macrae-nets Map future exponentials humanity values Trust-flowTransparencySustainability

2008-08-25T11:48:00.001-07:00

Blog year2008 in october is about ending poverty http://events.takingitglobal.org/20255 so we hope this week's syndication to 100 blogs will exponentialise to tens of thousands of blogs by then, with a little help from friends like you

sustainability club http://sustainabilityclub.com

social business club http://www.socialbusinessclub.net

collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I

yunus 10000 http://yunus10000.com collaboration coordinators for youth dialogues in that city and between cities together with invitations to action specific to each video good news story - eg if you want microcredit to beat off big banks why not help any school try out micro credit with the world's simplest program small change, big changes - a microloanfoundation franchise

Peers across hemispheres and I are far more interested in ensuring that each of these intercity movements vetoes any uses of 20th c failing system methods that the majority of club coordinators -or where elected an honorary board - vote against, than prescribing revenue models.

OPEN SOURCING THE CLUBS
Obviously we should want coordinators to make a living out of work input whlst at the same time recognising that being a club coordinator is probably worth more than having many a professional qualification - or needs to become so if this world is to be sustainable. Equally where profits are repeatedly generated I assume we can find a way iof agreeing some sliding scale that should be contributed either to your favourite grassroots organsiation in bangladesh or to a small list of other potential grassroots partners of future capitalism which should probably need at least 75 of members refendum to confirm

I am very happy if people will negotiate what other rules they would need to want to participate as well as to clarify where they want diferent contant at the mother webs. The main web system I use costs $35 a year per web so its not difficult to imagine that major cties will also want to set up their own branch web or of course a free blog - either of which we will happily linmk from the top of the mother web.

Obviously some of our constitution needs double checking with for example the 100000 bangladeshi's and other Gandhians who are the main practical exemplar of the values we seek to network worldwide so that the future sustains 7 billion brilliant jobs and goodwill multiplying across all women, children and even men.

We wish to learn from each city's most successful ways of mobilising and cross-cultural celebration, as well as metods for ensuring that any action network actually reaches to those in most desperate need of its service. This is one of the big lessons of bangladeshi experience -reiterated by every micro-system designer in bangladesh we have interviewed - once a networks starts empowering the entrepreneur inside it will never get deeper than the deepest needsholders it begins with. This is a lesson that many global NGOs seem never to have begun to grade.

chris macrae http://worldentrepreneur.net
washington dc inquiries desk usa 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv
y10000 at facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22045349892

2007-10-13T14:12:00.001-07:00

Dr Yunus of Grameen and microcredit and Nobel peace 2006 is setting cities and citiens around the world an interesting challenge. If he is passing through your city would you be able to find 1000 people who all wanted to collaborate with each other as well as him in empowering a good global world instead of the bad one currently compoundingSynonyms for good are win-win-win, sustainable, empowering every community up, one where hi-trust people transparently win over low-trustSo 2 questions:if Yunus was passing through Africa cities, which do you think would produce the most collaborative impactsif you are a twin national

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2516276605 - eg living in a rich city but with family roots back in Africa - how ready is your big rich city to represent Africa interests when Yunus hosts his Forum 1000 there.My friends are particularly working on London and New York as 2 test cities; partly because a London University student spent the summer interning in Dhaka on this project. One intercity collaboration idea is collaboration cafe - see those we have already hosted and tell us at info@worldcitizen.tv if you want to replay one in your city or virtually http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page4.html

Another collaboration idea is can we produce a good global idea to heroes, their projects and networks for humanity. Why do people all over the world know the top 10 sporstmen for 50 different sports but not top 10s for different vital issues of human sustainability? http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5475184122

http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page2.html

But the best truth about collaboration knowledge cities http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bknowledge+%2Bcollaboration+%2Bcity&btnG=Google+Search in the 5 years that I have been searching the peoples and communities that weave them is that if any city does a great job in turning round a beter Global with Yunus we can all learn from what it did and work out how to invite the 1000 most relevant citizens when Yunus passes your way. http://grameen.tv/

1991-12-29T21:09:00.000-08:00

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2007-12-31T11:59:00.000-08:00

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2007-12-29T21:10:00.000-08:00

Sectors that do not collaborate in visioning destructive exponentials have no future

example 1 us auto industry - charlie rose interview with GM's rick wagoner 15 june 2006:
We (GM , Ford, Chrysler) should have proactively gone to Washington earlier on 3 (exponentially destructive) issues - http://exponentials.blogspot.com
Health Care - if costs of this keeps going up at double digits, it will bankrupt the country not just the US auto industry
energy policy - there hasn't been a proactive one in the past
trade policy - currencies are out of kilter
There was also an interesting take on Friedman's recent article that there is no more dangerous company to the future of the US than GM. He's sensationalising (shooting for a fact); doesn't mean that he believes that America's future is without a (home) auto industry. interesting parallel references include google GM + Friedman - among which this GM blog is currently top http://fyi.gmblogs.com/2006/06/the_ban_on_rubbish_in_the_new_1.html

if USA slumps internationally, will local communities save the day?

2006-03-31T09:48:00.000-08:00

a mail at omidyar.net

Over the last week, I have been engrossed by the exponentials (http://exponentials.blogspot.com/ future) scenarios that emerge from 2 detailed system maps.
One has involved how far might to dollar fall on international markets

The other goes back to writing in 1984 of my father's (a leading economist) on why the only sustainable globalsiation and networking world retreats from big governance and livens up communities. THere are lots of collaboration, wellbeing and connection advantages of communities that are healthy from the grassroots up. But they are ultimately contextual, diverse. On the worst scenario of a collapsing USA, there's nothing I can suggest theoretically on a virtual conversation thread which will prevent this. However I believe that if we started a guided catalogue here and now of nominations where great american communities exist (real or virtual) then these could be studied as benchmarks if and when the fashion across America is to get rid of big non-transparent governance of the type that seems recently to have made free speech so expensive. http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

There is so much more value to trust-flow, community purpose, transparency across communities than any accounting of other performance measures wielded by the most powerful people ever look at. Spreadsheets have been sponsored to do compute the maths of big people get bigger not all people connect (produce and demand) more deeply around erality-making instead of addictive images. Please don't think I am singling out America, even if the USA leading examples to nations of the world (as our 1984 death of distance future history mapped) could have been taken all 6 billion of us somewhere very different in the first half-life of the worldwide inuagural networking generation. In London every conversation I have turns round to closing the BBC (world's largest public broadcaster -100% owned by people not big politicians and not big corporations) unless by 2012 its spending as much money and programme content on raising world service/humanity problems we people need to solve with as much energy as it currently spends on spectators sports. http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com

