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In the late 1700s, Scot Adam Smith developed the first hi-trust maps of economics. His dedicated alumni soon catalogued systemic entrepreneurs (those who cared passionately about being trusted for the transparency of any innovative value exchanges) and treasured
the role of being ethical correspondents for free markets. These included his compatriot James Wilson, who founded The Economist
in 1843 to ensure a media always provided leaders in business and public service with a severe contest on key valuation qualities
such as sustainability investment over time and simply prioritising future directions of real human progress. Two mathematical
constructs became pivotal for valuetrue mapping: - seeing what exponential
up or down is being sustained or destroyed by all whose productivities and demands are humanly interrelated through communal value exchanges compounding over time; co-creativity
leadership of a value exchange keeps on asking what else apart from money is relevant over time? - eg learning, working to
make a difference, how emotionally, healthily and intelligently a person spends their lifetime or passes on skills
which her or his clan builds on, how joyfully a community develops culturally and its environmental wellbeing is sustained,
how much neighbouring systems love collaborative interfaces and thereby prevent wars and even the need to waste
money on such sciences as arms and mass destruction viruses...
- understanding the gravity around which the relationship exchange spirals: is it unique combinatorially and in
regenerating visionary progress of human realities?, is it deep enough to reward ever more innovative exploration? transparently
designed so that all who love serving the system have no communal conflict in developing it with each other in ways that advance
human good everywhere it propagates?
However around 1975, the value dynamics of economics started to move through a series
of entrepreneurial revolutions (see trilogy begun in The Economist 1976) that made even the industrial change worlds that Adam Smith had been determined to map look minor. Instead of most value being tangible (ie separable and dependent
on non-human sciences such as how smartly machines were assembled around mass production), the economy turned
round people services and connections that learning worldwide can multiply up provided every diverse locality is integrated
truly and fairly into the global markets we map. Value moved from being separately additive to multiplicative
and connected. Compound consequences were bound to speed up through goodwill networks or badwill networks. Crucially,
as presented in a white paper to the annual congress of Global Reconciliation Network (Delhi 2004), a key pattern rule from network economics mapping is: governance which is blind to
how tense systems spin each other - by failing to audit ahead of time environmental changes or internal gaps or
emerging conflicts - will be sucked unsustainably into the badwill networks' powers. Fows
of value multiplying knowledge co-workers cannot be managed just by top down strategies as the first surveys
on intrapreneurs (and internal markets) made clear from around 1980. But more than that by 1984 it was clear that one death of distance generation
1984-2024 would take on prime responsibility for sustaining or ending the world as a place that 6 billion beings harmoniously
populate. Now that value multiplies through networks of systems*systems*systems, knowing each system's forward exponential
and hi-trust gravity is not enough. The quality of boundary interfaces becomes absolutely crucial, as does understanding how
every molecular gravity is embedded in more macro systems and contain more micro subsystems.
In a network of
system*system*systems: if 2 or more hi-trust systems interface their boundaries transparently, their value multiplying partnerships
can sustain the fastest and most diverse human progress for all 6 billion beings. Conversely, if there are blocks to flow
at their interfaces, or if risks are not transparently communicated across organisational and regional boundaries, the compound
consequences will be catastrophic, world-ending as far as the human species in involved. Note how Andersen misunderstood value multiplication in 2 ways: - Over many years, it did not understand how its own value was independent on how truly it audited
Enron
- Over
its last 3 years, it did not understand that if Andersen's value was billions of dollars to business constituencies but
heading down to 0 among social constituencies because of serial abuse of true and fair (the basis on which its professional
semi-monopoly was licensed) that billions*0=0 It was still adding up valuations - and its leaders were still making ever more
risky and reputationally-unsound decisions because they believed that billions of business value and zero social value added
to billions.
