|title= Digital Communication Strategy and Policy Mentor
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|name=Heiner Benking
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|motto = All life is in and beyond dynamically changing open circles -- in common frames, patterns, flows, and waves.
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|role= [[Mentors in Digital Communication Strategy and Policy]]
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|education=Geo-Sciences <br> University Hamburg<br> Economics Academy Bremen
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|achievements= Anna-Lindh-Foundation Award:‘Youth for Change, Social Justice and a Shared Development’. Nominated by Laouris, FWC, short-listed.
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'''Heiner Benking''' is one of the [[Mentors in Digital Communication Strategy and Policy]] of the [[Reinventing Democracy]] project.
'''Heiner Benking''' [http://benking.de/heiner-benking.jpg]] is a strong supporter of structured dialogue and of [[Future Worlds Center]]. He has been collaborating with [[Aleco Christakis]] and many of the historic figures who have pioneered in the establishment of the science of dialogic design. He has attended the [[3rd International SDDP Facilitators Training School]], which he has promoted publishing articles, such as the [[Commentary about the 3rd International Training School for SDD]]. He has also written an article following an interview he has taken from [[Aleco Christakis]] during the school <ref>[http://www.europesworld.org/NewEnglish/Home_old/CommunityPosts/tabid/809/PostID/2711/language/en-US/Default.aspx Interview of Aleco Christakis about the School by Heiner Benking]</ref> and on earlier occasions to revisit the foundational phase of the Club of Rome (1968-1970) <ref>[http://benking.de/EUROPEsWORLD/ Interview of Aleco Christakis about the [[Club of Rome]] by Heiner Benking]</ref> Heiner served the International Peace University project in the early 90ies and helped to establish the Club of Budapest as its first editor and international co-ordinator, after invited as Creative Member. He worked with Robert Jungk in the early 90ies and established with Bob's collegue Rüdiger Lutz Future Lab in Basel. He presently serves in the Board of Positive Nett-Works, and IHTEC, and as secretary of the Council on Global Issues and the Tagore-Einstein-Council, he is in the founding board of the Youth-Leader magazine. [http://youth-leader.org]
Short Profile pasted from my <b>General Thinking page</b>: [http://GeneralThinking.com/HEiner] an extended profile can be found at the [[Future Worlds Center]] Practitioner Training Workshop website: [http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Heiner_Benking] It is about re-inventing democracy, multi-track diplomacy, peace-making, and policies and strategies to harness "the wisdom of the people". Maybe check my dedication to CITIZEN SCIENCES first: [http://benking.de/ECSA/]
Heiner's professional live can be roughly divided into four decades. In the 70ies: studies, globetrotting, surveyor, planner, 80ies: marketing, management and organisation consulting, market research, agementcomputer-graphics industry, raising children, environmental research and management, 90ies: Global Change research and communication, summits, UN-G7 Harmonisation, environmental NGO's, Foundations, Councils, think-tanking, ..., 00ies: EXPO 2000, future and technology studies, youth and media projects, Environmental Education and policy making, peace organisations, clubs, governance, facilitation, dialog and decision cultures, youth cross-media, independent journalist and science writer/curator, ...
"Me? - I had a couple of lifes/professional episodes: technician and engineer, planner, consultant, sales and marketing, infographics coiner, environmental management and research, curator, futurist, educator, facilitator, ... in fields as wide as: environmental education, culture, youth, media,... My function is capacity building along and across scales and cultures in an appreciative, attentive style typical for concerned generalists, thinkers, in-betweeners, hazardeurs, trim-tabs, and go-getters... to open dialog and deliberations towards shared positive futures.
The above rough "epoches" have much overlap. Maybe check his user-page at Wikipedia for details. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Benking] and the Positive Nett-Works PNW member page: [http://www.euromedalex.org/node/9299]
With respect to the Future Worlds Center this collection in the field of policy, think-tanks, future studies, capacity building, education and awareness, youth and media, communication and conferencing might be more substantive and focussed:
In a nutshell: <b>Journalist - Facilitator - Consultant - Futurist</b>
Heiner Benking helped in the foundational phase since 1993 to establish nodes and a cypernode and represented the Millennium Project and worked with ExperConsult and technology think- tanks like the Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW) in Ulm, Germany and The Club of Budapest. He is a technician, engineer, planner, consultant, communicator and facilitator with an academic background in engineering, planning and other studies ranging from geophysics to philosophy and including regional and global modeling geo-ecology and geomorphology, and computer graphics programming. Benking has served as a consultant and facilitator, writer, curator, and organizer - maybe he is an in-betweener, gate-crasher, go-getter, and starter.
