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from 2007 we interview muhammad yunus about 40 times including 10 major trips to dhaka preparing journal of social business and yunus 10000 dvds - all freely sampled to youth and educators- here are some of our diary notes which we kept as an untidy blog *mainly as an aise memoire)

hursday, September 4, 2014

series -where to millennium goal summit to network what micropcreditsummit banned

related refernces : search for summits honoring post 2015 millennials goals 

1 open tech networks of microbanking

 typical current dialogue

estelle jean claude founded www.puddle.org - its in the kiva group out of san francisco; anna in san diego is one of its lead users for ending poverty in hispanic communities  

jeanclaude - estelle's father in paris invested several of the technologies of transmitting money- after seeing banks abuse his work in credit cards his last 10 years has tried to keep these inventions out of big bank hands http://www.tagattitude.fr/en/

one of the mistakes estelle and I made was assuming muhammad yunus would be interested in this technology- we met him and his tech people several times but there wasnt even a beginning of a conversation; when we first did this around 2008 estelle as film journalist was interning with the lady  vivienne who had first signed rights to make an epic film of yunus - another mistake- instead film of obama's mother  leadership of womenworld banking indonesia is now out; there are rumors that vivienne's next gig will rereview whats been learnt in new orleans

these days paris convergences2015.org  coordinated by tech teams around eg michael knaute discusses technology (and whether there are open licence versions that can support peoples futures of banks)  in all the ways that microcreditsummit refuses to do- I am not sure about eg african test areas of eonnet's technology because they made mali a key test area before the country's troubles

hope there is some relevant group on both sides of atlamtic interested in some of this

cheers chris macrae linkedin skype chrismacraedc

ps when it comes to open banking tech the biggest irony of all is that all the tech wizards who designed cashless banking convene through MIT but as far as I know the only conventional microcredit leader they trust is brac's sir fazle abed- this has been a 20 yera muddle in the making caused by all the ways agents of yunus and microcreditsummit specialise in closed fund raising not the open tech youth needed to take sustainable banking to the epicentre of net generation goals 

7:22 am edt 

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Can Youth Help David Slay the Macroeconomics Giant

unite the poverty muesum race! last of 4 quarters to slay macroeconomics  -youths backup deadline colaboration networks checkout #2025now  #2030NOWacross usa #2015NOW 

12:15 pm edt 

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

#2015now- world's biggest question - how to find sponsors to sell youth's futures to?
Stranger than social fiction - back in 1997 when microcreditsummit started so the ten millon village mothers who had invested their lives in a community banked aimed at ending illiteracy of their children might have hoped this question would have been pivotal to how the world series of millenniu goal summits progressed. Let's make the question fully values youth in inking in the last 4 youth summits before the 2015 goals end 
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CNN’s hero of the year competition extended to some superhero mentors starting with Muhammad Yunus in 2013; in parallel Ted Turner’s Billion dollar funding of UN Foundation was one of the first to ask what would Atlanta need to do become the favorite virtual and real future capital of youth and yunus. To which dr yunus replied:  provide a benchmark for  twin cities in youth job creation expos and millennium goal celebrations - and do this #2015now (ie before end of 2015) and empower  hundreds of HBUC alumni to twin with Cape Town October 2014 where youth can celebrate action learning the 21st C legacy of Mandela as well as the 20th C Legacy of Gandhi’s whole truth interventions for designing nations around livelihoods of 99% of the people which started out of S. Africa in 1906
8:30 am edt 

Saturday, February 22, 2014

benchmarking where alumni clubs are best for student livelihoods

Here is our lab for student livelihood clubs in Washington DC - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wsYgDtIfM0cPMHncbmHKE6KsM97pJHq... 

extract: 

 2014 YES UDC STUDENTS CAN - our dream  : youth unite goodwill networks of obama, luther king and mandela in community job creation everywhere

- if we can linkin 3 movements through university of district of columbia it can't be so bad for student futures:anywhere

 DONOW Countdowns:

 #2030NOW   

 #2025NOW 

  #2020NOW

#2015 - in an age of 50000 mooc of jim kim’s social action movements can: follow jim kim's top 25 stories of 2014-2015 here ... 1 2 gangnamstyle -references optimism is a moral choice of development economists 1 2 3 and youth summits and ...

