Microcreditsummit has connected the people's world of banking - is it possible to design other microsummit to connect
the world around other global market sectors whose responsibility to local communitues compounds sustainability's exponentials
up or down.
In 2008 we tracked entrepreneur gatherings- after a while we discovered that these networks both seemed
to lack the collaboration flows of microcreditsummit 12 and the focus of at least making sure that one global market sector's future trillion dollar impacts were audited
for peoples around the world to transparently understand futures
So since August 2008 we have been asking DR Yunus if it is ok for citizens to try out a differenet www approach
in the hope that one dfay there will be more microsummits to rank alongside progress for humanity as microcreditsummit
Post August 2008 Citizens Development of Microsummits
MZ Thank you very much
for helping me meet Muhammad Yunus in Bali, Indonesia. I was advised to send an email back to you on what we discussed & happily
agreed in Bali. Below is my briefly effort to do so.
1. 10,000 DVD: You know that we are going to
print 10,000 dvds of the interviews we have done in Dhaka [along with others] to make a global debates among the students
on Micro credit, Social Business and Muhammad Yunus. The world is looking forward to seeing the outcomes of the DVDs project.
[We
will send the DVD of dhaka video interviews for Muhammad Yunus to see and then with his advice and approvals, we will print
the DVDs to send out. In this case, I will work out with you where and when our cameraman can catch him for interviews]
2.
Yunus Forum London Meeting: You know all about about our efforts to make happen a meeting in London where
Muhamamd Yunus will be a Key Note Speaker and where we hope to make sure that 900 Students and Social Activists and 100 Business
men will participate. The most important thing is that Tomorrow Company also has a request to get a schedule with Yunus. So
this two meeting will be at the same trip and schedule. Could you please work out the possible dates. In this case, how about
any days of 7 April, 2009 to 17 April 2009? I would love to ensure that the days depend on Dr Yunus' own dairy.
3.
Grameen Interns Group: We have proposed Muhamamd Yunus that we would love to make a group of those students who have
done Internship with Grameen so that they can be reached with any updates on Muhammad Yunus and Grameen. "It is,
Yunus says, a good idea and will be appreciated if you would do". We love to do. So it is an agreed point and
we would love to develop gradually. We benignly hope that Grameen Interns Group will be in www.yunusforum.net
4. Dhaka Dialogue: We have proposed that in the next summer, we would love to bring
7 peoples with different projects on Yunus in Dhaka to describe all their works on Yunus. This is also an agreed item. We
call it "Dhaka Dialogue". We expect the whole working time of day of Yunus for Dhaka Dialogue. It would be good
if any date of the last half of June 2009. Could you please work it out with Yunus dairy and fix it up?
5.
Our Aim: We commit to reaching 10,000 peoples [5,000 students out of them] by the end of 2008-2009 academic
year with the message of Microcredit, Social Business and Muhammad Yunus. To accomplish this aim, we are commiting to do the
above actions. We would love to report Muhammad Yunus about all the actions and achievements behind this aim during 2009 Dhaka
Dialogue.
Could you please pass this email to Muhammad Yunus and work out the dates of above programs like London
Meetings
Pre Aug 2008
2008 World Entrepreneur Connections Guide - mail info
@worldcitizen.tv to linkin
publisher UK office sends review copies to alumni of The economist including Baroness Sarah Hogg, Andrew Neil,
Emma Duncan (Climate Crisis, Muslim Women, French Africa), John Grimond (Cities)
Fortnightly Newsletter: Future
of Capitalism
Yunus: the endless capability of human beings just does not have limits- if human beings can't solve half-developed capitalism
and such sustainability priorities as millennial rights list- what good is human being anyway? We are created to solve the
problems not to create p-roblems. Conventional wisdom tells us very little; conventional wisdom hides conventional blunders..we
have to go & hit the blunders & make the whole circle so much bigger so we can create the world we want to live
in
Brainstorm series on chapter 1: learning from systemic failures of citizen's historical
sustainability movements
If you are in a passionate peer to peer group of Yunus Social ABCD - ask for free
copies of book and LondonWorld connection responsibilities
jan 10/11, London wes08 : World Entrepreneur Summit 600 - more host Rebecca Harding
6 main themes: global entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship, environment and sustainable entrepreneurship,
women’s entrepreneurship, young entrepreneurs, and the internet economy.
