can we inaugutae yes we can all over the world - here's a bangladeshi contribution, has your place one
christopher macrae
Interview extracts with Dipal Barua number 2 at the world's most sustainable bank and CEO of Grameen Solar
In Bangladesh we have 340 days of sunshine. This is a gift which we are wasting every day we fail to energise it. And solar energy is economical for the poorest of the poor. For the cost of kerosene that a typical family uses, you can buy a solar home system by installment through Grameen Bank. When you burn kerosene you get lots of pollution, and you have to transport bulky quantities of the stuff, but with solar energy you are environment friendly and everything is there- a system that plugs you in for 25 years. Our installation of solar units is growing exponentially. A few years ago we installed 10000 units a year, now its 10000 a month. Imagine The Bank for the Poor now installs more solar units than the whole of the USA. There is a joy of practising microeconomics that is entrepreneurially better for people than theorising over macroeconomics. .
Ar Grameen, we happily admit that our innovations come out of a kind of desperate situation. And once you are thinking and you try hard , you can find solutions. So once you trust to that kind of a commitment and you have a cultural dedication and you set a target, then you network by uniting 3 empowering flows as one -the economic, the social and the environmental. Sustainability exponentials are not earned in a day but once you reach them, community entrepreneurship is the most wonderful dynamic. This is how the free marketing of ending poverty is won by unleashing the entrepreneur in everyone.
chris macrae
Join in at the Uni of Solar http://www.yunusuni.com/id62.html |
ISF (Computer Scientists without Frontiers, Italy)
very interesting: I am spreading the word inside ISF contacts and - in
case useful for this topic - share this technical hint from MIT
Technology Review, yesterday:
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=21981&channel=energy§ion=
WKR,
Aldo
christopher macrae
Obama declared Transparency as touchstone of USA in his day after inauguration speech
you can see the video at the bottom of http://www.yunusuni.com/id64.html
the whole page attempts to map an invitation that Dr Yunus planted at the bali microcreditsummit 2008 - once obama is in the white house will 5000 university youth unite in valuing transparency, collaboration and everything that's vital to empower at micro levels for every community
with luck there will be a dr yunus edited booklet on this in about 2 weeks instead of my attempt though if anyone wants to take the html and re-edit just do it
chris --- On Thu, 22/1/09, ISF (Computer Scientists without Frontiers, Italy) <ceccare...@gmail.com> wrote: |
Jeff Mowatt
| Just under a year ago, I faxed a document entitled Genesis on behalf of my colleague to the Senate Committee on Foreign relations where Biden and Obama were members. It was in plain language, a call for follow up on what Henrietta Fore of USAID had stated. "We are creating, and becoming part of, a Global Development Commons: A community of continuous and real‑time information exchange, coordination, partnership and action between public and private donors, agencies, NGOs, host governments and civil society ‑ all in constant collaboration. A Global Development Commons gives people in the developing world the tools they need to lead their own development.
To support this ideal of a more cohesive development network, we must enlist technology. I've directed USAID to assemble an information platform ‑‑ one that is pragmatic and affordable, leverages what's already up and running ‑‑ to connect people on the ground with partners and solutions that can help us all work smarter. " It also offered a reminder of where some of these ideas were pioneered. I created a summary myself based on a recent discussion from Skoll Social Edge. It reads: From Terry Hallman, founder of P-CED that came first in the form of a thesis, 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 invest in Russia 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 10,000 businesses with the aid of microfinance 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 proposed to replicate 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 Center for Poverty Work and Opportunity in that town. Later he was interviewed by a diaspora leader, explaining the 'swords to ploughshares' aims. P-CED UK 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 'Death Camps for Children' article. In this paper 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 East Europe Foundation, 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 Creative Capitalism Ukraine on the other hand adopted 3 recommendations 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 . --- On Thu, 22/1/09, christopher macrae <chris....@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: |
Peter Burgess
There is CHANGE in the air ... and a huge reservoir of youthful
enthusiasm ... including a lot of old people (like me) who are
reenergized and coming back to life!
As you know I have been wanting to get a suitable framework of
"scorekeeping" in place ... and the opportunity is NOW. Community
Accountancy (CA) is likely to have a modest name change to Community
Analytics (CA) because of feedback about the extreme turn-off that
anything associated with accountancy now has. (I thought of copying
this message to the AICPA but thought better of it for the moment!)
I would like to get feedback and dialog about CA sooner rather than
later ... and help in getting the framework so that it looks and feels
like a 21st Century initiative. I can handle the old timeless value
side quite well ... but the 21st Century stuff is a challenge. I am
going as fast as I can with little pilots in various places ... but
rapid scaling up is now the goal.
Sincerely
Peter
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Peter Burgess
The Transparency and Accountability Network: Tr-Ac-Net in New York
www.tr-ac-net.org
Community Analytics (CA)
Integrated Malaria Management Consortium (IMMC)
917 432 1191 or 212 772 6918 pete...@gmail.com
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Jeff Mowatt <jeff....@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Just under a year ago, I faxed a document entitled Genesis on behalf of my
> colleague to the Senate Committee on Foreign relations where Biden and Obama
> were members. It was in plain language, a call for follow up on what
> Henrietta Fore of USAID had stated.
>
> "We are creating, and becoming part of, a Global Development Commons: A
> to lead their own development.
>
>
>
> To support this ideal of a more cohesive development network, we must enlist
> that is pragmatic and affordable, leverages what's already up and running --
Jeff Mowatt
| Hi Peter, Just as I was speaking about you. The contact below was describing a traceability package for aid agencies and I mentioned TR-ACC-NET and you, http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=332554 Now I can confirm what you just wrote as I read in the Times, yes the Times, that Obama should re-invent capitalism. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/article5562740.ece How about that! --- On Thu, 22/1/09, Peter Burgess <pete...@gmail.com> wrote: |