Blog year2008 in october is about ending poverty http://events.takingitglobal.org/20255 so we hope this week's syndication to 100 blogs will exponentialise to tens of thousands of blogs by then, with a little help from friends like you

sustainability club http://sustainabilityclub.com

social business club http://www.socialbusinessclub.net

collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I

yunus 10000 http://yunus10000.com collaboration coordinators for youth dialogues in that city and between cities together with invitations to action specific to each video good news story - eg if you want microcredit to beat off big banks why not help any school try out micro credit with the world's simplest program small change, big changes - a microloanfoundation franchise

Peers across hemispheres and I are far more interested in ensuring that each of these intercity movements vetoes any uses of 20th c failing system methods that the majority of club coordinators -or where elected an honorary board - vote against, than prescribing revenue models.

OPEN SOURCING THE CLUBS
Obviously we should want coordinators to make a living out of work input whlst at the same time recognising that being a club coordinator is probably worth more than having many a professional qualification - or needs to become so if this world is to be sustainable. Equally where profits are repeatedly generated I assume we can find a way iof agreeing some sliding scale that should be contributed either to your favourite grassroots organsiation in bangladesh or to a small list of other potential grassroots partners of future capitalism which should probably need at least 75 of members refendum to confirm

I am very happy if people will negotiate what other rules they would need to want to participate as well as to clarify where they want diferent contant at the mother webs. The main web system I use costs $35 a year per web so its not difficult to imagine that major cties will also want to set up their own branch web or of course a free blog - either of which we will happily linmk from the top of the mother web.

Obviously some of our constitution needs double checking with for example the 100000 bangladeshi's and other Gandhians who are the main practical exemplar of the values we seek to network worldwide so that the future sustains 7 billion brilliant jobs and goodwill multiplying across all women, children and even men.

We wish to learn from each city's most successful ways of mobilising and cross-cultural celebration, as well as metods for ensuring that any action network actually reaches to those in most desperate need of its service. This is one of the big lessons of bangladeshi experience -reiterated by every micro-system designer in bangladesh we have interviewed - once a networks starts empowering the entrepreneur inside it will never get deeper than the deepest needsholders it begins with. This is a lesson that many global NGOs seem never to have begun to grade.

chris macrae http://worldentrepreneur.net
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2008 Goodwill News - Year 1 of Future Capitalism
Launch of Future Capitalism book: features Grameen Danone as world's first multinational social business & explains how social business model has been validated from 30 years of developing the microcredit banking sector J1	Business Week article F29-Yunus world's favourite goodwill entrepreneur whose goal of ending Financial Imperalism is as big as Gandhi’s	Wall Street Journal on Yunus opening New York bank –how & why sustainability bankers would never have wasted a cent on subprime: M1	Youtube with Gordon Brown from Number 10 Downing Street :21	Grameen Health Launch of The Grameen Green Children Eyecare hospital social business (aravind model) in Dhaka: 12
World Economic Forum: Bill Gates joins Leaders of Future Capitalism: J25	Grameen Credit Agricole launch announced	Parisian business leaders celebrate French edition and Grameen Veolia is announced	Launch of Innovation Bank in Bahrain & announcement of 2 Billion $ inward investment in Bangladesh	Top 25 dialogues of microcreditsummit year 008 are announced. They include industry sector responsibility response to Mexican abuse of goodwill and IP.
Book hits Best Seller list on last day of 12 city US booktour J24- in New York, nine year old investigative journalist leads humanity's celebration	Doonesbury cheered as inspiring economics correspondent at London School of Economics talk - changing mindsets and mini-professordom is development economics biggest crisis F15	President Sarkozi orders HEC to provide an SMBA with Yunus a Chair of Social Business	Milken debates with Human Innovation World's G3 : Grameen's Yunus, Genome's Ventner & Google's Schmidt

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Chris Macrae Breaking News May 2 Congrats To Milla and Tom currently top of future capitalism headlines with opening on may 12 in Dhaka of The Green Children Eye Hospital Social Business http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/professor-muhammad-yunus-and-the,376842.shtml

On 3rd January 2008, Global University began a wish to merge with the Future Capitalism Genre and Social Businss Activist (SBA) experiences which are peer to peer newtorked around the lessons and actions of Dr Yunus. This includes mapping in every city how humans can contribute to the Social ABC of the 21st Century

