how to MOOC, .I would suggest items below plus any questions he wants to ask
If you see elements of this presentation which you yourself want more debate on please say
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MOOC Recommendation to BRAC
1 Most basic skill of MOOC is presenting training in 10 minute module vitually- what?
2 Simplest case to study is Khan Academy – why know about KA & Coursera?
3 Two questions to ask to maximise BRAC value chain of mooc and whole internet
3.1 -what 10 minute modules do millions of youth most need to interact
3.2 How do the 10 minute modules link together in a whole course
4 Recommendation- start up a 10 million youth-training-outreach
Lab wherever you do social labs or lead bottom-up practices .( Software to
start lab to produce same training format as khan is only $300 per licence)
5 What BRAC brand can scale that no other partner network can? How to
linkin to post 2015 millennium goals summits that value open job creating
education as critical collaboration multiplier
6 Debate – these recommendations come from 42 years of
other way round experiments in online learning thanks to Norman Macrae's
lifetime editorial interest in this future. Expensive (top-down) professionals
will advise different starting points to MOOC. Depends how much you want to
always be in editorial control of your own training content and how nearly
free you want hundreds of millions of youth interactions to spread.
Is this the curriculum Bangladesh, Chinese and Japanese youth need most? your view s of most needed free curricula welcome!!
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FAST TRACK-Someone like Taddy Blecher could give sir fazle eg a telephone
briefing on that fom leading practioner viewpoint. Someone like Japan Ambassador could
reconvene meeting on above with sir fazle and quadir brother and other
Bangla open tech wizards. If chemistry is good between sir fazle and say paul
farmer then they could both discuss how to mooc free nursing college. If its
good with say soros they could include aflatoun in a financial and currency
literacy curriculum. Sir Fazle should brainstorm which partners to mooc what
youth practice networks on first
OPTIONAL ADDITION
A former first lady of s.africa used to call dhaka the open university of microcredit.
Why not: one day worked youth can call BRAC the open university of everything
Since 1972 we have assumed a race is going on for peoples to free education
with big brothers who want the exact opposite. Currently MOOC is the
most urgent freedom challenge any entrepreneurial revolutionary can collaborate
around-by celebrating this now the triad of japan, china, bangladesh could live
up to dad's 1970s published vision in The Economist of Asian region saving
worldwide youth 1975-2075. My guess is Jack Ma may be a critical connector of
this but we need bangladeshi open tech wizards to brainstorm who…
There are approximately 3 billion people who survive on less than 2 dollars a day. And as a result of this we have a cycle of malnutrition - especially among our young children. At present there are about 160 million children under the age of 5 who are malnourished in our world. And these are children who are mainly living in developing parts of the world -in Asia, Africa, parts of Latin America.
This cycle of malnutrition is what I would like to go through today.
IMMUNE SYSTEM
One of the biggest concerns that we have when we have a child experiencing malnutrition is the fact that child's immune system is likely to be compromised: and that means that child is less likely to be able to fight off diseases. So a compromised immune system is going to lead to an increase in both the duration and the number of diseases that child experiences growing up
GROWTH AND DEVELPOMENT
Other things malnutrition does is that it inhibits or slows down both the physical growth of the child (increases in weight, height, head circumference) and also it inhibits or slows down the development of the child. When we are talking about development we are talking about maturation of the child. And development can occur either with or without physical growth. So an example without physical growth would be learning to speak or learning how to walk.. An example with physical growth would be pubertal development or debvelopmenta round the time of puberty.
So all of these things : delays in growth, delays in development, and an increase in number of severity and number of diseases experienced by the child- all of these things are going to lead to an overall decrease in the lifetime productivity of that child. That child is less likely to be a highly functioning member of the society in which that child lives because of the fact that they are small, and unable or less able to learn effectively, and also because they are often ill. So what's going happen then - obviously children grow up, and what happens when you have widespread malnutrition is that decreased productivity becomes a characteristic of all the children who are becoming adults within a society. And that is going to lead to a decrease in the countrywide development. And the first symptom of that is going to be widespread poverty , we going to see a lot of poverty and of course one of the follows-on of widespread poverty is malnutrition in children.
