entrepreneurial revolution: networks of systems, leadership economics & global villages

Fall 2007

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Entrepreneur Stories

Case ER1 My dad (1, 2) did a survey for The Economist (1, 2) when Silicon Valley was emerging. The entrepreneurial birth of Sun Micro is a classic case, like many other "garage" preneurial stories of the personal computing, and subsequent networking , age.

The inventors of Sun's work station came along to an Angel investor who said: I'll give you no money but 2 free tickets to fly-America for 6 months and a target list of 40 big corporate clients. Get 5? of these companies to commit to orders, and we'll find what finance it takes to invest wholly in waht you want to do.

ER=V2*V5 invented by K1 systematically nurtured by V3*K3
Note on our 10-win wheel of productivity & demanding relationships, Sun -and the original Angel Investor attitides that founded Silicon Valley - energises the core ER system for evolving value multiplying organisation: ensure your revolution win-wins with opinion leading customers and how your invention societal use will change what the world can do. Don't fast burn money. The 21st C knowledge-multiplier markets evolve with their critical customers' own rhythms, and their own communities of custimers -webs whose depth of development - and human software -you will get nowhere by pushing hard. If there will be a networking market for integrating these collaboration exponentials, then word of mouth seeding with great customers is great branding, whereas spending a million dollars on a 20 second superbowl advertising spot is tantamount to killing off the baby.

In other words, true ER Angel investment is as Jim Collins has catalogued the systemic opposite management design of Built to Flip (bubble-designed financial manipulation) - which is now known to have sunk many dotcoms before they had time to grow up great. Be aware that the one certain way to make a killing in the stockmarket is to choose to "short" something because you know when have bubbled it up to bursting point. This Manic Bastardisation of Adminstration turns organisations into 10-lose human relations systems- one of the greatest competitive advantages a nation could take as a potential leader of 21st C growth exponentials is transparently prosecuting such speculators. In a people's world, we need to give professionals and governments the pink slip wherever they turn a blind eye on such serial corporate abortion.

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exemplary 21st C Entrepreneurs- who would you say and what can we learn from them?

eg 1

7 June 2003
Indian businessman named World Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Third annual Ernst & Young event sees Narayana Murthy, head of Infosys Technologies, selected from field of 26 nominees.Monte Carlo, 7 June 2003--An Indian billionaire who started his software company 22 years ago with US$250 and who still lives in a modest apartment was this evening named Ernst & Young’s 2003 World Entrepreneur Of The Year (WEOY) at an award ceremony in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Judges of the award praised Narayana Murthy’s “intellectually-, philosophically-, ethically- and spiritually-driven entrepreneurship” and his company’s “outstanding financial performance and global impact in a dynamic and volatile industry.”
Infosys Technologies Ltd provides end-to-end technology and consulting solutions to small and large corporations, and employs more than 10,000 people worldwide. It is a zero-debt company which regularly posts growth of 30 per cent per annum, and is listed on the Nasdaq with a market capitalization in the billions. Currently, 98 per cent of Infosys’s revenues are generated outside India.
The company’s corporate governance system is based on five concepts dating back to its inception: “the softest pillow is a clear conscience; when in doubt, disclose; don’t use corporate resources for personal use; put long-term interests ahead of short-term ones; and share wealth with employees.”
Mr Murthy believes strongly in corporate social responsibility, and has said that, beyond a certain point, personal wealth should be used to make a difference to society. He contributes a majority of his wealth to public causes.
Mr Murthy, who is based in Bangalore, was selected as the World Entrepreneur Of The Year from a field of 26 entrants - each of whom has been named Entrepreneur Of The Year (EOY) in national or regional programs run by Ernst & Young.
Collectively, the 26 finalists in this year’s WEOY awards program employ more than 76,000 people and represent approximately 6.5 billion euros in revenue.
Chairman of Ernst & Young, James S. Turley, said: “Mr Murthy’s story is a truly inspirational one. He has demonstrated quality leadership, and embodies both entrepreneurial spirit and business excellence. We are delighted he has been selected to receive this year’s award.”
A panel of 11 judges - each of whom is a past participant in the Entrepreneur Of The Year program in his or her country - chose Mr Murthy as the recipient of the award, based on written applications and meetings held throughout the course of the four-day event.
The WEOY program was established three years ago, and builds on Ernst & Young’s 17 years of success in running national EOY programs. The EOY award was begun by Ernst & Young in the United States in 1986 to recognize entrepreneurs who had created and sustained successful, growing business ventures. Since then, the program has grown throughout the world, expanding to six continents and more than 100 cities.
In 2002, Stefan Vilsmeier, founder and CEO of BrainLAB, headquartered in Germany, was named the World Entrepreneur Of The Year.

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if you wish to join in why detailed discussions on why global business consultants keep on overwriting Entreperenurial Truth, and why in the next decade this will put all our childrens sustainability art risk please do - email info@worldcitizen.tv subject ERworld - paste text in if you have a specific query on correspondence in this thread
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Dear Sofia

Reflecting on our telephone conversation, I hope you will not see brand chartering as critical to future choices

Just as summary, my family has 3 branches of systems understanding whose total omission from spreadsheet management world seem part of the global corruption of sustainability crisis

1 My father’s lifetime career at The Economist where his key signatures were interviews on truth about entrepreneurship and future histories which extrapolated what would happen by declaring what systems were already so corrupted they must fall apart , and what emerging ones were so much more empowering that they would keep growing for a generation. His work is relevant because:
I doubt the entrepreneur word would be popular today without it; but ironically as per a summary page I think I gave you popular pinion is now interpreting key entrepreneurial principles exactly the opposite way from that which grew The Economist from a 3rd raked weekly national paper to a leading one of a kind worldwide paper. Unfortunately there was lack of continuity when my dad left The Economist in the late 1980s and this included a Harvard book (pursuit of Reasoning The Economist 1843-1993) which in 1000 pages destroyed just about every social truth of entrepreneurial economics that the paper had ever stood for. Particularly its transparency in questioning the biggest leaders ahead of time in what their motives and system trusts were with innovation

Relevance of 1:
Cross-sample of my dad’s work is at http://www.normanmacrae.com
Particular relevant forecast to changing economics and sustainability of networks which I co-wrote with him back in 1984 is http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687

Absent of some other 1000 person londoner gathering, I will aim to host 1000 Entrepreneurial Revolutionary alumni meeting eg to celebrate dad's 85th birthday- some of the surveys flowing into that include updates on 200 most trusted people and exponentials research which I will try to summarise at http:///entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com

Equally if we get go ahead to yunus1000, I will mail out one network letter to shareholders of The Economist asking if any are up for complete review of economics. I have already been doing as maple survey of this annually for 3 years now as I mentioned at one of the “Be The Change” when asking a question from the floor to their economic panel. I am interested particularly in the empowerment up economics models that Yunus, Stern, CK Prahalad, and India’s Prime Minster are mapping. In effect there has always be a war of will:
Globalization rule us by big get biggest, speculative more speculative, system more risky at boundaries, ever less human and sustainability values included in what is being quarterly governed – this maths will doubtless compound end our species

Or will we change to an economics that integrates every locality’s empowerment and sustainability into globalization as well as uniting cross-cultural collaboration around life saving stuff such as Rick’s innovation, Yunus’ end of poverty, Peter’s end Malaria, various peoples 10 times lower cost education/media or professional models

2 Compared with 1, my 2 books on worldwide branding and social consequences of spinning addicting images over reality written 1989, 1994 are relatively unimportant . Where they do matter is that:
many people just blindly do marketing not realizing it is a system for human relationships map needing right time right place, truth goals to come together and especially to innovate through conflict barriers. By not understanding this when the main challenge is building awareness and trust, both Rick and Tav in London have made such basic mistakes that they never had a chance of breaking through. In Rick’s case as only inventor I have ever found with a whole suite of solution to green energy crises, this is one of the greatest lost opportunities citizens will ever get of returning energy markets to naturally safe exponentials. One of the learnings from the extreme innovation of entrepreneurial revolutionaries is that historically, the world’s most vital inventions were missed several times (over decades) before someone broke thorough. Unfortunately with globalisation one does not get several times, though if the internet had been used sensible to match people with the highest trust mentors through life and a public broadcaster like the BBC had adopted investigations into extreme innovation as exciting as spectator sports, this particular omen could have been exorcised. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/TrustPeoplePower/

If you have a look at page 21, it provides some questions that everyone in a large organization should have right to Q&A openly if they are all to co-create same vision, values, realities, and progress a system that has no conflicts or 10-win potential rather than ever more conflicts and 10-lose potential. What page 21 of brand chartering frames in brand language could largely be translated into any service development meta-discipline (organizational learning, human mentoring/teaming ...) – the lack of one discipline that flows is part of the problem

Alongside this the brand adds a few of its own learnings-
First in global markets, the channels are often the larger cost than the product
Second, like it or not the way human mind works is with identifiers- whether I say coca-cola or sofia – provided I know an identity well about 50 codes come back into my memory- what’s interesting is do they all confirm each other and the future reality of why coke or sofia is wanted to be by all of the community it or she interfaces with; and is there dissonance in that some people recall very different codes to others. These perceptions condition a lot of the realities of what others will permit us to do –again this isn’t necessarily a good thing but it is approximately how we relate. Its also why the more deep the truth you want to explore, he more its impossible to ask a person about it directly though I believe (after 20+ years of practice at surveys) one can develop games whose indirect questions provide a lot of understanding about peoples deepest needs and intents.

3 I learnt from really big applications of brand chartering eg with Unilever and whilst working for one of the Big 5 accountants and then later in researching Arthur Anderson whilst working for the world’s biggest ad agency something that I should have be able to guess – measurement overtrumps whatever else a system may be designed round communicating . I especially learnt this from the question – what the world would uniquely miss if this organization ceased to exist tomorrow- probe by different relationship coordinates. I gave you a picture of the 5 main productivity and demand coordinates which Alan’s book features and around which it is possible to model which sustainability exponential up or down any system is compounding futures around.

Sometimes it seems to me beyond absurdity that a mapping technology that has already repeatedly of seen multibillion dollar meltdowns with ample time to stop them going pass final exponential tipping point destruction is blocked from use or even public awareness. But this has happened twice in big public processes- Margaret Blair’s EU’s 3 year investment in intangibles research where the funding officer (Ronald McCay) personally told me after 2 lunches in Brussels- unless 3 european enron meltdowns happens in one year the politicians wont see evidence for a problem and dont wish to lead the public into any such concern for whole truth. Similarly only one fortune 500 ceo regularly debates his exponentials meltdown model ray Anderson at the leading carpet manufactured Interface, and in spite of many years of conferencing nobody joins him at a system practice way.

