yes We Can DC bureau of YunusForum info@worldcitizen.tv usa 301 881 1655 June 2009's all week birthday dialogue (BBC report) with Dr Yunus and his leadership teams made month 18 of Q&A I connect between them and curiously expert parties
- here are some current Q&A
Digital do you know if estelle demonstrated
her dad's digital money gadget to kazi and if so what was the consequence
Solar Energy can you recall was there any discussion
when paul and nina met Dipal he wants his news marketed internationally; I have a particular question - is he aware that Kenya's jamii bora needed 2000 solar installations in kaputei new town- my understanding is not all of them have proven
powerful enough for running all day businesses; this question comes back to are grameen and barefootpower equally capable
with micro solar installations or are there ones where grameen provides a better solution for those with a lot of power needs;
if so is Jamii Bora the sort of context grameen would want tio be connected with or is it just too busy in Bangladesh. For
the margin I noted that its 2 years before the 15 company consortium expects to make bangladesh a world class manufactorer
of solar panels - if that timeline varies would love to be updated
International MCI Maps: if a microcredit
genuinely believes -eg MLF Malawi - they are most sustainable replicating and most faithful grameenstyle in a country, what process of
appraisal can they go through to keep things simple and timely on all sides
Health: how do we
advance discussion of whether integrated malaria approaches that peter burgess has spent a lifetime on are of interest to
any microcredits where malaria is a problem - left picture of integrated malaria solutions with mr sultan but this needs some direct virtual connection between peter burgess and relevant part of eg grameen or brac
as I just get in the way not having medinal knowledge (recall that end deaths by malaria by 2015 is Obama's number 1 foreign
medical pledge made at 2008 clinton globa- transcript available on request)
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
