BRAC creation of 100 million person rural health system

[chris macrae]

at time of bangladesh independence there weren't enough trained doctors to serve the cities - the gap was filled by brac training para health workers at a cost of less than 100 dollar per person

also several hundred thousand ladies were trained in such a way that they could sustain a small bsuienss out of each vilage

this was the first massive use of social buisness that has gone on to be the bigest gamechnaager in aid , girls empowerment and alleviation of extreme poverty

by focusing on affordable cures for infant and maternal helath, brac ended massive deaths in infancy - the culture changed so that village mothers no longer were expected to bear 10 children so that 2 boys could survive- this gave vilage mothers the opportunity to develpp their own income generation as brac redesigned at least 10 national markets to include the very poorest

Over the years other health programs have been integrated but the backbone of the whole of vil;lage empowerment across bangladesh can be viewed as the brac village health service- without this would bangladesh ever have become a world leader in partnership to end extreme poverty and all 6 of the top sgds as well as most others

bonus question did brac also create direct cash transfer (aka give directly)?

answer yes

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help us identify bracs 5 biggest stories before jack ma's chair at tsinghua ying lowrey spends a week at brac spet 30 to oct 6 -2018

extract from bio of ying lowrey

• “The Financial Differentiations,” the paper claims that individual’s financing activity is an important component of “Free Enterprise and Free Competition.” Through market segmentations and the “Quantity Discrimination,” individual’s freedom for finance can be honored. Only in the internet/digital economy, financial differentiation can lead the financial market to the economic efficiency.
• The Alibaba Way: Unleashing Grassroots Entrepreneurship to Build the World’s Most Innovative Internet Company, The World Edition of English by McGraw Hill Educational Press. January 2016. The book is listed in THE GLOBAL BUSINESS THOUGHT LEADER SERIES. The book addresses the function of public goods & services by private Internet companies. These companies enable grassroots entrepreneurship and facilitate job creations in the society.
• “Business Creation is Job Creation: Estimating Entrepreneurial Jobs,” using several large databases in the US, the paper empirically demonstrates that in the process of creating businesses, entrepreneurs not only create jobs for others, but most importantly for their own. The paper estimates that only about 1/4 of new jobs go to “employed workers” and the rest 3/4 belong to “self-employed entrepreneurs.” The Wall Street Post, the Harvard Business Review and many other media across the USA cited the paper. The paper was presented at the 2011 American Economic Association Annual Conference in Denver.
• “An Examination of Entrepreneurial Effort,” a seminal theoretical paper presented at the 2006 American Economic Association Annual Conference in Boston. Using neo-classical economics framework, the paper explains: 1) why do entrepreneurs create businesses; 2) what the role of entrepreneurial effort is in the macroeconomy; 3) what the role of government is in the allocation of entrepreneurial efforts; and 4) what the role of “Initial Capital” is in the allocation of entrepreneurial efforts.

more of professor lowrey's bio

[chris macrae]

yes the name may have been different but brac did invent this kjind of giving which basically provides evidence to a donor of who gets aid with waht specific result

these days people talk about can big data be colected and small analysus done on it to make sure the aid and solution connect exactly -sir fazle abed's methid was simpler- he lived among the poorest and could experiment until a solution worked

the case in point which came before brac built the rural health system concerns oral rehydration - an infant who would otherwise die of diarrhea can be saved if the mother recogises the symptoloms adn mixes biled water salts and sugars in the right proportion

however peer to peer training of this concept acrioss a mainly illiterate population took several rehearsals- if brac had been a top gown aid organsiation it would have convluded nationawide training of vilage mothers in oral rehydration was possible- in this case unicef was the donor who paod brac for proving how many vilage mothers it had trained

so with bottom up hub desiogns- and two innovative new funding models bangladesh grassroots womens netirks traformed the market for aid - with models that are many times more effective efficient an ex[pandable than anything rich funders of aid had ever seen

this brings us to an inconvenenient questions- are the G7 (rich western naations) used to designing sustainable economic models- the answer if you look at hostry is no - in fact you could asay that the world wars were consequence of colonial economics being non-sustainable - -before tere was colonisation economies were aproxiately the size of their populations- at the height of colonialims aboiyt 10% of the worlds people owned a sixable majority of the whoel fincial economy

the stiry gets mire opeculair -while some say the term economics started with adma smit - most of adams main hypotheses are still today competelky abused by western economists

we should not be surprised that facing famine muhamad yunus tire up the western marcoc=evonomic theory book and took hois clsss outside to the vilages to innovate some solutions

both his gramen bank with its officai constitution in 1983 and brac which started in 11 years earler are wirtyh studying for every market they design to include the poorest livelihoods

