BRAC net, world youth community and Open Learning Campus
Sir Fazle Abed -top 70 alumni networks & 5 scots curious about hi-trust hi-tech
STARSteacher who's who valuing future of 2020s sdsg youth most
jargon watch - sdgs; jargon search - teachers universityofstars.com launched delhi 2004
please tell us of who is creating space to discuss this -back in 1984, The 2025 report explored the hypothesis that sustainability depended more on the connection of radical changes in technology with innovation by educators than any other skill set
2015, the 32nd year of the 2025 report appeared as then the most exciting for 360 degree transformation education , also the first years of the sdgs- the education commissionwas assembled by norway's president solberg, indonesia's president widodo, malawi's president mutharika, chile's then president bachelet, unesco's then director general bokova with overall chairmanship by scotland's gordon brown
as 2020 closes -my one ray of hope: two thirds of world who are asian now celebrate round education commission asia and then nov 2020 global leaders forum hosted by korea, keynote by gordon brown
00:37 and who as an academic and writer is recognized and admired for his innovative research and insights especially in HTHT: High-Tech High-Touch education, admired not just in this continent but in every continent --now this conference meets at the right time because we're indeed at an inflection point
01:10 and it has brought more economic havoc, disrupted more trade, killed off more jobs, led to more lost production, caused more company closures than has any modern recession
01:20 And it has not only undermined the cultural and social foundations of our lives but it is making us rethink the way we live, the way we work, the way we travel. the way we learn the way we study
- between individuals and communities
- between markets and states,
- between risk and security,
- between freedom and control; .
- between the very rich and the rest and of course between man and nature
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because the education they once enjoyed has been interrupted- many of whom may never return to school, or even if they do they may never catch up on their learning
04:08 you know at the height of the pandemic 1.6 billion children and young people- 90 percent of the world's pupils and students had their education disrupted-nearly a billion students are still shut out from schools today
06:01 and with families under extreme financial pressure millions of boys and girls may soon join the 152 million children already forced into child labour
06:11 and many girls will join the 12 million girls a year who are forced into becoming child brides
06.21 with one estimate suggesting this illiteracy could lose us as a society as much as 10 Trillion dollars per year in future earnings we are standing by doing too little as havoc is reaped by one of the biggest forces accelerating inequality in our generation
06:35 quality education is vital to lift people out of poverty; to ensure healthier families advance racial and gender equality, unlock job opportunities increase security
06:45 and create a more just peaceful and sustainable world- and girls education is a proven link to lowering fertility rates and reducing population growth which itself is one of the key drivers of climate change
06:56 education especially of girls leads to better health- a child whose mother can read is
· fifty percent more likely to live past the age of five
· fifty percent more likely to be immunized twice as likely to attend school
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and so this is why we must come together as a global community and save the future of our children in response to this crisis
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the education commission in partnership with an unprecedented global coalition of international organizations launched save our future to call for urgent investigation in education to prevent what we call the generational catastrophe
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three actions are urgently needed
· first we must reopen schools but make sure they are safe schools
· second we must prevent what the world bank and unesco estimate could be a funding gap of 200 billions in education budgets in the next year as countries reallocate resources to health and social welfare and
· third to use available resources to greatest effect we must be innovative
by creating the international finance facility for education securing 500 million of grants and government guarantees that could unlock two billion dollars of educational investment to be made through the asian development bank and other development banks
08:13 and i urge the korean government to join as a funding donor of the development banks and we must use this crisis as an opportunity to transform education
8.25 you see if you think of the monumental changes we have seen in the way we organize our factories, our homes, our hospitals and our travel,
08:30 and then think of how little education has changed with until recently so little online and how little the school itself has changed from the setting of world classrooms with the teacher as the sage on the stage and the pupils sitting in rows of desks
08:44 think of the educational revolution we need as we meet the demand for ever-changing skills: continuous learning and try to harness technology to support those most left behind
08:55 a study published just last year revealed how disparities in learning achievements have not diminished over the last 50 years; the most disadvantaged still perform at levels that are three to four years behind the most affluent and we must change this
09:09 online learning became a necessity almost overnight but yet close to half of the world's pupils and students don't have access to the internet
09:17 across the world more than 460 million- almost one third of school-aged children had not been reached by remote learning at all -so this could be the moment for us to transform education, to create individualized adaptive learning which meets children where they are with personalized learning, at scale for every student not just the lucky few
09:39 https://educationcommission.org/about/commission-leadership/
this is why the education commission and its hub in asia under the leadership of korea’s ju-ho lee are spearheading the high tech high touch for all initiative: combining the power of human touch and interaction from teachers with the power of adaptive learning and technology such as artificial intelligence. the high-tech refers to an adaptive technology that can help deliver personalized learning. it identifies prior knowledge and tailors instruction to diverse learning
needs allowing students to be stimulated and nurtured as they progress at their own pace. this can also be done initially in low-tech ways but artificial intelligence can allow us to track a child's
experience with software informed data and gear every child's learning to their aptitude is one way forward. the high touch element is the indispensable human connection provided by teachers. with the use of high tech teachers, can give more personalized guidance.no longer just the lecturer who's the sage on the stage but also the tutor and mentor who is the guide by the side.
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with approaching two thirds of the world's youth asian hubs were also led by korea's Ju-Hu Lee, and jack ma and japan's koike and india's Kailash Satyarthi and uae's Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi and Baela Raza Jamil from pakistan as well as the support of korean-american and then world bank leader jim kim
further support for africa came from tanzania's then president Jakaya Kikwete, tunisia's then minister of tourism Amel Karboul, nigerian billionnaire dangote, zimbabwe's london based billionate technologist and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa, south africa's machel, ghanian- brit Theo Sowa,nigeria's and vaccine ngo gavi's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, uganda's teacher union's Teopista Birungi Mayanja,
for america south: mexico's former president Felipe Calderón, colombian superstar Shakira Mebarak, Fundacion Chile's Patricio Meller and for america north came from former unicef director general anthony lake , economist larry summers, philosopher sen, harvard edx edutech's argawal,liesbet steer
for europe from former eu supremo portugal's baroso, former denmark president and save the children's Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former norwegian minister of education clernet
for australia, former prime minister gillard
in this 38th year of linking action to 1984's 2025 report we search for nominations of people whose contributions will be as important to youth if their solutions are scaled
In this year’s edition of the Yidan Prize Summit -edu foundation of china's largest digital space inventor of wechat/whatsap-, held virtually in Hong Kong dec 2020, 16 academics have been named to the Council of Luminaries.
They are
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder, BRAC (posthumous); bangladesh and world's largest ngo partnership
Anant Agarwal, CEO and Founder, edX and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Kamal Ahmad, Founder, Asian University for Women;
Vicky Colbert, Founder and Executive Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva;
Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University;
Usha Goswami, Director, Center for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge;
Eric Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow and Professor, Stanford University and Hoover Institution;
Larry Hedges, Chairman, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University.
Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University;
Salman Khan, Founder and CEO, Khan Academy;
Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All;
Patricia Kuhl, Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Co-Director, University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences;
Lucy Lake, CEO, CAMFED; Angeline Murimirwa, Executive Director-Africa, CAMFED;
Carl Wieman, DRC Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Physics and of Education, Stanford University;
Zhu Yong-xin, Founder, New Education Experiment.
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some early nominations
botstein - as early as 1990s botstein -author jeffersons children- was arguing for a revolution in bridge between high school and college- in particular the end of education designed as a linear age process rather than everyone's potential as lifelong learner and coach- as well as his concern for changinn teen education, as a musician he had designed a new york ihilharmonic, and he had become the youngest ever vice chancelolr starting before the age of 25 at bard college an institution he has networked for over 40 years as a bencmark for 21st c liberal arts
learning curve journey - 2009 2010
of course with a vision like botstein its fascinating to see who he has chosen as equally concerned for new education- i dont yet know who is top 10 are but i see they include
soros central european university and open society and new economics networks
president crow - arizona state has the highest raking of all universities in goal 1 end poverty -and frees youth to explore radical opportunities of tech for sdgs
patrick awuah who founded ashesi university in ghana as a graduate thesis ar berkeley about 17 years ago because he believed in a platform debating future of education on a continent expecting to double population from one billion to 2 billion- and his career at microsoft had impressed on him that tech would change every element of how education spends african peoples time
there are up to 50 education institutes soros and botstein are linkinng in - sometimes asking of an institute who is its most innovative futurist isnt easy but its a qiestion 2025 associates have been surveying since 1984 wherever that freedom of debate is permitted
anothervradical network is schwarzman - there it is clear who signed up from mit, tsingus, oxford to valuing global scolars in a way never done before but since two of the three coleges are only just opening their schwarman branch i dontwant to prejudge who they chooseas coordinator of practicing education collaboration /exploration of ai's 2020s
there are countries that already valuechildren very differently - singapore, several nordica nations clearly so as do those places who dare to join jack ma's hunt at the united nations- back in 2016 30 nations education leaders started this debate but its not yet ready to publish its league tables becuae all 6 primary sdgs need to be interfaced not education as separate from g=finance hunger health , lives matter, infrastructures
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survey who is bridging the futures of the most human educators and the most human ai connectors - i like fei-fei li but i dont know which club of world class educators welcomes her connections
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This year’s Yidan Prize Awards Presentation Ceremony and Summit was successfully held virtually on 7 December. Our three laureates, Professor Carl Wieman, Ms Lucy Lake and Ms Angeline Murimirwa, received their awards from the officiating guest, The Honourable Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, GBM, GBS, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. We were delighted to have our Board Director, HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, and former Australian Prime Minister, Ms Julia Gillard as our keynote speakers at the Summit. We also announced the formation of the Yidan Council of Luminaries – a transformational force and support closer collaboration among the world’s most distinguished educational leaders, to amplify their collective voice and take practical action in educational policy and reform.11:34
dr charles chen yidan
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dr chen :the honorable chief executive of hong kong .royal highness princess laurentien of the netherlands the honourable miss julia gillard
it's my great pleasure to welcome you; this is an unusual year which has seen over 90
of the world's students affected by school closures due to the pandemic
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students teachers and parents are all coming to terms with a different
form of teaching and learning- no one could have predicted education systems globally we've faced sustained disruption of this scale
people are feeling anxious because no one can be sure what lies ahead
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the worsening inequality must be adjusted and we will have to find solutions
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While some of these students have seen able to switch on their laptops and walk to virtual classrooms with relative ease that experience is a far from universal
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only half of the world's children have access to the internet; it's
15.02 my greatest hope is that this crisis has given us time for self-reflection on what we have
Learned about education and how we can ensure it's fairly distributed in the future
faced with the challenges we must work together if we are going to create a better education
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we must collaborate education experts across all fields must come together to share their ideas top quality research must drive real life learning which in turn can give us the
basis for more education research that is why the yidan price foundation has a call
for international experts to work together and build a better world through education
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the world bank recently launched a global education evidence advisory panel leaders are looking to understand not only what is effective in getting more children into school but also how to improve learning outcomes once they are there; given the scale of the challenge, resources
need to be directed to the most cost effective and impactful approaches now only
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the yidan price foundation joined the unesco global education coalition earlier this
year with a commitment to strengthen learning systems we are partnering with
OECD to empower teachers and student,s we believe the rules of students and teachers will
Change ,we believe schooling and learning will take a new form in the future
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innovation and inspiration we are actively taking many new steps
because we care very deeply about our future generation-it will be the choices they make that
determine their future ;we are here to offer them the right tools to bring on this journey
of discovery and exploration; we are also offering inspiring stories of passionate actors
on this international platform their work has brought about hugely positive changes
to communities all around the world they have made transformation possible in innovative sustainable ways
our independent judging committee has selected a new batch of highly impressive educators
who have transformed the way science is taught in major universities and how
girls and young women are educated in africa
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professor carl wyman professor of physics and graduate school of education and drc chair at Stanford university was awarded the 2020 yidan prize for education research his work prepares the next generation of students to make sound decisions based on scientific measures he created tools to encourage active learning the physics education technology - this
has delivered more than 700 million simulations in languages in physics chemistry math earth science and biology professor wyman we thank you for making this possible-go to minute 30
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miss lucy lake chief executive officer and miss angeline
marimo executive director of africa of the campaign
for female education or camfed for short -were awarded the prize for providing a
scalable approach to recognize the untapped potential of education young women to drive
change across Africa their programs have a chance for four million lives thus far
it's most interesting to know that angie
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was among the first girls to benefit from camfed program some 27 years ago – go to minute 41 of video for more on camfed
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quiz if you are touring asia where to stop off fist to see education transformation city by city
-nominations welcome chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
hong kong - yidan prze hub
korea - eg
Mr Ki-Sang Song
Professor of Korea National University of Education, Dean of Graduate School of Korea National University of Education
My name is Ki-Sang Song, and I am a Professor of Computer Education of Korea National University of Education, and the director of the Global Education Cooperation Center at the Korea National University of Education (KNUE).
