ashden awards 09

Grameen Creative Lab germany
Vision conference 08 -How can good social projects develop from traditional charity to efficient social businesses? A whole day of the two day Vision Summit was dedicated to this question. The Foundation Entrepreneurship of Günter Faltin, professor at Berlin's Free University, the network around professor Stephan Breidenbach from the project Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance and especially the GENESIS Institute for Social Business and Impact Strategies are currently working on this topic. The GENISIS Institute, main sponsor of the Vision Summit, recently founded by nine entrepreneurs and sponsors, presented the first study worldwide on "Best Social Businesses". The highlights of this study are published in the "Social Business Guide", also released at the conference. Vision 09 next wall to fall

various updates

european creative labs in berlin http://www.grameencl.com and Glasgow become the most exciting agents of yunus and bangladeshi methodologies for those who vote for microeconomics as more likely to sustain the world than top-down macroeconomics http://www.yunusuni.com/id80.html

glasgow support of dr yunus gets mentioned 5 times in his speech last friday to british council -in particular glasgow calendonian has started a partnership in nursing colleges with grameen, as well as a glasgow microcredit investing in those poor who have been umemployed for 3 generations- glasgow is set to start a centre for development which becomes an official recorder of every grameen social business cerification worldwide

in other news : modelled on teach for america/uk - a leadership training program for social buinsess is being assembled by tom rippin

One way to keep a look out for social business is to watch news from teh 2 greatest investors in social business BRAC & Grameen

This search item reported by EnergyBangla.com  suggests various green social business:
Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), a non-bank financial institution on Bangladesh, is planning to produce solar panels locally in an effort to bring the country's rural areas under power supply network in a faster way.

The IDCOL CEO said the programme is being implemented through 15 partner organisations (POs) -- Grameen Shakti, BRAC Foundation, Srizony Bangladesh, COAST Trust, TMSS, IDF, CMES, Upokulio Bidyuatayon O Mohila Unnayan Shamity (UBOMUS), Shubashati, BRIDGE, Padakshep Manabik Unnayan Kendra (PMUK), Palli Daridra Bimochan Foundation (PDBF), Hilful Fuzul Samaj Kalyan Sangstha, Mukti Cox's Bazar, and Rural Services Foundation (RSF).

a related reference

REIN members

Any institution is working on renewable energy or interested on renewable energy, can be members of Renewable Energy Information Network (REIN).

I am not sure if this host newtork is up to it but the idea sound one with a future

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mit entrepreneur winners class 08/09

Turning part of a star's production company into a social buiness and other good news celebrations

Hugh Jackman reports:
, I sat down with Muhammad Yunus in Los Angeles. He's now advising us on how a certain portion of our production company can be set up to operate like his bank. He's a bit like the Dalai Lama—he's fighting at the front line of poverty, and you couldn't find a happier guy. But he challenges you: What can you do? Not just send aid, but how can you change people's lives from the inside?

Well, that one book completely revolutionized my way of thinking and what my company can do

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wanted stars who adopt orphan drugs

Muhammad Yunus is the happiest banker i have ever seen because he knows Grameen only grows when its customers grow. http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html Since 1984 we have recommended recognising this win-win interdependence as a defining diffference between knowledge economies and all lower level ones that humans have been to have been chained to in the past. Even so it astonishes us to look at 2 decades of global banking that has spiralled negative-sums onto its customers by chaining them in debt; and whose nonsensical claims to be competitive are exposed by the fact that not even one big bank in the west recognised the  innovation opportunity of going 10 times lower cost by focusing on the basic services main street needed. http://erworld.tv

In rich cities, many branded categories have got so crowded with competing offers that the customer is paying more for all the advertising noise than any other component. Grameen-Danone the world's first consumer brand to be launched from a future capitalism social business partnership needs no such spends. Its a one of a kind healthier quality lower cost product than any kid's nutritional offer in Bangaldesh village markets or quite likely anywhere.

Another case is Grameen Shakti's solar energy. Its CEO Dipal Barua told me the last thing we will ever need is television advertising. This product flies by word of mouth and visibility. As soon as one person has a solar cell proudly on top of their roof, everyone wants one. I have to say that I find solar panels quite a miracle wherever I am but if you have never had any electricity before and your only light is some kerosene fire, the magic of solar is in words of villagers to become a participant in the modern world. And over the typical loan period that Grameen structures the cost of solar becomes less than kerosene as well as healthier for all the family and setting a trend the world will need to fiollow if global drowning is carbon is to be averted. Microenergycredits aims to be the first to link up a quarter of a billion zero carbon households and I doubt if any of them will have bought a product that needed tv advertising.

Social Business Picks, from Ira Jackson, Claremont (Drucker's Business School)

Whether it's the Grameen Danone Foods, the Transforms Corp. in North Carolina, Ethos Water founded by Claremont native Peter Thume, New Leaf Paper (whose paper production plants are the only in the world powered by 100percent renewable energy sources and which is starting to transform a gigantic industry that is also one of the most polluting), Rubicon Industries (which employs homeless people and battered women and others with serious disabilities to work in their for-profit bakery, which sells successfully to outfits like Costco and Williams Sonoma), the Rabobank Group in the Netherlands, Upstream 21 in Oregon or Spain's Mondrag n Corporaci n Cooperative, the day of mission-driven companies has arrived, and these new hybrid alternatives to the old for-profits will one day be as pervasive and successful as the traditional types of companies.