[chris macrae]

Q is brac helping jack ma bank for the billion poorest women?

the answer would apear to be yes- and the fintech ecinomkic model that brac ;pioneered is caled bkash- even before jack ma took a 20% per cent share in bkash no less a judge that bil gates was saying bkash was probably the most promosing solution he had seen and that it could scale to offer digital banking to people who had previously been unbanked because theyu7 could only affors to strat banking with cents

jack is famous for creating lievelihoods with ecommerce and working out how to maimsie SME (chinaese taobao/vilage) involvement in every value chain ecoomerce can reach- he also was the first to use smart ohones to do digital paynets phine to pohone with alipay- so in jack ma and brac we have the worlkd's 2 smartest fintecg netwoirks concerned with unsing fintech to end poverty- what more culd happen when jack ma tours nearly 50 years of bangladesh as the world's number 1 klab for girls end poverty solutions

[chris macrae]

Q did brac help the UN understand that the 300 trillion dollars of most liquid finance is barred from investing in sustainability development goals as an asset class?

listen to this testminoy at the un june 2018 - the proble with fiacing the sdhs is the west 300 trillio dolars of most liquid assets isnt aloud to be dircted toards anything called sdg - and yes it was seeing how microfimnace in bangaldesh is done with more due diligence than any kind of westrn fiace which dat=red this former wall strre banker to pin this crisis down

[chris macrae]

full bio ying lowrey

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Ying Liu Lowrey

 

 

 

 

 

MAJOR ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS

• “The Financial Differentiations,” the paper claims that individual’s financing activity is an important component of “Free Enterprise and Free Competition.” Through market segmentations and the “Quantity Discrimination,” individual’s freedom for finance can be honored. Only in the internet/digital economy, financial differentiation can lead the financial market to the economic efficiency.
• The Alibaba Way: Unleashing Grassroots Entrepreneurship to Build the World’s Most Innovative Internet Company, The World Edition of English by McGraw Hill Educational Press. January 2016. The book is listed in THE GLOBAL BUSINESS THOUGHT LEADER SERIES. The book addresses the function of public goods & services by private Internet companies. These companies enable grassroots entrepreneurship and facilitate job creations in the society.
• “Business Creation is Job Creation: Estimating Entrepreneurial Jobs,” using several large databases in the US, the paper empirically demonstrates that in the process of creating businesses, entrepreneurs not only create jobs for others, but most importantly for their own. The paper estimates that only about 1/4 of new jobs go to “employed workers” and the rest 3/4 belong to “self-employed entrepreneurs.” The Wall Street Post, the Harvard Business Review and many other media across the USA cited the paper. The paper was presented at the 2011 American Economic Association Annual Conference in Denver.
• “An Examination of Entrepreneurial Effort,” a seminal theoretical paper presented at the 2006 American Economic Association Annual Conference in Boston. Using neo-classical economics framework, the paper explains: 1) why do entrepreneurs create businesses; 2) what the role of entrepreneurial effort is in the macroeconomy; 3) what the role of government is in the allocation of entrepreneurial efforts; and 4) what the role of “Initial Capital” is in the allocation of entrepreneurial efforts.
• “Business Density, Entrepreneurship and Economic Well-Being,” research paper presented at the 2005 American Economic Association Conference in Philadelphia. Using the US 50-states data, this paper is the only paper known relating business pervasiveness to people’s economic wellbeing. The paper estimates that increasing 1% of business density escalates personal income, household income and tax revenue by more than 1%. Especially, the test indicates the impact of women business ownership to be more robust in improving economic well-being.