PS vested interest as A Scot about 80% of us live outside our land so we tend to suggest people flow with open border models of the future in which nations' boundaries will become seen as history. The abundabce economics of global villages not scarity economics of nations seems to be the only map worthy of entrepreneurs or of revolutionaries http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/

2006-03-31T01:12:00.000-08:00

A mail sent to livingtruth network late April 2006

I have 4 queries - while they are linkied in my mind and recent practices, I am not sure where they fit exactly in the sequence Andrius is building up -please relay now or at a future time if relevant

1 I am several working days into a correspondence course coordinated by the university he founded in 1920 (around the vision knowledge is that which liberates us) on everything Gandi meant by practical networking/community sustainable development around experiments with the truth. I would love to swap notes with others who specifically feel that Gandhi experimented with some clues which in Einstein's appraisal of Gandhi show he may be the only 20th C leader who provides us with sufficient emotional and systemic bridges to higher order system harmony of the kind that networking through global villages certainly requires in very transparency map I am ever invited to join in co-developing. I guess we can work out how to swap notes and future links such as the cenetnary conference being organised out of Gandhi's ashram 1 2 in Oct 2007 (as well as report backe) wcbn007@easynet.co.uk ref Gandhi 2-4 link with some clues from Gandhi

2 For 28 years now Bill Drayton at http://www.ashoka.org/ has connected Social Entrepreneurs in 40 countries (1500 of them who priparily open source projects for humanity from global vilage to global village). I am seeing the president of ashoka tomorrow who is also the Indian lady charged by the microfinance philanthropists investing in http://www.changemakers.net/. The idea of this space is to jam in projects on rotating themes currently "health for all" to ultimately ensure all heeath for all project developers are networked up http://www.changemakers.net/journal/300603/health.cfm

and across from the grassroots, and that there is a central clearing house of learnings and investment in them. Bill's 2 guiding lights from his student days in the 60s are Gandhi and ashoka, a 3rd? century leader whom Gandhi drew on a lot. I will be trying to test out how all these networks collaborate with others and how contact protocols work . I am also resting out a 4 hemisphere met-network and collaboration knowledge city map which any humanitarin network may want to linkin tio at http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com Of course if you want to bean up cross-sections of this map from your collaboration city coordinate, please ask fo0r the html or any other programming code you need to get linking for humanity and exponential sustainability of all our futures

3 I have come across a golden triangle which has been starting me in the face for the 30 years since my father's trilogy in The Economist on Entrepreneurial and death of distance revolutions became a shared storytelling and maths mapping mission of mine to explore. As with Gandhi apex 1 insists we start with the smallest voice with a diversity right to be included but let's look for ones that can be seeded interlocally across many global village. For example as a father of a 9 year old daughter - what should all mentors of 9 year old daughters be uniting behind as the number 1 chnage-question on future learning curricula that will make us proiud of what our millions of daugthers achieve as well as enable them to co-mentor each other in sustainability and conflict resolution etc. The second apex is any media who you can lobby until it is committed to openly raise the question with the global leaders of the 1000 top-down large organisations most relevant to futurising contextual progress for humanity. The question should be raised in such a way that it is made clear that the elader's own future valuation will depend on how transparently his organisations answers and actions and collaboratively (around any risks of losing sustsainability (win-win-win) for all). Do you have a small voice that you most passionately represent seeding across millions of beings. Let's hear of it so we can test out which its 2 other triangle apexes may be mail wcbn007@easynet.co.uk my small voice apex that diversity needs planting all over the world is

4 A collaboration networking sub-theme of what 9 year olds need to be trained in and indeed all grades up to 40th is how to use media especially revolutionary new media. If you have seen last week's survey of new media in The Economist, I must say that its first section was brilaint and all its other sections were in my view disastrous in terms of how to use new media tools such as blogs at least for all of us connected by reconciliing crises or culturallty transforming living the truth goals. If you share my concern about The Economist survey- perhaps we could huddle and work out how to develop a training outline that is the opposite of that implied by the surver's modes of operandi of new media tools- wcbn007@easynet.co,uk subject new media
cheers chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

http://globalcharters.blogspot.com/

http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com/

http://worldyear.blogspot.com/

http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com/

2006-04-24T10:02:00.000-07:00

Proposal for Britain's 2006 CoffeeHouse Challenge

could I host a cafe titled something like
The Coming Social Entrepreneur Olympics

Your host can quickly guide you round the maps of why 2 countries - Scotland and USA - are calling for this. RSA members from every other nation including the English are then welcome to show us yours.

Examples of surprising sights:
Over the last 200 years, Scots have become deep social networkers worldwide. Five times more of us live Outside Scotland than internally, and our love of family clans is perhaps only rivalled by the Chinese.

One of Scotland's World Champions of Social Entrepreneurs, James Wilson, started The Economist 140 years ago as the primary medium engaging leaders and societies in debates on how the people would always need to change economics

30 years ago my father summarised what The Economist had learnt so far about the future histories of Entrepreneurial Revolution in a 3-part trilogy, the third part of which on networking's "death of distance" global challenges to sustainability of humanity I co-authored in 1984 in a book, also dedicated to George Orwell Futurist prescience. At the same time, an American Bill Drayton set sail to connect 1500 social entrepreneurs beginning with those in India inspired by Gandhi who peers like Einstein had nominated as the 20th C world champion of social entrepreneurs -these network around www.ashoka.org and the recent world championships convened at Oxford and sponsored by ebay first president Jeff Skoll
Since 1984 we have contended that the games social entrepreneurs raise in deep communal experiments and global quizzes need to be covered as much by public broadcasters as sports.

