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Comment on: Topic 'JRN: cataloguing youth's 100 jobs-rich networks with chinathanks and eduthanks': education? 2015-16 Program The five innovative projects of the 2015-16 WISE Accelerator originate from Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Selected Projects eduTechnoz Reach: RegionalHeadquarters: Pickering, CanadaDate of creation: 2012 eduTechnoz is an online portal that provides fun educational content such as online games, eBooks and interactive worksheets for children learning Arabic. They have reached a significant regional audience, with more than 50,000 users: children, parents, teachers and schools. The material is designed based on accredited curriculums and cognitive skills research. Furthermore, the platform measures individual progress and can be tailored to address specific skills and needs, with the possibility of being adapted for any school system. They have worked with Qatar National Library since 2014.> Read more about eduTechnoz Kepler Reach: RwandaHeadquarters: Cambridge, MA USADate of creation: 2013 Kepler is a non-profit university program designed for the developing world. Its mission is to expand access to excellent higher education for students coming from communities of need. It combines the best of online learning, such as MOOCs and online, competency-based degree, with in-person seminars and intensive education to employment support. They provide an US-accredited degree, a world-class education and a clear path to good jobs for thousands of students in Rwanda for around $1,000 tuition per year.> More about Kepler Making Ghanaian Girls Great! (MGCubed) Reach: GhanaHeadquarters: London, United KingdomDate of creation: 2014 MGCubed is Ghana’s first interactive distance-learning project. The project uses VSAT technology to enable live, interactive distance learning. Six master teachers in Accra provide English and Math classes that are broadcasted live to multiple classrooms. The project is expected to impact more than 6,000 marginalised students between the ages of 9-14 in 72 schools across Ghana. In addition to the in-school classes, there is an after-school girls’ club called ‘Wonder Woman’ including both students and out-of-school girls. The workshops engage girls in topics such as early pregnancy, early marriage, women’s rights and financial literacy, as well as introducing them to different adult female roles. The goal is to empower them, raise their self-esteem and motivate them to stay in school.> More about MGCubed Green Shoots Reach: South AfricaHeadquarters: Cape Town, South AfricaDate of creation: 2010 Green Shoots uses a cloud-based Moodle platform to implement an online Maths Curriculum for South African grades 3 to 9. The program tracks individual learners progress throughout the school year, and it gives comprehensive teacher trainings that develop learning through ICT. It also provides development programs for school management and Education Department official to encourage real-time data-informed decisions when planning strategies and interventions for Maths teaching and learning. They are now partnering with Gooru Learning to be able to scale their model for a wider international audience.> More about Green Shoots TeachPitch Reach: GlobalHeadquarters: London, United KingdomDate of creation: 2014 TeachPitch is an online library accessible via a community technology that helps teachers identify the best online learning resources available. Teachers sign up to the platform for free and find the best online content curated by TeachPitch. The library system offers a growing range of functionalities, allowing teachers to save, share, rate and review the resources they find. The project’s system and repository technology makes them a valuable management tool for schools, suitable for teacher evaluation, induction and professional development. The platform has over 10,000 teachers from over 100 countries with a continuous rapid growth rate.> Read more about TeachPitch ================== the current incubator projects for 2017-2018 are Aflatoun Education Reach: AfricaHeadquarters: Amsterdam, the NetherlandsDate of creation: 2014 Alfatoun Education is a platform that strengthens teacher capacity globally by delivering Social and Financial Education through online and offline technology. The platform provides a self-study course that gives teachers who have already participated in Aflatoun workshops refresher and supplementary training. The modules deal with both program implementation and active-learning methods transferrable to any subject. The project has impacted over 150 teachers and 6000+ students so far.> Read more about Aflatoun Education Chalk.com Reach: GlobalHeadquarters: Ontario, CanadaDate of creation: 2013 Chalk.com is a school management system providing real time data from the classroom to help schools understand what actually works. With its award winning workflow tools for teachers, Chalk.com allows teachers to truly personalize learning by better understanding every student’s individual needs. The real time data from the classroom results in rich insights for the administration to make more informed decisions. Today, over 200,000 teachers use Chalk.com's tools to plan lessons, align to curriculum, and assess their students.> More about Chalk.com Edukasyon.ph Reach: PhilippinesHeadquarters: Manila, PhilippinesDate of creation: 2013 Edukasyon.ph is an online platform empowering students in the Philippines with opportunities to find education pathways for their dream careers. Students gain advice by filtering and ranking offers based on price, quality and relevance, and navigating through 200 career pathways. The website also offers convenience by allowing students to apply to schools online directly. With a current reach of 50,000 users every month, the website has witnessed user growth of over 20 percent a month.> More about Edukasyon.ph Joko's World Reach: GlobalHeadquarters: Collingwood, Melbourne, AustraliaDate of creation: 2013 Joko's World is a suite of interactive learning applications that brings world cultures and intercultural understanding to the classroom in a fun way. Joko's World blends music, geography and culture in a unique and educational way, allowing students to build skills and knowledge on a diverse range of cultures. The project uses games that allow students to incrementally build skills and knowledge through game-based challenges that offer instant feedback. The project currently has more than 10,000 users globally.> More about Joko's World Learn Syria Reach: GlobalHeadquarters: Toronto, CanadaDate of creation: 2013 Learn Syria is an education campaign bringing free digital education to Syrian refugees via a collaborative platform and Rumie tablets that work offline. The project works with local partners and thousands of skilled volunteers online and has built a full digital Syrian curriculum for children from grades 1-12 for autonomous learning. This content is then loaded onto its learning tablets that work fully offline and are deployed through local partners in Turkey and Lebanon. The project reaches over 25,000 Syrian students.> Read more about Learn Syria =================================================== the inaugural batch of accelerator projects were The five innovative projects of the 2014-15 WISE Accelerator originate from Chile, France, Kenya, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates. Selected Projects Ideas Box Reach: France, Jordan, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Burundi, the United Statesand AustraliaHeadquarters: FranceDate of creation: 2013 Ideas Box is a portable media center dedicated to improving education broadly defined, and designed to be adapted to any context, including humanitarian crises. It creates an enhanced learning environment even in the most difficult conditions. It is highly standardized in its container and hardware (Internet, laptops, tablets, e-readers, arts & crafts), and finely tailored in content to each context. Ideas Box centers have arrived in Burundi, and implementation is under way in Jordan and Lebanon for populations affected by the Syrian crisis. Beyond emergency situations, orders are being finalized for communities in France, the United States, and Australia.> More about Ideas Box Kytabu Textbook Subscription Reach: Kenya Headquarters: KenyaDate of creation: 2012 Kytabu is a mobile textbook subscription application on Android and Windows‎ platforms that allows students to lease learning content in a piecemeal manner. Created to overcome the cost of bulk buying of textbooks in Kenya, Kytabu is using the mobile platform to bring learning content to thousands of students in Kenya's education system. > More about Kytabu Textbook Suscription Mobile Taleem Reach: The project currently reaches 200 direct (teachers) and 12,000 indirect (students) beneficiariesHeadquarters: PakistanDate of creation: 2012 The project addresses the need for deeper understanding of foundational content among primary teachers in rural Pakistan who lack access to training and learning opportunities. Through localized lessons aligned with national standards and delivered via mobile phone, the project is designed to increase math and English subject competency in order to improve the quality of education students receive.> More about Mobile Taleem Sterio.me Reach: LesothoHeadquarters: ChileDate of creation: 2013 Sterio.me offers teachers the ability to pre-record interactive audio lessons for their pupils. Delivered via any mobile phone, no Internet is required and learners have access to their daily homework lessons via free SMS and GSM voice. The platform marks the lessons automatically and provides teachers with insights into individual learners’ progress. The project addresses the lack of books and teaching material in Africa, as well as the difficulties arising from overcrowded classrooms, and has over 400 lessons on the platform to date.> Read more about Sterio.me Ustad Mobile Reach: Afghanistan, Germany, Iraq, Kenya, and ZambiaHeadquarters: Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDate of creation: 2012 Ustad Mobile is a platform for creating, delivering, and tracking learning experiences using nearly any mobile device. Educators can make use of audio, video, quizzes, and games with no need for advanced IT skills. The platform allows learners to use even low-end phones and works without requiring the Internet or even a signal. Various organizations are currently using the platform in Afghanistan, Germany, Iraq, Kenya, and Zambia. > Read more about Ustad Mobile …; Added by chris macrae at 1:59pm on April 9, 2017

Topic: hottest moocs in world: of last semester’s MITx courses; data will be used to improve education online and in the classroom. Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office today's news ENGINEERING HEALTH MIT students create new medical devices Precision machine design class links doctors with students to find ways of meeting pressing medical needs for new technology. Why some immigrants get citizenship January 30, 2013 similar stories New online learning tool brings 'the crowd' into homework assignments December 14, 2012 Sanjay Sarma appointed as MIT’s first director of digital learning November 20, 2012 Department snapshot: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science November 16, 2012 OEIT's role in fostering open education: an interview with Vijay Kumar October 31, 2012 Esther Duflo, Eric Lander and Walter Lewin Photos: Peter Tenzer; Rick Friedman; Dominick Reuter January 31, 2013 Share on linkedinShare on facebookShare on twitterMore Sharing ServicesShare Share on email MIT professors Esther Duflo, Eric Lander and Walter Lewin will lead three new MITx courses this spring, joining three existing MITx courses that will be offered again this semester. The new MITx courses were announced recently by edX, the free online-education platform created last May by MIT and Harvard University. EdX also said that courses on its platform have now attracted more than 600,000 registrants from around the world. In October, edX expanded to include a new partner, the University of California at Berkeley; since then, the University of Texas System, Georgetown University and Wellesley College have joined the edX platform.This spring, there will be 15 new courses on edX — including the first offerings in the humanities and social sciences — from MITx, HarvardX and BerkeleyX, in addition to reprises of 10 existing courses from these three universities. MITx’s new courses this semester are 7.00x (Introduction to Biology: “The Secret of Life”), led by Lander; 8.02x (Electricity and Magnetism), led by Lewin; and 14.73x (The Challenges of Global Poverty), led by Duflo.Lander, a professor of biology and director of the Broad Institute — who for the past 20 years has taught MIT’s freshman biology course, which is taken by more than half of all MIT students — will tailor the edX version of the course to appeal to an online audience. In addition to videos of classroom lectures, edX learners can use a variety of interactive features, including a three-dimensional molecule viewer and a gene-explorer tool. Students may also participate in community-based contests and milestone-based prizes to encourage learning. In 14.73x — based on an MIT course that involves active discussion groups — Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, will encourage students to engage with others from around the world on the course’s discussion forum. Students will watch video lectures, some featuring brand-new material, and deepen their understanding with challenging homework assignments. And in 8.02x, students can watch Lewin’s dramatic classroom demonstrations, interspersed with interactive questions, as well as related animations and simulations. “E-learning is a revolution comparable to the invention of the printing press,” says Lewin, a professor emeritus of physics whose lectures have reached millions of viewers on YouTube and MIT’s OpenCourseWare. “People who would never ever have the opportunity to get a decent education will be able to get one at any level … in five to 10 years, we could reach out to at least a billion people.”Local connectionsEdX officials have been in conversation with the cities of Boston and Cambridge about creating mechanisms for residents to most effectively access the educational curriculum. