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Which Global Aid Systems do empowerment entrepreneurs need to cheer the ending of? eg 1 Food Aid : Care | Leading Transparency Editor & Networker: Peter Burgess wtites: Congratulations to CARE for taking a stand on the Food Aid issue. My first attempt to draw attention to the damage being done by international food aid was in a report I helped prepare for the World ank in 1982 and based on my observations of the impact of AID in
developing countries since 1974. I have concluded ver the years that the reason that "development" progress was so slow
was not that good things were not working ... but that there were some
big bad things that were getting in the way. And food aid is one of hese. There are about 10 others any one of which is doing more damage han all the the good initiatives put together.
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Are you Up for The End Poverty Game Contents 1.0 What we do not mean by a game 2.0 Examples of Yunus playing this game over and over And over. 3.0 Other players of this game include 4.0 Why not turn this game into a SBE stockmarket, and why not??? 1.0 By a game, our entrepreneurial schools which were seeded over 40 years at The Economist do NOT primarily mean the performance, video interfaces, the pieces, the wiiners. We mean the openness of designed-in rules of the system structure that every round of the game compounds. 1.1 Tennis would be wholly different game system if you halved the height of the net. Whether tennis would sustain greater or lesser (health, finance etc) I don’t know. American idol could be tweaked by changing one rule. As well as a money prize, what change world concern do you want to help make a 5 minute you tube video of such as www.thegreenchildren.org have done in connecting Yunus with Western youth. Be very careful what media entrepreneur you are advised by. 1.2 During the 1990s, I was employed mostly by one of the world’s 5 biggest accountants and the world’s leading communications agency. Having mapped their games, I concluded they are mathematically perfect for cutting deepest human purpose from any global market sector. Exponentially compounding destruction of the deepest flows that connect buman being. These are not games I want to interact the rest of my life around - least of all have to explain to my 10 year old daughter or even her Catholic teachers in Bethesda. These viciously spiralling games are primarily configured around decimating trust-flow and taking money out not sustaining investment in the deepest progress of woman or man or community rising. The promotion of the big get bigger were predicted 24-30 years ago in the entrepreneurial revolution, intrapreneurship and death of distance trilogy (which Americans now quaintly call world is flat) my father in The Economist as being the biggest risk of globalisation. Before that anyone who has read selected system texts of Gandhi or Einstein can see the same warnings about the risk of leaders whose only measures are big get bigger. Ditto any youthful spectator in 1930s like my dad whose father was consul in Moscow at the time of Stalin or at a red sea port when Jews were fleeing from Hitler. So how do we design an opposite game and who has already been playing it? 2.0 The opposite game in this new century of global markets starts by taking deep sight of a huge market – eg banking. Spotting a black hole in the market – eg banking for the poor. Developing the concept round after round – eg first you lend personally, next you get loaned a bank branch, next you get legislation that you are a micro-bank. After many rounds of level 1 of the game all the time gravitated by the clarity of your purpose " map how to use credit to make poverty history and plant micro-entrepreneurial seeds as well as community nurturing women", you reach a stage of level 2 of the game. At this stage you go out into the global market. The first thing you need to have prepared is that nobody can take you over. To do this a best move whilst in round 1 is to have personally developed relations with some of the big players in the global market who had always intended spending a life of service rather than a life of only taking money out. These may be in supporting professions or near the top of some of the big organisations as well as often lurking in founding families of what have become large organisations if these still exist. These people will help protect you if necessary by warning you or discrediting the reputation of anyone at the top of a big organisation who may sell to hostile takeover you. Meanwhile, at level 2 you start testing partnerships. Perhaps some of the big organisations -be they global corporations or international NGO's - out there are happy to have a really good social purpose in small markets or ones they wouldn’t get to anyhow. Perhaps they see such leverage of a charitable cause and embedded competence of their industry as a more entrepreneurial seed than just donating some money. Note however, this level of the game is extremely difficult because you will have to have the information to map the whole partnership network that your organisation is now interfacing with. You will in today's world have extraordinarily noisy media to play with - channels that want to protect being over a third of the cost of everything people in so called developed nations buy. Moreover, you only participate