living in dc but having visited bangladesh 10 times- I observe that big microcredit funds have more or less snuffed out freedom of speech on how bangladeshi microcredit systems were actually designed
the interesting thing about yunus latest wish that youth be connected by a free university is that if we cant even open source the correct curriculum of how the first 42 years of bangladeshi microcredit worked then we have zero chance of getting back to pro-youth economics in other ways
so please join this conversation now
http://100millionideas.org/2013/04/24/poverty-measurement-3-april-2013-povcop/#comment-1563
May I suggest that a standard that thinks of microcredit as only about banking has zero chance of replicating yunus knowhow.
MICROBANK*MICROEDUCATION*MICROFRANCHISE
One of the biographers of Steve Jobs, identified his genius as merging 6 markets that had previously treated their social impacts as separate. The origins of Bangladeshi microcredit show at least 3 markets that it converges as core to regenerating community:
- -education (including health, job skills and literacy)
- -marketing channels owned by poorest in community
- -banking
In neither case was banking started before education and bottom-up value chain processes were designed in.
Poverty Measurement - 3 April 2013 (PovCoP)
Posted on April 24, 2013 by The Microcredit Summit Campaign
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entrepreneur76 on April 24, 2013 at 10:56 am said:
As a Cambridge MA in statistics, I wish we could get back to an idea microcreditsummit used to endorse that methods directly used by founders of grameen or brac in bangladesh or jamii bora in kenya would have their own legend- rather like the red michelin restaurant guide used to have a special rating for extremely affordable . This wish is made urgent by those helping yunus with his wish to see the first global free online university be best for youth in every way that he hast stood for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ome28Obiy4I
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entrepreneur76
on April 25, 2013 at 8:15 am said:
How To Truly Celebrate Yunus Congress Gold
In Paris Convergences 2012, we learnt from Sam D-H and others how at least 10 “standards” had failed to share the detailed knowhow that Bangladeshi microcredit systems like Grameen and BRAC were designed around as other way round system designs. May I suggest that a standard that thinks of microcredit as only about banking has zero chance of replicating yunus knowhow.
MICROBANK*MICROEDUCATION*MICROFRANCHISE
One of the biographers of Steve Jobs, identified his genius as merging 6 markets that had previously treated their social impacts as separate. The origins of Bangladeshi microcredit show at least 3 markets that it converges as core to regenerating community:
- -education (including health and literacy)
- -marketing channels owned by poorest in community
- -banking
In neither case was banking started before education and bottom-up value chain processes were designed in.
This matters in key ways:
- there is zero possibility of a bank being for the poor if it is not responsible for job learning and health sustaining impacts
- the criticism that microcredit can only world for entrepreneurial (risk-savvy) people isn’t valid if the bank has ensured that anyone who works hard will have a channel (and in BRAC’s case microfranchises) for getting a fair price for hard work
CONVERGING OPEN TECH MARKETS TOO
Mathematicians worth the time of day like to see systems built on foundations not top-down rules. You cant help Yunus make any of his next dreams become possible if you don’t see grameen as about education and channel mediation as well as banking. Conversely if you do value the order in which Yunus built the house of Grameen you can now help him with his greatest change world project of all – the free university announced 2 weeks ago at the 10th skoll world championships. Search MOOCYUNUS if you would like to join in mapping how the free university can share end poverty solutions with millions of online youth- and so help save the internet as smartest medium ever designed unlike the tv spot which spun as the greatest trap to sustaining bottom up communities
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