Our club of 100 leaders believes 2010s can be youth's most exciting decade. My father Norman Macrae projected this future over 40 years of writing at The Economist- investing in next generation's productivity out of every community was the pursose of economics that he used in every investigative journalism including 3000 leaders and over 30 surveys for The Economist - view their history here. Dad helped form clubs interested in optimistic entrpreneurial revolution futures. ER was his number 1 catch phrase and his most exciting wish involved mobilising the new media round the internet to end poveerty which he first made into a book in 1984. Economics compounds opportunities and risks expoenentially Dad was well aware that the orwellian opposite future could spin round the first net generation- making 2010s the most exciting decade to determine human futures worldwide. Indeed as one of the last students tutored by Keynes he swore Keynes Hippocratic Oath- as economics increasingly rules the world lets action good news futures with the way we mediate curious questions as well as out maths models/maps design how man-made systems value integration of sustainable and growing futures for all future generations

Here are some of the leaders we admire Kenya's Ingrid Munro - founded happy families bank so youth's mobile productivity can rebuild Kenya - one of Africa's countries on a rising exponential. People who have certified Ingrid's great work include Queen Sofia of Spain for 15 years royalty's number 1 champion of truly economic banks for the poor Other exciting investors in youth's productivity in Africa include: Peter Ryan MicroloanFoundation (Malawi) with African Regional partnership of John Mackey's WholePlanetFoundation Taddy Blecher (Free Univesrities including first test space of Branson Entrepreneur curricula)  S. Africa Ory head of google africa (s.africa) formerly founder of crowdmap kenya Mo Ibrahim - foundation for rewarding most transparent leaders, originally founder of mobile phone company Celnet Alumni of Nelson Mandela, and Ubuntu Community Building methods. Other extraordinary innovations are M-PESA (digital money) and way Sir Fazle Abed's BRAC has transferred its Bangladeshi magic to various African countries In memoriam: Nobel Wangari Maathai networker of green movements across Africa Discuss at http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/africa-and-norman-macrae some more education leaders: usa: will clement and prof bhuiyan - since 2000, developed course on entrepreneurship for over 100 of us poorest colleges; now organising pan-state 1000youth job creation competitions with business leaders like these- discuss where to stage this next gandhi family lucknow schooling system www.cmseducation.org  nurturing 40000 children as world citizens annually new zealand is turning into children into journalits and its teachers as expert witnesses; annual competetion of what next $100 billion market does world need that new zealand youth can best innovate; 10 million chinsese parnets also studying this type of schooling www.thelearningweb.net  AND WORLDS NO ! JOB CREATING UNI IS mit entreprenuship is embedded in every discipline as are annual entrepreneurial competitions; 360 degree venture capital access from 100% social to 100% commercial; if MIT was a nation only 10 economies would be more productive in generating jobs  -discuss

hope to see many friends in boston next week or sams' 15th microcreditsummit (with queen sofia in spain) in 3 weeks-

To in boston: MLF Linda, Legatum Iqbal, Prizes Laura;  london MLF founder peter; spain microcreditsummit sam; kenya jamii bora ingrid; bethesda tania BRAC, oregon Kazi Intel; austin Happy Fed-economics dev; atlanta 1000youth job creation events bhuiyan, glasgow zasheem journal ed adam smith scholars & celbrate bangla @40 network launched Economist Boardroom Nov 2010  

 

with good news below  (from wholefoods in austin) 3rd of 3 excellent systemic african cases to have passed across my desk in last week  I now feel confident of publishing a special african issue of our journal on pro-youth economics celebrating my what we can learn from bangaldesh at 40, my father and The Economist's first 145 years of the "invest in youth's productivity" purpose of economics 

chris macrae  1 301 881 1655 www.yclub100.com - a Norman Macrae Foundation ER Project:

Entrepreneurial Revolution  (ER) should matter to all young people, their parents and educators. Failure to openly question ER maps since 1976 has reduced US and major European Economies job creatrng capacity by at least 50% and has blocked progress on millennium goals that worldwide youth could now be celebrating

 

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Hi

 

I will be in Atlanta saturday evening through monday afternoon as a minor sponsor of the 1200 student social business compettion

after everything that has happened these last 12 months (and my 5 most recent visits to dhaka) it seems that we are at a crossroads as to how every knowledge-action network of yunus goes forward; love to swap ideas; additionally the journal of social business (sponsored in memory of my father and job creating economics which first 145 years of The Economist stood for) will publish special issue handed out to the 2000 delegates attending the last microcreditsummit in the 15 year series hosted by my friend sam daley-harris; and my family has been sponsoring some vip gtrips mrs begum has been making to education entrepreneurs

SEARCHES FOR WHO WANTS 2010s be youths most productive decade out of every community

 MIT particulary its open course ware is a jewel in the crown of open extremely affordable innovation so I am commuting monthly from DC to interview MIT people), (always looking to understand who else wants to see )

 

What is most sustainable advice to give friends of noble laureate muhammad yunus?

 

 My 3 main strands (I wish I better understood others are):

 

1 land the knowledge network of any favorite project outside of dhaka - I wish he would plant eg 5 great residence centres - paris being main working example where partners colaborate, 100 mn dollars of funds are mobilised, and probably 100000 youth have got excited about interacting microentrepreneurship; it could have been so easy to help everyone converge on Kenya as Africa's great lab for youth microentrepreneurship http://socialbusiness.crowdmap.com

2 while bangladesh is closed as your partner laboratory accept Jack Ma's (and any other tech partners) invitation to build chinese fieldwork experiments and relationships, but elicit promise from SB partners that whatever they innovate there they will bring to bangladesh once its free again (bangaldesh being the sustainability partners' solutions trader in a trading triad of Bangaldeh , China and India used 2005-2008 to be his most extraordinary national strategy; I dont understand who first caused him to give up on this)

 

3 focus on bringing together massive partnerships around one most valuable knowledge networks connections - eg bottom-up MBA or job-creating economics- and demand that of all partners that part of this equity is given back to his 8 million members who are finding all the value he gave them to own is being nationalised by Hasina

 

best chris macrae

wash dc 301 881 1655       skype chrismacraedc

dear tom

not quite sure where we might find a diary slot in next 3 months: I live in dc, commute to boston for fresh innovation air and still linkin with dads friends in london

 

along keynes nightmare scenario, it seems pretty well everything is spinning the wrong economics round from what could be if we are to invest in next generation's productivity and serving the milenniums most exciting goals - the nightmare scenario of dad's last 2 articles in 2008

 

may I ask:  did you read The Economist's own centenary biography in 1943 - that demonstrated how it was founded 100% as a social action media

 

and my dads 1984 book on timelines to change what by if mobilisation of the netgen wasnt to end up being pied pipered along orwell's big brother scenario - dad had a slight headstart on the internet as he saw the one the uk national dev project was working on in 1973! and jolly interesting iot was too for how 500 simultaneously connected people could action learn at a time (not that anything we learnt then has even been used in elearing since with one new zealand exception http://www.thelearningweb.net/ -a story that accidentally 10 million chinese parents have paid to track)

 

one of the few people who keeps me sane in usa is IQ ; would like to swap  ideas on others we can encourage netgen to co-navigate by

 

chris