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Monday, July 20, 2009

the number 1 question we have researched in 33 years of brands and global media - is what would the world uniquely miss if this didnt exist? - this applies to cities and countries too

here are some hot tips for 09/10 and youth ambassador 5000 dialogues

without dhaka the world would miss anychance of rediscovering community sustainability http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm

without kenya, its unlikely youth would have been involved in ending poverty in urban slums - this is the real story of slumdog millionnaire

without madrid, microcredit wouldnt have its longest royal supporter in queen sofia who is also the first world leader to sign up for hosting a microcreditsummit - spain invites the world in 2011 to a celebration of far more importance tp every generation than london's olympics the following year

which brings us to london - will the BBC learn to explore whjat the largest social business world service could be about?

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

around the world with grameen and yunus

Epicentre, Dhaka Bangladesh http://yunuscentre.org http://yunusforum.net http://www.grameen.com http://grameensolutions.com http://www.gshakti.org http://grameentrust.org http://www.grameenhealthcare.com http://www.grameenkalyam.org

Europe
Berlin, Creative Lab http://grameencl.com
Glasgow Creative lab, Grameen bank , Glasgow Caledonian trains nurses for Grameen in Dhaka
Paris home of future capitalism - grameen danone, grameen veolia, grameen credit agricole (likely to open social business finds in 2010); HEC SMBA, YunusMovie
Monaco - Prince Albert Sustainability Fund
Madrid - Queen Sofia hosts the 2011 global microcerdit summit - local Grameen expert Nazrul Chowdhury
Oslo - Nobel Prize and Nobel Museum in Dhaka

Other Most influential fan networks
London Ashden Microenergy - Lord Sainsbury's daughter, Prince Charles, BBC Broadcaster Paul Rose

USA
Microcreditsummit - DC & Princeton

Grameen America Bank Branches:
New York Queens
Omaha

Outer Boston: Grameen America (HQ & health)
DC Grameen Foundation

LA The Green Children Pop Group
LA Cal State Channel Isles

New York - Social Business Course - St Johns Uni

Austin Texas WholePlanetFoundation

S.America
Grameeb Carlos Slims - Mexico
Colombia

East of balgladesh
Bangkok, AIT Yunus Centre
Japan:
Rikkyo University
Kobe University
Kyushu University

what have we omitted? - suggestions welcome

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Am just back from Dhaka and co-hosting 69th birthday dialogue with muhammad yunus- our british broadcasting reporter blogs here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm

our party from around the world made an unaimous vote for dhaka as the number 1 city in the world offering the most sustainability solutions; I dont think yiou have lived if you haven't been to dhaka and visited grameen or brac to understand how they are trailblazing 10 times more econo,oic systems from the bottom up whereas the west's big capitals now seem to be using macroeconomics to get ever less economical

I wll be trying to blog a special series on which cities are connecting most around bangladesh as the only true sustainability model that I have ever appaised as a mathematian - if you are in a rush you can see some europena connections at my fan web http://grameeneurope.com ; back in dhaka the newest web is http://www.yunuscentre.com