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Homework for reunion of 1000 Entrepreneurial Revolutionaries

Posted to: <Ned> Front Porch by chris macrae (22), Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:39:48 PDT
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On sept 10 2007 I will take dad up for his 84th birthday to see his 90 year old sister in scotland. This gives us a year to prepare for meeting of 1000 ER http://entrepreneurialrevolution .blogspot.com on his 85th. Do you or anyone you know wish to join in the homework? Let's see...

For starters, here's my endnote on posterity of the other place

31 Entrepreneur Truth Guidebooks: over a year ago we started this thread here http://www.omidyar.net/group/com munity-general/news/1417/?search term=entrepreneur

It may be fitting to say au revoir to entrepreneur truth alumni with this invitation to weave collaboration city cafes near you

Join 1000 entrepreneurial revolution alumni in 008 celebration of Entrepreneurial Truth journalist's 85th birthday; help bloggers, children worldwide,collaboration cafe hosts, hubs and nedsters do sustainability's whole truthsystem homework
SuperScaling Yunus - Passports to Sustainability debates: web release Sept007 - queries info@worldcitizen.tv

Autumn Collaboration Cafe Festival,London 12-14 September

change world

Our editors believe there's no better news citizens can interact in 007 than microcredit truth and Yunus knowhow - see our flagship collaboration cafe of the season right; full collaboration cafes listing; all are free, and you can turn up at the door Chris Macrae

Superscaling Yunus: 11.00 am wednesday sept 12 at the nightingale cafe balham tube (go under bridge and 3 minutes along the road )

Flow 1 Mostofa Zaman - you tell us for a few minutes any conclusions of the research that you did in Dhaka on yunus supporters forums http://muhammadyunus.org/content/view/59/89/lang,en/ this summer; I will bring copies of the questionnaire you sent out across all our collaboration networks

Flow 2 Leading business journalist alan mitchell will briefly discuss why the games rules of transparency auditing and sustainability investment mapping show that yunus is one of the most sustainable and value multiplying service franchises the world of 2007-2012 can connect to; we will explain how 24 years of tracking coordinated by the UK's senior economist connects with this http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com

(we will note the mathematical conflicts with superscaling the pure microcredit franchise http://www.ned.com/group/econo-politics/news/8/0/ and ask whether similar hi-trust problems will apply to any social entrepreneur's interlocal replication)

we will then invite people to ask questions; and we will aim to work out who wants to help or stay in other ways connected with yunus forum London, or what ideas londoners have for collaborating with this;overall ... what are the main ways yunus asks citizens -and londoners in particular - to help him network now ; any other special interfaces like Yunus' UK trained pop stars ... how to weave what we learn openly to any other city who may wish to collaborate with the same urgency of focus

London: Entrepreneurial Revolutionaries have worked out a missing maths audit (which we can also present as mapping game for those who are afraid of audits) that deep purpose value multiplying corporations (or indeed networks as systems*systems need).

The pattern rules of the game are molecular so you can micro model by organisational subsystems including those people (whose social networks) the organisation's flows are most leveraging up or down; you can be zeroised by one ungoverned Nick Leeson!- the maths is simply based on system exponential flows (ie operand multiply) not linear boxed in addition; it first predicted that the accountant arthur anderson had so many conflicts that it was going to value implode 10 quarterly periods before it did

Further refs: my earlier 1996 book http://worldclassbrands.tv chartered a quiz on what questions does everyone in a service organisation need to transparently Q&A if they are to compound UOP: Unique Organising Purpose; dad's early 1980s work on intrapreneurship - the system change service economy organisations need) http://normanmacrae.com/intrapreneur.html next year we will invite 1000 person reunion in London http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com to celebrate dad's 85th birthday as the journalist who questioned entrepreneurial truth for 40 years in the most leaders ever written for The Economist

Wednesday 12 Sept 11.00 Nightingale Cafe (3 minutes Balham Tube) London (free!) please invite anyone who may be passionately interested in exponential valuation and around town - that way they can also report back to you on whether your place needs to host a similar collaboration cafe:a journalist friend is delivering the next version of our value exponentials game at this collaboration cafe where we will also model the yunus open source organisational model as the only world scaling one that appears to tacitly govern purpose flow ahead of other metrics -when I say it appears the only one: its the best model we can find in seven years of searching- you can openly debate our search data at ned http://www.ned.com/group/ned/news/6/- google used to be a model exponential multiplier example before public flotation; branson's virgin appears to be sometimes on this model ; it is probably the case that interface's ray anderson wants to be on this governance trust-flow model but that requires bringing dozens of other corporations around his network towards zero waste on to exponential instead of linear governance (and I suspect their knowledge is missing what Rick Nelson's photosynthesis network in London might raise their games on)

