<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Ingibjorg,<div><br></div><div>I love your idea about regional meetings around education and making sure that children and youth are a big part of it.</div><div><br></div><div>Like others on this list I’ve had great experiences with open space and young people, including in schools.</div><div><br></div><div>My two cents is to carefully build a planning committee that is a microcosm of the people you hope to participate overall and tackle all the logistics issues and strategy with them. </div><div><br></div><div>In terms of regional open space mtgs to inform a national policy, a couple years ago USAID hired me to lead 6 regional open space mtgs with cross section of people-local authorities, grassroots leaders, private sector, etc—to help inform USAID’s five year strategy. Meetings were approximately 8:30 am to 3:30 pm and averaged 150 people each. It’s a small sampling but a step in the right direction. Participants engaged enthusiastically and produced notes and reports that USAID combed through.</div><div><br></div><div>Yours is a beautiful and inspiring project, <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ingibjorg.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Appreciatively,<br><br><div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; 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