Sunday, September 30, 2001







Quiz on Foremost Task of Education

Q1 Who said: "The most important human endeavour is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and very existence depend on it. Morality in our actions gives beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is the foremost task of education" Answer 1= Albert Einstein

Q2 Who proposed : The most valuable way to measure productivity of a networked world economy is to track what % of each human's lifetime is empowered to be spent at the experiential edge of each human's deepest service competence
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Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Who do you see as being one of 8 most different network connectors with Bill or Melinda at Billanthropy, and what google or other knowledge confirms your view?
Nelson Mandela, gatesways to loving Africa :
1 1a 2 3 13a 16 16a 21
Cecil Rhodes 1 2 3
I was talking to a wonderful business lady. In her Board time she is the CEO of a leading car dealership in the UK which she inherited as family trustee; in her lifetime, she organsises leadership quests such as these to China 1,2 3 Africa, India - both a way of spotting social projects worth funding and a way that senior leaders can feel free to have a guided tour to experiences of the WHY WAS I NEVER TOLD ABOUT THAT (WWINTAT) kind

The question arises -just as a wild dream if you will - if you were to organsise one leaders quest for Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett, Tony Blair, Peter Eigen, Geldov, Koffi Annan, The President of Nigeria- where in the world would you go visit?

The reason this question arises now is two fold. Bill Gates has just been appointed as the leader of the world's largest philanthropy foundation and as an active chair of Blair's Panel for Africa

Monday, September 10, 2001

BEFORE WE FOCUS ON PROFILING WHO'S WHO OF SUSTAINABILITY INVESTMENT (SI) ... we want to open up enough pathways between social entrepreneur movements and inquiries into the future exponentials of sustainability investment (how valuation maths is done will eith compound destruction of humanity or ensure the 21st C develops as humanity's best of times)
  • Blood & Gore video on SI at 2006 Skoll World Championships for Social Entrepreneurs in Oxford
  • Be in the first network of 2000 people to free BBC governors and then all public broadcast media from the fear of letting their deepest jourmalists question how many inconvenient truth only civic society can reconcile now we know that public servants cannot do this on their top-down own

  • Skoll & Ashoka Global Academy 1 1A 2 - Maps to founders' nets where the more who stake, the more gold we collaboratively make
    These 6 leading founders of Global Social Entrepreneurship have spent lifetimes on networking movements that are one neighbourhood away from sustainabity investment - eg ending corruption, moving social responsibility beyong the corporation to global industry sectors, founding the World Social Forum so Economists forums never fail to value humanity... Why Was I Never Told About That? WWINTAT
    David Bornstein has done 2006's globe of over 6 billion beings a huge favour in his book: How to Change the World with a chapter title whose acronym is WWINTAT . Click map to see nominations of world's top 6 and the networks they invite civic societies to join. Click the
    WWINTAT blog to profile the World Academy of Social Entrepreneurs network invitations to you



    Bill Drayton, gatesways to sustaining every society simultaneously
    3a 3b 5 7 8 9 10 12 13 video 14 15 17 18 18a 19 21a 21b 22 23 sustainability transparency