I served as an international consultant for enlarging the education opportunities and improving education system through information technologies with the cooperation of World Bank, IDB, KOICA, IACE, and KEFA. I directed international teacher training programs in several countries including 11 years in Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Paraguay, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar.
My research concentrates on the area of ICT application in education and Learning Science. Currently I am doing research on the development of Intelligent Tutoring System using Machine Learning for software education. Also, I am directing the in-service teachers training program for empowering AI teaching competencies at KNUE.
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260 years of failing adam smiths recommendations on era of humans and machines suggest 2020s really may be the last decade for choice between
- spiralling towards sustaiability or
- death of our species
those who know a lot about human and machine intel - see the membership at www.futureoflife.org say that technology has reached the stage where all life could thrive like never before of self-destruct
firstly that means the 2020s are the most exciting time to be alive - what a shared responsibility across generation: youth, parents and grandparents to trust in each others actions and learnings
secondly there is a mathematical construct which makes understanding exponential opportunities and threats to our future real and in this case urgent
by definition : system = connected relationships all of which are spiraling one of two opposite waus: sustainably up or collapsing down until the system is lifeless- the trajectory of spirally involves exponential acceleration- this the opposite of linear though exponential curves are tricky- often they look flat or linear until they pass a tipping point - after that sage it will be far more costly to turn round than the extra costs caring for the system in the first place
- the operand of systems is multiplicative - this has strange consequences : if two systems spiralling in the same direct multiply the exponential gets much steeper; sadly there are many multiplier of cliate going the wrong way- climate risk is vastly under-estimated by most linear minded scientists
when a negative spiral connects with a positive one it is usually the case that the negative one takes over- this is bit like the problem the body has with healthy and cancerous cells; usually the cancerius cells take over
here are the 4 most critical stories adam smith wrote about- admittedly we apply the lens of what its like to be trapped as some other country's colony or sponsored dictatorship
1 like newton and true maths/systems people, smith respected natures systems -in particular health, green, cultures and languagesin this he admired scottish missionaries who adapted the code of franciscans- wherever women network abroad they bring maternal and infant health care - i met the vatican lawyer who is still responsible for funding the clares which is the network name of female followers of franciswherever franciscan men networked or marco polo mapped abroad they should value nature - anthropological skills help- when you meet a new culture or language you learn how to behave within its codes not just word of mouth itthere was a good reason for this system respect - the black death -island nations were the must vulnerable to pandemics brought in by seafarers- the main connectivity of the day- oddly though the french like to claim they ended the extreme greed of euro-kings first- the black death redesigned london in time to be the largest warfaring capital of the imperial era- so that the king and his west end were indebt to the city's merchant bankers- it was a pity the pound was always a currency designed to benefit the biggest not to serve all peoples- its global rise becae ever leess secure from silver to gold to the queens promise on a bit of paper abused by rival political parties the less they served lives matters peoples- how the bbc failed to be the publics servant is where any transparency in english speaking media died- i have known the attenboroughs intermittently for 60 years so unless i can find a gandhian to write to them or unless muscatelli personally invites them i very much doubt they will turn up on nov 6- of course delighted to be proved wrong2 in the 1750s moral sentiments said the exact opposite of all man made markets are free-smith defined a transparent market like a community market where enough of all the buyers, sellers, suppliers knew the costs, the quality, the safety so that the invisible hand multiplying purposeful goodwill sustained rising not collapsing impacts by and for the peoples of the community- smith had an urgent motivation to talk of moral intel/sentiments - scotland became a coly of england/london's slavemakers etc in the 1700s- it was already evident that london was quarterly sucking out of scottish communities -by the 1800s it was called thinning- and thats why we are mainly a worldwide diaspora nation - what had previously sustained them- ok scotland does not have the same agricultural climate of england- no large farms3 can you imagine just having written moral sentiments when the professor in the class next to you shows you the first steam engine- abed learnt a lot from being in 200th class of humans and machinessmith spent the rest of his life writing why the age of man and machines should not be marketed by londons slavemakers and colonisers of the old world; he is very explicit scotland and ireland should join in the united states of english speaking world to the west but on one condition- not just law repealing slavery- everywhere down the west coast of usa up the louisana purchase across the west that man introduced machines those operating a business mode where lives were not valued should be bought out at a fair price4 actually smith as soon as he saw machines meant most of his 1760s tutoring a wealthy family's son through oxford university as well as a few visits to scots old entrepreneurial ally the frenchthere he wrote the famous paper on how empire's higher edu system had nothing to do with valuing innovations youth needed to sustain- fortunately the irish-scottish female vice chancellor of oxford promised schwarzman she understood this when he asked if oxford would like half a billion to mediate the ethical fusion of tech wizards at mit boston and tsinghua beijing- tsinghua is a very respectful place in cultivating students -i have done 8 walking tours of the campus -much happier to be an engineer at than oxbridge both of which i know well - tsinghua was founded by money from roosevelt- the roosevelt family are the closest partner to bard and soros living about half way between their homessadly for our species the way we code data is on an even faster exponential than climate so somehow we need to animate humans artificial intel as well as climate arguments as well as free kids to explore moon races on earth not be examined by old lawyers rulesthe interesting thing if we go back to bottom up moral sentiments is both aged and soros demand its practice wherever people truly follow open society and seek to remedy the great failings of the last 20 years:not applying ai to viruses first even though people as different as bush gates soros kim abed brilliant were calling for that in 2005not refinancing the opposite of subprime which is what digital cash could do as abed's team facilitated at the 2nd japanese embassy in dhaka event in memory of my fatherthe most exciting briefing i have ever witnessed - remembrance party to dad where sir fazle chaired debate on the new sdg university coalition- actually every ambassador who spoke to abed since 2011 will confirm coalition university and so total change of edu systems was his favorite story of 2010s just as starting up brac university was his idea of the 2000s- as you well know abed never spent money granted for one purpose on another - so the university had to find its own funds- but since it began as the epicentre of tbe virus last mile health workers and worlds number 1 in end cholera/diarrhea its seed was the same as stanford founded after the 5th governor of california's teen son died of virus while traveling - the same story befell john bard founder of bard; the story of being a single parent of a 7 year old girl and a son whose birth killed mrs abed is ultimately the reason why i really dot want to meet anyone in scotland who hasnt heard this tales on the roads to and from glasgow cop24when bush and blair went to war against saddam they did the two most evil things i have seen westerners do in my lifetime:they lied about why attack husseinthey didnt have a culturally renewable planthe cost is border chaos all across europe from brexit to the lost of soros and neumann's home country as a tolerant place that grows the greatest statistical minds to the chaos of failed nation in africa and south west asia- ever more terrorit was bangladesh's great good fortune that their teen went to glasgow to study engineering unlike gandhi who about three quarters of a century wen to the bar of london studying law and spent most of his last 25 years debating english constitution with my grandfather sir kenneth kemp who wrote up india's independence on a type writer in london at end of ww2 under the assumption that the whole of the british raj was being launched as one nation not the messiest scenario of all - making bangladesh a colony of west pakistan
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"First, the development of online education contributes to the promotion of fairer and better-quality education," Bai said that at the beginning of the year, the COVID-19 outbreak left more than 1.4 billion students and youths around the world facing the interruption of education. As a response, TAL Education Group quickly launched online public welfare free classes, sending the whole subject and a large number of quality-oriented education courses to thousands of households through online live broadcast technology, with more than 60 million daily hits on the live stream lessons.
Meanwhile, TAL Education Group also completed the free deployment of the live broadcast teaching system for 595 public schools, benefiting more than 30,000 teachers, he added.
A research of the Education Research Institute of TAL Education Group and the Beijing Normal University has showed that online education could make up for the scarcity of educational resources in underdeveloped areas and effectively promote educational fairness, said the chairman.
He added that through the cooperation with China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation and the "Xiwang.com" platform for public welfare educational resources, TAL Education Group has delivered teaching resources to remote mountainous areas in the scarcity of educational resources.
"At present, 40 counties and districts in 18 provinces have been covered, benefiting more than 100,000 teachers and students."
In Sichuan Province's Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, TAL Education Group customized Yi-Mandarin bilingual learning module for preschool children, said Bai. "It integrates speech recognition, semantic evaluation and other technologies and loved by children."
He added that United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) awarded the Certificate for the 2020 Demonstration Project on AI and Inclusive Innovation to the Project, recognizing the contribution of the project to the protection of minority languages and the promotion of fairness and inclusion.
Also on Monday, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education Stefania Giannini signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Wan Yiting, Executive President of TAL Education Group. The two parties will establish Internet and AI-based online study systems that are capable of withstanding crises on a global scale.
"Second, the development of AI is promoting the educational reform and innovation, with the future prospect turning up," Bai saidan Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) Secretariat Thailand
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Co-organizers CHINA MIN ED UNESCO CHINA UNESCO Supporters BEIJING NORMAL UNESCO EDTECH INTL BUREAU OF EDU Financial Supporters TAL WDECLOUDWeidong is continuously ranked as China's Unicorn Enterprise
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On July 28, the "2020 China High-growth Enterprise Development Forum& China Unicorn Enterprise Research Report Release Conference" was held in Tianjin, and Weidong Cloud Education Group was once again selected as the "Chinese Unicorn Enterprise".
Photo: Weidong Cloud Education was selected as the "2019 China Unicorn Enterprises" list
Global Education Layout of "One Body and Two Wings"
Innovation is the soul of a nation’s progress, and education is the cornerstone of social progress. Everyone has the right to equitably enjoy education, and "sharing educational resources and inheriting human civilization" is the unique corporate sentiment of Weidong Cloud Education. Since its inception, Weidong Cloud Education has been advancing towards its position as a “Global Internet Education Platform Operator”, and strives to build a lifelong education ecosystem that benefits the world by creating a global education layout of “one body and two wings”.
At present, Weidong Cloud Education relies on its unique position in the field of international Internet education, using domestic high-quality education platform applications as the "main body" to build an open PaaS cloud platform. With the "Europe and America + Asia and Africa" dual route pattern as the "two wings" to comprehensively promote the internationalization strategy.
In China, on the one hand, Weidong Cloud Education strives to build a middleground education field that meets the national conditions. With the help of international resource advantages, the coordinated development at home and abroad provides the country with high-end talents and a large number of employment opportunities. Business cover 24 provinces and 169 cities in urban areas and counties. On the other hand, Weidong Cloud Education will make full use of Qingdao International Vocational Education City built by the group to build an "Artificial Intelligence + Internet Education + Education Equipment Manufacturing" 100 billion-level industrial cluster, and strive to build a vocational education innovation development demonstration zone and vocational education institution gathering area, industry-education integration pioneer area, and "Belt and Road" international vocational education platform.
In the direction of Europe and the United States, Weidong Cloud Education gives priority to the output of education content, provides training services for the world's top 500 enterprises through the acquisition of demos, the second largest vocational education and training group in Europe. It also provides high-quality resources for the development of domestic higher education through the acquisition of Brest business school in France. In the direction of Asia and Africa, Weidong Cloud Education prioritizes the layout of the education market. Through cooperation with the UNESCO ICHEI, it has successively deployed “Weidong Smart Classroom” in Pakistan, Cambodia, Egypt, Djibouti and other countries along the “Belt and Road” to provide local universities with smart teaching tools and distance learning platforms. Through cooperation with the UNESCO IITE, both sides will jointly promote the construction of "Future Schools" in six countries: Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Unique advantages in international society resources
Weidong Cloud Education has a strong international social resource advantage. It has signed strategic cooperation with UNESCO and Shanghai Cooperation Organization respectively, and has extensive cooperation with relevant member countries in the fields of education, culture, science and technology. In March 2020, as the only Chinese internet education company, Weidong has co-sponsored the establishment of the "Global Education Alliance" with international leading companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Zoom, etc., to provide internet education platform services to countries around the world and improve education gaps between countries and regions to build a global lifelong education ecology.
