additional resources on grameen bank: yunus the number 1 brand of microfranchise networks - 10 minute audio on how the bank worked during the 4th quarter of the 20th century up until mobile connectivity reached the villages;
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click to understand why The Economist 1984 forecast entrepreneurial development of 30000 microfranchises needed to sustain net generation- help hunt out top 100 leaders of 2010s - youth's most productive decade http://wholeplanet.tv
000 *Bangla Microbanks- Grameen and BRAC - the pro-youth economics significance of microbanks can systematically be audited to the extent that they turn value chains bottom-up. Born of the new nation of Bangladesh's extreme poverty in the 1970s, these banks lead the world in the the number of replicable microfranchises they innovate - catalogue of where to help develop this curriculum> Furthermore, since 1996 Bangladesh became the first place to attract partnership in mobile village solutions to all the most vital needs youth and families have to be sustainable
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Pro-Youth Investment banking and sustaining intergenerational community development
of global village networking age
.. Gifting Nationality..
Bangladesh
. Notes .. see BBC 20 minute interview for intro to Grameen bank click for more notes on how Bangldeshi microbanks of Grameen and BRAC became the net genheration's greatest collaborators in search for microfrancises
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. 0 *Grameen Kalyan..
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. Notes .grameen kalyan www.grameenkalyaninfo.org -started from interesting question posed by Grameen Bank when it started to design microinsurance- if -in the then world poorest 100 million person nation (of which a near majority may be children) you have next to zero health service infrastructure in rural Bangladesh what can you offer for $1 per month health insurance per family. .got everyone ever connected with grameen to start asking this question in early 1990s and accelerated this search once mobiles reached villages from 1996 on -more.
.Exponential rising Success Factors (eg million solar installed doubling every 3 years) -depended on getting 1000+ engineers to live in villages -massive logistics challenge only possible once engineers empowered by mobile phones another global village first of grameen with some financial help from Soros and knowledge support from Neville Williams whose own self franchise never quite inspired so many village engineers but was built pre-mobile age - Grameen Energy is the most benchmarked case of the ashden energy Oscars ...more..
2 * Grameen Nearly Free Nursing College..
..Education, health.
..Bangladesh with some help from Scotland..
.14 years of experimenting with village mobiles convinced yunus that 21st C health depends on mobilizing nurses as most tristed grassroots information and service networkers. By establishing a real college, Grameen is also in pole position to edit nursing training on moocyunus- world's number 1 job creating and free online uni.. more
.3 * Aravind ending blindness..
..Health.
..India with some help from worldwide Larry Brilliant..
.For microfranchises to be openly replicable they need to be their own simplest training module of what the service model does and doesn't We don't know of a more complete training specification than aravind's franchise which serves the best franchise for ending unnecessary blindness - very affordable, highly productive service team and network, high quality.. more
.Started as rural Bangaldesh's (only) primary school network, BRAC now offers solutions to benchmark at every grade..Neither BRAC not Grameen would share the honors of world's number 1 pro-youth banking model without the massive rural reach of BRAC schools- youth educations being number 1 investment that 15 million village mothers made thanks to empowered to be income generating -BRAC is the most benchmarked case of the WISE education Oscars - more
..Bkash is not just the benchmark for the cashless banking revolution but may be the only future youth have in countries where politicians have ruined the official currency - the greatest economic error of the 20th century as diarized by the IEA's first 100 Hobarts. Those pioneering primary curricula of financial literacy (ag Aflatoun) also see Bkash as a fantastic future partner .. more
.semi-urban youth's most exciting microbanking model- note unlike what Bangladesh had to build from scratch in 1972, Jamii Bora only started after all operations could be put on mobile phone and has used his community buying power to just-in-time save old knowledge hubs (eg missionary hospitals) from extinction - in 2009 Queen Sofia (of Spain and Greece) announced that up to 60 southern nations needed to understand JB curriculum more urgently than any other - more
9 IHUB and ushahidi...
.Open tech and risk mapping..
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10 ILAB...
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format note - while we update mf100 - we are conscious of need to linkin top 100 MOOCwho. In the 2010s fast changing decade of open education, there are times when it is simpler to map a heroic microentrepreneur to mooc with than all the microfranchises their partners are collaborating around (eg cashless banking or khan academy) opened up
legend: many microfranchises have virtually free training modules built in - asterisk used to denote this in table below (eg grameen's first million members enjoyed a free 5-day 5-person training course in empowering women however illiterate their starting point - Paulo Freire's method being pivotal to this )
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000 *Bangla Microbanks- Grameen and BRAC - the pro-youth economics significance of microbanks is degree to which they turn value chains bottom-up and the number of replicable microfranchises they innovate - catalogue of where to help develop this curriculum
. Sector..
