For want of a better word, I use microentrepreneur to be anyine who wants to see more community-up solutions sustainaed and replicated openly and interlocally

Its evident that microcreditsummit - a network i am mot a part of and whose expertise I only vaguely understand - has done more to put microentrepreneurs on the map over the last decades than any other. It has raised a seroius debate in a global sector as powerful as banking as to whose systems does human sustainability erally depend on. It seems to share this knowhow so that a parallel question can be openly debated in any global market sector

It seems to me that one way outsiders to microcredit (like me) can bridge connections with those who have already speant decades knowledge devloping and open sourcing microcredit practice is to undertand what microcredit itself sees as its main debates of 2008. One way to do this is to take top billed discussion topics from microcreditsummit being convened at ned of July.

Here are a couple for starters

summit agenda 6 6 The Floodgates are Open: Channeling the Flows of Funds for Microfinance Effectively

Panelist | Mr. Ian Callaghan, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley & Co.International Limited, United Kingdom

Panelist | Prof. S. M. Huzzatul Islam Latifee, Managing Director, Grameen Trust, Bangladesh

Panelist | Ms. Roshaneh Zafar, President, Kashf Foundation, Pakistan

layman's intro: While much social business (and microentrepreneurship project empowerment) is still stressful to make a livelihood around - in the sense that it is still difficult to get funding for, the amount of money going into microcredit targeted at particular regions like africa and china is abundant. How we connect with that , should we wish to, is worth debating. One area that interests me is ensuring that those in our networks whose mission is transparently on grassroots africa are known to microcredit world as it needs to find hi-trust partners to plant new microcredit ventures with.

13 How MFIs and Their Clients Can Have a Positive Impact on the Environment

Panelist | Mr. Chitta Ranjan Chaki, Deputy General Manager, Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh

Panelist | Ms. Kathleen Robbins, Director of Clean Energy, Green Microfinance, United States

Panelist | Mr. Kadambelil Paul Thomas, Executive Director, Evangelical Social Action Forum, India

layman's intro : assumed unnecessary but ask questions if I err