worldcitizen.tv - how would you construct an index of the world's most trusted people and networkers for sustainability?

club of 100 global brand ceos meet to revalue sustainability of global markets

 

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Breaking News on Collaborations needed for Glasgow's 4th July Microcredit Summit and 70th birthday wishmaking with Muhammad Yunus 
helping to map species of Social Business Models; DC 301 881 1655 info @worldcitizen.tv -  love connecting open source inventions for humanity - our SB group at EMENTOR celebrating presidential summits on (youth) entrepreneurship
Dr Yunus comes to Washington DC - video of book1 talk 4 Feb 2009   

we invite job creators to facebook or twitter or email info@worldcitzen.tv

join sustainability discussions : 1 healthcare 

Y1000 bookclub 2.1 collabs:

DC -96 books: Results to members and congressmen; Ronald Regan Centre May 14 world premier of Yunus book talk: students - RHS 100. Georgetown 200, GWU 10; also offer to mficonnect when they have youth passing through DC to carry books

NY - vivaldi 96 for May 18 y

London - 60 London Leaders - also affer 60 books to Royal Society of Arts Yunus booktalk may 26; and other royal societies - eg royal geo -microenergy; royal architecture - bristish council; and link through Gcal london office

through london offer 100 books to 25 intercity hubs http://www.the-hub.net/

 May 10 - Glasgow Yunus number 1 collaboration city 10 books may 11; another 64 by July 4 for world microeconomic summit and launch of journal of social business

 My 25 - paris 64 books : micious and de quelen, and offered to danone communities and hec SB track alumni

changing which cities or professions interest you

innovation

global accountancy

economics

ecology

politics

job creation 1 2 3

global branding  1

community building

conflict resolution

risk

ecology

conflict resolution

system design

community building

mass media

interactive media

law

valuation & rewards

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Youth & Technology Can Change the World - Dr Yunus launches his entrepreneurs' fieldbook on social business with Dean Anand, Robert H Smith Business School, Founder of Social Value Creation Centre Uni of Maryland and the Washington DC World Trade Center


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Sustainability’s 7 Wishes
(source Yunus Book Building Social Business page xxv)
  • End Poverty & Systems that Crash or Trap
  • End carbon in our waters, air, food and machine's energies
  • End hunger & poor distribution structures
  • End premature death and ever higher cost of health
  • End wars and govs that spend 20% of the peoples on arms
  • End borders as barriers to webs of people mobilising productivity
  • End college-less children and universities without job creating microentrepreneurs

Please help us spot where Yunus Global Grameen partners are most Interactive.in building social business

  • Dhaka
  • Paris
  • US (Health & CA Youth)
  • Berlin-Wiesbaden
  • India
  • Glasgow
  • Japan
  • Bangkok

Please join us in making world citizens brilliant networkers in the races towards sustainability goals connected by SB systems

  • Dhaka
  • Paris
  • London
  • Spain-Kenya
  • Glasgow
  • DC
  • LA
  • India
  • Italy
  • S.Africa
  • Sweden-Norway

Particularly out of DC, NY, Boston, Dhaka, London, Paris & Glasgow, the hosts of worldcitizen.tv also host ongoing networks such as Yunus 1000 bookclubs on Dr Yunus series of books on Social Business, Yunus10000 dvd club, as well as historical events like Yunus 69th birthday wish dialogue in Dhaka, and help with sustainability's future prep such as YunusOlympics . Since 2005, we are trying to bring down degrees of separation around people helping Dr Yunus and all social business system designers. My mapping of futures began in 1984: so if you would like to send me chris macrae a mail to chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk on what you are looking for I will try and relay it to the most relevant of the 10000 people I know concerned with the sustainability goals of SBworld

 
Where are citizens creating jobs?
London ... 

RSVP info@worldcitizen.tv to nominate entries into  leagues of job creators 

 World Class League:

100+ Million Job Creators
  • Yunus, Microeconomics & Tech  
  • Abed, Microeconomics & Programs Beyond Aid
  • Munro & Queen Sofia, Mobilising Youth
  • Gunter Pauli Ecology
  • Jack Ma – Technology China
  • Nandan Nilekani – Technology India
  • Gandhi Family, Lucknow, Children=world citizens

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Size of micromarket and job creating community = 60 households 

Size of network of  job creating communities =3600 households prior to introduction of digital technology 1997

 

Size of network of job creating communities since introduction of digital tech in 1997:

8 million in one country! Free market true replication across world estimated to be 40 million –potential to double as fast as moore’s if non free global banking systems were kept out of the way of peoples everywhere

 

Features of system design

 

Bank that invests in the productivity, health, knowledge multiplication of the most underemployed who want to be their communities’ and next generation’s greatest sustainability investors;

 

Bank that designs  ownership and relationship transparency of supply and demand around free mrkets of the locally poorest

Banking system that  sustains value multipliers of microentreprenurial expoentials rising at level of 1 (person), 5 (peer learning team). 60 (village community market), 3600 (local network of markets within walking distance of each other) , 8 million members ( servant leadership team of world’s number 1 social business entrepreneurs)

 

Safest banking design the worldwide can celebrate wherever sustainability of communities is the greatest goals for 2010s generation to celebrate

  
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Grameen Intel     S BB
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This Map signed by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus to start Yes WE Can's new year of 2009 unites journeys of microeconomists since 1976 and entrepreneurs whose hi-trust system purpose designa productive & demanding relationship exchanges to be exponentially sustainableOn 25 December 1976, The Economist's Survey Entrpreneurial Revolution by Norman Macrae (my father) reminded us that as the next generation went global we'd sustain untold human achieviments if microeconomic system designs integrated the worldwide but exponentially crsh towards Big Brother endings of our human race if macroeconomics powered over peoples. Meanwhile Dr Yunus' team of four strated the Grameen Project which in 1983 was cnstituted by Bangladeshi law as Grameen Bank : the world's ans banking's first social business - job creation's greatest system design being owned by the porest to invest in thsir income generation, communal ownership of market centres and knowledge hubs so that progress on their goals for developing their next generation could be accelerted exponentially
  
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Help our Ning catalogue cases of how Bangladesh's first third century has proved that MicroSB cases can be 10 times more economical for communities and life-empowering sustainability goals. Anything less grounded such as national governing over or global ruling down cannot compound pursposeful value multiplying exchanges -that re free in Adam Smth's sense of no hidden conflicts and no unproductive blocks to knowledge co-working

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RSVP info@worldcitizen.tv to help with our survey of ... 
Microeconomists
last quarter of millennium  -how to save the world from macroeconomics
70s-10s+Yunus & Abed , Manmohan Singh –
40s-90s Norman Macrae, Johnny Von Neumann,
Peter Drucker, Schumacher
06-56 Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Maria Montessori
(60s-00s) Walter Bagehot
1840s+ James Wilson
210 years ago JB Say – coined entrepreneur
250 years ago Adam Smith
 
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slides on how to help Muhammad Yunus Sustain the World


" There are a few companies,

whose leaders are sincerely

interested in social change."

