aboration Revolution: elearning Platforms -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
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WomenUni.com 2 Jobs-apps networks and women4empowerment platforms includetelecentres for jobs
nanocredit for jobs
whichever blend of organisation is going to become chief investor in microfranchises (microbank? microeducator? micromobile owner,
GrameenScotland SinoScotland FutureofBBC world service: 3 nations whose citizens are (with their access to worldwide diasporas) shaking up independence eg the importance of the scotland debate-elearning shows how the most abundantf 21st world trade needs to be directly between borderless citizens; time to mediate whole truth that top-down bureaucrats and bankers of borders spin our greatest risks3a in other cases citizens are mass scaling curriculum - austraila 10 thousands girls of financial literacy and million green energy action learners network
Communal family-loving identity built round promise to primary scho... and providing secondary scholarships
Mobile learning movements - for most practices led by others but active connector of nearly free nursing college
Background to yunus number 1 personal gpal since nobel prize - health partnerships - good start with greenchildren and aravind and some early pilots through wonrd congress but urgent needto relinkin with open health learning campus
4 Celebrate collaboration Search for partners for missing curriculum
South Africa world leaderon 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
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
Youthcreativelab
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
pope's public service of ending inequality curricula and need to take beyond religion -why wouldnt club or romes 15th annual nobel pace and youth summit converge on this
valuetrue.com trilliondollaraudit.com 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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uld be a more fitting prize
http://futurecapitalism.tv & http://yunusdiary.com note April's Yes You Can celebrations - last week's 10th skoll world championships where these questions were posed by BRAC ...
three key questions: Do we need more social innovation, or is the big challenge these days just to scale up what we know? Is scale always a good thing? And, is frugal always the best way?
3 Messages from BRAC's Frugal Innovation Forum for the Skoll World Forum
Editor’s Note: Asif Saleh is the Senior Director of BRAC Strategy, Communications, and Capacity.
This article was published for the 2013 Skoll World Forum. Watch the live stream April 10-12 by clicking here.
On March 30-31, a group of South Asian leaders gathered in Dhaka for the first Frugal Innovation Forum: Scaling Simple Solutions. Nowhere is the importance of innovation more apparent than in quickly-changing contexts like that of Bangladesh: many villagers are migrating to cities and abroad, women are increasingly entering the workforce, there is a youth bulge, while with increases in life expectancy, the fastest growing demographic is senior citizens. The complexity and interrelatedness of these problems required more than just new strategies: it requires new paradigms of understanding the situation, thinking holistically about ecosystems and interacting parts, and above all, how to create models with enough flexibility to evolve. The event was powerful and lays out some important issues to frame the upcoming Skoll World Forum at Oxford.
South Asians, perhaps due to the unique environmental factors of the region, seem to have an innate predisposition to what we might call the jugaad, or frugal innovation, mentality. This was one of the core beliefs that led us to organize the forum in the first place: that there was a unique type of innovation that was springing up across South Asia that would lend itself to further scale and adaption around the region. Jaideep Prabhu, co-author of Jugaad Innovation, spoke about the importance of this in his opening remarks at the Frugal Innovation Forum. Perhaps another unique trait of South Asian innovation is that scale is such an assumed part of design. Where the rest of the world talks in the thousands or tens of thousands, South Asians speak of “lakhs” (hundreds of thousands) or “crores” (tens of millions). BRAC’s mantra, “small is beautiful, but big is a necessity” is nothing new to practitioners in Pakistan (population 176 million) and India (population 1.2 billion!). This group converses casually about magnitude of coverage and reach that many countries’ presidents would, justifiably, have trouble fathoming.
Most of us agree with this assertion in the abstract—as citizens of the same region (which not too long ago was actually united under one flag), we know that have similar problems to solve and similar resourcing problems and similar challenges to solve. However, as unfortunate as it is, we are so busy doing what we do well — that we don’t get enough chances to share notes, connect and forge broader partnerships. And as development problems grow increasingly complex, it becomes a necessity rather than a luxury. It’s the world’s fate hanging on our shoulders now as well. The latest UN Development Report asserts,
“The rise of the South is unprecedented in its speed and scale. It must be understood in broad human development terms as the story of a dramatic expansion of individual capabilities and sustained human development progress in the countries that are home to the vast majority of the world’s people…There are new opportunities for catch-up for less developed countries and for creative policy initiatives that could benefit the most advanced economies as well.”
No longer can we look at the South on one hand and the North on the other—our mutual destiny is sealed.
It’s easy to pay lip service to the need to learn from one other, but actually how one does that is not entirely understood. Rarely can a ready-made model be dropped into a new place. Even the process of creation is hugely important in developing a sophisticated understanding of not just what works, but why it works. “Everyone needs to reinvent the wheel,” wrote Madhav Chavan, founder of Pratham, an incredible Indian organization transforming education nationally, “it’s important because all of us need our own kind of wheel.”
We kicked off the event with three key questions: Do we need more social innovation, or is the big challenge these days just to scale up what we know? Is scale always a good thing? And, is frugal always the best way? We started by looking at these themes across these broad sectors: developing human capital, mobilizing communities, and fostering civic engagement. The growing divides within countries—urban to rural, connected to offline, young and old, arose as issues that many are wrestling with. There’s a huge need to platforms to connect people—either in old fashioned, U-shaped meetings or on flashy websites like www.ipaidabribe.org, but of crucial importance is finding the hook: for vocational schools, it’s successfully reading the market demand to essentially guarantee job placement to its studies; for groups of street vendors, it’s knowing to let go and let them lead, even if it means excluding “others,” like waste pickers, and supporting them to create a society that represents their distinct needs. For many, technology is still a nice idea, but despite the fast growing numbers of cell phones, for many these are still out of reach, particularly rural women. Finding ways to build the urgently needed infrastructure and create pressure on the government is key, to some extent regardless of the ultimate goal. Shandana Khan of Pakistan’s Rural Support Programmes Network spoke about first getting communities to mobilize to persuade the government to support community groups. Once they had created the political commitment for resources, then they were able to scale massively, from just 5 million members to over 30 million. We see that the reshaping of the rules of the game has huge benefits, and creates a strong foundation for growth.