A= Social Actions http://yunussocialactiongroup.org/ http://grameen.tv/_wsn/page2.html

B= Social Business http://grameen-info.org/ http://grameen.tv/_wsn/page3.html

C= Capitalism, Future Truth for all Societies and Communities Rising with a primary focus on celebrating Base or Pyramid markets - search Capitalism * Yunus * Gates ... http://grameen.tv/_wsn/page4.html

some other early resources:

chnaging economics youtubes http://24economics.blogspot.com/

http://yunusworld.blogspot.com/ - joint diaries of people who meet Yunus

http://yunusforum,blogspot.com/ help citizens alert searches to yunus by deep local contexts as well as change world initiatives

Our Brief History:
1984: Our chief Economist & Entrepreneurial Revolutionary first scripted Extreme Poverty as 21st C mankind's greatest risk – links 1 2

2003 The name Global University got coined in discussions at the Ecademy at a time when this was the most diverse free network for serious discussions (people from Pakistan, India, Russia, Indonesia and many other countries seemed to echo Global University as good name)

2004 we started in various forms including blog and egroup- basically we asked any member to declare at least one poverty concern they'd share for life with us

dec 2005- our blog was one of a hundred subject to the infamous google meltdown; we'll recover what we can up to end of 2005 but don't expect all links to work or tidy layout

2006 we're not giving up but its a time for reappraisal - we closely tracked 2005 as the year that launched 9000 NGOs collaborating under the Make Poverty History Banner, and G8 leaders with their commision for Africa, and pop stars with their summer band-festivals- its very unclear whether a year on all these good-natured efforts have begun to halt what Queen Elizabeth in her Christmas message voiced as humanity turing on itelf (admittedly 2005 brought its own extra tragedies -some like the Tsunami seemed random in dating; some like the 7/7 bombings in London need to make all goodhearted folk redouble our zeal as a collaboration knowledge city)

we will work closely with correspondents from Club of City, Village, DeathofDistance, Open Space Races, Water Angels and many more co-editors of weblogs

C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net (CM1) and N.A.Macrae.42@cantab.net (NM1) ...

Global University of Health

Searching for grrassroots up "health for all projects" and the most trusted people and epicentres sustaining them; hoping to provide some clues which the biggest philanthropies of "change the world" health can most gain from integrating

It's quite easy to search the world biggest foundations for health (and we will note their advances as we come across them) but its often not at all easy to map the 21st C Mother Theresa's and others with l.ifelong missions at the grassroots of health crises. If you come across one of these people, please tell us who they are, a bookmark where their lifemission has been written up by someone who belives in this person micro efforts to change the world, any advice of how the rest of the world could help them, and any ideas on whether what this person is doing needs replicating elsewhere

also spaces or search methods: where you might look for these people

Here are some examples
1 I'd look at the health for all projects jam at changemakers.net
2 I'd search Paul Komesaroff; I will try and make a grassroots map of the field exploits of Paul who is probably Australia's most caring healthcare woreker; after 9/11 he founded Global Reconciliation Network which hosts annual congresses in forgotten places; as a professor of medicine at Monash, he regularly advices post-graduates who are ready for a few years voluntary service worldwide; he's done filed trips to Chian to understand local health medicines of the opposte sort to those that Global Pharma patent; he's visited Ari Lankra's tsunami coasts a few months after the tragedy judging this was the time to host a meeting of experts and local authorities on how to recostruct healthcare to sustain the future of caostline peoples; etc - do tell us you local Komesaroff's

Back in 1984 in our future history of the first networking generation (1984-2024), it seemed a no brainer that 2000-2010 would be the decade systemised poverty was ended all over the world
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687

so why did make poverty history 2005 make such little impact that by the end of the year queen Elizabeth was asking: Is humanity turning on itself

well 1 2 3

1 never give up: if at first people don’t succeed try try again

2 there are some systems that are wholly out of sync with those we'd hoped that a common sense globalization would spin

