Guidemakers.net - Year 25 of inviting collaboration searches to end poverty

Achievements to date include circulation of over 25000 physical items (books dvds journals guides) on heroines of girl power and jobs designed to make net generation the most productive out of every community worldwide. This has helped us play the most joyful networking games of snap between who wants to action network with who, why and what conflicts of multiplying goodwill passionate;y energised people are often made to become victims of- if they are not sharing a commonly edited action map and a multi-win business model and do not have hi-trust access to "journalists for humanity"

Guidemakers.net emerged as the 5th concentric network of friends and family of Norman Macrae, the Economist's Unacknowldged Giant. Its purposeful future explorations are entrusted to Norman's grandaughter. Its aim is to celebrate the net generation's greatest job creating heroines and heroes, especially where they hub open source solutions to the millennium's most exciting goals

Rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you may wish to join in our activities which currently include:

Micropublish guides on solutions that can be replicated across worldwide communities -sample available by snailmail or electronic attach

Host birthday wish celebrations of Nobel and other laureates- and map how to emerge action networks around any missions impossible that can most excite youth if media helps them know

Publish the good hub guide inaugurated in 2005- hubs have turned out to be dynamic collaboration and contextually grounded components of networks ever since we started to test elearning as part of the UK's 1973 development project in computer assisted learning

Help all to understand the entrepreneurial knowledge of Normans' 4 other networks, particularly as can be value multiplied by those serving children (and other educators and hosts of conflict resolution). These entrepreneurs typically need more colaboration help than others whose work with elder peopel empowers them to be immediately income generating or job creating. We also aim to help those who trust that the most important cross-cultural experiences are those enjoyed pre-adolescence.

references to norman macrae writings 1 2 help search club of 100 leaders Norman would most trust 2010s as net generations most productive decade to

76 Entrepreneurial Revolution. Entrepreneurs make what multi-win model they are using transparent for everyone they invite to linkin as producer or demander For example most bottom-up social innovations involve reducing how much government spends to under 25% of a nation’s earnings but getting the transfer of budget to empower job creation and community sustaining services

84 NetGen Goodwill Action Net Futures Macrae’s 1984 book discussed how to connect the most productive generation ever (first net generation) with the most exciting goals- ending children being born into poverty (and so non-entrepreneurial lives) being the one that economically interconnects multi-wins with every other as we map a global village networking economy using natures bottom up and open rules

88 World Class Brands- After a decade of work in Asia in 1980s it became clear that the poor did not need 50% of the cost of everything being spent on marketing the way rich citizens paid to celebrate. While the www age could reduce market channel costs to near zero there was the risk that the poor would get the worst of both worlds- the expense of top down (double government aid) and ever larger ad budgets spent on global charities. One of the pioneering practices led by WCB involved how 2 or more organisations partner without any “greenwashing” One can also expect that all the most life critical markets for the poorest are interfaced especially given 1000 times more powerful tech to connect.

99 Valuetrue social and business models As the collaboration trio of Gandhi, Einstein and Montessori were the first to demonstrate: transforming from top down empire to bottom up empowerment require es every profession to dare to ask which of their rules needs to spin 180 degrees the other way round. As of 2011, every global profession that big banks use is compounding at least one rule in a way that multiplies risks and ends community sustainability instead of empowering the net generation to co-produce the most exciting goals and services. Norman’s father-law had worked for 25 years with Gandhi as one of 2 Bar of London Barristers charged with changing the laws of Colonising Empire to the laws of India’s Independence. In more technical terms macroeconomics can only ruin future generation while the metrics of goodwill, transparency and sustainability’s compound exponentials are

To celebrate grandad's life we have transferred the

guided tour of Unacknowledged Giant to its own web www.unacknowledgedgiant.com ; other tours will stay here. recomendation of tour stopvers welcome; thanks isabella and chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Tour 1 children can change learning can change...	Tour 2 artists can change media can change peace can change economics of aid
Tour 3 help needed in mapping job creation tours

Help us map hubs and connection coordiantes of exciting 2010s -swap your connections with ours rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv -extremely rough geo grid follows (it offers represnetative cross-section of safe spaces to linkin with - by defintion some of the greatest entrepreneurial revolutions needed some privacy while goodwill overcome blindwill or badwiill

