Wanted 5000 citizens to save world from aftermath of global financial meltdown

Community accountancy doyen Peter Burgess and I went to 3 collaboration meetings in New York yesterday that suggested we citizens can connect this. Brief intros to some people and connecting purposes of those meetings are body of this email.

As a mathematician, I will not  mince words.

we will look back at first decade of C21 and see that the only innovation USA invested money into was numbers algorithms that compound speculators bubbles- the rest of the world needs to map a new community to community world trade with urgency and transparency. If you know how to network for humanity, don't lurk now.

I have recently had parallel meetings to NY's  in Dhaka ( Bangladesh ) and London , and know other Europeans deeply designing micro systems (opposite to the wall street macro ones that spun this mess) in Paris and Barcelona . That’s just 5 places I can help search out 5000 –please bring your own places to the map. My suggestion is we turn this into a viral mail until we have mapped 5000 people. Not all have to be individually listed – you can vouch (host in absentia) for peers who you are sure are curious and openly practical about collaborating around this challenge.

If you don’t like that idea unsubscribe now; if you like the idea start introducing others.

I am aware we need ways to make this more practical that one email – though one "connecting the dots" email makes for simple viral-goodwill multiplying practice as long as any subdiscussions (eg fporm a connecting yahoogroup), which will of course be needed, do 2 opposite things – they don’t take over this e-mail’s purpose but they do add in any more people who they find through detailed sub-discussion are also part of the whole. I also suggest that the New York section of this email host a real meeting within a week of the election of new man in white house, ideally the day after. Our 5000 branding will be very loose (of course we wont agree with each other on every priority –it is not owned by anyone; we commend collaboration cafe micro values – every human being needs access to jobs that make their difference and no culture/demographic is superior to any other) . Be confident : if MicroCapital5000 is going to help save the world from the aftermath of global meltdown, its suggestions need voice at the new president’s door just as much as any other institute or identifiable network of people

New York Meeting 3 (host spencer center for conflict dialogue in new york ) reminded us inter alia

Einstein said that a sustainable transformation to global will not be solved by the institutes of the prior system. So let’s revel in our 5000 being wholly new in that sense. It also included daring questions- like what solutions –however outside the box-  do we have for picking up the pieces of the world after global financial meltdown.

 I passionately have a bias in seizing on one suggestion of compound risk expert Bill Sharon – roughly he said let’s study innovation industry sector the whole world knows it needs like solar energy, understand that they already could thrive except for the old global system having blocked them, revel in exactly those opposite sort of ownership and community up accounting they need to connect the world excluding nobody who wants clean energy. I may have mis-transcribed that so I ask in particular Bill, Spencer and Peter to edit any misinterpretation. While confessing to why I love this solution – we (including Mostofa Zaman Yunus100 Forums in London and 1) have 10000 dvds to circulate right now from the pace that is the world’s largest installer of solar units ( Bangladesh ). Its also largest owner of mobiles per head of population and looking at how these can be used to both connect the world with a transparency global wall street never had as well as leapfrog industries which sustainable serve the poorest as part of their business case.

President Clinton has said http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1tSDXbOzg of Bangladesh that it is the new new world economy – essentially a developing nation with an above zero sum approach to both ending its own poverty and collaboratively increasing human productivity anywhere that  sustainable communities can be planted. The attached is the start of an online mockup of the 10000 dvds but do either get one from the many people on this list  who have large stocks or ask me to snailmail.

Collaboration Cafe Meeting 2 was with Rachel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I  . I am wholly confident that Rachel knows women’s networks who could help recover the world after global meltdown, and she is the USA representative of a different 25000 Bangladeshi network ASA from that in the dvd (Grameen). I would very much like to reissue the next 10000 dvd keeping which every are the 5 favorite of the 25 short videos in it and adding add favorites from other source networks in sustaining the world such as ASA in Bangladesh .

Collaboration  Cafe Meeting 1 was with Zahid ( http://www.businessactionforafrica.org/  www.businessfightspoverty.org )  from Barcelona- who like Peter and I had at least 10 years of experience of working with such numbers folk as coopers & lybrand and various development elites. Since then he has produced the most exciting virtual communities so folk in these institutes can connect across what they can’t do inside their own elite. Again please correct the misreporting. One such network mentors has figured out how development experts can give their time in virtual mentoring to people with real practical crises in poor communities to resolve

Enough from me. Will you play or do you want to unsubsribe. Or is there a way someone else wants to take this over if others agree they have a more practical idea aimed at recovering an equitable future for all peoples starting with the poorest who have had least to do with this global rich person’s crisis but who are most likely to be left out if the old systems are the only ones with a voice in global 2.0

Chris Macrae 301 881 1655

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PS I have established http://groups.yahoo.com/group/microcapital/  -may I suggest that at any time you post   microcapital@yahoogroups.com

anything more about your cv or why your experience can help us practice the reconciliation of global financial system and sustainability (exponential rising) of every community within it

You might have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I

If you like the sound of the collaboration cafe method I can intro you to the folk on this cable tv program - basically concerned with encouraging youth and small businesses among the poorer communities of New York

CC actually started in the peak of the dotcom time while I was in London. I had a cheeky idea. Why not spot gurus who were passing through london, write ahead of time saying can we have an hour of your time - we can’t afford big conference fees but we can network to get 10 people who want to try doing stuff you suggest. Edinburgh could be a similarly good place for such entrepreneurial collaboration hosting

Actually dad http://www.normanmacrae.com/friends.html  and I and soros agree I think on one idea. Globalisation is an overarching system that one generation -ours - will spin to one of two extreme opposite outcomes- bad news would be Big Brotherdom of Orwellian kind- good news would be an age where all 7 billion beings have an equitable chance to make the most of life.

Soros was on US television ten days ago, saying that we can deduce from the banking meltdown everywhere that global has been spun by big speculative interests since 1984, and its now time for everyone else's voice to be integrated if sustainability is where we want the worldwide to go. I think we are more or less at our generation's crossroads. I know that understanding more of what/how /why (the social business entrepreneur) alumni of Yunus design business systems around will do no harm. For example, his community banks only ever invest in helping people be productive never in fueling demands for credit. The fruit of any community's innovations and work is reinvested back in tee community not creamed out to some empire's capital and Walled Streets.