Governing biggest decisions made in the world by exponentials forwards not straight lines quarterised is absolutely critical if we are to rediscover sustainability investment in time or all the other good things including conflict-free transparency, empowerment up communities, and cross-culturally harmony of sharing life critical information. Currently almost all of the world’s 1000 most powerful organizations or networks a have no map of this. And because they are measured by numbers clueless of conflicts and flows they are the perfect maths for compounding risk – this much was agreed by Unseen Wealth surveys chaired by Margaret Blair in 2000 – unfortunately her group never discovered the missing maths As a mathematician. I claim that Alan you , Peter and I have it and can open source it if we can focus on mapping contexts future pair of exponentials which are determined by the 10 win integrity or conflict of the coordinates of organisations as productive and demanding human relations systems. ProBono work can largely apply these logics to the way of right timing, right spacing such city collaboration meetings as Yunus1000. High fee work involves selling into a corporation or government that is about to implode in time to enable it to intervene and cure its sustainability crisis.

All systems work is connected. All is safe when it flows micro to inter to macro. In a world that is hurtling towards globalization (the macro) we (by which I mean anyone who calls themselves an expert in system or network intervention) cant afford not to know the system maps I am trying to help people see. Not if overall sustainability is what we are to regain within the very years this reconciliation has left to play out.

Its not essential to “understand” every bit of this quick review to accept that there are kissing pieces of the jigsaw of sustainability investment and sustainability of everything that are now available but which most ruling professions have at least one reason why they will oppose because it is required that they re-examine what has changed since the age of manufacturing things for mainly local markets which oddly none of them truly have.

I will try and mock up connections between the exponentials maths and Yunus’ invitation to hold a social business enterprise stock market inquiry for each of the world’s 100 largest global market sectors at http://grameen.tv by next week. If anyone else copied here has questions or comments, it would be great to hear them.

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Social Preneurs

In the US, social preneur nomination tables produced annually by Fast Company provide a useful benchmark as do some of the resource pages of their panel advisers eg 1

The 2006 table of 25 winners (Jan/Feb 2006 issue of Fast Comapny) has a particularly neat style of reviewing what each one does

-eg Citizen Schools Boston, MA
What it does: Citizen schools runs after hours programs at 24 schools in 13 cities, staffed most by about 2000 volunteer archietcts, attorneys, journalists, and other professionals who use their passions to inspire students in 10-week apprenticeships. Students work with volunteers to produce market quality products, such as web sites. The group hopes to expand to 100 schools and 800 volunteers within 5 years. Results: Among 900 participants tracked in one study, 70% of eight graders enrolled in a colege-track high school, compared with 46% in a control group

we will add these in to a section of project30000

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This post is taken from ashoka.org - one of the world's epicentres for social entrepreneurs , a visit here also feels like a package tour to what's going good around the world's grassroots and global villages of humanity

What is a Social Entrepreneur?
Ashoka Fellows prove every day that the most powerful force for change in the world is a new idea in the hands of a leading social entrepreneur.
The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck and to provide new ways to get it unstuck. He or she finds what is not working and solves the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution and persuading entire societies to take new leaps. Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

Identifying and solving large-scale social problems requires a social entrepreneur because only the entrepreneur has the committed vision and inexhaustible determination to persist until they have transformed an entire system. The scholar comes to rest when he expresses an idea. The professional succeeds when she solves a client's problem. The manager calls it quits when he has enabled his organization to succeed. Social entrepreneurs go beyond the immediate problem to fundamentally change communities, societies, the world.

Ashoka Fellow Veronica Khosa was frustrated with the system of health care in South Africa. A nurse by trade she saw sick people getting sicker, elderly people unable to get to a doctor and hospitals with empty beds that would not admit patients with HIV. So Veronica started Tateni Home Care Nursing Services and instituted the concept of "home care" in her country. Beginning with practically nothing, her team took to the streets providing care to people in a way they had never received it — in the comfort and security of their homes. Just years later, the government had adopted her plan and through the recognition of leading health organizations the idea is spreading beyond South Africa. Social entrepreneurs like Veronica redefine their field and go on to solve systemic social problems on a larger scale.

The past two decades have seen an extraordinary explosion of entrepreneurship and competition in the social sector. The social sector has discovered what the business sector learned from the railroad, the stock market and todayýs digital revolution: That nothing is as powerful as a big new idea — if it is in the hands of a first class entrepreneur.

In country after country the number of citizen organizations is up hundreds, often thousands-fold. Tiny Slovakia had a handful of such organizations in 1989 and now boasts more than 10,000. Of the approximately 2 million citizen sector organizations working in the United States, 70 percent of them were established in the last 30 years. Eastern Europe has seen more than 100,000 such organizations established in the seven years following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The revolution — led by leaders like Veronica — is fundamentally changing the way society organizes itself and the way we approach social problems. These leaders are certainly doing more than giving a fish. They are teaching the world to swim.

Read more about social entrepreneurship

How to Change the World - Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
by David Bornstein, a journalist who specializes in writing about social innovation
Knowing History, Serving It. Ashoka's Theory of Change
by William Drayton, CEO and Founder of Ashoka, September 2003
The Entrepreneur's Revolution and You
by William Drayton, President and Founder of Ashoka, August 2000
The Meaning of "Social Entrepreneurship"
by J. Gregory Dees, Stanford University
Social Entrepreneurship: Towards an Entrepreneurial Culture for Social and Economic Development
by Susan Davis, International Board Selection Committee, Ashoka


Historical Examples of Leading Social Entrepreneurs
Susan B. Anthony (U.S.) - Fought for Women's Rights in the United States, including the right to control property and helped spearhead adoption of the 19th amendment.

David Brower (U.S.) - Environmentalist and conservationist, he served as the Sierra Club's first executive director and built it into a worldwide network for environmental issues. He also founded Friends of the Earth, the League of Conservation Voters and The Earth Island Institute.
"Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish, or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry."
- Bill Drayton
Vinoba Bhave (India) - Founder and leader of the Land Gift Movement, he caused the redistribution of more than 7,000,000 acres of land to aid India's untouchables and landless. Mahatma Gandhi described him as his mentor

Frederick Law Olmstead (U.S.) - Creator of major urban parks, including Rock Creek Park in Washington DC and Central Park in NYC, he is generally considered to have developed the profession of landscape architecture in America

Mary Montessori (Italy) - Developed the Montessori approach to early childhood education

Gifford Pinchot (U.S.) - Champion of the forest as a multiple use environment, he helped found the Yale School of Forestry and created the U.S. Forest Service, serving as its first chief

Florence Nightingale (U.K.) - Founder of modern nursing, she established the first school for nurses and fought to improve hospital conditions

Margaret Sanger (U.S.) - Founder of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, she led the movement for family planning efforts around the world

John Muir (U.S.) - Naturalist and conservationist, he established the National Park System and helped found The Sierra Club.

Jean Monnet (France) - Responsible for the reconstruction and modernization of the French economy following World War II, including the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). The ECSC and the European Common Market were Monnet's mechanisms to integrate Europe and were direct precursers of the European Union, which have shaped the course of European history and global international affairs.

John Woolman (U.S.) - Led U.S. Quakers to voluntarily emancipate all their slaves between 1758 and 1800, his work also influenced the British Society of Friends, a major force behind the British decision to ban slaveholding. Quakers, of course, became a major force in the U.S. abolitionist movement as well as a key part of the infrastructure of the Underground Railroad.

Some Present Day Social Entrepreneurs
Dr.Verghese Kurien (India) - Founder of the AMUL Dairy Project which has revolutionized the dairy industry through the production chain of milk, small producers, consumer products and health benefits

Bill Drayton (U.S) - Founded Ashoka, Youth Venture, and Get America Working!

Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh) - Founder of microcredit and the Grameen Bank

Marian Wright Edelman (U.S.) - Founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and advocate for disadvantaged Americans and children

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Help us l,og where peoples debates on value of social preneurs and transformation are happening

Networks
Open Space 1 (Faciliatition) Network - 50000 3-day conversations in last 21 years; simplest of a family of circle and conflict resolution methods in which anyone who sghares a deep communal challenge can participate as an equal collaborator

Royal Society of arts - 250 years of using cafe type events to raise societies biggest questions, fund action projects, clarify major social themes- world citizen and civic society being one of the current top 5

Global Reconciliatiion Network - an observer network connecting very major warring or socially meltdown area of the world; benchmarking what social space is left to reconcile and regenerate

more at Project30000

Hubs
eg Catcomm - see also village decomposition of any major city that treasures social hubs

Conversations of the Month
February 2006 Town Hall Meet of Omidyar.net
December 2005 HabitatJam
January 2006 - worldwide empowerment debate:
Quoting Kenoli Oleari :

I think a key issue here is that government and business, and the
public to a lesser degree, sees infrastructure as what creates
community. There is virtually no effort put into building the human
part of community. The public is left out of public planning except
in an advisory capacity, when, in fact, the public shuld be driving
the process.

Government and business has pretty much abandoned community, except
as "customers."


chris responds:Yes, this is an absolutely critical finding of research of social preneurs

To actively confront this, it seems we can do 2 things

We can ask why? The point of this question being if any of our answers could be taken to business and governments as clues as to how they could change. With open space facilitaors, having been in many such why discussions, my view is that business and governments will not start this change because of errors in the system and economics by which they justify themselves.

We can ask how can people get on and rectify this and network benchmark cases for open source replication. Microfinance is the number 1 peoples way that I know of now (about 20 years into being) having billions of doolars of funds distributed the world over. Tell me if there is another way! So we can benchmark what community spaces does microfinance and the people co-create

My favourite place for discussing this is www.omidyar.net because its linked by ebay founders and a large donation they have made to research this benchmarking. Benchmarks tend to be very contextual, but if I was to give you one example, I believe S America is very lucky to have www.catcomm.org as a model that could sustainably help put community back in almost any of its cities

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com Globalisation needs 2 million villages - Schumacher school of network economics
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.nlogspot.com 2006 is 30th birthday of this net

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Web Preneurs Cool flows 2005-2006

A0100 is web preneur cool because at least private companies are governprs of their own exponentials not being chained to 90 day investor's noise and there are many thousands of post debating this A0100 and such constitients as skype , vonage ,...

Brainjams is cool whilst it continues to do its open space road circuit around the world's cities that need to connect with web2.1 - applause for going to New Orleans soon. Tranparency note: spent part of a day with BJ founders when they brought their open space to Washington DC

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YUNUS: hi-trust story coordinate 007.1 - resource for network weaving around Yunus collaboration goodwill worldwide http://grameen.tv/ Hi-trust 100 Index Anderson

Dr Muhammad Yunus; founder of Grameen, Bangladesh; franchise leader of microcredit; co-inventor of “you can hear me now” village mobile kiosks; world citizen forum debate leaders on stockmarkets for sustainability

End poverty Change professions, media and education which are compound globalisation by & for biggest instead of empowering community rising http://peoplepower.jp/ Partner to World Citizens and Entrepreneurial Revolutions for empowerment & sustainability

Dr Muhammad Yunus is a serial entrepreneurial revolutionary and open source franchiser. In 2006, he was the first economist to win the Nobel Prize for peace. We would not argue with anyone who nominated him as most trusted person to network weave empowerment and sustainability around.

