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Thursday, January 18, 2001

malaria dialogues - all time

Mail march 7: also tanzania meeting bookmark http://www.ted.com/tedglobal2007/

March 8 : we want to make travel guides to grassroots scaleable up projects as popular as guides to hotels/ restaurants

the idea is to do an annual of 200 examples people have collaboratively voted for; to open source this so any network or interest group can mix and match their focused favourites with some worldwide examples; hopefully all the different hubs, open spaces and intercity forums where youthful cross-cultural citizens share ideas on what wishes could come true start collaborating (or at least doing zero-cost global marketing of ideas that it is vital to spread)

I welcome help with this idea - either by picking some of your favourites or finding ways someone's project urgently matches some news

We also aim to do stuff like publish a league table of 10 best for the world meetings and keep world citizens' web votes on this going? Is New York's clintonglobalinitiative in top 10? is ted.com? is http://www.microcreditsummit.org/? how does each global village meeting work? which could have micro replications , how could they all collaborate with each other to be more than their separate streams etc.

A basic law of transparency mapping is that transparent projects multiply each other's power, just as corrupt ones do through their own kind of perverted communications channels. Between 2005-2015 we are in a terminal battle between goodwill and badwill networks; which will win the value multiplying game and define the outcome of globalisation as sustaining or not? I launched this debate 2004 in Delhi with the help of Paul Komesaroff at http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/ - the number 1 doctor I know of to care about grassroots up knowledge flows and deep community building.
hopefully one day the Brilliants and Komesaroffs will rule the world, or at least have half of the media share of voice--- there can be no holistic transparency if the majority of media does not stand up for transparency. That was I (and my grandfather who helped imprison Gandhi as a British Raj judge) believe the number 1 rule that Gandhi asked the world to cross-cultivate

march 9:
Peter, and friends - I am launching http://africanidol.tv/ - it will be up about 2 hours after posting this mail, or now at http://africanidol.tv.futuresite.register.com/

I believe that last night's american idol announcement can be a chance of changing mass media for ever if we openly collaborate in surfing the wave that America's 32 million audience tv show is giving a start to. Any way the MediaCrisis Sustainability game has changed for ever, for better or for worse ..up to us...

AfricanIdol intends to start with 3 columns - searching for travel guides to heroes , stories and networks

I would like to give malaria top billing as a story for a while.I need to learn my way around. From what you have told me this week; it must be the jewel in the ignorance of global civilisation's media that we haven't yet beaten the mosquito. If you have time to suggest how to tell the story in a simpler way that my amateur version, and to name eg 5 bookmarks that I will program in alongside the story ABCDE - please do (I should explain that I plant .tv webs and can keep editing them until they get better - more advanced ones include http://up200.tv/ http://top10s.tv/ and http://worldcitizen.tv/ - for some reason they are not mac compatible )

One problem or advantage is that AmericanIdol already believes it is covering the malaria story through prime links to http://www.nothingbutnets.net/ http://www.malarianomore.org/ As someone who amateurly helps co-create expert maps, I will need to know whether you partner these movements, see them as noise, or need to find a way to collaborate with them. (I am hoping that transparency's map of malaria will be relatively simple compared with trying to empower climate solutions - a crisis compass my London network friends has decided we will need to get a million citizens co-searching around this year!)

"Peter Burgess"
CC:
wdrayton@ashoka.org, "sghosh@ashoka.org" , "thissdavis@aol.com" , "shamis_hussein@hotmail.com"
Peter

- Have you tried to explain how your network could help empower the end of Malaria to Fazle Abed's network at http://www.brac.net/ - its also the world's largest non-NGO as fazle calls it- even though (or perhaps because) it was born in Dakar http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4236717007293778404&q=%2B%22ashoka%22+-ritual

I don't know if Fazle is coming to New York this year for the Clinton Global Initiative. I have copied people at ashoka who both link the changemakers competition you asked me about and collaborate with Fazle and the other 4 social entrepreneur nets to have scaled worldwide acccording to skoll's dvds .They can probably tell us if they know he is in New York again. I have also copied Shamis whose dedicated energy to Somalia (her country) is unlikely to be matched by any of us.

It was BRAC that primarily helped UNICEF to licence Oral Rehydration in the 1980s-1990s - a solution BRAC had given to the world and which David Bornstein's social entrepreneur bible suggests made UNICEF entrepreneurial while James Grant led it (but not so much before or since).

