At the clinton global initiative university 2013. st. louis (April 5th-7th) (Needs to be reviewed... Don't judge...)
Friday April 5th 7:52PM:
Jean's Beautiful Haitian Painting had a chance to participate in the "Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U 2013) that took place in St. Louis MO (April 5th-7th). This is a yearly conference put together by the Clinton Foundation and always moderated by President Clinton himself and his daughter Chelsea Clinton. (I'm currently here as I type this... April 5th 7:52 PM). Today's panel members are President Bill Clinton, Jack Dorsey (Co-founder and CEO, Square, Inc.), William Kamkwamba (Inventor and writer, Moving Windmills), Zainab Salbi (Founder of Women for Women International), and Mark S. Wrighton (Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis)
Saturday April 6th 2013 (9-10AM):
Plenary session entitled: A Better Future For GIrls and Women: Empowering the Next Generation moderated by Chelsea Clinton.
Panel Members: Hawa Abdi Diblawe (Founder of the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation), Shabana Basij-Rasikh (Managing director School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), Chelsea Clinton (Board member of the Clinton Foundation), Stephen J. Felice (President and chief commercial officer, Dell Inc.), and Muhammad Yunus (Yunus Centre Chairman).
I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver says Muhammad Yunus
It's not a matter of I am a boy or a girl, but a matter of what I want to do with my life (Muhammad Yunus)
Every one person of this generation has the power to change the whole world, not one but each one (Muhammad Yunus)
"If I weren't an optimist but a realist I would not be doing what I am doing today" Shabana Basij-Rasikh
10:30 (April 6th, 2013):
Skills session entitled Driving Results: Monitoring and Evaluating Your Project
Speakers Clara Chow (President and CEO of Generation Enterprise), and Scot Frank (Chief Executive Officer One Earth Designs)
Clara Chow:
Mission matters: Have to know what the mission is and able to measure it (realistic goals)
What gets measured gets managed
First thing to think about when writing a mission is what is the organization is about and what you are hoping to achieve. Have a clear goal
Why you deserve to exist?
What are your opportunities and needs that need to be addressed and what are you doing to address those needs?
After figuring out your mission...
specific strategies needs in order to achieve your goals
Teaching to the test: can be a problem because of lack of specific mission
Closing words: What gets measured get managed... and metrics matter!!!
Scot Frank:
One Earth Designs (Using solar energy to meet different needs in poor communities... people are able to use this technology to cook etc...)
This project can be used in collaboration with any reforestation projects because it would provide people with an alternative to using trees (woods, coals etc...) to cook.
Qualitative data is as, if not more important (in some cases), as quantitative date. Qualitative helps you to know if people are satisfied with your product.
Key Learnings:
More involvement ---> More Successful
Local Excitement drives success
People Feel accountable to their peers
Give people ownership over the project
Participants appreciate engagement and new skill sets
qualitative and quantitative data are both very important
Seek deep understanding of effects (Not just what you are monitoring on sheets behind a desk, but over all are you or your product satisfying the people being served.
Rather than creating your own metrics and deciding what needs to be measured, look into established system that are already used by other successful people, corporation, NGO's etc... make sure that you are only measuring metrics that are easy, cost and time friendly, and metrics that are going to be easy to tract.
Personally thinks that it is easier to have a successful business if it is ran horizontally rather than vertically... Trust is important in finding local community partners to work with in a horizontal system.
That can be achieved by spending a lot of time in the community in getting to know people, to know the trust worthy and to gain trust... building a connection and being able to assure them you are here to stay (but not like the people that have come and go)
Is it worth collecting data as undergraduate students because of the chance of miscalculation (validity and reliability of date) etc.?: This can be resolved by having different partners that helps to design the study and having their names in the published materials (people with credentials). A lot of it is also about who you know so spend a lot of time attempting to meeting different people.
How do you keep consistent with the metrics used and how do you change them with time as situation changes with time, country, and culture...
Chow: "I would worry about having to build metric system.. I would rather keep on revisiting and revising my used metric system". Changing the metric system might require that the mess ion be changed.
Scot: You cannot be a perfectionist but if the metric used is not working and you are not getting good result... it needs to be changed.
How do you give these people who'd be losing job due to this new technology an alternative to making money? (The people who'd be selling woods and coals etc... for cooking purposes)
Closing words:
Solutions without Borders: Working with unlikely allies. Guest Speaker: (Peter Peterson)
Speakers/Panel: Will Allen (Founder CEO of Growing Power), Bill Bishop (Editor, The daily Yonder, Author, "The Big Sort"), Claire McCaskill (U.S. Senator for Missouri, United States Senate), Sara Minkara (President and Founder of Empowerment Trough Integration), Brendon Tuohey (Co-founder and Executive Director of PeacePlayers International)
"Moderation is not evil in politics" Senator McCaskill
The RIse of Makeshift Innovation:
You don't necessarily have to be the first to do anything... what you want to do is to build on things that have been done.