As Drucker well knew, we will all be better off when principle trumps profit. (Curiously, that's exactly what Henry Ford had in mind when he founded Ford Motor Co. It wasn't his desire to get rich; it was his dream of helping to create a middle class in America that powered his vision. When he raised the daily wage of his workers to $5 a day, in fact, he was called a communist by other capitalists. Why did he do it? Because he wanted his workers to be able to afford the cars they produced - and he wanted them to have pride in the product that they created on the assembly line. As Ford said so simply and wisely: "Business must be run for a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also it will die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.").

A BRAC survey found low levels of understanding about anatomy and reproduction, personal hygiene, fertility and pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among youth age 10-15.

In response, in 1995 BRAC developed a reproductive health Rural Service Delivery Program (RSDP) with a special focus on poor youth, ages 10-15, 70% of whom are girls. The RSDP establishes informal schools that provide 3 years of primary schooling to adolescents who have never attended school. After graduation, students can join Grade 5 in the formal schooling system. Monthly reproductive health sessions are integrated into the regular school curriculum and include topics such as adolescence, reproduction and menstruation, marriage and pregnancy, STIs, family planning and contraception, smoking and substance abuse, and gender issues.

The adolescent program builds on BRAC’s social development approach designed to address the needs of poor rural communities. BRAC’s strategy mobilizes communities to support social change by taking the following steps:

1. Identifying social groups and mapping existing formal structures or networks. In many rural areas, networks include adult males, religious leaders, teachers, and the parents and extended family of children. BRAC also recruits and trains female volunteers who become the nucleus of a social network of women.

2. Building trust with the community by providing something to meet their perceived needs. In most communities, BRAC starts a credit program that involves the poorest of the poor in economic activities to alleviate poverty.

3. Developing fora around social networks to engage in dialogue with the community. Key elements of developing effective community fora include 1) identifying appropriate actors; 2) recognizing and responding to communication patterns and behavioral cues that exist in the community; 3) building cultural beliefs about the authority and reliability of the information provided in the forum; and 4) using fora to strengthen existing positive relationships within the family and community.

4. Within community fora, exposing members to new ideas, involving them in problem solving, and encouraging "risky innovations." As forum members are taken through this process, they become advocates for the program approach by integrating program objectives into their own lives and value systems.

It was through the process of community mobilization that BRAC was able to establish the RSDP program for adolescents. We engaged communities in an evolutionary process that introduced new ideas, such as schooling for adolescent girls. Through dialogue, community members could then address more sensitive issues such as adolescent reproductive health. As a result, BRAC has established 175 informal schools in 4 districts. Each school provides free schooling for 30 students, at least 70% of whom are girls; the teacher is recruited and trained from the village where the school is established. Major strengths of the RSDP program include:

• Emphasis on parental and extended family involvement. Through monthly parent meetings, BRAC has fostered parental support for the program, and in some areas spurred the start of informal adult education for adult family members of adolescents.

• Influencing community norms. BRAC supports norms that encourage girls’ delayed marriage and continued education through community fora and outreach.

• Communication between boys and girls. Since reproductive health is built into the regular curriculum, the program allows boys and girls to discuss reproductive health together, and builds communication skills for opposite-sex relationships.

• Continued programming. The school is used for a library for youth who have graduated, providing a space for young people to gather in an environment with supportive resources.

BRAC program planners have identified several elements as key to the success of the RSDP program; namely, BRAC has:

• established "exchange relations" with the community so that people recognize the benefits and opportunities for engaging in programs such as the RSDP; staff are then able to add on program innovations incrementally.

• introduced a feedback loop so that as the program gains experience, it has the capability to use that experience to reflect on what it has learned and implement innovations in the program. Program staff have been involved in data collection, and are encouraged to reflect on evaluation results.

• worked in the domestic and the public domain simultaneously. For example, while female staff can effectively engage women in dialogue at the household level, involving male community leaders who interact in the public domain has been crucial for program sustainability.

• developed simple, correct messages on the new ideas BRAC introduces so that communities are able to understand and integrate them into their own lives.

Finally, program planners have identified the following future needs for the RSDP program:

1. An assessment of the reproductive health curriculum found that youth thought the curricula should be focused more on reproductive health and sex education than "family life;" that environment and drug abuse issues should be discussed; and that contraceptive methods should be demonstrated. The evaluation also found that peer networks should be strengthened through the program, that teachers need more support to teach the curricula and that youth wanted interactive teaching methods such as role plays and drama.

2. Understanding and documenting the dynamics of community involvement, and the shifts from community resistance to social action, is needed. Documentation of how BRAC is able to communicate about sensitive issues would allow replication of the program and further diffusion of social action.

3. BRAC has anecdotal evidence that people exposed to one aspect of the program become agents of change, and involvement or exposure to several interventions may expedite the changing of social norms. Developing indicators to capture this "snowball" effect would help track the program’s evolution as new innovations are added.

Contact person:

Dr. Munir Ahmed, Program Coordinator
Health and Population Division
BRAC

Collaboration Cafe is a quick meetings tool focused on inviting people to discuss how to solve a specific challenge. CC's have now been hosted hundreds of times in collaboration city networks - in today's yes we can climate cafes are increasingly ending with a 5 minute debrief on ideas about social business - we'll use this space to list some what ifs

what if cities attended to guides of where interesting community or social business franchises were being tested - attention that is with the same collective/media level of publicity and mapping quality that is given to restaurant or entertainment guides -one place that is pioneering this concept is new york spurred on by some of obama's new citizen service/dialogue tools -if you are interested in this movement or its early stage listing of where to go across NY (examples grameen bank queens, greening the bronx ... ) and see exciting community experiments rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk 