CYCLE OF MALNUTRITION
So you can see that this is a self-perpetuating cycle, we have malnutrition in many children around the world leading to delayed growth or stunted restricted growth and development, decreases in child's ability to battle disease leading to increased illness- all of these things contributing decreased productivity of the child, and that is going to lead to decreased productivity of the country, widespread poverty and again malnutrition
Brilliant 11 minute script on metabolism at https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/stanford-medicine/growth-and-metabolism/v/basics-of-metabolism…
for open learning campus:
and while the british aid record in africa has a chequered record, as far as I know as a scot and brit it is well intended
for me brac is the most purposeful and collaborative network I have ever studied- and I have seen a lot of data on many of the world' biggest organisations in my role as global brand leadership connector
but this is an experiment- here are some first questions for starting up group debate after yesterday's presentation by BRAC in washington dc
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rough question starters chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc 301 881 1655
an extraordinary experiment up in the air currently massively funded out of UK DFID
on the positive side if anyone can redesign value chains brac can ;on the questionable side, I feel there are some disimilarities between how brac took ownership of the poultry chain for the poor in bangladesh, interfacing maize and poultry could need a lot of local data simplification
these are "rough" questions' I would love to hear how more expert people might phrase them
need lot of information to keep grounded on very poorest, in tanzania microfinance isnt allowed to include savings (at least not NGO-run);
in bangladesh brac runs the cashless bank whereas it didnt sound as if it yet has many connections with tanzania's mpesa (even though gates foundation has supported both mpesa and brac a lot in tanzania)
can nanocredit be a magic bullet in ensuring value chain redesign is grounded on the poorest
if sir fazle abed and brac university were to find time to contricbute on-demand courera content through world bank open learning campus or khan academy or yazmi, would his mapping of how to linkin brac programs with this live LEAD laboratory be a case all young african societies and even brac facilitators would action learn around
chris macrae skype chrismacraedc
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ation a basket case - no capital of its own, densely overpopulated bur rural (meaning 90% had no access to electricity grids).
Fazle Abed had been born in the far north east corner of British Raj India in 1936. In !948 his people suddenly found that instead of one independent india they had become East Pakistan a colony of (wesr) Pakistan. This was a cultural division insisted on by the Aga Khan. There was no land border- and by sea you would have had to circumnavigate India. Pakistan had its own independence challenges-there was little attention to priorieies of those in East Pakistan. Aged 19 Fazle chose to go and study naval engineering at Glasgow University the place where the age of humans and machines had started up in 1760s around first engineer James Watt and first economics map maker Adam Smith. Abed then study chartered accountancy and by 1970, age of 33, he had become East Pakistan's regional ceo for the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company headquartered in London. Then a life changing moment: a million people were killed all around him by the most intense cyclone. This changed the meaning of life for Abed. He returned to London to finish his contract, another million killing event occurred in his homeland with the war of independence. So it was with 16000 pounds from selling his flat in London and with a little aid money from oxfam- Team Abed arrived 1972 to help refugees build homes for 16000 families. Historically disaster relief agencies are invited in by a host nation, do immediate relief work and fly back out. What was different with Brac from day one - it was concerned with training locals. The local men were to build the one room houses- abed engineered a simple one room design with a pit latrine and small courtyard for doing the cooking. There was no electricity or running water. He used his unique logistics connections to ensure over a million bamboo logs were escorted up river. Thus homes for early 100000 people were built for about 3 dollars per home. This cluster of villages became a lab for testing microfranchises. Life critical priorities were food not to starve and health of infants and mothers. How could small positive cashflow businesses be safely built around the (mostly illiterate) village mothers and their community building ?
