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| Jamii Bora KENYA | Safe banking for Mobile Youth's poorest | Use of crowdmapping to sustain people's trust after national election crisis | Business school for any person who wants to become most productive however personally abused, unhealthy or addicted their prior familial/communal experience | Kaputei: Africa's most loved housing estate and sustainable ecovilage | Coming soon - microcredit's most exciting example of community radio | Since 1999, one of planet's two (1 2) greatest labs for social business labs for entrepreneurial revolutionary tests in multiple-win mapping of youth-public-private partnerships - reports on JB always welcome; partnership reports of most interest in 2011 include wholeplanetfoundation - rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv |
We are writing a book on why Ingrid Munro is one if the 8 happiest economists of all time - sample profile:
Ingrid Munro is an alumni of Muhammad Yunus. As recently as 1999 she started a Kenya microecredit “Jamii Bora meaning Happy Families”. What’s extraordinary is her most productive members are youth who used to rove nairobi as gangs of thieves and girls of street. Most people including microcredit’s greatest fans had previously not been able to imagine trusting a bank to such customers let alone such staff! But then Ingrid’s 30 years of work makes her one of the most beloved white women in Africa and youth were not going to throw way the once in lifetime opportunity to show that in a mobile network age they can build a nation into one of the most joyous economies anywhere, Her bank demonstrates that in out mobile age, gangs are strongly connected peer to peer networks – who given a chance find it much more smart to be seen creating things rather than destroying them. Dreams of Kenya as a leader among African nations became reality at a moment of great crisis. In Kenya’s 2009 riots, youth destroyed one of the largest informal markets at the slum of Kibera. Ingrid’s network let the dust blow over for a few days and then approached the gang leader – would his team like to be given the credit to rebuild the market and entrepreneurially take care of it properly? ...
Ingrid Munro & the Jamii Bora story of mentoring people out of poverty from Mamading Ceesay on Vimeo.
how kenya april 2010 saved the world and empowered obama's second half aka USAID 2.0
Kenya's microcreditsummit in april 201 is the most important event of 2010s Sustainability -and Global Village - Decade to date - like any 4 month old sub-brand of what youth of 2010s need to network, it needs huge help to fill some gaps or make sure these are interconnected by the next summit it relays to - please help us with the strongest possible devil's advicacy of what's (as yet) missing knowing all the while that we believe microcreditsummit's 13 year history is the greatest testament to human networking yet seen - rsvp info @worldcitizen.tv if you have other contenders to nominate (also at twitter)
as devils advocate these seem to be huge gaps - does anyone else agree? (by the way this is the opposite of sam's fault - it is because during the stage of putting this altogether he only has 2 full time people -how could we do that to him as well as cause conflict with the wish of young people around the world to understand the true system designs of end poverty? isnt this why the greatest millennium goals network is so easy for "the system design enemy" namely macroeconomics to subvert? )
1 wangari maathai who lives down the road in nairobi 2 irrigation (eg kickstart) 3 taddy blecher (free university) 4 inviting whomever had most influence on moving usaid beyond aid to feel this summit is there's too 5 specific link with queen sofia's demand that spanish southern speaking hemisphere learns from jamii bora and best of youth-mobile-microcredit-slums etc and africa feels welcome to learn from spanish southern hemisphere 6 specific celebrations of micro and solar energy 7 end malaria as obama's number 1 foreign assistance pledge and his fatherland as ideal national lab to end malaria 8 representation of keynote speakers in applied areas of which health is an extraordinay omission given the 2 great bangladeshi microcredits origins in that area 9 ditto lack of reprsentation of childrens schooling including gandian models, vocations and microcredit 10 lack of many womens leadership networks ; is there a greater heroine in the world today than ingrid munro and if so why dont the half of the world that are women celebrate her? why not jaq novogratz of acumen? why not co-presidential change agent like mary robinson who oddly partners sachs earth institute but not microfinace's ecovilage; knowing how completely microcreditworld stages including JP Morgan and world bank have exhausted Ingrid's own health we cannot assume there will be another time to do this 11 african diaspora groups from big capitals 12 lack of media and stars who could - eg those involved with the millennium goal movie http://www.notimeleft.org/index.php www.thegreenchildren.org jeff skoll, larry brilliant, bono if he's serious, simon cowell who did an advert from kibera to fund 100 mn $ for macroaid, other producers of reality tv apprenticeships 13 paul krugman as princeton's 2nd most useful man after sam 14 lack of mit, google.org or others who could connect digital/internet for the poor 15 transparency international (gee eigen is supposed to be a world social entrepreneur with drayton, yunus