He began using maps and models 1970s as a surveyor and geophysicist in exploration and planning on a regional and national level. In the 1980s he explored the realms of mapping and modelling further by using drafting, visualization and management software. Benking participated in several global change related gatherings, exhibitions, and conferences from 1988-1995, in particular the 1990 Global Change exhibition where he helped design posters and exhibits, and has build is Cognitive Space called Rubik's Cube of Ecology to help share and negotiate "Pointers to Possibilities". [http://weturn.org/pointers-to-possibilities.html]
Beside volunteering for IHTEC (<b>International Holistic Tourism Education Center & International School Peace Gardens</b>[http://www.ihtec.org/PrimaryPages/IHTECHome.html], OSI - Objective Science International [http://www.osi-ngo.org/auteur/heiner-benking] or INBAK - <b>Institute for Sustainability in Education, Work, and Culture</b>[http://inbak.de] Flyer (PDF) English): [http://inbak.de/files/en_nachhaltige-buecherboxx_8seitig.pdf] Benking is since 20+ years also active for other UN-ECOSOC NGOs, Councils and Foundations in charge for "communication and capacity-building". Presently he is active in the <b>GLOBAL COMMONS ACTION ALLIANCE</b> writing bi-monthly to Heads of States... This is an example on the occasion of the <b>UN Agenda2030 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GLOBALS (SDGs)</b> [http://www.commonsactionfortheunitednations.org/our-work/ejournal/viewing-trees-and-woods-connecting-dots-links-sectors-and-frames] session in 2015. See also UN Geneva 2016 [http://www.weturn.org/OSI-UN-Geneva-2016/Abstract-3-Heiner-SDGs-Leverage-Solutions-UN-OSI-2016.pdf] and UN Bonn 2017 updates. [http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000502.htm] - [http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000501.htm]
In the past ten years Benking has focussed on education and policy-making. This has led to new forms of conferencing, dialogue and projects in knowledge organization, multi-lingual repositories, metaphors as interface projects, and culture navigation - defining reference rooms for library and museum information concepts. His activity areas range from Future studies to questions related to culture, cyberculture, creativity and cognition.
Highly recommended in this context is a forthcoming Mother Pelican article on <b>"sharing and gifting in traditional and modern times"</b>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/196szQuv_X9FmTbb15AxIkaMOf3lwZ0KqyspSuPmOBak/edit?usp=sharing] and proposals to use SDDP for the <b>CHALLENGES TO HUMANITY</b> of the Millennium Project: [http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000261.htm] the CAPS Info Day. CAPS stands for <b>Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation</b> of the European Commission, CAPS2015:[http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000338.htm] CAPS2016: [http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000441.htm], and the <b>Volkswagen Stiftung - Herrenhausen Inquiry</b>: <b>Governing the Anthopocene !? - Cyber-Systemic Possibilities? </b>[http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/govan/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Heiner-Benking.pdf] or [http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000377.htm] one session was with <b>Alexander Christakis</b>. Inquiry website:[http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/govan/?page_id=88] <b>ISSS background</b>:[http://www.monash.edu/sustainability/news/news-archive/articles/systemic-governance-germany-conferences]
For more details pls visit Heiner's BLOG: [http://quergeist.info], the 21stCenturyAgora jumppage [http://21stCenturyAgora.org], his OPEN-FORUM dialog formats jump-page [http://open-forum.de], and his WIKIPEDIA User page (needs update !!): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Benking]