Unlike any nation in history, the national government had next to no tax base to start with. While it tried to sort out development of the capital city Dhaka, villagers across the nation needed to come up with survival solutions- in fact a million died of famine in 1974. Fazle was testing not only life and livelihood concepts for 16000 families around him but village franchise solutions that could replicates across 65000 villages of the rural nation. Agricultural food security A!, A2 and Health H1,H2 solutions for infants and mothers were the absolute priority. Fortunately village agricultural knowhow had been advanced by the American Borlaug - and East Pakistan's cholera lad had come up with a solution to save children and others from dying of diarrhea. While Oral Rehydration - a precisely blended mix of water sugar and salts had been discovered- the lab had no idea how to market it to 65 million mostly illiterate peoples.…
t could be one of the most interesting curriculum of all
the question starts with how do you sustain the most livelihoods with milk - for small producers but ensuring you lead the nationwide market which can have a vital nutritional impact on the whole population
what becomes interesting is to make a checklist of all the types of milk product
fresh milk - most nutritious but least shelf-life - complext to distribute around vilages with no roads except very short disatnce
condensed milk or pasteurised long-life milk - less nutritious, much more stable once manufactired but historically a big manufacturing investment and having similar collection problem from roadless villages -let alone getting the product back to the poorest vilages economicaly
powdered milk - manufactirung chain has similar problems to long-life liquid milks; less wieght of manufatirued product may make it easier to distribute but dependency on mixing with clean water can make product very dangerous especially if targeted at mothers of infannts who may not udnerstand the usage instructions or know whether they have to access clean water (made worse in bangalesh's case that many wells that appear to offer clean water turn out to have too much arsenic)
other milk products like yogurt and cheese - well historically these would sound like upscale markets for the city -not likely to end nutritional problems in vilage
but take a second look at what can happen in the post digital age if the market elader is concerned to maximise jobs for the poorest as well as feed the nation
historically the most important thing brac's share of the milk chain does is the opposite to everyone else- it doesnt treat small producers badly the wany other colectirs do- what other collectors do is say we will pay you for the lowest quality milk (because we will mix it up as we collect) and at worst prics because you are only a small producer but colecting from you is (due to lack of roads) even more worl
secondly new mobile tools can now help :
brac collectors test quality opf milk and so pay by quality
thrirdl 3-d printing technolies iarerevolutionising designs of micro-factories for eg yogurts and other processedfoods
put this all together - and across teh devleoping world there could be 100 million new jobs of milk if all the coops of small producers connect with the brac tyoe model and if all students growing up in ouyr milelial world have acess to a khan academy of milk where all thesedifferent production and market choices are made transparent - lets empower customer and small producer communities of milk with the elearning on milk's curriculum vitae…
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latforms (10 times more economical ways of action individual and networked knowhow) include
Yazmi
Khan academy
Coursera on-demand and Open Learning Campus
MIT open edu; reclaim our learning; edx; berners lee
2 Jobs-apps networks and platforms include
telecentres for jobs
nanocredit for jobs
whichever blend of organisation is going to become chief investor in microfranchises (microbank? microeducator? micromobile owner,
3 nations whose citizens are (with their access to worldwide disaporas) shaking up independence eg the importance of the scotland debate-elearning shows how te most abundantf 21st world trade needs to be directly between broderless citizens; bureaucrats and bankers of borders spin our greatest risks
3a in other cases citizens are mass scaling curriculum - austraila 10 thousands girls of financial literacy and million green energy action learners network
4 Celebrate collaboration Search for partners for missing curriculum
South Africa world leader on literacies of entrepreneurship (main partner branson), coding (main partner google africa), self-empowerment main partner (maharishi), financial literacy (various partners aligning small business life long learning and apprenticeship redesign); internal partner now whole schooling system of 14 million children; typical best twin capital partners ihubs founded by open source import-export
Alfatoun financial literacy - while nearly 100 national partners - brac is most massive scaling one
5a curriculum of leapfrogging - map back what knowledge is needed in next billion gamechangers - mobile phones, energy off grid, cashless banking,- what knowhow needs to be exactly opposite to pre-digital's conventions
5b practice professional areas need to be connected with young professional networks -and total value chain movement celebrated by jim kim and world youth summits Twin cities in a movement more valued than any sporting olympics). These include:
next half billion jobs of free nursing college
next half billion jobs of clean energy college
next half billion jobs of job-creating economics and multi-win business-social models
popes public service of ending inequality curricula and need to take beyond religion
6 the ultimate hidden agendas is that 20th c peoples gave away monopolies of being ruled over by professions of separation; professions of ending externalisation and compounding risks on to least socially connected must end now as this is integral to any whole truth millennial goals race to end poverty
7 OLA the unexpected- eg now that India has proven that almost any illiterate adult can be helped to read a newspaper within a month- how does that change all formal education of literacy?
