CWI - Quiet day before the official start

Yesterdag I assisted in getting some of the international guests from Schiphol to their hotels, eating, drinking and exchanging first experiences. An amazing bunch of people running around that made good much of the day I had to spend at the airport.
Last night we had our last group coming back with the car of chief-organizer Paulien Osse. Two Korean trade unionists, two South African scientists an Argentenian journalistist (who had been 30 hours without food and had many delays because of a strike at Iberia) and myself.
The wage indicator is this typical internet project where eroding borders between groups take place in high speed. Not only geographically, but also between discplines like activists, scientists, government people and business people.
The project is also at a turning point durings its first really international meeting. The first countries (first mover the Netherlands far ahead) are turning out now scientific data-sets that could be used, and good models for that still are under negotiation. Now 17 countries work together and China and Japan, the second largest economy, are lined up for this year. Then still a dozen other countries can be lined up for this wage information systems, but then all this effort has to be put into practical use. Time to start thinking about it now.