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced BostonX — which will supplement edX offerings by providing in-person support and job-training services in community centers — in his State of the City address on Tuesday night. In Cambridge, exploratory discussions with Mayor Henrietta Davis have centered on offerings in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), as well as the possibility of providing instruction in English as a Second Language.Last semester’s resultsInstructors from last fall’s three MITx classes — all of which will be offered again this spring — are now evaluating their experiences with the edX platform and hoping to develop new tools to improve student learning, both online and in the classroom. “The experiment continues to go well,” says Anant Agarwal, president of edX and a professor of computer science and engineering at MIT. “We introduced a number of new technologies … and we’re also learning about best practices, like regular communication with students over email. We’ll be looking at all the data to see how things went.”While there is much data still to be crunched, some results from students’ fall-semester MITx courses are already in: Of the 100,000 who registered for 6.00x (Introduction to Computer Science and Programming), 11,000 were active users of the course; for 3.091x (Introduction to Solid State Chemistry), 28,512 initially registered, with an average 6,000 active users and 2,082 who passed the course. In 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics) — MITx’s prototype course and the only course on edX that has completed two semesters — 46,000 registered, with about 6,000 active students and 3,008 who passed the course. During the course’s first run on MITx, prior to the edX announcement last year, 6.002x attracted nearly 155,000 people, with more than 7,000 who passed the course. While 6.002x may have attracted fewer students online in its second offering, enrollment for its on-campus counterpart — 6.002 — grew this past semester by 50 percent over the previous fall. Although it’s difficult to attribute the enrollment spike to any specific cause, 6.002 instructors surmise that the edX version of the course may have sparked added interest. For coming semesters, instructors are considering how best to use edX tools in their classrooms.Deadlines around the worldIn addition to new courses, edX introduced a number of new features and technologies throughout the fall semester, some developed on the fly. Last fall’s 6.002x instructor, Khurram Afridi, a visiting associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, recalls one period when the edX team had to improvise a video-delivery system for students in the Middle East. Early in the fall semester, an inflammatory YouTube video prompted many Muslim countries to block access to the site. Since edX’s video content is streamed mainly through YouTube, students in those countries were unable to access course materials — a problem Afridi learned of when students from Pakistan, Iran and other countries wrote in on the online discussion forum. “The technology wasn’t set up to do this, but within a couple of days, the edX team was able to provide alternate means for the students to download videos and watch them on their end,” Afridi says. “We were able to retain these students.” The exercise proved useful when, midway through the semester, thousands of students lost power as Hurricane Sandy whipped through the northeastern United States. In response, the edX team worked to extend deadlines to students affected by the storm — a complicated process that involves reprogramming software to shuffle course files and change due dates.“It’s one thing if you have four students sending you valid excuses, and quite another when you have whole nations,” says John Guttag, the Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, and an instructor for 6.00x — a course led by MIT Chancellor Eric Grimson. Talking in classEach week, materials for each edX course include video snippets taken from classroom lectures, as well as short video tutorials in which instructors expand upon lectures through a variety of means: scribbling on pieces of paper, talking through presentation slides, or creating screencasts — recordings of instructors’ voices and drawings as they illustrate a point on a computer screen. Of the features offered on edX, instructors found the discussion forums to be the most useful in gauging student interest and participation. Afridi says he could tell which lectures and demonstrations went over well with students by the chatter and posts on the forum. One demo proved particularly popular: In 6.002x, Agarwal sets up an experiment with a pickle, running a current through it to make it first glow, and then smoke. In response, students from around the world posted videos on the forum, demonstrating the same phenomenon. In fact, the discussion forum has become a sort of platform for peer-to-peer review: When a student posts a question on a problem set, instructors have found that it is often another student who answers first. Recognizing this trend, the edX team appointed several “community teaching assistants” midway through the fall semester — students from around the world who appeared to be the most active and helpful in online discussions — to act as forum moderators. “That was very healthy because that meant students were much more involved,” Afridi says.Beyond the honor codeEdX still faces challenges as it continues to expand — chief among them, student assessment: How can an instructor know if a student’s work is really his or her own? Students who complete an edX course today receive a certificate based on an “honor code,” although there is no guarantee that test scores reflect a student’s true abilities.As an experiment to address such issues, edX has announced an option for students to take a proctored version of the 6.002x final exam, which will be offered on Feb. 13. The edX team is partnering with Pearson VUE, a proctoring service with 450 centers in 110 countries, where students can go to take a supervised exam for a modest fee. In return, students receive a certificate indicating their proctored status. In the meantime, researchers are looking into other ways to improve online assessment, including services in which proctors use webcams to monitor students. Agarwal says edX is talking with a number of companies that offer such services to see whether such a technology can scale to edX’s hundreds of thousands of students. “Right now there’s orders of magnitude difference in terms of what I can do with assessment in class and what I can do online,” says Michael Cima, the instructor of 3.091x and the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering at MIT. “That’s going to narrow. It’s going to happen. You can tell that this is a sea change.”Flipping the classroom experienceA priority for Cima is to learn how edX courses can improve traditional residential education on college campuses. Cima and other edX instructors will be analyzing data collected over the fall term to see what techniques and tools help students better grasp course content. For example, videos and tutorials offered on edX can be sped up or slowed down, replayed or advanced, depending on a student’s individual learning speed — a tool that, judging from student e-mails, is extremely useful. Cima says that in the future, on-campus courses may benefit from such edX tools. A lecturer, he envisions, may ask students to watch a video sequence on edX, and come prepared to discuss the content in class. “Right now I have this really oppressive punch list of things to get through in a lecture, so if I take more than three questions, I run the risk of not covering everything,” Cima says. “But [with edX], now I don’t have to cover everything.”In fact, over the fall term, San Jose State University offered an electrical engineering course that blended in-class work with materials from 6.002x to create a “flipped” classroom. Students watched lectures and tutorials online, then came to class to work out problem sets with instructors. Initial results from that trial showed that students completed the course with higher test scores, and the failure rate fell from 41 percent to 9 percent. This spring, the same blended approach will be offered at two community colleges in Massachusetts. “Education has not changed so much for the last 100 years,” Guttag says. “And we’re sort of at a point where there’s going to be a big change, and it would be exciting to be part of that change.” …; Added by chris macrae at 4:18am on January 31, 2013

Comment on: Topic 'what worldwide youth can value most from open learning campus of world bank': e, Knowledge and Learning Sanjay Pradhan World Knowledge Forum Seoul, Korea, Republic of October 16, 2013 As Prepared for Delivery Collaborative Knowledge, Learning and Innovation as Key Accelerators It is an honor to be here, and to follow the steps of Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group President, who spoke at this Forum last year. I want to talk to you about ending poverty -- more specifically, since this is the World Knowledge Forum, I want to talk about how a collaborative approach to Knowledge, Learning and Innovation can become a powerful accelerator in our collective drive to end poverty. The Ganga Problem But first, I want to start with a story from my home country, India. The story is about the river Ganges. The Ganges is a sacred river, worshipped by Hindus as the Mother Ganga. The Ganga’s waters are considered to be so pure and sacred that, when you bathe in them, it cleanses you of all your sins. The Ganga River provides 25% of India’s water resources. More than 2500 kilometers long, it is the most heavily populated river basin in the world. For 400 million people, mostly very poor people, life and survival depend on Mother Ganga every day. But sadly, today, the Ganges is dying. Poorly planned rapid urbanization and industrialization have turned the Ganga into the most polluted river in the world. Every day, more than 250 million liters of untreated sewage goes right into the Ganga. The reality is that today, bathing in the Ganga, does not cleanse you. It makes you sick. Health costs in the Ganga basin alone are about $4 billion per year. The Ganga problem is not just a problem of immense magnitude. It is also a problem of immense complexity. It is not simply about cleaning a river. It is about how governments regulate, how companies make their profits, how people live their lives. The Ganga problem cuts across many different sectors – agriculture, urban management, environment, to name just a few. It also cuts across many stakeholders in society and most importantly, millions of poor people depend on the river for their lives and livelihoods. Other countries too increasingly face challenges that are complex, multi-dimensional, and crucial to improving the lives of the poor: for instance, creating jobs in the townships of South-Africa; or, providing access to water in Yemen. Those are problems that have no specific technical fixes – building roads and bridges alone won’t do. They require humility, the ability to collaborate and learn from the experiences of others, and the ability to innovate and take innovations to scale. The challenge before us is how we can join forces and solve transformational problems of the magnitude, complexity and impact of the polluted Ganga? That question is at the very heart of the new World Bank Group (WBG) strategy. The WBG Goals and New Strategy – The Imperative for a Solutions Partnership Last April, the shareholders of the World Bank Group, its 188 member countries, endorsed two goals: to end, by 2030, extreme poverty – as measured by those living under $1.25 per day -- and to promote shared prosperity – as measured by income gains of the bottom 40% of the population. Four days ago, at our Annual Meetings, they took the next step by endorsing a new WBG Strategy to focus relentlessly on achieving those goals in a sustainable manner. Achieving the goals requires that we achieve a deeper and faster impact in the lives of 1.2 billion people worldwide who live in extreme poverty, on less than $1.25 a day, and another 2.7 billion who remain poor and vulnerable, living on $1.25 - $4 a day. The challenge is massive. Achieving the goals means that it cannot be business as usual. We need to accelerate. We need to unite our efforts to support countries in solving their problems. And this is why we need a Solutions Partnership to end poverty and boost shared prosperity. The Ganga will become clean when the country’s stakeholders from different sectors, disciplines and social groups work, learn and innovate together to implement and iterate solutions to that complex challenge, drawing on global evidence of “what works” and the practical experience of other countries. This will require repeated iteration and collaborative problem solving, with the support of a range of partners with different strengths and comparative advantage. This collaboration to tackle such difficult challenges through a solutions cycle, underpinned by global and local knowledge, mutual learning and innovative solutions constitutes the accelerator in the fight to end poverty and build shared prosperity. This is the essence of the Solutions WBG that President Kim talked about at this Forum last year. In the spirit of global solidarity which President Kim spoke about, we invite you to join us in a global partnership for solutions to end poverty and boost shared prosperity. An Approach to Development Solutions Development solutions have a cycle, which starts by understanding the true nature of the problem – the diagnosis. How often have development organizations, including my own, approached countries with technical fixes without truly understanding the problem? As part of our new strategy, we will invest systematically in shareddiagnosis. Using all available evidence and analysis, we want to invest in a systematic country diagnostic to help countries identify, within the context of their national plans, what their biggest challenges are, and what the greatest opportunities are to reduce poverty and boost shared prosperity. While being analytically rigorous, this will also be a tool for