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Collaboration Cafe - how easy can we make it for youth demands' of worldwide changes
Posted to: Network Weavers by chris macrae (19), Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:48:41 PDT
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aftre the colaboration cafe tv show on bronx cable tv we were asked to put up a weblog that any colaboratin city could cut and paste theior own concerns searches from - so we've made a start at http://collaborationcafe.blogspo t.com
updates: Sarkozy demands Paris leading business school http://www.hec.fr/hec/eng/news/news-detail.php?cle=74916&num=1213 give students a choice of how to unlearn MBA .. survey debriefs on which other worldwide business schools are participating will appear here http://www.smbaworld.com/id42.ht ml
-surveys of how to collaborate round this in other cities follow here http://www.ned.com/group/network weavers/news/6/10/
2 rather extraordinary things happened while in London week of sept 11: we got a message that Yunus might want us to search London for the 1000 most collaborative and urgent world changers our http://peoplepower.jp nets can muster
whilst hosting a cafe in the Quakers House I was reminded by a participant what happened in 1931 when 1000 networkers met Gandhi
Footnote collaboration cafe process:
I have now hosted 50+ of these cafes http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page 4.html mainly out of London. This year we are offering a fall festival of cafes on 3 consecutive days but we are also wanting to share what we openly learn with hosts/hubs in other cities if we can find any.
Typically a cafe: -takes one hour; is free but if we get full the most contextually passionate are served -in ideal form we spot someone famous is about to visit a city and we send out an invitation : we can't pay you but if you will meet 10 of us for a coffe we'll sarch all our networks for 10 people who most actively want to be your disciples
In effect collaboration cafes reduce 3-days Harrison Owen "open spaces" to one hour by making the invitation and search process as focused as we possibly can.
By Steve Habib Rose (14), Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:50:55 PDT
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I was involved at one point with a similar initiative, which has since become Conversation Cafes. See http://www.conversationcafe.org/ I believe I am still one of the moderators of a public discussion list for Conversation Cafes, and would be happy to post an announcement/invitation to that list. Please send it to me in plain text to habib - at - connectexpress.com
I'd also like to encourage you to become a part of Conversation Week 2008, from March 24-30. You can find out more at the Conversation Cafes website listed above.
You may also want to become a part of the Conversation Collaborative -- see http://www.conversationcafe.org/ explore_coll.html
in community (and conversation),
Habib
topBy Julie Caldwell (4), Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:50:57 PDT
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This is an idea that would be fabulous for network weavers.
What would you suggest as next steps?
By chris macrae (19), Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:14:19 PDT
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In a way I need people to ask questions as to any how's that are not obvious - we can share what we have learnt as well as discussions agendas that seem to lead torevolutions, though what flows in one city and what in another is something we'd love to learn from too
Cafes seem to range from very small and deep meets where someone comes out with an idea and is releived even to find 2 other people passionately believe in it too,
to
the original idea track world's most trusted people's diaries ahead of time and when you find they are visiting your city make them a networking offer
BREAKING news: it seems that Yunus has upped the ante on Londoners- he will give us 2 hours if we can get 1000 people same place same time same collaboration flows as his- we are just checking that we did understand the invitation, and whether it applies to any city he is passing through
By chris macrae (19), Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:45:33 PDT
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Back in 1931 the Quakers networked weaved 1000 people round Gandhi so well that people he became connected through life included: Maria Montessori - she visited India and planted what became the best examples of her peer to peer schooling
Albert Einstein - who refereed the value of Gandhi's leadership as the most sustainable he had ever seen. Soon my grandad whose job as head Raj judge in Mumbai had been to imprison Gandhi saw the light and... ended up writing up te legalese for India's Independence.
How can we in London (or any city) play the best games of network snap when Yunus visits us? What's blocking http://peoplepower.jp today? Can we revisit every global market sector and check which are sustaining human futures? For example, what good are global pharma corps if they dont want to invent vacinations that replace costly treatments they are selling?
if you can take disease out of one person you can take it out of 6 billion - its learning how to do it for one that is difficult; if we don't know how to repeat bililion times, what a shame , what have we learnt?
...I say there is an endless capability of human beings, we can just have no limits;
...(dont worry about) conventional wisdom, it hides conventional blunders
By chris macrae (19), Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:48:08 PDT
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I was asked elsewhere to give details on collaboration cafe as a faciliation tool - this answer may be of some value as it blends more understanding on where te tool came from and where londoners 1000 most colaborative networkers wish to go to
technique collaboration cafe:
collaboration cafe started with the view that 3-day open space is sandwiched by invitation before the space and what actions network after the space (facebook group on open space http://www.facebook.com/group.ph p?gid=2336949583
the question : if citizens only have 90 minutes and space for a 10 person cafe- can anything world changing be done?
