Does your city have a collaboration network for social action and sustainability leadership. Citizen research for Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus 12 and other Yes We can friends suggests the German example downloadable above is leading Europe's premier league- but
hey this is a collaboration game- we love to post your city's premier league listing chris info@worldcitizen.tv
does your country have any bank designed to sustain communities
and jobs? please tell us: current world bank cup - Bangladesh 2 Kenya 1 Haiti 1 Malawi 1 Rest of World 0
are you a parent of 12-14 year old girl who would like to share readings
with friends of a copy of the Nobel Judge's celebration with youth of yes we can change leaders - we'll post free first
10 parent applicants
banking & democracy: if you live in usa ask your member of congress to
vote yunus congressional medla of honor- this entitles him to speak to congress- RSVP: which other countries have such a democratic
process we can help celebrate ? next yunus parliament dilaogue is in Delhi December 2009
does your country have an open university providing a citizen's sustainability
course connecting economics and peace? if not, we recommend peacefully tearing down the ivory towers of any university you
can reach - lead case India: youth were asked by India's president to tear up any curriculum that isn't sustainable
.Bad news of globalisation system crisis
is that its a double whammy of 1) media crisis where neither speech nor markets are free; 2) metrics crisis where as we saw
from wall street 2008 the biggest rewards go to those who make systems least sustainable
Since 1984 we have been surveying which cities can bring what particular gifts to the wholeplanet sustainability stakes. For example in London we are half way through a 7 year plan to retrieve the BBC social business as the people's number 1 world sustainablity broadcaster in time for sustainability olympics 2012. Can you help Londoners
in this regard or Londoners help your city's biggest contribution to the joy and life of all future generations?
The
good news is one country -Bangladesh at its birth over a third of a century ago- came up with the world's greatest invention : Yes
WE Can communally intervene in any globalisation crisis!
.What is the invention? It's a system design methodology (propagated by Nobel Lauraete Muhammad Yunus as social business) for designing a transformation of any global system that is exponentially crashing down. It can bend the curve
to be sustainable exponentially up in every community that replicates a particular social business system design's
franchise.
Social business solutions can be mapped to provide specific life critical solutions - of
which ending poverty is integral to every human and communal sustainability crisis. The reason this invention seems a mystery,
apart from the censorship crisis of media and the rewards crisis of measurement, is that systems maps are humanity's least
commonly developed educational curricula just at a time when networks = system**n needed system mapping to be the 5th
R. As Gandhi & Einstein noted continuously in their collaborative support to end the crushing English colonisation
of India which my maternal grandad as head judge in Mumbai took 25 years to be converted by - to compound whole
truth, system mapping is as important as any other kind of literacy. This becomes sustainability critical wherever
top people make decisions which scale globally and compound exponentially over time.
.How do social action networks share the world's greatest invention? Why not debate it in collaboration
forum, map it wherever a social business model intervention needs to be replicated or designed, and encourage the mother of all benchmarking movements among such leaders of transparent system governance as vice chancellors of universities, Global Brand CEOs, G8 leaders
and top politicians/professionals, the world's best endowed foundations and philanthropists. Questions welcome chris.macrae
@yahoo.co.uk - Washington DC Yes WE Can bureau 301 881 1655
Can you help make the millennium goals the largest social action network
humanity has ever united around?
Dont worry if you get confused by some of the synonyms: social action ... social
networks ... internet email ... yes we can ... sustainability of communities - or any others you choose
6th 7-year
plan of Bangladesh Nation - alumni of the end poverty generation - everyone's invited!
the idea
to 2015 is vote on who most of the world trusts most - for example after 3 years of surveys I am happy with those who vote
either for muhammad yunus or fazle abed - connect collaboration networks around these or other people you trust most using
every human method aimed at understanding what you you learn at any age if you were in a school which developed your creativity
in ways that these hi-trust people would love to see
in other words lets make sure that grameen university and brac
university franchises open source all over the world and they include teaching colleges mapping what children of
every age can be action learning
so which social networks can we put on the same map to link up these purposes
and celebrate millenium goals?
for 09/10 dr yunus has offered to start a 5000 youth ambassador
netwrork for undergraduates who think most like him (or high school who want to become such undergraduates ) - if you have
a nomination of such a young person send it to me chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk and I will pass it on to dhaka http://yunusforum.net/
Connecting Extraordinary
Actions during the opening weeks of Inaugurating Yes We Can
.week 3 :
Boston
Feb 3 : wonderful to see 100+ students and others at sloan MIT tuesday evening celebrating http://microloanfoundation.org/ Malawi's leading microcredit founded by Peter Ryan, its outreach to schools which Lauren's energetic work has
connected, and community-up microcredit everywhere we can connect.Notes; boston college event today feb 4 and upcoming peter
ryan event at london school of economics
DC Feb 4: Alex who started the schools microcredit
network http://www.ymci.org/ and is now in year 1 at GWU has linked together nearly 50 DC undergraduates for tonight's yunus talk at GWU. Note alex
is attending clinton uni meeting in austin in 10 days - please connect in any way!
