11 draft by naming it A Draft Declaration by Citizens of Aichi Nagoya. The appeal was made public, and the drafters had a press briefing on 28 October, 2010 at a press briefing room of CBD CO P 10. With respect to consensus building, SNS did not function as an effective tool, overall. Although the content of the draft was discussed on the SNS, the key debate on economic growth was not visible on the website. Instead of using the SNS site, people opted for discussions in person, during forums for example, or they opted for emails among small groups, such as the members of the steering committee of JCN-CBD and some members of RCE Chubu. Conclusion A cross-boundary learning approach was applied to the Cyber Dialogue. Although the target of this project was civil society, many intellectuals, NGO members and people from the business sector participated in the project. Through the Cyber Dialogue, participants learned the different views of multistakeholders. This sharing of knowledge and ideas will be expanded during in the second (2011-12) and third stages (2013-14). In the second stage of the Cyber Dialogue, which looks toward CO P11, both Japanese and English languages are being used on the SNS site and a dialogue among RCEs in and out of Japan is in preparation. In order to develop a dialogue based on concrete experience, the Cyber Dialogue site has a section dedicated to good practices. All the RCEs are invited to give a brief report, including pictures and, eventually, audio of their good practices. The dialogue will thus not be too abstract and will instead be a forum for the RCEs and other participants to discuss concrete examples of how specific problems of ecologically, economically and socially unsustainable realities can become the object of mutual learning, common understanding and joint action. It is RCE Chubu’s hope that interested members of different RCEs will join the international dialogue, after sharing their good practice examples with all the other participants from different regions of the world. The dialogue among RCEs will become the priority activity of the third stage of the Cyber Dialogue, during which it will become important for RCEs to prepare their joint contribution to the 2014 concluding evaluation of the UN 82 Decade on ESD. A comparison of their respective activities will be a key topic in the third stage of the Cyber Dialogue, focusing on the 2014 and the end for the UN Decade on ESD. The catastrophic events of the March 11 East Japan earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will also be a focus of the second stage of the Cyber Dialogue. The spread of radioactive materials in the aftermath of the nuclear explosion provides a globally relevant focus for the discussion that involves the issue of nuclear electric plants as well as the mass production, consumption and disposal lifestyle that is based on a high energy consumption approach. Re-evaluating traditional knowledge of indigenous communities and other local communities as stressed in the CBD will also be a focus of the second stage. One concrete target of the second stage cyber dialogue is the preparation of reports for distribution during the Hyderabad CO P 11. The active participation of activists and intellectuals from indigenous communities will provide a rare occasion for an international dialogue between those victims of the March 11 catastrophe in Japan who are trying to revive traditional knowledge and those within communities where such knowledge is already playing an important role in supporting sustainable community development. In its second phase (2011-2012), the Cyber Dialogue will use the SNS Facebook system where “friends” of participants in the Biodiversity Cyber Dialogue are invited to participate in themes that might concern them, such as keeping traditional wisdom in indigenous communities and other communities. It will also involve those exchanging information about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear explosion, providing them an occasion to expand the Cyber Dialogue to concerned citizens, in and out of Japan, who have had no previous access to ESD. It is hoped that the inclusion of a special section on good practices will help all participants – especially the RCEs – to join the discussion by sharing their concrete experience as an entry-point. The Cyber Dialogue will be enriched by these additions and others; the Japanese experience on and after March 11 alone could become the focus of an ESD dialogue on how to overcome unsustainability based on wrong attitudes and values, which led to the collision between humans and Mother Nature.
Traditional Knowledge and Biodiversity
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