SUSTAINABILITY CATCH 22 Welcome to
an era of economics times. In which the exponential care of economics, entrepreneurs, transparency mapmakers and sustainability investment are now one
and the same mapping construct. Rapid recognition of this irreversible fact by all the biggest organisational powers will
determine whether human beings reach century 22 or not. In 1984, and now, we find 7 crisis areas most interesting to guide human sustainability projects around.
If we fail to design one of these into globalisation, valuetrue analysis reveals that we will all become disinherited
from the earth. 
As well as overall communications stage at worldcitizen.tv, our main web guide assembly areas are: inquiries
welcome at chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk - in principle we publish mist material under commons contracts so goodwill people and their social networks can
learn to map sustainability investment and transparency with us and vive versa As my father, Norman Macrae, whose career at The Economist qualified him as a leading
20th century mapmaker of economics, , foretold in the 1984 future history -which I co-authored as learning and social scenarios searcher on the death of distance generation: We'll need more change to economics between 2005 and 2015 than in the whole history of the discipline since Scot Adam Smith
picked up his pen to map the ethics of free markets and competitive advantages of nations in the late 1700s ; the school of
systemic entrepreneurship as all hi-trust alumni of Adam Smith called themselves from 1800 | Entrepreneur, as defined by its first 180 years of use, referred to people who spent their life serving others, social
progress as well as developing economic health. They were passionate about innovations that responded to real need and
ensuring that markets transparently empowered human progress. Around the time that my father popularised the word with
his Entrepreneurial Revolution Trilogy in The Economist (1976-1984), Americans started changing the definition of entrepreneur to include people only interested in taking money. Consequently
it has become necessary to add adjectives to entrepreneur - such as sustainability, social, service to differentiate entrepreneurship
that is compounding future value for all participants in a market exchange from this who are just taking money out. We discuss this further at grameen.tv Here we reproduce part of an interview with David Bornstein- an author who has spent the last decade writing up the biographies
of his favourite entrepreneurs- Muhammad Yunus at Grameen, and the 2000 social entrepreneur network invested in over the last
30 years by Bill Drayton of Ashoka. All of these players are fundamental guides in this decade's number 1 challenge to
all world citizens - urgently change the world of economics in time to sustain future generations. Following
article is extracted from the inspiring web out of S. Africa ISOPH Institute Regarding Grameen Bank, Bornstein notes: The role of micro
credit has only been ensconced as an idea that’s not going away in the last decade. In the 1990s, it really took off.
But if you look at the growth of micro credit since 1997, when there were 7 million people receiving micro loans, and today,
when there may be as many as 70 million, according to the micro credit summit campaign, that’s an enormous growth….
In 1997, when the Grameen Bank represented almost a third of the entire micro credit field, it would have been an enormous
setback for the industry if the bank went away. Today, the Grameen Bank’s borrowers represent only a small percentage--under
5 percent--of total micro credit clients. The main role of the bank today is not demonstrating the viability of the idea,
but reminding the new bankers to keep their focus on very poor clients, not just clients who are easier to bank with.
The important factor is not the organizations that are created to support an idea but what they
represent: the initial insight into how to address a problem or tap into new possibilities. Bornstein elaborates: What you’re really talking about is the creativity,
the innovation. You’re not just talking about creating an organization. Anybody can create an organization. You’re
talking about the qualities that the entrepreneurs have, constantly looking for new opportunities, seizing changes, responding
to new possibilities, and continually pushing an organization to reach beyond where it’s been. Those things can definitely
be lost. If Steven Jobs had died of cancer when Apple Computer was a year old, it’s very possible that that whole idea--democratizing
access to these powerful information tools--would have faltered and had to wait for another champion. And who knows how long
it would have taken? Those are the sorts of questions you need crystal balls to answer.