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2030nowjimkim2transcripts.doc, 40 KB   NeXcelerator Whole plan.docx, 439 KB


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1 back in sept 2012 yunus inspired 1000 of us at udc- he started a 3 year march to atlanta where 25000 real students are invited to connect livelihood networks with millions MOOC & webcasting


take away what you like out of the collaboration blog http://youthcreativelab.blogspot.com or ask tuskegee’s innovation director dr bhuiyan who is responsible for both 2012 and 2015 yunus events or ask chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk to send you the job vacancies dr bhuiyan and the new yunus foundation out of Atlanta are announcing -reference book by founder of tuskegee booker t washington

2 #2020now connect with alumni of the 5 virtually free universities in johannesburg and their plan to extend entrepreneur curriculum to 14 million children across the nations schools and regenerate 1 million jobs by 2020

-search for taddy blecher, branson, google partnerships or ask chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk for a guided bookmark tour - and see if your diary fits with our quarterly skypes with Taddy and other world leading pro-youth educators

3 DC citzens are hosting the first ever USA-Africa Diaspora summit 17 May 2014- how can UDC livelihood networks join in - is the start of a worldwide youth livelihoods diaspora network ready to collab round


http://www.usadbc.org/#!forum-reg/cfmz

we welcome you copying those actions you like to your nearest youth future capital

-we are also exploring other lans- MIT remains the world's number 1 job creating alumni club in the world but not every studsnt can access 25 yeras if buikding a showcase of every future industry within a square mile of kendall station the way MIT has!  still MIT's open education policy remains the best dynamic the net generation can hope for in university world as of 2014

 

down in miami - we have hispanic labs of chnage world amplitude- incuding the leading open social business curriculum and coming soon linkin to te number 1 nanocredit experiments in the americas -more of the raw notes from our friends exploits at the bottom of USA below: 

 

 

 

Bernardo wrote Yes as soon as I get to Miami i will move very fast, In march i will be in South Africa, Cote d`Ivory and R. of Congo. I will also have a back to office report (BTOR) to you

MARCH ON

Bernardo good luck -however if any brainstorm comes to you as to what poorest hispanic women first need to connect across the entire american continent on free mobile - eg safety line against abuse please tell naila as her march journey through ireland switzerland, LA and kenya is about signing up such a franchise and testing if carlos slim will lay on poorest womens terms

 

If you are passing through johannesburg tell us and we'll see if we can linkin taddy-by the way mostofa has just finished a week in lucknow understanding how they are redesigning entrepreneur and sustainability curriculum for 50000 children citymontessori   Jgandhi   globaledu

 

they are proposing taddy and they meet in august? to swap notes- I guess that is phase 1 of many phases at which youth summits swaps notes on entrepreneurship

 

I am desperately trying to involve china, korea, and japan in similar note swapping , and ultimately notes are effectively swapped when they are up in 9 minute modules like khan's

 

TO MOOCYUNUS OR NOT

I sort of feel that when yunus sees this page of khans he will see how far he's got behind with nursing college even as that becomes the first card for millions of youth to viralise; similarly millions of youth are now viralising jim kims knowhow on what  youth's most collaborative social movements really do below the radar

 

Also between now and june its essential www.microcredit.tv to share short transcripts on how the real microcredits work; if jim kim gets to the annual results conference and find they are still spamming the whole world bank with fund microcredits no matter what they are do there will be an unhappy ending to everything micro financial

 

chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc hotline 1 301 881 1655 skype chrismacraedc

11:27 am est 

Saturday, September 15, 2012

ad lib with hugh sinclair - whistleblower of some troubling things inside some MFIs and funds
From: Microfinance Heretic <microfinanceheretic@>
To: christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> 
Sent: Saturday, 15 September 2012, 11:17
Subject: Re: Fw: From Hugh Sinclair -if microcredit cant save the world can student entrepreneur competition networks

See www.microfinancetransparency.com

Plus the blog.

