Free Cities and the harbinger of better times

Participants in The Future of Free Cities at the end of the conference.

Intense and rich, in an atmosphere of cordiality and academic concerns, meetings were held during the series of conferences on The Future of Free Cities that took place in Roatan, Honduras, from 3 to April 5, 2011.

In lectures and lively discussion groups, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, journalists and other experts, explored various themes. Some of these issues were the nature of the free cities, poverty, war, expansion of government and threats to freedom in an intellectual no limit to creativity, entrepreneurship and commitment to the respect for human rights individual and equality before the law.

The Future of Free Cities brought together experts from different countries and different fields of knowledge, in a series of high-level discussions for answers to the problems mentioned above. Participants were invited by their ability to think outside the box, and the meeting, which was the first activity of its nature, was a unique process of discovery to explore ideas on how to establish a free city.

As the anthem of the Universidad Francisco Marroquín, at the dawn of limpid sky, there are harbingers of better times, that was the spirit that prevailed during this meeting of minds about the freedom and the free cities.

During the meeting presentations were made ​​by: Michael Strong, Be the Solution: How Conscious Capitalists enterpreneurs and dog Solve All the World's Problems , Kevin Lyons, A Legal Strategy for Creating Private inmediately Free Cities; Ricardo Valenzuela, A Solution for Mercantilism in Mexico, and Jason Sorens, Seccesion as a Continuum . Also Fred Foldvary, The Public Finances and Governance of a Free City , Gonzalo Melian, Different Ways to Design a Free Market City, Patri Friedman, Free Cities and Seasteading , Robert H. Nelson, Private Neighborhoods and Roberto Blum, An Experiment to Promote Competition of New and Better Institutions Capbable of Creating Wealth .

Kofman Christiane thematic workshops led discussion, and Fred Kofman was responsible for closing the conference.

The conference was organized by the Universidad Francisco Marroquín , whose mission is to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal and economic aspects of a society of free and responsible, and by The Seasteading Institute , whose mission is to advance the establishment of autonomous communities standing in the ocean, enabling innovation with new political and social systems.