Pro-Youth Investment banking and sustaining intergenerational community development
of global village networking age
.. Gifting Nationality..
Bangladesh
. Notes .. see BBC 20 minute interview for intro to Grameen bank click for more notes on how Bangldeshi microbanks of Grameen and BRAC became the net genheration's greatest collaborators in search for microfrancises
00 MPESA
Mobile/Cashless Banking
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. Notes .grameen kalyan www.grameenkalyaninfo.org -started from interesting question posed by Grameen Bank when it started to design microinsurance- if -in the then world poorest 100 million person nation (of which a near majority may be children) you have next to zero health service infrastructure in rural Bangladesh what can you offer for $1 per month health insurance per family. .got everyone ever connected with grameen to start asking this question in early 1990s and accelerated this search once mobiles reached villages from 1996 on -more.
.Exponential rising Success Factors (eg million solar installed doubling every 3 years) -depended on getting 1000+ engineers to live in villages -massive logistics challenge only possible once engineers empowered by mobile phones another global village first of grameen with some financial help from Soros and knowledge support from Neville Williams whose own self franchise never quite inspired so many village engineers but was built pre-mobile age - Grameen Energy is the most benchmarked case of the ashden energy Oscars ...more..
2 * Grameen Nearly Free Nursing College..
..Education, health.
..Bangladesh with some help from Scotland..
.14 years of experimenting with village mobiles convinced yunus that 21st C health depends on mobilizing nurses as most tristed grassroots information and service networkers. By establishing a real college, Grameen is also in pole position to edit nursing training on moocyunus- world's number 1 job creating and free online uni.. more
.3 * Aravind ending blindness..
..Health.
..India with some help from worldwide Larry Brilliant..
.For microfranchises to be openly replicable they need to be their own simplest training module of what the service model does and doesn't We don't know of a more complete training specification than aravind's franchise which serves the best franchise for ending unnecessary blindness - very affordable, highly productive service team and network, high quality.. more
.Started as rural Bangaldesh's (only) primary school network, BRAC now offers solutions to benchmark at every grade..Neither BRAC not Grameen would share the honors of world's number 1 pro-youth banking model without the massive rural reach of BRAC schools- youth educations being number 1 investment that 15 million village mothers made thanks to empowered to be income generating -BRAC is the most benchmarked case of the WISE education Oscars - more
..Bkash is not just the benchmark for the cashless banking revolution but may be the only future youth have in countries where politicians have ruined the official currency - the greatest economic error of the 20th century as diarized by the IEA's first 100 Hobarts. Those pioneering primary curricula of financial literacy (ag Aflatoun) also see Bkash as a fantastic future partner .. more
.semi-urban youth's most exciting microbanking model- note unlike what Bangladesh had to build from scratch in 1972, Jamii Bora only started after all operations could be put on mobile phone and has used his community buying power to just-in-time save old knowledge hubs (eg missionary hospitals) from extinction - in 2009 Queen Sofia (of Spain and Greece) announced that up to 60 southern nations needed to understand JB curriculum more urgently than any other - more
9 IHUB and ushahidi...
.Open tech and risk mapping..
..Kenya..
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10 ILAB...
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11 Ibrahim foundation and Africa24tv
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12 University of stars models since 9/11 led singforhope...
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..Bangladeshi & Russian Expat living in New York..
.Mashup 3 ideas - a nation such as usa needs to sustain 2 million youth community peacemakers, the valuechain of superstar entertainers is the least free market in the world , budding superstars need highly customized education/mentoring if they want their lifetimes to have any impact beyond celebrity tripping.. more
.Accidentally returned the core of the web to Berners Lee 199 start up- in a free knowledge economy anyone who can compile a 10 minute online presentation may offer the greatest training module millions of youth need to virally interact next.. more
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.we map this university's alumni to have mobilised more microfranchises smartest value multipliers than any 10 pay-for universities you might choose. it helps to have a digital media lab founded by negropronte, to have berners lee in residence, to be where the idea of ending villagers digital divides was conceived, to have become the world leader in student entrepreneur competitions both socially envisioned and business-led, to have been longest into actioning open education-- and the square mile from kendall tube enjoys more future industry's r&d labs than anywhere in the known universe. truly Boston Strong .. more
.Senior pioneer of internet changes education ..ideas celebrated by 10 million Chinese parents, and may be best seen as a living exhibition out of Singapore,,
.16 School in the clouds Sugata Mitra..
