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BRAC BUSINESS SCHOOL
Asian Institute of Management, Manila
Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA
University of South Australia
JAMES P GRANT SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Beijing National and Guangxi Provincial
Centres for Diseases Control, China
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Department of Clinical Medicine
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
George Washington University, USA
Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex, UK
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA
National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Bangladesh
School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
University of Heidelberg, Germany
University of Illinois at Springfield, USA
University of Nagasaki, Japan
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Thailand
Asian University Network of Environment and Disaster Management (AUEDM)
Katmandu University, Nepal
Kyoto University, Japan
Northumbria University, UK
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCES
Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC)
BIRDEM, Dhaka, Bangladesh
BRACARDC, Gazipur, Bangladesh
CNRS, CEA, Grenoble, France
ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh
University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
BCSIR, Dhaka Bangladesh
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH & HUMANITIES
Tufts University, USA
Stockholm University, Sweden
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Consortium
BRAC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
American University of Cairo, Egypt
Bahia University, Brazil
Colgate University, New York
Columbia University, New York
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University
Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Ottawa University, Canada
School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Uganda Martyrs University (UMU), Uganda
Universided de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
University of Ghana
University of Manchester
University of Toronto
University of Western Cape, South Africa
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Aga Khan Foundation, Canada
Columbia University, New York, USA
George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi
Open Society Institute – London
Portland State University, USA
University of Massachusetts, USA
University of Sussex, UK
Victoria University, Canada
Yale University, USA
BRAC INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGES
Ministry of Cultural Affairs, The People's Republic of China.
INSTITUTE OF GOVERNANCE STUDIES
Basel Institute of Governance, Basel University, Switzerland
VU University Amsterdam, the Netherland
George Mason University, USA
Griffith University, Australia
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University, the Netherland
Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management, Seoul, Korea
Monash University, Australia
Natural Resource Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada
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some of our diary notes which we kept as an untidy blog *mainly as an aise memoire)
hursday, September 4, 2014
series -where to millennium goal summit to network what micropcreditsummit banned
related refernces : search for summits honoring post 2015 millennials goals
1 open tech networks of microbanking
typical current dialogue
estelle jean claude founded www.puddle.org - its in the kiva group out of san francisco; anna in san diego is one of its lead users for ending poverty in hispanic communities
jeanclaude - estelle's father in paris invested several of the technologies of transmitting money- after seeing banks abuse his work in credit cards his last 10 years has tried to keep these inventions out of big bank hands http://www.tagattitude.fr/en/
one of the mistakes estelle and I made was assuming muhammad yunus would be interested in this technology- we met him and his tech people several times but there wasnt even a beginning of a conversation; when we first did this around 2008 estelle as film journalist was interning with the lady vivienne who had first signed rights to make an epic film of yunus - another mistake- instead film of obama's mother leadership of womenworld banking indonesia is now out; there are rumors that vivienne's next gig will rereview whats been learnt in new orleans
these days paris convergences2015.org coordinated by tech teams around eg michael knaute discusses technology (and whether there are open licence versions that can support peoples futures of banks) in all the ways that microcreditsummit refuses to do- I am not sure about eg african test areas of eonnet's technology because they made mali a key test area before the country's troubles
hope there is some relevant group on both sides of atlamtic interested in some of this
cheers chris macrae linkedin skype chrismacraedc
ps when it comes to open banking tech the biggest irony of all is that all the tech wizards who designed cashless banking convene through MIT but as far as I know the only conventional microcredit leader they trust is brac's sir fazle abed- this has been a 20 yera muddle in the making caused by all the ways agents of yunus and microcreditsummit specialise in closed fund raising not the open tech youth needed to take sustainable banking to the epicentre of net generation goals
7:22 am edt
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Can Youth Help David Slay the Macroeconomics Giant
unite the poverty muesum race! last of 4 quarters to slay macroeconomics -youths backup deadline colaboration networks checkout #2025now #2030NOW, across usa #2015NOW
12:15 pm edt
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
#2015now- world's biggest question - how to find sponsors to sell youth's futures to?
Stranger than social fiction - back in 1997 when microcreditsummit started so the ten millon village mothers who had invested their lives in a community banked aimed at ending illiteracy of their children might have hoped this question would have been pivotal to how the world series of millenniu goal summits progressed. Let's make the question fully values youth in inking in the last 4 youth summits before the 2015 goals end
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CNN’s hero of the year competition extended to some superhero mentors starting with Muhammad Yunus in 2013; in parallel Ted Turner’s Billion dollar funding of UN Foundation was one of the first to ask what would Atlanta need to do become the favorite virtual and real future capital of youth and yunus. To which dr yunus replied: provide a benchmark for twin cities in youth job creation expos and millennium goal celebrations - and do this #2015now (ie before end of 2015) and empower hundreds of HBUC alumni to twin with Cape Town October 2014 where youth can celebrate action learning the 21st C legacy of Mandela as well as the 20th C Legacy of Gandhi’s whole truth interventions for designing nations around livelihoods of 99% of the people which started out of S. Africa in 1906
8:30 am edt
Saturday, February 22, 2014
benchmarking where alumni clubs are best for student livelihoods
Here is our lab for student livelihood clubs in Washington DC - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wsYgDtIfM0cPMHncbmHKE6KsM97pJHq...
