www.kickstart.org

Bangladesh's microcredit models led by Grameen and BRAC are arguably the greatest job creation system designs of our age. They offer many kinds of lessons which we would love to hear of exemplars around the world - both from developing nations and developed ones. Examples: 

bring bank the community market -in grameen's case every 60 villagers form one ; one pleasant surprise is that New York has brought back community markets to many of its parks; the deal is local businesses help maintain the upkeep and accent particular local cultuires eg where stalls offer prticular ethnic foods

redesign whole supply chains so the market's value multpliers are leveraged by the producers where their microentrepreneurial inputs can be aggregated; since villagers keeping hens for egg production werent making a living wage BRAC redesigned the whole poultry market including breeding hens able to lay far more eggs than the scrawny village hens of old but conversely these superbreeders need more veterinary care which is also deisgned as a microentrepreneurial job; BRAC hs since designed over 10 agricultural markets so the value chain is bottom-up (ie value multiples wher its produced)

An exciting African model of microcredit is Jamii Bora where mobile youth are turning loyalty to their peer groups into hi-trust networks and innovative forms of business exchange 

 info@worldcitizen.tv would love to hear of develped world cases prticulrly where infotech has liberated the producer from top-down profit chains; as a non-tech example, traditionally some italian fashion industries have sustained the value where it is produced model very weel indeed   

Urgently renewing focus on appreneticeships and vocational training particularly peer to peer wherever possible : new Grameen concepts include Grameen Nursing College, and the prt of G Shikka concerned with social business of vocational training; the free university concept CIDA S.Africa is exciting. If America does reform its banking and healthcare sectors in time for everyone to enjoy economics again, the next bubble it surely needs to reform is the sort of university that doent see job creation as its main raison d'etre. 

We havent really begun to see what job creation IT approaches can do, nor start-up models which see their purpose not as requiring 20% returns but say 3% returns and lots more jobs. There must be start-ups of that sort that government in West would find far more economical to fund than paying unemloyment benefits - sightings welcomed info@worldcitizen.tv

AS the first journalist of the internet, my father foresaw in 1984 that the 2010s would be a race by peoples and interlinked commnuities towards a potential goal of 10 times more human productivity. Lets believe that IT and economics can be used to job crreate and just do it. 

Tour 1 children can change learning can change ...

Muftah www.omagine.com  - I know qatar let you down on qutopia but do you still have connections there?; out of new zealand but also with 10 million books sold in china, gordon www.thelearningweb.net is leading the internet revolution in schools; jonathan www.the-hub.net is leading collaborations through networking 6000 entrepreneurs which share communal work spaces in 50 capital cities (doubling scale every 15 months or so); lesley is jonathan's connector out of africa where the 2 greatest peer to peer learning experiments I have heard of are taddy blechers free university in lesley's johannesburg and ingrid munro's www.jamiibora.org   out of nairobi

since dad www.worldeconomist.net journalistic commencement of the genre of entrepreneurial revolution in The Economist in 1976 predicted 10 times more human productivity can be at stake for the first networked generation to 2025, a challenge that interests my family most is how to connect learning (& media &open tech) revolutions with economics revolutions; my family is sponsoring the first issue of the journal on missing economics with dr yunus www.considerbangladesh.com (the entrepreneurial world's leader since 1976)   choosing 3000 co-leaders that we will sponsor postage to; of course we would be happy to sponsor postage to leaders of your choice

amongst londoners jonathan knows most about these plans; back in 2008 david frost chief journalist at london bureau of el jazeera was hugely interested in yunus economics

the longest running us educator interested in microeconomics is sam out of princeton;

we are still looking for the global brand portal that takes on the responsibility of surveying youth's goals for 2020 but  fusion of www.danonecommunities.com and www.singforhope.org would web unstoppable momentum imo; the only other world class corporation brands collborating in practical steps to change media microeconomically are intel, grameenphone and whole foods and ali baba  ; last month I restarted my third "once in a decade" dialogue on this with the heads of The Economist and WPP; this time we got 60 people into The Economist' boardroom to broaden the good news inquiry into how exciting the 2010s can be

chris macrae 1-301 881 1655

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from gordon:
Qatar may be a possibility as a sponsor for an international online venue for global debate one the future, through El Jazeera.

Qatar already runs  an annul global conference on learning (started a year ago; next one being held there next week), see ad in this week’s Economist.

Conference, and other similar articles, are run by the Qatar Foundation, run by the Emir’s wife.