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.Could you ever look at western history of schooling systems in the face again once you know of this?..
.17 * The Gandhi Family's School..
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Kept Montessori so relevant to second half of 20th century that 50000 children in Lucknow share the Gandhi's curriculum - will the extraordinary knowhow of CMS.. be fully valued by those designing open education . more
18 Jack Ma- China's Digital Robin Hood
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.Jack Ma once invited Dr Yunus to celebrate the collaboration challenge of who would be next to create 100 million jobs- that's when Ma saw how his leverage over who owns what digital marketspace in china could help empower that - goodness what will happen when he gets into china's equivalent if the khan academy, but it will be smart to offer yunus a starring role ... more
19 Maker Faire...
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.Celebrating artisan skills - bridge this between community markets and community education selecting what generations of knowhow have made uniquely local..
20 * Free poultry market - by eg BRAC...
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..Created 100000 jobs by redesigning value chain around 5 jobs each of which is celebrated with a reasonable income for smallest producers provide they are hardworking and meet microfranchise's quality
21.* Free dairy market by BRAC..
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.Similar impacts to freeing poultry markets..
22 2013 Free Garment market
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.If the wprld doesn't seize opportunity to free bangaldesh garment workers from factory collapses killing 1000+ workers - then something will be very depressing in the way we communicate. Global accountants got all supply chains wrong in 1990s when they advised branded clients to quarterly lower cost irrespective of responsibility. It was never adam smith's idea of a free market that non-transparent supply chains would hide which fashionable images you are wearing made by killing co-workers.. more
.While the idea came to Dr Yunus in one 1976 experiment, it took 7 years for his female founding partner Mrs N Begum to design both the 16 decision culture that village mothers wanted and to specify the job of the branch manager to care for 60 village centres of 60 women members a week integrating their community market needs, knowledge development as well as their financial services -more..
.24 * Freeing childrens first 1000 days of health..
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.In Bangladesh, 20% of infants died until the local presence of Grameen and BRAC shared the knowhow of oral rehydration, Of surviving infants many were night blind due to vitamin deficiency - the microfranchise solution - grameen bankers first non financial service selling small packets of carrot seeds with the result that each banking centre's franchise became twinned with a vegetable garden! ..
.25 * Freeing sanitation and safe roof over family's heads..
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.Grameen was awarded the aga khan prize of architecture for the least costly building structure ever designed to be monsoon and cyclone proof and to include a pit latrine..Well over half a million members participated in this franchise- it had an extra impact with Grameen insisting ownership of this franchise was a women's only right .more
26 * Seed science by BRAC freeing top 20 horticulture value chains a particular nation needs to free for bottom-up ... discuss does US get open crop science
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.BRAC researches seed science that maximize crops for small farmers in Bangladesh with notable impact on value chains or rice and maize .more http://afsp.brac.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&... refer also Borlaug, Nippon Institute. currently usaid has major problem ofot having the deep contacts needed to do this country by country in www.feedthefuture.gov
30 The Chinese Restaurant (compared with the Mcdonalds)...
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.Whats common between these 2 worldwide formats is a food recipe can be replicated consistently so you can be anywhere and be served the same taste. However a Chinese restaurant configured around the open source wok can be an intercultural local economy builder whereas the Mcdonalds sucks profits out of localities to global owners. The supply chain of Chinese restaurant can help serve nutrition and local food security, the mcdonalds with its highly process foods cant - more
.31 wholekidsfoundation versus tragedy of us school lunch..
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.why shouldn't the purpose of the school lunch be the most nutritious event in a child's day- an example of totally unsustainable misconception of how local government sees its role .more..
32 grameen DANONE micro-yogurt factory...
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the good news is that 3d printing and other technologies are suddenly making it as economical to build thousands of microfactories as one big one- this can restore food security; and if the absurd carbon energy was fully costed would end the unneccessary thousand mile journies for many of the food supplies that could have been farmed next door... china knows it has to get microfactory experiments right to sustain its world leading economy- will other nations join this win-win more bottom-up world trade movement in time -more
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This revolution began in Bangladesh and was written up by the world bank here. Two forbideen questions it helps wayward 20th c economists answer are- how can you experiment with the millennium's goals greatest innovations unless you have a presence where the solution is most urgently needed; when you look at any society that is sustainable what per cent of intergenerational resources (eg nature, children, community goodwill and on-the-ground safety ,,,) are invested by "society"...
