Entrepreneur Sustainability Peers

From espians

User:Entrepreneur76 writes:

Sustainability News, All Halloweens days, 2007, Picadilly : 2008 citizen1000's : [January World Entrepreneur Network ], Yunus Readers Club on [Capitalism's Future ]; march Yunus1000 Forum London; September [Prince Frederick's ] 1500 Youth Entrepreneur Summit (World Creativity Forum) Phillipines; Oct onwards Daily 200 Green in the City London South Bank - mail info@worldcitizen.tv to add 1000 citizen summit to this worldwide uniting of http://peoplepower.jp or if you have inspiring collaboration questions to relay to organisers

ESP = Entrepreneur*Sustainability*Peers (for Collaboration Action Learning)

Aug 01 - proposal to unite active citizenry around Browns UN Call

Below: extract of Gordon Brown's UN Speech is an amazing opportunity. He is demanding people power, active citizenship interface corporations government and media. What we could be doing in next 4 weeks before First 1000 citizens meet in London is surveying 300? largest corporations with bases in UK. Do they want to connect with London/UK citizens collaboration movements or not. We need to give away (open source) one collaboration logo so that any citizen network can unite with it. ESP may be relevant- if we can agree relevant languages of entrepreneur, sustainability and peers - ie if we edit the meanings of these words as far as Brown's goals are stated

[Passports ] I have put a few slides together (ask info@worldcitizen.tv - Brown's Calling) that remind me of stories we need to keep cross-examining to London's Olympics year. If the BBC isnt in the epincentre of empowering Brown's call by then we should demonstrate against spectator sports and all its failures to include active ciizenship and whole truth investigations into what futures are being compounded out of every community's locality

Can we eg unite First 100 and Nick' Be The C¬hange in supporting Brown's Call. Can we unite all Frimneds of Africa around this. Can we unite Stern's $ threads : climate, commission of africa, empowerment up imnstead of global aid down, his work now conneting India and Manmohan Singh's decalaration that it is time economist reinvented their models

The two fold action needed is to ge citizen networks to declare unity of activism around Brown's text and approach busiensses askin g them do they want to interface with people's common power or be left out

What I am trying to ask us to collaborate around is so obvious if we could just edit a common deck into one presentation as to how we can flow all these grassroots energies and stories togetrher. We are not going to get another time when so much connections can be made

Tav and Guilhem are you up for this out of espian world

Which other network founders have a business interface team and how can we quickly agree colaborations so that we unite instead of separate

chris macrae

unfortunately I am offline Aug 6-16: is there anything I can try and answer/simplify as to why this is so obviously the time for those around London to connect and show world cities an eaxample they can start replicating. Politically in en glish speaking countries this opening for a higher level of sustainability colaboration entrepreneurship will not come again. And demanding that the BBC as media owned by the people starts having the courage to ask questions that truth and transparency can be elarnt around is the biggest commonwealth gift we can empower out of London. If we can do that then other countries/cities can work out their biggest collaboation gift in integrating every community into a peooples globalsiation.

Gordon Brown Speech Demanding Active Citizens Collaborate with Business, Giv & Media

UN 31 July 2007

If not now, when?

If not us, who?

If not together, how?

And I believe the scale of the challenge is such that we cannot now leave it to some other time and some other people but must act now, working together.

And so my argument is simple: the greatest of evils that touches the deepest places of conscience demands the greatest of endeavour.

The greatest of challenges now demands the boldest of initiatives.

To address the worst of poverty we urgently need to summon up the best efforts of humanity.

I want to summon into existence the greatest coalition of conscience in pursuit of the greatest of causes.

And I firmly believe that if we can discover common purpose there is no failing in today’s world that cannot be addressed by mobilising our strengths, no individual struggle that drags people down that cannot benefit from a renewed public purpose that can lift people up.

For you also know what I know: that the world has the technology to cure, the science to heal, the medicine to save lives.

Past generations had the old excuse.

They could say:

If only we had the knowledge

If only we had the technology

If only we had the medicine

If only we had the science

If only we had the wealth.

Today we have the science, technology, medicine and wealth: what we now need is the unity and strength of purpose to employ the ingenuity and resources we have – and to employ them well - to help those who need it.

And we need a compact – the rich accepting their responsibilities to invest, to support, to end protectionism and to deliver our promises; the developing countries accepting their responsibilities to reform, to open up to trade, and to be transparent and free of corruption.

But our objectives cannot be achieved by governments alone, however well intentioned; or private sector alone, however generous; or NGOs or faith groups alone, however well meaning or determined – it can only be achieved in a genuine partnership together.

So it is time to call into action the eighth of the Millennium Goals so we can meet the first seven. Let us remember Millennium Development Goal eight – to call into being, beyond governments alone, a global partnership for development, and together harness the energy, the ideas and the talents of the private sector, consumers, NGOs and faith groups, and citizens everywhere.

The sum of all the individual actions working together to achieve real change.

Some people call it the mobilisation of soft power…I call it people power.

People power in support of the leadership of developing countries.

So let me say to governments of developing countries: you are the leaders in charge of the destiny of your countries. And you have told us that that destiny is not to be poor. The world has moved from the age of colonialism to the age of political independence but economic dependence, to what must become the new age of empowerment: and our task is to support and empower you in the open, transparent decision-making and reforms you need to make, and to keep our promises.

Let me say to business: you know better than anyone that in the long run you simply cannot succeed in places where the roads are impassable, where people have no access to markets, where employees are under-educated or under-fed, where the rule of law is poorly established or poorly respected. Not only does business have the technology, the skills, the expertise for wealth and job creation that if fully mobilised for global purpose will help meet our goals, it is also in your best business interest to help poor countries develop.

Let me say to faith groups and NGOs -- your moral outrage at avoidable poverty has led you to work for the greatest of causes, the highest of ideals, and become the leaders of the campaign to make poverty history. Imagine what more you can accomplish if the energy to oppose and expose harnessed to the energy to propose and inspire is given more support by the rest of us—businesses, citizens, and governments.

Let me say to individuals….I know that many of you want to help make a difference, want to be responsible consumers, want to make your voices heard, want to be active citizens of the world. You can play a part as individuals in ensuring that when the history books look back on 2007 and 2008, they talk of a popular campaign for change so big, broad, deep and wide that governments around the whole world had to sit up, listen and act.

Let me say to all our global institutions and international financial institutions: We have been standing at the crossroads of change for too long. It is time to implement the reforms needed, prove your relevance for the global age, and make the difficult choices that will give us an international system that is truly fit for the 21st century agenda ---- one that reflects new shared purpose for the age of globalisation, delivering change to those who need it most.

And let me say to governments of developed countries: We must deliver on our previous promises --- on 0.7 per cent, on making our aid more effective, on debt cancellation, on trade, on universal access to AIDS treatment, on reducing carbon emissions. And let us not just fulfil the commitments we have already made but work with everyone who has a contribution to make. Not just more reports or more studies - for we know what needs to be done - but action.

A programme of action on education to end illiteracy and to ensure opportunity for all.

A programme of action on trade and economic development to end poverty and ensure prosperity for all.

A programme of action to challenge degradation and to protect the environment, to promote safety and security for all.

And a programme of action to eradicate disease to ensure decent health for all.

So today 12 world leaders and 20 top businessmen and women have come together to sign up to a new commitment to action to meet this development emergency.