Recent Blog Entries About Custom & Culture

Featured Website Friday: Hasu Shivert Resort

Recently, our Heritable Innovation Trust team had the pleasure of visiting and starting a partnership with the Hasu Shivert Resort in the Arkhangai province, Mongolia. Owner and Director, Hasu Shivert Munkhbat, gave us a tour of his fine facility and discussed partnership opportunities with the Global Innovation Commons and Heritable Innovation Trust teams. One of the two Global Innovation Challenges to be posted early next week will include innovation on his A-Frame greenhouse. Challenge outline to come.

Submitted by MLD on Fri, 2010-06-25 20:07

The 2010 Heritable Innovation Trust

Today our partner the Heritable Innovation Trust Program, published the 2010 Heritable Innovation Trust. In 2009, M·CAM established the Heritable Innovation Trust Program. The program has interns travel to different countries throughout the world, document heritable knowledge, and then create a network of information back and forth with the main goal of creating economic flow. They have already documented heritable knowledge in Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, and Ecuador.

Submitted by MLD on Tue, 2010-08-17 20:10

GIC Challenge Update: Mongolian Greenhouses

For the past week M-CAM Inc has been honored to host D. Nergui from Mongolia Innovation Commons Partners (M-ICP). We have spent days discussing banking systems, trade credit offsets, and Global Innovation Commons projects. Yesterday, we had a local Charlottesville glass worker, Bill Hess, come in to show us samples and discuss with us some optionality for the Greenhouse Project. It was a delight to see the different types of glass he has created and discuss with him ways to use glass for filtration and heating.

Submitted by MLD on Thu, 2010-08-19 19:22

Wacky Technology Wednesday: Green Architecture

One things we endorse at the Global Innovation Commons is the use of education to better the world around us. Students around the world have begun to design sustainable architecture using recycled materials. By pressing the boundaries of energy efficiency the students beautifully combine form with function to create environments which are truly green.

Submitted by MLD on Wed, 2010-08-25 18:13

Featured Website Friday: The Heritable Innovation Trust

Today we featured the new Heritable Innovation Trust Website!

The Heritable Innovation Trust Program works to document Heritable Knowledge in indigenous communities to encourage economic empowerment and community engagement.

Submitted by MLD on Fri, 2010-08-27 15:10

Commons Monday: Mongolian Academy of Sciences and M-ICP Agreed to Cooperate for Innovation

On August 27, 2010 The Mongolian Academy of Sciences and M-ICP (The Global Innovation Commons new commons alliance) agreed to cooperate for Innovation. The following is the press release from M-ICP. Learn More about M-ICP>>

In Ulaanbaatar a tripartite meeting was held in the Mongolian Academy of Sciences yesterday. The meeting was attended by Professor B. Enkhtuvshin, President of Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS), Mr. Ch. Otgochuluu, Director of Economic Competitiveness Policy and Research Center (ECRC) and Ms. D. Nergui, Founding CEO of M-ICP.

Submitted by MLD on Mon, 2010-08-30 13:50

G.I.C. Challenge: Arkhangai Cold Storage

M●CAM uses the six metrics of Commodity, Custom/Culture, Knowledge, Money, Technology, and Well-Being, to determine value. These metrics are organized into a system called Integral Accounting. Global Innovation Commons Challenges use Integral Accounting metrics to determine the all-in value of a project and jump start initiatives by uncovering resources traditionally unaccounted for. Read more on Integral Accounting (PDF - right click 'save as' or view in browser) HERE

Submitted by MLD on Tue, 2010-09-07 19:02

Commons Monday: News From Mongolia

Since September 1 a lot has happened with our partners in Mongolia, M-ICP.

XAC Bank and M-ICP Agreed to Pilot an Intangible Asset-Backed Collateral Enhancement Program.
The founding CEO of M-ICP met with Mr. M. Bold of XAC Bank. Mr. Bold agreed to create a business relationship with M-ICP to pilot the intangible asset-backed collateral enhancement mechanism for innovator-clients.

M-ICP CEO Invited to Join The Science-Industry Business Team

Submitted by MLD on Mon, 2010-09-13 20:40

Financial Group Recognizes Finance As A Global Commons

We recently received a press release from one of our alliance partner, Ethical Markets.

It discusses financial expert's call for re-affirming finance as a global commons. Looking back at the first recognition of finance as a global commons by Bretton Woods in 1945, this financial group acknowledges that there could be future crises in the global market with out this change.

Submitted by MLD on Tue, 2010-09-21 16:15