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| “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” -Victor Hugo, 1852 The 21st century presents our generation with a great unifying challenge; ensuring each person has access to clean water, food, and air. The responsibility of meeting this challenge belongs to all of us. With social innovations and communication tools, The Global Summit™ (TGS) provides new opportunities for all voices to be heard, enabling global participation and collective action. Beginning in 2008 as a planning symposium, with full-scale launch in 2009, The Global Summit™ empowers people, organizations, and businesses to work together around the world - and around the year - to catalyze a united strategy for human dignity and sustainability by 2015. Outcomes: 1. Establish a direct citizen input global policy making system incorporating and responding to voices of people living bellow a dollar a day & using mediation to promote transparent, equitable, & measurable results. 2. Unify the world’s social, economic & environmental movements in mutually-supportive partnerships to expand best practices, reduce duplication & increase collective impact for a sustainable world. 3. Reduce climate change through the transfer of green and clean technology, energy, Information & Communications Technology (ICT), transportation, sustainable agriculture, health, housing & educational solutions.
PHASE
I: 2007 - June 2008 - Programming,
TGS Committee Development, Evaluation Design PHASE
II: July - August 2008 Global Nomination
of TGS Founding Delegates PHASE
III: TGS
2008 - "Planning Symposium"
- San Francisco, CA. Oct.
TBA (BY INVITE ONLY) PHASE
IV: TGS 2009
- Full Scale, 5 Part “Humanity Uniting”, Los Angeles, CA. July
(TBA) Phases
V +: Annual
TGS 2010 -15 events in 6 remaining
world regions (+ global virtual conference hubs)
Core Events 2008-2009 TGS 2008 Planning Symposium - Presidio Golden Gate Club, San Francisco, CA. Nov 16-18. Strategy + commitments + celebration => Road map for 2009 Action: 200 extraordinary globally nominated delegates set the strategy, criteria and policy making foundation for 2009. Charged with the task of enabling grass-roots digital access to TGS 2009-2015, TGS 2008 represents a special opportunity "to bridge the digital divide". To meet this call to action, ICT visionaries (in Digital Village Working Group/ 1pie Hub) demonstrate emerging appropriate technology, assess gaps, and set new milestones. Pre-event: Global Delegation Welcome Reception Day 1 - Set forth Partners In Empowerment (PIE) collaboration process & global sustainability values as foundation for TGS development. Program committees establish TGS 2009 international policy making guidelines and advance collaborative production strategy via results oriented working sessions. Day 2 - Working sessions reconvene & define commitments. Afternoon discussion forum w/ emphasis on enabling world-wide participation and policy input through 1pie.org collaboration hub. Video conference with TGS regional centers (goal: 5 in Africa & 5 in other regions) to share development process & exchange global commitments. Day 3 - TGS staff & committee chairs re-unite to create road map report for TGS 2009 +. TGS
2009 - “Humanity Uniting”, Los Angeles, CA. (Date & Venue
TBA) PARTICIPANTS: In addition to the general public and change-makers in the USA, this and all TGS events will ensure full participation of grass-roots communities in the developing world, both online and off (through scholarships +). ACTION THEME: As the only full scale conference to be held in the USA, TGS 2009 will answer: “Climate Change, Social Impact and What America Can Do About it”. PROGRAM: The full scale Global Summit conference comprises 5 mutually supportive key components: Partners in Empowerment (PIE) Policy Action Sessions – Applying advances in digital media and conflict mediation, TGS’ policy making system ensures the voices of those most affected by climate change, AIDS, and poverty are heard. TGS’ PIE Policy Action Sessions unite representatives from 6 PIE sectors, conventional policy makers (heads of state, business leaders) with grass-roots stakeholders. Agreements made will be supported publicly via the 1pie Hub. Sustainable Achievement Awards & Expo – "A World Fair for Everything Sustainable” will enable global mass dissemination of best practices and leading appropriate technologies in energy, health, agriculture, transportation, etc., via multi-sector awards, investment forums, & transfer agreement programming. SEE Sustainability Forum – Social, economic, & environmental visionaries deliver transformative workshops empowering all sectors of society (Social Entrepreneurs, Collaborating Non-profits, Educational Institutions, Sustainable Businesses, Responsible Media Groups, & Artists in Action) co-create a healthier, culturally rich and bio-diverse world. A-list Concert & Cultural Performances – For millennium, artists have been the catalysts for lasting social change. One globally broadcast A-List concert will be dedicated to raising public awareness of the UN Millennium Development Goals promoted via worldwide. Additional art installations, short films, and theatrical dance performances will be woven throughout TGS harnessing creative power to inspire global awareness and local action. 1pie.org Collaboration Hub – Being developed as The Global Summit's data management system, 1pie.org will support real-time global access (and input) to TGS and multi-sector collaboration between the grass-roots and industrialized worlds - before, during and after TGS. As TGS evolves, 1pie.org will support EW 7 Stage global program delivery, joint needs assessments, evaluation & other tools to leverage community resources for global impact. Where do you see yourself in the PIE?
