Meeting Overview

Facilitator: Chris Lunch (InsightShare)

Format: Virtual town hall with participants from across Europe and beyond

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Raw transcript:

CIBC-Town-Hall-4cadbfef-43f3.pdf

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Slides that Chris used: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nt91hrsVE8igAg8wGVXB7ULrB6la-rr1G7CY85Bag3A/edit?usp=sharing

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Participants & Introductions

The group conducted a creative introduction exercise where participants shared meaningful objects:

• Chris Lunch (InsightShare) - France - Shared a handmade flower bouquet from recycled materials made by his wife. Builds tools for participatory videos to help communities tell their stories.
• Carla - Munich, Germany (originally Australia) - Shared her 9-week-old kitten. Building a "Pokemon Go for good" gamification platform with brands initially, transitioning to bottom-up participatory decision-making.
• Simon Donovan - UK - Shared a recycled metal singer (musical instrument). Focus on "connecting" and "sense making."
• Carlo - Sweden (originally Germany) - Shared "The Diversity Bonus" book by Scott Page. Researching collective intelligence and deliberative processes through "Evocracy" project. Co-organizes Democracy Innovators podcast with Alessandro.
• Alessandro - Shared a handmade backpack. Co-hosts Democracy Innovators podcast with Carlo, interested in civic tech projects.
• Simone - PhD student in law, science and technology. Thesis on AI-mediated participation. Shared a harmonica as a metaphor for intuitive expression.
• Artem Zhiganov - Serbia - Shared a personalized harmonica. Building Harmonica tool for online deliberation. Used harmonica as metaphor for community harmony with different "reeds" (members) creating melodies.
• Momcilo - Shared binaural recording glasses for capturing live music. Researches sense-making, relationships, social structures through metamodernism lens. Works with Life Itself organization.
• Brayden Beckius - Working on PhD proposal on fractal systems thinking and planetary community. Network weaver focused on coherence between movements and breaking silos.
• Liz Barry (Metagov) - California - Shared water bottle as metaphor for environmental connection. Former Polis team member, now fundraising for deliberative tooling initiatives. Working on national deliberative platform for Scotland government.

Purpose & Vision Discussion

Core Mission

The group explored why CIBC exists through a "five whys" exercise: