknemers en/of aandeelhouders. Dit in tegenstelling tot overheidsdiensten, die veel van hun tijd besteden aan het ‘transparant’ houden van hun handelen en daarmee publiek verantwoording afleggen.
Een ondernemer kan zich laten leiden door een eigen visie, door de eigen ambitie. Toch is ook de ondernemer afhankelijk van een sociaal economisch krachtenspel, dat er in Nederland ongeveer zo uitziet:
In de moderne samenleving is het de bedoeling dat iedereen binnen de eigen levensloop een zekere balans hierin vindt. Er is sprake van een dynamisch krachtenspel. Uitgangspunt is de autonome, vitale kracht van het individu. Het is een werkmodel, dat mensen kan helpen zich te ontwikkelen. Ongeacht de beginpositie van de persoon en rekening houdend met de motivatie en capaciteiten van ieder.
Ondernemende kwaliteiten
In deze tijd van grote werkeloosheid zie ik kansen om ons opnieuw te bezinnen op de mogelijkheden die het ondernemerschap ons bieden.
De autonomie die de ondernemer bezit, de geheel andere houding ten opzichte van verantwoordelijkheid; motivatie; vakbekwaamheid; kwaliteit en dergelijke ervaar ik als een groot pré. We zijn deze houding wat kwijtgeraakt in de afgelopen twee generaties. Toch bedoel ik niet dat we terug moeten gaan. Er zijn ook vele nieuwe ontwikkelingen, nieuwe beroepssectoren, nog niet geheel te benoemen, zoals bijvoorbeeld verwant aan multimedia. Ook voor velen de als negatief bestempelde ontwikkeling: ‘de individualisering’ van de samenleving ….
Dat biedt ook kansen …..met behoud of door het herwinnen van de autonome kwaliteiten en in een nieuwe balans tussen arbeid en zorg zie ik ‘netwerkachtige’ werkverbanden ontstaan die gezamenlijk een nieuwe ‘power’ vertegenwoordigen.
De onderneming, juridisch Wellicht is het tijd voor een nieuwe ‘rechtsvorm’ voor een onderneming, een juridische vorm voor het samenwerkingsverband tussen deze autonoom (blijvende) mensen. Zoals vroeger de coöperatie ontstond en in vergetelheid raakte, zoals de BV’s en de NV’s nu wellicht hun beste tijd gehad hebben… is het nu tijd voor ‘De Netwerkorganisatie’. Een tamelijk wendbare, platte organisatie, waarbij zelfstandig ondernemende individuen zich kunnen aansluiten op een flexibele manier.
- van kwantiteit (altijd aanwezig) naar kwaliteit (betrokken inbreng)
- flexibeler werktijden
- projectgestuurde teams
- veel individuele verantwoordelijkheid en zelfsturendheid
- keuzemodel voor sociale zekerheid
- eenvoudige fiscaaljuridische vorm, zou het moeten krijgen
The travel together
The travel together
04.04.04 Bled, Still Sunday
With a taxi to the Castle of Bled on top of a rocky mountain rising up from the lake. The curly road brings us to the first short sight of the people we are going to be with for the next week. Because of the delay of our train already in the Netherlands, we missed the connection in Munich and build up a delay of about four or five hours. The relaxed schedule of the reception of guests was ended by the time we arrived and we had to hurry back to check in our hotel. About fifteen minutes to take a very quick shower and find our way down to the lake, where the boats waited for us all. Then we enjoyed a very beautiful row to the island of Bled while the sun set and we felt comfortable all together in the same boats. We start to mingle our languages.
Walking up the sun warmed stones of the stairs to the chapel, I notices many yellow primroses (sleutelbloemen). It was a kind of shock.. how could I forget them. There were many of them in my youth, but they must have been disappeared without letting me know.
In the chapel it was still as could as winter, you could see your breath. We enjoyed a welcoming concert by chorus Gallus and Miha Pogacnik, violin. The welcoming words were from the Slovene poet Ciril Zlobec. He is a member of the Slovene Academy and was member of the Slovene Presidency from 1990 till 1992. The poem was a love poem, very beautiful and sensitive, even in the translation to English.
Back in the boats, it was full moon, and a very romantically passage over the lake to the lights of Bled. We didn’t eat much since breakfast in Munich and a quick meal in the train. It must have been towards eleven or midnight that there was a lovely vegetarian meal with warm fires in the courtyard of a tavern. Inside there was no place for such a big and growing group of people. We started conversations and enjoyed this wonderful international companionship.
