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?

Tuesday, December 31, 1974

compare other WRJ here - soros is america's top 2 philantropist along with giving fund of gates/buffett etc...AS FAR AS I CAN SEE

Soros foundations are a case uniquely worth because they have never suffered from one of the ailments of not for profit world which like government seems to absolve itself from the discipline of positive cashflow - see next right;
very best cases of soros:
**south africa seeding fight against apartheid-see far right
**global fund helping jim/kim /farmer in middle of global fund early 2000 -see mid right and apparently its sad ending feb 2022 with death of paul farmer following covid and death of fazle abed leaving jim kim in boston in his mid 60s with pih.org (haiti rwanda) but only a charity ,model?
**finding bangladesh women empowerment second time -ie partnerships with fazle abed finding bangladesh first time-more middle right
** the huge impact of being first to partner poorest villagers with mobile phones (below 1995 on)
**the complicated partnership with gorbachev -middle
**the call to unite graduates around the world who want to collaborate across alumni groups in their race to be the sustainability not the extinction generation
what I love about all these things - they were worth a try -apparently soros didn't blame anyone as long as they tried their best with his money

Entrepreneurs advancing the human lot (according to 150 yeras of diaries the economist 1843-1990 - has happened when a founder of a solution people need has deigned a positive cash flow model round the purpose of maximising peoples affordable access. So if not for profits are about systems that fail to help communities entrepreneurially start up positive cash flow models to resolve communities sdg needs I am unsure what the purpose is.

WHITES WRONGS -even if you are a daispora sct- the curse of being a white european (less than one eight of the human race) is we did slave trade, genocide across the new world as well as gun fights in which texas became the operating system of the usa (oil power, enough gun power to force mexicans to sell the west coast) even as dc apparently mediated over laws, colonisation -britannia having first access to engines but being repelled by usa doubled up under the worst corporation the world has ever seen colo0nising south asia and closing china to world trade for over a century as the chinese sensibly declined to accept opium as a currency- the consequ7nece of the human wrongs was world war 2 - the un was birthed around 3 challenges - seeing the advanced economies kick start; outlasting stalin -sadly one od the 2 maddest men to rule would win world war 2 as they were on opposite sides; helping the 75% of people that white empires had left out of access to engineering as they grew their places (with independence); depending how you look at history 1945-1989 - human development did some amazingly positive things to the death of jf kennedy; it stopped doing anything but outlast the cold war; from the early 1980s as it was clear ussr was not sustainable soros did the decent thing of trying to help gorbachev and when he lost inside russia started the open society foundation with him and backed parallel networks situated on the boundary between rome and the vatican- particularly gorbachev chairing of the nobel peace laureate summit which shared the same secretariat as the green club of rome

I am aware that soros and jim kim and paul farmer found each other at start of 21st century; this was very good because between them bush's only totally positive impact emerged : global fund - by clarifying overlapping needs in fighting tb and aids global progress was made in combatting both of these diseases - the very best of this progress was wherever kim-farmer-soros also found brilliant bottom up health service networks; in many ways these continued what unicef's james grant had done; when they all found sir fazle abed (bangladesh woemn empowerment) as did bill gates this was one of the great leaps forward for humanity; peculiarly soros had also hugely helped bangladesh around 1995 though i have never seen his foundation take full credit for being first to invest in mobile ends poverty (help needed to understand)...

.I was at argubalky sors' hapiest moment reurning to his ciry of birth 2012- celebarting sir fazle abed as 20th open society laureate; paul farmer gace a side lecture; ceu university looked lik e a becaon for freedom - within a year of two budapest was flooded by refugees; the government5 turned right and against soros; eu joined in making it impossible for the university to keep its students both safe and free of speech - requiring a move to vienna whcich has ben slowed down by covid

for me this is also a tragedy ; maybe i was starry eyed but my first and only visit to budapest saw the convergence of 3 great heroes - fazle abed whose empowerment has reached billion poorest village women; the birth place and education system that grew von neumann - whose tech advances we have been compounding 100 fold since 1955; and soros... ..

Can anyone help me i understand soros first foundation intervention supported south african black youth end apartheid ; clearly that was on the correct side of history; as far as I know soros only claims a small part of that but it convinced him he could do good;

Thursday, March 3, 2022

2.25 dreadful years for all who wanted to help soros connections

largest ngo partnership leader fazle abed died

depest health networker paul darmer4 died

and now putin 33 years on from gorbachev/coros co-founding open society and with club of rome nobel epace laureate summits and climate adptation

- can any future good connections of soros as america's biggest philantropist be saved

Monday, February 28, 2022

I aim to submit a paper next week to unesco's global university conference in barcelona though quite frankly i have more hope for the survey with non neumann's daughter AI Hall of fame - pilot stage 20 nominations from around the world of entrepreneurial revolution /technologists linked by johnny's gift of 100 time more tech per decade (aka moores law) of he was alive) would celebrate as pivotal to under 30s as first sustainability generation. This survey has particular challenges - eg is there a germanic group who accept this is the only way to outlast putin. It is a pity that soros central european university seems to have lost the freedom to be in the middle of this unless eg malloch brown has a plan that he has not yet launched. There is however a space in the hague that will likely determine whether abed alumni flourish in the 2020s. My understanding is gca.org (climate adaptability) has moved from vienna/ban ki-moon to the hague; and that those solutions abed designed for worldwide dissemination though university partners (particularly ultra poor but also core learning elements of pre-school) depend om brac international out of the hague (the dutrch royal family also supports both literacy and financial inclusion through un envoys roles but gordon brown does not seem to have integrated that in his special education envoy roles which have spintered into 2 hi-tech commissions and 2 low tech refugee movements neither of which connect with yidan or wise). Only the Hague can keep Abed practice open until or unless what drives brac out of dhaka is settled. There are people like Makoto who can apply asian consciousness movements like musician/arts for all (which could also have been botstein's legacy and indeed paulo freire community engagers www.premiosciacca.it being vatican university's hub, a few minutes walk from the secretariat of green club of rome and the gorbachev/soros annual nobel peace laureates summit, as well as origin of the clares - franciscan women have always been last mile health networkers) without needing to know that the abed half century of knowhow seems to be at a crossroads. If you pass through new york again , we search to maximise both arts/sports/fashion and von neumann ai hall of fame surveys - in the latter case through wall street people claiming ESG can change the world and un related friends who see sdgs as demanding Collabs around abed's non linear education friamework instead of the standarsied linear one (that can be seen to have enforced colonisation not smithian morality/commonwealth..)

Saturday, August 28, 2021

soros thanks

its not my place to try and understand all of soros foundations investments - i just wish to make note of movements he supported in extremely timely ways that hopefully all educators and sustainability loving parents would cheer even if not all of the goals are yet evidently orbiting the way nature will judge

soros first investment - supporting peaceful - eg mandela alumni end apartheid youth in s africa

debating 7 years ahead of fall of berlin wall smartest collaborations west would seek eg gorbachev as soon as wall fell

asking which youths side eu bureaucrats are on -ref pope francis hypothesis - none?!

1996 being first grantee of mobile phone partnerships to empower poorest women

supporting many women empowerment health networks especially end tuberculosis

surveying if any western or african universities want to join asias collaboration of 100 sdg universities

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

George recently spoke to Gregor Peter Schmitz for Augsburger Allgemeine. The interview was widely syndicated around Europe, I have provided an English translation below. I am also sending you a piece George wrote last week laying out the case for Europe to issue “Consols” or perpetual bonds.

Best regards,

Michael Vachon

ON POINT: Insider Interview
The Crisis of a Lifetime
George Soros Speaks with Gregor Peter Schmitz
Widely Syndicated: May 11, 2020

GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ: You have seen many crises. Is the COVID-19 pandemic comparable to any previous one?

GEORGE SOROS: No. This is the crisis of my lifetime. Even before the pandemic hit, I realized that we were in a revolutionary moment where what would be impossible or even inconceivable in normal times had become not only possible but probably absolutely necessary. And then came the COVID-19, which has totally disrupted people's lives and required very different behavior. It is an unprecedented event that probably has never occurred in this combination. And it really endangers the survival of our civilization.

GPS: Could this crisis have been prevented if governments had been better prepared?

SOROS: We have had infectious disease pandemics ever since the Bubonic Plague. They were quite frequent in the nineteenth century, and then we had the Spanish flu at the end of World War I, which actually occurred in three waves, with the second wave being the most deadly. Millions of people died. And we have had other serious outbreaks, such as the Swine Flu just a decade ago. So it’s amazing how unprepared countries were for something like this.

GPS: Is that the biggest problem of the current situation – this lack of certainty about how to deal with this virus and how to proceed in the coming months or years?

SOROS: It is certainly a very big one. We are learning very fast, and we now know a lot more about the virus than we did when it emerged, but we are shooting at a moving target because the virus itself changes rapidly. It will take a long time to develop a vaccine. And even after we have developed one, we will have to learn how to change it every year, because the virus will most likely change. That’s what we do with the flu shot every year.

GPS: Will this crisis change the nature of capitalism? Even before COVID-19 led to the current catastrophic recession, we saw discussions about the downsides of globalization and free trade.

SOROS: We will not go back to where we were when the pandemic started. That is pretty certain. But that is the only thing that is certain. Everything else is up for grabs. I do not think anybody knows.

GPS: Could this crisis bring people – and nation-states – closer together?

SOROS: In the long-run, yes. In the present time, people are dominated by fear. And fear very often makes people hurt themselves. That is true of individuals as well as institutions, nations and humanity.

GPS: Are we witnessing that in the current blame game between the United States and China over the origins of the virus?

SOROS: The continuing conflict between the US and China complicates matters, because we ought to work together on climate change and on developing a vaccine against COVID-19. But, apparently, we cannot work together because we are already competing over will develop – and use – the vaccine. The fact that we have got two very different systems of government, democratic and …

GPS: Autocratic?

SOROS: Right. That makes everything much harder. There are a lot of people who say that we should be working very closely with China. But I am not in favor of doing that. We must protect our democratic open society. At the same time, we must find a way to cooperate on fighting climate change and the novel coronavirus. That won’t be easy. I sympathize with the Chinese people, because they are under the domination of a dictator, President Xi Jinping. I think a lot of educated Chinese are very resentful of that, and the general public is still angry with him for keeping COVID-19 a secret until after the Chinese New Year.

GPS: Could Xi’s grip on power weaken as Chinese come to recognize that the handling of the crisis was sub-optimal?

SOROS: Very much so. When Xi abolished term limits and named himself, in essence, President for life, he destroyed the political future of the most important and ambitious men in a very narrow and competitive elite. It was a big mistake on his part. So, yes, he is very strong in a way, but at the same time extremely weak, and now perhaps vulnerable.

The struggle within the Chinese leadership is something that I follow very closely because I am on the side of those who believe in an open society. And there are many people in China who are very much in favor of an open society, too.