Nairobi
26/27 May: East Africa Summit , hosted by WES & Perez Ochieng's SACOMA is the first World Entrepreneur event help in Africa and is aimed at rekindling interest and investment in the Kenyan economy in the
wake of the turbulence of the last few months. Kenya has been successful in meeting its Millennium Development Goals, largely
through its microbusiness and entrepreneurial sector. But many entrepreneurs have had their livelihoods destroyed recently
and this event aims to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, politicians and activists from around the world to kick-start
the process of regeneration now that the situation has stabilised. For info, please click
London School Eco Public Lecture,
6-7.30pm book free ticket here : first come first served from Feb7
Professor Yunus will outline his vision for a new business
model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more human world – and tell the inspiring stories
of companies that are doing this work today. This event marks the launch of his new book Creating a World Without Poverty:
how social business can transform our lives.
Yunus1000 Forum, London,
Summer 08
COLLABORATION CITY BRANDING
All comes down to what thousands of
people believe. See each other celebrating humanity. Let's communicate around this value declared by Mostofa
Zaman : impossible becomes possible when right action time people place
Our ethos is to create: •A place to meet amazing people*•An event where the participants create the energy
to make great things happen•An environment where strong friendships are formed and great partnerships are made
issues include: co-creation of world commission on social entrepreneurship -details (see start at wes08)
can we help catalogue 30000 social businesses or social actions - my question at I-G
Sept, London 85th birthday
of founder of Entrepreneurial Revolution leadership cases (published over 40 years at The Economist)
Year
ending: person space for sustainability debates daily at South Bank - more details host Photosynthesis Nets of Solaroof Green in the City
Social Capital 2008 (SoCap08)
San
Francisco, Oct
Hosted by Good Capital & The University of San Francisco
Who: 400+ Leading Social Entrepreneurs and Financiers
from Around the World
What: A Conference that Hacks the Code of a New Set of Values within
Business and Investment
Entrepreneurs of All Time
Business Week Has Named Dr. Yunus as One of "The Greatest Entrepreneurs of All Time"
Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, founded a banking system 30 years ago to lend small amounts of money to the rural
poor in Bangladeshi villages. Most of the low-interest microloans go to women, who use them to start their own profit-making
enterprises, mainly in agriculture, crafts, or services.
Grameen Bank now has 2,422 branches,
employs more than 20,000 people, and has loaned more than $6 billion since its founding. Borrowers own most of the equity
in the bank. The company has been profitable in all but three years since it was founded.
Key takeaway:
Yunus imagined what would happen if a bank extended credit to those people who would never traditionally receive it. In the
process, he created a system that empowered the poor by helping them become entrepreneurs.
how do you update where the network around you is leading?
I dont know but I feel microsummit networkers do
nmeed to practice what maps help people see the gap between who would be the greatset privolege in teh world to network purpsoefully
round, which of your peers agree, and what else is happening around you -such as this in my case
last Update spring 2008
centre I would like to be led by - yunus, grameen's 9 most revolutioanry
collaboration entrepreenurs, knowledge exchangte with the 100000 people most knowledgeable about social busiemnss mapping
,
most of whom serve one of Bangladeshi's great grassroots networks or who have
studied in Dhaka until they have formed a lifetime full of practical connections
0.1 Has a continental or worldwide search solutions on job creation
that can be replicated across communities been organised before this EU launch of Nov 2011?
While alumni of entrepreneurial economics have always valued job creation searches- we
know of no clear evidence that this has been top of mind in the way that continental-wide government has operated since
1984 even though it was scripted by The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant as the number 1 question the first net generation
would need to mediate if sustainable futures and humanity's most needed millennium goals are to be served
what's different about nov 2011 is 4 top directorates of the EU have nailed their future reputation to
this search -more
Microfinance Focus, November 4, 2011: Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited to deliver
a key note speech during the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit held in Nice, France. Professor Yunus addressed an audience of
more than 400 entrepreneurs from all G20 countries. In his speech, he shared his personal entrepreneurship experiences, his
faith in young entrepreneurs to be the pillars of society and the need to include poor countries in the discussion process
in making global decisions.
