- following this up with mrs begum in dhaka spetmeber 2011 visit would be useful for me if I am on a good track - it would also be one way to relaunch youth ambassador 5000 and search for correspondents at http://www.youthandyunus.com/ since it links in with what our 2050  yunus book club readers recall yunus saying about

1 social actions

2 what I thought he wanted student leaders of social business clubs to unite in transforming

I believe I have attended at least 12 talks each to 1000 youth where yunus job creation /youth entrepreneur message has been:

demand that your last 2 years of education (whatever level that's going to be) is less about exams and more about:

1 either maximising your peer networks ability to create job for you and peers

or

2 introduces you into an apprentice scheme for a skill your community desperately needs more of

please check does mrs begum have a different wording of this

using her wording what are the best known example?

please improve my understanding with her infintely deeper experience if above wording is nearly correct is:

understanding of best cases of 2 include

1 grameen glasgow caledonian nursing college

(are there other benchmark initiatives that girl power investment networks have advanced)

2 mrs begums vocation colege which has identified about 20 skill shortages where it can guarantee jobs to those who apprentice

3 http://www.gjobs4u.com/

( I believe the free university in johannesburg with branson as one of its partbers was also a pralallel model)

does mrs begum and yunus already have other cases of 2) or 1)

in some talks yunus goes further - he impllies local authorities that wanted to create jobs would target youth with a special kind of microcredit for developing organisations in the community that could do work that community had just lost because a for profit company wants say 20% margins where a community backed company would only need a surplus ie anything between +1 to+19% surplus would be job creating (and so much better spend of government money than pating people on the dole) -is there even one example yet where a local region has started testing that with yunus

within my experience (since dad's 1984 book has encouraged a similar search) I would say the number 1 university in the world of this kind is MIT - I wonder which is mrs begum or yunus's experience

I believe the advanced nation that has best working examples of changing teachers specification towards ths is new zealand http://www.thelearningweb.net/ - for example this includes a competition week when dozens of schools and final 2 years create missing markets - interestingly the book of this educational chnage process soled 10 million copies in china but what I dont know is where in china this is being tested (though one schoool in singapore is aprt of the program)

there are 2 leads in india that could be important becuase it was one of the 2 most important countries in the yunus strategy of growing up with 2 giants

kalam who I know visited yunus- he is 3 things in one: past president of the country; its chief scientist; fanatical about educational leading to jobs and sustainability; he has intimate relationship with both manmohan singh and the lucknow school (founded by my friends within the gandhi family as a social busienss reponsible for 31000 school children a year)

When paul rose hosted a collaboration cafe in new york he surprised people like peter and I by stressing this educational challenge as much as his love of microgreen solutions - so now is the right time to see if mrs begums future mission is getting back to these foci; if its getting back to something else please try and describe

you could also search the widely abused term youth entrepreneur and see which so-called advocates of that actually want to empower the above

changing teachers

the worlds of ken robinson and harrison owen and in medicine eva vertes are the 3 that all teachers wedded to a belief in exams need to be exposed to but maybe that's an issue to take up with the gandhi family unless it interests nurjahan

chris macrae 301 881 1655

http://www.egrameen.com/

ps you know the guy who specialised in education at british council who attended the yunus 69th birthday wishes dialogue- he promised to send his audit of best educational cases around the world of the british council -did you ever get to see that and is he still at the british council in dhaka 

pursuant of schumpeters idea of empowering families in 2 million global vilages to maxisise their productivity- design 1 builds on the power of 60

60 families own their centre - a hub for microbabking, knowledge sharing, animating a community market

60 by 60 = 3600 families are served by their own banking branch - in the original model these 60 centres were near enough for one small banking team to serve them by visits at elast once a week to each centre; the team helped diffuse action learning

when mobile connectivity came to the vilage it was possible to map economies of 60*60*60 =216000 framilies; example 1 these might be connected by where was the best price or the most urgenet need for foods across a geographical contiguous area; or which first 216000 families shared knowledge on being solar empowered

as of 2011, this banking model hasnt quite got to 12.96 million families - its at just over 8 million families but with nearly 5 members per family that's over 30 million people in a jetwork with the same 16 decision sustainability culture on=f investing in their next generation - an empowered new economy determined to identify the net generations most exciting gaols and design productive lives round serving them

there is also the possibility that mobiles can bring the transactional cost of banking record down by 10 - that would lead to ideas like one end poverty world bank owned by and for over a billion people all of whom are also interconnecetd by microentrepreneurial telecentres owned at the vilage levels 

Climate Change and Constructive Entrepreneurship

Fourth Annual Global Forum
World Bank Headquarters, Washington D.C.
August 10-12, 2011
In Partnership with The World Bank, Speaker's Bureau

Who Attends?

