Please tell me if you have active connections with Yunus top supporters or if I have left out some

1 help Yunus and Bangladeshi Peoples 40th anniversary celebrations

2 momentum with bbc and commonwealth Olympics as key connections youths most exciting decade

 

European Royals  Prince Charles, UKAnne via utime Mostofa via butler-sloss and paul rose and helen gale  Princess Anne, UK  Queen Sofia, Spain Sam Daley-Harris  Luxembourg Family  Prince Albert Monaco

Senior Grameen Friends  Honorary Leader: Mary Robinson former President Ireland  Exec Leader: Maria Nowak Paris leading microcredit  Honorary: James Wolfensohn, former world bank now NY  Jagdish Sharan Verma, former Chief Justice of India   Kamal Hossain Principal author constitution of Bangladesh

National Leaders  Sarkozy  ObamaSam Daley-Harris  CameronAnne via utime; Mostofa via Helen Gale  Manmohan Singh  ClintonsSam Daley-HarrisMostofa via Clinton University  Gordon BrownVia GCAL

 

I am still trying to work out which of Normans Friends wants to help and via which of above starting with

 

Marjorie Scardino Chairlady Pearsons FT

 

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Baroness Sarah Hogg
Andrew Neil
Sainsbury Family
Cadbury Family
Andrew Knight
George Soros
Alastair Burnett
Matt Ridley
Johnny Grimond
Rupert Pennant Rhea
John Mickletwait
George Soros
Rupert Murdoch

Romano Prodi

Keynes said "increasinginly only economics rules the word" - ironically in 2010 we can see that even the country that gave us the word demos no longer rules its democracy independently of the exponentially destructing euro and greece's own political folly in its negative investment in youth (browser tip in 2010: everywhere you click to a pensions crisis, add to your map of plces that are devaluing youth nd destroying job creation). The way to deal with Keynes' rule:  DONT LURK NOW,  debate with peers and anyone whose degrees of separation you can lower : how can we help enough young citizens and villagers to see maps of the 2 exponentially opposite (local sustainability rising or globally crashing) system designs of economics -one of which the next decade chooses to rule the world with for probably for the rest of human time (because maths shows that system decisions have a scary way of spinning irreversibility once a point in time has been tipped).

Two of the earliest questioners of which way globalisation were : Einstein who action learnt with Gandhi's and Montessori's practices, and Von Neumann who action learnt with those who made early computers (what has become the greatest change our species has ever had to navigate in one generation's competences). What Einstein & Von Neumann could not predict was when in human history will technology's death of distance occur imposing on one generation the worldwide crisis - both opportunity & threat - of dealing with change of such  magnitude that human sustainability itself will be up for winning or losing. In 1976 December 25, The Economist survey Entrepreneurial Revolution fired the starting gun: the generation 1976-2024 would be IT. To the world's great good fortune, 1976 was also the year that Muhammad Yunus started dedicating his life to Bangladesh sharing microconomics practices with what has become (since the 1997 advent of microcreditsummit) hundreds of millions of women and their youth. Better yet, Muhammad Yunus has enjoyed wonderful co-opetition from the world's other greatest entrepreneurial revoltionary Sir Fazle Abed whose grassroots networks epicentre is but a few blocks away from Dr Yunus - making Dhaka en route to every sustainability capitl for anyone so concerned including Business Schools with a future ranking by youth.
 
Can you help us compile a role of honour of "applied microeconomists"? They come from many disciplines. For example in 1984 the system tarnsformation network invented a hosting technique called open space; when its inventior harrison owen had a meeting with american academics concerned with MBA curricula- they listened to harrison over lunch; said to harrison if you are right then 95% of whar we teach is wrong- plese go away. Or in 2000, the Georgetown social lawyer Margaret Blair chaired an expert panel of financial and economic experts convened by Brookings on the intangibles valuation crisis. When her report on the compound risks of Unseen Wealth was presented to the incoming adminstration from Texas, she was told to go way. She has had to go to Tennesse to find funds for her kind of research. When I went to Brusssels to find out why they too had closed down intangibles crisis research in 2003, I was told : politicians wont get the profesional metrics crisis we are drowing in until the people get it- we estimate at least 3 European Enrons in one year would be needed before the media help the people understand that compound expoentials of sustainability are at stake.