Time to go to bed. Very satisfied with this first day, but of course rather tired. We had an unpleasant surprise in our hotel room. First we didn’t see it because of the pattern of the carpet, but then there were thousands of ants on the flour and starting to be everywhere.
We changed rooms fluently and went to sleep.
05.04.04 Bled, Monday
Early morning breakfast andleaving for the plenary at Bled school of Management across the road. A very modern building which was very similar to a museum of contemporary arts. Ember was not feeling very well, she looked a bit like a sad bird and needed my silk scarf to wind around her throat. After the plenary she went back to the hotel room and I went to the first session of the workshops. We presented ourselves to each other and talked about the first questions mentioned in the plenary.
We were six or seven people. All from the western countries, like Norway, the Netherlands, England, Germany, Canada and also Japan. Mostly men. Not enough diversity in my opinion. We were asked not to skip discussion groups during the week, but look for depth. I suggested to trespass that rule and ask for other members. Specially from the middle European countries and to find a more divers and representatively group. The next day we were seventeen altogether and we became soon a very vivid and powerful team.
04.04.04 Bled, Still Sunday
With a taxi to the Castle of Bled on top of a rocky mountain rising up from the lake. The curly road brings us to the first short sight of the people we are going to be with for the next week. Because of the delay of our train already in the Netherlands, we missed the connection in Munich and build up a delay of about four or five hours. The relaxed schedule of the reception of guests was ended by the time we arrived and we had to hurry back to check in our hotel. About fifteen minutes to take a very quick shower and find our way down to the lake, where the boats waited for us all. Then we enjoyed a very beautiful row to the island of Bled while the sun set and we felt comfortable all together in the same boats. We start to mingle our languages.
Walking up the sun warmed stones of the stairs to the chapel, I notices many yellow primroses (sleutelbloemen). It was a kind of shock.. how could I forget them. There were many of them in my youth, but they must have been disappeared without letting me know.
In the chapel it was still as could as winter, you could see your breath. We enjoyed a welcoming concert by chorus Gallus and Miha Pogacnik, violin. The welcoming words were from the Slovene poet Ciril Zlobec. He is a member of the Slovene Academy and was member of the Slovene Presidency from 1990 till 1992. The poem was a love poem, very beautiful and sensitive, even in the translation to English.
Back in the boats, it was full moon, and a very romantically passage over the lake to the lights of Bled. We didn’t eat much since breakfast in Munich and a quick meal in the train. It must have been towards eleven or midnight that there was a lovely vegetarian meal with warm fires in the courtyard of a tavern. Inside there was no place for such a big and growing group of people. We started conversations and enjoyed this wonderful international companionship.
Time to go to bed. Very satisfied with this first day, but of course rather tired. We had an unpleasant surprise in our hotel room. First we didn’t see it because of the pattern of the carpet, but then there were thousands of ants on the flour and starting to be everywhere.
We changed rooms fluently and went to sleep.
05.04.04 Bled, Monday
Early morning breakfast andleaving for the plenary at Bled school of Management across the road. A very modern building which was very similar to a museum of contemporary arts. Ember was not feeling very well, she looked a bit like a sad bird and needed my silk scarf to wind around her throat. After the plenary she went back to the hotel room and I went to the first session of the workshops. We presented ourselves to each other and talked about the first questions mentioned in the plenary.
We were six or seven people. All from the western countries, like Norway, the Netherlands, England, Germany, Canada and also Japan. Mostly men. Not enough diversity in my opinion. We were asked not to skip discussion groups during the week, but look for depth. I suggested to trespass that rule and ask for other members. Specially from the middle European countries and to find a more divers and representatively group. The next day we were seventeen altogether and we became soon a very vivid and powerful team.
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
05.04.04
Ljubljana (Slovenia), Tuesday
Start before the statue of Europe.
Walk through the old town, with guide.
Gregorian music, very beautiful.
Walk to the castle of Ljublijana
Wise words of an landscape healing architect, vision on Europe
Music and dance of Renaissance Ljublijana
Walk to the city Hall, welcome by the (female) mayor
Presentation of the book ‘man in a magic square’ of the national dead poet. Modern dance from Triest.
(No meal by misunderstanding, so we skipped the
Concert in the old post office, seated between the orchestra
And had a lovely meal instead, Ember and I.)
Start before the statue of Europe.
Walk through the old town, with guide.
Gregorian music, very beautiful.
