#ChangeCamp reflections … more to come
First, thanks again to Rahaf for turning us on to ChangeCamp, it has been amazing to be part of this group from the first meeting on December 31st through Saturday’s frenetic day at MaRs.
Let’s open this post with a little announcement … our experiment here at www.redliberals.ca is being extended. We had originally planned to can our learnings on January 27th and switch our focus towards engaging within the party on the issues of change. After the first ChangeCamp event, we feel that we can learn & share more by staying engaged in this movement.
We are still going to focus our efforts here on coming up with a Liberal 2.0 Manifesto as quickly as possible and we hope that everyone who participated in ChangeCamp as well as those broader circles that we have connected with over this short time will help us.
Our main motives for launching www.redliberals.ca was to connect with great people & ideas in the drive to embrace change. Check out all of the discussions and people who were contributing at ChangeCamp. It is all irresitable! www.redliberals.ca and our twitter stream @redliberals is the best place to channel our enthusiasm.
Now a more focused reflection ..
There has been a lot of focus on the creation of a new software application that will emerge from ChangeCamp and that will be exciting. I think that is part of the heritage of applying the “Camp” approach, which has its roots in social technology to public policy and governance issues.
Perhaps more exciting was the intensity of having almost 200 people together, most of them not part of the paid political clique or bureaucracy, all of them locked in deep, action oriented collaboration about what is wrong and how to drag our country into the 21st Century. #ChangeCamp was a breath of hope of freedom from the closed social networks of political parties, entrenched interest groups and faceless government institutions. It was an adhocracy at work. Robert H. Waterman, Jr. defined adhocracy as “any form of organization that cuts across normal bureaucratic lines to capture opportunities, solve problems, and get results.”
That potential heritage of #ChangeCamp deserves as much attention focus. Who & where will the next ChangeCamp be hosted within the next 30 days is big question in my view.”