collaborative learning among the full range of stakeholders -- governments, the private sector and civil society – to agree on the key problems and understand the political, social and cultural realities that drive the incentives and behaviors that helped create these problems in the first place. Only when there is a shared understanding of the key problems with clear indicators of success, can we mobilize an enhanced bundle of financing, knowledge and convening services from across the WBG and with other partners to help country stakeholders solve these problems. The resulting Solutions Partnership operating at the country and global levels underpins our collective drive to end poverty. In this bundle of solutions, obviously finance remains crucially important. The estimated sums needed for infrastructure alone in developing countries are staggering: up to $1.5 trillion per year. But the WBG needs to approach finance differently, especially when official development assistance is less than one percent of total capital flows to developing countries and our own financial footprint is a fraction of that. The private sector today accounts for the bulk of capital investment and job creation. We need to develop innovative ways to use official development assistance to leverage much larger amounts of finance from the private sector. We need collaborative public-private approaches for tackling transformational challenges. Under the new WBG strategy, we will marshal the combined resources of the World Bankwhich supports government, with the IFC and MIGA that support the private sector. But money alone is not the answer. How to use the money – that is the question. The Ganga will not become clean with just more money. That money already exists. The Ganga will become clean when the country’s stakeholders work and learn collaboratively, and persist through to sustainable results. There is no better place than Korea to demonstrate the power of relentlessly and iteratively tackling the most difficult challenges to successfully traverse the journey from a country stricken by abject poverty only 60 years ago to the status of a developed nation. Take the Saemul Movement of Korea in the seventies, which had unprecedented success in tackling the very complex problem of rural poverty. The Saemul Movement built on a deep understanding of the prevailing socio-economic context of rural poverty in Korea, and then turned that into a method, which was refined and successfully scaled up over time, to support traditional community norms of diligence, self-help and collaboration. Today, the Saemul Movement solution itself might not be replicable “as is.” However, the approach to understanding, and methodically tackling, the problem of rural poverty in all its cultural, political and economic complexity, provides the international community invaluable lessons. The WBG Knowledge, Learning and Innovation Agenda What then can the WBG do to support a Solutions Partnership? In addition to mobilizing enhanced public-private financing, we are making five fundamental shifts to help country stakeholders collaborate and iteratively tackle key developmental challenges through development solutions: First, we seek to make a radical departure from a lending projects approval mentalityto a development solutions culture, so that we are more focused on results; more programmatic in mobilizing the bundle of finance, knowledge and convening services to achieve results; more flexible, adaptive and learning-oriented, including through real-time feedback from citizen-beneficiaries; more deliberate in creating safe spaces to incubate innovative solutions; and more focused on implementation and delivery of results. The continuous interplay of designing interventions using evidence; implementing them in an iterative way; and, learning deliberately throughout the process – that is a key aspect of what President Kim referred to in his speech last year as the Science of Delivery. To operationalize this, we will support teams, from within our organization and beyond, to develop the tools and the methods to embark on a solution cycle rather than a project cycle. We will help them to collect the evidence to frame the problems; help them bring together the stakeholders to develop consensus; help them course correct during implementation; and help them to effectively measure results. Second, throughout this solutions cycle, we need to more systematically mobilizeglobal knowledge and innovation of “what works”, informed by local context. This requires the best evidence-based solutions for our country clients from our global leadership in development research, combined with systematic partnerships – including with think tanks, academia, CSOs and the private sector -- both globally and nationally. Beyond research, our world today is also enriched with multiple but dispersed sources of practitioner knowledge. As a unique global development organization, the WBG has a key role in mobilizing these multiple sources of development knowledge to help clients solve their challenges. For instance, South-South knowledge sharing among developing country practitioners offers unprecedented opportunities to share lessons from success and failure, as well as deep implementation knowledge. Today developing country practitioners want to learn from each other, for instance how China lifted 500 million people out of poverty in three decades, or how Mexico’s Opportunidades program improved schooling and nutrition for millions of children. There is an enormous interest to learn from Korea’s success – a tremendous opportunity for Korea to serve as a knowledge hub for the delivery of development solutions. We have an important role in mobilizing and scaling such knowledge sharing through our operations. And we need to deploy new platforms, such as competitions and challenges, o crowd-source global and local solutions to complex challenges that can then be incubated and scaled up. Transformational platforms -- such as Alibaba in China that markets local products at scale from the base of the pyramid, or mobile phone apps that help the poor provide feedback on service delivery -- boost our fight to end poverty. We need to infuse and scale up such innovative approaches to entrepreneurs and citizens worldwide using our operations, convening power and partnerships. Third, alongside mobilizing global knowledge and innovation, we need to more systematically capture, mobilize and deploy our internal operational knowledge and innovation across the institution and our client base. On any given day, the World Bank Group is engaged in thousands of operational interactions in well over 100 countries. But sharing this operational knowledge is hampered by weak incentives, including our institutional fragmentation into regional silos with very limited flow of expertise and knowledge among them. To this end, we are launching far-reaching organizational reforms, by creating unified pools of technical experts under global practices to flow talent and knowledge across the Bank Group. We will provide incentives and supporting systems to systematically codify what we learn through our operational engagements and external partners on a global platform of what works under different circumstances, and make it widely available. We will also continue to make our data accessible. And we will redouble our efforts to create a culture of innovation and smart risk-taking, to create safe spaces for staff to co-create innovative solutions with partners through disciplined, data-driven experimentation. Fourth, we need to systematically translate this global-local knowledge into effectivelearning programs for country clients and our staff to enhance their capacity to achieve results. We will bring our clients and our staff together in an Open Learning Campus, so that they can learn from each other and jointly develop the skills that are needed to solve the complex challenges of our time. We will seize opportunities to dramatically scale up learning, for example through massive open online courses or MOOCs. Fifth, to achieve accelerated results, we need to not only strengthen technical skills but importantly leadership and coalition building skills to manage political economy obstacles and make change happen. Through our learning programs, we need to strengthen the collaborative leadership skills of change agents from government, the private sector and civil society so they can forge a shared vision and coalition for action, prioritize and monitor delivery, persist through inevitable obstacles, and achieve visible results. Helping to build a new cadre of leadership, in developing countries and inside our organization, will be a top priority for us to power the change agents as engines to end poverty. We have already started by building a Network of Delivery Leaders (Heads of States from six new governments), and we intend to cascade this within and across countries. To help implement this agenda, for the first time in the history of the World Bank Group, a Vice Presidency dedicated to Knowledge, Learning and Innovation has been created by President Kim. This complements our Senior Vice Presidency that leads our development research and intellectual leadership on development issues. Our goal is to enable the entire World Bank Group to mainstream and scale up global knowledge, learning and innovation in every country, through every engagement. We seek to build a physical and virtual platform for joint client-staff leadership and learning, knowledge sharing and innovation to enhance our collective capacity to accelerate the end of poverty. We seek to accomplish this in open partnership with others – governments, international organizations, the private sector, donor partners, academia, and civil society. A Global Solutions Partnership Going forward, the challenge I want to leave you with today is how we, as partners, can accelerate the end of poverty and build a world of shared prosperity by collaborating to tackle the most important challenges as partners. Let us come together, as individuals, as organizations, and as countries, from all disciplines and all corners of society, each with our strengths and skills, to form such a “Solutions Partnership” by working together to support multi-stakeholder collective action on the ground, and make systematic use of knowledge, learning and innovation to help solve the biggest development challenges. That is my invitation to you today. A Tale of the Second River I started with a story from my home country India - the story of the ailing river Ganga. To end, let me come full circle with the tale of another river – a story from this country, in fact from this very city, Seoul. A story of the once ailing, yet now very healthy, Cheonggyecheon. Cheonggyecheon is a six kilometer stream that starts in the heart of downtown Seoul and courses through neighborhoods before emptying into the Hangang river. In the 1950s, Seoul was growing at a rapid pace. Migration generated slums along the stream in shabby makeshift houses. The lack of proper sewage systems and pollution from light industry generated trash and waste, which ended up in the stream, and which became a dirty and polluted eyesore. In 1958, the stream was covered up with concrete which was seen to be a solution then - a 5.6 kilometer long and 16 meter wide elevated highway. But upon construction, this became a dark, noisy and seedy corridor. Ten years ago, a visionary Mayor exercised bold leadership to adopt an unlikely idea to demolish the highway and restore the stream. It was expensive, controversial and unpopular. He forged unlikely coalitions among very diverse stakeholders to foster a common vision and push through bold action. And look at Cheonggyecheon today – today, this beautiful landmark unites this city. Ten years ago, it divided the city. Cheonggyecheon once was Seoul’s intractable problem, like Mother Ganga in my country. Today, it stands as a proud, international symbol of sustainable urban renewal. How can we help practitioners worldwide get inspired and learn from this and the myriad other examples of transformational action to change the world for the better, to lift 4 billion people out of poverty and vulnerability? This is our challenge, our imperative and our moral responsibility going forward. Thank you. …; Added by chris macrae at 10:05pm on July 21, 2014

