Yes We Can 1 - All microeconomics roads lead to kenya april 2010

13 years after muhammad yunus and 2000 well-wishers used the yes we can slogan to launch microcreditsummit's worldwide jounrney out of washington DC, all of humanity's most sustainable project solution-makers meet in Nairobi april 2010

1 solar meetings
Jamii Bora makes Kenya a world class ambassador of microsolar with its Kaputie new town (2000 homes) showing how sustainability architecture for the poorest can replace slumdog living

finca in Uganda was the first partner in the quest of http://www.microenergycredits.com/ to get carbon credits for quarter of a billion clean energy households audited by the world's most trusted microcredit bankers

Europe's Broadcast & Royal Hunts for the MicroSun
deeply practical advances on solar revolve round investigators like paul rose http://www.paulrose.org/ BBC broadcaster on climate , and one of the 5 central team members of http://www.ashdenawards.org/ - other team members prince charles and founder lor sainsbury's older daughter (sarah); these folks together with htp://www.gshakti.org and its 15 bangladeshi consortium are at the practice edge of micro-green

Paul's first exploration of Bangladesh's sustainbaility solutions became this BBC blog http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm

grameen http://www.gshakti.org/ alone now installs more solar units than whole of usa; and the consortium aim to make bangladesh a world calss manufactuerer of solar cells which will bring down the cost hugely

moreover it is expected that at least one royal family (monaco) will launch social business fund competions across europe in 2010 with sustainability and africa being priorities

europeans networks are now intimately connected with great epicentres of microgreen project replication through taddy blecher at Cida in south africa, around muhammad yunus who as well as connecting bangladesh gave the mandela talk in s.africa a fortnight ago and in kenya when april 2010's microcreditsummit will show off the 2000 building replacement to slum

- after 13 years of yes we can networking, micro & collaboration enetrpreneurs look forward to hearing how sustainability investment networkers from other continents are linking in to solar and kenya and dhaka; perhaps we can help america youth re-empower Obama too!

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There are 2 kinds of economist. Those who in their youth saw poverty or nations where wars halted people's freedom to work, learn, do, commune and those who graduated in economics with none of these experiences.Help (usa tel 301 881 1655) dedications to economists of first kind often known as microeconomist. My dad (Norman Macrae) can offer to help select microeconomist hosts of the 7 microsummits with the most inspiring goals for our human race to 2015 -as he learnt economics as a teenager in Bangladesh whilst waiting to navigate airplanes in ww2 before going to cambridge as last student alumni class to question Keynes

JP Morgan (Manhattan Jan 09) Listens to Lessons from Kenya Microcredit Jamii Bora,


canyou help us http://africanidol.tv/ idolise top 100 of the first micro rising pan-africa tour rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv , yes we can bureau washington DC 301 881 1655

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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Dr Yunus of Grameen and microcredit and Nobel peace 2006 is setting cities and citiens around the world an interesting challenge. If he is passing through your city would you be able to find 1000 people who all wanted to collaborate with each other as well as him in empowering a good global world instead of the bad one currently compoundingSynonyms for good are win-win-win, sustainable, empowering every community up, one where hi-trust people transparently win over low-trustSo 2 questions:if Yunus was passing through Africa cities, which do you think would produce the most collaborative impactsif you are a twin national

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2516276605 - eg living in a rich city but with family roots back in Africa - how ready is your big rich city to represent Africa interests when Yunus hosts his Forum 1000 there.My friends are particularly working on London and New York as 2 test cities; partly because a London University student spent the summer interning in Dhaka on this project. One intercity collaboration idea is collaboration cafe - see those we have already hosted and tell us at info@worldcitizen.tv if you want to replay one in your city or virtually http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page4.html

Another collaboration idea is can we produce a good global idea to heroes, their projects and networks for humanity. Why do people all over the world know the top 10 sporstmen for 50 different sports but not top 10s for different vital issues of human sustainability? http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5475184122

http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page2.html

But the best truth about collaboration knowledge cities http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bknowledge+%2Bcollaboration+%2Bcity&btnG=Google+Search in the 5 years that I have been searching the peoples and communities that weave them is that if any city does a great job in turning round a beter Global with Yunus we can all learn from what it did and work out how to invite the 1000 most relevant citizens when Yunus passes your way. http://grameen.tv/