Having had a bucketful of London's largest NGO's with make Poverty History in 2005, I think NW NGOs are mostly a waste of space. Doubtless there are some that are not wasteful but if empowerment systems basically map the opposite way round from global hierarchy ones - why would we at the tipping point expect that the transformation to empowerment is going to come from the chief hierarchicals?

More over Fazle has got partners together to tune of 0.25 billion dollars announced New York last year to bring BRAC to 6 African muslim countries including Tasmania which we have talked about, but not yet Somalia presumably because of the troubles there. Since BRAC is privatization of life threatening child services and primary education which need to be served within each community not over its heads, it would be the other side of madness if BRAC did not want to collaborate with you in ending African child malaria wherever it goes - unless I am missing something

One other idea : we have critical mass in tests around London which I would like to launch in New York this Spring. We call it collaboration cafe and we focus one cafe per crisis issue. We ask eg anyone who represents a serious "fight malaria network" in new york to come for an hour and listen to you guide them round the grassroots map the way you see it and then they can add on connections to your map in true collaboration spirit. It sounds to me as if we could find a quota of organisations in New York who could not afford to turn down a free invitation to one hour on such a vital matter- especially with American Idol targeting end malaria as its America's number 1 mass media action initiative for Africa

check?
chris macrae http://worldcitizen.tv/ http://brac.tv/ http://grameen.tv/

Clinton Global Sept 2006 announcement:
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
Based on its highly effective health improvement and poverty eradication interventions in Bangladesh and Afghanistan, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) will put $250 million toward programs in Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and Nigeria. These programs will target increasing access to medical care and malaria prevention, expanding primary education programs, sustainable and equitable agricultural activities and microfinance programs

March 10

Peter

I note that Clinton's ted.com WISH has just been published. Its about colaborating around Rwanda. Might be worth trynig to contact his initiative's office as its located in new York

TEDPrizeWishes
CLINTON CLITON'S WISH: I wish you to help create a better future for Rwanda by assisting my foundation, in partnership with the Rwandan Government, to build a sustainable, high quality rural health system for the whole country.
Plan of Execution:
· Support the Clinton Foundation and Paul Farmer's Partners in Health organization who are both already on the ground in Rwanda
· Take the lessons learned from the early successes of Partners in Health work and roll it out into a nationwide program.
· Provide free primary health care access and education for the poor, including AIDS prevention and treatment
· Create community partnerships with the goal of caring for patients and alleviating the root causes of disease in their communities.
· Work alongside the Rwandan Government with the goal of passing over full management of the system within five years.
· Involve the TED community by organizing a special trip to Rwanda ahead of TED Global for those serious about getting involved.
We Are Looking For:
· Philanthropists and corporations willing to consider major involvement, including the Rwandan trip.
· Funding. The plan may cost $4m/year for the next five years.
· Transport solutions: 4x4s, motorcycles, bicycles
· Site needs: Generators, Solar Panels and Rainwater collection systems
· Communications: Satellites, cell phones, videoconferencing setup
· Medical equipment: Lab and operating room equipment, Anesthesia machines, Centrifuges, Ultrasounds, scales, etc.
· Hospital equipment: beds, exam tables, cribs, wheelchairs, linens, industrial food prep equipment and laundry machines, mosquito nets
· IT equipment: desktops, printers, laptops, networking hardware, touch screens, projectors
· Services: Satellite internet, cell phone, x-ray, journal subscriptions, recruiting support, financial management system
· Commodities/ consumables: Food, fuel, medication, infant formula, medical and surgical consumables
Questions we're still asking:
· What is the most effective way of doing this as a major collaborative exercise involving multiple TED companies and individuals?
· How do we make sure we avoid the mistakes of past assistance projects?
March 11 Regarding your clinton contact - I dont know. I think its worth a phone call trying 2 gambits on them - 1) Clinton's wish does ask for expert help, and your network know grassroots africa if they need help on malaria in Rwanda; 2) while Clinton's big meet is in September his web site says something about a semi-annual meet in April ; it might just be this is the planners non-news get-together

I have no contact with Clinton apart from being on their generic mailing lists. However I am preparing a letter for his office . I am writing a book on the 200 collaboration entrepreneur guides the world should most trust in 2008. And while at least a third of those will be chosen by ordinary people, I am asking the big name networks to choose the others. I want to send this to Clinton and to my dad's friend Mary Robinson http://www.eginitiative.org/ - my number 1 new york heroine

I guess my strategy with the likes of Clinton's network is to just say I am always here (24 years actually http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html ) exploring: asking the ordinary person's practical connections questions ...
Another angle, we could convene one hour collaboration cafes in New York asking how do passionately concerned citizens actually connect with eg Clinton GI or with ted-global. Do they have a monthly surgery where New Yorkers can be triaged in case they have a collaboration idea? Oddly its the same question in DC but with ashoka.org - how do passionate people across DC collaborate with the city's number 1 hub for world good leveraging their knowhow not just donating money.

