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The Ambassador Program for Youth

In order to make this work we need to have people in these neighborhoods participate in the success. Most importantly we must give the youth an opportunity to leverage the resources we are placing at every resident's fingertips. The youth Ambassador program serves to accomplish this through teams of young individual interested our focus areas. Click the brochure for more information.

Come Help The Project

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So ends theory - Let's begin the action. DIGITAL DIVIDE NO MORE!!!! Would you like to help us with the digital upgrade of this 1915 abandoned church? We will be providing an overwhelming amount of technology and programming to prodcue live events, hologram images and social programming which falls inline with our methodology of improving the hood with technology. Pro bono - I'm looking for interior designers, stage fabricators, producers, program directors, and performers. If you are interested just drop your name at youaspire.com.

Banks and Lollipops

Last week Nancy Polosi sat down with Charlie Rose to chat about the economy. To me the discussion seemed "other worldly". All the complex jargon and uncertainty about why that language doesn't matter anymore. Banks, real estate and the stock market were, at least while I was growing up, the solid and safe foundation of American growth. Banks were where we went to get money and lollipops. That is what I thought. One day as we sat at the drive thru teller my mother explained the notion of banks. "Banks keep your money safe until you need to use it. They don't just give you money. You make it and they help you take care of it. You have to make your own money." Simple enough. In the current presidential election the Obama/Biden campaign is generating $208,333 per hour - a monthly pace of about $30 million and an actual total of well over half a billion dollars so far! Regardless of your party affiliations, you must admit the method and effectiveness used to make such historical amounts of money are of great importance. The combination of widely available technologies and consumers' use of them (cell phones, social networking sites, video/audio, posting) have heightend our ability to communicate value very quickly. This means when we have a product we can present, sell, and receive payment literally in seconds and at lower costs. This translates to speed. Nancy Pelosi talks about "the system" being safe and "the markets" needing to be fixed. The system is still moving slow - banks unwilling to lend to each other and certainly not to the average American. I believe the Obama method of reaching through convergent digital channels to Americans is the blueprint to speed cash (real cash versus subjective credit) into the American and global markets to help the communities protect their systems and assist their people in making money. However, the traditional system will not work. Information is truly available at a the speed of thought these days. Moreover, knowledge - recognizable collections of information you can respond to- is available for sale! As we move into the entertainment prototype - YouAspire.com you'll see new systems emerging where communities hyper-charge their economies through the cash flows of regular people. For this to work I believe people just need to promote the ideas and products of their communities. This is where Ms. Pelosi's Educate Innovate Compete Prevail will come into play. Adele's Voice I saw Adele on Saturday Night Live and thought she was incredible. I want more people to see her, buy her music and see her shows. From thought to placement was a mere 3-minutes.

Educate, Innovate, Compete, Prevail

I've been on this kick a few years now to implement a new system of business development. I'm not a "guru" of any ilk nor am I am academic. I am however, capable. I spent great many years selling or developing a one network or the other for companies and their clients. I tried my hand at creating a fingerprint identification network which 1) accelerate commerce and 2) decrease crime - IN THE HOOD. I've also had the opportunity to learn the practice of Scenario Planning. This is where you determine the possible outcome of something by devising a number of scenarios based on one or several possibilities.

That said, I haven't made a dime doing doing either. In 2002 I left dot com bust Divine Inc to build take the knowledge gained in corporate America and apply it to the "real" world. Given the times, I kinda felt like I was running out of a burning building. I met with official of the City of Chicago and explained that based on some scenario planning I'd performed, cities like Chicago would experience huge cash shortages. Specifically, Chicago could see a deficit of $410 million in 8-10 years that would have it scrabling for solutions. I explained these situatuations could be mitigated or headed off completely by building advance technology systems in retail, transportation, healthcare and entertainment. The collective system - or Tokamak would begin with the development of entertainment in the city since it would be easier to explain to consumers as well as generate revenue as it was adopted by specific communities. In general, I was met with skepticism in that no such system was required nor possible.

Fast forward to 6-years: "Chicago faces $469 million shortfall". And I still haven't made a dime from what I know - but fortunately other have. And that was the point. I wanted to increase cash flow into communities through large swaths of investment to get my "tokamak" going. But without municipal support I was only able to do this in a much smaller prototypical fashion - one business at a time.

The idea of using entertainment to support market or business development seemed like rocket science to folks at the city, but it of course has been done before. Just consider TV or Radio. With a little order, these content delivery networks became hugh cash generators for the organizers (not the inventors) who inturn developed businesses, jobs, and truly even economies.

We are far more capable considering the entertaininment advances beyond TV and radio. Aspire is that protypical example.

Digital Interaction in Proteus Communities