See also a major press release just out:

http://100millionideas.org/2012/09/12/learning-from-a-heretic/

This is from one of the most senior people in the entire MF community worldwide issuing a veiled endorsement for the book. I have been in touch with two CEOs of major MIVs in the last 24 hours congratulating me, supporting me and wanting to work with me. You need to read the book. Believe me, this is not an elaborate attempt to rustle up an extra book sale! There is a TV show watched by 250.000 people coming out on Sep 28th about the book, and media coverage is going to go through the ceiling, this is now a major, major problem for the entire MF sector - or rather for the unscrupulous, deceptive and exploitative MIVs and MFIs that are clearly named in the book with original names and all supporting evidence provided on the website, and the head man of the sector has stood up and NOT refuted the facts, but decided to take concerted action. Welcome to the revolution. Hugh

12:41 pm edt 
2
xMilken Institute Yunus has been described by BusinessWeek as one of the "greatest entrepreneurs of all time." He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Dhaka and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.

Panels:
Financing Social Entrepreneurs: Transformative Models for the Future 

Revolutionizing Health Care and Research in the Developing World 

Grameen America
By invitation only
 

Business Innovations That Are Changing the World 

Business Innovations That Are Changing the World

Speakers:
Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google Inc.
Craig Venter, Founder and President, J. Craig Venter Institute; Co-Founder and CEO, Synthetic Genomics Inc.
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2006; Managing Director, Grameen Bank

Moderator:
Michael Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute; Chairman, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions

Some of the most inventive minds in business are harnessing the power of technology and the markets to create sweeping shifts in the way we live, work and interact. By combining top-notch intellectual talent with non-traditional approaches, bold ideas, major investments and cutting-edge technology, they are innovating on a grand scale. Our panelists will discuss how pioneering business ventures can drive social change.

 

YUNUS100 videosYUNUS1000 bookclub;  micropublishing of community guides & bursaries


info@worldcitizen.tv welcomes additions to this Yunus literature list (wider mfi lists include 1


  • Yunus, Muhammad, Credit for Self Employment: A Fundamental Human Right, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, 1987.
  • Yunus, M. and Jolis, A.(1998) Banker to the poor: the autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. Aurum
  • Yunus M, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business, Future of Capitalism, 2008



  • Yunus, Muhammad, Experience in Organizing Grassroot Initiatives and Mobiliing People's Participation: The Case of Grameen Bank Project in Bangladesh. Paper Presented at the 25th World Conference of the Society for International Development. Baltimore, Md., 1982.
  • Yunus, Muhammad, 1983, "If you can't beat them join them; or, how to operate your own financial institution", in Mattis, Ann, ed., 1984, A Society for International Development Prospectus, Duke UP for Society for International Development, Durham, NC, p. 79?90.

  • Yunus, Muhammad, Jorimon and Others, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, 1984.
  • Yunus, Muhammad, Grameen Bank - The First Decade, Asian and Pacific Development Centre, 1986.
  • Yunus, Muhammad, Strategy for the Decade of Ninties, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, 1989.
  • Yunus, Muhammad, Peace is Freedom from Poverty, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, 1991.

  • Yunus, Muhammad, 1991, The Grameen Bank: Experiences and Reflections, Grameen Bank, Dhaka.
  • Yunus, Muhammad, Experiences and Reflections, Grameen Bank, 1991.

