Antony V. Trowbridge: African Progress from Poverty: New Rural Towns with E-villages

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Progress From PovertyIn Africa

Henry George “There are many things about which there can be no dispute

which go to show that our civilization has reached a critical period, and that unless a new start is made

in the direction of social equality, the nineteenth century may to the future mark its climax”.

International Union Conference : July 2013

Antony V. Trowbridge


SECTION ONEProgress - from Poverty –throughAn EVOLUTION of CONSIOUSNESS

Progress - from Poverty --through NEW RURAL TOWNS with e-covillages

SECTION TWOProgress - from Poverty -through

COMMUNITY ECONOMICS

SECTION THREEProgress -from Poverty -–with COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE

Progress From Poverty- In Rural areas – through RURAL RENEWAL STRATEGY

African Progress From Povertywith proven Community-based examples


Albert Einstein“The world we have created today has

problems

which cannot be solved by thinking the way

we thought when we created them “

Then Progress - From Poverty - of Thinkingfor an Evolution of Consciousness

-can be found through an understanding of

THE TRIUNE BRAIN


“Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…..”

" For goodness sake child, make up your mind !" exclaimed the exasperated parent - to which came the answer :.

“I wish I could Mom, but there are so many minds to make up !”

The child was right - according to Dr. Paul D. MacLean as Director at the US National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda,

from five decades of clinical research he concluded thatwe do indeed ‘think' - not with one brain

- but with three distinctly different ‘brains’ or states of consciousness

defined as the Triune Brain comprising :

1.The Brain stem Reptilian

2. The Limbic System Paleo-mammalian

3. The Cortex Neo-mammalian


THE SURVIVAL IMPERATIVES

The Primal brain feels most secure when surrounded by things;

The Limbic brain feels most secure when surrounded by people The Cortex feels most secure when surrounded by knowledge, THE REPTILIAN PRIMAL BRAIN Establishes territory and the marking and defense of it and hunting, hoarding and courting a mate Forming autonomic, bureauratic systems with ritualistic displays

THE LIMBIC SYSTEM fosters The bonding between families Nursing and maternal care Playful behaviour Social groupings Communicating and learning certain skills non-verbally.


The CORTEX

Common to all mammals, Is more highly developed in humans

having a the facilities of intelligent thought,

The Neo-cortex has an extended facility to :

Assimilate and understand sensory information and :

To convey it to others via speech and the media

The PREFRONTAL CORTEX exhibits higher forms of

Intellectual capacity for analysis, forward thinking

Planning and contemplation of consequences.

Altruism and a wider sense of responsibility

Concern for the planet, environment and animals

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Whereby, all inventions that have been created are a prosthesis of our senses :

- Vehicles - our Feet- Radio - our Ears- Television - our Eyes-Which are workable - but -

So also all our structures and systems are a product of our Thinking – about :

- MANAGEMENT - CITIES - ECONOMICS- GOVERNANCE

Progress - from Poverty – of Thinking –through the conference theme of an:

EVOLUTION of CONSCIOUSNESS


The theories and practices of management have gone though the following Organizational Management PRIMAL Physical Resource Management CORTEX Human Resource Management LIMBIC to the current : Synergetic Systems HOLISM Th

THE TRIUNE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

The greatest dual problem is :The greatest dual problem is :

RURAL–URBAN MIGRATIONRURAL–URBAN MIGRATIONandand

RURAL and URBAN SPRAWLRURAL and URBAN SPRAWL

- which are mutually destructive - socially and economicallywhich are mutually destructive - socially and economically

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THE PLANNING CRISISTHE PLANNING CRISIS

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Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller [1971]

“Cities, as we know them are obsolete in all respects of yesterday’s functions

“Trying to rebuild cities to make them accommodate the new needsof modern man is like trying to reconstruct and improve a wrecked ship,

Just as the shipwreck rests upon the reef, pounded by the surf technological obsolescence is invisible but is more inexorably powerfulin its destruction than are the pounding of the waves of a visible ocean” .

