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SOCIAL ACTIONS - Yunus , Grameen  On 3 January, I was privileged to spend 3 hours with Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka. This man shares
the best ideas I have ever heard at 3 levels of human progress - Social ABC: Actions that youth could practice in teams so as to sustain the
21st century as the most human celebration -this page will discuss ideas Dr Yunus wants you to contribute for developing the
most claborative web space ever opened http://yunussocialactiongroup.org/ Business - mapped round social purpose -can every city race to field as many Social Business Activists (SBA's0 as the dreaded
spreadsheeting MBA's who were use the perfect maths for compounding the end of human sustainability? Capitalism's future is every social being's making- fortunately Bill gates has taken up the Yunus mission -cf capitalism (Yunus -world's number 1 sustainability investor) and capitalism (Gates -internet world's richest man). | Social Action Forum – will Yunus & You create a worldwide happening? - extracted from : creating a world without poverty: social business, and the future of capitalism, Muhammad Yunus
Having a dream about a better world is fun. Why
not interact to help make the reality closer too? My suggestion: create a small organisation we call a Social Action Forum.
It can be as small as three people who band together to address a single, manageable local problem. If others want
to join that’s fine. But if you feel comfortable with three, don’t try to expand that number
I am planning to create a website where you can
register your social action forum. On the website, you can describe your plan for the year, record you thoughts, mention the
frustrations and excitement of your work, show the progress you are making, and display pictures relating to your project.
To start a Forum –all you need is the willingness and initiative to make a difference.
You might start a forum around a neighbourhood
improvement. Or if you live in a developing country, the action forum might be built around helping a beggar find a job or
self-employment. Some social action forums may remain small, operate for 2 or 3 years and then disband. Others may grow bigger
and bigger, and some may become successful businesses.. An idea from one forum may inspire other forums to replicate the idea.
A few forums may grow into major programs with the potential to transform societies.
Aside from launching a Social Action Forum, there
are may steps that individuals can take to help promote the social-business idea. If you are a teacher, you could help launch
a course to teach young business people about social business. If you are a member of a civic or faith group, you could help
arrange a series of lectures, meetings or conferences about opportunities for social businesses in your community. If you
help to oversee a pension fund, you can propose that part of those resources be set aside to invest in social business. And
of course, if you are a business executive, you can explain to your CEO the value of creating a social business.
One way to generate social business ideas is to
host competitions. Any organisation or person can sponsor such a competition: a school, a foundation, a chamber of commerce,
a civic group and so on. I can picture local, regional and even global competitions with hundreds of thousands of participants
vying to create the most practical, ambitious and exciting concepts for social business. Prizes for the best business designs
could include investment funding for the project, or connections to social investors. All the proposals submitted could be
published on the internet to inspire the designers of subsequent competitions or to provide ideas for entrepreneurs who want
to start social businesses.
I have been promoting the idea of a social-business
competition for a while, and now the Taiwanese magazine Business Weekly has announced such a competition. It has raised $1.5
million to provide seed money for the top 10 submissions, which will be announced November 2007. I am absolutely delighted
by this initiative. |
Yunus social actions target is 13 year olds isnt it?
and the education revolution they need Anyway since that's my reading I have posted this at
http://yunussocialactiongroup.org and we can see whether me as chief ,misatkes officer is at it again! It
would be good to hear from Dr Yunus very briefly on a few clarification matters. I am sort of assuming that social action
dairies’ prime target is teenagers or as soon as youth go round in groups in your place or culture -along of course
with educators, family mentors, community facilitators of open spaces in the community for youth and cross-cultural diversity
. If this assumption is correct, then a one-click resource page
where 9 to 13 year olds video in their wonders and celebrations of why social actions is “the new sports”, the
new hero-making compass - would feel exciting as one of the first core resources this web links round Perhaps
its not coincidental that first month of book (January 2008) has waved at least 2 outstanding conversational contributions
of this kind: 12 year old http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPcy4h5D_Wc 9 year old http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVPabnBpEis alongside this 68 year old’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngNUvukZY3U
I think learning all we can from student union groups as potential 3-person-organising systems can be very interesting
both for social actions and for forums its my recollection that often a student union club ssutains
because of 3 collaborative leaders the high profile leader who attracts exciting speakers, or has a deep
passion and flow skills core to the union activty the internal membership listener and day to day connector of
what members question or want, and trusted social connector in the most lively communal sense the treasurer who
works out what mini-grants the university or others offer, whether member dues are needed etc SOCIAL ACTION so
its interesting that this is quite a natural social Action group of three, as per the map Yunus defines in his book; with
regard to peer to peer action learning, club's human relations system coordinators are typically both
on an annual cycle and needing to mentor people to succeed them Yunus Forum Chapter A university
student union club has a natural sustaining structure which has a territorial channel and permissions -
ie all students in that unvesrity ...- wanting to celebrate humanity, change capitalism future sustainablity,
activate truly grounded community change, experience skills that are entrepreneurially fit for systemising business could
make Yunus forum chapters in university unions extremely timely not to say popular for helping make impossible possible through
right actions time place people
Micro*Inter*Macro:
With Yunus we can all share in this triangle of empowerment: - A) how can a bank encourage individuals to sustain their greatest productivities;
- B)
how next to select investments that upgrade whole communities
- C) how
can networking beyond borders help design a world that integrates every locality, every being's maximum interaction
around goodwill multiplied by and for all. That this collaboration entrepreneurial revolution can be so simply applied
to banking empowers people everywhere to ask why not every global market sector.