  • Yunus, Muhammad, 1994, Grameen Bank As I See It, in Gibbons, David S, 1994, ed., The Grameen Reader, 2nd edition, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, p. 62-98

Bangladesh and Its Giant Neighbors 273
The World in 2050 460
The Problem of Poverty in Bangladesh

Goals - and their Futures of the world

in 2025 seen from 1984

in 2030 as celebrated by jim kim circa 2012

in 2050 seen by yunus circa 2007

nanocredit

whats the real story of this movement

invented by a kenyan priest- winner of ibm enetrepreneur of yer award - designing networks flor those too poor to mobilise them with out a friendly start -has this become the most social or the most business of networks- leaders of www.women4empowerment.orgwho had workld for 16 years helping yunus found grameen phone swapped their asian connectiions with nanocredit in exchange for those across the americas- whither this initiative

in parallel w4e helped kenya's second lady accelerate www.joywo.org and unite many african first ladies at the UN"s www.fashion4development.com thanks to the amazing work of the Toure family from Mali until 2015 top of the UN's main tech network the ITU-help us understand what the ITU is doing now that it is chaired by a Chinese national

Some would say that san franciosco's www.kiva.org was the first app that involved the half of the world aged under 30 - and college students and teachers - in microcredit networks - for better or for worse,

The point is that bangaldesh microcredit's  least innovative process was offering  separate loans- its larger processes were building community and redesigning value chains through thousands of microfranchises

a microfranchise is designed so that however poor the locality a person or team who works hard sustain a livelihood because the franchise has been design to integrate the value chain and retain most or all the value produced with the team and in the community whether live- that way microfranchises develop communities and unite the race to end poverty  -questions text our washington dc hotline 240 316 8157 or linkin unwomens (chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk)

so do we need to go beyond the idea of kiva?

should college students see give directly or lend directly as the enxt thing - these models look for whole communities who will use money in a spcific way that accelerates acheivmnent of s sustaonability gpoa from the conbtext ofb that community

or should they www.puddle.com- puddle alows anyine to run a bank of laons but be careful itrt nkiow seems to charge 5 dollar fee with every monthly repayment making really microlans completely unaffordable (because the fee becomes a large per cent of the re;payment)

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KERRY GLASGOWIS HUMANITY'S LAST BEST CHANCE - Join search for Sustainaabilty's Curricula

101ways-generation.docx 101 ways education can save the world WHAT IF WE DESIGNED LIFELONG LIVELIHOOD LOEARNING SO THAT so that teachers & students, parent & communities were empowered to be ahead of 100 times more tech rather than the remnants of a system that puts macihnes and their exhausts ahead of human life and nature's renewal 2016 is arguably the first time thet educatirs became front and centre to the question that Von neummn asked journalist to mediate back in 1951- what goods will peoples do with 100 times more tech per decade? It appears that while multilaterals like the Un got used in soundbite and twittering ages to claim they valued rifghts & inclusion, pubblic goods & safety, they fotgot theirUN tech twin in Genva has been practising global connectivity since 1865, that dellow Goats of V neumnn has chiared Intellectual Cooperation in the 1920s which pervesrely became the quasi trade union Unesco- it took Abedian inspired educations in 2016 ro reunite ed and tecah as well as health and trade ; 7 decades of the UN not valuing Numenn's question at its core is quite late, but if we dare graviate UN2 aeound this digital coperation question now we give the younger half if the world a chnace especially as a billion poorest women have been synchronised to deep community human development since 1970