Topic: help edit presentations of sir fazle abed and xi jinping and jack ma as #1 world record job creators: eer networks you most want to share it with- please help us question 2 different things- the people you know who you can share it with; the people you would dream of sharing it with -what actions would you first intend resulting from the intelligence you mediate girls empowerment and jobs-educational solutions designed with those born with least opportunities - more job creators like sir fazle start here more on xi jinping - start here our 3rd world record job creator is jack ma -help ma change a whole market!! So far Jack Ma has devoted his life to two main questions How could young chinese people learning English change the future of a chinese city (Hangzhou)? How to pioneer use of the worldwide web in china to help peoples and communities create jobs? Jack comes from a family of traveling entertianers whom China’s cultural revolution did not exactly favor. This may help to explain his burning curiosity and joy of co-creating now that “anything’s possible”. He wants his extraordinary energies as an action learner and mentor to education, environment’s most urgent innovation compasses together with intergenerational health and happjness challenges. With sir fazle and xi jinping, Jack Ma offers youth the opportunity to celebrate being the most productive and sustainable generation. If Sir Fazle and Xi Jinping are the place leaders youth need to celebrate most, then Jack Ma offers the opportunity to connect local and global in worldwide trade spaces. Now that people around the world are spending 1000 times more on communications technologies than in 1946, its critical that tech wizards and place leaders unite youth around maps that lead to the best of local and global While transparent place leaders cant afford to have "favorite" businessmen , the knowhow networks of jinping and ma need to have extraordinary overlaps given how innovation of IR$ happens determines livelihood possibilities xx if you like wrjc jinping you may like cheng li's book on jinping explains how 2017 becomes critical years as jinping chooses top team for next 5 yeras - watch out for what skils specific co-leades bring also inside china, supercities and regions depend on brilaint eladers differentiating that city - find examples tsinghua is critical colege campus for public servants and lead busiensssmen informing each others; as are tech summit worldwide summits that jinping actively particiupates in clarify leaders in other regions that msot want to win-win with china canada- trudeau pms from chile and argentina russia's putin korea's jae-in help clarify list if you like ma you may like satoshi and other lead inovators of blockchain for sustainability generation - eg tapcsott , branson ma cahisrs china entreprenehur network- search out nations most conscious busienssmen- some partner with ma on specific futures such as futrure of green , future of universities- search them out -also look for which eladers want their sectir to maximise sme livelihoods who else is developing digital in ways that create world record jobs- liu of jd.com may not be job psecific but he is segmenting specific win-win gtrades ecommerce ;portals can be best at world summit overlaps - ma helped make 2016 g20 famous as opportunity to revalue youth and sme's future economies; he launched ewtp for free trade of smes; national leaders of malaysia and argentina first to partner; canada's trudeau has been great china friend in g20 and both to ma and jinpings innovation goals ma helps lead varuous education for jobs summits and youth entrepreneur knowledeg spaces eg UNCTad- search; map back top 10 technolgies of IR4 - which does ma need a best partner in ; who are youths other best partners by each tech ---------------------------- breaking news on which global summits youth (the hlaf of the world aged under 30) can trust most - urgent contributions from girls networks across china- any reporting errors solely chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk jinping is our world's twin number 1 record jobs creator as only person (leading family) who can turn biggest summits of policy leaders of 80 or more nations onto local youth actions round 17 s-goals and big tech small instead of bad media chat here are some of key summits to put on every student diary concerned with mapping next 2 years with correct info and so in networks that can be the solution not the problem- if course all of this needs searching continuously for good news- particularly in chinese and english and its a moving diary with changes everywhere that trump and jinping and whomever is your regions most critical leader go - either to peacefully co-exist or to blow up in a regional disaster such as korea's northern peninsula! in an age of hi-connectivity , leaders around the world should be collaborating so that no place ever feels that isolated other ideas: why wouldnt 2 leaders say jinping and merkel start a survey of their nations biggest corporations- which commit their purpose as aligned to a climate or other sustainability goal; would they join in being audited and celebrated annually at a g20 - this could become a sustainability mba curriculum freely distributed on a mooc platform- once 2 national leaders start this others could be invited - until we know which 20 nations design biggest corporations to be the most sustainable ones (this is not what hapens currenltly wherever a corporation is mainly led by one sided quartely extraction of profits insetad of all round trust-flows integrating do no sustinability harm to our future generations) Lets itemise some of the other summit networks which most urgently need xi Jinping world record jobs mediation skills -related blogs chinathanks and sinowtp and economistlearning G20 Invited to help Belt Road Forum - Created and chief implementor ver furst 5 years 2013-2017 and curiculum mapping most critical two 2017-2019 AIIB annual governors summit integrating all delegate nations (81 and rising in 2017) in transparent collaboration -see also greenbigbangclub Created from 2015 and helped choose lean implementation leadership team and timely choice of annual place hosts BRICS Invited to play role balancing equality of 5 voices while China is (and needs to continue to be) benchmark of every growth innovation WEF in Davos and in China Invited to double up the relevance of which years in future history post-industrial revolution leaps forward from incision of unexpected places The coming of platform summits celebrating big data small role both in global 2.0 and industrial rev 4.0 This summit space (needing to be led by practice entrepreneurs) is very fragmented but china’s practice leaders (eg how fiferent jack ma is from wext coast internet capitalist) is integral wherever leapfrogging is studied to benfit maximum diversity of global village societies ASEAN SCO China helped create vefore Xi leadership of china since 2012 You tell us One note before this chapters sumit review FAMILY FOUNDATIION NOTE Since 1930 my family has been involved in mediating question – which of the world’s biigest organizations are expoentialuy compounding biggest risks to human sustainability and can partners be found to be in time to make life criticakl transformation Expometial picture This responsibility emerged from grandfather working in britisch councils in places highly impacted by the badwill of Hitler and Stalin, As a teenager my father spent his summer holidays inside consuls of such hi risk places. Therefore during hos half centiory role at The Economist of mediating end poverty, he had the advantage of knowing befire anyone else which big organsiation (eg Hitler and stalin inspired places) citiozens should not let their elected officials not to appease. At the same time Norma was over decades ahead of others in asking is the coming of this new media going to be tranfoprmable from hi-risk to pro-youth oppotunity the way he was mentored to do by Keynes. In particular could ever dumbing down aspect of the tv age be tirned into the smartest time for 7 bilion people to be empowered, G20 The G20 was born around 2 huge questions Could addition of 13 nations in 365 days summit proces help 7 (and new and old media people) which had consciously or unconsciousl spun big’s geatest risks in rush to go global map actionable ways beyond exponentially colapiing system How did China as the E1 of the 21st C fit into all the 20th centiry multilateral and other structures whose founding DNA didn’t have the remotest feel let alone optimitoc reasonomind of consequences foir human race of Chian’s toptal transforma since lated 1960s. You need to make your own mind up on various G20 jigsaws At formation which g7 countrues (eg china) truly wanted a G20 with worldpossible of china the big new win-win connectoir . If you think some cloiuntreis hated that which were they. Which of the new countries: Wanted to partner china from te getgo iun the g20 Wanted to partner the big nations of the 20th century knowingly or unknowlingly blocking china’s and asia pacific’s role of 21st c leader Which nations were preoccupied by their own issues (and rightfully so in that they political instability at home) If you have made several suitable jigsaws perhaps by challenge compasses – eg climate, education , health , finance – you might want to add to each jigsaw other nations most at risk of being ignored for the ir leapfroginhg potential. So from chapter 1 you can see the gilrs build nation capabilities of bangladshes is not only excluded from G7 and G20 but at risk of being sidelined in and of cluster of nations –either tryiong to win-win with India the hugest poplutaion in development flux, orthe stans particularly ; Pakistan was landlocked and other borders have often been carelessly been left as legacies of empires rush to disappear from places. Ironically most of the greatest solutions in eduvcation and lealth come form really small nations (norway, new zealnand, dubai)- where te nation is small enough for even the top leaders to be knlown by every community. In the case of climate, the places with the most extreme challenges in need of hi-trust long-term development partners are not much to be seen in G20 unless a member nation adopts them for purpose of transforming the network from elderly talk to pro-youth walk IF you look at the G20 as a network of networks concerned with above hi-risk issues, timiomh of where g20 is hoted and prepared for 365 days has exytrorndinary consequences China G20 Hangzhou Consensus 2016 Real Germany G20 Hamburg Lack of Consensus Argentina G20 2018 Huge opportunity for girls and bootom uo trust networks to bridge china g20 and learn from germany as an accidenta detour India G20 2019 Huge opportunity –eg digital platform capabilities out of nidia afre second only to china Of course to be trusted in his mediation role with united countries of c.limate and sustainability gaols , Xi Jinping cant publicly stae what we have just written. And it is intended to provde context for collaboration debates out reaching to ever deeper cultural diversity. This is one reason why cultural diversity is sop ctiriical in every summit that jnping does have more founders control of , as does our emblem of expoentioal crisis. In the chiense language crisis include yins and yangs, last chance sto leapfrog in ways that eg the English lagiage doesn’t. When chiense youth ask that 10 times moré affordable ways of learning te English lanbgiage are made available oyr research show they mean 2 things that academic language teaching is worst at: Quick scial confidence joys – eg using a foeeigners language to build friendships around which life involves especially now that any millennial is likely to need to be virtually productive Very deep meaning which only youth can bridge between cultures –chartering the drama of world trade around sustainability goals to bring together peoples even where history has engulfed peoples in wars (both across borders and by spinning internal underclasses which all te richest tacitly or directly (eg slavery) abused. Note one of the ironies of the last 150 years and the increasing dependence on the construct of nation is that boundaries were often drawn to separate people who could get on as one. The whole world of under 30s needs to make the argument that there will be more and more failed nations (and all the terrir and lost sustainabilty that implies) unless we come to terms with enemies of elder generation now need to be the friends that milennials dare to facilitate, transslate and linkin round genuinely win-win trading maps …; Added by chris macrae at 6:36am on July 5, 2017

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Comment on: Topic 'Mooc Gossip': handle as the car roared away from the kerb, headed straight towards the roof's edge and then at the last second sped around a corner without slowing down. There was no one in the driver's seat. It was the prototype of Google's self-driving car and it felt a bit like being Buck Rogers and catapulted into another century. Later, I listened to Sebastian Thrun, a German-born professor of artificial intelligence at Stanford University, explain how he'd built it, how it had already clocked up 200,000 miles driving around California, and how one day he believed it would mean that there would be no traffic accidents. A few months later, the New York Times revealed that Thrun was the head of Google's top-secret experimental laboratory Google X, and was developing, among other things, Google Glasses – augmented reality spectacles. And then, a few months after that, I came across Thrun again. The self-driving car, the glasses, Google X, his prestigious university position – they'd all gone. He'd resigned his tenure from Stanford, and was working just a day a week at Google. He had a new project. Though he didn't call it a project. "It's my mission now," he said. "This is the future. I'm absolutely convinced of it." The future that Thrun believes in, that has excited him more than self-driving cars, or sci-fi-style gadgets, is education. Specifically, massive online education free to all. The music industry, publishing, transportation, retail – they've all experienced the great technological disruption. Now, says Thrun, it's education's turn. "It's going to change. There is no doubt about it." Specifically, Thrun believes, higher education is going to change. He has launched Udacity, an online university, and wants to provide mass high quality education for the world. For students in developing countries who can't get it any other way, or for students in the first world, who can but may choose not to. Pay thousands of pounds a year for your education? Or get it free online? University, of course, is about so much more than the teaching. There's the socialising, of course, or, as we call it here in Britain, drinking. There's the living away from home and learning how to boil water stuff. And there's the all-important sex and catching a social disease stuff. But this is the way disruptions tend to work: they disrupt first, and figure out everything else at some unspecified time later. Thrun's great revelation came just over a year ago at the same TED conference where he unveiled the self-driving car. "I heard Salman Khan talk about the Khan Academy and I was just blown away by it," he says. "And I still am." Salman Khan, a softly spoken 36-year-old former hedge fund analyst, is the founding father of what's being called the classroom revolution, and is feted by everyone from Bill Gates (who called him "the world's favourite teacher") down. The Khan Academy, which he set up almost accidentally while tutoring his niece and nephew, now has 3,400 short videos or tutorials, most of which Khan made himself, and 10 million students. "I was blown away by it," says Thrun. "And frankly embarrassed that I was teaching 200 students. And he was teaching millions." Thrun decided to open up his Stanford artificial intelligence class, CS221, to the world. Anybody could join, he announced. They'd do the same coursework as the Stanford students and at the end of it take the same exam. CS221 is a demanding, difficult subject. On campus, 200 students enrolled, and Thrun thought they might pull in a few thousand on the web. By the time the