HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, Gabi Burgstaller, Governor of Salzburg, the Club of Rome (European Support Center, Vienna) and the Global Marshall Plan Foundation
invite international representatives from the media, economics, politics, civil society, and the arts, as well as communication experts and scientists to the Global Commons Conference to be held in the Throne Room of the Residenz Palace September 29, 2009.
To kick-start the meeting, children will present the results of the first global children consultation and their wishes for their future. Then over the two-day conference, the collective intelligence of the international participants will be brought together by dividing into various working groups and supported by a computer-based inter-connected moderation system. The results should focus on developing measures to ensure that our children are supported to attain a sustainable global society, to promote an awareness of global common goods, and to make sure that our children grow up feeling like they are citizens of the world.
It will be interesting to see if the assembled experts believe that the adults can learn to share knowledge and build collective intelligence, while developing global awareness. To think of oneself as a world citizen is a prerequisite to do just that, so that we may tackle global challenges and problems, which are often growing exponentially, without struggling with nationalistic thinking, much along the lines of John Rawl’s thinking.