Microeconomics Heroines & Heroes include:

Einstein (and Mahatma Gandhi), Von Neumann
Maria Montessori and Jagdish Gandhi
Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed
Harrsion Owen , and Buckminster Fuller and Russell Ackoff
Sam Daley Harris and Queen Sofia of Spain and Ingrid Munro in Kenya
Tim Berners Lee
Margaret Blair
In Paris: Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot who started querying MBA at HEC and her global corporate ally Emmanuel Fabre and whence CEO Frank Riboud and France's Youth government leader Martin Hirsch- all of whom have helped French Youth to energetically re-examine why their compatriots coined entrepreneur back in 1800 and its 3M urgency
Over at Paris's auld alliance in Glasgow, Zasheem Ahmed and Anton Muscatelli and Pamela Gillies are building on know-how-to-commune-and-do of the scottish forefathers of microeconomics : James Wilson 1843 and Adam Smith from 250 years ago
rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv your nominations

For our purposes we will call these macro (currently ruling) and micro (entrepreneurial) currently being shredded. Since 1976 ER people including my dad Norman Macrae and Nobel Lurete Muhmmd Yunus have been demonstrating:  If we can re-edit every busienss school curriculum so that microeconomics is trusted beyond macroeconomics then the gopd news is that we can network to quickly start resolving any and every community's (and so youth's) sustainablity crises

Aravind is one of social business cases I like to refer people to first for the simplicity of its evidence that it has systemised a 10 times more productive design. Some economies of social business compound over time – eg the way that the traditional grameen bank was not just a system design to create jobs for women villagers but an investment in the whole next generation’s literacy and health. In contrast most of Aravind’s proof of economy is evident as soon as a branch of the franchise opens.

Aravind’s goal is to eradicate needless blindness by designing the most simple and most productively energised eyecare hospital for cataracts.

It s origin is a surgeon in India who wanted his lifelong knowledge to be linked together into an o0pen source franchise. The case came to fame from CK Prahalad’s searches at the turn of the millennium for 10 times more economical systems when designed to serve bottom billion markets.

One of  his chief advisers during the design stage was Larry Brilliant. Eyecare has always been one of his developing world specialties though he is known as the doctor who saw the last smallpox case eradicated. And was the first CEO of google.org

Basically 10 times more economical is achieved by training staff in exactly what support care is needed. A score of actual surgeons are supported by hundreds of para-nurses but it turns out that their duties of care are not advanced technically. Aravind trains village girls to be para nurses in a few weeks. This achieves a triple win – job creation, a wage that is very good for a village girl but much less costly than a nurse who is professionally qualified in everything that hospital nurses are responsible for outreach to a market of blind people who could not afford hospital price norms paid by healthcare services that start at the top of the market. Of course this is a hi-trust franchise where lawyers etc are banned from either side of a contract between patient and hospital. Not that there is any sign that Aravind results are less safe than other eyecare hospitals.

Another feature is that patients pay what they can afford. Typically the maximum charged is a third what other eyecare hospitals charge but this subsidizes many patients who can’t afford to pay at all to end their blindnness. Across 5 franchises in India, 200,000 operations ending blindness are conducted each year.

The franchise has been replicated across nations. Bangladesh’s Grameen has so far built 2 eye care replications – each needing about half a million dollars to build the hospital and start up. The fundraising for these two replications was done by the responsibility pop group http://www.thegreenchildren.org/

Grameen Nurse Institute

Grameen Nurse Institute is an inspiring new example of connecting partnerships round a Social Business - for the world to map, action and learn around. 

1 December 2008: While driving Dr Yunus to his talk and awards ceremony at Glasgow Caledonian University , compatriot and university lecturer Dr Zasheem Ahmed asked Dr Yunus whether he knew that Glasgow Caledonian was one of the largest trainers of nurses for the UK national health Service. Seeing that Dr Yunus looked interested by the remark he asked why not ask Vice Chancellor to lend you some of Caledonian's trainers in Bangladesh. This has catalysed a chain of partnerships that less than 10 months later were one of the most inspiring announcements of Clinton Global Initiative 2009. In particular. Dr Yunus had hunted out Nike Foundation who have branded their focus around Girl Power with extra support from one of Buffett Family Foundations, Novo. How could they refuse to join in what is probably the truest Girl Power Social Business of them all.