GPS: Then again, the current US president does not really represent the values of an open and free society…

SOROS: Well, that is another weakness that I hope will not last very long. Donald Trump would like to be a dictator. But he cannot be one because there is a constitution in the United States that people still respect. And it will prevent him from doing certain things. That does not mean that he will not try because he is literally fighting for his life. I will also say that I have put my faith in Trump to destroy himself, and he has exceeded my wildest expectations.

GPS: What role does the European Union – your home that you care about so much – play in this power struggle?

SOROS: I am particularly concerned about the survival of the EU because it is an incomplete union. It was in the process of being created. But the process was never completed and that makes Europe exceptionally vulnerable – more vulnerable than the US not just because it is an incomplete union but also because it is based on the rule of law. And the wheels of justice move very slowly, while threats such as the COVID-19 virus move very fast. That creates a particular problem for the European Union.

GPS: Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court exploded a bombshell last week with its latest ruling on the European Central Bank. How seriously do you take it?

Soros: I take it extremely seriously. The ruling poses a threat that could destroy the European Union as an institution based on the rule of law, precisely because it was delivered by the German constitutional court, which is the most highly respected institution in Germany. Before it delivered its verdict, it had consulted with the European Court of Justice and then decided to challenge it. So you now have a conflict between the German Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice. Which court has precedence?

GPS: Technically, the European Treaties give the ECJ supremacy in this area. That is very clear.

SOROS: Right. When Germany joined the EU, it committed itself to abide by European law. But the ruling raises an even bigger question: if the German court can question the decisions of the European Court of Justice, can other countries follow its example? Can Hungary and Poland decide whether they follow European law or their own courts – whose legitimacy the EU has questioned? That question goes to the very heart of the EU, which is built on the rule of law.

Poland has immediately risen to the occasion and asserted the supremacy of its government-controlled courts over European law. In Hungary, Viktor Orbán has already used the COVID-19 emergency and a captured parliament to legally appoint himself dictator. The parliament is kept in session to rubber-stamp his decrees – , which clearly violate European law. If the German court’s verdict prevents the EU from resisting these developments, it will be the end of the EU as we know it.

GPS: Will the ECB need to change its policies after this ruling?

SOROS: This ruling requires the ECB to justify its current monetary policies. It has been given three months to justify the actions it has taken. That will consume a lot of the ECB's attention when it is the only really functioning institution in Europe that can provide the financial resources needed to combat the pandemic and to establish a European Recovery Fund.

GPS: Do you have any suggestions where these resources could come from?

SOROS: I have proposed that the EU should issue perpetual bonds, although I now think that they should be called ““Consols” because perpetual bonds have been successfully used under that name by Britain since 1751 and the United States since 1870. Perpetual bonds have become confused with “Corona Bonds,” which have been rejected by the European Council – and with good reason, because they imply a mutualization of accumulated debts that the member states are unwilling to accept. That has poisoned the debate about perpetual bonds.

I believe that the current predicament strengthens my case. The German court said that the ECB’s actions were legal because they adhered to the requirement that its bond purchases were proportional to the member states’ shareholding in the ECB. But the clear implication was that any ECB purchases that were not proportional to the ECB “capital key” could be challenged and deemed ultra vires by the court.

The perpetual bonds that I have proposed could sidestep this problem, because they would be issued by the EU as a whole and would automatically be proportional and would remain so eternally. This would leave the annual interest payment, which is so minimal – at, say, 0.5% – that the bonds could be easily subscribed by the member states, either unanimously or by a coalition of the willing.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that Europe needs about €1 trillion to fight this pandemic and she should have added another €1 trillion for climate change. Perpetual bonds could provide those amounts if the EU’s member states authorized it.

Unfortunately, Germany and the “Hanseatic League” states led by the Netherlands are adamantly opposed. They should think again. The EU is now considering doubling its budget, which would provide only about €100 billion and yield only one-tenth of the benefit that perpetual bonds could provide. They would be much better off if they became avid supporters of perpetual bonds. They would only have to pay annual interest that at, say, 0.5% would be peanuts. It could be easily underwritten by the member states acting either unanimously or by a coalition of the willing.

GPS: When the EU relaxed its rules against state aid, Germany submitted more than half of the requests. Some people argue that this undermines the principles of a single market because it gives Germany an unfair advantage. What do you think?

I agree with their argument. It is particularly unfair to Italy, which was already the sick man of Europe and then the hardest hit by COVID-19. Lega party leader Matteo Salvini is agitating for Italy to leave the euro and also the European Union. Fortunately, his personal popularity has declined since he left the government, but his advocacy is gaining followers.

This is another existential threat for the EU. What would be left of Europe without Italy, which used to be the most pro-European country? Italians trusted Europe more than their own governments. But they were badly treated during the refugee crisis of 2015. That’s when they turned to Salvini’s far-right Lega and the populist Five Star Movement.

GPS: You sound very pessimistic.

Far from it. I recognize that Europe is facing several existential dangers. That is not a figure of speech; it is reality. The verdict of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court is only the most recent challenge. Once we recognize this, we may be able to rise the occasion. We can take exceptional measures that are appropriate to the exceptional circumstances we’re in. As long as I can propose such measures like issuing perpetual bonds, I won’t give up hope.

***

The Case for Perpetual Bonds
By: George Soros
Widely Syndicated: May 9, 2020

Within a matter of weeks authorities will have to take decisions that will determine the fate of the European Union. The EU can either pull together and fulfill the expectations and aspirations of its citizens or it will continue to disintegrate.

Commission President von der Leyen said that the EU needed at least €1 trillion to fight against the novel coronavirus. She did not mention the fight against climate change which would need a similar amount. I believe that there is only one way such a large amount could be raised – by issuing perpetual bonds.

The European public and its leadership are not familiar with perpetual bonds, but they have a long history. Britain first issued consolidated bonds, or Consols, in 1752, and later used them to finance the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars, the Slavery Abolition Act, the Irish Distress Loan, and World War I. The United States Congress authorized issuing Consols in 1870 to consolidate the debts accumulated in the Civil War.

As its name implies the principal on a perpetual bond never has to be repaid; only yearly interest payments are due. A €1 trillion issue carrying a 0.5% interest would cost €5 billion a year to service. The €1 trillion would not have to be issued all at once; it could be sold in tranches. The first tranches would be snatched up by long-term investors like life insurance companies and as other investors familiarize themselves with perpetual bonds, they would eventually fetch a premium. In the current low interest environment, Germany was able to sell a 30 year bond at a negative yield.

The ratio between the amount of annual interest paid and the amount received is 1:200. Of course the interest has to be paid annually but the present value of future payments is continuously declining and eventually approaches but does not reach zero. €5 billion is a paltry amount to pay for a €1 trillion that are urgently needed. It constitutes about 2.5% of the last European budget and little more than 1% of the next budget currently under discussion.

Yet perpetual bonds were not given any serious consideration at the April Summit. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez proposed the idea but he was ignored. The discussion focused on the monies that could be raised by increasing the size of the next budget. After the meeting President von der Leyen started talking in terms of billions, not trillions. Something seems to have gone grievously wrong.

My guess is that the idea of issuing perpetual bonds was dismissed because it is a novelty that did not exist when the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) was compiled. But exceptional circumstances require exceptional measures. They should not be issued in normal times.

If the EU is unable to consider them under the current exceptional circumstances it may not be able to survive the challenges it currently faces. This is not a theoretical possibility; it is the tragic reality. The coronavirus and climate change are threatening not only people’s lives but the survival of our civilization.

The European Union is particularly vulnerable because it is based on the rule of law and it is proverbial that the wheels of justice turn very slowly. By contrast, the novel coronavirus moves very fast and in unpredictable ways. That is why the EU needs to issue perpetual bonds.

I want to explain why perpetual bonds are needed in Europe today. They are not to be confused with coronabonds which have been discarded and with very good reason. Coronabonds are divisive; they reinforce the already gaping gap between North and South and they also create divisions between East and West, the new members and the old ones. By contrast, perpetual bonds are unifying. They provide financial resources to the EU and all its members that are incomparably larger than what the European budget can offer. They could help the EU to fulfill the expectations and aspirations of its citizens.

The cost/benefit analysis is so lopsidedly in favor of benefits that it opens up an amazing amount of fiscal space. If the EU issues bonds on its own account it can distribute money to the countries in greatest need as defined by the Commission and governments in accordance with mutually agreed rules and budgetary procedures. The additional spending would not require new legislation. The decision to issue perpetual bonds must be reached by the summer because without it Italy could be bankrupt by the fall. That would be a tremendous blow to the EU.

Being able to allocate funds to those who need it most would open up tremendous possibilities. Most of the money would go to the Southern countries because they were hit the hardest. But they could be allocated to those who are most vulnerable. Caritas Europa, a Catholic charity just published a very interesting analysis about undocumented migrants working mainly in agriculture who live in abysmal conditions and create hot spots of infection. Add to them the Syrian and other refugees pushed out of Turkey into Greece and you have identified the main sources of infection. They don’t bring the virus with them, they catch it in the country of their destination because of the horrendous conditions in which they have to live. Regularizing their position would save not only their lives but also the lives of the general population by bringing the virus under control.

A trillion euros for fighting the novel coronavirus could actually accomplish its objective. And the same applies to a trillion euros devoted fighting climate change.

The case for issuing perpetual bonds is so strong that the burden of proof falls on those who oppose it. Yes, there is an element of mutualization but it pales into insignificance in comparison with the benefits it brings. There is very little time left to understand and appreciate the opportunity that perpetual bonds offer.

