Where will you be on 8th November 2008?Auckland, Brisbane, Perth, Singapore, Mumbai, Dubai, Cape Town or London?One Ball, around the world, on One Day, for One Cause.Raising money and awareness of The Hunger Project and having a Ball!The Global BallTo contribute to effective permanent solutions to chronic hunger. All profits from The Global Ball 2008 will be given directly to The Hunger Project in India.What is a Global Ball you may ask? This ball is starting in Auckland New Zealand, and travelling West with the clocks through Brisbane and Perth; Australia, Singapore, Mumbai, Dubai and Cape Town; South Africa, until it reaches its climax at the Grosvenor House hotel in London. All the way it will be bringing people together. Raising money for the fantastic work done by The Hunger Project in India. Now you can be part of this amazing historic event. Our target is set at $250,000, but we know with your involvement we can far exceed that. The Global Ball

Blog year2008 in october is about ending poverty http://events.takingitglobal.org/20255 so we hope this week's syndication to 100 blogs will exponentialise to tens of thousands of blogs by then, with a little help from friends like you

sustainability club http://sustainabilityclub.com

social business club http://www.socialbusinessclub.net

collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I

yunus 10000 http://yunus10000.com collaboration coordinators for youth dialogues in that city and between cities together with invitations to action specific to each video good news story - eg if you want microcredit to beat off big banks why not help any school try out micro credit with the world's simplest program small change, big changes - a microloanfoundation franchise

Peers across hemispheres and I are far more interested in ensuring that each of these intercity movements vetoes any uses of 20th c failing system methods that the majority of club coordinators -or where elected an honorary board - vote against, than prescribing revenue models.

OPEN SOURCING THE CLUBS
Obviously we should want coordinators to make a living out of work input whlst at the same time recognising that being a club coordinator is probably worth more than having many a professional qualification - or needs to become so if this world is to be sustainable. Equally where profits are repeatedly generated I assume we can find a way iof agreeing some sliding scale that should be contributed either to your favourite grassroots organsiation in bangladesh or to a small list of other potential grassroots partners of future capitalism which should probably need at least 75 of members refendum to confirm

I am very happy if people will negotiate what other rules they would need to want to participate as well as to clarify where they want diferent contant at the mother webs. The main web system I use costs $35 a year per web so its not difficult to imagine that major cties will also want to set up their own branch web or of course a free blog - either of which we will happily linmk from the top of the mother web.

Obviously some of our constitution needs double checking with for example the 100000 bangladeshi's and other Gandhians who are the main practical exemplar of the values we seek to network worldwide so that the future sustains 7 billion brilliant jobs and goodwill multiplying across all women, children and even men.

We wish to learn from each city's most successful ways of mobilising and cross-cultural celebration, as well as metods for ensuring that any action network actually reaches to those in most desperate need of its service. This is one of the big lessons of bangladeshi experience -reiterated by every micro-system designer in bangladesh we have interviewed - once a networks starts empowering the entrepreneur inside it will never get deeper than the deepest needsholders it begins with. This is a lesson that many global NGOs seem never to have begun to grade.

chris macrae http://worldentrepreneur.net
washington dc inquiries desk usa 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv
y10000 at facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22045349892

help us compile a global/local log of shame on humanity

example
sector 10 global retail (tesco) and bangladesh: 10 oct06 Tesco Britain's largest retailer in the dock over childmade clothes sourced in bangladesh -source channel 4
solutions exist

example
sector 10 global retail dec 26, 2204 - Tsunami coastlines and global reatils - estmated 10000 Tsunami deaths caused by cheap shrimp markets - known as rape and run in unite nations literature because the cheap way of doing this destroys mangroves which act as nature's barrier to a tsunami

sectors monitored:
1 National Governance (& peoples economics)2 City or local governance (& 2 million global village inter-trading)3 Clean water4 Clean (photosynthesised) energy5 Public media6 Education of leaders and transparency of governance7 Education of children 1 and charities and religions and science8 Healthcare9 Chemicals in meats and plants; Plastic’s non-degradable chemicals10 Global Retail11 Safety/Peace forces & resilience intelligence12 Law simplified & periodically adaptive13 Professional Hippocratic oaths14 Insurance and property15 Banks with profit models other than indebtedness16 Long-term pensions/savings industries17 Computers and telecoms investments in people18 Bottom of Pyramid Preneurs – connecting digital & historic divides19 Uniting nations and cultures around 30000 project-humanity initiatives20 Travel industries21 Great next-to-be invented open source

Can Change the World Latitudes 5 and 7 share a future events newletter:

Here's an example of current email correspondence on how to emerge such a cooperation events listing:

Is there a way we could develop a brief quarterly newsletter on future events for those who view your global academy dvds

This idea has 2 parts to it.