and abed) 16 nick stern once famous uk gov editor of end african poverty 2005; turn world bank upside down; blaiir's clmat crisis whip; who made his name studying viilages in kenya and india; also british council (fall 09 british council meeting in bangladesh where british ministers alexander and miliband asked bangladeh to take strongests position ...) I can see Bangladesh has some infrastructure difficulties in being host for microcreditsmmit but seriously can we not market enough inveetment partners in true microcredit around suggesting to sam that microcreditsummit 2012 could be held in dhaka -this should be done after the olympics but at a time of least weather risk (or in terms of internal politics is this still not smething bangladesh government would bless); if dhaka can't do it why not lucknow in india | ... OPen Mal top Wangari Maathai - if you can help send open mail please contat us at info @worldcitizen.tv Hello Mrs Maathai's Leaderhip Team Is there a way I could make an appointment for a telephone call with Wangari Maathai or her chief of staff? I want to ask if she knows about the microcreditsummit in kenya in april www.microcreditsummit.org and why many sustainability and youth networks around the world back the aim of this summit to be the most practical ever held on sustainability leadership. In open system terms, our definition integrates community rising and transparency processes connecting exponentials of economics and ecology and youth's worldwide generation. According to humanity champions like Queen Sofia of Spain, the summit is also about supporting inter-hemisphere knowledge connections with a local hero Ingrid Munro of http://jamiibora.org who has both innovated mobile banking for youth in slums and microfinanced the ecovilage Kaputei, as well as playing a grounded role in resolving the riots crisis - eg getting the rioters to rebuild the kibera marketplace quickly and take mutual responsibility for its future opportunities to inspire youth and job creation After 4 visits to Dhaka sponsred by my father http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687, I am also an acquaintance of Nobel Laureate Muhamaad Yunus and he has made it clear at his 69th birthday party last June that he sees this summit (the 13th microbanking one) as being at a crossroads . Dr Yunus aims to make global grameen the number 1 sustainability parrtnering brand through the 2010s. He is asking whether future microeconomics and millennium goal empowerment summits are best done anchored around banking for the poor or around each of the different sustainability crises that win-win-win social business sytsem models can be designed round - and which youth can be mobilised to network replications across borders when invited by relevant world class brand owners to innovate collaboration I would like to suggest that this is both africa's and the microeconomics world's poorest most important and actionable meeting, and for all these reasons it would be huge if Wangaari Mathai could attend part or all of it in Nairobi. If one reads what little the Nobel judges write on their process I think it is no accident that they have largely reframed peace in terms of proactive sustainabbility community developers and that in this category Kenyans (or those who love Kenya) have already won 2 prizes and many would argue Ingrid as a contender for Kenya 3. I hope you don't mind me posing this question just in case it has not already been asked from the perspective of how urgent it is to many sustainability investment or end poverty networkers I know sincerely chris macrae washington dc 301 881 1655 fans network http://www.jamiibora.net |
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can you tell me do you have connections with http://www.jamiibora.org/ or the coming microcreditsummit http://microcreditsummit.org/ of 2000 people in kenya in april 2010? chris.macrae @yahoo.co.uk for those who haven't heard JB's leader Ingrid Munro speak - this presentation at the world bank 2008 is a good first experience http://www.microlinks.org/multimedia/Jamiibora/player.html the last slide 63 is useful for americans and europeans to ponder usa was built by europe's poorest entrepreneurs including 1 million of then 3 million swedes who emigrated between 1850-1900 -why should Kenyans or the poorest anywhere have any less job creating capability if we credit their sustainability & web their youth communities with social business system designs? | . | In
a sensible CP3 world Yunus Olympics festival would build on Whatever global grameen summit 2010 connects Whatever microcreditsummit 2010 and 2011 connects Other micro up or collaboration partner events As well as feed in to the milan 2015 whose mayor has already been booked by yunus as likely to be number millennium goals SB festival; . | . Thanks for your Question and Answers CP3 Q is
rumor that mayor of milan convening social business milliennium goal festival 2015 official and if its not oficial is
to right to talk about it A well I can tell you my attitude about this though I would like feedback what
de bono calls pluses minuses and questionmarks |
Dreams are made out of impossibles. We cannot reach the impossibles by using the analytical minds which are trained
to deal with hard information which is currently available. These minds are fitted with flashing red lights to warn us about
obstacles that we may face. We’ll have to put our minds in a different mode when we think about our future.