In Boston we also heard
from Marriah Star who's rolling meeting of 10000 youth and others starting with its first wave at the end of march aimed to
bridge micro and yes we can and other time critical movements that can make 2009 the year USA changes back to be for the people
Mostofa
in London has been working for 2.5 years on Dr Yunus dream to unite 18-25s and register a club of 5000 people who want to
transefer bangladesh microentrepreneur collabrations around the world - new booklet "Innovating Collaboration" coming
out soon for first circulation to 18-25s on what bangladesh has learnt about collaboration networking over a third
of a century.
The first time I met Dr Yunus 15 months ago he asked why cant the model microcreditsummit
uses -humanity's most actionable networking ever sustained round an audacious goal - now connect 7 microsummits
on energy, learning, health, media, the opposite to macro-professions aiding wall street, the opposite gov to superpowering
over people, as well as community up banking. Dr Yunus invites news of of any projects being designed by
18-25s by end of June so he and Bangladesh can help endorse them - where we hope to spend a day with him working
through how all social action and social business ideas connect up humanity and sustainability.
Week 2
: over 200 people from JP Morgan get their first training in Manhattan on how Kenya's Slum bank Jamii Bora 12 networks one of the safest and exponentially growing banking systems the world has ever seen
New York's under 25 meet Muhammad Yunus and challenge other youth cities to join in compiling a web catalogue of over 1000 social businesses in time for Muhammad Yunus and other originators over
the first third of century of social business modelling to sign off their certifications in June. ref to why the most purposeful organisations ever designed are governed by social business (collunity transparent) auditing.
Social Interaction Practical Example: on Energy
& Green Jobs - lets list different communities pledges for carbon zero energy and then use the net to connect them
creating space for community building including cross-cultural celebration, trust and inclusivity not
polarisation by politics or by demographics, youth and learning by doing, teamworking and collaboratively turning optimistic
future wishes into step by step realties, volunteering and peer to peer mentoring, job creation by individuals
as entrepreneurs serving their community with income generating activities, open source replication of ideas that resolve
vital needs, sustainability, hi-trust networking, ending poverty and other system failures caused by cyclically taking money
out of communities instead of investing locally, transparency and conflict resolution, creating good news and demanding that
mass media give this sufficient share of voice, understanding how healthy society compounds strong economies not vice versa
...
There are various overlapping but differently contextualised Social Action networks that we admire around
the world and others we would love to hear of info@worldcitizen.tv
Yunus Social Action Dr Yunus defines social
action as a goal that a small team commits to for at least a year. He encourages diaries of such social actions to be kept
and shared. Collaboration is the primary new human possibility of a networking age where peer to peer community building can help us
all appreciate the trials of learning by doing - as well as seeing who’s trying what and who’s succeeding
where.
Dr Yunus invites social action Forums to be started up connecting youth and citizens concerned to develop replicable solutions to ending poverty. Through networking
media, best practices can be open sourced and replicated worldwide, from one community in vital need to another. Grameen Solutions is a mobile testimony to that and California has celebrated Dr Y as one of the people who done the most to encourage ending
of digital divides. Green energy teamwork started in 1996 has scaled up that Grameen now installs more solar units than the whole of the USA.
The worldwide
end-poverty revolution of microcredit was started by Yunus in 1976 as a social action –if there’s a more important shared diary lesson than that in
the world of community building please tell us Search through the history of inventions that made the most progress for
humanity. You will find dedication -passionately focused action learning - over many years by small teams of people
to be how most started up.
And finally: Yunus hi-trust economics can be understood by a 9 year old as this conversation with 1000 New Yorkers in January shows
Obama Yes We Can Having spread the most vicious financial virus around the planet, America 2009 has
more to prove to the world and itself than any time in living memory. Lost community is a vicious common denominator of
every problem of lost sustainability let alone the needless compound risks that Wall Street crashed randomly onto communities around the planet.
Youth Yes We Can movements are the counter flow to superpower's waste. If American Youth can celebrate social action network heroines with a tenth of the energy
that sportsmen and beauty stars are given then perhaps our 21st century may yet map out as sustaining the best of times
all over the planet. Ending poverty and renewing millennium goals are the gravities that Yes We Can youth need to attract all americans to and
help link citizens everywhere. Back in 1984 this was a simple truth for common sense economics to promote; will it be so simple to action in 2009?
both a pop group inspired by the work of Muhammad Yunus and true microcredit who fund social business
and a friendship network of networks that organises social action clubs. We will be featuring some of these starting
with where Microfinance Forums are opened up at Universities to discuss the difference between true microcredit which is communally owned and reaches
out to the poorest and loans to the poor where profits are extracted to big city banks and their shareholders.
GreenChildren
friends association of MicroFinance Clubs:
Claremont McKenna Microfinance Club
Loma of Nazarene Microfinance Club.
UPenn Microfinance Club.
