Blog year2008 in october is about ending poverty http://events.takingitglobal.org/20255 so we hope this week's syndication to 100 blogs will exponentialise to tens of thousands of blogs by then, with a little help from friends like you

sustainability club http://sustainabilityclub.com

social business club http://www.socialbusinessclub.net

collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I

yunus 10000 http://yunus10000.com collaboration coordinators for youth dialogues in that city and between cities together with invitations to action specific to each video good news story - eg if you want microcredit to beat off big banks why not help any school try out micro credit with the world's simplest program small change, big changes - a microloanfoundation franchise

Peers across hemispheres and I are far more interested in ensuring that each of these intercity movements vetoes any uses of 20th c failing system methods that the majority of club coordinators -or where elected an honorary board - vote against, than prescribing revenue models.

OPEN SOURCING THE CLUBS
Obviously we should want coordinators to make a living out of work input whlst at the same time recognising that being a club coordinator is probably worth more than having many a professional qualification - or needs to become so if this world is to be sustainable. Equally where profits are repeatedly generated I assume we can find a way iof agreeing some sliding scale that should be contributed either to your favourite grassroots organsiation in bangladesh or to a small list of other potential grassroots partners of future capitalism which should probably need at least 75 of members refendum to confirm

I am very happy if people will negotiate what other rules they would need to want to participate as well as to clarify where they want diferent contant at the mother webs. The main web system I use costs $35 a year per web so its not difficult to imagine that major cties will also want to set up their own branch web or of course a free blog - either of which we will happily linmk from the top of the mother web.

Obviously some of our constitution needs double checking with for example the 100000 bangladeshi's and other Gandhians who are the main practical exemplar of the values we seek to network worldwide so that the future sustains 7 billion brilliant jobs and goodwill multiplying across all women, children and even men.

We wish to learn from each city's most successful ways of mobilising and cross-cultural celebration, as well as metods for ensuring that any action network actually reaches to those in most desperate need of its service. This is one of the big lessons of bangladeshi experience -reiterated by every micro-system designer in bangladesh we have interviewed - once a networks starts empowering the entrepreneur inside it will never get deeper than the deepest needsholders it begins with. This is a lesson that many global NGOs seem never to have begun to grade.

chris macrae http://worldentrepreneur.net
washington dc inquiries desk usa 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv
y10000 at facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22045349892

ashoka fellows in calcutta, to develop

health Indrani Chakravarty (Gerontology, ageing 1 2

other:

links between world of economics & Calcutta

The Scottish Social Entrepreneur and founder of The Economist died 1860 (before his time, due to dysentry) in Calcutta at age of 55 while serving as the financial member of the Council of India . One of his last reports is (presumably) this microfiche at the British Library - Wilson, James.
Financial measures for India. Speech of the Right Hon. James Wilson, delivered before the Legislative Council of Calcutta on the 18th Febuary, 1860.
London, 1860 .Title no: 1.1.3663 (1 mf)

Here -it is interesting to see views on what health for all means to citizens of 23 countries

It would seems entirely fitting to anyone who admired Mother Theresa if Calcutta did become an epicentre of health for all. And at www.changemakers.net they run frequent project jams collecting the peoples projects on health from all from every hemisphere. Sponsored by ashoka - the world's foremost network of social entrepreneurs linked toghether by 28 years of tireless work of Bill Drayton and friends, and the teamleader of the whole changemakers project Sushmita (formely president of ashoka, and descrtibed as magical by Bill) works out of
Calcutta

Nice one Sushmita, Nice one Ashoka- let's keep tracking how this gift to the world evolves

imagine you were flying/clicking round the world in 80 minutes to the world's deepest webs on health for all peoples; which clicks would end up in your premier league

this idea came to me because I was moved to post this when I saw this hiv weblog; I dont know its author; I dont know how expert he is in what, but it felt deep withing 60 seconds of visting, worth going back to

along with diversity from grassroots persoectives, that should be one of the criteria of the top 80 on this first exploration journey (of course we can tidy up when we reflect and some destinations may fall as other rise - but do you get the idea of such a journey; if so why not post one destination vote in the message box before moving on. Thanks)
http://anarchi-tecture.blogspot.com
from a first look, your web(log) is vital, extraordinary meriting everyone's viewing - what other health for all webs do folks put in this premier league - my vote would go for http://www.changemakers.net

what ways have we got of scaling up public awareness of the www's deepest bookmarks; I invite folks to join this pledge if they feel 2000 of us will make it work in time http://www.pledgebank.com/bbcgames

Recently I have been trying to do a lot of conversations on:
health for all projects
and
informal learning, particularly what structure and cultures we connect around youth

I am not sure that this post (which connects these in my mind) will have immediate meaning to anyone else, but if you see a connection do tell me how we could explore it further

INFORMAL (Youth) LEARNING IN THE POOREST THIRD OF WORLD
I am not sure why I want to explore this, but I passionately do. I assume the challenges to learning may depend on trust and transparency and family structures etc, and so be hardest to activate in some of the poorest parts of the world, whilst also being most urgent. I also do an increasing number of surveys profiling places which encourage collaboration to those that don't- it seems a human relations system keyword for what learning is doable over time

Here are a few "thoughts aloud"

When we started a 3 weeks virtual debate on informal learning: were we assuming that the most powerful (or connected) person in a community wants people to learn? For example, if a community is ruled by corruption or warlords, what kind of learning is possible. What are the safe or open spaces for learning in a place or in linking people in to online?

