11 meetings ago when I first met yunus, I volunteered to spread rumors of what’s possible http://rowp.tv/ ; for me many of the ideas over 5 to 7 years that micro people commit to turn out to be exponentially better than expected;

Bangladesh will create 100,000 solar energy jobs in the villages well before 2015 and already installs more solar units than the whole of the usa (against which those who cheered on yes we can a year ago could urgently be asking where are the maps towards 5 million green community jobs I recall obama pledging; why dont american state governors tour bangladesh until they get it; why do we pay them tax until they get it?) http://grameenenergy.com/ -how can we help with tours of dhaka is en route to every sustainability city is a question I ask every time I visit yunus in dhaka

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm

Nations who send 36 social business delegates (thanks France) to see yunus at a time are at the leading edge of being in what adam smith would now call the collaborative advantage of nations –global grameen collaboration partner type 7 on the way my 12 year old and I map the world of global sustainability partnerships; if we can’t get nations above zero sum before she is 21 in an age spinning hyperconnectivity we are all toast

 and they need gossiping to get people to congregate around them and make them happen; this is part of the missing media we don’t have since most media is used to control not to collaborate; except on projects I am intimately involved with, I don’t mind getting (egg over my face) by  more rumors slightly wrong as long as some positive impetus happens to ones that turn out to be right because we all get behind them the earliest we cold contribute; moreover when I first started marketing the job of a marketer was to throw out lots and lots of concepts until one hit a positive nerve with all sides and that was the one people went with; this is an opposite but in my view thousand times better way to market than expensive advertising spots

2 at the end of the day spreading is there a loss to anyone apart from perhaps myself of spreading a positive rumor that doesn’t happen in exactly the place described; I suppose it depends partly on the style in which the rumor was initiated, so I take the point that I should infer a probability not a certainty to things

well what is near certain in my mind about millennium goal social business festivals

firstly if yunus is alive they will happen; gee its the biggest year on the calendar of the 2010s given his 15+ year support at centre of millennium goals; whether its going to happen in one city of be a bit like his race to poverty museums of every city be something where it doesn’t matter so much who does the best as long as many try

3 in this particular case the mayor of Milan made a video conference broadcast to the first 100 alumni of global grameen in which I understood she said it was happening as long as she had anything to do with Milan in 2015 : I guess I better see if I can you tube her announcement some time so we can review if I understood the message correctly

again in all of the above if I got the wrong end of the message - silly me; but come on each of us is targeted by ate least 1000 commercial messages a day; and the vast majority of those are in fact not good for us if we get the right end of the addictive message; so quite frankly if I can rebel against practices in my own profession of mass media, I will I will I will. In fact I have for at least a decade know and edited journals of how to do get positive global news out at next to no cost while big advertisers often spent billion dollars a campaign to get news out that isn’t good for you – do you know how much  worlds 100 biggest north western banks spent promising you they were as safe as houses –answer multiple trillions of dollars; do you know how many trillions of dollars pharma companies spend with the consequence that more than half of what they sell in many brands wasn’t needed by customers at all; we live in an age where media is quite capable of ending the sustainability of all of us unless we be the media of good news in any way we dare not to lurk

ok this message is written a bit like an oxford union debate where I am putting the motion on one side ; if someone wants me to circulate their voicing of an opposite motion please mail us

http://yunusolympics.com eg 1 clean energy; 2 end nurseless communities; 3 create billion jobs with new tech and youth; 4 turn education bottom up; peter Your contribution to USAID virtual dialogue on this transparency-destructing area of globalisation distortion is a really big one; I was quite upset I couldnt get into yunus berlin day hosted with peter eigen ex head of transparency international but they called themselves some private berlin club none of us have the experience of battling the world bank and other elites as regards africa that you have; and when for example you say in prior mails that the major systemic concern of the world bank these days is to fund the enormous pensions now owing to the bubble of staff who are retiring, it seems to me clear that government to government institutions are the greatest macroeconomic wastemakers blocking end poverty's race YOUR FESTIVALPANEL do we anywhere have 3 or 4 people who as a group share your argument and life experience context?; I am in so many system changes think-panels that I dont want to be in this one; it annoys me a hell of a lot that there is such system waste but there is no way I can argue it politely I am making an assumption that londoners will be asked to form abouth 12 olympics sb festival panels and to make sure that all their ideas are animated, co-published, web-networked coming together in summer of 2012; this is both a long way off and not at all a long way off if all panel's ideas are to be worked out in a way that make sense to them and other panel members we do not know if yunus will give us overall coordinating authority of such panels; if we ever do get the green light then this panel question will urgently need to be formed if a panel of this elite transparency is to be one of the things londoners sb festival animates if  understand correctly yunus collaboration gameboard most matching peter is yunus call to start an asian union on a micro up model that is every way the opposite of the euro union or world bank or united nation models -see left column of http://collaboration11.blogspot.com/ for yunus india speech that majored on asian union I dont know if anyone circulated or whom I could have circulated ultmately feels in the same area as I interpret peter to be; if so please communicate with him particularly Peter we had that day when we both met senior guy from oxfam usa and guy who networks diversity interests through world trade sites- are these people to try and get on this panel chris Macrae DC                301 881 1655         301 881 1655                301 881 1655         301 881 1655 http://transparency.tv/ ps if you look again at this picture CP3 Take a time out for World's greatest Social Business summit at london Olymics  what welcoming panels can Yunus friends  & London 1 2  assemble now - rsvp info @worldcitizen.tv .Royal Hunt of Sun Panel End Nurseless communities panel 21st C BBC War reporting from scottish missionary in Africa family tree lens .. .  Which is a first attempt to explore how collaboration partnering is the biggest competitive advantage of all in a network age then I conclude what will happen isn’t really down to the efforts of the first 100 big partners yunus signs but how we the people cheer them on; if yunus is known to say that the power is actually with the poor, then most definitely the power of global media is with every citizen; do we let it control us or do we celebrate dreams we will turn into realities – you have to choose but I think I know which way yunus hopes you will choose (but do please understand if I am wrong mea culpa, its not the fault of any friend of mine; I assume to my last breadth that one learns by making lots and lots of mistakes provided always they  were intended in good faith; again maybe that epitaph applies particularly to my profession people of media people, and if most media people disagree with that then in my pinion they have lost the hippocratic oath that media professionals ought live by)