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This
excerpt is from Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty (Public Affairs: 2008). The process of imagining a future world of our liking is a major missing element in our education system.
We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world
they would like to create. Every high school and university ought to include a course focused on just this exercise. Each
student will be asked to prepare a wish list and then to explain to the class why he wants the things he wants. Other students
may endorse his ideas, offer better alternatives or challenge him. Then the students will go on to discuss how to create the
dream world they imagine, what they can do to make it happen, what the barriers are, and how partnerships and organizations,
concepts, frameworks, and action plans can be created to promote this goal. The course would be fun, and more important, it
would be a great preparation for an exciting journey. ... Dreaming about a better world
is fun. But what can individuals do to help bring that world closer to reality? One practical step is to create a small organization
to realize part of the goal--something I call a "social action forum." A social
action forum can be as small as three people who band together to address a single, manageable, local problem. If others want
to join, that is fine, too. But if you feel comfortable with three, don't try to expand the number. You can give your
forum an interesting, funny, bold, innovative name, or simply name it after your members: Cathy, Kushal and Lee's Social
Action Forum, the Jobra Social Action Forum, the Midas Touch Social Action Forum, or any other name you like.
Once
you've started your forum, define your action plan for this year. Keep it simple. It may be to help one unemployed person,
a homeless person or a beggar to find an income-earning activity and begin the climb out of poverty. Select a poor person
you want to help, sit down with him or her to learn about his or her problem with earning an income--then find a solution
for it. I am planning to create a Web site where you can register your social action forum.
On the Web site, you can describe your plan for the year, record your thoughts, mention the frustrations and excitements of
your work, show the progress you are making and display pictures relating to your project. It takes no special expertise,
credentials, or resources to start a forum; all you need is the willingness and initiative to make a difference. If at the
end of each year you submit an annual report on your forum and submit a new plan for the next year, your forum's registration
will be extended for the coming year. At any time, anybody can visit the Web site of all the active forums and get in touch
with them. A social action forum can be built around any number of local problems and opportunities.
Is there an abandoned lot in your neighborhood where garbage is pilling up and disease is speading? Start a forum for neighborhood
improvement to transform the lot for some interesting purpose--a community garden, a playground, a recycling center, introducing
something new in your neighborhood, school, or anything else. Muhammad Yunus and the
Grameen Bank shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the author of Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future ofCapitalism (Public Affairs Books: 2008) $26.00, 261 pages. |
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ReformCampaign is closely associated with Unbuntu network of civil societies; introduced by Mandela on this video; and potentially with its own "youtube" here Networks Supported by Yunus 1 reformcampaign.net: world campaign for in-depth reform of international institutions, supported by Yunus along with these
civil society heroes:
Samir Amin Forum du Tiers Monde
Leonardo Boff Theologist
Noam
Chomsky Writer
Ricardo Díez Hochleitner Presidente Emérito Club de Roma
Nawal Elsaadawi Writer
Susan George Writer
Boutros Boutros Ghali
Gabriel García Márquez Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate
Cándido Grzybowski IBASE
François Houtard Centre Tricontinental, CETRI
Asma Jahangir Women
Rights Activist
Hans Küng The Global Ethics Foundation
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Rigoberta Menchú
Tum Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Danielle Mitterrand France Libertés, Fondation Danielle Mitterrand
Gertrude
I. Mongella Human Rights Activist
Edgar Morin Sociologist
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Jose Ramos-Horta Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Jeremy Rifkin The Foundation on Economic Trends
Mary Robinson
Ethical Globalization Initiative
Sebastiao Salgado Photographer
José Saramago Nobel Prize in Literature
Laureate
Mario Soares Fundaçao Mario Soares
Aminata Traoré Writer
Muhammad Yunus Grameen Foundation
International Organisations
Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World
Articulación
Feminista Mercosur
AMARC ALC - Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias en América Latina y el Caribe
ARENA - Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives
Asociación Naciones Unidas España - Latinoamérica
Bretton Woods Project
Center for War/Peace Studies
Center of Concern
Centro Internacional para la
Cultura Democrática
CIVICUS
Community Organizations Development Institute
CONGO - Conference of non-gov.org.in
relationship with UN
CRIS - Communications Rights in the Information Society
DAWN - Development Alternatives with
Women for a New Era
EarthAction
Earth Charter
Economic Policy Institute
EURALAT
European Centre
for Conflict Prevention
Federation of African Women's Peace Network
FEMNET - The African Women's Development
and Communications
Foreign Policy in Focus IPS
Forum Asia
Forum International de Montreal
Friedrich
Ebert Stifung
Fundación Cultura de Paz
Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo
Fundación
Rigoberta Menchú
Global March Against Child Labour
Global Movement for Children
Global Policy Forum
Global Youth Action Network
Grameen Bank
Green Cross International
Health Global Access Project GAP
Institut Internationale Jacques Maritain
IATP - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Intermón
Oxfam (Oxfam International)
International Peace Bureau
ICSFD - International Civil Society Forum for Democracy
IMCS - MIEC - International Movement of Catholic Students
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War