    Thursday, September 06, 2001

    Here is the International Advisory Network of business-humanrights.org as at June 2006
    Chair
    Mary Robinson, Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative; former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; former President of Ireland [online bio]
    Africa
    Gambia: Alpha Fall, Director of Programmes, Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa
    Kenya: Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki, Executive Director, African Women's Development and Communication Network
    Kenya: Steve Ouma, Programmes Coordinator - Deputy Executive Director, Kenya Human Rights Commission
    Nigeria: Felix Morka, Director, Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC)
    Senegal: Sidiki Kaba, President, Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH) (International Federation for Human Rights Leagues)
    Senegal/UK: Ibrahim Kane, Legal Officer for Africa, Interights
    South Africa: Mokhethi Moshoeshoe, Director, Civa Innovation Management; Founder, African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC)
    Middle East & North Africa
    Bahrain: Abdulhadi A. Alkhawaja, Founding Board Member, Bahrain Centre for Human Rights
    Israel: Talia Aharoni, Director, MAALA (Business for Social Responsibility in Israel)
    Jordan: Asma H.S. Khader, Director of Mizan - Law Group for Human Rights (Jordanian branch of the International Commission of Jurists); coordinator of SIGI (Sisterhood is Global Institute) Jordan; on leave from the Advisory Network during her service in the Jordanian Government
    Palestinian Authority area (West Bank): Hasan Barghouthi, General Director, Democracy & Workers' Rights Center
    East Asia
    China/Australia: Dr. Anita Chan, Research Fellow, Contemporary China Centre, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, The Australian National University; Co-editor of The China Journal [online bio]
    China/Hong Kong: Monina Wong Ching-man, Researcher, Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee
    Japan: Professor Koshi Yamazaki, specialist in international human rights law, Niigata University; member of Board of Councilors of Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center (HURIGHTS OSAKA); member of Network for Human Dignity (international law research website)
    Southeast Asia
    Malaysia: Sarojeni V. Rengam, Executive Director, Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PAN AP); Coordinator, "Women in Agriculture" programme
    Philippines: Dr. Nymia Pimentel Simbulan, Executive Director, Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights)
    South Asia
    India: Viraf Mehta, Chief Executive, Partners in Change (business partnership organisation associated with ActionAid India); former Director of Tata Steel's rural development programmes
    Australia
    Australia: Geoff Evans, environmental scientist, board member of Mineral Policy Institute
    Latin America
    Argentina: Jorge Daniel Taillant, Executive Director & Head of Responsible Business Program, Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente (CEDHA) (Center for Human Rights and Environment) [online bio]
    Brazil: Oded Grajew, President, Instituto Ethos (Ethos Institute), former Special Advisor to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    El Salvador: Carolina Quinteros, Director, Grupo de Monitoreo Independiente de El Salvador (Monitoring Group of El Salvador)
    Mexico: Jorge Villalobos Grzybowicz, Executive President, Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía (Mexican Center for Philanthropy)
    Uruguay: Cristina Echavarria, Director, Iniciativa de Investigación sobre Políticas Mineras - IIPM (Mining Policy Research Initiative - MPRI) [online bio]
    Canada/USA
    Canada: Mark Erik Hecht, Executive Director, Human Rights Internet
    USA: Susan Aaronson, Senior Fellow & Director of Globalization Studies, Kenan Institute, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina [online bio]
    USA: Michelle Leighton, Co-founder & Director of People and Global Resources Program, Natural Heritage Institute; Senior Partner, California Global Corporate Accountability Project
    USA: Trevor Neilson, Executive Director, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS [online bio]
    USA: Joe W. (Chip) Pitts III, entrepreneur and international lawyer; Chair of Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA; former Chief Legal Officer of Nokia
    USA: Michael Posner, Executive Director, Human Rights First (formerly known as Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) [online bio]
    USA: John Ruggie, Director, Center for Business and Government, Harvard University; Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the UN Global Compact; former UN Assistant Secretary-General [online bio]
    USA: David Schilling, Director of Global Corporate Accountability Programs, Interfaith Center of Corporate Responsibility
    USA: Elliot Schrage (on leave from Advisory Network while serving as Vice President, Global Communications and Public Affairs, of Google) - Adjunct Senior Fellow in Business and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Professor of courses covering business and human rights at Columbia University Business School & Law School; former Senior Vice President of Global Affairs for Gap Inc. [online bio]
    Eastern Europe
    Bulgaria: Professor Krassimir Kanev, Chair, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee
    Czech Republic: Tomasz Terlecki, Executive Director, CEE Bankwatch Network
    Russia: Vera Mischenko, President, Ecojuris Institute of Environmental Law [online bio]
    Western Europe
    Belgium: Catherine Rubbens, Manager of Human Rights & Reporting, CSR Europe [online bio]
    Denmark: Dr. Margaret Jungk, Head of Project, Human Rights & Business Project, Danish Institute for Human Rights
    Denmark: Sune Skadegaard Thorsen, Senior Partner, Lawhouse.dk (law firm specialising in corporate social responsibility with focus on international human rights); former Senior Advisor for Ethics & Social Affairs, Novo Group [online bio]
    Ireland: Professor Dennis Driscoll, Faculty of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway (courses include Law & Corporate Social Responsibility); President of International Law Association (Irish Branch); European Rapporteur of the Asia-Europe Foundation's series of meetings on business & human rights [online bio]
    Netherlands: Dr. Judy Henderson, Chair, Global Reporting Initiative [online bio]
    Netherlands: Peter Pennartz, International Restructuring and Education Network Europe (IRENE)
    Switzerland: Professor Andrew Clapham, Professor of Public International Law, Graduate Institute of International Studies [online bio]
    Switzerland: Caroline Dommen, Director of 3D (Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy); Coordinator of Trade & Investment Network of the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) [online bio]
    Switzerland: Margaret Flaherty, Director, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
    Switzerland: David Petrasek, Policy Director, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; former Senior Director of Policy and Evaluation, Amnesty International, International Secretariat [online bio]
    UK: Martin Brookes, Co-Head of Research, New Philanthropy Capital; former Senior Global Economist at Goldman Sachs International; former Economics Researcher at Amnesty International, International Secretariat [online bio]
    UK: Sir Geoffrey Chandler, Founding Chair of Amnesty International UK Business Group; former senior manager at Royal Dutch/Shell; former Director General of the UK National Economic Development Office [online bio]
    UK: Tricia Feeney, Director of Rights and Accountability in Development; member of steering committee for OECD Watch; Coordinator of Corporate Accountability Network of the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
    UK: Frances House, Member of Amnesty International UK Business Group; former Director, Corporate Practices, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
    UK: Martin Kalungu-Banda, Senior Policy Adviser, Private Sector Team, Oxfam GB; former Regional Social Performance Manager of BP Africa
    Individuals at organisations with offices in multiple countries
    Daria Caliguire, Director, International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
    Aron Cramer, President & CEO, Business for Social Responsibility [online bio]
    Arvind Ganesan, Director, Business and Human Rights Program, Human Rights Watch
    Elin Wrzoncki, Responsable du bureau Mondialisation et droits humains, Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH) (Head of Globalisation & Human Rights Programme, International Federation for Human Rights Leagues)
    Nicholas Howen, Secretary General, International Commission of Jurists; former Regional Adviser for Asia-Pacific, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [online bio]
    Scott Jerbi, Coordinator, Ethical Globalization Initiative
    Malini Mehra, Founder and Director, Centre for Social Markets
    John Morrison, Human Rights Director, RespectEurope; former Head of Campaigns and Community Affairs for The Body Shop International
    Jane Nelson, Director, Business Leadership & Strategy, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum; Senior Fellow & Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
    Wilder Tayler, Legal and Policy Director, Human Rights Watch
    Salil Tripathi, Senior Policy Adviser, International Alert
    Svetlana Tsalik, Director of Revenue Watch, an initiative of the Open Society Institute [online bio]
    Anuradha Vittachi, Director, OneWorld International Foundation [online bio]
    Ineke Zeldenrust, Clean Clothes Campaign