We’ll have to dare to make bold leaps to make the impossibles possible. As soon as one impossible becomes possible,
it shakes up the structure and creates a domino effect, preparing the ground for making many other impossibles possible. |
11 meetings ago when I first met yunus, I volunteered to spread rumors of what’s possible http://rowp.tv/ ; for me many of the ideas over 5 to 7 years that micro people commit to turn out to be exponentially better than expected;
Bangladesh will create 100,000 solar energy jobs in the villages well before 2015 and already installs more solar units than the whole of the usa (against which those who cheered on yes we can a year ago could urgently be asking where are the maps towards 5 million green community jobs I recall obama pledging; why dont american state governors tour bangladesh until they get it; why do we pay them tax until they get it?) http://grameenenergy.com/ -how can we help with tours of dhaka is en route to every sustainability city is a question I ask every time I visit yunus in dhaka
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm
Nations who send 36 social business delegates (thanks France) to see yunus at a time are at the leading edge of being in what adam smith would now call the collaborative advantage of nations –global grameen collaboration partner type 7 on the way my 12 year old and I map the world of global sustainability partnerships; if we can’t get nations above zero sum before she is 21 in an age spinning hyperconnectivity we are all toast
and they need gossiping to get people to congregate around them and make them happen; this is part of the missing media we don’t have since most media is used to control not to collaborate; except on projects I am intimately involved with, I don’t mind getting (egg over my face) by more rumors slightly wrong as long as some positive impetus happens to ones that turn out to be right because we all get behind them the earliest we cold contribute; moreover when I first started marketing the job of a marketer was to throw out lots and lots of concepts until one hit a positive nerve with all sides and that was the one people went with; this is an opposite but in my view thousand times better way to market than expensive advertising spots
2 at the end of the day spreading is there a loss to anyone apart from perhaps myself of spreading a positive rumor that doesn’t happen in exactly the place described; I suppose it depends partly on the style in which the rumor was initiated, so I take the point that I should infer a probability not a certainty to things
well what is near certain in my mind about millennium goal social business festivals
firstly if yunus is alive they will happen; gee its the biggest year on the calendar of the 2010s given his 15+ year support at centre of millennium goals; whether its going to happen in one city of be a bit like his race to poverty museums of every city be something where it doesn’t matter so much who does the best as long as many try
3 in this particular case the mayor of Milan made a video conference broadcast to the first 100 alumni of global grameen in which I understood she said it was happening as long as she had anything to do with Milan in 2015 : I guess I better see if I can you tube her announcement some time so we can review if I understood the message correctly
again in all of the above if I got the wrong end of the message - silly me; but come on each of us is targeted by ate least 1000 commercial messages a day; and the vast majority of those are in fact not good for us if we get the right end of the addictive message; so quite frankly if I can rebel against practices in my own profession of mass media, I will I will I will. In fact I have for at least a decade know and edited journals of how to do get positive global news out at next to no cost while big advertisers often spent billion dollars a campaign to get news out that isn’t good for you – do you know how much worlds 100 biggest north western banks spent promising you they were as safe as houses –answer multiple trillions of dollars; do you know how many trillions of dollars pharma companies spend with the consequence that more than half of what they sell in many brands wasn’t needed by customers at all; we live in an age where media is quite capable of ending the sustainability of all of us unless we be the media of good news in any way we dare not to lurk
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. Which is a first attempt to explore how collaboration partnering is the biggest competitive advantage of all in a network age then I conclude what will happen isn’t really down to the efforts of the first 100 big partners yunus signs but how we the people cheer them on; if yunus is known to say that the power is actually with the poor, then most definitely the power of global media is with every citizen; do we let it control us or do we celebrate dreams we will turn into realities – you have to choose but I think I know which way yunus hopes you will choose (but do please understand if I am wrong mea culpa, its not the fault of any friend of mine; I assume to my last breadth that one learns by making lots and lots of mistakes provided always they were intended in good faith; again maybe that epitaph applies particularly to my profession people of media people, and if most media people disagree with that then in my pinion they have lost the hippocratic oath that media professionals ought live by)
