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Francis Sealey (born 5 January 1944) is the founder of GlobalNet21 – an organization set up to involve new audiences of people through social networking to discuss the major issues of the 21st century. It is about expanding the public square through engagement. He previously worked as a BBC Producer for the BBC Open University being one of the pioneers in 1969.He stood for Parliament in February 1974 as a Labour Candidate in the Enfield Southgate Constituency but felt that politics could be more effectively pursued outside the House of Commons through community engagement, education and cultural change.

Early life
He was born in 1944 during World War II his mother being Evelyn Sealey and his father unknown. He was brought up in Bridgwater Somerset by an aunt and his grandmother.He attended St Johns Primary School and then Dr Morgans Grammar School for Boys. In his teenage years he became an active member of Monmouth Street Methodist Church where he became a lay preacher at the age of 15 and also an active member of the Labour Party.

Education
He received a B.Sc (Econ) degree in London and an MA in Political Science from MacMaster University in Canada through 1963 to 1967. During that time he was President of the Debating Society and active in student politics.

Education
Following his graduation at MacMaster he taught for a year in a college near Niagara Falls in Canada and began to involve students in debates and discussions about the current issues of that period. He carried this on in the following year when having returned to the UK, he taught at a college in Grimsby for one year.