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2014 YES UDC STUDENTS CAN - our dream : youth unite goodwill networks of obama, luther king and mandela in community job creation everywhere
- if we can linkin 3 movements through university of district of columbia it can't be so bad for student futures:anywhere
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1 back in sept 2012 yunus inspired 1000 of us at udc- he started a 3 year march to atlanta where 25000 real students are invited to connect livelihood networks with millions MOOC & webcasting
take away what you like out of the collaboration blog http://youthcreativelab.blogspot.com or ask tuskegee’s innovation director dr bhuiyan who is responsible for both 2012 and 2015 yunus events or ask chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk to send you the job vacancies dr bhuiyan and the new yunus foundation out of Atlanta are announcing -reference book by founder of tuskegee booker t washington
2 #2020now connect with alumni of the 5 virtually free universities in johannesburg and their plan to extend entrepreneur curriculum to 14 million children across the nations schools and regenerate 1 million jobs by 2020
-search for taddy blecher, branson, google partnerships or ask chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk for a guided bookmark tour - and see if your diary fits with our quarterly skypes with Taddy and other world leading pro-youth educators
3 DC citzens are hosting the first ever USA-Africa Diaspora summit 17 May 2014- how can UDC livelihood networks join in - is the start of a worldwide youth livelihoods diaspora network ready to collab round
http://www.usadbc.org/#!forum-reg/cfmz
we welcome you copying those actions you like to your nearest youth future capital
-we are also exploring other lans- MIT remains the world's number 1 job creating alumni club in the world but not every studsnt can access 25 yeras if buikding a showcase of every future industry within a square mile of kendall station the way MIT has! still MIT's open education policy remains the best dynamic the net generation can hope for in university world as of 2014
down in miami - we have hispanic labs of chnage world amplitude- incuding the leading open social business curriculum and coming soon linkin to te number 1 nanocredit experiments in the americas -more of the raw notes from our friends exploits at the bottom of USA below:
Bernardo wrote Yes as soon as I get to Miami i will move very fast, In march i will be in South Africa, Cote d`Ivory and R. of Congo. I will also have a back to office report (BTOR) to you
MARCH ON
Bernardo good luck -however if any brainstorm comes to you as to what poorest hispanic women first need to connect across the entire american continent on free mobile - eg safety line against abuse please tell naila as her march journey through ireland switzerland, LA and kenya is about signing up such a franchise and testing if carlos slim will lay on poorest womens terms
If you are passing through johannesburg tell us and we'll see if we can linkin taddy-by the way mostofa has just finished a week in lucknow understanding how they are redesigning entrepreneur and sustainability curriculum for 50000 children citymontessori Jgandhi globaledu
they are proposing taddy and they meet in august? to swap notes- I guess that is phase 1 of many phases at which youth summits swaps notes on entrepreneurship
I am desperately trying to involve china, korea, and japan in similar note swapping , and ultimately notes are effectively swapped when they are up in 9 minute modules like khan's
TO MOOCYUNUS OR NOT
I sort of feel that when yunus sees this page of khans he will see how far he's got behind with nursing college even as that becomes the first card for millions of youth to viralise; similarly millions of youth are now viralising jim kims knowhow on what youth's most collaborative social movements really do below the radar
Also between now and june its essential www.microcredit.tv to share short transcripts on how the real microcredits work; if jim kim gets to the annual results conference and find they are still spamming the whole world bank with fund microcredits no matter what they are do there will be an unhappy ending to everything micro financial
chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc hotline 1 301 881 1655 skype chrismacraedc
11:27 am est
Saturday, September 15, 2012
ad lib with hugh sinclair - whistleblower of some troubling things inside some MFIs and fundsFrom: Microfinance Heretic <microfinanceheretic@> To: christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Saturday, 15 September 2012, 11:17 Subject: Re: Fw: From Hugh Sinclair -if microcredit cant save the world can student entrepreneur competition networks See www.microfinancetransparency.com Plus the blog. See also a major press release just out: http://100millionideas.org/2012/09/12/learning-from-a-heretic/ This is from one of the most senior people in the entire MF community worldwide issuing a veiled endorsement for the book. I have been in touch with two CEOs of major MIVs in the last 24 hours congratulating me, supporting me and wanting to work with me. You need to read the book. Believe me, this is not an elaborate attempt to rustle up an extra book sale! There is a TV show watched by 250.000 people coming out on Sep 28th about the book, and media coverage is going to go through the ceiling, this is now a major, major problem for the entire MF sector - or rather for the unscrupulous, deceptive and exploitative MIVs and MFIs that are clearly named in the book with original names and all supporting evidence provided on the website, and the head man of the sector has stood up and NOT refuted the facts, but decided to take concerted action. Welcome to the revolution. Hugh
12:41 pm edt
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xMilken Institute Yunus has been described by BusinessWeek as one of the "greatest entrepreneurs of all time." He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Dhaka and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.
Panels:Financing Social Entrepreneurs: Transformative Models for the Future Revolutionizing Health Care and Research in the Developing World Grameen AmericaBy invitation only Business Innovations That Are Changing the World
Business Innovations That Are Changing the World
Speakers:Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google Inc.Craig Venter, Founder and President, J. Craig Venter Institute; Co-Founder and CEO, Synthetic Genomics Inc.Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2006; Managing Director, Grameen Bank
Moderator:Michael Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute; Chairman, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions
Some of the most inventive minds in business are harnessing the power of technology and the markets to create sweeping shifts in the way we live, work and interact. By combining top-notch intellectual talent with non-traditional approaches, bold ideas, major investments and cutting-edge technology, they are innovating on a grand scale. Our panelists will discuss how pioneering business ventures can drive social change.
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DUCATION SYSTEM
One of the most exciting system dynamics of nations developed by poorest village mothers turns out to be sequencing how healthcare systems are communally developed out of next to no resources
START HERE: for sustainable youth to know how to segment health services from best value to very expensive. Health action networking and education was how bangladesh developed the most economical models of sustainability goal achievement 1972-2006 ever seen/ We know the family who connected all this into what has become the most collaborative and smartest education partnerships that sustainable youth can linkin into. At a Norman Macrae remembrance party 2012 this family -and a few MIT coders - asked for advice on elearning platforms Why not join the next tour being organised by globalyouthcommunity mid april? What could be more valuable to Xprize?