Trust is the most positively correlated of all emotional intelligence flows but they all reinforce joy of truth thinking and positive energies of innovation, purposeful-truth and courageous human relationships experiencing you own competence edge to the max and helping those around you do likewise)

Our approach is open source but it requires understanding of context that you cannot model trust-flow multipliers from wholly outside an organisation unless it is extremely open! unfortunately even philanthropies dont seem to have this openness; you can game up what the future exponential consequences will be but this is conditional on how accurate your truth of purpose knowledge is



By chris macrae (22), Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:52:42 PDT
Edited: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:44:40 PDT
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End August Update 007 Africa - in the year of American Idol Give back? http://africanidol.tv http://kibera.tv

new this summer : Mandela Elders Community http://www.theelders.org/support ers/

ted.com : Africa/ Tanzania videos http://www.ted.com/themes/view/i d/45

seminal alabama conference on ending malaria (last week of August and sept 5 powow at Ronald Regan Building DC - ask Peter Burgess what happened here) http://www.ned.com/group/econo-p olitics/news/6/

notes on the year that the world social forumed out of Africa http://www.ned.com/group/econo-p olitics/news/1/

My hottest debates in 2007 - at the other place or worldwide - question whether Bono, American Idol and all its crew misled 35 million viewers and the $50 mn from them it fundraised out of Africa child. As we now know from Katrina and other gory episodes, we live in a perceptual age where there are many grades of inconvenient truth above outright fraud (which I am not accusing anyone of). And these greys (blinding what global integration of localities we all weave) compound ever more risk (estimated by editorial team of The Economist 24 years ago to be irreversible by 2015) to the ultimate sustainability of our species than ...
out of S. Africa: click to see one of the most exciting videos of this youthful century
Add Video to QuickList
nominate other videos to info@worldcitizen.tv to openly catalogue community empowerment's top 100 and link with searches a b for 200 most trusted people to collaborate around during Passports to Sustainability 2007-2012

Can you help make a wish for Africa with Taddy Blecher of the Free University CIDA -

July 23, 2007 ER writes 76/100/world: free to the 1000 most passionate people for children's learning while copies last: First Edition World Citizen Travel Guide to Collaboration Solutions to Crisis Learning - London distribution point :  private snailmail ask at info@worldcitizen.tv telling us in a few lines what children's learning  future you are collaboratively committed too; or download proofs from valuetrue gallery 

click picture to join facebook inquest on what American Idol promosed to orphans of Africa, and which we people power petitions GB to get the BBC to help world serve http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/TrustPeoplePower/

...waiting until the baby flows out with the bathwater for evidential proof. I haven't spent a life as a historian. Yet it seems clear beyond` reasonable doubt that IF there is one lesson from the last half century of Africa, it is that global aid trickles down less of its total top grassroots empowerment than the leakiest water ultility's pipe grid imaginable. Friends like Peter Burgess http://tr-ac-net.org who have lived and worked through genocide countries can give you direct testimonies on how many ways transparency can bleed.

Now, Bono claims that his inspiration for Make Poverty History, wishing at ted.com, supporting American Idol mentoring the final 6 on the week of teh charity songfest, ... came from early grassroots work in an orphanage. Why then does he and his peers not appear to have had time or resarch care to keep logs for a map of grassroots up orphans projects and ensure at least some of funds collected telling te stories of 50000 orphns from Kibera is given back. (Of if he does and did, why does no search many of us have now tried on the internet yet show a case of this). I conclude that people power http://peoplepower.jp communities must network weave for Africa in an entrepreneurially empowering way. (To be continued)

Back to some good news:

Travel to visit the good people of Jamii Bora in KENYA with Tom Bevan and Milla Sunde of The Green Children, and see how small loans to poor but budding entrepreneurs can make a BIG difference!
The Green Children founded by Tom and Milla are UoS benchmark examples 2007 - why wouldnt the world prefer these pop stars? They have set about connecting youth awareness in every city to the number 1 open source method of ending poverty - the microcredit franchise certified by Nobel Peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus. They tour the world (this stop Kenya) celebrating applications opf microcredit in song and dance.

references:
http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/community/tom
http://kibera.tv orphans empowerment Q&A
http://universityofstars.tv


Another Kenya example of microcredit that is really exciting is how
KIVA* KickStart *Acumen (invest in kenya to manufacture malaria medicine) * ted works:
here is Jaqueline Novogratz telling the empowerment flowing story

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/157
more links:
http://www.kickstart.org
http://www.kiva.org
http://www.ned.com/group/ned/news/6/5/

By chris macrae (22), Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:08:10 PDT
Edited: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:13:31 PDT
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India Review August 007

end-july : espians first 100 networkers discuss the world launch of citizen travel guides to learning - free download centre here

