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| *1 Microcredit | *2 Solar Energy | *3 Free University -Joburg of Taddy Blecher partnered by Branson and in the vocational spirit of Mandela and Gandhi |
| .4 Wholeplanet Foundation =supermarket industry responsibility connecting fair trade, microcredit, and certification of what's in the food chain | .5 Internet Carpet industry chain targeting 0 waste by 2020 | *6 City Montessori (Lucknow India)- the social business of the world's largest school - 31000 childern |
| *7 Mobile leapfrogging and ending of digital divides | 8 The Paris cluster of future capitalists partnering Grameen including danone, Credit Agricole, Veolia and HEC SMBA | *9 The Green Children both as a responsible pop group and funders starting off Dr Yunus big plans for social business of health |
| *10 The 100000 grassroots networkers and sustainability investors connecting Bangladesh's MICRO economics development plan of which BRAC and Grameen in the 1970s started something that my just save the whole planet | .Click
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* denotes heavily influenced by Gandhi - your editor has a certain bias in seconding Einstein's nomination of Mahatma as the only leader of the first half of the 20th century with a complete model for changing a nation ruled by an unhealthy empire - my grandad was mentored for 25 years by Gandhi one Bar of London Barrister enough- intially as the Chief Justice in Mumbai grandad jailed Gandhi; by the 1940s he was transformed into helping write up the legalese for India's Independence. As transparency and Microeconomics/sustainability exponential mapmakers, we hold the view, one accelerated since we first wrote about it, 1984 that today's genertaion today's generation as first to go networked locally to globally has an order of magnitide deeper challenge than even Gandhi's India. That is if sustainability is to be earned for all our future generations. Please feel free to contact us if your change world agendas are that urgent or deep
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Monday, September 29, 2008 long debrief on how some friends are tryining to update actions round news of from clinton global last week
12:09 am esthttp://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=2827&srcid=2392 Dear Peter and friends of community-up projects of deep sorts that need careful transparency and awareness building. These do not feel like ordinary times -with eg at Clinton Global last week - Gordon Brown's confessions of broken economic systems -apart from global financial crisis- we must invite youth & peoples everywhere to join in resolving at least 3 other system failures; massive restructuring of jobs all over the world makes people insecure the second problem is the pressure for resources: oil prices, that long-term demand for oil and for food and for basic commodities is exceeding the supply of it and until we solve that problem, then we are going to have volatility which pushes those who just emerged from poverty back into it The third problem is the gap between rich and poor. As Bill Clinton has said in so many occasions that rightly so, we have a world that is unsustainable. We have a world that is unsafe and we have, for many people, a world that is unfair. And it’s more than unfairness. We have a moral problem about the rights and dignity of every child. We have also a security problem. (Probably less than 5% of USA or UK population know about this system problem in a practically urgent way) Parentheis are my words. I have been having a brief email exchange with Michael Maranda (in Chicago) whom we have both occasionally corresponded with at ned or its predecessor omidyar.net I understand that Michael is helping relaunch http://www.catcomm.org Its 5+year history as I recall started by the dedicated Theresa Williamson who have met once (her dad being an DC economist) as a portal for grassroots projects; it then took on a combined life as a physical space in Rio inviting people from the favela to come and organise community building projects. The physical space has now been closed and Michael and Theresa are relaunching it as a virtual space connecting grassroots projects worldwide It feels to me that there may be synergies and mutually win-win intents between catcomm and www.tr-ac-net.org and potentially cataloguing micro and social business projects- and obviously both are resources that have had many years of people time put into them; I expect that there are rather a lot of such jigsaw pieces (it would be sad to see them disappear through failure to connect them though I am not privy to which ones are self-sustaining and which are in need of co-partners) I am writing in case there is a conversation to be had. I am not sure of the different levels that may be relevant 1) directly between what catcomm.org and tr-ac-net want to achieve 2) maybe I am just being a bit dazzled but last week's clinton global had so many opinion leaders confessing to too much global down and the once-in-a-generation need to reunite millennial goals and community -up approaches. I have footnooted obama's 4 pledges if elected as his specific one on ending malarai by 2015 (if we take it seriously) needs a response because that aint going to happen with Peter's malaria networks knowledge being included in the picture; Peter also spent about 20? years of his life stomping round Africa so has a lot of knowledge relationships relevant to transparency conflict subtleties in that continent 3) of course there are potential links between this and what yunus friends and I try to champion both in cataloguing replicable socila bsuiensses and the 10000 youthdvd network dialogue people like mostofa and I aim to be connecting soon http://yunus10000.com http://yunusworld.com Longer-term , if I or we can get there, I wish to encouarge start up teams to imagine wherther the people's summit that networks as http://microcreditsummit.org can be bridged to other vital community-sustaining areas including: http://microhealthsummit.com http://microeducationsummit.com http://microenergy.com and http://micromediasummit.com (to include interent and mobile for the poor) Look forward to these or other potentially relevant ideas. It may be best to focus on 1) first since clearly many years of work have gone in to tr-ac-net and catcomm and if there is a way they could immediately help sustan each other and I dont want my passions for Yunus project mapping to get in the way of any immediate needs your community webs need. Apologies if I may have slighly set up contexts wrongly, please go ahead and re-edit more precisely what the goals of catcomm and tr-ac-net are There is also the issue of whether proprietors of London-based hubs should be included in this conversation. I believe I was the first person to publish a physical directory to hubs around the world about 15 months ago but its an area that has run into 2 kinds of conflict: the north west hubs have first level problems of how to sustain their bricks and mortar so