Roughly speaking the 7 different health economies are these (by all means culturally improve the segmentation because yes these segments also depend on how much pre-exisiting health literacy and joy of open source collaboration is designed into schooling systems (amazingly this is next to zero in some of the world's richest countries )
Assuming he gets booted out of the world bank in summer 2017 jim kim has already more or less promised that these sorts of ideas will be shared across china as his next mission it would be great if eg supercity baltimore youth could open source some of this wisdom while its locally in DC. Soros-Kim and Sir Fazle Abe's health and education networks are what every under 30 needs to know about before they can help their generation with any sustainability goal including sustainable banking by and for each jobs-growing community.
China and Bangladesh under 30s need friendships now not just because bangladesh has been the most innovative health lab network for the poorest ever seen and not just because the action learning (Preferential Option Poor) models used to do this came from Francican S Americas in the 1960s. We have built in enough climate change for it to be probable that a majority og Bangladesh's to be displaced- a sino-bangladesh lab to accelerate green knowhow is a borderless win-win if ever there was one to APP education around now
1 maternal and infant health care which may also extend to community/family loving support systems of child development
2 infectious diseases
3 chronic diseases
4 hospice
5 paramedic services turage where low cost solution is actually needed
6 emergency services where expensive surgery is needed
7 other potentially expensive surgery
1 is where all village womens development of poorest nations begins- its not only searches out best value (eg oral rehydration) but it needs local educational distribution because expensive nurses dont want to live in villages without electricity anyhow; additionally the first 1000 days of infant nutrition are critical not just to physical but to brand development - so several goals - end poverty, end hungers, qua;ity local health need the exact (Deadaid)opposite of academia's expert silos.; in strong communities mothers organise swaps of eg daycare (ie taking monetary transactions out is pivotal ); when bangladesh was faced with huge adult literacy challenges what do you think was more motivating to mothers than literacy which also helped them save their babies lives; and what do you think turned round male chauvinistic cultures to valuing women who as mothers saved their childrens lives (one out of 5 infants died in bangladesh of 1970s until knowhow of oral rehydration was socially networked through every village mother)l bangladesh villages were able to experiment with such radical bottom-up development and jobs networks because at birth of the nation the government was so poor that even offering gov services in the city was beyond it- the villages with no electricity, no telecoms, no running water, no roads --- peoples , especially mothers, were left to innovating bottom up and replicable franchises. This structure and family of templates emerged as the greatest ever pre-digital societal networks -it also became a fast forward foundation for labs when mobile partnerships first came to the villages
UNICEF was wonderful when james grant used to carry a sachet or oral rehydration salts in his pocket and bring it out before national leaders broke bread at fancy dinner parties. It was around the James Grant School of Global Public Health that BRAC started up the first (and still the most collaborative) Global Poverty University.From the outset BRAC spirited a curious attitude to international aid fuding. Iy used funds to exper5emnt small and publish failures before it worked out successes. What can be more valuable to design open learning around than that.?Why deploy inter-governmental trickle down and conditional aid when you can whoosh-up aid with little sister empowerment
2 the arguments for prioriting this type of helth care are varied- in a connected world rich and poor may be wiped out by the same plague anyhiow; but mostly this type of health care innovation needs to be taken back from big pharma:
start with the UN taking back the patents from any pharma that sits on an orphan drug- eg vaccination to prevent cholera not marketed because it doesnt make high enough profit in accountants books
take back all work on vaccinations from big pharma- obviously their profit models dont fit ending a disease
on something like MDR tuberculosis end society paying double - to eg NIH to do basic research and to pharma to commercialise the new drug often a minor extension of previous knowhow dressed up at 10000 dollars per treatment -no wonder MDR Tubeculosis isnt going away
in all of the above note that infectious diseases are prevented at source by last mile education and often best adminiistered by patients who are immune having survived the disease-
intriguingly partners in heatth www.pih.org was primarily built as a university youth community exchange on caring for infectious disease placing boston's finest medical students in haiti's poorest labs, and then in all hemispheres poorest labs, and then funding regional teaching hospitals
3 one way to bring down the post of chronic is to prevent it in the first place (eg obesity) and to challenge the sick advertising culture that addicts youth and makes it normal for many adults to feel they need to be on drugs; interestingly the world's leading intervention of economical chronic sort is coming from another under 30 youth movement out of boston - having mastered what sustainable infectious diesease service is, they wanted to linkin their generation to minimising cost of chronics
4 maries conscious healthcare may provide some clues to hospice- so does taking lawyers out of hospice. in many parts of the usa 20% of nurses are retiring in next 7 years; many would like part-time elderly care work but to offer this the,selves they needed a prohibitively expensive professional insurance plan- back khan academy in universalising nursing skills dashboard as second only to open learning of maths; and if you dare: ask why the whole national education budget doesnt devote 5% to global youth ,movements peer to peer sustainability goals solution networking
5 to 7 may be harder to solve
even if you find something to disagree with in the above, the OPEN SPACE (ie hackathon)exercises of segmenting healtn services and asking is the combination of public servants and educators incentivised to help all young/inter-generational citizens linkin to affordable accessible healthcare should not be a party political one- it is one that global (under 30) youth communities need to be empowered to network through a mixture of mobile smarts and local love. In the hackathon on redesigning ebola space suits. the first ever china abd usaid innovation team was formed. May be that be millennials future of basic education and health without borders
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e transparently value the reality that 21st C is about economies of develoopijng people not of consuming up things the way the carbonise indsutrila era assumed was the only goal to audit
Sustainability's greatest human developments have 2 wholly unique characteritics:
massive collaboration that is linked to intergenerational map of purpose
valuation models that are exponential rising over time not extractive each quarter
Millennials are blessed that in Bangladesh and China they have 2 nations that have over 40 years of experience of demonstrating these professional requirements allbeit from very different resource bases but the same crisis - two of the world's 8 most populous nations being trapped in systems which left their peoples in completely underdeveloped states of being.
