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     ATCA and IntentBlog to address complex global challenges  
      Announcement
 London, UK - 5 September 2006, 22:00 GMT- ATCA, 
        the London based leading global forum to address complex threats to humanity, 
        and IntentBlog, a group blog featuring unique voices from around 
        the world from Los Angeles to Mumbai, have begun to share seminal Socratic 
        Dialogue threads. The dialogue threads seek to address the top ten complex 
        global challenges of the present age by bringing together important decision 
        makers in major governments, corporations, voluntary organisations and 
        NGOs as well as experts from academia and philanthropists. The top ten 
        asymmetric risks and opportunities identified in the 21st century include 
        climate chaos, radical poverty, organised crime, extremism, informatics, 
        nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence and financial 
        systems.
 
The 
          first eleven Socratic Dialogue threads within the 'Open ATCA' series 
          presented on IntentBlog are focussed on the Hydrogen Economy, Climate 
          Chaos, Einstein-Russell, New Orleans, Buddha, Blended Value, Iran, Advaita, 
          Social Entrepreneurship, Unity and Non-Violence. Apparently diverse 
          on first reading, Socratic Dialogue threads have demonstrated that these 
          subjects are closely interlinked -- with multiple cross references -- 
          in terms of addressing some of the key global complexities witnessed 
          in the short and medium term with long term impact. 
 "IntentBlog is very privileged to collaborate 
          with ATCA and elevate the level of dialogue that comes to us from this 
          distinguished group of thinkers," said Deepak Chopra, 
          Co-Founder, IntentBlog. 
          "We hope to change our collective narrative 
          via this initiative so there is deeper understanding of the tangled 
          hierarchy and inseparability of co-arising complex global challenges. 
          Understanding is the basis for intuition, love, compassion and creative 
          solutions. Let us hope this accelerates the formation of a critical 
          mass of global consciousness to help build a better world."
 
 "We are delighted to start the 'Open ATCA' initiative on IntentBlog 
          which allows members of both communities to interact with each other 
          as one and address complex global challenges in unison," said 
          DK Matai, Chairman, The 
          Philanthropia, ATCA and mi2g. "Having 
          reached critical mass, we have been searching for the past year for 
          an ideal high quality online partner that will allow the ATCA closed 
          group of distinguished thinkers to engage with the global community 
          in a positive and meaningful way. After examining many options, we are 
          delighted to begin the friendly alliance between the ATCA and IntentBlog 
          distinguished communities."
 ATCA: The Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance is a philanthropic 
    expert initiative founded in 2001 to understand and to address complex global 
    challenges. ATCA conducts collective Socratic dialogue on global opportunities 
    and threats arising from climate chaos, radical poverty, organised crime, 
    extremism, informatics, nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence 
    and financial systems. Present membership of ATCA is by invitation only and 
    has over 5,000 distinguished members: including several from the House of 
    Lords, House of Commons, EU Parliament, US Congress & Senate, G10's Senior 
    Government officials and over 1,500 CEOs from financial institutions, scientific 
    corporates and voluntary organisations as well as over 750 Professors from 
    academic centres of excellence worldwide.  [ENDS] mi2g is at the leading edge of building secure on-line banking, broking 
    and trading architectures. The principal applications of its technology are: 
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