instead of being open colaboratioin hubs to each other they tend to keep their best info for paid up local members. They also seem dominated by social entrepreneurs who I find 90% of muddled where they seem to be beholden to the same models as charities rather than seek to clarify their sustainability the way yunus and social business entrepreneur models map. It seems also that we have 4 East Coast cities: DC, New York, Chicago and Boston -and my old network stomping ground of London - where we know some of the people who have lifelong commitments to collaborating between community-up and in effect my dad's 1984 forecast -as senior European economist - that sustanable globalisation will need such people power networks to win out versus the global-down only be those the deceased wall street banks or the not yet deceased global-down NGOs http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html briefly cc -mostofa at http://yunusforum.net is charged by yunus to start registering people who wish to be knowledge ambassadors for the Bangladshi franchises of community-up- Samira being one of the first people in DC that may be connecting around that; hattori is an old Gandhian friend (veteran of a series of annual 500 person conferences http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/ London Delhi sarajevo) of mine Modjtaba Sadra at london branch of Aga Khan uni whose life long study of cultures is particularly tuned to tryng to bridge east-west conflicts; Patrick and Robert are 2 london co-stompers who I have a long history with - for example in 2005 Patrick and I were applaed by the officail make poverty history years that was all global-ngo down and we convened various 40+ person open spaces on the other system round for ending poverty (which was probably where I first heard of microfinace) marriah helped arrange the cable tv program on collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I which can fill a practical gap if citizens dont altready have their own preferred cafe process chris macrae washington DC 301 881 1655 PREVIOUSLY Michael sent you a message. Re: Catalytic Communities ================================================ Obama's 4 action pledges: 1 And the first commitment that I'll make today is setting a goal of an 80-percent reduction in green house gas emissions by 2050. 2 and that is why the second commitment that I'll make is embracing the millennium development goals which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015. This will take more resources from the United States and as president I will increase our foreign assistance to provide. 3 And that's why the third commitment I'll make is working to erase the global primary education gap by 2015. Every child, every boy and every girl should have the ability to go to school. To ensure that our nation does its part to meet this goal, we need to establish a $2 billion global education fund, and I look forward to signing the Bipartisan Education for All Act that was first introduced by Hilary Clinton, a true champion for children, not just here in the United States but all around the world
4 So today I want to join with the global malaria community that is meeting here in New York to make a new commitment: When I am president, we will set the goal of ending all deaths from malaria by 2015. It's time to rid the world of a disease that doesn't have to take lives. In case anyone is still looking at this flow I found what Hernado de Soto said relevant and of course he is one of the greats of community-up from s. america continment But the message hasn't probably gotten across, that the majority of entrepreneurs are actually poor in developing countries. And they're working outside, and sorry for the silver bullet again, they're working without the tools of the law that allowed them to get capital, get credit, identify themselves, get markets. So, I consider that in spite of all the talk, in spite of the wonderful work of Muhammad Yunus, who is out there and with his microcredit schemes has been able to show that even people needing $10 a month are entrepreneurs. We haven't yet got a world massive program whereby all of these entrepreneurs are seen not only as receivers of charity but actually as actors and give them the tools to actually look at the issue because it's an issue that falls between the cracks of becoming economists and lawyers. Economists understand order and they understand entrepreneurship. But when they are faced with the fact that entrepreneurship actually only thrives when there is the right legal setting that allows you to deal with people you've never seen that are far away in lands you have never thread on because you’ve got documents that are property documents and contract documents that allow you to see facts and people that you can't touch. Until that kind of thing is put into place, it won't work. And on the other side, you have lawyers, who know what you have to do to crack the problem probably but are not aware of the problem of order. So, we've got also even in the west a tremendous division between economist and lawyers. And if we had been like in the old 150 years ago where we’d all been part of the same faculty, we might have put the whole thing together the way the founding fathers of the United States did, where they realize that entrepreneurship was not only a legal problem, it was a political problem. And it was a question of empowering them and it was a question of undoing the feudal system that only focused on those that had success and had the heritage. It's the issue of globalization. President Clinton was saying something very important which we have grown in the last 20 years like never before. But there is another statistic that is also extremely important. We have grown in the last 60 years where we began globalizing more than we have in the previous 2000 years. But the important thing to understand is that globalization is really another word for global contracts 57.14. And if you don't get global law to bring everybody in and 4 billion people in the world are not within the law, you're not going to be able to save globalization which is the engine that's given us prosperity Tuesday, September 23, 2008 please see lower down as this week's Clinton Global Initiative agenda's accelerate - this blog will update on actionable
consequences for citizen networks- meanwhile Clinton family are coming up to their 20th year as microcredit practitioners
and have extraordinay insights into Bangladesh as the sustainable 21st C developing nation mode which the worldwide can collaboratively
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10:40 am estFriday, September 12, 2008 y10000 - good news & social action dialogue 08/09 between Yunus & 10000 Youthversion 0 sneak www preview - target launch Minus 4 weeks
Here are some action links we are designing to connect the 10000 network of owner of dvd on sustainability happenings which Dr Yunus, Grameen and Bangladesh are inviting people to practice
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