Goal 17 When your place starts out inh tfe worfld with next to no assets other than hunders or even thousands of millions of people's lives to develop, you need to be the most trusted bottom-up partnering network over a long period of time, or have some very loyal invetsment friends. The first explains how sir fazle abed ended poverty; the second explain how china raced from a billion underdeleoped poeple to the most exciting human interests story ever seen. Sir Fazle started in a region of the world hit by a typhhon disaster that global relief organsaitins coldnt reach. He became their trusted conector and bridge bottom up relief and recovery empowering people in the communities to devfelop their own resilience capacity. China once it had confidence in trusting its peoples to be the hardest workoing in the worfld -if given the opportunity to grow commerce from the ground up - could look to the chiense diapora - tge 3rd richest in te world of the mid 1970s, and a netwirk who tyrned out to be both the most briliant tgraders and the designers of infratsructure for win-win trading.
Index of WRJC (version 1 to 2020)
E1 Xi Jinping (Rejuvenation global2.0; world's most transparent maps on win-win trade for all) E99 Lee Kuan Yew E2 Sir Fazle Abed (world's favorite educator eg empowered girls to resolve poverty's greatest challenges, BRAC & Bkash) E3 Jack Ma leapfrog tech (big data small), ecommerce curriculum as one of china's 4 greatest inventions 1 -IR4 can develop 10 times bigger people-centred economics) E98 Gandhi & Montessori & Mandela, E4 Nilekani (bridges to English as 2nd most valuable language in world Modi, Kalam, Singh) W1 Tim Berners Lee (the www , we havent seen it yet- human collaboration can be so much bigger, bridge to any mit lab with human app) W2 Jim Kim being healthcare most courageous public servant lads to being the sanest western voice in world banking and most peace-loving North Korean American; ; W3 Pope Francis and W99 Pope John Paul; W4 Chris Patten , W5 Michael Palin, W6 Henry Kissinger -superpower mediator extraordinaire; E5 Yo-Yo Ma, IM pei.. Chengl Li Cultural leadsers sans frontieres; W7 George Soros; W8 Larouche family; W9 Williams & Freling & Prince Charles, Princess Anne; E6 President Jae-in Moon and Governor Won; E7 Zhang Yue e8 Lei Jun, W10 Team Skoll including Briilliant & Gore & Oxbridge, W94 Ray Andersen W11 Team Branson including Bcorps , Stev Case 1776 hubs, and Climate War Room; W9 Team ted turner including jimmy carter, Rosa Parks lawyer (Tuskegee's Gray, Booker T-W), and michelle bachelet, W12 Guterres, W13 Steven Shriver and Ban Ki-Moon, W14 Pierre Trudeau and Macron, W15 Bangla-Americans including Quadir Brothers and Sal Khan, W16 Harrison Owen & Open Space storytelling alumni, E9 Muhammad Yunus, W99 Florence Nightingale (inc crick institute eg Paul Nurse) and Alexander Fleming and John Hopkins; W98 Adam Smith, James Wilson, and W Bagehot; W97 Keynes; W96 Deming E97 Akio Moita, E10 Toyota Foundations eg Abdul Latif, E11 UAE education hubs for valuing youth livelihoods eg Varkey and WISE, W95 Baltimore's founding daughters of social justice UB net including alumn Thurgood Marshall; W17 Don Tapscot ; W18 Paul Polak, E12 Pony Ma, E13 Rhen Zhengfei (Huawei), E14 Guo Guangchang (fosun) E15 Liu Chuanzhi (lenovo), E16 Feng Lun (vanton)
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E2 empowered the world's poorest vilage mothers not only to end poverty but to build the rural nation of bangladesh. Through a mixture of education, financial service and professionals who gave their expertise to desitgning bottom-up markets, sit fazle designed development networks to invest in 8 million mothers livelihhods, and their imoacts on other 30 million family members including next generation livelihoods. Over te first 25 yeras of BRAC more that a hudnered microfranchsies were deleoped innovating markets for the poor in all relevant food security crops, maternal and infant health, livelihood education, poultry, milk, crafts and more. Banglades became the first rural wide lab for mobile leapfroging models - sir fazle's www.blash.com has become the laregst cashless bank in the world.
G2 famine killing over 50 million chinese in the 1960s and many millions of people during the early years of bangaldesh as a new nation was the rfeason why china totally cghanged its ruling systems in the 1960s. The whole purpose of chiense leadership was focused on ensuring rural people never starved again. The 2 big innovations: crop science applied to tghe prfoducitivity of rice which both sir fazle and chiense agricultural experts partered round; china's barefoot doctors networks
The food security value chais that brac went on to redesign during its forst two decades of serving rural moters included:
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G3 China's barefoot doctors networks around 1970 wenjt to live inj rural areas to serve that populace. Sir Fazle was inspired by this idea but found that Bangldesh didnt have ebough qualified to serve the citeis let alone ones who would be prepared to live inh vilages without electricity of other infrsatructure. So he first targeted te number 1 disease killing infants - diarrhea was killing quarter on ifnants of bangaldesh in 1970s. The oral rehydration action learning franchoise was the first ever to scale rural bangladesh- it needed a lot of rehearsal since it required personal coaching to every rural mother (most ilietare). It soon becamse clear that therfe were other basic inafnta an dmother cures that a vilage paraworlker could be trained to deliver and make a susstainable livelihood out of serving. Brac's first hudnered thosand microfrachose comprise such para-heath networkers…
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A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis by David Rieff
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Who is Really Dependent upon Welfare, They're Wealthier Than You Think (http://www.upworthy.com/who-is-really-dependent-on-welfare-theyre-wealthier-than-you-think)
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Greening Neighborhoods promotes, educates, and supports neighborhood efforts to conserve our natural resources, save money, and reduce dependency on nonrenewable resources
Ray Anderson, The business logic of sustainability TED Talk discussing the business logic of sustainability based on a case study of the company led by Mr Anderson, with a poetic reference to stewardship for the next generations.
important events in the history of climate change science
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solar panel installation: an experience
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Malala Yousafzai address to UN Youth Assembly Education activist Malala Yousafzai marks her 16th birthday, on Friday, 12 July 2013 at the United Nations by giving her first high-level public appearance and statement on the importance of education. Additional updates in a blog post here and in a videohere.