IUCN -The World Conservation Union
Justice and Peace, Europe
Linguapax Institute
Mandat International
Médecins du Monde International
MOCASE - Vía Campesina
NIGD - Network Institute for Global
Democratization
New Economics Foundation
One World Trust
Pax Romana - ICMICA
Red Latinoamericana de
Estudios Ambientales Urbanos
Social Alert
Social Watch/ Instituto del Tercer Mundo
Society for International
Development
Solidar
State of the World Forum
Tavola della Pace
The Arab Organization for Human Rights
he Hague Appeal for Peace
Third World Network
Transcend
United Way International
UNPO - Unrepresented
Nations and Peoples Organisation
WEDO - Women's Environment and Development Organization
World Assembly of
Youth
WACC - World Association for Christian Communication
World Confederation of Labour
World Federalist
Movement - Institute for Global Policy
Academia and Communication
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im School of
Law, Emory University
Anil Bordia Foundation for Education and Development
Jorge Brovetto Cruz Asociación
de Universidades Grupo Montevideo
Dennis Brutus University of Pittsburgh
Gilberto Dupas Instituto d'Estudios
Avançados
Richard A. Falk Princeton University
John Foster The North-South Institute
Antoni Giró
Rector Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Oded Grajew ETHOS
Donald Gerth California State University
David Held London School of Economics
Hazel Henderson Writer
Gurutz Jauregui Universidad del País
Vasco
Cândido Mendes Universidade Cândido Mendes
Kinhide Mushakoji Chubu Institute of Advanced Studies
Sami Nair Université Paris X-Nanterre
Adil Najam Tufts University
Santiago Ramentol Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona
Ferran Requejo Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Saskia Sassen University of Chicago
Roberto Savio Inter
Press Service
Gordon Smith Centre for Global Studies
Andrew L. Strauss Widener University
Vandana Shiva
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Alain Touraine Sociologist
John Trent University of Ottawa
Carlos Tünnerman Instituto Latinoamericano de Educación para el Desarrollo
José Vidal-Beneyto
Colegio de Altos Estudios Europeos Miguel Servet Key political
messages in the second Campaign phase These will be at four levels in particular: Level 1: Regarding the great challenges that currently face humanity
- both in the fields of peace, security, human rights and justice, and that of sustainable human development, beginning with
the imperious need to improve basic living conditions amongst most of the world's population -, we need,
amongst many other things, but no doubt as a sine qua non, to change world policies as they stand at present, and
this requires, once more no doubt as a sine qua non, the In-Depth Reform of the System of International Institutions;
that is, to repeat the call "TO MAKE ANOTHER WORLD POSSIBLE: REFORM OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS". Level 2: Continue to insist on the need to reform the system in order to: a)
render the central position of a strengthened, democratised UN effective and b) reform world financial, economic and trade
organisations (IMF, WB and WTO), bringing them under the umbrella of the UN. . That is to say, reiterating, with
even greater emphasis, the key points in the CAMPAIGN MANIFESTO, amongst others, meeting the need for mechanisms enabling
the world's citizens and civil society organisations to be directly represented and participate in global decision-making
processes. In short, the call for "WORLD DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE" to help solve the serious problems and
huge challenges that face the world today. Level 3: Proposals concerning
the reforms needed. In this regard, we shall continue encouraging and promoting open discussion (that is to say, not putting
forward closed proposals, but fostering debate and exploring ideas in depth) as regards the document "PROPOSALS
TO REFORM THE SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: FUTURE SCENARIOS" and, particularly the "LONDON
DECLARATION", a more succinct version of this document. Level
4: Conceiving the second phase of the World Campaign with the goal of producing results in the medium term, focusing on
the above messages as a campaign in itself, while promoting concrete, specific campaigns (in some cases,
with objectives that can be achieved in a relatively short time) or joining movements and campaigns of a similar or
complementary nature.
Its quite interesting to see that these are the tips clinton global university is
rehearsing with students before 600 of them come to pledge a social action initiative (mid march 008, New Orleans)
Tips for Students:
- Brainstorm what kind of action you'd like to take. What are you passionate
about? How could you or your university take part in that?
- Check out our ideas for action.
Bear in mind these are only ideas. You and your local community know best what kind of strategic action you could take.
- Talk to your classmates. Would they be willing to join you? What student organizations might be interested?
- Reach out to your university's administration. CGI U is all about partnerships - about different sectors of society sitting down
at the same table and finding solutions. How could your idea be implemented? Who could you talk to? How would you get funding?
- Be creative. Design your own idea. Make a step-by-step plan. But don't just invent. Implement.
How
to Spread the Word on Campus - Tell your friends, your neighbors, and even go to other campus group meetings to let them know about your plan of
action.
- Hold an event. Whether
it’s a fundraising dinner or a clean energy symposium, a public event can be a great way to bring in new faces and energy
to your CGI
U commitment.
- Table on campus.
Have a table out on a busy area in campus informing your campus about your new commitment.
- Flyers. Hang up flyers around campus inviting others to join your commitment.
- Work with professors. Many professors will be extremely
excited to take part in your commitment and spread the word about it to their students.
- Hold
weekly or monthly meetings. Other than the day-to-day workings
of your commitment, have a publicly advertised meeting where others can meet your group and join the team.
- Tell the media. Start with your campus paper or a local
radio station to inform both the campus community and the general public about what you are doing.
