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Jeff Mowatt
Jan 22, 2009, 4:35:48 AM1/22/09
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I'll try the end of that post again, it lost all it's links in the
last send.
I was describing the Genesis missive sent to the Senate Committee in
Foreign Relations just under a year ago and background leading up to
this document. The influence on government being a recent discussion
on Skoll Social Edge.
From Terry Hallman, founder of P-CED that came first in the form of <a
href="http://www.p-ced.com/about/history/">a thesis</a>, proposing how
information technology and business based on a more inclusive people-
centered model could be deployed to eradicate poverty. It was his
contribution as an honorary researcher to Clinton's re-election
committee in 1996. A year later it was published on the web as a free
to use model.
In 1999 was then able to persuade US government to <a href="http://
www.p-ced.com/projects/russia/">invest in Russia</a> at the
microeconomic level where trickle down had failed. The concept was to
use development aid funding as investment capital. Between 2000 and
2004, that created <a href="http://www.mixmarket.org/en/demand/
demand.print.profile.asp?ett=2236">10,000 businesses with the aid of
microfinance</a> in the city of Tomsk. Replicated elsewhere in Russia
and then in Georgia it set the scene for the Russian Microfinance
Centre.
In 2002 he then <a href="http://www.p-ced.com/projects/ukraine/
crimea/">proposed to replicate</a> for the Islamic group in Ukraine,
known as the Crimean Tatars. US Government were persuaded that the
cost of investing in a similar microfinance scheme might be compared
against an equivalent spend on cruise missiles, should Crimea
replicate the Balkans. The concept of an economic "smart bomb" was
introduced to government.
He was obstructed at this point, refusing to compromise on non-
transparent add-ins. He blocked his own project. Left standing alone
against corruption, by his own government, he returned to the US and
homelessness.
In the winter of 2003 he began a fast for economic rights in the US,
living in a tent and blogging from a library in Chapel Hill NC. We'd
already corresponded and met in Ukraine and I was one of two people
that heard him. The other was Senator John Edwards who soon after
created the <a href="http://www.law.unc.edu/centers/poverty/
default.aspx">Center for Poverty Work and Opportunity</a> in that
town.
Later<a href="http://www.iccrimea.org/scholarly/economicdev.html"> he
was interviewed</a> by a diaspora leader, explaining the 'swords to
ploughshares' aims.
<a href="http://people-centered.net/">P-CED UK</a> began in 2004 and
we resolved to make the case for ending poverty on a national scale.
We would demonstrate that for the cost of what was being spent in Iraq
each week, another country could be lifted from poverty to foster
democracy. That case was made in Oct 2006 with a microeconomic
'Marshall Plan' delivered to the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, where a junior senator and the chair have since become the
President and his VP.
Then made unwelcome in the UK by our government, he returned to
Ukraine and began work. We were to learn of far worse than we had
imagined in a report sent to me and Terry took up the cause, in the <a
href="http://eng.maidanua.org/node/581">'Death Camps for Children'</a>
article.
<a href="http://www.p-ced.com/projects/ukraine/national/">In this
paper</a> were recommendations for radical childcare reforms intended
to end the deplorable institutional conditions which exist in many
parts of the former Soviet Union, Development would be catalysed by
the national scale application of affordable broadband, microfinance
and investment in social enterprise, such that the sum of all parts
was a nil overall cost implementation.
At Davos 2008 one influence was the US government response in the
launch of the <a href="http://www.eef.org.ua/en/147.htm">East Europe
Foundation</a>, to fund sustainable community enterprise, the other in
a piece of like minded thinking from the most successful capitalist in
the US today when Bill Gates described what Terry had been doing since
his 1996 paper as<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/
7207808.stm"> Creative Capitalism</a>
Ukraine on the other hand <a href="http://www.btbetterworld.com/pg/
giving_young_people_a_voice/seen_and_heard_awards/casestudies/
Speak_out.ikml">adopted 3 recommendations</a> from the paper as
childcare policy. 400+ rehab centres and doubling the adoption
allowance with a pilot of the 'homes for all' model proposed.
At the time of the US Presidential elections, several candidates used
the rhetoric of a 21sr century 'Marshall Plan' though to our knowledge
only one existed as a detailed plan of implementation, rather than the
synopis above.
Late last year, President-elect Obama announced his aims to regenerate
wealth in the USA, it would include investment and promotion of social
enterprise with an investment fund, greater broadband accessibility
and the funds would come from the reduction of spending in Iraq.
Jeff .
last send.
I was describing the Genesis missive sent to the Senate Committee in
Foreign Relations just under a year ago and background leading up to
this document. The influence on government being a recent discussion
on Skoll Social Edge.
From Terry Hallman, founder of P-CED that came first in the form of <a
href="http://www.p-ced.com/about/history/">a thesis</a>, proposing how
information technology and business based on a more inclusive people-
centered model could be deployed to eradicate poverty. It was his
contribution as an honorary researcher to Clinton's re-election
committee in 1996. A year later it was published on the web as a free
to use model.
In 1999 was then able to persuade US government to <a href="http://
www.p-ced.com/projects/russia/">invest in Russia</a> at the
microeconomic level where trickle down had failed. The concept was to
use development aid funding as investment capital. Between 2000 and
2004, that created <a href="http://www.mixmarket.org/en/demand/
demand.print.profile.asp?ett=2236">10,000 businesses with the aid of
microfinance</a> in the city of Tomsk. Replicated elsewhere in Russia
and then in Georgia it set the scene for the Russian Microfinance
Centre.
