One of the first issue yunus mentored me on through my 8 visits to dhaka was that in the future most students will microentrepreneurialy
need to craete jobs - not expect jobs to be waiting for them if tehy oass exams
that means a total rethink of how
educators help youth in their last few years of education, as well as league tables of whuch universities want to serve the
purspoe of being number 1 in job creation - MIT is so far ahead in that league that only 10 nations create more jobs - see
some of our notes on how MIT does that
not every colege can be an MIT but alll could host student entrepreneur and
job creation competitions - franchsies for doing this are something I love to exchnage latest news on at any time
if
you wish to join an occasional (monthly) newsletetr on ideas relating to how education sector and youth entrepreneurs can
make 2010s youths msot produdtive decade, please contact me - this is a recent sample circulation
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I am not myself connected with mficonnect other than I know its co-founder chris temple quite well and for a while now I have been asking how leading student movements
on either side of atlantic connect, as well as how to make it easier to sustain intern alumni relationship among all thsoe
who have field tripped to dhaka or the other greatest microcredit models such as www.jamiibora.org in kenya
2 london december 2011 is timely for a series of collaboration cafe reviews on how can youth and education maximise job creation because mostofa was for 4 years yunus official rep in london
and animator of the 2000 yunus bookclub my family sponsord- while he has now graduated from london university and mainly back
in dhaka he is over in london for about a week starting any time now- moreover with london's limelight year in the olympics
it would be an absolute waste if good news on youth in communities isnt zinging round london by summer 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFGqFWuX0lA www.futureofbbc.com
3 my family published journal of social business
which is edited up in glasgow by yunus choice of adam smith scholars led by zasheem; we both want to make sure youth are represented
optimally on the editorial board - any suggestions!
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in last 6 weeks I have been to 3 summits in europe these last 6 weeks- microcreditsummit in spain , and 2 european summits-
have members of student initiative been at any of them= all 3 have made jobs and youth central debates- the eu has a specific
program for supporting microcredit throughout europe and I am trying to bookmark the main hubs of that at www.microcredit.tv
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project of my fathers foundation is identifying 100 leaders www.yclub100.com who commit to making 2010s youths most productive decade - dad and yunus being the 2 world leading economists who defined the purpose of economics being about investing in future of next generation's productivity out of every community-
nominations on leaders trusted for realizing this goal are always welcome
My friends and I try to share the clearest worldwide map of who is animating what
through student competitions-I assume you already know yunus prize at MIT which laura coordinates - this year its on social
businesses connected with waste; in atlanta a friend of yunus who has spent 11 years on designing youth entrepreneur curriculum
has just hosted youth 1000 job creation brainstorm uniting all 45 colleges in state of georgia; I want to help bring something
similar to london if there is demand
living in DC I know sam daley-harris founder of
results and microcreditsummit quite well; a big issue at the moment is he is launching a civil society network across USA,
and I am wondering whether that could win-win from any european branches
chris
macrae 1 301 881 1655 skype chrismacraedc