Most of all be creative. CGI U is about action. One creative idea that becomes a reality could
have an impact larger than you’d ever imagine. How
to Work with University Administrators - Get started. Put together a core team of students, who are excited to make a campus commitment, then come up
with a plan.
- Get feedback. Show
your proposal to other students and faculty as a work-in-progress. It’s a great way to get advice and build support
in the process. Research other similar projects and find out their keys to success.
- Approach
an administrator. Decide which members of the administration
would be most useful to meet. The University President? Chancellor? Head of Facilities? Director of the International School? Research their back rounds, and
determine who would be a strategic person to approach first. Write a letter and ask for a meeting. Be sure to follow-up.
- Create a formal proposal. If you secure a meeting with
an administrator, come with a proposal in hand. If you can’t get a meeting, send the proposal as a follow-up, hard copy
and e-mail. Be organized!
- Be professional. When you are interacting with administrators, always be on time, with a proposal and necessary background information
in hand.
- Build support. Seek
out other constituents and allies to build your network. Is it the student government? The Board of Trustees? The local mayor?
Campus paper? Make a list and be creative. You never know where you could find your next commitment partner.
- Hold a bigger meeting. With more momentum on your side,
flesh out the details with the administration. Show various proposals with different options and costs. Show existing support
for your cause with a petition of community signatures. Remember that the first step is opening up a dialogue, and be sure
to be considerate of your administration’s views and ideas.
- Agree on a plan of
action. Find a plan and a budget that both sides can agree on.
- Make it official.
Make an announcement. Tell the local and campus media the good news. Spread the word! Be prepared to be contacted as other
students will hear about what you are doing and want to get involved.
- Follow up. Track your success. If possible, hold regular meetings to discuss what is working
and what isn’t, and possibilities to expand.
In system terms there
are quite huge differences between the clinton and yunus model
In system terms
there are quite huge differences between the clinton and yunus model In system terms there
are quite huge differences between the clinton and yunus model In system terms there are
quite huge differences between the clinton and yunus model In system terms there are quite
huge differences between the clinton and yunus model
Yunus suggests a tight team of 3 peers; doing something to be sustained in their community
over a year; whereas, clinton makes the "community" connected
Yunus
suggests a tight team of 3 peers; doing something to be sustained in their community over a year; whereas, clinton makes the
"community" connected Yunus suggests a tight team of 3 peers; doing something
to be sustained in their community over a year; whereas, clinton makes the "community" connected Yunus suggests a tight team of 3 peers; doing something to be sustained in their community over a year; whereas,
clinton makes the "community" connected Yunus suggests a tight team of 3 peers;
doing something to be sustained in their community over a year; whereas, clinton makes the "community" connected with a university, invites officials to be part
of the action team
if
yunus social action is to give 3 peers a continuous experience in serving a purpose and thinking through whether that could
ever flow sustainabily as a social business model, clinton does not give that practice and brings some fame to the proposed
initiative
if yunus social action is to give 3 peers a continuous experience
in serving a purpose and thinking through whether that could ever flow sustainabily as a social business model, clinton does
not give that practice and brings some fame to the proposed initiative if yunus social
action is to give 3 peers a continuous experience in serving a purpose and thinking through whether that could ever flow sustainabily
as a social business model, clinton does not give that practice and brings some fame to the proposed initiative if yunus social action is to give 3 peers a continuous experience in serving a purpose and thinking through
whether that could ever flow sustainabily as a social business model, clinton does not give that practice and brings some
fame to the proposed initiative if yunus social action is to give 3 peers a continuous
experience in serving a purpose and thinking through whether that could ever flow sustainabily as a social business model,
clinton does not give that practice and brings some fame to the proposed initiative
both ideas have potential but dont let's assume that the clinton initiative catalogue
can generalise to any group of 3 people's more anonymous attempts to community build (also in Yunus cases at potentially
earlier age than university youth)
both ideas have potential but dont
let's assume that the clinton initiative catalogue can generalise to any group of 3 people's more anonymous attempts
to community build (also in Yunus cases at potentially earlier age than university youth) both ideas have potential but dont let's assume that the clinton initiative catalogue can generalise to
any group of 3 people's more anonymous attempts to community build (also in Yunus cases at potentially
earlier age than university youth) both ideas have potential but dont let's
assume that the clinton initiative catalogue can generalise to any group of 3 people's more anonymous attempts to community
build (also in Yunus cases at potentially earlier age than university youth) both
ideas have potential but dont let's assume that the clinton initiative catalogue can generalise to any group of 3 people's
more anonymous attempts to community build (also in Yunus cases at potentially earlier age than university
youth)  Triangular Stories The emphasis Muhammad Yunus gives on 3 people
being a sufficient start for designing round social action is systemically fitting. Similarly
any truly usable map is integrated round triangles of coordinates. We'd love to hear your stories of how triangles , truth
and trusts-flows are often intimately related. (eg ned discussion on this) As my dad entered the fourth and final decade of his career long editorial writing for The Economist, he commenced a trilogy of Entrepreneurial
Revolution surveys 1976-1984. These caused heated debate among MBA academics and some historic professionals because he recommended a lot of
curiosity is needed - practical system truths of innovation are much more contextual and human than standard theories
permit people to see. This picture reminds me of many of the main stories of ER1 - published in 1976 this survey looked back
at what patterns could be deduced from the first 176 years of Entrepreneurial Revolution as well as opening up the
question : now that the Industrial Revolution's organisational systems have little to do with leadership futures,
what will happen next? 