Listening
and Learning | | Jeroo Billimoria, founder of Childline, a 24-hour emergency response system for
children in distress |
Social entrepreneurs create a vision for a better
world and then plan for that future. How do they do it, without crystal balls?“Entrepreneurs
are really famous listeners,” Bornstein notes. “Almost everybody who’s done research on the entrepreneur
notes the fact that you have these people who are very humble when it comes to listening to others and yet very aggressive
when it comes to pursuing their own ideas.” For Bornstein, listening is key
to what entrepreneurs ultimately achieve. “The deep listening is really the deep learning--learning from others and
integrating the perspectives of others and really understanding how everything works and constantly changing your map of the
world based on a conversation you just had.” While listening and learning are
important to the development of the entrepreneur and her idea, listening and learning are also essential to spreading the
great ideas that already exist. How
do we resolve ethnic conflict? How do we teach disgruntled youth who have dropped out of high school? How do we get them to
recognize their potential and to want to be motivated to participate in society? How do we create opportunities for disabled
people around the world? These are things that have been demonstrated in parts of the world and in such a way that their ideas
are very useful to other people. We haven’t yet created mechanisms to spread these ideas, these blueprints. People don’t
look for them; there’s a lot of reinventing the wheel going on right now.
To capitalize on the ideas that exist, “Learning is the next major challenge. We need learning more than we
need more social entrepreneurship now. We have a lot of useful models out there now that have no where near reached their
potential in terms of where they could go.” Bornstein sees blueprints, franchise
models, and replicable systems as the best potential growth area for the citizen sector: “The beauty of having social
entrepreneurs and business entrepreneurs is that not everybody has to invent new models. Not everybody has to be supremely
innovative and have boundless energy.” Businesses fail at a rate of at least
50 percent, but franchises fail less than 20 percent of the time, and some, as little as 10 percent. For Bornstein, this is
a strong testimony to the value of documenting and disseminating ideas and strategies. “The role of the entrepreneur
is to develop a new idea and demonstrate it forcefully, undeniably, then create the system so that idea can get out there
in the world where other people can take it up and run with it,” Bornstein asserts. What
Can Be Learned NowEffectively disseminating existing ideas and specific strategies
is the next big challenge, as Bornstein notes, but what can be learned now from and about social entrepreneurship in general? There is a lot the citizen sector can share, especially with for-profit businesses, Bornstein
believes. What I think the nonprofit
sector has going for it is distribution channels; there are very large markets around the world that the business sector knows
nothing about. All those micro credit organizations, they’re reaching 70 million families. Every year, if they’re
successful, the purchasing power of those families increases. People like Fabio Rosa [a social entrepreneur who works on affordable
rural electrification in Brazil] are developing low-cost systems to rent poor people solar panels, and when the clients get
electricity, they’re going to buy water pumps, TVs, electric showers. Ultimately businesses are going to want to sell
to these people, but it’s the social entrepreneurs who understand right now how to find these people and serve them,
and that’s an enormous advantage they have…. Social entrepreneurs are constantly defying the assumptions about
what kinds of things are possible and doable at large scale. This is an enormous potential source of opportunity for the business
sector.
Despite Bornstein’s articulation of what the citizen sector
has to offer, mainstream thinking tends to encourage nonprofits to learn from for-profits, to become more business-like. There
are two primary reasons. One, the for-profit sector is older: “Business is a much more mature sector. When more mature
sectors meet less mature sectors, there’s the assumption that they have more to teach.” Two, “The reason why the knowledge direction is historically one-way is just a function of the wealth and prestige
of the two sectors,” Bornstein explains. “The business sector is considered a ‘real’ sector; it has
huge amounts of money, employs the bulk of people in society, and it’s where the power is.” When the nonprofit sector is perceived as a second-class sector, a “respect gap” is created: That respect gap has led to the fact that the sectors haven’t
worked very well together. Social entrepreneurs are the best way to break down that respect gap and build bridges because
everybody respects them. Take Muhammad Yunus [founder of the Grameen Bank]--whether you’re running a Fortune 500 company
or a nonprofit, you can see that this man is clearly a terrific entrepreneur; he’s brought tremendous changes. The social
entrepreneurs who are really able to build up remarkable organizations can grab the attention of people in all the different
sectors and get them to focus their eyes on what’s possible, and that’s the best way to bring people together.