While conventional policy forums designed to address deliver magnificent goals (Earth Charter, Kyoto Protocol, UN Millennium Development Goals); realizing them requires far wider public participation and collective action. PIE Methodology - A Multi-sector Framework for Collaboration Based on the principles of equity, ecology, and transparency, the Partners In Empowerment™ (PIE) governance model reinforces democratic institutions by uniting diverse economic roles in mutually supportive partnerships to meet local needs. EW’s Partners In Empowerment™ model is based upon the proven virtues of mutually-supportive collaboration and adaptive, whole systems Complexity Science models. The simplified PIE model builds upon and advances existing methodologies. It was developed by Empowerment Works as a methodology for diverse local and global communities to resolve critical threats to human and environmental security. The model serves as a template for diverse, universally applicable inclusion of six core sectors of society, in the development and implementation of The Global Summit. Why PIE? While there have been many conferences dedicated to issues of sustainable development, in brilliantly diverse inter-disciplinary themes, none has been attempted in such a multi-sector format. The dynamic exchange between diverse sectors offers participants powerful collaborative communication tools. The PIE model (with 6 key economic sectors) is uniquely balanced and universally useful for all communities and can be applied to any issue or challenge a community – local or global - works to address. Rather than emphasizing diverse issues or topics such as health, economics, ecology, etc. PIE emphasizes people's (and institutional) ROLES based on what each has to contribute. Greening TGS - Walking the walk with ethical branding & production partners For the production, planning and greening of TGS 2008 & 2009, EW has partnered with Seven-Star, Inc. Achieving record-breaking results in greening LIVE EARTH, and producers of the 100k person Green Festivals for Global Exchange & CoopAmerica, Seven-Star delivers expert planning, production, event greening, exhibit sales, sponsorship development, strategic consulting, and conscious event marketing. Communicating The Global Summit vision to the world, Empowerment Works is honored to partner Jungle8, a leading conscious branding, messaging and design firm. Jungle8 has selected TGS as its annual pro-bono contract and is creating theglobalsummit.org, brand, and primary collaterals. Collaborative support from www.soundmindmedia.net and other remarkable talent is also greatly appreciated. Support / Partner / Make History Corporate Sponsors, Foundations and Individual Donors: TGS welcomes corporate, philanthropic and individual funding partners to support TGS development & global access to it. All donations are tax deductible as a program of Empowerment Works! Educational Institutions & Collaborating Non-profits: TGS program committees call for dedicated visionaries from policy think-tanks and community based organizations to develop various stages of TGS, as well as the implementation, needs assessments and evaluations to ensure global community access. Send all inquiries to: tgs@empowermentworks.org Established in 2001, Empowerment Works (EW) is a non-profit Think-Tank-in-Action advancing a global partnership for a sustainable world by nurturing mutually-supportive private, public, and voluntary collaborations that value local heritage. EW is comprised of a growing global community of Partners In Empowerment™ (citizens, businesses, & organizations) who understand, that by bringing the best of our resources and ideas to the table, we build a better world for humanity. Together We Can. *The Global Summit™ and Partners In Empowerment™ are registered trademarks and collaborative initiatives of Empowerment Works, Inc, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization with US federal tax ID #: 31-179-6801. |
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