uniting obama's 2 biggest goals - most urgent of next 4 months; most "impossible" of next 6 years

[christopher macrae]

remember the good news is that ending deaths by malaria is obama's number 1 foreign assistance health pledge; he needs the young mobile networkers of jamii bora to help connect the dots on the ground; difficult but not impossible if we play the game rules bangladesh has been sharing with us on impossible becomes possible when right action people time place http://socialbusiness.tv   and now for the not so good news : when I read betwen the lines of what you have sent me on the kenyan ministry of health announcement on malaria below, I see it as all part of a process where global-trickle down aid is using each of its component powers to misinform poor communities at the grassroots of the problem (in this case why is it that the mosquito is still more efficient at networking than humans)   after this mail I wish to remove myself from end-malaria dialogues for a while ; I  want to get back to banking which has to be sorted out before the end of june in usa if there is not to be a finacial tsunami that will depress the whole of the planet for the next decade; once that curve has been turned round then I will try to find more time to understand african media (though as I have tried to explain my life's work has researched social media in east hemispheres not southern; my grandad was mentored by gandhi for 25 years so eastern conflicts are a little bit easier for me to roughly map than african ones); my father's main arricles on enetrepreneurial revolution  in The economist bridged eastern and western practitioners of business and media; its not a good use of my time to remove me from what I have 35 year learning curve on ; and my dad 67 years since he first started studying practices of economics as a teenager in bangladesh   MALARIA MISINFO media experience suggests  various alternative routes to counter this, although they all require access to groups of brave people in this context (malaria) which is not one I can ever be expert in cos I am not medically trained, I have never been to kenya etc; all I can do is see the analogy (there are hundereds of misinformation cases prolonging poverty's bust global-down system)   the most effective way forward imo  - and the only one that I can even be a small bit of influence on - is if those with the knowledge and actions played on the same team would be to share everything you know with whomever Ingrid Munro of http://jamiibora.net  makes her number 1 coordinator of health solutions; she may already know that the only way malaria is going to be ended in kenya before 2015 is with her network adopting this challenge; or she may need some kindly coaching on that   there is another route but I have no influence over it and therefore cannot offer any of my time on it; you could start letter writing to americans who claim to be on your side on this issues like jeffrey sachs (the person who fundraises with youtubes on malaria more than anyne) or bill easterly (author of white mans burden), or jaqueline novogratz of acumen or her sister amy novogratz at the powerful network www.ted.com  and ask if one of them will get this news article sent to (I mean read by) that person in obama's transition team who decides how global aid moneys on tb and malaria are spent; I assume that person would pick up the hotline to the kenya ministry of health and sort out whatever muddle real or deliberately misiformed by some parties in kenya or in the global trckle down chain of command   I assume it is relevant to publish the article you sent me at www.malaria2015.com but not this reply, as when it comes to transparency media breakthrough strategies there is no point in telling potential enemies what we already know about how they confuse (or censor) what truly needs actioning and learning   hiv/aids is another example of a case where people have either misinformed or anyway not let african school students even have freedom of information; in some african communities the schools that kevin links into have developed a modular curriculum - a few hours for each of 3 different age groups - which changes that community's knowledge for ever because once enough youth know a true story about particular risks they peer to peer it, and it seeps up to elders in their community, and then its impossible to censor what enough of the people have discovered ...   chris macrae  dc region dialogues on future capitalism 301 881 1655 new york conflict collaboration cafe 7pm monday http://www.usaservice.org/page/event/detail/4vgqh   http://socialbusiness.tv help us discover the collaboration treasure map that took bangladesh a third of a century to collaboratively invent and become the nation making fastest progress to millennium goals and most networked open sourcer of end poverty solution 5 things Social Business is IS The most exciting entrepreneurial designs and sustainability investments ever played Capable of integrating every child's hope so that there is no impossible gap between I have a dream and if its goodwilled enough to fit my god-given entrepreneurial capability I can network its reality Capable of sustaining an abundant human race through a yes we can transparency of economics and professional oaths that takes societies way beyond zero-sum constraints, shortages and bubbles- how can it be that this new technology has not yet made end poverty this generation's space race on earth? Joyous, hi-trust connecting people's most enthusiastic energies at work in every way that communal pride and individual passion mustered by a purpose wholly worth serving can authorise The best investment in rising exponentials that societies can gravitate round through time and so ensure a better inter-generational lot ... 5 things SB is not   --- On Sat, 21/2/09, peter ongele <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: peter ongele <peter...@yahoo.com> Subject: To: chris....@yahoo.co.uk Cc: pete...@gmail.com, jamb...@yahoo.com Date: Saturday, 21 February, 2009, 5:29 AM  Hi Chris,   For curiousity to follow up the malaria problem thread in Kenya, this is an article Ministry from the Health Ministry from Kenya today. ...........The government has issued a warning about a possible shortage of malaria and TB drugs later in the year, after what officials described as a misunderstanding with the Global Fund. Medical Services minister Anyang’ Nyong’o said available stocks of the drugs would only last for about seven months. “I can only confirm that in six or seven months from today, there might be lack of drugs for malaria and TB,” he said. Negotiations Malaria poses an enormous health and economic burden in Kenya, being a leading cause of illness and death, especially among children under the age of five years. Statistics show that the disease is responsible for 16,000 deaths annually while Kenya is ranked 13th among 32 countries with a high TB burden. Prof Nyong’o said negotiations were under way after the alleged mismanagement of billions of shillings from donors. “I am sure you are aware that we, as a government, have been having problems with the Global Fund (GF),” he said, adding that the current government was not to blame. As an alternative, Prof Nyong’o said his ministry was negotiating for the health sector to be allocated more money in the next budget. The senior communications adviser at the Stop TB Partnership secretariat, Ms Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid, said the TB division in Kenya had adequate medicines to last for the next two years. One of the factors slowing down the resolution of the issue is uncertainty over which of the two ministries, Public Health and Sanitation or Medical Services, should lead the discussions. A leading researcher says developing environmentally-friendly pesticides and concentrating on eliminating the mosquito that causes malaria could provide a solution to the disease. These, combined with affordable drugs and consistent funding to fight the disease, were crucial in eradicating malaria, according to Prof Onesmo ole Moi Yoi. He was speaking at the official opening of the “Worlds of the Indian Ocean” conference at the National Museums of Kenya. Earlier this month, researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK said the mosquito that transmits malaria had developed resistance against popular insecticides used for indoor spraying and treating bed nets...............