our team's social action goal has been to research enough trust mapping starting points on microeducation
all over the world that people could feel comfy to add there own postits to the map; that is if their education networks are
up for aligning the MICRO-UP education revolution too; gandhi first proposed an action learning peer to peer system as vital
to get over the english empire's one of jobs for the top boys and you are dummies for everyone else and started practising
that in 1920; he then imported montessorri literally in the 1930s having bumped into her alumni at the quakers friends house
in london
during year 1 sofia and I did surveys of any network that would listen on the world's
most collaborative entrepreneurs in education; during year 2 we published 3000 citizen guides and the world's first hubs directory with eg 700 handed out to st james yunus book club day feb 16; 100 at be the
change; 100 at tav 24 weeks etc; during year 3 we aim to extend $500 bursaries wherever communities are meeting for a year
including clusters of Yunus10000 DVD and what to make a souvenir of their own links as well as copy some our open source stories like the colaboration
wishes of blecher's free uni or yunus's 25000 bankers in childrens sustainability
Bangladesh has
become the number 1 action learning education nation with 100000 microbankers facilitating that at all ages and amongst the
poorest and women and children; its not just the brac and grameen schools but everything in microcredit extends to is hunting
out vocational franchises and so you get bangladesh as first nation aiming to create 100000 green jobs primarily training
up villagers in about 4 weeks to do them; then there is the education partnership of grameen-intel ; and the various solution
centres being experimented with as ways of connecting up the centre approach that grameen's infratstructure links through
; as well as the emerging health city training space; and of course the childrenm scholarships program oif the first lady
of microcredit Mrs Begum
Then of course Bangladesh is seeking to plant more smba's than mba's in
any city with a future in capitalism with Paris playing the main scriptwriter on how corporations and other leadersquests can
partner 30 years of social business mdoelling experience in Bangla
MIT laptops - sent to about 20 clusters of 50000 - love to
get a story from each -peru is an exciting case; at the same mit lab quadir who started mobile connectivity resides; and of
course mit is also berners-lee home
at new york you have clinton with education now one of the 4 clinton
global initiatives and its flow through to clinton uni- currently the largest social action network; if obama gets elected
his mother helped start microcredit in indonesia and his main work experience ins in that part of chicago wher microcredit
was planted 25 years ago; we have lehman univesrity whose cable tv supports colaboration cafe as a tool freshers and student
untions can action http://www.youtube.com/profile_video_blog?user=socialactions
LA we have the green children; and peter drucker school which is compatible with microcredit views of
entrepreneurship; the same school is the home of flow by Professor Csik; and LA is also know the home of sir ken robinson
whose briefs on how school as a system hasnt changed its structure or government purspoes sinces days of empire is seminal
at
DC we have the origin of open space which in youth settings is probably most deeply used in haiti, though it ought to be an
experience every child gets schooled in
at austin texas we have john mackeys conscious capitalism aimed
at reforming the whole food industry but doing this in partnership with youth and school entrepreneurs like michael strong
http://flowidealism.org/
in s.america we have escuela nueva- some sort of montessori experiment but highly prized according to
eg skoll
in johannesburg we have the 5* destination of Taddy Blecher free university cida; this connects with the branson scool of entrepreneurship and the mandela scholarship
exchanges, as well as the mandela elders network with Yunus a co-networker
in kenya and nigeria we have
the network connections of samuel and pamela and caroline and hafsat, and one of the world's top 10 microcredit learning exchanges Jamii Bora
in london we have happy computers and emotional literacy in the aldgtae; we have geeta gandhi and the
london school of edu; we have modjtaba at the aga khan institute ; we have deryn harvey at http://www.innovation-unit.co.uk/; we have the various youth hives http://brixtohive.com/ etc that sofia maps; london also has the royal society of arts championing change in education agenda
;london
also has some micro-gandhi networks and of course a significant proprtion of the 5000 Mostofa aims to register in forming
knowledge exchnages of waht the world can open source with Bangladesh' Bangladesh has the brand startegy of developing
sustainability frachises that China and INdia need as well as itself; we can asusme that if those 3 countries need them in
education , the world does; at moicroloanfoundation, there is the number 1 educational program for schools and coleges of
how to test microcredit by doing a microcund in your class
over at Bath we have AJ's alumni of action
learning
up in scotland we have tom hunter videoing interveiwing kids on entrepreneurship
In
india we have the world's largest school and presumably biggest social business in education with its 31000 children at
lucknow; and its newly emerging gems curricula on why what you learn before puberty is vital to what sort of cross-culktural
confidence you go on to flow
lucknow also hosts some of the deepest annual educational conferences and networks