 

MAJOR AWARDS/GRANTS

2006-2007 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Fellowship

Summer 2000 Asian Foundation Grant

1986-1990 Duke University Scholarship

1982-1986 Ford Foundation Fellowship

EDUCATION

1991 Ph.D. in Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC

Dissertation: Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending and Foreign Borrowing in an Open Economy: An Examination for Japan

1885-1987 1985 M.A. in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1976 B.S. in Mathematics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, P. R. China

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

03/2012-Present Professor of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University; Deputy Director of Tsinghua Research Center for Chinese Entrepreneurs

06/2015-Present Senior Economic Advisor and Member of Academic Committee of Alibaba Research Institute; Member of Academic Committee of Network Think Tank Academic Committee; Senior Researcher, Tsinghua Research Institute for Innovative Development.

09/2000-11/2011 Senior Economist, Office of Economic Research (OER), Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

12/2006-12/2007 Senior Research Scientist, the GW Center for the Study of Globalization, George Washington University.

08/1999-08/2000 Assistant Professor of Economics and Program Coordinator of Women & Power in International Leadership, the George Washington University

01/1998-07/1999 Visiting Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, the George Washington University

01/1992-11/1996 Instructional Professor, Department of Economics, San Diego State University

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. “The Evolution of New Retailing Business”, upcoming 2018, Sungkyun China Observe, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.
2. The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship, Translation of William Baumol’s book into Chinese, upcoming in 2018, by The Truth & Wisdom Press.
3. “Professor William Baumol’s Academic Legacy and the Revival of Economics of Innovation & Entrepreneurship,” http://m.culture.caixin.com/m/2017-05-13/101090566.html.

William Bowmore (1922-2017) American Economist

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Professor of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University

　　Professor William Baumol has systematically introduced the theory of economic growth based on innovation and entrepreneurship into the field of mainstream microeconomics: the first is his 1993 book Entrepreneurship (Translation and Publishing of Wuhan University Press) The second time is the "Growth of Capitalism Growth in 2002 - Free Market Innovation Machine" (translated and published by CITIC Publishing House); the third time is the microeconomic theory of innovation that my colleague and I translated together. (will be published by Gezhi Publishing House).

　　These unremitting efforts come from Baumol's regret for life, that is, innovative entrepreneurs are the protagonists of creating modern technology and civilization. Economics lacks a highly abstract mathematical analysis and rigorous analytical derivation. He often quotes the British saying "there is no Hamlet of the Danish prince" to describe the situation in which mainstream economic growth theory ignores research entrepreneurs.

1. “The Financial Differentiation,” Preface of The Financial View, the First Volume, 2017, Beijing: The Chinese Finance Press. http://www.dooland.com/magazine/article_921541.html.
2. Le modèle Alibaba, nuvis, Paris, 2016.
3. “Economic Estimate of Eradication of Poverty by E-Commerce,” in Eradication of Poverty by E-Business: The New Chinese Model of Development in Impoverished Area, 2016, Beijing: The Commercial Press.
4. The Alibaba Way: Unleashing Grassroots Entrepreneurship to Build the World’s Most Innovative Internet Company, The World Edition of English by McGraw Hill Educational Press. January 2016.
5. The Alibaba Model: Growing by Unleashing Grassroots Entrepreneurship, ANDBooks Publishing House, November, 2014.
6. “The Contribution of Small Business Ecosystem to Employment: a Literature Review”, in 2014 China Population Yearbook, the Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Social Sciences Press, September 2015，P. 303-321.
7. “The Alibaba Innovation,” in Anaemic Europe: How to Achieve Dynamism and Mass Flourishing, published by Springer International Publishing Company, 2015.
8. History of Small Business in America，Zhejiang University Press，2013.
9. “Alibaba Microfinancing Service Innovations and China's Financial Sector Transformation and Democratization,” XXV Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar, June, 2013, Rome, Italy.
10. “Economic Perspective: E-commerce Taxation Stimulates Innovations”， http://cpc.people.com.cn/pinglun/n/2013/0524/c78779-21601815.html, 2013-5-24 China Daily.
11. “Rapid Invention, Slow Industrialization, and the Absent Innovative Entrepreneur in Medieval China,” with William Baumol, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 157, No. 1, March 2013.
12. “A Survey of Micro Enterprises and Their Finance,” presented at the 2012 World Finance & Banking Symposium, December 2012, Shanghai.
13. “Developments in Women-owned Business, 1997-2007,” 2011 Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration, http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/rs385tot_0.pdf.
14. “Creative Destruction and Job Creation,” presented to the 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Conference organized by the International Council of Small Business.
15. “Business Creation is Job Creation: Estimating Entrepreneurial Jobs,” the 2011 American Economic Association Annual Meeting, http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2011conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid....
16. “Race/Ethnicity and Establishment Dynamics 2002-2006,” November 2010, Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration, http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs369tot.pdf.
17. “Gender and Establishment Dynamics, 2002-2006,” August 2010 Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration, http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs368tot.pdf.
18. “Preference for Exerting Entrepreneurial Effort: a Neoclassical Model and Computational Simulation,” presented at the 2010 Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics conference.
19. “Startup Business Characteristics and Dynamics: A Data Analysis of the Kauffman Firm Survey,” Office of Advocacy Working Paper, http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs350tot.pdf, August, 2009.
20. “Reflect on the Employment Difficulties of College Graduates,” in Unleashing Ideas and Enlightening China, ed. by Shanghai Entrepreneurship Foundation for College Graduates, CITIC Press, China, p. 229- 242.
21. “Entrepreneurial Activities: A Microeconomic Analysis,” 2008 American Economic Association Annual Meetings in New Orleans, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1158147 with Vincy Fon, Jan. 2008.