Professor Muhammad Yunus

Information for the Global Grameen Meeting 2009

1Program Global Grameen MeetingNoon to 2 p.m. Get-together, Social Networking & Lunch2 p.m. Official Opening & WelcomeProfessor Muhammad Yunus "Strategy 2015"Motivational Speech Danone by Emmanuel Faber (Co-Chief Operating Officer): Grameen Danone –The Pioneer of Social BusinessMotivational Speech Veolia by Eric Lesueur (Project Director):Grameen Veolia –The first ten thousand litres of waterQuestion Lab I4 p.m.Networking Break

4.30 p.m. Motivational Speech BASF by Dr. Ulrich von Deessen (Head of the BASF Competence Center Environment, Health and Safety) :

Sustainability and Social Business is teamwork

Motivational speech adidas by Frank Dassler (Member of Executive Board)

Motivational Speech Fondazione San Patrignano by Andrea Gremoli (Director): A question of identity

Motivational Speech Kyushu University by Prof. Masaharu Okada:Grameen Creative Lab at Kyushu University together with California State University Channel Island:

Presenting the California Institute of Social Business

Motivational Speech Grameen Creative Lab by Hans Reitz (Founder GCL)

Motivational Speech Region Caldas, Colombia by Aristizábal Muñoz (Governor): Grameen Project of Caldas –A New Kind of Public Private Partnership

Motivational Speech Otto GmbH & Co. KG by Dr. Michael Otto (CEO): Creative Responsibility Today

Question Lab II

Summary by Professor Muhammad Yunus and Hans Reitz

3Participants first Global Grameen MeetingCompany

Attendant

adidas AG

Jan Runau (Chief Corporate Communications Officer)

adidas AG

Frank Dassler (Member of Executive Board)

adidas AG

Sven Pastowski (Project Manager Group Services)

Autostadt GmbH

Otto Ferdinand Wachs (CEO)

Autostadt GmbH

Dr. Maria Schneider (Creative Director / CCO)

BASF SE

Dr. Hans-Ulrich Engel (Member of Executive Board)

BASF SE

Dr. Ulrich von Deessen (Head of the BASF Competence CenterEnvironment, Health and Safety)

BASF SE

Anke Schmidt (Director Corporate Communications)

bauMaxAG

Martin Essl (CEO)

bauMaxAG

Michael Fembek

Boehringer Ingelheim

Philipp Baum (Head of International Communications)

Danone AG

Emmanuel Faber (Co-Chief Operating Officer)

DanoneAG

Emmanuel Marchant (General Manager Danone.communities)

DanoneAG

Bernard Giraud (VP sustainability and shared value creation)

Deutsche Telekom AG

Martina Schwebe-Eckstein (Senior Expert CR)

Deutsche Telekom AG

Luis Neves(Head of CR)

Deutsche Telekom AG

Clemens Brandstetter (Manager one! Programme Office)

Deutsche Telekom AG

Tanja Gipp

Company

Attendant

FreshfieldsBruckhausDeringer

Christian Duve (Partner)

FreshfieldsBruckhausDeringer

Dr. Konstantin Mettenheimer(Senior Partner Worldwide)

Otto GmbH & Co. KG

Dr. Michael Otto (CEO)

Otto GmbH & Co. KG

Dr. JohhanesMerck (Head of CR)

Otto GmbH & Co. KG

Diethard Gagelmann

SAP AG

Daniel Schmid(Head of Sustainability Operations)

SAP AG

Peter Graf (Chief Sustainability Officer)

SAP AG

Isabel Schmitt (Fellow Social Business)

Scout 24 Holding GmbH

Martin Enderle(CEO)

Scout 24 Holding GmbH

Jasmin Borhan

Swedbank

Thomas Backteman(Executive Vice President Corporate Affairs)

SystainConsulting GmbH

Dr. Michael Arretz(General Manager)

UnideaUnicreditFoundation

Giuliana Porta

VeoliaWaterSTI

Antoine Frérot(CEO)

VeoliaWaterSTI

Eric Lesueur(Projects Director)

VeoliaWaterSTI

DinahLouda(Vice PresidentCommunications)

 

Universities

Attendant

Asian Institute ofTechnology

BorjeWallberg(Interim Director of YunusCentre at Asian Institute of Technology)

CaliforniaState University

AsishVaidya(Dean of the Faculty)

CaliforniaState University

Julia Wilson (VP of Advancement)

CaliforniaState University

Dr. Richard Rush (PresidentCSU Channel Island)

CaliforniaState University

Larry Janss(Board Member / Supporter of the CISB)

European Business School (EBS)

Dr. María Teresa Quirós Fernández (Consultant to Executive Board)

Freie Universität Berlin

Kurt Hammer (formerchancellor)

Glasgow CaledonianUniversity

Prof. Pamela Gillies(Principal& ViceChancellor)

Glasgow CaledonianUniversity

Prof. Mike Smith (Pro-Vice Chancellor Research)

Glasgow CaledonianUniversity

Prof. Sue Scott (Pro-ViceChancellorLearning Innovation)

Glasgow CaledonianUniversity

Prof. Francine Cheater (Institute of Health and Wellbeing)

Glasgow CaledonianUniversity

Dr. ZasheemAhmed (Development Economist)

HEC Paris

Prof. FrédéricDalsace(DanoneChair Social Business, Firm & Poverty Associate Professor)

HEC Paris

BénédicteFaivre-Tavignot/Direcorof Social Business Chair)

HEC Paris

Prof. David Menascé(AffiliateProfessor)

HokkaidoUniversity

Prof. Masahiro Kan (Professor)

KyushuUniversity

Prof. HirotoYasuura(ViceChancellor)

KyushuUniversity

Prof. MasaharuOkada ( Intellectual Property Management Center, General Counsel)

KyushuUniversity

Prof. Makoto Maeda (AssociateProfessor)

KyushuUniversity

Dr. Ahmed Ashir(Project Dirctorof Global Communication Center)

Universities

L -ZUniversities

Attendant

London MetropolitanUniversity

MostofaZaman(Youth Ambassador Programms)

McGill University

Dr. Laurette Dubé(ChairandScientific Director)

RikkyoUniversity

Kenichi Miyama(AssociateProfessor)

Grameen

GrameenKnitwear

Hassan Ashraful(Managing Director)

GrameenSolutions / Phone

Kazi Islam (CEO)

GrameenTrust (BGD)

Professor H. I. Latifee(Managing Director)

Yunus Centre(BGD)

Prof. Muhammad Yunus(Founder & Chairman)

Yunus Centre(BGD)

Lamiya Morshed (Executive Director)

Yunus Centre(BGD)

Brandon McReynolds

Yunus Centre(BGD)

Nazir Ali Mamun(Personal FotographerofProf. Yunus)

GrameenAmerica

Stephan A. Vogel (CEO)

GrameenAmerica

VidarJorgensen(President)

GrameenCaptialIndia

RoystonBraganza (CEO)

GrameenCreative Lab

Hans Reitz (Founder, director)

GrameenCreditAgricole

Jean-Luc Perron(Head of Microfinance)

GrameenCreditAgricole

JürgenHammer (Head of Finance)

GrameenCreditAgricole

Fatima ElMoukhtafi(PartnershipSenior Manager)

GrameenFoundation

Alex Counts (President& CEO)

GrameenFoundation

Dave Stephens (Member GrameenTechnology Council)

GrameenFoundation

Camilla Nestor (VP, Microfinance)

GrameenFoundation

David Edelstein (Director of Information and Communication Technology)

GrameenHealthcareServices

Sultan Imamus(Managing Director)

GrameenJameelPan-ArabMicrofinance

Zaher Al-Munajjed(Chairman)

GrameenJameelPan-ArabMicrofinance

FadiM. Jameel(Board Member)

GrameenJameelPan-ArabMicrofinance

Julia Assaad(General Manager)

Other

Attendant

BDI

Werner Schnappauf (Director General and Member of the Presidential Board)

Business Journalist

Alan Mitchell

Canna Ltd.

