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
inquiries chris macrae info @worldcitizen.tv us tel 301 881 1655 ; us office 5801 nicholson lane suite 404, North Bethesda,
MD 20852 USA - uk 80 queens road, suite 30, wimbledon, london sw19 8lb Mapping is a process of discovery. 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. Tranpsaremtly
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.