22 April 2004. Paris, France.

Dear Visitor,

This personal web site has cobbled together in the early Spring of 2004 with me sitting at my desk here in Paris and pouring over my past work, in an attempt to inform and update my international network of friends, colleagues, associates and eventual future work partners. These materials have been assembled specifically to support my search for a portfolio of projects, activities, work partners and relationships that will build on and put my hard-earned background and capabilities to good use over the decade ahead.

A parallel theme that I hope that at least some of you will give some thought to here is my search for ways of financing and expanding the best of the work that we are carrying out under The Commons: Open Society Sustainability Initiative. Until now this traditionally has been financed entirely out of my personal earnings generated from my paid strategic planning and consultancy work. But the coverage and indeed the importance of what we are trying to do here has expanded to such an extent, that a new formula now needs to be found. You will see.

I am putting this semi-organized heap of web pages, tools, links and background information on me and my work before you with some considerable trepidation. The most immediate of my qualms about this is that it is so rough and ready, so clearly in need of editing. And so terribly long, But there is also real work that needs to be got out, so here it is, warts and all, and I hope that those of you who have the patience to plow on with this will find some bits and pieces of sufficient interest and quality to have made it worth the trip.

Should this give you any ideas, if you have any thoughts you would like to share with me, if you have any projects or problems that you might want to brainstorm on, well you now know who I am and how to get in touch. When you do, you will see that you have my full attention.

Eric Britton

Organization and efficient use of this site

This rather large website has been laid out with two main kinds of users in mind: For those in a hurry, certainly the majority, the Quick Bio or longer Full Vitae may be all you need. (There is also a rather quirky interview available here that appeared last summer in Grist, together with a little Q&A session which may have its uses.) But if you need a bit more to fill this out, you will find that by moving left to right along the top menu, a fairly comprehensive picture emerges. (I have included several short video clips here thinking that it is a pretty and sound good way to learn something about a person whom you have not met.) If you have time and interest to take a more detailed look, the suggested strategy is to work your way down the main menu bar to the left in the order shown. The internal organization into a small handful of main sections will hopefully be self-explanatory and efficient. (Main section titles need to be double-clicked to call up corresponding intro page in each case.) A brief confessional Making up a site like this, aimed at telling the world about who you (think you) are, is somewhere unnerving. In the first place it is a bit embarrassing to haul out all this stuff from the past and put it out for all to see (though in fact when the site is formally put on line it will be password protected, giving it a modicum, a fig leaf of decency). Second, it does seem a bit odd to go to the trouble of developing such a complex set of materials when you have only one "product" to sell. But there you have it. It's a big world out there, the 21st century is already stretching its legs, the clock does not stop ticking, and the nature of my work is such that my collaborators, work partners and eventual clients are spread out quite literally all over the world - so this struck me like the only efficient way to reach out and get the job done. So kind thanks for your indulgence with me in all this, and if you should spot anything here which you regard as factually incorrect, inordinately stupid or unduly immodest, I do hope you will let me know so that I can try to repair the damage.     Home   About Translate   The Commons   Always On   Contact   Top Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara 75006 Paris, France, Europe. T: +331 4326 1323 Copyright © 1994-2004 The Commons ® All rights reserved. Last updated on 22 April 2004