Over 90% of revolutionary innovations that have widely
and sustainably advanced the human lot have not been initiated in the large organisations of the current time. Nor have they
usually broken through due to one man but actually 3 persevering roles shown. Almost always radical innovation involves bringing many different
sides together to pass through a conflict barrier at the same time. An absolutely critical role is identified above as "social/communal
mediator". What we need to map is how the radical invention gets to be known about by enough of the communities who most
deeply need it. In the way, there will be all sorts of channels and existing businesses who are making more money with the
old stuff. If we are going to offer 10 times better value, the old ways of serving the market are going to have to make way.
Unlike the 1780s when Adam Smith's markets enjoyed local freedom of speech, today's invention if it is to get into
a worldwide market may well find incumbents quite happy to spend 1 billion dollars or more on noise designed to block awareness
of the innovation. Alternatively it may take societies a lot of time to follow understand a new solution, and why its change
of habits is better for the world. Meanwhile the resource trust-flow integrator most be keeping together the potential operation
wherewithal. This is exactly the opposite of quick hit and run start ups that have plagued innovation in recent time.
This sort of triangle should be discussed as soon as ideas of business are introduced to children. For
example in the USA, the current introduction to business given to nine year olds is 180 degrees the wrong way round when it
starts introducing the word entrepreneur and the opportunities to understand societies as integral to true progress is wholly
ignored. Does this matter? Actually it explains why the US is not well placed for future innovation. Because every entrepreneurial truth
pattern that could be understood from the industrial age requires transforming an even more detailed human way round “trust-flow”
as service and learning network replace physical products as the primary value multiplier of the networked economy.
Space for a few more observations that the triangle empowers once we go study deepest cases of 10 times
better value: Don't Underestimate Triangles You cannnot build a map (geographical
or organsiational) without at least their systemic connectivity A vital trangle of integration is micro to inter to
macro - allways that way round. Natures uses this; mathematicuans uses this; anyone who does not develop organsiational systems
this way round is likely to compound extreme danges through time - the system equivalent of someone driving a car without
having taken a test. Not Quite Social Actions but Interesting I am interested in making sure we do not dilute the Yunus map of social actions with community building projevcts
but defined with different parameters that SA's : 3+ team; intent on at least 1 year's relentless action ; around
one social goal in the community So the following space links webs that are cataloguing
someting socila but not with the system map defined by DR Yunus http://onceuponaschool.org/?cat=1 aims to collect 1000 projects of public interacting with schools- likely to scale as it has the publicity -and communal
collaboration wish - of a ted annual prize winner http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/189
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What's Your Best Ever News for the World? The PM and Muhammad Yunus - creating a world without
poverty
| Anyone fortunate enough to bump into Dr Yunus on moring of 21 April 2008 was asked what should
I ask Gordon Brown - mail info@worldcitizen.tv and we will bundle up ideas we understand so that Dr YUnUS can choose which to use at his next GB meeting -examples |
see lower down for monthly
do now 1 2 3 projects of world's favourite brand
- eg how to draft a module and then ask Dr Yunus to examine whether it fits his SMBA curriculum 
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- L2 1000Bookclub and Co-launch of World Entrepreneur Summit
- L3 Yunus1000Forum and experiments
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- L4 Ad hoc social action committe London
- L5
Emerging book from chapter 1 org systems that failed to prevent compounding extreme poverty
- L6
London-New York Forum and Bookclub Squared
- L7 World Citizen Special Guides on Yunus SB Capitalism
and top10s
New York projects - N1 ...Nn include: - N1 New
York Book Club First 20 debrief Jan 22
- N2 best use of facebook events announcement
Oregon Projects OR1-ORn - ned.com reverse takeover of virtual commof omidyar
- participant production : popularise do your thing at WEF as long as hi-trust and not modelled around hi-cost
saint-hood
Inbox J21: Another thing is that a scientist, a professor, a founding member
of www.muhammadyunus.org is now as a professor at Dhaka after 17 years in USA. he is also a core of MYSA. So under him, we are to set up a Yunus Forum
in Dhaka. Another core member who has worked with Yunus as lamiya' team is now Japan. We are to start a Yunus
Forum in his city in Japan. | | | | | | | | | TheGreenChildren
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ACTION CELEBRATE HUMANITY FROM YOUTH UP | | | Partners of Social Action Business
in Bangladesh TGC's Aravind Eyecare |
 editors note: my maternal grandfather was mentored
for 25 years by Gandhi- one Bar of London barrister to another - family history can confirm that the jigsaw of transforming
lose-lose-lose global-down to win-win-win global-community-up will need to interface all the 6 pieces above - are there
synonyms for these pieces? are they sufficient to transform sustainability exponentials upwards for humanity? we'd love
to hear from you at us tel 301 881 1655 | lessons from 2007 Muhammad Yunus discusses sustainability
at Clinton Global
your phone calls on latest Yunus sustainability news are welcome at usa 301 881 1655
chris macrae, bethesda near Washington DC, and pp Norman Macrae Wimbledon, London - connectors Yunus 1000 BookClub 2008 APRIL Linking LA Hip-Hip-Hooray: Attend The Next Event. The GreenChildren, Scriptwriters & now: Speaker: Isabel Maxwell, Senior Advisor to Grameen America (West Coast) & Grameen TrustTuesday, April 15th, 7:30PM 
Start qualifying modular scripts on system and mindset change for approval of yunus smba,
