The Network of European Technocrats (or NET) is an organisation that promotes Technocracy in a European context[1], as an alternative socioeconomic system for a sustainable future. The organisation is registered in Sweden but has a membership base across Europe and accepts members from outside Europe. The organisation can be considered an extension or continuation of the North American Technocracy movement; however, it is independent of any other organisation.
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Formation
Around the year 2005, due to an increase in international activity on the Technocracy portal page[1], a group of Europeans inspired by Technocracy, decided to spread the ideas to the other side of the Atlantic ocean and thus created NET, as an autonomous research and education organisation. NET was officially registered as an independent association in the Kingdom of Sweden in April 2006.
Organisation
NET follows a holonic[2] organisation structure based around autonomous groups, but it does have a board of directors responsible for its overall direction. Currently, the board is composed of a director of NET and the heads of three sequences, one each for research, administration and finance. The current headquarters (EHQ) lies in Umeå, Sweden, where the current director, Dr. Andrew Wallace, lives.
Goals and Objectives
The overall goal of Technocracy is, to provide people with the highest possible standard of living for the longest possible period of time. NET additionally aims to promote technocracy and to develop a technocratic and scientific plan for Europe. As technocracy can be seen as "science applied to society", NET aims to validate its plans by conducting experiments and simulations on technocracy (which comes under the Sequence of Research). The plan, currently under development by NET, does not necessarily follow the plan developed by Technocracy Incorporated in North America, but it does have many commonalities, such as the use of Energy Accounting. The main difference from Technocracy Inc. is that NET is investigating more decentralised and ecological methods of resource and information distribution than the North American organisation.
The European Technocratic Plan
The plan for Europe is still under development but key parts of the current plan are localisation and networking. The proposed organisation centres around Sustainable communities called Eco-Units (with about 200 people), which have some degree of Self-sufficiency in energy production, waste management and food production[3]. These eco-units would then group together to form Urbanates (with about 10,000 people). Eco-units and Urbanates would also have some additional production capacity to produce goods for local consumption. These Urbanates would be autonomous units that would then network with other Urbanates when needed.
See also
- Technocracy movement
- Energy Accounting
- Energy Survey of North America
- Technate
- Technocratic views of the Price system
- Urbanate
- Jacque Fresco
- Technocracy Study Course
External links
References
- ^ Emanuelsson, Erik (27 Oct 2006). Teknokratins historia. Noden. Retrieved on 19 June 2007.
- ^ Wallace, Andrew (24 May 2007). Holons and a Holonic Society. NET. Retrieved on 27 June 2007.
- ^ Emanuelsson, Erik (3 Nov 2006). Det teknokratiska idealsamhället. Noden. Retrieved on 19 June 2007.