Esther Dyson tells a startled Charlie Rose that India is the world leader in valuable education models and much else in service markets that are not robotic in entrepreneurial design ... and that in tomorrows human service markets USA is sinking like a titanic

Prahalad's search for 10 times better value models:
see eg http://www.omidyar.net/group/eco nomics/news/33/?searchterm=praha lad%20pyramid

case: Aravind Eye Care Hospitals India (click pic to see video)

world class eyecare for those needing operations due to cataracts

typical surgeon performs 150 surgeries a week - six times number common among Western specialists

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/403200708161020.htm One month after retiring from 5 year term as President of India, scientist Adbul Kalam launches Lead India 2020 : youth must tear up educational curricula wherever they teach non-sustainability -help us facebook with this world leading takeover of a nation's knowhow by its youth http://www.facebook.com/group.ph p?gid=5527802410

Correspondence with ted on vision of Sunita Gandhi http://cmseducation.org http://gemsedu.org

SUNITA GANDHI My vision for the future? ... I want to see GEMS schools of children take over the world! I want to share the opportunity to change education as we know it.

GEMS is a complete paradigm shift in education as it is based on a new Premise of competition with oneself and excellence in all things. The Four Building Blocks of Education, a vision I gave to CMS http://cmseducation.org and on which it now moulds its work with 31000 children each year, aim to truly be the most open keys of any education in the 21st century:

*Universal Values (spirit “to be” and flow), *Global Understanding (heart “to love”), *Excellence in All Things *and Service to Humanity -“the will to do service”

This has tremendous potential for removing illiteracy from India as well. I have my village based project through an NGO I started as a project in 1992 when visiting India from my World Bank days and feeling guilty I was earning so much and could do more for the underprivileged children. Today, I am running an experiment for these children under the GEMS banner which has the potential to change and rock the world of education for these children too. My article on GEMS has been accepted for inclusion most likely in Educational Leadership, the most widely circulating educational magazine out of ASCD in your neck of the woods. This article on A New Way to Assess with GEMS Dynamic Assessments will be coming out most likely in their December/January issue.

I feel education is an unexplored field. We are not getting the results we seek from it. Its goals are at odds with the needs of the individual and society today. We need to go back to the drawing board and re-examine the ethics on which education is based and the ends to which it is geared.

Education can alone create a better future and harness human potential for its highest personal and social good. To create a new future, we must chart out a new path. If we do not change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. If 20th century was the most brutal and murderous in human history as per Kofi Annan just prior to the Millennium Summit, then the future where we are headed is not a comfortable place. Where indeed do we begin a process of change. What will trigger the changes?

Why? I believe a new education is where the process of change will be Most fundamentally effective. It is also the quickest way to bring about permanent change. GEMS is not about maths or science education or even a new paradigm in assessment, first and foremost, it is a new way to think about education. If we do not ask the right questions, we are not going to get the right answers. What should education in the 21st century look like? What kind of education will bring out human potential to produce its highest and best and its noble nature? Etc…

In 1988, I organised a Roundtable on Education in the 21st Century at CMS. It explored many of these questions. GEMS is an outcome of years of iterative questioning. You may understand where I am coming from if I confess that I was getting very restless at the World Bank after I noticed how education has become like an old medication with an expired date which has at best an uncertain outcome. With so many new children being enrolled in this day into this old paradigm in education is making sure the past is intact with all its problems – Apartheid in South Africa is no different than economics based apartheid in the US, for example, as children study in different neighbourhood schools because of economics. Where will the process of change begin?

Better Value for All of The Pyramid My parents school, by educating 31000 children across a city, shows that quality education for all – we are in the league table of India’s top 10 schools on a cost/resources base that some of those other big city schools use to educate hundreds.

Iterations of the GEMS journey at the State of the World Forum where I organised a forum on Education in the 21st Century and my guests included the then Prime Minister of Namibia who was also some time prior the Chairman of the UN Conventions. His name is Hage G. Geingob, and he is inspiring. I don’t fully know why but it seems the State of the World Forum is now in a lull but at one time, they were doing impressive conferences and bringing in the likes of Steven Covey, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall besides world leaders, mostly though retired. They did bring Sonia Gandhi and it was very confusing as I was getting invitations meant for her and vice-versa that year! Incidentally, I am also a board member of World Citizen.org and Troy Davis, its founder knows me well. His father Gary Davis you may of heard of with his world passport, etc. They are in themselves quite amazing people.

More on South hemisphere interactions : project work in Morocco which got me the World Bank President’s award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Development given to 10 Bank staff members, and a thesis written about my educational ideas in 1998 by Cornell Menking, University of New Mexico, etc


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