10 Dynamics To Benchmark around BRAC - the world's most purposeful and collaborative network - BRAC net, world youth community and Open Learning Campus2024-03-28T17:09:34Zhttp://bracnet.ning.com/forum/topics/10-dynamics-to-benchmark-around-brac-the-world-s-most-purposeful?commentId=4777346%3AComment%3A7655&feed=yes&xn_auth=noalternative summary
jim kim…tag:bracnet.ning.com,2014-02-14:4777346:Comment:76552014-02-14T14:46:14.638Zchris macraehttp://bracnet.ning.com/profile/chrismacrae
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<div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_9_1392385133561_20" id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_30832"> jim kims 2 social movements <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%232030now&src=typd">#2030now</a> and <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_xI1S41DlX8z8SR_0W8Q4KxKK8LznO--BoJhkhHAdo/edit" target="_blank">world youth summits…</a></span></div>
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<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_9_1392385133561_20"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_30832"> jim kims 2 social movements <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%232030now&src=typd">#2030now</a> and <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_xI1S41DlX8z8SR_0W8Q4KxKK8LznO--BoJhkhHAdo/edit" target="_blank">world youth summits</a></span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_17984 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23545"></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23546"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_79">but which is the most connecting curriculum of all of this ; if millions of youth were to viralise 9 minute action learning nuggets replicating <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/science/healthcare-and-medicine" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_33589" name="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_33589">khan academy type platform </a> (as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=moocyunus&sm=3">Dr Yunus prayed for at 2013 skoll </a>) what is the 42 year pro-youth economics storyline they need to benchmark first of how bottom up networking ends poverty</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23548"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_102"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23550"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2935">I suggest these 10 interconnecting ideas from BRAC's brillian trials and tribulations are worth knowing about- by all means add in other practice areas- eg when it comes to micro-up energy nancy wimmer knows exactly how grameen scaled; sarah butler-sloss and prince charles celebrate microenergy solutions so joyfully that they have even changed the BBC's and Royal Geographic Society and British Consumer editorial policy on climate and energy; ted turners daughter is tasked with ensuring that if nothing else the billion dollars te turners have spent on the un foundation connect clean sustainable solutions</span></div>
<h3 id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_3255" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_17992 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23553"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bracnet.ning.com/forum/topics/10-dynamics-to-benchmark-around-brac-the-world-s-most-purposeful" id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_138" name="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_138">10 Dynamics To Benchmark around BRAC - the world's most purposeful ...</a></h3>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_141"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_3535"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_3342" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_17995 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23556">No network of partners has ever empowered more people to end community poverty more successfully than BRAC - what are top 10 magic moments…? We'd vote for these 10- how about you?</span><br id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_3341"/></span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_141"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_149"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_146" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_17997 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23558"> </span></span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_141"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_154"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_151" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_17999 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23560">1 bottom-up disaster relief designed out of epicentre of 500000 killer cyclone by Chartered Accountant of the Shell Multinational and Glaswegian graduate of civil engineering </span></span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_141"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_160"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_157" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18001 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23562">2 disciple of experiential learning education -of paulo freire and of village vocational schooling of Montessori-Gandhi (sir fazle also connects Freire with Popper's open society curriculum in exactly opposite ways to the mindset Jeffrey Sachs was taught by Harvard to impose -Bolivia,, Poland, Russia, Millennium Villages - see biography of The Idealist) </span></span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_165"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_165">3 healthcare para-networkers first 10000 barefoot professional network to scale thanks to need to collaborate around oral rehydration to save fifth of infants lives (thereby also reducing need for mothers to breed 9 children) </span><span>to see where this led to browse special 2013 issue of </span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=brac+%22the+lancet%22&oq=brac+%22the+lancet%22&gs_l=hp.3...2003.5873.0.6432.17.17.0.0.0.0.207.1919.8j7j2.17.0....0...1c.1.35.hp..6.11.1290.g8GZFrwt5EA" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_9_1392385133561_69" name="yui_3_13_0_ym1_9_1392385133561_69">The Lancet on Bangladesh's most economical healthcare</a><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_9_1392385133561_72"> in the world </span><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_30017">-note this is the opposite way round system design to UN networkers spreading cholera across Haiti -</span></span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18003 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23564"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_173">4 </span><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4175"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4093" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18006 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23567">consciously go sector by rural market sector and redesign the whole value chain to sustain poorest,</span><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_178" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18007 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23568"> linkedin worldwide triad with japan's nippon institute and JIca and alumn of Borlaug</span></span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18008 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23569"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_185"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_182" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18010 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23571"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_189">5 </span></span></span><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4370">From the getgo BRAC published microentrepreneur research - lessons of what failed as well as what worked It debriefed all its funding partners continuously -microfanchise small (efficient and effective open model) then scale large.