Vancouver ?while ago vancouver and unhabitat hosted a brainjam billed as most open ecology search for solutions ever. Post-connections of this net have been almost non-existent and most brainjams are no longer openly hosted	Canada central- there's something about the coldest n.hemisphere -eg nordica in europe - that can make people more collaborative -correpondents needed on best of canada's foreign assistance	Toronto Montreal Don Tapscott will this early navigator of net generation and transparency impact netgen jobs	UK Ashden -SBS Paul Rose, Michael Palin Peter Ryan John Elkington Muftah Benomran Mary Robinson, IRE *Glasgow Caledonian & Glasgow U, Scotland	Nordica Borje Walberg Sweden	St Petersburg, Moscow	Central Russia	East Russia
Seattle & Oregon April Alderdice (MEC), SE Nancy White SE 1	Chicago,Wisconsin Marjorie Kelly where do people network your knowhow now	Boston MIT NY, NJ Sam Daley- Harris NJ Monica Yunus NJ *Grenville Williams DC, Karl Weber NY NGOs: Hunger Project; Teach for America	W.EU Queen Sofia Spain Estelle Paris Maria Nowak Paris Benedicte Faivre-Tvignot, Paris Paris Grameen institutions: Danone, HEC, Veolia, Credit Agricole, Ideam German institutions: Otto, BASF	E.EU	Ex USSR W	Ex USSR Centre & Afghanistan, Pakistan	China Jack Ma	Korea,Japan Kyushu Uni, Japan (Yunus Partner)
San Francisco Can Gunter Pauli's blue economy create 100mn jobs; will jeff skoll convert social entrepreneurs to love busienss models; why is kickstart so big in irrigating Kenya microagriculture but not much else? will the founder of fast company's social capital networks in 2000 generate a greate idea for 2010s	Denver, Kansas	Penn, MD, DC, VA Harrison Owen MD	W.Africa	Central Africa	Middle East Modjtaba S Iran Queen of Jordan	India Manmohan Singh Delhi Gandhi Family, Luckow	Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus -solutions to increasing productivity of world's poorest women and their next generation Fazle Abed -solutions to developing whole market chains so that they sustainably maximise the value of service and production workers *Kazi Islam
Los Angeles, Phoenix Chris Temple LA 1 Holly Mosher LA 1 Ken Robinson LA www.thegreenchildren.org Institutions: Grameen Intel	Texas John Mackey, TX Margaret Blair TE	CarolinasThru Ray Anderson (died sumer 2011) GA Atlanta- Fall11 bronze sponsor of 45 university student competition of social business		Southern Africa up to Kenya Ingrid Munro, Taddy Blecher SA Nelson Mandela SA, Lesley Williams SA			SE Asia AIT Bangkok (Yunus Centre)	Australia N Zealand Paul Komesaroff, Melbourne Gordon Dryden N.Zealand, *Stewart Craine, Barefoot Power, Aus
Mexico Founder Cinepop Carlos Slim microcredit	Central America	S America

Our story began with this future history in 1984. It maps why end poverty is the sustainability-defining challenge of the generation which integrates every locality into global through networking's "death of distance" technolgy. Since Einstein this has been known as a higher order system transformation challenge- one we may not sustainably navigate. Mf father's experience after 35 years as economics editor at The Economist connected:

Exponential timelines focusing series of paradigm shifts needing to be integrated

My father's 3rd timeline "a Nobel Laureate needs to encourage the world to search out 30000 replicable community rising ways of ending poverty by 2010" has become the primary mission of the guides our peer networks invite you to help us connect through this web. Partly because we have already overshot the first 2 integral timelines: "with the end of 2 superpowers renegotiate regional goodwill through equitable trading incentives and by bringing past capitalist and communist rival maps of the world into one uniting peace divide"; transform beyond carbon energy to clean solar energy and natural photosynthesis processes connecting water food and energy systems.

.entrepreneurial clarity that this would require meta-collaboration practices

. understanding that mapping this would need to value deeply local and contextual diversity (ie mircoeconomics tools would need to be prioritised over macroeconomic),

.a change in jobs the world over at least as dramatic as the industrial revolution change from rural employment on the land to city employment in manufacturing

