Global Assembly Dialog

When groups talk people listen

The prototype Global Assembly Dialog is an experiment in participatory democracy on the web aimed at massively involving "We the People of the Earth" and leading to the formation of a nonviolent bottom-up Global Assembly with real power to build a world that works for everyone.The Dialog uses a web rating technology to vote on messages written by the partici ...learn more

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Created: Oct 18, 2007

Updated: Oct 23, 2009

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Created: Feb 04, 2008
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Lars T. Soeftestad

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Email: lsoeftestad [at] supras.biz
 
Address: PO Box 1600
Kristiansand NO-4688
Norway
 
Phone: +47 380 44 655
 
I Speak: English, German, French, Norwegian
 
I Am: Administrator, Advocate, Community Organizer, Networker, Researcher, Scientist, Social Entrepreneur, Writer
 
Member Since: February 04, 2008
 
Local Time: Sun Nov 8 23:43:04
 
My Groups: CBNRM  |  World Wide Water Commons

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Areas of Focus 

Agricultural Water Conservation and Management (1188 people)  |  Livestock in Developing Nations (348 people)  |  Rural Farming Communities (1532 people)  |  Biocultural Diversity (1727 people)  |  Biodiversity Conservation (3143 people)  |  Microcredit (1282 people)  |  Child Labor (861 people)  |  Communication Training (1720 people)  |  Organizational Governance (1039 people)  |  Social Entrepreneurship (3646 people)  |  Coastal and Marine Human Impacts (1015 people)  |  Coastal and Marine Law and Policy (420 people)  |  Community Participation (3606 people)  |  Community Resources (1756 people)  |  Community Training (1710 people)  |  Dialogue, Deliberation and Consensus-Building (1931 people)  |  Conservation and the Commons (885 people)  |  Conservation Policy (739 people)  |  Cultural Diversity (2539 people)  |  Culture and Sustainability (2693 people)  |  Language Revitalization (657 people)  |  Traditional Culture (1627 people)  |  Democratic Participation (1432 people)  |  Sustainability Education (4178 people)  |  Aquaculture (551 people)  |  Sustainable Fishing (976 people)  |  World Marine Fisheries (384 people)  |  Local Food Systems (2845 people)  |  Global Governance (1125 people)  |  Good Governance (1188 people)  |  Indigenous Lands (1196 people)  |  Indigenous Peoples and Cultures (2768 people)  |  Indigenous Rights (1674 people)  |  Land Reform (415 people)  |  Land Tenure (282 people)  |  Property Rights (421 people)  |  Conflict Resolution (1842 people)  |  Demographics (638 people)  |  Rural Development (1486 people)  |  Social Development (1962 people)  |  Information and Communication Technology (1762 people)  |  Sustainability and Technology (2110 people)  |  Water Rights (901 people)  |  Informal Economy (756 people)  

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Trained as an anthropologist, I work on social and institutional analysis, social and institutional development, and capacity building - specifically in natural resource management, including in agriculture, coastal zone management, fisheries, and pastoralism/rangeland. I have a focus on strategic communication, knowledge mgmt., information and communication technology and development (ICT4D), participation, and poverty/social impact analysis. I have 25 years of experience in operations and policy work for, inter alia, Dutch Aid, IFAD, IFC, Norad, Sida, UNDP, UNOPS, and World Bank, in a number of countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Africa (for details, see my CV/resume available above).

I manage a consultancy firm, Supras Consult (www.supras.biz), registered in Norway, that work on these issues. I am also the Coordinator for the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net, www.cbnrm.net), a global community of practice (COP) for several hundred persons, institutions, and organizations that work on CBNRM and related approaches, as practitioners, managers, funders and researchers.

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