</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18013 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23574"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_5003"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_191">6</span><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_5280"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_201"> </span><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4768">The biographer of Steve Jobs claims his value multiplying genius involved converging multiple market sectors that had been separately strategised before the age of connectivity. Actually both BRAC and Grameen linkedin grassroots connectivity before technology was ready to multiply life critical knowhow. Both design bottom up financial service circles of village mothers round fusion of at least 4 sectors:</span></span></span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4770" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18019 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23580"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_5002">bottom-up value chain design</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4771" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18021 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23582"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_5004">education</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4767" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18023 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23584"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4928">increasing health before taking out a loan to maximise personal and communal productivity</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4766" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18025 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23586"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_5005">financial services</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4765" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18027 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23588"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_5001">People who fail to help youth map the synergies between the way BRAC and Grameen scaled do endless harm to the every curriculum : microbanking, microeducation, microhealth, microvalue chains.</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_4765" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18029 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23590"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_204"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_5581">For example Grameen''s 16 decision culture of every centre of 60 villagers famously committed every village mother to sending children to primary school. But the schools across rural bangladesh only existed because of what BRAC scaled. Ultimately by the mid 1990s the grassroots "social networking" structures of both Grameen and BRAC involved hundreds of thousands of village circles communally regenerating village sustainability around maximum of 60 mothers per circle. </span><br id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_5580"/></span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_2561" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18032 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23593"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_170">7 </span><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_5736" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18034 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23595"> <span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_212">Both Grameen and BRAC had made the barefoot village banker the most trusted adviser -ensuring at least weekly visits to every village circle. What was being embedded was the most life critical social networking infrastructure. While it was Grameen that first mobilised the telecommunications connectivity of this - BRAC's personal advisers by early 1990 for every villager had added para-legal advisers - in other words BRAC was more deeply advanced into protecting the property rights of villagers (cf the argument of De Soto</span>)</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6564" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18036 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23597"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_223"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6564" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18038 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23599"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_219">8 Sir Fazle Abed trained in Glasgow as an architect before he became a chartered accountant, wheras Yunus trained as a macroeconomist out of van Der Bilt during first year of racial integration. Sir Fazle liked to map on paper before digitalising. So BRAC was definitely slower in testing mobile connectivity as integral to the global village networking age. However this had an advantage. When microeditsummit started in 1997 it failed to query the future-now tipping points between:</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6563" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18040 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23601"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6599">manual and digital trust networks of banking</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6559" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18042 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23603"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6598">manual and digital connections of education infrastructures</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6560" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18044 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23605"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6597">bottom up value chain design.</span></div>
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<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6561" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18048 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23609"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6624"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6596">While BRAC and Grameen had both scaled enough to attract investment in going digital many of the microcredit manual replicates in other countries were not in such a position to leverage/empower grassroots networking scale. This is the most fundamental problem impacting the The vast majority of microcredit models to lose their way during the race to 2015 millennium goals. While DR Yunus challenged the world of globalising business to partner in mobilising practical village lab tests, BRAC focused first on integrating hi-trust banking at every level a developing nation needs</span>:</span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6561" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18051 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23612"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_227"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_7198">9 Grameen had from the mid 1980s celebrated dialogue roundtables about three tiemns a year where people who wanted to try and replicate grameen in their own countries could come and action learn. Partly because the BRAC model is so much more interdependent with developing a nation's education - it did not see how to become a multinational knowhow connector until lessons were learned around the world from the first exponentially increasing decade (19996-2005) connection of the internet linking in every human being (citizen or villager). BRAC's international development since mid 2000s has been with the most trusted partners -search both its global connectors and its local cultural connections with muslims for good.</span><br id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_7197"/></span></div>
<div id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_6561" class="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_18053 yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392385133561_23614"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_234"><span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_231">10 </span></span> <span id="yiv0764428734yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1392385133561_238">As the 2010s scale open education, the opportunity is to celebrate all the most collaborative curricula of bottom up development noting the correlation between the social movements of end poverty and twining youth job creation out of every capital with a future. It is to be hoped that the most open education platforms such as khan academy find ways to source microfranchise module content both from BRAC and Grameen. If these 3 Bangladeshi-cultured networks can win-win-win they can help worldwide youth change every broken system that became to top-down during tv advertising's age.</span></div>