innovation Labs and Microfranchises for Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
Out of New York the Grumpy cafe source equitable trade from these 3 countries coffee growers
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Does anyone know one of these countries well enough to help specify how regulations would need ti change for http://puddle.com. Wherever this is legal, hispanic women are brilliant at convenience hi-trust lending circles. I have a dream that all women empowerment movements will be freed by tools like puddle. chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
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update on 11 november I will be visiting kiva and puddle offices- in searching I note Guatemala is lead country in central america for kiva and that puddle's founder did several years development work based there)
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It turns out that when usaid calls its climate change program for africa and latin america, its mainly means for Honduras when it comes to the Americas. Huger report released october 2014 - if you have difficulty searching email me chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
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MILLENNIALS COUNTRY CONNECTIONS OF THE WEEK?
I am wondering how we can maximise connections for Guatemala ; I know jean claude of Puddle - Credit powered by people. (whom I will meet with anna in san francisco nov 11 as part of a 2-legged exchange with kiva/puddle and discussion of can we link in a massive west-south tedx for 2nd half of april) has done a lot of work there and I believe Guatemala is a test area for various leapfrog models in 2015
Can Guatemala region be a prominent youth entrepreneur stage with YABT as the greatest millennials continent-wide paradigm for youth entrepreneurs (one that social value
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YABTEntrepreneur of the Month Micochinito Mexico Share your story by clicking herePreview by YahooI see that DLAB has a lot on guatemala in its current newsletter (see below). JP Bonsen (because he's 100% student orientated) is Probably Naila and my most trusted connector between dlab and mit media lab - naila have you got time to do a joint trip to mit this year.?
Further more abdul latif is a major sponsor (eg they have opened a whole new water lab with dlab. Abdul latif is the philanthropy arm of Toyota franchise in middle east. I know the 2 founders of Toyota's main philanthropy network out of tokyo - the akira foundation. What we havent succeeded in doing yet (unless someone has a lead I dont know of) is connect in Joi Ito (the japanese leader now directing media lab). I have made 5 visits to MIT specifically to understand their year round entrepreneur process that took 25 years to build (and see as their keystone to MIT being the number 1 job creating alumni network in the world) - I helped judge a minor phase of the mit100k a couple of years ago which is where I met then MIT student rodolfo (now also in san francisco) whose team project was to explore where students dreamed of accelerating crowd investing if the jobs act ever progressed fast enough to make that economical for mit student networks to play a leading role. While its a confidential file, I have the summary writeups of the 40 or social value entries to mit 100k of year 2012-2013 -content like this always bothers me as I see 90% collaboration potential between other youth entrepreneur projects but dont know how to unleash that
I would like to see a map of intercity hubs that are predominantly sustained by under 40 wizard youth technologists and their direct worldwide trades. Its my finding after 11 years of research of hubs that tarted out of TheHub.net :: Home first office (islington) that those hubs like kenya's ihub that enjoy a central location but sustain their overheads because of open tech projects (or in ihub case owning the ushahidi software) have totally different collaboration impacts than hubs that do not have their own revenue through open technologists- anyhow I have asked a few people to start mapping where these hubs are and whether their owners would happily see an association linked in around them. As first folowers , I dont particularly want those hubs in this association which are part of a chain like the-hub.net where most locations are not sustained by open source technology. I have many reasons for starting with linking strength between hubs that are net job creators through their open tech wizardry not through other means- though of course this can be up for discussion
with special thanks to founder of nigeria flying doctor who trained several hundred people at MIT on first follower
D-Lab Fieldwork
Rural Community Innovations in Guatemala with Soluciones Comunitarias
On Oct. 1, MIT D-Lab began work withSoluciones Comunitarias in Guatemala to develop scalable, market-based, local community innovations intended to alleviate some of the causes of endemic poverty in rural areas. The collaboration will leverage D-Lab’s Creative Capacity Building methodology and the MicroConsignment Model developed by Soluciones Comunitarias. Read MIT News article. And read Victor Grau Serrat's blog!D-Lab Scale-Ups
Clean Cooking Solutions in Guatemala
Last week, D-Lab Biomass Fuel Research Scientist Dan Sweeney returned from a nine-day visit to Antigua, Guatemala. Working with D-Lab partner organization Soluciones Comunitarias, he performed field tests on their improved, wood-fired cookstoves. Read Dan's blog on cookstove testing. Dan also participated in a meeting of the working and task groups for the International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical Committee on Clean Cooking Solutions. Read Dan's blog on his take-aways from this meeting.