Karl Mikael Cakste(Owner, entrpreneur)

Cure2Children

Eugenio La Mesa (CEO)

FondazioneSan Patrignano

Andrea Muccioli(Director)

FuturenetAB

Helene Hellsten-Carendi(Owner, entrepreneur)

GovernorofCaldas, Columbia

Mario Aristizábal Muñoz (Governor of Caldas)

IFAH (Investment Fund for Health in Africa)

Barend van der Vorm (Investment Committee)

Impact International

Andy Dickson (Director of GloablSales)

IslamicDevelopment Bank

RabihF. Mattar( Senior Project Officer)

Karl Weber Literary

Karl Weber (President), Mary-Jo Weber (Vice President)

Kyoto Forum / Felissimo

YazakiKatsuhiko (General Director)

Kyoto Forum / Felissimo

FumihikoNishioka(Professor / PlanningCommittee)

La Grande-Duchesse de Luxembourg

HisHighnessPrince Guillaume

La Grande-Duchesse de Luxembourg

Alexandre Hippert(Conseiller)

London Creative Labs

Sofia Bustamante (Founder)

Menschen für Menschen

Axel Haasis(Director)

RepublicofAlbania

GencRuli(Minister of Agriculture)

RepublicofAlbania

ArianaCela(Regional Development Advisor to Prime Minister)

Social Innovation Scholarship

Hiroumi Yokoi(Senior Manager)

UNHCR HQ Geneva

Sajjad Malik (Chief OSTS)

Vivaldi Partners

Erich Joachimsthaler (CEO)

Vivaldi Partners

Markus Pfeiffer (Managing Partner)

World Class Brands TV

Chris Macrae(Founder)

 

We are Global Grameen

BASF Grameen

California State UniversityGrameen Employment

GCL@FU BerlinGCL@Milan

Grameen Healthcare

GCL@Glasgow University

Grameen Knitwear

Grameen Phone

GCL @Kyushu University

Grameen Otto

GCL@Rikkyo University

Grameen Veolia

Grameen Shikka

Grameen Shakti

Grameen Krishi

Global Grameen Is Anything That is Called Grameen

Vision: We Want to Create a World Without Poverty by 2030

Mission: Enable People to Lift Themselves out of Poverty Through Grameen Social Business

Global Grameenwill…

serve the

essential needs

of the world’s 300 million poorest of the poor

transform all Grameen businesses into Grameen social businesses

design, innovate + implement new social business models

reach the "Tipping Point" for social business

Create a Global Grameen organisational structureestablish Global Grameen brand

be an inclusive societal leader and navigatorchannel the power of millions of individuals, companies, investors, NGOs and universities in social business action

Goals of Global Grameenfor 2015

Internal Global Grameen Strategy

Preserve Yunus’ Legacy

Define What Grameen Stands For

Create Functioning Global Corporate Governance

Develop Global Branding/Logo, Corporate Identity

Develop Internal and External Communication Strategy

What’s your idea??ExternalGlobal GrameenStrategy

Set Aside Preconceived Notions and Encourage to Think Outside the Box

Create Broad Awareness about GrameenSocial Business and Spread the Model

Establish Cross-Societal GrameenSocial Business Movement

Develop and Prove Blueprints for GrameenSocial Business Models across Sectors, Industries and Regions (Lead by Example)

Encourage Roll-Out and Scale Up of GrameenSocial Business Worldwide

Connect People and Ideas through Global GrameenPlatform

Measure GrameenSocial Business Impact

Establish GrameenSocial Business Certificate
Broad Awareness About GrameenSocial Business Will Be Created

EXPO Milan

Yunus’ Birthday Wishes

Global GrameenMeetingNovemberWeek

2. GCL Klassen-treffen

London Olympics

Eastern Europe SB TourYY Joy ofLife Festival

Education

Companies

NGOs

Individuals

EntrepreneursandSocialEntrepreneurs

Public Sector

Social Business

Media

Sports

Art andPerformance

InvestorsFamily-OwnedBusinesses

Touch Points of the Social Business Movement

Pilot Projects Across Regions and Industries Established

Grameen Danone

GSB Food

Grammen Veolia

GSB Water

BASF Grameen

GSB Healthcare

Grammen Otto

GSB Textile

Grammen adidas

GSB Shoe

Grameen Phone

Telecommunications

Grameen Bank

GSB Banking

Grameen Healthcare

Grameen Knitware

Grameen Employment GSB Training+Employment

Grameen Trust

Banking

Yunus Centre

Across Industries

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Breaking News - Collaborations sought Yunus Microeconomics Glasgow Summit July 4
Muhammad Yunus is coming to Glasgow for 48 hours between July 3-5

we are arranging:
microcreditsummit with 300 adam smith alumni and other microeconomists - basically since keynes professionals have known


that only economics rules the world's systems - SO as these 2008 debates of yunus first social business book show, the $64 trillion dollar question is: will globalisation be ruled by
 

  • macroeconomics of the wall street kind that will ultimately pauper and big brother us peoples everywhere or
  • microeconomics that integrates communities by co-creating 7 billion good jobs that lead to a knowledge networking age of humanly extraordinary productivity and sustain an order of magnitude more health and wealth - provided we unite round ending poverty and solving other potentially worldwide system failures

70th birthday wiishmaking sessions for Muhammad Yunus

Launches of platforms aimed at making Glasgow one of the best twin cities with Dhaka (the city en route to all sustainability capiyals)

THE TIME IS NOW (Last chapter yunus new book Building Social Businenss)
help charter key dates in the 2010s which yunus calls humanity's most exciting decade - the one where we race to regain sustainabilioty of peoples, communities and planet - compare that with the 1960s which only had a race to the moon - rumor has it that dr yunus sees london olympics 2012 http://2012sustainability.com as the greatest stage ever mediated where a fringe expo of social businesses on how our interactions can sustain the earth may be of far more enduring significance and exciting momentum than the spectator sports. Come on BBC discover that you are the peoples world service- potentially the most exciting social business in broadcasting , the jewel in the crown of UK and global sustainability economies. We need you to be proactive before Euro tsunami reigns over us all   http://yunusforum.net/?p=80

more info chris.macrae @yahoo.co.uk
skype isabellawm   - isabellawm.com association of family foundations

2:58 am edt 

Sunday, May 23, 2010

can you help us with the media of chapter 9 : The Time is Here

case study

 

1:33 pm edt 

Thursday, May 20, 2010

connecting drucker and yunus social business -mpping back yunus social business olympics

Thursday, 20 May, 2010 13:49
From:
gladius when are you flying off to claremont- is it possible to see any of the content you have been preparing on connections between drucker and yunus social business?
you mentioned drucker originally hails from vienna; yunus dropped by jonathans hub there -perhps we need a big picture poster something sofia's frind tom ball is expert at amd which I left my copy with zasheem!
gladius- have you got yunus new book yet? ; I will be in london my 25 for several days; if you are leaving before that sofia has copies
michael- are there a few lines you would like gladius to hand out on type of contributions the new journal values from acdemics; equally I am thinking more about  cases and literature review styles ceos can read;
I also wonder what examples there are of journal styles in revolutionry and interdiscoplinary fields - wonder if action learning friends at bath have some samples
gladius' campus is near the olympics stadium - so a superb place to run yunus fringe festival out of -hopefully with london-glasgow being the main hosts- want to go and ask tmeout if they would do  special edition like liberation did in paris on the min day youth came from all over france to convene in two by 3500 person entrepreneur summits (main one hsoted by olivier at www.danonecommunities.com) ; will paul's bbc green networks, and elkington's sustainability networks and british councils and royal society networkers begining to join on the same map london is the make or break citizens platform if biggest badwill capitals nd public broadcsting www.notimeleft.org (eg london NY dc) are ever going to be turned round to value freedom of speech for social business 
8:53 am edt 

Saturday, May 15, 2010

To Yunus Peoples in Italy
Dr Yunus personal mission  for the rest of his life is to meet up with the biggest orgnsitions in the world (or more precisely those that own the most technology or knowledge -please note of these are networks to be formed- eg unite all of a city’s universities caring faculties and students around eg job camps)
however macrogoverned systems' past has been Yunus wnts to invite them to try to do one good expeiment with their technology in bangaldesh;his idea is then  to give them so much publicity of the value of doing good (with technology whose marginal cost to them is next  nothing) that we start to turn the 1000 least sustainable orgnisatoins to some of the collaborative (abe zero sum) and most sustainable
I assume that you do understand that the history of poverty and the battle of the sexes are completely intwined. Anyone ( my faimly and I trust) with the slightest understanding of how to change media for the greater good starts there
the is no point coming to our next Yunus open space unless you can happily contribute to that wish of his;I can see it  clashes with what many of his peoples networks have done  in the past -and my god have my facourite community building peers and I had difficulty in adjusting to this living script of global grameen (or I have anyway though it plays to most of my 30 years of professional relationship building having worke directly on and with leaders of 50 of the world's 100 largest brands)   www.worldclassbrands.tv www.worldcitizen.tv