course began, 160,000 had signed up. "It absolutely blew my mind," says Thrun. There were students from every single country in the world – bar North Korea. What's more, 23,000 students graduated. And all of the 400 who got top marks were students who'd done it online. It was, says Thrun, his "wonderland" moment. Having taught a class of 160,000 students, he couldn't go back to being satisfied with 200. "I feel like there's a red pill and a blue pill," Thrun said in a speech a few months later. "I've taken the red pill, and I've seen wonderland. We can really change the world with education." By the time I sign up to Udacity's beginners' course in computer science, how to build a search engine, 200,000 students have already graduated from it. Although when I say "graduate" I mean they were emailed a certificate. It has more than a touch of Gillian McKeith's PhD about it, though it seems employers are taking it seriously: a bunch of companies, including Google, are sponsoring Udacity courses and regularly cream off the top-scoring students and offer them jobs. I may have to wait a while for that call, though I'm amazed at how easy Udacity videos are to follow (having tips and advice on search-engine building from Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, doesn't hurt). Like the Khan Academy, it avoids full-length shots of the lecturer and just shows a doodling hand. According to Brin, if you have basic programming ability – which we'll all have if we complete the course – and a bit of creativity, "you could come up with an idea that might just change the world". But then that's Silicon Valley for you. What's intriguing is how this will translate into a British context. Because, of course, when it comes to revolutionising educational access, Britain has led the world. We've had the luxury of open access higher education for so long – more than 40 years now – that we're blasé about it. When the Open University was launched in 1969, it was both radical and democratic. It came about because of improvements in technology – television – and it's been at the forefront of educational innovation ever since. It has free content – on OpenLearn and iTunesU. But at its heart, it's no longer radically democratic. From this year, fees are £5,000. In America, Thrun is not the only one to have taken the pills. A year on from the Stanford experiment, and the world of higher education and the future of universities is completely different. Thrun's wasn't the only class to go online last autumn. Two of his computer science colleagues, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, also took part, with equally mind-blowing results. They too have set up a website, Coursera. And while Udacity is developing its own courses, Coursera is forming partnerships with universities to offer existing ones. When I met Koller in July, shortly after the website's launch, four universities had signed up – Stanford, Princeton, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Just four months later, it has 33 partner universities, 1.8 million students and is having venture capital thrown at it – $16m (£10m) in the first round. And it doesn't stop there. It's pretty remarkable that Coursera and Udacity were spun out of the same university, but also the same department (Thrun and Koller still supervise a PhD student together). And they have the dynamic entrepreneurial change-the-world quality that characterise the greatest and most successful Silicon Valley startups. "We had a million users faster than Facebook, faster than Instagram," says Koller. "This is a wholesale change in the educational ecosystem." But they're not alone. Over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Anant Argarwal, another professor of computer science, who also cites Khan as his inspiration (and who was, in a neat twist, once his student), has launched edX, featuring content from MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and the University of Texas System. Argarwal is not a man prone to understatement. This, he says, is the revolution. "It's going to reinvent education. It's going to transform universities. It's going to democratise education on a global scale. It's the biggest innovation to happen in education for 200 years." The last major one, he says, was "probably the invention of the pencil". In a decade, he's hoping to reach a billion students across the globe. "We've got 400,000 in four months with no marketing, so I don't think it's unrealistic." More than 155,000 students took the first course he taught, including a whole class of children in Mongolia. "That was amazing!" says Argarwal. "And we discovered a protégé. One of his students, Batthushig, got a perfect score. He's a high school student. I can't overstate how hard this course was. If I took it today, I wouldn't get a perfect score. We're encouraging him to apply to MIT." This is the year, Argarwal says, that everything has changed. There's no going back. "This is the year of disruption." A month ago, I signed up for one of the Coursera courses: an introduction to genetics and evolution, taught by Mohamed Noor, a professor at Duke University. Unlike Udacity's, Coursera's courses have a start date and run to a timetable. I quite fancied a University of Pennsylvania course on modern poetry but it had already started. This one was 10 weeks long, would feature "multiple mini-videos roughly 10-15 minutes in length", each of which would contain a number of quizzes, and there would also be three tests and a final exam. It's just me, Noor, and my 36,000 classmates. We're from everywhere: Kazakhstan, Manila, Donetsk, Iraq. Even Middlesbrough. And while I watch the first videos and enjoy Noor's smiley enthusiasm, I'm not blown away. They're just videos of lectures, really. There's coursework to do, but I am a journalist. I am impervious to a deadline until the cold sweat of impending catastrophe is upon me. I ignore it. And it's a week or so later when I go back and check out the class forum. And that's when I have my being-blown-away moment. The traffic is astonishing. There are thousands of people asking – and answering – questions about dominant mutations and recombination. And study groups had spontaneously grown up: a Colombian one, a Brazilian one, a Russian one. There's one on Skype, and some even in real life too. And they're so diligent! If you are a vaguely disillusioned teacher, or know one, send them to Coursera: these are people who just want to learn. Four weeks in, Noor announces that he's organising a Google hangout: it's where a limited number of people can talk via their webcams. But it's scheduled for 1am GMT on Sunday morning. I go to sleep instead. However I do watch the YouTube video of it the next day and it's fascinating viewing. Despite the time, Richard Herring, a train driver from Sheffield, is there, bright and alert and wanting to tell Noor how much he's enjoying the course. "Richard!" says Noor. "Nice to meet you! Your posts are amazing. I often find that before I have a chance to go in and answer a question, somebody else has already answered it, and it's often Richard. Thank you." "I just love science," says Richard. "I was never any good at school, but I've just picked it up along the way. It's a brilliant course. To get something like this without paying anything is marvellous. I'm loving it." So is Sara Groborz, a graphic designer who was born in Poland but now lives in Britain. And then there's Naresh Ramesh, from Chennai, who's studying for a degree in biotechnology, and Maria, who lives in the US and is using the course to teach her students in a juvenile correction institute. Aline, a high school student in El Salvador, comes on. She took the course, she says, because she goes to a Catholic school where they don't teach evolution. "And you're the best teacher I've ever had!" she tells Noor. How gratifying must it be to be a teacher on one of these courses? When I catch up by email with Noor the next day, he writes. "I'm absolutely LOVING it!" By phone, he says it's one of the most exciting things he's ever done. What's more, it means that next semester he's going to be able to "flip the classroom". This is a concept that Khan has popularised and shown to be successful: students do the coursework at home by watching the videos, and then the homework in class, where they can discuss the problems with the instructor. There are still so many issues to figure out with online education. Not least the fact that you don't get a degree out of it, although a university in the US has just announced that it will issue credit for it. At the moment, most people are doing courses for the sake of simply learning new stuff. "And a certificate, basically a pdf, which says this person may or may not be who they say they are," says Noor. And while computers are excellent at grading maths questions, they're really much less hot at marking English literature essays. There's a preponderance of scientific and technical subjects, but the number of humanties courses is increasing with what Koller says is "surprisingly successful" peer assessment techniques. "It can't replace a one-to-one feedback from an expert in the field, but with the right guidance, peer assessment and crowd-sourcing really does work." And in terms of content, the course I'm doing is pretty much the same as the one Noor's students take. At Duke, they have more interaction, and a hands-on lab environment, but they are also charged $40,000 a year for the privilege. It's a lot of money. And it's this, that makes Udacity's and Coursera's and edX's courses so potentially groundbreaking. At the moment, they're all free. And while none of them can compete with traditional degrees, almost every other industry knows what happens when you give teenagers the choice between paying a lot of money for something or getting it for nothing. Of course, education isn't quite an industry, but it is a business, or as Matt Grist, an education analyst from the thinktank Demos tells me, "a market", although he immediately apologises for saying this. "I know. It's terrible. That's the way we talk about it these days. I don't really like it, but I do it. But it is a market. And universities are high-powered businesses with massive turnovers. Some of the best institutions in Britain are global players these days." Grist has been looking at the funding model of British universities, and sees trouble ahead. The massive rise in fees this year is just the start of it. "We've set off down this road now, and if you create competition and a market for universities, I think you're going to have to go further." He foresees the best universities becoming vastly more expensive, and the cheaper, more vocational ones "holding up". "It's the middle-tier, 1960s campus ones that I think are going to struggle." When I ask Koller why education has suddenly become the new tech miracle baby, she describes it as "the perfect storm. It's like hurricane Sandy, all these things have come together at the same time. There's an enormous global need for high quality education. And yet it's becoming increasingly unaffordable. And at the same time, we have technological advances that make it possible to provide it at very low marginal cost." And, in Britain, the storm is perhaps even more perfect. This is all happening at precisely the moment that students are having to pay up to £9,000 a year in fees and being forced to take on unprecedented levels of debt. Students, whether they like it or not, have been turned into consumers. Education in Britain has, until now, been a very pure abstraction, a concept untainted by ideas of the market or value. But that, inevitably, is now changing. University applications by UK-born students this year were down almost 8%. "Though the number who turned up was much lower than that," Peter Lampl, the founder of the Sutton Trust, tells me. "They were 15% down." The trust champions social mobility and nothing accelerates that more than university. "That's why we're so keen on it," says Lampl. "We're monitoring the situation. We don't know what the true impact of the fees will be yet. Or what the impact of coming out of university with £50,000 worth of debt will have on the rest of your life. "Will it delay you buying a house? Or starting a family? People compare it to the States, but in America one third of graduates have no debt, and two-thirds have an average of $25,000. This is on a completely different scale." And it's amid this uncertainty and this market pressure that these massive open online courses – or Moocs as they're known in the jargon – may well come to play a role. There are so many intangible benefits to going to university. "I learned as much if not more from my fellow students than I did from the lectures," says Lampl. But they're the things – making life-long friends, joining a society, learning how to operate a washing machine – that are free. It's the education bit that's the expensive part. But what Udacity and the rest are showing is that it doesn't necessarily have to be." The first British university to join the fray is Edinburgh. It's done a deal with Coursera and from January, will offer six courses, for which 100,000 students have already signed up. Or, to put this in context, four times as many undergraduates as are currently at the university. It's an experiment, says Jeff Hayward, the vice-principal, a way of trying out new types of teaching "I'll be happy if we break even." At the moment Coursera doesn't charge students to receive a certificate of completion, but at some point it's likely to, and when it does, Edinburgh will get a cut. But then Edinburgh already has an online model. More than 2,000 students studying for a masters at the university aren't anywhere near it; they're online. "And within a few years, we're ramping that up to 10,000," says Hayward. For undergraduates, on the other hand, study is not really the point of university, or at least not the whole point. I know a student at Edinburgh called Hannah. "Do you have any lectures tomorrow?" I text her. "Only philosophy at 9am," she texts back. "So obviously I'm not going to that." She's an example of someone who would be quite happy to pay half the fees, and do some of the lectures online. "God yes. Some of the lecturers are so crap, anyway. We had a tutorial group the other day, and