Within 12 months I expect citizens out of London such as Tav and Sofia will have struck back with the idea of a confederation of city to city hubs. On climate 12 months is all citizens have left if they expect to keep the market debate open on how 1% of national economies is reinvested in sustainability. http://passports.jp/

Surfing tipping points is something I have only ever seen 2 global brand leaders accomplish in 25 years of modelling studies of communications halo effects. They are so nearly always led astray from their founding action learning purpose by their ad agents or their accountants- the 2 professions least capable of facilitating change it is possible to imagine. One because their maths measures history not the future; the other because with tv's 20 second war of attention on your mind they have come to believe that truth is the last job an ad spot needs to care about. I have worked at or with almost all the largest ad agencies in the west - they are scary if you share the hi-trust entrepreneurial system view that communal truth is where sustainability openly begins and openly ends each cycle along the compound exponentials of lifetime integrity

Hubs are where citizens permanently raise questions about projects that could be done. Imagine the potential project being a tour you could go and look at; why should the future's humanitarian projects be as exciting to tour as historic site. As a network once formed hubs will be more relevant for worldwide circulation of knowhow than any singular social-good organisation or media platform because their aim is to collaborate with all who cares most out of each city. They know how to host open space meetings and link all citizen networks that have ever branched through the city. They do not separately box separate relationship building academics and practitioners, students from workers, one race or place's origin against another in ways that many NGOs and philanthropists do. Hubs love flow like nature, and the way transparency's great Scottish economists defined freedom of speeches and entrepreneurial truth markets to do. http://top10s.tv/_wsn/page3.html

If putting on one or more conversations of that sort made sense, I would be happy to host them in New York some time in the next few weeks. The organisation http://www.idealist.org/ also NY based has started a parallel conversation

I am also trying to connect with American Idol's coverage of Africa. If you feel like telling me what content to put on one page dedicated to malaria Africa please tell me - my space is http://africanidol.tv/ I am also preparing a parallel blog which is without then of African http://africaidol.blogspot.com/ The story of how Bush trashed Blair on Africa is priceless http://africaidol.blogspot.com/2007/03/march-11-american-africal-ido-news.html

Our world citizen mapmaking networks' value, such as it is, is like a stalking horse. Not having any Africa or Charity status of my own, I can just try and ask cheeky questions, and map how answers connect. Of course how to do that most re-constructively with American supersize egos is a guessing game? But as a global branding experienced person, I feel strongly that in the next 5 week's run up to American Idol giving back to Africa, its best I try and explore any way of seeding a media reality revolution I can

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good clue, bad clue -????

Fungi shows promise against malaria parasite
Posted to: Epidemic of Health by Lenore Cowen (789), Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:49:15 PSTFeedback score: 0 +- (net 0 from me)Comments: 0 by 0 membersViewed: 21 times by 4 members
The following BBC news article seems really interesting. I am especially impressed that they think that growing the fungi in question could become a "cottage industry" that localities can do for themselves, and might even replace mosquito bednets! Evidently, mosquitos once infected by the fungi immediately lose their taste for blood, stop being able to bring the parasite to maturity, and have hugely shortened lifespans. The statistic they report is that just 20% coverage of surface area where the mosquitos rest by fungus-covered sheets produced 76% drop in Malaria transmission rates.
See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4437634.stm

March12
I am starting an experiment where I list the grassroots most collaborative 5's in every African country and ask people to add their nominations- can you give me some names so that I can make sure that Malaria is represented at the grassroots. I hope to send the table off to the producers of American Idol and publish it. It probably won't reach its target this time round but I will keep working at it

For example I think you cited a Bishop in Tanzania

cheers
chris
March 13
Subject:
Re: Liberia Enterprise Development Fund
To:
"Peter Burgess" , "Hans R Herren"
CC:
"Bob Novak" , "Dave Malone" , "Paul Driessen" , "Bill Nesler" , "Jim Munro" , "Cyril Boynes Jr." , "christopher macrae"
I am just talking off the top of my head but I wouldn't overlook the connectivity for good that teachers in rural or grassroots communities can be. I am talking about the kind of teacher whose life mission is embedded in serving the community but also needs to work whatever mode exists for networking curricula - is it print, radio, or telecentre (ie computerised).