Professor Yunus being an entrepreneur himself started off creating the Grameen Bank that
provides microfinance services to the poor who had little access to financial provisions. From that, he ventured into a wide
number of social businesses such as Grameen Nursing College, Grameen Eyecare Hospitals, Grameen Shakti, etc.
He has
always considered young entrepreneurs to be the most effective solution for the future. He said “In my opinion, G20
YES is a fabulous initiative, gathering so much energy and momentum from all over the world. Because of their creativity and
leadership, provided that they commit to share the value they create, these 400 young entrepreneurs in this room can change
the world.”
Professor Yunus is also a member of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Advocacy Group, advising
the Secretary General of the United Nations. Hence, he believes that the next generation of youths should be handed over the
process of the MDGs as soon as possible. He believes that entrepreneurs will have a key role to play in fulfilling the MDGs,
if they are committed to the social value created by their companies, and social business can be part of the solutions.
In
his speech, he added that the G20 needed to broaden its scope to deal with the current world crisis. It can no longer remain
a political forum with economic agendas. The G20 needs to create a social agenda as well. Professor Yunus proposes that ‘social
business’ should be brought to the agenda of G20, as one of the concrete and effective solutions to be considered for
immediate implementation so as to guide capitalistic investment towards social value and jobs creation, rather than sheer
profit maximization strategies. A social business is a cause-driven business where profits stay within the company for its
sustainability.
Lastly, Professor Yunus concluded that the G20 should be expanded into the G25, where poor countries
from each continent should be included in the global agenda which they are part of. He added that “Their problems are
inter-related with others, and their proposals of solutions should be considered by the most economically advanced countries
in making global decisions. A G25 would be a big step toward ensuring that global social issues are raised, and MDGs implementation
is fully shared on the global agenda. And finally, because fighting poverty together is the only way to bring long lasting
peace in this world.”
inquiries chris macrae info @worldcitizen.tv us tel 301 881 1655 ; us office 5801 nicholson lane
suite 404, North Bethesda, MD 20852 USA - skype chrismacraedc
Mapping is a process of discovery. Crucially maps are only as usable as updating correctness of bottom
up information. Think of your own use of a map. You look for the "you are here arrow". You want to be directed to
somewhere/someone you dont know how to get to; you want your return vist to be safe as well as a value multiplying win-win.
Does anyone remember the simplest findings of einstein and jon von neumann. Einstein proved
that to innovate more value you need to go more micro in what you model; von neumann showed that there is more value to be
networked by interfacing safe flows across systems instead of ruling over separation of boundaries. There isnt a single
global metrics profession that gets these mathematical -and natural - principles right. Unless we change this global
markets will cycle through ever greater collapse and more and more communities will lose sustainability. Mapmaking is that
critical an idea to what the net genration will achieve in 2010s; but its also one that children from primary age up can action
learn. Its simple. Its just that it works the other way round from top-down people's fatal conceit.
It explores how to make the invisible principles and practices of real wealth creation
visible, and therefore useable. Our planet needs case studies underline the search for new win-wins that build ‘system
integrity’ Trust-flow is the unseen wealth to invest sustainability in. Tranpsarently mapped it develops
a goodwill gravity tyhat invites with roleplayer in a community to multiply goodwill while sustaining their own cashflow..
Trust is not some vague, mushy, abstract warm-hearted sentiment. It is an economic powerhouse – probably just as economically
and socially important as oil. The point is, there are specific things you need to do to get trust flowing, just as
there are specific things you need to do to get oil flowing. And like oil trust has a dark side. Right now, the world is awash
with the carbon emissions which threaten the stability and sustainability of its ecosystems. Right now, the world is also
awash with the ‘carbon emission’ of trust – mistrust. Indeed it may well be that our ability to tackle the
one issue – the threat of environmental catastrophe – depends on our ability to tackle the other issue: how to
generate, deepen, extend and sustain trust.>br>But what is the best way of doing this? One thing is for sure. You don’t
build and sustain trust via some sentimental exercise of goodwill to all and sundry. There are three very simple principles
at the heart of effective trust generation. First, trust is generated via win-win relationships. It’s virtually
impossible to generate or sustain trust without mutual benefit for those involved. But beneficial outcomes are not enough
in themselves. For trust to be built and sustained, both sides need to signal a demonstrable commitment to finding win-win
ways forward. Such a commitment may require real changes to what we say and do. Second, real ‘win-wins’
are hardly ever purely financial or material. You don’t build trust simply by walking away with more cash in your pocket.