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, housed at Oxford University, promises to be an exciting event bringing together world leaders in innovation for important conversations. Arbind Singh of Nidan, who spoke at the Frugal Innovation Forum and was recognized as a Skoll Entrepreneur in 2012, will bring some of our discussions to the event. A few that we would offer to the Skoll community for reflection are:
Innovations in processes are often underappreciated but of crucial importance. The biggest and most successful organizations rarely owe their success to a product, but rather their activities and capabilities.
“Big impact” mentality is a must. In his closing remarks, BRAC’s founder and chairperson Sir Fazle Abed told the participants, “many organizations are happy with results on a small scale. We need to be more ambitious.” There are plenty of challenges on the path to scale—don’t let your mindset be one of them!
To go fast (and burn out quickly), go alone. To go far, go with others and forge a better path. The days of operating in a green field with no regulation or government engagement are gone. Increasingly, the challenge in development is building capacity for effective, independent action—of communities, of organizations, and of policy-markets. Nurturing ecosystems that are inclusive, embrace innovation, and value development is the only way to sustainably tackle poverty.
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d therefore explain what I’m promoting.
This is the idea. During the 50th, the Italian Giulio Natta invent plastic, on 1963 thanks to that invention he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
60 years later, not mentioning what is happening in the ground, plastic has almost filled up our seas and oceans
The most famous example is the Plastic Garbage Patch floating in the middle of Pacific Ocean. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKBWNVNzaPo (Preview) It has been discovered on 1997 by Charles Moore, an American oceanographer, who believes that about 100 million tons of flotsam are circulating in the region.http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-tip-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html This is what is going on with animals http://goo.gl/3OE97S Since around 20 years, every European country is making any effort trying to develop the environmental awareness and recycling. We can also say that now European consumers are very concerned about the role they play in recycling but: what is going on with the less-developed countries?Value of plastic is so low that recycling is pretty only a matter of environment respect and not a real business. After 8 years living in Chile, in term of massive communication I see something is happening only since the last months. If in around 60 years humanity made up such a disaster, the question is: how long does it takes these less-developed countries to create awareness within the consumers? Permit me to make some other considerations:a) packaging, generally including plastic, has reached such a big development that it is normal to buy a product with a "shell" that is, at least, 2 times bigger that the product itself and whose life is between 5 minutes to 24 hoursb) packaging, bottles and any container are produced and sold by a market which is considered private from the economic point of view: why the same private market cannot be charged of its own recycle instead of the public administration?In a city, this Municipality garbage collection model (public) has been for years the only way to get rid of the waste buy now, since the environment is almost saturate, we must change and revert the paradigm. The hard core of the project therefore is this:
establish by law an obligation for every distributor (market, mall, fast food, distribution chain and so on) to recollect all plastic they sell: 30% the first year, 60% the second 90% the third, in term of packages, cans, bottles, wrappings, plastic bags and so on
barcode, beyond administrative information, can show and permit to control information about material and weight of the recycling waste of any product sold by a cash, per day, per week, per year and so on, simply adding those details to the financial information
hopefully this should happen world wide
I am not naive at all and perfectly conscious that such a proposal needs lot of power to succeed. Here in Chile on Dec. 19, will take place the first meeting about it: Bernardo Javalquinto has confirmed his presence and some Chilean academic professors are invited too.I really hope nobody will miss the opportunity: I’ll ask them to support this idea.
What I believe is that any powerful man is also a human being and that something like what is going on within the seas is shocking, can scare and finally it is only a logistic problem, the idea is revert the path of recycling and control quantity and material.It can be incentivized also by tax reductions or implementing other economic strategies.Cashes at supermarket are the last tool of control.Marketing can make the rest and provoking the change. I’m sure every distribution channel should start immediately to push toward reduction of plastic.
Some countries have already banned plastic bags. Here in Latin America, Bernardo is studying and making campaigns about this problem at least since 2006. He sent me the follows links:
http://whichcountrieshavebannedplasticbags.blogspot.com/ http://www.howstuffworks.com/how-many-cities-have-a-ban-on-plastic-bags.htm
http://plasticbagbanreport.com/category/countries/
but we can do more.
Permit me a joke, which is my dream: if “Mr. Walmart” is obliged by law to recollect all plastic is sold by his distribution channel, this means that Mr. Walmart can influence (and possibly start changing) within a week the habit of billon and billion of consumers.Therefore Mr. Walmart can influence all producers to reduce the volume of plastic, or making packaging simpler and easier to be recycled. This way, scientists could focus the attention in how to clean up the oceans, being sure that no more plastic should end there within few years and, last but not least, this form if control can be apply to any product that need to be recycled. Unfortunately there is a very last point to be consider: oceans absorb CO2, please see the interesting article by NOAA http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/Ocean+Carbon+UptakeBut Professor Nathan Bindoff, project leader of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) oceans program Australia has told RTCC that as temperatures of oceans rise, they will become less able to absorb the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities.Article here http://www.rtcc.org/2012/01/24/warming-oceans-face-co2-tipping-point/See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2012/01/24/warming-oceans-face-co2-tipping-point/#sthash.ux9gsAJF.dpuf Therefore there is a last question I do: if oceans are becoming less effective in absorbing CO2, considering the Garbage Patch, does it mean that they are now producing CO2? This is the last common sense question. Well, this is idea.
In term of photography, I think it would be great to create a photographic map of the causes, for example making an investigation on plastic polluted rivers to show where they are.
Mostofa, let's talk also about this, there is also a group of italian artists interested in doing something.
