what future of banking does your generation want?



please use comments to suggest resources, actions, spaces to move this debate everywhere that youth leads tomorrows planet

typical action resource -small change, big changes program empowers schools or cleges near you to make a quick start in funding your choice of microbank

wall street journal follows up nine year old's quiz with how did big banks lose a trillion dollars and counting of society's money, and does your community prefer microbanking that invests in citizens productivies insetad of fuelling excess consumption; usa today asks whether it is time to end the division between peace and economics prizes - in terms of deep and united democracy across cultures: are their practices not both about mapping what compound consequences humans want?

ashoka (perversely? partnered by citibank) starts a competition on social banking concepts - phone 301 881 1655 or mail inf@worldcitizen.tv if you love one of these concepts enough to want to co-blog a discussion arpound it lower down

Do you want to go a university that helps you and your peer networks create jobs? (After all good jobs creation is what defines a generation's futire and peer networks whle you have the time and place at university is a unique opportunity bin life)





resources:
all our futures report

Can celebrities be a force for good interactions as well spectator sports? can pop go beyond imagining dreams to social reality making? what's media for?



Green as well as pretty - Can youth invite a new generation of pop stars to be worth celebrating as real heroines and heroes - you bet join in at http://thegreenchildren.org

In the future would you like supermarkets to help you know what you are eating, whether they help source labourers improve their lives the harder they work on clean food, clean energy etc


help us make a list of ways in which John Mackey -and his leadership flows around conscious capitalism - links up to a different kind of Fortune 500 CEO -who's CEO do you wnat in your wallet?

he personally edits a blog inviting you to comment on the greatest risks the food industry and reatilers are compounding

he insists that top people in his corporation never get paid more than 20 times the lowest paid; many ceos insist that top people get paid over v500 times more than lowest paid co-workers

about 10 founders of the company wrote up a constitution whose core beliefs could never be chnaged whomever later took shares in the comany- these believes included educating both customers and employees to get involved in microcredit and fair trade

he doesnt claim to be a saint but as his video says he believes any indutry sector leader ought to charter the human purpose that sectoir can futurise and love the communications responsibility of seeing that future happen better and better for all who multiply goodwill with the company -is this not how branding needs to be valued if human and communal sustsinability -let alone free market principles - are to integrate peoples journey through century 21?

what future of media do you want

For 25 years now my dad and i wanted the world's biggest public broadcaster to be systemised the other way round than it is so that every community can enjoy connecting into globalsiation. We wanted enough free speech to start a reality tv program where a nobel laureate inspired the world to search out 30000 community rising projects



Instead it seems to me in 2008 we have this. Of course I would be delighted if any journalist would show that I am wrong, that open investigative journalism with global audiences is alive and well if we tune in to .... WHERE?

JOURNALISM IS DEAD LONG LIVE YOUTH JOURNALISTS
http://yunusyouth.com
My friends are dead serious about this. http://www.saintjames.tv
Look at the BBC. When is the last time its top has let its journalists explore a big world shaping issue. Youth are good at exploring - meaning curiosity and being comfy with making mistakes along the way until the whole big picture. Its not asking about the cause or the remedies of subprime's trillion dollar loss. It was prepared to be censored from are there weapons of mass destruction before the iraq war.

Its all a house of cards where top people and every journalist chained up to the worry about their own individual reputation first and thereby ending up not asking a free press's questions for and by the people with the least voice and the most desperate need of journalism's whole truth In the old days when journalism worked for people, there used to be a policy -never put a jouranlist on a feild they are expert at- let them question openly. Today's guru journalist is too expert -in spite of real time processing - to dare to communicate errors as well as corrects - result = censoring the true curiiosity need if we are ever to change any historical imperfection
- and by goodness , this century has a hangover of historical junk that is wating away the planet and peoples and the joy of learning openly and cross-culturally http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
chris macrae dc bureau worldcitzen.tv usa 301 881 1655

resources:
brand
tell us where a tv program does enjoy asking dr yunus big questions


eg canada -

Which is the best network in the "End Poverty" Industry

Something that is cool about yunus definition of solving poverty as a failed system is that it involves enjoying entrepreneurial hunts for sustainable creativity. Basically any place or alumni group interested in generating sustainable jobs can win-win-win by joinin with yuNus and other network practitioners of end poverty

The microeconomics penny dropped for me whilst we were having this chat with yunus