SPEAKERS Ms Stefania Giannini Assistant Director-General for Education UNESCO H.E. Mr Agapito Mba Mokuy Chairperson of the Executive Board UNESCO Mr Firmin Matoko Assistant Director-general, Africa Department UNESCO Ms Gabriela Ramos Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences UNESCO H.E. Mr CHEN Baosheng Minister of Education People’s Republic of China Mr Chen Qun Vice Mayor of Shanghai Municipal People's Government China Ms Simona Kustec Minister of Education, Science and Sport Slovenia Mr Saaid Amzazi Minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research Morocco Mr Hussein bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi Minister of Education The United Arab Emirates H.E Dr. Ibrahim Bin Saleh Al-Naimi Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Qatar H.E. Mr Gabriel Changson Chang Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology South Sudan H.E. Mr TIAN Xuejun Vice Minister of Education Chairperson of Chinese National Commission for UNESCO People’s Republic of China H.E. Mr ZHENG Fuzhi Vice Minister of Education People’s Republic of China Mr Dong Qi President of Beijing Normal University China Mr Vincent Adul Ministry of ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs Kenya H.E. Dr. Engineer Getahun Mekuria Minister of Education Ethiopia Ms Ivana Franić State Secretary, Ministry of Science and Education Croatia H.E. Mr Sann Vathana Under Secretary of State Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport Cambodia Mr Yang Jin Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the People's Republic of China to UNESCO H.E. Mr Nasser Al-Aqeeli Deputy Minister for research and innovation, Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Mr LEI Chaozi Director-General, Department for Science and Technology Ministry of Education China Mr Anass Bennani Director of Cooperation and Partnership at the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research. Morocco Mr QIN Changwei Secretary General, National Commission of China for UNESCO Mr N'golo Soro Secretary-General National Commission of Cote d’Ivoire for UNESCO Cote d’Ivoire Mr Bai Yunfeng Co-Founder, Chairman of Board of Directors and President TAL Education Group Mr Sobhi Tawil Director, Future of Learning and Innovation UNESCO Mr DU Yue Director, Priority Africa Coordination Division UNESCO Mr Yao Ydo Director, a.i. UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE-UNESCO) Ms Inge Molenaar Assistant professor Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University Netherlands Ms Juliet Waters Chief Knowledge Officer Kids Code Jeunesse Mr Wayne Holmes Former Principal Researcher (Education) Nesta United Kingdom Mr John Shawe-Taylor Professor of Computational Statistics and Machine Learning University College London United Kingdom Mr ZHAN Tao Director Institute for Information Technologies in Education, UNESCO Mr MIAO Fengchun Chief, Unit for Technology and AI in Education UNESCO Mr HUANG Ronghuai Co-Dean Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University China Ms Trine Jensen Technology and Higher Education International Association of Universities (IAU) Mr Isak Froumin Director, Institute of Education National Research University, Higher School of Economics Russia Ms Bridget Bannerman Multidisciplinary research scientist and a Director of Studies in Chemistry Cavendish College, University of Cambridge Sierra Leone Mr Marco Antonio Martínez Pérez Kumoontun Mexico Mr Abdoulaye Ibrahim Chief, Contextual Analysis and Foresight Unit, Priority Africa and External Relations Sector UNESCO Mr Renato Opertti Senior Curriculum Specialist IBE-UNESCO Mr Philippe Jonnaert BACSE International – Bureau d’appui curriculaire aux systèmes éducatifs Canada Mr Aliou Sow Education / Textbooks specialist Guinea Ms Mariana Montaldo Plan Ceibal Uruguay Mr Venkataraman Balaji Vice President Commonwealth of Learning Mr Jeremy Roschelle Executive Director, Learning Sciences Digital Promise USA Mr Chen Yunlong Vice Director National Institute for Curriculum and Textbook Research, Ministry of Education China Ms Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji Social Entrepreneur in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Education Nigeria Ms Raïssa Malu Director Investing in People D.R. Congo Mr Emiliano Pereiro Plan Ceibal Uruguay Mr Yunhuo Cui Professor, Institute of Curriculum and Instruction East China Normal University China Mr Luis Junqueira Co-founder Letrus Brazil Mr LIN Yifu Honorary Dean, National School of Development Peking University China Ms JIANG Xiaojuan Dean, School of Public Policy and Management Tsinghua University China Mr ZHU Yongxin Vice President, the Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy Mr GONG Ke Executive Director, Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies (President of World Federation of Engineering Organizations） Mr LIU Changya Director General, Department of Development and Planning Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China China Mr REN Youqun Director General, Department of Teacher Education Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China China Mr LIU Yuhui Director General Beijing Municipal Education Commission China Mr LIU Qingfeng Chairman and President iFLYTEK China Mr CHEN Feng Director General National Center for Schooling Development Programme Mr YANG Zongkai President XIDIAN University China Mr YANG Xinbin President SHENZHEN Polytechnic China Mr LI Xiaohui Principal The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University Ms LU Yongli Principal Beijing No.2 Experimental Primary School Ms LI Zhisheng Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Education Beijing Normal University Mr Philippe Durance Senior Consultant, Priority Africa and External Relations Sector, UNESCO, and Professor and Chair of Foresight and Sustainable Development, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) France Mr Hicham El Habti President Mohammed VI Polytechnic University Morocco Mr Oluwatoyin Ogundipe Vice Chancellor University of Lagos Nigeria Ms Marie Luce Akossiwoa Quashie Mensah Attoh, General Secretary University of Lomé Togo Mr LI Ming Director-General UNESCO International Centre for Higher Education Innovation (ICHEI) Mr Diego Golombek Executive Director The National Institute of Technological Education (INET) Argentina Ms Phyllis Kandie Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the Republic of Kenya to UNESCO and Chairperson of the Africa Group Mr Ignace Gatare Principal of the College of Science and Technology University of Rwanda Rwanda Ms Dorothy Gordon Chair of the Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme UNESCO Mr Ki-Sang Song Professor of Korea National University of Education, Dean of Graduate School of Korea National University of Education Mr Wang Duanrui Chairman Weidong Cloud Education Group China Mr Ivan Karlov Head of the Laboratory for Digital Transformation of Education Russia Ms Iaroslava Kharkova Associate Project Officer, Unit for Technology and AI in Education UNESCO Ms Michela Pagano Associate Project Officer, Unit for Technology and AI in Education UNESCO Ms Maïmouna Sissoko-Touré Program specialist Institut de la Francophonie pour l’éducation et la formation Sénégal Ms Ethel Agnes Pascua-Valenzuela Director Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) Secretariat Thailand
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panel 1 H.E. Mr TIAN Xuejun
Vice Minister of Education, Chairperson of Chinese National Commission for UNESCO
People’s Republic of China
His Excellency Mr Tian Xuejun was appointed as Vice Minister of Education at 2017. He is also the Member of CPC Leading Group of Ministry of Education, Chairman of National Language Commission, Chairperson of Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, and Secretary of CPC Committee of Ministry of Education He hold double Bachelor Degrees from Shandong University and China Foreign Affairs University.
He has very rich diplomatic experiences. He has served as diplomatic officers of the Embassies of the People's Republic of China to Kuwait and Republic of Bangladesh. He was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Hellenic Republic and served as Director General of the Department of Personnel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. Before he was appointed as Vice Minister of Education, he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to South Africa.
Mr Bai Yunfeng
Co-Founder, Chairman of Board of Directors and President
TAL Education Group
Bai Yunfeng is the Co-Founder,Chairman of Board of Directors and President of TAL Education Group. In 2003, graduating from Beihang University, Mr. Bai started to blaze the trail for TAL with his partners. In 2010, TAL was listed in the main board of New York Stock Exchange, making his team the youngest one ever to ring the bell at NYSE. In 2010-2012, he studied for EMBA at China Europe International Business School. From 2017, he began to study for his doctorate at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. Equipped with ample experience in strategic management, R&D of teaching and faculty training, Mr. Bai Yunfeng has a keen eye to observe and analyze the industry. He has received the honor of “New Champion of Education” by China’s New Champions Forum for 3 consecutive years. In December 2018, Mr. Bai became one of the first 40 “Zhongguancun Innovative Partners” in creating a new era in Beijing.Mr
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Shawe-Taylor
Professor of Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
University College London
United Kingdom
John Shawe-Taylor is professor of Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College London and Director of the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) under the auspices of UNESCO at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia. He has helped to drive a fundamental rebirth in the field of machine learning, with applications in novel domains including computer vision, document classification, and applications in biology and medicine focussed on brain scan, immunity and proteome analysis. He has published over 250 papers and two books that have attracted over 70000 citations.
He has assembled a series of influential European Networks of Excellence. The scientific coordination of these projects has influenced a generation of researchers and promoted the widespread uptake of machine learning in both science and industry that we are currently witnessing. More recently he coordinated the X5gon (x5gon.org) European project developing infrastructure and portals for AI enhanced delivery of educational materials.
He was appointed UNESCO Chair of Artificial Intelligence in November 2018 and is the leading trustee of the UK Charity, Knowledge 4 All Foundation, championing the cause of open education and also helping to establish a network of AI researchers and practitioners in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ms Stefania Giannini
Assistant Director-General for Education UNESCO
Ms Stefania Giannini was appointed UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education in May 2018, becoming the top UN official in the field. In this position, she provides strategic vision and leadership for UNESCO in coordinating and monitoring the implementation of the Education 2030 Agenda, encapsulated in Sustainable Development Goal 4.
With an academic background in the Humanities, Ms Giannini has served as Rector of the University for Foreigners of Perugia (2004 – 2012), being one of the first and youngest women to hold this position in Italy. As Senator of the Republic of Italy (2013 – 2018) and Minister of Education, Universities and Research (2014 – 2016), she developed and implemented a structural reform of the Italian education system, centred on social inclusion and cultural awareness. She has also been closely involved in an advisory capacity with the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation.
H.E. Mr Agapito Mba Mokuy
Chairperson of the Executive Board
UNESCO
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H.E. Mr CHEN Baosheng Minister of Education
People’s Republic of China
His Excellency Mr Chen Baosheng was appointed as the Party Secretary and Minister of Education, Ministry of Education, China in 2016. He was elected as the Candidate Member of the 17th CPC Central Committee Member of the 18th and the 19th CPC Central Committee.
He holds a Bachelor Degree from Beijing University, and Master Degree in Politics. Before being appointed as Minister, he was the Vice President of the Central Communist Party College. He has very rich experiences of working at local governments especially in the under-developed region. He served as Member of Standing Committee of the CPC Gansu Provincial Committee, Lanzhou Party Secretary, Director General of Standing Committee of Municipal People’s Congress, and Chairman of Provincial Union of Social Sciences circles. And had served as directors in varied local governmental agencies in Gansu Province.
H.E. Mr ZHENG Fuzhi
Vice Minister of Education People’s Republic of China
His Excellency Mr Zheng Fuzhi was appointed as Vice Minister of Education at 2019. He is alsod a Member of CPC Leading Group of Ministry of Education and the National Chief Inspector of Ministry of Education.
He holds a Bachelor of Planning and Statistics. He has been serving as the Director General, Department of National Textbook, Ministry of Education. His experiences also include working as the Director, Division of Statistics, Department of Planning and Construction, State Education Commission; Deputy Director General, Department of Development and Planning, Ministry of Education； Director General, Department of Basic Education , Ministry of Education.
Mr Sobhi Tawil
Director, Future of Learning and Innovation UNESCO
Sobhi Tawil is the Director of Future of Learning and Innovation at UNESCO headquarters in Paris where he currently leads the Futures of Education initiative. He has some 30 years of experience in teaching, education policy analysis, research and program management with diverse institutions and organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (Geneva), the Network for Education Policy Research Review (NORRAG), the International Institute for Higher Education (Rabat), as well as UNESCO. Since joining UNESCO in 2002, Sobhi Tawil first headed the Capacity Building Program for Curriculum Development at the International Bureau of Education, before leading the Education Program for the Maghreb countries at the Rabat Cluster Office. Since 2011, he has been leading the Education Research and Foresight programme. Sobhi Tawil holds a PhD in Education and Development from the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva.