Many thanks to everybody for your attention and have a great day.SincerelyClara
Our quest for linking in youth's most collaborative networks of green included these opportunity and threat notes:
I would conclude that we need a very lively activist green entrepreneur solutions youth network marching on atlanta fall 2015 whether they do the march physically or virtually= we also need a khan academy type production lab inviting youth to pitch the stories and collaboration solutions- if going green isnt one of the top 5 open education channels khan will have badly lost course
Clara if you keep individually briefing naila that would be good as the turner and carter families (the opinion leading hosts of everything atlanta wants youth to change) are directly interested in green and she will know which of them understands which way towards this
Drowning in plastic and drowning in carbon are of course highly correlated crises that require going beyond the whole global value chain of carbon
People like mostofa , estelle and I organised a 69th birthday party in dhaka around yunus in 2009 inviting the BBC's most active nature broadcaster Paul Rose to join in but sadly we found by that time Yunus had already got conflicted with the idea he announced in 2006 that bangladesh and china could raced together towards green economy
BBC News - Building a secure future in Bangladesh
Jul 7, 2009 - Paul Rose visits Bangladeshi villages, field projects, and schools; and meets the country's leading innovators to report on life at the "front line of
I will keep asking around_
mostofa will you have another go at paul rose and his royal geographical broadcasting friends including Monty Pythons and Brazil's Michael Palin- and while you are with the 50000 schoolchildren at lucknow will you see how far their green curriculum are advanced and linked into kalams' 2020 order that students tear up all unsustainable curricula (I will keep at the sainsbury family and their royal friends)
mostofa will you also ask yunus official photographer if he is personally interested or knows colleagues who are in photographers end plastic
bernardo are there already some green modules to your curricula?
Its the case that in the USA state wide competitions hosted by yunus green projects have always been number 1 but as yet no funding or mentoring group has been set up around them. Fortunately the american professor most responsible for the intellectual consequences of nobel laureate summits was judge at the last event where new hampshire students pitched lots of green solutions so I will pick my time in reminding him of this student vote; there's also a very strong youth led group on food security out of alabama - it would be worth seeing if they can connect. Also there was the founder of stonyfield farm yogurt whose other job is hubs of green youth entrepreneurs
Of course the local problem is the us economy is more addicted to plastic than any so you are not likely to see first innovations come from usa, well not with what I have experienced recently around the politics of capitalism in usa , or of Muhammad Yunus bowling alone. Now of course his daughter Monica's partnership network is a completely different kettle of fish- its brand is already adopted by new yorks leading sustainable communications agency but she doesnt want to massively lead while he is still enjoying himself
chris welcomes correspondence chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
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WORLDS MOST VALUABLE PARTNER
(as i am sure naila can also add detail to given her fashion4development award to sir fazle at un week 2014):
BRAC is on a moores law of value multiplication : the goodwill equity of brac is now four to 10 times larger than 5 years ago due its development of the largest cashless bank in the world that didnt exist in 2010 - not the least because Home | bKash is now the number 1 small business co-logo all across bangladesh and fortunately we knew (and re-met last week Tania Zaman) then the head of brac brand in 2009 who had been employed to give brac a flexibly coherent identity system
fortunately global brand partnership risk is the professional genre i developed in 1989 as father retired from The Economist so I need to find the way to offer the abed family pro-bono exponential risk audits to their global brand while they get on with youth empowerment especially on the 1% of the planet where over 50% of people live - confirmed at sir fazle's 80th birthday party as where brac's brand aims to be
growth branches spring up around people sir fazle has trusted for a lifetime but sure make the organigram of whom youth need to know first quite complex- fortunately the head of the real and cashless banking system is someone who in 2009 attended our 69th birthday party for muhammad yunus in the company of the bbc's nature correspondent paul rose -ironically i was at primary school with the son of former bbc nature guru david attenborough whose explanation for not mediating climate crisis sooner was very gentlemanly- the bbc offers such enormous power that i dont offer my voice change until evidence is beyond reasonable doubt (um err after the system has tipped to collapse) -such is the bbc mindset; pity it could otherwise have so many opportunities to be youth's greatest valuer
Paul Rose Bangladesh visit on BBC News websitePaul Rose, BBC presenter and expedition leader is an Ashden Award ‘Advocate’ who helps raise awareness of the work of our winners.
View on www.ashden.org
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good news: we were told by the guy who started brac's entry into online learning 11 years ago to come back and make a day of presentations in july - probably timely as bangladesh has launched an elearning nation ;platform and brac has about the only content to ;put on it!
consequently the best way to build on sir fazle's kind chief guesting of my father's remembrance party at japan embassy in dhaka in 2012 seems to be to send the family a report with 10 ideas the globalyouthcommunity under 30s most want to open space across the leadership team, the university or wherever the technology wizards are next going to multiply brac's goodwill by the next factor of 5
here is a very rough lusting of 10 for global youth community to brainstorm that needs to be finalised within a week - as often could do with lot of help editing
thanks chris
3.4 WORLD’S MOST TRUSTED BRAND Partnership DISCUSSION CHECKLIST FOR BRAC
1 Support youth demand for open technology labs stating up in 3-languages to search leapfrog partners apps around the world –in Bangla, English, Chinese.
Link the great youth hubs/hackathons in Preferential Option Poor mobile innovation – eg MIT , Blum-Berkeley, Ihub, Brac Uni, 1776 DC, Dubai internet city, Branson hub Jamaica …
2 Introduce open space and mass viral innovation processes to brac university- and to teachers and public/community servant training courses. Partner other hardest working (geographically disadvantaged) pro-youth universities – eg Sir Fazle Abed’s Alma Mater Glasgow University desperate to empower 21st c Adam Smith students to join in and fellow alumn Gordon Brown currently the UN envoy for education- transparency footnote amy and brooking annual summit on educators who scale
3 Databank the world’s favorite microfranchise catalogue by market for easy use by educators, students and communities
4 Consider jobenomics tv channel – potentially a co-ownership trust between Bangladesh, USA and suitable Chinese partner can be co-branded -transparency footnote amy
5 Consider supporting an association of youth communities founded by under 30s and concerned with tools of borderless friendship eg languages, hackathons … transparency note amy and mostofa and dubai expo 2020
6 Always analyse partnership compound risk exponentials –eg learn from how microcreditsummit spun away from youths goals and Bangladesh as open source knowledge epicenter. Either avoid being annual hero of any one global summit or - consider co-launching microeducationsummit since that can involve everyone in learning is the 21st c economy
7 SD Goal 1-17 see if an on-demand platform such as Sal Khan will partner in a brac edited space and dashboard of sustainability
8 See if Soros, and his ineteconomics youth community, will help quick start goal 1 end poverty curricula – he is and was the closest living mentor of my father
End Poverty Economics MOOC
Preferential Option (action learning with) Poorest Village Mother as Developer of Economy
Bottom-up resilience- always communally within arms reach of poor Maternal, infant, nutritional health
Redesigning value chains Cultural change of income generation and life critical services to community
Microfranchise – Efficient, Effectice, Expandable, Sustaining positive cash flow Financial service founded on the poorest village mother – complete system now at 4 levels of nationwide investment
Infrastructure leapfrogging for the poorest
Firewalling nations and families microeconomy from any macroeconomic systems
Every Sustainability Generation youth linked in to open learning economy and end poverty trust-flows
9 Understand supercity potentials of Calcutta to Dhaka- integrate a regional superport as a tri-country (Bangladesh, India, China) investment process. Have best relationships with the other top 11 supercity youth entrepreneur hubs.