and the world's biggest audiences - eg women Develop http://egrameen.com ahead of 10000 rural Grameen telecentres coming online and starting the deeepest solutions debates intially around
5 deep trust maps beyond e-finance: e-healthcare, e-agriculture including energy, e-education, e-government, e-consumer good
(channels) Debate how to connect with World Entrepreneur Summit WES08 Kenya may 1000Bookclub news: an experiment in planting a micrbookclub among Westminster MPs will occur April 22 Help with dad's article on Yunus targeted at readers of Spectator Continue after action debrief from St James Roundtable lunch with Yunus of what following most want to do for Yunus: Tony Manwaring, Robert Knowles, Rebecca Harding, Alan Mitchell, Nigel Kershaw MARCH Ask Dhaka about how its wishes for s.africa and mandel anetworking connect with Lesley's Connect
Yunus Transatlantic citizen forums : New York, London, Paris as preparation for French Language booklaunch Debrief London
Entrepreneurial Revolution ABC 30 to see who has 2nd quarter leadership projects to connect with Yunus sustainability
goals FEBRUARY Prepare for UK Booklaunch: micropublish worldcitizen guides invite 30 london leaders of entrepreneurial revolution ABC to St James lunch where can we debate crash : 1 JANUARY how do we keep Bill Gates seconding of Yunus Future Capitalism in the news? Trip to New York for day book hits best-selling list - start videos across hemispheres
1 2 Start approximately weekly newsletter week 2 sample 450 book copies at world entrepreneur summit 1 2 week 1: Trip to Dhaka - 3 hour briefing from Dr Yunus on what 1000 bookclub readers could help network
round his social abc; 4 day briefing from leadership team | Extracts from New Yunus Book World
2050 : Wishlist (page 213)
Today’s rapid
pace of change makes it crucial that we, as individual citizens, have a clear idea as to where we want our world to go. If
we hope to find and stay on the right course, we must agree on the basic features of the world we want to create. And we must
think big, as big as we dare imagine- lest we waste the unprecedented opportunities that the world is offering us. Let us
dream the wildest possible dreams and then pursue them. Here is my wish list for the world I would like to see emerge by 2050.
How many of these dreams do you share?
Poverty will be gone. Every country will have its poverty
museum, and the global poverty museum will be located in the last country to eradicate poverty completely
All
people will be global citizens of equal status.
War will be obsolete; Nuclear
weapons and other weapons of mass destruction will have been eliminated.
So
called incurable diseases from cancer to AIDS, will have been eradicated. Disease will be a rare phenomenon subject to immediate
treatment. High quality healthcare will be available to everyone, and both infant mortality and maternal mortality will be
things of the past.
A first rate global education system will be available to all from anywhere
in the world. All children will experience the excitement of learning, and will grow up as caring individuals dedicated to
the wellbeing of others as well as themselves.
Each person will have the full
opportunity to explore the limits of his or her potential, regardless of gender, race, nationality, religion or family heritage.
People from all nations and backgrounds will have a fair chance to participate in te great adventures of te human species
and to expand the horizons oh human knowledge and creativity. A global government will resolve conflicts between nations
and regions, secure the quality of life of all people, and ensure the environment is protected.
The
political system will allow every citizen of the world to participate in collective decision-making while minimising interference
by the state in individual activities.
The global economic system will encourage individuals,
businesses and institutions to share their prosperity and participate actively in bringing prosperity to others, making income
inequality an irrelevant issue. “unemployment” and "welfare” will be unheard of.
All
people will be committed to maintaining a sustainable lifestyle. Sun, water and wind will be the main sources of power.
Humans
will be able to forecast earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones and other natural disasters precisely, and in time to minimise damage
and loss of life
Free wireless connections will facilitate communication among peoples anywhere
in the world. Language barriers will be eliminated on the internet etc through simultaneous translation software
There
will be no discrimination of any kind, whether based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, political belief,
language, culture or any other factor
All cultures, ethnic groups and religions will flourish
to their full beauty and creativity, contributing to the magnificent unified orchestra of human society.
The
process of imagining a future world of our liking is a major missing element in our educational system. We don’t prepare
out students to think as individuals about what kind of world they would like to create Each student could explain to the
class why he wants the things he wants. Other students may endorse his ideas, offer better alternatives or challenge him.
Then the students will go n to discuss how to create the better world they imagine, what they can do to make it happen, what
the barriers are, and how partnerships and organsizations can be created to promote the goal. The course would be fun, and
more important, it would be a great preparation for an exciting journey
Social
Action Forum – will Yunus & You create a worldwide happening?
Having a dream about
a better world is fun. Why not interact to help make the reality closer too? My suggestion: create a small organisation we
call a Social Action Forum. It can be as small as three people who band together to address a single, manageable
local problem. If others want to join that’s fine. But if you feel comfortable with three, don’t try to expand
that number
I am planning to create a website where you can register your social action
forum. On the website, you can describe your plan for the year, record you thoughts, mention the frustrations and excitement
of your work, show the progress you are making, and display pictures relating to your project. To start a Forum –all
you need is the willingness and initiative to make a difference.