Have you explored this line of interlocal mapping?

cheers
chris macrae http://africanidol.tv/

PS Incidentally sitting in Washington DC, and noting in advance how 2007 is emerging as an extraordinary year for the world coming to Africa for meetings where grassroots people are the heroes; I have been trying to ask virtual networks whether they have had any local connectors at meetings such as Kenya's 50000 people World Social Forum who are also openly relaying feedback needs through the net. Probably the best star of this kind I have got connected with so far is a Kenyan teacher. I don't know whether his interests directly blend with yours but if you wanted me to replay this mail with a cc introduction to him and some of you so you can dialogue, please say

was talking today with an Irish lady, Clare Mulvany, who has just done a year long round the world tour of developing places including several major African places. Like you she is confident that mobile technology is now where to go for -we were talk more about basic education than your area but I assume the analogy is there. She also told me that Branson asked Mandela for a list of the future Africans he Mandela was most inpsired by and hosted a meeting for them on his island. Taddy Blecher of CIDA was there. I guess I may as well start an omidyar thread - if skoll was to sponsor one dvd in 007 who would you most like it to be of http://www.omidyar.net/group/community-general/news/1754/

I don't think I have mentioned yet that the person I trust most of all though I don't have a direct relationship with her (though my father attended various meetings with her) is Ireland's Mary Robinson. Via http://eginitiative.org/ She has changed New York thinking on transparency and development projects towards grassroots and women's views hugely. I assume she will be closely allied with Clinton's wish but may be more accesible than his office http://www.ted.com/tedprize/2007/clinton.cfm Mary Robinson links a network of women's leaders. I find this report of theirs on grassroots health as intelligible as I a layman am likely to get to
http://www.realizingrights.org/pdf/Wye_River_Report.pdf

I have twice undergone large project work with the European Union including once whilst at Coopers & Lybrand. My impression was that every nation apart from Ireland got ripped off by the EU in compounding ways. It could be that also means the Irish are now best able to lead the team out to bat for Africa Empowerment against the EUaid. Just a wicked thought in case anyone wants to explore it a few loops.

all the best
chris macrae 301 881 1655


One other game I need to work on is http://oxbridge.tv/.. I used to love Oxford Union debates where opposite sides could debate fearlessly. The last one I attended was my dad debating Michael Foot on how much we need to downsize top-down gov. http://oxbridge.tv/_wsn/page3.html

It's a pity there isnt a web site where Ox Union debates can be staged. Right now I would like to propose the motion that the Unicef bertherenis the last org in the world that American Idol should be giving most of its money to. Idol Gives Back: "In Africa, the money will be focused on delivering health and education programs and will be distributed via CPEF to a number of organizations including: U.S. Fund for UNICEF, The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Save the Children, NothingButNets.net and Malaria No More.

March 14
As a reformed global branding expert interested in media transparency, I buy CK's "sandbox" idea that many global organisations could simplify branding they use for rich citizens to offer a basic service to rurals at one fiftieth of the cost (no loss of quality other than meaningless image-laden excess of choices and a society-wide commitment to a trust contract that like Microcredit says neither side will use lawyers in trying our best as service providers and communal customers). I assume its not particularly surprising to us that many of the earliest 50 times better value cases identified by Bottom of Pyramid Alumni turn out to be in health areas. (Of course if organisationally a global branded corporate finds it hard to have one department charging wealthy citizens 50 times more than the marginal cost to you of also serving the poor, you can always make a start by doing a partnership with Grameen -though if the missing audit of goodwill was required to save the world from Delaware corporate lawyers, truth would immediately be valuable as well as convenient )

If you need more references to CK's sandbox or BOP ideas than appear at http://worldeconomist.net/, please say. In so doing they could find Unseen Wealth's last exit of reforming their globalisation systems wherever these are currently measured to compound of externalities - profiting from putting the weakest or most ignorant at risk of what their industry sector specialises in knowing most about)