Gordon Brown chain-reaction, people power & The Council on Social Action brings together innovators from every sector to generate ideas and initiatives through which Government and other key stakeholders
can catalyse, celebrate and develop social action.
We consider ‘social action’ to include the wide range
of ways in which individuals, communities, organisations and businesses can seek through their choices, actions and commitments
to address the social issues they care about.
The Council on Social Action makes recommendations to government
and to others in its capacity as an advisory body, independent of government.
Council on Social Action members
David
Robinson, Community Links Kay Allen, Royal Mail Oli Barrett, Connected Capital Shankari Chandran, Allen &
Overy Olga Heaven, Hibiscus Geoff Mulgan, Young Foundation Julia Ogilvy, Project Scotland Rob Owen, St.
Giles Trust Tim Smit, Eden Project Kevin Steele, Inspired Campaigns David Thomlinson, Accenture Sophi
Tranchell, Divine Chocolate Ltd. Paul Twivy, Communications Consultant Julia Unwin, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Peter Wheeler, Investment and Philanthropy Specialist
.Melanie St James went to the first World
Social Forum in Africa, returned to Los Angeles has got several hundred people collaborating actions around an annual countdown
summit to 2015 millennium goals - she calls it http://theglobalsummit.org/ ; 08's rehearsal was held in the Presidio San Francisco; global summit goes live 2009 visiting every continent and building
online portals , pop star shows and green expos in its wave. This is likely to evolve as Collaboration California's main
playground- does your city or state have a parallel collaboration social action playground we can list below - chris info@worldcitizen.tv
It is not every nation who has a president who is son of microcredit. As you know I am trying to help prep to deadlinne june 23's meetings of young future capitalism networkers
and micro-up practice founders both:
*1*some projects that
get near to completion - eg a web with links to 1000 social busnesses
*2*and some illustrations
of concepts that become progressive yes we can contexts for intercity social action/business networks
NEW
YORK CITY SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT GUIDES
I am interested to know whether your series of cafes will produce
an output which might be called something like 20 interesting community projects actively worth visiting when in new york
city
It seems to me that your discussions are almost heading that way naturally; and such an example could become
a benchmark for other cities; this also connects with some other things that you appaear to be in the middle of testing/connecting
the
various community services tools that obama is asking yes we can networkers to try out
some kind of maturity
profile or community analytics tool that you are devloping
the connections of ideas across cities; so eg when
we see something that's an interesting community buoding format in boston it becomes natural to ask is there an new york
equivalent- on monday we expect to be debriefed ot the concerte example of microloans interfaced with doing up property for
poor residents as well as get a clearer idea of what some of the focal point of marraih's 1000 person yes we can social
action meetings will be
Is the specification of concept that I am trying to describe clear enough? If so do
you feel it will be an output of what you are hosting or co-hosting. here are several reason s why community-oriented journalism
and publishing houses out of new york seem to be coming together. Hence my interest in clarifying this or similar concepts
that can emerge given that New York is a city with I estimate between 60-90 people who have already experiencd at least
one collaboration or community cafe- and whether potentailly a lot of people who need to change their careers from serving
top-down banking to banks that actually sustan communities and job development
I guess we can discuss this on our
day trip to boston on monday though if colaboratively possible I also wish within next 4 weeks in new york to
have one half day festival of 5 one hour collaboration cafes (each with specific action agendas which many people come to
just one of though they are welcome to stay as long as they keep n each hours social network's agenda) in a row which
is both what we first did in new york and how
I personally think that social networking tools are currently designed
as a complete con trick because they do not grounded in the "action learning" content connections that I have found useful to understand who'll activate what in 30 years of social research at both
individual and community need. City Sustainability Project Guides are a small step back to getting grounded in what compatible
tight teams can advance within a loose overall identity of yes we can -assuming flow research is correct which nobody
actually disputed in the several thousand world citizen guides we published on it.
3 Solar One - Green Energy Arts & Education Center - personal invitation to tour
from Pauline Augustine www.solar1.org
4 Buckminster Fuller - while I find this a space that has come far to dreamy compared with what Bucky used to
practice yes we could find a way to sift through what its 150+ competition entroes etc know or want to be facilaited
into actioning http://challenge.bfi.org/ideaindex
5 http://www.thebridgefund.org/ which the superb lehka is giving us a virtual tour of the boston sister of on monday as well as mapping what she sees
as relevant as branch youth coordinator of clinton university- in fact while I was still ersident in london there was an open
sdpace network sponsored by one of the big bank that was suposedly briefing the relevant ministry on how bottomup renewal
projects need different empowernment from local government down. I know soem of the folk at teh centre of that but would rather
have something worked up a bit with a lead coordinator other than me if this is goping to go somewhere out of new york as
a leading city capable of community analysis
just a random memory dump - pretty sure that a survey of relevant
people in te cafe group could make the lsit quite vibrant- and of cousre one of the purspoes of such a survey is even if we
dont have best examples it gived us a more granular feel of what needs to connect for community to renew in cities; you would
think that ne day soon smart local banks would want such info