Dr Yunus has long been looking for an opportunity to start up a Free Womens University , a social business model which as far I know began as a unisex one in South Africa at Cida thanks to founder Taddy Blecher, though it too quickly attracted girl power supporters in the likes of Oprah Winfree. She wanted the alumni of her own school for girls to seriously consider graduating at CIDA.  Another early fan of CIDA was the entrepreneur who won 2^nd prize in Richard Branson’s tv reality apprentice competition Rebel Billionnaire- her prize being the money to start a girls charity. The Free University model, broadly speaking, offers to train a graduate in some life critical service or practical entrepreneurial innovation for free. In return, the CIDA graduate commits to spending their next several years serving rural or poorest parts of the country.  

So now the partnership of Glasgow Caledonian as a Yunus Centre- one that is now advertising the world’s first social business chair in health – Nike Foundation and an emerging chain of partners is building Grameen Nurse Institute.

When Dr Yunus won the Nobel Prize he told his friends that health partnerships would be his big new priority. His social business pop group at the time  The Green Children  raised a million dollars which was enough to build 2 replications of the aravind eyecare hospital (started in India – se separate entry). These facilities were opened within a year of starting up. Dr Yunus also has a social business partnership with a hospital construction group that helps!

However perhaps the most deeply practical dynamic to know about the Grameen Nurse Institute Plan is that it intends to send its trained nurses to serve at Grameen members rural health insurance branches, and of course to encourage neighbourhood school girls through peer groups to learn first aid, and perhaps become the next graduates of Grameen Nurse Institute. Grameen’s Health insurance http://www.grameenkalyan.org   branch began in 1992 and still focuses on diagnosing illness and recommending where to go or what pills to take for the cheapest cure (that part being a co-pay the patient makes). It seems like a good deal to us as Grameen Kalyan is still quoting Grameen Bank members annual insurances for the family at two dollars in those locations it operates. The main block to this most economical service in the world of health spreading across rural Bangladesh is trained personnel. The several hundred current staff of Grameen Kalyan are probably the most productive medical and economics network you will find anywhere –as always rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv if you spot a candidate for that social business roll of honor      

Can Grameen Nurse Institute be a benchmark for renewing girl power and community healthcare?

Why not web round Grameen Nurse Institute as most valued girl power social business on the planet. Dr Yunus is busy showing how to connect partnerships of medical technology companies now that most diagnostics and some procedures can be examined remotely through the net –ie the top expert doesn’t have to be in the field to empower fieldworkers as mobile nurses or para medics. These partnerships look set to keep on growing as the head of Grameen America, Vidar Jorgensen, makes his own for profit living with America’s largest heath conferences www.worldcongress.com The time I met Vidar he explained that he had a hobby of searching the world for unexpectedly economical healthcare services in poorest places and had discovered where they appeared they were usually connected with a microcredit. So that’s why he  originally partnered Dr Yunus.

 History shows that many communities’ proudest creations were hospitals as social businesses- the 2010s can rediscover the huge vocational values that were once the heart of the medical profession with heroines like Florence Nightingale.

1 Grameen Bank

How did the world’s safest banking model and greatest system (social business) invention for sustainability begin?

 

The Story of Founding Grameen Bank

Bangladesh as new nation, free at cost of a horrific war of independence, was suffering from a million people dying of famine. A small team decided to try to do something, anything, about it. They hit on the idea that banking needs to be a human right after research in a village where they found that for $27 , 42 people’s working lives could be freed from loan sharks.   (check numbers)

 

The founding team of Grameen Project- 3 men and one woman led by Muhammad Yunus - took 7 years refining as an open source franchise. Their problem how to create jobs around the poorest illiterate people in the world and take them out of such poverty traps as being beholden to loan sharks and treated as an underclass. Their emerging model :

· Train up illiterate people in 5 person teams so that after a week they collaborated with each other, could sign their own name and handle money with the greatest of family-loving care

· Design village banking centres for every 60 people which were also the main market place and knowledge hub. By marketplace we mean that for example a group of 60 could decide that 2 people with chickens laying eggs was the perfect number to meet needs and guarantee a positive income. And so compose 60 income generating jobs that would communally fit, and better still empower members of the bank to save as well as take out credit for increasing their productivity.