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survey 1of child centric education
My dream: everyone experiences Harrison Owen OpenSpace After%20the%20Rage.pdf
IF SCHOOLS were child centric they would make age relevant interventions:
if anyone is illiterate at age 6 it only takes 90 days to change that - best of all a literate kid can be main helper in 20 minute session - see sunita gandhi
finacial literacy would be practicsed from age 8 - see aflatoun ( works in 100 countries
from age 10 pre-teens would have access to pfysical and mental health studies designed peer to peer -see Lancet
no kid would leave primary school without knowing how open space meetings/teamwork is facilitated
teachers would be celebrated for clarifying which skills involve experiential learning not classroom examination - while there is some recognition that music and sports involve practice, its shocking that coding isnt valued this way ..
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Do you have life-changing moment to share? - what was it and what did you think or do differently after it?
example until 9/11, i assumed that (good) futures are happening somewhere in the world and would be searched out so that all could communally replicate them; === 9/11 caused me to question whether global connectivity will give us time to find sustainable solutions for our kids- i became particulaly interested in places where good education leaps appeared but did not get app'd the world over - one example actually goes back to my favorite 1990s advances in schools that a small cliuster of new zealand schools pioneered - download it here https://oiipdf.com/download/the-learning-revolution
i welcome discussion of this book's parts at any time rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you have a solution every community that develops youth could be cooperational
in 1984our book with economist editors 2025report made the case for 40 year commitment to every child identifying own skils dashboard and maximising AI curation of this- we valued this as sustainability critical worldwide cooperation - we see no logic for changing this concern
== we live in an age where most up to half of knowhow of techforgood changes every 3 years - we needed mindsets for exploration not for being standard examined; a nation that makes its college students its largest debt class is likely to collapse economically socially environmentally if web3 is designed for celebrating sustainability cooperation; and if web3 is not designed for neough yout to linkin the first sustainability generation then we are all heading the way of the dodo
I am learn to learn
TECH - What is IT? and which exponential multipliers most impact human and natural futures?
AI >. silicon chip singularity (ie when one chip > one brain in pure analytical capacity) - science fictiion no moore
who programs the ai - the race to include lost voices eg girls- the world of statistics re=-examined like never before (eg previously mass statistics very weak at coding meaining from numbers)
Biotech >> Affective science (loveq and emotional intelligence remains human's unique edge over artificials for at least 10 more years!)
Some people say that Virtual or Augmented Reality has advanced at its best so far in last 12 months that there are hardly any qualified teachers only pioneering explorers- does this matter - well its VR which is your gateway to web3 - intead of just a mobile device you will like wear a visual sensor system; equally others argue that you shouldnt worry about how fast you put googles on - what you should want is to take back ownbership of what you spend time creating virually- look at the small print of the big platforms you probably dont own anything without them..maybe this is a generation issue bu interstingly the met-generation can now work on chnaging anything that old systems are destroying (eg climate) ...t
IOT which things will now have brains and be as mobile connected as you are
Crypto - can communities celebrate financiang their own most urgent sustainability cooperations? if they dont who wil?
Cyber >> Drone - opportunities and threats of public spaces- first in spaces like the arctic circle if we dont use drones we will get no warning before the big meltdown
-the mkist memorable western campus event i attended in 2010s was tufts colllaboratory summit convened mainly by arctic circle youth under 25;
one of the main debates how to help teachers in arctic circle schools empower their students to use virtual reality to visit other arctic circles schools communities; many of the changes and solutions are analogous; I am reminded by educators leading the compilation of virtual realty libraries of the DICE acronym - a reen might want to do something dangerous like climb everest, why not VR simulate that? there are impossible things a trainee doctor will never be able to travel inside a humans gut but that can be VR'd; there are catastropghic simulations - you would rid the world of bees just to test if donald is wrong about nature being more powerful than he is, you can simulate it; or the future of smart tourism may be curation of what a community is proudest of being visited for - this way ecotourism, cultural appreciation exchanges can be twinned to maximise celebration of each other- and by the way friends of the tourist can join in virtually- of corse this raises a metaverse question - that Hong Kong is leading the world on
being 100% public - good and bad hacs- note context matters - context 1 smart city context 2 isolated vilalge no moore context 3 make a huge land safe at borders
3D printing aka additive engineering
Big Data Small by market tech sector Leapfrogging
Nano cf einstein - to innovate science model more micro
Blockchain
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