This coffeehouse challenge seeks to ask: why isn't the Call for Socila Entrepreneur Olympics a no brainer to for collaboration citizen interested in humanity's sustainability?http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687

2006-03-28T10:30:00.000-08:00

sample of correspondence with journalist - guardian/bbc/itv

Dear Tracey
Thanks for your mail. It may be that we have more to discuss after your busy week than right now
I come for a "lets collaborate and network to invent a way to sustain a bigger footprint- a perspective of investing communally in sustainability, eg in London an epicentre of this is http://www.omniworldview.com/
A media-transforming step towards your downshiftlanguage may include educating people around the loop of let's reality make through uplift and downshift
NOT image-make through upshift and down-lifting
UPLIFTas far as I know from 30 years of listening, if we all invested sustainablyin sun, photosynthesis and algae we could have all the celansing energy climate stability and clean water we could ever dream of
BUT Equally in Downshift mode (until or unless we collaborative map such a dream harmony with nature)
I believe we need to graviate around 2 million global vilages - and Gandhi type writings are anbsolutely core to my way of exploring this - have you read much of him
I believe that http://www.changemakers.net/ is very interesting and may be braching into France righty mow, so if they look like a network you later want to connect with telll me and I will tray and make introductions in all teh right places
Social Entrepreneur Olympics A shared idea of social-entrepreneurs is that we must lobby the BBC until it covers all humanitarian experimental themes with as musch time and attention as sports. If this ever becomes a story you feel like jointly pereparing please say
village up club networkshttp:/clubofarran.blogspot.com http://clubofalmeria.blogspot.com/
social entrepreneur olympics as essence of public media sector 1984 scripts http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
http://www.valuetrue.com/home/gallery.cfm
current http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com/
http://brandtheworld.blogspot.com/
http://universityofstars.blogspot.com/
http://ninenow.blogspot.com/1999_12_01_ninenow_archive.html

1994-12-31T07:22:00.000-08:00

1994 is a formative year for me - marking my virginity on the internet except that:

my craze for exploring how to play with any network began in 1973 when the UK National Development Project hired me (my first job as a maths graduate) to be the hate object of female undergraduate psychologists as they were made guinea pigs in being networked together in groups of 100 learners,

and as one not-too-future-shocking consequence

back in 1984 we storytold the first future history of whether humanity would survive the internet- a systemic challenge with one of 2 opposite goodwill or badwill outcomes; when I say first, I know scifi writers have been exploring this for much of the 20th Century, but our book open sourced links to such humanly challenging storylines and interconnecting maps: as will we entrepreneurially revolutionise economics and all professions in time? will we change media in time? will we change schools in time? will we end global corruptions and endless systemisation of underclasses and poverty in time? will we end addiction to one (the most dirty though historically easy to mine) type of energy in time? will we end the overpowering competitive governance of nations in time to web together 2 million global villages that can thrive through sustaining community-up diversity?

The one-page 1984 storyline began here. To try and map this back and forward for the rest of my internet life, I will try to launch one collaboration project per month. Not being a techie (except that as a mathematician I feel in my blood (and if challenged professionally can explain) when a system is compounding collaboration trustflows or not), I hope most of these projects will be openly taken over by others

January 1995 Marketing Electronic Network (MELNET) - co-host Bradford University Management School. Project status transferred to allaboutbranding.com Errors I made: Originally the top 3 relevant folk at this UK top 5 business school verbally gave this project their blessing: Head Of Business School, Professor of Brand Management, Professor of Marketing but within 3 years they had all moved on and new folk wanted to takeover what had become the number 1 searched web on brand. Meanwhile the book Brand Chartering which I had written and cut up into one-page sections to give the web a quick start launched the system genres of living and learning the brand but ad agency and other professions soon took over the method and used it the opposite way round than I had intended. I had also been promised collaboration with the 2 biggest emerging brand consultancy networks on both sides of the Atlantic but they got bought out and deviated from their founders' original intent. Then an American academic duo copied the main original parts of my book without and references to me and made it an academic best-seller. Since I had originally written the book with too big an aim - ie to change intangibles and brand valuation for ever, I learnt that brand and marketing were unlikely to be the channels that I would ever be permitted to explore reality-making instead of image-making futures with. Back to the drawing board of WarpGlobal

chris (& Norman) Macrae via wcbn007@easynet.co.uk - clan history for Scottish school of economics or inventive peoples at http://clubofarran.blogspot.com - do you have a similar story that we should be posting up at Arran and in any global island you set sail from and return to for common sense community and peaceful reflection

2006-09-11T07:12:00.000-07:00

Citizen Games

We are asking Club of City around the world if there's a game their citizens can most help the world co-produce

sometimes the game is emerging,

other times its very clear -eg Hollywood- let's nominate a top 20 all time movies that are raising biggest questions about humanity's future; see which stars associated or influenced by the film will adopt its future cause, and web it loosely in way that teacher training networks can empower
who else can we linkin? eg University of Stars ,,social entrpreneurial change-makers

an emerging game from Ahmedabad : how do we search by Oct 2007 for all those networkers whsoe lifteime work and expoentials is most moved by Gandhi: how do we get them either to attend the Ashram centenary in Ahmedabad in Oct 2007, or to send a telergam of support which is published up at a web as well as read out to connect all delegates; how do we map every change project that is being inspired at least partially by Gandhi's DNA as one of the most trusted leaders of the last 150 years? who else should we be mapping similarly and where will the next world network meeting be for their alumni?

more citizen games will be noted here- meanwhile to see some of the deepening collaboration discussions which citizens host in rehearsing what their best for world game is...either search these 40 million bookmarks or these 1 2 3 or look at club of village and city such as

Bethesda Mountain View Hollywood Greenwich	ecosaintjames Aldwich Future Euston Circle Angel's Hub Nightingale Balham Espoo Almeria	Visa Ahmedabad Lucknow
Washington DC New York USA America Brazil Canada	London Scotland Venice Netherlands Paris Brussels Africa	Delhi Perth China HongKong Melbourne Pakistan

2006-03-29T01:00:00.000-08:00

a conversation submtited to omidyar

we transparency communities map organisations and networks where the vast majority of value is not in money but trust or learning or giving health or restoring community
what's interesting is that every other value than money seems to be potentially a win-win-win and flow every way round the system (to safegaurd such flow audits are geared to removing conflicts and briding silos)
mathematically to sustain this you need exactly opposite maths from current accounting's separation; our maps seek to open source the simplest minimum audit needed so that trust-flow multipies; boundary transparencies do not get corrupted; the whole system exponentially multiplies forward spinning ssuatinability for all
the maths is almost as simple as the difference between multiply (the open connecyting operand) and add (the separation or closed addiction operand)
Maps lead also to an interesting question - just suppose that even corporations are hybrids of cash-flow and trust-flow; which is more disastrous to run out of cash or trust? what risk do your leaders take when they don't understand how trust multiplies - clue think Anderson ; would Anderson's leaders have made diferent decisions if instead of believing billions of dollars of valuation by busienss stakeholders and 0 value among society was rationally hard as billions+0= billions, they had known in a transparenct world of goodwill billions*0=0
Every corporate and government and professional irresponsibility compounding with globalisation - as well as failures to achieve teh systemic transformation that could make poverty history seem to me to trace back to this biggest mathematical mkistake the world has ever made
chris http://www.valuetrue.com