Future Capitalism Yearbook - Youth-led Cities (research after year 1); these cities have thriving youth FC experments which we can link you into (if your city isnt on our map yet and you wish to take responsibility for correcting this please RSVP)
NY, Boston, DC, LA (parts), Paris, Dhaka, Glasgow (FU Berlin)
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cluetrain for solar slum billionnaires clue 1 lets do some global cooling by working out how to use the annotation feature of you tube before top down capitalism knows what happened; clue 2 obama -son of microcredit; 3 know how to free market solar credits http://microenergycredits.com/

. Dear Alexis As worldwide connector of business goodwill, Muhammad Yunus appears most happy going round creating global waves and making sure a local person attended the epicentre and makes sure all those who applauded, next step locally actions -and micro-up linkin together... FUTURE CAPITALISM TURN THE DECADE YEARBOOK Whence the cheeky next mail to clive priddle is on target for all who communicate ending female poverty as fast as 7 billion can. There will never be a year like this to start bending the curve back from unsustainable globalisation's quarter of a century of low-trust mastering business administration - up with which Scots will not put. So June 23 Yunus dialogue in Dhaka can plant the greatest learning party ever  questions? chris macrae 301 881 1655 ( out of office at boston's ta party 2.0 sunday 8.00pm to tuesday 9.00am) Yunus Secretariat 07 Agree Future Capitalism Slogan - Impossible becomes possible when right place people action timing  ================== James Wilson, Internationalist Scot, died 1860s of what BRAC now cures for 10 cents during his first year in calcutta trying to reform raj economics, had previously thrown out 90% of fellow MPs from vested interest powering over the Houses of Parliament by founding The Economist around this 1843 journalistic brand charter -still economically the safest for all mass media to be designed around http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1873493 Prospectus Aug 5th 1843 From The Economist print edition Final Clause of Prospectus And lastly—if we required higher motives than bare utility, to induce that zeal, labour, and perseverance against all the difficulties which we shall have to encounter in this work—we have them. If we look abroad, we see within the range of our commercial intercourse whole islands and continents, on which the light of civilization has scarce yet dawned; and we seriously believe that FREE TRADE, free intercourse, will do more than any other visible agent to extend civilization and morality throughout the world—yes, to extinguish slavery itself. Then, if we look around us at home, we see ignorance, depravity, immorality, irreligion, abounding to an extent disgraceful to a civilized country; and we feel assured that there is little chance of successfully treating this great national disease while want and pauperism so much abound: we can little hope to improve the mental and moral condition of a people while their physical state is so deplorable:—personal experience (james came from hawick in Scotland where his family of entrepreneurs manufactured top hats) has shown us in the manufacturing districts that the people want no acts of parliament to coerce education or induce moral improvement when they are in physical comfort—and that, when men are depressed with want and hunger, and agonized by the sufferings of helpless and starving children, no acts of parliament are of the slightest avail. We look far beyond the power of acts of parliament, or even of the efforts of the philanthropist or the charitable, however praiseworthy, to effect a cure for this great national leprosy; we look mainly to an improvement in the condition of the people. And we hope to see the day when it will be as difficult to understand how an act of parliament could have been made to restrict the food and employment of the people, as it is now to conceive how the mild, inoffensive spirit of Christianity could ever have been conceived into the plea of persecution and martyrdom, or how poor old wrinkled women, with a little eccentricity, were burned by our forefathers for witchcraft. Rest of Prospectus And now we beg to submit the following detail of the plans which we have thoroughly organised to carry into effect these objects of our ardent desires, in the following PROSPECTUS of a weekly paper, to be published every Saturday, and to be called THE ECONOMIST, which will contain— First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day—political events—and parliamentary discussions; and particularly to all such as relate immediately to revenue, commerce, and agriculture; or otherwise affect the material interests of the country. Second.—Articles relating more especially to some practical, commercial, agricultural, or foreign topic of passing interest; of the state of the revenue, foreign treaties, &c. Third.—An article on the elementary principles of political economy, applied in a familiar and popular manner to practical experience; especially in relation to the laws of price—wages—rent—exchange—revenue—taxes—and the relation between producers and consumers abroad and at home; proved and illustrated by the experience of this and other countries. Fourth.—PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS: Giving at greater length all discussions peculiarly interesting to commerce and agriculture, and especially involving the principles of Free Trade. Fifth.—POPULAR MOVEMENTS: A report and account of all popular movements throughout the country in favour of Free Trade. Sixth.—GENERAL NEWS: A summary of all the news of the week,—the Court—the Metropolis—the Provinces; Scotland and Ireland. Seventh.—COMMERCIAL: Under this head a careful and elaborate account will be given of the trade of the week; with special notices of changes in fiscal regulations; state and prospects of the markets, especially indicating the progress of stocks and consumption; of imports and exports; latest Foreign News, likely to influence future supply; the state of the manufacturing districts; notices of important new mechanical improvements; shipping news; an account of the money market, and of the progress of railways and public companies. Eighth.—AGRICULTURAL: Under this head we will give frequent articles on improvements in agriculture; on the application of geology and chemistry; on new and improved implements; and in every way, to the utmost of our power, assist that true and independent spirit which is everywhere rising among the best landlords and farmers, to rely on the only safe support agriculture can have—intelligence, ingenuity, and perseverance, instead of deceptive protection. We will give a general detail of incidents, state of crops, markets, prices, foreign markets and prices converted into English money; and we have made an arrangement to communicate, from time to time, in some detail, the plans pursued in Belgium, Switzerland, and other well-cultivated countries. Ninth.—COLONIAL AND FOREIGN: In which we will furnish the earliest information respecting the trade, produce, political and fiscal changes, and other matter interesting; and, particularly, we will endeavour to expose the evils of restriction and protection, and the advantages of free intercourse and trade. Tenth.—LAW REPORTS: These we will confine chiefly to such as are particularly important to commerce, manufactures, and agriculture. Eleventh.—NOTICE OF BOOKS: Confined chiefly, but not so exclusively, to such as treat of the foregoing subjects; including all treatises on political economy, finance, or taxation. Twelfth.—COMMERCIAL GAZETTE: Price currents and statistics of the week. Thirteenth.—CORRESPONDENCE, INQUIRIES, &c.: Under this head we especially invite every one to apply for information on all the topics herein enumerated, which we do not furnish, or which is not given in such details as may be required. We have made an arrangement by which inquiries shall be replied to in the next number, if received by Thursday morning, on all subjects enumerated in this prospectus:—POLITICAL ECONOMY AND COMMERCE; FOREIGN COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS; TARIFFS, RATES OF DUTIES, AND PORT REGULATIONS; EXISTING COMMERCIAL TREATIES; POINTS OF COMMERCIAL LAW; GENERAL STATISTICS, connected with our trade for the last twenty years, or earlier, when they exist; AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS AND IMPROVEMENTS; and on other practical and economical subjects required. EXTRA MONTHLY STATISTICAL AND PARLIAMENTARY PAPER NUMBER:—In each month we will publish an extra number, devoted exclusively to statistics, and the preservation of the statistical parts of documents laid before parliament; many of which, of great value, never at present reach the public eye, or at least in a very limited way. There can be no question that, whether we speak of the economist, the legislator, the merchant, or the trader, statistics must form the most important ground-work of the whole of his reasonings, opinions, and actions; they are, in short, the fundamental facts on which all his opinions and actions must be based to be true; it is difficult to estimate their importance. At the same time we must remark, that however powerful and useful they may be as an instrument, they cannot be used with safety without considerable knowledge of the peculiar subjects, and without the exercise of great discretion in drawing results. This we will endeavour to aid by explanatory notes and observations in the collection and arrangement. Our plan is,—to divide this monthly number into two parts, one for permanent statistics, in which we will commence and collect together in alphabetical order the statistics of our revenue and trade, including exports and imports, navigation, agriculture, and currency for the last twenty years:—the trade with our colonies, and of our colonies with each other, and with this country:—and various interesting statistical statements which we can get relating to the same subjects in foreign countries: the other part we will apply to the statistics of the day: the comparison of our trade, imports, exports, consumption, stocks, &c., of all the leading articles of commerce, between the current year and the corresponding period of the preceding year: and other matters useful and interesting to the material interests of the country. And at the end of each year, we will furnish a title-page and general index to the whole paper, including the statistical numbers, so that the whole may form a useful volume of reference to the economist, the politician, the merchant, and manufacturer, the agriculturalist, and the general reader. We have made such arrangements and under such superintendence, as will secure the accomplishment of all that we propose, in a way which we trust will render our objects and exertions useful to the country: we have no party or class interests or motives; we are of no class, or rather of every class: we are of the landowning class: we are of the commercial class interested in our colonies, in our foreign trade, and in our manufactures: but our opinions are that not one part of these can have any lasting and true success that is not associated and co-existing with the prosperity of all.

