Brillaint is to head the $100 million Skoll Urgent
Threats Fund in Palo Alto. The new organization was created by the Skoll Foundation to identify and support innovative, high impact initiatives to combat climate change, water scarcity, pandemics,
nuclear proliferation and Middle East conflict.
“Over the last few years, it has become increasingly
apparent that humanity’s failure to address critical issues like climate change and nuclear proliferation aren’t
just making these challenges more difficult, they’re putting life on the planet at risk,” said Jeff Skoll, founder
and chairman of the Skoll Foundation in a statement on the organization’s web site. “This new organization is
designed to make serious headway on these issues by identifying and supporting the most innovative initiatives and solutions
out there. I can’t think of anyone better prepared to shape and lead this effort than Larry Brilliant.”
.This
web will aim to deature outcmes from youth's 69th birtday dialogue with Muhammad Yunus and Bangladesh - action learning
designed round micro up community sustaining systems and yes we can social business networking
thanks for asking me to draft some slides so you can
choose content to launch micro up university club at GWU
please note that most slides are composites - ie in practice
you might build them up one line at a time- and I rather expect many of the chosen lines need customising
tell
me if this sort of thing is what you wanted; if not I can have another go
Samantha - sorry to say that you have
to convince either the germans or yunus that you need to be there -yunus or his german advisers has been making
all the invites personally ; they have been starting with the CEOs who have formed global brand partners with dr yunus and
have a particular plan to discuss everything other than banking
dr yunus has got a bit tired of helping promote 13 microcreditsummits
where he - and all the newtorks are- still not alowed freedom of speech to talk about all the other inventions
before endless debates on banking -
this is all my interpretaion of a world tt is is the most comfied states human
have ever been in; lighted if others haa smarter view share
Muhammad Yunus is coming to Barnes and Noble! He's giving a talk on his new book "Creating a World
Without Poverty", about social business and a potential 'nice' side of capitalism. Yunus is the winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2006 with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He created the idea of microcredit (small loans to women and impoverished
people to promote self-sufficiency and lift them out of poverty). His idea spurred hundreds of non-profits and governments
into action and has currently helped over 100 million people around the world. This guy is seriously cool! He has done some
amazing things and this is a great chance to be able to hear him speak.
There
is lots to build on but I wanted to address your prime view: The need is for GLOBAL
DIGITAL PLATFORMS. Repeat: PLATFORMS, PLATFORMS (Google, Facebook, YouTube – with its 5.6 billion downloads of
co-creative videoclips in a month. Yunus has so many incredible working models. We need a global platform so his success
stories can be communicated in two-minute video clips (not him talking but produced by thousands) which will be downloaded
by hundreds of millions of people each month. On that platform, the kids of the world can demonstrate how to do it.
how could I not agree - my own written work since 1989 describes world scaled
brands as goodwill or badwill multiplying platforms/mediators of our times- by platform I mean that the brand has its own
stage for making news/connecting people (ie it has no advertising costs) because of its platform-
Norman Macrae - Next Capitalsm's
Entrepreneurial Revolution - Xmas 1976 survey The Economist The world needs to draw to the end of big business corporations.
They were virtually created during 1875-1910. During 1975-2010 they may virtually disappear in their presnet form, and the
interesting question is what will replace them?..How will we free Adam Smith? As noted in last year's survey of America's
third century : it cannot be with today's mass media system of free misinformation (including mendacious advertisements)
I
define the most valuable pracs of brand creativity as designing zero-cost platforms that world-scale (as I found from
working at wpp for 2 years on a portal that was to be called brandknowledge.com - my view of creativity made marketing 10
times lower cost which ultimately caused martin sorrell to have me escorted out of his agency's offices in new york
and london offices but not before the row we had on his intranet was pretty public inside wpp) obviously a brand that is an internet
tool (a google, a wikipedia ) is an example of having its own platform
there are however other platforms which is
just as well as historically the lack of diversity and social openers of who gets first go at code and interfaces embedded
in internet would make von neumann turn in his grave
- how
about the competition and league tables recognised as deciding who is world's number 1 -instead of these primarily
existing for spectator sports, it would be desirable for these to exist for collaborative interactions - who currently empowers
more people in the greatest space race uniting our generation (of course a second par of that is there may be multiple races
like multiple sports though I see poverty museums as the most inteconnecting of all the united races towards sustainability)
another platform is an identity (eg the nike tick) that youth like to wear partly cos of an embedded
alumni meaning and partly it looks smart and eg becomes used in background of every youtube to do with school revolution
another: a brand that makes a market like ebay, kiva or equally importantly http://www.microenergycredits.com/ - whilst currently designed around the heroic goal of auditing 250 million clean energy households and returning the carbon
credit to the poor communities that make this happen- the same mobile auditing tool can be used to allocate upside down
aid (the investment goes to the communities that advance the millennium or other world agreed goal) -in other words this
kind of stage can end trickle down global aid -in effect ending poverty needs its own "free market" infrastructures
