New Economic Paradigms: Developing World Economic Model

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats forever." Provide "fishing poles," and true independence and sustainability arise. Real development goes far beyond charity and the donation model. Examples include microenterprise businesses, microcredit and lending, open source and alternative currencies. These efforts are built on dreams and hard work, but the assistance they need is often in short supply. Nowhere is this more apparent than in parts of the world where equipment, transportation and reliable electricity and telecommunications can be hard to come by. This track seeks to complement the partnership between new economic ventures in developing countries and their supporting organizations, new connections that will enable businesses to locate the resources they need, increase their customer base and expand their efforts into new places and markets. In an effort to avoid "reinventing the wheel" or falling into the pitfalls of previous projects, these sessions facilitate the sharing of experiences and wisdom between people in different parts of the world but facing similar challenges.

Main Track (A) Themes:
• Microfinance
• Micro-enterprise
• Grant Writing &
• Fundraising
• Open Source & Alternative Currencies

Keynotes:
Philip Berber: The Application of New Philanthropy to International Aid
Anita Burke: Corporate Citizenship – Mainstreaming Social Responsibility
Hunter Lovins:  Natural Capitalism
Bernard Lietaer: The Money Crunch
Luisa Mestroni: Linking Industrial Resources to Developing Countries
Maureen Silos: Developing Capacity for Complexity
Lynn Twist: Fundraising From the Heart

Speakers:
Philip Berber - "The Application of New Philanthropy to International Aid"
Sue Dorsey - "5000 Borrowers"
Steve Elliott - "10 - Report from Uganda"
Jim Epstein - "Village Level Microenterprise"
Christopher Juniper - "Sustainable Business Practice"
Douglas McMeekin - "How Jungle Chocolate is helping farmers in the Amazon Region of Ecuador"
Luisa "Mestroni, MD - "Linking Industrial Resources to Developing Countries "
Sulochana Nair - "Walking A Tightrope: Poverty Reduction in Multi Ethnic Malaysia"
Jean-Francois Noubel - "Collective Intelligence and the design of Open Source Currencies"
Stephanie Palm Neves - "Creating Markets for Environmental Sustainability and Social Impact"
Vinod Parekh - "Village Level Microenterprise"
James Bernard Quilligan - "Integrating Macroeconomics and Sustainable Development"
Fernando Salgado - "Sustainable Strategic Planning and Implementation: a world class Sustainable Development case"
Aaron Slettehaugh - "Microenterprise in Africa"
Hanne Strong - "Eco-preneurship"
Sayre Tupac Wiracocha - "Weavers of Wisdom: Ancestral Knowledge Provides Sustainable Skills: A Case Study in Peru"
Bill Wallace - "Sustainable Development Project Indicators: Ensuring Progress Toward Sustainability"
John Watts - "Butterfly Farming"
Neville Williams - "Finance and the Possibilities for Renewable Energy"
Sayre Tupac Wiracocha - "Weavers of Wisdom: Ancestral Knowledge