 

Here is the most important stage in your part of the world – what can you tell us about connecting with it that you will allow me to circulate widely (in trying to promote the most open source dynamics around yunus ,I get immensely tired of being told mil re confidential when I cant see what the confidential bit is – we lose the sustainability of the world by getting so boxed in – dont try to censor me with such a culture on me without extremely sensitive and timely reasoning)

On 10 July 2010 – the first annual Social Business Day – there will be another large scale event promoted by Hans to celebrate the accomplishment of social business. Sponsored by the city of Milan , it will be held in the city centre where some 20000 people are expected to assemble to enjoy the music and festivities that will launch the event; Milan ’s Mayor Letizzia Moratti has become a major ally of social business. She is helping to work with Unicredit to launch Grameen Italia, and will highlight social business to Expo 2015 in Milan

(If you most want to help – why not printout dad’s attached bio- post it to Romano Prodi and ask whether he wants to join yunus 70th birthday wishes and join in the 34th year of the entrepreneurial revolution  which he was in at the start of when he was translater of my dad’s 1976 storylines on how we needed to embed micro systems into the world’s biggest ones before going irreversibly global) Perhaps you could also get in touch with Monica Yunus to see if she is helping and needs help with Milan –since she is one of the most grounded of ladies I have met in 4 years of this yunus merry go round. I absolutely agree that we need a most grounded womens capitals of yunus network ...
11:23 am edt 

Friday, May 14, 2010

world premier of yunus booktalk - Building Social Business

rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you wish to connect your yunus bookclubs with ours

Thank you for hosting this fantastic start to the only book I know of whose readers' social value interactions can change the world's sustainability. By staging an event at the Ronald Reagan World Trade Centre a few hundred yards from the centre of superpower, University of Maryland has raised the bar for all future booktalks, and your two years of getting social value creation and finance to face off with each other is the best world series DC is ever likely to see.


As with dr yunus' first social business book, my family and media friends are hosting 1000 yunus bookclub with the intent of open sourcing an optimal sets of maps of where people can connect with yunus on what project


Would it be appropriate if I brought over to Melissa a stock of 50 books? One idea would be to selectively hand these out to students and faculty -and then after summer - you could extend your weekly Dingman entrepreneur pitch to a parallel social business surgery. If relevant I could attend early surgeries until our mapping databank and its relationship permissions is fully internalised at RHS. My father worked for 40 years at The Economist and believes networks round Yunus are the only way we now have to restore microeconomics before macroeconomics serial crashes (wall street, greek economy ... ) irreversibly harm our childrens futures.


other 50 + book centres are Yunus Centre Glasgow where cam is the 2nd social business professor in the world - he is charged with statistics of how how microhealth and microcredit impact each other; see more at page 160-163 of Yunus book ; also at glasgow is zasheem a friend of dr yunus since youth who has been working for 20 years to unite students and faculty in re-examining how adam smith and dr yunus are on the same microeconomics track; there will be an extraordinary microeconomics summit on 4th July in Glasgow, which my family is co-sponsoring, where there will also be a 5 days late opportunity to pledge 70th birthday wishes to dr yunus- it would be fantastic on maryland could join this party


london leader -and yunus 69th birthday host in Dhaka - sofia whose job creation social business and coming "popularised" business models handout melissa knows about


there is sam's results and microcredit network who have been sampling congressmen and have followed yunus booktalk down to Houston where there will be a particular focus on job creation; sam's microcreditsummit network have been asked by Queen Sofia of Spain to try and spot 100 microcredits in over 50 countries ready to replicate the youth mobile microcredit of www.jamiibora.org  which started in kenya. Queen Sofia will personally be chief host of the world microcreditsummit in spain in november 2011; and in parallel President "Son of Microcredit" Obama and Hilary Clinton have started hosting 60 country entrepreneurship summits (see footnote)


there is jonathan's 25 intercapital entrepreneur hubs http://www.the-hub.net  ; there is alex at GWU who started schools microcredit networks in the boston area at age of 15 with support of his dad's friends at the young presidents network; there is caitlin who as  senior at swarthnmore is a yunus youth ambassador and the first student to sustain a year long social business students club; there is the Royal Society of Arts that picks up your baton as first booktalk in Europe


win-win-win multipliers of the social value interaction map extend round the world with paris my main field visit space this semester thanks to the extraordinary 3000 youth and 1500 social business training formats coordinated by www.danonecommunities.com but I better stop...!


sincerely


chris macrae http://www.worldcitizen.tv feedback from first 50 book readers
http://www.state.gov/entrepreneurshipsummit/140878.htm
President Obama
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center; Washington, DC; April 26, 2010, Inuagiual President Summit on Entrepreneurship
Look at the professor who came up with an idea -- micro-credit -- that empowered the rural poor across his country, especially women and children. That’s the powerful example of Dr. Yunus.


Look what happened when Muhammad shared his idea with a woman from Pakistan, who has since lifted hundreds of thousands of families and children out of poverty through a foundation whose name literally means “miracle.” That’s the example of Roshaneh Zafar. (Applause.)


Look what happened when that idea spread across the world -- including to people like my own mother, who worked with the rural poor from Pakistan to Indonesia. That simple idea, began with a single person, has now transformed the lives of millions. That’s the spirit of entrepreneurship.


So, yes, the new beginning we seek is not only possible, it has already begun. It exists within each of you, and millions around the world who believe, like we do, that the future belongs not to those who would divide us, but to those who come together; not to those who would destroy, but those who would build; not those trapped in the past, but those who, like us, believe with confidence and conviction in a future of justice and progress and the dignity of all human beings regardless of their race, regardless of their religion.

That’s the enormous potential that we’re hoping to unlock during this conference and hoping to continue not only this week but in the months and years ahead- starting with Turkey 2011

6:36 pm edt 

Thursday, May 13, 2010

thanks sam - a wonderful jorney you have kindly taken most of us  on


Formal Embargo Ynus 70th Birthday + 4days

its a little bit jumping the gun but we are starting to collect papers out of glasgow on connections between adam smith and yunus and everything in between that is micro up, community regenerating, ending poverty and job creating 


ever since the wrong sort of alpha males worked out that economics rules the world to quote Keynes (democracy etc is subservient to it) there has always been a war between


***micro whose heroes started with adam smith (scotland lost ints nationhood to an interntional banking scam in 1700! making scots very impudent when it cmes to whose a prticlar economic model actually spinning for) and collaboratively goes on today with people like yourself yunus ingrid munro fazle abed and queen sofia


*** and macro which tends to be faceless but is sponsoired by the big gets bigger, the speculative get more speculative, the imagemker and lobbyists spend on media however much is needed to drown out goodwill,  common sense, free speech and free market   ;


terrifyingly the battle between micro and macro becomes much more intense whenever new media technology comes along; if micro loses out on this worldwide decade we wont ever get back to community common sense - no wonder yunus new book says 2010s is the most exciting decade to be - the 60s only had the moon to race; the 2010s has our whole planet at stake


which is all to say a case history of results would in my view be a core read in a first issue of glasgow's journal


chris  

www.worldcitizen.tv chatup lines from first 50 people who have read yunus new book

Purpose, Poverty, Pitfalls and Redemption

I want to talk with you today about purpose, poverty, pitfalls and redemption—how committing my life to the end of poverty has given my life purpose, the pitfalls I have faced along the way, especially now, and how seeing redemption in the work I support has returned me to my original vision and commitment.

Let me begin with two quotes that have guided my life and point to the “purpose and poverty” dimension of my talk.