Walk to the castle of Ljublijana
Wise words of an landscape healing architect, vision on Europe
Music and dance of Renaissance Ljublijana
Walk to the city Hall, welcome by the (female) mayor
Presentation of the book ‘man in a magic square’ of the national dead poet. Modern dance from Triest.
(No meal by misunderstanding, so we skipped the
Concert in the old post office, seated between the orchestra
And had a lovely meal instead, Ember and I.)
Budapest (Hungary)
06.04.04 Budapest (Hungary), Wednesday
Many hours of delay at the border.
Exhibition of Hungarian architect Imre Makovecz.
Plenary and small groups meet the local civil servants and politicia.
Reception with buffet.
Concert of string quartet Csaba Onczay.
Cello and piano concert.
Many hours of delay at the border.
Exhibition of Hungarian architect Imre Makovecz.
Plenary and small groups meet the local civil servants and politicia.
Reception with buffet.
Concert of string quartet Csaba Onczay.
Cello and piano concert.
Miha Pogacnik
Photo: The inspirator of the EICC European Identity Cultural Caravan, Miha Pogacnik
http://www.mihavision.com
Bratislava (Slovakia)
07.04.04 Bratislava (Slovakia), Thursday
Many hours of delay at the border
Welcome in Town Hall
with two slices of bread each, if you were lucky
Short walk through the old town centre by night
Speech from EU commissioner
Folklore music and dances
Krokow, Poland
08.04.04 Krokow (Poland), Friday
Town Hall
Four hours of delay at the border
Welcome by mayor and town architect
In the very beautiful Town Hall
With plenty of food for all of us and friendly people
Theatre of Shakespeare in the Polish language
Guided tour through the centre of the old town
Departure for Prague
Town Hall
Four hours of delay at the border
Welcome by mayor and town architect
In the very beautiful Town Hall
With plenty of food for all of us and friendly people
Theatre of Shakespeare in the Polish language
Guided tour through the centre of the old town
Departure for Prague
University of Krokow
Photo: University of Krokow
Market place of Krokow
Photo: Market
place of Krokow
Prague, Czech
10.04.04 Prague (Czech), Sunday
We both missed the guided tour through the centre of Prague
But were in time for the photo exhibition and museum.
We both missed the guided tour through the centre of Prague
But were in time for the photo exhibition and museum.
Prague, Czech
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The keynotes of innovation and entrepreneurship
11.04.04 Prague (Czech), Monday
At the end of the European Identity Cultural Caravan tour we were the guests of Rytirsky Salle, senate of parliament of the Czech Republik. And about 200 people who worked one week on a common message on 10 themes enjoyed the final comming together. We listened to the speech of Petr Pithart, senate leader of the parliament of CR. And to greeting words from Pavel Bern, Mayor of the capital city Prague. There was a life video transmission from Madeleine Albright USA and a statement of Alja Brglezová, institute of civilization and culture of Slovenia . . .
. . . And suddenly there was no time left to present the keynotes of the 9 themes of European Identity Cultural Caravan . . , so I give you ours on Innovation and entrepreneurship down here . . . and we spent the last evening together, never forgetting what we had in common. We could feel that deep down in our hearts. The heart of Europe.
European-Identity Cultural Caravan
(Part one) Workshop Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Bled-Ljubljana-Budapest-Bratislava 4-8 April 2004
Our results, our dreams, our contributions
By discussing:
What is the overall scope ?
What can the group achieve ?
What contribution we can make to the caravan ?
What contribution we can make to the new EU countries ?
We focused on an "European way" of innovation and entrepreneurship.
We found out six questions and we agreed in the following answers:
1. What kind of innovation do we need in today’s world ?
We have to accept the limitations of nature. Nature is the main value for a human society. Therefore: any innovation which improves the relationship between human society and nature has to be encouraged.
First we took a closer look at the process of innovation. In fact you can put our starting question the other way round: “What kind of environment we need to foster innovations ?” An open culture, access to information, need for application, ability to transform innovations into society with different incubation times.
We talked about the more global aspects, like climate change, rich versus poor, international disputes and terrorism. About natural economics, more renewable energies, hydro gene economy, new agri-food products. Connecting everything in globalisation also comes with new dangers. We imagined what would happen if the natural oil resources would be disappeared at once.
We leave that to your imagination, but there was also the idea something would change, more a cultural switch, status and symbols would renew.
2. What is the desirable relationship of innovation and entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneurship can lay the basics for employment, but this is not a permit for wasteful activity. Entrepreneurship needed in today’s world has to stimulate innovations, which respect nature and human living conditions.