Progress From Poverty withNEW RURAL TOWNS

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With unserviceable scattered settlements With unserviceable scattered settlements - destroying the environment- destroying the environment

TYPICAL THE RURAL SPRAWL TYPICAL THE RURAL SPRAWL

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TYPICAL URBAN SPRAWL

A ‘City Slum’ with no community cohesion or focus


“The UN five-year aid effort in a dozen ‘Millennium villages’

across Africa can teach the world how to combat poverty” Charles Kelly : [ Commissioner-General World Urban Forum ]

Thomas Berry [ Founder of Bioregionalism]

“A Bioregion is a geographic area, identified by its chief natural resource,

such as rain forests, dry areas, arctic systems, coastal or mountain systems or watershed region,

especially where systems meet and interact.The biosphere is not simply a resource to be priced.

It is the foundation of life and as such it is sacred and beyond price.

A life-serving living-world economics requires a fundamentallydifferent frame than that of suicidal dead-world economics.”


e-covillage planning e-covillage planning Is based on a renewal of the Is based on a renewal of the African African Culture of “Ubuntu”

* INTERBOU / DBSA Award 1995

“We are because I am [ as an individual ] and I am because We are “ [ as a community ]

by using : STREET COMMITTEES BLOCK COMMITTEES SAVINGS CLUBS KOMBI TAXIS CELL PHONES

“”Ex Africa semper aliquid novi“ –“Always something new out of Africa.”

[ Pliny ]

A GENERIC LAYOUT of an e-covillage

Housing clusterStreet committee

8 Blocks of six clusters

Community Centre

ICT Centre Village bank

Safe and short pedestrian access to all community facilities combined in one area

Main traffic loop road

+ - 3 000population.


‘Woonerf’play streets

SAFETY and SECURITYSAFETY and SECURITY

“ “Crime prevention through planning and design aims to Crime prevention through planning and design aims to reduce the causes of and opportunities for criminal events”reduce the causes of and opportunities for criminal events”

C.S.I.R. Publication C.S.I.R. Publication ‘‘Designing Safer PlacesDesigning Safer Places’ [2002] ’ [2002] The safety design factors - The safety design factors - all included in an e-covillage are : all included in an e-covillage are :

1. Local Management 1. Local Management structuresstructures

2 Access Access controlcontrol

7. Territoriality and Territoriality and ownershipownership

8. ‘Eyes on the 8. ‘Eyes on the street’ street’ surveillancesurveillance

4. No vacant land4. No vacant land

3. Communal public spaces and 3. Communal public spaces and facilitiesfacilities

9. Pedestrian focus Pedestrian focus and use and use

6. Good lighting for ood lighting for visibilityvisibility

11. Taxi ranks and Taxi ranks and routesroutes

10. Few transport ransport intersections intersections

5 Good landscaping

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NINE e-covillages make up a ‘NEW RURAL TOWN’

Clear hierarchy of roads for ease of access

Cycle paths

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Villages have separate identities with a healthy competition between them

RURAL RE-URBANISATION

Scattered settlement

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Land released for agriculture

The e-covillage Management by Blocks

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2

3

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5

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Each Street and Block elects a representativeto serve on a Village Management Board

Street Cluster

Food security farms

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SO WHY VILLAGES ?SO WHY VILLAGES ?

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & EMPLOYMENT VILLAGE MICRO-BANKING

TRIUNE MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CENTRE

A RURAL RENEWAL STRATEGY

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-that unlike conventional township planning incorporate :

Historically, villages are a universal form of human settlement

Beyond 50 000, towns become socially unstable. Universally, the average village size : 5 000 people

anan eempowering mpowering eenvironment nvironment forfor eentrepreneurs and ntrepreneurs and eemployment opportunities mployment opportunities

becausebecause : :

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e-covillages offer e-covillages offer

An e-covillage of 600 -1000 families provides

a local market for the supply of basic services

- and even the manufacture of most family needs

EMPLOYMENT

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e-covillage employment potential

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Henry George and EARTH RIGHTS“We have traced the unequal distribution of wealth,

which is the curse and menace of modern civilization. Poverty deepens as wealth increases and wages are forced down.

