I am a pioneer in the shift from healthcare to health: a motivated outcomes-driven professional with deep networks and broad experience in health at the policy through grass roots levels. I specialize in working with people in communities to form learning networks, to visualize and voice and take action to make their dreams come true.

My goal is to set up “Trading Posts” on the Internet frontier where people from different networks can exchange experiences and knowledge and find friends and fellow travelers. Currently I am working on projects with Vint Cerf and health leaders around the world.

“Upon this age, that never speaks its mind,
This furtive age, this age endowed with power
To wake the moon with footsteps, fit an oar
Into the rowlocks of the wind, and find
What swims before his prow, what swirls behind –
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts… they lie unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
is daily spun; but there exists no loom
to weave it into fabric.”

–Edna St. Vincent Millay

We have the beginnings of a loom - the Internet. We gather here, as in a boat, to fit us each with a "rowlock" to harness our hopes and share our thinking, to become aware of what each of us sees that "swims before" our prow and "what swirls behind" which will be our focus on Day 1. Is it possible for us to set a course to weave into fabric the "meteoric shower of facts" in a way that benefits humanity?

We ask for our discussants on Day 2, from technology, venture capital, and diverse networks, to engage with us on how you see we might set course together.

Figure 1 - A rowlock on a rowing boat Wikimedia