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007 twin-world reports by African Countries
Posted to: African Economics and Leadership by chris macrae (21), Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:43:36 PDT
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This is Kenya to world and back again report for collaboration entrepreneur clubs 007 -can you help with a report from and to the world out of another country
It aims to report warts and all. Doubtkess I am mainly to blam for warts! Snce I have most peers linked in around facebook, this annual report iterating format was also designed for them
MAINLY KENYA 007 -our main local guide Samuel Kongere. His most local community is Rusinga Island http://www.ned.com/group/econo-p olitics/news/18/ - as a teacher smaule reports this rural community is challenged by malaria, huge waves of orphans but also an interest in connecting the digital divide
SKs reports from Africa's first World Social Forum in Nairobe Kenya brought tears to the eyes of anyone who cares about sustainability of children and family loving communities everywhere. As did his stories from Kibera http://kibera.tv slum which represent people empowering children in exactly the opposite way that Bono and America Idol and BBC fundriase global aid of http://africanidol.tv . However SK is primarily an educator in a rural part of Kenya 7 hours bus ride from nairobi and Kibera.
If I understand correctly the 3 main grassroots interests of SK and his peer to peers are: a) peer to peer education (that may or may not include how online, $100 laptop wiki, flash editors changes everything)
- malaria (also a gateway to all community up health care and early detection, early response prevention)
- orphans (both owning their stories by grassroots up communities-the opposite of what bono global aid funding does; redevloping architectures if Rick could ever get his 10 times cleaner energy than plant a tree foundation going; as well as youth entrepreneur and vocational future needs)
regarding B) I am wholly dependent on p's advice http://tr-ac-net.org http://immconsortium.org
regarding a) and c) I am primarily dependent on s's advice as well as flows with other networks in london which she daily renews and de-conflicts as much as possible- for example just today s has been attending as our communal delegate to how do you get funds from rich http://www.actionplanning.co.uk/ pdfs/fundsfromrich.pdf
I am aware that if job and other issues came into a good pattern, G would want to map these and other kenya and africa challenges with a lot more attention than he can currently afford to do
If people feel this is a wrong summary, please say. Please file this in an important mail box or wherever you keep mails you refer back to
It is also true that south africa and kenya are the 2 countries where I feel confident hi-trust survey maps show top 100 people making a better local to global world
In south africa we have : anyone hubbing round Blecher - a personal contact of s's : taddy is so far the number 1 open source contributor to world guides on learning crises (though we have a ted prize nomination review outstanding on our deeply connecetd Gandhian networks in India) http://www.valuetrue.com/home/ga llery.cfm
mandela cluster which we don't yet have a direct link into though Blecher has a relationship with him and clearly Londoners (if they ever get to colabprate around Branson) would then be linked
In Kenya: world inspiring examples are: maathai - clean energy and womens networks -as yet no contacts though why our green network experts dont have is beyond my patience levels
martin gardner and nick moon - the world's number 1 agricultural tools revolutionaries (our freind clare in Dublin knows martin?)
jacqueline novogratz - one of acumen fund's main investments is now in malaria pills manufactured out of nairobi as well as the microemntrepreneur supply chain that is microfinaced by kiva and others to grow the natural ingredients input to these pills - I am desperately trying to build a relationship with jacqueline's sistes amy who is the prize coordinator of www.ted.com
It could be that SB, PB or G either have additional nominations or contacts with those already stated above.
Above all else S, other friends and I are trying to become a world citizen conference organsiing host friend of muhammad yunus; if we could earn that permission we could pretty qucikly have much more accurate maps on who wnats to colaborate with who than london or any city has ever dreamed of sharing before
Whilst I take full responsibility for my own errors as a minifinacier, I am very annoyed with particular londoners in 2007 who have wasted 50000 pounds of 10 year old daughter's money this year. All they needed to do was build openly around themselves as real people and their deepest most urgent change project concerns. All they needed to do was participate in a commonly compiled guide of projects built round open educational enrtrepereneurs who like Gandhi have to be the most collaborative people in the world for their hi-trust to flow. Instead they threw money at networks and products that were neither ready nor communally chartered -they compounded personal conflicts of extremely low-trust maps. The extreme incompetence of these networks (ironically bulding their own digital apartheids and compunding rsks as they went) at their collaboration boundaries beggars belief (what do you think the number 1 flow difference is between a network of systems and separate systems) as does the utterly abismal practice of facebook and email and hub that these to be nameless people perpetrated. Worst of all wherever such incompetence treads onto a context whose deep charters need to space through huge comflict and lost transparency, these system blind londoners put lives at risks while complimenting themselves on how party smart their events and mobile distractions in the city are.
Fortunately something that cost nothing at all (other than a lot of time spent in cross-cultural listening) has turned into a world city flow of amazingly graceful yunus proportions. However to make this collaboration world safe from being polluted by change networks with a lot of momey, this is going to take 6 months of work that is the exact opposite of what most limage-rideden london change networkers pride themselves in doing. They should go back to 1907 http://peacecentury.tv (the start of Satyagraha's 100 year CV for truth mapmakers) and read gandhi all over starting with the meta-system chalenges of education, media and professions.
chris macrae us 301 881 1655 travelling wed and thurs to launch colaboration new york http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page 4.html
Just as we have tried here to start surveyng who are the people the world could most trust collaborating and empowering for global good africa around, we invite nominations worldwide to this survey at http://worldcitizen.tv You may wish to know that most of my life has been spent doing social research around Asian countries so I expect you can quickly add more on Africa trust maps than I (or anyone I trust most as a peer) have had a chance to do in 007. I dont usually do 50K microfinancing in a year; I had assumed that if ever africa was going to be turnrounded with collaboration city help the initiaves of clinton www.ted.com, world social forum as well as remnants of make poverty history, http://www.wiki.espians.com , green in city http://southbank.tv american idol were a unique year - the best chance ever for http://peoplepower.jp flowing through Africa. To the extent that I have clearly not managed to flow much good, I will be absolutely delighted if you wish to openly report here successes in african empowerment your peers have had.
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By chris macrae (21), Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:35:34 PDT
Edited: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:38:17 PDT
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absent of anyone coming to file a twin african report of what community sustainaing models to learn from in 007 from oether african countries, I will start inviting 2 sorts of data collectiosn:
-what's the next summit that a nation is hosting which networks the people empowerment up perspective http://www.ned.com/group/econo-p olitics/news/17/
-where in africa are microfinance cases going right or wrong now that 10 times more investment funds are being allocated to africa with the hope that they waill all be mapped community-up and not syphoned off by the ld powers that may pretend to support a community but once they are embedded in it will go back to extracting wealth for owners outside the community and at some global pyramid's top http://www.ned.com/group/econo-p olitics/news/16/