10 Hall of Fame of Job Creating Leaders and Educators. If my father’s work is correct then sustainability youth –and their parents - need to celebrate job creators more than any other hero type. Global Youth Community could develop a newsletter process including nominations to the Abed family and the BRAC could maintain a hall of fame listing. Ultimately open learning and collaboration is the 21st century development economy- action learning multiplies multiplies value in use unlike consuming up things. Sadly all global professions still lock in the non-sustainable industrial age’s zero-sum metrics. Open Learning’s hall of fame of job creators can go beyond the numbers –it can simply make evident how much the old professional monopolies (and the globalisation they big banged) devalues trust and devalues youth’s futures everywhere.
Footnote – items with the transparency tag have started to be researched over the last 10 years by Norman Macrae Foundation youth ambassadors Mostofa Zaman and Amy and her peers.
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KEYNES (quotes from his books)
Economists and political mediators, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical people, who believe themselves to be exempt from intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority who hear voices in the air are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. In the fields of economics and politics there are not many people who are influenced by new theories after they are 25 to 35 years of age, so the ideas that civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply are not likely to be the newest. Sooner or later it is ideas which are dangerous for good or evil (quoted from General Theory concluding paragraph)
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people, on a level with dentists, that wold be splendid. Concluding paragraph of Essays in Persuasion
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George Soros: Why We Need To Rethink Economics
by INETeconomics
In this short interview, Institute for New Economic Thinking co-founder George Soros tackles the question at the heart of the failkire of 21st C economics to date ...
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brac
Billanthropy league table
Billanthropy refers to billionaires who have co-branded themselves as committing (up to) half their wealth to millennials' goals.
p526 Towards the turn of the millennium, developed nations will be threatened with the appalling problem of the able-bodied retired- there will be 100% more over 65 year olds than in the recent past
p523 The political problem of mankind is to combine tree things Economic Efficiency, Social Justice, and Individual Liberty. The first needs criticism , precaution and technical knowledge; the second an unselfish and enthusiastic spirit which loves the ordinary man; the third tolerance, breadth , appreciation of the excellences of variety and independence. (p523)
Unacknowledgedgiant.com invites you to oin collaboration search for world record ob creating alumni networks such as tabled here:
Jim Kim (Youth) World Bank DC -alumni web
Sir Fazle Abed - BRACDhaka
George Soros - OpenSoc & INETe Budapest NY London -web
Asian Millennials
Women4Empowerment
How do world's poorest women build health service networks? BRAC health net, ..Kim health net
African & Euro Millennials
Gandhi Family -city montessori lucknow
-real school and family loving city-wide revolutions
Elearning platforms: khan (san francisco), yazmi (african and asian continent satellites), OLC DC ...
Missing curricula Blecher & south-african global partners; mandela elders, branson, google...
...Writing in 1930s, nobody I can find is clearer than Keynes- wars (and systemic meltdown of trust-flows) are ultimately staged because of 2 opposite sorts of economists
those designing rules/futures for the 1% richest, extractors
versus
those aiming to improve the human lot of 99% of us starting with those born with the least or having voice in the next 20 years (poor, youth, women). Who do millennials concerned with exponentially sustaining livelihoods of 99% of the human race need to learn from and action with now?
43rd year newsletters of Entrepreneurial Revolution started in The Economist 1972
what The Economist saw in 1972 as future challenges to 2025 if net generation was to be sustainable let alone productive and openly collaborative
after world war 2 most mass media organs decimated Keynsian logics (at a time when it could have been hugely relevant). The Economist was an exception thanks partly to my father being the last student tutored by Keynes at Cambridge.
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world bank plutocrats
or SOROS!
When my father first saw students testing digital learning networks in 1972 he spent the next 10 years debating with leaders the priorities that Keynsains should prepare to invest in if the net generation was to be the most productive era
doublecheck the main valuation principles of keynes in the lft hand column (rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you see any we have missed)
by 1984 a book was ready providing the antidote to the big brother ending (which my father saw as the other possible outcome of a borderless world)
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#2030now world bank jim kim transcripts on defining social movements of net generation shared with 50000 alumni of first CTW MOOC
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Poverty Free World - Social Business - a step forward by Muhammad Yunus
Paper on The Economics Globalisation almost lost by Andrew Neil of ...BBC
Adam Smith, Science & Human Nature by Professor Skinner (The Principal of Glasgow University kindly hosted a joint remembrance party to Andrew Skinner and Norman Macrae)
online library of norman macrae--
Notes from Mandela University Fantasy Game started in 2001
Back in 1984 our youth economics and educators guide to net generation freedoms to 2025 anticipated that early in 21st C discrepancies in incomes and expectations of rich and poor nations would compound humanity's greatest risks, and open education curricula crisis
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the connection of radical changes in technology with innovation by educators than any other skill set
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as 2020 closes - one ray of hope: two thirds of world who are asian now celebrate round education commission asia and then nov 2020 global leaders forum hosted by korea, keynote by gordon brown
rough transcript gordon brown - korea global leaders forum
00:01 i'm delighted to join you at this eighth global leadership forum and i congratulate you on choosing as this year's theme the biggest question of our time
00:12 what will our post-covid world look like?