2006-03-30T08:37:00.000-08:00

Dear Jennifer
Could you confirm whether this mail gets through to you and whether it is in a suitable for to give to Bill
Dear Bill
Since your kind letter to me of march 7 I have been pondering how the networks around both of our family's/co-mentors' trees could test collaboration with each other
A possibility- if it makes sense to you -is that I donate 15 man days of my time before the summer to being somewhere in your offices with a view to trying to map how your networks systemically connect locally and globally with other ones I am intimate with
Since my father's start of the Entrepreneurial Revolution trilogy in The Economist 30 years ago, I have understood that Entrepreneur is a system word: ranging from how individuals entrepreneur to how globalisation as the mother of all meta-systems exponentially rewards or conflicts with every sustainaining entrepreneurial dynamic;
to make progress I need to translate our common languages at the many Entrepreneurial (macro, micro, inter) levels from being to 6 billion beings; to check whether we use approximately the same governance/audit methods at each level; to understand say the top 30 missions that your 1500+ individual fellows have each networked over many years; and to see how these connect with the 7 collaboration waves which since 1984 we have believed will propagate through the 1984-2024 (network revolution generation worldiwde)uptilting or downtilting the sustainability of every community's deeepst diversity:such waves include photosynthesis and clean energy; education modes and curricula of networked children; global media; professions and transparent goverance; moving beyond a world where the 2000 top powers are either nations or global corporations and neither typology accepts that the biggest needs to be most ethical in colaboratively internalising its sectors most risky externality
Quite a mouthful. Still by being able to look at your 20+ year history of biggest breakthroughs and how you see future colaboration priorities today, I am confident we can find many connections especially since -thanks to Bornstein's chap 5.6 - it is clear that gandhi -and Einstein's mathematical endorsement of his view of human relations transformation http://clubofdc.blogspot.com (eg from rules to empathy or trust-flow) - are common clues we navigate the new world's mapmaking around
sincerelychris macrae
tel 301 881 1655
http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com

2006-03-30T01:17:00.000-08:00

a conversation linking anarchists from Yale Professors to American public broadcasting tv - long may ye breathe - more context here

walt said:While it is not surprising that someone with an interest in anarchy would have a parallel interest in anthropology, it is surprising that they would not realize that as a society's needs for infrastructure, commerce, services, etc. becomes more complex it necessarily follows that there becomes a greater need for structure which anarchy cannot provide because it is the ultimate in de-centralization.For example, a greater structure than anarchy can provide is required so that government can step in to prevent robber barons from creating monopolies that would take undue advantage of the populace. Another example is the cohesiveness anarchy cannot provide to assure protection on a national level. If everyone is doing their own thing, then its kind of hard to raise an army to defend more than a locality or region.

Macrae.nets from Scotland reply:
Walt. I both couldn't agree with you less and more. But then we scots are the original anarchists, our clans the original global Mac brand as anti-junk as an American singing Lennon may imagine, the early "local to global" social networkers- the grassrooted communalisers of go forth, open source, multiply diversity, http://www.economist.com/diversions/millennium/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=346669
we forefathered a lot of sports to give the English playing fields to level instead of walls to Hadrianise, we developed tv (a big mistake for which we repent), as social entrepreneurs we mapped the maths of peoples economics -trust-flow , transparency across system boundaries , exponential sustainability of our future generations, abundance economics wholly capable of investing in 6 to 10 billion beings and nature's evolutionary clean energies: we founded The Economist -a paper whose medium and mediation - has teased every too big leader to come back to ground's softlanding where for and by the people includes freedom and happiness not just finacial value's last quarter, where one small step by man is the right stuff for one gian leap for womakind - at least we wish to make all our entreprenurial revolution cases alive here, from an isle where there is time to think unlike that any global accountant has every administered o'erhttp://clubofarran.blogspot.com
however please do note that scottish law owns a peculiar structure ; it does not rush to one of 2 opposite conclusions - guilt or not guilty ; it keeps space open for as long as their is conversation for not proven; a space much needed if as Einstein first famously debated with Americans we in a flattened world of muddled up peoples and cultures -now networked cheek by jowl through death of distance http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com - are to establish a higher order system than just being ruled by superpower alone http://clubofdc.blogspot.com

1999-12-31T16:57:00.000-08:00

Space 1000 needs your help - see also our survey of world's 1000 most trusted people

Our plan is to send out the first page of this weblog by snailmail with the top-of-the-sidebar Hi customised to 1000 of the world's leading entrepreneurs in the 10 main categories (category 10 spirits are the only group that we won't mail) we have been tracking since my father began the Entrepreneurial Revolution trilogy in The Economist in 1976

mail us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you have a nomination of people we should be posting

Index

0 Future History Entrepreneur Scriptwriters & Editors
sent
001 Thomas Friedman 1 2 3
002
1 Entrepreneurs
2 Social Entrepreneurs
Bill Drayton
Skoll
Bill Tailor
Schwab
3 Intrapreneurs
J Gifford Pichot
4 Celebrity Entrepreneurs
Tiger Woods 1
5 Conflict Resolution Entrepreneurs
Harrison Owen
Myrna Lewis
6 Biodiversity Entrepreneurs
601 sent Vinod Khosla (Khosla * Friedman *poverty *prahalad *Drayton *omidyar
"An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true."
"Innovative bottom up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable- from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology ,powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems."

1000-win entrepreneurs
Gandhi
Florence Nightengale & Mother Theresa
Martin Luther & Rosa King
David Livingstone

9 Opinion Leaders to debate with
sent 901 John Micklethwait, Editor The Economist 1 , 2 (I first met John in 1988 when he was compiling the survey the year of the brand)
John congratulations in coming a long way since we met 18 years ago, to discuss year of brand

I am sorry to need to say that the line that globalisation is doing the best it can for poverty is both very risky and the antithesis of what social entrepreneurs nets believe James Wilson stood for. I had frequent arguments with B.E on that but can no longer stand by passively regarding other influencers of The Economist

The timeline my father scripted back in 1984 in our orgiginal book on the genre now know as the world is flat though still called death of distance by some of Bush's Gathering stormers is here http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687 in one page overview
If you dont believe that globalisation can compound more to systemically end poverty, you might ask Jo Grimmond why he reviewed our book with the words: I am more than willing to accept that, if we were to use science along the lines that Norman Macrae suggests, we could transform the world