. Help Yes We Can worlds maintain a league table of 100 Human Interest Stories The Stories Bangladesh’s First Third of Century of worldwide Gifts –Part 5 Future Capitalism Stories (aka ABC part 3) 1 Bill Gates doesn’t get FC yet but he will have to when he is serving epicentre of world's richest foundation 2 FC goes beyond global aid (white man's accidental top-down burden) by empowering instead of powering over 3 Unlike charitable dollars that get spent up, FC circulates the social business dollar whose investment is endlessly recyclable 4 FC partnership strategy is about seeing birth of world's most miraculous innovations- when a world's most resourced organizational system partners an organization that's closest to serving life critical needs on terms designed to sustain lives 5 Anyone can debate FC since its like a game of win-win-win snap : what if that most powerful producer and that most efficient server connected to sustain the greater purpose they could never reach separately 6 FC is about goodwill media and freer global marketing than using billon dollar ad campaigns the way that global profession wrongly figured when they first invented brand valuation algorithms (1988 The Economist Year of the Brand) and thus spun away from whole truth until even global banking collapsed 7 FC's greatest practitioners love making global waves so that local people can freely and happily surf the web from the bottom-up  8 FC's language restores the original meaning of "entrepeneur" (s)he who transfers assets to make more jobs than s(he) takes. Unlike the French whose FC1.0 used the Bastille, FC2.0 is economics’ most peaceful entrepreneurial revolution 9 Scots like Adam Smith (who late 1700s coined the term free market) and James Wilson (who 1843 founded The Economist as an ER medium to end corn laws and capitalism's punishment) will be cheering from their graves. They had wanted to end imperialism not to global bank it. Their hi-trust reasoning was rooted in what happened in 1700. Scotland became the first nation in recorded history to be bankrupted by an international banking scam. The consequence was the hostile takeover by England Euphemistically called United Kingdom. London's early global accountants were dispatched to explain why royalty's taxes would value sheep as more profitable quarterly than people. 10 A consequence of "United" Kingdom was that by 1850 most Scots had emigrated- Scotland thus evolved as one of the first nations whose majority were www entrepreneurs not geographically tied to any one homeland. You will see that Scots have often figured in media (eg invention of the tv) and “free and happy” governance only to find this the greater purpose their lives had intended to invent got viciously reversed wherever the Master of Business Administration ideology took over from Yes You Can Collaboration Entrepreneurship and love of Micro-Up Communally rising gravity. Bangladesh Part 4 Towards 30000 replicable social business models Bangladesh Part 3 Small teams plant/design deep social Actions into broader social networking Bangladesh Part 2 – 7 wondrous microsummits of new millennoum – 1 banks 2 health 3 education-that-sustains-jobs 4 energy 5 media 6 professions 7 in search of www government (that simply serves real and virtual boundaries) Bangladesh Part 1 – Partnering Norway to finish wishes Gandhi and Nobel started so that  peace and economic systems never devalue either again In my father's more direct words attached, this is the system problem of the banking crisis new york's old men have got us into- chris macrae http://yunus10000.com/ yunus 10000 free dvd dialogue with youth