we decided perhaps it could if we essentially focused on invitation and post space action
specifically what if a group of citizens -such as members of http://www.simpol.org on whose management board I served for 2 years - around a city shared their votes on number 1 trusted people in change world - who, what context, and searched when any of these number 1's was visiting the city ahead of time; and made the cheeky offer to this world#1 host - we cant offer you speaker fees but we can search all our networks and find you the 10 people who most want to action your work
so because the invitation has been geared to a world change person, the group is there to Q&A how to practice or network weave with that world changer and the post space opportunities to change the world flow truly
londoners have now done about 50 collaboration cafes http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page 4.html http://www.ned.com/group/network weavers/news/6/ we were surprised a fortnight ago by a bonus meta-collaboration cafe offer; with enough people sharing lists of world's most trusted people and why, we were asked could we help map who the 1000 most collaborative people around London are -ie people ready to team up for urgent system transformations if Muhhamad Yunus has time to give such 1000 people two hours of meeting time
quite how we live up to that my friend/facilitator sofia bustamante is spending night and day working on http://grameen.tv
By chris macrae (19), Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:19:56 PDT
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Collaboration Cafe is being transferred next week to broadway (well actually washington square but what's a few neigbourhood among friends); know anyine in New York who's passionate about any of tehse cafe subjects, please invite the - the more cause passion the better
Date Thursday October 11 11.15 Photosynthesis Cafe (question expert: rick nelson)
12.30 Malaria and community transparency for grassroots health Cafe (question expert: peter burgess)
1.45 Yunus WorldCitizen Challenge Cafe: will your city be first to interact 1000 people meta-collaboration Yunus Forum (question connector: chris macrae)
venue Olive Cafe location: 117 McDougal Street which is close to West 3rd Street just South of Washington Park. --------------------------------- More details- 11.15 is a replay of a cafe in London's festival last month. Rick's photosynthesis architecture and agriculture inventions open up a world of clean energy and clean food abundance. But they conflict with most existing channels and professional interests. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C ToYjQFRxXE we believe he's a classic test case of an open source entrepreneurial revolutionary that citizens could network sustainability around - but will we? Rick aims to respond to Taddy Blecher’s request at CIDA Free University (S. Africa) to open source practical peer to peer curricula for sustainability entrepreneurs and wishes to show that photosynthesis architecture around a slum like Kibera would be a 10 times better carbon reinsurance fund than plant a tree.
12.30 Peter Burgess is a Brit whose retirement projects in New York include end malaria and other transparency networks. After a lifetime spent working in many African countries - sometimes with business and genocide going on side by side - Peter, a chartered accountant, can answer questions on what aspects of empowerment in grassroots communities, global aid seldom reaches. His community intelligence webs: http://immconsortium.org http://tr-ac-net.org
1.45 Londoners have been posed a big question by Muhammad Yunus. Can we survey all our change networks for the 1000 people who would most want to be invited for 2 hours to discuss everyone’s collaboration projects including the social enterprise stock market that http://peoplepower.jp could help emerge. This builds on a London cafe which Mostofa Zaman presented after interning with Yunus in Dhaka this summer on: how can Yunus citizen forums empower maximum change. Yunus has selected the Forum value : "impossible becomes possible if right action, right time, right place, right people". Chris co-authored 1984 netfuture book with his dad, future history leaders editor at The Economist. Death of Distance challenges net generation include mapping 30000 replicable social projects by 2010 http://www.normanmacrae.com/netf uture.html
By chris macrae (19), Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:33:04 PST
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New York's winter festival of collaboration cafe is being organised by fellow nedster Peter Burgess for 23 january - after the cafes we expect to swarm to the NYU Barnes and Noble where Muhammad Yunus will be greeting new yorkers with his new book; creating a owrld without poverty - socila business, te future of capitalism http://www.publicaffairsbooks.co m/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/dis play?book=9781586484934&view =tour
http://storelocator.barnesandnob le.com/authors.do;jsessionid=AB9 755D310B5D1C34E0C7769443FDE83
By chris macrae (19), Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:58:43 PST
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location nightingale cafe: 193 Balham High Road, Balham London, SW12 9BE ( 3 minutes from balham tube)
let's take a future history check:
1 Future Capitalism: Yunus 2007
2 Future Capitalism : dad in Bangladesh 9world war 2) 1943 at The Economist 1984
3 Future Capitalism - founder of The Economist 1843
Principles stated in 1984 :
- globalisation is the biggest system change ever to hit one generation of humanity 1984-2024. If we compound win-win-win global it will be greatest progress for all of humanity starting with the poorest; if we compound lose-lose-lose global , it will end human sustainability. (System changes have had this impact on countless civilisations before but this time we are all interconnected)
2007 Read social abcd extract of yunus on how to debate whether you are doing stuff systemised by lose-lose-lose global or win-win-win global http://www.valuetrue.com/home/ga llery.cfm
- Human sustainability will be lost if we only systemise global-down. We need to integrate Entrepreneurial Revolution's 3 forces- the other 2 being community-up sustainability and boundary zero-risks (eg Larry Brilliant systemise no plagues; or alfonso lingis systemise no wars between cultures)
2007 Read extract of yunus on half-developed capitalism and how social actions are a way any 3 people can sustain community goals; and social businesses can integrate the 3-in-one.
yunus 2007 Our job as citizens -which Yunus Forums invite you to celebrate humanity through - is to collaborate around every community-up or zero-risk boundary method- as well as microcredit a recent favourite of Yunus is Bottom of Pyramid eye care hospital and Free University of Blecher. If we truly connect all community-up and side to side projects we will turn capitalism round from exponentially destructing human sustainability
We are not likely to see another nobel economist with the upward momentum of Yunus make this collaboration city invitation in time to save sustainability
By chris macrae (19), Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:04:14 PDT
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last night a collaboration tavern of 20 people in new york including various bankers discussed some of yunus' latest happenings
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/5 16350-grameen-banks-muhammed-yun us-first-nobel-laureate-to-addre ss-an-islamic-finance-forum?ln=e n Bahrain this week: Yunus is headlining the IIFF, which runs in Dubai from April 13-17, and is being held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai.In his first address, Yunus said the consequences of the turmoil in credit markets represented an opportunity for the global finance sector to consider its current rules and regulation."It is a good time to reflect on what a bank is and does," said Yunus, speaking to a packed-audience of delegates in Dubai. "If I were to ask for a billion dollars for a good global cause, there would be a lot of uproar - but a trillion dollars down the drain, everyone off still playing golf, and not a word spoken."