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probably the only time americans' communities have fully valued youth from coast to coast happened in the mid 19th century when 2 wealthy families' teenager sons died of viruses
john bard's family founded bard university in new york state and linked it in to columbia u where they added a medical college and nyu- at the start of the 1980s botstein became the youngest and longest serving us vice chancellor -to launch the future of universities in 2020s soros asked him to be the chancellor of OSUN 1 2 a-50 college+ coalition celebrating the sdg generation- below we transcribe a tv interview of botstein in 2010 over in california the 5th governors teen son died - the family declared henceforth all ca children are our children and founded stanford university to advance this promise botstein transcript 2010
i',m richard Heffner your host on the open mind and for many years now I've tried to think of a special occasioninvolving my guests today one on which I could firmly peg an invitation to join me here for one of our weeklyconversations but seizing upon any one of those many occasions in which he has been in the public eye just seemed beyond me as when he became president of Franconia College in New Hampshire in his early 20s as when not yet 30 he became president of Bard College in New York remaining so to this day as when he became music director of the American Symphony Orchestra than music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra as well as when he won many honorary doctorates, served on many boards, guest conducted many orchestras as when he wrote books reviews articles galore many having to do with importantly innovative and challenging thoughts about teaching and learning such as his new high school and early college ideas which he hasgone on to put very much into practice and of course as when Leon Botstein my distinguished guest today received the Carnegie corporations $500,000 academic Leadership Award described by carnegie president Vartan Gregorian as: designed for educational leaders who see the university as an integral part of their communities and view the health of K to 12 education as central to the future of higher educationindeed today I would first ask my guest just how go his new high school and early college ideaswhich he and bard have now made important realities for so very many youngstersbotstein03:09thank they are doing very well; we have two public high school early colleges here in new york and wewe have Simon's rock in MA which has been around for a long time - it is is more of a residentialprivate institution and we're applying to the federal government - believe it or not to make this a national program- we were very pleased when the president obama a year ago during the summersingled us out is something that is worth looking at as a model in his speech for the NAACP hundredth anniversary so these highschools here in the public sector- they're not charter schools they're really public schools, they do very welland on the basis of that performance we feel it could be really a national model..it could be replicated around the countryheffner:you know I I wonder that I was going to say this I was amused in reading back on edu in the last century one of your many writings something that you wrote in the New York Times I wondered whether this was basic to your let's get rid of that last year in high school let's start them in college early idea...you wrote adults should face the fact that they don't like adolescence and that they have used high school toisolate the pubescent and hormonal adolescent away from both the picture book idealized innocence ofchildhood and the more accountable world of adulthoodbotstein: oh absolutely-I mean I think we live in a very hypocritical and puritanical environmentin which first of all no parent tells the truth about his or her adolescence to their children which is a basic formof mistrust-- we don't have any parents who'll tell an 18 or 17 or 16 or 14year old really what they did when they were 14 15 16 17 18--- I'm not suggesting they should but it's a basic recipe for mistrust -and then we have old people who do not like the culture of getting old-and so they resente the flower of youth05:15we love to segment childhood-this happens in the nineteenth century into sort of the Lewis CarrollPeter Pan generation where children were innocent then Freud came along and said wellthey're not so innocent - as part of human development, there is kind of a sexual motor if youwill . people are horrified scandalized by this idea whether it's true or not, I don't know I'm not a psychologist but we would love to keep that innocent wonderful problem free little child all by itself so we put it in elementary school but we've developed a middle school which takes the cusp of puberty out of any danger ofcontaminating these wonderful beautiful innocent little children and then we segregate them into the middle school; junior high school which is a complete catastrophe then we a segregate the high school student and we make a wall between them and adult responsibility-something which was unknown in the 18thcentury the 18th century people wheb 14 15 year oldsapprenticed they got real employment andreal skillsthey took responsibility for families -father died mother died they really were adults and very good adults \people went to college at 15-the great composer Roger sessions was 15 in college- this was not that unusualin the upper classes people who'd go to school at all they just startedUniversity at an age which was reasonably appropriatewhat we've done is we've so pushed the adolescent out of view, we don't know what to do with themone day they're an adult one day their child they make us uncomfortable theyremind us of our world07:00so we segregate them into this terrible thing called the American High School which isa total failure and has ruined the ambition and capacity of many young people so in a way we've created aschool system which shields us from the responsibility of doing something intelligent with the adolescenthefner: and your solution?07:21botstein -it is onesolution to the problem- it is to get the young person early to realize thatlearning is enjoyable, that's part of their self definition ;it can really make them powerful and important people...that what happens in this country is that the adolescent is totally consumed by popular culturebut everything that is vulgar this cuts across race and class is not only poor that are disadvantaged by what we do but the rich as well and so even though the consumer industry knows that the adolescent is an important factor in fashion in entertainment and lots of things in education we treat them likelarge childrenthey need to be exposed to people who really love subjects, who are really engaged in learning we do this inmusic regularly you know a young kid who is 12 can play well sits next to someone who's 25 -- no one cares how old she or he is- they only care how well they play they08:20get a sense of real competence we do in sports to some extent to their we do give young people responsibility it's one of the things we do well get a young sports team in high school and train them and they do well that's great08:31but why don't we do this in in science, or we could do that in all the areas of learning and study that areimportant to the economy and to the nation- young people deserve to be taught at age 14 and 15 by real professionals, real physicists real mathematicians real biologists real writers real historians08:51not people who went through an ed school program or in the business of managing an age groupand in classes why not get rid of the age segregation nothing would do a 14 year old more good than being together with a 30 year old who's lost his or her job is going back to school with someone whoreally understands the value of education --we used to have that when we had very large families with the olderchildren took care of the younger children and they had responsibilities- we don't do that anymore09:18heffner- have you've got a tinker's chance in the hell of putting that into practice beyond the schools you had have establishedbotstein :I believe so because I would never have given it a bats chance in hell as the phrase goes to do it in thepublic sector I was so amazed when Harold levy and Mayor Giuliani asked us: I was so amazed when Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg asked us to do a second one these are not charter schools09:44they came forward09:48the idea: can you do a public high school early college, can you make it work? ... we've shown it can work in thelargest urban school system in the United States--- so it can work all over the country and there are a lot ofprograms beginning now that do something like it- I think we have the best model because we give the young people two degrees so the young people actually save the society a lot of money.. the kids have graduated our school at the end of the twelfth grade with a junior college degree and that means they cancut two years out of their schooling and most of them go to public institutions10:22both high school and in college so it's a very efficient response-- you know the right wing always wants us to know that you can solve social problems throwing money at them -well this is one case where they may beright the number of years of public schooling we do too little for too longwe could make them shorter and more effective
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unesco ai k-12
Mr Wayne Holmes
Former Principal Researcher (Education) Nesta
United Kingdom
Wayne Holmes (PhD, University of Oxford) is a learning sciences and innovation researcher. For almost a decade, he has focused on the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to both enhance and further understand learning, and its ethical and social implications. He has co-authored three books about AI and education: “Artificial Intelligence in Education. Promise and Implications for Teaching and Learning”(Holmes et al., 2019), “Technology-enhanced Personalised Learning: Untangling the Evidence” (Holmes et al., 2018), and “Intelligence Unleashed: An Argument for Artificial Intelligence in Education” (Luckin, Holmes et al., 2016). He also advises the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on AI (Education Taskforce) and UNESCO on the pedagogical, ethical and social implications of AI in education (including co-leading UNESCO’s ‘AI in Education: Guidance for Policymakers’ and ‘Teaching AI for K12’ portal). Previously, he was a researcher at Nesta (the UK’s leading innovation foundation), University College London, and The Open University; and he has taught at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford. He has given invited talks about AI and education in Brazil, China, Croatia, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Korea, Oman, Spain, and the US.Mr MIAO Fengchun
Chief, Unit for Technology and AI in Education UNESCO
Dr. Fengchun Miao is the Chief of the Unit for Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Education at UNESCO, Education Sector, Headquarters in Paris. He is leading programmes in areas of ICT in education policy development, AI and education, digital skills development for teachers and students, Open Educational Resources (OER), mobile learning, and future e-schools. He is also in charge of UNESCO Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education. Highlights of his achievements include the launch and continuous organization of Mobile Learning Week for 8 years, the development and adoption of Qingdao Declaration on leveraging ICT to achieve SDG 4 and Beijing Consensus on AI and Education. He brings with his experiences of supporting more than 60 countries directly for the development of national ICT in education policies and OER policies.
Before joining UNESCO, Dr. Miao was the Director-General of the National Research Centre for Computer Education, Ministry of Education, China. In that capacity, he was responsible for the development of national ICT in education policies and ICT curriculum standards for students, and managing the National Association for the Use of ICT in K-12 Schools of China.
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Mr Diego Golombek
Executive Director The National Institute of Technological Education (INET) Argentina
Ph.D. in Biology (University of Buenos Aires). Full Professor at the National University of Quilmes and Superior Investigator of the National Research Council. Former director of the National Program for Science Popularization (Ministry of Science and Technology) and current director of the National Institute of Technological Education (Ministry of Education). Kalinga prize and chair, UNESCO.Ms Ivana Franić
State Secretary, Ministry of Science and Education Croatia
Prof. Ivana Franić became State Secretary at the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education in 2020. Before her post at the Ministry, Prof. Ivana Franić was Junior Researcher at the Insitute of the Croatian Language and Linguistics, Associate Professor at the Department of Romance Studies, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies and Vice-dean in charge of Study Programmes at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies. She received her PhD with a topic in historical lexicography “The place of two manuscript dictionaries from the 18th century within the Croatian Lexicography: Dictionarium Latino-Illiricum de Giorgio Mattei et Vocabolario italiano-illirico de Lovro Cekinic.
She has participated in several scientific projects: Dictionary of the Croatian Language, Dictionary of the Croatian Kajkavian Literary Language and Developing Student Independence with the Help of the European Language Portfolio. She has participated in several scientific conferences with topics from French syntax, lexicography and glottodidactics. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Chroniques slaves (Université Stendhal Grenoble) and the journal Vestnik za tuje jezike (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana).
Ms Simona Kustec
Minister of Education, Science and Sport Slovenia
Dr. Simona Kustec, born on 19 June 1976, was a full professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science, Chair of Policy Analysis and Public Administration. In the 2019/20 academic year, she also lectured at the Venice International University. Prof. dr. Kustec Lipicer taught subjects on policy analysis, human rights policy and global governance. She is the author of over 400 scholarly works on a variety of issues, published by leading Slovenian and international academic publishers.
Prof. dr. Kustec Lipicer was also a researcher with a rich and diverse body of work. She was involved in several research project groups in Slovenia and abroad. The common thread of her research was the study of elections and electoral behaviour, democracy and various public policies, including sports policy. She was an established name in numerous professional scientific networks and associations and a respected member of the academic and research community.
In the 2014–2018 term, she was head of the Party of Modern Centre Deputy Group (SMC). In addition to leading the largest deputy group in the history of the Slovenian Parliament, she also coordinated the work between coalition members in the National Assembly.
Throughout the 2014–2018 period, she was Vice-President of the SMC and a member of the party's executive committee. During preparations for the European Parliament elections, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) invited her to participate in the expert group drafting the programme document for the 2019 elections.
Ms Gabriela RamosAssistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences UNESCO
Gabriela Ramos is the Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO, where she oversees the contributions of the institution to build inclusive and peaceful societies. Her agenda includes the achievement of social inclusion and gender equality, advancing youth development; promotion of values through sports; anti-racism and antidiscriminatory agenda and ethics of artificial inteligence. Her appointment at UNESCO allows her to continue supporting an agenda of inclusive growth, and the respect of human rights and human dignity.
Prior to this position, Ms. Ramos served as the Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20/G7/APEC in the OECD, contributing to the global agenda as well as leading the OECD's New Approaches to Economic Challenges, Inclusive Growth Initiative, Gender Strategy and the work on well-being and children. In 2019, she launched the Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) platform, bringing together 40 major multinational companies committed to reducing inequalities. Previously, she was Director of the OECD Office in Mexico and Latin America and a member of the Mexican foreign service.