india's former
president is challenging youth to throw out any courses that are not sustainable-and India seems years ahead in ict for evryone
and service franchsies that invst in people -ie newage jobs
in thailand you have michelle bauwens peer
to peer research institute
in australia we have the m,ost active voluneters overseas youth networks especially
medical and conflict dialogues ones gravitated by Paul Komesaroff and Monash University alumni; we also have louise earnshaw
with her school of entrepreneurship for hyperactive teenagers up
so that's a start ; will try and make
a graphic map within a few days at http://microeducationsummit.org/ - come and postit whom else we should add before sending out a survey of who wants to collaborate in forming the first microeducationsummit
Thank you for your kindness and 25 year focus on helping children explore what the networking world could
be if economics had been community liberating instead of command and control imprisoning; what yes we humans
can be if media and education had empowered poor people to be communally economic (in the sense of adam smith) with cents,
instead of rich people being globally uneconomic with trillions http://changeworld.net
Dad's 85 and not at all mobile but is still optimism's economic repository and the 20th Century's remaining encyclopaedic
inter-social storyteller of what could have been, what yes we can be. Of the people I have met over the last 25 years
including leaders of big companies cos i used to do their market research only Muhammad Yunus keeps the question
of what could be open in every conversation. Obama's mother was an early pioneer of Bangladeshi
community banking on what women can nurture so in all likelihood 2009 is the networking generation's the last crossroads
between choosing to systematically map superpower or supermepowerment. Unfortunately my maths research since 1989 shows
that every global profession that uses metrics has been compounding superpower , and monopolies to rule over how organisations
with the most resources perform in ways designed to bubble. This is quite a Gandhian and Einstein transformation crisis
to find a human way out of
The people cc'd either work around Dr Yunus in Dhaka on were at the london
lunch 12 momnths ago where dad celebrated Dr Yunus book on what economics could compound if we prevented worst of subprime.
Peter Ryan leads a malawi microcredit and will be debating what collaborative community learning can do in Boston on
Feb 3
1 proved that the 20th century lost any organisational system capable of
partnering sustanably in what could be (and gee no surprise how many sustainability crises are now emerging with the most
disconnected communities first to be lethally threatened by their compoud risks)
2 asks youth not to worry
and get on with dreams of audacious goals to action while his infotech group connect such a shared diary space of all
the wildest positive ideas people wanted to collaborate around
9 minutes on what young minds can netork through action learninghe day that Future Capitalism hit the New York Bestsellers List
3
meanwhile Dr Yunus and his network friends knocks on the door of leaders of every big industry sector as well
as media and with sam daley harris 91 congressmen nsaying why not do a no loss partnership to prooftest one idea that your
sector could liberate worldwide
Kazi is charged with applications of the internet for the por which include http://www.bankabillion.org Mostofa is a 25 year old researched who animates forums with his peer age group on what could be. Oddly the forum idea he
has been standing up for was first demanded by japanese at the time of Yunus Nobel prize but I havent yet found who
Somehow
we need to connect a group who are allowed to dream what Obama can connect round yes we can whilst another group tidy up the
system mess we are in. One of the great evils is we have been left with so many messes co,apred with the ositive doing things
of the 1984 book that almost nobody graduating today in American knows where to connect their most apsiomnate vision with
gettin g on and conntining it to happening
chris mavcrae 301 881 1655
we could be no carbon by now
we
could have ended malaria by now
we could have
been confident that ending poverty was colpaboration practical
while we always forecast (simnce 1970s anyhow) there would be microterrorists to prevent, we could
have stopped 20% of big nation buidets being spent on wars ahainst random masses of people
where
collaborative action learning could be by now -its irony in 1984 it was easier to imagine than now (never has man
and computer interacted so energetically as the 1960s moon race - what flows could that have been collaborated around by now)
the common pattern is that anything that needed partners not boxing
in TIMES a compound exponential rising focus instead of a quarterly extractive one hasn't even been tried except
where banglasdeshi's have reached as they are the only ones who have tried out an organisational model since 1983 aimed
at compound collaborative results, focused on open sourcing life-critical innovations, mapped back round inter-generational
human's deepest practical goals - and their main bank invests in this with a gandhian love of people's productivity
(MICRO's original freedom/happiness of entrepreneurial independemnce)
MicroGuide to 5 collaborations to end poverty and sustain humanity
We hope you enjoy our MicroGuide to 5
Collaboration Games that DrMuhammad Yunus, his alumni including the extraordinary
mother of President Barrack Obama, and Bangladeshi networkers have been helping people communally practise for a third of
a century.
