18 World Tour Cities in 23 Days

Rick has spent a fair percentage of the last week charting our 23-day world tour.  This sort of thing is a lot easier when you are just looking at a map.  It gets tougher when you are having to adapt to logistics and airline schedules.  He has done an incredible job, showing great patience both with airplane reservations folk and his pushy traveling companion.

In the end end he has devised a brilliant grueling schedule.  If we survive it, we will be much wiser about what people and technology are doing to each other on a pretty global basis.  We will hit 18 cities in 23 days. Here are the cities:

• Tokyo
• Beijing
• Shanghai
• Shenzen
• Hong Kong
• Seoul
• Bangkok/Phuket
• Ho Chi Minh
• Taipei
• Bombay/Bangalore
• Berlin
• Johannesburg/Cape Town
• Amsterdam
• Oslo
• London
• Paris
• Florence
• Munich

The precise dates for each city will be decided in 2-3 days, but we start on Aug. 12 in Tokyo and will follow this sequence. If you are at or near any f these cities please let us know by posting a comment here or emailing me at shel@itseemstome.net.

Again, we are NOT looking for company presentations. We are looking to meet smart people with ideas and dreams and aspirations.  We want to have as many interesting conversations as we possibly can cram into this marathon junket. We want to start conversations that will continue beyond this field trip survey.

BTW, I am no longer filing under the Web 2.0 blog category, nor am I tagging with it. You will find this post and all future posts under Global Neighborhoods.

Comments

[Darren]

Sorry to hear you won't be making it downunder to tap into the Aussie brain power.

[Shel Israel]

Not as sorry as we are Darren. It took us nearly a week of trying but we would have had to extend the trip by several days to do it, and I just cannot afford to not work for four weeks in a row, even when someone else is footing my travel costs.

[Ewan McIntosh]

Hi Shel,
I'd be happy to nip down to London to meet up and talk about things from the educational side of the neighbourhood story. If you do want to do this, I'll post on my own blog and get some good stories from around the world - including Australia ;-)

[Pat Phelan]

Hi Shel
I am looking forwarding to seeing you at the IT Cork seminar on the 8th of June
hope you will autograph Naked conversations for me
http://www.itcork.ie/index.cfm?page=events&eventId=68

[Jeremiah Owyang]

Shel, It would be interesting if you could get a digital camera for your trip and upload photos...

[Shel Israel]

Jeremiah,

I have a digital camera. share photos with family so far, but I will go public for the World Tour and publish photos. Unless you volunteer to come along as staff photographer.

[marc goldbergMarc Goldberg]

Shel

I'll host a Paris dinner/meeting when you guys are in town
let me know and I'll invite the local smart guys...

Looking forward - Marc.

[Darren]

understand Shel - there's always going to be another place you could have gone. Maybe next time.

[Octavio Isaac Rojas Orduña]

I've just noticed that you are having this tour.

Maybe next time you make me a visit in Madrid, Spain!

[Jeremiah Owyang]

I would love to go with as a staff photographer however I wouldnt' be able to take that much time off away from my projects.

Have you considered using flickr? I've gone flickr crazy and reccomend considering it --makes publishing and sharing a snap.

[Daniela]

Shel, Hamburg is missing on your list ;-)

[Shel Israel]

Thanks for all these supportive voices. Marc, we are likely to take you up on that Paris Blogger dinner idea. We will be there in September. Daniela--we will most certainly be in Hamburg. It is too beautiful to miss--but we are coming by train. I was not clear, but all the cities I listed so far are airport-related. Octavio, Madrid is also a train ride and is possible. I would like to meet you. IUs there much social media stuff going on down there?

[Dimitar Vesselinov]

May I suggest Bulgaria?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/bulgaria/clusters/