Conversely imagine a community is ruled by a modern day Gandhi. Gandhi set up a whole educational system and work experience opportunities in his local region under the motto knowledge is power. In modern day parlance his view of knowledge might be described as vocational action learning. He wanted children to be taught what would lead to work not from a "literary" syllabus. He also experimented with Montessori - have a look at the world's largest Montessori (30000 children) at Lucknow and imagine how different opportunities for informal learning may be there from an average developing place

I am really interested in what happens if you give a child an extraordinary experience at magic moments of growing up. For example, imagine if at the right age you got the chance to travel with a team of peers. (It might not be far, but it could be intentionally cross-cultural or themed by contexts ). What sort of trip might multiply confidence, social network contacts virtually for the rest of your life, any other seeds of informal learning that you may shortlist as worth giving every child a chance to experience?

In inner cities, I am absolutely convinced that there is a critical age of adolescence when children start hanging out in groups. If there is a local hub where children of every culture are welcomed, use open space circles to discuss how to do stuff in the community that is a wholly different informal learning catalyst to only having the formality of traditional schools or the hi- risk structure of street gangs. If the 3 choices a city offers to the adolescent to hang out in are: the formal education environment, the gang or the informal communal space- do we have a longer list of examples of informal communal spaces we guide each other around?

In poor places prioritising learning contexts also matters. If we get the most useful learning context right for kids then it’s a gateway to being inspired to learn. What are the contexts? For example one of these is "health for all projects" being debated right now at adult levels at http://www.changemakers.net . I wonder what a school and informal learning curriculum that mapped back Childs eye view of health for all projects across a community would look like

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://www.frappr.com/younghubs
http://clubofcalcutta.blogspot.com

to construct ?
search each of the names involved in webbing toggether the health for all kosaic

provide a search by each name of projects featuring in health for all

provide bio-searches on each of the panel of judges

how else to map loosely improving trust-flows between different stakeholder (all of us) in health for all?

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note to interactive readers:
if you have a construction idea, please log it up in the comment box

if you wish to volunteer to do some of the contruction work, please log that up or email me subject clubofcalcutta volunteer web-log work

stories of calcutta as a worldwide network center

CALCUTTA CUP (extract from wikipedia)
The Calcutta Club
On Christmas Day 1872, a game of rugby football, between 20 players representing England on the one side and 20 representing Scotland, Ireland and Wales on the other, was played in Calcutta.

The match was such a success that it was repeated a week later: the game of rugby had reached India. These lovers of rugby football wanted to form a club in the area and the aforementioned matches were the agents which led to the formation of the Calcutta Football Club in January 1873.

The Calcutta Club joined the Rugby Football Union in 1874. Despite the Indian climate not being entirely suitable for playing rugby, the club prospered during that first year. However, when the free bar had to be discontinued, the membership took an appreciable drop. The members decided to disband but keen to perpetuate the name of the club, they withdrew the club's funds from the bank, had them melted down and made into a cup which they presented to the RFU in 1878 on the proviso that it should be competed for annually.

The cup is of Indian workmanship, approximately 18 inches (45 cm) high, the body is finely engraved with three king cobras forming the handles. The domed lid is surmounted by an elephant which is, it is said, copied from the Viceroy's own stock and is complete with a howdah. The inscription on the Cup's wooden base reads: THE CALCUTTA CUP.

The base has attached to it additional plates which record the date of each match played with the name of the winning country and the names of the two captains. There is an anomaly in the recording of the winning country on the base of the Cup. It was first played for in 1879, but the plinth shows records extending back to the first international in 1871.

The original Calcutta Cup is rarely seen by the public. Whether it is held in London or in Edinburgh, it is stored in a vault. In Scotland, on occasion, it is exhibited in schools and rugby union clubs. The Rugby Museum at Twickenham has a full-size replica of the cup and a further replica is held in the SRU shop at Murrayfield or in the Library. Whilst the original was handmade by Indian craftsmen, the replicas were made using modern technology.

The competition: a game should be played each year between England and Scotland and whoever wins will keep it for that year. The first Calcutta Cup match was played at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, on 10 March 1879 and ended in a draw;