Not quite sure of the rules and regs of the game, but here's some thoughts

The Famous

Bill Drayton, Ashoka

Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank

Larry Brilliant, Google.org

Peter Eigen, Transparency International

Paul Hawken, WiserEarth

The Should Be Famous

Christina Jordan, Opok Farms

John Berger, The Emancipation Network/Made By Survivors

Matthew and Jessica Flannery, Kiva

Clay & Cindy Cooper, SpeakShop

Thanks Mark

Most of list ER have been tracking searching for quite a while now- here are some devils advocate appraisals; I am delighted to be corrected but yes only Yunus is unreservedly in the 35 picture so far

he's the only social entrepreneur who has a world scaling collaboration brand that sustains its every greater trajectories for human good; he has multiple ways of asking people in every city to join in - learn micrcredit, join in his pop group's celebrations; debate whether your city is as an entirely destoring or sustainaing microentrepreneurs worldwide - its extraordinary how little other social entrepreneurs have learnt from him or collaborate with his intercity movements; and do note that until skoll and susan davis/drayton invited him to call himself social entrepreneur circa 2003 http://grameen.tv he had never mapped with their logics ; he's always been looking out to replicate; very few social entrepreneurs have that in the dna of the original ashoka culture, and there ae some good reasons for that depth which in origin goes back to 1978 but it dreaming of another world to assume that 99% of social entrepreneurs have any of the market replication skills yunus has

*peter eigen is an example of a gravity the world must collaborate around- yet in his ashoka triple video http://valuetrue.com/home/community.cfm?startrow=13&intClassID=-1 he said there was a 2 year window of opportunity to start seeing simultaneous chnage in transparency all over the world; not only is the time up but whenever I or transparency peers (eg peter2 at http://tr-ac-net.org ) ask ashoka video people where are the collaboration invitations coming from Eigen and their whole network the answer is deafening; Eigen didnt even play a clear role in ashoka's chnagemakers transparency competition; I spent a lot of time at THE OTHER PLACE trying to help grassroots people weave african news ahead of 007 http://www.ned.com/group/econo-politics/news/ because I was expecting Eigen to really weave with all the African events http://www.ned.com/group/econo-politics/news/ this year but if he did grassroots email pals didnt see his networks inviting them to connect; it was claimed that by adding in transparency as an extra principle of the Kofi's global compact, this would bring systemic teeth to a framework that previously had no flow; I still havent seen an example of the improvement but would love to; its true this connects with is http://peoplepower.jp the same movement if so why not eg free the BBC to be the world's number 1 investigative journalist for transparency ; at the moment it does not even get this correct on its global aid fund raising that fails to empower up

*drayton (for transparency's sake I had better say I love his soul and the distant corespondence this man has kindly gifted peers and I) and Brilliant are brilliant social but miss other qualities of E; they seem so tribal within their own boundaries which is odd because Gandhi sorted how to inc,lude smallest vices knocking at his alumkn ni gatesways http://gatesway.blogspot.com round his network hub early on; these 2 leaders do not eviden tly have people tiraging so that if someone came up with a collaboration idea close to any of their declared missions it would be connected; they may well be drowing in the exponetial rise of their own newws, one staffworker said to me -ogh we just cant wait for all the news of Yunus NObel to end so we can get vack to normal- that's te exact oposite of what Yunus would say!

*for people who have taking over so much of what 00s people say entrepreneurship is about, thsi best friends duo dont do enough on leading the charge on why does (mass) media make the same billion dollar toll on replication a life critical service message as it does a new flavour of soda; in Brilliant's case, as humanitarian world's most connected e-person, perhaps something big is about to be launched related eg to his ted wish http://www.ted.com/index.php/tal ks/view/id/58 , but its becoming an overdue pregnancy if it is

berger's (bias: I love this family's focus) is an example of extreme tough work that cannot be wholy liberated/scaled until transparency is in a different orbit; somehow we need to get 30 bergers and one Eigen to fusion with each other imo- just last week I was copied on How tough Haitii has become with crowds mistakenly attacking part of John's team assuming they were extracting kids for external adoption; we live in a wrongly mediated world where doing good at deep localities is often extremly risky

Kiva is really interesting because I dont understand how Yunus connects with it; if Yunus and Kiva were 100% multiplying I would expect more by now; I would expect for example Kiva and eral city fans multiplying each others empowerment-cheerleading flows

I have heard of some of others but need to go search some question. Also my rating standards are very tough; I'd rather stick at 35 than rush to 200.

