Hi Everyone

on worldwide learning by doing projects, I never know where maps start

about this time last year, Mostofa who has been working with Yunus secretariat for over 2 years on empowering university student clubs to explore the most exciting cases of microcredit and social business collaborations took me to see dr yunus in dhaka; I was doubly privileged as there was a strike that day which jammed up the city so all dr yunus' other appointments had been cancelled

Even though our inter-citizens research over several years had shown Dr Yunus to be the deacde's most trusted " number 1 collaboration entrepreneur", I was utterly unprepared because everywhere inside Grameen -and outside in Bangladesh villages -  there were extraordinary innovation projects going on:

* grameen installs more solar units in bangladesh than the whole of the USA;

* mobile technology pratctioners are plotting with an Indian partner to http://bankabillion.org

so friends and I asked dr yunus if we could make a cheap dvd with 20 you tube style videos of collaboration-everything inside grameen  http://yunus10000.com and give away to 10000 youth and yes we can networkers, which we are now doing with print 1 - we wish print 2 to include insides of all other deepest microcredits as valued by sam daley harris so that students and millennium goal networkers everywhere can be aware of what exists

I will bcc you on a mail that shows some very limited knowledge I have of Kenya's Jamii Bora, but enough to convince me we need to include any humanity-moving JB video like yours that we can as fast as possible given that so much is in play in the next 6 months in terms of what obama and youth choose to do and believe is possible

I am afraid that by origin I am just a Scot who doesn't deeply understand the sensitivies of national politics at all so please forgive me if I use the wrong language in extending my family's http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html search for

*how micro-up economics needs to take over wall street's marcoeconomics 

*how to redesign media*education so that superpower moves over to superempowerment , irreversibly within 6 months

chris macrae washington dc 301 881 1655

http://changeworld.net

Change is HERE

& here: Jamii Bora (Kenya)

&

Dear Peter R

Thanks you for your mail and introduction to your Boston team and usa side of http://www.microloanfoundation.org/ I so hope to meet you all up there 3 February

I dont know how to explain what my friends and I are up to , I can tell both a few stories and start up a e-brainstorm - a collaboration treasure hunt to see if it synergizes with audacious goals we all want to connect. (We are currently asking Dr Yunus to edit the first booklet in a genre called Innovating Collaboration since at least 100000 Bangladeshi practice 5 critical collaboration games that now make the web wholly more useful for action and learning sans frontieres. This goes in parallel to a 10000 dvd youth dialogue http://yunus10000.com  of what Grameen People love many hundred interns annually to come and experience with them )

Story 4 I first met Dr Yunus about this time last year in Dhaka. I wanted to ask him about his blue book : creating a world without poverty, social business, future of capitalism. If everyone networked around what's in there with as much energy as people networked around microcreditsummit how big could the blue book's action networks become over the next 7 years. He instantly replied 7 though I am not sure if it was 7 times or to the power of 7 - why not have 7 summits interacting each other's basic gravities - credit, health, energy, education, media, transparent professions and gov that serves

cheers

chris macrae http://changeworld.net http://macrae.tv http://yunus.tv http://erworld.tv

usa 301 881 1655

hi to marriah one of Boston's hardest working youth educators; and other members of  collaboration cafe team that spreads word on franchises communities need to look at replicating who are mainly NY-based with Peter Burgess and Spencer two of the most africa-focused accountants I have ever met

Mostofa specialises in interfaces between collaboration dhaka and collaboration any city

--- On Mon, 12/1/09, Peter Ryan <peter.ryan@> wrote:

From: Peter Ryan <peter.ryan@>
Subject: Schools Programme
To: chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Hi Chris,

I would like to put you in touch with Lauren Galinsky who runs the schools programme for MLF USA . Lauren has seen our work in Malawi and is based in Boston .

It might be a good idea if you can explain what you are up to and the current position.