34 Conscious Capiitalism Benchmarking...
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..This movement asks 2 of the most valuable questions ever to be posed. Which worldwide sectors enjoy the presence of a leader that thrives on networking the most sustainable human purpose the market could be free to share. Instead of wasting money on image advertising, how does one model so that at least 50.1% of the company's ownership is in trust to continuously improving the unique purpose most needed by lifetimes everyone impacted as knowhow producer or service demander .more on how microfranchise cases are integral to this movements innovation processes
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Started by the upscale whole foods supermarket, this network hunts out opportunities to plant microfinance in communities where whole foods expects to have long-term sourcing relationships. This converges two opportunities. Food security so that locals however poor enjoy the same world class nutrition their locality is capablee of serving whole foods. Sorting out microfranchise institutions constituted around local sustainability not some global bankers pr campaign... more
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..https://www.khanacademy.org/science/core-finance/money-and-banking/.... we include bitcoin as its an example of innovating decentralized infrastructure microfranchises need and this khan academy series beautifully maps many other converging jigsaw pieces and processes such as peer to peer
out of boston and the social labs of mainly Haiti and Rwanda , paul farmer has ben changing how allocations of funds to global healthcare are used - instead of just valuing whether a funde acrtion achieved a narrow goal , use that money to build capacity recognising that there will always be a next global health crisis (tb, aids..) which farmer defines as being a communicative disase that we can only rid world of by serving rich and poor's opposite types of delivery solution..
38 metahub ceu - founded by soros in Budapest- probably the number 1 pro-youth university of a non online sort -will it join open edu partners in time?. -more
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39 treadle pumps illustrate many of the most subtle issues of microfranchise
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42 the humble pit latrine is an example of how basic microfranachises often need to be to cause a revolution - in this case sanitation in rural regions like bangladesh
grameen kalyan www.grameenkalyaninfo.org -started from interesting question- if -in the then world poorest 100 million person nation (of which a near majority may be children) you have next to zero health service infrastructure in rural Bangladesh what can you offer for $1 per month health insurance per family. .got everyone ever connected with grameen to start asking this question in early 1990s and accelerated this search once mobiles reached villages from 1996 on -more
in fact grameen's early non-financial services were nutrition or health related
carrot seeds to end village childrens night blindness
pit latrines for sanitation
minimum shelter for family that was monsoon and cyclone proof which won an award rom aga khan for economical architecture
it is possible for pro-youth economists and educators to look at the constitution (members mission) of the grameen cooperative and view it as the greatest youth investment bank yet seen - from this context it should not be surprising how many pro-youth health and education resources link into grameen alumni and networks grameen kalyam's source of funding are interesting -it wants to be 100% sustainable but naturally in early days it needed to fundraise; although you might think that kalyam was a natural candidate for international aid, early relationships of this sort produced so many conflicts with designing kalyam efficiently that yunus decided to start refusing all types of international government aid
over the years since the original grameen bank law in 1983 there have been times when members profits have been payable and dividends- when they haven't been a found associated with grameen kalian www.grameenkalyaninfo.org has received these monetary flows - at least that is our understanding (we welcome further info)
Bangladesh MicroBanks -Not so much a bank, more the grassroots world's miraculous lifelong and intergenerational development network
In different ways, Grameen and BRAC have established over 200000 village centres where the poorest not only develop the nation (Clinton 2008 assessment ) through sustainable financial services but organise community markets and operate microfranchises so that value chains pay sustainable wages to hard working people however small their enterprise. These centres also offer at least weekly meeting spaces where all of the community of members share knowhow, The centre may be only hi-trust space and infrastructure that poor mothers village have to communally enjoy as well as build self-respect .
In Bangladesh, a 100 million plus populated nation, rural always means low infrastructure (typically not on electricity grid which makes the value of green energy doubly huge) but can often mean densely populated too. Because Grameen is configured around 60 members per centre, it operates more centres than Bangladesh's 85000 recorded villages -for more geographical details access the grameen village portal
BRAC's DNA was as the world's first bottom-up relief agency beginning 1972 a year after the nation's birth. A very local cyclone and tsunami killed nearly half a million people - and sir fazle abed (founder of BRAC) found his office (at the time of the Shell OIl company) just about the last resource standing.