***For more information, including essays by George Soros, please visit www.georgesoros.com.

Monday, May 4, 2020

please can we confirm best time eg does 9am east coast time tuesday work- any time's good for me but i assume early is best not to get too late in india

i am updating a lot of research on soros networks which i hope to be able to send by next weekend

there are a lot of complicating factors but the first question i would like to debate is which indian university partner would be best for osun launched by soros jan world economic forum to converge impacts of all his lifes knowhow/solidarite with societies- in other words is there one uni vice chancellor that all of you trust most as well as seeing compatible with soros and eg tatas circle of top ndia founding business families

soros osun weforum 2020 - Google Search

whats complicated at least as i search

soros is over 90 - in legacy phase of life

he has several progeny- as far as i can see alex soros is the society leader

soros has 2 main boards at new york offices that are about 3 blocks apart

the investment fund isnt easy for me to identify members - great if you can

the global board of open society starts off clear enough here

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/who-we-are/boards/global-board

tricky about global board is: only one educator botstein- however botstein has been vice chancellor for bard over 40 years, lives about hour north of soros at new york campus but has created 2 youth hubs in new york- the osun annoucement says all 20 first partners coordinate through botstein but i am told by some of his new york staff that no getogethers happened before the virus lockdown- a big one had been intended in vienna as early as april then june but that too has been postponed botstein is also world class musician and author book calling for revolution in us education 11th, 12th grade inner cities - but his people are only just experimenting with online zoom - arizona state is stated as main online partner across osun which makes sense because craig barrett former intel ceo made this retirement purpose but i cant yet find any connection of arizona state and rest of osun

when i say the board has no people who do education -of course soros himself founded central european uni 30 years ago and just last november as the krishnans know it moved from budapest that i had visited to vienna

to add to complications many believe that soros unique success as philanthropist was last mile health especially infectious disease control - jim kim paul farmer boston fazle abed bangladesh but there is no direct boston representation at osun- after 13 months of disappearing from youth summits jim kim announced 2 weeks ago he has left the infrastructure investment back and gone back to boston partners i health to empower boston as a benchmark us city for tracing- so another overlap with core purpose of batra family and partners

i will keep looking but on the open society leadership teams i cant yet find who soros trusts most on india's fifth of world population sdgs - hoping you can search what i have so far failed to clarify

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

would it be possible to have a short meeting with you in baltimore in next 15 days or so?

system conflict barriers of going post colonial post industrial and sustainable worldwide in 80 years

my family of 4 generations of diaspora scots have been trying to system map with adam smith common sense values -community rising entrepreneurship - pretty much across the globe -what with grandad sir ken mumbai chief justice for 20 years with gandhi -last job writing up india's independence

... and dad norman macrae surviving teenage navigation of airplanes over modernday myanmar in world war 2 and then making friends with japanese emperor/prince charles from 1962-4 and china by 1977 much to congress' chagrin

dad at the economist last project sent young journalists to bangladesh -15 times cos after we invited directors of brac to a birthday party with dr yunus in 2009 with the bbc oceans and polar explorer paul rose but even he couldnt get yunus to want to collaborate - to start a journal with adam smith scholars- professor skinners last contribution attached

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i am just a statistician who helped mit collect the first database on what 50 countries societies wanted from global corporations but today everything to do with sustainable trade mapping seems to come back to translating smith into context out of every cultures interaction

2 things are top of my priority list before easter in this virally controlled world

1 how to find whomever values smith most to webinar a meeting out of london or glasgow before next student year- this is a request from vc of the south asian university https://www.bracu.ac.bd/about/people/professor-vincent-chang-phd that became fazle abed's legacy- fazle kindly debated this goal in 2012 at japan embassy remembrance party to my father norman macrae the economist's smithsian sub-editor- how could the worlds largest ngo partnership linkin girls sdg universities once he had gone? - project OSUN-weforum jan2020

Fazle Abed died 20 dec 2019 hence timeline of vice chancellor vincent chang's request to stage summer smith event and make this one step to cop26 glasgow- friends of soros and ban ki-moon out of vienna ny state (as well as some brad schools in dc/baltimore/brooklyn) and online learning wizards out of arizona are busy on different parts of this jigsaw but we're never quite sure who gets smiths support for market transparency at community level essential for girls to safely build sdg nations out of the least resources

2 inclusion inner city americas youth

along the way in trying to host remembrance parties to dad atlanta was due to host a nobel peace laureate summit 2015 (soros with club of rome is main sponsor of this gorbachev solidarite project) valuing luther king, mandela and putting obamas legacy into youth hands especially hbuc colleges and caribbean ones - somehow all the great and the good quarreled with each other so atlanta never got youth to the start line... 5 years on

friends in baltimore are within my circles the last ones left standing where we still chat about how can inner city black students rebuild communities cheered on by rev al hathaway - do you already know him or is there a different circle of bloomberg cities that include students of color

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thanks

chris macrae norman macrae foundation bethesda +1 240 316 8157

oops its not well known in usa that sir fazle abed is adam smith's action learning servant leader at year 210-260 of industrial revolution begun by watt and smith in glasgow- having graduated at glasgow uni around 1960 he took smith values to royal dutch shell before 50 years mapping them out of rural womens bangladesh- hence priority of abed university to issue some joint declaration of common sense economics out of london glasgow dhaka vienna rotterdam and other sister cities this summer- al hathaways community nurtured thurgood marshall and was the first successful reparation black girls got from the 13th amendment- a special enough space for pope francis to receive al in italy's happier days

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Friday, March 27, 2015

George Soros was first person to invest in mobile yunus lab and women empowerment in 1996 and thence www.unwomens.com,

and in south african youth in 1978 and thence 16 years of mandela extranet partnerships started up in 1999,

and in gorbachev open society in 1992 and thence to Budapest and Rome being the last 2 chances of saving lost generations of youth fomte finacial tyrammies or berlin and basle and brussels now your www.entrepreneurialunion.com

and oops second main investor in 1996 in farmer's www.pih.org and POP goes http://www.jimkim.info , and in BRAC coming to west africa and in helping last mile networkers end ebola- so we hope those who value soros as millennials greatest investors in jobseconomics also enjoy this review of advances in open learning generation

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Monday, March 23, 2015

Hello friends of sustainability and Preferential Option Poor curricula on 5 billion person elearning satellite www.yazmi.com -main blog http://www.sorosjobs.com (previously known as Yunus brand- -soros being the 1996 investor in both yunus and bangladesh's largest corporation)
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Episode 1 water POP and 3rd anniversary of japan ambassador and sir fazle debate on elearning as only way back to millennials sustainability;11th anniversary since EU destroyed water angels network

Question to Dr Ranga

http://www.springhealth.co.in/index.php/people
Until someone points me elsewhere I believe paul polak (see conversation tread below) is best solution connector to rachel rutos questions on water discussed by naila chowdhury and all the UN womens events of the last 2 weeks https://www.facebook.com/groups/drmuhammadyunusfanclub/permalink/10155349967590641/

he is also well connected through mit where abdul latif water lab is connection that mostofa and I have spent long time making with toyota and best of everything japan brings to development world

Is it viable to offer him one free video ad on yazmi - I mean all his solutions are massive bottom up so the borderline between ad and education (as in shelly's case) is positive anyhow

If we can start engaging him we can find out water he might also become a premier league education partner

chris

30 march brac sir fazle abed celebrates with the first ever bangladeshi studies institute in the west - it will be hosted at UC Barclays san francisco campus- its an absolute priority to go film some content with brac that works on elearning channels- otherwise coursera will take over brac partnerships and we'll get locked out

Lecture | March 30 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, The Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall | Note change in time

Speaker: Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Bangladeshi Social worker, the founder and chairman of BRAC
Moderator: Ananya Roy, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice, University of California, Berkeley
Welcome Address by: Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
Sponsors: Institute for South Asia Studies, Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Department of Sociology, Masters in Development Practice, UC Berkeley Graduate Division, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Center of Evaluation for Global Action, University Relations, The Asia Foundation, Ahmed & Leena Badruzzaman

We are proud to announce that founder and chairman of BRAC, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed will inaugurate the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley.

Established in 2013 with a generous gift from the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley

currently I am borowing cousrera's wiki on water so if anyone has ideas on what else to search for please say https://share.coursera.org/wiki/index.php/Water

On 3/26/15, 6:50 PM, Paul Polak wrote:
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Thank you Chris - We do feel that it will be a fit for Kenya as we continue to grow and prove out our concept in India. Please continue to follow us and our work as we continue to grow. We look forward to potential collaborations in the future

On 3/15/15, 1:39 PM, Chris Macrae wrote:
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How would you test optimality of model in Kenya if capital is solvable and nation's leadership is wholly behind finding most sustainable model for poorest women empowerment

Are acumen still your representative for this in new york for kenya or who does Naila talk to. Naila worked over nearly 20 years as dr yunus first female director of grameen phone and now aims to link first ladies to best end poverty solution, The demand for finding best model of affordable water for poorest kenyan women comes from Kenya's second lady.

Your last mile design paul is extremely important - best I have seen with possible exception of someone like paul farmer who's focused on one professional area - so thats why I wouldnt have wanted kenya to miss your work if you feel it fits some regions of Kenya

chris

On 3/15/15, 12:45 PM, Paul Polak wrote:
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Hello -

Thank you for the question. We are first launching in India but hope to move to Kenya at some point in the next few years if possible as the model is developed and capital is raised. Thank you

On 3/14/15, 11:08 AM, Chris Macrae wrote:
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is spring health best solution for clean water in any parts of kenya? if you have time pls reply -naila is rachels best friend in usa- question asked at conclusion of un women week yesterday

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Sunday, December 7, 2014

..Logo launching
Atlanta's Yunus Creative Lab aiming to make twin capitals of jobs summit more popular to partner than the Olympics.

While the grameen brand was built out of Bangaldesh villages networks by muhammad yunus and pooerst vilage mothers from 1976, it largest owner is now Grameen phone, the ownership of grameen bank appears to have been re-regulated in 2010 by politicians and lawyers, most other Grameen brands were either founded directly by Yunus before 2005 or since the meeting in 2005 with Danone, HEC , Veolia, and Credit Agricole as global social business partnerships. Spome publicist platforms and funds have since 2010 used the Yunus name often with the sub-brand creative lab In some cases national brands of Grameen were founded with national agents - eg GrameenHealth and GrameenAmerica (bank) with Vidar Jorgennsen in USA. Around 1990, Yunus was asked by international friends to form Grameen Trust as a consultancy for foreign processes of microcredit staffed by Bangaldeshi consultants chosen by Yunus. Also the anerican journalist Alex Counts was given the opportunity to start Grameen Foundation for foriegn fundraising for microcredit around the time that microcreditsummit was launched in 1997. It is our understanding that Yunus no longer directly makes leadership decisions regarding Grameen Foundation

Please help us with 2 listings

Global Grameen Partners operating out of Bangladesh..
Grameen Danone est 2005 with paris based funding and sb portfolio.

Grameen Green Children Eyecare est 2007

Grameen Intel est 2008

BASF Grameen 2009

Grameen Yukiguni Beans 2011?

Global partners and Yunus friends supporting knowledge Bangladesh needs to end poverty....
Tech lab for Grameen partnered by Kyushu University Japan
Catalogue of reliable agricultural microcredits by nation maintained by whole planet foudation

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Will Atlanta become Youth and Yunus most valuable sister city?