SYSTEM CRISIS TRANSFORMATION We want to seek out a 200 that are not only doing brilliant work on their own focus but whose connectivities are chagning sustainability system costs of a globalisation that is currently expoentially destructing goodwill http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/224 http://joyoftruth.com . We are being ruled by an economics of the big gets bigger not the good get stronger. A world of zero-sum or less instead of value multipliers such as true action learning can be in use. A world where boundaries are the riskiest pilluters even though whenever batore gets crowded she exingusishes the species that is the elast competent boudary colaborator. One of the value multiplication lens we use to see what contribution to sustainabiloity is truly being made is pictured in the next post. Not many of the above list are wholly tackling the majority of the value multipliers that our intercitizens events group Passports to Sustainability believe must be start reversibility by 2012 http://passports.jp

let's take learning first : two of our top 35 heroes are Taddy Blecher and the Gandhi Family og http://cmseducation.org http://valuetrue.com/home/galler y.cfm

Taddy's collaboration interview at this bookmark makes it as clear as pure water that education goes disatrously wrong where you spirally make it 10 times more costly than it needs be at the youth stage of 5 to teen to adult critical to freedoms of access to a vocation, a life of making a difefrence. Education that trains you theory without future matching to in-demand vocational work or where you have to pay more to get a job is not sustainable. Yet the US model of edu is for ever less sustainable on that as indeed is many "democracies" where education scores are run for the conveneience of politicians and nothing to do at all with the investment in kids futures.

Taddy's breakthough is to provide free universities -in a way that is repliocable wherever you will help him open source a peer to peer curricula. He has a shopping list but also invites being shown other ways to use s africa's suprplues - a sea of youth, and lots of uncultivated land. What students study at http://cidaworld.tv they go back during the vocations to ebtrepreneurially bring to life in emepowering community sustainability. Taddy is an alumni of Mandela elders newtorks - very much their most advanced entrepreneur.

What Yunus has done in offering the wotrld an open franchise map to end poverty, S Africa and India can do for education - and the connection is 100 years of whole truth currisula innovated by Gandhi, practically improved by Montessori and ranked as system transforming by Ein stein- all people who networked with gandhi in the 1930s on stage 2.1 of preparing India's freedom from the Raj - according to my grand-dad who was mentored for 25 years by Gandhi - from being responsibility for imprisoning him to helping write up the elgalese of Independence.

What the CMS family has done over 48 years in the middle size India city of Lucknow is preserve the purest Gandhi/Montessori curricula and mkodalities of peer education. This family esentialy 3 people has deveoped a school whose classes have grown with such popular flow that it now serves 31000 children across the city. It is one of the top 10 schools in all India even by odd assessment ranking tables media uses. It achieves education of 31000 on a cost base that other top 10 schools serve a few hundreds kids. More than that its inquiring youth are likely to be the ones that help develop the new educational curricula that the ex president of India Kalam launched earlier this month as youth's responsibility to take over nationally by 2020 http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/ho lnus/403200708161020.htm will education be one of the prize foci of ted2008- may your gods pray that it is becasue it is the start of all truth and encomivc growth and it comes for free. Its just a different way of spending lifetimes of childrens. According top founder vof CMS, almost all world evil has the root cause of insiginificance adult generations attach to education of youth. That is the cornerstone of Gandhian truth and entrepreneurial truth and hopefully therefore what skoll world championships connect too.

Esther Dyson told a startled Charlie Rose 2 weeks ago that most services that need not just mechanisation are now being entrepreneurially led out of India as number 1 and USA as number 100 (bottom of class). Perhaos we shounld not be surprised that all the above zero-sum econoimts I have so far found apply hadhian whole truth to their analuysis: Sir Nick Syern, Muhhamad Yunus, CK Prahalad, Muhammad SWingh. Each of their maps is not complex but very different from the kind of global aid or corporate global economics being shoved down our throats. It may seem very theiretical to demand that economics become a fun reailty tv game but back in 1984 it seemed quite simple to play wherever goodwill peoples were ready to injetract across nations http://normanmacrae.com/netfutur e.html#Anchor-Changin-27687

All four of the above sustainability crises: 10 time more costly media. education ,service truth and professional truth are embedded in US System crises. This is good and bad news. Change and we can unleash order of magnbitude of sustainabiluity productivity all over USA, all over the world.