To University of California, Channel Islands

Please could you pass this message on to Julia Wilson

Hello

I am very interested in your university's news announced by Julia Wilson (reproduced below). In Dec 07, I started a 1000 bookclub around Dr Yunus book on social business models. To date I have met Dr Yunus briefly on 7 occasions and have been helping him link together youth institutes and those developing SMBA curricula. My professional side involves how to scale up good news global brands and collaboration partnerships at next to zero cost by multiplying goodwill.

we have made 10000 dvds http://yunus10000.com on social business franchises Grameen leaders are developing for free circulation to students

dr yunus is hosting a special youth and educators dialogue in dhaka on june 23 where we will bring results of various projects such as

trying collaboratively to assemble 1000 links to social businesses http://socialbusiness.tv

coding frame for 5000 youth ambassadors between bangladesh and anywhere needing sustainability franchises -a project that bangladesh villager Mostofa Zaman was asked to develop by Muhammad Yunus at last year's  microcredit summit in Bali

news of pitching to publishers need for an annual Future Capitalism Yearbook with primary contributions from 3 editorial sections: the world's 10 deepest epicentres of microcredit; youth's 10 most supporting networks of Bangladeshi's replication models; experts on how to debate turn of decade crisis issues to turn them into Yes We San opportunities

mapping back how to prepare content to socially network youth social action audiences of the blockbuster yunus movie due in about 15 months and the empowerment album of thegreenchildren pop group due in about 3 months

My father is a microeconomist who was deputy editor of The Economist over 4 decades. Our 1984 book http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html forecast that if globalisation is to develop sustainably, 30000 micro-up replicable franchises would need to be identified through connecting a reality tv program hosted by a nobel laureate and internet searches; we see the next year of yes we can movements and trying to restore community banking as the most urgent crossroads our generation faces

Please tell us if our networks may be able to connect/collaborate with yours in any way. I live in Washington DC but quite happy to travel over your way if a visit would be relevant

chris macrae

301 881 1655

http://www.thedailystar.net/pf_story.php?nid=73420

3 It is fortunate and tragic ironical that the entrepreneurial network reality of slumdog millionnaire is a mobile grameencredit replication in kenya.  

5.1 another concept I want to rehearse with you is publication of an annual yearbook on future capitalism; since we have missed the connectivity of  a newsletter at the top of grameen.com from the start of the book launch, I think that the combination of what future capitalism innovations dr yunus partners each year and progress towards safe banking and yes can momentum and millennium goals needs annual reporting as well as becoming a casebook for SMBA

- if we can work out what way of asking dr yunus about this quickly , i think it would be easy to get a publisher if he loves the idea

microcerdit

6 I need next week to start phoning any education gurus that we feel could help by being at dialogue - I think you have previously voted for lucknow Gandhis and Taddy Blecher -anyone else-  presume I should phone up Glasgow uni; its a pity that we don’t seem to be have given the name of the main Bangladesh guy I met as he was taking dr yunus off to celebrations he had planned on Sunday night when I got the 15 minutes with dr yunus at the hotel du vin; he had told me that he wanted us to stay in touch but that he had cone without his business card (now so important both because of the glasgow grameen replication experiment and the billionnaire scot sir tom hunter being the linking in entrepreneurial revolutionary glad o see adam smith’s map of free markets being applied wholly to end poverty’s most urgent productivities and demasnds

 6.1 in a saner systems world I really wanted to put a lot more of my time back on education revolution for my 12 year old daughter's sake - we are so far off the revolution the internet could have been in schools that it makes me angry- there is to my knowledge exactly one practice group of teachers etc that have spent the last 25 years exploring the netfuture scenario http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html that could have been - they are hidden away in new zealand - I have their books; one of them is probably what jamii bora would write up as part of its own business school curriculum; I am interested that ingrid munro mentioned 3 obscure universities as helping her - i will have to try and see if I can search my notes on that

7  I get the impression that there wont be a meeting with dr yunus on this visit but perhaps the opportunity to deliver him a letter - is that how you see it

8 is there anyone at else I should have another go at on friday or what is it you need next so that london become; have you and peter ryan fixed meeting with laura and http://chain-recation.org and her links up to the PM’s social action committee

Slumdog Entrepreneur

When my wife and I slipped into our theater seats to watch Slumdog Millionaire, we braced ourselves for a journey into urban slums, a world inhabited by over one billion people globally.  