The first is from retired Republican Senator Mark Hatfield who said:

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to eliminate hunger.  Yet we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target.  This is not innovation it is a profound distortion of humanity’s purpose on earth. Please let that sink in.  Hatfield said: (repeat quote)
It’s time for us to consider the question, ‘What is humanity’s purpose on earth?’ 
Inventor and futurist Buckminster Fuller said:

The things to do are the things that need doing.  That you see need to be done and that no one else seems to see need to be done.You’ll see Fuller’s words at work when I tell my story and that of one of my heroes Muhammad Yunus.
Here’s my story.  I went from having degrees in music and playing percussion instruments in the Miami Philharmonic orchestra for 12 years to devoting my life to ending poverty first through founding RESULTS, the citizens lobby on ending global poverty and then founding the Microcredit Summit Campaign.
That’s quite a shift and I’ve been asked what motivates me.  When I look back through my life, two of the events that stand out are the following.  In 1964, I played tympani in the orchestra at my high school graduation.   
Before the ceremony started, one of the flute players came back to the percussion section and told me that a high school fraternity brother of mine, one year younger than I, had died the day before in a tractor-trailer accident in Georgia.  I was 17 at the time.  When I was 17 I thought I had forever.  But as I went through my friend’s funeral, the days of mourning, and went with his younger brother after the funeral to pick up his report card from his homeroom teacher, I realized that maybe I had 17 more minutes, or 17 more months, or 17 more years. It was then, at the age of 17, that I began asking myself, “Why am I here?  What am I here to do? What is my purpose?”  No answers, just the questions.

Four years later, on college graduation day in 1968, Robert Kennedy died.  There were more questions about purpose.  Why am I here, what am I here to do? No real answers, just the questions, more and more clearly.

Ten years later I went to a presentation on The Hunger Project focused on ending world hunger.  Up until that point I hadn’t thought about world hunger much.  Actually I was oblivious.  But if you lifted up the oblivious--right underneath I felt hopeless.  I was quite sure that hunger was inevitable, mostly because there were no solutions.  It had to be that way, because if there were solutions, somebody would have done something about it by then.


But at the presentation it became clear that there was no mystery to growing food, or becoming literate or gaining access to clean water or basic health.  When I looked at it honestly, I realized that I wasn’t hopeless about the perceived lack of solutions.  What I felt hopeless about was human nature!  People would just never get around to doing the things that could be done to end hunger.  I also realized that there was one human nature that I had control over - my own—and of course I had these pent-up questions: why am I here—what is my purpose?

So I got involved.  Between 1978 and 1979 I spoke to 7,000 high school students about ending world hunger—in Miami where I lived and Los Angeles where I moved.  Before I went into the first classroom I read statements from the US National Academy of Sciences and others calling for the “political will” to end hunger.

So I asked 7,000 high school students for the name of their member of Congress.  I didn’t want to know if they had written them or met them, just the name. Do you want to guess the number of students out of 7,000 who knew the name of their member of Congress?

200 knew the name of their member of Congress (fewer than 3 percent) and 6,800 didn’t know the name.  RESULTS was started out of that gap—the calls for the political will to end hunger on the one hand and the lack of basic information on who represented us in Washington on the other.

I moved to Washington, DC in 1985 as the first staff member of RESULTS and we lobbied on behalf of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) a small UN agency based in Rome.  IFAD sent us videos of three groups they had invested in. One was a Dutch documentary of a little bank in    Bangladesh with 42,000 borrowers called the Grameen Bank.  Usually I would say that as we learned more, it took our breath away.  But now I would say that we were touched by the unleashing of the human spirit, by redemption, people’s honor and worth being restored.
During 1985 the 50 RESULTS chapters in 27 states would watch the video on Grameen Bank and then write their member of Congress.  In 1986 we had legislation introduced supporting microenterprise as it was known then.  Over a one-year period the volunteers in RESULTS generated 100 editorials on the microenterprise legislation.  In 1987 Muhammad Yunus came to our office and spoke by conference phone to editorial writers in 28 cities.  In 1988 Muhammad Yunus joined the RESULTS Board.  Eighteen years later he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Meeting Muhammad Yunus, who has become a dear friend, has been a critical part my life and my work for the last 23 years.  Let me tell you the story of how he started Grameen Bank, but in a way I’ve never told it.  Let me tell you with the spiritual transformation at the center.

After getting a PhD in economics at Vanderbilt in Tennessee, Muhammad Yunus returned to his newly independent country Bangladesh and taught at a university.  There was a famine in the country and here is what I usually stress, ‘Prof. Yunus said the economic theories in my text book are very elegant, but they aren’t working in the village next to my campus.  I am going to go into the village and learn economics from the villagers.

The piece that I usually leave out is the fact that this young professor of economics was having a spiritual crisis.   With starving people virtually at the doorstep of his university he wondered about the value of all the fancy theories he was teaching.  He said he started to dread his own lectures and their elegant theories. 

So in 1976 he went into the village next to his campus to see if he could be of use to even one person for one day. In the village of Jobra, Prof. Yunus met Sofia Khartum who made bamboo stools. She became his new teacher.  

He asked her how much profit she made each day.

"Two cents" she replied.  

He was shocked and asked why she only made two pennies profit for such a beautiful stool.  She told him that she didn't have the money to buy the bamboo so she borrowed the money from a trader, a money lender on the condition that she sell the finished product back to him at a price he set.  The moneylender's price barely covered the cost of the bamboo, leaving her with a two-penny return on her hard work.

"If you could sell the stools to anyone, could you make more?" Prof. Yunus asked.
 
"I could," she replied, "but I don't have the money to buy the bamboo so I have to keep borrowing it from the money lender."
 
Prof. Yunus had a student go around the village to see who else borrowed from the moneylender. The student found 42 people who needed a grand total of $27 to free themselves from this debt trap, less than $1 each.
 
He lent the 42 people $27 from his pocket allowing them to pay off the money-lender, buy their raw materials, make their products and sell them to the highest bidder.  Sofia Khartum’s profits soared from two cents a day to $1.25 a day.  Those 42 people were the first borrowers of what became Grameen Bank, which means village bank.  It now has more than 8 million borrowers, 97 percent of whom are women and it affects the lives of more than 40 million family members.
Another glimpse of the revolution he promulgated came years later when he would be asked what his strategy was in forming Grameen Bank.  Here’s how he would reply: “I didn’t have a strategy, I just kept doing what was next.  But when I look back, my strategy was, whatever banks did, I did the opposite.  If banks lent to the rich, I lent to the poor.  If banks lent to men, I lent to women.  If banks made large loans, I made small ones.  If banks required collateral, my loans were collateral free.  If banks required a lot of paperwork, my loans were illiterate friendly.  If you had to go to the bank, my bank went to the village.  Yes, that was my strategy.  Whatever banks did, I did the opposite.” [End of quote.]  Do you see the revolution here—the rule breaking?
This should have been warning of what was to come when microfinance institutions began to run more like commercial banks and what that might do to the soul of microfinance.
I am fortunate to have been one of the leading advocates for microfinance over the last 25 years.  We have been so successful in our advocacy that the field is out of control and now the profit-maximizers, those who want to make big money from the poor are rushing in.  This leads me from the poverty and purpose part of my talk to the pitfalls and redemption portion.
What are the problems that have become pitfalls?  There are profit maximizers who charge the poor 85% interest, 100% interest, or more.  As Prof. Yunus says, we started microcredit to free people from the money-lenders, not to become the new money lenders.
There are some whose very high interest rates lead to very high profits but the profits are not used for the benefit of the clients.  They are not used to lower interest rates, they are not used to bring new products to the clients, they are not used to provide dividends to the clients. 
The largest initial public stock offering (IPO) of the last few years generated tens of millions of dollars in profits for senior managers.  Institutions that invested $1 million walked away with more than $100 million profit each from the IPO.  What did the clients receive from the IPO?  Zilch!  Nada!  Nothing!
I had an epiphany at the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit that I coordinated in Nairobi, Kenya last month.  I now see that the spiritual dimension of microfinance, the redemptive dimension of microfinance is central to my vision for the field.  The technical issues are important, but only if they serve the transformational dimension.

Here’s an example of what I mean by microfinance for redemption told to me by another of my heroes, Ingrid Munro of Jamii Bora, a microfinance institution in Kenya. 