In the 20th C Atlanta brand spent oh so much sponsorong sporting olympics- how about obs olympics in 2015 - 2 seminal events

May Dialogue on Youth Futures of Health Technology Education

November Youth and Yunus celebrate Nobel Peace Laureates Social Action networks with local lead hosts - Turner Family, Carter Family King Family

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Over 40 years of societal research, the simplicity of grounded theory makes it my favorite learning game. Its open dynamic is not just iterative but recursive - the quality proven to empower human mind as always more sustainably innovative than computers (Turing) You start with a transcript of a conversation or lecture. The student is empowered to highlight two or three texts that she is most curious about -eg

The teacher and student then Q&A around the highlighted texts
SO:
In my attempt to explore week 3 videos: I would like to inquire what concept of service process the teacher has? Back in 1982 my father (Norman Macrae's end poverty) friends at The Economist noticed that the industrial age was no longer the main value driver of the bigger economies- human service was.
SO
If millennials were to be sustainable ten we would need a gamechanger in auditing leadership from manufacturing things to service (alive and human) to knowledge multiplying value (were boundary collaboration /open design takes even economics above the constraints of zero sum thinking - first western thinker to trust on this in modern age orbit is Von Neumann)

So they surveyed intrapreneurship as a bottom-up way of designing service franchises. hoping it would become a curriculum from grade 5 up before elearning reached the tipping point of open learning campus

For a current example if a national airline was truly intrapreneurial its crew processes would be designed around what crews said they needed to be mutually socially emotionally intelligent day after day after day- not at all the same thing as an airline designed around maximising profit quarter after quarter after quarter. (Advanced questions on above from peer networks in Rome as one of youth's premier league of sustainability capitals: What did Pope Francis say at European Union Strasbourg last fall and what will he say to US Congress this september 24)

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GT week 3 Question 2 after discussion with http://www.unwomens.com
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1.0 20th C Theory of development - a process run between governments
2.1 Mobilised since 1996 Bangladesh among partners of womens empowerment ( initially Soros fund, Yunus women villagers networks, MIT open tech wizardry, norway's telenor infrastructure)

So i would also ask : are we free in this course to discuss the bottom-up mindset which considers how different 2.1 public service delivery in villager engagement is from the top-down processing of 1.1 citizen engagement in public service.

For gamechanging bottom-up and open system designs read anything on nature's evolutionary code or from jim kim or paul farmer or pope francis or the south american schools of Preferential Option Poor or Pedagogy of Oppressed or now being celebrated by 7th grade south african girls with ipad connections to the mandela extranet partners .

Example POP: 1-2-3 Value recursion grounded (started 34 years ago tanks to Paul Farrners Twinning of Boston and Haiti and community grounded Catholic vision across continent of americas (updated next week in panama )) if you start from service living wit the poorest, then not only 1) empowering them with service knowledge (eg up to 90% of staff at www.pih.org are former patients just as kenya's slum microcredit was founded around over 90% of staff being former youth clients), but 2) how to get out of any poverty traps and 3) celebrating with the millennials world how every advance in new technology can mobilse new value co-creation with the poorest. (Ultimately if economics saw its role as optimalising 7 billion human livelihoods the sustainability impacts would be huge.. )

Further references - 1982 The Economist and Gifford-PInchots: We are all Intrapreneurial Now

April 30th BRAC and University of Berkeley take studies of bangaldesh development designs to a new level

Last week at UN womens empowerment conference the Kenyan "second lady's" case of empowering joyful women villagers services through 5 billion person elearning satellite . Two weeks ago the same team asked about what is the world favorite replicable clean water franchise for the poorest. I did try to send that question to several of the designers of tgis course but ... beter luck on tuberculosis where shelly batra's world bank tedx talk is now prime time on te 5 billion persons elearning satellite in recogintion of last tuesday celebrations of TV day at the house of congress

Friday, January 10, 2014

ER survey Peace1 To Naila Chowdhury

Monica Yunus

Taddy Blecher
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1 is the yunus family brand , youth's most valuable brand to network with?

2 how is valuation of most job creating brands measured?

- my family have worked 30 years on the latter and therefore know who knows how to do IT and perhaps more importantly who hasnt got the foggiest idea

while open education world is free for leading, it is quite easy to gravitate around singfrorhope and women4empowerment to make the connections in best order for youth if we map how to do that now- however as soon as one (mad avenue or wall street) heavily conflicted choice is made it becomes so much work that nobody I know can afford to do that probono

thanks chris Blogs YUNUSbrand Youthcreativelab washington dc region 301 881 1655

[1webs include blecher http://maharishiinstitute.org/ ; chowdhury www.women4empowerment.org ; foerster at www.newworld.ac ; javalquinto

About us 1972 was one of the most exciting years on the planet. In Bangladesh ( barely 1 -year old as a new nation) Job-creating village networks started to emerge around the poorest mothers on the planet - thanks to the most purpose-led systems I have ever encountered: BRAC and then Grameen. DR Yunus became the face of worldwide job creation by and for the poorest mothers. and their next generations. In the same year, my father Norman Macrae who, after spending his last days as a teenager navigating RAF airplanes in ww2 over Bangladesh,a nd who had been mentored by Keynes that the main job of economist is to end poverty through developing livelihoods - first saw students testing digital earning networks.

Dad spent rest of his life debating how and why smart networking media could be the most collaborative innovation our human race ever connects around the planet- he started the curriculum of entrepreneurial revolution in The Economist. My fathers' last public celebration (birthday 85 occurred in 2008- the guest he was overjoyed to celebrate at the Royal Automobile Club in Saint James was Dr Muhammad Yunus. Anyway we love all job creating networks and brands- who do your ne(x)t generation vote for as number 1 collaboration brand of job creation. One of father's impudent mediation stories made the yunus party even more fun- back in the day he had helped elect the RAC's first female member (at the time london's most empowering womens journalist without the members fully knowing who'd they'd elected)
links to youth co-branding with yunus include YCL SfH W4E YB.com MOOCyunus rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

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contact us chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk skype chrismacraedc phone washington dc region 1 301 881 1655 linkin 9500 face twit Can you help the millennials value brands according to how many jobs they create and livelihoods they sustain?

With thanks to millennials sustainability research from JimKim.info Nobelatlanta.com YunusCity unwomens.com jobseconomics.com valuetrue.com and unacknowledgedgiant.com partners in world record book and games of job creation

my family asserts open source origin rights to following terms- if you believe you used these terms first - lets chat

Entrepreneurial Revolution (The Economist 1968)
Intrapreneur jointly with J Gifford Pinchot (The Economist 1982)
Brand Architecture (with Gary Hamel) and Brand Chartering (with world class brands network) (The Economist Intelligence Unit 1991); World Class Brands 1989; TrillionDollarAudit 2001 IntagiblesCrisisUnion 1999; we prposed that trust be the number 1 exponentrial metric of brand -eg to survey writer of The Economsit's Year of the Brand 1988- father used various terms such as telecommute and future-history from start of 1970s as a way of segmenting job-creating system designers and public servants from other. (I welcome clarification of all netgen vocabuiary that started near the ned of the 3rd quarter of 20th century when humanity's biggest ever mediation challenge became replacing the dumbest media the 20th century had spun with the net generations's smarters, mots bottom-up grounded, and most collaborative. Because The Economist maintains a colegiate (not individual branding policy) it was 15 yeras before my father was first permitted to sign a survey consider japan for which he was later awrded Japan's highest economic and leadership honor. Thye onlky signed surveys of my father are here. He wrote approximately 3000 leaders in The Economist - if there is a tech wizard anywhere who can develop a search program by writing style that heps identify more of this 3000 curriculum of job creation and livelihood sustainability I would love to hear from you

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Intelligence (whos alumni advance humanity) Inspirations - AIGames - current top 20 for UNSummitFuture.com plus 1950s Original 3 person NET followed by full Alphabetical lists of others

top 20 Womens-HumansYouthAI
Fei-Fe Li AIGood revolution epicentre since 2009
Demis Hassabis AIGood revolution epicentre since 2009
UNwomens.com: Melinda Gates lift of womens AI become her own foundation focus- started 2015 when with nbvidia ceo fundeed open curricula of ai-4-all.org and high school womens ai pipeline coordinated by FFL

Priscilla Chan west largest impact womens philanthropy (at 35 Chan may face toughest job in world but serially takes on tough challenges and likely amplifier of 23-24 unique year for womensai and UN SDG turnround - there is no money equall to current investirs against sustainability goals - so intelliugence time & data is what needs energising and hpefull PChan has half a life time to go
Fazle Abed - 20th c's greatest inteligence empowerring 1 billion women to build natoions of health, education, and deep community families need
steve jobs hosted silicon valey 65th borthday party 2001 to make sure his coming designs on mobile revoluytion infomred by end poverty's most collaborative
Jerry Yang as a media statistician - have no doubt J Yang sinec 1995 yahoo consistently deepest communicator for hi-trust youth
Andrew Ng uber cider, co-founder coursera- welcomed fei-fei from day 1 of her landing stanford 2009
Brooklyn's MS T&T (ask chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk for time sensitive intel 23-24) Antonio Guterres -inherited 17 sdg declaration 14 months after their launch - immediately set up un2 to system redesign // to goals- and idea that had emerged from abe'd 80 birthday party and jim kim as abed envoy sept 2016
Sheika Moza the most productive sdg advocate- her education city womens campus is probably world elader in 23 Jim Kim from 1984 joined paul farmer in clarifying harvard's missing curriculam last mile health care - kim at foundation of linking global fund partnerships 2000s and from 2012 started world bank tranformation - while ended by trump by this time hsi paulo freire values in tine with Guterres
Biill Gates Billwas oneof ,links which magde global fund unique particula]rl.y weth abed vilage silution to TBV
CEO Nvidia; create most weoath ver over 5 yrears starting 2016 ish-designed largest transistirs on one chip - 80 billion (eg 10 for every being) without seattle ai2 fro paul allen . seattle ,might be strugglling as 2nd human ai ecosystem second to stanfird
Google top 3 Brin Page Pichai- at epicentre of wordlclassllm

Neumann von
Others Bengio/Hinton their best of imagenet 2013 around which deep learning arose- canada hasnt kept up
Einstein Turing

From Sir Fazle's last 47th annual report (2018) as chairman of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Cooperation

For nearly half a century, our work at BRAC has

supported the building of a gender-equitable

world.

What would a gender-equitable world look like?

A world where cultures, embedded systems,

and values based on patriarchy are replaced by

cultures, systems, and values that empower and

create opportunities for all. A world where girls are

just as likely to gain education and skills as boys,

where women are just as likely as men to own

land, have control over assets and decisions, and

succeed in the workplace, and where men and

women share responsibilities at home equally.

Gender equity is a cross-cutting issue for all

of us - individuals, communities, corporate

organisations, non-governmental organisations,

and governments. We all need to push ahead

and find new ways to achieve this. Gender equity

plays a vital role in both social development and

domestic harmony and, as such, remains one of

our top commitments at BRAC. We will continue

to fight against anything that stands in the way

of women’s development, holds women back,

deprives them of their rights, and damages their

self-esteem or self-respect.

Only a few countries have come close to

achieving gender equality. By comparison, in the

11 countries where BRAC operates, the work

is just beginning. Despite making creditable

progress on some socioeconomic indicators,

we still lag behind in ensuring respect and fair

treatment for women. We must be steadfast in our

struggle to create an equitable society.

Although the challenges may be daunting, we

must not accept the world as it is today. Children

should not be forced to become brides, women

should not have to do more work for less pay,

and wives and mothers should not have to carry a

disproportionately high burden of responsibility at

home. We cannot sit idly by as the harassment of

women and girls continues unabated - at home,

in public spaces, and in the workplace. Rather,

we must continue to act on our conviction that

women are the real agents of positive change for

their families, communities, and for societies as a

whole.