When asked if it’s possible to learn how to change the world, Bornstein emphatically agrees,
Bornstein uses Childline, a 24-hour emergency response system for children in distress as an example. Childline has grown
from its first office in Bombay in 1996 to 55 Indian cities today, and efforts are now underway to develop the model in Africa
and other locations. “Can we change the world? Can we learn how to change the
world?” Bornstein answers, “There are hundreds and hundreds of examples of systems people have developed around
the world that don’t require the entrepreneur any more because they’ve been systematized, and they’ve been
spread to different locations and implemented by different people who are not the original founders--so you know that this
idea, or model, is sound; it works. We can accelerate social innovation considerably by making concerted efforts to look for
and analyze these ‘blueprints’ and then build communication channels to disseminate them far and wide.” | 
The figure illustrates the
open source searches athat world travel guides are all about: what learning exponentials are we
missing? where below the line we have indicates some best in expoential sources, do tell us if
you have an alternative nomination or indeed feedback on the nominated benchmarks in other cases
such as hubs, there are many different subspecies to benchmark, we'd particularly like to her of nominations that add
to our hub catalogue H1 I assume that the hub in Islington is for 25 year olds up; Tav's espian visionaries of truth's deepest searches; people starting or restarting
careers around social or sustainability entrepreneur projects and networks ; this at least blends with my experience
of the Islington hub and includes this bookmark of Sofia and Islington's hub founder http://www.bath.ac.uk/management/news_events/news/2006/02-03.html H2 Whilst on Inner Cities in potentially well of NW hemispheres:
a major hunt is for examples for hubs for teens (or pre-rteens depending on what your knowledge shows to be the tipping year) who
will otherwise start careers as gangs, addicts or in worst cases of exclusion whatever Britain has done to the etremely
small minority of Muslims who have lost hope in being included. Leeds is a strange crossroads for me as my first and only
job in computer assisted learning started there. Even though in 1975 my father was concurrently writing on a future history chpater
on the risk of bombs for everybody in his survey of America's 3rd century, I would not have guessed that a
friend who also grew up in Leeds and one a great community mentor to many of us in London would have been killed on a
london tube by another brought up in Leeds. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4741333.stm Hubs are every city's best investment in safety, as well as key to London piloting the future of
all cross-cultural cities - a role it has -like it or not - because more people of different mother tongues meet in London
than any other city. H3 This brings us to what hubs do Southern
and Eastern hemispheres need where the start of growing up is in extreme poverty or the continutaion of a carreer or parenthood
is. The Catalytic Communities Hub in Rio is primarily for adult community connectors in the Favela slums. This
has blended its space with colletying parallel projects potentially worldwide - hence its tech award laureate among 25 laureates of 2006 www.catcomm.org H4 In Brazil too, ashoka believes that it
has identified at elast 2 other world scale hubs: 2 Vera Cordeiro: a hub for mums in favela's whose
children were serially returning to hospital - before Vera's hubs, there was no public space where parents could
learn illness prevention or chronic illness care other than waiting for their children to become so sick that they
had to be hospitalised again. The saving in health and heathcare cost of Vera's communal spaces are huge though often
not liked by administrators of local governance which is an interesting challenge I note hubs have repeatedly to overcome
in getting start up funds. Indeed Fazle Abed of www.brac.net puts it more strongly; in public service of the poorest , the professionalisation of service above or outside
the community is the beginning of the end of serving what the poorest need. This is a key entrepreneurial learning of public
service.
