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Economic Forum to Include Nobel Prize Winner - 45 Georgia colleges proof test 1000 youth job creation brainstorm process- ready for every state
Economic forum to include Nobel winner
- I noticed you pre-announced the meeting; if would like to continue to discuss issue/good news stories etc at any time , please do- here's my first report on piloting inter-stae economic regeneration meetings each energised by thousands of youth- more at atlanta and norman macrae foundation
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Where will America ’s Top20 Regeneration Ideas Come From?
Thanks to the State of Georgia , one of the main sources of regeneration has now been demonstrated. It is statewide brainstorms of businesses that societies could value most. Brainstorming led by and for direct actions of university students. To appreciate how this works why not interact with some of the ideas that emerged in Atlanta, Georgia State University, on October 17 when over 1000 students, 45 college principals, various representative of state and federal government and business leaders came together to celebrate Dr Yunus by daring students to present their most exciting social business ideas.
The idea I recalled most after 24 hours is: why not a microfinance bank for battered mothers. Every few minutes a mother is battered by an abusive spouse. The strength of this idea is that there can be few less productive situations for women and their children than a home led by a batterer. The weakness of the idea is the view that a banker never has the community right to act as if he is personally involved in feeling one person’s emotions more than another's . The threat of this idea is it is bigger than one student group or one state. Doesn’t it need a collaboration across the country by many institutes that are already concerned with both the crisis of battered mothers and with the crises of banking sustainably targeting peoples (mothers and childrens’ future) whose lives could be much more productive?
A suggestion : could one university in Georgia set up a halfway house for such mothers and families in which the mother gets fast support at training up whatever may be her greatest skills and her children get a smooth change of schooling. Such a college should probably have a maximum of one year so that it could focus on helping change lives at the most critical moment. During that year the two opposite opportunities for each mother could be assessed- that she could be re-empowered to lead her home microentrepreneurially, that she and her children needed longer-term help. Presumably we have many institutes of that second kind. As far as I know we have no microfinance bank for the abused mothers. So this idea is new to the world. And incidentally was co-presneted by a student who has survived being a battered mother herself/
I only heard 10 of the 38 ideas that were simultaneously tested among the 1000 youth and over 100 mentors assembled on 17 October. So this report cannot begin to be representative of the sort of combined energy that 1000 Georgian youth can generate few hours of co-presentations We invite these ideas to be posted up and iteratively reviewed at www.youthandyunus.com and hope to track those that are sustained in future issues of the Journal of Social Business. Here is a sample of the other ideas I heard. That I would say they were not new to the world but potentially solution pathways that collaboration student networks across many states could entrepreneurially work on, and so celebrate putting America back to work
Solar for mobile homes of which there are hundreds of thousands in a state like Georgia
Cooperatives for regenerating an area that had lost its main employer of skills- apparently part of Gerogia has lost its textile manufacturing- a sewers cooperative would make a relevant regeneration channel
An e-trash centre that would recycle electronic gadgets. This could act as a hub for placing the recycled technology devices with youth who otherwise would not have access to the information age. Clearly this sort of concept has extra value if college students see this as a way of integrating peer to peer training, ie the college students knowhow of using technology could valuably mentor schoolkids most at risk to not getting digital experience.
The central host of this process, with over a decade of experience of connecting entrepreneurial programs across American Colleges is Professor Bhuyina who can be emailed if you might want to try replicating this process at
Where will America ’s Top20 Regeneration Ideas Come From?
Thanks to the State of Georgia , one of the main sources of regeneration has now been demonstrated. It is statewide brainstorms of businesses societies want connected by university students. To illustrate how this works why not interact with some of the ideas that emerged in Atlanta on October 17 when over 1000 students, 45 college principals, various representative of state and federal government and business leaders came together to celebrate Dr Yunus by daring students to present their most exciting social business ideas.
Idea 1 why not a microfinance bank for battered mothers. Every few minutes a mother is battered by an abusive spouse. The strength of this idea is that there can surely be few less productive situations for women and their children than a home led by a batterer. The weakness of the idea is the view that a banker never has the community right to act as if he is personally involved in feeling one person’s emotions more than anothers . The threat of this idea is it is bigger than one student group or one state- doesn’t need a collaboration across the country by all institutes that are already concerned with both the crisis of battered mothers and the crises of banking sustainably targeting peoples (mothers and childrens’ future) whose lives could be much more productive.
A suggestion : could one university in Georgia set up a halfway house for such mothers and families in which the mother gets fast support at training up whatever may be her greatest skills and her children get a smooth change of schooling. Such a college should probably have a maximum of one year so that it could focus on helping change lives at the most critical moment. During that year the two opposite opportunities for each mother could be assessed- that she could be re-empowered to lead her home microentrepreneurially, that she and her children needed longer-term help. Presumably we have many institutes of that second kind. As far as I know we have no microfinance bank for the abused mothers. So this idea is new to the world. And incidentally was co-presneted by a student who has survived being a battered mother herself/
I only heard 10 of the 38 ideas that were simultaneously tested among the 1000 youth and over 100 mentors assembled on 17 October. So this first report cannot begin to be representative of the sort of combined energy that 1000 Georgian youth can generate few hours of co-presentations We invite these ideas to be posted up and iteratively reviewed at www.youthandyunus.com and hope to track those that are sustained in future issues of the Journal of Social Business. Here is a sample of the other ideas I heard. That I would say they were not new to the world but potentially solution pathways that collaboration student networks across many states could entrepreneurially work on, and so celebrate putting America back to work
Solar for mobile homes of which the state has hundreds of thousands
Cooperatives for regenerating an area that had lost its main employer of skills- apparently part of Gerogia has lost its textile manufacturing- a sewers cooperative would make a relevant regeneration channel
An e-trash centre that would recycle electronic gadgets. This could act as a hub for placing the recycled technology devices with youth who otherwise would not have access to the information age. Clearly this sort of concept has extra value if college students see this as a way of integrating peer to peer training, ie the college students knowhow of using technology could valuably mentor schoolkids most at risk to not getting digital experience.
The central host of this process, with over a decade of experience of connecting entrepreneurial programs across American Colleges, is Professor Bhuiyan. He can be emailed if you might want to try replicating this process at ofcvc@hotmail.com; his current invitation to join in is at http://www.ofcvc.org/ofcpromo.html
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