End
of Yes We Can Inauguration Week 1 .Dear Student Clubs of Micro-Trust & MicroCredit & Community
Building Yes We Can The news you have been mailing in from campus all
round USA is as exciting to hear as anything since the moon race of teh 1960s. I love the joy of curiosity that
comes along with the 10000 youth dilaogues on vision for microconnecting university clubs. Yes We Can transparency mapmakers unite: of how
ending poverty can go beyond trickle down global aid and trickle down wall street banking transparency and trickle
down green energy a few points after refelcting on what has passed my screen on week 1 - not that I claim
to be able to summarise flows criss-crossing such courageous dialogues any more than anyone else -please feel able to contact Mostofa
Zaman http://yunusforum.net/ any time; he grew up in rural Bangladesh; has been working on citizen and student clubs for over 2 years now as direct
projects with yunus secretariat; he has an extraordinary knowledge of who's who inside Grameen as well as ability to help
customize internships ; until 2 year ago, most of the 500 or so interns a year were wholly microcredit; but obviously the
social business partnerships now connect potential to look at live micro projects in almost every area of vital service in
the community ; he's in his 3rd year at a london university; with mostofa my friends and I printed 10000 dvds of
video shorts with the various people around dr yunus and the variety of live projects; http://yunus10000.com/ ; great if I could give you a box of 100 to pass around -Mostofa has been specifically asked by Nobel peace laureate Dr Muhammad
Yunus to start registering up to 5000 under 35's most interested in exchanging knowhow between Bangladesh and rest of
end poverty world; we will be combing through records of interns at grameen and hope to involve corresponding intern relationship
connectors from the other major microcredits including BRAC and ASA; R&A in new york are well connected with how ASA wished
to develop worldwide understanding
I find myself being in an odd position of knowing a little bit about a lot of micro connections
but not deeply anything ; so if people can ask what they want more info it may trigger my memory of who to try and make introductions
through to We are publishing a booklet with dr yunus on collaboration. I find that a lot of arguments go on between eg validating
microfinance which miss the bigger picture that what Bangladesh has done since 1970s is provide the change from global down
aid to showing that communities are best able to develop the change they need to end poverty; it is interesting going to Dhaka
and seeing the microcredits buildings surrounded by slums whereas the global ngos are in the one part of ex colonial Bangladesh
which looks like rich citizens lifestyles. At an order of magnitude,
seeing where a microcredit's HQ is headquartered can tell a journalist more than years of phd research analysis.
I believe the first 10 micro connect clubs could develop a MicroLeadersQuest social business that students can network to help sustainability investors learn which microcredit to do
-ground level risk analysis if you will- far more economically than writing fancy analyses from ivory towers. MacroMedia
is a war of noise and PR lobbying- micromedia is going and seeing barefoot and word of mouthing or youtubing what feels like communal common sense and courage. | Before visiting and filming in Bangladesh I had an eyeopening experience in 2005 in london when many ngos had declared a cooperative year of make
poverty history; I found to my utter sadness that all these ngos meant they saw this as an opportunity to fundraise for their
international offices; the collaboration seemed to have nothing to do with ending poverty at the localities; it was as a sense
of personal revulsion to this that I became motivated to try and explore microcredit world as the one huge gravity that connects
local up; of course there's an element of over-generalization here as well as lack of my own personal knowledge but since
2006 through 2008 I have been in Dc and the number of meetings hosted by global aid to carve up the budget without much trickling
down almost makes me weep
so with the new possibilities of obama and if we can unite the real microcredits and their invitation
to all community up development economics to collaborate then we could leap forward in empowering the end of poverty , at
least I believe we must and we can; and if we do not start the revolution this year we probably never will (in my life time)
end poverty as a system failure
perhaps the greatest irony of all is that after 9/11 an Australian professor of medicine connected
a conflict resolution network and Indian Gandhians in a 2003 london conference and I accidentally walked into it; this led
me to inquire about my own family history as my mother’s side had spent many generation is India; I find that my grandfather
had spent 25 years being converted by Gandhi from British Raj judge who imprisoned Gandhi to person who wrote up the legalese
of India’s independence; it is as if most of global development aid and economics has lost every
lesson of empowerment that Gandhi argued that system transformation beyond colonization needed to involve; only what we may
can the micro-up movements and the gravity for that over 33 years in Bangladesh have really practiced Gandhi in a sustainable
way; I am aware that some Americans will ask what about Ashoka; and I have exchanged quite long letters with bill drayton
on this; but I do not accept the word entrepreneur should be applied to people who do not design into their system positive
cashflow to reinvest back in its purpose; this particular logic is planted in my mind from my father’s 40 years of innovation/entrepreneur
diaries in The Economist
I have worked on innovation in many of the world’s largest organizations with 25000 plus employees-
none practice it as empoweringly through all their employees as the main Bangladesh networks of microcredit and hopefully
jamii bora
As a mathematician who has now followed almost every metric lie global professions have designed into their own business
cases for 20 years now since working for 5 years at coopers and lybrand from 1989 before making too much trouble for them
on how the big 5 accountants were selling out measurements to their highest bidding clients (my senior partner actually used
to have on his wall a signed testimonial from robert maxwell (one of the first of about 200 multi-billion dollar ponzi schemes
that corporates have spun, making what adam smith actually meant bry free markets a sick joke) – I recommend coopers
& Lybrand as they allays do precisely what I order ) I am quite prepared to be used as a stalking horse
in battles such as why does the world bank make so little progress from the bottom up –or why has globalisation caused
banks energy education to be 10 times more expensive or riskier than most people need - while politer people
pick up the pieces and do more detailed work- tell me what focus to start an outrage debate if you ever feel there’s
an issue that needs stirring. Obama has declared this as the age of transparency – so let it be even if we have to redesign
mba curricula whilst looking after the students who do | .The view from 1984 from The UK's Senior Economics Journalist By 2024 we will know whether the generation that goes local to global
through technology's death of distance spins social and economic systems destned to end poverty or end human sustainability.
Both end games are probale - the likelihood of spinning some in-between system is next to zero if you study the maths of integration Here
is an approximate timeline and "map" of what we need to collaborate into being if sustainability expoentials
are to be our generation's gift to future generations Our 1984 scenario of an internetworking world
Changing communications, and what makes people distant, bossy, etc
Changing national politics
Changing economics
Changing employment
Changing education |
