Welcome
to the Global Convergence Initiative! J
At GCI you don’t need money to help others. The Global Convergence
Initiative offers a bridge for cooperative solutions to alleviate global
poverty. The GCI is a sponsorship project to help eager individuals in the
global south. While many offer solutions at the macro level, we simply wish to
bring entrepreneurial solutions to households and families of the global south.
With us you will be able to sponsor a micro-entrepreneur without having to
disburse any money at all. The Global Convergence Initiative is a cluster for
ideas worth spreading and a platform to help the global south by any possible
means.
If you believe in the power of a smile to make a change, we invite you
to be part of our team. With a simple word of inspiration you can change lives
for good and forever.
At GCI we believe that sustainable development should also result from
creating bottom- up-perspective solutions. While other organizations are trying
to solve complex challenges on international cooperation and sustainable
development at the macro level, we simply want to offer a small change to
individual lives. And we wish to do so by offering “micro-help” to eager micro-entrepreneurs.
We invite you to join us in creating sponsorship opportunities to those
who need it the most, but most importantly: to those who actually welcome our
kind of help.
In every society, culture, religion or market, there are those wishing they
got everything for free, but there are also those who are working really hard
to change their unfair fate and escape poverty by their own means. At GCI we
wish to help those who are trying to create their own solutions to escape their
unfair constraints.
Our motto is that sponsoring a micro-entrepreneur doesn’t have to be a
burden for you. We welcome everyone who wishes to help with a simple word of
advice. We believe in the power of your voice and we believe in the butterfly
effect of a micro-help to change the world.
Moreover, the Global Convergence Initiative does not function as another
intermediary between micro-finance institutions and the global poor. Although we
work as one by creating economic opportunities around the world, we specifically
welcome projects from enthusiastic individuals and school groups that wish to
help in any possible way, shape or form.
Micro-credits are doing an immeasurable job by alleviating poverty. In
fact, we are active members of the BlueApple Team at KIVA, having reached
hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world. We thank infinitely our partners at
KIVA for connecting the dots that really matter.
However, we wish to go one step further and offer a new platform of exchange
where every idea, proposal and sponsorship plays a leading role.
At GCI you choose how to help: you may be able to give professional
advice on your topic of expertise, or you can simply offer a kind smile.
Additionally, the Global Convergence Initiative is a platform that gives
you the opportunity to reveal your own creativity as well. We will help your
project become a real solution for convergence. We will also help you find that
specific funding opportunity your project needs to become a real
policy/endeavor/strategy. There’s always someone like you with the vision and
talent to answer somebody else’s needs. There’s also someone out there willing
to finance that answer you just crafted. However, empirical evidence
demonstrates how challenging it is to find a solution that best matches both
entrepreneurial needs and sponsor’s expectations. At GCI we are working to
build that bridge.
Your voice may come in the form of an advice to a micro-loaner; It may
also come in the shape of a strategy to get a group of micro-loaners started;
and it may also come in the way of academic projects that propose real
solutions to the global poor on growth and development, e.g. by offering a
systemic institutional transformation that could help reduce the actual gap
between economic rationality and political rationality (usually one of the main
reasons why many great projects, ideas and reforms never bring the expected
results).
Many great ideas never find audience or means and thus, are bound to the
legendary “should have, would have, could have, didn’t.” The Global Convergence
Initiative was born with the hope to connect your ideas, needs and expectations
with the right sponsors and audience you’ve been looking for. Perhaps you have
just finished your thesis project and unfortunately found no one willing to
fund it or publish it, but here you will always be heard and welcome. At GCI everyone’s invited.
This platform has been designed for both the global south and the global
north. Whether you are trying to raise your child and wish to become a home-entrepreneur,
but lack the knowledge or confidence; whether you are an eager mind trying to
help others, but lack the resources; or whether you are another micro-loaner
from the global core like us, and decides to take it one step further and promote
a specific initiative for development, then you have landed at the right place.
The Global Convergence Initiative is a cooperative platform where all
your ideas will feed on each other’s. There are no competitors here, simply
because every one of you add to a better equilibrium. The GCI is the only place
where academic contenders, clashing ideas and antagonist models shall converge
to generate that butterfly effect the global south requires today.
We invite you to post your links, projects, suggestions and questions
with us. Perhaps you simply want to share your research results on the
poor mechanisms underlying that naive long-run economic growth expected for
that peripheral market you just visited. Or maybe you just wish to comment on
the right set of rules, policies and/or institutions that your home country needs
today. Or simply you are that eager curious mind dropping by and decided to stay
and see beyond your paradigmatic borders how deep the rabbit hole goes. Then
this is the right place for you.
The Global Convergence Initiative is a joint venture between you and us;
your comments, links, proposals and critiques will help us create real economic
opportunities for the global south to escape from dependency and from unequal
terms of trade. You will help reduce the actual gap against today's global
hegemons. Your very own comment, critique or idea will become the force the
global south needs to converge with the global north.
We hope sincerely that The Global Convergence Initiative will be your
weapon of choice to help the global poor engage in a real catching up
trajectory against the global core.
If you are seeking for answers; if you are offering solutions; if you
are proposing ideas worth spreading, the GCI is your platform. Here you
will find important information, papers, publications and links that will help
you find that specific solution you are looking for. With your help we will
generate that awesome joint venture that will change lives for good and forever.
And don't forget to tell us about that revealing situation you've
once experienced and/or heard about that ought to be shared.
We need you and we need you to believe that it’s YOU the one who will
add to a fair and greater global equilibrium. It is in the sum of all your voices
where the real convergence mechanism of tomorrow will arise J