and i want to start by thanking all those who contributed to the organization of this important event and in particular the leader who asked me to speak to you my friend professor lee whose distinguished career has included his great success in reforming education in the republic of korea as minister of education science and technology and his path-breaking work on the global and korean education commissions that i had the privilege to chair
00:37 and who as an academic and writer is recognized and admired for his innovative research and insights especially in HTHT: High-Tech High-Touch education, admired not just in this continent but in every continent --now this conference meets at the right time because we're indeed at an inflection point
00:53 covid 19 this microscopic parasite 10000 times smaller than a grain of salt has not only infected 50 million people( ed some models of asymptomatics figure nearer 500 million)
-and destroyed more than a million lives, but it has made us as individuals come face to face with our own vulnerability- and indeed our mortality
01:10 and it has brought more economic havoc, disrupted more trade, killed off more jobs, led to more lost production, caused more company closures than has any modern recession
01:20 And it has not only undermined the cultural and social foundations of our lives but it is making us rethink the way we live, the way we work, the way we travel. the way we learn the way we study
01:31 in some cases it is accelerating already underway changes: like the online economy…in other cases exposing age-old problems like poverty and deprivation which have come to the surface and in other cases making what previously seemed impossible
-- work is changing as more people work from home and communicate online the consumer economy is changing as retail moves online
01:55 public services are changing as we see online education and online health dramatically expand
02:01 the social contract is changing as we reframe the rights and responsibilities of individuals and governments
our ideas of fairness are changing as we recognize we will have to do more to value and reward all those who have been underpaid and under recognized ;especially those running personal one-to-one face-to-face
services like social care where some of the lowest paid workers in the world have had to take some of the biggest risks and the jobs we do are changing as IT , logistics, the digital economy as well as social care have to expand to meet new needs-
our ideas of what is acceptable are changing as workers who have been prepared to be self-employed (without job/health/pension contracts) now seek greater security-
our idea of society is changing but people have been isolated now more than ever that being part of a community matters more to them than ever it did
02.58 and so each country will have to find its own way forward as it rebalances the relationships
between individuals and communities
between markets and states,
between risk and security,
between freedom and control; .
between the very rich and the rest and of course between man and nature
03:08
and education is changing; and this is where i want to focus the rest of my remarks
indeed i want to suggest today that because we are now more aware than ever of inequality of families and children denied opportunity- of the vast gap between the world's education rich and the education poor,
there is now no route to the future that does not have education at its center, no route to greater equality of opportunity that does not involve education
03:35 no route to more prosperous economies, stronger communities and fairer societies without investing in education, no route to rebuilding our countries too -
03:44 no route to building back better without the contribution of education of teachers, trainers, researchers, academics to the common good
04.00 -so for all these reasons, i have to say to you that the pandemic has robbed millions of children of the future
because the education they once enjoyed has been interrupted- many of whom may never return to school, or even if they do they may never catch up on their learning
04:08 you know at the height of the pandemic 1.6 billion children and young people- 90 percent of the world's pupils and students had their education disrupted-nearly a billion students are still shut out from schools today
and the risk is that short-term school closures will lead to long-term reversals in educational attainment with the opportunities available to the world's poorest and most marginalised children already diminished and hit even more
04:34 before the pandemic
let us remember 260 million school-age children did not go to school,
400 million children left education at 11 or 12 never to return,
800 million half the developing world's children left education without any usable qualifications for the workplace
and that while the numbers of graduates (from high school) has increased from 100 million 50 years ago to 400 million in 2 000 to 700 million now ..even in the 2040s when children born today will first come of age 70% of all the adult population of the world will never have the secondary nor college nor university qualifications needed for the well-paying jobs the world can offer
05:20 in low-income countries today a staggering 90 percent of children are in learning poverty which means they cannot read a basic text by the age of 10;now in the last financial crisis the typical child fell six months behind in their educational attainments . but children who are out of school for more than a year are even more unlikely even to return,
and in crisis settings,
girls are two and a half times more likely to drop out of school than boys; but missing out on school means millions of children also go hungry; indeed during this pandemic 370 million children have been missing out on free or subsidized school meals which have often been their only regular source of nourishment
06:01 and with families under extreme financial pressure millions of boys and girls may soon join the 152 million children already forced into child labour
06:11 and many girls will join the 12 million girls a year who are forced into becoming child brides
06.21 with one estimate suggesting this illiteracy could lose us as a society as much as 10 Trillion dollars per year in future earnings we are standing by doing too little as havoc is reaped by one of the biggest forces accelerating inequality in our generation
06:35 quality education is vital to lift people out of poverty; to ensure healthier families advance racial and gender equality, unlock job opportunities increase security
06:45 and create a more just peaceful and sustainable world- and girls education is a proven link to lowering fertility rates and reducing population growth which itself is one of the key drivers of climate change
06:56 education especially of girls leads to better health- a child whose mother can read is
· fifty percent more likely to live past the age of five
· fifty percent more likely to be immunized twice as likely to attend school
07:09
and so this is why we must come together as a global community and save the future of our children in response to this crisis
07:18
the education commission in partnership with an unprecedented global coalition of international organizations launched save our future to call for urgent investigation in education to prevent what we call the generational catastrophe
07:33
three actions are urgently needed
· first we must reopen schools but make sure they are safe schools
· second we must prevent what the world bank and unesco estimate could be a funding gap of 200 billions in education budgets in the next year as countries reallocate resources to health and social welfare and
· third to use available resources to greatest effect we must be innovative
by creating the international finance facility for education securing 500 million of grants and government guarantees that could unlock two billion dollars of educational investment to be made through the asian development bank and other development banks
08:13 and i urge the korean government to join as a funding donor of the development banks and we must use this crisis as an opportunity to transform education
8.25 you see if you think of the monumental changes we have seen in the way we organize our factories, our homes, our hospitals and our travel,
08:30 and then think of how little education has changed with until recently so little online and how little the school itself has changed from the setting of world classrooms with the teacher as the sage on the stage and the pupils sitting in rows of desks
08:44 think of the educational revolution we need as we meet the demand for ever-changing skills: continuous learning and try to harness technology to support those most left behind
08:55 a study published just last year revealed how disparities in learning achievements have not diminished over the last 50 years; the most disadvantaged still perform at levels that are three to four years behind the most affluent and we must change this
09:09 online learning became a necessity almost overnight but yet close to half of the world's pupils and students don't have access to the internet
09:17 across the world more than 460 million- almost one third of school-aged children had not been reached by remote learning at all -so this could be the moment for us to transform education, to create individualized adaptive learning which meets children where they are with personalized learning, at scale for every student not just the lucky few
09:39 https://educationcommission.org/about/commission-leadership/
this is why the education commission and its hub in asia under the leadership of korea’s ju-ho lee are spearheading the high tech high touch for all initiative: combining the power of human touch and interaction from teachers with the power of adaptive learning and technology such as artificial intelligence. the high-tech refers to an adaptive technology that can help deliver personalized learning. it identifies prior knowledge and tailors instruction to diverse learning
needs allowing students to be stimulated and nurtured as they progress at their own pace. this can also be done initially in low-tech ways but artificial intelligence can allow us to track a child's
experience with software informed data and gear every child's learning to their aptitude is one way forward. the high touch element is the indispensable human connection provided by teachers. with the use of high tech teachers, can give more personalized guidance.no longer just the lecturer who's the sage on the stage but also the tutor and mentor who is the guide by the side.