in level 2 to get to level 3 as urgently and safely as possible. At level 3 you have emerged from your first round in the global market, with your purpose end poverty still spinning the hi-trust way but now with more resources, more awareness, ultimately the amplification waves that can make your black hole as big or bigger than the rest of the global market. Now you know the game you can replay at all or any levels as well as mentor other hi-trust people to do likewise, integrating local cultures worldwide if you entrepreneurially wish to connect peace or other best for the world flows, and not just ending poverty within one land-locked boundary. I believe that Yunus has about 10 sectors -see eg www.muhammadyunus.org he is already trying this game in however tacitly he is interacting it. Of course have closer access to infomration would enable us to report whether he is already breaking through 8 or 12 global sectors. I read his Nobel prize talk’s request to form a social business enterprise stockmarket as a request to see this game wherever young people start studying business eg CIDA university South Africa, intercity hubs world citizen networks are co-creating. Is there anyone in the global academy of ashoka interested in such system maths of empowering global markets to serve people, or not? 3.0 If you study Sir Nick’s Stern’s work: Climate; Africa Commission; World Bank Empowerment Development; he approaches the game from the opposite end. What exponentials are we compounding: on climate will we invest 1% in wholly new games to save 20%; ditto on poverty, will we change the way the world bank invests 1%? In London, we are hugely fortunate that Sir Nick is moving to the London of Economics so any citizen is within reach of plating empowerment entrepreneurs games. If it turns out that there are simpler systemic rules than the game I describe, I will be absolutely delighted School Around the world, we are searching for who wants to play this game with education. The purpose is to empower every child very much the 2 goals that Clinton Global Initiative is founded on playing round. We know enough of where the deepest educationalists are on this game Another game is healthcare. We don’t know where the most trusted people to connect the game of reducing costs of healthcare while maintaing quality of human service are, but we will spend the next few weeks openly looking for them and include this in a million persons cultural creative game hubbing out of London at the end of march 4.0 So are your players Bill/Sushmita/Susan? I can explain the maths of the game at any level if you ask a mathematician to interrogate me. But, in truth, what I rather spend my time do is just map 200 people whose entrepreneurial intents are deepest. I’d like that to be out by next year in time for my father’s 85th birthday party. In terms of contributions to the economic progress of human beings : the whole future history of entrepreneurship has been relayed more by him than anyone else anyhow. http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687 http://futurehistory.jp http://passports.jp Moreover before he could study economics at Cambridge he had to serve in world war 2 in a place you now call Bangladesh. Similarly my grandfather, was at around that time helping translate the concept of Mountbatten’s and Gandhi’s Independence into legalese. So the transparency of game rules seem to play a vital part in being the changemaker. http://changemakers.info And then we start publishing mini-guides until we find someone who will circulate the book of the collaboration entrepreneur guides through their networkers. There will be a stage where volunteer networkers will actually get quite upset by people who have not helped early on to circulate this. Please don’t let such upset be accused by my failure to explain in words. I am just a maths guy not an eloquent wordsmith chris macrae tel 301 881 1655 edu http://up200.tv/_wsn/page6.html health http://up200.tv/_wsn/page8.html Reforming media and 7 deadly global sins http://up200.tv/index.html
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In association with worldeconomist.net BOOK INVITATION : JOIN HI-TRUST ENTREPRENEURIAL MAPMAKERS IN SUSTAINING HEALTHY & WEALTHY WIN-WINS FOR PEOPLE EVERYWHERE To Co-Editor Alan M. From 007 How's the book proposal coming along? HISTORY REWIND 2005: President Bush’s Gathering Storm analysts refer to Death of Distnace scenarios involving the greatest change mankind has ever encountered. In less than a generation, network technology is waving connections through every productive and demanding gravity people market around. Actually DoD scenarios have been debated at valuetrue entrepreneurial roundtables since 1984. Their timelines have been predicting that the greatest transformation in economics would be needed from 2005 and before 2015 Humanity is now engaged in a world citizen race against time not to be submerged by 7 deadly sins. Failing to love 1 peace, 2 climate, 3 ending poverty's injustice; 4 caring cross-culturally about boundary risks; 5 insisting on truth propagating through media ahead of time and n ot after the fact; 6 curiosity about chnage worldoiwde being empowered through action learning; 7transparency and valuing professional flows at the highest ethical level (wherever professions are trusted by societies to rule-making or to life-critical selections such as medics are charged with). 