This balance we have to find out every day once more.
Encourage co-operative risk-taking business and mutual networking. Find acceptable ways to deal with failures. Entrepreneurship without innovation is perhaps more safe but less sexy. What would you tell your son or daughter?
There are three major problems: we stick to vested interests, inflexible flawed thinking, and have poor future visions. We could start to incubate positive feelings, think ‘out of the box’ and seek for diversity in many situations.
We might need a more dynamic social economic system model: the balance between work, income, care is continuously shifting depending on the individual needs, opposites could be more combined to measure. More individual, more regional.
Over regulation might effect innovation negatively.
3. What world and society will we have in 2014?
We had a consensus in our group, that of a very pessimistic outlook for the coming years. There are a lot of opportunities, but as many negatives. For example: increasing security problems, global conflicts, instability in the regional blocks and in the monetary market. Nevertheless we are convinced there is a global agreement on global issues. For example: there is a long standing process of understanding environmental issues. That is a positive message. But we have to add: This process is taking way too long. In summary: the outlook remains open.
4. What is our desire for living in those times?
First of all: to keep peace, peaceful times as a basic of all things.
Ever since the end of the cold war there was a common understanding among us, that we will not have to suffer a new war in Europe. Even though peace is the foundation of sustainable entrepreneurship an innovation we have to realize, that peace can not be taken for granted.
5. What type of society do we envision?
The main issues are: open, pluralistic an tolerant, then in itself works.
We have to fight against poverty and fundamentalism and for equal chances.
We envision a society that offers opportunities, but that expects as well, that you give something back to society, if you can.
European-Identity Cultural Caravan
(Part two) Workshop Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Krakow-Prague 9-10 April 2004
Preconditions and additional stimuli for an environment
where entrepreneurship can grow
To start a business (alone or with others) you go through the process of:
(In Dutch) (In English)
Dromen Dreaming
Denken Thinking
Durven Daring
Doen Doing
Therefore we need the right environment locally and wider scale structures and regulations, or deregulations. (Distinguished between small and large businesses.)
For example, we talked about the phenomenon of equipment centres for small scale companies and starting up a company after finishing your study. Also for new professions as multi-media etc.
We could call them: “Small Business Incubation Centres” and we really need them to spread like mushrooms.
For example, the European tender system is at the moment the reason that a lot of small companies cannot compete the bigger ones, and many of them have to stop their business.
We noticed that we needed different ways to transfer….(like Fons Trompenaars said at the beginning of this journey) …..embrace the opposites…..
So…
Transfer between generations, between young and starting persons and older ore more experienced persons. We speak about coaching and mentorship. This can be done (and found) by all of us.
Transfer between bigger and smaller companies. The bigger ones mostly have more money, but a less inspiring environment for innovations. The bigger can invest in the smaller companies, where at their turn they can join the innovative atmosphere.
Transfer of education. A more practical study through the opportunity of practical training periods in companies. Refreshing teachers in companies ore combining teaching with working as an entrepreneur.
Transfer of knowledge and experience between European countries. Working together to solve problems ore find new solutions.
As a group of innovative entrepreneurs on this inspiring caravan we would like to give the other groups ….the gift of the entrepreneurial attitude…. not only to create things - when needed – but also clear away things when there are too much of them.
For example, when there are too much of regulations and laws, we as entrepreneurs are not able or allowed to remove laws that are an obstruction or no longer needed, but with a bit of entrepreneurial attitude (which we can help them to learn) the new European lawyers and politicians can do that.
But also - of course – all the new European humans should consider not look only what they want to reach, but also what they leave behind for future generations.
European-Identity Cultural Caravan
(Part three) Workshop Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Prague 11 April 2004
The answer on the last of the six questions:
6. What innovative ideas or concepts would we like to implement. How can we (not others) manage it?
Because good things can be done in many areas of society, we tried to focus our discussion on the foundation of seeding innovation and entrepreneurship.
Even networking has become a common ground, we had to look for the next layer of new ideas. Since the internet has become everybody’s darling it allows a democratic free flow of information. But up to this time the use of the internet seems to be limited to the experts.
Heiko and Loic told us about a new tool that allow everyone to participate in the advantage of information sharing. The tool is named weblog.
Web means a net with knots and the space between them, like the fisherman’s net.
In the internet we all can be a knot in the net by taking part in the information
Process as a receiver and a transmitter as well.