The Foundation has already employed, over the past decade, several educational consultants from New Zealand.

Hello - as you may have heard:

Henry at www.happy.co.uk  (aldgate) has kindly invited Mostofa of http://yunusforum.net and yunus forum 100 and collaboration social business 100 circles meetings to start Oct 21 (evening meeting) - you may know that Happy Computing was the serial host of monthly evening meeting on social capital in the years when fast company had a strong intercity network of monthly meetings. Dr Yunus directly told Mostofa at his last Dhaka meeting that this is a most welcome development from his perspective of trying to unite london's diverse agents for humanity and economic good.

 

Invited coordinator and potential peer sub-network

Guilhem - french microentrepreneurs in London and links to Paris collaboration cafe

Brad- collaboration CSR and other network links to Paris collaboration cafe

Robert De Sousa - Gandhians etc and education

Peter or colleague - microcredit or microcredit education networkers

Tony or colleague - people able to tell us what force for good agendas are coming up

Patrick - people working on hunger project type goals

Mark - film-makers etc

Josef - cultural creative and other united diversity networkers

Alan - people who may want to brand or journalism for goodwill multiplication among young

Pilar - lse and s.amercan grads

Peter Challen  - monetary & faith justice, simultaneous policy

Robert Knowles - funds world

Margaret Gold- Imperial college web nets and canadians in london 

charlie -create the world we want networks

roma - inner city regen /community bank open spaces

 

(Henry emotional intelligent training etc - 2 of likely big users of yunus10000 dvd are the Gandhi/Montessori most emotionally literate school Lucknow in India, and the most youth entrepreneurial free university in Joburg.)

 

This isn’t a complete list -there are some who I know are out of london on these dates or where other communications/commitments have been unclear recently which I will try and sort through., I also find that the obviously critical networks we need to include like Africa, women  and energy are too political for me to possibly choose who could make the most collaborative start out of london and across to other Yunus or Collaboration 100 cities - if you have a recommendation I'd gladly know

 

Whilst the first meeting could moderate a circle (or wall poster) on what each subnetwork most wants if this event is to grow, it is also an opportunity to pose some questions that Dr Yunus wants to know whether London networks want to be central to helping with:

 

1 the global banking crisis- the second video on dvd10000 -which eg you can see at http://goodnewsglobe.blogspot.com  exercise 2 shows a 9 year old asking 1000 new Yorkers and yunus which banks will survive in the future - this happened in January - if mass media had truly joined that debate global finance not be exponentially teetering on edge now; part 2 of the global banking crisis is avoiding at all cost what happened after 9/11 crisis - ie 7-year suspension by USA-influenced nations of focus on millennial goals; both obama, McCain and Gordon brown swore on the Clinton holy bible last week that they will lead their nations back on track towards these sustainability goals- that makes the next 12 months the most critical social action ones any generation is likely to see; on this agenda I hope that peter will have helped convene a new York 100 meeting almost simultaneously so both cities can debrief each other

 

2 While Dr Yunus 25000 people http://grameen.tv have spent 30 years developing community safe banks. they also have 2 other sustainability inventions after 14 years of experimentation they are ready to open source to the world- thriving carbon negative rural economies wherever there is sunshine; mobile service innovations (Bangladesh has 40 million experimenting with mobiles to relay vita info and to leapfrog businesses that spend too much on city property -including a bank a billion mobile partnership with India)

 

3 Dr Yunus wants to encourage an open clearing house listings of both social business and social actins- he will meet 1000 londoners who publish the first 300 of these; how do we use all our abilities to record what we see to a hotline or other cataloguing centre

 

4 When I first met Dr Yunus he said know we know how to humanly network around microbanking, why not similar people power summits on health, education, energy (including water food), media (including internet/mobile for poor), professions that rule for the poor and not just the biggest paymaster, and local/egov distributed ness rather than capital city concentration of vested interests. So there's an opportunity to bring your deepest practice area and plant it at the relevant summit starting u a social action subnetwork which weaves the summit together.