Trust works at all the dimensions and levels of human exchange. Yes, it’s about financial and material rewards. But
it’s also about purpose (what people want to achieve). It’s about politics with a small ‘p’: the use
and abuse of power, the crafting and application of rules of fair play. And it’s about emotions: the sometimes overwhelmingly
strong emotions, both positive and negative, that are generated when people deal with other peopleWhat’s constitutes
a ‘win’ – a sense of real improvement – is therefore highly specific. It depends absolutely on the
details of who the parties are, what they are trying to achieve, in what context. Building trus, therefore involves discovering
these specifics. Just as oil doesn’t flow out of the ground, get refined and pump its way into motor vehicles automatically
and without effort, so identifying and doing what is necessary to get trust flowing requires dedicated, skilled effort. It
requires a disciplined, structured process, not a vague sentiment.
3) Third, even if we do steps 1) and 2) there’s
still a good chance it won’t succeed. Why? Because it ignores an invisible third factor. In the real world, purely two
way bilateral relationships don’t exist. There is always a third party whose interests or outcomes are affected by what
the other two parties do but who is not a party to the contract. The environment is a case in point. Producers and consumers
may both benefit from buying and selling to each other – but what happens if, in doing so, they destroy the environment
they both depend on?
This raises a hugely important question. When two parties pursue win-wins and build mutual
trust, are they doing so in a way which creates a win and builds trust for the third party at the same time? Or are they simply
pushing the problems – and the mistrust – further down the line on to this third party? Building vigorous, healthy
networks of trust is a different kettle of fish to ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’
win-win conspiracies. It requires a Map of all the key relationships plus careful consideration of knock-on consequences.
It requires a different perspective.
These three simple, basic steps do not happen automatically. They need to
be worked at. The territory needs to be deliberately Mapped and explored. What’s more, there are obstacles in our way
– mental and practical obstacles that need to be cleared. Prevailing economic theories about ‘rational economic
man’ for example, deny the need to commit to win-win outcomes. Instead, they promote supposedly ‘rational’
(i.e. narrowly selfish behaviours) which actively undermine trust The same theories insist that the only valid measure of
human benefit is money, thereby excluding from consideration many of the biggest opportunities for improvement. Meanwhile
many vested interests do not want to extend the circle of trust to third parties and complete networks because their positions
of power depend on their ability to take advantage of the weaknesses of these third parties. That’s another job for
Mapping: helping to identify and mount such obstacles. The potential benefits of doing so are unthinkably huge. They
start with a simple negative: the relief that comes from when you stop banging your head against a brick wall. Mistrust breeds
wasteful, wealth destroying conflict that tends to feed on itself. Anger and hatred engender anger and hatred. Simply easing
or stopping the terrible waste of mistrust would transform prospects for many millions of people. We desperately need to find
ways of doing this. Then there are the positive benefits. Understanding the real nature of human wealth – all those
dimensions of purpose, ‘politics’ and emotion as well as money and material comfort – means we can start
being human again; human in the way we think, and act. What’s more, many of these intangible benefits won’t cost
a penny. They’re there for the taking, if only we puts our minds to it. But there’s more, because trust is
also an economic superpower in its own right. In the pages that follow we will show conclusively that material and financial
riches are also dependent on trust. In fact, we will argue the case for going one step further. We will say that material
and financial riches are a by-product of trust: the visible fruits of invisible, intangible human exchange. Once you understand
that sustainable cash flows are a by-product of sustainable trust flows, your understanding of what makes a successful business
is transformed. Separately, each of these three fruits – reducing the waste of conflict, unleashing the potential
intrinsic benefits of human exchange, and energising the sustainable creation of material wealth – are massive in their
own right. Put them together and they represent a vast new continent of opportunity. As we said, this book is addressed
to entrepreneurs and system innovation revolutionaries. Wherever you happen to be, whatever the change you want to make
is, the principles explored in this book apply. The wish to change and the will to change are not the same as being able to
change successfully. For that you need to understand your territory. You will need new Maps
Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, founded a banking system 30 years ago to lend small amounts of money to the rural
poor in Bangladeshi villages. Most of the low-interest microloans go to women, who use them to start their own profit-making
enterprises, mainly in agriculture, crafts, or services.