In 2013, she was decorated with the Ordre du Merit by the President of France. Her work to promote gender equality earned her the 2017 and 2018 Forbes Excellence award as well as being included as part of Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in both 2018 and 2019. A Fulbright and Ford McArthur fellow, she is member of the board of the Paris Peace Forum, UNICEF Advisory Board, Steering Group of the International Gender Champions Paris Hub, Multi-Stakeholder Council to the Global Solutions Initiative, Lancet Commission on Gender-Based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People, and Lancet Commission on COVID-19.
Mr Firmin MatokoAssistant Director-general, Africa Department UNESCO
Holder of a diploma in Political Sciences and International Relations from the University Cesare Alfieri (Florence, Italy) and a diploma in Hautes Etudes internationales from the Centre d’Etudes stratégiques et diplomatiques de Paris, Mr. Matoko currently is the Assistant Director-general of the Africa Department of UNESCO.
Prior, he was Director of the UNESCO Liaison Office with the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), as well as UNESCO Representative to Ethiopia. He served as Director in Quito and Bamako UNESCO Cluster Offices and as Chief of the Education for peace, human rights and democracy Section, in the Division for the Promotion of Quality education of the Education Sector as well as Senior Programme Specialist of the Culture of peace National Programmes Unit in UNESCO’s Paris headquarters.
He speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
H.E. Mr
Gabriel
Changson Chang
Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology
South Sudan
Hon. Gabriel Changson Chang is a competent economist and a banker with vast professional and general experience in economic planning. He has extensive hands-on knowledge and experience in governance and civil service practice, with excellent leadership skills. He has a Master Degree in economics from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA in 1986. He served in the Central Bank of Sudan from 1979 to 2004 and Ivory Bank on secondment from Central Bank in 1994 to 1998. He served as the Chairman of the Ivory Bank’s Board of Directors from 2007 to 2013.
Hon. Gabriel Changson has served in various ministerial positions in Sudan and South Sudan: Finance & Economic Planning, Coordinating Council for Southern States (Sudan) 2003 to 2005, Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS- 2006 to 2007), Caretaker Minister of Finance & Economic Planning, Information & Broadcasting (GOSS- 2007 to 2009), Culture, Youth & Sport (GOSS - 2009 to 2010), Culture & Heritage (GOSS - 2010 to 2011),Wildlife Conservation & Tourism (Republic of South Sudan – 2011 to 2013), and currently Higher Education, Science and Technology (2020 to date) and the Chairman of Federal Democratic Party – member of SSOA group.
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Mr Hussein bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi
Minister of Education
The United Arab Emirates
His Excellency / Hussein Ibrahim Al Hammadi was appointed UAE Minister of Education on July 4, 2014, and worked for 14 years in technical and vocational education, and for 20 years in the armed forces, in addition to his assumption of several positions in the educational field, he serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hamdan Bin Rashid Foundation for Excellence in Educational Performance, Chairman of the Higher Committee of Mohammed Bin Rashid Smart Learning Program, Chairman of the Board of the Abu Dhabi Vocational Education and Training Institute (ADVETI), Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Applied Technology (IAT), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Qualifications Authority, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Emirates Transport and Deputy Board Chairman Khalifa University of Science and Technology, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Khalifa Award for Education.
His Excellency holds a Bachelor's degree in Aviation Engineering, Embry-Riddle University, USA. During his career, His Excellency gained several specialized experiences, enabling him to manage his various responsibilities as required and with remarkable efficiency. His initiatives also had a great impact in achieving important and distinguished achievements in terms of enhancing the status of technical and vocational education and training and documenting the relevance of this important type of education and its system to the state's development needs and future aspirations, which directly contributed to laying the cornerstone in empowering the UAE workforce.
H.E. Dr. Engineer Getahun Mekuria
Minister of Education Ethiopia
Mr
Chen
Qun
Vice Mayor of Shanghai Municipal People's Government
China
Chen Qun, born in Yixing of Jiangsu Province in April 1964, holds a doctoral degree of science and the title of researcher. He now serves as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, Vice Chairman of the China Democratic League Central Committee, Chairman of the China Democratic League Shanghai Committee and Vice Mayor of Shanghai.
Chen began his career in August 1991 and served successively as Director of the Analytical Center, Assistant President, Vice President and President of East China Normal University (ECNU) and Vice Chairman of the China Democratic League Shanghai Committee.
As Vice Mayor of Shanghai, Chen is in charge of work related to sports, tourism, intellectual property rights, culture and history, government counsellors and archives.
EDUCATION & WORK EXPERIENCE
Chen received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in chemistry at Nanjing University in 1984 and 1987 respectively. After receiving his Ph.D. in radio physics at ECNU, he began his career as a teacher in the university in August 1991. While he was a Ph.D. candidate, he studied at Tokyo Institute of Technology, as part of its joint Ph.D. program with ECNU, from 1990 to 1991. He was promoted to associate professor in 1992 and professor in 1996. He became a Ph.D. supervisor in radio physics in 1997. He worked as Assistant President of ECNU in 2002 and became Vice President of ECNU in 2003. From 2005 to 2012, he concurrently served as Dean of the Graduate School of ECNU. In July 2012, he became President of ECNU. In July 2017, he was appointed Vice Mayor of Shanghai.
ACADEMIC RESEARCH AREA AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Dr. Chen has been engaged in magnetic resonance and polymer physics for years and published more than 130 academic papers, over 100 of which are SCI papers. As an accomplished young scientist, Dr. Chen has been awarded the Ministry of Education’s Trans-Century Talents Fund and 1st National Prize for Excellent Young College and University Teachers and Scholars. With extraordinary academic achievements, he has been receiving financial grants from the Shanghai Daybreak Project, Shanghai’s Science and Technology Morning Star Project, Excellent Academic Leaders Project, etc. His major concurrent academic jobs include Vice Chairman of the Magnetic Resonance Chapter of the Chinese Society of Physics, Deputy Editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, and Vice President of the Shanghai Society of Physics.
Ms
Juliet
Waters
Chief Knowledge Officer
Kids Code Jeunesse
Juliet Waters is Chief Knowledge Officer for Kids Code Jeunesse. She brings over twenty years of journalism experience to her passion for learning and teaching computational thinking across the generations and has written about her own experience learning to code for The New York Times. She has introduced code to teachers from every province and territory as part of CanCode a program under the Canadian Ministry of Science, Innovation and Economic Development. She has helped teachers and students conceptualize artificial intelligence, its impact and ethical issues through The Algorithm Literacy Project, a public awareness campaign in partnership with the Canadian Commission of UNESCO. She is author of the Canadian Primer to Computational Thinking and Code: A Kids Code Jeunesse Introduction to Algorithm Literacy. She has worked on policy and curriculum recommendations with researchers from around the world and is a co-author on the article “Machine Learning for Human Learners: Opportunities, Issues, Tensions and Threats,” Educational Technology Research and Development (2020).
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Ms Trine Jensen
Technology and Higher Education
International Association of Universities (IAU)
Trine Jensen leads the work on Technology and Higher Education at the International Association of Universities (IAU) - an international NGO housed by UNESCO. She is the author of the IAU Global Report on ‘Higher Education in the digital era: the current state of transformation around the world’ (2019). She is also leading the work on the development of a IAU Policy Statement “Transformation of higher education in a digital world” in close collaboration of the dedicated Expert Advisory Group with members from different parts of the world. In 2019, she launched a new IAU programme entitled: “Institutional site visits” with the aim of fostering international peer-to-peer learning in relation to digital transformation of higher education, by bringing together representatives from all regions of the world to visit universities particularly innovative in leveraging the potential of technologies in higher education.
Ms Inge MolenaarAssistant professor
Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University
Netherlands
Inge Molenaar is assistant professor at the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University in the Netherlands. She has over 20 years of experience in the field of technology enhanced learning taking multiple roles from entrepreneur to academic. Her research in the Adaptive Learning Lab focusses on technology empowered innovation to optimize students’ learning. The application of data from online learning environments, apps and games in understanding how learning unfolds over time is central in her work. Artificial Intelligence offers a powerful way to make new steps towards measuring, understanding and designing innovative learning scenarios. Dr Molenaar envisions Hybrid Human-Systems that augment human intelligence with artificial intelligence to empower learners and teachers in their quest to make education more efficient, effective and responsive. In this endeavor collaboration between governments, schools, research and industry is essential to develop the next generation educational systems. Dr Molenaar has just received an ERC Starting Grant to develop the first Hybrid Human-AI Regulation system to train young learners’ Self-regulated learning skills with the help of AI and she also recently became a Jacobs Foundation Fellow.
Dr Molenaar holds Master’s degrees in Cognitive Psychology and International Business studies and a PhD inEducational Sciences (University of Amsterdam).
Ms
Maïmouna
Sissoko-Touré
Program specialist
Institut de la Francophonie pour l’éducation et la formation
Sénégal
Dr. Maïmouna Sissoko Touré is a program specialist at the Institut de la Francophonie pour l'éducation et la formation (Organisation internationale de la Francophonie). She works more specifically on issues related to educational innovations and reforms and has a rich experience in the field of educational technologies. In her activities, Dr. Sissoko-Touré has collaborated with the Ministries of Education of the member countries of the Francophonie as well as with the different actors of the sector, in order to accompany innovations that bring about qualitative changes in education systems.
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hypothesis if younger half of world are ever to be sustainable we need transformation and massive collaboration in education
in population terms the greatest changemaker i have ever met died dec 2019- sir fazle abed- out of bangladesh but across all poorest asian village women- he connected education , village food, health, banking and more - he also became the world's largest partnership network- after 13 years of studying i roughly know who his innovators and he trusted most including legatum bank in dubai, indirectly the toyota foundation abdul latif in middle east hq saudi, bill gates and george soros but in all cases they invested in tech he specified - over his last decade he started connecting colleges - we're still working on some of his favorite tech colleges in eg singapore korea, japan hong kong
in 2020 we are interested in connecting my family tree home town glasgow cop26 first 2 weeks november and dubai's expo-education networks december and beijing winter olympics 2022 where we still hope that lots of coonections eg alibaba jack ma had planned to link between s korea tokyo and beijing will continue in spite of covid ruing japans investments
on nov 6 we will be hiring the glasgow university union building capacity 750 people to link every positive youth/education livelihoods netwrk we can - both with green cop26 solutions and all sdg solutions - we hope to start something a bit like ednburgs fringe festival which has more massive connectivity than the formal cop26
scotland has one big connector in education namely gordon and sarah brown- they are the main un envoy in education but 1 have changed many relationships on refugee education from qatar to dubai, and they are weak on choosing edutech especially if china and far east
here is list of middle east people who seem to me to be connecting massive changes in edu and tech -do you know how to connect with any of their leadership goals
DUBAI and uae expo (abu dhabi)
REWIRED new this year promising biggest edu summit ever dec 2021- main organisers seem to be
- H.E. Dr. Tariq Al Gurg, Chief Executive Officer and Member of Board of Directors, Dubai Cares Beyond the Crisis: Reinventing Post-Secondary Education in the Arab Region
- H.E. Reem Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation, Director General Expo2020 Dubai
@DubaiCares and Expo 2020 Dubai, in close coordination with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC), RewirEd aims to be a catalyst in redefining education to ensure a future that is prosperous, sustainable, innovative and accessible to all. 2020 summit rehearsal at https://www.rewired2021.com/agenda-x/ bios at https://www.rewired2021.com/speakers-x/
gordon brown https://educationenvoy.org/what-we-do/ -former uk pm and leading scot family have connected 2 mainly refugee networks www.educatiocannotwait.org and https://theirworld.org/about/theirworld across all UN PARTNERS - SEPTEMBER THEY FEATURED Tariq AL Gurg as their main middle east connection - the coordination of these networks relies very heavily on yasmine sherif- in september 2020 she was one of few people actually still linking in out of ny headquarters - the range of her connections can be seen from these 2 bookmarks 1 2
=======================global teachers prize and
varkey an indian expat whose parents emigrated to dubai in 1959 became a billionnaire by operating one of the largest number of private high performing schools -GEMS which seem to be headquartered in surrey uk - before rewired - varkey's million dollar teachers prize has been dubai's largest hub for the future of education- launched in 2014 (after philanthropy foundation founded 2010) - the dubai annual summit - see 2019 as most recent event - has combined 2 major threads- celebrating 50 newly discovered inspiring teachers around the world including one million dollar prize winner; inviting influencers to clarify how urgently education and tech are changing each other and where this s happening- 7 years of continuous progress has also helped dubai become a world leading space for new education- analysis is needed to see which uae universities have seized this opportunity -youtube
varkey forum in dubai may have peaked 2017-2019 during which it claimed to be seen as the ‘Davos of Education’
Held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
Partners including Unesco, Harvard Graduate School
of Education, Inter-American Development Bank and
Education International==========dubai also lead partner on 4 yearly summits of un itu - telecoms standars and world leaders- uae tech expert . Majed Al Mesmar, Deputy Director General for the Telecommunication Sector, TRA UAE
another part of itu is leading in artificial intel #aiforgood https://aiforgood.itu.int/
the convergence of edutech and AI EDUCATION may be the greatest hope youth have in 2020s
would like to know more about leading ai hubs in uae eg Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence | MBZUAI mbzuai.ac.ae abu dhabi
MBZUAI seeks to empower a new generation of AI leaders through exceptional education and a unique model of academia.december 2020 unesco's first summit on education ai: uae participants included:Hussein bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi,Minister of Education The United Arab Emirates
His Excellency / Hussein Ibrahim Al Hammadi was appointed UAE Minister of Education on July 4, 2014, and worked for 14 years in technical and vocational education, and for 20 years in the armed forces, in addition to his assumption of several positions in the educational field, he serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hamdan Bin Rashid Foundation for Excellence in Educational Performance, Chairman of the Higher Committee of Mohammed Bin Rashid Smart Learning Program, Chairman of the Board of the Abu Dhabi Vocational Education and Training Institute (ADVETI), Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Applied Technology (IAT), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Qualifications Authority, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Emirates Transport and Deputy Board Chairman Khalifa University of Science and Technology, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Khalifa Award for Education.