7 Wonders of Yes We Can's WholePlanet Networking 1 2
Kenya's Jamii Bora is a top 7 destination of MicroLeadersQuest student clubs across America interested in connecting Obama Yes We Can, Millennium Goal networks, community building and microentrepreneurs. These are some reasons for benchmarking Jamii Bora - please mail info@worldcitizen.tv others
Jamii Bora, Kenya .Safe Banking -uses mobile technology to be one of lowest costs to operate deposit account in world Most economical
health insurance Business School for Any Hard Working Person World's Most Loved Housing Estate Coming
soon WholeFoods?Unitus Coffee Fair Trade
Inauguration week 2 of Yes We Can Presidency see US visits from world leaders of ending poverty
Ingrid Munro, Founder, Jamii Bora, Kenya
.Munro, at JP Morgan Manhattan HQ, 26 January 2009 (week 2 of Yes We Can Inauguration)
| Presentation by Ingrid Munro, founder of Jamii Bora in Kenya. Munro is a revolutionary social entrepreneur,
changing the microfinance landscape in ways that shatter conventional wisdom and open an array of new possibilities for empowering
the very poor. With some 200,000 members and a staff consisting solely of former clients, Jamii Bora has
successfully made loans to people who are now former beggars, prostitutes and thieves; developed a home-grown health insurance
program serving more than 300,000 people, and is building a new town of 2,000 houses and 3,000 work spaces. As
Munro says, “Every person’s dream
is to move out of the slums, not patch up the slums.” Wednesday, January 28, 20099:00-10:00 a.m.The World Bank (Main Complex), Washington DC |
New York January 26 : Ingrid Munro & Muhammad Yunus present humanity's greatest news of the millennium - Hosted by JP Morgan 383 Lexington Avenue
Greatest Happenings of our generation
info@worldcitizen.tv is interested in hearing your nominations of the greatest happenings of the computing generation 1980-2025. Early on our economics editor nailed his search to ending poverty - not just because it was the right thing to do but because with death of distance's ever more connected age gaps in incomes and expectations of rich and poor nations would become mankind's greatest risk to species sustainability
Our top 3 nominations for ending poverty are all interconnecting:
1 The Bangladeshi Microcredit Revolution which begun around Muhammad Yunus with the formal opening of Grameen village bank in 1983
2 The emergence of Jamii Bora- Africa's leading role model for microcredit which emerged in Kenya in the late 1990s
3 The election of Kenyan-American Barrack Obama whose mother was one of the pioneers of microcredit in 1980s Indonesia and womens world banking.
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This web logs Jamii Bora's progress. In common with all the world's deepest microcredits, Jamii Bora is about empowering every community to rise sustainability out of poverty as well as the greatest collaboration maps -part of how rising microcredit replicate what works as soon as they find a solution to a life critical service
Jamii Bora is also different from Bangladeshi microcredit in that it empowers youth and orphans from Kenya's slums to become microentrepreneurs whereas diagnosis of Poverty's challenge in Bangladesh focused around women vilagers. This means that many of the innovation foci of Jamii Bora are new to the world and can be replicated in paralel programs. For the first time, Africa offers its own world class sustainability models. One which proves network loyalty of banking members can work in urban districts as well as rural ones. One which has been born since the mobile empowering age. This makes JB's operations one of the lowest costs per bank deposit in the world
The macroeconomics rule over Americans in the 00s has compounded a sadly slow focus on millennium goals. But here's the chance to catch up. See what impossible becomes possible solutions can be test marketed in partnership with Jamii Bora but with ten view to replicating successes to analogous communities in need across the continent. The most specific of Obama's pledges to bend the curve back to millennium goals involved ending death by malaria by 2015. We'll bet a few dollars with anyone that if that's going to happen then Kenya will be the first test country supported by all the knowledge circulation that a peoples community network of jamii Bora's courageous brilliance can help all rejoice YES WE CAN
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Friday, January 30, 2009 Imagine This This week Ingrid Munro who co-founded Jamii Bora in 1999 with 50 street orphans and slum dwellers was invited to meet the world bank in washington dc and the world's biggest banks in wall street. She was asked to tell them what she knew about what people most want from banking which they might have forgotten about or not know how to do. Her reply at JP Morgan bank. In other words, today Jamii Bora is the most interesting bank to learn and do with in the whole world If you are a Kenyan you don't need to trust me in saying this - why not trust a leader like the Kenyan-American in the White House. Yes We Can is one of his favourite interaction appeals to youth and people like you. Please tell us ohers info@worldcitizen.tv Wednesday: I left New York at 3 am to try to meet Ingrid at the World bank at 8.30 am. I asked her if people are living in a rural or other part of Kenya and want to know how to practice with Jamii Bora, what would they need to have before Jamii Bora would be interested in helping networks its solutions openly with them? She said nothing other than the communal determination to go from having nothing to the most the people and the community could humanly achieve and sustain over time. So if you do represent - or love a community in Kenya - so you know what that
