What I Expect From Your Application

	Application Process

Tonight at midnight I am closing as announced the acceptance of applications for this first class of Communication Agents.

Nonetheless the above, several individuals have expressed the desire to participate in the next round of CAs, loosely scheduled to be started during the fall of this year.

In this light I want to share more of what is expected most from your formal application, outside of providing all of the basic bio information that can help me and others in this program best understand your talents and unique skills.

Here is an edited excerpt from the feedback I have recently sent to one of the applicants to the CA Initiative.

"I have read with much attention what you wrote in application.

I have learned a lot more about you and have now a bit better understanding of who you are and where you are coming from. Reading some of the passages revealed to me though a diplomatically veiled prudency toward any open statement that would you line up to one of specific issues described in the Areas of Change document.

Though you clearly identify your area of interest, I fail to identify the reasons, rationale and strategy that moves your choice, beyond the desire to learn more and to share with others what new technologies can do to improve our ways of learning and communicating better.

My assumption after having read your statements is that you have not been involved yet in seriously considering any actual social change action that targets some of the ill-designed foundations of the very system you so passionately want to improve. This maybe a strength or a weakness depending on where you stand and what you want for your future.

If you look carefully at the profiles of the other accepted applicants you can see that they all of a strong social component in their profile and in their reasons to take on this program:

Sepp Hasslberger
Chris Gupta
Ivan Ingrilli
Zoe Lenska
Heidi Hanson and Joe Samsen
Klaus and Gabi Rudolph
Andrea rieniets
Emma Holister

I want and need you to be one in this "class" and this is why I am expressing some of my personal doubts.

Do you really share the deep ethical and social issues that I care about to change within the Education and Human Potential field?

Are you going to address them? How?
Can you give me some example of what kind of articles, news or posts you would intend to publish?

Sorry to place under this barrage of questions. I am sure you have understood my goal: I need to find out if you are going to be "in sync" with this group, and whether your message and action will have enough social components that reflect the whole critical aspect of this unique learning program.

I can see that the program would be of great value to you anyhow, but I have set out this enterprise as many software developers do: I want to create something that first solves a problem I have (see Areas for Change) and secondly that can be shared and given to others while fairly supporting my sustainability.

This is not a critique of you, nor an attempt to reject you. Please do not misunderstand me.
This is only about finding out HOW MUCH YOU REALLY CARE AND WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SPECIFIC ISSUES LISTED IN THE AREAS OF CHANGE.

As this is "CENTRAL" to this advanced learning program, and even to its ability to create media "waves", I must fully invest my attention in understanding where you stand in relation to the above and why and how you would want to work hard at serving one or more of those very specific items listed in the AREAS for CHANGE document.

I would love to have you on-board, but I do have to make sure that we are going to move in the same direction.

Please feel free to share your doubts, questions, critiques and suggestions to me, so that I can better understand your personal feelings and moral issues in dealing with this part of our project.

Robin Good"