one of the pioneers in computer science in uae Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi (United Arab Emirates), 1 (born 4 February 1962) is an Emirati politician and member of the ruling family of Sharjah and the niece to Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi. -when gordon brown convened education commission event at united nationssept 2016 she sat next to jack ma and jim kim then world bank leader
qatar
led by first lady sheikha moza , a main un sdg advocate - qatar foundation, education city including female percent of engineering students double that of usa- campus includes main world trade conference centre- american college partnerships include carnegie melon, brookings doha..
WISE 1 2 the first education laureates summit 2012 inaugural laureate sir fazle abed
laureates initially annual - from 2016 -even years on tour - eg beijing, madrid, new york, ghana; odd years laureates; 2020 3 virtual summits main sponsor salzburg global
originally biggest refugee education partnership www.educationaboveall.org
wise education summit has a twin WISH health summit
sheikha moza closely advised by mahbubani coordinator of singapore universities for lee kuan yew
qatar's main connector at unesco ai education summit seems to have been
H.E Dr. Ibrahim Bin Saleh Al-Naimi Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Qatar
saudi
dont follow saudi much but the toyota middle east foundation abdul latif hq saudi has sponsored amazing tech labs ending poverty and very interested to know more about connecting Dr. Haifa Jamal Al-Lail
https://www.uopeople.edu/about/leadership/presidents-council/presid...
main saudi speaker at rewired 2020 seems to have been
- H.E. Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Alsudairy, Vice Minister of Education for Universities, Research and Innovation Saudi Arabia
since september 2019 jack ma has returned full time to education- havent yet found much about how he connects middle east
JORDAN jack ma has given grants to education foundation of queen rania
also interesting in jordan is
- Dr. Sonia Ben Jaafar, Chief Executive Officer, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education
israel was one of first 7 world hubs of ma's 15 billion dollar r&d network on artificial intel damo-
https://damo.alibaba.com/labs/ ;
israel has a brilliant tech scene- interesting to see if reported new friendship with uae connects education leaps
aga khan - pakistan, afghanistan and 8 more countries schools2030.org Dr. Bronwen Magrath , Global Programme Manager Schools2030, Aga Khan Foundation - spoke at rewired 2020 -10 nations include Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, portugal, brazil
UAE INFLUENCERS AT REWIRED
- H.E. Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Alsudairy, Vice Minister of Education for Universities, Research and Innovation Saudi Arabia
- H.E. Ms. Jameela Al Muhairi, Minister of State for Public Education, UAE
UAE INFLUENCERS AT VARKEY 2019 included:
UAE ABDULLA AL KARAM
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS & DIRECTOR GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
uaE- Dr Abdulla Al Karam is an engineer by trade, a leader by profession, and an educator at heart. He is responsible for the quality and growth of an education sector unlike any other in the world. More than 85 per cent of all education takes place in the private sector while 58 per cent of Emirati parents, who have the option of sending their children to government schools, choose private schools. The question Dr Al Karam and his team seek is to answer is how a government authority can make the most of this diversity to transform education for all students. He has applied a partnership and collaboration-driven strategy to Dubaiês private schools sector, resulting in improved student outcomes in international assessments such as PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS. The What Works initiative challenges the notion that competitors cannot collaborate, and is a unique model regional governments could consider to work with private sector operators to ensure high-quality education for all students.
UAE SHEIKH NAHAYAN MABARAK AL NAHAYAN
CABINET MEMBER AND MINISTER OF TOLERANCE
GOVERNMENT OF UAE
His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan is the Minister of Tolerance in the new Cabinet announced in October 2017. His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak joined the Federal Government in 1992 and held a number of government portfolios including Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and held the position of Minister of Education, and Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development. His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak was also Chancellor of United Arab Emirates University from 1983 to 2013; Chancellor of Higher Colleges of Technology from 1988 to 2013; and President of Zayed University from 1998 to 2013. His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan received his education from the British Millfield School until the high secondary level before joining Magdalen College at Oxford University-UK.=======================
more on lubna
She was previously the Minister of State for Tolerance, Minister of State for International Cooperation, and Minister of Economic and Planning of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). She was the first woman to hold a ministerial post in the United Arab Emirates. Lubna graduated from the California State University, Chico with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and has an Executive MBA from the American University of Sharjah. Lubna received an honorary doctorate of science from California State University, Chico. In March 2014, she was appointed President of Zayed University.[1] – she explained that her computer science degree helped drive smart port logistics from the beginning
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Sir Fazle Abed - legacy of world;s number 1 ngo partnership in sdg economics, Bangla womens empowerment and livelihood education 1 2 3 4
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Hong Kong Ka-Shing TenCent co-founder Beijing
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Duisburg turns into world's largest dryport - thanks to the 26 nations Rail across Eurasia Belt Road
Italy becomes west europe leader of belt riad mapping - with 10 yeras of studnet-friendly research by italian michele geraci
Help us question UN report on DIgital Cooperation 1 2 due summer 2019 with all star expert panel led by melinda gates and jack ma- both partners in celebrating brac's bkash.com as world elader in digotal banking for the poor
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BRI.school surprising Belt Road Cities
BR2 Dhaka where to go to with jack ma to see banking for billion poorest girls and more
BR2 home of nilekani - the billion person id an
BR6 Luxembourg hub of aiib2019
BR0 beijing - binnaul home of BRI weher 100 most trsetd national eladers of sustainable youth likon: home of tsinghua- universitiues that dont have partnerships with tsinghua will end up failing over 505 of their stidents livelihoods
BR0 Hangzhou - home of jack ma alumni
BR0 hongkong-shenzen - one of the world's 7 most wonderful bridges - china owes more to hongkong than it recognises with a new twist - all the best manufacturing jobs died before 2015-
Shenzhen: City of the Future.
can shenzhen show how smart manufacturing jobs dont compete with sustainable communities they collaborate with them -can hpng kong arrange daytrips to the mainland for financial mivestors to understand the future of sdg economic zones
1 Investing in Girls Sustainability Goals
1.1 BRAC -how to build 100 million person rural health service with a 20 million dollar loan and girl empowerment other most amazing stories of the world's largest NGO- join the week long celebration between academic alumni of jack ma and girl empowerment epicenttre BRAC 30 sept 2018 - queries chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
1.2 BKASH 1 2 3 since april jack ma has taken 20% partnership
1.3 China Capitalism (CC)
1.4 Project Everyone
2 ValuingYouth
2.1 partners of 7 billion peoples' S-goals-Goal 17
2.2 end poverty -Goal 1
2.3 end hunger - Goal 2
2.4 healthy, lives - Goal 3
2.5 Quality Education - Goal 4
2.6 Gender Equality -Goal 5
please make sure our future events diaries are win-win www.economistdairy.com
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Entrepreneurial Revolution - an investigation started at The Economist in the 1970s as to whether intergenerational investments in future systems would empower the net generation to be exponentially sustainable. Surveys of the next 40 years asked questions of 2015-2025 such as:
Would the global financial system be designed to sustain or collapse local communities?
Would 2015-2025 be the under 30s most exciting and productive time to be alive as they linked in sustainability of the human race. Would the parts of the Western hemisphere that advanced the industrial revolution's empires demand that its politicians, professions and academics "happily get out of the way of the sustainability generation being led by the half of youth living within 3000 miles of Beijing"?
POP -Preferential Option Poor
Would every community's most trusted practitioners be educator, health servant and banker.
What would be the top 50 MOOCS that freed access of action learning of sustainability goals as worldwide youth's most joyful collaboration through way above zero-sum models of wporldsocialtrade? This web makes the cases that the Abed family needs to be youth's number 1 hero to MOOC with - we always love to hear who your vote for number 1 MOOC is -text usa 240 316 8157 family of unacknowledged giant
100 links to BRAC
wanted - ideas on how anywhere could unite in celebrating good news of collaborating with brac
tools worth a look https://learning.accredible.com/
help worldwide youth networks action learn how curriculum of BRAC makes one of top 10 networks for womens livelihoods
defining question of our life and times-can online education end youth unemployment for ever ? yes but only if you help map how!
youth world of 2013 most exciting curriculum??