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has a financing problem - can someone who knows about this join us spet 30
green world has a problem- can one of the ,ksit masive english language supopirtres of renewable climate from prince charles and bbc bridcasting circles join in - proeviously prince charels helped launch banker for the poor, princess anne he;lped launch nearly free nusrig colege, one of the other princes he;lped launch varkey's million dolar gteacher prized
open elarning workld possible ahs a problem- even though banladeshi american sal khan has produced more open elarning content per buck than anyine else few if any gteachers now how to belend elearning with teal time school cklassromms and all their exams - but then education commission leaders like jack ma and erna solberg say the classroom and siuts standard exames are the problem- kids need experiential learning iun their communities outside the calssroom- but how will taht ever happen if we can never use open elarning
mostifa zaman 12 yeras into connting world ro=youth amnassadors with brac and gramen knowledge invited ying -this was part of a process where he had been asked by sir fazle abed to coodrnate all ideas on education throufg directir dr islam- oroiginally the 2 world class education summkits wise and gordon briown had said that brac was the first case to understand- but netither network now ask their alumni to know anything about brac
the origin of chinese studnets actively studying brac emerged when amy and yuz=xuan attended sir fazle's 80th birthday party- it is currently uncleas which chiense youth ambassadors will be attending
one of the reasons why sept 30 is the right tome is in april jack ma fomred huis first bangladesh ventire with brac's bkash - this is already the partner network which bill and melinda gates say is one of the greatest of their discoveries- its a collaboration pathaway between poorest cheinse and south asian women like no other- but how does banking foir these women connect with livelihood education - and whoi has the big data permissions
brac spet 25 yera developing personal permission before digotal sgtarted to come to bangaldesh- no other clountru has that origiun trust netwirk but india has a triust netwrkl formed by infosys billionnnaitre nalkani when he left infosys over 10 yeras ago to work on the legacy prpoject of kalam- kalam the past president of india and cheof scientist had wanted all non-greenn curriculum torn up by 2020- the billion person universall iedentityu offers big daya small opportunity to distribute elarnking or finance diercetly to those who most need it
imagine the invitation process for sept 30 is like lure open space- who do you most want to be the people who come to be the right people to help empower women , jack ma, sir fazle abed and alumni of all of sustainability goals most couragoes bottom up micrifranchise and open learning solutions…
earning nuggets replicating khan academy type platform (as Dr Yunus prayed for at 2013 skoll ) what is the 42 year pro-youth economics storyline they need to benchmark first of how bottom up networking ends poverty
I suggest these 10 interconnecting ideas from BRAC's brillian trials and tribulations are worth knowing about- by all means add in other practice areas- eg when it comes to micro-up energy nancy wimmer knows exactly how grameen scaled; sarah butler-sloss and prince charles celebrate microenergy solutions so joyfully that they have even changed the BBC's and Royal Geographic Society and British Consumer editorial policy on climate and energy; ted turners daughter is tasked with ensuring that if nothing else the billion dollars te turners have spent on the un foundation connect clean sustainable solutions
10 Dynamics To Benchmark around BRAC - the world's most purposeful ...
No network of partners has ever empowered more people to end community poverty more successfully than BRAC - what are top 10 magic moments…? We'd vote for these 10- how about you?