In 2002 he then <a href="http://www.p-ced.com/projects/ukraine/
crimea/">proposed to replicate</a> for the Islamic group in Ukraine,
known as the Crimean Tatars. US Government were persuaded that the
cost of investing in a similar microfinance scheme might be compared
against an equivalent spend on cruise missiles, should Crimea
replicate the Balkans. The concept of an economic "smart bomb" was
introduced to government.
He was obstructed at this point, refusing to compromise on non-
transparent add-ins. He blocked his own project. Left standing alone
against corruption, by his own government, he returned to the US and
homelessness.
In the winter of 2003 he began a fast for economic rights in the US,
living in a tent and blogging from a library in Chapel Hill NC. We'd
already corresponded and met in Ukraine and I was one of two people
that heard him. The other was Senator John Edwards who soon after
created the <a href="http://www.law.unc.edu/centers/poverty/
default.aspx">Center for Poverty Work and Opportunity</a> in that
town.
Later<a href="http://www.iccrimea.org/scholarly/economicdev.html"> he
was interviewed</a> by a diaspora leader, explaining the 'swords to
ploughshares' aims.
<a href="http://people-centered.net/">P-CED UK</a> began in 2004 and
we resolved to make the case for ending poverty on a national scale.
We would demonstrate that for the cost of what was being spent in Iraq
each week, another country could be lifted from poverty to foster
democracy. That case was made in Oct 2006 with a microeconomic
'Marshall Plan' delivered to the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, where a junior senator and the chair have since become the
President and his VP.
Then made unwelcome in the UK by our government, he returned to
Ukraine and began work. We were to learn of far worse than we had
imagined in a report sent to me and Terry took up the cause, in the <a
href="http://eng.maidanua.org/node/581">'Death Camps for Children'</a>
article.
<a href="http://www.p-ced.com/projects/ukraine/national/">In this
paper</a> were recommendations for radical childcare reforms intended
to end the deplorable institutional conditions which exist in many
parts of the former Soviet Union, Development would be catalysed by
the national scale application of affordable broadband, microfinance
and investment in social enterprise, such that the sum of all parts
was a nil overall cost implementation.
At Davos 2008 one influence was the US government response in the
launch of the <a href="http://www.eef.org.ua/en/147.htm">East Europe
Foundation</a>, to fund sustainable community enterprise, the other in
a piece of like minded thinking from the most successful capitalist in
the US today when Bill Gates described what Terry had been doing since
his 1996 paper as<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/
7207808.stm"> Creative Capitalism</a>
Ukraine on the other hand <a href="http://www.btbetterworld.com/pg/
giving_young_people_a_voice/seen_and_heard_awards/casestudies/
Speak_out.ikml">adopted 3 recommendations</a> from the paper as
childcare policy. 400+ rehab centres and doubling the adoption
allowance with a pilot of the 'homes for all' model proposed.
At the time of the US Presidential elections, several candidates used
the rhetoric of a 21sr century 'Marshall Plan' though to our knowledge
only one existed as a detailed plan of implementation, rather than the
synopis above.
Late last year, President-elect Obama announced his aims to regenerate
wealth in the USA, it would include investment and promotion of social
enterprise with an investment fund, greater broadband accessibility
and the funds would come from the reduction of spending in Iraq.
Jeff .
ISF (Computer Scientists without Frontiers, Italy)
Jan 26, 2009, 4:28:24 AM1/26/09
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Hi Jeff and Group Friends,
I share this article just published on International Herald Tribune in
case of interest:
Retooling a grass-roots network for a presidency
From: International Herald Tribune | January 26, 2009
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/26/america/26grassroots.php
The White House faces obstacles as it tries to transform the
organization that elected President Barack Obama into an instrument of
government.
WKR,
Aldo
On 22 Gen, 10:35, Jeff Mowatt <jeff.mow...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> I'll try the end of that post again, it lost all it's links in the
> last send.
>
> I was describing the Genesis missive sent to the Senate Committee in
> Foreign Relations just under a year ago and background leading up to
> this document. The influence on government being a recent discussion
> on Skoll Social Edge.
>
> From Terry Hallman, founder of P-CED that came first in the form of <a
> href="http://www.p-ced.com/about/history/">a thesis</a>, proposing how
> information technology and business based on a more inclusive people-
> centered model could be deployed to eradicate poverty. It was his
> contribution as an honorary researcher to Clinton's re-election
> committee in 1996. A year later it was published on the web as a free
> to use model.
>
> In 1999 was then able to persuade US government to <a href="http://www.p-ced.com/projects/russia/">invest in Russia</a> at the
I share this article just published on International Herald Tribune in
case of interest:
Retooling a grass-roots network for a presidency
From: International Herald Tribune | January 26, 2009
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/26/america/26grassroots.php
The White House faces obstacles as it tries to transform the
organization that elected President Barack Obama into an instrument of
government.
WKR,
Aldo
On 22 Gen, 10:35, Jeff Mowatt <jeff.mow...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> I'll try the end of that post again, it lost all it's links in the
> last send.
>
> I was describing the Genesis missive sent to the Senate Committee in
> Foreign Relations just under a year ago and background leading up to
> this document. The influence on government being a recent discussion
> on Skoll Social Edge.
>
> From Terry Hallman, founder of P-CED that came first in the form of <a
> href="http://www.p-ced.com/about/history/">a thesis</a>, proposing how
> information technology and business based on a more inclusive people-
> centered model could be deployed to eradicate poverty. It was his
> contribution as an honorary researcher to Clinton's re-election
> committee in 1996. A year later it was published on the web as a free
> to use model.
>
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