After the post election violence in Kenya, Jamii Bora received funds to rebuild one of the markets that had been destroyed in the rioting.  They decided they had to find the rioters who burned down the market and engage them in rebuilding it. 

I don’t know of any microfinance organization in the world that, if given funds to rebuild a market destroyed in rioting, would say “We have to find the rioters and engage them in rebuilding it.”  And if they said it, I don’t think they could find them.  And if they found them, I don’t think they could convince the rioters to help rebuild what they had destroyed.

But Jamii Bora’s staff are all former members of the program, people who were former slum-dwellers, some of them former beggars, prostitutes, and thieves before they joined the program, so they are close to the ground.

The leader of the gang that destroyed the market was known as “The General.”  Jamii Bora staff talked with him about helping rebuild what they had destroyed.  When the General first met Ingrid he told her he was very upset at her staff when they first talked with him because they didn’t realize how dangerous he was.

But they convinced the General and his gang to help rebuild the market.  They paid the gang to guard the materials at night and paid them to help rebuild with others during the day. 

After the market was rebuilt they engaged the General and some of the gang in microfinance.  The general created a business that uses sheet metal to build cases that children use to keep their things in when they go to simple boarding schools. 

He came to Ingrid last year and told her that he hadn’t gone to his home village for 13 years because his mother was so ashamed of him.  But he had just gone home and his mother cried for three days because she was so happy about how he had turned his life around.

There are many visions for microfinance including this one: using microfinance for redemption.   The dictionary defines redemption as restoring one’s honor or worth, setting one free.

The world’s poor need this kind of redemption—redemption that restores their honor and worth and sets them free.  Redemption that Prof. Yunus saw with the $27 he lent to 42 people 34 years ago—redemption he and other microfinance leaders around the world have seen over the years.And here is another kind of transformation the world needs—that we look at people whom we had previously seen as the problem instead as the solution.  The world needs us to change our own thinking rather than writing people off as incapable of transforming their own lives. 

Let me close with this quote from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman:

[quote] “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being a force of nature, instead of a selfish, feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

Let us work together to ensure that we use our lives for a purpose recognized by ourselves as a mighty one, that we use our lives to bring us closer to the end of poverty or a resolution to any of the problems that confront us.

I thank you.

Join us at the Global Microcredit Summit
November 14-17, 2011 in
Valladolid, Spain
1:30 pm edt 

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

thanks Cath - Caroline is a great inspiration for communiuties and sustainablity of main street families wherever she connects
Up until London 2005's dismal year of make poverty history, I worked very closely (networks connecting adviser) with john bunzl of simpol party for 2 years who Caroline knows; there is  very hot opportunity to get involved with yunus at Royal Society of Arts may 26 if we could find way to explain mutual interests in time; after that july 4 glasgow which is actually yunus strategy centre for whole of europe on sorts of community gorunded and sustaining things I understand carloline to want to move forward;  sofia , zasheem, paul rose (who works with prince charles and Lord Sainsbury's eldest dughter on green prizes at www.ashdenawards.org  all know a lot more about whos' yunus who in london and uk green mircoeconomics than I do; yunus intends to bring an expo of everything he's ever done on green and sustainbility to london olympics- sofia is london peoples leader collecting action info on linking back from that future in ways to communally action now; yunus expects to bring at lest 100 global organisational partners to that event in the inuagural briefing he gave to global grameen alumni (including zasheem, sofia and me) in germany nov 2009 which his new book now celebrates  
helen worked on research of microcredit for cameron 2 years ago - and may well know which political subgroups understand how this is the microeconomics key to door to green and job cretion agenda;
president obmaa's and hilary clinton's and 100+ congressmens apprecition of yunus has helped erstore yes we can is towards the end of this transcript; sam daley-harris knows worldwide conectiosn ofthis of which queen sofi in spain is the number 1 opinion leader across Europe, and I would say worldwide
I am absolutely hopeless at politics but can map sustainability economics of networks of systems if that ever becomes relevant
chris  washington DC (1) 301 881 1655 isabellawm foundation skype isabellawm  
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1:56 pm edt 

Yunus 70-th birthday wish party - well 5 days late also 235th entrepreneurs celebration of DoI

Hi 69th birhday trekkers, global grameen alumni and recent friends of making yunus biggest wishes become collaboration true, and cirizens worldwide joining sustainability's greatest races


This year's 70th birthday collaboration wish party for dr yunus is being coordinated by Sofia's and my good friend Sasheem out of glasgow July 4 which intends to be yunus best collaboration city. Zasheem is -a personal friend of dr yunus since youth and who for 20 years has been connecting glasgow's universities in demanding micro-entrepreneurial revolution; glasgow has the 2nd social business professor in the world and may soon have more sb profs than anywhere; after yunus firsl talk here (Glasgow 1 dec 2008) the grameen nursing institute was born with glasgowcal supplying its nursing teachers; 2 floors of grameenhq have already started teaching 40 village girls while nike's 5 million dollars builds a proper teaching hospital centre in dhaka


if you can promise you can make a SB happen for dr yunus or journalise a world leading case connecting your region or life's pplication area, please write to zasheem who is coordinating invites (cc me if you wish); my family's current social busienss loans include journal of social business and Sofia's london creative labs are in effect minor co-sponsors of this event


The summit is also more formally called  microeconomics summit partly to celebrate the scottish microeconomics track which began with adam smith and ended with my dad (unless we can find ways of continuing it through yunus, dhaka, and twinned capitsl of sustainability economics)


chris macrae worldcitizen.tv  DC (1) 301 881 1655

skype isabellawm - family foundation association

9:30 am edt 

Friday, May 7, 2010

congratulations to green party mp
Dear Caroline
could I ask - do your views of sustainability system designs and community building linkin with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus; my friend Zasheem at Glasgow University is 90% likely to be putting on a summit with him on july 4 at Glasgow Caledonian University which will re-examine what Scot Adam Smith actually said about advantages of nations, one of Yunus' 5 partnering universities around the world.
During 2005's unsuccessful year of make poverty history, I had volunteer role of connecting John's simultaneous policy networks and researching peoples biggest sustainability wishes sans frontieres- I have been mapping networks as what will sustain or break the world since 1984 and dad and my future history on net generation
Paul Rose BBC broadcaster on polar and solar attended dr yunus 69th birthday wishes dilaogue hosted by London Leader Sofia who is dedicated to experimenting with Yunus inspired community building methods on Job Creation. Next month Yunus is 70 and his 7th decade wishes on making 2010s the most exciting decade have just been published. As he says our generation's race has the earth and peoples to save with extraordinary technology capabilities, whereas the 60s only had the moon race. Yunus aims to swarm all his sustainability project leaders on the London Olympics. Paris has already scaled up at least 50000 youth microentrepreneur networkers of Yunus thanks to such actors as the minister of employent/youth Martin Hirsch, Sarkozi's public celebrations of DR Yunus book ordering the main business school HEC to make curricula around it and extraordinary new media www.danonecommunities.com  
by coincidence Yunus youtubed from number`10 in April 2008 on one of the worst days for British banklng http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klUu03EMeRs ; Glasgow's main research with Yunus is on healthcare, wellbeing and going beyond welfare systems, and on restoring knowledge of Adam Smith's purpose- though zasheem could explain better than I ; also peter challen friend of John's www.simpol.org  was at 2008 lunch in Saint James my father hosted with dr yunus on need for community economics to sustain us all, 
Not everyone knows that in 1843 The Economist (where dad worked for 40 years advocating microeconomic system design http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html )was founded to make the biggest transformation of parliament history; its founder wanted it closed once corn laws and capital piunishment were repealed
a couple of weeks ago Obama hosted Presidents Summit on Entrepreneurship - one of his best chances of getting back to yes we can community building agnedas including his pledge to 5 million green jobs; a quarter of his speech was on Muhammad Yunus
In Bangladesh Yunus' bank for the poor installs more solar units than the whole of the USA.
Yunus new book on sustainability system design may get an early read by dozens of members of Congress whom Sam has built relationships with over last 20 years. In Europe his main ally is Queen Sofia of Spain - probably the greatest VIP of End Poverty and sustainable communities. In the event that you know anyone who might want a copy, sofia in Brixton has the UK stock of the 1000 my friends and I are distributing around the world. (Or I could deliver copies this weekend to anywhere drivable from london)
4:24 am edt 

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Dear Friends


Since working at Coopers & Lybrand in 1990 where I had some inane experiences caused by  some professional rules that haven’t changed for 100 years  I have been working on what assumptions global professions make that do not compound sustainable futures. 

