Meetings #6 (Nov 30 Glasgow) &
#7 (Dec 2 Oxford) with Muhammad Yunus
(#5 Dhaka July #4 Gordon Brown Youtube for Africa day London May, #3 RAC St James Lunch Book tour February London
32 Booktour New York January #1 Dhaka january)
GLASGOW
Just in from Monaco where he has been asking their royal family to set up a social business
fund, Yunus is in Glasgow to accept 2 university honors in one day- while the honors are nice he rates such events successful
these days if the powers that be plant some actions- Glasgow was a triple win:
*we will start a grameen Glasgow bank to loan to the poorest
of the local poor who have been out of work for as many as 3 generations
*we will start a creative lab in our university
so students can try innovations your systems round
*we will start some student exchange schemes between Glasgow
and Dhaka
He was also greeted by the Icelandic Scottish journalistic
daughter of Magnus Magnusson who is setting up some Magnusson awards process. How Ironic that Iceland lost its short in USA’s
global fraudulent bubble of 2008 just as Scotland lost its independence around 1700 in that time’s most deceitful economics
debacle
We chatted about how Dr Yunus would love to be included in the debates Obama’s economics team have
on whether the global banking crisis is solvable; we started to debate what is it that we need to handout to “yes
we can” youth at Obama inauguration parties so that they can seen that Obamanomics and Yunus economics are almost the same when it comes to community development and creating green
jobs- and where do 10000 free dvds of good news conversation starters made with grameen's most innovative social
business project leaders fit into this
OXFORD The New Zealand vice chancellor told me he was overjoyed to see yunus fill the
Sheldonian with youth and youth seemed to love the difference between what yunus suggest people learn by doing and what elder
professors theorise as what your brand needs before you can interact. (150 Yunus Videos handed out to Oxford Students)
Mostofa introduced me to a compatriot who has been taking photos of Dr Yunus since the birth
of Grameen in 1976 –another treasure trove for understanding who’s been truly networking yunus for how long as
well as confirming what a long way village women have courageously advanced. Whilst in Oxford, Mostofa and I tried to shake
hands with the Social Entrepreneur faculty at Said Business School. We left them some Yunus videos and they Said their best
public resources were on the web.
REFLECTION
Perhaps with leaders like sir tom hunter
mixing up entrepreneurial revolution north of the border there is a way to help make Glasgow and oxford such brilliant yunus
collaboration cities that eventually too-busy-or-too-big-to bother Londoners return to be collaborative yunus people. (Dr
Yunus was quite gleeful when I confirmed that both Brown and Blair were not Londoners but Scots)
this is the youngest
68 year old- and most innovative and hi-trust marketer I have met in 30 years of working on the world's largest brands
- long live microcredit and yes we can and youNus
If there some more
detailed Q&A we can help each other with – please do!
Lancaster PA April 30 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient to Speak at 136th Annual Dinner Muhammad
Yunus - revolutionizing economic and social development worldwide http://www.lcci.com/enews/article.asp?id=1241
Consistently ranked humanity's most productive networking event -achieving
its 10 year roadmap of giving 100 million families access to ending poverty - microcreditsummit comes to Indonesia: http://www.inamicrocreditsummit.org/ July 28-30
here are some current menus
- we delight in being told what we are missing or how to take an item to the next step or worldwide entrepreneurial collaboration
08.3 how to sustain your city's largest monthly collaboration citizen meeting on yunus and celebrating humanity
agenda
08.4 yuNus youtubes and resources -development; catlaoguing on how to use to save 24 different worlds; how
to increase any time accessibility and peer to peer debriefings http://wholeplanet.tv/id27.html
08.7 Future Capitalism: how do citizens share knowledge of how to play Snap FC with ceos and industry sector responsibility
http://futurecapitalism.tv/
08.8 empowerment networks Win-Win-Win: Connect q&a with 10000 rural telecentres and 5 focal areas beyonmd
community banking - ie health, agriculture, education, government, comesumer channels and goods http://egrameen.com/
08.9 How can citizens and netizens help quality control microcredit market as for SB organisational systems, and
bridge knowledge from micro credit to all micro economic developments
One of the better kept secrets of visiting Dhaka is the extraordinary range of leaflets on talks
given by Dr Yunus and his leading entrepreneurs of green energy, health and social business's other sustainability solutions
If you succeed in geting a lecturer to use a leaflet as a classroom debating stimuli - do tell us so we can put
leaflet dialigue alumni in touch with each other
Prime Minister Gordon Brown: Hello How are you, what
a pleasure
Muhammad Yunus: It’s a pleasure
for me
PM :It’s good to see you
(They Shake Hands)
Scene 2 Muhammad Yunus Introduces himself to the camera from the heart of 10 Downing Street
I am Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh with Grameen bank. We lend money to extremely
poor people for income generating activities. I am suggesting that Africa needs a lot of microfinance programs
– tiny loans 30 dollar, 45 dollar 100 dollar – and paid back in weekly installments. It doesn’t need any
collateral. It doesn’t need any lawyers into it but the repayment rate is very high: 98% or 99%.