twelve minutes presentations
1 the billion girl club - how the first billion teenage girls of the 21st century mentored each other in learning a living, and regenerating all 4 hemispheres
2 how open technologists helped nursing to become the most trusted grassroots information networkof the 21st century, and saved the affordability of healthcare and nutritition for everyone
3 how community clean energy microfranchises became the number 1 educational curriculum that the chinese authorities invited the world to co-blog
more coming soon
4 cashless bank-a-billion -a project of the global banks with values network
5 orphanage networks as the world's most inspired jobs agency network and home of financial literacy mooc
6 bottom-up EAgri: designing a collaboration portal on the top 30 crops that need to be mobilised by local value chain maps so that hard working nutrition workers are sustainable however small their farming assets and however variable a particular season's climate
7 what do BRAC's barefoot professionals linkin so that village organisations are collaboratively resilient whatever nature-made or man-made disasters popup
Special child health, nutrition, family and educational development series:
*The First 1000 Days
*Pre-Primary
*Primary
*Choices to make the first 2 years after primary
BRAC has more staff grounded round the child and parent-eye view of these challenges in the poorest communities than anyone else. Their collaboration knowhow is as valuable as body of knowhow that I have come across in studying societies' value multiplying needs in over 40 countries
- next billion green jobs
- next billion family/community sustaining jobs
- next billion open technology jobs most worthy of our borderless and interconnected futures
contribute to survey of world's other favorite moocs-40th annual top 10 league table
- 1) e-ME
- 3) 6 week tour of brac curriculum and mapping microeducation summit for post 2015 milennium goals
send votes to chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk , Macrae Foundation
- 5 what to do now for green energy to save the world in time
- 6 nurses as 21st world's favorite information grassroots networkers and most economical cheerleaders more
- 7 how food security as a mising curricululum of middle schools can co-create more jobs than any nation can dream of
- 8 pro-youth economics and public servants
- 9 celebrating china as number 1 creditor nation
- 10 questions worldwide youth are asking about what was true last decade but false this decade because that's what living in the most innovative era means chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Financial literacy education links:
BRAC's partner aflatoun
uk's www.mybnk.org face
Number 1 in Economics for Youth
online library of norman macrae - The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant -
videos 1 2 -fansweb NMFoundation- youth projects - include yunuschoolusa
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Economistgirls.com - dedicated to girls and boys who survived wars (worldwide or region's Belt Roads)
Top 10 Right Old Muddles
I was tidying up my father's office when I came across a little black book. It was a diary. Many pages were headed Another Right Old Muddle. There in not much more text than a twitter profile of a young man. The bottom line was replicated on every page . XXX YYY flew off at 8am and did not return
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1 value girls - eg brac girls or the most courageous and loving under 30s girls entrpreneurs - eg AC Ori YC - have you met a woman under 30 who you'd vote for as matching these extraordinary multipliers of goodwill and action? Or an elder they all wish to be an alumni of - eg sir fazle abed 2 value girls, boys, those born poorest - three halves of the world youth, women, poor- all have less than 10 per cent share of voice in the future of their generation - if your born into all 3 of these categories you used to have less than zero positive say- until from 1972 sir fazle abed started to empower vilage girls to buuild a nation - and along the way he interescted 3 times with china who had also gone through the cutiral revolution of girls hold up half the sky. This was good news because the peoples connected by the south and east asian coatsal belts number half the world's population- those that had been most victiomised by Britannia- thise that the books of adam smith, keynes and gandhi provide suffiecnt slues to know how to value sustainability and action networks sdgs - should that be a job worthy of all of us alive tioday. 3 understand that the root cause of world wars was need to end colonisation -whiuch inkconevneintly was how large countriues developed between 1500 and 1946 4 Celbrate belt road trading models that go beyiond colonisation with win-win tyrades 5 First learn from any period in history when positive currencies or other mechnaisms permitted win-win trading to be mapped- identify the expoemtial balance rising or crashing that history revolved round 6 Clarify the unprecdented chnage that is defing life of the 3 generations mainly responsible for 1946-2030- technolgy's moore law in any forms that grand parent parents and youth could be educating each other one 7 Correct the desin ofault in empire education Adam Smith was forst to clarify- it was never to desinged to avlue youth , their livelihhods, innovation forces 8 Agree that as well as coms tech (digital and real world, human and artifician intelligence) compounding round us - we needed to celebrate chnaging machine and huiman sources of energy to be renewable amd to keep commons resources like wagter and air clean 9 Understand that the west's 3 main corporate forms and their lawyers needed transfromation if all peoples places are to be sustainable. MOre than that we need to freinds each other helping each other nations out of hostory's system traps. Any media that doesnt do that is fame media' 10 Wherever politicians or their academkic hacks tell you there isnt enough work for youth to do- something is desperatly wriong with the education, economics and valuation metrics being siued. THere is so much work to be done if we are to lap beyong systesm that are expoebntaoly crashing towards extinction. These are the most exciting tiemns to be alive- our family trees of grandparent parents youth are detemining whether tere will be any moore tres |
map first 10 places of www.supercityuni.com and alumnisat.combr />
no particular order - tokyo from 64 and 2020 beijing tsinghua from 1984 -uni or rural little sisters hangzhou to 1500 and from 2008 hong kong under chiense british and chiense rule singapore under 3 rules dubai under 3 rules glasgiw when adam smith or fazle abed were there america's south while martin luther king and muhammad yunus were there |
BRAC quiz -help us compile the most exciting quiz of sustainable world
Q did brac create 100 million rural health service with 20 million dollar loan A
Q is brac helping jack ma bank for the billion poorest women?
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?
Q before Jack Ma's partnership with one of brac's networks can you name 5 of brac's partners in being the world's largest NGO?
Q before Jack Ma's partnership had brac's educators assisted with livelihoods of over 150 million people
Q True or false: China and Bangladesh are the 2 most populous nations whose economies are sustained by girls as much as boys
top partners making brac worlds larfest ngo at brac.tv
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what if only educators technologists and youth can sustain our species?
infrastructure banking most exciting cases
EconomistGIRLS.com Keynes alumni Schumacher is famous for saying the greatest economic miracle of all would be ending poverty in millions of villages-- observe how 1960s climaxed with one network of adew thousand americans racing to the moon while over a third of worlds people still had no elecrtricity. What happened next is truly miracolous -its the tale of 2 regions coastal bangladesh and mainland china separated by some land partitoned for India when (grandad) Sir Kenneth Kemp was ordered to hastily write up legalese of India's Independence. For the history search mediation between Gandhi and Mumbai Chief Justice Kemp 1925-1946. For Do Now futures linkin AIIB2018 Mumbai June - for the greatest education revolutions study 1972-2015 in Bangladesh's BRAC eg at this Ning and with over half a billion chinese women. For next education steps in valuing girls livelihoods linkin WISE@Accra May 2018, at United Nations sept 2018, at Paris Mar2019 or more at ERworld.tv and Economistdiary.com
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brac turned aid into sustainable business franchises run by village
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Happy 80th birthday by 100000 people of BRAC to Sir Fazle Abed
1 RESILIENCE NOT JUST RELIEF –INNOVATION’s CORE OF BOTTOM-UP DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
The seeds of BRAC were planted in the efforts of Sir Fazle and friends to assist families affected by the Bhola cyclone in 1970. BRAC was then officially established after independence, supporting refugees to rebuild their lives. At a critical early juncture , we abandoned our focus on relief and adopted a longer-term objective of development, opting to work side by side with community members for decades to come.
We do not ignore emergencies and their impact on people living in poverty. We build community preparedness and grassroots platforms that activate in natural disasters to minimize damage and to channel relief. Our goal is to help households bounce back better.
Better often means changes such as stronger infrastructure or new livelihoods for families that depend on agriculture, for example, and are therefore increasingly vulnerable to climate change.
As Bangladesh urbanizes, we have expanded our focus to include manmade disasters like fires and building collapses, most recently Rana Plaza in 2013.
Massive natural disasters internationally have triggered us to expand into new countries like Haiti and Nepal to support national recovery the way we did in Bangladesh so many years ago
2 Healthy Lives and healthy futures
Doctors and hospitals were scarce in Bangladesh’s early days. We created an army of community-based entrepreneurs to bring medicine to every doorstep. Over time, the army became all female, challenging social norms and enabling women to access important products and information
mothers -and this redesgned whole market value chains to be lew in trist for poorest and where necessary eg kids education invented conditioanla cash transfre - ie where donation is given to specific identifiable task - eg scolarships for thise secoindary chikdren who had best results in brac primnary schools
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Last Call India Appreciation Tour of BRAC and Bangladesh Girl Developed Economies
Mary, and friends: after leaving qatar mid novmenber, where 3 of top 10 sustainability summits of next 15 months prior to beijing belt road 2.0 may 2019 were announced on behalf of wise education laureates and with the blessing of antonio guterres...this brac tour has been my main focus- all errors are therefore mine; good parts javeed's amy's mostofa's ..
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the last one took chinese graduates like amy to sir fazle’s 80th birthday party- attached is brac’s own birthday history of sir fazle’s 45 years. Amy who grew up in Hunan villages is currently post graduating at columbia’s earth institute in new york while her fellow companion yuxuan is Rhodes scholar in Oxford and daughter of public servants in china’s province bordering North Korea,. Sir Fazle’s daughter is a Columbia Alumn
RECAP OF LAST TOUR
Happy 80th birthday by 100000 people of BRAC to Sir Fazle Abed
1 RESILIENCE NOT JUST RELIEF –INNOVATION’s CORE OF BOTTOM-UP DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
The seeds of BRAC were planted in the efforts of Sir Fazle and friends to assist families affected by the Bhola cyclone in 1970. BRAC was then officially established after independence, supporting refugees to rebuild their lives. At a critical early juncture , we abandoned our focus on relief and adopted a longer-term objective of development, opting to work side by side with community members for decades to come.
We do not ignore emergencies and their impact on people living in poverty. We build community preparedness and grassroots platforms that activate in natural disasters to minimize damage and to channel relief. Our goal is to help households bounce back better.
Better often means changes such as stronger infrastructure or new livelihoods for families that depend on agriculture, for example, and are therefore increasingly vulnerable to climate change.
As Bangladesh urbanizes, we have expanded our focus to include manmade disasters like fires and building collapses, most recently Rana Plaza in 2013.
Massive natural disasters internationally have triggered us to expand into new countries like Haiti and Nepal to support national recovery the way we did in Bangladesh so many years ago
2 Healthy Lives and healthy futures
Doctors and hospitals were scarce in Bangladesh’s early days. We created an army of community-based entrepreneurs to bring medicine to every doorstep. Over time, the army became all female, challenging social norms and enabling women to access important products and information
We challenged the global health community by putting the life saving treatment for diarrheal disease in the “unqualified” hands of mothers, and generated evidence that they could use it effectively. We created a community-based tuberculosis control model, expanding over time to become the government’s largest partner in combating the disease.
The growing numbers of people living in poverty in urban areas face serious health risks, including maternal and infant mortality. Our network of healthcare entrepreneurs continues to ensure that women can access care safely, quickly, and with dignity.
Recent breakthroughs in cognitive science have shown that focusing on early childhood development has transformative effects over a lifetime. Pilot programmes are putting this research into action at the grassroots level
The primary challenge of healthcare now is less about access and more about quality. We are building financial tools to continuously ensure more people can access services that meet their evolving health needs.
3 EDUCATION FROM LITERACY TO LEADERSHIP
We started by teaching basic literacy to adults, then realised we needed to start from the start. We changed our nor-formal primary schools as “second chances’ for people living in poverty especially girls. Our pedagogy focused on joyful learning, incorporating the best practices from around the world.
As students graduated from our schools. We felt a need for creative ways to continue learning beyond the classroom. Libraries offered reading materials, and adolescent clubs created safe spaces and opportunities to teach life skills.
Our focus moved towards quality, with universal access towards education in sight, through strategies such as teacher training and increased use of technology. We proactively recruited students with special needs and expanded our curriculum into multiple ethnic languages to ensure that our schools were successful to all children.
Our ultiimate goal is to build a nation, and for that we need leaders. That is where our focus is now – creating opportunities for youth to take responsibilities in programmes, as mentors, and as teachers themselves. Our university creates even more opportunities to contribute on a global scale.
4 Financial Inclusion
We started by bringing people living in poverty together. We quickly learnt that what they needed most urgently was access to economic opportunities and financial services.
We brought women together into village organizations to organize credit and savings arrangements, and then used these meetings as a platform by delivering a wider range of services.
Over time, we expanded our reach to unserved populations, such as the “missing middle” (enterprises that were too large for the loans offered by microfinance but excluded from commercial banks) and a comprehensive grants based programme for people living with poverty, who could not benefit from microfinance.
We are now building a broader set of financial products, including insurance and pensions, and leveraging the growing ownership of mobile phones to use digital channels for financial services.
5 Market Solutions for the Poor
A fundamental driver is a lack of power – at the individual, household and community level alike... Power dynamics need to change in order for people living in poverty to realize their potential , and they only change when people do it themselves.
We promoted consciousness raising and empowerment from our earliest interactions with communities, inspired by teachings on social movements. We underestimated the complexity of power dynamics though and learned the hard way that we needed to create new organisations, where women could come together in solidarity. These community action groups became important social platforms; for example, supporting health workers who faced harassment for their services.
We widened our work over time to help people living in poverty to participate in formal government structures and leverage public services. We also increased our engagement with public official and village leaders to build wider support for women’s empowerment. These discussions have risen to the national level, where we advocate policies that support gender equality and human rights. Internally we have worked to build a female-friendly work environment and actively strive to recruit women.
Gender equality remains one of the greatest unfinished works of our generation, and an area in which we have to continue changing power dynamics. We still see that child marriage is the norm, sexual violence is pervasive, and women are under-represented in the workforce.
6 Changing Power Dynamics
As we began to provide financial services to people living in poverty, we noticed that many rural communities did not have access to markets
We started building value chains, connecting thousands of farmers and artisans to national markets. We focused on silk, poultry, clothing and retail, in many cases the viability of new sectors in Bangladesh. The successful scaling up of one value chain often spawned new livelihood opportunities, from poultry vaccinations to artificial insemination for dairy cows.
Entrepreneurship is also a long standing part of our development approach. Over time we have built a national cadre of local change agents, usually women, who receive training and support from us, but are paid for their services by their neighbours. These grassroots entrepreneurs distribute a wide variety of products and services, from sanitary napkins to high quality seeds.