(Basically while truth media experts now know that over 50% of the cost of everything in global markets is liable to be wasted on media and channels, the idea that media*law already wastes 98% of everything on life critical markets shows how near the end of sustainability loss of empowerment & truth systems of entrepreneurship have reached)
To:
"Peter Burgess"
CC:
sofia@learninghouse.biz, claremulvany@gmail.com
Peter

what's your protocol with your email conversations?

for example , if there are spaces like http://www.omidyar.net/ which need a malaria debate- should I cut and paste relevant sequences of the conversation (taking out names) but being a pobox in case any empowering intelligence trties to connect

or...?

cheers
chris

ps sofia or peter or clare - I can't recall- do parts of S Africa get malaria; in which case it would be relevant to offer Taddy Blecher (CIDA) to nominate a student who could make a case out of empowering the end of malaria- since it my understanding his students study real cases to take them back to the societies that need to solve them
March 15
America Mass Media's Truth Tipping Point - urgent consequences for empowerment economics travel guides

To:
"william.m.gordon@gmail.com" , "Peter Burgess" , "Nick Hart-Williams" , callum@outsidertv.co.uk
CC:
claremulvany@gmail.com, sofia@learninghouse.biz, phelim@mac.com, "tav@espians.com" , solaroof@yahoo.com, asmitchell@aol.com, "Ian Ryder" , jbunzl@simpol.org, "hhowen@verizon.net" , lindsay.levin@leadersquest.org, m.benomran@btopenworld.com, anette.rosencreutz@brandflight.com
Hi Folks

Welcome to a Transatlantic communications crisis without precedence.
Bono Wish http://www.ted.com/tedprize/2004/bono.cfm
Clinton Wish http://www.ted.com/tedprize/2007/clinton.cfm
Brilliant Wish http://www.ted.com/tedprize/2006/larry.cfm
Travel Guide Tour ref # 303 Mandela-Rhodes to Wish; http://myidol.americanidol.com/blogs/africanidoltv

I am attaching a letter I have just posted to Bill Drayton at http://www.ashoka.org/ as part of a year long 2-way correspondence our entrepreneurial revolution networks have been teasing each other with

A question it asks which may be relevant to all of us Brits and expat Brits and Irish and Scots is : how in heck do we get in touch with one of the 4 British leaders of the American Idol Revolution? The good part of this revolution is that a simultaneous 32 million audience of young America will see a live show in which African children are the stars (let alone a wider replay audience around the world)
http://myidol.americanidol.com/blogs/africanidoltv

http://www.americanidol.com/idolgivesback/

http://africanidol.tv/

the bad news is that 4 British producers and anchor men are, due to absence of knowhow, at risk of giving all the attention and money collected to the same top down global NGOs (UNICEF, save the children) that haven't changed Africa much in the last 30 years, just at that tipping point when we can transparently map empowerment up networks who could do order of magnitude better for africa and with the world

For an empowering example Peter http://www.tr-ac-net.org/ , a former Coopers & Lybrand colleague, knows the empowerment up experts who want to Make Mosquito History. None of the practice solutions needed to rid a place of mosquitos are new. What is new is that African telecentres just about have the scale to connect the truth practices. What's at stake? I keep forgetting whether a child dies of mosquito every 30 seconds or 30 minutes, but whichever it is that's a holocaust type speed - for which everyone online must take some responsibility. Tell me my truth is not yours. How do we develop a guided tour round yours?

Having been in London in 2005 as http://www.simpol.org/ delegate to the Make Poverty History meta-network dominated by NGOs, the very last thing I want to see is another rerun of mass "rock and soul" for Africa being channelled through all the usual suspects

The four Brits, one of whose social networks needs connecting through in under a month are:
Simon Cowell
Simon Fuller
Bono
Richard Curtis (closely connected with Red Nose day who also have great intent but don’t get to the empowerment end of change)

While Brits may get another chance to take back the BBC -showing how public mass mdia can investigate sustainabilty's compound futures in ways that commercial media will never lead http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html - 24 years into debating the purpose of www, I doubt Americans will get another tipping point for changing mass media truth.