His longest running service franchise changes how the global market for credit by offering banking for the poor. Unlike traditional banks, microcredit is world serviced by Grameen as a human right as well as an individual, peer to peer and community responsibility:
Grameen only loans to those who it trusts as being integral over their lifetime to sustaining development of their family and community. By focusing on trust, Grameen saves 20% costs that other banks begin a loan with in legal costs and collateral contracting.
Grameen also integrates peer t peer education by requiring that circles of typically 5 women advise each other’s business development.
Grameen also requires that each community bank investing in people becomes sustainable and once it is profitable, all surpluses are reinvested back in that community.
As you can see this is a very specific model of banking – its open sourcing is certified in annual microcredit summits where over 2000 practitioners share plans and experiences. A millennium 7 year goal was set and achieved of sustaining 100 million families out of poverty. The microcredit summit is run as a partnership with the extraordinary http://results.org/ Another American to world partnership is Grameen Foundation chaired Susan Davis -an amazing supporter of Muhhamad Yunus.


Since Yunus saw himself as a practice leader of empowerment economics – ie sustaining every community he operated in not externalising risks into any – it became natural to test out ways of upgrading what village businesswomen could do. Some of the experiments that have been turned into franchise are relatively predictable – eg green energy. However Grameen Phone became every bit as entrepreneurial revolutionary as microcredit. On the suggestion of Iqbal Quadir Grameen timed how to become the nation’s most profitable cell phone operator in Bangladesh cities while innovating the shared kiosk mobile phone in rural villages. These kiosks run by Grameen borrowers effectively use the mobile phone like a 21st Century telegram office – connecting villagers with vital knowledge flows beyond their vicinity for the first time

Impossible becomes possible if right action, right time, right place, right people
Having shown that at least 2 global market sectors are capable of sustainability investment models unlike anything the sector had traditionally marketed, Muhammad Yunus wants to connect with 1000 people Forums city by city challenged to be that city’s most collaborative networkers. One game that tests whether a city lives up with that is to debate which other global market sectors can stockmarket a sustainability model now that the world can see both banking and mobile phones can

Yunus optimism that empowerment up franchises do work has spread huge positive waves. The consequence can be seen in such virtual microfinance projects centres as http://www.kiva.org/ He has been identified as a man whose concepts are worth worldwide branding by the likes of Bill Clinton – who paid one of his last presidential visits in 1999 to Yunus in Bangladesh; and Jeff Skoll who runs the world social entrepreneur world championships with ashoka as primary content partner.

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hi-trust Story Coordinate 007.0 -an open source entrepreneurial revolution and testimony to http://peoplepower.jp/

COLLABORATION ENTREPRENEURS
Mapping 100 Hi-Trust People whose Cross-Cultural Alumni Nets Will Change WorldThis book asks readers to help fill a gap in worldwide knowledge. There are plenty of global and national surveys on the world’s richest people. And every sport and fashion has its own league tables which elevate their stars into worldwide consciousness. However, there are few or no surveys on the world’s most trusted people defined in terms of how deeply and broadly they inspire other people to act in ways that are best for the world, and human sustainability.

Whither Above Zero-Sum and Sustainability Economics
The worldwide attention disorder to mapping hi-trust human beings is peculiar, not to say economically dismal. It is their goodwill networks which exponentially compound the most communal value over time, weave cultures' magic colours and empower sustainability of each community rising. Our goal is to make this discovery –and innovation truth curiosity - clear as you journey through the book. The logic mapped is the same as the entrepreneurial system foundation on which my father and my 1984 book on how globalisation can economically sustain better worlds for everyone was founded. http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html In other words, our mapping of collaboration entrepreneurs has 24 years of searching practices linked around it as well as abundant case studies on how true value multiplying trust-flow systems can be.

Naturally, there are more nuances to map than just: who are the 100 most trusted? First, collaborative people love to support each other, so we will see many connections between the heroines and heroes in this guide. Moreover, people on a truly collaborative mission to improve the human lot are delighted if someone comes along and offers to open source with them an even simpler communal innovation. So this book is not just about identifying individuals. Our whole truth wish is to search to catalogue and understand the healthy rivers of trust-flow world – the arenas of human endeavour that can sustain humanity if we cross-culturally attended to vital challenges of life as much as the late 20th Century did to sports or pop idols

5 Year Future History of the World
My 84 year old dad is the economics world’s greatest future history writer. http://futurehistorian.tv/ But when it comes to fueling future histories, as Bill Gates has also observed, there is a vicious 5 year itch and responsibility sickness. This arises because the exponential curves that mathematically govern human relation system maps ensure much more transforms for good or ill in 7 years than people expect , much less in three. Consequently, people at the top who review systemic future histories are liable to moderate double-blinding controversies that sidetrack better future practice. Our 1984 book on the future of the net was mocked for mapping why the Soviet Union would crumble within 5 years. For the only time in its history the tabloid Paris Match carried a front page economics story – Demain Sera Rose – with a lot of Gallic teasing on had The Economist turned from capitalist red to humanitarian pink. Conversely, Death of Distance projections for deep innovation webs desperately seeking to integrate local to global networks 7 or more years out were:

ticked by decision-makers as eminently doable, ... Boxed away as not their job to start up ...Awareness shredded from the responsibility views of the world of both business and society.

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Ray Anderson hi-trust 100

Ray Anderson Fortune 500 Chairman Interface , Atlanta GA

World's most authoritaive benchmark on business case for sustainability and only Fortune 500 chairman advocating how profitable as well as humanly better for the world such innovation is

Listening to Fortune 500 chairman Ray Anderson of Interface corporation talk on sustainability business modelling is for me and my peers both the most encouraging and saddest of experiences. In the mid 1990s Ray set his company –the leader in industtrial carpeting – “a mid-course correction”. The goal to become zero-waste before this then fifty-something engineer died.

It is encouraging if a sector like industrial carpets can map how to achieve the double loop sustainability goals of zero-waste and making a healthy enough profit not to get taken over by a corporation with no human goals –let alone flow-energising people to a zero-waste commitment. What’s saddening (sickening for me as a dad of a 10 year old) is that 7 years into research on a book for sustainability investment, the only top ranking corporate person In North or Western hemispheres who is prepared to talk about sustainability as a systemic – and there exponential compounding risk model – is Mr Anderson.


Listening to Ray talk is a charming experience in more ways than one. He is quiet a south speaking American from the Southern States (Georgia in fact). He starts telling the story of how his staff noticed in the 1990s that customers were increasingly asking what was Interface’s sustainability policy. And each time Ray had to confess he had none. He felt this was increasingly demotivating to himself as well as the staff he valued most. So he set himself the task of speaking about sustainability at the next years trade conference. He found that the sustainability literature used a slogan “the death of birth” and dared himself to weave it into his industry’s cosciousness.

At this stage of his talk, emphasising that he is just a life-long engineer at heart, Ray plays a magic hand. He starts unwrapping this huge systems blueprint. It looks like some massive architectural map. He starts talking a few minutes at contextual levels that become pretty technical about where the worst waste processes of industrial carpets were, and where they are next.

Before your eyes start to glaze over, he says while I could go like this for the rest of the talk, let me change tack. I want to share with you why I am in business. I am in business to make profit. I accept the challenge of mount sustainability as the greatest call on my engineering competence and business life to make profits. I don’t get up and work 18 hour days not to make profit. I don’t want to ask staff to work hard month in month out and not make profits. I don’t want to explain to investors that we have stopped making healthier and healthier profits. But I see not contradictions between doing good business and making profit. We are communally proud and individually passionate that as we scale mount sustainability we will compound better and better profits. We want everyone to see that there is much more to how goodwill and profits flow each other’s truth directions for being or branding a business leader. For example, I want to work with the most competent people; I want product that they are proud of selling particularly in the communities we or our customers live in; in our business to business sector I want my biggest customers to make their best profits from my best products; I want good partners in my supply chain; I want good relations in the communities where our factories are.

Now before I tell you why all of those relationships multiply value for me, let me tell you that I can no professionals offering an audit or framework of governance that truly and simply values any of the above. Worse tangible accounting compounds conflicts with each of the above in ways that get exponentially worse over time. It devalues them at every audit cycle.

However far from being inconvenient the truth is that by committing to our zero-waste goal, we attract the best and most energetic people in my industry sector. We are now consistently featured in the survey of best places to work in America – a previously unheard of distinction for a carpet maker. If you visit our company which you are welcome to benchmark, you will feel the positive energy flow how switched on staff are organisation-wide. No turf boundaries, not silos when you all value being seen to be interacting a zero-waste journey. It’s easier and a lot less costly to market product you are 100% confident does good. By aligning our biggest customers future profitability with where we and they want to do on zero-waste we have huge win-wins. Our customers keep us from taking a wrong turn way ahead. They share knowledge with us way beyond our competence that needs proactive inclusion in our model -and the innovation projects we do-now - so that we all mutually multiply each other’s zero-waste potentials. Similarly with suppliers. The cost to me of a supplier who is not aligned with the goal of moving towards zero waste is far more than any monetary difference in purchasing prices. We take comfort from seeing how pattern rules in our business and partner architecture mimic nature’s biodiversity models and evolutionary fit selections – the way to lead an industry towards zero waste is to ensure that across a web of organisations, each one’s waste outputs map as some another organisation’s inputs.

And what about society where we operate? Over time what do you think societies start to talk about when they hear that you are aiming ever more to cause no pollution? They respect you for having no unseen costs on their futures, reducing risks on their childrens’ futures. And what about bthe questions this plants about educational curricula in our schools – not just our business schools- schools for all future ages?
The fact is we don’t need to explicit mention to social leaders how many competitors and other industries, and even government are propagating no such truth policy in the communities they operate. Local societies are getting this: their momentum of zero-waste collective consciousness is on the up and up. However, I do talk to economists and risk valuers. I do say to them that where globalisation’s externalisation is designed round compounding an industry sector’s greatest dirt or risk onto whatever local host society’s rules least understand the compound future consequences, that is at best non-transparent, and as a professional engineer what we would call an immoral standard, and one that history may quite soon look back on and say that corporate leaders who knowingly did this as worldwide networks integrate local into global should be treated as criminals by every country. I am fully prepared to confess that I am a reformed plunderer. There is a difference between when nobody knew what future journey global wastemaking would lead to and now when more and more people do know that profit*goodwill are the whole truth worth searching – beyond historic excellence. Do tell me if you can find other corporate leaders who want to join the reformed corporate plunderers association

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Fazle Abed has a telling motto : small may be beautiful but in Bangladesh large scale is absolutely critical. BRAC learnt this from birth. It had developed the cheapest product ever (oral rehydration) to save infants’ lives –up to 10% of infants had been dying of dehydration. But then BRAC found that the national government were not systemically capable of distributing it to be always within arms reach of every village mother at the exact time infants needed its applcation. So BRAC had to develop a village nurse network embedded into each community.