 

Mostofa knows these and other scaling-up projects http://anglobangla.com  http://brand.blogspot.com better than I so I am sure he can help you choose the first agendas with you once we know who is coming

 

 If you think there should have been someone on it - why not  reply all and introduce them however  The first question is are you able to come or send an ambassador of you. the second question is do you want to bring a peer group   

 

I am assuming that

Mostofa will bring : a Bangladeshi circle, any freshers groups that he or others helping him may have contacted by oct 21. As you may know our 10000 dvds of good news invitations dr yunus wants youth to dialogue around are only hitting London 14 October - so we may not get as many fresher peers into first meeting as might have been optimal. However the second meeting already dated aims to specifically ask how to connect Clinton and yunus youth networks which Mostofa is one of the few uniting networkers of. By that time I will have sent some dvds to cheeky places like those organizing Gordon brown’s youth networks around millennial goals - we can see what is possible as the dynamic builds up. Both taddy blecher and my friends at Lucknow India seem to be indicating that their youth will play with a thousand dvds- I cannot imagine more energetic epicentres for linking youth 10000 dialogue but of course look forward to your suggestions

  

In an ideal world each of you would be able to come on oct 21 and bring 5-10 peers. You may identify yourselves with other networks than the ones I have labeled but for example we wish these groups to connect with the ongoing momentum if there is any way we can map that we have similar action commitments

I expect I have forgotten something absolutely ctirical - if so please forgive and say what it is

all the best, your world needs you!

chris macrae usa 301 881 1655

Collaboration Meta-Cafes : New York, London, Paris, Dhaka ...

Our collaboration cafe format has been flowing wonders in these 4 cities particularly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I  but as always the dynamic's below the radar. Let me give you an example. Our main space for collaboration cafe dhaka is also the place that most interns to grameen http://grameen.tv , brac http://brac.tv  and ASA use after a day's work in Dhaka. Mostofa was in Dhaka most of the summer and convened collaboration  cafes on such topics as social busienss of water. Part of the parisian team of Grameen Veolia joined in that so that when they happened to bump into mostofa and me etc the day before the Nobel committee opened their exhibition space to the 200 different community awards Dr yunus and grameen have won over the last half century, they introduced us to other French future capitalists http://yunuspartners.com  eg from Grameen Credit Agricole. Meanwhile because of collaboration cafes in New York more women interned in Dhaka this summer than would have otherwise happened. So while collaboration cafes -usually 10-20 people - are a very micro citizen tool, they do loosely collaborate our microworld's people's commitments together. If we can sustain larger 100 person collaboration meta-cafes, now's absolutely the most urgent time to start planting -and then connect with youth dialogue 10000 http://yunus10000.com  It is not only google who knows how to play networking games around the power of 10 http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page15305

http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html

chris macrae usa 301 881 1655

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picking up on earlier gos on new york actions on meta-cafe

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mbumwae suba -your mail is nice to see. What little I understand about the future of the world :  sustainability for all our childrens demands very local (MICRO) reconciliations whilst also worldwide collaboration by citizens trying to bridge knowledge and culture divides. Serial Globalisation Crashes (avoidable compound risks) are old system failures caused by too much top-down without connecting enough humanity and transparent community up.

Oddly New York is right now hurtling towards what may be humanity’s/irreversibility’s last crossroads after 25 years of chaos that has not used networking technology to include openness of sharing of life critical knowhow for the poorest .  http://guidemakers.net

If the wrong action lessons spiral out of the end of wall street (as isolated superpower’s vanity of erroneous actions led after 9/11) then we again get deviated from the human collaboration networking that the millennial goals could have united people power around.

http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=2827&srcid=2392

If the correct valuation maps and youth dialogues http://goodnewsglobe.blogspot.com are moderated through smartening up rather than dumbing down media , we have a chance (micro as it may be) of turning round all the common maths errors that big power globalization has wasted this last decade or so. So I would really like to see if we can get 100 New Your people to the same meeting on this crossroads agenda. London is trying something similar. Paris already has more microentrepreneur official spaces for such exploration including its leading business schools. DC is from my capacity an utterly useless space to meet until one knows whether the super powering vanity in congress/white house et al to negotiate around in Obama or Mccain. I await local reports of what other cities generate a tidal wave of youth optimism around such video Q&A stimuli as http://goodnewsglobe.blogspot.com ( which I am trying to prepare in such a way that CIDA fee university youth in Joburg can adopt bit and improve it 1000 fold for local relevance)

RELEVANCE FOR AFRICA LOVERS

Yet what little I can see above has a paradoxical consequence. I know very little about Africa- in fact my last visit was to South Africa when I had an extraordinary mathematical argument by professors who had been hired in early 1980s by the apartheid regime to try to maximize the price of mealie meal no matter what its starvation consequences., and relatively speaking quite a lot about Asia where I have collected large amounts of social needs data in about 15 countries and through the process reconnected with at least some Gandhian networks. My maternal grandfather was mentored by Gandhi for 25 years (actual as they were both barristers my granddad first threw Gandhi in prison as head judge for the Mumbai region and later helped write up the legalese of India's Independence