.tacit lessons that my maternal grandfather had gained from 25 years of being mentored in conflict reconciliation by Gandhi; both of my families had Scottish roots- a nation which by the mid 1800s was more worldwide than living in Scotland; this dynamic had spun from around 1700 when Scotland lost over half its wealth in a speculative bubble on the other side of the world; the hostile takeover ensued by England with the euphemism branding "United Kingdom "; soon the English Empire sent their taxation accountants up to Scottish landowners with ,models of how sheep returned better quarterly numbers than people; the two consequences were mass emigration and those branches of hi-trust human productivity economics that alumni of Adam smiths and entrepreneurial mapping originated in the late 1700s; in 1843 a Scot came down to London to change the empire for ever; he joined parliament and booted out over 90% of MPS who had become vested interest lobbyists of the biggest; his tool was an innovative medium called The economist; it openly debated in true entrepreneurial spirit that health society generates strong economics not vice versa; that capital punishment was a way for the rich not to bother with investing in the education of all children; that the corn law agricultural protective monopoly was an obscenity that compounded starvation both with and across national boundaries; and that a constitution would be needed so that England desisted from Empiring over other nations peoples as fast as possible; James died before his time arguing for microeconomics mapping's truth in Calcutta from an illness that the Bangladeshi network BRAC (100 years later) innovated a cure to at 10 cents a go

.his trademark belief that innovation dilaogues need to be united in a spirit of optimism, joy of what humanity can do now if we elect to flow more than the sum of our parts (separtaions by demographics, creeds, the land-tied systems that constraints of prevuous centuries had made into the rivaries of nations

The Quest to where networks focused on the core sustainbility challenges of our lifes and times

.Sustaining communal peace for children to grow up and educate healthily. Guides : Grameen's 16 decisions; BRAC

.leading the world with community-based solar energy and biomass systems

.ending digital divides through mobles connecting 125000+ village cenhter where clubs of 60 women microentrepreneurs meet

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Thursday, December 9, 2010

kenya sites - and do you know about kickstart

they have a sanfrancisco office; their main operations are kenya; they claim to be about 0.5% of the economy with their hand pumped irrigation pumps

I have never quite understood why they dont replicate elsewhere; no less than jeff skoll once said they would be the next great franchise to replicate (that phrase always excites me as a possible lead)

maybe there is something specific of kenya agriculture; I think peter's review of their product in malawi found it expensive for what it was; another possibility is they fail to market it with right sort of microcredit partners; another issue is it may be most relevant for a 5 person farming plot not a 1-person one;

I think they are mainly 2 engineers and it would not surprise me if their market channels are hopelessly uneconomic without commiting to best long term partners; conversely some of their literaure on patient capital is cool - so what do I know?

just writing on off chance anyone has clues on this puzzle or can help les/jon with and last minute advice maximising impact of the nairobi trip this sunday thru wednesday

chris

December 2010

Dear Chris ,

As the year draws to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to tell you that with the support of generous people just like yourself, we were able to achieve the incredible milestone of getting 500,000 people out of poverty forever! Our next goal is to bring this total to 1 million people freed from poverty. This is a lofty goal which will require a significant increase in resources; but with your help we can get there in the next four years. I strongly hope that we can rely on your support to help us achieve our goals.

Families using our irrigation pumps no longer live from hand-to-mouth, wondering what they are going to eat tomorrow. They can properly feed and educate their children and afford quality healthcare. And, most importantly, for the first time they have money left over to invest in their futures. And remember, they have achieved this new prosperity all by themselves—by responding to an opportunity to buy and use one of our low-cost, high-quality irrigation pumps.

James and Beatrice Kuria hail from a small village called Njabini, in Central Kenya. They had a large family and survived by planting staple crops fed by the rains, and using a bucket to irrigate a small plot of cabbages. But they earned very little from their harvests and could not afford the fees for their children to complete primary school.

www.kickstart.org

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Sunday, December 5, 2010

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.

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Friday, December 3, 2010

Tour 1 children can change learning can change macroeconomics of geo-separated nationhoods

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

www.isabellawm.com association of family foundations skype isabellawm

JoyofEconomics : INCREASING THE PRODUCTIVITY OF ABUSED YOUTH

Updated: Dedan Ireri was a street beggar as a child and teenager. He was encouraged to join Jamii Bora but several unsuccessful businesses left him discouraged. Then, he found his true talent: cycling. He started working for Jamii Bora as a bike messenger. Now, he is representing Kenya in the last paralympic preparatory international competion in preparation for the Paralympics in China next year. >> Read the updated story.

Our successful members are the best in planting new dreams in the members. They know that it is possible to get out of poverty, because they have done it themselves. They are the mentors, planting new dreams in others and giving them hope. >> Read their stories here

Kaputei Town - To assist the majority of its members to achieve their dream of better and secure housing, Jamii Bora Trust has procured 293 acres of prime land in Kisaju, Kajiado District. The project will includes modern, permanent housing for 2,000 families with all necessary social facilities as well as employment and commercial opportunities. >> Learn more

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.

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