BRAC continued to tackle many of these issues

head on in 2018. This report highlights some of

our work in these areas. As we move forward

towards the third decade of this century, we

must continue to prioritise action that will lead us

towards gender equality, and must do so with a

sense of impatience and urgency. We must strive

to create a world free of systemic prejudice, where

gender-based violence in all its forms is rooted out

for good. For we cannot and will not have peace,

justice, or shared prosperity

MIT's great intro to BRAC ..-happy 50 brac & happy 21st to partners Abed Uni: 2022 trilliondollaraudits.com: prioriitising fazle abed friends 10+1 global market purposes

conflicts to solve-
5.4 why is it difficult to get 100 universities to share graduates and replicable sustainability solutions?
5.5 human wrongs: why are nations failing to unite around climate races even as tech is making outer space races celebrated? which of the top 30 abed collabs do you most need help conflict resolving - chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk 5.6 zoom me up scotty- updated tour of zooms no world leader or college student or professor of covid & cop generations can afford not to click

1-2-3 of monetary systems of Asian 1 billion girls
Economistwomen.com teachforsdgs.com Scots since Adam Smith have been curious about how the invention of engines Glasgow 1760s would be applied. In our view; the root cause of the world wars was that over nearly 2 centuries only about 20% of people (mainly white European/American) had access to the benefits eg electricity grids and emerging telecoms. Particularly across the Asian contient wher4e 60%^ of people lived, colonial empires especially Britain had not shared engineering except to control trade. My dad Norman Macrae hoped that teenagers would enjoy happier and more productive lives than serving as a navigator allied bomber command world war2 burma campaign. Thanks to Americans he survived; met Keynes, became The Economist's sub-editor of ending poverty, met von neumann whose industrial revolutions 3 ,4 he became biographer to; was delighted in 1962 to see that he his war time enemy Japan and Taiwan had started up 2 Asia Rising models supervillages and supercities. By early 1970s fathers started debating Entrepreneurial revolution 3, 4 in the economist also known as industrial rev 3, 4. Dad defined IR3 as the era of racing to end poverty with win-win community shared solutions networking value that big corporations and big government alone could not sustain; for more details see our 40 year future history 2020report written 1984. By the mid 2020s tata from every gps on the planet would not be real time governed by humans but ai algorithms if these were diversely calibrated. During my father\s life- the all time great entreprenurial revolutionary was fazle abed whose Collab platforms have formed the world's number 1 civil society network, helped celebrate empowerment of 1billiongirls, and offer 2020s benchmarks for sustainability generation. Lets explore 30 collabs abed invites all sustainability millennials to linkiin as well as ideas to resolve final system conflicts eg climate that Abed demanded that hundreds of universities' graduate partnerships and humanising of AI would achieve in time.

5.4 sdg uni collab links from south 1 2 3

4.5 why not abed playschools everywhere

Help assemble library - 2025 - valuing younger half of world NOW! as Sustainability Gen is not mission impossible
Sustainability never seemed impossible 15 times we were privileged to notetake from Fazle Abed in Bangladesh; it didnt seem impossible in 1984 when I co-authored 2025 report with dad Norman Macrae drawing on 22 years of notes from Asia Rising Models; 30 years of notes from meeting von neumann; 40 years of surviving being teenager in bomber command burma campaign; 141 years of notes since James Wilson started The Economist (1843) to help Queen Victoria mediate commonwealth instead of slavemaking empire; 225 years of notes since adam smith asked are humans capable of applying machines morally, with emotional intel advancing the human lot; last chance to Humanise Artificial Intel is 2020s? Please mail links you feel 2025 library must celebrate doing now- chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Fazle Abed's 50 years of networking 1billiongirls to end poverty established the largest civil society partnerhip at his death in 20 dec 2019- help us map who's who as his movement geared to under 30s being the sustainability generation celebrates collabs the world over rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk to add a missing link

partners/alumni continuing Fazle Abed legacy (year 2 since his parting) -who have we left out at www.teachforsdgs.com

Abed family
Guterres https://lnkd.in/dMjh3wq5 -alumni UNICEF James Grant & www.icddrb.org & Larry Brilliant https://lnkd.in/dcWM_3mn , & David Fraser (ex Swarthmore) & Manzoor Ahmed https://lnkd.in/dPY9kKh9
Quadir family https://lnkd.in/gDN5szHc
Abdul Latif (Toyota) https://lnkd.in/dgvg_paM
Netherlands Royal Family https://lnkd.in/defBESSH https://lnkd.in/d22XQUvq
British Royal Family https://lnkd.in/gJFKqH_7
Qatar First Lady & UN SDG advocate Sheika Moza
Billionaire Charles Yidan www.teachforhk.com
Billionaires Melinda & Bill Gates
Billionaire George Soros
Hara & Onodera https://lnkd.in/dkn2xpmU
Reeta Roy (Mastercard Foundation & Tufts alumni)
GABV https://lnkd.in/duhNNqUE
Klaus Schwab https://lnkd.in/dhiRYGjQ
Singapore Diaspora Association https://lnkd.in/d6z7EHT9 BOP hub https://lnkd.in/dFXZXQuS
Lego Foundation
LSE https://lnkd.in/dngxqGZX
Alumni Borlaug World Food Prize https://lnkd.in/dGRY2P2T
Ki-moon https://lnkd.in/dgwQG3Vs https://lnkd.in/d6FXsQUA
IFC & Jack Ma https://lnkd.in/davGhvku
see list Ultra Poor partners https://lnkd.in/dD9eTKeg
Jim Yong Kim & Paul Farmer
Education:
Gordon & Sarah Brown
Wendy Kopp - www.teachforall.org year 10 wise laureate inaugurated by WISE Sheikha Moza women's education city
Major authors Quiet Revolution :employee #3 Professor Martha Chen 1985 https://lnkd.in/dPUdc3DB ; Freedom from Want 2009 Canada's Lead Development Ian Smillie - see our 15 reports from 2009 & legacy interviews www.economistwomen.com www.abedmooc.com www.fazleabed.com fazle abed facebook fans group is at https://lnkd.in/d-QpvT5g
>>>Dhaka 2018 final climactic dialogue Fazle Abed - see www.teachforxx.com

As homework for final ed of 2025 report: co-launching teachforFA.com teachfor.net teachforUN.com teachforAI.com teachforsdgs.com

In 1984 chris & The Economist's Norman Macrae co-authored 2025report.com-will education sustain or destroy millennials world?: in prep for final edition in 2023 along with feedback from von neumann biography in english and japanese: follow through Glasgow's ecop26.com & summitfuture.com JournalofNewEconomics.com Economistwomen.com- partners welcome chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Don't let fame media dsitract you - we 8 billion people4 neeed media of 2020s most exciting decade to be alive:

3 generations grand parents, parents, under 30s need

to map collaboration races round these 16 life shaping goals;

wherever process 17 big corporations and big governments ask for help; eg at cop26 they needed asked community on earth to connect diverse data through smart devices and tech which is now trillion times

more connecting than that needed to moon race 1960s

.

abed pdfs on university 1 :: tour AI for girls 1

fazle abed quoted by donella rapier 2018 : “The passion of my lifetime has been to work with people living in poverty and to see them, with the right resources and opportunities, transform into agents of change in their own lives, families and communities. The inequalities that create divisions of rich and poor, powerful and powerless, are made by humans. So change is also possible through human acts of compassion, courage, and conviction. I have spent my life watching optimism triumph over despair when the light of self-belief is sparked in people. As a team, I want us to keep lighting these sparks.”

global leaders who appear to have liked Abed include

x UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a message read out by UN Resident Coordinator Mia Seppo said Abed’s contribution in poverty alleviation and sustainable development are sources of great inspiration for the UN.

“Sir Fazle Abed’s vision became Brac’s vision. He was against all forms of exploitation and discrimination. He was a strong advocate for women and through Brac he designed development models that placed women at the centre,”

Abed also understood that opportunity starts with the help of education, and Brac’s education model has been replicated around the world.

“For Bangladesh, in the 1970s diarrhoea was the biggest killer. Sir Fazle Abed helped the country make dramatic advances in overcoming the disease through highly effective national campaigns.

“Today the focus is shifting towards resilience in the face of climate change and humanitarian crises. Brac today is among the main responders to the Rohingya crisis. I know that Brac will continue to keep alive the vision of its founder.”

Guterres said the UN will stand with Brac in carrying forward Abed’s important work.

national leaders who appear to have innovated a partnership with abed - your nominations welcome

2020 qatar's first lady offers this report- she had started the 2010s with biannual summits wisE awarding education laureates, wisH -health laureates - abed came first among her education awards 21 wish nurses equity report

which tech leaders inspired abed most?

during a millennial goals brainstorming dinner, mrs steve jobs asked fazle abed why hadn't he gone a step furthet- beyong bangladesh why not brac intl to serve people outside bangladesh: consequences: fazle abed had been relentlessly questioning ops to go local to global from the mid 1990s three dynamics gravitated around fazle abed- how to share solutions the world wanted from bangladesh, and how to operationally serve those needs reliably - could new technologies finally empower villagers so he decided his questions and mrs jobs were huge enough to merit founding a new university - designed as much to explore what no western university knew about billion rural womens main advancement priories as teaching students as being a magent for susy=taiability worlds best longer tem partners

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Xglasgow.com – what do scots -1/400 beings - uniquely know about extinction? Please mail chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you can report your peoples most unique sdg knowhow to multiply through collab networks and local communities www

2021 is most exciting time to be alive; we have 6 months left for peoples everywhere to unite in new edcation, health and and other system trajectories out of extinction. We agree with us climate tsar (hungarian-american) kerry- glasgow nov 2021 is humanity’s last best chance - economistdiary.com notes the last world series of summits advocated by scot and un global education envoy gordon brown nov cop26 october italy g20 sept unga76 ny; august un limit nuclear spending and proliferation

G5 G4 G3 G2 G1 valutrue goals- last chance 2021; 2^nd chance birth un 1945; 1st chance glasgow 1760

Global village guide: we value fazle abed as glasgow and english speaking world’s number 1 partner in empowering women to end poverty and linkin sustainable communities. Among the 13% of the world of white ethnicity we were the first to be colonised by london from 1710. One consequence is 80% of us are diaspora- having made our livelihoods as worldwide immigrants. We are very happy for our fellow celts the irish- they have played eu and un to maximum development advantage through the 76 years of the un and 3ed/4^th industrial revolutions which stem from the greatest 12 years of scientific change offered by one man : hungarian american john von neumann – see our biography.. We scots have never been a recognised nation at un/eu or in brexit. We second pope francis at strasbourg- although wondrous at birth messina 1955, from 1963 common ag policy: the eu has been mainly designed as ponzi scheme for elderly infertile descendants of white empires. Today Its top bureaucrats will spin fame media unless they now value billion poorest girls futures worldwide.