co-staging keynotes with veolia's water billionnaire next week http://watermeetsmoney.com/
two weeks ago his lunch with President Sarkozy, that leed to the instriuction that france's leading busienss school offers an smba course next fall
I am glad to report that it was agreed that colaboration tavern will become a monthly fixture in new york
By chris macrae (19), Fri, 23 May 2008 15:53:07 PDT
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I was talking with someone near the top of one of the most interesting management schools in the USA if not the world and he said you mean you think Dr Yunus would like me to ask if we could help him with content on how to change what MBAs are taught
to which I say : yes I mean that
to which he says: if you think that's what he wants we can definitely try to help him
--so I guess I had better continue ringing round heads of business schools asking if they have any plans to collaborate with France's SMBA lead:
http://www.hec.fr/hec/eng/news/n ews-detail.php?cle=74916&num =1213
on to stuff which in one sense is more at ground level, but perhaps even more fun to do if you feel so- I have been trying to work on http://collaborationcafe.blogspo t.com with the 2 principles:
-a different collaboration theme, which one or more of you have kindly talked about collaborationng on, in each historic month (ie forget the dates and lets use the rest of the free web that a blog structure offers)
-if a city or indeed a subgroup likes some of te themes but not others they can always take the code and start a paralel blog
it needs more work, co-editing, both ooncollaboration topics I havent digested yet and to make it clearer what next steps are on stuff itemised but anyhow here's the menu for starters
http://collaborationcafe.blogspo t.com/2007_12_01_archive.html
dec 2007- can youth poverty be ended in usa and indeed will it be a deciding election agenda - I have borrowed from Darryl's energy on this: I have to say that I dont quite believe Darryl's web will work as is, though with some tweaks it could certainly do something, and of course I'd be most happy to be wrong; if I understand his logic he both wants to transfer current charity giving in usa - if 15% of all charity went to youth in poverty that would fix basic needs if I hear him right as well as expand charity giving. I feel the privacy photos dont really work and that it will be neccessary to partner some of the established childrens charities. But i certainly think the web is an extraordinary demonstrtaion of the issue of being a click away from ending youth poverty, a talking point many action groups could get fired up by- and I congratulate Darryl on getting a 30 minute slot with bronx tv to elaborate on this
http://collaborationcafe.blogspo t.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
nov 07 Africa Transparency Resources- Spencer is volunteering to be inbox for nominations of who cares locally about African countries among your peers. Collab cafe started in NY with the African transparency and end malaria and community impact analysis work of Peter (and Spencer) so I look forward to this section brewing with any flows we can bring. Over in London diaspora networks we have a lot of deep and hopefully synergetic work coordinated by Lesley.
youth actions
http://collaborationcafe.blogspo t.com/2008_01_01_archive.html
here I am hoping that marriah will add in suggestions from his recent mail that sounded briilliant; I am not quite sure which of the focal points he identified are happy to be named in a blog so I havent transferred his post directly but I feel there is a huge momentum around social actions coming from:
*what marriah has suggested
*the dialogues between eg yunus and youth particularly on chapter 11 of his book
*the // social action uni of Bill Clinton - whilst I take quite a lot of the wickets of BC as way above my league, it did seem that a major thrust of his 500 student conference at new orleans was to tell them its ok to ask university staff for help in developing community building outreach
http://collaborationcafe.blogspo t.com/2008_03_01_archive.html
postcards from Dhaka
we have 4 people on this circulation list visiting Dhaka in the next 8 weeks doing work (Rachel already there and alexis from new york and mostofa and mark from london) at either ASA or Grameen and also in touch with BRAC university; we look forward to a few postcards from this most practical and heroic place on ending poverty, building community banks , and as Intel announced earlier this week laboratory for what the www can do in connecting the 3 billion people which the first 20 years of the www has given almost no interactive inclusion to http://news.google.com/news?hl=e n&um=1&tab=wn&q=%2By unus+OR+grameen+OR+BRAC+OR++chow dhury+%2Btelecentre+OR+solutions +OR+telecenter+%2Bgates+OR+intel +OR+cisco++OR+schmidt+OR+google& amp;btnG=Search+News
april
vote for a dvd of the 100 most socially actionable youtube videos on the planet
http://collaborationcafe.blogspo t.com/2008_04_01_archive.html
within reason I am happy to open sponsor the cutting of such a compendium if we can vote in the content
anyhow these are how a sample of ideas are shaping up -and I know its just a first stab to see if a step forward or back -
if your biggest collaboration invitation isnt covered either ask to become an editor of the blog or tell one of the editors what it is
cheers
chris macrae dc tel 301 881 1655
By chris macrae (19), Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:38:41 PDT
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news from the latest dhaka collaboration cafe just intl reporter mostfa zaman, serial interner at Grameen
Grand Prince Hotel. The meeting was for 2.35 Minutes long. The peoples: 1. Rachel. ASA womens worldwide truth branding of microbanking 2. Chris S, ASA Intern; comparing entrepreneurial anatomies of village by vilage - what service franchises do you find in ever bangladeshi villages and how is peer to peer learning swapped across villages 3. Clayton L, Grameen Intern 4. Kojiro, Grameen Intern 5. Richemount, Grameen Intern 6. Benoit, Project Grameen- Veolia Water Company 7.and myselftopics included - why do virtual communities -especially american hosted ones - so often hate to share diaries of open source projects however well they are accelerating; what more does Dr Yunus need to add to the debate of let's unite around wholeplanet experiments how do we bridge our 2000 people knowledge updating network events http://microcredit.tv and those of others trying to save humanity before sustainability's deadlines crash
By chris macrae (19), Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:33:11 PDT
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New collaboration cafe website, and first news of DVD10000
http://www.collaborationcafe.net / would enjoy feedback
recent social action learnings:
after 5 of us spending this week in Dhaka the plans of Muhammad Yunus and Bill Clinton to engage youth during the year 2008/2009 seem to be getting exponentially bigger and more collaborative; coincidentally they also seem to match a big obama speech earler this week on the american priority to get back to loving job creation of a humanly productive kind -what industries like banking and professions like economics once used to truly focus on before globalisation took a wrong turn http://www.normanmacrae.com/netf uture.html
flows around 4 cities that I love seem to have extraordinary opportunities to help youth connect this wave together worldwide:
new york (To List)
london & Dhaka (CC List)
Paris - the western city that has so far done most to advance the collaboration dynamics of future capitalism
we have permission from Dr Yunus to pilot DVD10000 - which 25 video stories of youtuble length could be collected on one dvd and circulated to 10000 youth so as to maximise year long social action debates and share good news of community building and sustainability revolutions that the mass media so seldom covers? http://futuresunited.com
thanks, chris macrae us tel 301 881 1655
By Linda Nowakowski (172), Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:19:07 PDT
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chris macrae said:
...