2.1 media, at least public broadcast media has been muzzled; short-term left versus right and nationally separated views are the problem that compounds poverty onto the most disconnected; we must for example start a campaign of thousands writing to the governors of the BBC until they have the courage to free themselves from such controls; it is the people that have invested in the BBC not one prime minister nor 2 left versus right political parties; any prime minister who interferes with the BBC's right to stage crisis debates to which nobody has the answers too must be informed that such behaviour is a personal disgrace; public broadcast media is one gift to the world that Britain still can uniquely innovate with, and it should not be wasting money on spectator sports when the world needs a social entrepreneur Olympics; pledge to form the first 2000 people to free the governors of the BBC here
http://www.pledgebank.com/bbcgames
; start discussing what the urgent arenas of social entrepreneurs and citizen organisations are here http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com

2.2 if you look at 21 global sector exponentials that are compounding round the world; the inconvenient truth is that many are spinning the very opposite of human sustainability and are way behind the timelines we'd believed as minimal if globalisation is to be good for all instead of bad for all -such a worldwide system is a blunt thing whose consequences by 2024 will be spinning one or other way irreversibly, so it is this decade that is the crucial one for intervening in any of the 21 sectors profiled here which concern you as spinning the wrong way

the ones that concern networks around me most (do contact us if there's a snap for you)
media

all professions that measure or write up rules separately and non-transparently

failure to move over from addiction to petroleum economy to photosynthesis of clean energy, clean water, clean air, and clean soils

huffing and puffing over corporate responsibility is the wrong level at which people should be making global markets accountable; we should be devaluing whose sectors (the reputations of leaders of them as a group) wherever a sector's largest organisations cannot get together, work out what the largest risk is that their sector has most compound consequences on, and protect all localities from it instead of externalising it with each organization competing to be the lowest cost by being the most long-run risky to humanity

disaster prevention needs interlocal networks whether we are to stop spreading diseases like HIV or to respond to natures quakes or manmade terror waves; top down governments are part of the problem not the solution to this because every man-drawn boundary is a block to know-how flows that waves make a mockery of; have top-down leaders not heard of King Canute?

the lack of space for citizen organisations since clearly the 20th C organisational typologies fail wherever grassroots up or interlocal networking of open projects for humanity is most critically needed; it's not that we are against all top down governance but we are against how it takes all the social funds blocking the way for diverse experiments - education is an example where the last thing a networked age needs is national standards and cramming around redundant facts instead of inspiring young people to ask questions and peer network - see Er100 as one way of looking at -continuously voting - whether teachers know of the alumni networks young people need introduction to ; since my daughter is nine I am interested in mapping with parents of nine year olds resources that change the world of education before she gets to her teens

there are simple things that big nations should be reducing spends on -eg arms, addiction of their population to medical pills; there are policies like agriculture they should be slim lining instead of fattening ; there are addictions we should be helping to remove including getting people into personal debt or investment incentives in scarcity markets rather than those like learning where abundance multiplies in use instead of getting consumed up; and more of scripts we have been debating and updating since 1984 at http://www.valuetrue.com/home/gallery.cfm

Governance Structure of A*B*C:
A)Sustainability*B)Transparency*C)Gravity of True Purpose

Q1 Is it possible to govern the A*B*C of the local and global networks of civil society without this molecular structure?

continue the debate and finetune the details at http://civil-society.blogspot.com or discuss with me at C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net (CM1)

