A meeting is scheduled for September 1996 in Australia where it is intended to formally incorporate GEN as an association of autonomous regional networks , but also to include as members invited organisations which work globally and are supportive of the GEN vision. Everyone is welcome to join the GEN regional networks without conditions. This include eco-village projects, of course, but also individuals and organisations that have an interest in what is happening. An important eco-village issue is how to make technology ecologically, socially and spiritually responsive to human needs, rather than the opposite. A closely related issue is the creation of jobs in eco-villages.
Technology tends to determine the structure and organisation of society.
Contemporary society's technology promotes unliveable Megacities, separation of work and home, institutionalisation of family support functions, environmental degradation, unsustainability, and over-consumption, in a centralised, hierarchical structure. The GEN vision requires a radical change in structure that would reverse all of these tendencies. An important part of GEN's strategy is the promotion of sustainable technologies . It is recognised that the realisation of this vision will take some time.