Designing partnerships to innovate the most vital human services that integration of global and local free
markets can sustain
5 What is Trillion Dollar Industry Sector
Sustainability?Joyfully mediating markets to be free: -
engage transparency of leadership in severe contests between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid
chris --- On Mon, 12/1/09, Gordon Dryden <gordon@> wrote:
From: Gordon Dryden <gordon@learningweb.co.nz> Subject:
Re: 25 year search for education entrepreneurs Re: Your UNLIMITED book ... To: chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Date: Monday,
12 January, 2009, 4:53 AM
Thanks. I am reasonably au fait with the Bangladesh work, but have not been there.
By an amazing coincidence,
Norman Macrae presumably your Norman’s father, wrote a brilliant Economist series of articles, in the early 1960s, on
Japan.
They were so powerful they persuaded me to go there for almost a month, checking out Japanese prospects
for New Zealand clients (I ran a PR and marketing consultancy a the time).
Later his book, The 2024 Report, was
the best of many futurist books I read. Impressed me greatly.
So much so that, in 1990, when I was touring
the world with a television crew from NZ, shooing 150 hours of video to edit into six one-hour prime-time documentaries, I
did a video interview with Norman Sr in London. Because the original intention was to produce 13 TV programs (and we
reduced them to six), we didn’t use the footage.
I still have it, however – but may use it some time
as part of my own “futurist work” which is outlined in our new book, both in the introduction (on our website)
and in three of the final four chapters (attached).
I assume Norman snr is no longer alive. Correct?
Best wishes.
Gordon Dryden
On 12/01/09 5:21 PM, "christopher macrae" <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
--- On Mon, 12/1/09, Gordon Dryden <gordon@> wrote:
From:
Gordon Dryden gordon@ http://www.thelearningweb.net/ Subject: Your UNLIMITED book ... To: "chris macrae" <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Monday,
12 January, 2009, 12:21 AM
. .. Has been airmailed to you today from New Zealand.
more broadly mostofa I want to findd 100 people around teh world who
answer a survey on how at least 20 of us could join together in convening the first www.microeducationsummit.com
next 10 days are best time we will get to virtual dialogue this while mostofa
is teamworking with yunus in dhaka on what the messages he wants to debate with youth are for next year; before we send out
10000 copies a yout dvd inviting worldwide youth entrepreneur network to blitz youtube
this should not be that difficult
as we trawl both the alumni of yunus and clinton university's social action clubs
As a reformed Gandhian. I
view the purspose of education as per gandhi in giving youth and everyone continuous opportunities to train up to work the
community needs; if you can go beyond that fine, but that's the minimum human right to be income generating and valued
in the community; oits precisely what empire driven education systems -well over 90% of all schools around the world - dont
do with dismal impacts on the poorest on any digitally divided
dr yunus wants 10 microsummits to rise up over the
next 5 years - each to be as empowering as microcredit in its own way; while he could start eg solar energy know I believe
education is perhaps the one we can use to search for the most diverse believers in sustainability is a micro up entrepreneurial
chalenge after which we can segment by is your vocation : health, energy, internet for the poor, water/food or what
I
oversimpily a jot but only one from all the smarter people with education theory than I
