what can the world learn from dhaka, & India?

3rd quarter reports from trips and news in dhaka

2009-10-06T08:24:00.000-07:00

sofia hosted superb dr yunus 69th birthday dialogue at end of june; bbc's solar and polar paul rose http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm blogged on bangladesh as open source centre of sustainability solutions; I failed to get my main india connectors of sustainability and education to the party

dr yunus' newest website to commemorate his 69th and what 8 million bangladeshi female entrepreneurs have contributed to world sustainability was launched http://www.yunuscentre.org/ - this will be very fast content moving so I commend yunus and worldwide sustainability fans to look at it at least monthly

with september's news that dr yunus will be speaking to india's parliament in december my failure to connect indian education to yunus 69th birthday dialogues is costly; before my end september visit to dr yunus to debrief on 69th birthday dialogue's outcomes, I note that I was preceded by English ministers alexander and miliband who spent 2 days congratulating Dhaka as world epicentre of microgreen solutions and asking Bangladeshi's to champion the strongest possible concerns in copenhagen; there's also an opportunity for people in any city with a british consulate to ask how to join their climate champions program one of many green things unearthed by Dr Yunus talks in london in the first 2 quarters at the british council and the ashden awards
http://www.britishcouncil.org/new/PageFiles/7714/Framework%20for%20a%20better%20future.pdf
http://www.ashdenawards.org/search/node/yunus

dr yunus and I quipped on how dhaka was en route to every sustainability city - as eg demonstrated on my flight to london from DC via dhaka

after nearly 3 years of network development, dr yunus' meeting finally confirmed http://yunusforum.net/ founded by 24 year old bangladeshi villager and london university student mostofa zaman as official out reach web to citizen and youth ambassadors -of which dr yunus has kindly set us the goal to find the 5000 youth whose mindsets for sustainability and microeconomcs system design are most similar to his; the same web will soon be the gateway to the offical grameen interns ning

Thanking Dr Yunus for arranging the wiesbaden tour for sofia and I of his Grameen Creative Lab hosted by saskia and hans, I explained how excited many of my transatlantic friends ( http://www.vivaldipartners.com/ http://www.alanmitchell.biz/ http://www.normanmacrae.com/ ) are to hear that dr yunus is challenging 100 global brand corporate ceos to be the first to benchmark how global markets value sustainability- novembers meeting near berlin run by http://www.grameencl.com/ may yet be the best thing to have happened to media in this dismal (far from whole truth) start we have made to millennium -what would Gandhi and Einstein have made of how our net generation rushed to go global so failing to learn anything systemic and exponentially sustainable from their test market of how difficult it was to transform india out of england's global control

2009-07-22T06:29:00.001-07:00

we love to get news on areas where partnerships between bangladesh and india lead the world - info@worldcitizen.tv - examples include
education http://yunusyouth.com http://youthambassador.tv http://isabellawm.com
mobile banking http://www.bankabillion.org/ -
microsolar eg http://www.gshakti.org/; ashden awards india/bangla

2009-07-22T06:23:00.000-07:00

BD: Kalam backs joint Tipai initiativesMonday, July 20,2009DHAKA: Former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam, who arrived in Dhaka Sunday amid Bangladeshi concerns over India’s planned Tipaimukh dam, has expressed support for “joint water initiatives” in the spirit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. Kalam also proposed India and Bangladesh work together to revive the importance of the ‘golden fibre’ jute by putting research and technology behind it.
He made the comments during a meeting with Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus at his Grameen Bank office, the first of his scheduled visits during his three-day stay.
Kalam later attended a dinner at prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s official Hare Road residence, where he met president Zillur Rahman.
Kalam, who served as India’s eleventh president from 2002 to 2007, was one of the architects of India’s nuclear programme and a driving force behind India’s plans to become a developed and knowledge-based super power by 2020.
Yunus told bdnews24.com of his meeting with the former Indian president, “We spoke of efforts by SAARC nations to resolve the water problems in the region.”
Kalam’s visit comes in the wake of heated debate in Bangladesh over the proposed construction of the controversial dam at Tipaimukh across the common river Barak.
Environmentalists fear ecological disaster in downstream Bangladesh if India goes ahead with the project.
Bangladesh-India bilateral relations had earlier faced troubles over India’s construction of the Farakka barrage.
Yunus said Kalam supported cooperation among countries under the SAARC umbrella.
Kalam said he had read Yunus’ book ‘Banker to the Poor’ and wanted to learn about the detailed workings of Grameen Bank so that microcredit could be incorporated into the approach of his own initiatives in the villages of India.
Professor Yunus raised the issue of strengthening SAARC. He elaborated his proposals about the creation of SAARC passports and SAARC scholarships.
Yunus said there was a strong need for joint efforts in the region to improve the quality of life of people overcoming poverty and ensuring basic services such as healthcare.
Kalam, who was born in Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu, offered his readiness to impress the importance of SAARC among leaders in the region.
Yunus also proposed joint water development and management, and power generation, for the countries of the region, in the spirit of SAARC.
Kalam said he fully supported the ideas of closer cooperation within SAARC in those areas.
Kalam, who graduated in aeronautical engineering from the Madras Institute of Technology, has been invited to deliver a convocation speech to faculty members and students of the University of Information Technology and Sciences in Dhaka on Monday.
President Zillur Rahman will preside over the first annual convocation of the university at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre.