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Who are World Class Brands for?
compare with this 1984 forecast on how to sustain the net generation by The Economists' pro-youth economist:
By 2005 differences in incomes and
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Norman Macrae, Father of Entrepreneurial Revolution and pro-youth economics: Remembered
Sir Fazle Abed was gracious as the chief guest of the Asian Remembrance party 2012 of Norman Macrae chaired by the Japanese Ambassador to Dhaka
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Thanks to partners like mastercardfoundation, BRAC in Uganda has been scaling very fast- more good news 5000 youth scholarships announced at Sir Fazle's most recent visit to Uganda
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millions were destitute
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within months savage civil war erupted,
as the region fought for independence
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in nineteen seventy one, the nation of bangladesh was born
but it was in shambles
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I went into an area which was extremely devastated - houses destroyed, life stock decimated, farmers didn't have any ploughs and that suddenly brought to me: the extreme vulnerability of people in situations like this, and that;s how brac was born
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abed was an exec with shell but he quit hos job and recruited 24 young voluneteers
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they built houses, rehabilitated farmland,they established health clinics in time brac shifted its focus from disaster relief to long term development
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then abed decided that brac should think big. Abed:: in 1979 it was the international year of the child and we thought what could we do to bring down child mortality in our country
nothing claimed more young lives that diarrhea caused by water born diseases like cholera
dairhgea kills through dehydration
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the standard treatment with intravenous fluids was no option communities with no
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to absorb and replace lost fluids
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oral rehydration therapy was a monumental breakthrough
mothers could now save their children with simple household supplies
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abed: the discovery was there but it just hadn't been disseminated most people didn't know how to prepare oral rehydration fluid so we decided to go from house to house to etch rural women how to make the formula at home
brac trained an army of instructors teaching the formula took minutes: halk a litre of water . one pinchful of salt and a fistful of sugar
teaching 13 million women was a long project but child mortality rates were cut in half, the success of the campaign gave brac the confidence to scale up all its projects
abed: I mean once your organisition has been to every household in rural bangladesh, then the entire country becomes your backyard and you can think in terms of extending every other programs through the nation
3.37 today brac has become the largest ngo in the world,
, it employs over 90k people and runs programs reaching over 100 mn people
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in last 3 decades its health volunteers it have helped cut the nation's birth rate in half, and improved lives throughout bangaldesh
3.55 Harvey Fineberg: Instiute of Medicine : one of the great challenges in public health is to take a program
that you've shown to succeed in one community and to scale up to whole country
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practice largely self funded
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with profits from commercial in
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the channels the handiwork of rural artisans into its department store
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it runs food processing plant
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5:24 Watch Later BRAC: A New Horizon Part 1by brac 5,993 views 7:55 Watch Later Fazle H. Abed: Thinking Big and Scaling Up--1 of 6by brac1,504 views 6:58 Watch Later BRAC's 35th Anniversary Video by brac2,285 views 57:00 Watch Later Fazle Hasan Abed on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh: Lessons for Africa and Asiaby World Affairs Council1,100 views Amartya Sen: Keynote Address at INET's Paradigm
Abed on the E's of franchising- make sure first you are effective, then efficient, then expand -in reality BRAC's Oral Rehydration Knowledge Networking failed twice with small (ie 30000 person training experiments) before an effective training design was identified worthy of scaling across ten million mothers
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Director of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), a non-governmental development organisation working to assist the landless poor in Bangladesh. BRAC was founded in 1971 during Bangladesh's war of liberation and has achieved worldwide recognition for its work in disaster relief, village-based basic education, micro-enterprise lending and primary health care. Mr. Abed was interviewed in the RESULTS office during his recent trip to the United States.
Harris: Before we hear about the work of BRAC, first tell us about the difficulties the people of Bangladesh face.
Abed: Bangladesh is a very poor country. 85 percent of the population lives in rural areas, where lack of food, education and employment opportunities conspire to make life for the rural Bangladeshi very, very difficult. The average Bangladeshi woman is probably the most malnourished female in the world because she tends to consume less than 1,800 calories every day. Some 20 percent of the children suffer from severe malnutrition. Bangladesh also has the highest percentage of low birth weight babies, 7 percent of the world's malnutrition and 6 percent of the world's child deaths.
Harris: What about illiteracy rates in Bangladesh?
Abed: The illiteracy rate in Bangladesh is almost 75 percent. Literacy rates among women are even less - only 16 percent of Bangladeshi women is literate.
Harris: Could you tell us about the mission of BRAC, and some of your successes?
Abed: In Bangladesh, the word success means trying to make do with the worst possible situation. Remember in Bangladesh in 1980, the infant mortality rate was 135 per thousand live births and in 1979 - the United Nation's Year of the child - we thought “what can we do as an organisation to contribute to the reduction of child mortality?" We looked at a number of different options. After being denied support from the Ministry of Health, we decided to initiate a project which Bangladeshis could do in their own homes and that they could afford. We realised that many poor families would not be able to buy oral rehydration packets in large enough quantities when there was a cholera or diarrhoea epidemic. With the help of 1,400 field workers, we began to go from house to house and teach one woman in every household how to make oral rehydration fluid with salt, sugar and water - ingredients most households had. Teaching was difficult because, initially, we did not have the cooperation of village doctors, who were saying that the oral hydration technique didn't work. We had to convince them that it was a good idea that produced positive results. It took 10 years for us to reach all the households in rural Bangladesh, 16 million households in all to ensure that the quality of teaching was maintained. We devised a very innovative system of monitoring. Six weeks after workers had swept through the countryside, we sent out a team of monitors to find out what the women's level of retention knowledge was. The field workers tested vials of salt and sugar solution the women made to see if the levels were within the acceptable range.