and we can be certain these will be opposite way round than the mass broadcast advertising spot which has the nastiest dumbing
down consequences on everything from democracy to self-confidence to cross-cultural peace to searching out sustainability
or low cost ways of community trades
because Bangladesh has in its 33 years of other way round micro-up systems designed more sustainability
open source replicating franchises than anyhwere else , the number 1 challenge is to platform these- in other words Bangladesh
connects best for sustainability world interactions but there is an awareness problem - this is most acute among youth (who
always are the main fashion changer and platform agent) who either don’t know Bangladesh already wants to open
source a solution that matches their most urgent concern, or they don’t know how to connect with this solution, or if
they have a better replicable social business solution they don’t know how to get the whole of Bangladesh (ie the whole
of micro up world's co-endorsement)
When 2006 Bangladesh
and Nobel co-branded each other's authorities to quest for human sustainability we got 2 of the 4 platforms
we noted as essential to free market of end poverty in 1984 (the open source cataloguing of end poverty community up and the
Nobel co-branding; we didn’t as yet get the main public broadcasters connected such as BB and India's DD nor did we
design an internet portal/platform so that every time you connect to the net you go first to replication solutions of sustainability-
chapter 11 or dr yunus book asks for ideas on how to achieve these 2 missing links and kazi Islam’s group is intimately
connected with the intern design side- since 2005 my biggest talking point in uk is how to close down the Olympics if the
bbc isn’t giving sustainability games more share of voice than sports by 2012
one of the 5 collaboration innovations that Bangladesh is epicentral to is the microsummit- this chooses a concern
and deadlines a heroic goal; it involves famous people but only for celebrating grassroots practitioner solutions; it mixes
every virtual and real way of connecting networks of people- so far this has been primarily done for safe banking though it
needs to be done for clean energy if Bangladesh is not to be washed away and for schools if we are not to continuing wasting
kids lives etcfor 15 years that I have been on internet, I have kept an eye out for worldwide network movements and microcreditsummit
(in spite of some weaknesses) is in a league of its own - at best it lives up to this descriptionJohn Hatch on Microcreditsummit:Behold the largest self-help undertaking in human history—bringing hope,
dignity, and empowerment to tens of millions of the world’s poor and poorest families. Behold a movement with global
outreach, that has penetrated beyond city slums and market towns to even the most isolated villages. Behold an industry that
embraces thousands of NGOs, credit unions, public and private banks, and an infrastructure of hundreds of thousands of community-based
peer lending groups that are enabling many of the planet’s most disadvantaged households to generate the additional
income and savings they need to keep their children alive, nourished, healthy, and able to attend school..attachment provides more quotes
- the first time I met dr yunus I asked how big could Bangladesh frameworks
on social business/future capitalism be compared with microcredit banking - he said to power 7 - why not integrate: microcreditsummit*microschoolssummit*microenergysummit*microhealthsummit*micromediasummit*microproftruthsummit (Gandhi leadership rules satyagraha)*micro -egov (where e is also for empowering instead of powering over)
it is no accident that
our new york youth group (who understand the quad whammy of new york transparency destruction -banks, media, UN-globa-down-aid, system
collapsing metricated professions) are strongly inquisitive -colaboratively demanding of dr yunus and other microcredit
leaders time whenever they pass through new york - about Future Capitalism opportunities- where's the youth journalism
club of FC; where's the annual year book of FC; where the open source bank of materials on fc so that any network could make
an ebook mapping where other system up stuff linksin; where is the portal of FC; it is just as well the under 25 females that
connect that out of new york trained as middle distance runners and similar stamina-enduring pursuitschris
how broadcast media wrongly conditions minds happens to be something I did 20
years of research 76-96 on collecting millions of hours of societal data in over 40 countries -other notes on future
jourmnalism in another mail
sir kenneth robinson, a liverpudlian now in
LA (need to connect with paul mccartney trained GC) popular at the royal society of arts who "proves" schools are stuck in empire academic mindset
-basically that 2% of people need to be trained to rule the world and 98% to be trained that they have no talents to lead
with ....of course this is the most disastrous type of schooling
-especially if most youth will need to create
their own jobs and teams will be the replicator of sustainable/community-enriching networks of economies - dr yunus
believes there is an entrepreneur (income generating creator) born inside each of us but tragically many never get a chance
to discover their own flow
i believe in flow/productivioty metric of csikszentmihalyi -what % of lifetime
do you experience at experiential edge of your own competence
(side right -more
dots to connect on other system round edu)
one of the opportunities is to publish out
of dhaka a series of small booklets on the unknown genre of innovating collaboration - when I say unknown - it is the unique
diference of the bangaldeshi's nations first third of a century - and while they have had to learn it with the least infrastructure
resources children ever- the bridge from there to your world gordon and back is the united hope iof the triangle of economies
- bangladesh, china and india with bangladesh being the leader of action learning networks - at least I beleive that is the
national strategy thar dr yunus and hos friends have been trying to embed -there's a leaflet growing up with 2 giants which
learning/living scripts that