As of 1998 my goodwill audit was sufficient to forecast the implosion of Andersen if it didn’t stop devaluing true and fair; social business maths is the simplest subset of what I map in assessing exponential futures of systems , networks and global markets

I think this has relevance to the idea of a microcredit course


either 1 such a course becomes like  a customised  trojan horse empowering different professional lecturers to identify what they no longer teach the way they did before wall street imploded; in other words one needs  group compilation of what theory is no longer safe and then one can frame your interdisciplinary course in microcredit to help with changes in the other courses


or you view microcredit as  practice change that perhaps isnt taught either by faculty or student but is an action learning space in which both can question each other as project based experiences grow; I dont know how your culture deals with other ideas that have radically changed and needed both students and faculty to explore with each other


When facilitating how every one is faced with change at same time in an organisation I find the following process minimal
Needs to have been signed off by top person and that person has committed a co-worker to involve everyone who needs to be involved
After interviews of what each expert most wants to change a workshop format is developed in which everyone involved is expected to attend and where in this case a few key slides on microcredit are presented as much from  does this way of presenting it let us introduce all the other changes we have agreed on as being  perfect microcredit course (
One of the beauties of pure microcredit is a 5th grader can get its key rules – the hard part is how to interface it with all the complex stuff that is in situ and whose conflicts with people it would ultimately be replacing )
I don’t know if RHS faculty might want to pilot this during the summer – perhaps it depends on the book; of course if RHS could do it to themselves they could then consult on doing it to other faculties and indeed to folk like USAID – perhaps become the yunus centre on how to introduce microcredit to reframe what top-down macroeconomic assumptions no longer help anyone 
I assume at some level HEC does this : I am pretty sure none of the other yunus centres get involved in general theory reframing ; they are set on practice projects yunus wants- that’s  why there are 2 types of yunus university partners – those doing something like changing nursing and health systems; those changing the sustainability of 21st c professional curricula
In spain I would recommend that microcredisummit fast tracks this by seeing if there could be Queen Sofia University Centres of microcredit in a few universities but then I am just an impudent scot who encourages hi-trust leaders to enjoy branding the future and letting the past fade into history  -
My father actions  much stronger hypothesis that this is your entrepreneurial revolution duty if you know how failing systems trap peoples
9:24 am edt 

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

In Bangladesh they joyfully say DEVELOPMENT is both the instruments and the process through which humans creatively strive for peace and prosperity Depending who you are listening to talking to Dr Yunus or Fazle Abed or Ingrid Munro, I think the problem for economics is the micro up system change flows through so many disciplines and applications

magic10.gif you'd be welcome to reword the chart attached bur starting with the middle box: I label microbanking and the system change of social business that Bangladesh invented in the 1970s as both 1 and 10 - you can study microbanking at basic level of execution and by the time its flowed its virtuous spiral round all the other interfaces shown it becomes your macro integrator of everything (something demanded back in 1976 in The economist's survey of Entrepreneurial Revolution)  - or in other words microbanking and social business system models need action learning through both  elementary and advanced maps for every age and culture for those interested in sustainability investment in 9 through 2 we hear 9 when dr yunus convenes global grameen clubs http://grameencl.com of global brand ceos and invited them to partner in innovation designed to test how free their global market is to be sustainable we see 8 when new university curriculum of sustainability are assembled we see 7 when JP Morgan and Ingrid talk to each other, and incidentally single interest foundations are I posit evil for a 21st C world we see 6 when Obama addresses clinton global initiative we see 5 at traditional microcreditsummits when we get to the thorny question of doing real microcredit requires changes in national laws on banks, as well as gandhian perspective on whole truth gov and professions are needed for poorest not richest; incidentally privatization has for many become a dirty word cos it is implemented exactly the opposite way round from that which my father coined it to mean  http://www.normanmacrae.com  we see 4 because there is no point on earth in starting a bank unless you can turn up peace and resolve any conflicts that are causing underclasses to use manmohan singhs language, or have the capacity to help if the area is prone to cyclical disasters or endemic health problems we see 3 because rural economies is where all clean water , food, energy and land rights start we see 2 cos children's vocational education is the greatest sustainability investment of all  true cultures of microcredit invest in through a generation no wonder man is breaching the greatest system crisis of all when all these flows are muddled up with the experts boxing in their theories and leaving humanity to take the hindmost chris macraehttp://worldcitizen.tv 
5:53 am edt 

Sunday, September 20, 2009

New York's Week Sept 21-28 In Crisis Year /09/10
To University Youth

.New York, report from week 1 of Joy of Life Decade

Share in What Manhattan’s Largest Bank Wants to Action Learn

JP Morgan Executive introducing founder JB’s Ingrid Munro yesterday said

Ingrid and Jamii Bora in Kenya is being talked about around the world  for helping to revolutionise microfinance. The thing I love about Ingrid’s model is that she recognises that the notion of charity is not empowering;

that strategic philanthropy is about developing the undeveloped,

 about providing technical assistance and resources to vast majority of people across the world who need to be empowered to become productive citizens.

1 Context: Branding 2010s The Joy of Life decade is an invitation from Nobel Dr Yunus http://www.yunuscentre.org  to every being to join in, not the least youth ambassadors and global brand ceos! Whilst giving Nelson Mandela’s birthday speech, he has already set football world cup’s a video on why not co-brand south africa 2010’s football and race to end poverty celebrations. Friends and I are dubbing this New York’s joy of life week in 09/10 since all microcredit leaders are converging on the city with Clinton global climaxing the week http://worldcitizen.tv To start the week, youth banking’s most exciting movement celebrated a 800 person social business storytelling and Q&A session at Manhattan’s biggest back (more below)

Next Please tweet  : NYC Tweetup Sept 23, Africa Rally racers fight to end poverty http://bit.ly/5RPiX#race4change

This text promotes an east african car rally in November whose funds will go to microcredit summit kenya and Jamii Bora. In particular tomorrow night sees new York ’s celebration launch of this. Links: for microcreditsummit : official web http://microcreditsummit.org fan club http://www.microcredit.tv/id32.html

 jamii bora:   kenya official web http://jamiibora.org http://www.jamiibora.se/ fan club http://jamiibora.net  

3 The rest of this report is mainly on Kenya’s and youth banking’s invitation to the world to link in microcreditsummit in April 2010, AKA as Jamii Bora slum bank tutorial 2 to JP Morgan – Manhattan’s biggest bank. This took place in Manhattan yesterday. I invite peter and jerry who were there to correct any errors or omissions. If you are a club leader why not make some sort of members wiki out of this opening text of yes we can interconnects. If you want a copy of the first official leaflet on kenya microcreditsummit send me your snailmail

4 AN EXTRAORDINARY 10 YEAR OLD EXPONENTIAL

Jamii Bora is now kenya ’s largest microcredit with 110 branches, 200 outlets, 250,000 members (ie serving about 1.5 million people), it’s doubling every two to three years.  Uniquely in the world it is a mobile (members records are fully automated fingerprinted!) and slums youth microcredit as well as a microcredit for all the poorest. Ingrid whose life work had been in Kenya , and who had taken in a few orphans over time was about to retire in 1999 when mothers and orphans said you cant do that mum. So instead Ingrid started a microcredit with one of the simplest design rules. Save for 6 months and then you can have credit of double what you saved. Typically new members save $12 and take a loan out for $24. Those who climb the ladder fast may find that their doubling of loans reached 4100 by about the 7th successful loan completion. This means that whilst the microcredit remains anchored in income generation for the poorest, it also has some members who now employ 20 people or more – a bridge from individual job creation to SME start ups.