This year we had fewer deaths from diarrhoea, so I hope we have developed something which is going to sustain in Bangladesh and reduce child deaths in the long run.
There are also other things we are doing. We are now involved in an education programme which is being scaled up. We are taking the children who are supposed to be unreachable - children who have never gone to school, mostly girls who are not sent to school by their parents. We are trying to reach out and give them basic education for at least three years. These schools are community-based schools, managed by the community. The teachers are mostly housewives who come from the villages and have had about ten years of education. We train them for two weeks, supervise them twice a week and provide refresher courses once a month.
Harris: How many villages are you in right now?
Abed: We have 200,000 children in 7,000 schools, which are really one class-room schools, with 30 children to one teacher. What we would like to do is have least one or two schools in every village to try to mop up all the children who don't enrol in the government system.
Harris: Why don't children enrol in the government system?
Abed: There are many reasons for that, one is the distance. Parents won't send their children, especially girls, to a school that is two miles away. Secondly, many children come from the poorest families and are needed by their parents to work and contribute to the family budget.
Harris: Many of the people who will read this interview worked very hard to highlight the World Summit for Children (WSC) and urge world leaders to keep the promises made last year. How important is the summit as a step in seeing to it that the needs of children are made a priority?
Abed: I think the WSC has brought the issue of children to the attention of decision makers in many countries including Bangladesh. I have found that a lot of things that happen in Bangladesh are initiated elsewhere. I always give the example of when Jim Grant, the Executive Director of UNICEF, came to see our president in 1986 and he got the president to accept the goal of universal childhood immunisations by the year 1990. Then the Minister of Health suddenly perked up and began trying to reach more children with immunisation in Bangladesh. One can forget about these things very quickly, so the pressure has to be kept up. People who are conscious should be constantly pushing the powers that be, to continue working on these issues which are important for the survival of Bangladesh and other developed countries.
Harris: How important is the kind of action-oriented consciousness-raising we do, this citizen lobbying work? What is the experience of BRAC and other groups in doing anything similar in Bangladesh?
Abed: Well, I think that your work has been a cushion for us in a way that the interdependent economies and the interdependent world system is coming to accept. We need this kind of work. I think consciousness-raising in developing countries is very important, although we have not done as well as RESULTS in our own country, in trying to do advocacy work and policy change. Our problem was we didn't have a democratic system. Now that Bangladesh has a democratically elected government, it will be possible for us to do the kind of work you are doing in your society. I think I look at your work as crucial for us also. These are some issues that I think have to be debated in this country as well as in our own country.
Interview with Fazle Hasan Abed: New Age
Through the Eyes of Fazle Hasan Abed: Soldiering Development all the Way
This interview with Fazle Hasan Abed appeared in the daily Bangladeshi newspaper New Age on August 27, 2004
'He is a shy person by his own admission-somewhat of an introvert who does not like talking about himself. Outside his close circle of friends and family, he is rather reticent in a way. But when he meets the working men and women on the job in the course of his travels all over the BRAC projects in Bangladesh, he converses a lot with them. It is, as if, he is trying to put himself in their stations and comprehend their work-ethic that is a part of their lives. This helps him in designing the future programmes for his organisation better. The fact that he heads the world's largest non governmental organisation, and bears on his shoulders the onus that comes with it, does not at all show when one is in his presence. He is known for his ever-pleasant disposition and the unflustered equanimity of his personality that are infectious, putting everybody around him at ease. Whatever pre-disposition one may have before entering his room, diminishes or vanishes altogether the moment he rises to greet one with his welcome smile,' writes Mahjabeen Khan.
Mahjabeen Khan (MK): What were your aspirations when you were growing up?
Fazle Hasan Abed (FHA): My father was a government official with the British-Indian government, having opted for Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947. I was about eleven then and would normally have followed my father's footsteps while growing up and choosing a career. But by 1947, when we became independent of the British Raj, we started thinking differently and had ambitions to break out into the yet-unexplored fields and disciplines in order to make a career away from government jobs. When the time came for me to decide in 1954, I chose to study naval architecture. There was no naval architect in the country at the time. But I soon realised that then East Pakistan might not be home to a naval shipyard, notwithstanding a sea port in Chittagong and the mighty river-systems of the country emptying them into the Bay. As a naval architect, I would have to live in England, or Scotland, or Japan or any other country engaged and excelling in ship-building craft. Hence, coming back to the country to pursue an avocation in ship-building would be out of question. After three years of studying naval architecture, I switched to chartered accountancy. That's how the thinking process regarding careers worked in those days.
MK: Were you interested in politics at all as a student?
FHA: Yes, I was involved in student politics in London but somewhat peripherally. I was more interested in the study of Marx and Lenin. Tasnu bhai (Late Tasaddaq Ahmed) used to lead a study circle every Sunday in which I participated regularly. Most of my friends were Marxists in those days. Although there was no chance that Hampstead would ever elect a communist candidate to Westminster, I had, during the British general elections, always campaigned for my friend who was a nominee of the British Communist Party and voted for him. He always came last. I presume I always preferred to work for the underdog which I continue to do to-date.
MK: How would you trace the origin and development of the NGO movement in Bangladesh and what obstructions did you face till you came into your own?
