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Saturday, November 27, 2010
microblog4 - can you help norman's invitation to exciting 2010s
chris' tips -one of my earliest memories is "nothing is impossible lunches" - they
were actually hosted by grandad who had been mentored for 25 years by Gandhi on how to change India's constitution
- since grandad represented raj law and mahatma freedom's law it must have been an exciting life
-there is nothing
I have heard of that is harder for the vanity of man than changing ruling professions ; norman would
assume it was entrepreneurially obvious that you can't know the most innovative change to a big system from
being inside it;
from considering 3 of the greatest goodwill multiplying change stimuli for humanity : Japan
62, Internet 84, Bangladesh 2010 you can read all about changing professions whose laws are trapped in history -
when you entrepreneur , he would laugh, I hope you dont have to cut heads off as the french peoples did to liberate productive
assets and free markets from being controled by royalty - you of the exciting 2010s net generation can be more joyful,
economic and creative in "between take" than that
do you have tip from norman's work - rsvp
info@worldcitizen.tv > NING NM
11:29 am est
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Nobody inspires this journalist more @ Joy of Economics than young people. This blog will feature a lot of them. Here
is Chris T form www.mficonnect.com http://onedollaraday.weebly.com/. If memory serves : Chris' home is in Connecticut, his Alma Mater is Drucker's Claremont and he writes today from Spain The documentary will be around 25-30 minutes long. As to what we are expecting people to do... This is a great question
and could have a number of answers. Originally, a big part of the project was our own research, creating financial diaries
of the poorest of the poor in order to understand what financial services best meet their needs. It was really designed as
a sort of case study of the book Portfolios of the Poor, to research and show how people living on less than a dollar
a day budget and manage their money. Both we and the authors found that most households do not
consume the entirety of their income immediately but rather a large majority save, lend or borrow through a variety of different
types of financial partners including: savings and loans clubs, insurance clubs, borrowing from neighbors, employees and relatives,
money lenders, and financial institutions. This understanding led them to come to two important conclusions: 1. “Money management
is a crucial part of everyday life.” 2. “Poor
households are plagued by the poor quality and low reliability of financial services.” So with the
findings of Portfolios of the Poor and our own knowledge in mind, we were researching how microfinance can provide the poor
with access to simple, flexible, and reliable services. We are a little concerned now though
that the subtleties of our research and of microfinance might bore the audience and not be the best use of this opportunity.
We never really expected the project to go as viral as it has and we have a great opportunity to influence a huge audience,
a lot of which know nothing about development. As any documentary on Microfinance does, we want to show how a
sustainable development model like microfinance has helped families find more reliable financial services, achieve long-term
goals, increase the education levels, and empower women. But I think there is more that we can do here. We also want to use
our own story to inspire tangible action amongst our fellow youth. We have discussed a lot about how we want to advocate the
use of partial solutions. What I mean by this, is that no one method or cause will end poverty. It will take the combination
of social business, microfinance, and the willingness of all of us to contribute in whatever little way we can. We can use
the example that our two filmmakers did not even know what MF was before coming to Guatemala, but decided to use their film
talent to enact change. We have a lot of incredible footage and momentum right now, and could really go in a lot
of directions with it. The next 2 months will be spent answering these questions and writing the narration. Any feedback or
suggestions are more than welcome.
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Project NM0 : book joy of economics imagine 8 people sitting round a table discussing the missing trillion dollar maps
-needed so that biggest global markets are all freed to value human sustainability's exponential futures - who would
you sit at which chair .................................................................................................. INTRODUCTION TO THE PLAYERS As grandmasters
of the joy of economics, most of our players could have swapped chairs with ease. However this is why we arranged the circle
the way we have P1 Chair of individual and family productivity: Muhammad Yunus designed
the Grameen Bank as a solution to ending famine and poverty in the then new nation of Bangladesh. Specifically
GB’s banking for the poor intervenes in offering the "lifeblood of credit" (as well as community markets and knowledge hubs and the specific range of financial services that support productivity
but not the debt traps of conspicuous consumption ) to village mothers so they can be income generating. Research for the
grameen concept found that village mothers would invest savings they generated from work in their children and developing
community in ways that sustained a villages’ journeys out of poverty. Grameen Bank is owned by its members and as their
savings have grown , yunus has made bold investments in advancing their productivity and health. Perhaps no more so round
1996 when a world bank consultant forecast that no more than quarter of a million of bangladesh’s 150
million population would ever use mobile phones. Yunus not only seized the chance for the poorest to invest in the country’s
first mobile operator but he also ... P2 Chair: Mobilising Peer-Team Productivity: Ingrid Munro is an alumni of Muhammad Yunus. As recently as 1999
she started a Kenya microecredit “Jamii Bora meaning Happy Families”. What’s extraordinary
is her most productive members are youth who used to rove nairobi as gangs of thieves and girls of street.
Most people including microcredit’s greatest fans had previously not been able to imagine
trusting a bank to such customers let alone such staff! But then Ingrid’s 30 years of work makes her one of the most
beloved white women in Africa and youth were not going to throw way the once in lifetime opportunity to
show that in a mobile network age they can build a nation into one of the most joyous economies anywhere, Her
bank demonstrates that in out mobile age, gangs are strongly connected peer to peer networks – who given a chance find
it much more smart to be seen creating things rather than destroying them. Dreams of Kenya as a leader among
African nations became reality at a moment of great crisis. In Kenya’s 2009 riots, youth destroyed one of
the largest informal markets at the slum of Kibera. Ingrid’s network let the dust blow over for a few days and then
approached the gang leader – would his team like to be given the credit to rebuild the market and entrepreneurially
take care of it properly? ... .. | P1 (indivividual) Dr
Yunus or |  | V1 Queen Sofia or | | P2 (Peer-Team) Ingrid
Munro or | V2 Monica Yunus or | | | | | P4 (Global Bus. Purpose) Norman Macrae 1 2 3 or | V4 James Wilson & Adam or | | P5 (Local Soc Sustains)
Sam Daley Harris or | V5 Sir Fazle Abed or |
| stochastically future exponentials are predictable : function of p1*p2*p3*p4*p5*v1*v2*v3*v4*v5 |
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for your ideal correspondents : ie best for the worldwide email circulation lists who's who on what topic for making
2010s most exciting decade  | Diary Game - since yunus invited the world of youth to make 2010s most exciting decade, 10% has already gone: if you meet yunus (Grameen ), Munro (jamii bora), Daley-Harris (Results, Microcreditsummit), Q. Sofia (Spain) and have a Q&A that leds to collaboration we can hub round the world please tell us if you want it
(b)logged up Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011 example
from Q4 2010: 2010 september – results and 2/3 US congress announce good idea to change us economics to yunus’ oct 6 chris meets yunus in dhaka to discuss how to hub publications: which 3000 leaders does yunus
want to send journal of Social Business to; how to celebrate dads life with consider bangladesh www.macrae.tv oct 14 jonathan joins chris and zsheem in dhaka to talk to yunus
early november jonathan meets sam at yunus global SBsummit in germany nov 16 chris and jonathan meet 60 people in boardroom of The Economist
to try to remind london media nd owners of The
Economist what -and where! - entrepreneurial revolutionries do since dad's 1976 survey, tues nov 30 jonthan, sam, chris meet in princeton (well trneton actulaly); then later jon, chris meet monica yunus in
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We welcome action circulation correspondents listings. let's start @ the main focus of dialogue
in Dhaka last month: NM1.1 Social Business stockmarkets and Social Business mutual
funds Motion: There cannot be a greater Job Creation Stimulus than SB stockmarkets
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