the book imagining india
by nandan nilekani is probably the one we need to bridge - india is much luckier having this billionnaire at the centre of
its internet world and education philanthropy than usa with gates -the only usa brodacster I am aware of who might begin to
connect the dots above the sort of way I map is charlie rose - it would be useful to get him interested in the youth journalism
school of future capitalism if anyone has a magic idea on that
action program www yunus/bangladesh portal -
ref chapter 11
" creating world without poveryy- social business, future of capitalism"
-oddly drucker was one of the few people who
wrote about management whilst believing it should be unmanagement- before senge largely destroyed theory of learing organisation,
chris argyris at mit was interesting
we absolutely need an oppsite way round list of references
to learning;
lucknow has found that cross-cultural confidence is highly dependent on experience prior to adolesence which makes lot of sense to
me; also prior to adolesence I wish all kids would get practised at hosting their own group discussions- harrison owen's open
space http://www.openspaceworld.com is as well practises by 11 year olds as any age group and aiso to maximise involvement of everyone
in a room at the same time - it also shows that much innovation is about inviting people who are passionately in conflict
to the same space and getting them to take each other through the same conflict barrier at the same time to a higher order
system
using the www: I cant undesrand why we havent already linked in all classes of 10's
11's 12's 13's and set them to ask each other about the big chalenges like end poverty, end global warming ..
and I have 20 years of evidence (starting with 5 years at coopers & lybrand in london 1990 and then
reading hundreds hours of interviews with top people at andersen 1998 whilst working for the world's largest ad agency) that
professions have lost their hippocratic oath, mis-measured every thing solely to maintain their own boxed-in monoplies at
boardroom and top-down levels - of which global bank meltdown is just one compound syndrome -perhaps worst of all is
the lunacy of global accounti ng and ecoonmists that has devalued family cultures with the very worst case possible being
usa whsoe metrics ( have destroyed family time, community safety, banking, space to connect, and is dominated by 15 minutes
of vicious ads per 60 of broadcast)
again nothing is worse than the american psycho-testing
in schools disease that has infected us schools in last 20 years - this is schooling not for children but for those who
make money from designing tests whose cnformity is both the pposite of how brains make associations and the greatest
waste of human diversity- of cousre the trouble is that in big nations many governments have cares not a tad about what
chldren learn contextually but only that children appear to score well -all part of the trouble of pwering over
government rather bthan goverment that serves inside community
paul rose is a bbc broadcaster
on nature and polar and oceans explorer - he is probably to green energy what you gordon are to schools as learning revolution
spaces
if we are talking about youth learning networks most able to end poverty, then alumni
of grameen's vilage schools who now have gone a generation through the way through education to how can
they resolve village challenges
and more recently kenya's jamii bora whose slum youth now create busiesses and rinn their own businesses school are dymanics to understand even though they obviously
havent had the video-internet future schooling mode you talk about - it is fascinatinf that instituto thmas jefferson in mexico is
a world leading experiment in how you see that
(I am less in agreement about wikipedia
- while it is potentially good for something static its editing rules are terribly convemtional when it comes to concepts
that need t be at the edge)
obviously I am an amateur in what teachers could empower (failitate
interaction around) instead of lord over but we need to make sure your journey through internet age of learning replocates;
its scary when the world has only a handful of 25 year long explorers in specific contacts of what yes we can
empower - hope we can interconnect the world's other system round explorers - knowing tehse people's coordunates is probably
where youth journlaism of futuer capitalism needs to start in conmnection with mostofa's brief from dr yunus to identify 5000
youth who want to know where the origins of other way round system practice have been emerging for 25 years (how to question not
to orwell-globalisationm) or 33 years (how to question microbank and entrepreneurial revolution)
MicroYouthSummit-
Mission to take to Bangladesh at end of June 2009, any and every inspiring project or question which yes we can youth want
responded to in areas of microcredit, social business or future capitalism
-the list below provides just a few examples we are brainstorming in intercity collaboration cafes.
if you have one to add or need more detailed guiding email info@worldwidtizen.tv or phone our USA DC bureau 301 881 1655
Can we register 5000 mainly under 25's who want to be knowledge exchange ambassasdors
between bangladesh and some other country/region in need of ending poverty through replicable micro franchises
Can we develp a format for an annual yearbook of
Future Capitalism and social business advances mapping how to bridge 7 microsummits
Can
we agree a heroic actiongoal for youthmicrosummit's world service by 2015
Can we unite
yes we can and micro up youth networks across USA, and similar across oher nations where youth are concerned t social network
sustainbility and to job create through microentrepreneurial revolution
Can we create student social busiensses - ed micro leaders quest for potential future capitalism partners
Can we seek out opinion leaders in academia and elsewhere who wish to help
nurture as many SMBA's as MBAs and who are happy to develop the genre Innovating Collaboration whiose first books have been
published in Dhaka - the city that acts as open university of microcredit, socia business and future capitalism as well as
a primary cheerleader of network weaving achievement of millennium goals
..............