Our book introduces The Map. Its groundwork stretches back to The Entrepreneurial Revolution trilogy, whose first episode was published in The Economist of 1976 and whose third wave was translated into the next geneartion's future history from 1984. We welcome your open participation in our future history archives, gratis of one of the world’s senior economists, and Scotland's oldest http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html PASSPORTS TO SUSTAINABILITY These next 5 years raise the greatest question humanity has ever needed to unite round: will the networking revolution sustain a best for the world 21st century? The way we integrate local communities into globalisation will either produce the best of all peoples or end the world a few generations out. That is actually a definition of globalisation being a systemic phenomenon that can ultimately only spiral virtuously or viciously.
History shows that great minds and hearts like Einstein and Gandhi started collecting practical clues for system safe transformation back in the 1930s. Entrepreneurial revolutionaries now invite all with the courage to connect as changemakers to help open source missing maps for every market compass relating productivities and demands to worldwide needs. To enjoy this book, you need no mathematical genius. What is needed is an explorer's love of diversity of context grounded details, and to be open to how wholly different value multiplication flows are to boxed in value added chains that management strategists thiorised raptuously about as recently as the 1980s. Let us appreciate service truths by celebrating empowering change leadership; lifelong learning flows from school to intercity collaboration hubs, and higher orders of emotional intelligence that social networks and world citizen consciousness can bring to a transparent coming of age. 2006: EVIDENCE OF EXPONENTIAL URGENCY AND TIPPING POINTS Her Majesty Treasury’s Chief Economist reported that future-true exponentials analysis revealed the greatest market breakdown ever. The state of climate had reached such a level of compound risk that it would now be prudent to invest 1% of national economies in wholly new ways in order that 20% of future economic value could be rescued in time.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bangladesh becomes world knowledge centre on microcredit with both Grameen (primarily customer mearkets) and BRAC (mainly public services ) | | | | | branches are allocated 5 star ratings of communal trust maturity and sustainability | Yunus is elected to hall of fame of 6 global social entrepreneurs sponsored by Skoll Participant Productions & cerified by ashoka; 16 dvds launched including MY in 100 languages | | | round4 | launches grameeen as a new bank | various other Grameen concepts emerge in Bangladesh markets including solar power and Grameen eyecare | Idea of the Social Business Enterprise stockmarket (including such strategic frames as the no loss corporation) is set to be one of top 3 most talked about entrepreneurial revolutions of 00s; another is the tipping point crises such as climate's need to reinvest 1% of nations anew to prevent exponential loss of 20% | | round3 | is lent Chittagong branch of a national bank | Grameen invests members money in GrameenMobile -a huge revenue earner by and for poor | Yunus wins Nobel prize | | round2 | microcredit is born | sets 7 year goal for worldwide microcredit partners to sustain 100 million families out of poverty | Grameen reprsented by dedicated pop group thegreenchildren; intercity MYunus fan clubs started | | round1 | personal loan to basket-craft women of chittagong | 2000 people annual microcredit summits | Grameen starts offering global brand partnerships - eg with Danone and supporterd by French Footbal star | | Game | level1 | level2 | level3 |
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New Maps for old!. Help us nominate 200 most trusted colaboration entrepereneurs at http://up200.tv ; mail chris macrae - info@worldcitizen.tv more contexts to start searching with you: bank for poor- Grameen mobiles for poor - Grameen telecom fast health food - Grameen-Danone pop idols for humanity - thegreenchildren.com; universityofstars.tv global village meetings hubs and flows : passports.jp empowerment economic development concepts - Sir Nick Stern 10 times lower cost concepts - prahalad 
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Real wealth (the cooler version for those in apparently cosy offices) This book is addressed to change makers – people who want to change the things for the better. We'd love that inspiration to be as inclusive as human curiosity. There are many ways of making things better. They are being pursued by many different people in different circumstances. Some are working in big organisations and want to improve some aspect such as staff motivation or innovation in order to improve profitability. They’re frustrated with the way even the best laid plans seem to keep on hitting hidden barriers and pitfalls. Some are also working for big organisations and are acutely aware of these organisations’ ability to influence things for good or