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.
The first set of Heritable Innovation Trust Mongolia 2010 pictures are available for viewing. Currently they are listed on Flickr at this photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritableinnovationtrust/sets/72157624560602746/
Please stay tuned for more from Mongolia as well as Papua New Guinea. We will populate the originals into our photo gallery as we ready to launch the new site.
As the Heritable Innovation Trust team prepares the final Trust document for 2010, it is useful to gain some geographical context for where one new Trust is originating. In the South Gobi region, the camel herder community is located a few hours drive south from Dalanzadgad and the tree planting operation is located about 15 kilometers west of Dalanzadgad. As one can see from the map below, the area is rich in commodity mineral resources.
More than 72 hours have gone by and our six interns have been working day and night to create the Heritable Innovation Trust 2010, Mongolia and Papua New Guinea. It has been a grueling process but from their first draft, they appear to have a lot of great content. One Trust Item that is featured is the Traditional Sling (similar to an English Sling-Shot Device) of Papua New Guinea, which was demonstrated to them in Alakasam. The traditional shorter sling is used by the Qaqet community of Papua New Guinea, traditionally for warfare because it provides the user great accuracy.
On our trip to the South Gobi, the M-CAM team was fortunate to meet a very special family. Batbayar ("Baidaa") & Jazei (“Jagaa") became our guides, friends, and partners during the trip. Baidaa and Jagaa's company, Gobyn Undur (Mongolian for 'Gobi Highest') has started development of a large tree farm approximately 15 kilometers from Dalanzadgad, Mongolia. This farm is situated on a flat piece of land which has been cleared of rocks.
The farm has many surface water resources nearby.
Upon arrival in the South Gobi, we were warmly greeted by the staff of Tuvshin Shankhat LLC. Mrs. Onoo Purev, the proprietor of Gobi Oasis about 10km west of Dalanzadgad (DZ, Mongolia} was our host and offered us an in-depth conversation of how the company came about.
Originally, the business started with Onoo’s father. Starting out as a construction engineer, in 1990 at the start of the market economy in Mongolia, Mr. Purev left the Construction division of government and partnered with four people to start a tourism business.
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.
“In order to service our guests, we reopened Hasu Shivert resort in 2009.
Dr. David E. Martin and Ken Dabkowski participated at a mineral resources roundtable hosted by Mongolian President, the Honorable Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj at his residential resort today. The meeting was organized by the Office of the President and by the World Economic Forum. During the discussion, issues of contract negotiation, sovereign resource disposition and transparency were all subjects of spirited input from members of the public, private and civil society interests.
Over the last several days, the Heritable Innovation Trust team traveled to the Arkhangai Aimag (Province) in Mongolia. Here, the team met with local yak, cow, sheep, goat and horse herding families. In the Aimag Capitol of Tsetserleg / Erdenebulgan Sum the team also met with SME business leaders and the Director of the Labour and Social Welfare Office.
After an 11 hour car ride over country road from Ulaanbaatar, we passed through the Aimag center and continued on to our ger camp. After a beautiful night, we set out to meet new Trust partners.
Earlier in the week, the M-CAM and MNBIF teams arrived at the Gurvan Saikhan Airport in Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
I'd continue writing the post, but I have to ponder on the above sentence for a minute. Holy cow!
As we departed the plane, a warm and dusty Gobi wind brushed against us. We cleared security, hopped in a van and drove a few miles to the Tuvshin Shankhat gir (English - yurt) complex. A delightful staff greeted us and helped us unpack in what turned out to be top-of-the-line accommodations.