In effect, BRAC’s DNA became providing the public service needs that were too desperate for bureaucratic government to serve in the field. Fortunately Fazle Abed was the right person to lead this. Before coming back to Bangladesh after the nation’s Independence, his youthful career curve had been focused on operations for Shell petroleum company.

At origin, Yunus and Fazle were unleashing very different productivities. Yunus by beginning microcredit with people whose businesses were paying money sharks weekly interest returns that the non-poor paid annually was in effect working with the most productive people to be found. Fazle was training up large groups of adult peers in very specific vocational duties (primary teaching and nursing) which every village needed.

The idea of embedding the service professional in the village 24/7 community is critical. Fazle says that all his experience shows that a professional that works from outside a poor community never works. Bit by bit they start governing over the community instead of serving from inside. He preferred to train his own cadre of job-hungry village nurses from scratch than to start with some who already saw themselves as professionals.

With the dozens of public services BRAC now offers in infant health and primary schooling, it has had to develop a clear franchise model for each one so that people can implement them out of every village. The number of solutions that BRAC has sustained make Fazle Abed probably the greatest franchise modeller in the hi-trust 100, or anywhere. BRAC has become legendary for benchmarking the service best practices of the world’s biggest service businesses (eg McDonalds) to see what can be learnt.

These days BRAC isn’t public-service only – for example it has a microcredit franchise and like Grameen it is very astute at partnering for the long run. BRAC is Bangladesh’s and the world’s largest social service organisation model that is neither corporate nor government. Unlike Grameen that shares its model worldwide but only operates in Bangladesh, BRAC has announced that funders have asked that it extend its operations to Afghanistan, Pakistan and 5 of Africa’s countries with significant muslim populations.

Grameen and BRAC are amazing entrepreneurial testimonies to what one founder can do when he designs optimal service franchises and openly seeks to scale them to every locality with urgently matching needs. Scaling up is one of empowerment world’s most urgent challenges. Unless we learn the maximum from and with Yunus and Fazle Abed, millennium rights look to be way behind their scheduled 2015 promise. This involves a mother of all media challenges, and a test of how participative world citizen networks truly wish to be. It will require professions and others who systemise globally down to revisit their whole system structures to see where the could empower communities but have so far been accidentally blocking them. This parallels a 100 year old learning from Gandhi’s Whole Truth curricula of Satyagraha, look first at whether education, media and professions could be more empoweringly systemised. Expect that 10 times higher order efficiency can be sustained from whole truth than systems with hidden conflicts, vested interests, disrupted flows. Not only is this at stake in the debate between a future which is globally big brothered or empowering every community rising- with network boundary flows matter. We are today mapping system * system * = system**N and need collaborations all across these networks not closed system optimised only to be separately run.

Perhaps the biggest question of all for BRAC is will it adapt to a digital age’s dissemination of learning. For BRAC’s world, this hasn’t been a directly relevant question to operationalise until very recently. But if it is extending its scope to 12-20 year olds peer to peer training and across countries, the puzzles of what the heck is the role of the computer and peer networks in learning suddenly rush up on grassroots youth ventures everywhere.

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Open Source Preneurs

Let's take a quick flight through the history of open source

The earliest examples include what we all regard as school education today such as the maths we learn or the languages we write- imagine if the English language had charged tolls for use the way Microsoft does!

Cut to the middle of the 20th century. If Johny von Neumann had not been obsesssed about ensuring that everywhere experimented with computers, they might still be stuck in a Princeton lab or at IBM. He basically gave away the research to several institutes and IBM simultaneously to ensure that one place took out a patent. He was also very clear about why we should never need to permit patents to block how learning that multiplies in use. 90 days first comers rights to knowledge would be quite sufficient he felt once the world was networked. His argument was that any group who already led research -and had 90 days protection - would have such an epicentral networking advantage that if it failed to keep leading, it would be due to lack of interest in the subject.

Both the net and the web relied on open colaborations of a kind that no corporation would dream of. Pity that!

Today's inspiring examples of academia truly engaging as open source preneurs need to be celebrated wherever we spot them. One example is the Cambridge lab which eventually won a Nobel prize for mapping the human genome. Each morning they put up on the net adnavces from yesterday's research. That way they kep a great network connecting around them and probably broke through light years faster than if their approach had not been open.

We'd love to hear your nominations of the greatest open source preneurs and how their gifts to the world benfitted societies, and hopefully themselves

Like Johny I am also interested in cases where computer facilitated great teamwork and inspiring collaboration. It seems to me this has never been bettered bite for bite than in the 1960s race to get man on the moon. I wonder how much more an inspiring a place the world could be for all human beings if that sort of knowledge collaboration had evolved as standard over the last 40 years instead of being so exceptional. Am I the only one to feel that somehow all peoples are being cheated out of the collaborative innovation we could now be celebrating? Please consider whether you know anyone who might contribute one project to project30000 - we entrepreneurial revolutionaries and Death of Distance Future Historians have believed since 1984 that this open catalogue must be achieved by 2010 if the best interests of your children are to be served by this here networking worldwide revolution we are now all umbilically linked through. Equally, as
Britain's Queen Elisabeth declared in her Xmas speech of 2005, unless we collaborate urgently it now looks as if humanity will turn against itself

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According to the 30 year studies into missing economic paradigms of Entrepreneurial Revolutionaries : A community centre's hub's (eg Rio' Catcomm 1) ability to open source its community's deepest action learning projects is determined in large dgree by what worldwide jams it helps prepare ahead of time which also explains how much microfinance it is likely to earn

A worldwide jam is illustrated by this Canadian Invention : habitatjam - 3 days of continuos online posting on a narrow menu of topic - the most impressive in this jam being slum life crises of opportunity testified for over 100 countries' cities

During the 3 days don't worry about having smart conversstion other than:
don't let the same testimony be repeated
have got as many deep lovcal hubs around the world to have rehearsed what main script they communally want to contribute

after 3 days the world has a web to search for all future uses; and the global village hubs (of which we would like to see 2 million interconnecting in jams for humabnity) that made the most diversely relevant connections and project solutions deserve the most of the next rounds of finance

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networks - mobility revolution squared

Top people have seldom been the first to encourage mobility revolution. This is what The First Duke of Wellington (he of Traflagar) said in the House of Lords when he saw the steam engine's railways spead across Victorian Britain:
"My Lords these things will enable the working classes to move about" (This was a shrewd warning to his peers. Railways broke up the system whereby every yokel was so immobile that he had to be constantly subservient to the most powerful employer in his district, a system that had been nice for dukes and the very upper classes but nobody else)

Being both a transport and a communications revolution, our future history scenario debate from the 1980s have always assumed networks (and their global times local consequences) will represent chnage of a magnitude that only omces along one in several hudreds of years. Such change can be expected to compound an eklightening or dark age for humanity all round the world with little in between states likely

The most recent book on learning networks to blend withy opur 80s secnarios has this to say about the (r)evolutionary crisis human beings face over the next decade or so:

Eight main beliefs of one of most inspiring books around in 2004:

• 1. The world is hurtling through a fundamental turning point in history.
• 2. We are living through a revolution that is changing the way we live, communicate, think and prosper.
• 3. This revolution will determine how, and if, we and our children work, earn a living and enjoy life to the fullest.
• 4. For the first time in history, almost anything is now possible.
• 5. Probably not more than one person in five knows how to benefit fully from the hurricane of change - even in developed countries.
• 6. Unless we find answers, an elite 20 percent could end up with 60 percent of each nation's income, the poorest fifth with only 2 percent.1 That is a formula for guaranteed poverty, school failure, crime, drugs, despair, violence and social eruption.
• 7. We need a parallel revolution in lifelong learning to match the information revolution, and for all to share the fruits of an age of potential plenty.
• 8. Fortunately, that revolution - a revolution that can help each of us learn anything much faster and better - is also gathering speed.

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sustainability converts

Clinton Dec 2005 speech at Sierra Club Canada

President William J. Clinton: Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I'm very grateful to the City of Montreal; to the Sierra Club of Canada and my long-time friend, Elizabeth May, for inviting me here to speak today. And the Government of Canada for hosting this historic meeting on climate change.

I seem to walk into trouble every time I come to Quebec to give a speech. The last time I was here, Mr. Mayor, you remember I was here to talk about federalism right before the referendum. So, I want to try to talk about an issue that is full of controversy, but of profound importance to the future of our children and grandchildren in a way that I hope will permit all who care about this issue without regard to what specific approaches they favour to think about the facts.

I just got back from a week long trip in which I went all the way from the northernmost part of the inhabited world - I went to St. Petersburg, the largest most northernmost city on the globe - then to Kiev, Ukraine to do some of my AIDS work. And then I flew to Sri Lanka and Indonesia, where the summer is beginning, working on the Tsunami relief recovery for the United Nations. And I came back to Munich and London.

And when I was just wandering around the world, I read the following headlines: that scientists had dug more deeply than ever before into the Antarctic core and now could measure greenhouse gases - both methane and carbon dioxide - over the last 650,000 years. And the levels were markedly higher than at any point over the last 650,000 years. Now keep in mind the last ice age only receded 15,000 years ago, which enabled people to move up out of East Africa, across the world and to establish civilizations in every continent. That was when I was in Kiev I read that.

Then, I flew to Sri Lanka in the scorching heat of the early summer, and I read that 95 per cent of the glaciers in the Himalayas are melting, leading to a tripling of mudslides and other disasters from overflowing mountain lakes.

And then, as I flew back North, I read that the countries of the North Atlantic are at risk at getting markedly colder in the years ahead because of global warming, because more fresh water is flowing into the oceans and it's messing up the current rotation, and may block normal temperature changes and aggravate the winters in the North Atlantic. Those were just three little articles in six days.

At our Global Initiative, which the Mayor mentioned, in New York around the opening of the UN, we were told that insurance losses from severe weather events in the last 10 years were triple those of any previous decade in history. And I know that if the climate warms for the next 50 years at the rate of the last 10, rising sea levels in the North Atlantic will claim at least 50 feet of Manhatten Island. It might good for the value of the real estate that is left there, but it will be a very bad thing indeed. It will be a harbinger of changing of agricultural production patterns, millions of food refugees created throughout the world, intense disruptions.