FHA: There weren't much non-governmental developmental activities during the Pakistan period. I recall that in the mid-60s Oxfam in England sent me a report on their work in various parts of the world in response to a donation of a few pounds I sent them. The report showed that they spent a few hundred thousand pounds in West Pakistan and none in the East. I wanted to know as to why they did not extend their work to East Pakistan. They responded that since they did not undertake programme implementation themselves, they needed partner organisations and that they were unable to locate suitable partners in East Pakistan with whom they could work.
The first semblance of NGO work appeared on the scene in the aftermath of the tidal cyclone of 1970. The dynamic of voluntary relief and rehabilitation work in the coastal belt of Manpura in Bhola and many other bayside places, albeit in an organised fashion, and the immediate context of the liberation war of 1971, represented a paradigm shift in what used to be altruism and voluntarism in general. [It represented a new kind of soldiering within and beyond the occupied territory of Bangladesh, in as many fronts of physical struggle and armed resistance as there would be enemies, with their superior and organised firepower, wrecking the worst-ever genocide and pogrom beginning March 25, 1971 since the Second World War. The once-pacific people of the country, particularly the youth, responded to the call of the motherland both formally and informally, with or without arms, in a spirit and comradeship that cut across political, social, religious and gender divide. War provided young people a new way of looking at life - a paradigm shift - which only the spirit of resistance in a liberation struggle can bring about. Recall the liberation of Paris some sixty years ago.
It is in this backdrop that the NGO movement struck root, of which BRAC among few others working on the war-fronts led the way.
But it was not smooth as silk. The Cold War factor entered the NGO discourse, and the political commissars of the time sought to brand the NGO movement as an imperialist and CIA insertion. That hardly mattered, however, as the caravan of the NGO movement moved on. (Curiously, the camp-followers of the commissars, then wielding power and resources almost overnight chose to join what they considered to be the gravy-train of the NGOs after the fall of the Berlin Wall]. (Parenthesis, Editor's).
MK: When and how did you get the idea of BRAC?
FHA: The idea didn't come at one go. I was working for the Shell Oil Company when we had the 1970 cyclone. We were doing relief work and suddenly it occurred to me that life and death are such realities - realities that can unexpectedly take hold of you. You suddenly realise that the kind of life you lead is actually unreal. The shock and awe of the devastating cyclone woke me up to the real world. The second shock was Bangladesh's war of liberation when thousands and thousands of innocent people were killed. We were all out to mobilise our resources.
Suddenly life seemed quite different from what it used to be. I felt that there was more to do than living the cushy life of a covenanted executive in a multinational corporation. That's when I came back and it wasn't difficult to make the choice to serve my country. It was a natural transition, from participating in the liberation war and coming back to start something for the under-privileged people. That's how BRAC emerged as an organisation.
MK: You started with relief and rehabilitation in post 1970 cyclone and during and post-war humanitarian work. Will you give us an idea of how you extended to other fields of development and how you have extended to other parts of the world and with what results?
FHA: Our relief and rehabilitation was over in a year. But the people we served remained poor and vulnerable. We felt that we could not walk out on these people leaving them to their own devices to fend for them. We felt that we needed to commit ourselves to long-term development of rural Bangladesh - in the provision of education, healthcare, family -planning services, building organisations of the poor - and empower them to demand services from the state. We needed to develop new avenues and work opportunities for our poor people particularly for our women. That was how a holistic approach to bring about change and development in rural Bangladesh was conceived and initiated by BRAC.
MK: There are already 53 private universities. What difference can BRAC University make for the country?
FHA: When we thought of a university we didn't think of just providing higher education. We thought we should provide very high quality higher education. Our children go abroad to study and they need not do that. I am interested in the quality of education. If, over the next few years, we can develop a really high quality university that can be compared to some of the best universities in the world, then I would think that we were able to do something for Bangladesh.
Secondly, I think the leadership in our country is not really committed to the under-privileged. Through the university we want to develop a new generation who would be responsive to the needs of our people. If we can achieve quality and consciousness in our students, I would think we will have succeeded.
MK: When Aarong was started, I know that your primary purpose was to create work opportunities for the poor people. Did you have in mind the promotion and marketing of our traditional crafts and textiles?
FHA: Absolutely. There were two objectives behind starting Aarong. One objective was and is to revive and promote the traditional crafts of Bangladesh, and secondly to create job opportunities for the artisans in rural Bangladesh. It was a twin objective right from the beginning. The real boost for Aarong came when we started producing a lot of silk. Silk could not be marketed in rural Bangladesh. It had to have an urban consumer-base. We planted lots of mulberry trees for the silk worms to feed on and grow all over the country; the silk farmers started producing hundreds of bales of silk. But they needed proper marketing outlets. Aarong was created also with a view to providing services to the silk producers who could get paid on delivery.
MK: Being a member of the National Crafts Council of Bangladesh, I am aware of the awards your organisation gives to outstanding artisans in various fields. What kind of crafts do you recognise and promote?
FHA: Basically, I think, all crafts. Every year we choose a particular craft. Last year it was brass, the year before it was kantha, and so on. We have a board which chooses the best entries and reward the artisan or the artisans with fifty thousand taka for the top prize.
MK: Is it true that you were the designated cook among your friends in England?
FHA: I was not particularly interested in food during my youth but I liked cooking. I think I had a particular latent gift for cooking. Whatever I cooked, my friends seemed to enjoy immensely. I think my rezala was one of the best. My mother was an exceedingly good cook and I think some of her talents must have been transmitted to me. I remember cooking rezala for the great novelist E.M. Forster in his Kings College Cambridge flat. He said it reminded him of his time with the Maharajah he had served in India in the early nineteen hundreds.
MK: A particularly happy day in your life.
FHA: A happy day...I remember quite a few but the happiest was the day we got liberated.
MK: Can you see BRAC without Fazle Hasan Abed?
