Convening AS Capacity Building for the New Age

PART 6 of 6

This article, originally written in the spring of 2019; revised in the midst of Covid; and as a result of feedback; has now become a 6 Part Series. May this new breakdown of the information create yet more pleasant reading for everyone.

“If programming WITHIN the system is important, the meta-programming OF the system itself is even more important.”

(Don’t know who said this, but it has stuck with me for years… and thought it fitting to introduce this article here)

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PART 6–4 Things We Need NOW

Closing Thoughts…

“(We need) pragmatic and ethical ways to assist Human / Social Enhancement (Dr. Laura Y. Cabrera — Palgrave MacMillan — 2015) in community-based ways before we get too far ahead of ourselves technologically.”

That is the race now, and with each breath we take that we don’t focus there, we stand less of a chance to bring it to the forefront in healthy ways before massive crises show up. (Note: the intial draft of this was created in the summer of 2019 before the CV-19 outbreak…)

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There are four things needed NOW, to make rolling out active research that takes what we already know WORKS out in the field, and to build up yet more case studies and real time dissemination on everything in this 6-Part Series not only possible, but probable: