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Smashing the pumpkins of microfinance
"All progress depends on the unreasonable man" -- or woman
The student surpasses the master, who gives way graciously
The Gates Foundation and other non-profits have issued Grand Challenges for global healthcare or space travel or mathematics, but where are the "Grand Micro Challenges©" or "Micro Grand Challenges©" that will generate New Markets-based Micro Ideas to economically liberate "The Next Billion"?
Where are these novel paradigms ?
The poverty of global imagination traps the "Bottom of the Pyramid" in "a cruel and malignant Fate" that no NGO nor charity nor government agency has ever been able to alter. The Deep Debt Rut from Dhaka shackles Womankind & Mankind in usury and existential penury -- and sycophantic accolades for simplistic ideas continue in the face of the conceptual progress manifested on this digital record of Micro Progress.
Can you too shatter the micro stereotypes and "Think Different" ?
History will judge us, not mere micro women or micro men.
Globally & warmly yours, David Palella
David A. Palella
Visionary in Chief
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
SAN DIEGO, California
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http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-1065919.html
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I will be/was a speaker or keynote speaker at:
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2nd Kenya Diaspora Int'l Conference & Investment Forum
20-22 August 2009, Atlanta, GA
http://www.kenyaopen4business.com
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"Microfinance for Institutional Investors"
21-22 Sept. 2009, Washington, DC
http://www.hansonwade.com/events/microfinance-for-institutional-investors/index.shtml
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"Micro Financial Services World"
[ organized by Hanson Wade ]
11-12 May 2010, Amsterdam City Centre, The Netherlands
http://www.mfs-world.com
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Green Business Africa Summit & Expo
02-04 June 2010, Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.greenbusinessafricaexpo.com
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Showing posts with label micro revolutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label micro revolutions. Show all posts
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Global Moral Lipodystrophy & the Micro Revolutions
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The World is Fat [ sic ] -- some parts anyway
Would you like flies with that? [ sic ]
Lipodystrophy is maldistribution of an individual's body fat, often caused by disease or treatment of a disease such as AIDS/HIV. But it is also a planetary-wide phenomenon as evidenced by the high obesity rates in America and Europe and the very low body-mass indices that prevail among the poor at the "Bottom of the Pyramid" in the Developing World.
In sum, the world is not flat, but fat. In some parts anyway.
Sadly, the space-time continuum or fabric of Planet Earth is hugely pockmarked and grossly distended by deep gravity wells that mal-accumulate wealth, nutrition and economic opportunity. The deepest of these amoral and unduly wealthy gravity sinks is, of course, Wall Street. At the other extreme, "gravity's rainbow" is almost completely absent on the convex, barren and achromatic plains of Africa.
So what liposuction techniques will equilibrate this global and amoral maldistribution of body fat, dietary protein, caloric intake, income and wealth ? What drastic plastic surgery will dermabrade away the scandalous and hideous stretch marks and cellulite of America and Europe?
As Richard Feynman wrote: "There's plenty of room at the bottom."
The answer to this macro imbalance are the various micro mechanisms and paradigms described in this blog, most of which are based on the ubiquity of the cell phone and the low transaction costs of the fully-electronic networks of mobile carriers. Some of these micro-mechanisms are self-funding and markets-based, requiring no charity but only implementation and moral and political will. These new Micro Revolutions include:
(1) the Carbon Micro Credit (CMC)
(2) the Foreign-Aid Micro Credit (FAMC)
(3) the School-lunch Carbon-Micro-Offset Program
(4) Micro Property Rights / Micro Private-Property Rights
(5) Micro-tithing / Micro-charity
(6) Micro Loans / Micro Finance
(7) International Micro Social Security
(8) Micro Medicine or Micro-telemedicine
(9) Micro Education or Micro tele-education, and
(10) Micro________ ? -->> You fill in the blank.
Micro mechanisms and micro paradigms such as these, again, based mainly on the globally ubiquitous cell-phone network, could eventually liposuction excess economic fat and surplus nutrition from America & Europe and redistribute it equitably, accountably and efficiently to the Poor in the Developing World.
Will you be part of these Micro Revolutions and take the moral high-ground? Or, rather, would you like fries with that ?
"Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!"
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- written December 25th, 1864.
Merry Christmas -- December 25th, 2008
David A. Palella
Chief Carbon Santa
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, CA
tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://community.keithferrazzi.com/profile/DavidPalella
http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
*****
The World is Fat [ sic ] -- some parts anyway
Would you like flies with that? [ sic ]
Lipodystrophy is maldistribution of an individual's body fat, often caused by disease or treatment of a disease such as AIDS/HIV. But it is also a planetary-wide phenomenon as evidenced by the high obesity rates in America and Europe and the very low body-mass indices that prevail among the poor at the "Bottom of the Pyramid" in the Developing World.
In sum, the world is not flat, but fat. In some parts anyway.
Sadly, the space-time continuum or fabric of Planet Earth is hugely pockmarked and grossly distended by deep gravity wells that mal-accumulate wealth, nutrition and economic opportunity. The deepest of these amoral and unduly wealthy gravity sinks is, of course, Wall Street. At the other extreme, "gravity's rainbow" is almost completely absent on the convex, barren and achromatic plains of Africa.
So what liposuction techniques will equilibrate this global and amoral maldistribution of body fat, dietary protein, caloric intake, income and wealth ? What drastic plastic surgery will dermabrade away the scandalous and hideous stretch marks and cellulite of America and Europe?
As Richard Feynman wrote: "There's plenty of room at the bottom."
The answer to this macro imbalance are the various micro mechanisms and paradigms described in this blog, most of which are based on the ubiquity of the cell phone and the low transaction costs of the fully-electronic networks of mobile carriers. Some of these micro-mechanisms are self-funding and markets-based, requiring no charity but only implementation and moral and political will. These new Micro Revolutions include:
(1) the Carbon Micro Credit (CMC)
(2) the Foreign-Aid Micro Credit (FAMC)
(3) the School-lunch Carbon-Micro-Offset Program
(4) Micro Property Rights / Micro Private-Property Rights
(5) Micro-tithing / Micro-charity
(6) Micro Loans / Micro Finance
(7) International Micro Social Security
(8) Micro Medicine or Micro-telemedicine
(9) Micro Education or Micro tele-education, and
(10) Micro________ ? -->> You fill in the blank.
Micro mechanisms and micro paradigms such as these, again, based mainly on the globally ubiquitous cell-phone network, could eventually liposuction excess economic fat and surplus nutrition from America & Europe and redistribute it equitably, accountably and efficiently to the Poor in the Developing World.
Will you be part of these Micro Revolutions and take the moral high-ground? Or, rather, would you like fries with that ?
"Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!"
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- written December 25th, 1864.
Merry Christmas -- December 25th, 2008
David A. Palella
Chief Carbon Santa
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, CA
tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://community.keithferrazzi.com/profile/DavidPalella
http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
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