Soon after the death of dad (norman macrae) economist's future historian of how only the asian two third of the world are likely to be in time to help all millennials be sustainable, the japan ambassador to dhaka hosted 2 dinner parties with chief guest sir fazle abed and bkash founder kamil quadir

pessimism was banned from these discussions- who could be in the presence of fazle abed and betray his lifelong service with anything less than can do next

first was japans internet partnership with brac going well? -on all 5 deepest sdgs not just finance HUNI1  to end poverty

abed said yes thanks-and introduced  kamal quadir; the quadir family had first brough mobile phones to bangladesh in 1995- kamal will explain next leaps he aims to connect with brac's partnership bkash.com- cashless banking can be even more important for the poor than the rich- 

lets brainstorm how many ways that is true- rural banks in places without elecricity barely have safes making handling cash expensive - with digital points villages will never miss never using an atm, and certainly they wont want credit cards; where a village mother doesnt have a mobile phone trusted local stores can keep her accounts- village banking can be done the right way by villagers with everyone seeing complaints- for the first time capital can be used so all the productivity of the village can build the village- we can bring the cost of remittances way down; and of course digital savings can be of any small amount; we can also start making very small digital payments real time; so when our village para health workers spot a new case of tuberculosis instead of receiving the small payment in monthly accounts they can get paid 24/7

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but abed said while i will never stop my focus on helping design poorest of poor partners, i wanted to ash for some new help; we now have so many youth who are end generation and migrating to the city; do you think we can unite 100 colleges around the world to share their alumni and one common curricula of those sorts of sdg solutions village women have proven to be borderless

i would like future generations of female and male alumni to work on three goals in one

end poverty

expand middle class

go green before bangladesh sinks- as larry brilliant said when he was first google.org ceo maps show bangladesh will be the first nation to fail from drowing and somewhere under 3 degrees warming will likely make that happen- for wome who have worked so hard to end poverty in bangladesh, the nation sinking would be a tragedy- are there any chances of waking the world up to this in time?

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chris macrae - of course there is bias in how i recall these meetings to which about 70 of fazle abed's longest regional supporters attended and will offer more nuanced notes; back in 1984 dad any my 2025 report timelined why we argued only a transformation in education could help millennilas be the first sdg generation - for those who haven't seen the outrageous optimism y father insited jounalism shared in linking communities golbally - see either this video from the economist boardroom - or read summary of 1984 report in right hand column