Dear Friends of Meta-collaboration in community sustainability

I think that Melanie & Friends http://theglobalsummit.org deck is quite a nice output; Laura was telling me that it will likely be January before http://chain-reaction.org knows its next prospectus out of London with Gordon Brown chairing Social Actions. With up to 1000 people including 200 under 21 to get feedback from there's clearly a lot of wonderful ideas to catalogue. January is a good time to get a round-the-world millennium actions leaflet out in DC to young community-building people partying around Obama's inauguration. I think formats for collaboration action prospectus are very difficult to map so I hope folk don't mind me attaching early version of globalsummit deck as a nice benchmark

 I am not an expert in mega-action summits but in the 10 years or so that I have been going to large scale (100 to 5000 person) open spaces the difficult period seems to be keeping projects developing after the summit- I feel project momentum will definitely increase year in year out to 2015 in LA but wonder about how to get some other twin cities feeling the global summit is their worldwide connector of action projects; I look forward to news of portal or other bookmarks of how to keep connecting

A bit cheekliy I will try and assemble main links at http://www.yunusuni.com/id47.html if only as an aide memoire for my aging grey cells!

Mostofa at http://yunusforum.net  in London is our main relationship links to who does what around Dr Yunus in Dhaka and http://yunus10000.com  and is also trying to connect alumni of clinton university with its next meetng in Texas in February. Yunus10000 dvd dialogue aims to have a theme of the month- we are moving from Internetworking for the poor - november's theme to a review of health partnerships that Dr Yunus and others have connected in year 1 of Future Capitalism - health being arguably Dr Yunus' number 1 wish to develop back in Dhaka - he wants to set up a free medical training college but one where those why qualify commit say 5 years of work in rural areas as an exchange for the free university.

Los Angeles www.thegreenchildren.org are one of his good news sources on health (hi Tom is your email working)  -this pop duo has already funded nearly 2 eye care hospital social businesses linked to the model that Larry Brilliant at google.org and an Indian eye care group developed that has 10 times less cost for eye surgery than anyhwre else on the planet. They have the "EMPOWER" album coming out soon with "you can hear me now" as theme song of ending digital divides- something that yunus introduction of mobile technology way back in 1996 has moved Bangladesh as a core innovator of with Kazi Islam at www.grameensolutions.com the ceo at epicentre of Yunus internet for poor revolutions. There are quite large youth newtorks signed up around thegreenchildren but I am not wholly clear where we pool action projects.  

I invite others to introduce their flows if they may want to meta-collaborate.

My family's bias since 1984 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Macrae :  The world needs to counter the ever spiralling bad news that will come down from wall street with good news from micro-up community builders until microeconomists end the rule by macroeconomist and all their mathematically wrong professions and image-ridden media

chris macrae usa 301 881 1655

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EF Schumacher - The heart of the matter is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of 2 million villages, and this a problem of 2 billion villagers. The solution cannot  be found in the cities. Unless the hinterland can be made tolerable, the problem of world poverty is intolerable, and inevitably will get worse.