The idea of the Global Villages Network is to bring together architects, community activists, communication designers, administrators and politicians, researchers and experts in many fields to promote the development of liveable habitat. It is based on the belief that the village is the most sustainable form of life, that it can help solve many human problems otherwise neglected in an immediate, small, human scale. It is further based on the belief that we need to reinvent the village and create global support systems to enable actors in villages to fulfill the roles that this local capacity requires.

The Global Villages Network was formally founded at the Third International Global Village Symposium in Vienna, but neglected for a long time. Look at the founding declaration:

http://www.give.at/give/gvn/gvndraft.htm

It was never totally abandoned and the personal relations grew with new events, and when Gleb Tyurin from Archangelsk asked to build up a supporting entity for a possible project in Russia, efforts were started to formally recreate it and fill it with life. For the moment we are using a Social Network on NING as a tool to bring people together.

http://globalvillages.ning.com/

The goal is to create a conference and physical come together in late 2010 with the title "the Village Principle", organized jointly with ECOVAST Austria.