..Feb 25, 2007 ... Kalam outlines his vision of Year 2020. Staff Reporter ... Governor Surjit Singh Barnala said real education wielded great power to ..... 2020 kids rehearsals ...projects ..2009: ignited minds of youth is the most powerful resource on earth

revolutionary 5 minute videos from mfiworld - nominations 1

2009-07-18T12:02:00.000-07:00

In this Nobel acceptance speech, Dr Yunus surprsies the world- instead of talking about microcredit he describes Bangladesh's other great 33 year long innovation - the social business model. He goes on to explain how every sustainability crisis starts in communities and why social businass franchises are now ready for replication in many areas thanks to nations' most trusted microcredite - solutions include solar energy and extremely affordable healthcare, water and childrens dietary needs, new media for the poor and new system designing professions of sustainability investment, and of course education which brings out the vocational microentrepreneur in each girl and boy

2009-03-28T05:09:00.000-07:00

what a fabulous story claude

From: Claude Guillemain Subject: Re : On Future 1 2 3 Capitalism: chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Date: Saturday, 28 March, 2009, 4:24 AM
Hello Chris,When Mohammed Yunus delivered his speech in the international forum of microfinance (Agen, France, December 2000) , he answered some questions from the attendance. One of these question was : "What do you recommand to those who want to create an IMF".His answer was: "Cultivate your own garden".I am not sure that this answer was completely understood by all of us.Today, in the scope of the global recession, this answer is like a light in the dark night!this answer is the refundation of capitalism. The starting point to everything.So, my question to Mohammed Yunus is :"How can we light the light" or "How can we buy the small piece of land necessary to create our garden" ?Cheers. Claude GuillemainRBE - Breton International Network

2nd year projects
2.1 group dvd yunus10000

1000 readership club: textbook

Creating a world without poverty -social business, future of capitalism - Muhammad Yunus

Optional (India Group): Imagining India - Nandan Nilekani

Optional (learning group): The Learning Revolution- Dryden/Vos

2009-03-26T23:47:00.000-07:00

In days when wall street has specialised in 100-lose economic games, it behoves future capitalism to map out hi-trust economic games - 100-win is the best I know of from my dad's work on entrepreneurship at The Economist 1950-1989, based on 300 years of Scot's struggles with going beyond imperialism (our nation was colonised by the English soon after the international bamking scam of 1700). Proper reading of adam smith's free markets assumes consumer-rising transparency of the sort Obama is now demanding

The 1843 scottish founder of The Economist was a man in the same mould of Muhammad Yunus- in fact James Wilson died before his time in Calcutta of a disease BRAC now remedies at 10 cents a go. He was 10 months into a project intended at reforming Raj economics. In the event that was left to Gandhi who spent 25 years mentoring my scottish (maternal) grandfather -one bar of London barrister to another - on what to do when lawyers (and their rules) are unsustainable.

