Bamgladesh offerrs best intelligence wwe have seen for sdgs 5 through 1 up to 2008, Search eg 4 1 oldest edu 4.6 newest edu ; .620th century intelligence - ending poverty of half world without electricity -although Keynes 1936 (last capter general theiry money inetrest emplymen) asked Economists to take hipocrati oath as the profession that ended extreme poverty, most economists did the opposite. Whats not understandable is how educatirs failed to catalogue the lessons of the handful who bottom-up empowered vilages to collaboratively end poverty. There are mainly 2 inteligences to understand- Borlaug on food; fazle abed on everything that raised life expectancy in tropical viage asia from low 40s to 60s (about 7 below norm of living with electricity and telecomes). Between 1972 and 2001, Abed's lessons catalogued in this mooc had largelu built the nation of Bangladesh and been replicated with help of Unicef's James Grant acroo most tropical asian areas. What's exciting is the valley's mr ad mrs steve jobs invted Fazle Abed to share inteligences 2001 at his 65th birthday party. The Jobs and frineds promised to integrate abed's inteligence into neighborhod university stanfrd which in any event wanted Jobs next great leap the iphone. The Valley told abed to start a university so that women graduates from poor and rich nations could blend inteligence as Abed's bottom of the pyramid vilage began their journey of leapfrog modles now that gridd infarstructures were ni longer needed for sdiar and mobile. Abed could also help redesign the millennium goals which were being greenwashed into a shared worldwide system coding frame by 2016. There re at Abed's 80th birtday party , the easy bitwas checking this mooc was uptodate. The hard bit - what did Abed mean by his wish to headhunt a taiwanese american to head the university's 3rd decade starting 2020?

Monday, May 31, 2021

4.4 brac university begins 2001 - cornerstone of generations future and past

bangladesh may be the most densely packed and poorest 150 million person nation but it has more to do with humanity's future than most  places - on the risk side it will be washed out if climate goes wrong, on the moral sentiments side nowhere have women set more courageous examples as family and community builders

the country is a cornerstone of mother earth! 

brac university

one of abed's last messages to the university


brac university was started in 2001

like many institutions founded by sir fazle, the university is designed to double its impact every two or three years- on the one hand it aims to deeply appreciate its students - their place in life - perhaps more than any other university- on graduating in the 2020s a student should intend to more than double the impact of her peer networks every 2.5 years if there is to be a sustainability generation; prepare to explote how much old stuff becomes redundant even as part of society fear the unprecedented speed of innovation 

on the other hand the university wasnt just about the prospects of its students or faculty but the whole nation and the nations impact on women empowerment and sdg partnerships everywhere- before sir fazle abed parted from mother earth, he'd built the largest civic society partnership in the world and the university can be seen to be youths networking connections everywhere that the younger half of the world are trying to become the first sustainability generation; in this regard abed's role in founding brac can be compared with that of stanford junior- the 5th governor of california having lost his son to an infectious disease during a tour of europe committed the rest of his life to every californian child- stanford was to continue that as probably the only university in the west where moores law of 100 times more tech eash decade looks as if it is happening monthly 

if this sounds a big ask for a university out of dhaka,  consider 3 movements abed put the university at the epicente of now that brac research had a university platform in addition to its original village platforms 5.1 5.2 and 1996 bracnet 5.3

436 the james grant college was opened from the start- this to be the home of the world leadhing helath knowledge brac women had networked from the day they started marketing the nations cholera lab invention of oral rehydration

next abed wanted to develop both for finance and for education the first way in - if his global legacy included partnerships with a financial services solution for people 1.3 too poor to use microfinance and for the earliest age 4.5 children can school; then brac would succeed in being the cornerstone of wherever education and finance takes hunans hopefuly sustainable journey into millennium 3

in posts 4.4 we collate info on the origin of the university; in 5.4 we look at the university as a collab platform for the last 20 years of abed's life and the legacy he hoped all abed partners and students would advance 

No comments:

Post a Comment