In the summer of 2007 around a hundred people gathered in a large room in East London. They were there to find out about and take part in 24 weeks. As evidenced here 24 weeks was a project to create an “evolutionary platform” to “enable communities to communicate and work together”. It was, in short, a gathering of well meaning folk who wanted to make the world a better place.

I was only there for a few minutes but I caught a vignette during which Mamading Ceesay perked the crowd up into spontaneous applause.

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