5 All staff are former members, and the positive energies of youth are central to energizing Jamii Bora. One of Ingrid’s earliest converts was a young thief who is now a chief membership recruiter, and in last years troubles the young membership hunted out that gang who burnt down the 1000 stall market of kibera alum and invited them to rebuild it. This he did though the first time he met Ingrid he said he didn’t initially like meeting her staff because they weren’t sufficiently afraid of him. The second time he met Ingrid he said he'd been back home for the first time in 10 years and his mum is so pleased that he has given up being a gangster and become a microbanker. As Ingrid says: have you ever met a child who wants to become a thief or a prostitute? Its a broken system that traps youth in such life-losing pursuits.   Jamii Bora is well on the way to becoming kenya’s most trusted brand, and that means it attracts all the right sorts of sustainability partners in much the same way that Grameen and BRAC do as the most sustainable forces for humanity in developing hemispheres. Jamii Bora also runs alcoholics and glue sniffers anonymous as part of a social program of “there is hope” which it takes to the streets –and literally the sewers - to invite young people to sign into. Just about the only rule for joining the social program is that we are all tribes united. JB is the leading youth micro credit in the world and it is microcreditsummit founder’s sam daley harris to take the good practice news of JB and any other great practices shared in kenya april 2010 on a 50 country road tour designed to search out the 2 deepest microcredits in each country – thus inviting back over 100 extremely sustainable microcredits back to kenya micro up knowhow exchange 2.0. Moreover Queen Sofia of Spain has signed an Africa-Spanish speaking southern hemisphere knowledge exchange agreement, and will be guest hosting world microcreditsummit out of Madrid in 2011.

6 Other cores of jamii bora program are:

-health insurance- early on Ingrid found repayments were at risk whenever family members went into hospital – so jamii bora offers the world cheapest health insurance 32 cents a week covers a family. This has been achieved by buying up capacity of missionary hospitals which might otherwise have gone bust.

-a business school- jamii bora invites world’s social workers to come and help peer to peer youth training out of addiction and into business starting up

7 specials of jamii bora include

the largest ecological new town – 2000 houses which members made their own bricks and roof tiles-; which has a world leading water and sewerage treatment facility; which uses solar energy and of course invites continuous ecological networking solutions

8 things that jamii bora is planting in the hope they will take off

the first primary school for orphans has already opened and next year will see the first secondary school; as those experienced with Bangladesh microcredit will know the deal of sustainability investment is to make the current generation of poor income generation and to take their next generation’s capabilities and resources way beyond the failed system that trapped their parents

9 who are you to help?

I hope it is clear that kenyaapril 2010  intends to be the best ever microcredit summit if you in any community building ca[acity want to sustain africa or youth in particular; JB is only part of africa’s best news for sustainability worlds with BRAC having got to 100000 members in under year 3 in both Uganda and Tanzania, and forming microhealth partenrships with Bill Gates Foundation and social micro media partenrships with Soros Foundation and Mastercard Foundation to name but 3; and with grameen due to announcve social business comeptition funds for africa and other goals that many of us only dream of wheareas Dr Yunus realises. 

POSSIBLE DO NOW CONTACTS

contact alex at GWU in Washington DC if you wish to collaborate in his aim to get 50 university students to africa; contact mostofa or sofia in london – mostofa runs the official yunus citizen and youth collaboration web http://yunusforum.net and sofia who facilitated yunus 69th birthday dialogue is experimenting with how Londoners http://londoncreativelabs.com  can host their own employment services agencies (inspired by similar structure Grameen and BRAC offer) and link this to 2012 promise to make london the sustainability Olympics; if you are American continue to lobby your congressman to sign up yunus for the congressional media of honor – this is bigger than the presidential medal as its prize include a speech to the whole of congress; if you share obama's yes we can spirit, not how what he cant do in USA we can try out in his fatherland of kenya ; in India leaders encourage students to tear up educational curricula that are not sustainable; please do question if you are at a business school whether you are being taught economics of the ever less economic of the sort sponsored by the big get bigger, the walled in get ever more walled on; the good news is that BRAC has a fully fledged university for studying the economics of transparent community building; dr yunus is inviting vice chancellors to contribute to the missing curriculum of sustainability; and Ingrid is simple saying come and help youth peer to peer what they need to regenerate on kenya or any poor place. If your place has a week in 09/10 when everything micro up is coming together, tell us so we can pit it on the worldcitizen.tv calendar – let’s make the 2010s joy of life decade and escape just in time from what the 00s has been spinning as potentially the most uneconomic and depressing start any century has ever had. Incidentally in mapping a curricula of development I do advocate consideration of BRAC’s definition – develop is the instruments and process whereby people strive for peace and prosperity.

WHICH 2010s DO YOU WANT TO GENERATE

10 For sure, I am just an amateur reporter though 25 years ago my father’s book clarified that by 2024 the difference in compounding a peoples win-win-win global and a big brother’s lose-lose-lose is at least 10 fold on terms of health and wealth http://erworld.tv  - that’s the exponential downwards we have very few years now to turn round- if you have expert question to ask on microcredit send them in and I will try and relay them to people like sam daley harris .  Why not ruthlessly edit the pieces of this message that matter most to you and start a peer to peer email as if it were a wiki that those in the community of you can invest sustainability in... please do keep in touch with your Micro Up and Yes WE Can progress out of every city!
Postscript- I also met an extrordinary sister www.aidsorphansrising.org   (Religious Teachers Fillipini) www.filippiniusa.org who is at the epicentre of 5000 schools that help orphans with aids especially in Ethiopia ,and who wants to better understand ingrid's model- she is based in morristown new jersey; if anyone is driving through there please say and i can try put you in touch; it turns out that this place is very near where sam daley harris lives and so the most active congressman on micro up side
 I jokingly but seriously chat with dr yunus about dhaka being en route to every sustainability city, maybe we should vote morristown USA as on every sustainability journey too.
chris macrae washington DC               301 881 1655         301 881 1655 http://worldclassbrands.tv

the week climaxes with clinton global initiative http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeetings/default.asp?Section=OurMeetings&PageTitle=Our%20Meetings   - last years' CGI followed the death of lehman and made great yes we can promises- few have reached the people yet; will leaders get down to ground level now we are enetring the last deacde in which the retiurn to human sustainability expoentials is possible?

this is how we press released NY week to some of london's worst macroeconomics editors

Time 10 Q


which is the most diabolical market sector of them all? how did a paper founded to debate microeconomics get taken over by the disgraceful political chicanery of macroeconomics?


sunshades in october - did you ever bother to read my dad's classic work on terror caused by economists who cock it up when they become gurus with past theories to defend ? did you ever read founders James Wilson curious purpose of The Economist?


has ever media cocked up humanity';s sustainability like recent decades?


in november volkvagen -and other global friends of bangladesh and of the 20th fall of the wall -  will use their stadium at wolfsburg to invite 100 global brand ceos to verify whether their global market is free to value sustainability's exponentials


in december ministers miliband and alexander have invited bangladesh to lead sane climate debates in copenhagen, and probably the greatest economist of our time manmohan singh has invited Dr Yunus to speak to the Indian parliament and yet The Economist hasnt even invited Yunus to a friday lunch


I wonder which side the BBC and The Economist will turn out to have been on when the review of sustainability valuation is there for the world to see


chris macrae

NY week of system crisis year 09/10

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best ever yes we can summit kenya april 2010 http://microcreditsummit.org/


you yourselves forecast with the death of hi-trust branding goes the death of economics - have another look at the survey on the year of the brand in 1988

10:08 am edt 

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Later in the week, I'm off to dhaka for 4th trip and 11th meeting with Dr Yunus. If I get advice of how to improve the slides I will report back.
2:13 pm edt 

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