You might start a forum around
a neighbourhood improvement. Or if you live in a developing country, the action forum might be built around helping a beggar
find a job or self-employment. Some social action forums may remain small, operate for 2 or 3 years and then disband. Others
may grow bigger and bigger, and some may become successful businesses.. An idea from one forum may inspire other forums to
replicate the idea. A few forums may grow into major programs with the potential to transform societies.
Aside
from launching a Social Action Forum, there are may steps that individuals can take to help promote the social-business idea.
If you are a teacher, you could help launch a course to teach young business people about social business. If you are a member
of a civic or faith group, you could help arrange a series of lectures, meetings or conferences about opportunities for social
businesses in your community. If you help to oversee a pension fund, you can propose that part of those resources be set aside
to invest in social business. And of course, if you are a business executive, you can explain to your CEO the value of creating
a social business.
One way to generate social business ideas is to host competitions. Any organisation
or person can sponsor such a competition: a school, a foundation, a chamber of commerce, a civic group and so on. I can picture
local, regional and even global competitions with hundreds of thousands of participants vying to create the most practical,
ambitious and exciting concepts for social business. Prizes for the best business designs could include investment funding
for the project, or connections to social investors. All the proposals submitted could be published on the internet to inspire
the designers of subsequent competitions or to provide ideas for entrepreneurs who want to start social businesses.
I
have been promoting the idea of a social-business competition for a while, and now the Taiwanese magazine Business Weekly
has announced such a competition. It has raised $1.5 million to provide seed money for the top 10 submissions, which will
be announced November 2007. I am absolutely delighted by this initiative. | London projects see L1...Ln see below include - L1 Sustainability
Elders last Luncheon
- L2 1000Bookclub and Co-launch of World Entrepreneur Summit
- L3 Yunus1000Forum and experiments with studen union subfora
- L4 Ad hoc social action
committe London
- L5 Emerging book from chapter 1 org systems that failed to prevent compounding
extreme poverty
- L6 London-New York Forum and Bookclub Squared
- L7
World Citizen Special Guides on Yunus SB Capitalism and top10s
New York projects - N1 ...Nn
include: - N1 New York Book Club First 20 debrief Jan 22
- N2
best use of facebook events announcement
Oregon Projects OR1-ORn - ned.com reverse takeover of virtual commof omidyar
- participant production : popularise
do your thing at WEF as long as hi-trust and not modelled around hi-cost saint-hood
Economist CSR survey by Daniel Franklin 19 jan 2008- (CSR report sections may need subscription
Different Perspectives on Issues that Matter- 1) Mckinsey
next 5 years at sept 2007 referred to in Economist CSR 
| 12 Collaboration Maps to Start the Year •Ask those inspired by book's systemic
maps: what lifelong difference they wish to connect because
of book and for any advice on linking people in Dhaka
with community www & win-win-win •Prepare e-grameen.com so www is ready for debate with
10000 rural telecentres on 6 life critical open knowhow
compasses of community- rising ; e-health, e-agriculture, e-edu, e-gov, e-finance,
e-consumer | •Help conceptualise stock market presentation
of Social Businesses •Maintain public records of which of top 100 global market sectors
have at least 1 Social Business benchmark of how to
use sector's knowhow to sustain humanity •Breakthrough top 10 onventional wisdom mindsets - what The Economist's 1976 Entrepreneurial Revolution survey called 10 green bottles | •Open Catalogues of Social Business
at any popular space •Co-create an open (peer to peer) SMBA curriculum with goal of mapping Yunus Cities with as many SMBA as MBA | •Help with chapter 11 diary registers
of youth and other social action teams •Help unite the large worldwide demographic
groups - eg women 1 2 , youth 1 2 - who have least decision power but most impact
on sustaining community |
Informal discussion area around http://www.yunussocialactiongroup.org/ Dear Friends Kazi has sent this exciting news (blue text below the line) of
the worldwide web name that will become a "Yunus portal". Set of Questions : Social Action Diary I
imagine some of us can have a group discussion on this when several of us meet in New York later in the week. Modjtaba,
when we first discussed this in London a month ago you had particular views for London Social Action Committee and in
relation to back mapping an encylopedia of the 21st C and the opportunity to encourage all youth to be courageous about
ethics. I know you have been researching how many cultures could or can untite in modernity. Any more thoughts, background
to frame views on this? | Mostofa- are there particular forum leaders from www.muhammadyunus.org who might be interested in intercitizen social action diaries and lead communities contributing to tehse
-for example which student union subforums can we encourage to start up
Chapter 11 of Yunus book seems to be central. The Yunus dreams
list on page 225-227 may be one resource for double checking how to celebrate projections of humanity in pluralistic as well
as actionable vocabulary
One particular
issue I recall : Dr Yunus mentioned on Januray 3 being able to interogate his emerging web's database for
how many actions get logged in of different types. That suggests either what survey researchers would call a coding frame
or I suppose some sort of tag vocabulary for searching. Has anyone seen a good example - not necessarily around social actions
- but where the search structure works to provide smart profiling information of records
I dont know what's possible
at a schools level. eg Sunita would be the some way a question diary set could be piloted at http://cmseducation.org http://ciseducation.org or back in london through http://innovation-unit.co.uk or among some group your family as lifelong developers of world citizen youth might commend. It will be interesting to see
how you can interface with Clinton Global Uni alumni
It could also be fasinating if someone could ask Tom & Milla at TheGreenChildren if they have views. They are directly sponsored by the head of Grameen America whose main interests include community-up
health care and making sure that Nobel Peace prize networks have deep foci as well as mulitpy colaboration! | Nigel Kershaw, Chief Executive
Chairman of The Big Issue and a leading social
entrepreneur and advocate of social enterprises that offer business solutions to social problems. In July 2007 he was nominated
as Director of the Month by the Institute of Directors. Nigel is also a Cabinet Office Social Enterprise Ambassador.