Only by lovingly and courageously doing this can parents celebrate youth who help change the failed G5 G4 G3 G2 G1 systems and legislators that stood by and let covod, climate and sub-prime ravage societies without borders. Mathematically borders are where greatest risks multiply because they are where professional monopolies and academics hide assumptions made to make the vested interests of their biggest clients bigger. Check that out by what einstein said about man’s science being an approximatio as nature is always integrating dynamics at more micro levels than man. Let’s hope that chaos Mathematicians re-edit tales of amazonia butterflies wing -flapping from 2020 by storytelling chaos of how a virus whose total size fits in a can of coke can dominate furure of life

Extinction will happen unless enough 2020s people everywhere celebrate actions of billion poorest womem who ended poverty 2020-1970 ; eg abedmooc offers you over 30 networks to collaboratively practice – we have longer diaries/learning curves of man and machine age because it started at glasgow university around james watt and adam smith; we agree with swiss and japanese urgent questions on society5.0 and understanding industrial revolution 4 exponential multipliers; when it comes to two thirds of humans who are asian it make sense to listen to tranformations advised by 3 royal families -Brits, Dutch, Japanese- who historically trapped most asians in poverty

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changing employment

the change from real world jobs to digitally empowered blended services is not an unprecedented rundown. In the 1890s, around half of the workforce in countries like the United States were in three occupations: agriculture, domestic service and jobs to do with horse transport. By the 1970s these three were down to 4 per cent of the workforce. If this had been foretold in the 1890s, there would have been a wail. It would have been said that half the population was fit only to be farmworkers, parlourmaids and sweepers-up of horse manure. Where would this half find jobs? The answer was by the 1970s the majority of them were much more fully employed ( because more married women joined the workforce) doing jobs that would have sounded double-Dutch in the 1890s: extracting oil instead of fish out of the North Sea; working as computer programmers, or as television engineers, or as package-holiday tour operators chartering jet aircraft.

The move in jobs in the past fifty years in the rich countries has been out of manufacturing and into telecommuting.

Changing education

There has been a sea-change in the traditional ages on man. Compared with 1974 our children in 2024 generally go out to paid work (especially computer programming work) much earlier, maybe starting at nine, maybe at twelve, and we do not exploit them. But young adults of twenty-three to forty-five stay at home to play much more than in 1974; it is quite usual today for one parent (probably now generally the father, although sometimes the mother) to stay at home during the period when young children are growing up. And today adults of forty-three to ninety-three go back to school - via computerised learning - much more than they did in 1974.

In most of the rich countries in 2024 children are not allowed to leave school until they pass their Preliminary Exam. About 5 per cent of American children passed their exam last year before their eight birthday, but the median age for passing it in 2024 is ten-and-a-half, and remedial education is generally needed if a child has not passed it by the age of fifteen.

A child who passes his Prelim can decide whether to tale a job at once, and take up the remainder of his twelve years of free schooling later; or he can pass on to secondary schooling forthwith, and start to study for his Higher Diploma.

The mode of learning for the under-twelves is nowadays generally computer-generated. The child sits at home or with a group of friends or (more rarely) in an actual, traditional school building. She or he will be in touch with a computer program that has discovered , during a preliminary assessment, her or his individual learning pattern. The computer will decide what next questions to ask or task to set after each response from each child.

A school teacher assessor, who may live half a world away, will generally have been hired, via the voucher system by the family for each individual child. A good assessor will probably have vouchers to monitor the progress of twenty-five individual children, although some parents prefer to employ groups of assessors - one following the child's progress in emotional balance, one in mathematics, one in civilized living, and so on - and these groups band together in telecommuting schools.

Many communities and districts also have on-the-spot 'uncles' and 'aunts'. They monitor childrens' educational performance by browsing through the TC and also run play groups where they meet and get to know the children personally...

Some of the parents who have temporarily opted out of employment to be a family educator also put up material on the TC s for other parents to consult. Sometimes the advice is given for free, sometimes as a business. It is a business for Joshua Ginsberg. He puts a parents advice newsletter on the TC , usually monthly. Over 300,000 people subscribe to it, nowadays at a 25-cent fee per person, or less if you accept attached advertisements. Here's an entry from the current newsletter:..

here you can download 2025 report-the whole of our 1984 book written to offer an alternative systems end game to orwell's big brother- you can also help us coblog 37th annual revisions at www.bidenuni.com- Q&A welomme chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk in wash dc +1 240 316 8157to cop26 glasgow nov 2021

as well as connecting the first 40 years of dad's diaries as teenager navigating allied bomber command over modernday myanmar/bangladesh to notes from keynes last class in cambridge to 40 years of scribbling leaders at the economist only 30 of 2000 of which he was permitted to sign - one anual suvey from age of 40 starting 1962 consider how japan (his teenage combatant)can help sustain two thirds of world's peoples who are asian. in fact the 1964 olympics was a joyous time in tokyo with prince charles and japan emperor mapping back how to end all the poverty traps their nations had compoubded in the past era or mercantile empires led by 2 small islands at exreme ends of the old world's continents -what marred this celebration was jf kennedy did not live to brainstorm mon races down on earth nor the consequences of the first wordwide satellite broadcast-and equally lives matter remapping did not kickstart inside the new world across peoples of every skin type

in my family tree 5 generations of diaspora scots -mainly medics social justice mediators, community builders and british embassy storytellers of loving different peoples- saw the world wars as mainly due to london corporate empire's mercantile age misusing james watt's and adam smiths machines stared up at glasgow u 1760- -if only lives mattered wherer humans and machines linkied in the world - goodwill could have multiplied sustaiablity across the road- give moores laws exponentials in dad's view the 2020s would be the last chance decade to humanise ai so that wherever next girl was born she and her community thrived

- 2025 report was revised in different ptint languages to 1993's sweden's new vikings -

wanted round world happiness letters rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

....example dc<>tokyo

Dear Tsutomu and Yuko -happy new year to you and peoples in all hemispheres

would the publisher and you be interested in making a shortlist of people to send an early review copy of Von Neumann in Japanese to?

one difficulty is finding people who joyfully remember how exciting the 1960s seemed to be both because of Japan Rising with Deming and USA rising with Von Neumanns artificial intel and moon race

sadly the main historian at Harvard of this promise to unite youth: Ezra Vogel died in the last 10 days;

my guess is that leaves one pivotal Japanese person in Boston to send a copy to as joi ito - you probably know he was headhunted to lead MIT media lab and to bridge us-japan entrepreneurs; the media lab borders at least 5 generally interesting labs in addition to specific ones such as health, agriculture, ;

the original artificial intelligence lab formed with 3 years of Von Neumann's death,

Tim Berner Lee's www lab,

Rosalind Picard's lab - how do advances in machines 5 senses also augment senses for humans with disabilities

the new Schwarzman transformation of MIT linking in oxford and China's Tsinghua and 9 leading Japanese graduates, - if you could send a copy to Tokyo's Mayor/Governor Koike - she cares about education imagineering as much as Beijing's mayor -and both are caught up in the mess covid has made for Olympics youth - i once hoped that Naomi Osaka would win the tennis Olympics and go on to be Japans youth Sustainabiilty Development Goals ambassador but it looks like that world stage for lives matter societies has been lost

and mobile tech end poverty labs- these dont have one simple name but having visited mit most years since 2008 i can help ask around for a full list

none of these labs integrated edu tech the way dad and my 2025report.com first debated in 1984- frankly Nordica and Chinese diaspora eg Singapore seem to do that in ways that neither MIT AI lab nor the other twin AI lab at Stanford yet do

the japan society in new york one block from the United Nations is a pivotal community discussion hub- except while covid reigns; they staged an event with Joi Ito 2 years ago which i attended ; i tried to ask who was their new york number 1 humaniser of technology was but didnt get an answer- indeed they were also in the process of changing the organisational team-it may be a question the publisher can ask more directly than i

back in 2007 my next door neighbor Shimada, Takehiro worked at the japan embassy in DC; he was in charge of the annual cherry blossom festival; he connected me with the then head of JICA in ysa Yamamoto Aiichiro who shared my interest in Bangladesh as a tech lab for the poor as well as my fathers 1960/1970 surveys of japan and asia rising and humanising tech, I dont know how to contact these two people but tech for sustainability goals is something only japan can lead collaboratively in todays G7

Although my father supported Schwab world economic forum in its early days as an apres ski dinner roundtable Schwab's weforum managers dont recall; however it would be fascinating if Tokyo;s industrial revolution 4 hub of Schwab has any connections with the history of tech- I know Schwab's AI conference organiser so i could ask her for one name at Schwab IR4 Tokyo lab but I am not sure if Japan'sG20 please for society 5.0 and Osaka data track were ever understood in the west. probably the most highly connected person of all is Koji Tomita - I dont know if there is somebody in his team at USA embassy who might have time to read von neumann

BRIDGING 3 GENERATIONS WHO WIN OR LOSE OUR SPECIES

A key future history question seems to me to start up around who remembers why von neumanns inspirations in usa never came humanly together with Deming's inspiration in japan; there is even the extraordinary story around 1965 when intel received its then largest silicon chip order from a Japanese calculator company and rather than become too dependent on one client invented the programmable chip -why didnt Japan and silicon valley twin in the 1970s?

back in 1964 Prince Charles was inspired by the Tokyo Olympics, met Akio Motita of Sony, asked him to inwardly invest in wales one of the first Japanese inward investments in the west- but i dont know in both countries who connects that 57 years on

i realise both Prince Charles and the Emperors family are huge supporters of green technology; if anyone is preparing Japanese connections with Glasgow cop 26 my friends are trying to celebrate all youth organisations without borders; we have hired the Glasgow University Union for middle Saturday nov 6 so that youth and sdg led discussions connect with what Adam Smith and James Watt started 260 years ago

the two places to host briainstorming remembrance events of my fathers work were Glasgow University and thanks to Ambassador Sadoshima - in 2012 the Japanese Embassy in Dhaka - there my father's greatest end poverty hero chaired 2 dinner sessions:

*the future coalition of new universities needed if there is ever to be a first sd generation

* the future of fintech and economics for the poorest billion female Asians

Compared with the 1960s computing/commuications NIT team needed to code the moon landing, Moores law suggest we have multiplied capacity to analyse 10 fold every 5 years -approaching a trillion times moore by 2025 - but we don't seem to have united human and machine intel by any exponentially positive multiplier- i think von neumann would be sad that worldwide collaboration round trust in tech-youth had not yet multiplied across asia , europe, usa but then i grew up optimistically with Yoko Ono and John Lennon imagineering scripts in my mind-

the sdg generation is all to play for in the 2020s if Asians let it be

-as we enter 2021 it is not likely to be led by America's 5% of peoples not the EU's 5% unless something hugely different emerges at cop26

happy 2021 chris macrae wash dc +1 240 316 8157 Xglasgow.com

year 38 of project maps of dictionary ai and 2025 report by norman macrae and chris macrae

dictionary ai and 2025 report by norman macrae and chris macrae

On Sunday, 20 December 2020, 21:44:07 GMT-5, Tsutomu Yawata wrote: Dear Chris

The Japanese publisher also thank you for the updated bio. They will include this summary in their paperback edition. They appreciate your assistance.All the best, Tsutomu Yawata The English Agency (Japan) Ltd.

