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