August 2010 Update of Next Actions Here are 2 of my current understandings:
- in january 2011, Glasgow will publish journal of between 7-10 papers with the most exciting action news on social business that can be obtained all round yunus partners
world; within this Glasgow University will also take a lead with papers on how Adam Smith and Dr Yunus come from
almost similar schools of economics thought and practice- so that we can continue the collaboration call that 300+ of
us made at Zasheem's Global Assembly on July 4 for new economics;
this journal endorsed by dr yunus will be distributed to all major yunus partners and anywhere we can all make positive news
- all yunus goals for 2010s depend on making every use possible
of technology for the poor
CONSEQUENTLY it would be very sad if our journal does not include paper of
say 7 two-page interviews on world leaders of tech for the poor- what is it they see tech doing and who needs to understand
that this can be done before their tech for the poor maps come together
2 questions seem to be
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1) can we find someone to do telephone interviews
2) can we
identify top 7 tech for technologists to interview and get their permissions
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I am prepared to put 3000 pounds into the kitty to pay interviewers. Does anyone here want to do the interviews?
eg Estelle - do you want first refusal? Does anyone here wnt to help nominate and arrange interview permissions
My emerging list (but I m not a tech expert) so prefer to hear yours is:
Kazi Islam
- yunus main tech doer
someone from Grameen Intel if they sound keen ( I correspond with main team
members)
someone from MIT - I have met the person who coordinates $100 laptop india but know some
of you have closer contacts than tht
someone within googles network - I have met someone quite
high up who was judge on the yunus prize for extremely affordable healthcare solution at 2008 world congress
I would like to get through to someone like NIlekani who's vision for India is as well documented as yunus
I would like to get to Jack Ma who is CEO of china ali baba (china's ebay) and has a collaborative challenge
with yunus to see which of them can crete the next 100 million jobs with tech
all ideas of help
welcomed
PS In parallel mostofa is doing 2000 pounds of work in dhaka preparing a guide to where international
visitors ought go to see leading edge mobile tech and connecting some youngish tech wizards who are proud of this world leading
contribution of bangladesh
Currently
we are only accepting abstracts - those approved will be put in our blog until we have negotiated worldwide distribution with
a suitable publisher
Back in the early 1970s, three microeconomists believed that compounding poverty was a system failure
quite capable of spinning globalisation unsustainably due to what macroeconomics had become (basically sponsored
by a depressing mix of : the big get bigger; governments who want election at any price ; and speculators who were soon
to use digital networking technology to run the world by the latest number. Norman Macrae (my dad, and before he studied with
Keynes in Cambridge, a self-ordained economist from an Indian correspondence course taken whilst waiting to navigate RAF planes out
of Bangladesh) wrote bout the coming crisis in a trilogy starting with Entrepreneurial Revolution published The Economist 25
Dec 1976, then we're all intrapreneurial now (The Economist 1982) then a book I co-authored in 1984 - was Orwell's only error
with Big Brother date-stamping one generation too early, or can we end poverty and job create for 7 billion using microeconomics
maps grounded in win-win-win value exchanges form communities up. Meanwhile sustainability’s world's 2 greatest
heroes did all the hard work in Bangladesh and serially proved how 10 times more economical local exchanges - where product ivies and demands
are empowered in the community - can be system designed.
This is the famous Bangladeshi Social Business model 1976-2004; what is happening
next is the even more important focus of this journal.From 2005,
Dr Yunus has invited universities to join him in practicing the missing curriculum of sustainability; he often gets the world's
biggest brands to join in co-sponsoring social business chairs, or lending him technology for an extraordinary new village
market, or to help in changing digital media before it dumbs down even more than tv spots did.
So this journal requires contributors to
understand system design and prove that any case they write up about is prepared to be subject to a zero-conflicts audit between
the various parties to a sustainable market's productive and demanding relationship exchange. They will usually be empowered
by multidisciplinary approaches rather than on deep expertise. They will want to write up something that can be openly replicated
in line with Dr Yunus' 70th birthday and 7th decade wishes - why not make the 2010s race to sustainability even more exciting
and unifying of our human race's optimism than the 1960s race to the moon. The technology now exists to practice this motto
- impossible become possible if right people time place action.
| End Poverty & Systems that Crash or Trap End carbon in our waters, air, food and machine's energiesEnd hunger, and poor distribution infrastructuresEnd premature death and ever higher cost of healthEnd wars and govs that spend 20% of the peoples on armsEnd borders as barriers to webs of people mobilising productivityEnd college-less children and universities without job
creating microentrepreneurs |
We
ask that all contributions are timely and clear in what actions they commend collaboratively, where and with whom.
Being a statistician I have 2 views on rational mindsets- one is
there is something d=far better than a good theory that is a see through mp; theories often bury assumptions that nobody but
their creator fully understands, maps are only as good as how everyone can use them to do things.two is : most of the experimental cases of social business are aiming to exponentially compound something
that becomes 10 times more economic over time; asking for minutiae quarterly proof of this is gross mathematical abuse. There's
a whole different tool kit of innovating what people most need - it includes grounded theory and open spaces and human stories
whose common sense is as lest as valid as numbers if empowering systems are being communally embedded. If you are not
sure whether your abstract is worth being in the Journal of Social Business I am in Washington DC 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv
We also invite nominations for editorial board
members – o0rdinarily, we wont bother these experts except where there turns out to be a huge controversy as to whether
something was being invested in as social business or not.