FHA: I have always thought of BRAC without myself. I am thinking of BRAC 200 years from now. You see I have made a study of 15th century institutions. Five hundred of them were looked at. Only thirty-three of them have survived - like Oxford, Cambridge, and Sorbonne. Twenty nine of these are universities, two are churches, one a parliament and one business. So, what are of essence in the institutions which survived? - They are self-regulated. Universities, because there is always a demand for education in society and they create leaders. All societies must have leaders. I just hope that BRAC and BRAC University will still go on surviving because they will be able to respond to the emerging needs of the society. I hope BRAC does it.
MK: If you could start all over again, is there anything you would like to redo?
FHA: I have not the slightest regret for the delay of a few years in starting a traditional professional career. Those carefree wonderful years shaped me as a person and made me aware of the human condition around me. I would like to think of myself as a free thinker - not having much faith in the rituals of religion but a strong mooring in the core ethical and human values. If I did not go through this phase of my life, I wonder whether I would be doing the kind of work I do today. However if I were thirty-five now instead of sixty- seven, I would do so many other things that I haven't done. I would develop lots of very high quality schools in Bangladesh and do something for the education system of the country. I wish I was thirty-five years younger! Now, at the twilight of my life, I feel that I must complete all the things I have started. I have bought land for the university - I want to build it and five years from now, it should be completed. I just hope I live long enough to see it.
MK: Books you enjoyed reading?
FHA: I recall reading an autobiographical piece by Charles Darwin, the great biologist and the author of the Origin of Species, who after spending long years on research and writing could not in his old age, get the pleasure and thrill he used to get from Shakespeare in his youth. He expressed great distress at the loss which he felt was too great to be compensated by his singular achievements in advancing his great theory of Evolution. I read that piece when I myself was passionately drawn to Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. In those days - I think it was late fifties - I lived in London working on an accountancy job while studying accountancy. But most of my time was taken up in reading, reciting and savouring the works of the great English poets - Shakespeare, Marvel, Dryden, Coleridge, Pope, Tennyson, Shelley, Keats and of course the modern poets, Yeats, Eliot, Pound and Auden - all of them major poets, and some minor ones too. Poetry gave me immense pleasure and solace in my youth. Fortunately, I have not lost out in my twilight years on the pleasure of poetry like Darwin had done. It still moves me by its sheer beauty and music which only words put in a unique magical sequence can create.
I recall that just one week before my annual exam, I started reading James Joyce's Ulysses. I was told it was a difficult book to read. But when I started it, I could not put it down. It took me four days to read this voluminous book which I enjoyed immensely. My examination went overboard. The book was about a day in the life of a priest in Dublin in July 1904 - just over a century ago. It was the work of genius. A decade or so later T.S. Elliot wrote 'The Waste Land' in verse on a similar theme which I liked.
During adolescence, when I was in class six or seven I started reading fiction - first the redoubtable Mohan Series of detective thriller, then the novels of Sharat Chandra Chattapaddhaya, Bibhutibhushan, Tarasankar, Manik Bandapaddhya and finally the novels by Tagore. My uncle, the martyred Saidul Hasan, used to love poetry. When we were children he would select for us a particular poem of either Nazrul or Rabindranath to memorise in the shortest possible time. I always used to come first in this contest. Tagore's poems and songs first awakened in me the love of poetry, great chunks of which I could recite from memory. I later acquired great pleasure from the verses of the noted European poets.
In those days, literature was a good part of my life - I read voraciously - Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, Dante, Goethe, Rilke and many of the French and Spanish romantic poets translated into English. I read English and American 19th and 20th century novels and also the great Russian and French ones of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Hugo and Proust. My love affair with English and European literature continued for almost a decade.
MK: How about contemporary writers? Other than the ones you have already mentioned, any contemporary writers you enjoy reading when you want to relax?
FHA: Contemporary writers...of course many. Nowadays, I read more of the professional books - books on economics, development. I get little time to read novels. But then recently some Indian writers have been doing remarkably well. Arundhati Roy is wonderful. Her writing is superb. Jhumpa Lahiri is very good. I enjoy Madhavi Mukherjee. I read these kinds of books when I travel.
MK: Some films your remember.
FHA: The great Swedish director, Ingmar Bergman. His wonderful works like the Smiles of a Summer's Night, The Wild Strawberries, are stunningly beautiful films. They made a great impression on me. I like the works of the Italian director, Michaelangelo Antinioni's Blowup. We never missed films made by these directors. I don't think I have seen any films recently. Oh, I have recently seen 'Life is Beautiful'. One doesn't enjoy cinema as we used to do - one doesn't get the chance to go to a cinema hall to see a film anymore. Watching on the small television screen is not the same - that atmosphere is missing altogether.
MK: Do you ever get to see theatre when you are abroad?
FHA: Occasionally. My trips are usually very short, literally for four or five days. It's very rare that I get a day off for myself. I think the last time we went to see a live show was two years ago. We saw the musical, 'Cabaret' on Broadway in New York.
MK: What kind of music do you usually listen to?
FHA: I developed a taste for Western music, particularly of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Schubert and Chopin which was augmented by my girlfriend Marietta, who loved opera. She and I would not miss any opera performed at Covent Garden in London. She was also a connoisseur of European Art of early renaissance painters of the 13th century and of the French impressionists. We frequently visited art galleries in London, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Padua, Verona, Paris, Madrid and Amsterdam. Music, art and literature left little time for accountancy for me.
But my all-time favourite is Rabindra Sangeet. I like listening to classical instrumental music, particularly sarod and sitar, but Tagore songs supersede all. At one time I loved listening to Kanika Banerjee and Hemanta Mukherjee. In my boyhood, I would be captivated by K.L. Saigal. Saigal used to sing Rabindra sangeet too - Ami tomai joto shuniye chilem gaan. I still remember the rendition in the deep bass voice of Saigal. Jaganmoy Mitra, Pankaj Mullick were all very good. I grew up listening to them.…
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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