recovery track1 of our melted-down blog

Saturday, September 18, 2004

thanks...
Whilst the questions raised by our correspondents are theirs and their grassroot sources to choose, we would also like to thank networks whose knowledge sharing and encoragement have cheered us, as well as update a diary of events where you can find our correspondents are participating in exploring who cares deeply about which contexts. If you need futher connection details, please email Chris MacraeLondon September 21 Simpol Collaboration Cafe 3: Subject How Open Space turns 100 people meetings into action networks: facilitator Bridget Peake; co-producer Chris Macrae; participants include Bruce Nixon, John Bunzl, Peter Lewis, Peter HuttonDave PendleEdinburgh September 21 (GUOP correspondent Irina) : 2 meetings whose guest of honor is Hilary Benn UK Minister for International Development: 1) ID Group of the Scottish Parliament @ Holyrood & 2)delegations from India, Kenya and New Zealand is organised by CBS Network of Scotland. The visitors will be: from India - HiLDA Trust (Kerala), READ Center (Karnataka & Tamil Nadu), Janarupam (Bangalore), Jagran Jan Vikas, Samiti (Rajasthan); from Kenya - Ecodev, from new Zealand - Community Employment Group.London August Simpol Collaboration Cafe 2: Subject Distributing knowledge research to best value sources across the globes multidimensional economy: facilitator Andrius K, co-producer Chris MacraeLondon June Simpol Collaboration Cafe 1: Subject- how teams can practice colective Intelligence: Facilitator- George Por- Co-Producer Chris Macrae------------------------------With special thanks to the following networks and alumniOpen SpaceGlobal Reconciliation NetworkLondon, First Collaboration Knowledge CityClubs at the Ecademy including Emancipation, & (virtual) Collaboration CafeUniversity of the StarsWater Angels of the EU, and University of Starsand all open networks, and future friends of 30000 ideas for resolving Global PovertyMedinge & Beyond Branding Networks
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Top 10 Bookmarks for leaders connecting the future
The problem with most readership booklists that we've seen is: they connect with worshiping the past, and thereby fail to give emerging clues wherever wholly new solutions and deep human systems are needed. Recently this seems to have gotten worse the more worried academics or mass media compile these lists.So a universal net & web opportunity (thanks be to google's Do No Evil for leading us out of the non-transparent era of Enron & Andersen) is to compile: the top 10 links for leaders connecting the future, and specifically how to resolve the greatest value crises eg wherever poverty rules the world. We need help in nominating a top 10 list (expect frequent chamges to this league table) and hopefully more entries soonCurrent Top 10 for Leaders Connecting Productive Human Futures#1 David Weinberger's connecting to The End of The Broadcast Nation : Student Heritage & Practitioner Trail: cluetrain, Beyond-Branding, Million People Webs, Simpol,shortcuts ... #2... Harrison Owen's Open Space archives - est. 1985 as real communities' open source antidote to head of a professional association compled ajudication "Open Space promotes good sense for future of knowledge workers & productivity's emotional intelligence needs in service economies, but it means that 95% of what we profited from teaching MBAs on industrial age management will be proved wrong. Traditional accounting and all its performance metrics & timesheets will then become systemically insufficient for transparent leadership and compound value multiplication in a networking age. It looks as if a crisis in governance will emerge as youthful cultures & popular opinion recognise that global and local flows must be openly mapped. The future of any human value exchange is measurable provided equal attention is granted to truth and fairness by all stakeholders sustainably linked together by a great trustworthy context."
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Friday, September 03, 2004

CSR by Country
Corporate Social Responsibility is a strange term. After Enron headed the league tables to its very last days, it is clear that you must always ask is a company's CSR all about image-making, or actually systemic reality-making. However, we note the emergence of an outstanding group CSR CountryBrazil AsiaChina Romania (local language)
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Thursday, September 02, 2004