Yunus returned to Bangladesh that year from gaining a professorship in economics from a Fulbright scholarship to USA, and instead of celebrations of independence was soon to witness a million person famine. By 1974 he left his cushy job as economics professor at Chittagong University and recruited a selection of his students to start village experiments on what could be done to end hunger. In 1976 he converged on the idea of microloans, and microsavings.
However (see Yunus female founding partner Mrs Begum's reminiscence of the time) the exact womens centre format took 7 years of microfranchsie development building a 16 decision culture representing what village mothers defined as sustainable progress - more than anything to use the surplus from their income generation to invest in their children's job creating education. What had started in 1976 as Grameen project, became Grameen Bank with its own unique ordinance in 1983 (politically rewritten 2012) . One of the original 16 decisions (conditions of grameen membership) is a commitment to send every child to primary school-something which was actually made possible by BRAC's development of tens of thousands of informal primary schools (Montessori in style) in rural areas that government of the fledging nation had no capacity to develop.
One of what was to become the net generation's world's greatest changes for sustainability came in 1996. This was when it was realised that the centres could be linked in to the most vital search and solutions network geared to empowering life-critical community service formats. You Can Hear Me Now became the joyful slogan for multiplying knowhow and market-sensitive info through mobile telephones ending of real and digital divides. Initially George Soros kindly lent Yunus the money to pioneer Bangladesh's first mobile franchise Grameen Phone- built for telecommunication inclusion of the poorest- and soon to become Bangladesh's largest corporation (over a third owned in trust for Grameen Bank and the rest mainly owned by the Norwegian telecom partner -yunus had never intended to form a company less than half owned by the poor and as far as we know never has in Bangldaesh before or since as you can see by searching his latest pursuits of social business)
Still, Bangaldesh had the opportunity to be the world's first pro-poor digital and social laboratory, The hunt for global village technology partnerships designed round the world's most urgently needed service solution could now start to accelerate at moores law speed of replication. Today Grameen and BRAC are not only the source of the greatest number of life critical microfranchsie services but they offer the most exciting training modules millions of youth can enjoy in free online university and education formats. - see moocyunus (grameen) and planetmooc (BRAC).
www.microeducationsummit.com invites you to Join us in calling for post 2015 millennium goal summits to be anchored in education
example of how moocwho may be more informative for assessing whether a nation's microecroecony is growing than separately cataloguing microfranchises is illustrate by twin micro development of Bangaldesh and Kenya
youth investment banking started 1972 soon after with birth of Bangladesh
Kenya jumped ahead by designing first microcredit inspired by yunus b ut using mobiles to capture all transactional records; in parallel yunus who started experiments with mobile phones in the villages before anyone thanks to Soros and Quadirs started mobilizing energy and health; Kenya continued to mpesa the first cashless banking system to scale- all of the pro-youth brilliance of cashless banking practitioners are now linked into www.bkash.com of BRAC- over 90 country's regulators are now benchmarking these lead cases as part of the Kenya's and Bangl'as entrepreneurial revolution of cashless banking has been sustained by regulation firenndly to some other group that 1 big bankers 2 big government 3 big telecoms
In 2008, we asked: what would help? And help the most?
People from more than 170 countries submitted over 150,000 ideas in response. From that group, we narrowed down the list to 16 top idea themes addressing important common goals.
The public voted for the top five ideas and we reviewed concrete proposals to tackle them. We gave a total of $10 million to five inspiring organizations working on solutions to each of these global challenges:
Idea: Make educational content available online for free
Project funded: The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization that provides high-quality, free education to anyone, anywhere via an online library of more than 1,600 teaching videos. We allocated $2 million to support the creation of more courses and to enable the Khan Academy to translate their core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages.
Idea: Enhance science and engineering education
Project funded: FIRST is a non-profit organization that promotes science and math education around the world through team competition. Its mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders by giving them real world experience working with professional engineers and scientists. We allocated $3 million to develop and jump start new student-driven robotics team fundraising programs that will empower more student teams to participate in FIRST.
Idea: Make government more transparent
Project funded: Public.Resource.Org is a non-profit organization focused on enabling online access to public government documents in the United States. We allocated $2 million to Public.Resource.Org to support the Law.Gov initiative, which aims to make all primary legal materials in the United States available to all.
