New mechanism for international dialogue: Hoff Space

by | Aug 20, 2008


It’s a cliché that our networked, wired world suffers from a dearth of true leaders – visionaries who know how to use new technologies to build virtual communities on a truly global scale.  Leaders, in short, who can say this:

In my travels round the world I have always been surprised that no matter where I go people recognize and know me, from Europe, Australia and India to the Philippines and the Zulu Nation in South Africa. This got me thinking… I realized that while two people from two entirely different countries and backgrounds may seem to have nothing in common, the only thing they might have in common is me… So I decided to start a network where people from across the world might come together and get a conversation started over me. Where it will lead, I don’t know but the world would be a better place if everyone talked a little more to each other…

Yes, the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall is back in the planetary political game. Welcome to Hoff Space.

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