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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>New
Mobility/Year Agenda - Fast 2006 Update<br>
<br>
</span></font></b></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'><b><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'><a href="http://www.newmobility.org/">The New Mobility Agenda</a> </span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>at
http://www.newmobility.org has undergone a major overhaul. You should find
it more informative, transparent and easier to find what you are looking
for once there. Have a look and if it is not good/useful enough for you,
let me know.<br>
<br>
</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'><b><u><font size=3 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;
font-weight:bold'>Cruising speed</span></font></u></b><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><a href="http://worldcarshare.com/">World
Carshare</a>,</span></b> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://worldcarfreeday.com/">World Car Free Days</a></span></b> ,
and the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.newmobility.org/">Agenda</a></span></b> itself . . . are
all on a roll. (As is <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://ecoplan.org/">The Commons</a></span></b>.) Steadily improving
and extending coverage, brining in new members, offering new tools, and
doing their bit for sustainability. If you are following any of these, you
will know about all that. But if not (yet), let us invite you in to have a
look. Who knows, you may stay around for a while.<br>
<br>
</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'><b><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'><a href="http://www.newmobility.org/">xTransit</a>:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Yes,
again one of our strange words. But it appears to be needed to pull together
all the many bits and pieces so as to provide a coherent platform for discussions
and exchange on what has to be the hottest transportation topic on the
Agenda: <a href="http://www.ecoplan.org/general/go-to-xtransit.htm"
target=main><font color=black><span style='color:black;text-decoration:
none'>The "third way" of getting around</span></font></a>. <a
href="http://www.ecoplan.org/general/go-to-xtransit.htm" target=main><font
color=black><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Getting people
around in cities in road vehicles, smaller than full sized buses, driven
by real human beings, dynamically shared with others, and aided by state
of the art communications technologies as the only way to offer "car
like" mobility in most of our 21st century cities without killing the
cities.</span></font></a> Check it out via
http://www.newmobility.org <br>
<br>
</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'><b><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'><a href="http://www.kyotocities.org/">Kyoto World Cities 20/20
Challenge</a>: </span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This perhaps most important of
our collaborative projects has sat on the sidelines over these last months
while we hammered away with our limited resources at other parts of The Commons,
with the thought that this work on the concomitant parts of the New
Mobility Agenda were going to be important raw materials for making this policy
project zing. What’s missing? The link between our very real collective
hands-on competence in terms of how people can get about in cities, sustainably,
and all those higher visibility programs that are out there are targeting
climate issues, mayors’ Kyoto initiatives (but where is the hard
core of their transportation proposals), et al -- but few with the kind of
transportation competence that is needed to make real progress out there on
the city streets. Can you help us make those links with these other
groups and the cities themselves? So far, we have not been able to do this
job. <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
<br>
</span></b></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'><b><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'><a href="http://www.newmobility.org/">United Nations Car Free Days</a></span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>: </span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> This one got stuck
somewhere in some office in that big building in </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>New
York</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>. Have a look at what we propose on the site and let us
know if you have any ideas for this great cause. It is too important, too
good to end its life there in some drawer. Pop in and have a look at
our proposal for next steps.<br>
<br>
</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'><b><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'><a href="http://www.newmobility.org/">Our Wikipedia New Mobility
Projects</a>:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Promise! There is more to this
than you may at first blush think. <span class=MsoHyperlink><font
color=black><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Our goal here
is to stimulate our informal international expert consortium to "put
our brains together", and in the process to tap our collective
intelligence to build a free, high-quality, comprehensive on-line
encyclopedia and get out the word that solutions are in sight. For the
benefit of all in a world in which old ideas and old and bad practices die
hard. (We want to help them out the door.)</span></font></span><br>
<br>
</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:blue'><b><u><font size=3 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Organizing_Collaborative_Network">Self-Organizing
Collaborative Networks</a></span></font></u></b><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>: </span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:black'>Sound kind of familiar. Well that in fact is almost
exactly what we are here. And since that is the case, we have set out to
examine this concept more closely and in public. For more on this, you are
invited to turn to the new entry in Wikipedia on this, and to join in with
your ideas and additions. (It reads quite nicely with the in-process
entry on <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_building">Knowledge Building</a></span></b>
and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization">Self Organization</a></span></b>
which I also invite you to have a go at. They are all part of what
we are dong here, and since we have between us some years of hands-on experience
together in this, who better than we can help define the meaning of these
terms in the field of policy and practice)</span></font><b><u><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><br>
<br>
</span></font></u></b></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'><b><u><font size=3 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;
font-weight:bold'>Finance</span></font></u></b><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>:</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Oops. Big problem. Big
challenge. Normally I do the heavy lifting here, paying for all of this
out of my consultancy earnings. But I have been spending too much time
with these programs, and we need to find new ways to pay for it. Now, we are
going to keep all this going one way or anther but it ain’t easy. We
are not looking for your money (that would corrupt the whole concept of
being ‘off the economy’ which is so central to all we do. But
it would be good to have your ideas about possible foundations or other sources
of support. Or your thoughts on how to integrate some parts of all this
into some form of 21<sup>st</sup> century cash machine (a la Skype, Google,
who knows, but no ads). <br>
<br>
Failing any ideas on that, what you can do is to write me a brief letter
with some kind of “attestation” that all this work is serving
some useful purposes, at least as far as you are concerned. Than if you
can properly sign it so that you are properly and impressively identified,
I can then place that into our eventual applications as we start to shop
around for support.</span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>There we have it as this New Year opens up
before us, with its challenges and its opportunities. As you may have noticed
we remain entirely optimistic that we have the means to deal with these
problems, and that the only thing we need to find is a bit of imagination and solidarity
to put all our big brains and even bigger hearts to work.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Eric Britton</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>The New
Mobility Agenda</span></font></b><font color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:black'> is on line at </span></font><font
size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>http://www.newmobility.org</span></font><font color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=FR
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Le Frene, 8/10 rue
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75006 Paris, France</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Tel: +331 4326
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Skype: ericbritton</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>E: <a
href="mailto:mobility@ecoplan.org"><font color=black><span style='color:black'>mobility@ecoplan.org</span></font></a>
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href="mailto:fekbritton@gmail.com"><font color=black><span style='color:black'>fekbritton@gmail.com</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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