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On 2020/12/19 21:55, christopher macrae wrote:Hello Tsutomu and Yuko -may i wish you a happy/safe new year

I drafted a biographical summary of Norman Macrae. Can you and the publisher choose if you want to use parts of it on the book cover or inside?

I see Japan as making unique world leading choices with Society5.0, Osaka track, Reiwa era...Olympics, Expo25...

Personally I don't well understand the world of the 2020s: so please ignore this unless there are parts of it that resonate with you

Norman Macrae; Future Historian

1760s: When James Watt and Adam Smith started up lives of humans assisted by machines they hoped to map out worldwide improvement of the human lot.

By 1843, it was clear to Diaspora Scot James Wilson that empires led by Britain were spinning the opposite of a world in which all lives matter. He started up The Economist as a newsletter mediating purposeful futures of London’s Royal Society. The Economist’s 1943 centenary autobiography written at the height of world war 2 summarises how much more trusted mediation needed doing if technology was not to destroy the human race. At that time, Norman Macrae was spending his last days as a teenager in world war 2 with allied bomber command hubbed out of modern-day Myanmar.

1945 Surviving world war 2, Norman saw the opportunity to Unite Nations as a chance to sustain our species. From the last class at Cambridge to be instructed on Keynesian systems for ending poverty, Norman was overjoyed to be offered a job at The Economist paying 8 pounds a week. The other two most joyful events in Norman’s second twenty years of life were an interview with John Von Neumann on the legacy of his life’s work, and The Economist offering Norman one signed survey per year from 1962. Norman chose 1962’s survey to be about the rise and rise of Japan, and hopes for all of Asia’s reversal of the poverty traps that Empire had caused.

1960s John Von Neumann’s immediate legacy after his death in 1957 comprised the moon race and two Artificial Intelligence labs- at MIT Boston facing the Atlantic Coast, at Stanford facing the Pacific Coast.

Norman disagreed with western economists who started hiring themselves out to big government and big corporations in the 1970s. He sought to mediate an optimistic global village viewspaper and adopted the Keynesian role of future historian. 1970s Economist surveys epitomised this: 1972 the next 40 years, 1975 Asia Pacific Century, 1976 the Entrepreneurial Revolution of value chains integrated by small-medium sized enterprises, 1977 celebration that Asian village women empowered by rural Keynesianism and China’s happy intent to seed transformational education. In 1984, his family joined Norman in editing The 2025 Report- a 4 decade exponential countdown to sustainability

In 1989, Norman started an active retirement receiving the huge honours of Japan’s Order of Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon and Britain’s CBE. His first project: this biography on John Von Neumann. Norman died in 2010 but not before discovering one more unacknowledged hero- women empowerment’s Sir Fazle Abed.

2020s. Post-covid19, will humans open every society anew and value the futureoflife.org? Will we the peoples celebrate the third and probably ultimate chance to humanize machines by valuing all lives matter?

Let it be: the future of the Olympics out of the Orient, the future of climate summits out of Smithian Glasgow, the future of all humans-artificial intelligence communities everywhere : the flourishing of girls, boys, and every colored skin under the sun.

2025 report authors' prologue

most popular -deadline 2000s - chapter 6 fintech for the unbanked, media true to goal of end poverty -- results- everyone failed true media- fintech worldrecordjobs.com - see quadir family from 1995, fazle abed digital cash bangladesh www.bkash.com later with gates/ma, jack ma with jerry yang & masa son and pony ma , partially correct mpesa in afrca; idea but not yet execution of satoshi blockchain as way to comeback from subprimed world and digital central bank currency for sdg dev

Future History

Net Futures - The 2025 Report (title of american edition, english publisgers preferred 2024 report ie orwell +40)

Back in 1984 , Norman and Chris Macrae wrote "The 2025 Report: a future history of the next 40 years". It was the first book to:

.provide readers with a brainstorming journey of what people in an internetworking world might do

predict that a new economy would emerge with revolutionary new productivity and social benefits enjoyed by all who interacted in a net-connected world, designed for every community to thrive in diversity and goodwill multipliers of sustainability exponentials across generations

Our 1984 scenario of an internetworking world

Changing communications, and what makes people distant, bossy, etc

Changing national politics

Changing economics

Changing employment

Changing education

Our 1984 scenario of an internetworking world

The great technological event of the next 40 years will be the steady rise in importance of the Telecommunications-Computer terminal (TC for short)... Eventually books, files, television programmes, computer information and telecommunications will merge. We'll have this portable object which is a television screen with first a typewriter, later a voice activator attached. Afterwards it will be minaturised so that your personal access instrument can be carried in your buttonhole, but there will be these cheap terminals around everywhere, more widely than telephones of 1984. The terminals will be used to access databases anywhere in the globe, and will become the brainworker's mobile place of work. Brainworkers, which will increasingly mean all workers, will be able to live in Tahiti if they want to and telecommute daily to the New York or Tokyo or Hamburg office through which they work. In the satellite age costs of transmission will not depend mainly on distance. And knowledge once digitalised can be replicated for use anywhere almost instantly.

Over the last decade, I have written many articles in The Economist and delivered lectures in nearly 30 countries across the world saying the future should be much more rosy. This book explores the lovely future people could have if only all democrats made the right decisions.

Norman Macrae, 1984.

Changing communications, and what makes people distant, bossy etc

Telecommunications are now recognised as the third of the three great transport revolutions that have, in swift succession, transformed society in the past two hundred years. First, were the railways; second the automobile; and third, telecommunications-attached-to-the-computer, which was bound to be the most far-reaching because in telecommunications, once the infrastructure is installed, the cost of use does not depend greatly on distance. So by the early years of the twenty-first century brainworkers - which in rich countries already meant most workers - no longer need to live near their work.

All three revolutions were opposed by the ruling establishments of their time, and therefore emerged fastest where government was weak. All three brought great new freedoms to the common man, but the railway and motor-car ages temporarily made access to capital the most important source of economic power. As most men and women did not like being bossed about by capitalists who could become more powerful because they were born stinking rich, they voted to give greater economic power to governments during the railway and motor-car ages. This was economically inefficient, and also made tyrannies more likely and more terrible. The information revolution was fortunately the exact opposite of the steam engine's industrial revolution and of Henry Ford's mass production automobile revolution in this respect. The steam engine and mass production has made start-up costs for the individual entrepreneur larger and larger, so that in both the steam and automobile ages to quote Bell Canada's Gordon Thompson in the early 1970s, there was 'no way an ordinary citizen could walk into a modern complex factory and use its facilities to construct something useful for himself'. But, as Thompson forecast, the databases of the next decades were places into which every part-time enthusiast could tele-commute. In all jobs connected with the use of information, start-up costs for the individual entrepreneur in 1984-2024 have grown smaller and smaller. It was 'never thus', said Thompson, 'with power shovels and punch presses'.

In consequence, in the TC age, the most important economic resource is no longer ownership of or access to capital, but has become the ability to use readily available knowledge intelligently and entrepreneurially.

Changing national politics

For a region's people to succeed in the Telecommuting Age there are four main requirements - satisfied in places as far apart ad Guam and Queensland and Cape Province and California and Penang and Scotland. First , as the prophet John Naisbitt said in 1982, 'the languages needed for the immediate future are computer and English'. Second, the area has to be a nice one in which to live. Third, it is important that all income earners should adapt happily to a 'cafeteria of compensation' schemes. These allow the individual employee to decide what mix (s)he wants of salary, job objectives, career aims, flexitime, job sharing, long or short holidays, fringe benefits or fringe nuisances. Fourth, there needs to be a competitive and quickly changing telecommunications system. The TC age is making understanding of these requirements increasingly transparent among human beings worldwide.

Governments at first tried to impede or regulate much of this, but an early discovery of the Telecommutung age was that we could change the way we chose our governments. Until the 1990s we had pretended to ourselves that we could alter our lifestyles by choosing on each Tuesday or Thursday every four years whether Mr Reagan or Mr Carter , Mrs Thatcher or Mr Kinnock, was putting on the tribal demonstration which at that particular moment annoyed us less. After the advent of the TC we found that the more sensible and direct way in which a free man or woman could choose government was by voting with his or her feet. The individual could go to live in any area where the government - which could from then on be a very local government - permitted the lifestyle, rules and customs which suited that human being.

Changing Economics

The introduction of the international Centrobank was the last great act of government before government grew much less important. It was not a conception of policy-making governments at all, but emerged from the first computerised town meeting of the world.

By 2005 the gap in income and expectations between the rich and poor nations was recognised to be man's most dangerous problem. Internet linked television channels in sixty-eight countries invited their viewers to participate in a computerised conference about it, in the form of a series of weekly programmes. Recommendations tapped in by viewers were tried out on a computer model of the world economy. If recommendations were shown by the model to be likely to make the world economic situation worse, they were to be discarded. If recommendations were reported by the model to make the economic situation in poor countries better, they were retained for 'ongoing computer analysis' in the next programme.

In 2024 it is easy to see this as a forerunner of the TC conferences which play so large a part in our lives today, both as pastime and principal innovative device in business. But the truth of this 2005 breakthrough tends to irk the highbrow. It succeeded because it was initially a rather downmarket network television programme. About 400 million people watched the first programme, and 3 million individuals or groups tapped in suggestions. Around 99 per cent of these were rejected by the computer as likely to increase the unhappiness of mankind. It became known that the rejects included suggestions submitted by the World Council of Churches and by many other pressure groups. This still left 31,000 suggestions that were accepted by the computer as worthy of ongoing analysis. As these were honed, and details were added to the most interesting, an exciting consensus began to emerge. Later programmes were watched by nearly a billion people as it became recognised that something important was being born.

These audiences were swollen by successful telegimmicks. The presenter of the first part of the first programme was a roly-poly professor who was that year's Nobel laureate in economics, and who proved a natural television personality. He explained that economists now agreed that aid programmes could sometimes help poor countries, but sometimes most definitely made their circumstances worse. When Mexico was inflating at over 80 per cent a year in the early 1980s , the inflow to it of huge loanable funds made its inflation even faster and its crash more certain. The professor set Mexico's 1979-1981 economy on the model, pumped in the loaned funds and showed how all the indicators ( higher inflation, lower real gross domestic product and so on) then flashed red, signaling an economy getting worse, rather than green, signaling an economy getting better. ..The professor then put the model back to mirror the contemporary world of 2005, and played into it various nostrums that had been recommended by politicians of left, right and centre, but mostly left. The dials generally flashed red. Then the professor provided another set of recommendations , and asked viewers who wished to play to tap in their own guesses on the consequent movement of key economics variables in the model. Those who got their guesses right to within a set error were told they had qualified for a second round of a knock-out economic guesstimators' world championship. Knockout competitions of this sort continued for viewers throughout the series of programmes.

In the second part of that first programme, the presenters dared to introduce two political decisions into the game. They said that government-to-government aid programmes had been particularly popular among politicians during the age of over-government, but there was growing agreement that government-to-government aid was the worst method of hand-out. The excessive role played by governments in poor countries was one of the barriers to their economic advance, and a main destroyer of their people's freedom. Could anyone have thought it would be wise to give aid to President Mbogo?