Our networks' argument since 1984 has been and remains that at least 7 collaboration waves will network around the world over the next decade uptilting or downtitling everyone depending how trustworthily (and ending-externalities transparently) we all participate. Be the wave: photosynthesis of clean energy 1, learning networks for our children 1, cross-cultural understanding and celebrations in inner city project hubs, ending systemic poverty, restoring public broadcast media to cover big human questions with as much attention as sport and linking this to one internet debating bookmark, revolution in economics to represent all peoples knowledge economies not the big gets bigger etc

Tell me if you or your teams want more links etc from me at any stage

cheers
chris macrae
dc region tel no 301 881 1655
In searching Khosla*Drayton I came across the social entrepreneur listing of the world technology net. I will be searching through these names but if anyone already has some links to them to share please do chris wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
H. Exc. Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
Republic of India
Mr. Peter Armstrong
OneWorld International Ltd
Mr. Washington Ayiemba
The Kipepeo Project
Mr. Rodrigo Baggio
Comitê para Democratização da Informática (CDI)
Mr. Trevor Baylis
Academy of Invention
Mr. Ricardo Eugenio Bertolino
Ecoclubes
Dr. Karima Bounemra Ben Soltane
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Mr. James Clark
The World Technology Network
Mrs. Vicky Colbert
Escuela Nueva Back to the People Foundation
Mr. Robert Davies
International Business Leaders Forum
Mr. Fabio Luis de Oliveira Rosa
IDEAAS - Instituto para o Desenvolvimento de Energias Alternativas e da Auto Sustentanilidade (Institute for the Development of
Mr. William Drayton
Ashoka
Mr. Rubem César Fernandes
Viva Rio
Mr. Jim Fruchterman
The Benetech Initiative
Mr. Dan Gertsacov
EMPRESA Forum
Ms. Sushmita Ghosh
Ashoka Society
Dr. Ian Gordon
The Kipepeo Project
Mr. David Green
Project Impact
Mr. Agus Gunarto
Yayasan Rona Alam (Rona Alam Foundation)
Mr. Arvind Gupta
Mr. Pranay Gupte
The Earth Times
Mr. Muhammad Ibrahim
Ms. Mandira Kumar
Sutradhar
Ms. Jacqueline Novogratz
Acumen
Ms. Kristine Pearson
Freeplay Foundation
Mr. Jim Pitofsky
National Youth Leadership Council
Mr. Bunker Roy
The Barefoot College
Mr. Amitabha Sadangi
IDE India
Mr. Noah Samara
WorldSpace Corporation
Ms. Lekha Singh
AidMatrix
Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy
Aravind Eye Care System
Mrs. Gisèle Yitamben
ASAFE (Association pour le Soutien et l'Appui à la Femme Entrepreneur)

2006-03-30T05:08:00.000-08:00

I am delighted by frequent email I receive along the lines of who are my favourite reconciliation networks, what methods do they use, which contexts do they care most about. This is a general overview reply. If you see something that matters to you why not email me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk for further details or to tell me what links with people deeply pioneering goodwill at the grassroots that I am missing

Dear Loutjie

I am not myself a facilitator of reconciliation but mapping who is and which
networks around the world has become a big concern of mine. My father was a
career-long journalist at The Economist and in 1976 started an
Entrepreneurial Revolution trilogy - the first 2 parts published in The
Economist; the 3rd part which I co-authored in 1984 was the book that started
the future history genre of "death of distance". We posited 7 waves which
networks and globalisation would propagate worldwide and which would need
human collaboration beyond national and top-down rule if futur5e generations
were to be sustainable. In particular our timeline suggested that around 2005
mankind's greatest risk would be success or failure in making systemic deep
poverty history
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
http://globalcharters.blogspot.com –each flow tends to connect its own deepest innovation networks and their needs to remove blocks or conflicts in global markets of learning, of clean energy, of professional greed and separate business casing, of eneding systemised poverty and community (deep culture) destruction, of media and other corruption and non-open ways of communicating etc

My own career as a mathematician has been spent in various modes of research into what local
societies want from global corporations and finding an ever greater gap
especially in both modes of corporate governance and system valuation of
trust-flow, transparency and compound sustainability exponentials
http://exponentials.blogspot.com

The maths of current accounting and historical economics is now perfect for
compounding conflicts, making the big bigger, extracting from people every
quarter while investing in machines. I need to know what reconciliation
networks and contexts are being developed where both for the personal interests
in seeing that my 9 year old's daughter and her future generations have a
better life, to interweave what changing the maths could do with systemic
approaches to reconciliation, and at many deep context levels which over the
years I have become concerned about if not directly situated in

To answer your question, my favourite methods and connections with networks on
reconciliation include the following. I place a high priority on networks and
methods that seek to collaborate with each other. I am of course delighted to
be told of leads unknown to me

1 Every practice and network linked with Gandhi seems pivotal to me. There are
over 10 different reasons why his methods integrate reconciliation like no
other . There's a centenary get-together from his ashram next year
http://clubofahemdabad.blogspot.com

2 Both relating to Gandhi and marvellous in their own right are

www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org - this is a network formed by an
Australian professor of medicine - as well as linking major medical expert
networks who go into disaster areas for the regeneration phase or tackle issues
such as how to restore community where HIV has decimated a generation; they
have strong youth cross-cultural movements; strong concerns for indigenous and
nomad communities; their 2004 annual congress was held in Delhi and this is
why I know of some of the people animating Gandhi's centenary event. Basically
Professor Paul Komesaroff is the epicentre for5 this movement and if people have
a letter of intro they want relayed I am happy to do so

There is also
I have to say I have not met anyone in this network but its 2006 annual http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AVPIG2006/

meeting is in S Africa and is motivated by commemorating Gandhi's influence
there

3 I regards South African Myrna Lewis Deep Democracy www.deep-democracy.net method as one of the great reconciliation methods; the other which is far simpler to facilitate but does different things is the 25 year long movement of open space founded by Harrison Owen and now practised in about 80 countries http://www.openspaceworld.com

4 I have recently started searching through entrepreneur networks and looking at which match the 7 waves of global and local change that we forecast 22 years ago would cause most conflict and systemic challenge to transform through. For example, I have established connections with the founder of www.ashoka.org who has been mapping for over 20 years local context change-makers; I am also a fan of microfinance projects and their systemic logics - a primary discussion space for this is www.omidyar.net

5 I do not see governments or large corporations or even global NGOs as likely to lead the reconciliation changes needed at the grassroots. So I try to map which philanthropic movements are doing something innovative and locally deep - two to note may be
http://www.eginitiative.org and http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.com