 

During this 7 year franchise improvement period , members were asked what they wanted the community to invest in to go sustainably beyond poverty. 16 decisions resulted primarily oriented around improving the health and education of their children. It was also found that village women not men most wanted to collaborate around all of the above. To do this day, Mrs Nurjahan Begum the female co-founder of Grameen trains and operates the 16 decision culture with a passion unlike any male or female leader I have met in 33 years of interviewing leaders of organisations that brand the world locally and globally.  She is also the bank’s main vocational education entrepreneur currently developing Grameen Employment Services as one extraordinarily timely franchise for the world of 2010s.

 

However what made social business the world’s greatest system invention was that the founding 4 decided those poorest who most desperately need this organsiation should also be its owners - so the bank could continuously invest in its unique purpose. The defining Social Business model of the bank is to transparently generate a positive win-win-win cashflow but to invest all profit back into the organization. This way all the productivity of the community was owned by the community and indeed advanced the lot of the poorest in what has become known as the great human race towards poverty museums. One day the failed system of poverty traps will be no more if we open source the system of Grameen Microcredit in any locality where these most human trusts of sustainability banking are needed.

 

Q Does banking as a candidate solution to job creation crises translate for any community where unemployment or underemployment is spinning viciously?

A Yes We Can design "bankng for the unbanked" in developed as well as developing nations – but beware many nations’ laws are configured around banking for the richest and need changing if the true social business system of GrameenMicrocredit is to translated optimally. Which governments will help their peoples in this exciting microeconomic networking?

 

Q Did Grameen Bank confine itself just to financial services?

A Heavens no. Members asked Grameen leadership to improve their children’s lot in any and every simple way that made communal sense. An early example : Dr Yunus waited out in the village whole his female staff knocked on the door of potential new clients. As is the way in Bangladesh villages, all the children greeted him with he biggest smiles you’ll ever see. But Yunus noticed the sad fact than many of these children were might blind. Why because of poor nutrition. Simple solution : get members to plant carrots. So one of the first non-financial services of Grameen Bank was selling carrot seeds in 1 cent packs. So vitally needed was this simple service across rural Bangladesh that Grameen became the largest seeds retailer in the country.

  

Q What would the world have missed if Grameen Bank had never been modeled?

A Quite probably human sustainability http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm  . Definitely improvement of the next generation’s lot through optimal microeconomics design and integrating higher order system awareness in schools than the 20^th century of separation ruled necessary. To explore why look at the case of Global Grameen http://worldclassbrands.tv launched 2009 in time to celebrate the 2010s United Joy of Millennium Goals decade

 Open source property right asserted isabellawm.com foundation and londoncreativelabs.com and microcredit.tv – rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv if you see errors of concept or may wish comments to be openly published Dedication : Mrs Begum, Dr Yunus, Professor Latifee, Dipal Barua – Grameen , and Sam-Daley Harris microcreditsummit.org

Top 20 Social Business Cases of 2010 ( open source TM asserted www.giosb.com  )

 

1 Grameen Bank

How did the world’s safest banking model and greatest system (social business) invention for sustainability begin?

 

The Story of Founding Grameen Bank

Bangladesh as new nation, free at cost of a horrific war of independence, was suffering from a million people dying of famine. A small team decided to try to do something, anything, about it. They hit on the idea that banking needs to be a human right after research in a village where they found that for $27 , 42 people’s working lives could be freed from loan sharks.   (check numbers)

 

The founding team of Grameen Project- 3 men and one woman led by Muhammad Yunus - took 7 years refining the franchise. Their problem how to create jobs around the poorest illiterate people in the world and take them out of such poverty traps as being beholden to loan sharks and treated as an underclass. Their emerging model :

· Train up illiterate people in 5 person teams so that after a week they collaborated with each other, could sign their own name and handle money with the greatest of family-loving care

· Design village banking centres for every 60 people which were also the main market place and knowledge hub. By marketplace we mean that for example a group of 60 could decide that 2 people with chickens laying eggs was the perfect number to meet needs and guarantee a positive income. And so compose 60 income generating jobs that would communally fit, and better still empower members of the bank to save as well as take out credit for increasing their productivity.

