http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7913771768810331968&q=%22world+social+forum%22&hl=en If you look at this 3 minute video trailer on the World Social Forum January 2007 hosted for the first time out of Africa and Kenya, you will note that one of the organising taglines is connecting citizen networks for
*a world where it is not profit that matters but life

Sadly for my self, I just cannot afford to get to Kenya in January 2007. If you or anyone you know is going, I invite you to make a post (and update it) so that we know how to keep connected with any social networks that interface between participants and the overall WSF

The various .tv webs affiliated with my friends and Scottish clans will be monitoring what before, after and during voices and citizen networks interconnect with the world social forum at spaces such as http://futurehistorian.tv/_wsn/page8.html and http://worldcitizen.tv/
My clan http://macrae-nets.blogspot.com/ also has a lot of social and media connections with both Brazil and Africa. For example my grandfather was a British Consul and he was first posted in the 1920s to Porto Alegre (the modern-day birthplace of the world social forum); his son (my dad) was/is the senior interviewer of entrepreneurial revolutionaries http://entrepreneurialrevolutional.blogspot.com/ - his work at The Economist over 40 years enabled him to do this in at least 30 countries.

http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687 Scots feel that since the invention of the darn spreadsheet, many American and other modern business schools have serially abused truth and fairness at the core of economics by misinterpreting its ethical origins in Adam Smith's free markets work of the late 1700s; confusing how Adam's alumni mapped the difference between systemic entrepreneurs and money-driven ones as early as 1800; ignoring how the Scottish founder of The Economist in the 1840s innovated global media to in the quest to make sure that peoples were never ruled over by public servants sponsored by vested interests in compounding lost sustainability for their own speculative or non-transparent gain. http://er100.blogspot.com/ As one of those nations that was by 1900 already more worldwide networked (expatriated) than anchored by ScotLAND we are on a mission to retrieve the goodwill names of economics, entrepreneurship and tv (at least BBC tv) another Scottish innovation for the world.

My father's namesake (another octogenarian Norman Macrae) was a Scottish minister whose main educational mission was in Nigeria and whose son Callum Macrae does pretty fearless exposures as a war reporter including the non-transparent mess that Iraq became the day after Saddam's statue was toppled. Transparency is of course a key if Africa is to turn the corner from being the continent that the rest of the world mercilessly extracts from to one where life matters.

http://humanityrising.blogspot.com/ http://asinworld.blogspot.com/2001_09_01_asinworld_archive.html You may be aware that Peter Eigen of Transparency International believes we have 2 years to turn round the tipping point of corruption and lost transparency or forever after hold our peace (ie fizzle out as a species that let warring networks dominate over hi-trust world citizen ones)
Bill Gates is funding the Africa Progress Panel which is now anchoring around Peter Eigen's grassrooted transparency networks and has achieved the reverse take over of all the image-laden make Poverty History networks of 2005 including Blair's Africa Commission. Peter Eigen has also helped Kofi Annan to make the previously non-systemic Global compact integral by adding a tenth transparency principle. Any corporation that signs the global compact but does not honour transparency is now in default of all goodwill.

This is a very interesting conversation to take to any so-called sustainability investment network including the Blood & Gore one. Mathematically, there is no compound sustainability without transparency. The fact that global tangible accountants still do not integrate audits around that principle was first made clear by Brookings and Georgetown Law School in 2000, and the chair of Unseen Wealth forecast that each year risks would compound with ever greater disasters on all peoples until or unless that mathematical error is corrected. If this is a topic that interests you why not mail me at chris.nacrae@yahoo.co.uk because the one thing I do know how to map as a mathematician is how to audit which organisational system (or networks of systems*systems*systems) have governance in place to compounding sustainability, and which are compounding its exponential opposite. http://www.valuetrue.com/

LINKIN IN NOW OR FOREVER AFTER HOLD YOUR PEACE In summary: Kenya January 2007 is a crossroads in future history like none other; and if you have or know anyone who takes part in linking in to that crossroads I urge you to add a post to this thread at any time. Then longitudinally we can work out what connections omidyar.net has with this "once in many billion lifetimes" crossroads to a world where it is not profit but life whose sustainability is valued most by every large organisation we patronise, socially licence into being, work for or otherwise permit to systemise human relationship around. http://worldwidewaves.tv/ http://frappr.com/africamph