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Help youth prepare 5 million green jobs in
USA or any green nation http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/factsheet_energy_speech_080308.pdf Imagine 5 dvds: one given out at start of being 7th grader (eg 12+) to 12th grader (17+) containing 3-minute video conversation
starters -to start up young people's curiosity what topics (solar, nursing, community banking, host your own project team
meeting ...) communally excite yougreen & youthgreen whole planet: who's who to feature & how does youth youtube that presenter
how give weekly hour of schooling & weekly hour of internet or community chat on youthgreen what micro scale working exhibits
at schools & libraries across the land - eg solar panels how twin rich & poor schools: swap curiosities & team
practice in the community who appoint in government to answer youth's Q&A how collaboratively log up ideas that year's age group come up with & recycle
as inputs to next year's age group .. how survey relevant institutes: develop rating from 10 collaboratively leading fashion
to be interactively curious, to zero left to others ?
Donated by Y10000 & worldcitizen.tv - journalists for MICRO -washington dc bureau 301 881 1655 World's Most Valuable Brand: What Youth chooses to action for and around the planet
Mail info@worldcitizen.tv to join this register of peer networks or organisations. We support the youth vision of muhammad yunus and friends of creating a world without poverty through social business and multiplying goodwill at deep micro contexts such as crediting the very poorest
with their entrpreneurial capabilities.
Extracts from 60 minutes video with Mrs Begum - one of 4 co-founders
of Grameen Bank:
Minute 12- Bangladesh 1976 - Gradually we started to talk to the women,- the first reaction , I’m
a woman, I cannot do anything. My husband is responsible for any economic activities. Most of them never touch money with
their own hand, because the husband is bringing all the things so she is not really handling any money matters. So when we
started talking to them , they were really surprised,- oh you go to my husband, he can do something, I cannot do anything.
So we gradually convince the women to take some money to start up some business, so some of them – very few –
first loanee was Sophia. She was a beggar who startes to work. And others were just observing what was going on. Then one
by one they came…seeing those who hav the money are doing better. But it was not an easy task. From the beginning we
had in our mind that at least 50% should be the women and 50% should be the men. To talk about that is easy, but to involve
women in that scenario, it was not easy. So it takes time. One thing I should say, how women feel much better and the position
came up. I was in a workshop in Tangi in 1979, and in that workshop I’m talking about: is there any change with their
family, with their husband, the relationship? So one woman mentioned my husband never took me to doctor or never brought me
any medicine if I feel sick. But later when I joined Grameen and I’m in money, now my husband goes to the doctor, brings
the medicine. So I asked what is the reason ? She told me that this is – I am an "earning woman" – the
important thing that you are depending on yourself, not dependent on others, husband or son or the father…and you come
yourself and you give yourself some confidence. And this is the dignity of life.
So what Dr Yunus wants, to bring the
dignity among all these women, vulnerable women, so that they can make their own future, they can make their children’s
future, because the mother always loves her child very much.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Caitlin - great
It looks to me as if you are making steady progress
If its possible to get us a
letter in the next 10 days or so it would be good- I am going to be at grameen in dhaka the week after next; mostofa is already
there
obviously this is one of these things its easier to get signed when in front of dr yunus
=
I
note the need to get more practical knowledge on community banking
- if I fail to get much on this I have
been promised we can take some young people to the new york office of grameen america (peter burgess would you help in
this as I am not very banking minded?) and write up a case; my guess is that there is a series of issues about the law
which change how dr yunus would ideally like to design grameen in usa and while these go on there is one simple presentation;
st johns university in new york is also supposed to be am authoirised yunus case maker; I dont know if there is some
way that the lang center could offer help in developing some of this; I suppose it depends what the interests of each academic
are and if they can add something
of yunus authorised academics I am best known by the group in glasgow - they
are doing some great stuff but the trouble with the specific cases of community banking is local laws are different everywhere;
I will try to find out which of dr yunus academic clusters is ahead on what sort of case material and whether their attitide
is to share or not; of course if we can get enough youth ambassadors showing interest there is more likelihood that we can
get these flows pened up
- I was suprised to read recently that the founder of chicago shorebank actually helped
both yunus and fazle abed at key stages of designing their banks - I dont now what the aspect was but suspect it may have
been on legal constitution - he's chicago based - perhaps we could make a list of questions and see if he would do them on
a telephone interview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Grzywinski in any event someone keen on community banking should try and make contact and share the knowhow across clubs 09/10
if you have ideas on how to help empower young people to make ther own resources on a way that gets shared across clubs
I am very keen to hear such ideas ; it could be that if you start to list some questions and get clun members to co-edit them
and then sign as a club we can present the koint request for ersponses to yunus; subjectively i think if we could getr 3 o4
clubs to join in with say 100 signatires and assuming the quyestins didnt each need a thesis to answer he would probably want
to reply
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Mayday! diary: How do 10000 meet to explore forbidden stories - collaboration
cafe may1 6.00ish Asia Society
This topic's inaugural rehearsal is in new york's asia society
circle bar 725 park avenue at 6.00pm may 1 - but do tell me if I can help you host a replicating meeting where
you can be.