Check also the tabular CV for the <b>Anna-Lindh-Foundation</b> Barcelona Forum 2010: [http://www.open-forum.de/Barcelona-Forum-2010/CV-Heiner_Benking-Anna-Lindh-5-2010.pdf] and the width and depth of the challenges at hand: [http://benking.de/ExtraOrder/challenge.html] and that we need a "new science, language, thinking, ways of communicating and presenting, as discussed at the Nobel Peace Laureats gathering in Berlin in 2009 in honor of Elinor Ostrom: [http://www.slideshare.net/benking/copenhagen-peace-laueats-climate-berlin-selection-2009]
and as recently retrieved (10/2011) quite incomplete publications as collected by Google Scholar: [http://benking.de/scholar/GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_October_2011%20_Heiner_Benking.htm]. He updates in his e-mail Signature File "hot" links and recent papers: [http://benking.de/hot/hot.html] recommended is the Youth Media portal Youth-Leader (http://youth-leader.org], the Anna-Lindh-Salon [http://anna-lindh-salon.de], and this TALK-COMMUNICATION video-clip http://vimeo.com/15945332 done for the Entrepreneurship Summit in Berlin: [http://fu-faltin.de/] or this Video from Berlin Speakers' Corner the Brandenburg gate: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzx5wXvAjbc], or the Slides and Interview at Nobel Peace Laureas gathering "breaking down new wall":[http://quergeist.net/Peace-Laueats-Climate-Berlin-Oslo-selection.pdf] or at the Earthfocus Foundation in Geneva: [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmp663_heiner-benking-interview_tech]
Heiner nominated Yiannis Laouris (FWC) in 2010 for the [[Anna Lindh Award to Future Worlds Center]]. 2 years later Yiannis Laouris nominated [http://benking.de/futures/HEINER-Nomination%20ALF%20Award-Benking-SUBMITTED.pdf] Heiner Benking (CV) http://benking.de/futures/CV-Benking-ALF-2012_SUBMITTED.pdf for the Anna Lindh Foundation '''EuroMed Dialogue Award 2012''': '''Youth for Change, Social Justice and a Shared Development''' successfully, Heiner was "short-listed"...
<b>Below you can find some more details, references, ... links</b> with special reference to Dialog and Deliberation around my work with the <b>21stCenturyAgora</b> Institute [http://21stCenturyAgora.org]
s.a. Tabular CV for the Anna-Lindh Barcelona Forum 2010: [http://www.open-forum.de/Barcelona-Forum-2010/CV-Heiner_Benking-Anna-Lindh-5-2010.pdf]
Loads of diverse data make us think deep, confront perplexity, and get some extra insights and ideas... so please bear with noise and variety across subjects, languages, scales, proportions, and consequences - and digest, subsume, and resonate! and maybe check the references.
UPDATE 8/2016
please check the growing CITIZEN SCIENCE page: [http://benking.de/ECSA/]
and the October 2016 Anna-Lindh-Foundation event in Malta: [http://www.annalindhfoundation.org/news/announcement-malta-will-host-2016-euro-mediterranean-forum-anna-lindh-foundation] where I intend to do again, as in 2010 and 2013, an magic roundtable: [http://events.open-forum.de/2010-anna-lindh-forum-barcelona-report-weimar/] see also the timeline: [http://events.open-forum.de]
'''Beside my [PARTICIPEDIA][http://participedia.net/people/benking] profile, focused on Democracy, Dialog, Governance, Media, Multi-Track Diplomacy and Peacemaking, and Participation'''
these publications and presentations might be of interest:
'''Consultative''' http://www.consultative.de/ - Mediation Cookbook: Member of the Founding Steering Commitee (Lenkungskreis) which started in the early 90ies to develop proceedutes for deliberative and decisional support. Ein Verfahren zur '''optimalen Entscheidungsfindung''' durch die Kombination der '''Effizienz von Projektmanagement''' mit der '''Autorität der Judikative''' [http://benking.de/dialog/CONSULTATIVE-Handbuch_Kap2.html]
==References==
Asilomar-Ljubljana-Fuschl 1997-2004): ISSS- ISI: IFSR- ISSS -- ISI dialogues: http://benking.de/IFSRnov98pp.htm http://open-forum.de/agora-fuschl-lenser-benking.htm - - see aslo PATTERNS Newsletter: (1997): [http://benking.de/ceptualinstitute/asilomar97.htm] Asilomar David Bohm Ljubljana Dialogues: [http://benking.de/dialog/r-benking.html], Asilomar IFSR, and Fsuchl Conversations: 2004 Team 1: New Agoras for the 21st Century-Conscious Self-Guided Evolution Fuschl Asilomar Agora "Heiner Benking" [http://www.ifsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/conversations-2004-fuschl-proc.pdf leading to the "LOVERS OF DEMOCRACY" http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/loversofdemocracy/pursuitofwisdom.pdf & http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/loversofdemocracy/Some_points.htm and later the GLOBAL AGORAs: http://www.globalagoras.org/ and 21stCenturyAgora collection: [21stCenturyAgora.org] for more see: http://benking.de/open-forum/OF_Background_paper_5.html