Log means the daily our hourly written diary , the logbook of a ship or just a
caravan. Some of us are used to write every day in their diary. Why should we
not publish it every day and get back the comments of a big audience.
The web-log is nothing else than a tool for all of us to take part in a daily worldwide dialogue.
If you want to have more information, you must not read, learn or write anything.
Just do this:
Turn on your PC,
connect with the internet,
type google.com or so,
and then type: Euroidentity
or Loic or Heiko
and follow the traffic lights.
This new road will lead us to the EICC - weblog
Takashi ‘Tachi’ Kiuchi Japan
Ingeborg Amundrud Denmark
Carla Bassetti Italy
Lucy Bathgate The Netherlands
Gabor Bojar Hongary
Heiko Hebig Germany
Peter Henderson Canada
Jacek Kuzmicki Poland
Louic Le Meur France
Ulrike Levri Germany/Austria
Stefan Mühler Germany
Werner Pankoke Germany
Wolf Schöde Germany
Simone Scholtens The Netherlands
Ember The Netherlands
Vijay Srinivasan India/Switserland
Eva Szita-Morris Hungary/Gr-Britain
Sheldon Warton-Woods Gr-Britain/Luxembourg
Torsten Winter Germany
At the end of the European Identity Cultural Caravan tour we were the guests of Rytirsky Salle, senate of parliament of the Czech Republik. And about 200 people who worked one week on a common message on 10 themes enjoyed the final comming together. We listened to the speech of Petr Pithart, senate leader of the parliament of CR. And to greeting words from Pavel Bern, Mayor of the capital city Prague. There was a life video transmission from Madeleine Albright USA and a statement of Alja Brglezová, institute of civilization and culture of Slovenia . . .
. . . And suddenly there was no time left to present the keynotes of the 9 themes of European Identity Cultural Caravan . . , so I give you ours on Innovation and entrepreneurship down here . . . and we spent the last evening together, never forgetting what we had in common. We could feel that deep down in our hearts. The heart of Europe.
European-Identity Cultural Caravan
(Part one) Workshop Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Bled-Ljubljana-Budapest-Bratislava 4-8 April 2004
Our results, our dreams, our contributions
By discussing:
What is the overall scope ?
What can the group achieve ?
What contribution we can make to the caravan ?
What contribution we can make to the new EU countries ?
We focused on an "European way" of innovation and entrepreneurship.
We found out six questions and we agreed in the following answers:
1. What kind of innovation do we need in today’s world ?
We have to accept the limitations of nature. Nature is the main value for a human society. Therefore: any innovation which improves the relationship between human society and nature has to be encouraged.
First we took a closer look at the process of innovation. In fact you can put our starting question the other way round: “What kind of environment we need to foster innovations ?” An open culture, access to information, need for application, ability to transform innovations into society with different incubation times.
We talked about the more global aspects, like climate change, rich versus poor, international disputes and terrorism. About natural economics, more renewable energies, hydro gene economy, new agri-food products. Connecting everything in globalisation also comes with new dangers. We imagined what would happen if the natural oil resources would be disappeared at once.
We leave that to your imagination, but there was also the idea something would change, more a cultural switch, status and symbols would renew.
2. What is the desirable relationship of innovation and entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneurship can lay the basics for employment, but this is not a permit for wasteful activity. Entrepreneurship needed in today’s world has to stimulate innovations, which respect nature and human living conditions.
This balance we have to find out every day once more.
Encourage co-operative risk-taking business and mutual networking. Find acceptable ways to deal with failures. Entrepreneurship without innovation is perhaps more safe but less sexy. What would you tell your son or daughter?
There are three major problems: we stick to vested interests, inflexible flawed thinking, and have poor future visions. We could start to incubate positive feelings, think ‘out of the box’ and seek for diversity in many situations.
We might need a more dynamic social economic system model: the balance between work, income, care is continuously shifting depending on the individual needs, opposites could be more combined to measure. More individual, more regional.
Over regulation might effect innovation negatively.
3. What world and society will we have in 2014?
We had a consensus in our group, that of a very pessimistic outlook for the coming years. There are a lot of opportunities, but as many negatives. For example: increasing security problems, global conflicts, instability in the regional blocks and in the monetary market. Nevertheless we are convinced there is a global agreement on global issues. For example: there is a long standing process of understanding environmental issues. That is a positive message. But we have to add: This process is taking way too long. In summary: the outlook remains open.
4. What is our desire for living in those times?
First of all: to keep peace, peaceful times as a basic of all things.