The meeting was for 2.35 Minutes long.
The peoples: 1. Rachel. ASA womens worldwide truth branding of microbanking
- Chris S, ASA Intern; comparing entrepreneurial anatomies of village by vilage - what service franchises do you find in ever bangladeshi villages and how is peer to peer learning swapped across villages
- Clayton L, Grameen Intern
- Kojiro, Grameen Intern
- Richemount, Grameen Intern
- Benoit, Project Grameen- Veolia Water Company
7.and myself
topics included -
why do virtual communities -especially american hosted ones - so often hate to share diaries of open source projects however well they are accelerating;
what more does Dr Yunus need to add to the debate of let's unite around
Was the format speed meeting?
By chris macrae (19), Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:35:19 PDT
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By Liam Cullen (9), Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:54:30 PDT
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Dr Yunus, Dr Yunus.... tell us Dr Yunus...
reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons... where they have the Dr. from the planet of the apes.... you know Chris.. the more you pour this stuff down people's throats... the more bitter it gets...
By chris macrae (19), Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:42:21 PDT
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By Liam Cullen (9), Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:47:07 PDT
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Hey Chris,
That's unfair!!! You posted the same response in two different threads...and you misspelt the word court twice!!!
OK... now when you go to the corner and spank your own bottom... make sure you do it soundly and then write the lines,
"I will not appear in court, but u should"
Say 10 hail Dr Yunus's and light a candle for world peace.
regards,
Liam.
By chris macrae (19), Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:32:42 PDT
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you know at the end of every day the proof is in the action not in the ned-liam-chat or your wickedly humorous fantasies
By Liam Cullen (9), Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:39:05 PDT
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Well said Chris!!! I am sure you are a person of genuine belief in your cause and your hero..... I just think you plug and plug with so much incomprehensible word jargon stuff and try so hard to talk above everyone else in a manner that puts people off and refuse to respond directly to simple messages... did I mention poor punctuation?? anyway I am sure you are of good intent but if you were able to concentrate your communciations and recognize the difference between a dumpmaster approach and taking the time yourself to pick out the key aspects of what you believe.... mate you would kick goals... just stop trying to shove 1 tonne of Yunnus information through the letterbox everytime you post.
peace and power
Liam
By chris macrae (19), Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:11:41 PDT
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I thought might as well transfer some old collaboration records before they disappear
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Collaborative space for ArtSFest planning - join us in cultivating the next generation of arts in the San Francisco Bay Area! Read more about ArtSFest at http://www.artsfestsf.org, or join us here to help in planning our annual festival and year-round p...
Atlas Service Corps Members: 29
Atlas Service Corps is a new international citizen sector organization that identifies rising citizen sector leaders from the developing world to volunteer for one year in the United States. In this year long Fellowship, these Fellows will learn best p...
Basics and More for Non-Profits Members: 109
The goal for this group is to create a place for those already in the non-profit world, and those who hope to join it, to share ideas and basic information about what it takes to start and keep your business going. I am inspired to make this group hap...
Better World Buddies - Social Justice Members: 20
This is a group to look at ways of introducing folks to each other as "Better World Buddies" who are connected by an interest in a "social justice" issue. (This might include things like poverty, child abuse, discrimination, and so on). It's part of t...
Better World Buddies - Technology Members: 28
This is a group to look at ways of introducing folks to each other as "Better World Buddies" who are connected by an interest in a "technology" issue. It's part of the general "Buddies" group. This group could serve as the meeting point to connect wit...
Better World Buddies - Youth Members: 24
This is a group to look at ways of introducing folks to each other as "Better World Buddies" who are connected by an interest in a "youth" issue. It's part of the general "Buddies" group. This group could serve as the meeting point to connect with eac...
Better World Media Members: 216
This is a group to investigate ways of balancing the media to include positive discourse - to bring more attention to what is working, and how to do more of it.
Better World Scouts Members: 17
This is a group which which supports folks who wish to scout out news and service opportunities for a better world.
Better World TV Members: 14
Welcome to an omidyar.net theater. Ever watched a "better world building" movie? Hosted a viewing party? Thought a multimedia appetizer might be just the thing to get you started when you want to dig a little deeper into an issue? C'mon in and share...
Biological Innovation for Open Society Members: 57
BIOS is an evolving international initiative focused on systemic change in innovation systems to democratize problem solving. BIOS recognizes that creativity in biological innovation underpins all aspects of human health and environmental sustainabil...
Biz Plan Buzz Group Members: 297
Join here if you have a social venture or philanthropic project you want to brainstorm with others, with an eye to creating a business model and business plan. Start your own "discussion" page within this group for your project. Read and comment on the ...
Blacklists: Just say "No!" to Members: 13
I would like to have a group where we can publicly declare things we **disapprove** of -- a kind of "just say no to ABC" area. ==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Bl...
blank Members: 0
Book Club Members: 87
This is a group for folks to form an online book club. Each book can have its own discussion, or organize as it makes most sense to you. Participate in as many (or as few) as you like.
