Presentation for the open space session of TMRA 2008, International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, Leipzig, Germany.

1. Dino Karabeg, OMS Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

2. Dino Karabeg, OMS Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

3. Dino Karabeg, OMS Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo "The human race is hurtling towards disaster. It is absolutely essential to find a way to change course." Aurelio Peccei

4. Dino Karabeg, OMS Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

5. Dino Karabeg, OMS Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

6. Dino Karabeg, OMS Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo From: [email_address] Subject: [FEDERATION] First email... […] I shall be very interested to see where this conversation can go. I hope that I made the case that I strongly believe that the world is ready for some really aggressive work being accomplished to facilitate dialogs by large populations of people on this planet to seek resolution to some very complex and urgent problems. I am just headstrong enough to believe that we are each inventing such facilitation tools. It's a much taller problem space than can be mounted by any single effort. […] After all, we are all in the process of expanding on this very original vision, which, in my opinion, remains as strong and viable as any vision I have experienced.

7. Dino Karabeg, OMS Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

8. Dino Karabeg, OMS Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo THANKS! http://KnowledgeFederation.org