1 bottom-up disaster relief designed out of epicentre of 500000 killer cyclone by Chartered Accountant of the Shell Multinational and Glaswegian graduate of civil engineering
2 disciple of experiential learning education -of paulo freire and of village vocational schooling of Montessori-Gandhi (sir fazle also connects Freire with Popper's open society curriculum in exactly opposite ways to the mindset Jeffrey Sachs was taught by Harvard to impose -Bolivia,, Poland, Russia, Millennium Villages - see biography of The Idealist)
3 healthcare para-networkers first 10000 barefoot professional network to scale thanks to need to collaborate around oral rehydration to save fifth of infants lives (thereby also reducing need for mothers to breed 9 children) to see where this led to browse special 2013 issue of The Lancet on Bangladesh's most economical healthcare in the world -note this is the opposite way round system design to UN networkers spreading cholera across Haiti -
4 consciously go sector by rural market sector and redesign the whole value chain to sustain poorest, linkedin worldwide triad with japan's nippon institute and JIca and alumn of Borlaug
5 From the getgo BRAC published microentrepreneur research - lessons of what failed as well as what worked It debriefed all its funding partners continuously -microfanchise small (efficient and effective open model) then scale large.
6 The biographer of Steve Jobs claims his value multiplying genius involved converging multiple market sectors that had been separately strategised before the age of connectivity. Actually both BRAC and Grameen linkedin grassroots connectivity before technology was ready to multiply life critical knowhow. Both design bottom up financial service circles of village mothers round fusion of at least 4 sectors:
bottom-up value chain design
education
increasing health before taking out a loan to maximise personal and communal productivity
financial services
People who fail to help youth map the synergies between the way BRAC and Grameen scaled do endless harm to the every curriculum : microbanking, microeducation, microhealth, microvalue chains.
For example Grameen''s 16 decision culture of every centre of 60 villagers famously committed every village mother to sending children to primary school. But the schools across rural bangladesh only existed because of what BRAC scaled. Ultimately by the mid 1990s the grassroots "social networking" structures of both Grameen and BRAC involved hundreds of thousands of village circles communally regenerating village sustainability around maximum of 60 mothers per circle.
7 Both Grameen and BRAC had made the barefoot village banker the most trusted adviser -ensuring at least weekly visits to every village circle. What was being embedded was the most life critical social networking infrastructure. While it was Grameen that first mobilised the telecommunications connectivity of this - BRAC's personal advisers by early 1990 for every villager had added para-legal advisers - in other words BRAC was more deeply advanced into protecting the property rights of villagers (cf the argument of De Soto)
8 Sir Fazle Abed trained in Glasgow as an architect before he became a chartered accountant, wheras Yunus trained as a macroeconomist out of van Der Bilt during first year of racial integration. Sir Fazle liked to map on paper before digitalising. So BRAC was definitely slower in testing mobile connectivity as integral to the global village networking age. However this had an advantage. When microeditsummit started in 1997 it failed to query the future-now tipping points between:
manual and digital trust networks of banking
manual and digital connections of education infrastructures
bottom up value chain design.
While BRAC and Grameen had both scaled enough to attract investment in going digital many of the microcredit manual replicates in other countries were not in such a position to leverage/empower grassroots networking scale. This is the most fundamental problem impacting the The vast majority of microcredit models to lose their way during the race to 2015 millennium goals. While DR Yunus challenged the world of globalising business to partner in mobilising practical village lab tests, BRAC focused first on integrating hi-trust banking at every level a developing nation needs:
9 Grameen had from the mid 1980s celebrated dialogue roundtables about three tiemns a year where people who wanted to try and replicate grameen in their own countries could come and action learn. Partly because the BRAC model is so much more interdependent with developing a nation's education - it did not see how to become a multinational knowhow connector until lessons were learned around the world from the first exponentially increasing decade (19996-2005) connection of the internet linking in every human being (citizen or villager). BRAC's international development since mid 2000s has been with the most trusted partners -search both its global connectors and its local cultural connections with muslims for good.