“The recognition of individual proprietorship of land is the denial of the natural rights of other individuals.

The one receives without producing, the others, produce without receiving.

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SECTION TWO

COMMUNITY ECONOMICS


COMMUNITY ECONOMICS PRINCIPLES

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1. The only way to obviate poverty is by creating wealth.- instead of just ‘making money’

2. Although development aid can be demanded,- investment has to be attracted.

3. Forget the National Growth Rate - what is your own community’s growth rate.

4. Investing first where your best interests are - instead of where the best interest is.

5. Re-circulating money - instead of re-distributing it

6. Making communities effective profit centres- instead of being dependent ‘colonies’ of the cities areas

7. Adding value to local resources- instead of exporting resources and importing products

[See transcript 3. COMMUNITY[See transcript 3. COMMUNITY ECONOMICSECONOMICS ] ]

REINVENTING CAPITALISMwith MICRO-BANKING


“The problem with capitalismis that it doesn’t create enough capitalists”

[ Jeff Gates, Former Counsel US Senate Committee on Finance ]:

THE Rules of ‘CAPITALISM’Rule No. 1. “Capitalism’ means only one thing -accumulating capital” - which applies equally to an individual, a family, a business, a local authority - or nation.

Rule No. 2. “Don’t spend capital [savings] - -use it as collateral to attract others’ surplus capital

The result being 4000 people becoming economically active

by taking out and repaying loans


COMMUNITY ECONOMICS

Therefore the KEY OBJECTIVES OF COMMUNITY ECONOMICS are : To work from the ground upwards i.e. ‘The Bottom of the Pyramid’ [ C.K. Prahalad ]

To improve local enterprise opportunities for job and wealth creation To understand money and how it moves in the system. To accumulate and mobilize ‘Dead Capital’ [ Hernando De Soto ] To build self-generated sustainable growth. To achieve greater self-reliance.

These Objectives are sought on the understanding that : Cities and the formal industrial sector are no longer the primary sources of employment. Real independence comes from a lessened dependence on the State and Aid. There is an unrealized local expertise and wealth creation potential To be mobilized in any community and region. Information, knowledge and skills are the real determinants for growth. The most rewarding jobs - are those to be found in serving one’s community

[ See transcript : 3. COMMUNITY[ See transcript : 3. COMMUNITY ECONOMICSECONOMICS ] ]


SUMMARY of the International Declaration onIndividual and Common Rights to Earth [1949]

“We hereby declare that the earth is the common heritage of all and that all people have natural and equal rights to the land of the planet. By the term "land" is meant all natural resources

An e-coVillage becomes the heritage of the + - 1000 families purchasing the entire area and becoming shareholders in a holding company

All humans have natural and equal rights in land. Those rights may be exercised in two ways: 1 By holding land as individuals and/or

2 S haring in the common use of the Economic Rent of land.

Each resident by :1. holding a site on which to build their home. 2. also shares ownership of every business site and agricultural land

“The exercise of both common and individual rights in land is essential to a society based on justice.

The planning of the village in Clusters and Blocks provides the basis for determining the community’s leadership and managing it justly.

“The rights of individuals in natural resources are limited by the just rights of the community.

Every individual also has a chance of a further say in the management of the village by membership of the ‘Expertise Council’ and its varied interest groups

“The Economic Rent is the annual value attaching to the land alone apart from any improvements

Having bought a shareholding in the entire site, that is their inherent and intrinsic right before any improvements

“Value is created by the existence of and the functioning of the whole community wherein the individual lives and is in justice the property of the community.

The future residents have a say in the planning of all the facilities, apportioning them to occupiers according to their suitability and at what rent

“The Economic Rent of land can be collected for the use of the community

The rent obtained from all the commercial and agricultural land is paid into their community-owned Micro-Bank for the community to decide on its use

“That is what is meant by the policy of Land Value Taxation.