How do you get 10K
people meeting to tell forbidden stories
Forbidden stories are what a culture doesn’t lets its people tell each
other or which it is so conditioned by that it doesn’t know how to dialogue with another culture in a way that will
multiply goodwill on both sides.
They put humanity
at risk of aborting learning and destroying innovative interactions. They reveal that spinning power of media which
is to multiply goodwill or badwill but no state in between.
Where did forbidden story analysis come from? – well today when I meet any ten people I
have to face the scary fact that most being younger will never have worked in worldwide organisations when the fastest means
of management communications was the tickertape telex. I am so old that I have.
Survey of 1000 Broken Hearts – mine 1000 times over
And I remember the defining moment of
being sent to asia for the first time – indonesia and Unilever actually. So, having researched local social needs from
1000 poor women, next having to try to explain this to ad agencies and new product chief execs sitting in new york
and london . Since there was only telex they had to rely on me bringing bank the unforgettable“forbidden”
story” as well as the numbers . And for the next 7 years, with some help from early MIT dtabase technology I did
this on over 100 projects before the networked personal computer became pervasive and the first thing that
global organisations deleted was the external marker research who knew the forbidden stories their top people didnt know
Relevance today- america ’s #1 forbidden
story is sustainability isnt MBA invented here
American people are stuck in a triple whammy culture:
3: habitually and systemically used to using 10 times more non-renewable
resources than anywhere else on the planet
2: whose media is saturated with inconvenient truths called advertising spots
1: whose bankers and other powerful
male MBA decision-makers define success by the most transient click of a spreadsheet number
There is in our diverse world an opposite nation that is a third of a century young:
Used to having to make
do withy the least resources
Which grew up without tv media and whose most productive entrepreneurs are females used to communications
in villagers meeting circles (and wonderully since 1996 connecting hundreds of thousands of such innovation centres digitally
to resolve life-critical chalenges)
Whose most brilliantly entrepreneurual businessmen empower - they design and map out systems
purposefully by valuing compound and communal exponentials over time not the fleetingly accounted number
Assuming you and I are not likely to be able to get groups of 10000
americans spending their holidays or work conferences exploring Bangladesh , what other solutions can our social business
networks search out so that sustainability capitalism is a free choice in everyday working practice for every american
man and not just every bangladeshi woman?
Shh-Word of mouth good news, lest you think this is hopeless, I dont while obama is in the white house.American democracy’s forbidden subplot is he’s son of microcredit. Summer 2009 USA's most urgent catch 22 is: will we return in the fall with enough
groups of 10000 american youth able to empower Obama while he's still there to make right decisions if famous america
democracy asks his team to just do it.
Friends are starting
at least twice a year dialogues to discuss this and next urgent youth chalenges around the world – this year dhaka
june 29 http://yunusforum.net/ , and Berlin November
MISSION
I will continue my scrapbook of thoughts on this issue at
http://worldclassbrands.tv -the title of my 1989 book debriefing my experiences of trying to get the forbidden
story heard in such extraordinary places as american ads agencies whose favourite book at the time was trout and ries positioning
– the battle for your mind. In fact with clients who got to trust me , we would rehearse the news before the ad agency
came in. I would then present a revolutionary new concept. The ad agnency would pout this impossible- what are you telling
our client, who the hell are you , we are the brand-men. I would say why’s this truly meaningful and useful product
impossible . They would say trout and ries says so. At which stage the head client would put a paperback copy of positionong
in an ashtray and make a bonfire out of it. In moderating the media industry that along with Baldroge benchmarking was as
near to entrepreneurial revolution as 1980s free markets and world class brands could get. Today yes we can benchmark
Future Capitalism
eddy just phoned me - he is in baltimore with
I think a licence from john hopkins to do malaria testing by urine sample- the claim is this is simpler than anything else
a village nurse usually gets; and without such tests there are huge mistaken diagnoses as I think the recent rwanda compared
with zambia presentation you went to confirmed; at best what happens is patients pay for unecessary cocktails of medicines
eddy was a poster presenter at the extraordinarily efficient healthcare section of the world congress and I
recall dr yunus having a deep 5 minute talk with him
eddy would love it peter if you share any diaries of malaria
meetings you hear of, or any other useful flows
now is the time to discover what we can integrate around community
up ending malaria for 2 particular reasons
with yunus having entered into basf partnership thanks to saskia's
team in germany -albeit with nets- there must be a team coordinator in dhaka looking at all end malaria integrating
methods in the village; mostofa please see if you can find who dhaka epicentre of that is
with end malaria
the number 1 foreign health pledge of obama, it would be the greatest marketing waste in the world not to see what can be
connected through jamii bora; I believe eddy is already present (now or soon) with us army trials of method in kenya -perhaps
he needs to join you on one of your next meetings with the DC admiral
I dont know how this fits into your league tables of the schools that are best for the world-and how they encourage every internetworking student as a youth journalist - but it seems clear to me that there
is a missing curriculum which ought to be a core agends on yunus dilaogue day june 29 http://yunusforum.net
for want of a better word it is the curriculum of microentrepreneur and its needs to be age