10:38
we've already seen the promise of this approach in asia in vietnam as well as in india-and here in korea the HTHT university consortium which includes 16 member institutions provides support to korean universities that use the HTHT approach in their curricula and the k-12 consortium targets low-income students across multiple cities
TODAY. i'm glad to announce the launch of HTHT for all a global consortium across governments, ed tech innovators, industry providers and educators that will develop a rigorous evidence base and create a collaborative network to support bold ways to address the digital divide so let us be the first generation where every child not only goes to school and learns but feels able to bridge the gap between what they are and what they have in themselves to become and let us be the first generation where instead of developing only some of the talents of some of our children in someof the world's countries we develop all of the talents of all children in all countries
11:40 thank you very much
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with approaching two thirds of the world's youth asian hubs were also led by korea's Ju-Hu Lee, and jack ma and japan's koike and india's Kailash Satyarthi and uae's Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi and Baela Raza Jamil from pakistan as well as the support of korean-american and then world bank leader jim kim
further support for africa came from tanzania's then president Jakaya Kikwete, tunisia's then minister of tourism Amel Karboul, nigerian billionnaire dangote, zimbabwe's london based billionate technologist and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa, south africa's machel, ghanian- brit Theo Sowa,nigeria's and vaccine ngo gavi's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, uganda's teacher union's Teopista Birungi Mayanja,
for america south: mexico's former president Felipe Calderón, colombian superstar Shakira Mebarak, Fundacion Chile's Patricio Meller and for america north came from former unicef director general anthony lake , economist larry summers, philosopher sen, harvard edx edutech's argawal,liesbet steer
for europe from former eu supremo portugal's baroso, former denmark president and save the children's Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former norwegian minister of education clernet
for australia, former prime minister gillard
in this 38th year of linking action to 1984's 2025 report we search for nominations of people whose contributions will be as important to youth if their solutions are scaled
In this year’s edition of the Yidan Prize Summit -edu foundation of china's largest digital space inventor of wechat/whatsap-, held virtually in Hong Kong dec 2020, 16 academics have been named to the Council of Luminaries.
They are Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder, BRAC (posthumous); bangladesh and world's largest ngo partnership
Anant Agarwal, CEO and Founder, edX and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Kamal Ahmad, Founder, Asian University for Women;
Vicky Colbert, Founder and Executive Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva;
Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University;
Usha Goswami, Director, Center for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge;
Eric Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow and Professor, Stanford University and Hoover Institution;
Larry Hedges, Chairman, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University. Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University;
Salman Khan, Founder and CEO, Khan Academy;
Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All;
Patricia Kuhl, Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Co-Director, University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences;
Lucy Lake, CEO, CAMFED; Angeline Murimirwa, Executive Director-Africa, CAMFED;
Carl Wieman, DRC Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Physics and of Education, Stanford University;
Zhu Yong-xin, Founder, New Education Experiment.…
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is seething with a humongous growth in population. It is close to 1.3 billion at present and expected to overtake China in another 10 years to become the most populous country in the world. The Indian subcontinent of undivided India (includes Pakistan and Bangladesh) has 1.7 billion population with over a quarter of them living below the Poverty line. SDG4 is most relevant to the Indian subcontinent, mired in poverty and inequality.
With the growth in population there is a needs demand, rise in expectations and the myriad complex solutions required to meet them. A basic requirement that is fundamental to meeting the challenge, is the education of its people. In India, literacy is around 70% and varies with the caste/religious composition. The poor folks coming from the lower castes and tribes and the minorities have the lowest level of education. The quality of education is abysmal. The Indian government spends around 2.5% of its GDP on education (a good portion of which is allocated to the prestigious Indian institutions like the IIT’s and IIM’s that produce brilliant engineers and scientists). It passed the Right to Education Act (RTE) in 2009 guaranteeing education for all children from age 6 to 14. However, the lack of political will to implement the provisions of the act and the unwillingness to commit financial resources towards its implementation, has stalled the educational progress. The Right to free and good quality education for all, remains a distant dream.
The Indian government is expecting the private sector to meet the educational demands. Access to education in profit- making private sector is financially impossible for most of the poor folks. They need to attend the Government. schools. The government run schools lack in infrastructure, …. students squat on the floor, girls have no bathroom facilities, absence of books and writing materials, high absenteeism of teachers and an administration that is bureaucratic and corrupt. Most students drop out before they complete high school. Read Kunal Chawla’s article “Major problems with the Indian Education system” ( https://medium.com/@chawlak/major-problems-with-the-indian-education-system-a9fafcf49281)
A rote-memorization methodology of education is followed in the government school set up. A servile educational system in consonance with the caste hierarchy gives no place for critical thinking. The Indian ruling class comes from the upper and middle castes. Their children attend expensive private schools where standard education is provided.
The functioning of the Indian democratic system has given some leverage to the poor folks as they are able to use the power of their vote to change the ruling party and choose another party. The ruling party have met this resistance from the lower castes by offering “reservation” in education and jobs (like affirmative rights in the USA) to the lower castes and tribes (this reservation is however, denied to the Muslims and Christians even though they are also extremely poor). Thanks to Reservation, there has been a limited growth in the education of the lower castes. However, their share of the quota in education and jobs is lower than their share of the population.
Unemployment is extremely high. It is not uncommon to see a thousand candidates line up to apply for a few job openings. Absence of income affects mostly the Poor. NASSCOM (The National Association of Software and Services Companies) thinks that 90% of the engineering graduates are unemployable due to low-quality education and lack of skills. Provision of relevant and adequate technical and vocational skills that meet changing demand, is another important requirement of Education. Entrepreneurial education is missing as the business oriented upper castes prefer their own family members to learn and carry on the business. The lower castes have no Entrepreneurs to emulate.