Which will be the meetings with the most impact for humanity in 2007? - one of the most critical years of the decade of truth our future historians, economists, entrepreneurs and internationalists forecast 2005-2015 would need to be if the networking revolution is to integrate a sustainable globalisation rather than one that terminates future generations?
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

Our FutureHistory affiliates wish both Davos' oldtimer World Economics Forum (WEF) and newcomer Brazil-Kenya's(WSF) well.

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In WEF's early days before it was famous , my dad helped out as a speaker more than once. However, absent of reformation, WEF has to be reviewed as potentially slipping out of relevance compared with meetings that did not even exist when the millennium began.

First there's the league of inspirational intiative meetings such as
Clinton Global , http://changeworld.net/_wsn/page5.html
microcreditsummit, http://microsummit.tv http://thegreenchildren.com
ted.com http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page3.html
whose world citizen research rankings we maintain here http://sustainabilityclub.com/_wsn/page4.html

Second, this year it appears have become subject to a triple whammy of coincident events. Afirca's first ever world social forum; and India taking the lead with a sustaianbility forum that has bagged that most intriguing duo of climate 007: Nicholas Stern and Gordon Brown. Against which WEF's Lord Browne of BP and Blair look more like history's wisdom than the searching future's - unless this pairing is going to stand up and offer a converted view than any of they have previously mailed us.

Third unlike recent years when a key theme had been clarified and new data collected, and moreover a key speaker from another side of the world made extraordinary challenging contributions, WEF's pre-conference web this year sent me to sleep when I started reading the PCW 90-page knowledge concierge document (in transparency I must admit to potential bias: when I was employed by what became PCW in the early 1990s it was both the most boring and least entreprenurial career move on my vitae)

Nobody will be more delighted than us if WEF pulls a rabbit out of the magiician's tophat. Klaus is an a-list good sort, and whilst media coverage of economics was a subject entrepreneurially concerned with transparently investigating progress for all humanity WEF was the most exciting way to begin every New Year (apart from what each family chose to celebrate on January 1) We will be watching the WEF website http://www.weforum.org which is potentially a hidden jewel as a platform compared with all other meeting formats

Meanwhile, we've been frantically busy trying to sign up a quorum of world citizen future reporters from the World Social Forum in Kenya. What we don't care about is getting the scoops from the next 7 days. what we do care about is identifying the lasting comon actions troughout 2007 and how they connect with other extraordinary events being celebrated later in 007 both:
in Africa such as http://www.ted.com/tedglobal2007/
in the 5 years Passports to Sustainability http://passports.jp being launched as a round the world countdown to London's Olympic year with the goal of persuading the BBC that sustain ability's league heroes demand every bit as much hourly programming of the leading public broadcaster and world service channel as sports. After all's said and done, if we play any more inconvenient games with Truth on climate or the jigsaws of peace there will be no sports for future generations

Should you wish to keep linked in to the very occasional future events preview our networks will be issuing, please go and register at http://groups.google.com/group/maclink/topics?lnk=li&hl=en

Chris Macrae, info@worldcitizen.tv

Nairobi Kenya hosts World Social forum, Jan 20-25 2007 -search , news

We welcome news, local co-editors etc
chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

The event will be held at three adjacent venues in Nairobi. These will be the Kenyatta International Conference Center, Uhuru Park and the Central Park