Best wishes

Peter

Click here to listen to Bob Geldof and watch a video on Youtube about our work

Become a Friend of the MLF! Click here to find out more

Dear Gordon

Thank you for your kindness and 25 year focus on helping children explore what the networking world could be if economics had been community liberating instead of command and control imprisoning; what yes we humans can be if media and education had empowered poor people to be communally economic (in the sense of adam smith) with cents, instead of rich people being globally uneconomic with trillions http://changeworld.net

Dad's 85 and not at all mobile but is still optimism's economic repository and the 20th Century's remaining encyclopaedic inter-social storyteller of what could have been, what yes we can be. Of the people I have met over the last 25 years including leaders of big companies cos i used to do their market research only Muhammad Yunus keeps the question of what could be open in every conversation. Obama's mother was an early pioneer of Bangladeshi community banking on what women can nurture so in all likelihood 2009 is the networking generation's the last crossroads between choosing to systematically map superpower or supermepowerment. Unfortunately my maths research since 1989 shows that every global profession that uses metrics has been compounding superpower , and monopolies to rule over how organisations with the most resources perform in ways designed to bubble. This is quite a Gandhian and Einstein transformation crisis to find a human way out of 

The people cc'd either work around Dr Yunus in Dhaka on were at the london lunch 12 momnths ago where dad celebrated Dr Yunus book on what economics could compound if we prevented worst of subprime. Peter Ryan leads a malawi microcredit and will be debating what collaborative community learning can do in Boston on Feb 3

The Yunus book on Future Capitalism which came out 15 months ago http://www.smbaworld.com/id42.html

1 proved that the 20th century lost any organisational system capable of partnering sustanably in what could be (and gee no surprise how many sustainability crises are now emerging with the most disconnected communities first to be lethally threatened by their compoud risks)

2 asks youth not to worry and get on with dreams of audacious goals to action while his infotech group connect such a shared diary space of all the wildest positive ideas people wanted to collaborate around

9 minutes on what young minds can netork through action learninghe day that Future Capitalism hit the New York Bestsellers List 25 years of refs to microeconomics : 1 2 3 4 25 years of youth debates of yes we can: A B C D Linking clubs in every student union The 5 most fun collaboration methods of millennium goal and green community worlds

3 meanwhile Dr Yunus and his network friends knocks on the door of leaders of every big industry sector as well as media and with sam daley harris 91 congressmen nsaying why not do a no loss partnership to prooftest one idea that your sector could liberate worldwide

Kazi is charged with applications of the internet for the por which include http://www.bankabillion.org Mostofa is a 25 year old researched who animates forums with his peer age group on what could be. Oddly the forum idea he has been standing up for was first demanded by japanese at the time of Yunus Nobel prize but I havent yet found who

Somehow we need to connect a group who are allowed to dream what Obama can connect round yes we can whilst another group tidy up the system mess we are in. One of the great evils is we have been left with so many messes co,apred with the ositive doing things of the 1984 book that almost nobody graduating today in American knows where to connect their most apsiomnate vision with gettin g on and conntining it to happening

chris mavcrae 301 881 1655

we could be no carbon by now

we could have ended malaria by now

we could have been confident that ending poverty was colpaboration practical

while we always forecast (simnce 1970s anyhow) there would be microterrorists to prevent, we could have stopped 20% of big nation buidets being spent on wars ahainst random masses of people

where collaborative action learning could be by now -its irony in 1984 it was easier to imagine than now (never has man and computer interacted so energetically as the 1960s moon race - what flows could that have been collaborated around by now)

the common pattern is that anything that needed partners not boxing in TIMES a compound exponential rising focus instead of a quarterly extractive one hasn't even been tried except where banglasdeshi's have reached as they are the only ones who have tried out an organisational model since 1983 aimed at compound collaborative results, focused on open sourcing life-critical innovations,  mapped back round inter-generational human's deepest practical goals - and their main bank invests in this with a gandhian love of people's productivity (MICRO's original freedom/happiness of entrepreneurial independemnce)

http://macrae.tv

Yes We Can

MicroGuide to 5 collaborations to end poverty and sustain humanity

We hope you enjoy our MicroGuide to 5 Collaboration Games that Dr  Muhammad Yunus, his alumni including the extraordinary mother of President Barrack Obama, and Bangladeshi networkers have been helping people communally practise for a third of a century.