he just sat there and read the paper and told us to get on with it." Max Crema, the vice-president of the student union, tells me that he's already used online lectures from MIT to supplement his course. "Though that may be because I'm a nerd," he concedes. "The problem with lectures is that they are about 300 years out of date. They date back to the time when universities only had one book. That's why you still have academic positions called readers." I trot off to one of them, an actual lecture in an actual lecture theatre, the old anatomy theatre, a steeply raked auditorium that's been in use since the 19th century when a dissecting table used to hold centre stage, whereas today there's just Mayank Dutia, professor of systems neurophysiology, talking about the inner ear. He's one of the first academics signed up to co-deliver one of the Coursera courses come January, although he defends the real-life version too: "Universities are special places. You can't do what we do online. There's something very special in being taught by a world leader in the field. Or having a conversation with someone who's worked on a subject their whole lives. There's no substitute for this." There isn't. But what the new websites are doing is raising questions about what a university is and what it's for. And how to pay for it. "Higher education is changing," says Hayward. "How do we fund mass global education? There are agonies all over the world about this question." There are. And there's no doubting that this is something of a turning point. But it may have an impact closer to home too. Argarwal sees a future in which universities may offer "blended" models: a mixture of real-life and online teaching. Coursera has already struck its first licensing deal. Antioch College, a small liberal arts institution in Ohio, has signed an agreement under which it will take content from Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania. And a startup called the Minerva Project is attempting to set up an online Ivy League university, and is going to encourage its students to live together in "dorm clusters" so that they'll benefit from the social aspects of university life. Seeing how the students on Coursera and Udacity organise themselves, it's not impossible to see how in the future, students could cluster together and take their courses online together. For free. There's so much at stake. Not least the economies of dozens of smallish British cities, the "second-tier" universities that Matt Grist of Demos foresees could struggle in the brave new free education market world. At Edinburgh, fees are having an effect – applications are down – but "most students seem to see it as mañana money," says Jeff Hayward. "It's still hypothetical at the moment." But this is the first year of £9,000 fees. An English student at Edinburgh (it's free for Scottish students), where courses are four years, is looking at £36,000 of debt just for tuition. And maybe another £30,000 of living expenses on top of that. These websites are barely months old. They're still figuring out the basics. Universities aren't going anywhere just yet. But who knows what they'll look like in 10 years' time? A decade ago, I thought newspapers would be here for ever. That nothing could replace a book. And that KITT, David Hasselhoff's self-driving car in Knight Rider was nothing more than a work of fantasy. …; Added by chris macrae at 11:51am on February 10, 2013

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Topic: free from ivy league: es in the world. They include Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Columbia universities, and the University of Pennsylvania. All eight schools place in the top fifteen of the U.S. News and World Report national university rankings. These Ivy League schools are also highly selective and extremely hard to get into. But the good news is that all these universities now offer free online courses across multiple online course platforms. So far, they’ve created over 500 courses, of which around 450 are still active. Class Central has made a collection of all these, which you can explore below. I’ve split these courses into the following categories: Computer Science Data Science Programming Humanities Business Art & Design Science Social Sciences Health & Medicine Engineering Mathematics Education & Teaching and Personal Development I’ve also assembled these courses on Class Central’s collection page for Ivy League MOOCs. This collection gets updated automatically as new courses are added. You can subscribe to receive updates by clicking the blue “follow” button there. Note that some of the Coursera courses are a bit harder to access, so I wrote this guide to show you how. And if you are new to online learning, check out these 30 actionable tips to stay focused. Class Central’s home page. 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Pennsylvania Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies from University of Pennsylvania Data Structures and Software Design from University of Pennsylvania Computational Thinking for Problem Solving from University of Pennsylvania HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Social/Peer Perspective) from Columbia University Computer Science: Algorithms, Theory, and Machines from Princeton University Computer Science: Programming with a Purpose from Princeton University C Programming: Getting Started from Dartmouth C Programming: Advanced Data Types from Dartmouth Data Science (18) Statistics and R from Harvard University ★★★★☆(20) Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics from Columbia University ★★☆☆☆(18) Data Science: R Basics from Harvard University ★★★★★(8) People Analytics from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(5) Data Science: Visualization from Harvard University ★★★★★(3) High-Dimensional Data Analysis from Harvard University 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points The best Data Science courses on the internet, ranked by your reviews Every single Machine Learning course on the internet, ranked by your reviews If you want to learn Data Science, start with one of these programming classes An overview of every Data Visualization course on the internet Programming (8) Using Python for Research from Harvard University ★★★☆☆(9) CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript from Harvard University ★★★★★(4) Programming for the Web with JavaScript from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(3) The Computing Technology Inside Your Smartphone from Cornell University ★★★★★(2) CS50's Mobile App Development with React Native from Harvard University ★★★★☆(1) CS50's Introduction to Game Development from Harvard University ★★★★★(1) Software Development Fundamentals from University of Pennsylvania ★★★☆☆(1) [New] Quantitative Methods for Biology from Harvard University Humanities (80) Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(184) HOPE: Human Odyssey to Political Existentialism from Princeton University ★★★★★(108) Moralities of Everyday Life from Yale University ★★★★★(39) Greek and Roman Mythology from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(18) Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(11) Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(10) China (Part 1): Political and Intellectual Foundations: From the Sage Kings to Confucius and the Legalists from Harvard University ★★★★★(9) Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity from Harvard University ★★★★★(7) Religious Literacy: Traditions and Scriptures from Harvard University ★★★★☆(7) China’s First Empires and the Rise of Buddhism from Harvard University ★★★★★(6) Modern China’s Foundations: The Manchus and the Qing from Harvard University ★★★★★(6) Literati China: Examinations, Neo-Confucianism, and Later Imperial China from Harvard University 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China and Communism from Harvard University ★★★★★(4) Contemporary China: The People's Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from Harvard University ★★★★★(4) Masterpieces of World Literature from Harvard University ★★★★★(4) Global History Lab from Princeton University ★★★★☆(4) Christianity Through Its Scriptures from Harvard University ★★★★☆(3) Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Ghost from Harvard University ★★★★★(3) Journey of the Universe: The Unfolding of Life from Yale University ★★★☆☆(3) American Capitalism: A History from Cornell University ★★★★★(3) The Ethics of Eating from Cornell University ★★★★☆(3) Question Reality! 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Confucius from Harvard University Introduction to Digital Humanities from Harvard University PredictionX: Lost Without Longitude from Harvard University Poetry in America: Modernism from Harvard University Poetry in America: The Poetry of Early New England from Harvard University Book Sleuthing: The Nineteenth Century from Harvard University Poetry in America: The Civil War and Its Aftermath from Harvard University Poetry in America: Whitman from Harvard University China Humanities: The Individual in Chinese Culture from Harvard University Sikhism Through Its Scriptures from Harvard University Modern Masterpieces of World Literature from Harvard University Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories from Harvard University Shakespeare's Life and Work from Harvard University The Worldview of Thomas Berry: The Flourishing of the Earth Community from Yale University Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 - 2016 from Columbia University Wage Work for Women Citizens: 1870-1920 from Columbia University Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018 from Columbia University Indian & Tibetan River of Buddhism from Columbia University Negotiating a Changing World: 1920-1950 from Columbia University Writing Case Studies: Science of Delivery from Princeton University Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature from Brown University The Ethics of Memory from Brown University Libertarian Free Will: Neuroscientific and Philosophical Evidence from Dartmouth Business (72) Introduction to Marketing from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(56) Introduction to Financial Accounting from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(49) Introduction to Operations Management from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(29) Financial Markets from Yale University ★★★★☆(27) Introduction to Corporate Finance from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(19) Viral Marketing and How to Craft Contagious Content from University of Pennsylvania 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市场营销概论 (中文版） from University of Pennsylvania ★★★☆☆(1) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Strategic Approach from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(1) Crowdfunding from University of Pennsylvania ★☆☆☆☆(1) Financial Acumen for Non-Financial Managers from University of Pennsylvania ★☆☆☆☆(1) Introducción a la Contabilidad Financiera from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(1) Leading the Life You Want from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(1) Construction Scheduling from Columbia University ★★★★★(1) Construction Cost Estimating and Cost Control from Columbia University ★★★★★(1) Construction Finance from Columbia University ★★★★☆(1) Launching Breakthrough Technologies from Harvard University Entrepreneurship and Healthcare in Emerging Economies from Harvard University Modeling Risk and Realities from University of Pennsylvania Modeling Risk and Realities from University of Pennsylvania Managing Social and Human Capital from University of Pennsylvania Optimizing Diversity on Teams from 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Topic: Yin and Yang of Capitalism and Communism: oudly they use propaganda to claim the opposite YANG to the extent that alumni of Adam Smith saw the freedom purpose of economicsas designing systems/futures that improve the human lot, we agree with this teaching of .. Kenneth Boulding 1968 - Economics as a ( Systems) Science: The historical significance of capitalism is precisely a society in which exchange has become a more important source of power than threat Jargon - entrepreneur (french between taker) originates circa 1800 from how to design a more socially productive economy after a place's peoples have found it necessary to cut off the heads of the top 0.1% who were monopolising all productive assets and rules over systems. My father Norman Macrae whose work at The Economist aimed to design better futures for all peoples chose term Entrepreneurial Revolution from 1972 to linkin his life's work on how to invest in youth of the first net generation being 10 times more oroductive, collaborative and sustainable through every community online library of norman macrae - The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant In the following we aim to make some observations as mathematical designers of systems measured to have expoential future impacts - we are not intentionally subcribing to any one party political view against another, nor do we wish to support any particular culture. But since anyone who pens words comes from somehere - we hope we express the view of diaspora scots. Soon after 1700, as a conseqeunce of international financial fraud, scots lost more than half of their savings. They were taken over by England and by 1850 over half had ben forced to emigrate to remain entrepreurially free and happily life rewarding. So we prefer a worldwide perspective but one that is grounded in the village of community's most urgent needs we find our families (especially our children) living through. WHERE IS THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM THAT FAMILIES WORLDWIDE MOST VALUE FOR CHILDREN? The introduction of most media gives away some of the commons - especially local access to community spaces - unless specifically designed not to compound this loss of freedom. Some apparently small media extensions - eg first to control audio taping alongside radio waves - have had terrifying first users -in this case Hitler. Another problem is caused by so-called democratic governments who sell out new media licenses to the highest bidder. From the politician's short-term electioneering point of view this revenue gain will be attractive to the populace since in the short-term it replaces need for more taxes. However a case can be made , for example, that USA sold up so much tv to commercial advertisers keeping so little public service - that the exponential consequence was the loss of whole truth integrity of public servants , the excesses of addiction, fear, image-making over real purpose,fatal conceit at the top of governance and academia, short-term greed replacing inter-generation investment. Whether you attribute these crises in turn of millennium US system design to this or other factors, the hard working endeavours of the American people and the national system they are now stuck in are 2 very dfferent dynamics- reference how this future history played out: neurotic trillionaire survey of america's 3rd century x 10 May 1969 Where can Hi-Trust Capitalism help youth replace phony capitalism ....... . [PDF] (GABV) was founded in 2009 as an independent network www.gabv.org/wp-content/uploads/Full-Report-GABV-v9d.pdf You +1'd this publicly. Undo File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat Funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, Triodos Foundation, BRAC and BRAC ...... Abed (BRAC Bank), Luis Felipe Derteano (Mibanco), and Thomas Jorberg (GLS ... In all economies new external capital will be required for banks with Values ... 