community most desperately wants to have a chance to connect its peoples lifetimes to doing
One of Jamii Bora's abilities to be smarter than any other bank I have ever seen is every bit of vital information to society and to business is recorded by mobile technology. So JB isnt just the smartest peoples bank yet designed, but one of the worldwide's best in using internet technology in a race that I rate as more worthwile than the 1960s race to get to the moon. Of course that's a personal judgement -select your own. Speaking personally: the first job I ever tried to learn how to do is market research. And my favourite practice in market research is called mystery market research. What that means is if you take the time to go an talk to Jamii Bora - and you truly represent a community who wants to know how they could join in doing what over 20000 people at Jamii Bora are doing and learning with small amounts of money - then I will publish what you report happened. I will do this at http://jamiibora.net which journalist and student friends of ending poverty edit. chris macrae info@worldcitizen.tv Jamii Bora aims to sustain Kenya's end-poverty future by doubling in size in 2009 from under quarter of a million kenyans helping each other to become microentrpreneurs, to over half a million -ask yourself who can help this and who could waste jamii bora's members time - please From: William Wambura Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3 good news stories from world bank presentation by Ingrid Munro of banking for Kenya's slum entrepreneurs, and nationwide poorest1 A man in the audience near the top of usaid said we are bit puzzled by the transition but it seems we are being told to study replication - how does one do that? (I mentioned that social business is the study of replication and that's why collaboration new york and east coast microup stident clubs committed yesterday to dr yunus to try to be the fits grpup to openly web a catlogue of 1000 social businesses) 2 the man said but I thought this jamii bora presentation was saying we should send any professor we can to kenya to go and examine it - to which Ingrid said please dont send professors - remember each time one of these men makes a separtate visit they are taking up staff time which is paid for by the poorest of the poor I mentioned to usaid man model of "send a student to intern" who then becomes relationship guide between jami borra and arranging visits of professors etc-and choosing interns by how they respond in 10000 dvd dialogue- he asked for 1 3 I also asked ingrid if a place like rusinga island want's to join your pan-kenya grassroots networks what resources or members does it have to have first (unlike vidar's answer that it needed to bring funds in case of grammen america branches) she said nothing apart for the yes we can values her members sought chris jamii bora best grassroots network social businesses in the world- started in kenya slums
but no adult is excluded from membership- doubling in size about every 7 months currelntly 200,000 after starting with 50
members in 1999 ("I thought I was only running a 50 person club but the members had other ideas!" - Ingrid Munro) *microcredit
and micro savings building 2000 subprime properties banking for subprime utility management
company for 2000 houses most economical 200000 members health insurance most efficient sms for all
bank staff inputs online partnership with unitus and wholefoofds on freeing market of coefee (fair trade) members
business school which is mainly run by peer members but has 3 universities partnering including one in north carolina alcoholics
annonymous program run by members new hope program run by members some of whom have become the smartest social workers solar disaster
insurance- while the Jamii bank made a healthy surplus in 2007; it was only just in black in 2008 because half of members
lost their jobs in the political violence and the disaster insurance had to compensate them
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| .Kenya had months of post-election violence in 2008, and it also had some success stories about conflict resolution. I've written
in an earlier blog about Jamii Bora Trust in Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum, perhaps one of the largest in Africa. Here's
a short video which shows how Jamii Bora's branch manager for Kibera, Andrew Otieno, got youths who looted and burned
Toi Market to rebuild it, then rebuild their lives through getting training and loans from Jamii Bora. The sound quality is poor, so look out for these points:
A miracle brought about by the 'whole community' approach
at Jamii Bora Trust!
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