6 I also believe that open projects can change the world http://project30000.blogspot.com

7 There are also change politics movements beyond short-term and local left-right one dimensional lack of democracy. Two I favour whilst personally not having much time directly for traditional politicians are www.simpol.org and http://groups.google.com/group/worldcit The second of these is also associate with the world’s largest Montessori school and meetings place for eg justice which I ask people to help discuss at http://cluboflucknow.blogspot.com

That's a top level guide of where my best hopes and connections are. Always delighted to hear of more and see how we can form more collaborative connections. At the end of the day I believe we are in a war between networks who get the urgency to transform and those that don't. Both types tend to attract their own kind. To some extent I hope that what people around me can most do is offer dialogue scripts and system design maths wherever people have a context that they are seeking to transform from interlocal to global. A very serious compound maths problem is externalities where each major global market sector currently profits from compounding its greatest know risk on whichever society either knows least about it or has the least constitution (including greatest corruption) from preventing the greatest burden of the risk as being located there.

cheers
chris macrae
PS I would welcome you either returning me a similar guided tour of who's who in your view or discussion of one context you are putting your deepest passion and time into

2007-12-30T16:39:00.000-08:00

This section examines:
1.0 How to wholly value human relationship systems and
2.0 What pattern rule awareness needs facilitating if the service economy is to be democratised.

Non-mathematicians may want to skip to section 2’s where we plat with pattern rules. Section 1 is a brief introduction to the great mathematical mistake that is ruling the world and global leadership professions today. As per the scripts in our 1984 death of distance future history, a failure over the next decade to remedy mathematical errors of such global proportions increases the chances that humanity will fail the final examination of networks as systems*systems*systems. AS we hurtle towards 1000-lose world rulership, we extinguish all sustainability pathways for future generations. Provided we can collaborate in mapping how to prevent this dark age endgame, networking’s 1000-win potential can still turn out to be the greatest gift one generation has past on to futures one.

So far the first decade of the 21st Century has been full of warning signals confirming that the mathematics we govern the world’s largest organisations with is neither true nor fair. It systemically fails to value trust-flow in the compound way necessary to understand what futures we are co-creating.

1.1 The precision of any mathematical logics or measurements is predicated by assumptions. Always ask what these assumptions are before being led by the numbers. In particular, query what context was this pure maths first applied to? If a large profession has spiralled round these purities and logics,we should all be asking: has it had any vested interest in extending beyond the contexts its logics are appropriate for?

The assumption of the model we are asking you to play with is built round the core definition of living system theorists namely that while such a system is alive it is always spinning either:

a virtuous spiral- this is equivalent to a rising valuation exponentials in which all sides are gaining heath* wealth
Or a vicious spiral –this is equivalent to a devaluing exponential in which more and more conflicts are compounding causing more and mores sides to lese wealth and health ; ultimately this spiral ends in death of the system and an implosion that waves through other systems whose own lives had become interdependent on it

In mathematical statistics the term Bayesian is used to convey the idea that the more that has already been invested in relationships of a system the more its future trajectory can already be modelled. The 10-win framework helps us to check sufficient information of how conflicted or conflict free a human relations system is to know which of the 2 exponential it is on, how far along it is spiralling. WE suggest this is the most critical measurement framework for governing any organisation in the service economy. The measurement tells you what type of strategy leaders can effectively facilitate next. For example, an intervention for a system that is destructing value involves very different methods (eg those of conflict resolution facilitators) than a system which is sustaining growth on all sides (one of its leadership responsibilities is to steer clear of being wooed by partners that may be bigger but not sustainable).

1.2 The Different Views of Risk
One of the people who most changed my understanding of organisation valuation was an engineer who also lead one of the UK’s main business schools. I met him over a decade ago. As a lifelong hobby he had reviewed hundreds of disaster cases such as air crashes or factory explosions. He had found that these inquests were biased to wards finding a thing that had broken whereas in about 85% of cases there was clear evidence had chosen to analyse it that this was a human system with so many silos or conflicts that a disaster was waiting to happen. My friends maxim: tense human systems will naturally degrade unless they are relentlessly stewarded ahead of time so that emerging conflicts or separations are prevented from entering the system and spinning cancerous effects.

Let’s list some reasons how the lifeless thing bias in risk analysis has become one of today’s greatest risks before providing one example of how the same industry analysed its first disaster as a broken thing and the second as a broken human relation system.

Both insurance and law has a bias towards separating a fault out as one thing and the responsibility of one side. This is undoubtedly a convenience for administering who pays up. However insurance and law is putting ever more human lives at risk in the increasing number of cases where mediation should be concerned with evaluating systemic faults connecting more than one side and a root cause whose spread and spinning of errors through many periods proceeds the compound consequence of system-wide meltdown.

Management needs to get over a pretence of being more precise than tensely productive and demanding organisation can be. Spreadsheeting more and more numbers is a sign of very weak management if it has not been concerned with asking whether there is more than one maths at play. We’ve just introduced the idea that there is a maths for navigating what future you are leading and this is not related to the maths that is only concerned with separating what has been achieved in a past period. Nor should management want to rely on legal or insurance contracts so heavily that their ring-fencing actually makes it inevitable that the whole global industry will become ever more disaster prone because critical learning flows are being blocked at different organisational boundaries or over a ten year period whilst lawyers adjudicate privately who was to blame for the last accident.

Example: Over the first generation of space travel, NASA has lost two crews in space.

In the first disaster report, a rubber washer was blamed. There was some discussion that the shuttle launch had been left outside during an extremely cold night that had damaged the washer but that was about the extent that the system of human relations was reviewed for conflicts. In the second space ship loss a few years ago, the identifiable fault involved how the foam insulation shield broke. However this report tracked back how this was related to over 50 human relationship conflicts or silos, and ultimately what the disaster report described as weak management. At the core of this weak management was over-reliance on one measurement system instead of the integration of two. At sustianbility of space races’ meta-level, NASA had 3 goals:
A Control costs
B Be productive, keep a busy schedule of flights going
C Be safe

The standard accounting systems spread over the last 10 year forty quarterly periods had managed A and B into ever more separately efficient boxes and performance goals. In so doing this at NASA, it had caused almost all the fractures of the whole relations system needed to sustain safety. We can suggest the pattern rule that spreadsheeting the machine age accounting monopoly is perfect maths and perfect process for eroding whatever the deepest contextual purpose of an organisation or industry sector could be. Tangible accounting’s professionalism values its own standard controls above diversity of context; separating the past from the future; investing in machines whilst cutting costs of people; ring fencing organisational boundaries precisely where safety needs to flow if compound sustainability of a networked globe is to be valued and humanly mapped..