If you know anyone who might linkin through to any of the 4 above, please say. In parallel, you will see I am trying to get Bill Drayton to drop the penny on all the Californians philanthropists he has access to through having been on the same walks to India as Larry Brilliant (ceo of google.org) when they were youth, and where his world championships staged in 2 weeks time in Oxford is bankrolled by Skoll of Inconvenient Double Oscar Truth fame http://oxbridge.tv/ http://universityofstars.tv/

If these media guided tours don't interest you, the letter head shows some others collaboration city networks and hubs around the hemispheres are preparing. We have permission to make a tour around any 25 of ashoka's 2000 social entrepreneurs and the world's most amazing school in India is helping us choose 25 learning revolutionaries; its senior alumni have done their own long tours of World Bank, Oxbridge economics departments and other places where tipping point revolutions are occasionally being seeded

cheers
chris macrae us tel 301 881 1655 http://worldcitizen.tv/
March 16
Peter

Of the large virtual communities, I am wondering which might be best to have a try at a malaria debate. I think one candidate might be takingitglobal.org

You can get a rough view of where communal understanding (or not) is coming from http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=malaria+OR+mosquito+site%3Atakingitglobal.org+-petlove&btnG=Search

cheers
chris
great stuff; laterally I wonder if we should try and plant a malaria telecentre in Nobel Kenyan Wangari Maathai's centre of intelligence for Sustainability Africa

The Green Belt Movement About Wangari Maathai
About Wangari Maathai at The official site of the Green Belt Movement and its founder, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai.greenbeltmovement.org/w.php?id=3 - 16k - Cached - Similar pages


another possibility is to contact biologist wishmaker

http://www.ted.com/tedprize/2007/wilson.cfm
Peter : due to transparency mapping interests, I have had rather a long history of following corporate responsibility groups -most of them have gone nowhere in the last 15 years though they are now being challenged to raise their game to a more intergated system level - one reason I can say this is that I guess edited a journal on Total Corporate Brand Responsibility about 4 year ago

-the main finding , whilst accounted for and legislated as usa: tops of big corporations deny that they can care about compound responsibility because this puts them at so-called competitive disadvantage - in effect the global market sector not the individual corporation is where we have to map responsibility; there are only 2 CEOs in USA and Euope who dare to call the lie in this valuation nonsense - Ray Anderson USA , Sir John Banham UK

most CEOs who want to preserve some each way credentials are jumping ship from the language of responsibility to sustainability (investment); at the same time some of the players are belatedly having another look at corporate brand responsibility where the humanitarian leverage the org could competently have also this happens to match a particular chairman's passion or reputation

I have been trying to keep track at a name by name basis of which of these corporate boardroom names turn up across several meeting fomats including gutsy ones like Clinton Global Initiative and or are starting new benchmaking clusters on their own initiatives; if we are to sustain the world, we will need the mother of all Baldrige benchmarking's part 2 - perversely about my last official job at Coopers & Lybrand was to write an article on what future benchmarking would need to be that tangible Baldrige was not for Robert Heller's annual yearbook of about 1994! (now very out of date but at least it caused our transaperncy communities at http://www.valuetrue.com/ (my 3rd oldest web site) to have a wicked laugh when Bush went to the Baldrige Prize giving speech of 2003 and delivered a speech on how he would lead USA in ushering in an era of responsibility!)

As a general meeting I expect this one to be a huge waste of time to be a delegate in

In terms of continuing the research of who's Truth who, its always interesting to see whom turns up at which meeting format; I meant to keep better record sof that than I have been doing at eg http://sustainabilityclub.com/_wsn/page3.html

Of the names featured Moura below -or more accurately his Chilean founder (see detailed links at sustainabilityclub bookmark) is truly interesting as far as my limited data knows

There is also the fact that before he left the UN, Kofi Annan added a 10th principle to the global compact that corporations had been signing on the advisc of Transparency Intl's Eigen. Previously the 9 principles had not had a systemic structure so anyone could claim that there organsiation was complying. The 10th principle changes that. Amusingly most CEOs do not know that their companies are now in default of the global compact they are pledged to commit to.

chris
Peter, anyone - can you help teratively edit these Questions and Answers revolving round Making Mosquito History? Questions of a kind that are simple enough for any network or virtual community which cares to collaborate can start searching answers. Given that malaria is one of two Africa Charities that American Idol will be bringing to the attention of 32 million Americans next month, imagine if their web could link to one set of questions for worldwide searching

Of course, there are levels of expert system blueprinting above the simplest question set but that's a different sphere from what the brand conversation of Make Mosquito History needs to wave round so that humanity is fully malaria conscious

And if we can find an appropriate first set of questions to unite cross-cultural participation in the Malaria challenge, how about maps for collaboration around other life-critical knowhow truth? The 21st C can be navigated way above zero-sum economics and the compound risks of lost future sustainability that historic paradigm chains us to.

