Manuel Flury from the Swiss Agency from Development and Cooperation, talks about his participation in GK3 and his views on sessions and the exhibition floor

"If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future." (Jacob Needham, et al. "Centred on the Edge")

Open Space Technology (OST) is one way to enable all kinds of people to create inspired meetings by designing and managing their own agenda of parallel working sessions or conversations around a central theme or questions of strategic importance. www.openspaceworld.org

"When people frame their strategic exploration as questions rather than as concerns or problems, a conversation begins where everyone can learn something new together, rather than having the normal stale debates over issues."

Web2forDev- Participatory web for Development is happening at the end of September (25th to 27th) in Rome ,and it's bringing together a group of practitioners that use Web 2.0 in development contexts.