2.0 Under Construction

2.1 Ask what is the multiplier map around here before being addicted to separated performance measures

2.2 Explore and charter every coordinate’s right of passion to connect truly with future history purpose

2.3 Debate pattern rules as vaguely right unless we can prove them to be precisely wrong in our context or at this particular time of our context’s ®evolution

2.4 – Entrepreneurs renegotiating with the most powerful demand coordinate and so liberate confused management
Often Golden triangles are a helpful way out – transformation from red curve to gereen curve

1998-12-01T06:08:00.000-08:00

2006-03-27T16:50:00.000-08:00

correspondence with world citizens at http://groups.google.com/group/worldcit

1 my first visit to this hall of wisdom http://allies.alliance21.org/wp/en/doc/doc.html - congratulations to all involved- looks like a mountain of work

2 I have to say that as a person I get a bit sick of the parliament word, and wonder if I am in a silent majority on that; the last thing any Brit wants is another layer of politicians taxing and bureucratising over them with the pseudo-democracy of a one-dimkensional election choice that then signs away choice on hundreds of issues - we have at least 3 layers of siging away our communal sustainability over our own affairs: local, national, EU. If I understand correctly the wp21 is more of an exploration centre of information for all peoples by all peoples. If so that needs stressing as you build awareness and convert the parliament-fazed within the silent majority. It might almost gain from the scale and deep inquiry competence of a collaboration between public sector media like the BBC, India's DD and other countries if the media collation job was overseen by a worldwide patron group reperesnting veru diversity

3 I guess I am interested in seeing some documents most people have never seen before first. For example, I would love to see an exceptions analyis by country put up at a web site; this would answer perhaps 50 to 100 questions on most basic people needs perhaps stratified by richer versus poorer countries (simply because the foci of waste may be different); for example some of the questions I would like to see exception reporting answers to among richer countries:

which countries spend more than twice their peer average on helath and get no better health

which countries spend the most on arms as a per cent of the country's wealth and why

which countries are most out of sync withe the rest of the world on taxing carbon-energy consumption so olow that it is guzzled

which so-called democratic countries have the most expensive election processes

etc

It seems to me that if both the raising and answering of these questions could be transparently done, suddenly people might start debating across places - you poor people what an expensive and rotten government of that service you are getting - how can we help you either by sharing knowledge so the cost comes down or by aligning worldwide that the priority of spending is just out of sync

I am not an expert so I imagine there are a lot better questions than the ones I have started listing. However a question I have: Does anyone know if such a questions list has already been collated in one strawman document?

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com
current network entrepreneurial revolution campaign:
social entrepeneur olympics

2006-03-29T15:13:00.000-08:00

1st Quarter Report on Open Research of Trust via GTN and valuetrust

Trust became a big trans-atlantic issue with Queen Elizabeth's end of 2005 broadcast message to the Commonwealth on the ever-increasing risk of globalisation turning humanity on itself, and Jan 2006 State of the Union's reversal of America's addiction to petroleum economics and sports- our 1984 work was referenced as part of the brainstorm stimulus used by the president's Gathering Stormers 1 2

Who are the world's 1000 most valued people in terms of trust not money. Our preneurial research over the last 30 years seemed like a suitable archive for starting up this research - of course we'd love to be contacted by others who want to conduct the survey and share the results -ref Uni1000 and http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com

Http://project30000.blogspot.com contibues it progress in networking the world around 30000 hi-trust projects. Progress is much slower than we had forecast in our 1984 death-of-distance future history but then we were over optimistic about media

To rectify trust in media, Londoners ask for the world's help in 3 long-run campaigns

retrieve The Economist as epicentre of the social entrepreneur olympics in line with its founders values in the 1840s - ref ecosaintjames and social-entrepreneur

retrieve the BBC as the people's world service media - ref futureofbbc and the Blair Legacy and University of Stars

close down the 2012 summer olympics unless social entrepreneur arenas are given as much share of voice in BBC media coverage as sports

We continue to invite citiznes everywhere to join in connecting through the 40 million bookmarks of collaboration knowledge city through the formats of club of city and club of village which we have now helped to co-launch in 100 places and out of all hemispheres. We are building up a particular focus on the Gandhi Centenary October 2007 - A B The DC Testimonies by Einstein et al

A new space for hi-trust mapmaking is www.frappr.com - come and try out maps built around the main colaboration waves we have been monitoring since 1984

2006-04-02T03:17:00.000-07:00

SE Olympics: We devoting the weblog Social-Entrepreneur to this worldwide interactive survey and campaign. What arenas of social entrepreneurship do you feel merit as much media attention and clarification of world champion collaborations as sports? This section notes how this idea has been building up for 22 years, and why dialogue networks connecting through us forecast that humanity's sustainble futures cannot afford to delay in celebrating Social Entrepreneur Olympics every bit as much as sports. Do mail us if you have a network eg 1 2 or meeting where you wish to raise this topic- all our scripts are intended for open use, and we are delighted to try and link you into detailed contexts.

Back in 1984, I co-authored the first future history in the "death of distance" genre. Synonyms today for network's global and local revolutions of humanity are "World is Flat" (please tell us others)

We timelined waves that would require unprecdented collaboration by the genration 1984-2024 if exponential consequences of its global system descision-making were not to be the beginning of the end of all future generations.

Back in 1984, as the culmination of a trilogy of entrepreneurial revolution reports which began in The Economist of 1976, we datelined 2005 as the world's risky year. Would collaborations begin to make poverty history? We can now report that 2005's first meta-network of this name has not systemically turned globalsiation's systemizing of poverty and lost sustainability of communities (global villages) whether they are digitally divided ones or in war zones or spreadsheeted as the externalised waste bins of the rich men's needs.

Consciousness streams like those noted above explain why we feel an urgent need to explore the problem of media awareness. Our 1984 projections of now to start ridding of the world of exponetially systemised poverty assumed that a string public media would help develop worldwide awareness of humanity. Why not a humanitarian olympics? What might the top 30 arenas for "games and projects" of social entrepreneurs be?

