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Microcredit Pioneer & Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus Free Preview

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Yunus Says Grameen Bank Remains Robust Despite Crisis

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CulturalEngineer

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Posted: 09.04.10, 10:42 AM

One of the central problems with mega-banks is a lack of 'granularity of decision'...

There's an absence of creativity regarding solutions for social catastrophe that cannot be addressed with a one-size-fits-all, steamroller approach.

There's been NO technological approaches to finding better outcomes on a more individual basis...

Law, Government and Money itself are technologies.

As for addressing imbalances in influence and how that affects decision...

There are new opportunities presented by the Web. My own endeavor finds leverage because of the peer-to-peer capability concurrent with the Account*

*The Individually-controlled/Commons-dedicated Account:

A Self-supporting , Commons-owned neutral platform for both political and charitable monetary contribution... which for fundamental reasons of scale must allow a viable micro-transaction (think x-box points for action in the Commons). The resultant network catalyzes additional functionality for co-ordination of other 'social energy' utilization. (If desired, It's also the most neutral and ultimately politically viable method for the public finance of elections.)

This concept arose out of the investigation of issues in addressing reciprocal obligations in scaled social networks and the interplay with biological altruism (especially its limits and actual operational effects), Dunbar's number (a hypothetical natural human community size), proximity and... issues in technologies of interaction that come with that scale and complexity. I believe these ideas can lead to additional solutions in other fields of social interaction.

Citizens United?

Enable Networked Citizen Lobbying! A fundamental of speech and association. If the Founders had the technology, this right would have been guaranteed in the Constitution.

A Public Interest Entrepreneur... looking to have a chance to present this concept to Commons-oriented investors.

A big thanks to the P2P Foundation for their upcoming reprint of my old post:

On Creating Communities

And request for 3-Part series on the Commons-dedicated Account...

Empowering the Commons: The Dedicated Account (Part I)

(P2P specifically designates those processes that aim to increase the most widespread participation by equipotential participants.)

Personal Democracy: Disruption as an Enlightenment Essential
http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com...uption-as.html

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/culturalengineer

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xobeht

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Posted: 06.20.10, 03:24 AM

If I pay for this AMAZING program (heard the radio version via podcast @ commonwealth club) can I post it on facebook for any one of my facebook friends to watch in full????

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