graded/segmented to every child's likely last 3 years in school before needing to be income generating
I am
told the core belief of network of microentrepreneurs is that most of us will have to (co)-create our own jobs; we cant expect
huge employers of old nor are such systems good for yes we can networking that includes every person, community into the way
of integrating sustainable global
thus -working backwards from the future of humanity as well as business
and which societies are producitive places to be at or connect/trade with: the core components of this curriculum
seem to include
-find out what in communities and networks we are in corresponds to most underserved needs that
need young people working on them
-be put in touch with the most trusted microcredit operations applicable to
peers like me, not other sorts of banks first
-be able, with open-minded mentors notexamining teachers, to
search through directories of social business or other open source replication franchises to see if there is one the communities
around me as young person need which fits what I want to action learn how to do
-of course this also assumes that schooling
has included content on how (microcredit) banking (and empowering government) works from the individual and community
sustainability up not the biggest Walled Street down;
also relevant is how do these ideas systematically map back
from any immediate future sustainability crises -and future capiltalism innovation priorities - like lack of green energy or crashing healthcare systems etc
-are any of your schools
working on this curriculum gordon, if so is there any way dhaka can help proofcheck -or celebrate - content in some sort
of continuously improving and open source way
-it seems to me we need to network around a leaflet on
microentrepreneurs -whose indirect message is for the future you can't do a decent job as a teacher anywhere unless you
understand microentrepreneurship is a freedom young people in your care demand access to -of course I am delighted to
be told if you feel I misunderstand what the hidden agenda of microentrepreneurship spins round
On Thursday I am having a review meeting with Alexis in New York on this fifteen months on from starting a 1000 bookclub
around future capitalism which began with dr yunus booktalk in new york january08 and an earlier meeting mostofa and I had
in dhaka when proofs of the book were first available.
Our first pledge to dr yunus in january08 was to go film
grameen colleagues' good news stories in ways we could put all over you tube and via 10000 free dvds http://yunus10000.com with an attempt to survey who wanted to be at centre of which activating which good news story
Attached is a
quick attempt I made at a one-page checklist of ways to help Dr Yunus alumni save the world
I don't know if
its a good format or not - however would love any feedback, or if you have other one page formats on what we all need to
encourage friend networks to do whether gravitated around dr yunus or someone else you see as asking the world to
sustain community up, please link us
it would be more consistent with bangla5000 export ambassadors if
the first star mentioned intern at grameen or an officially recognised bangladeshi microcredit
on other stars
I was wondering about some more exacting standards but actually both your ones and the more exacting ones are a choice
to be made so that it first the bangla 5000 briefing (which I wasnt at!)
I think a second
star is caring deeply about womens or childrens issues as relevant to ending poverty traps ariound them
I think a 3rd star is having spent a year coordinating a social action
team service or investigating a social business design - the team may have involved as few as 3 people but they are to
have put an average of an hour a week into working through and kept on the same focus; less important than a successful
outcome is being openly able to explain to other people relevant learnings which can accelerate other people's chance
of success in innovation breakthroughs for humanity- microcredit was itself a 4-person social action by birth
A fourth involves understanding that micro up is other systems round than
top down; and even if they do make money (or obtain qualifications) in top-down world never misleading people as to which
system they are organising in particular cases
fifth ??/
WE CANT ALL BE BANKERS THOUGH WE ALL NEED
KNOWLEDGE OF BANKINGS COMMUNITY/SUSTAINABILITY/COMPOUND PURPOSES
My advice as researcher of world class brands is it is critical to the national strategy that Dr Yunus has spoken about (eg the speech Growing up with 2 giants - given
at 2006 Bangladesh -China friendship conference) that we communicate to youth's social networks around
the world through at least 7 collaboration identifiers - be gravitated toward one that matters first to you and then
find the other 6 socially network arond and help you to- while there is a choice in making these I assume the brand/identifiers
with the widest colaboration compasses are
bangladesh
microcredit
7 microsummits
future
capitalism and social business entrepreneurs
the most specific brands are:
grameen
yunus
(although our surveys of world's most trusted collaboration entrepreneur are not as individually focused as people programmed
by western mass media who trivially look up to celebrities think- the bottom billion need one person prepared
to be a collaboration world star to gain permission to advise the white house on how to change banking law or go be cat
among the pidgeons of those who so far have only used internet or mobiles for the rich including billanthropists who have
never lived in a village and appreciated life-critical need for community)
These are some of the extracts from Dr
Yunus speech whioch also seemed to be echoed by both Kazi Islam in wanting to export and partner in being a world leader in
what mobile leapfrogging can do eg http://bankabillion.org and Dipal's wish http://www.gshakti.org to see solar energy's thriving carbon negative economics web worldwide
The future of
Bangladesh lies in being an open-door, open-arm country. In order to move up the economc ladder quickly we should open all
our doors, invite everybody in, encourage our people to spread temselves all over the world, show their talents and win the
confidence and appreciation of the whole world.