chris
--- On Mon, 12/1/09, Gordon Dryden <gordon@learningweb.co.nz> wrote:

From: Gordon Dryden <gordon@
Subject: Re: 25 year search for education entrepreneurs Re: Your UNLIMITED book ...
To: chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Monday, 12 January, 2009, 4:53 AM

Thanks.  I am reasonably au fait with the Bangladesh work, but have not been there.

By an amazing coincidence, Norman Macrae presumably your Norman’s father, wrote a brilliant Economist series of articles, in the early 1960s, on Japan.

They were so powerful they persuaded me to go there for almost a month, checking out Japanese prospects for New Zealand clients (I ran a PR and marketing consultancy a the time).

Later his book, The 2024 Report, was the best of many futurist books I read.  Impressed me greatly.

So much so that, in 1990, when I was touring the world with a television crew from NZ, shooing 150 hours of video to edit into six one-hour prime-time documentaries, I did a video interview with Norman Sr in London.  Because the original intention was to produce 13 TV programs (and we reduced them to six), we didn’t use the footage.

I still have it, however – but may use it some time as part of my own “futurist work” which is outlined in our new book, both in the introduction (on our website) and in three of the final four chapters (attached).

I assume Norman snr is no longer alive.  Correct?

Best wishes.

Gordon Dryden


On 12/01/09 5:21 PM, "christopher macrae" <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

changing education <http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-59913>
 
thank you - have you looked at the education advances <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=%2Bgrameen+%2Beducation+%2Bintel+Or+%22future+capitalism%22+-macrae&amp;start=10&amp;sa=N>  going on in Bangladesh around Muhammad Yunus?
 
best
chris and norman macrae
http://erworld.tv
 
 

--- On Mon, 12/1/09, Gordon Dryden <gordon@ wrote:

From: Gordon Dryden gordon@http://www.thelearningweb.net/
Subject: Your UNLIMITED book ...
To: "chris macrae" <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Monday, 12 January, 2009, 12:21 AM

. .. Has been airmailed to you today from New Zealand.

Enjoy

Dear Mostofa

I realise that it may not be possible but here's a wish

 if I could have several names and emalls - which one person at grameen would be happy to be bcc'd on africa correpondence;

who on water;

who on health;

who on energy;

who on agriculture;

who on different age groups of education (and links to social action in african communities as an example)

what practice circulation lists exist inside grameen and how can we connect for outside where there may be people with deep practice questions or in some cases local experiences that need to flow with yours- obama has made a public pledge to  try all the usa can to end malaria deaths by 2015 http://malaria2015.com , so do you have a centre of malaria knowledge in grameen or at brac if you share some priority areas

I dont need "top person" as I dont know eg with africa which mails will ultimately matter to be able to search locally in one inbox - but while I know nothing at all about the practices of ending poverty in kenya it is  clear to me sitting in washington Dc  (where I go to about 2 meetings a wekk where global aid is still discussed top down not bottom up) that what grassroots innovations obama can liberate to happen in kenya can then happen through africa ;  obama is seen in kenyan as the nearest they will ever get to having their own preseident of usa; and jamii bora is fortunately one of the microcredits that feels to be up for connecting any flow from the community up in the same way that the great microcerdits in bangladesh are - which is also why we must I think connect around the 91 congress person approach of asking world bank to recognise 10 microecredit epicentres as open for sharing all they know http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=3709

which brings us to a need for who is the correspondent between grameen and jamii bora; who is teh correspondent between grameen and branc and so on

and that the sort of knowhow that the 25 interviews on the 10000dvd connect must have relevance to people who are trying to community build in kenya and africa

my communications flow analogy is

very much like newspaper correpondents in the old days when people were assigned to a subject to be inquisitive - when we read through the whole of the blue book of future capitalis and social business we are talking about so many types of vital service franchises that it would help such a lot iof I knew who was grameen's curiosity correspondent on what

alternatively if one person wants it all and will then decide how to route it, pelase calrify who

chris macrae

http://changeworld.net

dr yunus world affairs script N california November

Jane Wales:

Dr Yunus- because you’re the world’s best problem solver I have ever known , I am going to ask you about some of the things that are in the plate of the next president  of the united states. He will come in and he will face  

• poverty including new poverty at home and abroad 
• the employment crisis
• the need to provide quality education for all
• the need to provide affordable healthcare
• post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation 

if were you advising the new president, would you urge him to take an integrated approach or to deal with each independently?

Muhammad Yunus

well I can only tell him of my way at looking at it –first of all  if he wants to be serious about poverty – after all, the president of US is de facto the president of the world, so what he does impacts the whole world. So when he talka about poverty he provides the leadership that others take.

Now we have the millennium goals which are a wonderful set of goals which inspire all the world but were unfortunately derailed by other things that came up so first of all restore total support for the millennium development goals and withdraw from other stuff united states got involved in such as war on terror,

so concentrate on the one of  making sure we achieve the millennium goals, achieve them 100% this will be a tremendous achievement for the whole world that we have done something its not some of UN goal setting and forgetting, this is a real goal and a realty to celebrate having done it

and then for this president the best thing is to show total commitment of ending poverty set a new date when the world can be at zero poverty – we have 2015 at halve poverty so why don't we set the next goal zero poverty so that we know this is the direction we need to take,

when we set the date everything else will fall into place:

how do you measure, how do you do it there are several things that will play an important part

1 microcredit   because it has shown its effectiveness in unleashing the capacity of people

2 technology how to bring technology  to the poorest people so that they can change their whole world

3 healthcare

so its nothing separated, its integrated but you cant have one organisation doing everything, you need several organisations but focused so that everything is achieving the same goal to lift the person

and as the president is declaring the date for zero poverty in the whole world at the same time encourage the united states to set their date when their city be zero poverty when their county gets to zero poverty  - if someone says well we have no poverty how do you know if you have poverty or not –its very simple the first question I ask is do you have a welfare program, a welfare department? As long as you have a welfare department you have poverty, otherwise why do you have it, poverty means that nobody is on welfare tat is  clear sign so you have to close down your welfare department, find something else for those people to do, so all the related things you have to welfare you close down as you have crossed that level and you are never going back- city by city, county by county, state by state, it can be done and it will encourage everyone else –

that state can do it, we can do it

this is the way to go, so poverty will be the challenge –and once you have solved poverty other solutions come right away, environment will come right away- like in the case of bangladesh environment and our survival is an integrated problem, we are the ones on the front line – eliminated by global climate change because of our flat country, so for us its such an important issue

the united states missed the whole leadership on the global warming issue, never got to the Kyoto protocol and as a result the whole world got derailed,  ..so now is the chance to go back to preparing for the 2012 UN binding resolution .. that way you n=know where you are

the moment government becomes serious , technology starts going in, its not a question of it cant be done , simply we have to make a serious commitment that we will do it-the moment we make the serious commitment, technologies will come , how do we replace the things that are causing the problem, replacing them with new technology without harming anyone in any way

the present way of living life in a way which might enjoy life today but may be harming someone else’s life somewhere  on the planet, its not a good feeling: I am doing something that puts someone else life at stake because of the way I do things – so the basic principle we should all adopt, every child should be taught, every family be taught my way of living should not harm anyone else  , and that’s how I would like to live

its possible once you make that commitment all the environmental problems will be solved