March17
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mendenyo/

Peter - at some stage that is mutually convenient may be worth trying both of us joining in a yahhogroup like this one- this is just a thinking aloud mail in case topic is relevant

at group above, they keep on talking about setting up a configuration of
*local space
*computers which they say are being donated in buckets full
*people able to run the computers and telecoms
*people exchanging content on community's most vital development challenges

samuel who runs the group is actually a teacher in Kenya; some of the others are undergraduates at college not necessarily anywhere near samule

what I don't really understand is what's stopping sustainable centres of this kind coming together; do they truly have a space that will be open 24/7 and not get ransacked or taken over for comkmercial instead of socila

do they know what a minimum staffing team is needed and have the volunteers

what are the financing gaps? what are the other potential holes that I cant imagine never having visted the places eg Kenya and Uganda being two they are talking about?

is the whole that needs to be visualised something you already know from other cases?

It could be they know the answers or it could be that nobody has helped them see the whole as a franchise

Peter when I think you mentioned that african being communal need community microfinance, it seems that the emerging telecentre franchise may be one of the first wide scale needs to be franchise mapped and community microfinanced - is that how you see it?
example of 2 of the mails sent by this group in last 24 hours

Am new to this topic
Posted by: "Fred Obala" http://uk.f273.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=obalafred@yahoo.co.uk&Subj=%20Re%3AAm%20new%20to%20this%20topicobalafred
Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:50 pm (PST)
Hi there am Fred, male 24: from Northern Uganda leading a community based project on IT centre a source of income and training war affected youth here:I would love to know from you what is going on interesting here so that we ca share and build some constructive for the poor who cant afford online interaction.we have got a donation of 19 compunters from holland they are on there way but now we need experts and resources to set it runing please we would wel-come your opinion on this community project.i will post you the website if you like it.http://uk.f273.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=acokeral%40yahoo.com Fred Obala


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As the regional team is going strong!!!
Posted by: "samuel kongere"
Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:08 am (PST)
Hello!Pleasure to see the teams in this region going on stronger and stronger. I dearly appreciate the floated ideas, ideologies from our global members. I think Ms lab is heading to another wider scope of reaching more individuals, as Andrius, had to get a very broader vision for our businesses and even opportunities. Independent persons are entitled to do much better when open minded. The in stints we received from the global Villages headed by Franz, is great and it is what always makes me stronger.I need those in Africa to focus on the said opportunities and join the rest in deciding what is the next move; concerning creating small projects and organizing others to contribute in the sharing which is always the course for Ms Lab and it's working groups. I dearly, appreciate the hard work we get from Janet, Andrius, Jeff, Maria, Markuz, Franz,Steve and all, but what is`significant here is what is the overall achievement of our willingness and non-willing as Andrius points n the Universial Language.I was chating with Fred Kayiwa from Kampala and learnt more on him than I had imagined. Fred is a potential man in this region and having those who are motivated by interests like Fred, is n itself encouraging. Fred is eager to work more for connecting us with many in Uganda. I tend to know some people's potentiality, but when it comes to taking risks for development they shy away for personal gains, but if,Fred is here 4 u, then we have to join hands with him and succeed in this region. Our potential is not how much we are accumulating in resources but how much we are doing to change the life of others in greater scope.Fred is now out of college. He is remaining with several terms to finish his course but due to financial contraints,Fred cannot continue. i don't know we n help Fred work for us in the lab by collecting simple community stories to enable him finish his college. He need 144 USD to finish his course. We have to reconsider, we have to take sacrifices to help sometimes. He is about to bring together other people to help him work to collect some food stories. His ideas are great and will posibly go his home distrsict and find means of starting an ICT centre there. fred needs much of my inputs and will reconsider this after my consultations with Charles Loku in Kampala to figure out. Fred you can try meeting Charles Loku at the Uganda Bureau Of Statistics.he is a great member of our Holistic helping. You can on also to invite members to join mendenyo headed by me.
will be meeting Peter at Mayflower Hotel at 7.30, and of course anyone's welcome at that time

but my suggestion is a move over to be in the Starbucks from 9.00-10.30 that is 1 minute from the Prahahad meeting which we will then aim to get in for seats at about1 0.30

Starbucks
22nd & K Street 2175 K Street, NW Washington, Washington DC 20009 202-293-2063