How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies? In this book, some of the world's leading economists tackle this difficult and understudied question, and their responses shed new light on how free-market economies work--and what policies most encourage their growth.

The contributors take as their starting point William J. Baumol's 2002 book The Free-Market Innovation Machine (Princeton), which argued that independent entrepreneurs are far more important to growth than economists have traditionally thought, and that an implicit partnership between such entrepreneurs and large corporations is critical to the success of market economies.

The contributors include the editors and Robert M. Solow, Kenneth J. Arrow, Michael M. Weinstein, Douglass C. North, Barry R. Weingast, Ying Lowrey, Nathan Rosenberg, Melissa A. Schilling, Corey Phelps, Sylvia Nasar, Boyan Jovanovic, Peter L. Rousseau, Edward N. Wolff, Deepak Somaya, David J. Teece, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Yochanan Shachmurove, Ralph E. Gomory, Jonathan Eaton, Samuel S. Kortum, Alan S. Blinder, Robert J. Shiller, Burton G. Malkiel, and Edmund S. Phelps.

Eytan Sheshinski is Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Public Finance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Robert J. Strom is Director of Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. William J. Baumol is Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at New York University, and Professor Emeritus and Senior Economist at Princeton University.

1. “Minority Entrepreneurship in the USA,” in International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Inderscience Publishers, Volume 1, Number 2 / 2007, p.176-221, http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=245&year....
2. “Minority Business Development Index: A Data Report on American Minority-Owned Business,” Social Science Research network, May 7, 2007, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=984907.
3. “Minorities in Business: A Demographic Review of Minority Business Ownership,” 2007 Office of Advocacy, U. S. Small Business Administration, http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs298tot.pdf.
4. “An Introduction to the Session Chaired by Ying Lowrey,” in Professor William Baumol’s conference publication on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Growth Mechanism of the Free-Market Economies, Princeton University Press. 2007, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8439.html.
5. “Women in Business: A Demographic Review of Women’s Business Ownership,” 2006 Office of Advocacy, U. S. Small Business Administration, http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs280tot.pdf.
6. “Gender Difference in the Revenue and Cost of Sole Proprietorships: Industry, Activity, Size and Location,” with Joanne Pratt, submitted to 2006 International Council for Small Business Conference.
7. “An Examination of Entrepreneurial Effort,” 2006 American Economic Association Annual Meetings in Boston, http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2006/0107_1430_0302.pdf.
8. “U.S. Sole Proprietorships: A Gender Comparison, 1985-2000,” U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy Working Paper, September 2005, http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs263tot.pdf.
9. “Dynamics of Minority-Owned Employer Establishments, 1997-2001,” SBA Publication, January 2005. http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs251tot.pdf.
10. “Business Density, Entrepreneurship and Economic Well-Being,” 2005 American Economic Association Meeting in Philadelphia, http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2005/0107_0800_0401.pdf.
11. “U.S. Sole Proprietorships: A Gender Comparison, 1985-2000,” SOI Bulletin, Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service, Spring, 2005, http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=140138,00.html. 3
12. “Business Density and Economic Well-Being in the 50 United States: An Empirical Examination,” presented at Chinese Economist Society June 2004 Conference in Beijing,
13. “Dynamics of Women-Operated Sole Proprietorship Businesses, 1990-1998,” SBA publication, March 2003, http://archive.sba.gov/advo/stats/rwosp_03.pdf.