Idea: Drive innovation in public transport
Project funded: Shweeb is a concept for short to medium distance, urban personal transport, using human-powered vehicles on a monorail. We allocated $1 million to fund research and development to test Shweeb’s technology for an urban setting.
Idea: Provide quality education to African students
Project funded: The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is a center for math and science education and research in Cape Town, South Africa. AIMS’ primary focus is a one-year bridge program for recent university graduates that helps build skills and knowledge prior to Masters and PhD study. We allocated $2 million to fund the opening of additional AIMS centers to promote graduate level math and science study in Africa.
Each idea is a broad, ambitious, many-year mission. We hope you will follow the progress on their websites. Thank you to everyone who supported Project 10^100 by voting on ideas or submitting your own. Your participation has helped make these ideas come to life.
- a look at the most cheering chart in the world of 1970s -how Asian countries started benchmarking Japan's 500% rise in sustainable rice production makes one wonder why isn't this data publically webbable -or is it?
partners in health becomes especially interesting as a meta-hub for microfranchises now that paul farmer has rebuilt (and so taken on ongoing responsibility) for training medics and nurses in Haiti- the old college having been lost in the earthquake -for breaking news on this subject see this related thread
We're thrilled that construction of Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, inMirebalais,Haiti, is complete. The 205,000-square foot, 300-bed facility—called HUM for ...
Treadle Pumps were invented in Bangladesh to be the optimal size for the small plot farmer. Larger pumps while seemingly more efficient created problems with the pump owner increasingly overcharging others who needed water supply. The most accessible description on Treadle pumps that I know of is provided in the book out of poverty by Paul Polak who has spent most of his life distributing these sorts of pumps. They are now used in about 10 countries. They are ideal in hot humid places that get most of their rain in the monsoon season. The treadle pump enables its owner to drill down typically 12 feet to underwater streams that such climates typically offer.
A treadle pump designed around the slightly different irrigation needs of small farmers in Kenya made Kickstart one of San Francisco's destination cases of social good business modeling in developing world
40 medecins sans frontiers - one of the more venerable and perhaps sill the most economic grassroots network in developing countries it reaches -
MSF makes interesting call for greater transparency in costs of innoculations something networks like Gates' haven't necessarily improved in the way they have negotiated withy the big 5 pharma
... the capital, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Tuesday. ... marched into the riverside city on March 24, forcing former President ... by unrest and poverty since its independence from France in 1960, ...
june 2013 had a wonderful albeit short conversation with paul farmer at a talk he was giving at Central Europen University Budapet
his talk was on the responsibility he feels whenever he gets global medical funds to not only do the goal of the fund but leave behind as much local infrastructure empowering local peoples' future medial competence
paul is probably most famous for restoring 2 rural health systems going in countries that have suffered disasters - Haiti (earthquake) Rwanda (genicide)- one of the delightful accidents he mentioned is that the earthquake demolished the national college of nursing in Haiti, he's just attracted funds to rebuild it and now hopes to open source nurse training out of there - making paul a central connector of free online universities in nursing
We're thrilled that construction of Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, inMirebalais,Haiti, is complete. The 205,000-square foot, 300-bed facility—called HUM for ...
we would love to know what information is most relevant to map opportunit9es to collaborate with partners in health -mail me chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk or insert below
summer 2012 senior partner of PIH is appointed to head of world bank
paul's main base is Brigham Womens hospital in boston - in some ways PIH started up as a hobby though its now one of the greatest benchmarks in economics of healthcare in dev world
Brigham women is a co-sponsor of GHDonline’s nine public communities are dedicated to improving health care delivery through global collaboration. Communities are thematically based, and lead by more than 30 expert moderators
building a pit latrine is one of the 16 commitments (16 decisions) members make to join grameen - when integrated into the minimal hut format grameen got an aga khan architecture award for as the lowest cost design for a safe home that's monsoon-proof and cyclone proof- the pit latrine can also be a social liberation in traditional Bangladesh women can only relieve themselves in the dark if not in a private sheltered space
brac video on pit latrine program
BRACWash
latrines are the simplest microfranchise in village sanitation
In session at a BRAC Primary School in the Korail slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo: Oscar Abello/BRAC)
The conditions into which a child is born affects not only her future opportunity, but also her position in society.
