its possible once you make that commitment all the environmental problems will be solved

From: christopher macrae <chris.macrae@...>
Subject: introductions -microconnect and Inuguration of the Age of Transparency & Collaboration

Dear Colin   My friends and I are excited to hear all about what your vision for microconnect and university clubs across East Coast USA cities and wherever the age of Obama Transparency and microcredit and social bsuiness community building is dawning   a few points   -what time are you arriving in new york on Tuesday? I have most of Tuesday daytime free in New York if you have a slot (I am actually DC-based)   please feel able to contact Mostofa Zaman http://yunusforum.net/  any time; he grew up in rural Bangladesh; has been working on citizen and student clubs for over 2 years now as direct projects with yunus secretariat; he has an extraordinary knowledge of who's who inside Grameen as well as ability to help customize internships ; until 2 year ago, most of the 500 or so interns a year were wholly microcredit; but obviously the social business partnerships now connect potential to look at live micro projects in almost every area of vital service in the community ; he's in his 3rd year at a london university; with mostofa my friends and I printed 10000 dvds of video shorts with the various people around dr yunus and the variety of live projects; http://yunus10000.com/ ; great if I could give you a box of 100 to pass around    -Mostofa has been specifically asked by Nobel peace laureate  Dr Muhammad Yunus to start registering up to 5000 under 35's most interested in exchanging knowhow between Bangladesh and rest of end poverty world; we will be combing through records of interns at grameen and hope to involve corresponding intern relationship connectors from the other major microcredits including BRAC and ASA; Rachel & Alexis in new york are well connected with how ASA wished to develop worldwide understanding. Alex in DC was one of the first people to fond microcredit clubs in schools, with some help of te young presidents association.   Alex and Mostofa are due to be at Clinton Global Uni next month- it would be timely to know if you or peers may be connecting there too.I dont know if Kevin can use his influence if we need either a latecomer invite or should be asking where on the agenda CG Uni outreaches the way in which 2009 uni clubs can be different than before the Inauguration of the Age of Transparency & Collaboration   Kevin has also mentioned possibilities of linking up with Sir Tom Hunter's son in Glasgow - one of the 3 liveliest social business revolution cities in Europe so far if my info is uptodate.   I find myself being in an odd position of knowing a little bit about a lot of micro connections but not deeply anything ; so if people can ask what they want more info it may trigger my memory of who to try and make introductions through to    We are publishing a booklet with dr yunus on Innovating Collaboration. I find that a lot of arguments go on between eg validating microfinance which miss the bigger picture that what Bangladesh has done since 1970s is provide the change from global down aid to showing that communities are best able to develop the change they need to end poverty; it is interesting going to Dhaka and seeing the microcredits buildings surrounded by slums whereas the global ngos are in the one part of ex colonial Bangladesh which looks like rich citizens lifestyles. At an order of magnitude, seeing where a microcredit's HQ is headquartered can tell a journalist more than years of phd research analysis. I believe the first 10 micro connect clubs could develop a MicroLeadersQuest social business that students can network to help sustainability investors learn which microcredit to do -ground level risk analysis if you will-  far more economically than writing fancy analyses from ivory towers. MacroMedia is a war of noise and PR lobbying- micromedia is going and seeing barefoot and word of mouthing or youtubing what feels like communal common sense and courage.     Before visiting and filming in Bangladesh I had an eyeopening experience in 2005 in london when many ngos had declared a cooperative year of make poverty history; I found to my utter sadness that all these ngos meant they saw this as an opportunity to fundraise for their international offices; the collaboration seemed to have nothing to do with ending poverty at the localities; it was as a sense of personal revulsion to this that I became motivated to try and explore microcredit world as the one huge gravity that connects local up; of course there's an element of over-generalization here as well as lack of my own personal knowledge but since 2006 through 2008 I have been in Dc and the number of meetings hosted by global aid to carve up the budget without much trickling down almost makes me weep so with the new possibilities of obama and if we can unite the real microcredits and their invitation to all community up development economics to collaborate then we could leap forward in empowering the end of poverty , at least I believe we must and we can; and if we do not start the revolution this year we probably never will (in my life time) end poverty as a system failure perhaps the greatest irony of all is that after 9/11 an Australian professor of medicine connected a conflict resolution network and Indian Gandhians in a 2003 london conference and I accidentally walked into it; this led me to inquire about my own family history as my mother’s side had spent many generation is India; I find that my grandfather had spent 25 years being converted by Gandhi from British Raj judge who imprisoned Gandhi to person who wrote up the legalese of India’s independence;  it is as if most of global development aid and economics has lost every lesson of empowerment that Gandhi argued that system transformation beyond colonization needed to involve; only what we may can the micro-up movements and the gravity for that over 33 years in Bangladesh have really practiced Gandhi in a sustainable way; I am aware that some Americans will ask what about Ashoka; and I have exchanged quite long letters with bill drayton on this; but I do not accept the word entrepreneur should be applied to people who do not design into their system positive cashflow to reinvest back in its purpose; this particular logic is planted in my mind from my father’s 40 years of innovation/entrepreneur diaries in The Economist I have worked on innovation in many of the world’s largest organizations with 25000 plus employees- none practice it as empoweringly through all their employees as the main Bangladesh networks of microcredit and hopefully jamii bora As a mathematician who has now followed almost every metric lie global professions have designed into their own business cases for 20 years now since working for 5 years at coopers and lybrand from 1989 before making too much trouble for them on how the big 5 accountants were selling out measurements to their highest bidding clients (my senior partner actually used to have on his wall a signed testimonial from robert maxwell (one of the first of about 200 multi-billion dollar ponzi schemes that corporates have spun, making what adam smith actually meant bry free markets a sick joke) – I recommend coopers & Lybrand as they allays do precisely what I order )  I am quite prepared to be used as a stalking horse in battles such as why does the world bank make so little progress from the bottom up –or why has globalisation caused banks energy education to be 10 times more expensive or riskier than most people need -  while politer people pick up the pieces and do more detailed work- tell me what focus to start an outrage debate if you ever feel there’s an issue that needs stirring. Obama has declared this as the age of transparency – so let it be even if we have to redesign mba curricula whilst looking after the students who do .The view from 1984 from The UK's Senior Economics Journalist By 2024 we will know whether the generation that goes local to global through technology's death of distance spins social and economic systems destned to end poverty or end human sustainability. Both end games are probale - the likelihood of spinning some in-between system is next to zero if you study the maths of integration Here is an approximate timeline and "map" of what we need to collaborate into being if sustainability expoentials are to be our generation's gift to future generations   Our 1984 scenario of an internetworking world Changing communications, and what makes people distant, bossy, etc Changing national politics Changing economics Changing employment Changing education Chris Macrae  usa 301 881 1655 (landline) www.brandchartering.com www.obamauni.com Uni of Transparency http://www.yunusuni.com/id68.html www.valuetrue.com www.futurecapitalism.com