10 As the 2010s scale open education, the opportunity is to celebrate all the most collaborative curricula of bottom up development noting the correlation between the social movements of end poverty and twining youth job creation out of every capital with a future. It is to be hoped that the most open education platforms such as khan academy find ways to source microfranchise module content both from BRAC and Grameen. If these 3 Bangladeshi-cultured networks can win-win-win they can help worldwide youth change every broken system that became to top-down during tv advertising's age.…
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nd women, empowering women and sustainable communities
for example brac is known as a benchmark in primary and early childhood education - the largest non government operational partner in both
s1 oral rehydration market equivalent world class research partners cholera /diarrhea -related how to treat water to be potable
s2 10 essential illnesses local village para-health workers can serve solutions to -market equivalent supply china of essentials for first aid etc in 1970s lots of knowledge exchanges with china eg how to share solutions china barefoot medics
s3 informal primary schools
s4 early childhood playschools - partners include lego, related yidan prize partners/laureates eg cambridge university
s5 ultra- grants/stipend/asset and training targeted at 10% very poorest rural graduating them to be able to use village banking where designing value chains round village smes
s6 rural nation vaccination network
s7 benchmark model for ending tuberculosis - relates to worldwide evolution of last mile health networks- this franchise was how abed first became parters with gates, soros, abd partnes in health's kim/farmer- their impacts on global health fund- also impacts on demanding who get bottom up after ebola- fortunately soros had already invested in brac liberia and sierra leone; pih had already built its main african teaching hospital in rwanda - hence all could team up with additionally medecins sans frontiere and local last mile health in each ebola stricken nation
s8 network for reducing maternal deaths - includes birthing house, advance diagnosis of who's births cant be handled in village
s9 with aflatoun primary curriculum of how to use money
s10 pit latrines - sanitation village knowhow has extended over 50 years into WASH PROGRAM
unclassifiable brac internet
unclassifiable - village resiliency back in 1972 this began with bamboo construction of village dwelling to be monsoon-proof , as far as possible cyclone proof (with also community refuge centre) with pit latrine- this became a generic model - in fact the aga khan foundation mid 1980s awarded muhammad yunus architecture prize for his related version
unclassifiable - brac university- coalition of deepest 50 university fo sdg leaders- includes world class cholera+immunisation college james grant school public health
unclassifiable - brac's barefoot lawyers network needed eg to resolve village land disputes- culturally to support womens rights vis a vis culture of dowries and selling off child brides
m1 www.bkash.com - the model partnership bill gates sees as having potential of digital cash for billion previously unbanked
m2 brac city bank - number 1 sme bank in bangladesh; number 2 bank in bangladesh - target customers children of village mothers who have moved to the city
m3 brac microfinance - village banking services
m4 international remittances - led out of international hq in netherlands
m5 to m8
bangladesh national leader in poultry dairy rice food security - other vegetable/seed food security
related references s3
s3 BRAC has developed a franchise-like model through which they provide financial and technical assistance to local institutions to set up schools and have exponentially improved the text books and resources which brac prints…
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KERRY GLASGOWIS HUMANITY'S LAST BEST CHANCE - Join search for Sustainaabilty's Curricula
101ways-generation.docx 101 ways education can save the world WHAT IF WE DESIGNED LIFELONG LIVELIHOOD LOEARNING SO THAT so that teachers & students, parent & communities were empowered to be ahead of 100 times more tech rather than the remnants of a system that puts macihnes and their exhausts ahead of human life and nature's renewal 2016 is arguably the first time thet educatirs became front and centre to the question that Von neummn asked journalist to mediate back in 1951- what goods will peoples do with 100 times more tech per decade? It appears that while multilaterals like the Un got used in soundbite and twittering ages to claim they valued rifghts & inclusion, pubblic goods & safety, they fotgot theirUN tech twin in Genva has been practising global connectivity since 1865, that dellow Goats of V neumnn has chiared Intellectual Cooperation in the 1920s which pervesrely became the quasi trade union Unesco- it took Abedian inspired educations in 2016 ro reunite ed and tecah as well as health and trade ; 7 decades of the UN not valuing Numenn's question at its core is quite late, but if we dare graviate UN2 aeound this digital coperation question now we give the younger half if the world a chnace especially as a billion poorest women have been synchronised to deep community human development since 1970