 

During this 7 year franchise improvement period , members were asked what they wanted the community to invest in to go sustainably beyond poverty. 16 decisions resulted primarily oriented around improving the health and education of their children. It was also found that village women not men most wanted all of the above. To do this day, Mrs Nurjahan Begum the female co-founder of Grameen trains and operates the 16 decision culture with a passion unlike any male or female leader I have met in 33 years of interviewing leaders of organisations that brand the world locally and globally.  She is also the bank’s main education entrepreneur currently developing Grameen Employment Services as one extraordinarily timely franchise for the world of 2010s.

 

However what made social business the world’s greatest system invention was that the founding 4 decided those poorest who most desperately need this organsiation should also be its owners - so the bank could continuously invest in its purspose. The defining Social Business model of the bank is to transparently generate a positive win-win-win cashflow but to invest all profit back into the organization. This way all the productivity of the community was owned by the community and indeed advanced the lot of the poorest in what has become known as the great human race towards poverty museums. One day the failed system of poverty traps will be no more if we open source the system of Grameen Microcredit in any locality where these most human trusts of sustainability banking are needed.

 

Q&A – please send more to sofia@

 

Q Does banking as a candidate solution to job creation crises translate for any community where unemployment or underemployment is spinning viciously?

A Yes We Can –and in cities twinned in sustainability with London and Dhaka will http://londoncreativelabs.com and http://cslondon.org - humanly design that in developed as well as developing nations – but beware many nations’ laws are configured around banking for the richest and need changing if the true social business system of GrameenMicrocredit is to translated optimally. Which governments will help their peoples in this exciting microeconomic networking?

 

Q Did Grameen Bank confine itself just to financial services?

A Heavens no. Members asked Grameen leadership to improve their children’s lot in any and every simple way that made communal sense. An early example : Dr Yunus waited out in the village whole his female staff knocked on the door of potential new clients. As is the way in Bangladesh villages, all the children greeted him with he biggest smiles you’ll ever see. But Yunus noticed the sad fact than many of these children were might blind. Why because of poor nutrition. Simple solution : get members to plant carrots. So one of the first non-financial services of Grameen Bank was selling carrot seeds in 1 cent packs. So vitally needed was this simple service across rural Bangladesh that Grameen became the largest seeds retailer in the country.

 

Q What’s sorts of exponential rising consequences are sustained by a third of a century of win-win-win social business modeling around a bank?

A Grameen Bangladesh may be a special case of the best that banking can be for humanity since the 4 founders have dedicated their lives to the enterprise, and leader Muhammad Yunus is arguably the most entrepreneurial practitioner on the planet. For example, when global consultants said that mobile phones would only ever have quarter of a million users in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus seized the opportunity to invest his member’s money in mobiles getting the franchise for cents in the dollar. But his primary reasoning for this bold intervention was  to unleash info tech in the village. Soon telephone ladies- one shared mobile rented per village centre – were linking up what is today the 125000 village hubs making up Grameen’s nearly 8 million membership. Please note that the Social Business system empowers any leader to connect the organsiation as sustainably as possible, and with 33 years of practice who knows how many YUnUS can cheerlead the world – Dr Yunus is currently searching http://www.yunusforum.net  for 5000 Youth Ambassadors to share mindsets with, as well as at least one university Yunus Centre http://www.yunuscentre.org  partner in every country. And the idea of testing a franchise micro to see if it works before openly replicating it across all the members hubs makes entrepreneurial innovation as likely to blossom as any human organsiation system design can.

 

Q What would the world have missed if Grameen Bank had never been modeled?

A Quite probably human sustainability http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm  . Definitely improvement of the next generation’s lot through optimal microeconomics design and integrating higher order system awareness in schools than the 20^th century of separation ruled necessary. To explore why look at the case of Global Grameen http://worldclassbrands.tv launched 2009 in time to celebrate the 2010s United Joy of Millennium Goals decade

 Open source property right asserted isabellawm.com foundation and londoncreativelabs.com and microcredit.tv – rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv if you see errors of concept or may wish comments to be openly published Dedication : Mrs Begum, Dr Yunus, Professor Latifee, Dipal Barua – Grameen , and Sam-Daley Harris microcreditsummit.org