Dr Yunus and Bangaldeshi social business modelling is 9-win viewed round single systems and 81 win when partners of Future Capitalism succeed in making an Industry Sector's greatest responsibility transparent for worldwide replicability. His model takes out ownership (or more correctly puts it in trust of those in most desperate need of the sector's life-sustaining innovation). Simplicity theory recommends taking out of the integral governance of goodwill system any stakeholders such as owners who have come so overrun by speculators as has happened in NW hemispheres during the first quarter of a century of management by spreasheet networks. Once you have designed a model connecting others stakeholders in zero-conflict with sustaining true purpose (satyagraha greatest goal uniting world peace and economics is our network generation's space race) you can always see if owners can be renegotiated in. (ie 10-win and 100-win modellling) more at http://trilliondollaraudit.com/

2009-03-22T07:34:00.001-07:00

A is for social Action teamworking

The greatest social action team I have ever heard of began in 1976 in Chittagong and then Dhaka - four people worked for a few years to design rural banking for the very poorest what the world now calls microcredit- this has compounded over a third of a century networks linking into the safest banking systems known to man, and the only sustainable investment ones

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INVITATION TO DR YUNUS 69th Birthday Party with the 1976 Social Action Team, 29 June 2009, Dhaka

if you are a student or help students with social action networks, OR yes we can green america or anywhere not yet green then please know that Nobel Peace laureate is hosting a day after 69th birthday party in Dhaka to connect anyone whose peer networks want to collaborate and compete to be the social action team that develops the most replicable francise for ending poverty ever seen in our mobile age - when dr yunus and his team built their first 100,000 community centres round microcredit and 60 village women microentrepreneurs per centre - there was no mobile no internet. It was 20 years later in 1996 that they started using mobile connectivity and helped make Bangladesh the world number 1 partner in mobiling for the poor. Obviously if they were starting to design microcredit today an even more heroic benchmark for social business networking's jewel in the crown is possible.

2008-08-25T11:26:00.001-07:00

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
washington dc inquiries desk usa 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv
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2008-07-17T03:32:00.000-07:00

Museum opened by Nobel peace committee to celebrate 31 years of Yunus and Grameen exploring future capitalism. It contains the prizes sent in over this time by over 100 cities and almost every institute for humanity that I have ever heard of.

2008-06-06T12:06:00.000-07:00

Yunus appears to be in boston, MIT http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/commencement-yunus-1205.html

2008-05-08T16:00:00.001-07:00

we have transferred our monthly updates of future capitalism partnerships to http://yunuspartners.com/

lexicon = future capitalism as a leadership strategy is the connecting of partnerships between world's most resourced organisation and world's deepest grassroots network serving life critical need- governed by social business auditing they aim to innovate the most responsible case a global industry sector has ever served and helped replicate locally

in the first year of this hi-trust innovation in leadership about 20 worldwide future capitalism partnerships have started up and provide the most exciting stories for journalists of above zero sum economics

2008-04-09T15:55:00.000-07:00

Dhaka features in april's round up of collaboration cities in post reproduced below

also I am making a concerted effort to link with dhaka change agents at http://www.i-genius.com/member/profile.php/id/1055

april's round the world of collaboration cities

DC perhaps the greatest ever attempt to unite western women's networks -see the case for investing in women and girls http://wfd-alliance.org/AUthecase.htm ; this is theme we wish to continue in any space - eg facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18188015069- do tell us if there's a virtual community you'd want this conversation extended to ;

media change is one of those lifelong issues for world entrepreneurs and me - at the internet level the prospects of 10000 village telecentres quizzin the web on vital knowledge http://egrameen.com/ is perhaps the best news for the planet I have heard since berners lee invented the www; on mass media we continue to plug away at this tome of year in the face off between american idol and http://africanidol.tv/ and all year round at http://universityofstars.tv/ and http://cidaworld.tv/ in the campaigns for real heroes for youth and the training of youth entrepreneurs. LA's green children kindly gave me a plug recently http://thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/news/macrae.php

back at Dhaka in january when we met Dr Yunus and discussed what agendas 1000 bookclub should link round in 2008 findin the way to unite the voices of the big demographic groups such as women and youth who have less decision making power but so much to do in sustaining community was one of the top 12 connections we promised to keep trying to make - the picture shows the other 12 ; these are linked in more getail at http://smbaworld.com/

New York hosts the next collaboration cafe http://thecooperation.tv/ around dr yunus on april 15 at pete's tavern - if you are interested in coming ask info@worldcitizen.tv before april 14. Ta!

2008-02-05T20:38:00.000-08:00

Brilliant Yunus web sites
http://www.grameen-info.org
http://yunussocialactiongroup.org

supporters
http://grameen.tv
http://yunusworld.blogspot.com
http://24economics.blogspot.com
http://yunusforum.blogspot.com

2008-02-05T20:37:00.000-08:00

2007-12-08T11:30:00.000-08:00

interesting blogs out of bangladesh:

http://tanvir.wordpress.com/