Now is a great opportunity for growing global agoras:

• There is a need for sustainable strategies in the face of rampant depletion of world resources.
• There is a need to maintain local honor and living standards in the face of Westernizing globalization.
• There are numerous well-intentioned groups whose fragmentation and isolation prevent their making an effective difference.
• There is a lack of broad-based and inclusive progressive effort.
• The idea of agoras is gaining professional currency. SDP is winning converts. Co-Laboratories of Design: How People Harness Their Collective Wisdom and Power to Create the Future, which explains the history, science, processes, and successes of SDP in fine detail, will be published in February by Information Age.

People who participate in the Structured Design Process are usually enthusiastic about the workshop and even more enthusiastic about the results they achieve on their action plans. We anticipate that the participants and observers of these co-laboratories will be interested in using them in other communities and organizations. We propose to make them available to parties that could not otherwise afford to invigorate themselves in this way. To that end, we seek support.

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