Expertise Virtual Conferencing [http://benking.de/conferencing/E-conferencing-expertise-slides-Benking.pdf] prepared for the Anna-Lindh Foundation evnts in Weimar and Bonn (ESD-UNESCO): [http://open-forum.de/10001-Seeds.htm]
Transcultural Dialog and Peace-Making - Roundtable learning from experience during the last 40 years and new ideas
[[Heiner Benking's References]]
[http://benking.de/open-forum/dialog/Transcultural_Dialog_and_Peace.htm] for
for UN ECOSOSC - AMR 2008 [http://benking.de/open-forum/OF_Backgroundpapers/] and background-papers: [http://benking.de/open-forum/OF_Backgroundpapers]
see also MediTERRA 2010 (Anna-Lindh-German Network Acirivity: MediTERRA - beyond Flight and Migration - Anna-Lindh-Foundation Network activity http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000201.htm
and: [events.open-forum.de]
'''DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS - Role of Culture in Dialogue among Civilizatios - Rolne of Culture in Dialogue among Civilizations''' - 2 Volumes, United Nations Conference Documentation, GLOBAL SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS <ref>http://benking.de/dialog/dialog-among-civilizations.htm</ref>
Gesprächs- und Entscheidungskultur: Rundgespräche und Vereinbarungen als Elemente einer wünschenswerten, zukünftigen Zivilgesellschaft
8.3. Dialog und Lernen - The Unifying Aspects of Cultures
TRANS - Studies on the Changing of the World <ref>http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/08_3/benking_lenser15.htm</ref>
Interview in EUROPEsWORLD with Alexander Christakis <ref>[http://benking.de/EUROPEsWORLD/]</ref>
First Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and Democratic Global Governance - Discuss with leaders and members of world democracy movements. <ref>[http://Dialogues and Conversations - Participation and Moderation/Mediation: Ways and Means towards Re-inventing Democracy and Good-Governance
Alternatives for Marrying Lectures, Sessions, and Tracks with an Open Format Dialog Culture - Proposing additional Time-Credit-Based Dialogues (Open-Forum Magic Round-Tables) for intensive conversations at scientific, social, cultural, educational, or political events or gatherings <ref>[http://open-forum.de/ISGI_open-format.htm</ref>
Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society - Humboldt and Ritter, slides PDF <ref>[http://benking.de/futures/GOOGLE-Humboldt-Ritter-Internet&Society.pdf PDF - Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society - Humboldt and Ritter:</ref>
GOVERNMENT 2.0 - Stammtisch 2.0 / 3.0 and I3: Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration (PDF) German <ref>[http://open-forum.de/Stammtisch-2-0-3-0--Benking-GOV-2-0.pdf</ref>
OPEN GOVERNMENT: Liquid Living Democracy etc. - Open-Space Pitch PDF <ref>[http://open-forum.de/futures/Rundgespraech-2-3-0-OpenGovernment-Berlin-2011.pdf </ref>
Collecting, Framing, Negotiating, and Connecting in Times of a GLocal “Problematique - A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO COPE WITH GLOBAL CHALLENGES - proceedings PDF <ref>[http://benking.de/futures/SAPREJ-12-Heiner_Benking.pdf</ref>
and the new report:
A Social Systems Approach to Global Problems monograph: Strategic Articulation of Actions to Cope with the Huge Challenges of Our World <ref>[https://www.createspace.com/3977896 </ref>. [More]: <ref>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000215.htm</ref>
'''GLOBAL RESEARCH AND SOCIAL INNOVATION: TRANSFORMING FUTURES''' - The WORLD FUTURES STUDIES FEDERATION 40th something for a Special & GLocal Interests Group (SIG vs.GIG)
Workshop Space 1 - OPEN FORUM - OPEN SPACE, BENKING Heiner (FWC) will call-in invited and surprise participants.