But unlike the movie-goers in the theater that night who pinned their hopes for one chai wallah (tea seller) escaping the horrors of the slums of Mumbai, India, on the long-shot odds of his winning the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, we knew that right now there is a tool that has helped not just one movie character but more than 100 million of the world’s poorest people actually begin to escape the worst devastations of poverty.  That opportunity is not a game show but microcredit—small loans to start or expand businesses like selling tortillas or cell phone time to your neighbors.  And if there was an Oscar for assisting beggars, thieves, and prostitutes to find a dignified route out of the slums, I’d know where to look for the winner.     
more at http://www.erworld.tv/id82.html

mostofa can you help me develop clauses of this over the next few days (some of these clauses we may not use but they help recall the overall compass of what you and I have promised dr yunus over the last 18 months and 10 meetings, or coversely you have bee asked by dr yunus to pilot) clause 1 : through existing forum, microuni clubs, collaboration cafes , barackobama.com and other community rising movements (eg Boston 1000) before june we will pilot at least 10 things that either dr yunus has mentioned that he wants structured into Bangladesh micro youth forums OR which youth who actively network social business entrepreneurship vote for asking dr yunus and other Bangladeshi microcredit leaders to help connect 1.1 some examples of the ten that are already being worked on*Bangla5000 (since Bali microcreditsummit specification by Dr Yunus)*develop a web linking 1000 social businesses (since sheraton towers youth meeting with dr yunus)*outline what youth would like to see as content if a future capitalism and smba annual fieldbook is to be published as a sequel on replicable practices of ending poverty (this builds on publication  of the 5 methods of innovating collaboration that Bangladesh's first third century has open sourced worldwide) 1.2 more specifically on bangla5000 , we will try the brand chartering survey of opinions- who in the world would miss what if some of the following systems did not exist*Bangladesh*Microcredit*Social Business as an organizational governance system*Yunus*Youth networks of Yes We Can*Future Capitalism partnerships between the world's most resourced organizations and the grassroots networks responsible for solutions/service of life critical needs since lamiya's team coordinate communications, it would help if they too filled in this brand identifiers survey- they dont have to do it for each of the above- just those that matter passionately to them (back in jan 2008 I left my 1995 book that created the genre of scaling worldwide brands as learning organisations with unique purposes) This survey is relevant because it tells us what to look for in certifying membership of the Bangal5000 network which will happen by june; it is also a step in understanding how to deal with the number 1 challenge we committed to help dr  yunus team with in first week of 2008 - ie that Bangladesh has some replicable open source franchises that are  vital to collaborate around if end poverty is to be the network generation's mission but currently only about 1% of people who want to end poverty both are aware that Bangladesh is at the epicenter of some of these methods or know how to practice them- as discussed at that time this particular challenge involves as many youth qualifying in big cities with SMBAs as MBAs clause 2 - we will review where the world banking crisis stands, and perception that yes we can  Obama  administration is on course to prevent this from diverting millennium goals- we will ask whether there is a menu of segmented banking concepts drawing on all of Bangladesh’s or the deep 10's segmented microcredit services which the whole dialogue group needs to know the existence of and talk about wherever we go that remains in community banking crisis; we will listen to whether Bernanke has facilitated any new laws to make microcredit simple to start up in USA clause 3 - before leaving Dhaka we will write up a declaration/invitation to youth networks signed by both youth representatives and microcredit leaders - this will be one step towards evolving microyouthsummit - eg it might either declare a youth social networking goal for 2015 or agree how to do an opinion poll of what that could be and which youth networks need surveying; we will ask that Bangladesh’s microcredit leaders form a professorial or other opinion leader panel which commits to help celebrate any youth practices (and action plans) that progress this declaration; this clause can review inspirations listed by dr yunus in chapter 11 of future capitalism boom to ensure we have consistency between youth fashions and those that change how leadership responsibility is valued (in mass media worlds, 90% of all branding fashions ultimately are propagated by youth including what leaders communicate) clause 4 - we will have invited those at the forefront of educational change - eg taddy blecher free university movement, the Gandhi's lucknow school - either to attend the dialogue so we can unite progress towards education designed round microentrepreneurial job creation or to be involved in debriefings from the dialogue clause 5 - we will share a map of what social action alumni networks are scaling up around the world such as the Boston 1000 to 10000 meetings; the green children action celebrations of you can hear me now; Vivian’s target date for releasing the blockbuster movie -can we invite someone close to slumdog millionaire to the dialogue and indeed does part of the audience of this 8-oscar winning movie have a social action subnetwork clause 6 - we will look at whether youth wants to develop stories (and maps of lead social action networks) for some more specific bridging networks such asend poverty and go greenend poverty and child healthcare as a right

end poverty and internet for poor or mobile leapfrogging such as http://bankabillion.org

mostofa you also need to reinsert at http://yunusforum.net some of the core text like youth ambassadors cos that was how we found some of the most connected undergraduates - taking that down was a backward step

chris

http://anglobangla.com

download : launch invitation to social business modellers written by Dr Muhammad Yunus, 25 Dec 2007

download living doc on case of BRAC

Green's Trinity of Thriving Carbon Negative Economics
Grameen's 3 most youth inspiring www businesses where www's other meanings include
win-win-win and world wide waves, as we end decade 1 of century 21 seem to propagate the joys and freedoms of solar, mobile and micro.

London feb 26 Yunus connects london with the joy of solar at the Ashden network meeting sponsored by the sainsbury family, who along with the cadbury family, have long influenced which of the 3 types of economics get edited at The Economist - macro, micro or collaborative.

In view of Wall Street's Collapse : it is evident beyond reasoning that global's first quarter century has allocated far too much share of voice to macro; it is to be hoped that the bangladeshi antidotes of micro and collaborative economic valuation systems can rule the waves out of london from this moment on.
April 08- British Banking Collapses- Number 10 hears Micro Solutions; Jan08 - 9 year old New Yorker helps forecast subprime meltdown


Certainly these hopes would be endorsed by scottish entrepreneurs including the founder of The Economist whose 1843 launch prospectus was to use hi-trust adma smith modeles of community-up economics to end empire both out of London and in India. Sadly James Wilson died before his time 10 months into an ambitious attempt to change raj economics which he had taken him to calcutta where he died or dehydration which BRAC now treats at 10 cents a cure.