Jean's Beautiful Haitian Painting had a chance to participate in the "Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U 2013) that took place in St. Louis MO (April 5th-7th). This is a yearly conference put together by the Clinton Foundation and always moderated by President Clinton himself and his daughter Chelsea Clinton. (I'm currently here as I type this... April 5th 7:52 PM). Today's panel members are President Bill Clinton, Jack Dorsey (Co-founder and CEO, Square, Inc.), William Kamkwamba (Inventor and writer, Moving Windmills), Zainab Salbi (Founder of Women for Women International), and Mark S. Wrighton (Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis)
Saturday April 6th 2013 (9-10AM):
Plenary session entitled: A Better Future For GIrls and Women: Empowering the Next Generation moderated by Chelsea Clinton.
Panel Members: Hawa Abdi Diblawe (Founder of the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation), Shabana Basij-Rasikh (Managing director School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), Chelsea Clinton (Board member of the Clinton Foundation), Stephen J. Felice (President and chief commercial officer, Dell Inc.), and Muhammad Yunus (Yunus Centre Chairman).
I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver says Muhammad Yunus
It's not a matter of I am a boy or a girl, but a matter of what I want to do with my life (Muhammad Yunus)
Every one person of this generation has the power to change the whole world, not one but each one (Muhammad Yunus)
"If I weren't an optimist but a realist I would not be doing what I am doing today" Shabana Basij-Rasikh
10:30 (April 6th, 2013):
Skills session entitled Driving Results: Monitoring and Evaluating Your Project
Speakers Clara Chow (President and CEO of Generation Enterprise), and Scot Frank (Chief Executive Officer One Earth Designs)
Clara Chow:
Mission matters: Have to know what the mission is and able to measure it (realistic goals)
What gets measured gets managed
First thing to think about when writing a mission is what is the organization is about and what you are hoping to achieve. Have a clear goal
Why you deserve to exist?
What are your opportunities and needs that need to be addressed and what are you doing to address those needs?
After figuring out your mission...
specific strategies needs in order to achieve your goals
Teaching to the test: can be a problem because of lack of specific mission
Closing words: What gets measured get managed... and metrics matter!!!
Scot Frank:
One Earth Designs (Using solar energy to meet different needs in poor communities... people are able to use this technology to cook etc...)
This project can be used in collaboration with any reforestation projects because it would provide people with an alternative to using trees (woods, coals etc...) to cook.
Qualitative data is as, if not more important (in some cases), as quantitative date. Qualitative helps you to know if people are satisfied with your product.
Key Learnings:
More involvement ---> More Successful
Local Excitement drives success
People Feel accountable to their peers
Give people ownership over the project
Participants appreciate engagement and new skill sets
qualitative and quantitative data are both very important
Seek deep understanding of effects (Not just what you are monitoring on sheets behind a desk, but over all are you or your product satisfying the people being served.
Rather than creating your own metrics and deciding what needs to be measured, look into established system that are already used by other successful people, corporation, NGO's etc... make sure that you are only measuring metrics that are easy, cost and time friendly, and metrics that are going to be easy to tract.
Personally thinks that it is easier to have a successful business if it is ran horizontally rather than vertically... Trust is important in finding local community partners to work with in a horizontal system.
That can be achieved by spending a lot of time in the community in getting to know people, to know the trust worthy and to gain trust... building a connection and being able to assure them you are here to stay (but not like the people that have come and go)
Is it worth collecting data as undergraduate students because of the chance of miscalculation (validity and reliability of date) etc.?: This can be resolved by having different partners that helps to design the study and having their names in the published materials (people with credentials). A lot of it is also about who you know so spend a lot of time attempting to meeting different people.
How do you keep consistent with the metrics used and how do you change them with time as situation changes with time, country, and culture...
Chow: "I would worry about having to build metric system.. I would rather keep on revisiting and revising my used metric system". Changing the metric system might require that the mess ion be changed.
Scot: You cannot be a perfectionist but if the metric used is not working and you are not getting good result... it needs to be changed.
How do you give these people who'd be losing job due to this new technology an alternative to making money? (The people who'd be selling woods and coals etc... for cooking purposes)
Closing words:
Solutions without Borders: Working with unlikely allies. Guest Speaker: (Peter Peterson)
Speakers/Panel: Will Allen (Founder CEO of Growing Power), Bill Bishop (Editor, The daily Yonder, Author, "The Big Sort"), Claire McCaskill (U.S. Senator for Missouri, United States Senate), Sara Minkara (President and Founder of Empowerment Trough Integration), Brendon Tuohey (Co-founder and Executive Director of PeacePlayers International)
"Moderation is not evil in politics" Senator McCaskill
The RIse of Makeshift Innovation:
You don't necessarily have to be the first to do anything... what you want to do is to build on things that have been done.
Identify the stick holders (negative and positive) and find out what can be done to answer to their requests appropriately
Don't fail in a way that hurt other people (lol)
Don't fail in a way that hurt other people (lol)
Closing Remarks with President Clinton and Stephen Colbert:
Saturday April 6th (3:30Pm -