'''COLLABORATIVE FUTURES CREATION''' - Collecting, Mapping&Framing, Negotiating & Connecting for CoCreation and CoLaboration.
maybe also check some more, primarily hard-cover publictions: <ref>http://open-forum.de/Dialog-selected-Publications.htm </ref>
see also: Strategic Articulation of Actions to Cope with the Huge Challenges or Our World - A Platform for Reflection.
as published in this series as Volume One. '''A SOCIAL SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR GLOBAL PROBLEMS''', 21st Century Agoras Monograph Series. I have written a little invited comment: '''A Mission Impossible or The Needed Critical Piece of the Puzzle?'''
Short Profile pasted from my General Thinking page: [1] an extended profile can be found at the Future Worlds Center Practitioner Training Workshop website: [2] It is about re-inventing democracy, multi-track diplomacy, peace-making, and policies and strategies to harness "the wisdom of the people". Maybe check my dedication to CITIZEN SCIENCES first: [3]
"Me? - I had a couple of lifes/professional episodes: technician and engineer, planner, consultant, sales and marketing, infographics coiner, environmental management and research, curator, futurist, educator, facilitator, ... in fields as wide as: environmental education, culture, youth, media,... My function is capacity building along and across scales and cultures in an appreciative, attentive style typical for concerned generalists, thinkers, in-betweeners, hazardeurs, trim-tabs, and go-getters... to open dialog and deliberations towards shared positive futures.
In a nutshell: Journalist - Facilitator - Consultant - Futurist
Beside volunteering for IHTEC (International Holistic Tourism Education Center & International School Peace Gardens[4], OSI - Objective Science International [5] or INBAK - Institute for Sustainability in Education, Work, and Culture[6] Flyer (PDF) English): [7] Benking is since 20+ years also active for other UN-ECOSOC NGOs, Councils and Foundations in charge for "communication and capacity-building". Presently he is active in the GLOBAL COMMONS ACTION ALLIANCE writing bi-monthly to Heads of States... This is an example on the occasion of the UN Agenda2030 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GLOBALS (SDGs)[8] session in 2015. See also UN Geneva 2016 [9] and UN Bonn 2017 updates. [10] - [11]
Highly recommended in this context is a forthcoming Mother Pelican article on "sharing and gifting in traditional and modern times"[12] and proposals to use SDDP for the CHALLENGES TO HUMANITY of the Millennium Project: [13] the CAPS Info Day. CAPS stands for Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation of the European Commission, CAPS2015:[14] CAPS2016: [15], and the Volkswagen Stiftung - Herrenhausen Inquiry: Governing the Anthopocene !? - Cyber-Systemic Possibilities? [16] or [17] one session was with Alexander Christakis. Inquiry website:[18]ISSS background:[19]
Check also the tabular CV for the Anna-Lindh-Foundation Barcelona Forum 2010: [20] and the width and depth of the challenges at hand: [21] and that we need a "new science, language, thinking, ways of communicating and presenting, as discussed at the Nobel Peace Laureats gathering in Berlin in 2009 in honor of Elinor Ostrom: [22]
Below you can find some more details, references, ... links with special reference to Dialog and Deliberation around my work with the 21stCenturyAgora Institute [23]
Loads of diverse data make us think deep, confront perplexity, and get some extra insights and ideas... so please bear with noise and variety across subjects, languages, scales, proportions, and consequences - and digest, subsume, and resonate! and maybe check the references.
UPDATE 8/2016
please check the growing CITIZEN SCIENCE page: [24]
and the October 2016 Anna-Lindh-Foundation event in Malta: [25] where I intend to do again, as in 2010 and 2013, an magic roundtable: [26] see also the timeline: [27]