Critical minority segments that need high educational priority
Dalit and Tribal education
A thousand years of exploitation and oppression of the lower castes by the upper castes has created a built-in handicap for the lower castes. It will take many generations of educational, social and economic empowerment to overcome. A big leap in empowerment was taken by the Dalit leader, Dr Ambedkar, when he demanded separate “reservations” in the political sphere for his people. He rebelled against the mainstream leadership of MK Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and other Congress leaders. With persistence he was able to incorporate the provisions of this reservation in the new Constitution of the republic of India (of which he was the architect). In the three generations post to Indian independence in 1947, the Dalits have gathered political clout and are able to exert a certain amount of pressure on the government to heed to their demands. However, this clout is marginal and has not really helped the Dalit gain social and economic emancipation. Stigma and intrinsic backwardness continue to hound them. They are still at the lowest echelons in terms of literacy, longevity and are beset with huge unemployment and underemployment. The ruling parties channelize their anger and frustration, with a mixed bag of appeasement (example, by appointing a Dalit as India’s president), of social oppression (cruel beatings, rape, incarceration etc.) and by dividing the Lower castes into multiple sub-castes and making one subcaste fight the other.
Private educational enterprises
There is a mushrooming of private non-profit organizations that are catering to the education of the poor. These are run by small entrepreneurs. They charge an affordable fee and provide a better education since they monitor the working of the teachers and are eager to show the parents that their children can read and write and take the exams.
Madrasa education
The Madrasa education is a sub-category within the private educational enterprise and has distinct elements. It is also run by entrepreneurs but is funded by Muslim community philanthropists and works on a paltry budget. Around 4% of India’s 200 million population attend madrasas (as per the Justice Sachar committee report on Education). Here children are provided religious education that includes learning to read the Quran and its memorization. For a limited number of students, it also includes higher education in Islamic studies. The script they follow is very antiquated and limit the children’s growth in various ways. The students are not provided with basic learning of languages (English and regional). They are not taught Math or science or job oriented vocational skills. Most students come out as paupers and are thrown on the streets to eke their living. Like their compatriots of the poor castes, they are the most deprived. Secular Education of good quality along with skills training is required so their potential can be tapped and productivity harnessed. Failure to do so is increasing frustration among all strata of the poor. The politicians, unable to think beyond serving themselves and their masters, devise plans to divert the attention of the people from pressing demands and have recently launched lynching, incarceration and political isolation to demean them and build hate against them in non-Muslims.
Girls Education
Gender discrimination is rampant in India. Cases of dowry and atrocities against women can be read every day in all nooks and corners of the country. Unlike Boys education, Girls education is not considered to be of high priority. Girls are deprived of good education and their literacy is lower than the boys. Girls from the lower castes and minorities have the lowest education of all. In the government schools, provision of bathroom facility is missing for girls. They are entrusted with home chores or taking care of the younger siblings as the parents need to go to work. Fear of sexual attack also makes the parents cautious and hesitant to send their daughters to school. Lack of transportation and absence of provision of meals in school, cast a further burden on the parents. A drive to convince the parents of the need for Girls education and the provision of various facilities is required to drive Girls educational attendance. Transportation, provision of meals and of safety, bathroom facilities as well as material resources to study; provision of uniforms etc., are needed. In case of parents who are very poor and need the girls to augment their income, there needs to be a provision to give monetary support to the parents, so that they free the girls to attend the school.
The use of Technology to build mass education
Educational Technology has taken great strides in the last decade and is able to meet the challenge of mass education. Massive Free Open-ware Online courses (MOOCs) backed by international organizations, state govts., UNESCO & private institutions have opened doors for learning by the poor. The possibility of imparting good quality education at a low cost is on the horizon. However, the poor still lack the tools to avail them (computer, broadband, books and Trained Teachers). Internet is weak in most places and expensive. Of late in India, a spurt is seen in the demand for smart phones and a decrease in the cost of broadband. This is opening the possibilities for learning. Towards getting electoral support, the government proclaims that it is willing to provide more funds and facilities for education. However, there is no comprehensive reform of the education system that addresses the multitude of problems besetting the system. Bureaucracy and corruption are systemic, putting huge breaks in the implementation of any meaningful reform.
The global educational organizations and philanthropist supported education
The Indian law of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) mandates that a 2% contribution of corporate profit be diverted for societal benefit. The Indian corporations are mostly run by rich families and they have invested some of the CSR funds into education, health and other areas, through family-run charitable institutions. Notable exception is the Azim Premji foundation for public education. Mr. Premji, a philanthropist par excellence, has invested many billions of dollars in the improvement of the quality of the Indian public-school system and in Teacher training. The combined strength of the working of these institutions address less than two percent of the Indian school going population. There is a high need for the involvement of global educational and philanthropic associations in expanding the Indian educational outreach. The UN has stipulated global Sustainable Development Goals. However, they are guidelines only and not mandated. Its implementation is left to the goodwill of the government A few exceptional philanthropists have risen to meet the SDG challenge. Prominent among them are Her Excellency Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar, who instituted the Education Above All (EAA), an organization to help underserved areas and marginalized youth get education. An important goal of the EAA was the education of 10 million OOSC (Out of School Children’s) education. It has pursued the target diligently and achieved great success. Other philanthropists like Mr. Jack Ma and Mr. Chen Yidan are dedicated to advance the frontiers of global education to cover undeserved areas and underserved populace. There are other philanthropists also, who are fully committed to the growth of education. The strength of such forces is miniscule when compared to the vast needs. In the Indian subcontinent there is a desperate need to provide Literacy as well as qualitatively enhance the education of hundreds of millions of children and youth. Those who are deprived of education have the right as human beings to avail the same. They are imbued with the same intelligence, capability, love of learning as any of the educated. What is missing is the opportunity and the wherewithal necessary to obtain it. Humanitarian consideration demand that all concerned people take up this issue with seriousness. The philanthropist can play a far larger role than what has been attempted so far. We need to overcome the dark forces of Illiteracy and Poverty from enmeshing the lives of the poor. The greatest happiness one can achieve is not the accumulation of wealth but the diversification of wealth from the private and the state sector to the productive, essential and exhilarating sectors of health and education. It is a sad tragedy that the most advanced country in the world spends an annual $750 billion on Defense and likewise all developed countries defense budgets get bloated each year as they compete and threaten each other. The leaders who lead them have lost their sense of balance. They will leave no recognized legacy except that of destructive spending and denial of justice to millions of humans, who pleaded for succor from hunger and yearned for education.