Dear Robert - you kindly asked for a short email so that you could see if there is a CGTN anchor in east coast who might confidentially share views with my expectation of how only Asian young women cultural movements (parenting and community depth but amplified by transparent tech in life shaping markets eg health, food, nature..) can return sustainability to all of us
three of my father's main surveys in The Economist 1962-1977 explain imo where future history will take us (and so why younger half of world need friendship/sustainable adaptation with Chinese youth -both on mainland and diaspora)
1962 consider japan approved by JF Kennedy: argued good news - 2 new economic models were emerging through japan korea south and taiwan relevant to all Asia Rising (nrxt to link the whole trading/supply chains of the far east coast down through hong kong and cross-seas at singapore)
1 rural keynsianism ie 100% productivity in village first of all food security- borlaug alumni ending starvation
2 supercity costal trade models which designed hi-tech borderless sme value chains- to build a 20 million person capital or an 8 million person superport you needed the same advances in engineering - partly why this second economic model was win-win for first time since engines begun Glasgow 1760 ; potentially able to leverage tech giant leaps 100 times ahead; the big opportunity von neumann had gifted us - knowhow action networking multiply value application unlike consuming up things
1976 entrepreneurial revolution -translated into italian by prodi - argued that future globalisation big politics big corporate would need to be triangularised by community scaled sme networks- this was both how innovation advancing human lot begins and also the only way to end poverty in the sense of 21st C being such that next girl born can thrive because every community taps in diversity/safety/ valuing child and health as conditions out of which intergenerational economic growth can spring
in 1977 fathers survey of china - argued that there was now great hope that china had found the system designs that would empower a billion people to escape from extreme poverty but ultimately education of the one child generation (its tech for human capabilities) would be pivotal ( parallel 1977 survey looked at the futures of half the world's people ie east of iran)
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IN MORE DETAIL TECH HUMAN EXPONENTIALS LAST CHANCE DECADE?
- we are in midst of unprecedented exponential change (dad from 1960s called death of distance) the tech legacy of von neumann (dad was his biographer due to luckily meeting him in his final years including neumann's scoping of brain science (ie ai and human i) research which he asked yale to continue in his last lecture series). Exponential risks of extinction track to mainly western top-down errors at crossroads of tech over last 60 years (as well as non transparent geonomic mapping of how to reconcile what mainly 10 white empires had monopoly done with machines 1760-1945 and embedded in finance - see eg keynes last chapter of general theory of money); so our 2020s destiny is conditioned by quite simple local time-stamped details but ones that have compounded so that root cause and consequence need exact opposite of academic silos- so I hope there are some simple mapping points we can agree sustainability and chinese anchors in particular are now urgently in the middle of
Both my fatherwww.normanmacrae.netat the economist and I (eg co-authoring 1984 book2025 report,retranslated to 1993 sweden's new vikings) have argued sustainability in early 21st c will depend mostly on how asians as 65% of humans advance and how von neumann (or moores law) 100 times more tech every decade from 1960s is valued by society and business.
My father (awarded Japan's Order of Rising Sun and one time scriptwriter for Prince Charles trips to Japan) had served as teen allied bomber command burma campaign - he therefore had google maps in his head 50 years ahead of most media people, and also believed the world needed peace (dad was only journalist at messina birth of EU ) ; from 1960 his Asian inclusion arguments were almost coincidental to Ezra Vogel who knew much more about Japan=China last 2000 years ( additionally cultural consciousness of silk road's eastern dynamics not golden rule of Western Whites) and peter drucker's view of organisational systems
(none of the 10 people at the economist my father had mentored continued his work past 1993- 2 key friends died early; then the web turned against education-journalism when west coast ventures got taken over by advertising/commerce instead of permitting 2 webs - one hi-trust educational; the other blah blah. sell sell .sex sell. viral trivial and hate politicking)