Brain Injury SurvivorsSupport Members: 5
A source for ideas/information/inspiration/feedback/support for survivors of brain injury and those who support them (families/friends/volunteers/health care professionals/administrators). Fluid.
Breast Cancer 3-day Members: 11
Dear Friends, The weekend of October 21st, 2005 I'll be participating in a very special and powerful event in the fight against breast cancer. It's called the Breast Cancer 3-Day. This will be my third walk. My first two were in New York in 1999 and 20...
Bridges and Brain Gyms Members: 15
Lost in the local lingo and want to find better ways to connect? C'mon in and explore some of the ideas and terminology people are using to describe better world building activities, and share a few of your own. Exploring featured words and phrases wi...
Broadening the death penalty dialogue Members: 42
How can we use the Internet to broaden -- and deepen -- the dialogue around the death penalty? What tools are at our disposal? How do we engage those who favor the death penalty in a safe, constructive discussion? Who should we reach out to?
Buddies Members: 22
This is a group for discovering and connecting Better World Buddies, to connect people from arbitrary geographical, cultural, age, socio-economic, and personal categories from around the world. It is particularly focused on connecting people who are Fa...
Building Better Students Group >> BBSG Members: 28
This launch of the Building Better Students Group is being seeded by some of the Chief State School Officers selection of "teachers of the year" from over the past 52 years. We're simply inviting some of the best and brightest teachers in the United St...
Business Members: 334
Every sector has reasons to look at business issues that impact both organizations' and people's success.
Camp Fire Members: 20
*I think of this place as an extension of the "Do Something Moments" discussion sparked by Tom Munnecke. This is a spot to park your hat, slide onto a log and loosen the shoelaces. To gather 'round with your cup of coffee or 'smores. A crackling place t...
Candidates 2008 Election Campaigns / Campaigning Members: 28
We want to exchange ideas and engage in projects towards making good things happen in 2008! .. contents:: Goals Analyze Value Systems ==== Very fundamental: knowing what we care about. Inform Voters ==== Connect Communities of Interest ==== Enumer...
Children - Youth - Families Members: 259
What's important in developing all kinds of families and in working with young people.
Clash of Civilizations - Cultivating Tolerance and Understanding of Different Faiths Members: 22
The foundation for much of the current and historic frustration in the world is the belief that one's faith and precepts are superior to all others and, in some cases, one's faith justifies hate and violence. Every major faith has its examples of faith...
Clean Drinking Water Members: 33
The CleanDrinkingWater_ group is about working together to bring clean drinking water to those who have never had this basic necessity. .. _CleanDrinkingWater: /group/h2o/CleanDrinkingWater
Clothes With Conscience Members: 10
ClothesWithConscience will facilitate the building of relationships and ethical exchange of value between wealthy 1st world customer's and 2/3rd world female entreprenuers who own their own custom "art" clothing businesses.
CM_System_Testing Members: 1
We created this group to help us test various features of Omidyar.net
Coffee Klatsch Members: 12
* Just finished a book and you know it's significant but you just haven't put the pieces together to figure out how? * Had an idea and you are sure it's the key....but you're not sure where the lock is? * Just need someone to work through ideas with?...
Collaborative Children's Project Network Members: 31
This group was born of a desire to showcase and collaborate between grassroots projects working with children all over the world.
Collaborative Funding Project Members: 58
Omidyar Network hosted a $50,000 team-based collaborative funding project with the omidyar.net community June 1 - 30, 2006. .. sidebar :: VOTING IS OVER Members can now review the results by clicking the polls_ tab. In this funding project: - The...
Collaborative Project Designs - Designing Collaborative Software / Projects Members: 40
==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== Collaborations.US_ - About.Collaborations.US_ - Collaboration.Collaborations.US_ .. _Collaborations.US : http://collaborations.us .. _About.Co...
Commens Commons Members: 5
A group devoted to Semeiotic, C.S. Peirce et cetera. Commens is a mutual mind ... necessary for communication. Semeiotic is the Doctrine of Signs, called for by John Locke, etc. C.S. Peirce is the father of Pragmat(ic)ism and leading figure of Semiot...
Community Members: 4
Contains groups that are focused or based on omidyar.net.
Community - General Members: 19363
Everyone on omidyar.net is a member of this group -- feel free to talk about anything you feel other members might be interested in. Get to know each other, share tips and techniques, have fun!
Community Centers & workspot Members: 29
Many people around the world use computers without owning them. They work at a friend's house, an institution or an Internet cafe. They share resources, but very little helps them to consolidate their identity and maintain continuity. Community center...
Community Decisions Members: 18
==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Community Decisions Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, links & c...
Community Stories Members: 17
This group hopes to share the stories of good things happening in the world because of connections and activities made through online community and networks. * Stories can revolve around individuals. What has happened that you know of because of an ind...
CompuMentor/TechSoup Project Development Members: 78
This group is an experiment in opening up Compumentor's project development process in a very action-oriented way. We will soon--within the next two weeks--be opening several discussions to start the process. Each discussion will concern a specific pro...
Conferences Members: 136
This group is for planning, documenting and sustaining o/net Conferences. Oak Park (Chicago) hosted events in July 2005 and 2006. Other events are planned for Blaine, Washington and Kampala, Uganda! Please join us for `ONgoing gatherings`_! Also, fe...
Connecting Hearts Members: 99
A space to talk about and ultimately develop whatever it takes to make "it" happen with local communities of youth, adults, and families. .. image:: http://www.whirlingrainbow.com/images/heartbeat.gif For a list of Connecting Heart Initatives see our ...
Connectors and the Tipping Point Members: 159
This group is inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's book, "The Tipping Point." "tipping point" n. In epidemiology, the concept that small changes will have little or no effect on a system until a critical mass is reached. Then a further small change "tips" ...