There was an article the other day, Mr. Mayor, about the prospect that the North Pole might melt enough now in the summer time for people to have a sea route right across the top of the earth, and that won't raise the water level because the North Pole is all ice anyway. But it's hard to believe that the North Pole could melt without significant run off of the Ice Cap on Greenland. And if that were to happen the environmental consequences would be calamitous, indeed.

So, there is no longer any serious doubt that climate change is real, accelerating and caused by human activities. We are uncertain about how deep and the time of arrival of the consequences. But, we are quite clear that they will not be good. So, what should we do about it? Well, when I was President, I did what I could do in an atmosphere that was, to put it mildly, hostile. We took a lot of executive actions to green the White House and the executive branch of government. We applied higher efficiency standards to appliances in the United States. I sought and lost a carbon tax, and then sought and lost a 25-per-cent tax credit for the production or purchase of clean energy products.

But, we were active in a partnership for a new generation of vehicles with our auto manufacturers, and in the development of the Kyoto climate change accord, which in the end actually got Vice-President Gore personally involved with. It was not a perfect agreement, and there were criticisms of it at the time. The two most important of which were, first, that Kyoto would hurt the economies of the developed nations by chaining them to greenhouse gas reductions that were not achievable, and certain to lead to top down bureaucratic solutions that would wreck economic growth. The second was that Kyoto did not include developing nations which were already large greenhouse gas emitters in which given present rates of growth would become larger than even the United States, the worst offender, in the next few decades.

The second criticism was fair; the first one was just flat wrong. It was factually wrong. And we know from every passing year, we get more and more objective data that if we had a serious disciplined effort to apply on a large scale existing clean energy and energy-conservation technologies, we could meet and surpass the Kyoto targets easily in a way that would strengthen, not weaken our economies. That's the main point I came here to make.

The main point I want to make to the developed countries is that I believe if you look all around the world . . . what was the big issue in Germany in the last election? Do we have enough flexibility in the labour markets to generate enough new jobs? How can we preserve a sense of social justice? Decent pay, decent benefits, a secure retirement, a strong middle class, and still reach out to the developing world on honourable trade terms. How can we possibly do that when we can't create new jobs?

But, if you look at the United States where we did have a couple million new jobs last year, but in the 90s, we averaged nearly three million new jobs a year, every year, partly because information technology was a source of new jobs for us. It was eight per cent of our job base, but 30 per cent of our job growth. It rifled through the whole economy. If the developed world wants to do the right thing by the developing world, and share the benefits of the future, it will require far more than reducing agricultural subsidies. It will require genuinely more open markets, a serious attempt at investment, a whole different way of thinking about this, and we will never have the political consensus to do it unless the wealthier countries can create substantial numbers of new jobs at home every year. We have not found in this decade, the answer to that.

In the United States, our unemployment rate is still quite low, but partly because we have had two per cent of the work force stop looking for jobs. That is, in our country, unemployment is a function of work force participation. So, if you're not looking for a job - even though you could work - you're not counted as unemployment. If work force participation rates were the same as they were a decade ago, the unemployment rate would be about a percent-and-a-half higher.

Every country has got this challenge. How are we going to meet it? By a serious commitment to a clean energy future, that's how. We can create jobs out of wind energy, out of solar energy, out of bio-fuels, out of hybrid engines, out of a systematic determination to change the lighting patterns, the insulation patterns, the efficiency standards of all buildings and all appliances. We could make, in America, there is no telling how many jobs we could create if we'd just made a decision that in the rebuilding of New Orleans, it could become America's first "green" city. We would restore all the wetlands, and every building would have solar cells.

Now, I say this because I think this has bearing on how we break the log jam here. You've just got to decide if you believe this or not, and if you can think you can convince anybody else of it. But, there are lots of hopeful signs here that if we decided to maximize clean energy development, maximize energy conservation technologies, maximize appropriate research, and have the best and most efficient use of old energy sources of oil and coal. If we did all of that, could we find common ground to do something before climate change makes it too late to have meetings like this? We'll have a meeting like this in 40 years on a raft somewhere if we come to Canada to meet - unless we do something.

Well, there's (sic) a lot of hopeful signs. As the Mayor said, you've got over 190 mayors committed actually to meet the Kyoto accords. Think about this: if a mayor commits to meet the Kyoto accords, what's the difference in that and a country committing? A country commits to an abstract goal. If a mayor - an executive officer - makes a commitment, the mayor, he or she has decided already you're thinking: "how in the world am I going to do this?" And, before long, you put out a list of the 20 things you're going to do. And then you go and do it. Once you moved from the abstract to the particular, you drastically increase the level of support for whatever it is you're doing, and you occupy people in doing something they can see as positive, and good for the economy.

I take it no one in Denmark is embarrassed that they generate 20 per cent of their electricity from wind. That no one in The Philippines is ashamed that they generate 27 per cent of their electricity from geothermal. That Germany is proud to generate over 16,000 megawatts of electricity from wind. That Japan is glad that they have overtaken the United States, as has Germany, in the generation of electricity from solar cells. I think that the million (sic) people in the developing world - largely in Latin America, but other places as well - who have solar cells unconnected to central power stations on their homes, that generate enough electricity to turn on the lights and cook the food, for a monthly payment that is more or less equal to a month's supply of candles, are proud that they have that.

So, what I'd like to say is, if there is a way to bring the countries of the world together, maybe it's around treating this agenda the way you would if you were the mayor of a large city: "Here's what I am going to do!" And always know that if you aggregated these up that would actually produce the results we are trying to achieve. And it's not just the mayors in the United States. We have 11 states comprising one-third of our automobile usage who have promised to cut their carbon emissions by a third. We have other states who have promised to cut emissions from power plants.

We have an enormous number of private companies now getting into this. General Electric's Chairman Jeffrey Immelt has said that climate change technologies are going to be at the centre of his company's profit strategy in the next decade. I just built this massive presidential library and it has 308 solar cells on it. I cut my greenhouse emissions by 34 per cent. It will take me a year-and-a-half to pay for the cost of those solar cells, after which, for the remaining life of that building - conservatively another 98 _ years - I get a third of my electricity for free and I will reduce my damage to my children and grandchildren's future by one third. We can all do this.

Here's the point I'm trying . . . let me just say this. We just had a major television squib on our network news last week in America showing this new solar company out in California actually spraying nano-solar technology on thin sheets of aluminium, which may revolutionize the economics all over again. But, I want to make this one simple point. I hear people all the time when I say this - this is almost 2006 - look at me in a slightly patronizing tone and say: "Oh, there he goes again. He's been saying this stuff for 30 years, and everybody knows this can only be a small part of the answer. Everybody knows solar and wind could never be anything as much as oil and coal and nuclear and all that. Everybody knows that." Well, that's just not true.

If you look at the geothermal capacity of Japan alone, they could produce over half their electricity with geothermal. If you look at wind, the difference in wind and solar, and traditional energy sources is, wind and solar are more like blackberries, cell phones and flat-screen televisions - the more you use the cheaper it gets. Wind is going up to 30 per cent a year utilization - that means it doubles every two-and-a-half years. Every time it doubles, the price drops 20 per cent. If you want the price to drop faster, increase the capacity faster.

Last year, solar cell usage - had been going up 30 per cent per year - last year, it increased 57 per cent in one year. Every time the capacity doubles, the price drops 20 per cent. America spends roughly $180-billion (US) a year on gasoline - varies depending on the price. If we spent half of that for seven years building wind mills, then we generate more electricity from wind than any other source. It's just not true you can't take any of this to scale. It's just that we are sort of rooted in old patterns of organization and financing.

But, to make the main point, we know the capacity is there. In our country, 20 per cent of all electricity is consumed by lighting. If every home replaced every incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent one, which costs three times as much, lasts 10 times as long, emits one third as much greenhouse gases, every purchaser of a light bulb would save 25 to 40 per cent, no matter how many bulbs they purchased, just as long they were being used. And we would cut the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to lighting in America by 50 per cent. We could create a lot of jobs transferring the production of light bulbs from incandescent to compact fluorescent - with another new technology just over the horizon I might add.

So, I just don't believe all of this stuff about how: "well, all these things are nice to talk about, but we can't really get there." We're still wasting . . . most electric power plants waste 60 per cent of the base heat of the fuel going into them, whatever it is. You know, I saw Amery Lovens the other day at my Global Initiative - and a lot of you know him - but he's been out there saying this stuff for 30 years, and people have laughed at him for 90 per cent of his adult life. And no one's laughing anymore because we now know that conservation is good economics. Conservation creates energy just as much as alternative sources do.

After the Gulf Coast was destroyed by Katrina, I was down in a little town in Alabama talking to a bunch of shrimpers. They were African-Americans, European-Americans and Vietnamese-Americans. You know what they wanted to know? Could I get them a bio-fuel plant. Because diesel was three dollars-a-gallon, and we can make bio-fuels for a buck-and-a-half now - and we just about got it done, parenthetically.

The reason I'm saying this is not to say that these agreement don't matter. They do matter, a lot. I like the Kyoto agreement; I helped to write it, and I signed it. But, it did have the flaw of not having everybody in the world signing onto the market mechanism. And now that's largely cured; China, India, Brazil, a lot of countries are interested in participating in this. You can see the emergence of a carbon market. But, one of our states, New Mexico, has already signed on to the climate change exchange in the United States. So, there is going to be a major carbon market.

And I think it's important that we find - if we can get it - a multilateral way of going forward. If we all work together, it's hard to see how we can fail. And if we don't, it's hard to see how we can succeed. My country has four per cent of the world's population, 20 per cent of the world's GDP, and we did have, when I left office, 25 per cent of the greenhouse gases. It may be down to 23_ or 24 per cent now, just because of the rapid growth in China and India.

But, the point is we've all got to find a way to do this together. And I think that if you ask yourself: why did 190 mayors agree to do this . . . who weren't all left-of-centre. Some of them were conservatives. One of the mayors in America that signed onto this Kyoto thing came from a small farming community in Nebraska, and he bragged about the fact that he was a conservative Republican who had voted for the President twice and strongly supported him. But he said: "You know, I'm a farmer, and they told me that we had to go fight terrorists on the principle of precaution." There is no place in the world where it's more important to apply the principle of precaution than in the area of climate change.

There are two big obstacles to agreement, it seems to me. One is the general observation made - more eloquently than I can make it - hundreds of years ago by Machiavelli:

There is nothing so difficult in human affairs than to change the established order of things because those who will be hurt by the change are quite certain of their loss, while those who will benefit are uncertain of their gain.

We are trying to create an enormous new world here. And that's why the more concrete examples we have of success, the more important it is. Even though it may not be as satisfying as having everyone say: "Ok, we're going to get to this level of reductions, by this date."

