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Comment by chris macrae

Author: chris macrae (21)
Date posted: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:35:24 PST
Edited: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:06:36 PST
Comment on: 1000 citizen yunus forums & Capitalism's Future (0)
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Broadly speaking our initial idea is to invite groups of people who before or after the summit wish to announce a collaboration project of relevance to progressing the community and sustainability debates that Dr Yunus and his co-workers and supporters are transforming. I will try snd list some of the groups we are beginning to invite and look forward to suggestions of who we are missing etc. This may also be a good opportunity to profile which types of networks I have connections with through london if you see a group you want to do an international snap with.

y1 women of microcredit

y2 various twin nation groups - eg london and Bangladesh; London & pakistan (where the next microcreditsummit is), London and any African country we can find a diaspora group of, and so on

y3 education revolution groups such as those connecting round http://innovation-unit.co.uk

y4 Green in the City photosynthesis groups which london is a world leading node of in terms of both clean energy and clean agriculture futures

y5 youth entrepreneurs -eg those including Prince Frederick organising 1500 youth summit startin biannually in 2008 (philippines september but organsised out of UK)

y6 world entrepreneur network 100 http://www.wes08.net/ -an attempt by one of the UK's leading people economists, Rebecca harding, to return entrepreneurial enrgy to be everyone vocational right

y7 Brixton Hub (one of who's co-leaders is sofia bustamante http://www.ned.com/user/u4358995 68/?searchterm=bustamante ) - which is an incubator of citizen entrepreneur projects (transparency declaration - I have microfinanced them $40000 so that they have a 30 person workspace)

y8 alumni of over 50 collaboration cafe http://collaborationcafe.tv that we have convened over the last 5 years around the focus experiemvce of a particular socila chnage agent or entrepreneurial revolutionary

y9 journalists for humanity

y10 revolutionary shareholders of The Economist

y11 make poverty history 2.1 - a group that emerged from 70 person open space during MPH 2005 where we started to realise how often global aid is part of the problem not the solution

y12 Global Reconciliation Network European Chapter- a largely Gandian inspired group whose 3 summits in Delhi , Sarajevo and London included http://collapsingworld.org

y13 peoples for peace between East-West

y14 espian networks who aim to develop web tools that restore Tim Berners Lee 24 collaboration designs http://wiki.espians.com/24_conce pts

y15 The UK's GreenChildren http://www.thegreenchildren.org/ tgcf/community/tom

y16 UK readers and correspondents and republishers of our world citizen guide to crisis learning http://www.valuetrue.com/home/ga llery.cfm?startrow=5 our feature on taddy blecher's free university cida in south africa is a useful connection as we hear Dr Yunus is starting the First Free Womens University in Bangladesh

y17 an open consortium of agriculture schools that are aiming to source peer to peer curricula for south african youth and community land

y18 a muslim womens cultural appreciation group inspired by the book written by Somalian Shammis Hussein y18 london fans of http://www.ted.com and extreme innovation debates such as every city can have abundant celan energy if it chnages its roofs

I'll be back with some more groups - any queries etc so far?

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