2012 update at 3rd norman macrae remebrance party, our chief guest of honor was sir fazle abed: in a 2 hour dilaogue his most exciting experiment of the year: cashless banking www.bkash.org ... Extracts from The Econmist's Unacknowledge Giants Last Articles 2008 - more at consider bangladesh THE IMPORTANCE OF DR YUNUS By Norman Macrae, Saint James, London, February 2008: UK Launch of Creating World without Poverty: Social Business & Future of Capitalism The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 was controversially awarded in Oslo to a "banker for the poor" in once basket case Bangladesh. Since the microcredit system pioneered by this Doctor Muhammad Yunus really has raised record millions of Bangladeshi women from the world’s direst poverty, Yunus was greeted on his recent visit to London largely by the misunderstanding Left. But as an octogenarian Free Marketer, I also had lunch with him and thrill fully to his stated aim to "harness the powers of the free market to solve the problems of poverty", and his brave belief that he can "do exactly that". This apparent appearance of a viable system of banking for the poor has important implications we had better start by examining how microcredit almost accidentally came about. START IN A STARVING VILLAGE During Bangladeshi’s terrible famine year of 1974, Dr Yunus ( who had attained his doctorate in economics in a fairly free market American university) was back at his 1940 birthplace of Chittagong, Professor of Economics at the university there. He took a field party of his students to one of the famine threatened villages. They analysed that all 42 of the village’s small businesses (tiny farm plots and retail market stalls) was indeed going bust unless they could borrow a ridiculously tiny total $27 on reasonable terms. First thought was to give the $27 as charity. But Yunus lectured that a social business dollar that had to be paid back from careful use in an income generating activity, was much more effective than a charity dollar which might be used only once and frittered away. All of those first 42 loans were fully repaid, and lent back, and after 9 years further experiments Yunus in 1983 founded his Grameen (which means Village) Bank. Its priority was to make loans that were desperately needed by the poor instead of the usual banking priority to make the safest loans to the rich who could provide collateral against what they happened to want to borrow. In the next 23 years, Grameen provided $6 billion of loans to poor people with an astonishing 99% repayment rate. In 2006, it had seven million borrowing customers, 97% of them women (who tend to be the poorer sex in rural Islamic societies) in 73000 villages of Bangladesh. Microcredit had by then reached 80% of Bangladeshi’s poorest rural families and over half of Grameen’s own borrowers had risen above the absolute poverty line. When a Grameen bank manager goes to a new village, he has entrepreneurially to search for poor but viable borrowers . He earns a star if he achieves 100% repayment of loans, and another star if he attains achievement of the 16 guarantees that all customers are asked to pledge, ranging from intensive vegetable growing through attendance of all children at school, to abolition of dowries. A branch with five stars would oftenb transfer to ownership by the poor women themselves. A branch with no stars would be in danger of closing, so borrowers tend to rally round with suggestions, such as which unreliable repayers to exclude. An extraordinary income generator was the profession of telephone ladies. They borrowed enough to buy a cheap mobile phone from a Grameen subsidiary. They world draw fees for phoning to see if more profitable prices for crops were available in a neighbouring village, and from anybody who wanted to hire the phone to contact the outside world. This is a job that could only become important in a microcredit setting; the owner of a mobile phone in richer suburbia would not find many customers to hire her set. Village garment-makers were soon exporting clothes to far countries which made free trade by the importing countries important. One special desire of Yunus was to improve the nutrition of poor children in the villages of Bangladesh, and he formed a social business with the large French food multinational called Danone. Grameen-Danone test marketed to find what sorts of fortified yogurt Bangladeshi children would like. Although Danone at first wanted large plants with refrigerated systems, Grameen won the debate to make then small plants who bought local milk and very cheap local distributors who knew which families had children who might buy the cheap yogurt fresh. Danone had to agree not to pay any dividend from the sales of the yogurt in Bangladesh so as to keep the price cheap at a few US cents per cup, but its $1 million investment remains returnable and it has learnt a lot about sales of a new product in poor countries. THE FUTURE Will such Social Businesses spread as far as Yunus hopes? My view is that the Grameen experiment may prove to be most important for what might be called its macroeconomic impact. When more formal banking for the rich is intermittently in crisis, as is happening now. In this 2008, conventional bankers to the rich have trotted in panic behind the American giants who grossly mislent on subprime mortgages, and then sold these loans on in "securitised", and exploding and even "derivitavised" packages to weaker funds and banks who have frantically tried to disguise from their shareholders and from themselves how unmarketable and worthless some of these assets are. If all bank statements in early 2008 had been utterly and appallingly honest, runs by depositors out of them could already have accelerated out of control. Such banking crises are likely to recur before and after next January when a new American president takes office... ----------------------------------------------------------- I am pleased to be informed that The Economist is organizing a remembrance party of Norman Macrae on 16 November 2010. Mr Macrae was a rational optimist as well as a liberal economic journalist who was influential in both the academic world and the world of practice. I am happy that when I met Norman Macrae he was so enthusiastic about Grameen Microcredit, Social Business and our own entrepreneurial economics in Bangladesh. Over the years Norman made important contributions in several capacities. To many, he was best known as a prudent futurist. I look forward to the publications, including the Journal of Social Business, which friends of Norman Macrae are helping support. This will not only raise the profile of the sector in general, I feel the platform for improvement and growth of what this journal has started will be successfully set. I believe the article "Consider Bangladesh" by Norman Macrae will play a key role in promoting the concept of social businesses. I sincerely thank Macrae Family for promoting Social Business and I wish success in all its endeavors. Sincerely, Muhammad Yunus ..... ------------------------------------------ Remembering Norman Macrae 1923-2010 How to Avert A Great Depression Through the Hungry 2010s? Answer, By Making All Banking Very Much Cheaper This was Norman Macrae's last article written in December 2008 If banks in rich democracies had been truly competitive institutions, at least one of them somewhere would have seized the main opportunity created by the computer. This main opportunity was to make all deposit-banking vastly cheaper than ever before. By this cheapening it should make such banking hugely more profitable. Then further competition would search for the cheapest ways to guide all the world's saving into the most profitable (or otherwise most desirable) forms of capital investment, thus enriching all mankind. Instead, during 2008 the total losses of banks in rich democracies - in North America, West Europe and Japan - soared into trillions of dollars. Fearful for their solvency, these banks virtually stopped lending. The issuance of corporate bonds, commercial paper, and many other financial products largely ceased. Hedge and insurance firms also crashed. Mankind is thus threatened in the 2010s with its longest great depression since the hungry 1930s. Why? The strange answer seems to be that other happy consequences of modern technology promised to make this cheapening even faster. Call centres in Bangalore vastly undercut the middle class salaries of Midland bank clerk who until the 1950s expensively answered clients' questions in their branches in the City of London. Cheap mobile phones kept village ladies in once miserable Bangladesh as fully in touch with market prices as is the chief research officer of the First National Bank of Somewhere in California. His weekly salary is still 1000 times greater than the previous annual earnings of that village lady. The cost-effective way of running the old Midland or First National then seemed to be to cut its total salary cost by something like 99%. This did not please Western welfare governments, or the decent chief executives of the old Midland or First National bank. 3 Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block - WS Gilbert in The Mikado - why it is uncomfortable to work in an industry which needs 99% redundancies. Western welfare governments have long preferred to run their banks in high cost cartels, and even invented reasons why this seems to be moral. Their deposit-banks have usually kept in cash only 10% of the total amount deposited with them. If 11% of depositors suddenly feared that their banks might go bust, this could accelerate a run that would send them bust indeed. Governments therefore thought that depositors would be less fearful if they were assured that the banks were officially and tightly regulated. Actually, this mainly meant that the banks had to hire ever more expensive lawyers so as to escape any crippling consequences from this regulation. The attached quote shows that Samuel Pepys understood this fact of life in his Diaries of July 21, 1662. I see it is impossible for the King to have things done so cheaply as do other men - Samuel Pepys on discovering an important commercial fact of life in his Diary, 21 July, 1662 The decent bosses of the deposit banks felt that the best way of avoiding sacking nine tenths of their staffs was by competing with a very different sort of financing called merchant banking whose earnings and bonuses were far more generous than those given to their own staff. These merchant banks were of peculiarly differing pedigree. In London, it was assumed that they could best be run by families like Barings who had done the job for over 200 years. In the 1990s, Barings went totally bust because one of its hired traders bet much of its money on a hunch that a bad earthquake in Japan meant that the shares of Japanese banks and insurance companies would become more profitable. In Zurich, merchant banks felt it most moral to keep the accounts of their depositors totally secret, especially if these accounts were being used to defraud their own countries' tax authorities. In 2008 those 4 secretive banks were then defrauded. In Wall Street, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros bid up their annual bonuses to millions of dollars for each partner. In 2008 even Goldman Sachs made a loss and Lehman Bros went bust. A former chairman of the Federal Reserve argues that "fearful investors clearly require a far larger capital cushion to lend unsecured to any financial intermediary now". He therefore thinks that taxpayers money should be ladled into them to make those investors less fearful. This seems far more likely to make depositors intermittently more terrified and cause any depression into the 2010s to linger on and on. In the 1930 s, the chief economic adviser to the government of Siam was called Prince Damrong. I try always to remember it - quote from former director of International Monetary Fund. One of the few big banks to make a profit in 2008 was the Grameen Bank (which means Village Bank) in that once basketcase country called Bangladesh. The sole staff in a branch serving several villages was once a woman student. It is now more usually someone who has learnt to use the computer in the right way. The rest of this report will examine how this marvellously costcutting operation works. Large banks mislending to the rich have run into losses that have created the slump. Politicians, thinking they are saving the world, are mislending huge sums to these mislenders and will eventually make the slump worst. 5 How to create cost-cutting banks? To begin with Consider Bangladesh - peculiar as this may seem. START IN A STARVING VILLAGE The Nobel peace prize for 2006 was controversially awarded, in Oslo, to a "banker for the poor" in usually unfashionable Bangladesh. Since the microcredit system pioneered by this Dr Muhammad Yunus really has lifted record millions of Bangladeshi women from the world's direst poverty, some of the world's toughest tycoons have thrilled to his stated aim to "harness the powers of the free market to solve the problems of poverty". To his fans' delight and astonishment, he is achieving exactly that. In the past quarter of a century, his Grameen Bank has lent (without collateral or lawyers) increasing billions of dollars to millions of poor women in the previously starving villages of Bangladesh, and got an extraordinary 99% repayment back. His often illiterate customers have started millions of successful small businesses in unimagined fields like mobile telephone ladies and saleswomen of the world's cheapest yogurt. All these successes have been won by keeping costs incredibly low. A banking operation that would cost Goldman Sachs $100 in New York or London would cost Grameen in Bangladesh well under 100 cents. This is a huge development in human history. Money can now be directly channelled into productive use by the world's poorest people, while unsuccessful lending to the rich has caused a world slump. How do we switch custom to cost-cutting banks? .... …; Added by chris macrae at 7:16am on January 4, 2013