See also http://whocaresafrica.blogspot.com and http://www.frappr.com/africamph

WSF 2007 ORGANISING COMMITTEE
o Abdilahi Abdi – Northern Aid
o Abduhamid Slatch – YMA
o Achoka Awori – Sayari
o Betty Okero – West Kenya NGO Network
o Boaz Waruku - CRECO
o Dominic Odipo – Journalist
o Edward Oyugi _ SODNET
o George Mucai – COTU
o Grace Githaiga – EcoNews Africa
o H. Kisio – Rift Valley
o Hubbi Hussein
o Jacob Opiyo – KETAWU
o Jennifer Koinante – Yiaku Peoples’ Organisation, Laikipia
o Joseph ole Simel – Maa Civil Society forum
o Julius Okara – KEPSA
o Kathini Maloba-Caines – KNUSE
o Kiama Kaara – Huruma Social Forum
o Kibacia Gatu
o Maina Mugo – Forest Evictees/FMAN, Nyeri
o Muga Kolale – UASU
o Muthoni Wanyeki – FEMNET
o Mwambi Mwasaru
o Ndungi Githuku – Mulika Communications
o Ng’ang’a Thiong’o – RPP
o Njoki Njoroge-Njehu – SANA/Daughters of Mumbi RC
o Njuguna Mutahi – PAT
o Njuki Githethwa – KENDREN
o Obat Masira – Misango Arts
o Odenda Lumumba – KLA
o Odindo Opiata – Hakijamii
o Oduor Ong’wen – SEATINI Kenya
o Otieno Ombok – Chemichemi ya Ukweli
o Phylis Nduva – FMAN, Kitui
o Rep. of 5Cs
o Rep. of Huruma Social Forum
o Rep. of Osiligi
o Sophia Abdi – Womankind
o Steve Ouma – KHRC
o Tabu Osusa – Ketebul Productions
o Wafula Buke – Maskini Liberation Front
o Wahu Kaara – KENDREN
o Zahid Rajan – Awaaz
o Zarina Patel – Awaaz
o 6 reps from Uganda
o 6 reps. From Tanzania
o 6 reps from Somalia
o 6 reps from Ethiopia

Commission Convenors
• Content and methodology - PROF. Edward Oyugi
• Youth - Kiama Kaara
• Media and Communication - Zahid Rajan
• Resources _ Oduor Ong’wen
• Social Mobilisation _ Wahu Kaara
• Logistics _ Julius Okara
• Culture _ Njuguna Mutahi

Goodnews year for Africa: source

Kenya: The New World of Philanthropy


The Nation (Nairobi)
December 30, 2006Posted to the web December 31, 2006
Richard Branson Nairobi
As the world truly becomes a global village through technology, media and transportation, more and more people have become aware of the issues facing humanity, even in the most remote corners of the globe.
They realise more than ever how imbalanced the world is, with incredible wealth in some areas and dire poverty in others. Meanwhile passionate individuals such as Mr Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, have helped to wake up a growing number of us to the worst catastrophe facing the planet: the growing threat of global warming.
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At the same time promising trends in charitable giving are putting those of us who can make a difference in a better position to tackle some of the world's imbalances and threats.
This year, more than ever before, we've seen an increase in international philanthropy-what some have already dubbed "philanthrepreneurship." Contributors are using their business sense to apply new methods of giving and are donating amounts that sometimes number in the billions of dollars. These are the kinds of gifts that could have an enormous impact on seemingly unsolvable world problems.
The wealthy have, of course, been creating philanthropic foundations and contributing to charities for ages. Still, in the past year or so a number of different factors have come together to create a new model for 21st-century philanthropy.
First, there is a whole new breed of entrepreneurs who have made large fortunes incredibly quickly by using innovative technology to create new opportunities. While many of these entrepreneurs are young, they already possess a strong sense of social responsibility. Clearly they are using their creative minds on a new type of challenge: applying creative business principles to daunting social issues.
A few pioneers in this area stand out. Mr Jeff Skoll, the first president of eBay and founder of the Skoll Foundation and Participant Productions, has dedicated a large portion of his wealth to everything from organisations developing low-cost drugs or farming methods to programs that help future business leaders learn how to become social activists.
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay and the Omidyar Network, has turned his assets and attention to bolstering a variety of non-profit and profit-making ventures involved in social change. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, use their company's new charitable arm, and Google.org, to support a number of environmental and social ventures to the tune of $1 billion.
Second, egos have been left at the door.
Mr Warren Buffett is an extraordinary businessman who wants his donation of more than $30 billion to be used in the most effective way possible. So, rather than focusing on building a legacy for himself, he has given it to another entrepreneur, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who with his wife, Melinda, has already built a successful foundation.
(Product) RED - a campaign organised by U2 lead singer Bono and Mr Bobby Shriver, the founder of DATA (Debt, Aids, Trade, Africa) - has brought together businesses as varied as American Express, Armani and Gap to raise awareness and money for the Global Fund, which fights Aids, tuberculosis and malaria throughout the world. This pooling of funds and willingness to collaborate will help ensure that issues are tackled in the most efficient way possible.
A new breed
Third, the social sector itself is shifting. In the past, the social and business sectors often confined themselves to a limited donor/charity relationship, but now they are realising the importance of partnerships in which both sides bring expertise to the party. A new breed of social-sector leaders is redefining charity through social entrepreneurial solutions that end the ongoing dependency on charitable dollars.
Mr John Bird, who started The Big Issue in Britain, is an early example of an someone who set up a "social business," giving homeless people a chance to earn an income through the sales of a magazine. Mr Mohammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, created microfinancing opportunities that are now being adopted in poor countries around the world. For his work with this concept, considered an inspiration by so many, Mr Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Relevant Links
East Africa Kenya Environment
In Africa there are hundreds of inspiring stories of people tackling everything from health issues to educational disparities through innovative models that interweave business and social-sector principles.
Mr Taddy Blecher, who set up CIDA, South Africa's first free university, is one example. Through his sheer determination and savvy business brain, Mr Blecher created a university that is now giving thousands of financially disadvantaged young South Africans a chance to get a fully accredited business degree.
Simple ideas, led by people on the front lines, are making enormous differences.