 | | Richard Litchfield, Director
Managing Director of Eastside Consultancy, an advisory firm providing capital and strategic advice to enterprises that have social and environmental impact. Richard
founded Eastside in 2004 to meet the gap that exists for advisory services in the enterprise marketplace.
| Robin Monro-Davies, Chairman
Founder of IBCA,
a leading ratings firm specialising in financial institutions, and later CEO of Fitch Ratings. Robin sits on the board of
several financial institutions including HSBC bank and AXA UK.
| | Sarah Forster, Director of Development
Sarah
has fifteen years experience in international economic development, microfinance and enterprise. She previously worked for
the New Economics Foundation and the World Bank.
| | John Bird MBE, Director
Founder
of The Big Issue and an inspirational leader in the social business sector. In October 2004, John was awarded the UN Habitat
for Humanity Scroll of Honour. John's latest business is called Wedge Card.
| | Ed Siegel, Fund Adviser
Vice–President
of ShoreBank International and head of the firm’s London office. Ed has been with ShoreBank for ten years where he has
gained world–wide experience in the social banking sector.
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since within my awareness only 2 of new york team are on facebook- may I repeat
this mail here (asyemtirically I dont know alexis external email yet) energising
new york every yunus student at the same time time 1 can I intro new york yunus team-members -peter and sofia
- to alexis who has set up a wonderful facebook description of yunus booktalk event . I dont think our others : modjtaba,
darline and mark are on facebook yet any of yout two who's got a mobile phone that will be operating in new
york on wednesday thru friday, why not add it to this thread so that alexis can contact us if she wishes chris can
I introduce Bangladeshi fonts of energy for yunus forum and social action Lamiya and Mostofa; and green children social action
leaders milla and tom, as well as milla's compatriot in photosynthesis world Anne Muhammad Yunus is coming to Barnes and Noble! He's giving a talk on his new book "Creating a World Without
Poverty", about social business and a potential 'nice' side of capitalism. Yunus is the winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2006 with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He created the idea of microcredit (small loans to women and impoverished
people to promote self-sufficiency and lift them out of poverty). His idea spurred hundreds of non-profits and governments
into action and has currently helped over 100 million people around the world. This guy is seriously cool! He has done some
amazing things and this is a great chance to be able to hear him speak Alexis your peers may like to know that Yunus
team needs ideas on what actual web content will activate the book socially among people like you - its an open space to suggest
how to make 3-peope social action diaries fun http://www.yunussocialactiongroup.org/Social Action Forum – will Yunus & You create a worldwide happening? | | | What student union forums could do is a very good exercise for us to debate in New York this week. But here are some first thoughts I think
that Dr Yunus book unites all business disciplines to move in a more systemic and innovative way than any strategy book I
have read - and I have read many. His work is deeply practical. In effect he's a happy banker who invests in people and
has the highest success rate is sustaining businesses. Different academic disciplines may use their own vocabulary but Yunus sets out
a case for hi-trust businesses and sustainability investment. He does this generally, though he also brings an unique perspective
to why development economics and organizational systems have failed to end extreme poverty and all millennial rights. This
is quite simply as expressed no chapter 1 that no 20th century typology of system was ultimately measurable to compounding
end of poverty. Groups debating chapter 1 are of course invited t exchange their testimonies eg through Mostofa with the study
group already formed on this at aga khan university (London). For students not taking business degrees, Yunus offers the opportunity to practice
teamwork in threes around a year long social goal. So in every way one can argue that yunus forum student union club is the
most practical for young people to spend time developing their things in life be these social or business directed. The two
virgin unite videos are well worth debating for how they connect with Yunus book http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOSTWXHTWvk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPZl-46pswU For those who dont want to start by buying the book, sampler reads are at http://www.valuetrue.com/home/gallery.cfm For those who want to help improve yunus action web as it grows into a database of one-year social actions click http://www.yunussocialactiongroup.org/ and in parallel check with Mostofa if there are some current exercises that work groups are doing alongside the web I expect
there will be several facebook groups and other virtual communities. I will try and log these up as I hear of them at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8966859358 If you join and already represent some yunus subforum, tell me so I can list it Many of these spaces will
iterate through various levels of improvement- please share bookmarks to the deepest of different types of study groups you
come across Above all if I understand correctly , as per chapter 11, Yunus seeks to unite everyone in celebrating
humanity and realizing we have far more potential than organizations and capitalism has so far facilitated. No idea is to
innovative if you hold a passion through life for it and it aims to serve other people whilst also sustaining how to deliver
this over time. I will be revamping http://top10s.tv to feature top10s with a yunus focus- eg which famous people are helping yunus most this year? which common sense sayings
of Yunus inspire you most? which heroic projects is Yunus book helping to liberate I am confident that other people can come up with much more inspiring and youthful energizing actions
than this list if they get together and apply the value: impossible becomes possible when right action people place time chris | | |
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