This is the last update for
http://www.droppingknowledge.org/...
In 24 hours, it will begin.
Watch the introduction here http://www.youtube.com/...
If you missed my two prior diaries:http://www.dailykos.com/...
and
http://www.dailykos.com/...
This creation of over 600 hours for an online video library is unpresedented.
More after the jump:
Actor Willem Dafoe and Nigerian human rights activist Hafsat Abiola
http://kind.org/ are the co-hosts.
112 of the world's most innovative speakers, humanitarians, scientists, artists and philosophers will come together in Bebelplatz square in Berlin. All seated together, at the world's largest round table, they will be asked 100 questions simultaneously--these questions, which have been submitted on the dropping knowledge website from individuals from around the globe, will then be answered by each participant, recorded, and put into the online library for all to access.
Due to the large international interest in the Table of Free Voices, they are also offering a live-stream of the event on the website.
The participants' answers are only just the beginning. We are also invited to give our own answers to these 100 questions.
On September 10, they will then launch an internet portal with a forum for all to participate, to answer questions, and to have dialog with others around the world.
It will be all inclusive, regardless of age, sex, race, religion, and culture.
The web portal is an open-source platform with 100% stakeholder perspective--it cannot be owned by any corporation or individual--it is free to all.
Having witnessed this event's growth from almost it's conception, I am thrilled it is all coming together tomorrow and wishing I could be there in person to feel all that creative energy that will inevitably be present.
It will be exciting to follow what transpires following this event. Communication, dialog, new ideas, new understanding, new concepts. I've believed for a long time that education is the key to positive change and we may be able to educate each other easier through this new media.
It is also possible my personal question: "If the earth clearly does not need people to survive/exist, but human beings clearly need the earth, why are unable to humble ourselves on a global scale to do for the earth that which respects that sentiment?" will be used as 1 of the 100 asked. It has been scrolling across the website for the past week or so. THAT would be awesome!
When you ask in order to understand and you answer in order to share, you are dropping knowledge.