"Mumbai is…a city that cannot be missed: a city with global aspirations and a fascinating local context and history," explained David Van Der Leer, a curator of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, "a combination of a think tank, community center and gathering place" that will be held in Mumbai over the next year, though dates have not yet been finalized.
Notice how America's leaders are not making speeches, the press are not editorializing about this, and even the think tank community has given it a pass despite the fact that we are now well into the final act of the tragedy.
Email: [email protected] Internet: www.PaulHeroux.org Twitter: @PaulHeroux Facebook: Paul Heroux Paul Heroux is a state reperesntative who previously worked in local and state government; for a state prison and a county jail; in Saudi Arabia; for a national security think tank; for a community non-profit for 7 years; and is a government administration and criminal justice consultant.
Along with the $100,000 grant, the winners will join an elite technology community think tank of past winners including Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter; Maria Thomas, former CEO of Etsy, Adam D'Angelo, co-founder of Quora and former CTO of Facebook, and Paul Graham, co-founder and Partner at Y Combinator.
This is community think tank at its core.
So, in late 2010, I launched Creative Orange County, a "creative" community think tank.
The Delaware Council on Global and Muslim Affairs is a community think tank that seeks to encourage public engagement with pressing domestic and foreign issues.
The NIC, the official in-house think tank of the intelligence community, takes input from 16 intelligence agencies and produces what are called "national intelligence estimates" on crucial topics of the day as guidance for Washington policymakers.
Theresa Williamson, the founder of the Catalytic Communities think tank and advocacy group believes the local authorities found the perfect excuse in the Olympics to ride roughshod over normal planning guidelines.
Called the BMW Guggenheim Lab — it is sponsored by the car company — and opening on Wednesday, it is part think tank, part open-air forum, part community center, all nestled on a vacant sliver of land between two tenements.
The community center and think tank will conclude in the fall of 2016.