Second problem is the old energy economy is well-organized, well-financed and well-connected politically. The new economy is, by and large, entrepreneurial, creative, still-undercapitalized, and the markets are not all that well-organized. Now, our Congress - and I appreciate that they adopted a new solar credit in 2005, which I thought was a good thing - but I tried for years to get a 25 per cent credit for the production or purchase of clean and alternative energy technologies, and I couldn't pass it. So, we're moving that way.

But, we have got to get people to think about how to jump start this. So, when British Petroleum adopts their new slogan, Beyond Petroleum - insofar as it is reflected in real actions - that's good. When Royal Dutch Shell finances wind mills, that's good. I think every oil country in the world ought to take some of the benefits of that 65-dollar oil, and become energy countries - not just oil countries. Why shouldn't the oil countries of the world finance the development of solar and wind power? You could do it all over the Middle East. You could start at the Equator and work out. It would be a way of generating jobs, reducing poverty, increasing development and avoiding future impacts of climate change.

So, when we did discuss at my Global Initiative, the biggest dollar commitment we had - this is very interesting - was from a large European insurance company, Swiss Re, who committed $300-million to clean energy projects in Europe over the next few years. Why did they do that? Because they're going to go broke if global warming keeps running up the numbers of intense weather events. You can't figure out how to insure or reinsure against an unpredictable and ever-expanding number of risks. And the leader is a wise and thoughtful man, so that's how they made their commitment.

So, my plea is that we get more corporations, cities, other local governments and NGOs involved in this; that we try to go forward multi-laterally; that we not give up on market mechanisms. This carbon market is going to take off, as long as we don't walk away from it. It's going to be an enormously successful thing and incredibly important in trying to help us deal with this, and moving big dollars around and getting big projects done.

And finally, that if we can't agree on targets, that we do what we would do if we were all mayors: we would change the terms of the game. You don't want to agree on a target, here's a hundred projects we can do. They will produce the results that the target seeks to achieve. They will be pro-free market. They will create jobs. They won't put anybody out of work. They'll give us an enormous new set of opportunities. And if all of our oil companies want to embrace them, then they can finance them, and diversify their operations, and create jobs, and make more money. And we could do the same thing in research, whether it is clean coal or hydrogen research.

I think it's important to point out - before I give up the podium here - that in a certain way, all energy is solar energy. We should never forget that in our solar system, over 98 per cent of the mass is still up there in the sun, and all the rest of us - all the people wandering around and all the planets that share the solar system with us - are one-and-a-half per cent of the mass. That we are all kept alive every day by about a billionth of that mass that escapes and comes down to Earth. A lot of which is refracted from the clouds and back into space. We are living here in literally a biological miracle. And oil and coal and oil shale - all that stuff - were just solar energy longer ago. And so, if some how we can one day figure out how to create energy the way you do when hydrogen compresses together and releases three-tenths of a per cent of its mass to do all the good that it has done, that would be wonderful.

In the meanwhile, I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future by not agreeing to do what manifestly we know will drastically enhance the economy as well as protect the environment. And give us a chance to share this planet together.

So I say again, if we can't agree on targets, my advice is let's all pretend that we had a job and had to do something, instead of just talking about it. Let's all pretend we had a job and had to do something! And see if we can get agreements on actions, projects: how much are we going to increase wind energy? How much are we going to increase solar energy? How much are we going to increase the efficiency of our buildings, our electricity generation, our appliances? How quick are we going to convert to new lighting? How many vehicles are we going to produce that are hybrid vehicles? And by the way, Detroit needs to stop producing hybrid vehicles that just have bigger engines and don't get any more fuel mileage. How are we going to do that? And how quickly can we do that?

Who can refuse to have that discussion? That is a discussion that will generate millions and millions of jobs in the developed world and the developing world alike. That is a discussion that just might give us a chance to give our grandchildren the same set of opportunities that most of us took for granted. You know we have a heavy obligation because we now know since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, very few people knew that we would come to this day. But we know, we know what's happening to the climate. We have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And we know we have an alternative that will lead us to even greater prosperity.

So, again, my plea is for us all to get together, let's try to go forward together. And if you can't agree on a target, agree on a set of projects so everybody has something to do when they get up in the morning. This is a terrible thing to paralyze ourselves, and give people an excuse, and let anybody off the hook from doing something. Let's find a way to walk away from here and walk into the future together, so that we all have something that will give our grandchildren this planet in a more prosperous and more humane way.

Thank you very much and God bless you all.

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Future History of Globalisation & Episode 1

Action from E1 -tell us where, who or what context, future history debates with greatest impact on humanity are happening - eg 1 2

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FUTURE HISTORY DIALOGUES

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If you can question people who know a context's history of investing in productive & demanding human relationships, its future's main opportunities and risks can be mapped out as function of how few or many people conflicts exist.

The valuation of economics of exponentials applies to the world of globalisation as illustrated below, to an industry sector's future, a corporation, a nation, a city, a network- anywhere that relations systems can be transparently mapped around unique gravitational purpose. Tell us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if there is a gravity that matters most to your future and we will try to show how to start mapping it so that it attracts preneurial debate. A surprising meaning of the networked world is that without true future history analysis being transparently debated by all people coordinates, strategies of compound growth do not actionably exist.Why? Because the gravitational harmonies of the system and its boundaries to other systems govern more than any silo of people including those at the top.

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Concise Future History of 1975-2025 written 1984

Episode 1- Leading Transparency


Episode 2 Changing Bossiness

Episode 3 Changing How nations are governed

Episode 4 Changing Economics

Episode 5 Changing Education

Episode 6 Changing Evil or those who tempt it



Episode 1

The hard work in this future history of 1975-2025 was done by a computer expert and a biology scientist, whose systemic forecasts I then edited to fit with my economic prejudices.



The computer expert was my son, Chris Macrae, who started telecommuting in 1973 and currently does this, with societal market mapmakers worldwide, out of Paris. The scientist he recruited among his student alumni clubs (eg London-York-Leeds-Cambridge in the UK) proved by far the best writer of the three of us, and also wrote the most sparkling mini-biographies illustrating every chapter. He did not want to be named because as he explained at a book conference we sensibly held in the cheaper grandstand at Ascot: “As atheistic moral relativist, I’ve been publishing stuff about another future, so I don’t want to seem to be forecasting your Christian libertarian one at the same time. I suspect that in his future, also intended as a Hollywood sci-fi script, mad Christian economists like me will blow the world up.



However, I have spent my working life writing articles for The Economist and hosting lectures and debating circles in nearly 30 countries. From these viewpoints, I believe that provided the people with the greatest global or local power are transparently surrounded with information networks and openly courageous communications debates then the future can be much more rosy than the past 1.

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E4 Changing Economics

Action Networking Now around E4

Project30000

know waves of such foundation contexts: 1) as life depends on clean water;2) energy depends on we help nature work with the sun; 3 discuss with uis what you believe number 3 is and we'll try and link you to some like-gravitated people

People for Public Broadcasting 1 2 3 - Brand Chartering's 10th birthday parties 2006

aSIN

microfinance, and helping map the global villages 1 2 people like you most love sustaining

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Changing Economics

The introduction of the international Centrobank was the last great act of government before government grew much less important. It was not a conception of policy-making governments at all, but emerged from the first computerised town meeting of the world.

By 2005 the gap in income and expectations between the rich and poor nations was recognised to be man's most dangerous problem. Internet linked television channels in sixty-eight countries invited their viewers to participate in a computerised conference about it, in the form of a series of weekly programmes. Recommendations tapped in by viewers were tried out on a computer model of the world economy. If recommendations were shown by the model to be likely to make the world economic situation worse, they were to be discarded. If recommendations were reported by the model to make the economic situation in poor countries better, they were retained for 'ongoing computer analysis' in the next programme.


In 2024 it is easy to see this as a forerunner of the TC conferences which play so large a part in our lives today, both as pastime and principal innovative device in business. But the truth of this 2005 breakthrough tends to irk the highbrow. It succeeded because it was initially a rather downmarket network television programme. About 400 million people watched the first programme, and 3 million individuals or groups tapped in suggestions. Around 99 per cent of these were rejected by the computer as likely to increase the unhappiness of mankind. It became known that the rejects included suggestions submitted by the World Council of Churches and by many other pressure groups. This still left 31,000 suggestions that were accepted by the computer as worthy of ongoing analysis. As these 31000 community dialogues were honed, and details were added to the most interesting- with cross-linking and the co-mentoring practices of 12th grade email understood by people and those who design social software (eg 1 2) an exciting consensus began to emerge. Later programmes were watched by nearly a billion people as it became recognised that something important was being born.

These audiences were swollen by successful telegimmicks. The presenter of the first part of the first programme was a roly-poly professor who was that year's Nobel laureate in economics, and who proved a natural television personality. He explained that economists now agreed that aid programmes could sometimes help poor countries, but sometimes most definitely made their circumstances worse. When Mexico was inflating at over 80 per cent a year in the early 1980s , the inflow to it of huge loanable funds made its inflation even faster and its crash more certain. The professor set Mexico's 1979-1981 economy on the model, pumped in the loaned funds and showed how all the indicators ( higher inflation, lower real gross domestic product and so on) then flashed red, signaling an economy getting worse, rather than green, signaling an economy getting better. ..The professor then put the model back to mirror the contemporary world of 2005, and played into it various nostrums that had been recommended by politicians of left, right and centre, but mostly left. The dials generally flashed red. Then the professor provided another set of recommendations , and asked viewers who wished to play to tap in their own guesses on the consequent movement of key economics variables in the model. Those who got their guesses right to within a set error were told they had qualified for a second round of a knock-out economic guesstimators' world championship. Knockout competitions of this sort continued for viewers throughout the series of programmes.


In the second part of that first programme, the presenters dared to introduce political decisions into the game. They said that government-to-government aid programmes had been particularly popular among politicians during the age of over-government, but there was growing agreement that government-to-government aid was the worst method of hand-out. The excessive role played by governments in poor countries was one of the barriers to their economic advance, and a main destroyer of their people's freedom. Could anyone have thought it would be wise to give aid to President Mbogo?

The first questions to be asked in the next few programmes, said the compilers, were 1) which countries should qualify for aid? ; and having decided that, 2) up to what limits and conditions? ; and 3) through what mechanisms? They promised that later programmes after the first half-dozen would examine how any scheme could be used to diminish the power of governments and increase the power of free markets and free people.