In consequence, the most successful economic aid programmes had been those operated through the International Monetary Fund, which imposed conditions on how borrowing governments should operate. The professor showed that IMF-monitored operations in most years had brought more green flashes from the model than red. But this involved IMF officials - often from the rich countries - in telling governments of poor countries what to do; and one of the objectives of this town meeting of the world was to diminish such embarrassments.

The first questions to be asked in the next few programmes, said the compilers, were 1) which countries should qualify for aid? ; and having decided that, 2) up to what limits and conditions? ; and 3) through what mechanisms? They promised that later programmes after the first half-dozen would examine how any scheme could be used to diminish the power of governments and increase the power of free markets and free people.

Changing employment

In a typical 21st C scene, obedience to consumer needs is shown by every car plant in the world because of better and more customised information available on all our TCs. Most people buying a car in 2024 will key into their special requirements into their TCs.

The TC will reply: "You can get a customised car which meets all of your specifications by putting personalised instructions on the software of the assembly line's robots in one of these factories (choice of nine) requesting that the next car on the line be modified as you dictate. But that would cost up to $40,000 (Click to factories for quotations and credit facilities). For a fifth of that price, you can meet most of your requirements by the following standard computer programme at present scheduled for production in June at Nissan Kanpur; or July at Ford Manila (and so on). Click to factories for precise specifications and prices.

All of this has become commonplace after 2000. How has it affected employment?

For a new industry of 2019-2024 let us cite the intendedly short-lived example of the Clark-Schmidt Robot Gardener. Matthew Clark was a 53-year old on his third university course (he had started the other two at the ages of nineteen and thirty-seven respectively) telecommuted through the University of Southern California, although he took it while living in his native Australia , when, together with two other student's telecommuting through USC's database, he devised a system for a robot-driven lawnmower which could also scan soil and assess the possibilities for reseeding. It signaled the videos to be called up on your TC to show alternative uses for the soil in your garden. If you picked one video display that particularly suited your taste, you keyed in its number into the Robot Gardener and it signaled back, 'put such-and-such chemical into my tank and seeds 1234, 3456 (et cetera), plus software program 29387 - both orderable through your TC - into my reseeder.'

Clark and his two colleagues put their tentative ideas for this device on the researchers' database monitored by the University of Southern California. The entry numbers to the USC database were held by people who had promised to accept the computer's judgement of the value of any ideas they might contribute to projects entered on it. In all, 1213 people - domiciled from Hanoi through Penang and Capri and Bermuda back to Queensland in Australia itself - tapped in suggestions for improvements, of which 176 were accepted nby the computer as worthwhile. The payments recommended by the computer ranged from $42 ( for a cosmetic improvement recommended by an eleven-year-old schoolboy) to one tenth of the equity (eventually worth several million dollars) for a proposal by a research team from another telecommuting university which proved important enough for Clark to feel slightly guilty about calling the Robot Gardener after himself.

When the improvements suggested by these 176 contributors had been incorporated by Clark into the appropriate software program for making the Robot Gardener , it was advertised on USC's entrepreneur-browsing program available on any TC. Entry numbers for the lowest echelons of this can be bought for a very few dollars, but the Robot Gardener was put on a higher echelon because USC's computer had signaled this was a potential quick winner.

One of those who had paid for an expensive entry number into browsing among good 'proffered opportunity products' (POPs) was a Dutchman called Carl Schmidt. He had become a successful 'arranging producer' in an earlier venture, and now occupied himself browsing through his TC looking for a second bonanza. He made an offer to Clark to tale an option for launch in return for a fairly complicates programme of profit sharing, which in practice (because arranging is nowadays a more skilled job than inventing) eventually gave Schmidt more money than Clark. Clark accepted this and Schmidt produced a prototype within three days by reprogramming robots in an experimental plant. A video of the prototype was put on consumers' TC channels worldwide the next week, and most of the 400 odd gardeners' TC channels round the world picked it out within days as a 'best buy'.

Schmidt's video advertisement said 'If you key in your order now with your credit number, you can get a Robot Gardener for a bargain price (applies to the first 10,000 orders only). Tenders are also invited for part of the equity.' The advance orders and bids for equity made it possible to finance assembly of the Robot Gardener for early-bid customers within a few weeks...

Note that there was never any intention that Robot Gardeners Inc should grow into a huge and long-lasting company. Clark and Schmidt are already researching and browsing into other possibilities, on separate courses. About fifty of those who succeeded by early participation in this venture hope to become the equivalent of Clark and Schmidt in other things.

At no stage has this enormously successful manufacturing venture employed more than 1000 people. It is therefore true that the loss of nine-tenths of manufacturing jobs , which we saw has been highest in car-making in rich countries, has also been true there in manufacturing jobs as a whole. Where these countries had 20-40 per cent of their workforces in manufacturing in 1974, they typically have 2-4 per cent now.

This is not an unprecedented rundown. In the 1890s around half of the workforce in countries like the United States were in three occupations: agriculture, domestic service and jobs to do with horse transport. By the 1970s these three were down to 4 per cent of the workforce. If this had been foretold in the 1890s, there would have been a wail. It would have been said that half the population was fit only to be farmworkers, parlourmaids and sweepers-up of horse manure. Where would this half find jobs? The answer was by the 1970s the majority of them were much more fully employed ( because more married women joined the workforce) doing jobs that would have sounded double-Dutch in the 1890s: extracting oil instead of fish out of the North Sea; working as computer programmers, or as television engineers, or as package-holiday tour operators chartering jet aircraft.

The move in jobs in the past fifty years in the rich countries has been out of manufacturing and into telecommuting.

Changing education

"Now that TCs are universal and can access libraries of books, 3-d video, computer programs, you name it, it is clear that the tasks of both the Educator and the Communicator are far more stimulating that ten years ago.

One of my recent lessons with my ten-year-old daughter Julie was in art appreciation. In the standard art appreciation course the TC shows replicas of famous artists' pictures, and a computer asks the pupil to match the artist to the picture. Julie said to the computer that it would be fun to see Constable's Haywain as Picasso might have drawn it. The computer obliged with its interpretation , and then ten more stylised haywains appeared together with the question 'who might have drawn these?'. I believe we are the first to have prompted the TC along this road, but it may now become a standard question when the computer recognises a child with similar learning patterns to Julie's.

It is sometimes said that today's isolated sort of teaching has robbed children of the capacity to play and interact with other children. This is nonsense. We ensure that Julie and her four year old brother Pharon have lots of time to play with children in our neighbourhood . But in work we do prefer to interact with children who are of mutual advantage to Julie and to each other. The computer is an ace teacher, but so are people. You really learn things if you can teach them to someone else. Our computer has helped us to find a group of four including Julie with common interests, who each have expertise in some particular areas to teach the others.

The TC also makes it easier to play games within the family. My parents used to play draughts, halma, then chess with me. They used to try to be nice to me and let me win. This condescending kindness humiliated me, and I always worked frenetically to beat my younger brother (who therefore always lost and dissolved into tears.) Today Julie, Pharon and I play halma together against the graded computer, and Julie and I play it at chess. The computer knows Pharon's standard of play at halma and Julie's and mine at chess. Its default setting is at that level where each of us can win but only if we play at our best. Thus Pharon sometimes wins his halma game while Julie and I are simultaneously losing our chess game, and this rightly gives Pharon a feeling of achievement. When Julie and I have lost at chess, we usually ask the computer to re-rerun the game, stopping at out nmistakes and giving a commentary. As it is a friendly computer it does a marvelous job of consoling us. Last week it told Julie that the world champion actually once made the same mistake as she had done - would she like to see that game?

I intend to devote the next two letters to the subjects I have discussed here , but retailing the best of your suggestions instead of droning on with mine."

While the computer's role in children's education is mainly that of instructor (discovering a child's learning pattern and responding to it) and learning group matcher, its main role in higher education is as a store of knowledge. Although a computer can only know what Man has taught it, it has this huge advantage. No individual man lives or studies long enough to imbibe within himself all the skills and resources that are the product of the millennia of man's quest for knowledge, all the riches and details from man's inheritance of learning passed on from generation to generation. But any computer today can inherit and call up instantly any skill which exists anywhere in the form of a program.

This is why automatically updated databases are today the principal instruments of higher education and academic research. It is difficult for our generation to conceive that only forty years ago our scientists acted as tortoise-like discoverers of knowledge, confined to small and jealous cliques with random and restricted methods of communicating ideas. Down until the 1980s the world has several hundred sepaate cancer research organisations with no central co-ordinating database.

2025 report authors' prologue

chapter 6 fintech for the unbanked, media true to goal of end poverty

chapter 7 changing manufacturing employment

chapter 8 changing education

chapter 9 digital infrastructure revolution

chapter 10 -changing politicians

chapter 5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx..

Social Business inspired Co-blogs etc from Catholic Universities inspired by sustainability and Nobel Franciscan business goals

1 globalgrameen and the Medgar Evers Devate on Social Solutions the Moore the Better -with thanks to SoundtrackNY top 100 Open Spaces of Sustainabilituy=Youth's Productive Decade (To Be In the half Of the wrld aged under 300

2 Yunus.tv with special features on AfricanIdol.tv

3 Yunus10000.com - the 69th birthday wish of muhammad Yunus for 10000 Yuth Ambassadors

From other pro-=youth ecnmics networks

eg http://beta.ineteconomics.org/

FROM 2016 Diary of Youth Greatest Decade

IDES of March (15) opening the UAE microcreditsummit

March 10 Brooklyn Social Justice Day: Medgar Evers-- Youth friend of New York Youth Development - Global Youth Empowerment Open Spaces

March 1 - China leads the way at ICCC Architecture Competition United Nations

Frm Happy New Year f the Mnkey - Sin Americas Yuth Friednships aide memire with west cast branch funding memer 1990 ..amy

why dont you write to billy and see if he will give us a meeting at stanford between march 3 and 7

1 catch up on 25 years of china-america friendships out of silicon valley- find out about jack ma's upcoming diary

2 catch up on hiro dialogue on social innovation and epicentre of student exchanges as expereiential learning www.akira-foundation.org

3 catch up on sponsorship of creative childrens 20th olympiads

4 catch up with his opinion of andrew ng leaving coursera and joining baidu

5 talk to his chinese female prodigee =who works in coursera and get hi-level introduction to the most exciting pro=youth hub in usa - 500 women run by chinese brazilian women and abut to leadership quest china

6 see if scot will share his contact with khan academy

7 check up with whether blum university and give directly are ready to partner wit mit and ny development

8 check up with the ny bangladeshi poverty research institute at berkeley and help tross check up whether clinton university is preparcd to celebrate chinese millennials april 1-what else does she need to research before obamas relaunch as a professor in columbia uni

interview blum on whether his new passion for empathy training connects with social justice and innovatin

happy new year of the monkey chris

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