• General Participants: 18-32 year olds
  Press Releases: Macquarie University (Australia) | University of Pennsylvania (USA)
• Event Interns
• Area experts from the private and public sectors: Invited to display their successful practices and highlight innovations and new groundbreaking business models and methods that successfully address Climate Change in different societies.
• High-level speakers and guests

Confirmed Speakers:
Evan Bailyn‏ CEO Good Media	John Shegerian Chairman and CEO Electronic Recyclers International
Francis Béland Vice President, Prize Development The X PRIZE Foundation	Angelica Silvero Head, Speakers Bureau The World Bank Group
Jonathan Blitz CEO Utility Scale Solar	William Saito Founder & CEO Intecur
Naila Chowdhury CEO Grameen Solutions Limited	Molly Tschang Managing Director International Programs Cisco
Jeffrey C. Fort Partner SNR Denton	Aleem Walji Practice Manager World Bank Institute's Innovation Team
Ivo Ivanovski Minister, Information Society Republic of Macedonia	Joe Walsh Director, six state New England region, Lime Energy
Markku Kauppinen Political Counselor Embassy of Finland, Washington D.C.	Jeff Werner General Manager, International and Public Policy Daimler
Paul B. Manson CEO Sea Breeze Power Corp.	Tory Weber Manager of Business Performance Southern California Edison
Allan T. Marks Partner Milbank’s Global Project Finance Group	V. John White Executive Director Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies
Navneet Singh Narul CEO nBrilliance	Ting Xu Senior Project Manager, Global Project Bertelsmann Foundation North America
Richard M. Saines Partner/ Head of the Climate Change and Environmental Markets Practice Baker & McKenzie

Established in 1999 in Los Angeles, California, Athgo International is a nonprofit 501c3 non-governmental that is dedicated to empowering young people (18-32 years of age) with the tools, knowledge, and support needed to conceive, develop, and launch constructive entrepreneurial ventures.  We promote cutting-edge innovations that maximize financial as well as socio-economic and environmental returns while focusing on a critical segment of the population, the young people. Our programs stretch from the United States to Europe and Asia.

• OUR PHILOSOPHY:
  1) Integrating young people in socio-economic activities enhances development. 2) Every “No” and every challenge is a disguised opportunity for a positive change.
• OUR APPROACH:
  1) Providing knowledge and enhancing the skills necessary to recognize opportunities. 
  2) Supporting and promoting innovation by way of constructive entrepreneurship.

What is Constructive Entrepreneurship?
The Constructive Entrepreneurship, as other entrepreneurship paradigms, seeks positive returns. The distinction is in the nature of returns sought by the Constructive model. Instead of seeking either only financial returns or alternatively social and environmental returns, or even blended returns at the time of payoffs, the model proposes an integrated business model at the outset. As a result, a business which includes products or services that provide communal benefits (e.g. low-income housing, affordable education, LED light bulbs, or new community driven innovations) or have a community enriching organizational makeup (e.g. a predetermined percentage of the workforce and/or ownership will be comprised of underprivileged members of the public), and is eco-effective is considered constructive.

Affiliations and Networks
Athgo has formal partnerships and affiliations with a host of international institutions, the private sector, and governments and academic establishments. The widely recognized international associations include Athgo’s membership in UN Global Compact, the world’s largest, global corporate citizenship initiative; consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council and the UN Department of Public Information; and an observer status with the World Intellectual Property Organization.  Athgo also has a formal collaboration agreement with the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) and annual programs with the World Bank and the United Nations University.  These relationships provide Athgo with an access to most UN hosted summits and conferences and position us to make formal contributions to the UN’s overall development agenda.

Our Global Innovation Forums, Internships and Associates Program have directly engaged and trained over 3,500 young entrepreneurs and developed a growing network that includes over 100,000 young professionals and nearly 500 universities worldwide including the American University, Cornell University, London School of Economics, Sydney University, Australia, Tambov Technical University, Russia, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Genoa, Italy. 

The organization’s network and support system also include a number of multinational corporations and Fortune 100 companies such as Boeing, Dell Computers, Intel Corporation, Nestle, and Northrop Grumman and nearly 40 governments, many of which represented by their diplomatic missions or various relevant Ministries, including Belgium, Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Tanzania, and the United States.

Origins of the Athgo Name
What does "Athgo" stand for? We've been asked this question a lot lately, so we thought it was time not only to set the record straight but also to move forward and update our name just as we did our logo in April, 2008.

When Athgo was established in 1999, "Athgo" was an acronym for "Alliance Toward Harnessing Global Opportunities," which summarized our goal at the time to provide opportunities for a globally diverse group of young people to further their education, training, and networking in the realm of international affairs. Although Athgo has remained true to its foundational principles, over the years it has also evolved, progressed, and refined its mission to the point that the old acronym no longer adequately expresses either the wide-ranging scope of our endeavors or the particular emphases of our individual programs.

During the same period of time, however, the name "Athgo" has become recognized worldwide and associated with the good work of the organization, thereby precluding a name change for the sake of a new acronym that would only result in confusion. Therefore, we have decided, beginning in April, 2008, to update our name simply to "Athgo" and to drop "Alliance Toward Harnessing Global Opportunities" from our collateral materials. In doing so, we hope that Athgo will continue to be recognized for its past work while also being free to undertake new initiatives that will keep it relevant and on the cutting-edge in addressing the most pressing issues of an ever-changing world.