story so far:
back in 2000 , 100 southern universities of usa started sharing an enetrprenurial curriculum - and an annual student competion www.ofcvc.org
consequences so far:
alabama wants to create a new university of poverty with jobs competitions being the main network process -an university president and alumn of MIT is leading this initiative
Nobel Lauretae Muhammad Yunus was asked to celebrate his come back to the region where he became a professor in around 1970
Through this intervention the 2010s is set to multiply the job creating capacity of the competition starting with ;pilot year in 2011-2012 by weaving year long competition to develop winners of student social business projects- these turn society into a laboratory with professors being led back into society by studnents- moreover many solutions involve the design of a microfranchise- in georgia there are 5000 community organisations concerned with ending illiteracy - student competition winner's query: why not offer them a common application franchise- and if that starts to scale why not open source through students in any state with a significant illiteracy challenge
the point of the sb competition is that winners can come up with the most colaborative solutions ever networked and potentially make more impact on job creation than any initiative the world has ever seen
once Clinton Global is finished, Yunus is giving a week of his time to a states wide jobs competition tour Sept 26 to Oct 1 -isnt it time we got rid of economists that worry over national debt- the only reason a nation needs to worry is if it doesnt know how to invest in youth in 2010s when the net generation according to 40 years of dialogies started in The Economist in 1972is the most productive time for worldwide youth everywhere, and the one for co-producing the most exciting millennium goals
in that context the question becomes does DC have enough brain power and colaborative people to help students make dc the number 1 job creation competition epicentre in usa or the world
worldwise the bar has been set high with tokyo conveneing a 12000 live youth competition on 30 jan
first discussion on how to linkin in friday sept 28 http://www.udc.edu/socialbusiness/
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can DC become the nation's social business competition Capital- part of a fan's diary of UDC experiments ac year 2012-2013
there are many different flows that could converge if you step back and think of dc as having 40000 expensive students, thousands of professors and how many other experts -and not one day in the calendar where they break down silos and celebrate youth-led concepts and social impact investor attention
udc students at last april's atlanta celebration of www.ofcvc.org proposed nexcelerator the most interesting accelerator hub model i have ever seen
the DC mayor's office says living social (a groupon lookalike) has been given huge tax breaks because dc wanted to have a real mobile media player and has been promised by living social that it will mentor tech students
it remains unclear to me whether microcreditsummit's dc base is going to relaunch itself and if so will it invite youth to do much more doublechecking of standards especially as I find wholeplanet foundation more valid as a ranking systems than any of the fund-led standards and wholefoods is planing much more us youth-linked movements in next year or two
instead of youth-led marches to dc, is it possible to imagine a future where some protests turn into competitions being hosted on day masses of people converge on dc -perhaps nutrition day should be the first such -perhaps The Mall could be a pop up for stalls of student entries
however I am not sure whether udc is aiming for such a way forward ; although it is an hbuc it doesnt feel linked in the way that celebrating youth in atlanta does; however it has its own kudos- eg for historic reasons when leaders of small african states visit dc they often pop into udc- could udc turn its student television station into a branch partner of my favorite good news broadcaster www.africa24.tv - and maryland here my daughter is in 10th grade is getting its heads of school to celebrate the hbuc university network
and if udc doesnt want to be a meta-connector, I am wondering if it is possible to have multiple competitions in first week of april; it really depends who sees ways of collaboratively linking in- bransons carbon war-room is dc-based and until recently neville williams whose knowhow started yunus grameen solar business was - could they at least help sponsor a start to a bioenergy stream linking in all student competition projectts past and new
another variable is whether yunus long awaited speech to congress as recipient of congressional gold model gets programmed for first half of next year - i would guess obama would accelerate that and romney not so much but then us politics and pro-youth economics are extremely opposite sorts of disciplines in need of huge conflict resolution -see eg stiglitz
yunus youth ambassador motto impossible becomes possible if right time place people actions
by early april the time of the competition , i assume jobs debates in dc will be at a peak whichever president is elected but connections through to best replication winners from other conpetitions including 12000 version in tokyo in january could multiply if the conference was branded correctly make this one of the great convergences for the voice of youth entrepreneurship
then again year 1 isnt necessarily most important,; in any region its whether the process year on year takes root- does dc want to be a youth social business competition capital or not; and which of 3 ways are we talking about - 1 regenerating dc; 2 linking in youth regeneration state partners all across usa- 3 redesigning value chains of usaid- and if alabama's new university is going to be designed around us' poorest county and to integrate knowledge networks of all sustainable student projects - how does the triad future of alabama, dc, and every other particpative state linkin
and then if a place is going to celebrate statewide competitions throughout the year then integrating the mit model (today's number 1 job creating alumni network) is appropriate in its 3 phases - start the year with a youtube pitch competition of ideas which you can still celebrate in a summit because this is the most broadly exciting ideas stage and in some ways the most valid for a world guru to raise the profile of; use middle of year to award incubation help to ideas that most need faculty help because state is strong in that area too; end the year with a competition that is main showcase to sb capital investors
any errors in above are mine alone
chris macrae washington dc 301 881 1655
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===================please note most of this column is due to be re-edited we hope to issue a list of yunus top 10 stories but when it comes to solutions matching those challeges there's all to play for as web3 is humanity's last chnace to leap ahead
hottest youth-spring question of our life and times-can online education end youth unemployment for ever ? yes but only if you help map how!
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About Pro-Youth economics at Norman Macrae Foundation online library of norman macrae - The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant -videos 1 2 -fansweb NMFoundation- youth projects - include yunuschoolusa
fullest press reports Grameen Brand Partnership Architecture
exponential impact advisory: the social business youth networks inspired by muhammad yunus -without which millennium goal actions networks would be way behind are worth far more than any individual parts according to Norman Macrae Foundation trilliondollaraudit methodology and charter notespace
Beyond the extraordinary investment of the members bank at Grameen, and the approximate third share its members foundation holds in grameenphone, here is our Unofficial League Table of Most Impactful Social Business Investments around yunus - last update 1 dec 2012
! Grameen Solar
2 Grameen Mobile Nursing nets and college
3 Portfolio of investments linkedin by Japan
4 Portfolio of youth-led networking inventions in US educationsystem tertiar and secondary - transparency note NM Foundation has minor donation/loan interest
5 Investments in Grameen as collaboration brand linked in out of paris- the origin of global social business partnership funds
6 OpenTech investments of Grameen Intel
-------- while not controlled by yunus we see wholeplanetfoundation microcredit investment table and conscious capitalsm movements and hugely important to advancing pro-youth economicsmission of friends of youth and yunus
email chris.macrae@yahoo.co.ukif you have questions or recommendations of entries that should be in this league table
-please read notes about what pro-youth economists mean by superapps being most
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