CAN handbook and guide

Hi all,
The draft CAN handbook has recently had a major reworking focusing more on A/UK learning, at
https://www.appropedia.org/Citizens_Action_Network_handbook
and separating out the beginnings of a possible related guide.
The Citizens Action Network development page:
https://www.appropedia.org/Citizens_Action_Network_development is being updated re both the handbook and guide.

Earlier posts re this project are mainly in the CAN update thread:
https://www.loomio.org/d/IkcQboKq/can-updatequick recap:
*Dec - Jan: first draft of CAN handbook, following on from last co-creators zoom of 2020
*early Feb: draft reshape into a handbook and guide

It seems a good idea to have a separate thread for this project.
It's set up to show latest posts first.

The guide, provisional title: Guide to CANs and the wider world, is very much under construction, and is likely to change a lot, but hopefully will be a contribution to exploring initiatives and ways to accelerate the emergence of the CAN of CANs (or CANs of CANs?)

Some A/UK thinking re this from Alternative Editorial: Deep Revolution, Nov 22, 2020:
https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2020/11/23/alternative-editorial-xxxx
(movements to support citizen-based action, need to be) "Collaborative not competitive, diverse on principle, deeply connected to individual as well as planetary well-being".

(and re) "...more support for long term goals such as community wealth building: let the people not only use empty buildings and other assets but generate income from them and create common ownership. Working actively with local cooperatives to build on the social capital they have built over the years could help communities begin to thrive.

Secondly, it’s crucial that this does not remain a volunteer network doing the governments work while Westminster spends 30 billion on military expenditure we never approved. More community agency should add up to more jobs, more money and more flourishing.

To achieve that local economies are increasingly what we call cosmo-local – drawing on the experience, methods and practices from cutting edge thinking from around the world. This is partly through CANs like Transition having global communities of their own to connect with. But it will increasingly be through global networks of all kinds coming into the homes of every citizen."

And from @David Wilcox , CAN update thread, Nov 24: "So we need flat-packs for citizens, as well as for citizen-led councils. Should we be designing those, collaboratively?"

Some questions re this, which hopefully the guide might begin to answer:
1. What would a knowledge commons for (and by?) CANs look like? and what relationship ?s might that pose?
2. More broadly what would a Peoples’ policy for social infrastructure look like?
3. a more specific example: for cosmolocal learning clubs within CANs, what might help or accelerate the development of these?
4. what other resources might be better shared to help accelerate the development of CANs?
5. what is going on that invites people into relationship?
6. for a growing number of anyone interested, or active in CANs, how do we make it so that people can start with the basics of finding each other easily and as specifically as they want, and continue this over time? and perhaps related to that:
7. How do we learn to fully and adequately recognise each others’ efforts as a step toward wider recognition?