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very encouraging tbh. I'd personally have problems with 'working with'
such people.

-- 
Shiar

On Thu, May 10, 2007 4:47 pm, boud wrote:
> hi anna, all,
>
>
> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Anna wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> does anyone in the indymedia worlds have any experience with or
>> knowledge about a project called 'dropping knowledge'? ->
>> http://www.droppingknowledge.org
>>
>>
>> They have contacted us - indymedia Germany doing G8 coverage in 4 weeks
>>  - and asked to collaborate.
>>
>>
>> From a quick look at their website they look like indymedia gone
>> extremely professional, nice budget included.
>
> The following comments are just from browsing.
>
>
>
> It definitely looks "professional", in the sense of big budget,
> regular staff and corporate links:
> http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/teamMembers/list.page
>
>
> The Founding Partnier is a big insurance company:
> *   Allianz Group   / Munich
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allianz
> | Revenue 	euro 100.89 Billion (2005)
> | Net income 	euro 7.74 Billion (2005)
> | Employees 	180,000
>
>
>
> But i'm not convinced of the "indymedia" in "indymedia gone extremely
> professional"...
>
>
> Sounds also a bit like cooptation:
> http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/forums/hosteddialogue.page
> | 10 Questions from the Vision Summit / 10 Fragen vom Vision Summit
>
>
> | Just ahead of next month's G8 meeting in Heiligendamm, the Vision
> | Summit 2007 will bring together social entrepreneurs, business leaders
> | and policymakers in Berlin to discuss 10 concepts for an improved
> | design of globalization. The "alternative" summit will investigate
> | concepts such as microfinance, fair trade and a Global Marshall Plan.
> ...
>
>
> | We invite you to use the dropping knowledge platform to discuss the 10
> | questions that Vision Summit participants - including cabinet
> | ministers, corporate CEOs and Nobel laureates - will be addressing in
> | Berlin.
>
>
>
> Of course, in some sense it's a good sign that a major insurance
> company is taking alter-globalisation seriously - it means that they think
> that we're having or will have a significant enough effect on the world
> that they'd better get involved and/or influence us and/or model us. An
> insurance company lays its bets everywhere so that it wins no matter what
> happens...  And 0.1% of their net annual income is 7 million euros, enough
> to fund something like droppingknowledge.org.
>
> Even 0.01% of the Allianz income would be a huge contribution to the
> global imc finances...
>
>
>> Before (while) I plunge into research:
>>
>>
>> What do you know about them?
>> What do you think about this?
>>
>
> Probably the standard pros/cons of working with NGO-ish spectrum
> organisations (can one-off money/material donations be accepted without
> strings attached? is purism excessive ideological correctness or good
> strategy?) - it's up to people participating in anti G8 stuff and media
> preparations to decide what level of cooperation/risk to take...
>
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