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- What is the name of your company, organization, or school?
- valuetrue.com and http://futurecapitalism.ning.com/
- What is your job function?
- champion of brands that the world needs to know about
- How did you find out about the Microfinance Network?
- haley
- What is your alma mater?
- cambridge uk
- What is your website?
- http://grameen.tv
- Why are you here?
- At the citizen network forums http://yunusforum.net which dr yunus authorised at time on nobel prize, I help make transatlantic connections between east Coast cities where my faily lives and European cities from which I originate and know how to network culturally to find people who want to do real stuff
- What are you currently working on?
- next: I work with dr yunus teams led by Mostofa Zaman on connecting 5000 youth ambassadors and sharing news of which university clubs he likes best. Youth delevered their report on initial ideas for this at Dr Yunus 69th birthday dialogue in dhaka june 09- can we make 09/10 yes we can year across campuses and worldwide whetrever young people want to connect sustanability projects. Our previous dilaogue events include 10000 free dvds on the best news youtube type videos have ever networked http://yunus10000.com and linki ng 1000 readers arounnd his social business and future capitalism system mapping book on ending poverty.
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Micro financial discussion of America’s future
I urge students to join in this discussion. For 33 years my idea of free markets –and media truth - is to get consumers, societies and employees to question what opportunities and risks are compounding in particular markets – eg healthcare, energy, autos, advertising media, education, housing, banking .... Then 2 years ago I started to learn from Dr Yunus and Bangladeshi friends how to add on a second debate revolving round… Continue
Posted on October 6, 2009 at 7:30am — 1 Comment
What MFI collective actions could have most impact in 09/10
ask your congressman to vote congressional medal for dr yunus - the congressional medal is the one that gets its recipent the opportunity to talk to cngress -sam daley harris wish 2
find ways to refocus on 2010s as millennium goals and joy of life decade - wish: various (mail me at chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you would like… Continue
Posted on October 3, 2009 at 5:30pm
greatest dc days 2009.2 day hillary met originator of $2 health plans
2009.1 was day yunus met berenanke , IMF and 1000 GWU students http://prosperlending.blogspot.com/2009/02/muhammad-yunus-speaks-at-george.html
Posted on July 25, 2009 at 12:30pm
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I think what we are experiencing is an end of the debt based monetary system. It's an old system going back to the middle ages but it's fundamental feature is that booms and busts are a requirement, not an anomaly. We all tend to like things to resolve themselves quickly but I think we are going to go through a series of crises over the next several years. Whether or not debt based systems are good or not is not really relevant at this point, its just that the leverage that is required to pay the interest has reached such astronomical proportions that the whole thing is collapsing. As this happens there are other models that either do or have existed. North Dakota has its own bank, Western Massachusetts has its own currency, there was a monetary system in Europe 50 years ago in which money lost its value if it was not circulated and of course, there is microfinance. I don't know if you have had a chance to see the webcast I did earlier this month for BetterManagement but the link is on my homepage - www.sorms.com.
hoping to be in Europe in the spring. have a wedding in germany in may, so perhaps around then
MicroEconomic Development Group- Microfinance in Zambia
Water Purification Group- Sustainable drinking water in Honduras
Bio-diesel Group- Making fuel from crops in the Congo
Solar Power Group- solar technology for Burkina Faso
Education Group- Math education for Burkina Faso
etc. More can be found at www.thecollaboratoryonline.org
I have not heard anything about a $1 shoe but I will ask around. thanks for all your contribution to the site. It's is making a world of difference.
I have a number of things going on. I'm active in the Open Government scene here in the U.S., and I'm working with Tav and those folks on a project called OpenKollab.com that is bringing some urgency and concreteness to the grand Espian vision. I want to keep a connection to MF circles, so that I can eventually deliver something useful. At the moment, I can't contribute much directly.
MC
Thanks for the note. As for Microfinance Primary Source - the work I'm doing with this blog is on my own, but I hope that I can continue to help promote microfinance and share as much information as I can while on my trip.
Take care,
Peter
You r really doing a marvelous job of connecting people and advancing Microfinance for making poverty history... Hats off to ur efforts and contributions so far.. U still have miles to go and i would like to join the mission with u.. This is Narendran from India, a development mgt graduate with three yrs working exp in Microfinance in India.. Would like to discuss and explore further with u.. U may contcat me at narendran31@gmail.com
cheers
naren
this is slide used at 69th birthday dialogue with dr yunus which took 150 minute and where YAM5000 was one of several projects agreed for action as anyone most connected to yunus tries to help everyone renew yes we can through 09/10 (you may know -eg from chapter of banker for the poor that yes we can was initially dr yunus catchphrase at microcreditsummit 1997 )
to apply ror yam5000 - best is mail mostofa zaman at mostofa12@yahoo.com he is working on this right now with lamiya morshed head of http://yunuscentre.org - what would most excite them is if there is a revolutionary or deep action topic you and some peers want to discuss and do throughout 09/10 of a sort that someone close to yunus can guide you on either his views on his congratulations as you make progress
by all means paste this message in mentioning I said so - invite others to do so as well but this goes back to chpater 11 of book in creating world without poverty where dr yunus most wants Youth ambassadors to team as a small group of people to work together for one year on whatever one focus they choose to try and develop micro up
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