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What Happened? (see also WorkingSessions2001 for specific issues)
On November 1st, 2001, two hundred people responded to the Summit Invitation Letter. They gathered in Open Space* -- with no more agenda than what is laid out in that letter. An hour or so later, they had raised more than 70 major issues related to food security and arranged them into an agenda of more than fifty working sessions. Over the next two days, they self-managed and documented these working sessions.
On the third day, each participant received all of the notes from all of the sessions. These are included here for your review. Each participant then identified for himself or herself the 10 most important of these issues. Using computer voting software, this data was tabulated in about 10 minutes and distributed to all. (See page 97.)
These tabulated results were used as the starting point for a final working session on the seven issues voted most important. These top seven issues were taken NOT as political winners and losers, but as practical starting points for the large amount of work to be done. The results of the voting and the planning sessions that followed are included toward the end of this document.
The notes presented here are living, breathing, working documents, captured and typed by the participants themselves, in the heat of high learning and active contributing, meant only to enable the round of conversation and action. They are passionate, but not always pretty. Please take them as open invitations to get connected to the important and diverse work of the Summit event.
Please contact Summit participants directly to learn more about their Summit experience and their ongoing work on food security. Contact information for all participants is included in the last section of this document.
Finally, please visit http://www.michaelherman.com/foodsecurity for more news and resources as they develop.
What To Do and Where To Begin?
On the morning of Day Three of the Summit, all participants were asked to identify the 10 issues that were most important to themselves, their organization(s) and their community(ies). They entered their top ten issue numbers into computers that tabulated and graphed the results for all participants.
The seven top vote-getting issues were taken as beginning points for post-Summit follow-up activity. For each of these seven issues, participants worked to identify (1) which other issues were related or associated (and hence should not be lost or forgotten), (2) what could or should be done to address each cluster of associated issues, and (3) what immediate next steps could happen first.
The notes from this voting and planning work are included on the next pages. Contact Summit participants directly, especially the conveners (see issues #1-52) of any issues that are important to you, to learn more about how you can get involved.
Visit http://www.michaelherman.com/foodsecurity for links to more resources as they are developed. For more about Open Space, visit http://www.michaelherman.com.
see WorkingSessions2001 for list of topics.