Proposal for the education of one million minority children
My proposal is to provide education for one million children of the marginalized segments of India. Towards providing this mass education it is proposed that Free and open-ware educational tools like Khan academy and MOOCS (Massive Open-ware Online Courses) be availed. Organizations like UNESCO, EAA (Education Above All) have supported the growth of educational tools that benefit education. Government institutions in India like the distance learning Ambedkar University and IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) as well as the prestigious Indian Institute of Technologies (IIT’s) have, like the Harvard, MIT and Berkeley sponsored EdX, kept their course work in the open for students to avail them for free. Hujiang in China provides technological solutions for mass education spread over in different corners of the country. Pioneering work is being done in this area and companies like Allison, Rachel etc. are offering technological tools at low prices towards furthering mass education.
Funding models of Education have been developed and are evolving. EAC (Educate A Child) is a subdivision of EAA and it has fostered a model where it partners with highly established educational organizations in the underdeveloped countries in Africa and Asia. These partners elaborate a detailed plan and if approved, they are financially supported by EAC to an approximate tune of $100/per child per project (typically 3-year projects) for student enrollment in excess of 30,000. Educate-Girls, a non-profit in India, initiated a Development Impact Bond (DIB) in education. This ties funding to outcomes. It claimed to achieve and surpass its targets.
Enlightened organizations, philanthropists, educationists and officials (as seen at the WISE summit) have expressed their willingness to support universal literacy and applied learning as part of their commitment to meeting Sustainable Development Goals. What needs to be worked out are the implementation mode with appropriate funding and technology support.
The Indian government has data identifying areas of critical shortages (data of dropped out students and OOSC) in all districts of the country. It also has outlined educational policies (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) in support of the Right to Education (RTE) act to provide free education for children between 6-14 ages. The government has only had a partial success in the implementation of these schemes as there are endemic constraints (poor salaries for “Volunteer” teachers), absenteeism of teachers, transportation issues, lack of educational materials, non-provision of lunch and lack of motivation of students.
A coalition of non-government non-profit educational institutions is the first step. They should be steeped in educational practices and must have dedicated and trained staff. Vetting these partners for credibility in performance is important. Critical role is in the mobilization of the students in rural sectors where parental support for education is low. Volunteers are required who will constantly be engaged in mobilization of support and ensuring the smooth functioning of the schools. Wherever possible, existing infrastructure support like school buildings and educational facilities should be rented as well as government-constructed rural buildings should be availed. Government instituted curriculum can be used and improvised, so students learning here are on par with education provided in government run schools. The Coalition should have leadership with vision, dedication and educational knowhow.
Quality education should be enforced, with support for developing critical thinking skills. Universal values of tolerance, consideration for others, and amity between all humans needs to be reinforced. Education should be job oriented, sustainable and be enriching to the mind and the soul. It can be a fast track education of a couple of years for the upper age youth who dropped out from school (12 to 17 age) and in case of children, the effort should be to raise their educational level in a sustained way from the ground up.
Many of the established educational institutions need a revamping of their administrative procedures to conform to new technologies and new thinking. The implementation of the modern teaching methodology and adherence to international accounting standards and transparency in working, will elevate the functioning of the coalition partners to a high level and they will tremendously benefit from it. Over a period, as such implementation of mass education is extended to millions of youth, there will a tremendous boost in the overall productivity of the school system.
The figure of one million is audacious but in terms of the South Asian context, it is a small and doable number. Learning from this one experience, multiple similar programs can be launched, so that the vast need of educational amelioration is met within the shortest possible time. It would be a great tragedy if the potential and lives of all the marginalized was wasted for want of effort and unwillingness to address challenges. If challenges are not met today, the same will become impediments for the peaceful societal growth of tomorrow. They will come knocking in the living rooms of the happy and content naysayers and become a threat. We cannot live ignoring and denying the urgent needs of the needy. Unhappily the political Leadership in most countries is content with satisfying their own constituents and their loved ones. They need to go beyond that and understand the dimensions and severity of the global problems. The pockets of poverty in some corner will not remain isolated but will reach out to affluent areas and bring misery. The masses of the poor have nothing to lose but may be gratified in taking revenge over those who they perceive to have ignored them. There needs to be an international revival of ethical standards with global organizations and leaders placing the prosperity and happiness of humanity, high above their vested interests. Socrates, Plato, Avicenna, Ghazali, Vivekananda, Paulo Frei and other leaders dreamed of such an education. The time has come to bring it to fruition. The SDG4 objective to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” is a laudable goal in the right direction. It is for us, the educational leadership, to pool our thoughts and efforts together and to ensure that it is implemented in all areas where it is needed. It must prioritize the critical needs areas and make them the starting point.
I have had the privilege to interact with and to integrate several non-profit educational organizations working in diverse parts of India with long-standing educational experience. They cater to the education of around half a million underprivileged students of India. They have all expressed a sincere interest in implementing Literacy and in enhancing the quality of education of the marginalized. These non-profits will be the base that will collate the task of achieving the goal. They will work with the Government educational institutions that are mandated to provide education for the poor. I appeal to all philanthropic and educational institutions to help achieve this goal of bringing education to one million marginalized children of India. Innovative ideas and procedures for achieving the goal will be most welcome. Indeed, new ideas, procedures, tools and resources are essential. We cannot achieve anything without them. I would be happy to provide details and concrete plan to all institutions and individuals who share the vision and are willing to contribute to its realization.
Thank you so much
Most sincerely and respectfully
Javeed Mirza, Convener,
Coalition of non-profit minority educational institutions of India
Javeed.mirza@gmail.com
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Added by chris macrae at 11:16pm on September 29, 2014
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Added by chris macrae at 1:53pm on January 22, 2014
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