Poverty itself can limit society’s expectations of the child’s ability to perform well in school, constantly reminding her of the miniscule chance she has to overcome adversity and poverty.
In Bangladesh, BRAC has raised those expectations among the hardest-to-reach children. Recent results from the national Primary School Certificate examination, required for secondary school admittance, has shown BRAC primary school students outperforming their peers, with a pass rate of 99.93 percent, compared to the national pass rate of 97.35 percent.
Those results are consistent with BRAC’s original goal when it started its non-formal primary education program back in 1985, which was to mainstream the hardest-to-reach children into formal government secondary schools. With a drop-out rate of only six percent, 93 percent of BRAC primary school students successfully integrate into government-run secondary schools. How has BRAC achieved such positive results?
By adapting low-cost solutions—radically low-cost.
In Bangladesh, BRAC can educate a child for roughly USD 32 a year. That’s just 32 US dollars for a one-room school, a BRAC-trained teacher, and basic didactic materials—for a full academic school year. Beyond the provision of essential infrastructure, critical student-centered pedagogy has been a crucial, if not most important, component of BRAC’s success.
BRAC’s Founder and Chairperson, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, shaped both his personal perspective and organizational philosophy on the ideas of Paulo Freire. As Freire argued in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the oppressed must overcome mental oppression first to begin undermining other, more outward forms of oppression.
Unlearning traditional education and relearning what education is in Freire’s conception has been the key for BRAC and its partners. Understanding the mental and physical complexities of poverty and oppression, in addition to radically low-cost solutions, has allowed BRAC to pioneer an education model with proven impact. Today, BRAC’s education programs are expanding beyond Bangladesh, to Afghanistan, South Sudan, Pakistan, Uganda and most recently the Philippines, while continuing to adapt to the demands of changing societal and global contexts.
The provision of quality education, not just access, must move to the forefront of the development discourse. For that to happen, we must first unlearn and relearn what a quality education actually is.
BRI.school ENTREPRENEURIAL REVOLUTION NETWORK BENCHMARKS 2025now : Remembering Norman Macrae
8 cities we spend most time helping students exchange sustainability solutions 2018-2019 BR0 Beijing Hangzhou: BR6 Geneva, Luxembourg, BR2 Dhaka, Delhi, BR1 Tokyo, Seoul
Map with Belt Road Imagineers :where do you want to partner in sustaining world
correspondence welcomed on 50 year curriculum of Entrepreneurial Revolution and net generation as most productive time to be alive - chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Out of The Economist since 1972 Macrae's viewpoint Entrepreneurial Revolution argues that the net generation can make tremendous human progress if and only if educators, economists and all who make the biggest resource integrate youth job creating into the way their worldwide purpose and impact is valued -chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk join in ... 43rd Entrepreneurial Revolution Youth Networks Celebration..
Dad (Norman Macrae) created the genre Entrepreneurial Revolution to debate how to make the net generation the most productive and collaborative . We had first participated in computer assisted learning experiments in 1972. Welcome to more than 40 years of linking pro-youth economics networks- debating can the internet be the smartest media our species has ever collaborated around?
Foundation Norman Macrae- The Economist's Pro-Youth Economist
5801 Nicholson Lane Suite 404RockvilleMD20852 tel 301 881 1655 email chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
2013 = 170th Year of The Economist being Founded to End Hunger
2010s = Worldwide Youth's most productive and collaborative decade
1972: Norman Macrae starts up Entrepreneurial Revolution debates in The Economist. Will we the peoples be in time to change 20th C largest system designs and make 2010s worldwide youth's most productive time? or will we go global in a way that ends sustainability of ever more villages/communities? Drayton was inspired by this genre to coin social entrepreneur in 1978 ,,continue the futures debate here
world favorite moocs-40th annual top 10 league table
4) 8 week tour of africa's free university and entrepreneurial slums
5 what to do now for green energy to save the world in time
6 nurses as 21st world's favorite information grassroots networkers and most economical cheerleaders more
7 how food security as a mising curricululum of middle schools can co-create more jobs than any nation can dream of
8 pro-youth economics and public servants
9 celebrating china as number 1 creditor nation
10 questions worldwide youth are asking about what was true last decade but false this decade because that's what living in the most innovative era means chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
from chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk please help in 2 ways -nomination of collaboration 100; testify to world's largest public broadcasters such as BBCthat this survey needs their mediation now
Intercapital searches for replicable youth eonomic franchise