The catch 22 is that any such change requires re-editing the competition word because real collaboration is where above zero-sum economics way ahead starts and exponentially compounds. (How would you explain that one to Bill Gates- I dont know but unless you can, don't rely on 997 n ot particulary diverse billanthropists http://billantropy.blogspot.com , let alone purveyors of pc's killer ap the spreadsheet - to be the first to save sustainability). http://valuetrue.com/home/commun ity.cfm

A Very Silly Publications Crisis

I dont believe in my own pride when it comes to sustainability exploration. I nm deligheted to admit my mistakes.

Back in summer of 2006 it seemed very easy to believe we could start an annual 200 - for example the first contributor was Bill Drayton http://www.ned.com/group/ned/fil e/3.44.11884106443/ and his graceful example had made it clear that all his global academy were wirth a similar guide on - Yunus first of all. So I did something very foolish. I have a rough sample list of 50 Collaboration Entrepreneurial Revolution people worthy of the worldwide trust and £5000 to a London journalist to get a book proposal out. Unfortunately whilst he rapidly sent out the survey and had by Auigust 006 got up great 25 responses designed up to the same standards as Drayton interview above, he then said he wanted an advance of £200000 ish pounds- which was not my model nor any publisher's model he could then find. So he wasted months and by then Yunus was Nodel famous and any edge we could have negotiated in full colour glossy guideing of Entrepreneurs had gone puff.

I'd wanted to see the stuff open source everywhere. I want it to hub everywhere http://hubsworld.tv directory . I want it to meta-hub across wherever the top 200 have their global village meetings

http://up200.tv/_wsn/page14.html and replicate franchise experiments for the first time across hemispheres http:/cidaworld.tv I still do. I am quite prepared to sacrifice the color design of World Citizen Travel Guides (give me a snailmail if you want a first edition we have micropubished around 1o learning people we trust most)

SO -if network weavers need colour before content then heaven help us.

CATCH22

But my 2 stucking problems are how to do this so no one journalist ever closes the market again ; and how to find a publisher who understands that he will only sell more books if all the content is open source so those that want to network around 1 person's profiles and colaboration wishes can, whilst CEOs or Bill Gates can have a coffeebook annual atlas that is as biblical in its links as that year collaboration networks around teh world can nominate. Truth is I am a bit stuck on that as I already have £30000 of paid advances on other system changing books. More mathematical ones on mapmaking but still vital if we are ever to chamge being ruled solely by how much is extracted evry 90 days- a maths wherever it governs alone is perfect for compounding loss of human ssutainability as fast as global spins

So I really dont want to finance more journalists -and more content reams- but I am happy to find ways of sharing content with those who might. I fully agree that one on the best ersearchers in the field from the Other place is Clare Mulvany http://exceptional-lives.blogspo t.com (who transparency note I do exhnage anything we can from Dc whgere I am to Dublin where she has now returend)

Meanwhile I do intend to host 1000 people debriefing meetin g in London next year as the 85th birthday of dad , 25th reunuion of internet entrepreneurial revolution and 33rd since the trilogy of surveys on Entrepreneurial Revolution began in The Economist. http://entrepreneurialrevolution .blogspot.com

Ideas on collaboration media and events always welcome. This is simply the greatest open search we could all be flowing round the net or at least the simplest one I can imagine http://wiki.espians.com/User:Ent repreneur76

Look forward to hearing there is an even more open multiplyingh one. Either way I expect we will need revolutiosise publishing sectors to make the msot of peer to peer use of our content.

• does anyone else have contacts or maps of trust-flow examples of what kiva can do

chris macrae said:

• does anyone else have contacts or maps of trust-flow examples of what kiva can do

Life in Africa is a Kiva partner, Chris.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M Xk4GUGXNTQ&feature=PlayList& amp;p=C5EC5019E06B7E04&index =2

thanks Christina

to be a kiva partner do you have to comply with any particular microcredit operations experience??