Whereby every resident benefits from what is a ‘Citizen’s Income’

The International Declaration on Individualand Common Rights to Earth [continued ]

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SECTION THREE

COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

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Henry George:“Political differences are ceasing to be differences of principle,

and abstract ideas are losing their power that parties are passing into the control of what in general government

would be oligarchies and dictatorships, are all evidences of political decline.

“The more progressive the community the rich become richer,the poor become more helpless and hopeless

and the middle class is swept away”.

William Irwin Thompson“We do not yet have a politics in keeping with

our spirituality, our art, our science or our technology. And this seems to be the work cut out for our generation”

Progress from Poverty withA Freedom from POLITICO-

ECONOMICS


Yet it is evident that :

DEVELOPERS have chosen City Growth over Community-building

ECONOMISTS have chosen Money-making over Wealth-creation

GOVERNMENTS have chosen Power Politics over Public Participation

Henry George“There is no mistaking it, the very foundations

of society are being sapped before our eye, while we ask, how is it possible that such a civilization

as this should ever be destroyed ?


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Henry George

“Look around today. Can this state of things continue? Nay, the pillars of state are trembling even now,

and the very foundations of society begin to quiver with pent-up forces that glow underneath.

“The struggle that must either revivify, or convulse in ruin, is near at hand, - if it be not already begun

“Extremes meet, and a government of universal suffrage theoretical equality may, under circumstances which impel change

most readily become despotism.

“Forms are nothing when substance has gone, and the forms of popular government are those from which the substance may most easily go.

HUMAN CAPITALHUMAN CAPITAL

Community Community InformationInformationCooperativeCooperative

[ICT][ICT]

Community Community DevelopmentDevelopmentCooperativeCooperative

[ C of E ][ C of E ]

Community Community FinancialFinancial

CooperativeCooperative[[Micro-bankMicro-bank]]

SOCIAL CAPITALSOCIAL CAPITAL FINANCIAL CAPITALFINANCIAL CAPITAL

ENVIRONMENTAL CAPITALENVIRONMENTAL CAPITAL

A TRIUNE MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

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[ See transcript 2. COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE][ See transcript 2. COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE]for full description for full description

THE OLD AND NEW MANAGEMENT MODELS


A ‘Top-Down leader is a Power Person

The Natural leader is a ‘Hub-Personwho holds everything together

- - in the following 12 categories of special interest :in the following 12 categories of special interest :

1. Agriculture 1. Agriculture 7. Housing7. Housing2. Business2. Business 8. Sport & Recreation8. Sport & Recreation3. Education3. Education 9. Religion9. Religion4. Environment4. Environment 10. Media10. Media5. Finance5. Finance 11. Services / Security11. Services / Security6. Health 6. Health 12. Tourism12. Tourism

is made up of “People who Do Things”

who form

THE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT WHEEL THE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT WHEEL


State President’s BAOBAB Award to Kgautswane 2003

A ‘COUNCIL OF EXPERTISE’ A ‘COUNCIL OF EXPERTISE’

KGAUTSWANE INFORMATION COOPERATIVEKGAUTSWANE INFORMATION COOPERATIVE

STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM CHALLENGECHALLENGEAWARD 2000AWARD 2000

Awarded to|Awarded to|The KgautswaneThe Kgautswane

communitycommunityDATA BANK OF DATA BANK OF

MEMBER’S SKILLS MEMBER’S SKILLS

COMPUTER COMPUTER TRAININGTRAINING


Zulu King Zwelethini Goodwill

“Our Vision is for KwaZulu-Natal to be to South Africa what California is the United States - an economy in its own right

not more just building houses - but creating New Rural Towns

that are community-owned and based withthe renewal of appropriate Conservation Agriculture “


RURAL RENEWAL STRATEGY

Korana King Josiah

“We, mindful of our rich cultural heritage and values,and combining them with contemporary, knowledge,

skills and technology are to empower a new generationof Indigenous traditional leaders to benefit their communities”

-with a Renaissance of Royal custom –since “A good custom is surer than law” [ Euriphedes]

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Antony Trowbridge - Cell : 082- 53 474 51 Antony Trowbridge - Cell : 082- 53 474 51 [email protected] [email protected]

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