Ever since the end of the cold war there was a common understanding among us, that we will not have to suffer a new war in Europe. Even though peace is the foundation of sustainable entrepreneurship an innovation we have to realize, that peace can not be taken for granted.
5. What type of society do we envision?
The main issues are: open, pluralistic an tolerant, then in itself works.
We have to fight against poverty and fundamentalism and for equal chances.
We envision a society that offers opportunities, but that expects as well, that you give something back to society, if you can.
European-Identity Cultural Caravan
(Part two) Workshop Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Krakow-Prague 9-10 April 2004
Preconditions and additional stimuli for an environment
where entrepreneurship can grow
To start a business (alone or with others) you go through the process of:
(In Dutch) (In English)
Dromen Dreaming
Denken Thinking
Durven Daring
Doen Doing
Therefore we need the right environment locally and wider scale structures and regulations, or deregulations. (Distinguished between small and large businesses.)
For example, we talked about the phenomenon of equipment centres for small scale companies and starting up a company after finishing your study. Also for new professions as multi-media etc.
We could call them: “Small Business Incubation Centres” and we really need them to spread like mushrooms.
For example, the European tender system is at the moment the reason that a lot of small companies cannot compete the bigger ones, and many of them have to stop their business.
We noticed that we needed different ways to transfer….(like Fons Trompenaars said at the beginning of this journey) …..embrace the opposites…..
So…
Transfer between generations, between young and starting persons and older ore more experienced persons. We speak about coaching and mentorship. This can be done (and found) by all of us.
Transfer between bigger and smaller companies. The bigger ones mostly have more money, but a less inspiring environment for innovations. The bigger can invest in the smaller companies, where at their turn they can join the innovative atmosphere.
Transfer of education. A more practical study through the opportunity of practical training periods in companies. Refreshing teachers in companies ore combining teaching with working as an entrepreneur.
Transfer of knowledge and experience between European countries. Working together to solve problems ore find new solutions.
As a group of innovative entrepreneurs on this inspiring caravan we would like to give the other groups ….the gift of the entrepreneurial attitude…. not only to create things - when needed – but also clear away things when there are too much of them.
For example, when there are too much of regulations and laws, we as entrepreneurs are not able or allowed to remove laws that are an obstruction or no longer needed, but with a bit of entrepreneurial attitude (which we can help them to learn) the new European lawyers and politicians can do that.
But also - of course – all the new European humans should consider not look only what they want to reach, but also what they leave behind for future generations.
European-Identity Cultural Caravan
(Part three) Workshop Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Prague 11 April 2004
The answer on the last of the six questions:
6. What innovative ideas or concepts would we like to implement. How can we (not others) manage it?
Because good things can be done in many areas of society, we tried to focus our discussion on the foundation of seeding innovation and entrepreneurship.
Even networking has become a common ground, we had to look for the next layer of new ideas. Since the internet has become everybody’s darling it allows a democratic free flow of information. But up to this time the use of the internet seems to be limited to the experts.
Heiko and Loic told us about a new tool that allow everyone to participate in the advantage of information sharing. The tool is named weblog.
Web means a net with knots and the space between them, like the fisherman’s net.
In the internet we all can be a knot in the net by taking part in the information
Process as a receiver and a transmitter as well.
Log means the daily our hourly written diary , the logbook of a ship or just a
caravan. Some of us are used to write every day in their diary. Why should we
not publish it every day and get back the comments of a big audience.
The web-log is nothing else than a tool for all of us to take part in a daily worldwide dialogue.
If you want to have more information, you must not read, learn or write anything.
Just do this:
Turn on your PC,
connect with the internet,
type google.com or so,
and then type: Euroidentity
or Loic or Heiko
and follow the traffic lights.
This new road will lead us to the EICC - weblog
Takashi ‘Tachi’ Kiuchi Japan
Ingeborg Amundrud Denmark
Carla Bassetti Italy
Lucy Bathgate The Netherlands
Gabor Bojar Hongary
Heiko Hebig Germany
Peter Henderson Canada
Jacek Kuzmicki Poland
Louic Le Meur France
Ulrike Levri Germany/Austria
Stefan Mühler Germany
Werner Pankoke Germany
Wolf Schöde Germany
Simone Scholtens The Netherlands
Ember The Netherlands
Vijay Srinivasan India/Switserland
Eva Szita-Morris Hungary/Gr-Britain
Sheldon Warton-Woods Gr-Britain/Luxembourg
Torsten Winter Germany