So rightly or wrongly the little I can understanding flows I can connect come from asking people which are the very best /most optimistic system benchmarks for sustainability in Africa around which there may at least be some learning (or discussion of what is and isn’t analogous in deeper contexts). The only two gravities that people have helped me feel confident of at that level are :

1 the african best moicrocredit benchmark of Ingrid Munro of Jamii Bora

2 more or less any educational approach loosely connected with Mandela network but where the free university of Taddy Blecher has become a meta-hub for rural social busienss experiments as well as peer to peer vocational training of youth

Of course if people openly want to nominate a network practice gravity in Africa as having as much significance for future goodwill multiplication as either of those kind of examples, I love to hear of those votes and be told how I can gain more understanding

If the above is the only depth I can frame to empathise with African challenges the other half of the game is what solutions networks do I know from Asia that may help. Accidentally I do have an unusual depth of relationships with everything that the 25000 co-workers of Muhammad Yunus have spent their last 30 years developing solutions around. This is now videoed in 25 good news video conversation starters that I seek to help 10000 youth across the world dialogue around and choose what may work for them

Moreover, the one big thing to understand about the Bangladeshi approach is that its micro up not macro aid down. At least its funding starts by empowerment in the community as opposed to global NGO's risks of monies never tricking down. This connect with some of Peter's lifelong experiences which unlike mine travel through many African communities and such specific challenges as end malaria

Since 1997  I believe it is true to say that Muhammad Yunus has helped to link together the most empowering example of human networking in this odd process called microcreditsummit. One which has extended knowhow and reach of microcredit form 11 million poor mainly Bangladeshi families in 1997 to over 1000 million in 2006. Dr Yunus has specifically told me his wish is to se whether similar micro summits can connect those with deep grassroots practices in

Health

Education

Media including mobile and internet for poor

Clean energy, water food,

Local and egovernment

Opposite system round professions such as Peter’s community accountancy

--- On Thu, 2/10/08, mbumwae suba wrote:

From: mbumwae suba Subject: RE: let's do new york's first collaboration 100 meta-cafe on MICROsolutions to Humpty Dumpty Wall Street RE: About your work in West Africa
To: chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk, "Peter Burgess"
Cc: spencer.chiimbwe
Date: Thursday, 2 October, 2008, 1:23 AM

Dear Mr. Macrae,
 
  You are right.  Ingrid Munro's study answer most of African problems and can be used to answer most. Africans and everyone who loves and works on African Issues should try to learn from that study.  Reinventing Africa has been going on for generations and we will continue the struggle.  The answer may be with sensitive people like yourself or with the Africans themselves who have lived it, seen it through the independence struggles and also through oral histories form our parents or even missionaries who passed through some parts of Africa and made slight impacts not as much as  compared to the study we are referring to.
 
Three generations in my family have played a little role in shaping one of the African countries so I may know a little bit about Africa but not as much as the study in question. I am also actively involved in six West African countries and two in Central Africa. 
 
Please continue with the good work and we look forward to learning more from you and your experiences in that continent.
 
Thanx.
 
MB- 

Mbumwae Suba-Smith The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for. Dan Millman

IN PARALLEL:

let's do new york's first collaboration 100 meta-cafe on MICROso

Greetings Peter and Co.  - why don't you guys try and involve the staff of the UN missions of nations like Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gambia in your activities? It could prove very useful, in the long run!
 
Stay blessed!
 
Kofi. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mendenyo/

a reply from chris:

I guess my life's too short to try and work out whoch powerful politicians actually want change -if you now womeone in new york who you believe we cold invite we always love to do that; personally I have never spoken to a ainlge person with a career in the UN about what I try and do though Peter neing in New York has; I confess that even though I live mainly in Washingtn DC , I had my first ever meeting inside the world bank as little as 2 weeks ago; it was wit part of their transparency network that believes that egovernment could unleash new openness; whilst my feeling is that sounded like a dream, if the same group invite me back I will go; mainwhile the one asian in the group I connected with a friend of mine  Kazi Islam who attended http://www.un-gaid.org/en/system/files/web20_Provisional+Programme+24Mar08v2.pdf if anyine knows a participant from this meeting we should be inviting please say