Mornflake project

[SashaMrkailo]

Hi Global Swadeshi. I have deep interest in what I think are main goals of global swadeshi: some kind of open source decentralized gandhian economy. But as we think and ponder on ups and downs of our goals, ideas and projects, life goes one. We have to survive and provide necessities for ourselves and our families. As some of you might know I m a member of Minciu Sodas network http://www.ms.lt/ and our wiki http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi where we try to teach people from around of world (many of them from Africa) learn how to use wiki and other Web 2 software tools. Minciu Sodas is what I would call a social enterprise, with a primary goal of encouraging independent thinkers to grow and develop. People do help each other, both online and offline. One of the more impressive things Minciu Sodas helped (organized, funded, supported) was pyramid of peace, which was a peace action which was in full flung during the terrible Kenya riots (almost civil war) during 2008 election crisis where Minciu Sodas and people close to it helped by sending money, opening roadblocks, making contacts between warring factions http://www.pyramidofpeace.net The list goes on and on. Please visit the website and connect with us! http://www.ms.lt/news.php Now what I want to mention is that Minciu Sodas in order to be sustainable as a social business needs also some commercial jobs. So already there are some commercial companies willing to support our network by giving us work. For example at this moment we are collaborating on a task for an UK food company Mornflake http://www.mornflake.com/ They are helping us and giving us opportunity to work for them. We are making a directory (which is in the Public Domain of course) of online communities in UK among which some of interest and open to our proposal will be contacted and engaged. Mornflake is organizing an online video contest where participants from UK will be able to submit a DIY video on any area of interest, where Mornflake will be mentioned or seen. I (we) see this as an opportunity to link different communities in a synergy. By doing this we are able to promote our services and projects, like we did in my food story Larahna http://www.myfoodstory.info/view.php?pagepath=New2144 David Braden http://www.myfoodstory.info/view.php?pagepath=New2149 We have added Global Swadeshi food stories to my food story. Also we have an integrated system where we have advertised some of Global Swadeshi participants at this link http://www.shopwithus.org/ and this appears in all of our websites. We wish to promote Global Swadeshi to increase its impact in the online world. Basically Mornflake is encouraging us to develop our contacts and network and by doing that we are also helping them ( Mornflake) and the Global Swadeshi network. Hopefully we will create a win win game where all participants are gaining. I hope this is compatible with Global Swadeshi goals and means. How can we help Global Swadeshi ideas/projects/people ? Thank you!

[AndriusKulikauskas]

I wrote this letter:

Hi Graham, Thank you for chatting with us today. I've personally invited you to join Vinay Gupta's Global Swadeshi and please let me know if you still have trouble joining. I encourage others to join there, too.

Sasha is active there. Sasha, please, make a list at http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalSwadeshi of Global Swadeshi participants and their endeavors and their websites and any countries where they are especially active or interested. I also ask anybody who would like a bit of paid work to train with Sasha and help to make this list.

As you know, we're helping UK online communities on behalf of Mornflake cereal http://www.mornflake.com and their online video competition http://www.mornflakecompetition.com (less than two weeks left).

My plan is to send $100 to $200 to Graham Knight from the money Minciu Sodas is earning from Mornflake. Graham will send DIY Solar mobile phone recharging kits to:
* Wendi Loshe Bernadette in Cameroon
* Fred Kayiwa in Uganda
* William Wambura in Tanzania
* Dennis Kimambo in Kenya
* Samwel Kongere in Kenya
and also to people who we learn of through Global Swadeshi, who might be in Afghanistan, Palestine, India and other places around the world.

Each person will tell us in advance how much they think they can sell the kit for, and how many they can sell in one month. They will report to us about the people they sell to, preferably, with their permission, giving their name and location and a bit about them and how they use their phone. They will report how much they actually sold each kit for and any expenses they had. They will check in one month to see are the people satisfied. They will keep all of the money they make from selling the DIY Solar kits.

We will work on this project at the Global Swadeshi website http://www.globalswadeshi.net as well as Minciu Sodas working groups and Worknets wiki. The purpose of this project is to work together with others at Global Swadeshi and get to know them and their projects. We will also learn about the opportunities, challenges and abilities of different entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. This will be a lot achieved for a small amount of money.

Wendi, Fred, William, Dennis, Samwel, would you like to participate? Who else?

Graham, Does this make sense? What do you think?

Andrius

graham wrote:
> Hi Andrius,
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> I read through the Gupta website but am puzzled as to what you plan to do with $70.
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> I am unable to logon to that site.
>
> Graham