14. “The Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship: A Neoclassical Approach,” presented at the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting, January 2003, Washington, DC. Office of Advocacy, SBA Working Paper, http://archive.sba.gov/advo/stats/wkp03yl.pdf.
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16. “Women in Business, 2001,” SBA Publication, October 2001, http://archive.sba.gov/advo/stats/wib01.pdf.
17. “Economic Globalization and Its Impact on Women’s Development,” presentation at Beijing National Government Senior Officials’ Summer Workshop organized by Chinese Federation of Women, July 2000.
18. “Deflation in China: Causes, Impacts and Policy Recommendations,” Development Research Center, State Council of China, with Dr. Guoqiang Long, January 2000.
19. “Unemployment Insurance in China: Contribution Rate, Benefit Structure, and Long Run Considerations – Perspectives from a Theoretical Framework and International Experiences,” Chengdu Conference of China’s State Own Enterprises Reform, with Dr. Jun Ma, July 1999.
20. “Unconditionally Renew China's Most Favored Nation Status: to Accelerate China's Reform, Open this Large Market and Protect American Business Interests in China -- A Perspective from a Group of Chinese Economists and Economics Students,” testimony, June 12, 1991, United States-P. R. China Trade Relations Page 4 of 4 Hearing before the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, Serial 102-38, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington: 1992.
21. “Foreign Capital Utilization in China: Its Achievements, Problems, and Further Reform of the Policy,” presented to and prepared for 1990 Institute, San Francisco, 1991.
22. “Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending and Foreign Borrowing in a Small Open Economy -- An Examination for Japan, 1885-1939,” presented at Western Economic Association International Conference, June 1990.
23. Foundation of Econometrics, April 1984, with other authors, Press of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
24. “The Saving-Investment-Distribution Model -- An Interim Report,” World Bank Working Paper, with Adrian Wood, July 29, 1983.
25. “Establishing an Energy-Base for Progressive and Ecologically Balanced System,” No. 35, December 1981, NENGYUAN ZHENGCE YANJIOU TONGXUN, Committee of Energy in China.
26. “Design and Application of an Econometric Model for Shanxi Investment in Energy-Base,” No. 3 and No. 4, 1981, JINGYANG XUEKAN, Economics Institute, Academy of Social Sciences of Shanxi Province.
27. “Theory and Application of Regional Input-Output Model,” GUIZHOU XUEKAN, Economics Institute, Academy of Social Sciences of Guizhou Province, with Zhang Shouyi, Summer 1981.
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[chris macrae]

we welocome connections with anyine who is active in wise because they wanted to undersrand livelihood education and the other innovatuons that sir fazle abed and brac gravitated as the firts laureate and alumni summit of iwse

here is a converstion we have been exploring with team leaders around the 6th wise laureate 

Dear Camille Foundation Ashesi (6th wise laureate network)

Probably the best news i have seen this century is just over 2 months ago jack ma of alibaba took 20% share in brac's fintech network which already has gates foundation multiplying its methods in africa

As you know for nearly 10 years now I wanted to make sure that brac and sir fazle abed kept well connected with the future of edutech fintech as well as real world girls adolescent clubs and every value chain we can transform round sme and thriving local communities everywhere goal 11 as well as 1 and 5 etc. I have also copied javeed mary and marta as the 3 people i spent most time with in qatar as we were all looking from different collaboration perspectives (marta i met at wise spain- she designs experiential learning for every child in barcelona international school, javeed a new york educator and technologist whose passion is the future of children in india and i interviewed a lot of the educationforall people who are a permanent hub at the UN for refugee learning, mary is the american who sits on chinese thinks tanks on the future of education as well as eg leading headstart partnership in brazil) though our common denominator is youth urgently need education to value their livelihoods and their only chance to be the sustainability generation