Monday, March 19, 2007 Prahalad Meeting at 11:00 a.m. (eg get seats at 10.30)Location: International Finance Corporation Auditorium2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington DC, 20433
Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC
about 70 yards north up the road from Farragut North metro (red line metro)
Liberia

Truth is I know 0 about Liberia

my first port of call : search +brilliant +liberia +malaria I think some of this is generally interesting stuff but perhaps not new to your level

I did accidentally come across a reference that Larry Brilliant is heavily involved with the ted conference in tanzania in July (interesting becasue ted's own web site hides this).As I expect this to be a deep africa net that keeps on collaborating I do so hope someone we know gets there http://www.ted.com/tedglobal2007/
unfortunately the free places to grassroots folk have been filled

one issue may be to phone ted's owner chris anderson who I think is a new yorker and ask how much of a priority will malaria be at ted.com
http://www.ted.com/about/contact/index.cfm

There seems to be a lot of overlap between the ted.com organsiising network and acumen which I believe is also New York based and deeply into Gates financing

Unfortunately I dont know any of this New York crowd
Peter-
Have you explored victoria hale (regarded as the main grassroots up pharma company http://www.oneworldhealth.org/ ) while she specialises in getting out drugs that exist but global pharma say have n o profit becaus ethey are o ly needed by the poorest and least accesible - there must be a synegry with where they need to reach to get product through , and malaria I would assume

http://www.ashoka.org/node/920

malaria onworldhealth search

In fact it appears NBS did a video on her last week, and malaria is one of the 3 areas she is about to target with a drug http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17540025/ see video at this bookmark
came across these details of the constituencies of the 2 malaria charities Americal idol says it is supporting. You may already know all this though eg Rotarians might be a group to try and get at long term because they tend to have grassroots chapters

chris

http://www.cpefund.com/news/
Nothing But NetsNothing But Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. Inspired by Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly, thousands of people have joined the campaign that was created by the United Nations Foundation. Founding campaign partners include the National Basketball Association's NBA Cares, The People of the United Methodist Church and Sports Illustrated. Other partners include VH-1, The Mark J. Gordon Foundation, AOL Black Voices and Rotarians' Action Group on Malaria. It only costs $10 to provide an insecticide-treated bed net that can prevent this deadly disease. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation matches donations dollar for dollar.
Malaria No More Malaria No More's mission is simple: to end deaths due to malaria. The world has known how to beat this disease for more than a century, yet it remains the number-one killer of children under five in sub-Saharan Africa, claiming more than 1 million lives a year. Malaria No More engages individuals, organizations and corporations in the private sector to provide life-saving bed nets and other critical interventions to families in need. Together, these investments will significantly reduce malaria infections and make malaria-related deaths a thing of the past.
Founded in 2006 by leading non-governmental institutions, Malaria No More works in partnership with the President's Malaria Initiative, UNICEF, American Red Cross, The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Millennium Promise, United Way of America, United Nations Foundation, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and others.
… I assume these 2 mega-charities for malaria are in the opposite camp to your diverse empowerment mapping. Did it all go back to Sharon Tait exposing nets at the World Economic Forum? I am wondering about sending a mail over there

Worldwide, club of city supports collaboration and networkers: to pose serious questions, notably on future curves that seem to be trending down in many places and communities. How do all peoples and media 1 2 3 turnround such examples as:
  • Healthcare – ever increasing costs
  • Children – increased family strain, lost safety of community
  • Professionals- loss of Hippocratic oath, ever more bureaucratic
  • Water – Clean water is getting scarcer
  • Transport – getting slower
  • National Government – Increasingly powering over instead of facilitating what people need next Mass media – dumbing down, loss of social space and transparent debates
  • Food chain – cost of good for you food going up
  • Nations Cultures- love of each other’s diversity going down
  • Pensions (investment in sustainable growth) – going down
  • Adult confidence in making a difference with lifelong learning potentials – seems to be going down
  • Insurance – cost going up, learnings across biggest tragedies seem increasingly blocked
  • Underclass – compounding underclass- their loss of hope in life and mutual risks to all of us in a hi-connected world
  • NGOs/Charity – Global*Local infrastructure further removed from depth of grassroots needs in crisis or sustainability turnround challenges
    We are interested in any city network that either recognises any of these as a problem which it wants to question or has some answers they are happy to share with the world
    Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, London & DC, 30 years at origin of Entrepreneurial Revolution, 21 years @ Death of Distance transparency networking, valuetrue mapmaking 1