1 Growing national partnerships with Bangladesh’s 2 giant neighbors china and India I first read a Yunus leaflet in this idea in 2006 which emerged in
parallel to his extraordinary Nobel speech. I have to say it remains the most exciting idea to me because I have since become
passionate about connecting chiense youth with sustainabilitry goals solutions and education all over the world. I am privileged
to work with one of the most disadvantaged young cities in usa –West Baltimore- we aim to learn with any urban city #BAtech. Rome is one of our huge supporters and so the g20 youth road between china 2016 and Argentina 2018
are ones we aim to help incubate massive collaboration entrepreneureurship around- see www.supercity.university and sustianbility goal 11 networks and wise education summits as spaces that we advise job creating youth to linkin. I will
visit bangaldesh when I can to understand opportunities for china’s www.quarterbilliongirls.com to reciprocate solutions with Bangladesh the nation built round girl empowerment 2 Model Linking the most purposeful organisational leaders
in sustainability world. Between a meeting in paris with te ceo of Danone and leaders of the sustainability MBA at HEC
and late 2007 Yunus launched the model of global and local social partnberships business which he shifted his lofe’s
focus to as it offered him a wider platform than the financial summit of being the banker for the poor. This curriculum
embraced several moving parts. In one sense the whole of Bangaldesh’ bottom up development had uniquely designed sustainable
charities – with positive cashlow a microfrachsie network could concentrate in scaling or getting beter at its pourpoose
instead of charitable leaders who find more and more of their time is spent on fundraising instead of servant leadership of
the poorest. Back in 1984 I co-authored abook which estinayted 30000 microfranchides would need to be open sourced
if the netwoirking generation were to be sufficiently grounded for every community to race to sustainability. So I think my
journalist frkends know how tp catalogue microfranchsies – the moving part that seems not to have a clear home is the
bencmarking network of global corporates with unique purposes which Franck Riboud had originally devoted so much goodwill
to (eg Danone Communities). Our guess is this movement’s conections with youth may these days be scaling most around John Mackey of Conscious Capitalism (now co-ceo'd by leading youth champion) but we love to hera progress reports from everywhere.
3 MicroBanking 1/0 During the first quarter of a centiry of bangaldesh as a new
natiuon- all the girl em;powerment networks of banking for tuhe poor were entirely manual – the bvilages had neither
electricity or phones to do any networking with. Heartstopping around the world were Yunus stories of Bonsai people –
how daughter and mother came fo=rom the same stock – but a=daughter had opportunities to become eg a dovctotr while
the village mothers (had been confined by rural hsiotory) to a bonsai mimnimum rrahre than maximum of entrepreneurship.
The 16 decision culture of the grameen bank remains one of the strongest internal belief systems that any organsiation of
millions of members has ever been built around. So what happened to the physical centers – one for every circle of 60
vilage members. As far as I know they are still there, but now that the bank has been taken over by the government a lot of
the emotional intelligence may be lesser. Of course 21 years on from introduction of mobile text phones, the digital blending
of any banlks operations is now crucial especailluy if the bank is to always be anchotred round the very poorest.
4 Microbanking 2.1
Yunuis never treally got to be in the middle of banking for the next billion unbanked – fir that toptal financial inclusion
mlodel one would now look at BRAC in Bangaldesh first. Did the manual micricredits inspired by yunus at eg microcreditsummit
survive the digital transformation while keeping the very poorest included. The answer to that question is one where we wopuld
need country by country reporting. 5 What China calls Indutrial TRevolution 3. Thanks to partners in Norway , MIT and George Sorois Yunus was
in the middle of village mobile phine networks designed to include the poorest. What happened to Grameen’s telephone
ladies. For ablout a decade having the microfrabchsie of being the lone women per circle of 60 charging for shared us of te
mobile phone offered the best livelihoods of any major microfranchose for the poor. And Yunus retained one throd of the value
of Grameen Phine for his bank’s members as it became the largest corporation in Bangaldesh. However Yunius never intended
to have only a minlority stake of a brand in Grameen’s name and to some extent appears to feel grameen phone was where
hie fkirst lost control of total ownership by and for the poorest. Mobile phones are now know to be one of the gfreat leapfrogging
interventions- that is empowering productivity by elaping a hole teachnolgy – village women never saw wired telecoms
inytead they experiemnetd with some oif the lkist valuable uses telecoms have ever been used for. Yuus never really got to
ckintribute to mobilining banking for a billin unbanked or any other digitally empowered leapfrog app 6 Yunus sola fopr a billion model. It can be
argied that after talking to the solar guru Nevoiloe Williams, Yunus did more to accelerate the viability of microsolar than
anyone. This movement went hand in hand with rechnaging ,mobile phones and ending kerosene from the villages – alongside
sola for elecytricity biogas ovens cpuld replave needing kerosene to cook with. Kerosene has huge health hazards from sooty
lungs to burns. There was a peak toime (aroud 2009) when grameen had actually installed more solar units than the whoel of
the USA. The beur=tifu vision of solar rural aimed at cfreaying tehns of thousands or girl solar enbgineers as the largest
program in a training college for girls. Solars loan structure wasalogic to it is seminal. integral with the banking
operations so Grameen Shakti may no ,longer be the number 1 mkicrosoar network in the world to benchmark. Nancy Wimmer’s
book on why solar a billion had . It may yet be that solar’s natural bottom-up chanel advantages gets to that
sort of rate of adoption but it wont be under the single coordination of the grameen brand that yunus had once dreamed of.
7 Here Yunus argues
for an education model which at college level has 100 tiems less cost. Where this model ghas got to is an interesting question.
We would be at all surprised to see China becomes its home in the next 5 years
8 Yunus Nobel s;peech is passionate about the race that can get to the moon can
pretty much set and achieve any goal kit sets on earth – eg yunus favorite goal of seeing everywhere construct a poverty
museum. Ther is alosmt no limit to what humans can achieve if they urgently colabirate- backep up by this video by atronaut
and yunsui friend Ron To YUnus climate change is very personal. The geographical ;position of bangaldesh is such that just
as Bangldesh ends poverty , huge numbers of its people may be displaced by fllods. 9 Yunus wanted to see the construction oif a
social bsijenss superport at Cox’s bazaar. One hopes that Bangaldesh doesn het fiully linked into China’s One
Belt One road even if 100% ownership of the port by the lopoerst people is unlikely 10 Yunius makes the case that there are ultimately
only 2 system designs – those so youth v]=have more opportunities, thos offereming elss opportunoiteis than their parents.
Yunis clarifies that poverty is the same broken system as that which would put more and more youth unemployed. You never see
animals in nature inderemplyed Yunus says joking=-bt-sriously. We are biased towards believeing that job craeyoon and achieveing
sustainabholity gaols requitre the same urgent commitment across place eladership now. Probablyt Jack ma has replaced Yunus
as the number 1 hope and leader of thois world ;possibility but we’re always hear to listenb to how’s world record
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