Ironically for my family, it was nearly 60 years later that Gandhi started mentoring my maternal grandfather -one of bar of London barrister to another -for quarter of a century. This integrated a personal and end-colonial system transformation -from early 1920s imprisoning Gandhi in Bombay to 1040s helping write up the legalese of India's indrpendence. Gandhi never wanted the separation of what became 2 and then 3 parts - today's India, NW to Pakistan and East to Bangladesh. It was in present day Bangladesh that my father as a teenager first studied economics becoming Europe's senior microeconomics journalist and network age futures mapmaker. His day job in Bangla was for the RAF, waiting to navigate airplanes in world war 2.

Compounding too much macro-intellect is never a sustainable leadership journey whether your compass is banking, energy or simply living up to the world service vision of every child's right to be born into an action learning life of microentrepreneurial freedom and happiness, let alone health and communications (media and community structures) whose valuation compounds family-loving safety.

Lauren & Boston, wonderful thanks - you might see if a joint approach to SE lab between your team and Marriah Star's team makes sense -especially with his approaching timeline for wave 1 of boston 1000 meeting - it could also be the start of a small interactive survey of are there other units across the boston institutes that may wish to bridge microloans and yes we can job creation as well as future of safe banks and sustainability/transparent investment in main street-  has anyone ever engaged MIT's tim berners lee in networking or iqbal quadir without whom grameen probably wouldnt have seized mobile market in time

I can report the view from grameen solutions is that empowering job creation out of community is no longer a pursuit just of ending poverty but of all collaborative entrepreneurial networks/communities of action learning what services are in most future need of solution/replication, and so value multipying work

having talked to dr yunus'  US publisher day before yesterday there is a chance of a social business annual yearbook written round the question under 25 most want asking; I will try and get dr yunus to assess the second phase of this opportunity while he's visiting london (end of coming week)- in DC on Yunus meet Bernanke day, he already signed his editorial interest in tidying up what bangladesh has actioned learned about collaborative networking in the nation's first third century of sustainable worldwide trade

whether all sides will agree to this timeline will doubtless need some pushy emails

*assemble all youthful questions on heroic goals of 2nd decade  to 2015 and 2025, as well as links to social business and microcredit newtorks repicating solutions by mid june

debrief in dhaka by end june with 3 proviisonal chapter sections ABC

A)  submitted by deep 10 microcredit founders,

B) special captalism issues of turning decade including
?safe banks -where

?peaceful endings to intellectiual walls between poverty, health and energy -why not?

?geo structures the missing links between nations and global -how on earth?

?rethinking microeducation for every grade from third up -just do it!

C) under 25s and journalist for humanity's intercity and regional reviews of what timelines are we hitting, missing; where do we need to collaboratively swap knowhow and open source social business http://socialbusiness.tv entrepreneur cases to catch up

(sign declaratron of social business networking interdependence before leaving dhaka and in time for eg me to take it to sharehlders meeting of The Economist - my dad and I are very frustrated with English intransigence (lords and barons, 2008 and all that) at not having yet got a social business publication between bangladesh and st james launched yet - perhaps ashden energy network  which is also dominated by the sainsbury family can start gossip among london great and good that so far has been blocked by every boxed in conference organiser-last time ignorance over compound maths reached a peak we had to cntruct a canmpaign to get rid of tony blair's lord chancellor - talk about deja vu)

have editorial team in place to finish a book by mid august

*print for sale in late october as holidays and end of deacde future dialogues start to peak

*open source/web living version as shared action learning curricula between institutes or contributing idnividuals peer to peer networks

I think that dr yunus can get bangladesh's 3 lead founders of microcredit to converge microeconomics system transforming fusion; sam daley harris sounded joyous about something similar; I wonder who else's optimism or approval is needed -other than some key figure in transition and yes we can

chris

next collaboration cafe in this arena: New York Monday Feb 23 7.00 East 53 Teriyaki House 220 East 53rd Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues

say if dc, boston, dhaka or london folk are hosting a meet later in week that wants debrief flows from New York's Collab Cafes and  Social Business Clearing Web

download : launch invitation to youth you can & social business entrepreneur newtorkers written by Dr Muhammad Yunus

MAGIC OF MICROCREDIT IS MICROEVERYTHINGhttp://www.youtube.com/profile?user=safebanks&view=favorites

of course being the most trusted banking network in a country isn’t only about money, its about everything human beings want to do through life, and parent through their children's lives, or prioritise communal demands around valuing culturally and inter-culturally; its about happiness and freedom, independence and interdependence and anything else worth humanly uniting around or debating through freedom of speech

 both muhammad yunus whose alumni  networks collaboratively mentor JB http://jamiibora.net  and JB itself aim through a generation to invest in everything of life-critical community importance (have you seen one of the yunus10000 dvds yet)? as humanity gets more and more wholly networked or if you prefer mandela-ubuntued;  http://mandelauni.com http://clintonuni.com http://obamauni.com http://yunusuni.com

JB (whilst only 10 year old as one of the planet's most inspiring networks for humanity)  gravitates the world's most effective health insurance policy at the level of 250000 members; it has the human connecting capacity (and transparency of hi-trust multiplying maps and youthful interactions) to be the number 1 social business http://socialbusiness.tv  and future capitalism paradigm to benchmark for community healthcare out of africa if not worldwide

 unlike grameen JB's original networking and brand/community dna multiplied around empowering mobile youth task forces as well as more isolated rural womens centres; over time JB yes we can's identity is capable of replicating any service whose human knowhow can be mapped, empowered and open sourced as a local service franchise ; since Obama's number 1 foreign assistance on health is end death by mosquito by 2015 http://malaria2015.com , it would be absurd if his advisers (and their ultimate ability to influence direction of billion dollar end malaria funding) do not soon test market community-rising methods of being smarter at networking than the mosquito in partnership with JB;

rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv if you discover some interesting Microcredit & searches

