Ways You Can Participate
Be part of building and promoting a global action plan. The consultation process is designed to capture a collective picture of the needs and opinions of the global community and develop global solutions to such challenges as the growing divide between rich and poor, climate change, and population growth.
There are many ways for you to participate in this process: online, in your community or in the Secretariat. Please see the suggested possibilities or methods below:
Participation in the Secretariat
The Secretariat of the Coalition for the Global Commons is facilitating the organization of the multi-stakeholder consultation activities. The team is coordinating the circle of supporting organizations, leaders, experts and other partners, and ensure that new and revised iterations of the text are available.
The Secretariat consists of six subdivisions, If you are interested in supporting one of the teams, please contact the coordinator of the respective team.
- Policy Development - Scott Champion
The policy development area consists of the editing team of the action plan. This team of experts and writers, led by the Policy Development Coordinator, will revise the submissions received in reports or through the website under each topic, coordinate the input, and consider all the views and ideas that have been put forth. With five or six editors and one leading coordinator per subject, they will manage, write, and edit the specific content of the global commons action plan and present it at the Convention on the Global Commons in 2010. With eight to nine different policy subjects to develop, the entire team can consist of 50-60 people.
- Information Technology - Todd Lorentz
Much of the tools used to develop and support the consultation process stem from IT. Therefore, an innovative and avant-garde IT team is necessary to keep the tools efficient and practical, and to open the horizon on innovative methods, problem-solving, and multilateral integration. The IT team is mainly responsible for coordinating the consultation process' IT design, developing or identifying the hardware and software required and needed, maintaining the consultation wiki-based website, and facilitating the information and social networks among the entire organizational body.
- Coordination Management - Frithjof Finkbeiner
This team of managers will lead the administration coordinators, administrate the Secretariat of the Coalition for the Global Commons, and serve as treasurer of the Secretariat. Management coordinators evaluate reports consistently received by individual coordinators and report to the Integrity Council, as well as to the Global Marshall Plan Foundation.
- National Network Coordinators - Todd Lorentz
The consultation process will be promoted and implemented in as many nations as possible. In order to maintain consistency and efficiency, each national office will report to the National Network Coordination team. The latter is responsible for the coordination and networking of constituencies of active organizers, partners, leaders, organizations, and the public within each individual nation. This team also uses its resources and networks to collaborate with other movements and agencies within these nations.
- Communication, Public Relations - Helmut Hartl
In order to promote the essence and goals of the consultation process and ensure the participation of as many multi-level stakeholders as possible, the communications team will handle media relations, publication management, image management, monitoring of public opinion, interest group targeting, and public outreach. The communications team is responsible of developing a consistent and effective image and message for the Coalition of the Global Commons.
- Financing - Frank Pospischil
This team is responsible for fundraising on behalf of the Coalition for the Global Commons in order to maximize the efficiency and impact of the consultation process. Financing will stem from both the private and public sectors.
If you are a specialist in one of the 7 topics:
- share your vision, information, and experience by directly emailing us
- engage with experts, leaders, and the public about your work
- upload a written report or research document through this website
If you possess, as a group or individual, significant degrees of practical knowledge that have been attained directly through experience and/or if you actively work with the most difficult problems confronting the world:
- Describe experiences through email - provide insights or experiences relevant to a particular thematic areas
- Submit Documents - provide oral or written reports outlining detailed ideas, concerns, agreements, and relevant research
- Organise Round Table Meetings and Forums - peer-based round table discussions, forums, panels, conferences, and other consultation meetings along particular thematic lines
- Participate in a Neo-Helsinki consultation method - teams of experts can be assembled to form a consultation team, which will have the responsibility to chair meetings, interact with various constituencies, commission policy papers, and produce memos and publications for use by our Policy Development department
- Coordinate a NextExpertizer session - produce quantifiable surveys that are based on unrestricted interviews, which means that the interviewed can express themselves frankly, using their own words, on the subject of the survey
- Implement the DELPHI method - develop questions or statements in order to generate text-based outcomes by providing the target group with the "right" questions and finding common answers to these questions
If you are part of the general public:
- Email Submissions - provide emails outlining your stories, ideas, views or perspectives that are relevant to the problems of the world involving the Global Commons
- Submit Documents - provide written documents outlining your stories, ideas, views or perspectives about the problems of the world involving the Global Commons
- Public Town Hall Meetings and Forums - organise gatherings or "Town Hall" meetings to provide a platform for members of your community on various topics or issues relating to the themes in the Global Action Plan
Participation through this website
- Document Submission - Once you are registered to this website, you can upload your text document through your account, by clicking on "Submissions" and "Submit Document" directly from the relevant topic page in the Action Plan. Unregistered guests can view or download papers by clicking "Submissions" and "View Submissions" from the top menu from the relevant topic page in the Action Plan.
- Open Discussion Forums - You will find individual Discussion Forums at each topic page in the Global Commons Action Plan. You can also access the forums directly by clicking on "Get involved" and "Discussion Forums" from the top menu. Registered users can participate in dialogues. Unregistered visitors are welcome to view the discussions. These forums are monitored for misuse according to the established Guidelines for Use.
- Connect with your Field of Interest - When you register, select one or more icon tags that announce your subject of interest. When you write a document for submission or contribute to a thread, insert a field of interest tag before a sentence or section if you want to request the attention of people with expertise in your chosen subject. While browsing, search for tags that represent your field of interest or expertise.
Input to the process from all sources will be reviewed by the relevant editorial teams and will be integrated into the Wiki-based online document.
Anyone can view the ongoing changes made in each topic by clicking "Tools>This Page>Page information" from the top menu bar.
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