Dr Yunus of Grameen and microcredit and Nobel peace 2006 is setting cities and citiens around the world an interesting challenge. If he is passing through your city would you be able to find 1000 people who all wanted to collaborate with each other as well as him in empowering a good global world instead of the bad one currently compoundingSynonyms for good are win-win-win, sustainable, empowering every community up, one where hi-trust people transparently win over low-trustSo 2 questions:if Yunus was passing through Africa cities, which do you think would produce the most collaborative impactsif you are a twin national

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2516276605 - eg living in a rich city but with family roots back in Africa - how ready is your big rich city to represent Africa interests when Yunus hosts his Forum 1000 there.My friends are particularly working on London and New York as 2 test cities; partly because a London University student spent the summer interning in Dhaka on this project. One intercity collaboration idea is collaboration cafe - see those we have already hosted and tell us at info@worldcitizen.tv if you want to replay one in your city or virtually http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page4.html

Another collaboration idea is can we produce a good global idea to heroes, their projects and networks for humanity. Why do people all over the world know the top 10 sporstmen for 50 different sports but not top 10s for different vital issues of human sustainability? http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5475184122

http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page2.html

But the best truth about collaboration knowledge cities http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bknowledge+%2Bcollaboration+%2Bcity&btnG=Google+Search in the 5 years that I have been searching the peoples and communities that weave them is that if any city does a great job in turning round a beter Global with Yunus we can all learn from what it did and work out how to invite the 1000 most relevant citizens when Yunus passes your way. http://grameen.tv/

choike.org networking out of Uruguay pro vides a portal for Southern Ngos

well worth a look

5 main categories catalogued are:

People
Society
Environment
Communication
Globalization

Collaboration across S America

The Foundation of Betty & Gordon (Intel) Moore funds research across the rainforests of S.America
Bolivia Brazil Colombia Ecuador Guyana Peru Venezuela

Collaboration Brazil

Some of the great explorations in action learning that peoples of Brazil are guiding interested people around

At Catalytic Communities - how to form a hub in a large American city (Rio) so people can come and discuss deep projects they want to nurture in their community; where these work and could replicate somewhere else: what the project did; whom to contact or what you would need to import and open source it. How Catalytic communities is becoming a flagship project of co-creative microfinance and of givingglobal as well as 200 people who have taken up continuous caring of this humanity project through pledgebank and the million person web idea of Weinberger and valuetrue

Why The Cathoilc Churche made 2004 the Year of water and the dialogues people everywhere had to see how their lives were connected with clean water? Why water's future is happening in Brazil in unique to the world ways - eg Brazil shares with 2 other countries the largest underground fresh water resources; it also shares with another the world's largest damn. With this it is teaching 80000 children who live in the river basins that feed to and from from the dam how to map water systemiatically so that it impacts a hundred projects that their communities are most proud of rehearsing for the world

If you need more contact points than the webs cited, mail wcbn007@easynet.co.uk expliaing why so I can relay this on to principles involved in these developments in Brazil

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Collaboration Haiti

John Engle is an open space facilitator of the extraordinary Circles of Change programme in Haiti

Future History Review to 2006
Collaboration knowledge city mapping went worldwide in 2005 inspired by Queen Elisabeth's annual speech - citizens please explore and network around every space where humanity is not turning against itself. After 2005's manmade and natural disasters, nobody I know of can ignore the risk that globally and locally humanity is turning against itself.

Currently the world's most popular Future Historian sold 1.3 million books decalraing my readers are concerned that life will not be better for their children (the first time this has ever happened in USA). Clue number 1 is: Green is the new red white & blue

For more sightings across the USA of humanity colaborating please click to ClubofUSA; this blog will focus on S America

Guatemala

The Microfinance work of Namaste and Bob Graham looks epicentral in Guatemala from all that we can see 1 2

Paraguay

Foundation Paraguay is the starting place to get in touch with entrepreneurs and understand experiences of microfinace in Paraguay

Ecuador

Water Pollution Crisis watch sourced with water angels :

Belated news on how The Berne Declaration cites Chevron as one of the disgraces of 2005 for its polution in Ecuador "Rainforest Chernobyl"

Witness the US charity Amazon watch's testimony

extract:
For more than thirty years, from 1964 to 1992, the oil company Texaco knowingly and
systematically dumped 70 billion liters of toxic waste into rivers, streams, wetlands, and unlined waste pits in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. This environmental and human catastrophe became Chevron’s responsibility when it bought Texaco in a US$45 billion merger in 2001.
Over the years, the toxic contents of Texaco’s unlined waste pits have leeched into the groundwater, streams and rivers of the Ecuadorian Amazon, contaminating the larger ecosystem and sending toxins downstream into Peru. Today, 627 open toxic waste pits remain, some of which are the size of a soccer field. These waste pits continue to leak highly toxic cancer-causing waste into the ground, poisoning the land and water where more than 30,000 local people live. Local residents have no other option but to use these contaminated sources for drinking water.
Thousands of people are slowly being poisoned daily as they consume the water, bathe in local waterways, and breathe the vapors in the air from the waste pits.
Chevron’s operations have resulted in an exploding health crisis. Childhood leukemia rates are four times higher in this area than in other parts of Ecuador. Estimates of the number of local people who have died from oil-related diseases, such as cancer, are shockingly high. Miscarriages among women in this area of Ecuador are significantly more common than in other parts of the country. Some experts consider the environmental impact to be the worst catastrophe on the planet other than Chernobyl.

Even Chevron’s own scientists have gathered evidence that exposes the company’s environmental devastation. For example, recent laboratory reports show that 97 percent of Chevron’s water samples are in violation of Ecuador’s weak environmental laws. In addition, 100 percent of the 22 waste sites tested by the company are still contaminated, even though the company claims to have remediated these sites in the mid-1990’s.

also more at www.chevrontoxico.com

Bolivia

This blog http://www.barrioflores.net/weblog/ appears to be a truly wonderful intrduction to Bolivia