I would like to understand as one travelled across countries of kiva projects what the common standard is among partners who select projects and how much of a microcredit culture there is

for example something that attracts me very much to the yunus model is the built in peer to peer mentoring among circles of 5 borrowers; this in effect improves their entrepreneurial competences; I am unclear whether kiva projects are designing in any such peer mentoring

sept update: yes, yes Christina http://www.ned.com/group/opokfarms/news/1/5/ on the road to africa's 5 most exciting alumni networks to collaborate with right now we'd http://www.ned.com/group/ned/new s/6/put

KENYA

*kickstart (origin nomination skoll)

*maathai (original nomination noble)

S Africa *Mandela Elders (origin all alumni of Gandhi Satyagraha)

I also have to declare very particular wishes for various work being rehearsed out of New York thanks to friend Peter Burgess http://tr-ac-net.org and the serendipity that most of the global village conference producers are including learning as their new or renewed) social entrepreneurial orbit

>>is there a story there?<<

I found out about The Green Children on YouYube and traded a message or two with them. They're sending a CD and some brecelets and I'd like to do a thread on them and have a small little Ned fundraiser, just to let the community here know more about them. I suspect she and Tom might join us here at <Ned> as well.

that would be wishing-on-a-star come true - Tom and Milla are one of the outstanding examples of youth leading youth as far as I can search; equally I would love to hear other's views on who's youth sustainability who because I know I dont get as many chances to network with youth as a futurist needs to be inspired with hope ... youth truth ....

another brilliant example is carolina kluft but I guess she's already training for next year now and may her gold for afrrican children come true

to be a kiva partner do you have to comply with any particular microcredit operations experience??

I would like to understand as one travelled across countries of kiva projects what the common standard is among partners who select projects and how much of a microcredit culture there is

Kiva's partners are MFI's (Microfinance Institutions) and each has it's own methodologies. LiA has been an exception to that (ie, LiA is not an MFI) with the community guaranteed lending model. Right now Kiva is developing a partner risk rating system that they are rolling out on the Kiva site, with lists of things all partners can do to improve their risk rating.

I'd say that I haven't experienced much directional input from Kiva on standardizing partners credit delivery systems, but more on standardizing the institutional risk assessment and qualitative (borrower story) reporting that is their special brand of online community transparency.

Tom Hunter Scotland's Richest man and number 1 collaboration entrepreneur

Partner with Clinton is staging global initiaves and developing book genre of Giving

more at http://www.ned.com/group/econo-p olitics/news/13/

It would seem today with the news that the $100 laprop is going on sale in the USA from mid november (admittedly at $400 buy one & give one) one of the newest open source tools may be coming to the support of collaboration educational revolutionaries downloads of education collaboration leaders http://www.facebook.com/group.ph p?gid=2427366176

ted's videos on $100 laptop and context links http://up200.tv/_wsn/page14.html

any comments?

I'm a huge fan of the OLPC from a technology standpoint. I will be buying one as well.

I honestly think that the technology that is being developed for the project is going to spur some innovation all over... from the mesh networking, to the fantastic screen that runs even when the processor sleeps, and can be read in direct sun... To the all-Python platform, with virtual machines for every lightweight process for virus protection. The memory and document handling is really ambitious too.

I'll be trying to do some software development for it as soon as I get a new computer too.

yes I think olpc could be worth a thread of its own

whilst on education, escuela nueva's Vicky Colbert seems to have been winning prizes everywhere tis year from skoll to clinton - anyone understand what iits about at a level detail than the CGI write-up

Inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Awards

Vicky Colbert

Executive Director, Escuela Nueva Foundation

Vicky Colbert has made enormous contributions to the quality of life for tens of thousands of rural and vulnerable communities. Co-author and founder of the Escuela Nueva (EN) education model, Vicky Colbert provides an alternative approach to primary and early education by reshaping the roles of teachers, administrators, students and the community as a whole.

Renown worldwide for its effectiveness in providing quality basic education, EN’s approach employs self-paced, self-directed interactive materials and encourages teachers to facilitate learning rather than simply transmit information. Its ability to improve academic, learning and social skills, and foster higher levels of self-esteem and civic behavior has been widely documented.

Ms. Colbert has focused on replacing conventional teacher-centered learning with active, participatory, and cooperative learning; strengthening the relationship between the school and the community; offering a flexible schedule and evaluation system customized for the needs of a child and an experiential, hands on teacher training strategy.

She is proud to promote the model as scalable and cost effective, two issues of primary importance to under-funded school systems. In fact, the EN approach has been incorporated by over half of Colombia’s rural schools and is being adapted for urban schools, post-primary grades and displaced populations; it has also been adapted to 14 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa reaching approximately 5 million children. To date, EN has been studied and visited by more than 35 countries interested in implementing it and has served as an inspiration for education reforms worldwide.

To promote the quality, sustainability and innovation of the model, Ms. Colbert founded in 1987 the Escuela Nueva Foundation in Colombia, a non-profit, non-governmental organization, as well as Escuela Nueva International Inc., a charity based in San Francisco, CA.