Kenya: The New World of Philanthropy (Page 2 of 2)
Finally, it's simply smart business sense to do your bit to make a difference in the world. Increasingly aware and concerned, employees and the general public alike have raised the stakes, demanding that the organisations they support demonstrate that they care for the planet and its people.
Businesses are seeing social and environmental issues through a new lens, looking at them as profitable business opportunities rather than as a drain on resources. Every business has an opportunity to leverage its resources in its own way and to get engaged at this critical turning point.
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At the Virgin Group, our staff wanted us to put our concern for the communities where the company does business and our interest in environmental issues at the heart of everything we do. They felt that Virgin had built an incredible entrepreneurial engine that could power new opportunities that will drive significant and, equally important, sustainable change.
If Virgin Atlantic can re-conceive how airlines treat passengers or if Virgin Mobile can succeed even while breaking away from an industry standard like long-term contracts, then surely we can devote the same innovative thinking and similar resources toward goals that hold greater social benefits, such as preventing disease and stemming global warming.
This conviction was the impetus for the announcement I made at the Clinton Global Initiative on September 21, committing to invest all future Virgin Group proceeds from our transportation interests into renewable-energy initiatives. In the next 10 years, those proceeds are estimated to amount to about $3 billion.
As our first significant demonstration of this focus, we launched Virgin Fuels, a new venture for a series of investments in international renewable-energy sources, with an early concentration on biofuels. The scope of Virgin Group's investment strategy will include research and development of new biofuels suitable for both ground transportation and aviation.
These types of "good investments" are critical in driving scalable, sustainable social and environmental change, because businesses are going to want to make these investments only if it makes sense to their shareholders.
Building partnerships
Relevant Links
East Africa Kenya Environment
Our staff members also felt that, beyond devising this investment strategy, building partnerships to better leverage our resources would help Virgin people from all over the world make a difference. So we set up an independent arm called Virgin Unite to focus on entrepreneurial approaches to social and environmental issues.
Virgin Unite is participating in the social-sector shift in a number of ways, including through the creation of social businesses. For instance, Virgin Unite and Anglo Coal, along with the US and South African governments, recently teamed up to start the Bhubezi Community Health Centre, a rural health clinic in South Africa. This "one-stop health-care centre," as we call it, will offer diagnosis and treatment to 70,000 people in a community where one out of every five people is HIV-positive and health-care options are very limited.
From the outset, the clinic was designed so that it would not be dependent on donations in the long term.