ill. They want to emphasise the good, by making the organisation more environmentally or socially responsible, for example. Some are social activists working outside corporate boundaries, seeking to change some aspect of the world directly. Some work for governments and government departments. They are seeking both better policies and better implementation of these policies. And some are ordinary citizens and employees. They want to ‘do their bit’ but are not really sure how. Whoever you are, the message of this book is the same. You – we – are sitting on a goldmine; a vast, untapped goldmine of opportunity for enrichment. No, we haven’t found a way to make everyone millionaires. We’re not just talking about financial and material enrichment (though that is part of it). We’re talking about making peoples’ lives better. ...That means sustaining peace as well as producing material riches; sustainability as well as consumption; fairness as well as personal advancement; the chance to experience intrinsic human benefits such as happiness as well as pursue material, extrinsic benefits that can be traded. We’re talking about real wealth in other words: anything and everything that enriches human lives on a sustainable basis. Real wealth creation is huge and largely untapped opportunity that’s remained unaddressed for far too long. There are two very simple reasons this. First, we haven’t seen this opportunity because so far it has remained invisible, a bit like the black gold that lay under the desert sands of Arabia for so long. Second, even when we have glimpsed it, we’ve not known how to realise its potential. Thankfully, that’s beginning to change. Pioneers across a whole series of very different walks of life are discovering this potential, and they’ve begun to work out ways of releasing it. They have groped their ways to new ways of thinking and acting. They haven’t found all ‘the secrets of success’, that’s for sure. They’re fallible and they have their weaknesses, like everyone else. Nevertheless, they have opened a door to a new territory of real wealth creation. That is what this book about. Mapping is a process of discovery. It explores how to make the invisible principles and practices of real wealth creation visible, and therefore useable. Let’s start by looking at two of these pioneers. They come from very different circumstances and walks of life. Case study of Grameen Foundation ‘Banker to the poor’. Case study of Toyota. Both case studies underline the search for new win-wins that build ‘system integrity’ The unseen opportunity that unites these two examples – the oil hiding in the middle of the arid desert – is trust. 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. 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. ... continued lower down
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Regarding changemakers.net, our supporters aims include: applauding this as the number 1 webjam space for peoples grassrooots projects - their open sourcing and their colaborative competitions. Nearly 1000 projects now exist for transparent investigation in such areas as peoples health, peoples peace, peoples climate, peoples economics, peoples making poverty history. looking for connections across the different competition themes; and having another look at projects that may have been emrging very fast but overlooked as immediately provable competition winners connecting Q&A among the different constituencies: those who have submiited a project but are not formally recognised by social entrepreneur clubs; those who are; different place or thematic interests; scaling up micro, inter, macro from 2008 we intend to publish an annual map of 200 most trusted people that world citizens are networking around to combat the sustainability crises of our age such as climate, media, poverty, education, economics and too much rule by top-down numbers instead of diversity up needs. It will be interesting to see if we can map links between the 200 people voted for as highest trust of each year and open source projects webjammed at changemakers.net, or elsewhere. please mail info@worldcitizen.tv with flow on any other webs we could be openly connecting as supportes of the above. As network economists 1 2 of the Scottish 1 2 internationalist school (which believes that integration of goodwill goes micro to inter to macro not just global top-down) future historians 1 2 of the network generation 1984-2024, this is our 24th year of publically debating and connecting citizen world citizens around the view that cataloguing grassroots entrepreneur projects openly and transparently will be a critical task if sustainability of future generations is to be ascertained as well as truly valued by every culture and community whose collaboration is called for in integrating your world.
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1) 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. 2) 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 people. What’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 change makers. 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.
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