The
list of our accomplishments is long and very impressive. We notice the admiring eyes of international delegates when we attend
worldwide conferences be they in
microcredit (every counry in the world feels the
need for microcredit, no country can ignore it)
disaster management,
health (we gave the world oral saline to combat diarrhea)
education,
renewable energy, environment, women empowerment, or child labour.
Bangladesh is fortunate to have 2 giants (China, India) as our neighbours. Growing neighbours are sources
of technology and experience. Expanding economies keep moving towards more high profit products and services, leaving behnd
labour intensive items. This creates opportunities for neighbours. This is not to suggest that Bangladesh can satisfy
herself only with the markets and products which giant neighbours are not interested in serving. What Bangladesh can
do will depend on our level of efficeincy and management skill. We can find niches to provide high value specialised services
to our giamt neighbours
With nearly 40 million
mobiles connecting people, Bangladesh has one of the two lowest cost and highest per capita communications-knowledge infrastructures
to partner and innovate with. Bangladesh is a very young population - half of us are under the age of 20.If we pay serious
attention to them we can create a dramatically different generation. One way to let all children, poor or rich, boy or girl,
urban or rural feel equal is ti ensure access to computer and internet. There is no reason why we cannot sign up with MIT
Media Lab to do exactly this.
The world that
young people will create will be the world of nnovative ideas. Old resistance to new ideas will crumble away. Searchers will
sek from mmountains of ideas to get the ones they are looking for. Unlike in old tmes, ideas and innovations will no
longer remain unknown. Creativity in every direction will be rewarded more than anything else. Our education system has t
be oriented towards promoting creativity in our young people. Grameen Bank employs over 25000 staff - and 90% are young people.I
see te dedication and commitemnt with which they work. They can be the role model any where in the world. Granmeen Bank gives
student loans to Grameen borrowers children to pursue higher education in medical, engineering and other practice areas. Two
thirds of these scholarships go to girls.
(I
tell all our youth that we value the definition of the entrepreneur as one who makes more jobs than she or he takes.
-sentence added from ashden talk). MYunUS
The stories we tell; the
knowhow we empower youth to web and replicate ; the urgency of the next decade not deviating from ending poverty due the financial
meltdown the way the last decade’s human progress was lost to wars.
Story 1 The former first lady of s.africa called Dhaka the open source University of Microcredit. Today we need dhaka to
be mapped all over the world as the open source university of the future captalism which people need designed round social
businesses and networks connecting up microentrepreneurs (defined by Yunus as leaders who make more jobs than they
take) .
Story 2 Yes we can collaboratively race to design a transparent
globalisation which integrates sustainability of every community by ending poverty
16 months of Research of youth’s connecting with Future Capitalism book of Yunus shows that they celebrate yunus
stories but in capitalism’s biggest cities have no structure and insufficient group rewards to enable peer groups to
action, learn and selectively network replication franchises . Media Recommendation: the most urgent thing we can do is brainstorm
a concept capable of coordinating this and then everyone in Dhaka who has outreach around the world needs to ensure that grameenmicrocredit
and Dhaka-social business operations collaborate around this concept therefore enabling yes we can youth to transform the
union of Yunus and Obama’s visions into do-now realities.
We (peter, you and I) briefly shook hands at JP Morgan
I wanted to see if your company
would be interested in the transatlantic goals dr yunus has set us which mostofa (Dhaka to London) started working on
2.5 years ago with continuous support of Yunus secretariat, and which I (DC to many capital cities) joined in about 1.5
years ago when I bought 1000 advance copies of Future Capitalism. My father deputy edited The Economist for 40 years, and
Dr Yunus is guest editing the first in a series of booklets in the new genre innovating collaboration- dad's contribution
attached. Other resources we are already circulating are 10000 free dvds so youth can debate the best news ever youtubed which is of course micro -up!