although i had worked mainly in the far east eg with unilever because of family responsibilities I never got to china until i started bumping into chinese female graduates at un launch of sdgs in 2015- I got in 8 visits to beijing -guided by them around tsinghua, china centre of globalisation, a chinese elder Ying Lowrey who had worked on smes in usa for 25 years but was not jack ma's biographer in 2015 just as his fintech models (taobao not alibaba) were empowering villagers integration into supply chains; there was a fantastic global edutech conference dec 2016 in Tsinghua region (also 3 briefings by Romano Prodi to students) that I attended connected with great womens education hero bangladesh'sfazle abed; Abed spent much of hs last decade hosting events with chinese and other asian ambassadors; unite university graduates around sdg projects the world needed in every community but which had first been massively demonstrated in asia - if you like a version of schwarzman scholars but inclusive of places linking all deepest sustainability goals challenges
and i personally feel learnt a lot from 3 people broadcasting from cgtn you and the 2 ladies liu xin and tian wei (they always seemed to do balanced interviews even in the middle of trump's hatred campaigns), through them I also became a fan of father and daughter Jin at AIIB ; i attended korea's annual general meet 2017 of aiib; it was fascinating watching bankers for 60 countries each coming up with excuses as to why they would not lead on infrastructure investments (even though the supercity economic model depends on that)
Being a diaspora scot and a mathematician borders (managers who maximise externalisation of risks) scare me; especially rise of nationalist ones ; it is pretty clear historically that london trapped most of asia in colomisdation ; then bankrupted by world war 2 rushed to independence without the un or anyone helping redesign top-down systems ; this all crashed into bangladesh the first bottom up collaboration women lab ; ironically on health, food security, education bangladesh and chinese village women empowerment depended on sharing almost every village microfranchise between 1972 and 2000 especially on last mile health networking
in dads editing of 2025 from 1984 he had called for massive human awareness by 2001 of mans biggest risk being discrepancies in incomes and expectations of rich and poor nations; he suggested that eg public broadcast media could host a reality tv end poverty entrepreneur competition just as digital media was scaling to be as impactful as mass media
that didnt happen and pretty much every mess - reactions to 9/11, failure to do ai of epidemics as priority from 2005 instead of autonomous cars, failure to end long-term carbon investments, subprime has been rooted in the west not having either government nor big corporate systems necessary to collaboratively value Asian SDG innovations especially with 5g
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I am not smart enough to understand how to thread all the politics now going on but in the event that any cgtn journalist wants to chat especially in dc where we could meet I do not see humans preventing extinction without maximising chinese youth (particularly womens dreams); due to covid we lost plans japan had to relaunch value of female athletes - so this and other ways japan and china and korea might have regained joint consciousness look as if they are being lost- in other words both cultural and education networks (not correctly valued by gdp news headlines) may still be our best chance at asian women empowerment saving us all from extinction but that needs off the record brainstorming as I have no idea what a cgtn journalist is free to cover now that trump has turned 75% of americans into seeing china as the enemy instead of looking at what asian policies of usa hurt humans (eg afghanistan is surely a human wrong caused mostly by usa); a; being a diaspora scot i have this naive idea that we need to celebrate happiness of all peoples an stop using media to spiral hatred across nations but I expect that isnt something an anchor can host generally but for example if an anchor really loves ending covid everywhere then at least in that market she needs to want to help united peoples, transparency of deep data etc
please map how and why - more than 3 in 4 scots earn their livelihoods worldwide not in our homeland- that requires hi-trust as well as hi-tech to try to love all cultures and nature's diversity- until mcdonalds you could use MAC OR MC TO identify our community engaging networks THAT SCALED ROUND STARTING UP THE AGE OF HUMANS AND MACHINES OF GKASGOW UNI 1760 12 3 - and the microfranchises they aimed to sustain locally around each next child born - these days scots hall of fame started in 1760s around adam smith and james watt and 195 years later glasgow engineering BA fazle abed - we hope biden unites his irish community building though cop26 -ditto we hope kamalA values gandhi- public service - but understand if he or she is too busy iN DC 2021 with covid or finding which democrats or republicans or american people speak bottom-up sustainable goals teachers and enrrepreneurs -zoom with chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you are curious - fanily foundation of the economist's norman macrae- explorer of whether 100 times more tehc every decade since 1945 would end poverty or prove orwell's-big brother trumps -fears correct 2025report.com est1984 or the economist's entreprenerialrevolutionstarted up 1976 with italy/franciscan romano prodi