In early November, CRN's Chris Phoenix wrote a blog entry saying, "In a sense, we'll be reinventing ourselves over the next few months..."
At the time, I thought that might have been overstating the case a little bit. But the fact is that we are making plans and changes to significantly alter how we are organized and the way we try to have an impact.
The most notable change, from the outside, will be our offering of two-day Nano-Workshops, designed to educate interested groups of people about the impending impacts of molecular manufacturing, to assess how it may affect them and their organizations, and to guide them in deciding what they might do about it.
A second offering will be CRN's Nano-Workbooks, published separately from the workshops, and aimed at assisting individuals and self-guided groups to learn about various options for wise management of this powerful new technology, and to empower them to take part in the process. These workbooks will be published as pages on Wise-Nano, and will also be available for download in PDF format, or may be purchased as bound volumes.
Behind the scenes, we will aggressively develop a network of volunteers to assist us in this vital endeavor. We will soon begin recruiting individuals to work in specific areas of activity, including the publication of our monthly C-R-Newsletter and our quarterly Responsible Nanotechnology Report, to serve as Topic Trackers (more on that in days to come), and to help with general bookkeeping and paperwork. If you'd like to take part, but have not yet signed up as a member of the C-R-Network, today would be a good time to do that!
Because Chris and I are now both working full-time for CRN, we have a pressing need to find sustainable means of financial support. Most of our new projects are aimed at achieving that, although our commitment is always to responsibly share what we know, whether or not it pays.
This month marks the second anniversary of CRN's founding in December 2002. Thanks to all of you reading this blog, and many other people around the world, we enter our third year excited about new possibilities for collaboration and genuine progress toward a world in which molecular manufacturing is widely used for productive and beneficial purposes, and where malicious uses are limited by effective administration of the technology.
Mike Treder, Executive Director
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