Microfinance is very important because it allows
people to bring out their own initiative, bring out their own capability. And they can move on their own speed to cerate income,
to get out of poverty. And people in Africa are very enterprising people, particularly women. Microfinance
focuses on women. Today in Bangladesh within Grameen Bank we have 7.5 million borrowers a- 97% of them women. The Prime Minister
is very much aware of it; very supportative of it. So we will discuss how to make it happen in Africa
Scene 3 PM and Dr Yunus sitting round a cup of tea
PM There is so much goodwill to the work you have been
doing, and it is so important
Scene 4After tea:
Muhammad Yunus denouement
At the same time, we will be
discussing another concept – the social business :business to do good to people -(show
copy of Dr Yunus new bestselling book Creating a World Without Poverty- Social Business, The Future of Capitalism ).This is business where you aim at the social objectives, not for making money for yourself. You cover your cost, make
profit but the profit doesn’t go to investors or outsiders but stays with the company to achieve the goal that you set
out to help achieve or lead.
Milken
Institute Yunus has been described by BusinessWeek as one of the "greatest entrepreneurs of all time."
He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Dhaka and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.
Speakers: Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google Inc. Craig Venter, Founder and President, J. Craig Venter Institute; Co-Founder and CEO, Synthetic Genomics Inc. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2006; Managing Director, Grameen Bank
Moderator: Michael Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute; Chairman, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions
Some of the most inventive minds in business are harnessing the power of technology and the
markets to create sweeping shifts in the way we live, work and interact. By combining top-notch intellectual talent with non-traditional
approaches, bold ideas, major investments and cutting-edge technology, they are innovating on a grand scale. Our panelists
will discuss how pioneering business ventures can drive social change.
info@worldcitizen.tv welcomes additions to this Yunus literature list (wider mfi lists include 1)
Yunus, Muhammad, Credit for Self Employment: A Fundamental Human Right, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, 1987.
Yunus, M. and Jolis, A.(1998) Banker to the poor: the autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank.
Aurum
Yunus M, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business, Future of Capitalism, 2008
Yunus, Muhammad, Experience in Organizing Grassroot Initiatives and Mobiliing People's Participation: The Case
of Grameen Bank Project in Bangladesh. Paper Presented at the 25th World Conference of the Society for International Development.
Baltimore, Md., 1982.
Yunus, Muhammad, 1983, "If you can't beat them join them; or, how to operate your
own financial institution", in Mattis, Ann, ed., 1984, A Society for International Development Prospectus, Duke UP for
Society for International Development, Durham, NC, p. 79?90.
Yunus, Muhammad, Jorimon and Others, Grameen Bank,
Dhaka, 1984.
Yunus, Muhammad, Grameen Bank - The First Decade, Asian and Pacific Development Centre, 1986.
Yunus,
Muhammad, Strategy for the Decade of Ninties, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, 1989.
Yunus, Muhammad, Peace is Freedom from
Poverty, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, 1991.
Yunus, Muhammad, 1991, The Grameen Bank: Experiences and Reflections, Grameen
Bank, Dhaka.
Yunus, Muhammad, Experiences and Reflections, Grameen Bank, 1991.
Yunus, Muhammad, 1994,
Grameen Bank As I See It, in Gibbons, David S, 1994, ed., The Grameen Reader, 2nd edition, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, p. 62-98