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Open Copyright Asserted by Macrae.nets for all co-edited weblogs, co-hosted open spaces and cafes of collaboration knowledge city & country. Excerpted from Chapter 6 of The 2024 Report first published in the UK 1984. Republished in American and French as The 2025 Report in 1985, and in German as The 2026 Report in 1986; soon used to provide the Swedish Charter for Online with The New Vikings. Further inquiries welcomed by communities with urgent needs through mailto:wcbn007@easynet.co.uk?subject=via

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Make your foundations transparent

The more you seek to plant change globally or locally, the more everyone must participate in and trust what roots you stick with

We'll stick with these to 2024

Invest more and more in people before machines- if you believe in this then you will have to introduce a second audit because global accounting is the most conflicted maths possible for investing in people (clue look at what current/historic accounting rules permit the boardroom to book in as an investment -for uptodate stories see intangibles-valuation and the great mathematical mistake that ruling the world, the EU's very conflicted Knowledge management, and what brand experts who love Canadian views of global branding have been plotting for 15 years now)

We believe in human rights to clean water (without which our bodies stop) and the sun's energy. So we will stick to algae as the fuel to 2025 - here's our 1984 extract on that (updated stories on humanity's struggle for clean energies are at omniworldview, solaroof; algaeworld, aSIN, sustainability billionnaires, "green is the next red, white & blue", and future of london) :

End of chapter 16:
Sunlight is the fuel which sustains life on earth. The process by which plants extract energy from sunlight, using that energy to build up complex compounds from simper ones and thereby storing the energy which animals, including humans, use to grow and move and see and think is the life-process itself. We (human beings) have always exploited that life-process, but in the past we have only been able to do so by using living plants as our agents. We learned to cultivate them, develop them by selective breeding, and since the 1980s to meddle with their genes, but we have not yet learned to substitute something of our own making for the living plant. We have not found or made a more efficient substitute for chlorophyll itself outside the naturally-occurring factory which is the living cell.

Until we design our own systems which can deploy the energy of sunlight as efficiently as humble algae does, we humans have no real biotechnology of our own. We have many kinds of solar cells which can extract energy from the sunlight and store is as electricity or heat, but such devices are very crude indeed beside the technical sophistication and versatility of living plants.

We are making a determined effort to capture and use a greater fraction of the solar energy which falls upon the face of the earth every day. We are trying to make plants flourish in paces where at present they can only eke out the most precarious of existence. The ideal situation, however, would be one in which we did not need to work so hard to adapt existing plants to more hostile conditions. If we had our own artificial systems of photosynthesis we might exploit the desert sun ourselves, without using other organisms as intermediaries. Our ultimate ambition must be to make artificial photosynthetic systems more efficient than those which have evolved alongside side us throughout the history of life on earth. Then and only then will we be able to claim that we are technologically self-sufficient. In 2024, this looks as if it might be one of our children's tasks.

Given this picture the 64 trillion dollar energy question and even more than that if we value sustainability of life is what can we best compound around the sun's energy exponentials in 2006. Next major public meeting on this in London looks like March2006- please do tell us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you have other open meetings elsewhere to linkin on this agenda.



INTRODUCING BIOTECHNOLOGY
rest of chapter 16 - to be lasered in



We believe in networking every community up so that boundary transparencies do not externalise risk to whichever society is least ignorant of a global sector's expertise. So we'll go with a peoples economics which sustains healthily gravitated exponentials connecting 2 million global villages. This is how we wrote that in 1984:

When we look at the most stunning development stories from the second half of the 20th Century – eg Taiwan – we see that the main incentive for entrepreneurs in such countries was to produce for fairly rich consumers , abroad or at home. If the 80 or so countries who most need development support in the early 21st Century all started exporting cheap-labour umbrellas like Taiwan in the 1950s, a glut of umbrellas would rather soon appear. It would be better if some of the 21st C entrepreneurs could be encouraged to provide more of the things desperately needed by the poorest three quarters of people.

An early clue emerged from Sweden in the 1980s where remote areas in the North of the country started experimenting with how core types of public service could be provided competitively-but-caringly by private entrepreneurs on performance contracts. Through the 1990s various Swedish voluntary organisations started to use this sort of system as they “adopted” certain Third World Villages.

Trailblazing projects associated withy these experiments mean that commercialism was dashing in where only saints had previously trod. Indeed, many of the saints both participated and learnt from these projects and their open replication across countries where communities faced contextually matching challenges to sustainability. This way ahead helped to realise E F Schumacher’s 2 million global villages. The author of Small is Beautiful published back in 1973 had outlined that the best way to bring help to the billion poorest people in the world was to create 2 million villages functioning smoothly with appropriate, hardy, labour-intensive technology

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2005 update on NATURE & HUMAMITY in light of Queen Elizabeth 2 semi-decade broadcast - Is Globaliszation turning Humanity on Itself?

The future of the world - and the human race - if there is to be one after century 21 - depends on governing global sectors : collaboratively, transparently and sustainably (map the future's compound exponentials simply enough for all the world to hold communal debates to our open hearts contents)

The first test case of collaborating in humanity will be water worldwide as a human right. Because cleanwater is the number 1 ingredient of life as well as health, and because water waves are coulpled with other environmental waves of nature's evolutionary power, which at a global level of species promtion and extinction will always be more determinant than what beings race to do.

For a year between 2002 and 2003 the European Union, through its KM portal knowledgeboard.com encouraged a network of over 100 knowledge angles to open space. They did this paying their own way to dialogues in London, Berlin and Luxembourg. Though knowedleg economics were integrated into tese debates it was also agreed that a thriving community of not for profit cases and explorations into ways to narrow global divides was the way to ensure that knowledgeboard sustained the most open of professional dialogues. Over a thousand of man days were volunteered by this the knowledge angels network who were encouraged to tender for minimal funds needed so that thousands of knowledge angels could host meetings all round Europe in small cafes as well as larger open spaces. Then their proposal was not only turned down by Brussels but the area in the KB portal where they had been encouraged to co-edit news was prevented from starting new discussion threads.

So before knowledge angels (a name the EU coined for transparent and meta-professional networking in 2002) were destroyed by apparently frightened bureaucrats (or self-centred "piecemeal expert" academics lobbying) the European Union from 2003 on, we started some far reaching debates on sustaining water and life. We have transferred extracts of these here for posterity or as long as google's blogger permits us to propagate this do no evil wave.

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Changing Economics Part 2

Extract from 1984 book on why connect 2 million global villages to sustain a networking globe & humanity -transparently distributing woprld trade beyond (national) boundaries and to sustain every local culture's integration with globalization

The Centrobank which emerged for the hundred of millions who participated in the reality tv games and internet suggestions on how to end extrem poverty wass open to countries who agreed such principles as: transparent markets not politicians should set prices; human rights cases should be reffered to an international supreme court)

An early and amibitious paradigm used by Centrobank was the granting of performamce contracts for creating EF Schumacher's 2 million villages. Perfomrnace contracts were put out whereby Japanese and other firms drew money from Centrobank if they transformed life in particular villages in coubntriues like Bangladesh by introducing fuller employment with introduction of appropriate labour intensive technology. Hordes of local entrepreneurs drew subcontractors fees if they put labour intensive export industries into these villages. From sustainable developments like these, doctors graduating from eg Indian medical schools soon found it far more profitable to earn Centrobank money competing for contracts in backward areas of their own country than by flocking to medical practices in the West.

See also Twin Village Connectory, as one of Omidyar's exemplary revolutions in motion

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Eg. of 2006 conversation among those working on community-up maps & linking 2 million global villages
Wow lots of great stuff in this thread - can I permit myself 2 posts one on Theresa specific ideas I am rehearsing with friends, and one on other exciting groundings mentioned by people. I'll assume you know that Theresa's origin comes from at least 3 countries: Brazil, USA, UK and her dad is an economist in Washington DC

I have 2 specific tests that seem to be a way of catalysing community-up connections

valuetrue.com mapmakers are using London as a visualisation space to connect concerned citizens around 5 villages all of which 21st Century's humanity need to multiply exponentially up (Thomas Friedman's word uptilt) in sustaining 6 billion beings instead of powering over them. One of these needs to be a village -safe and crosscultural enough -for women and families to raise the greatest conflict resolving goals of our times 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
in London, urgent peace activists as well may best call this http://searchtheresa.blogspot.com (also links through to India as the most collaborative large nation where sensible compatriots led by an extraordinary current Prime Minister (who has a Cambridge doctorate in the economics of not compounding underclasses earned in the Fifties about 4 years after my dad) link primarily through wisdom of Gandhi's constitutional and St Theresa's practical wisdom

Back in today's London: there are also powerful women cheerleaders, such as Queen Elizabeth 2 when she makes her end of year conversation with all friends of the commonwealth : Is Humanity turning on itself ? Call this open inquisition village of power http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com

Mix this with the one unique asset -gift to the world - that the people of Britain own - number 1 public media broadcaster which through my lifetime the people have invested in 50 billion dollars, and London now has some unique collaboration plays for the rest of the world http://clubofcity.blogspot.com

So question 1 is ok to continue with the namesake blog? Question 2:
I have it in my mind to go through my inbox to pick out every person who has told me they love 2 countries from oppopsite hemispeheres because their ubrininging or origin was from which, filtered by those who tell me one of their missions in life is to find a project that helps with the poor country's communal development. The mail I intend to send to these people is let's document one deep community project from each S or East hemisphere country when found at www.catcomm.org Is this OK?

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Searches for peoples economics

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version 0- Q&A Primer on Preneurs * Economics * Global Villages

The purpose of this emerging primer is to help make 3 of the pervasive constructs responsible for compounding value multiplication transparent and popular for everyone to participate in and work with. If you believe that a question has been omitted or an answer is incomplete, we’d love to insert and link your perspective as long as it aims to help simplify everyone’s understanding.

We are arranging Q&A by Why Preneurs, Why Economics, Why Global Villages and then interactions of 2 or more

A Why Preneurs?

A1 What was the origin of this word. Take back in French. Following the overthrow of kings, this actioned peoples' societal "liberte, egalite, fraternitie" permissions to take back sufficient of different types of assets (notable original examples – land) for peoples and communities to experiment with being productive and not just ruled as working slaves of old royalty, or other non-transparencies of governance or empire

A2 Why do so many people use the word entrepreneur to describe their ambitions or achievements? People who have succeeded in both a great invention and seeing as many people enjoy it as practical have had to overcome 2 barriers: the invention itself, getting enough assets or public participation for the experimental concept to be adopted by a mass of people and to open up the widest interactions of human use that it can inspire. In other words the second barrier beyond the deep inquiry of invention is the preneurial challenge.