Consensus Engine Planning Zone Members: 16
This group's purpose is to store and manage discussions reguarding the design and implementation of the Consensus Engine tool. I'll update this description as more details develop. The proposal for this project was discussed on the `Consensus Engine t...
Cooking & Restaurants Members: 67
Please tell us your secrets in the kitchen. Share recipes and discoveries. Wine and Beer is included. Tell us about new and old places you Love to eat. How does food extend a culture. How do changes in cooking feed more people. Of interest also wou...
Corporate Social Responsibility Members: 150
Corporate Social Responsibility >> ideas for making businesses better The idea here is fairly straightforward. A thread is started for a particular company, service or product. Contribute to the thread in such a way that we are offering specific ...
Crisis in Sudan Group Members: 166
REMINDER!! this discussion will be archived, effective **September 7, 2007** ------------------------------ To continue the discussion on Sudan, go to <Ned>: http://www.ned.com/group/community-general/news/2/ ================== How it all Started ====...
CRM :: Communications, Reports & Messages Members: 4
==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: CRM : Communications + Reports + Messages Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be...
Culture and Community Members: 96
An area to discuss how many diverse cultures share the common bond of community and the need to work together to thrive.
DAILY APRECIATIONS project Members: 36
The main goal of this DAILY APPRECIATIONS project has been to increase our awareness of whom and what we appreciate. We would like to thank you all for contributing more than 2608 appreciations on more than 105 pages as of Sept. 6, 2007! Research ha...
Dance Labs Members: 17
.. IMAGE:: http://www.dancelabs.com/img/DanceLabs+header_name.gif .. RAW :: HTML <a title="Anyone can be a leader (ใครๆà¸à¹‡à¹€à¸›à¹‡à¸™à¸œà¸¹à¹‰à¸™à¸³à¹„ด้)" href="http://flickr.com/photos/98973695@N00/227113680" ><img src="http://static.flickr.com/73/227113680_b1b4fcd80...
December 1st Members: 37
Supporting December 1st World AIDS Day, with resources, group ideas, aggregating friends of groups, etc.
Defining Progressive Values Members: 35
Media survey group interested in capturing and defining the values with which we wish in develop in our children, thus in our society.
DEFUNCT-SRM Members: 6
Was a public group, but not really needed any more.
Democracy – General Members: 34
This group will look at trends in democracy, including its spread and decline in nations. Topics of relevance are many, including the impact of technology on democracy (or e-democracy), citizen participation (i.e. issues of institutional design), delib...
Deutsch Members: 11
==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Deutsch Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, links & content will ...
Diabetes: Support Groups + Information by/for Patients Members: 5
==== Diabetes Mellitus Information Homepage ==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, ...
Dialogue and Deliberation, Institutionalization, and Radical Change Members: 44
This group is for practitioners and researchers in the fields of dialogue and deliberation. Our discussion will focus on the forms of individual and cultural change that are preconditions for and/or products of dialogue and deliberation -- and on how t...
Digital Activists for Democracy Members: 9
The internet is an interconnected realm where freedom of speech reigns and "intellectual property rights" are quickly being replaced by "open sourcing." The tools of international communication and access to a world of ideas and resources are available...
Digital Lifestyle Aggregation Members: 29
The time has come for integrated, agrgeagted and highly customizable environments be created to help end-user "hub" their on-line lives together. Digital Lifestyle Aggregators (DLAs) are how to do that. Based upon open standards and open source, this ...
Direct Intervention Network Members: 10
A group intended to stimulate ideas for direct intervention in terms of donated items which could be made available to an individual American living in poverty. Our "Jane Doe" being represented by a single mother on welfare benefit or in low paid emplo...
Doctors and Scientists for Good Members: 20
Médecins Sans Frontières, Engineers without Borders, the recent data collection efforts by computer scientists to locate missing persons with Hurricaine Katerina, ways to fight malaria, virtual reality technology to enable the disabled, alternative sour...
Drugs Members: 24
All about drug use, abuse, addiction, recovery and rehabilitation. When does use become abuse. Is nicotine more addictive than heroin? Is the CIA really supplying crack cocaine? What have been the effects of reclassfying Cannabis as a Class C drug i...
Economics Members: 98
A place to discuss a broad assortment of topics dealing with economics; Currencies, World Economies, Stock Exchanges, Economic Policymakers, Micro/Macro Economics, etc.
Education Members: 124
This community focuses on ways of improving our educational process, values, shared connections between classrooms, and extending the Omidyar Network Spirit to helping our children.
Education Members: 215
Covering the education spectrum, from early childhood to post-secondary to adult learning.
Effective Alumni Engagement Members: 8
A place for learning about effectively engaging alumni.
EffectiveONet Members: 67
.. sidebar:: What's Hot ProcessIntegration_: Looking past the $25k, Coming together to build an integrated grant-making and proposal support process!! TutorialTourOfWiki_: A quick introductory survey of the topic of Wiki_. TabbedBrowse...
Elections and Democracy Members: 116
This group, which initially focused just on the "2004 US Election," explores the broader issue of elections and democracy, including areas such as how to increase voter turnout, promote democracy, and guarantee safe and fair elections (primarily but not...
Emerging Futures Network Members: 85
Emerging Futures Network ---- http://www.emergingfutures.net members_ `Subscribe to our e-list`_ Visit the `Emerging Futures Network wiki`_ .. _`Subscribe to our e-list`: http://www.emergingfutures.net/email-lists/ .. _`Emerging Futures Network wik...
Empowering Individuals in Community Members: 26
A place to foster and encourage each other's growth and empowerment, in hopes of furthering the ideal of building empowered communities of contributing individuals.