    Sunday, September 02, 2001

    Dear Tav

    My geography of your "Southern Half of India" Tour July 1-8 is not hot!. In case they can help with suggestions, I am quick circuiting this to 5 people, and bcc Paul Komesaroff (coordinator of Global Reconcilation Network, and connector of medical and youth volunteer networks):

    Sushmita Ghosh - the lady who served as president of www.Ashoka.org for several years in Washington DC and so knows the whole network of 1500 social entrepreneurs, but who is now located back in Calcutta and coordinator of the huge experiment (project for all competitions) revolving round www.changemakers.net and co-sponsored by www.omidyar.net founders of ebay and philantropists who support much of the practical progress in microfinace projects and models. Her mentor Bill Drayton's library of 16 dvds connecting the lifetime experiences and macro-system change needs of 1500 social entrepreneurs is the most vital video resource I have ever met for changing globalisation http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3321985461393888643

    Ganesh Devi who is one of India's deepest supporters of the rights of Nomads and Indigenous people having hosted the first nation wide network event for them in Delhi; he's always off wherever crises are (eg 2 week after I met him at www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org annual congress in Delhi 2004; he was trying to help tsunami peoples; he also knows most among people I am acquianted with about the Gandhi centenary being organised in October 2007 out of the Ashram (rural hub) in Ahmedabad

    KK Chakravarty
    who is a Delhi co-host of many deeply human network meetings linking through the Indira Gandhi National cultures centre

    I have also copied Rick at solaroof.org as my main link to clean energy inventors who can turn round Inconvenient Truth (Global Warming's deadline for sustainability everywhere) if architectural debates leverage their open knowhow; and Nick of Be The Change UK

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    Hi Everyone- among under 25s (?) in London Tav is probanly the most connected as a cultural co-creative; he has about 30 collaborationprojects on the go connecting IT, green tv, searched hi-trust networks need to real community open spaces and an evolving group of Londoners who support each other's missions for humanity

    I assume you can pick up the introductions as far as is mutually relevant

    thanks, sincerely
    chris macrae
    PS Tav: You might also want to look at http://barcamp.org/BarCampHyderabad I understand from West Coast developers of the internet's future that India has a lively circuit of open space events too; this Friedman video is informative on how his million copy future history of World is Flat stories began with 9/11 reconciliation as did GRN's http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/264

    http://thecooperation.blogspot.com - inaugural meeting London Oct 2005 - for people who passionately believe their open source mission is on a 5-year deadline for sustainability of humanity

    dream meeting spaces - can we link enough delegates to build http://project30000.blogspot.com from space to space:

    Nashville 2006 - training by Gore of 1000 people on how to use Incoveneint Truth Slides

    Kenya 2007 World Social Forum

    Ahmedabad 2007 Gandhi Centenary

    http://www.frappr.com/itruth

    Saturday, September 01, 2001

    Entrepreneurial Revolution Family Tree- Listing of Emerging Sub-Branches

    1 Future of Citizens and Cross-Cultural Cities- mapping social projects we already treasure collaboratively and wish list of those our children will need most -presumably a sub-branch of Socila Entrprenur but often the simplest game to test out whether a civil-socioety network has colaborative sustainability

    UNDER CONSTRUCTION