A3 How did Entrepreneurial Revolution become one of the catchphrases in 20th Century Economics. It was the subject of Norman Macrae's 1976 survey in The Economist. It was used to open up many debates and leadership transparencies. The Economist always had a tradition of staging open debates to make future histories transparent in ways that the great and the good joined in so that everyone could see where views were coming from and going to. This goes back to several accidents.
3a – The founder’s purpose of The Economist was preneurial and systemically revolutionary- in fact he said once corn laws and capital punishment were repealed the paper should be closed!
3b Unlike other globalising commercial media, The Economist had the good fortune to be,never beholden to any single advertising constituency : national, party political, big industry sectors, etc
3c The Economist was located in St James’ a village-size area of London where the greater and the good have business clubs as well as being set examples of good by royalty. Moreover international leaders tended to want to join in The Economist weekly lunches where an opinion leading person’s views were debated off the record.
Putting this together Entrepreneurial Revolution bridges more open inquiries than any term we know of connecting economics and societal development and innovation for humanity and a better world. More collaboratively we should say that whatever construct you use to bridge such inquiries would be fascinating to explore with Entrepreneurial Revolution to see how practical cases of each genre can learn from each other

A4 How many Preneurial Revolutions are Future Historians fascinated by.
Within 6 years of the publication of Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist, it became clear that the service economy was spinning a whole area of taking back – ie where great companies permitted those who served to take charge of managing their service lifetimes Intrapreneurially -as economics compounded: all of the West's greatest corporate investments over the last quarter of a century changed over to intrapreneurial governance.

By 1984, ER’s future history scriptwriter was extending preneurial vision to even great paradigm shifts of multiplying value through co-workers learning networks and going both global and local by linking together 2 million global villages to sustain productive and demanding capacities of each. This would map a wholly different preneurial world to start up the 21st C than being governed by all the trappings of competitive nations alone. At the weblog of Entrepreneurial Revolution, we catalogue 5 main types of preneurial revolutions emerging for ER debates and practice networks over the last 30 years

B What is Economics?
Economics provides maps of what future exchanges of productive & demanding transactions and relationships are compounding around what contexts, and how interactions between contextual systems causes new spirals of sustainability or destruction. To many mathematicians, the most vital picture from any economic study calibrates what future exponential is uptilting or downtilting around the system being modelled. Call this the economics school of exponentials if you want to verify whether protagonists in an economics debate do or do not agree this perspectives connects all more specialised studies of economics.

We can either live in a world where few people if anyone understand these maps because they are not openly being updated and those who do see them over time become self-interested in parts that keep them in power not the whole map. Or we must simplify economics until everyone has access to a co-mentor who can help them make their deepest communities’ healthy exponential case.

B1 What is the Peoples Economics?
The peoples economics begins by recognising that there is no such thing as one correct economics. Every economic decision, intervenes to change various interfacing systems. The biggest risk humanity faces from economics is that it gets taken over by fewer and fewer powerful elites who restrict research and decision-making in economics to their big vested interests getting bigger. The peoples economics aims to be an antidote to this. To stat with by clarifying every diversity of interest around the world which it makes communal sense to want to sustain and value multiply. One way to do this is to go and discover people who have spent all their lives in deeply human contexts and write up the scripts of how they sustain better for people relationships around them or breakthrough with innovations in the sense that holistic entrepreneurial studies focuses on.

B2 What systemic tools of the people’s economics are emerging?
MicroFinance. Open Space & Deep Demio9cracy facilitation of transparency and conflict resolution. Use of internets to jam diverse views of one global challenge into a web for latest iterative searching. Social hubs. Future History scripts taken into debates which may range for small cafes that start up teams which experiment on a franchise later to be open sourced to global village meetings that connect real and virtual practices of action learning networks

C What are global villages?
One of the originators of this language was Schumacher who believed a global world would only be sustainable if it transparently networked 2 million villages including the poorest or most hostile climactic societies (bottom of the pyramid) as a first priority. A village can also be any network of interest that is intentionally always more open sourcing than closed recognising that as we go beyond service economy, networks can lead to humanity’s first era of economics of value multiplying abundance as opposed to an economics of extrernalising (below zero sum where winners compound their gains at the expense of those who are already most disconnected from having access to making the most of their lives).

C1 What is today’s globalization crisis from the diversity networking context of villages?
All future historians and economists of exponentials known to us over the last 30 years believe that failing to use networks to include the digitally or historically divided will cause globalisation to spin the greatest destruction in humanity’s history. Whereas if the next decade 2005-2015 can develop deep enough worldwide transparency to start including all communities that have previously been compounded as underclasses, then all other preneurial cooperations of better for the world humanity that networks can multiply will start come together –in transparent maps - to sustain the most productive and healthy age ever to sustain 6 billion beings and our globe. We need 30000 projects by 2010 if our 2 million global villages are to be on a sustainablke expeonential and not a terrifying viciously one.

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1994 represented the end of the first quarter in the most vital entrepreneurial revolution of all time - as we first scripted in the death of distance future history book of 1984 - will the network generation 1984-2024 systemises globalisation so all village (diversity nets) and people are sustained or not?

We'll update this very rough picture; see guided tour below if there are links you know you want to click to, or ask us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk any question if you are concerned with sustaining humanity and want our most contextually detailed network map in your area of concern

gameschangers hunt out magical plays that can changes thousands of arenas of humanitarian change for a better all at the same time - the greatest inventions of the decade, a surprising change in system rules (eg introduction of valuation measures so that all our biggest organisations are ked by the most trustworthy people in the world who have zero tolerance with cross-cultural risk manipulators etc), world service public media taking up the Q&A side of children and others with the smallest voices instead of the broadcast commands of those who image over knowing more than any person can contextually do in practice -we'd love to know where you link to gameschangers so we can log their stories and invitations to play up at http://gameschangers.blogspot.com

there's also a lot more on the maths and maps of revolutionary system triangles of innovation and entrepreneurial leadership at valuetrue 1 2


changemakers' projects clustered around deep contexts is alive and well as such webs as the following
changemakers a co-production of ashoka 1 2 social entrepreneurs' number 1 network and the omidyar foundation 1 2 for microfinance
brainjams, clubofcity

if you don't understand why we linked you these priority spaces many years in the making, ask us to guide you through their learning curves and the networks who now co-sponsor them? if you think we need to list another mail us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

if you want to understand some of the ways you can bring a tried and tested changemakers project to a locality near you, we suggest having a browse through the general practices that unite changejams and then ask us questions

In between, it continues to be a purpose of this weblog to report on the family tree of entrepreneurial revolution- its latest hottest networks, their foci and what values and intentions unite all entrepreneurs in the most collaborative network for advancing human good that we can all help develop

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ER megatrends
whne my father helped John Naisbitt edit a UK edition of megatrends - it was still necessary to cut and clip newspapers to search for emerging trends in human interest debates that were exponential rising - these days we can google

here are a selection of Entrepreneurial Revolution bookmarks we have noticed in Google News of ER
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004446.html
extract:The Bright Green Undertow to America's Conservatism Jeremy Faludi
Plausibly Surreal – Scenarios and Anticipations see all posts in this category
"I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations; islands of people with integrity who want to do something" -- Karl-Henrik Robèrt

Conservatism is on the rise in America, and shows no sign of slowing, much less reversing, in the coming decade. This is due mostly to the impressive organizing and activism of the country's political right wing. However, there are larger societal factors at work both in America and around the globe which are slowly changing the political landscape, pushing environmental responsibility and social tolerance--traditionally both liberal values--into more prominent positions over the coming decades. ..The four large-scale trends that are pushing much of the world towards more environmentally responsible and socially tolerant politics are: - increasing urbanism- the new economy- education- immigration

The Global Digital Economy
The "new economy" is not just the internet age; it is the transition of economies from being primarily agriculture, manufacturing, or service-based to being primarily knowledge-work-based. It enables environmental responsibility by replacing matter with intelligence, and it demands social tolerance because it is driven by creativity and critical thinking.
Replacing matter with intelligence is sometimes called dematerialization. Basically it's "working smarter, not harder", so that you can achieve the same ends with much less energy or less resource use than traditional solutions would use. Computers make intelligent analysis cheap, so engineers now more than ever before have the ability to run the numbers on their creations to figure out how much width, or stiffness, or whatnot, is needed, instead of just designing in huge margins of error just to be safe. In addition, computer modeling allows designers to create and manipulate prototypes virtually, without having to build dozens or hundreds of physical prototypes just to work out bugs in the design. These trends push everyone towards better environmental responsibility no matter where they fall on the political spectrum, because they make it a matter of saving money. Before computer-aided design and analysis, you could easily spend more money trying to design a smaller/lighter/efficient part than you would save in reduced material cost or energy use. Now we're starting to see that change, and as virtual modeling technology improves, smart design will get cheaper and cheaper, thus leaving cost more aligned with resource use. Finally, there is some excitement about the possibility of smart objects facilitating their own recycling, reuse, or repair, rather than just going to a landfill like products today.
Ten years have passed since the beginning of the "new economy" boom, but it takes time for an industry to grow to prominence, and it takes time for wealth to transform into social change. Even so, the most old-school investors can see the writing on the wall: last year, Google's stock was worth more than Ford Motor Company and GM's combined.

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Peoples Media Entrepreneurs

After co-authoring this 1984 script on the challenges for peoples broadcast media if we are to succeed in cross-culturally living with each other by transforming any system that compounds poverty or externalises risk onto those with least knowledge and whom are in a most conflicted place or most cut off space...

...I went on to : my first of 3 co-authored books on media revolutions that professional would need to practice: 1991's World Class Brands . This set the stage for 7 aspects of media everyone would deed to renegotiate if the world's biggest brand were to compound goodiwll instead of badwill

Most entrepreneurial revolutions seem to begin with a triangle whose pairs of coordinates dare each other to turnround a system - this is probably what we will need if peoples media are to win-win-win out as the generation 1984-2024 is challenged by the web as the biggest communications revolution in history

Like every experiment bwith te truth that Gandhi launched, this framework posits that we start at the apex of the smallest voice that has a human right to question what will tyhe future consequences of this be in the future- find a voice that represent milions of seeds across global vilages; at apex 2 find a public media that will adopt this voice's transparent questioning and interview the leaders of the 1000 biggest organisations that are in some way potentialy confliocted with this voice's future sustainability making it clear that this journalistic investigation is not going to end until anyone in the world can see a transparent map of answers that respond wholly to the small voices concern (in other words, leaders who do not reply transparently will find their company and their own reputation devalued down to zero if needs be)

Let's starts this game. Do you have a small voice who future compound consequences need protecting. The BBC is the world's laregst public braodcaster - is your issue one that the people of Britain should compel the BBC to start investigating if it wants any more licence monies. Please note this is a democratic issue of the people requring that the media they have invested 50 billions pounds in over my lifetime start standing up for world issues like why poverty is being systemised in many contextual ways. It is absolutely not any governments job to censor what the people ask the BBC to start journalistically incvestigating. If you don't live in Britain, does your place have a media that your public can demand adopts a tgransparency invetsigatio issue?

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Although the first section of The Economist's April 2006 survey on New Media was brilliant, we do not agree with any of the subsequent descriptions of most vital uses of web tools- we will try to redefine these at valueofweb - as well as publish the correpsondence sequence we are undertaking with The Economist on this matter in due course - if you have urgent questions emil wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

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