As local and global labor markets offer new opportunities. We are supporting migrants to seek and finance work abroad safely, and equip youth with in-demand skills
7 BRAC INTERNATIONAL
By 2002 we had over 30 years experience of piloting and perfecting programs, and scaling them to reach millions. The time had come to bring what we had learnt in Bangladesh to the rest of the world.
Relief and rehabilitation were immediate needs after war and natural disasters plunged millions into poverty in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. We focused on peace and building stability through jobs, education and financial inclusion, continuing to put girls and women at the centre of opportunities.
We expanded into Africa four years later, starting development programs in Tanzania and Uganda. We continued to pilot, perfect and scale rapidly never losing focus on contextualising every opportunity created
Opening now in 12 countries gives us a rich knowledge base to further our work in Bangladesh, while providing us with a global network in which to pilot new solutions for the world’s problems. In 2016, we create opportunities for one in every 50 people in the world...
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Before a tour guide to brac/bangladesh- here’s a brief review of all of China’s neighbors and why the old English Raj is in population terms the biggest of china’s belt road tours and new development searches. Brett’s x times great grand father JAMES WILSON started this tour with Queen Victoria – after founding The Economist to help her debate what was London doing to Ireland (see current pbs episode of Victoria) he was dispatched to Calcutta started standard bank, died 1860 of diarrhea 9 months into the project. His son-in-law Walter Bagehot refocused on English constitution and pound sterling as commonwealth reserve currency with Victoria.
Accidentally the next time The Economist had a sub-editor with east west experience was my dad who waa a teenage navigator over modernday Myanmar in world war2 , who married the daughter of sir Kenneth Kemp whose 25 years as Mumbai chief justice mediating Gandhi ended up writing up legalese of india’s independence; most of dad’s first 20 years The Economist celebrated the East’s post colonial win-win economies ie japan s korea Chinese diaspora superports (archives) and by 1976 asked americans to celebrate asian pacific china global century as much as their own third century.
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At the time of moon landing dad started his other main dialogue of the 20th C world’s favorite viewspapre – Entrepreneurial Revolution – assuming the world was in 1968 destined to spend 1000 times more on commons tech in 2016 versus 1946 would we transform education to sustain all millenials livelihoods or the opposite?
ANTICLOCKWISE REVIEW OF CHINA’S NEIGHBOURS, STARTING AT ITS EAST COAST:
1 China’s east coast supercity connection are great : every positive win-win trading future can be dreamed with them : the superports and trains are ready to connect more than half the world’s economy which is how sustainability mapmaking should be with half the world’s people living within 3000 miles of Beijing but crowded in to less than 10% of the earth’s land
2 china’s border with asean looks pretty good ( asean with singpaore as its cultural soul is in top 6 development miracles with china mainland , china superports diaspora, s korea , japan , Bangladesh girls)
3 Now we come to the crucial corridor Myanmar Bangladesh India Pakistan – all old British Raj; what important to bring 2020 vision to first
Bangladesh is a key coastline – if it had a superport that united all trade interest on china India Bangladesh Myanmar that would change more girls lives than any single superport anywhere
The miracles of Bangladesh and mainland china both started at beginning of 1970s. In fact to start with japan shared rice science in a partnership with brac and china that was number 1 solution in ending famine. However china developed with the diaspora (the 3rd greatest financial power by the 1970s) inward investing in superb infrastructure; bangladesh girls had to build their nation with what aid they could turn into sustainable social business (the invention many people believe muhammad yunus designed but actually brac did. See The Economist article it wasn’t microcredit it was BRAC)
4 Next we come to Pakistan corridor to united arab emirates and thence djibouti to Africa, up the suez and through the Mediterranean sea- the brilliant new maritime silk road
5 As you continue tour of landlocked neighbors, its impossible for china to make anything much better without mediating Russia’s goodwill. Even the ovetland Chinese Express to west Europe passes through the Shanghai Cooperation neighbours of which Russia is a core dynamic , and which India joins for the first time as full member this year (2 incredible summits in june aiib Mumbai and SCO qingdao)
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6.1 You then have 4 trajectories through Russia but which you can also call the artic belt road. One is direct trade route to Nordica via st Petersburg which organisies a major annual economic summit- here the articuniversity.com shared by 8 countries and pivoting out of finland is the best news of all new universities of 2018 following damo as best news of 2017
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6.2 Direct route to Moscow – essentially what is the strategic future of Russian and East Europe people the west (EU) had first chance to mediate if the fall of the berlin wall had been about more than reuniting Germany
6.3 Direct north through mongolia – quite an unpopulated region but potentially renewable as pivotal natural space
6.4 north east where the dream has always been a runnel across Bering Strait so that north east Eurasia Alaska Canada West Coast usa van all be one supertrain corridor as well people spaces that are totally complementary as sustainable economies if 20th c borders hadn’t been erected primarily by stalin
6.5 Of course the last border challenge: as neighbors turn full circle is north korea- here we have 30 million underdeveloped people ; they too need one superport; this solution can really only come about if russia china japan and south jorea start to trust each other
I welcome being told what stories youth should map differently than above; if I have over-simplified or got them wrong please don’t throw out the brac and bangaldesh superport challenge without looking at it in more detail.
First if you put a straight railway line from Beijing to xi’an to chengdu to the coast you would almost hit the Myanmar-bangladesh border- at cox’s bazzar which yunus and my father discussed as needing to be a superport with 50 people at the royal automobile club london in feb 2008! Second if you did a railway from chengdu to Gwadar you would almost pass through new delhi thus opening up all the route to emirates : Oman , Djibouti and Adrican silk road, suez and med sea silk road. But third if you review every sustainability goal in terms of which communities face the hardest entrepreneurial challenges you would come back to bangaldeshi girls as still being the SDG17 world's most vital youth partners. If climate goes wrong there will be more initial flooding of peoples along bangladesh coastline than anywhere. Brac has designed an economy where communities and girls networks maximizing their own capacities to build the future. This is the story that all of sheihka moza’s wise partmers can honor as brac was their first educational laureate and now that guterres has asked them to stage the girls and refugee learning summits at the UNGA Sept 2018.
TOURING BRAC AS INTEGRAL TO 2018 teachers Game of Fives and World Record Jobs Creators
Publishers of the sino-english world record book of jobs creation demand that any educator responsible for youth future livelihoods understands teachings of these 5 peoples alumni network if they are to help with sustainability rising out of every community
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BRAC also works with other development organisations to expand education opportunities for disadvantaged children by partnering with them and providing them with technical and financial support to implement BRAC’s non-formal primary education model with changes as needed. These collaboration activities are called education support programmes.
Key features
- The one-teacher school is operated by the same teacher for the same cohort of children for a period of four years and delivers lessons in all subjects
- The school hours are flexible and fixed according to needs
- Children do not pay any fees and there are no long holidays
- Little or no homework as most of their parents are not capable of assisting them
- Children with special needs receive corrective surgeries along with devices like wheelchairs, hearing aids, glasses and ramps
- Children belonging to ethnic communities receive class lectures and course materials in their own languages up to class 2 so that they can overcome language barriers and cultural gaps
- BRAC develops textbooks and other materials for up to class 3 and government textbooks are used in classes 4 and 5
- Students are taught about social values and their rights and responsibilities coupled with basic financial education to empower them
- BRAC primary school graduates are being tracked by BRAC for further study
Mechanism to ensure quality of teaching
A typical BRAC teacher is a woman from the community in which the school is, with 10 years of schooling experience. Teachers undergo an initial 12-day training course in order to repeat basic information on teaching and learning and to enhance their teaching abilities. They subsequently participate in monthly, subject-based refresher courses and yearly orientation prior to advancing to the next class. In collaboration with BRAC University’s Centre for Language (CfL), BRAC provides a two-month long (21 days each) teacher training programme in English to the teachers.
What is the linkage with the government education system?
Bangladesh government has allowed BPS students to appear for Primary Education Terminal Examination which is a fundamental board examination that takes place at the end of class 5.
The effectiveness of this programme was evident when the graduates of the non-formal schools were well ahead of the country average when it came to passing grade for the primary school examination - 97 per cent success rate in 2009, and 99.54 per cent in 2010.
How do we track graduates at secondary schools?
BRAC experienced that its graduates admitted in secondary schools often cannot complete their education due to many critical circumstances. We started the ‘tracking of BRAC graduates at secondary schools’ programme to ensure their enrolment at the secondary level, promote regular attendance, reduce dropout rate so that they successfully complete the course.
BRAC is also regularly in touch with secondary school authorities and other organisations to manage scholarships and full/half free education for BPS graduates.
Projects:
a. Shikkha Tari: Boat School
b. School for dropped out children
c. Performing and fine arts
d. Total learning experience (TLE)
e. School for street children
f. Social and emotional learning (SEL)
g. Aflatoun
h. Mobile library for BRAC Primary Schools
i. Interactive digital content in primary education
j. Kumon mathematics at BRAC schools
Quick facts:
14,153 primary schools
389,910 students, of whom 62.17% are girls
5.3 million students completed courses to date, of which 60.43% are girls
5.55 million students transferred to formal schools to date, of which 60.12% are girls
14,153 teachers
Read Stories:
Innovative Steps Towards Primary Education in Haor Area
Akhi studies hard to be a teacher.
Alam, a Non-formal Primary School Student, Now Runs His Own.
Related Videos:
Mitali Dango: BRAC School Teacher
BRAC Primary School Students Singing.
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Open Learning Campus welcomes you. If you are looking for World Bank OLC please start at http://www.jimkim.info or http://www.sorosjobs.com ; other search queries text usa 240 316 8157 -or start at superplaces -sustainability designed by every family not a handful of bi-polar political big brothers
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2015NOW - 12 MONTHS THAT CHANGED TRILLION DOLLAR MARKET OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION with learning satellites of 5 billion people in play, there is a lot of mashing up of curricula going on - and it would be really useful if Rome and Glasgow and Paris and Madrid and Budapest and Warsaw could find common ground over next few months if any is to ever be found out of Europe in time to valuing millennials livelihoods wanted - ideas on how anywhere could unite in celebrating good news of collaborating with bracTimeline of Open Learning Campus (OLC) -latest newsletter2014 world record top10 job creator jim kim's world bank takes collaboration lead : launching OLC (with coursera) august 2014, 2nd annual youth summit october 7 2014, first annual UN-partnered millennials competition spring 2015 |
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how did villager networks around Sir Fazle build rural health service? build village education? build banking networks? build valuetrue maps of food , water and safe-for-children communities?
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1972: in the West The Economist starts debating OLC after seeing students experiment with early digital learning network (UK national dev program computer assisted elearning; milllenials goals www.thelearningweb.net- book form becomes favorite export to 10 million chinese parents in East BRAC starts greatest bottom-up lab for OLC - |
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1989 Berners Lee launches the web- soon mit media lab in boston becomes most resourced open source tech wizards innovation lab;early -Kenya's IHUB backed by ushahidi becomes the worldwide youth's most exciting open source technology wizard's networking space
youth african ihub partners all over africa
Late 200s Khan Academy invents the most valuable reporting format of all -maximum 9-minute audio blackoards-0 game is on- which audio-blackboards are so valued by youth to peer to peer learn with that their viral action networking makes trending on twitter look like a sideshow
puzzle 1 : Back in 1962 The Economist celebrate the win-win peace economics model of japan and projects milennial population statistics will require Asian Pacific milllenials to be responsible for more than half of the planet's open and sustainbility investments 1975- 2025- who;s connecting this? jack ma? Yao Ming with Brookings Inside Out China and Unseen Wealth teams? rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc hotline 301 881 1655
How did bottom-up NGO BRAC become the world's largest most collaborative network for partnering in millennials sustainability? While it is known globally and locally for sharing extreme innovations in community banking, its foundations were first built on 3 subnetworks:bottom-up disaster relief massive scaling of microfranchisie solutions to life critical challenges what the WISE laureates value as number 1 job-creating education network in the world (parallel nominees by context of freedom of entrepreneurial skills) help us review 2013 MOOC2013 was a year in which professors might have found out what a huge gap ... - is khan academy's 60 minutes introduction to coding the most valuable training billions of youth have ever been offered? otherKhan links |
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