Energy, Sustainable Members: 35
Making a worldwide transition from fossil fuels to sustainable, non-polluting sources is probably the biggest "good thing" I can think of to help make happen. * It would solve global warming * It would take away a major incentive for global WARRING too...
entrepreneurship education using internet technology Members: 61
Supporting (future) entrepreneurs through education is a popular instrument to increase the level of entrepreneurship and indirectly contribute to a sustainable alleviation of poverty. But there is an opportunity to enhance the value of this instrumen...
eNumino & aNomino Members: 6
The fight against spam, spoofing and "phishing" is a combination of legislation (national & international), technology and user involvement (education and action). Everybody forgets that an e-mail is a postcard not even dropped in a postbox... Few know...
Environment - Conservation Members: 235
Preservation and enhancement of the world's natural resources and ecosystem is the topic.
Epidemic of Health Members: 41
This is a group which focuses on ways of implementing the vision of Jonas Salk to create an epidemic of health. "Only a few are needed to visualize and to initiate a process that would become self-organizing, self-propelling, and self-propagating, as i...
Equiforum, Inc. Members: 2
Equiforum is a non-profit with a mission "to improve the scientific basis for resolving conflict peacefully". The first project is to bring to maturity a data standard. CRML (Conflict Resolution Modeling Language) is based on RDF/OWL of the Semantic Web...
Extreme Makeovers for Better World Scouts Members: 10
*Instead of rules, why not examples?* This space is an invitation to help celebrate two things: 1) people who have discovered within themselves the power to make good things happen, and are looking for ways to cultivate the "better world scout" withi...
Farming Members: 25
A group for members wanting to discuss farming techniques and projects in general or in specific geographical locations.
Federation of Communities Members: 43
How can we, or should we, attract new and existing communities into Omidyar.net? What features would best support such groups? Could or should Omidyar.net evolve into a federation of communities, a community of communities? (C.f, State, Federal, and Loc...
Feeling Well Members: 6
==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Feeling Well : Incetives / Programs to Personal / Group / Corporate Well-Being / Happiness Online Help / Support Groups Network =...
FOF Members: 4
Foresight Development Members: 8
As the rate of technological change continues to accelerate, it is more important then ever that we have a broader perspective on what the future holds. This is a group to discuss how to develop foresight in order to navigate towards a better future. ...
Fostering a moderate discourse and leadership Members: 30
Studies have found that most Americans, whether Democrat, Republican or Independent, have what would be considered moderate convictions - typically some combination of differing degrees of liberal and conservative beliefs. And yet, our political discou...
Français et Francophonie / French speaking Members: 41
**Dans ce groupe on parle le français** - *Il y aussi des discussions dans les deux langues, et chaque* 'workspace' *contient un résumé en anglais* **In this group we speak French** - *There are also some bilingual discussions, and an English speaking ...
Free Hugs Around the World Members: 8
Join us in offering free hugs to all throughout the world and celebrate with us how beautifully this movement is growing.
freehousesproject Members: 7
FREE HOUSES is the name of a new television series I would like you folks to help me create. This is to put all of the words and intent on this site into a very real concrete highly visable representative action of what like minded people can ...
French Tags Members: 9
This group is dedicated to: - Propose French tags with oninclude directive - Test a *parallel/complementary* tagging system with the `del.icio.us toolbar`_ - A test of collective mapping with `IHMC CmapTools`_ - Other tests anybody want to try wit...
Fridge Magnets Members: 33
Found something innovative that you'd like to draw people's attention to? It might be a project or idea being cultivated here within omidyar.net, or something you've found elsewhere that you want to let people know you're getting behind. Use this "dig...
Friends of Heroes - Putting a Face on Childhood Cancer Members: 7
Visit us on Razoo at http://beta.razoo.com/groups/friendsofheroes Friends of Heroes, formerly Friends of Allie is the largest national Friends and Family Light The Night team in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's history. The team was originally created...
Fun 5 - A physical activity & nutrition program Members: 5
Fun 5 Project (www.hmsa.com/community/programs/fun5/) During the past twenty years, the percentage of young people who are overweight has almost doubled. This is despite the numerous known benefits of regular physical activity during childhood which in...
Fun Stuff Members: 132
==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Fun Stuff Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, links & content wil...
Games for Social Good Members: 90
This group will discuss gaming technology as it relates to improving human behavior.
Garden Club Members: 14
Garden types. Gardening tips. Favorite flowering plants. Different soils. What works in different climates. Using native plants. Hopefully some virtual tours.
Geek Revolution Members: 16
Documentation to develop an international online project to establish a collaboratively maintained, democratically run network infrastructure for educational purposes and to promote geek activism. Please take a look at the Workspace for more informatio...
Genealogy & Family Stories Members: 11
A discussion group to talk about where we come from, family legends, mysterious ancestors, immigration histories and the colorful stories passed down from one generation to another.
General Members: 12
Contains groups that don't belong in other categories.
Genocide Intervention Network Members: 10
The Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) envisions a world in which the international community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. **Our mission is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to p...
Genocide Prevention Members: 56
This group will focus on long-term strategies for prevention of mass atrocities and genocide. The discussion will look beyond the immediate aspects of halting a particular genocide, such as in Darfur, to ways of stopping genocide before it begins or i...
GET Local Members: 10
GET stands for Global Energy Transition, which I founded in 2001 after writing an open letter to George W. Bush. http://www.go2zero.com/adechert/solarletter.html Art Goodtimes suggested that the letter might carry more weight if, besides all the end...
Give it to someone who can do more good with it (Oxfam) Members: 24
Give the money to Oxfam and get a real return. .. image:: http://omidyar.makingithappen.co.uk/oxfam.gif This group was formed to put forward the suggestion that perhaps rather than risking money on the wild and wacky, we should put the money somewhere...
Giving Commons - for Giving Tools, Builders and Stewards Members: 32
This group is dedicated to exploring The Gift and the erotic life of property. Lewis Hyde's book_ can be the jumping off point for imaginative explorations, and will form the background for practical design and implementation initiatives that are the fo...