On your side you could quarterly check with the 6 dvd authors (sample the video experiences in the sidebar ) whether their future diaries have logged up any "must be at" events - so that those who want to interact with the dvd frameworks know where to go

Across Entrepreneurial Revolution Networks that our interviews with shareholders of The Economist are increasingly encouraging me to monitor, there appear to be events that are worth connecting through even if none of your 6 global academy authorities are going to be present

Examples in this second group include:

Gore's training of 1000 networkers in presenting his inconvenient truth slides (Nashville Fall 2006)

http://www.bawbglobalforum.org/ This Case Western event Oct 2006 that is among key ones engaging global corporations in global compact along the lines implied by both the Grajew and Eigen dvds

Gandhi Centenary at Ashram in Ahmedabad, Fall 2007

You could send out such a newsletter to dvd subscribers. I could send out such a newsletter to Entrepreneurial Revolutionaries and Economics Reformation journalists

sincerely
chris macrae
In parallel to the real events, the quarterly could remind people of the calendar periods of upcoming changemaker competition themes. The Case Western event above is notable because it is blending 400 real particpants with 3000 virtual participants on the case for businesses that do good - Interface Chairman Ray Anderson (a presenter at the CW event) still has the simplest presentation I have ever seen on the valuation transformation of sustainability is the most convincing business case you can have to unite your core economic purpose with all stakeholders.

Human Rights World 2006

Possibly the most valuable annual report on the state of the world was published today

It clarifies the global system goverance problem in which no corporate of national government will volunteer to be the first to connect for the good of the whole of humaity's future fearing that to be the first to collaborate will put it at comepetitive disdavantage. An entriely false fear when valuation and governance are corrected of the evil mathematical mistakes they historically compoind - ref 1 2 3 4

John Bunzl of simultaneous policy circulates this among his worldwide members:

Friends,Herewith further evidence that business is calling for binding globalregulation.Financial Times, 19th Jan 06."Business 'sees gain in binding standards on human rights'by Guy Dinmore in Washington.International companies have responded favourably to calls for bindinghuman rights standards in the corporate sector as evidence mounts thatvoluntary guidelines are unfair and bad for business, Human Rights Watchsaid yesterday. The global watchdog, launching its annual report inWashington, said multinational executives were privately starting toquestion the conventional wisdom that self-regulation and codes of conduct were sufficient. Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executivedirector, told the FT that companies had responded positively to thecampaign, launched last year, for a level playing-field of enforceableglobal standards. .... Human Rights Watch recommended that the OECDfollow up the treaty that outlawed bribery by making its corporatesocial responsibility guidelines binding. The United Nations, which hasalready drafted non-binding norms on corporate conduct, could alsoprovide a forum for a universally applicable treaty. ..."But regarding the prospects of governments supporting such moves, thearticle goes on to say:"Addressing the state of human rights around the world in 2005, HumanRights Watch also focused on what it called the Bush administration'sdeliberate adoption of torture and mistreatment of detainees as a policyin its counter-terrorism strategy. Allies such as the UK and Canada hadundermined critical international protections, said the group, while theEuropean Union had shown a lack of leadership over disappearances,secret prisions and abuses by governments in Africa and Asia..."

Governments on their own, it seems, won't do the job.
Which is whyCITIZENS need to drive them to do it!!
all the bestJohn

The microfinance discussion community developed by ebay's founding parents has a local to global solage of conversational threads here

Robert Redford's Sundance film festival starts today for most of Januray. In USA, its the main annual place to be to see documentaries filmed from local viewpoints of our world
example
http://festival.sundance.org/2006/pdfs/12-29-05--angrymonk_sneakpeek-FINAL.pdf

In angry monk—reflections on tibet, director Luc Schaedler drives a wedge into popular thinking about Tibet by telling the story of an amazing man who did the same. Gendun Choephel was a Tibetan Buddhist monk in the early twentieth century. Well before the Chinese occupation, during a time of deep religious conservatism and national isolation, he formed a conviction about the importance of Tibet’s engagement with the world and modernity. With this impetus, he undertook extended travels throughout Tibet, India and SriLanka, conducting research to construct a historical version of a more internationally engaged Tibet.
Unearthing forgotten texts demonstrating past military engagements with China and publishing a groundbreaking newspaper from India for a widely dispersed Tibetan diaspora, Choephel sealed his own tragic fate of persecution and imprisonment by the Chinese.

Timeline 2005 -World's Riskiest Year, Chris & Norman Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
reported from 1984 here




reported from 31st December 2005:
The first half-decade of Century21 ended with Queen Elizabeth 2 devoting her annual television broadcast to begging the peoples of our commonwealth and friends wherever you may be 1 2 to debate anywhere and everywhere : is humanity turning on itself. Here's one oh so primitive map we have of where bloggers and others are connecting round this deabte. Please exchnage with us any maps you feel people could link round to restore contextual trust in humanity at and through 2 million global villages -or any way in which people's lifetime productivities and demands can harmoniously network together for the greater goodwill of 6 billion beings not the lesser 1 2