which countries/leaders do & dont stand up for poverty at global summits?
Please report cases you hear aboutexample & extract, sept 04 UN: The summit also heard an appeal from Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who gave support to Lula's proposal to "increase the availability of resources to address those challenges," to "examine alternative sources to finance development"and to come up with "innovative ways" to fund the struggle for development. At the UN meetings, the leaders of France, Spain, Brazil, and Chile, appealed for new thinking on global financing. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, who co- chairs the International Labor Organization's World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, and Finland's President Tarja Halonen, called current disparities between the world's rich and poor countries politically unsustainable. "For me and for the people of Africa, the status quo is not an option," he said. Mkapa and Halonen hosted a separate, special event on "A Fair Globalization: Implementing the Millennium Declaration." The Poverty Declaration committed governments to take "resolute and urgent actions" to ensure the 2015 goals are met, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where the need is greatest. "The greatest scandal is not that hunger exists, but that it persists even when we have the means to eliminate it," the declaration says. "It is time to take action. Hunger cannot wait." The U.S. delegation refused to support the declaration. 'The White House criticizes Lula's proposal against hunger,' read a banner front page headline in Brazil's influential O'Estado de Sao Paulo September 21. The headline on the Sydney Morning Herald read: 'Missing signature mars launch of war on hunger." The decision of most of the major U.S. media to not relay to the public the thinking and action of most of the rest of the world and the stance taken at the summit by the Administration doesn't do much for its reputation.
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Biggest 10 Questions to ask of the world today?
Updating as we recieve nominations...YES, these are rude first cut ideas for you to polish if you feel the will....1 Will someone help us get America & Russia to make up as friends at the top level so that the Russian people can get on as having access to trade and knowledge. The Russians and all their old empire are the most sincerely educated people not to be openly welcomed in the rest of the world's trading patterns. How can the world's sustainability afford not to include all these productive agents? People who might help investigate this story are:near the top of Googlelinked by various Mikael Gorbachev Think tanksin the vicinity of Geoger Soros?out of such wonderful wisdom centres as Budapest (without which we wouldnt have computers today and our understanding of human systems would be quantums poorer) (tell us whom else)Open source brand architecture/chartering expert networks from Ukraine to Russia2 Will Women's lib get real for global poverty? Wherever poverty lurks or societies are closed; it's always women and babies who are most abused first- and yet even in the most developed nations, women do not have an equal sense-making impact on policy ( time to rename a DC building White & Black House and see half of its people being women but omnes who have travelled to every coordinate of the globe and not be protected in Princetons or Soldiers Fields). Lynne (quarter century servant leader of www.thp.org) Twist for President 2008 please. Let's see all big countries: end this pretence that the top of the Right & Left reflect any major differences and have tranparent parties for all our people's.Good news references on women: over 1 million now elected to India's local governments3 What's the highest return investment that can be made in poverty? Your views welcome, example:-
1 Investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.-Lawrence Summers, then Vice-President of the World Bank, speaking before Pakistan Society of Development Economists

Recovery Track 2

Q&A People of Russia would most like our world to help answer
Coming soon: Russia's listing will emerge and update here
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2 Comments:
At 1:54 AM, Irina Ignatova said...
First of all my huge thanks to Chris for initiating this blog. I will try to make regular posts and will try to involve more Russian people in discussing the major causes of poverty in Russia, potential solutions and how Russian people would like to co-operate with other nations of the world to make this happen. One of the most discussed issues of the time is perhaps on the political / constitutional model of the future development of Russia. Specifically after September 2004 Beslan attacks, there has been a lot of talk about the fact that to provide security in the futuere a lot of tightening of political control in the country as well as, particularly over the "break-away" regions, would be needed. And the first real steps towards it have been taken: there were proposals that the government now appoint its owm governors in the troubled Southern Russian regions rather than for such gubernatorial elections to take place. The question naturally is: how far should the government control main political processes in the country and where is the guarantee that there will be no abuse of such control? If this is the wrong way forward, then what is the right one? Are there any ways that the Russian government can keep all the freedoms achieved since the break-up of the Soviet Union and at the same time guarantee the security of the Russian people from terrorist attacks? In this sense, one question arises. Many people in the west believe that Russia, historically, needs a tsar. Is that right or wrong? I personally think this is one of the major pre-conceptions that still exist in western people's minds, and I would ideally like to see it changed among the western population. How the government will treat the security threats is also likely to have a serious effect on other political processes in general. Perhaps the best way to solve the problem of "terrorism" is to analyse its root causes and try to be pro-active in solving them rather than re-active? It has been recently openly admitted by President Putin that poverty, alongside many other reasons, is probably one of the main reasons for terrorism in Chechnya. At least it has been finally admited. Irina
At 3:35 AM, macrae.nets said...
Vital questions Irina. I so wish that Western Centres such as the EU would invite Putin to cosy fireside chats far away from mass media to see if anyone has some clues (it is time the West welcomed Russia in from the cold). Equally, it would help a lot more if the West wasn't so big headed and ruled by people who dont see what assumptions are buried in misleading numbers. The West's models of big corporations, media communications and superpower government terrify me more than Bin Laden in the sense that 99.9999% of people can see him as a Pied Piper taking the world on a disaster course of utter hopelessness, but probably the same per cent cannot see what's systemically wrong with big Westerns organisations. This in spite of surveys and testimonies showing people's trust in organisational power and relationships of emotional wellbeing has been plumetting in a vicious and escalating manner. This is a controversial topic wherever people breathe. I have tried to make a first attempt at putting this monster puzzle in a Russian setting, but I beg as many locals as possible to pick up editors' pens in this timeless interactive medium of all the people's power to connect...