I have met Dr
Yunus briefly 7 times. The idea of our 1-day special dialogue in Dhaka with Dr Yunus in late June 2009 is to bring every
world change project that 19-25 year olds could help with and which might plant one of 7 microsummits going beyond today's
one for credit, banking. A typical commitment is the first web to link open cataloguing of 1000 social businesses by June http://socialbusiness.tv
And Rougly speaking the other six microsummits are
change governance from superpower to yes we can superempowerment
the summit compasses are fuzzy and of course all 6 bridge with deep microcredit owned by the community as a social business replicating franchise; however
each is to be launched with an impossibly audacious goal- debating the equivalent of bank for 100 million poorest households
within 7 years is exciting to socially network around
we expect to have about 20 micro university clubs set up
by the end of march given the new yes we can spirit and the offer that the best ideas will be presented in dhaka
for Dr Yunus and other Bangladeshi microcredit leaders to evaluate; ideally we want to help get a youth coordinator
in every state racing to see which state can build the first poverty museum - dr yunus believing any state that can verify
that will also be briliant at collaborating millennium goals worldwide
My expertise is really in low cost global
branding - systemising purposes ,most worthy of human innovation, the sustainability flows and the eradication of conflicts
that are needed if the networking movements dr yunus has described to us are to live up to our uniting collaboration value
impossible becomes possible if right action time place people
Our US representation of youth
is mainly East Coast at this time. I love what I can understand of XXX and am interested in the sam daley harris -and 93 congressmen - search to connect the 10 deepest MCI including rising african stars like Jamii Bora as well as the golden trio of Bangladeshi originals. If you might like to partner what our youth networks aim to
do by June perhaps we could meet you on one of your next east coast itineraries
Our Future Capitalism Ning aims to keep a decade long diary of most human stories dr yunus told in different regions- if you
have one that's not logged please mail info@worldcitizen.tv so we can update
FC Ning also tries to keep monthly logs since yes we can inauguration
eg Jan 09
This mail among our confederates in cheerleading every state's race to be the first to build a poverty museum
is typical of Micro & Collaboration networking under way among 19-25s
Dear A- can you try fllr all
47 delegates to dr yunus GWU talk feb 4 and perhaps phone me when I am back from boston's rehearsal of 10000 person
summer festival around 9am on wednesday (or remind me of your cell phone)
thanks for all you are doing -
you know the micro world beliefs of how we colaborate to end poverty just as practically as I do so choose anyone under
25 you trust to be on the same collaboration team; as I say mostofa will double check if there's someone grameen
dhaka has forgotten who's under 25 and epicentral in any particular state- I invite rachel to do same with ASA;
I am only really aware of thegreenchildren in los angeles and that through them vidar's reach with youth may be along the west coast so I thing we are pretty safe nominating east coast people , and at the very
least we can say that if each will define one project or vision by end of june that makes sense to majority of us we will
make sure dr yunus sees it- and hopefully more
I guess that peter B and anyone else who wants to can
touch base with brac's usa leader (Susan Davis) in new jersey and sam daley harris in princeton once we have a bit more of a map of who's micro up youth who; not doing this in the first few weeks of inauguration
of yes we can is tantamount to micro being the world's least competent social network so even if we dont get thanked immediately
I am confident that this is what yunus has briefed mostofa to get doing these last 2.5 years
the shared communications
and collaboration identity of micro has always been
impossible becomes possible when right people place time
action
.Examples of how 68 year old Yunus needs youth's
help
A THREAT
Between 1997 and 2006 microcreditsummit became humanity's favourite network raising access to microcredit among the poorest women from 11 million
to over 100 million which has been reported as potentially a 300 billion $ industry currently social business owned by the poorest women in the world.
Now big banks (whose subprime global confusion has just lost a trillion dollars for taxpayers are determining to
chain the next 400 million poorest women in macrocredit (whose profits go to big city cheeses not microcredit that invests
back in the village). Problem of macrocredit disguised as microcredit: 68 year-old Yunus, and
100000 Bangladeshi's whose 30 years of social business innovation, have given the world an open source model.
This is one where, like any logical game, you only need to change one system rule and every flow designed to empower
the poorest starts compounding opposite futures -in this instance spinning back to money grabbing by the richest
speculators or loan sharks. The best way I can imagine of protecting an open source model is if 10000 youth across
cities of te world understand the true maps and refuse to customise big brother fakes.
Yunus' future capitalism book published December 2007 seemed like the most
exciting network invitation I had ever read- so I bought 1000 copies to start playing network games with and went to Dhaka to check on a 2008 new year's resolution. I asked
Dr Yunus how large did he wish people to make Future Capitalism networking compared with microcredit. He said why not 10 times
larger and started informing me of all the microworldsummit invitations you can see on the right hand side of the
picture, and whom in his organisation to contact to get practical chapter and verses on each.
Your
Q&A always welcome about this the most inspiring collaboration networking game I ever expect to hear about. Chris Macrae
Washington DC Bureau of worldcitizen.tv tel 301 881 1655