Possible Top 30 arena (no particular order):

solar energy

people's facilitation methods to resolve conflicts and evolve trasparent democracy

schooling in the most disadvantaged places eg communities with parneltless children are due to HIV

DISUSSION IN MORE DETAILS
Epi 1 : Why do we only have sports olympics - we can all think of 30 different sports. But round the well-to do Northern & Western hemisphere, we have very little public awareness of what typologies of projects Africa are most needed and who is seeting benchmark examples that could be replicated across communities with similar need.

example 1 could solar energy be big in Africa; I hear this may be one of the African union topics in July in Gambia. Is there any way these 290+ comments on solar-Africa could be classified into major different types of projects/experiments
while some of us see if we can do that, what do you nominate as example 2, and will you try and make a shortlist of it
http://www.frappr.com/algaeworld

Epi 2
Club of City monitors the ranking of collaboration knowledge city's 40 million bookmarks. Currently London is number 1. So we will start raising the ante around London - goal is to start gossiping that if 30 ways to sustain the world are not as important as sports by 2012 then we will ban the sporting olympics http://cluboflondon.blogspot.com
we have a cheeky entry point: the mayor has promised the Olympics will be carbon free; that's about as impossible as getting the USA off addiction to petroleum economics unless the whole world colaborates around photosynthesis; my friends in Norway have been trying to collaborate with Gambia in getting solar energy in as a hot topic on July's African union sumiit - so game on this agenda is Africa's too. In fact, photosynthesis produces the most abundant energy in the hottest places and unlike carbon oil it cleans as it is consumed ; so Africa has a natural world lead in photosyntheis

I am aware that social entrepreneurs like Myrna Wasjman -Lewis whom you can find at http://www.ashoka.org Africa are double world leaders: she has one of the deepest end corruption facilitatation approaches and she gives all her probono time to going round to parentless communities in Africa, trying to renew childrens education in HIV ravished places - perhaps that 2 and 3

http://www.frappr.com/younghubs One of the great possibilities of schools (or after-schools) is that they can be regarded like a natural open source franchise . What different types do you spot:
Tiger's sounds brilliant
Around London, one pilot approach which our women's networks of Search Theresa would love to see blossom is called Turn Up the Courage.

I read in a parallel thread that Omidyar has co-voted one or two of our African thread sponsors to the social entrepreneur world championships in Oxford http://clubofoxford.blogspot.com (where Al Gore guests) next week so it will be good to hear their debriefs- and entries into the top 30

The beauty of a collaboration top 30 is it can be 50 ar any number but let's seee if there's a way to make the top 10 or 30 on the publics consciousness as much as sports by 2012
one more view on this from London is that one of our biggest preneurial take backs involves the peoples BBC and world service; if the media were even neutral in its long term inquiries into the systemic lost transparencies of poverty, then social entrepreneurs would be as truly heroised as some starts are falsely celebrated
http://universityofstars.blogspot.com http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687

2006-03-31T12:48:00.000-08:00

sample correspondence in networks I love to connect
Bhasha Friends stand up for rights of Nomads; it was also a co-host of the 2004 annual meeting of Global Reconciliation Network in Delhi (probably more than any other network I feel proud to be a small part of GRN)

Before attending the 2004 conferece, whilst I had realised that my British compatriots had compounded lots of problems that still hangover the world from the days of Empire and Raj; I was not aware that upto 10% of Indians are born criminal because British law (from Raj days and stiil in force in some parts of India) viewed Nomads as dangerous to property owners. This in spit of teh fact that much land in India (and indeed through the Eastern hemisphere) isnt fertile enough to support anything other than a nomadic lifestyle.

Here a recent sample of correpondence with Bhasha friends network:

Hi
A few points on housing that may be a bit tangential but please contact me if they may be relevant to your interests

If people are renovating housing or building new shelters, I have an architectural acquaintance who assures me that solaroof shelters that incorporate algae-type roofs can photosynthesise energy needs as well as collect drinking water in humid climates at no more cost than traditional shelters - see also http://algaeworld.blogspot.com

It would be great if housing departments in the area around Ahemedabad (Gandhi's Ashram and centenary next october) were at least informed of this possibility; ditto perhaps relevant researchers at the univesity that Gandhi founded in 1920

In parallel, there was an amazing US tv interview by Charlie Rose with the Mumbai film star Shabana Azmi as part of his recent India week . She stated that she was going to become an activist on behalf of inner city slum dwellers. Her point was that redeveloping slums by offering occupants some shelter outside the city was not as useful a move as finding a way to refit slums into habitable spaces because most of these folk still had to travel back into the city to make a livelihood. The theme of how to make the slum system history also seems to be the core one of the habitjam that was held virtually in December as a precursor to July's conference in Vancouver

If anyone on this listing knows people in India who make decisions related to any of these architectural stages and wants to be put in contact with my photosynthesis architect friend
please contact me . Since the 1984 future history I co-authored on death of distance entrepreneurs (before Thomas Friedman became far more famous last year with The World is Flat) debating circles around me have believed that photosynthesis' clean energy wave is vital for us all to collaborate all round the world and get moving this decade

Whilst over in the Washington Dc region I have made touch with Bill Drayton of Ashoka. I am very excited about starting up web word of mouth aropund the idea of Social Entrepreneur Olympics http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com

If any of Bill's list of social entrepreneurs in India look like people we should ensure are connected with friends of Bhasha, please tell me and I can relay your request to Bill http://www.ashoka.org/global/aw_asia_india.cfm

Finally I am opening up discussion maps both for friends of Gandhi and friends of algae architecture experiments atwww.frappr.com/algaeworld
www.frappr.com/gandhimba
thankschris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com

previously
106 Houses!Last night Shashwati and I called Roxy in Chharanager and heard someterrific news. (Skype's conference calling feature is amazing!)Just after New Year's, we'd visited a road-side settlement ofDenotified Tribal people who had been displaced from their homeland byurban development. This was in the Ahmedabad district of Maninangar.Last week, the Budhan Theatre and hundreds of other activists aroundGujarat and India staged a hunger strike on behalf of these people.Although not widely reported in the press, the hunger strikeembarrassed the Municipal Corporation into agreeing to provide thedisplaced residents of Maninangar with 106 houses!Roxy, Daxkin and the others are still working hard to make sure thatthese promises are kept, but it is a wonderful development and theyare to be congratulated on their hard work!--------Roxy and Daxkin also emphasized the important role that GN Devy (orsimply "Sir" as he is known in Chharanagar) and Bhasha played inmaking this happen.kerim--____________________________________P. Kerim FriedmanDepartment of Indigenous CulturesCollege of Indigenous StudiesNational DongHwa University, TAIWANhttp://kerim.oxus.net/______________________________

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if USA slumps internationally, will local communities save the day?

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