GivingSpace Members: 59
This is a group to continue the work of GivingSpace http://www.givingspace.org. Archives of the discussion list are at http://collab.givingspace.org/forums/community/
Global Corruption Group Members: 18
This Group is to discuss issues and possible solutions to the problem of corruption in the world. According to a 1997 World Bank report, corruption is an abuse of public power for private gains. http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/Prin...
Global Lives Project Members: 12
An online video encyclopedia of human life experiences. A unique video installation that can be set up by anyone anywhere on the planet. A collaboration of filmmakers, architects, photographers, artists, programmers and designers from around the world.
Global Solutions Ecology Members: 30
This group will examine systems that promote the human capacity for solving problems, reveal the dynamics and resources essential for arriving at solutions, encourage cross-fertilization to adopt and adapt successes, and nurture a global environment tha...
Global Voices Members: 38
We believe in free speech: in protecting the right to speak -- and the right to listen. We believe in universal access to the tools of speech. To that end, we want to enable everyone who wants to speak to have the means to speak -- and everyone who wan...
Good Apple News Service Members: 24
THis is a community to discuss the Good Apples News Service which emerged from the Positive Media discussion group.
Good Question! Members: 26
Consider this little Brain Gym a firestarter for hungry neurons. Ever come across a really good question? One that makes you think about something in a new way, or perhaps something you hadn't really thought about at all? Add it to the deck. Random ...
Grammar Police Members: 21
Pedantic and playful discussions of word usage, grammar, and slang. Word play. Puns. Dialects. All things pertaining to written and spoken language.
Grassroots Tech Co. -- Vision & Advice for YackPack Members: 14
YackPack, the company I started over two years ago, is finally out of stealth mode (whew! -- stealth is no fun). We've received angel funding, and we're growing as effectively as we can. I'm now seeking help and advice . . . My dream is to make YackP...
Great News Members: 11
The media is often so full of discouraging news. This is where we can make some difference. Heard of any Good work from our government individuals, Agencies or citizens? Post your links, stories or comments here.
Gross National Happiness Members: 22
Gross National Product is a very poor indicator of a society's "health". Gross National Happiness, on the other hand, is an appealing alternative. It takes into account the spiritual and general well-being of the population. Let's talk about the possibi...
Guns - The freedom to kill people and be killed Members: 0
The right to bear arms, is touted as the architypal freedom of the American citizen, yet guns are used to kill more people in America than anywhere else in the world. Is this really a freedom, or are people being suckered by the government. 1/ It is a...
Haiti Help Members: 8
Discussions about relief and economic development projects in Haiti. Haiti is the poorest country in this hemisphere.
HAPPENEERING - Helping people to discover the greatest difference they can make, and helping them to make it happen in the greatest way it can. Members: 25
The Omidyar Network exists to enable more and more people discover their own power to make good things happen. Some people might need some help toward both discovering this power; some might need help toward applying this power toward making good thing...
Hawaii Sustainability Members: 6
ON internal group at the present time
Heal the Heroes, Heal the World Members: 10
Exploring ways we can help one another heal, and, in turn, how we can practice tikkun olam and thereby heal the world.
Health Care Members: 171
From theory to policy to practice, all aspects of medicine and health can find a home here.
Help Members: 7
Contains site help and other official documentation. - Please post only questions about how to use the site. - For other posts - please check out `the Community General group`_. - For helpful information, select the "workspace" tab above. .. _`...
Helping Members: 26
==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== Primary Location: http://Helping.Be ==== Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, lin...
High Heart Herd Members: 8
A group interested in living in High Heart and using Transformational Processes in conjunction with our Equine cofacilitators to accomplish our personal soul missions as we nudge the world into becoming a better place. To join you should have a clear s...
Homowo African Arts & Cultures Members: 10
Homowo African Arts & Cultures began as a dream... Can we build an organization here in the United States to spread the rich cultural traditions of Ghana, West Africa? So many of `Obo Addy’s`_ memories of his childhood and youth are entwined with the ...
How microformats can improve "Better World projects" Members: 6
==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: The Use of Microformats for a Better World Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should b...
http://www.omidyar.net/group/safety Members: 3
Safety is a place to share information on safety that you feel will benefit others. For example, I have an article to post that was written by the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of The American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most expe...
Human Trafficking Members: 82
A space to strategize, share information and networks, and to build the global movement against human trafficking!
Humanist Movement - moving to AboutUs.org Members: 0
This group is moving to http://AboutUs.org/HumanistMovement
Humanity United - Internal Members: 20
This Group has been established for Humanity United Staff's use only.
Humanity United Advisory Board Members: 10
i-ACT Darfur Members: 18
This is a place to discuss and decide on strategies and execution methods for realizing the full potential of i-ACT Darfur: to be one of the most inclusive and powerful civilian responses to genocide ever. http://stopgenocidenow.org/iact
Icosystem - Internal Members: 5
Private discussion space for CFM and Icosystem.
Idaho Development Members: 4
This is a collaboration on a new community that has a wi-fi cloud of connectivity and a 100% source of renewable energy in a very pristine Idaho mountain valley.
Image of America Members: 19
The American Dream of "Freedom & Democracy for all" is fragile, There are people in this Nation who feel that select groups have more say than the whole. Democracy is founded on "We the People" (All the People). As long as America is perceived as "not ...
Improving the Source Code of Humanity Members: 34
This Group exists to focus on Changing the Critical Lines of Humanity’s Source Code that are most likely to bring about the most positive societal impact. This will involve two steps: 1. Identifying the line or lines of Humanity's Source Code that cont...
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superscaling yunus cafe
11.00 am wednesday sept 12 at the nightingale cafe balham tube (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-p olitics/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