Fortunately we were able to reconnect with jack ma's main academic researcher who amy and i had meet at tsinghua university in beijing. She said she wanted a week tour of girl empowering dhaka so mostofa, brac's director of education dr islam and brac head office are now arranging that sept 30 to october 6 (asd you probably know brac also has a university- whilst its for profit it aims in key schools like the james grant school of public health to offer the curriculum public servants need to do the best job for the poorest)

my understanding is we welcome guests who want the same things for poorest and  girls especially as sir fazle - whether those guests come in person or submit a one pagers which we can get everyone to look at and relevantly follow up- i would still like to see the new university movement in afruca be one core of this and mostifa will renew contact with taddy blecher in s africa - jack ma' scouts through unctad are already filling up places of the first 500 alumni of his new global business coding school in Hangzhou - which is mainly scholarship based - whilst i know kenya and rwanda student streams form part of the recruitment i dont know about most countries though mostofa can probably find out more if you need to know, as i assume brac africa will do too

jack has said that education is the main problem - and from 2020 he will try and focus on it- he knows full well that commerce and finance can get to some markets but not to other ones like education health sports arts cultures and indeed every market that need community building youth and thriving local livelihoods

if you have questions please address particularly to mostofa if he can find out info on the chinese side- and if they need chinese tramslation amy can help too -the wise at beijing i attended was so far ahead on edutech that we still havent begun to help people who only speak english to catch up

thanks chris macrae washington dc whatsapp [phone]

The UN Goals are not THE GOALOn Monday, 19 March 2018, 11:36:44 GMT-4, Foundation <[e-mail]> wrote:

Hello Chris,

 

My apologies for the tardy response, and thank you for this exciting update!  BRAC truly is an inspiring organization, and Ashesi remains excited to join them in participating in Accra’s upcoming WISE summit.

13 institutions were represented at last year’s Education Collaborative, but unfortunately none were South African and Taddy Blecher’s was not among them.  This year, the organizers of the Collaborative hope to attract more international participants and make the event truly Pan-African.  The Ashesi University Foundation is located in the United States and is not involved with organizing the Education Collaborative; however, I will inquire about Taddy’s university during my next conversation with my colleagues in Ghana and suggest that he be invited to this year’s event.

 

 

Best,

Camille

 

Camille Smith

Program Assistant | Ashesi University Foundation

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• Muhammad Musa

  Executive Director

  BRAC

  Dr Muhammad Musa is the executive director of BRAC. He has an extensive background in leading humanitarian, social development, and public health organisations in international, cross-cultural settings. A medical doctor and public health specialist, he has a specialised training in maternal and child nutrition, and disaster management.

  Before joining BRAC, he worked for 32 years with CARE International as one of its senior international management professionals. Twenty of those years were spent working in Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, India, Bangladesh and Asia region.

  He has long experience in strategic leadership, governing board management, executive-level management of large-scale operations, and humanitarian and social development programme management. He specialises in people management, leadership development, conflict resolution, and organisational change management. He also has a proven track record in effective external relationship management, marketing, brand-building, communications, and fundraising for humanitarian and development projects. He has been successful in bringing about convergence of philanthropic approaches and entrepreneurial methodologies to create sustainable development programming that achieves impact on a large scale.

  In the professional field, Dr Musa has established a reputation for leading complex organisational change processes in multicultural settings. In addition, he is known for his unique ability to attract and develop young professionals into humanitarian and social development leaders. He is also an internationally recognised senior management trainer and an experienced coach.

[chris macrae]

• Muhammad Musa

  Executive Director

  BRAC

  Dr Muhammad Musa is the executive director of BRAC. He has an extensive background in leading humanitarian, social development, and public health organisations in international, cross-cultural settings. A medical doctor and public health specialist, he has a specialised training in maternal and child nutrition, and disaster management.

  Before joining BRAC, he worked for 32 years with CARE International as one of its senior international management professionals. Twenty of those years were spent working in Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, India, Bangladesh and Asia region.

  He has long experience in strategic leadership, governing board management, executive-level management of large-scale operations, and humanitarian and social development programme management. He specialises in people management, leadership development, conflict resolution, and organisational change management. He also has a proven track record in effective external relationship management, marketing, brand-building, communications, and fundraising for humanitarian and development projects. He has been successful in bringing about convergence of philanthropic approaches and entrepreneurial methodologies to create sustainable development programming that achieves impact on a large scale.