Dear Robert - you kindly asked for a short email so that you could see if there is a CGTN anchor in east coast who might confidentially share views with my expectation of how only Asian young women cultural movements (parenting and community depth but amplified by transparent tech in life shaping markets eg health, food, nature..) can return sustainability to all of us
three of my father's main surveys in The Economist 1962-1977 explain imo where future history will take us (and so why younger half of world need friendship/sustainable adaptation with Chinese youth -both on mainland and diaspora)
 1962 consider japan approved by JF Kennedy: argued good news - 2 new economic models were emerging through japan korea south and taiwan relevant to all Asia Rising (nrxt to link the whole trading/supply chains of the far east coast down through hong kong and cross-seas at singapore)
1 rural keynsianism ie 100% productivity in village first of all food security- borlaug alumni ending starvation
2 supercity costal trade models which designed hi-tech borderless sme value chains- to build a 20 million person capital or an 8 million person superport you needed the same advances in engineering - partly why this second economic model was win-win for first time since engines begun Glasgow 1760 ; potentially able to leverage tech giant leaps 100 times ahead; the big opportunity von neumann had gifted us - knowhow action networking multiply value application unlike consuming up things
1976 entrepreneurial revolution -translated into italian by prodi - argued that future globalisation big politics big corporate would need to be triangularised by community scaled sme networks- this was both how innovation advancing human lot begins and also the only way to end poverty in the sense of 21st C being such that next girl born can thrive because every community taps in diversity/safety/ valuing child and health as conditions out of which intergenerational economic growth can spring
in 1977 fathers survey of china - argued that there was now great hope that china had found the system designs that would empower a billion people to escape from extreme poverty but ultimately education of the one child generation (its tech for human capabilities) would be pivotal ( parallel 1977 survey looked at the futures of half the world's people ie east of iran)
best chris macrae + 1 240 316 8157 washington DC
IN MORE DETAIL TECH HUMAN EXPONENTIALS LAST CHANCE DECADE? 
 - we are in midst of unprecedented exponential change (dad from 1960s called death of distance) the  tech legacy of von neumann (dad was his biographer due to luckily meeting him in his final years including neumann's scoping of brain science (ie ai and human i) research which he asked yale to continue in his last lecture series). Exponential risks of extinction track to  mainly western top-down errors at crossroads of tech  over last 60 years (as well as non transparent geonomic mapping of how to reconcile what mainly 10 white empires had monopoly done with machines 1760-1945 and embedded in finance - see eg keynes last chapter of general theory of money); so our 2020s destiny is conditioned by quite simple local time-stamped details but ones that have compounded so that root cause and consequence need exact opposite of academic silos- so I hope there are some simple mapping points we can agree sustainability and chinese anchors in particular are now urgently in the middle of
Both my father www.normanmacrae.net at the economist and I (eg co-authoring 1984 book 2025 report, retranslated to 1993 sweden's new vikings) have argued sustainability in early 21st c will depend mostly on how asians as 65% of humans advance and how von neumann (or moores law) 100 times more tech every decade from 1960s is valued by society and business.
My father (awarded Japan's Order of Rising Sun and one time scriptwriter for Prince Charles trips to Japan) had served as teen allied bomber command burma campaign - he therefore had google maps in his head 50 years ahead of most media people, and also believed the world needed peace (dad was only journalist at messina birth of EU ) ; from 1960 his Asian inclusion arguments were almost coincidental to Ezra Vogel who knew much more about Japan=China last 2000 years ( additionally  cultural consciousness of silk road's eastern dynamics not golden rule of Western Whites) and peter drucker's view of organisational systems
(none of the 10 people at the economist my father had mentored continued his work past 1993- 2 key friends died early; then the web turned against education-journalism when west coast ventures got taken over by advertising/commerce instead of permitting 2 webs - one hi-trust educational; the other blah blah. sell sell .sex sell. viral trivial and hate politicking)