& malaria

& solar

& biogas

& mobile

Tom introduced this question to Alex and I at George Washington University , Dc Thursday. Put another way his graduate team of info tech experts need a project to complete before may 09 - and are wondering what in microcredit or social business world needs developing and making transparent as an interactive web based exchange

Some rehearsals in my mind -please do tell us if you have lively ones

A If Sam Daley Harris is helping get 93 congressmen http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=3709 to lobby world bank to develop an open university learning exchange around the 10 most exciting microredit network models of ending poverty - is there a student Q&A exchange that needs linking around these 10 founders and all their projects. So far the score is 3/3 yes please among founders of inspiring microcredits that I have polled.

B (actually I see why this cant be researched out of a university) an updating league table of which economics professors you trust a  minute of your time on saving the economy  - so guess better facebook it http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=65139457016

C in research of collaboration entrepreneurs (but how say you)  currently the greatest missing web directories are on social business- there are at least 4 ways I would like a web's catalogue to help me search social business out of one source

1 the dedicated and sustainable-proven social business model- similar to prahalad's searches - aims to entrepreneurially design a basic but vital service at least 10 times lower cost than served in rich cities- searching social business cases which have achieved this shows common patterns that can be designed round:

these include zero marketing cost (ie no adverts etc ) - this requires a service so good it will word of mouth and is helped if there are free market channels and media owned by the poorest instead of the richest

training poorest people locally- what would not be a working wage for a big city professional to come and install solar in a poor rural village does very nicely thank you if you train up a poor person in the village to install solar- grameen expects to have qualified 100000 solar women engineers out of the villages in the next 5 years as discussed by our 10000 youth dvd dialogue friends http://yunus10000.com

not offering and confusing te market with the noise of 100 me-too varieties

largely open sourcing and network replicating franchise knowhow instead of patenting it

offering multiple pricing points- grameen arsenic-decontaminated water will cost 1000 times more if you want it put in a plastic bottle and hand delivered than if you will take your own gallon container and one tap provided in each village; conversely this means that grameen-veolia water will be served at least 100 times cheaper than any corporation has offered water at (free markets of the sort adam smith intended http://api.ning.com/files/X*EGR5KvH*dG7Q7k*0Bo*NsCyHSGGmMei2ihrTGoPmzkK0Zuz-dIjuVaRRdockvz3G0T3dyquVFr0uLIytWU8nZNJmYG4DK5/adamsmithgoodbankarchives.pdf

2 Innovation Partnerships in Socal Business between organisations with the most resources amd organisations serving the most desperate needs at the grassroots

-as well as knowing who is joining up in this way- global sector by sector these partnerships offere a benchmark for what the greatest responsibility of a fre eglobal market can sustain - instead of the opposite externalisation economics of the greatest compound risk we can outsource

-efficiently such future capitalism partnerships offer a chance to end maddening billion dolar advertising campaigns of image-marketing replacing reality-marketing (something that some of my professional peers have been trying to reverse for 20 years now even though big 5 man cons or big 3 ad agencies sacked us every time they found out that we tried to do innovation that advances human lot)

3) small team attempts by students and others of at least a year's duration to design and proof-test a vital services or knowhow franchise that could become a replicable social business - Yunus is very clear on this- you abolutely dont need to be trained up as a financial whizzkid to design a social business - if you care deeply and recusrively about implementing a humanly usable design then it should no longer be hard to find finance that wants to back your micro start up -especially now yes we can now people can unite to see microbanking as essential to all our communities and sustainable futures . Of course Yunus would tell you that microcredit itself emerged out of exactly such youthful teamwork of 4 young Bangladeshis in 1974-1976

4) it could be useful to have a category of "we are not yet officially certifiable as governed by social business rules" but we would like assistance in seeing if we could be

chris macrae

http://socialbusiness.tv

25000 planned to change over to social in businees from NHS? This UK Feb 09 plan puts a lot up in the air. Speaking a London a year ago Dr Yunus advised - gov can't just order a traditional organisation to be a social business - entrepreneurial founders and extraordinary innovation in business design is crucial. fascinating to monitor. Bangladesh's and the worldwide's great stroke of micro-up good fortune was that BRAC set about other way round privitization on health and schooling in the 1970s just as Grameen set abouth micro ub banking. About a decade later they started cross-ruffing each others magic tricks of micro though grameen always specialises in what people can entrepreneurially sustain without aid, and until quite recently BRAC's extra magic was to buffer global aid so it empowered bottom up. The latest annual report of BRAC shows that it is now 80% aid independent - so becoming a pure masterplayer of social business, though those of us who see social business privitization as a fascinating chess game in the end poverty family of gameboards will always want to study branc's formative years.


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and now for a different health social business challenge with an accent on Africa
remember the good news is that ending deaths by malaria is obama's number 1 foreign assistance health pledge; he needs the young mobile networkers of jamii bora to help connect the dots on the ground; difficult but not impossible if we play the game rules bangladesh has been sharing with us on impossible becomes possible when right action people time place http://socialbusiness.tv/  - more on malaria at http://malaria2015.com/

hiv/aids is another example of a case where people have either misinformed or anyway not let african school students even have freedom of information; in some african communities the schools that kevin links into have developed a modular curriculum - a few hours for each of 3 different age groups - which changes that community's knowledge for ever because once enough youth know a true story about particular risks they peer to peer it, and it seeps up to elders in their community, and then its impossible to censor what enough of the people have discovered ...