  In the professional field, Dr Musa has established a reputation for leading complex organisational change processes in multicultural settings. In addition, he is known for his unique ability to attract and develop young professionals into humanitarian and social development leaders. He is also an internationally recognised senior management trainer and an experienced coach.

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please help us edit these draft notes on jack ma interests

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MA0 Fintech for billion poorest? Fintech for sme ecommerce markets; ecommerce training with chinas major belt road partners – understand regoinal clusers sco, Asian infrastructure bank, belt road summit may 2019

MA1 Road to olympics- celebrating community participation markets that commerce alone cant reach BR1 Japan BRO Beijing BR5 Paris

MA2 By March 2019 UN report for Guterres with melinda gates on digital collaboration

MA3 Forming Alibaba global buisiness school includes training big data small coders from developing nations- main scout head of UNCTAD- but how do we help ma scout in countrues head of unctad doesnt know (eg round south asia)

MA4 15 billion dollar investment in worldwide DAMO acadey of IR4 technologies including AI- ones most impacting world to 2025 -keeping open rather than us race to patent-scouts include jerry yang- the world economic forum is a key partner in IR4 and its also related to how chinese government analyses lead tech sectors to 2025- ie china maps to be world tech leader by 2025

M4a nb mostofa attend varney summit where elearning was discussed for refugees- china is ahead on edutech in so many ways -eg instead of amazon alexis it is getting teacher assistants into classrooms- as jack says these know facts mre than teachers- this is why examining children on facts is retarding them from future 

M4b Jack is also on the un eminent committee and on grordon browns’ education commission – while the commission’s 30 national leaders nit officially connected with UN- brown is un envoy for education

MA5 Ying Lowrey also connects many partnerships within Tsinghua main public servant training university- gateway to beoijing startup hib linked with all supercities

MA6 Jack also chairs busininss men club of billionaires who want their market to sustain china- it is posible to go tjrough with yig rfeview every market futures purspoe maximise to poverty aleviation

MA7 Jack has said from olympics on he will focus on taking education as the main challenge- unless we take education outside classroom more than half of youith both unemployable and not aliogned to being the sustainability generation

Jack has many framgmeetd education charities- including those working in Taobao village education – also one of hius obscure foundations a sponsor of wise at Beijing

Also 0.3% of AliBaba revenues put into green fund

Most summers jack organizes a summit in Hangzhou where people like jim kim tirn up regulary – 2017 womens empowerkment – 2016 philanthopy or social business- in octiber world bank issue its main 2018 report - chosen theme livelihpoods

In 2017 China had 5 million startup- many were associated with the 3 main ecosystems Alibaba , tencent, baidu- all ecosystems expected to brief jinping -usually there is annual meeting at tsinghua where public servants meet tech and otthe business leaders

Jinping asked jack to host the china G20 hangzhou- jack spent lot of time with relevant citizen group – women youth sme green finance- these get reactivated when g20 host interested – germany wasnt- we assume franciscan argentina this november is; we assume japan is and part of road to Olympics and anyhow japan remains Alibaba founding investor

Canada has been one of the movers of g20 and trudea has parynered jack a lot – one freason why jack and truedeau demonstrate 3000 person one day taiming masterclass www.gateway17.com

 

MAY 2019 deadline update 100 nations collabortaion Belt Road 2 -China wished to understand which clusters of nations want to partner on which sustainability goals- jack is a leading svout of this- his big advantage is big data analusis applied to small enterprise and redesigning value chains- it would seem that ma, gates and brac are all watching for national partners in big data small -one of the lose ends is Nilekani billion person identity- we need help from tech experts to understand what Alibaba owns that can be key – eg in south asia it still owns the most common type of browser uses cheaper mobiles- in china jack’s fintech and ecommerce keeps ahead on g5 or most advance digital infrastructure- bkash is an interesting blend being targeted at mpt3 and 2?- please note we need to understand how the world’s greatest fintech experts at ant finance and bkash interface with all of jack ma’s and brac partners other interests

i hope it is clear that if someone like mark attends then many of the abpove issues multiply not just across brac and ma but across the UN- even if mark does not attend the issue of how does brac get into hilevel guterres netoirks is an urgent one

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