although i had worked mainly in the far east eg with unilever because of family responsibilities I never got to china until i started bumping into chinese female graduates at un launch of sdgs in 2015- I got in 8 visits to beijing -guided by them around tsinghua, china centre of globalisation, a chinese elder Ying Lowrey who had worked on smes in usa for 25 years but was not jack ma's biographer in 2015 just as his fintech models (taobao not alibaba) were empowering villagers integration into supply chains; there was a fantastic global edutech conference dec 2016 in Tsinghua region (also 3 briefings by Romano Prodi to students) that I attended connected with  great womens education hero bangladesh's fazle abed;  Abed spent much of hs last decade hosting events with chinese and other asian ambassadors; unite university graduates around sdg projects the world needed in every community but which had first been massively demonstrated in asia - if you like a version of schwarzman scholars but inclusive of places linking all deepest sustainability goals challenges 
and i personally feel learnt a lot from 3 people broadcasting from cgtn you and the 2 ladies liu xin and  tian wei (they always seemed to do balanced interviews even in the middle of trump's hatred campaigns), through them I also became a fan of father and daughter Jin at AIIB ; i attended korea's annual general meet 2017 of aiib; it was fascinating watching bankers for 60 countries each coming up with excuses as to why they would not lead on infrastructure investments (even though the supercity economic model depends on that)
Being a diaspora scot and a mathematician borders (managers who maximise externalisation of risks) scare me; especially rise of nationalist ones ;   it is pretty clear historically that london trapped most of asia in colomisdation ; then bankrupted by world war 2 rushed to independence without the un or anyone helping redesign top-down systems ; this all crashed into bangladesh the first bottom up collaboration women lab ; ironically on health, food security, education bangladesh and chinese village women empowerment depended on sharing almost every village microfranchise between 1972 and 2000 especially on last mile health networking
in dads editing of 2025 from 1984 he had called for massive human awareness by 2001 of mans biggest risk being discrepancies in incomes and expectations of rich and poor nations; he suggested that eg public broadcast media could host a reality tv end poverty entrepreneur competition just as digital media was scaling to be as impactful as mass media
that didnt happen and pretty much every mess - reactions to 9/11, failure to do ai of epidemics as priority from 2005 instead of autonomous cars, failure to end long-term carbon investments, subprime has been rooted in the west not having either government nor big corporate systems necessary to collaboratively value Asian SDG innovations especially with 5g
I am not smart enough to understand how to thread all the politics now going on but in the event that any cgtn journalist wants to chat especially in dc where we could meet I do not see humans preventing extinction without maximising chinese youth (particularly womens dreams); due to covid we lost plans japan had to relaunch value of female athletes - so this and other ways japan and china and korea might have regained joint consciousness look as if they are being lost- in other words both cultural and education networks (not correctly valued by gdp news headlines) may still be our best chance at asian women empowerment saving us all from extinction but that needs off the record brainstorming as I have no idea what a cgtn journalist is free to cover now that trump has turned 75% of americans into seeing china as the enemy instead of looking at what asian policies of usa hurt humans (eg afghanistan is surely a human wrong caused mostly by usa); a; being a diaspora scot i have this naive idea that we need to celebrate happiness of all peoples an stop using media to spiral hatred across nations but I expect that isnt something an anchor can host generally but for example if an anchor really loves ending covid everywhere then at least in that market she needs to want to help united peoples, transparency of deep data etc

2021 afore ye go to glasgow cop26-

please map how and why - more than 3 in 4 scots earn their livelihoods worldwide not in our homeland- that requires hi-trust as well as hi-tech to try to love all cultures and nature's diversity- until mcdonalds you could use MAC OR MC TO identify our community engaging networks THAT SCALED ROUND STARTING UP THE AGE OF HUMANS AND MACHINES OF GKASGOW UNI 1760 1 2 3 - and the microfranchises they aimed to sustain  locally around each next child born - these days scots hall of fame started in 1760s around   adam smith and james watt and 195 years later glasgow engineering BA fazle abed - we hope biden unites his irish community building though cop26 -ditto we hope kamalA values gandhi- public service - but understand if he or she is too busy iN DC 2021 with covid or finding which democrats or republicans or american people speak bottom-up sustainable goals teachers and enrrepreneurs -zoom with chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you are curious - fanily foundation of the economist's norman macrae- explorer of whether 100 times more tehc every decade since 1945 would end poverty or prove orwell's-big brother trumps -fears correct 2025report.com est1984 or the economist's entreprenerialrevolutionstarted up 1976 with italy/franciscan romano prodi

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