Benchmarks: Learning 6-11 for and by poorest BRAC - see their homepage brac.net and our brac.tv collation of scripts All world citizen children : Gandhi/Montessori 1 2 3 Carnival Fluent education - Roosevelt Finlayson Bahamas 1 , Ubuntu Scholarship/Exchanges - Mandela-Rhodes Alumni associkations :oxbridge.tv Net Revolution - eg Dr Vos Open Space - eg Owen, Haiti | Entreprenurial languages used by some
of those at the forefront of crisis focis being studined by world change travel guindes Vinod
Khosla is probably the number 1 venture capaitalist acting as entrepreneurial revolutionary for climate. He's advising
the Branson-Gore-Clinton team that starred in the 3 billion dollar initiative Branson declared at ClintonGI2006; he's
a core supporter of Yunus and the microcredit summit meeting network format that has helped take 100 million families
out of poverty in the last 7 years co-authoring a paper on this with S Davis chair of Grameen USA. Here are the links
to Entrepreneurial vision that Khosla commends at his web site:
entrepreneurial resources industry views | building businesses
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B1) Ashoka's interactions with MF have started up in 2 fascinating ways: B1)
Which Social Entrepreneurs first wanted to exchnage projects as a group network with Muhammad Yunus: B2) How do Ashoka's
3 micro-drivers of Full Economics (see eg video at google.org min sec) compound further value multiplications:
coops
for small producers: production and distribution systems need to be transformed for the benefit of classes of small
producers (e.g., shepherds, potters, weavers) to generate a much greater volume of resources for the billions of individual
small producers.
hybrid value chains: business needs to develop a new vision
for conceiving and organizing its work to reach underserved markets of the poor, through a hybrid value-chain approach —
partnering with the citizen sector to innovate at each step of the value chain from processing raw materials to arriving at
the finished product.
land and other entrepreneurial asset revolutions: more
imaginative property rights that recognize liquid wealth would greatly empower individuals who are currently unable to leverage
their assets because existing legal frameworks do not recognize these assets as being legitimate C)Global Envision:
William Early, Founder and Contributor, conceived the Global Envision partnership with Mercy Corps on a visit to Mercy Corps' micro-lending
programs in China with Ells Culver, Co-Founder of the organization.When it comes down to economic models
for the 21st century, in the words of Hernando De Soto, “capitalism is the only game in town.” Workers in emerging markets, writes Thomas Friedman, are those who “may not like a lot of things about globalization but who know that the alternatives are a lot, lot
worse.” Is this the best we can do? Global Envision believes that the more that we understand about the free market
system, how it affects us and our neighbors all over the globe, and how it can benefit us all, the better our chances that
the global economy will thrive for the prosperity of all. By featuring educational resources, articles, stories and opinions about how economic policy and development can be made more inclusive, Global Envision provides models of how free markets
can be a positive force in creating a more fair, just, and stable future. Our goal is to ensure that the poor are not left
behind by globalization, and that technology is used in the developing world as a tool with which local people take advantage
of opportunities, instead of one with which they are taken advantage of.
Nov 06 update :HM Treasury declares Climate Crisis has travelled so far down red curve that Britain needs to invest 1% of all earnings to save | Footnotes and other stuff to re-edit from older versions: Norman Macrae 1
2, Europe's senior economics journalist (career-long at The Economist until retirement and then weekly columnist for Sunday
Times and Heresies columnist for Fortune) ;interviewer of enterpreneurial revolutionaries (trilogy) and future history leaders-
writing in 1984 Future History of the Death of Ditance generation, a book I co-authored It's
only with Wangari Maathai (2004) that Nobel has begun to surf the wave of economics transformation, and now three
cheers for the nomination of Muhammad Yunus and Grameen bank (details grameen.tv) -half winers each in 2006. Clearly the first economic revolution pattern rule is: Peace sustains strong economics not
vice versa in a networked world Around here, our guides
are interested in how revolutions in microeconomics multiply the value people & hi-trust communities co-create: A) Microfinance
gets really exciting when different cultures play with it- so Queen Sofia of Spain cheerleads all Spanish-speaking developing
nations to experiment with MF, and its worldwide goal to sustain 100 million familes out of poverty - ho |
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