Topic: agenda of first summit-mooc: nterim Executive Director, 92Y Pete Cashmore / CEO & Founder, Mashable The Next 15 Years: How will technology, data and digital media shape our world?12:06 PM Helen Clark / Administrator, United Nations Development Programme HRH Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway / HRH Crown Princess of Norway Paul Polman / CEO, Unilever Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka / Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, United Nations Stacy Martinet / Chief Marketing Officer, Mashable Shift: How We Think Changes What We Do12:27 PM Ben Keesey / CEO, Invisible Children, Inc. Zoe Fox / Reporter, Mashable Democratization of Giving12:38 PM Helen Clark / Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Jean Case / CEO, Case Foundation Kathy Calvin / CEO, United Nations Foundation Matthew Bishop / US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief , The Economist The Quest for Conflict Free Technology: The New Wave of Natural Resources12:54 PM Marcus Bleasdale / Photographer, National Geographic Young, Global and Connected: New Ideas in Technology, Diplomacy, and Outreach1:05 PM Ahmad Alhendawi / Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, United Nations Ruma Bose / Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist and Author Tina Wells / CEO & Founder, Buzz Marketing Group Zeenat Rahman / Special Adviser to Secretary Kerry for Global Youth Issues, U.S. Department of State The Future of News: From Passive to Active, Combining Awareness and Activism1:26 PM Bryn Mooser / Co-Founder, RYOT.org David Darg / Co-Founder, RYOT.org Ian Somerhalder / Actor/Entrepreneur, RYOT.org Pete Cashmore / CEO & Founder, Mashable Competing Pressures: The Struggle for the Future of Attention1:47 PM Matt Wallaert / Behavioral Scientist, Bing We Don't Have Time to Think Short-Term Any Longer1:55 PM Paul Shoemaker / Executive Connector, SVP Seattle Making Malaria “the First Disease Beaten By Mobile”2:06 PM Martin Edlund / CEO, Malaria No More Changing The World 2.0: Volunteerism2:17 PM Abdel-Rahman Ghandour / Deputy Director of Communications, UNDP Amita Dahiya / Volunteering and Post-2015 National Coordinator , United Nations Volunteers (UNV) India Dan Frankowski / UN Online Volunteer, Maventy and Data Scientist, Pinterest Richard Dictus / Executive Coordinator, United Nations Volunteers Sam Santiago / Principal, Community Programs, American Airlines Beyond the University2:38 PM Michael Roth / President, Wesleyan Keynote Listener - Judith Rodin2:49 PM Judith Rodin, Ph.D. / President, The Rockefeller Foundation Defending the Defenders: a Conversation with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power on Addressing the Crackdown on Civil Society3:00 PM Pete Cashmore / CEO & Founder, Mashable Samantha Power / U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Remarks from the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations3:37 PM Jan Eliasson / Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations The New Africa Rising3:45 PM Magatte Wade / Founder and CEO , Tiossan Teddy Ruge / Cofounder, Project Diaspora Sustainable Energy and Global Youth: Making a Complex Issue Fun and Accessible For a Measurable Difference 3:45 PM Dick Gephardt / Former U.S. House Majority Leader / Former U.S. Presidential Candidate Jeff Martin / CEO & Founder, Tribal Brands, Inc. and Tribal Technologies, Inc. Jessica O. Matthews / CEO, Uncharted Play, Inc. Kathy Calvin / CEO, United Nations Foundation Nebahat Albayrak / VP of External Affairs, Upstream International at Shell Rebeca Grynspan / United Nations Under-Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator will.i.am / Seven-time Grammy winner, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Keynote Listener - Michael Elliott4:31 PM Michael Elliott / President & CEO, ONE How Technology is Helping Unexpected Heroes Change the World 4:42 PM Emma Axelrod / Student Jennifer Dulski / President & COO, Change.org How Broadband Will Change the World4:53 PM Hans Vestberg / President & CEO, Ericsson Jeffrey D. Sachs / Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University The Global Economy Will be Run By Women5:14 PM Asha Curran / Director of the Center for Innovation & Social Impact, 92Y Bea Perez / Chief Sustainability Officer , The Coca-Cola Company Kathryn Dickey Karol / Vice President, Caterpillar Inc. Noa Gimelli / Director of the Women’s Economic Opportunity Initiative , ExxonMobil Improving and Saving the Lives of Others5:35 PM Ernesto Argüello / Humanitarian & Entrepreneur Keynote Listener - Dr. Jim Yong Kim5:43 PM Jim Yong Kim / President, World Bank Breaking the Silence Forever: The Digital Revolution Powered by Women Worldwide5:54 PM Jensine Larsen / CEO & Founder, World Pulse Neema Namadamu / Activist, Democratic Republic of Congo Keynote Listener - Amina Mohammed6:05 PM Amina J. Mohammed / Special Advisor, United Nations The Charity Concert 2.0: No Ticket Required6:16 PM Adam Ostrow / Senior Vice President of Content and Executive Editor, Mashable Christina Grimmie / Recording Artist Jeff Davidoff / Chief Marketing Officer, ONE Kerry Steib / Director of Social Good, Spotify Musical Performance6:37 PM Christina Grimmie / Recording Artist Monday, September 23Mon 09/23 Handwashing To Save Lives: A Campaign to Help Every Child Reach 512:00 PM Kajol Devgan / Indian Actor and 'Help a Child Reach 5' Advocate Letting Girls Lead12:06 PM Elba Velasquez Hernandez / Advocate, Adolescent Girls Advocacy & Leadership Initiative Keynote Listener - Melinda Gates12:12 PM Melinda Gates / Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation +SocialGood: From Connection to Action12:18 PM Esther Agbarakwe / Founder, Nigerian Youth Climate Coalition Maria A. Ressa / CEO & Founder, Rappler.com Melinda Gates / Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Next Generation Brain Trust: Connecting Technology & Human Capacity to Propel Innovation & Empower Health Leaders12:34 PM Barbara Bush / CEO & Co-Founder, Global Health Corps Nina Nashif / CEO & Founder, Healthbox Patty Mechael / Executive Director, mHealth Alliance Raj Kumar / President, Devex Making Sustainability Possible12:55 PM Steve Howard / Chief Sustainability Officer, IKEA Group Setting the Scene1:03 PM Al Gore / Former Vice President We're Already Paying the Cost of Carbon1:14 PM Joseph Romm / Founding Editor, ClimateProgress.org Today's Solutions, Tomorrow's Future1:20 PM Maggie Fox / President & CEO, The Climate Reality Project Timothy E. Wirth / Vice Chairman, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund Ending Energy Poverty: How to Power the World1:36 PM Bahareh Seyedi / Energy Policy Specialist, Environment and Energy Group of UNDP Dave ‘Phoenix’ Farrell / Bassist, Linkin Park Florian Juergs / CEO, kuuluu Interactive Entertainment AG Pete Cashmore / CEO & Founder, Mashable Rob Bourdon / Drummer, Linkin Park A Price on Carbon: How the Future Succeeds1:52 PM Christiana Figueres / Executive Secretary, UNFCCC Joseph Romm / Founding Editor, ClimateProgress.org Rachel Kyte / Vice President of Sustainable Development, World Bank Millennials Leading the Way2:08 PM Al Gore / Former Vice President Parker Liautaud / Polar Explorer Breaking Through: 24 Hours of Reality2:19 PM Maggie Fox / President & CEO, The Climate Reality Project Stacy Martinet / Chief Marketing Officer, Mashable Where We Go From Here2:30 PM Al Gore / Former Vice President Revolution & The Power of Entertainment: A collaboration between Bad Robot and the UN2:36 PM J.J. Abrams / Founder and President, Bad Robot Productions Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal / Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, United Nations Tapping into the Invisible Innovator2:47 PM Jack Andraka / Student/Cancer Researcher Empowering a Billion Women by 20202:56 PM Claudia Chan / Women's Media Entrepreneur & Founder SHE Summit, ClaudiaChan.com Ingrid Vanderveldt / Entrepreneur What’s Your Place in the World? Building Community in the Heart of Every City3:07 PM Susan Silberberg / Lecturer, MIT The Future of Inclusive Financial Services -- Digital, Social, Mobile3:18 PM Aldi Haryopratomo / CEO, Ruma Arjuna Costa / Investment Partner, Omidyar Network Casey Gheen / Director of Finance and Corporate Development, Lenddo Priya Jaisinghani / Director of Mobile Solutions, Office of Innovation and Development Alliances for the U.S. Agency for International Development Leading Girls Forward Passed Adversity3:34 PM Elizabeth Gore / Resident Entrepreneur , United Nations Foundation Malala Yousafzai / Educational Campaigner Shiza Shahid / Founder and Executive Director, The Malala Fund Turning the Internet Red3:50 PM Anastasia Khoo / Marketing Director, Human Rights Campaign Is Shock Value an Effective Way to Spur Social Good?3:58 PM David Harris / Executive Creative Director, Draftfcb London Neeraj Mistry / Managing Director, Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases Peter Koechley / Co-Founder, Upworthy Embracing Your Inner Punk Rock to Change the World 4:14 PM Ned Breslin / CEO, Water For People Innovating Mobile Health for Present and Future Generations4:22 PM Sarah Ingersoll / Director, text4baby Equality Everywhere: The Politics of Coming Out in the Digital Age4:30 PM Andre Banks / Co-founder and Executive Director, All Out Sarah Kramer / Journalist Movement-building: How Large Organizations Can Be Big, Bold, and Nimble4:46 PM Anthony Romero / Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union Jeremy Heimans / CEO & Founder, Purpose Phil Radford / Executive Director, Greenpeace Never Waste a Crisis: Cultivating Resilience to Flourish in the Future5:02 PM Pat Christen / CEO, HopeLab Defeating AIDS: The Opportunity of Our Generation5:10 PM Barbara Lee / Congresswoman Charlize Theron / Maranda Pleasant / Founder and Editor, ORIGIN Magazine Mark Dybul / Executive Director , Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Mothers Connect for a Healthier World5:31 PM LaShaun Martin / National Director of Social Media and Community Service, Mocha Moms, Inc. Lynda Lopez / Anchor, WCBS Newsradio 880 Sarah Colamarino / Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Johnson & Johnson Sharon Kathryn D’Agostino / Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Johnson & Johnson Toyin Ojora-Saraki / Founder and Director, The Wellbeing Foundation Africa Using Feedback Loops to Create the iPhone of philanthropy, governance and aid.5:52 PM Dennis Whittle / Leadership Group Member, Ashoka Making Peace with Technology: Drones, UAVs and Satellites as Tools for Social Good6:00 PM Andreas Raptopoulos / Founder and CEO, Matternet John Prendergast / Co-founder, The Enough Project Kevin S. Kennedy / Chief, Integrated Training Service UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations & Field Support Peter Yeo / Executive Director, The Better World Campaign Whitney Williams / President and Founder, williamsworks The Key is We - Global Collaboration Now6:21 PM Beejaye Kokil / Manager of Economic & Social Statistics, African Development Bank Harbrinder S. Kang / Sr. Director, Corporate Affairs, Cisco Systems, Inc. Ron Garan / Astronaut, NASA Ice Music: Sound from Science6:42 PM DJ Spooky / DJ and Artist The Intersection of Technology and Peace Introduction6:50 PM Carl Bildt / Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs Empowered Youth: Catalysts today for a better tomorrow6:56 PM Glen Mehn / Managing Director, Social Innovation Camp Nnenna Nwakanwa / Founder, Nnenna.org Yasmin Green / Principal, Google Ideas Empowering Youth Peacemakers Through Technology6:56 PM Hans Vestberg / President & CEO, Ericsson Okello Sam / Founder, Hope North Child Soldiers Never Again: Protecting Children Caught in Conflict7:33 PM Grace Akallo / Founder and Executive Director, United Africans for Women and Children’s Right (UAWCR) Leila Zerrougui / Special Representative, Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Mark Goldberg / Managing Editor, UN Dispatch Victor Ochen / Founder and Head, African Youth Initiative Network (AYINET) Tuesday, September 24Tue 09/24 The Real Impact of Telling True Stories12:00 PM Mariane Pearl / Managing Editor, Chime for Change Maz Kessler / Founder, Catapult Why Business as Usual is No Longer an Option for Business: The Case for a Plan B12:11 PM Sir Richard Branson / Founder , The Virgin Group Big Data in the Era of Social Good12:27 PM Carlo Ratti / Architect/Engineer Elaine Weidman-Grunewald / Vice President of Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility (CR) , Ericsson Robert Kirkpatrick / Director , Global Pulse Robyn Peterson / Chief Technology Officer , Mashable What Happens When Everything Happens Now12:43 PM Douglas Rushkoff / Author Syria: Refugees, Faith & the Citizen Voice1:05 PM Anna Therese Day / Independent Journalist Aziz Abu Sarah / Executive Director, Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution David Miliband / President and CEO, International Rescue Committee Rajesh Mirchandani / World Affairs Correspondent, BBC The Ocean vs. Space: Which is really the Final Frontier?1:26 PM Alexandra Hall / Senior Director, Google Lunar XPRIZE Paul Bunje / Senior Director, Oceans, XPRIZE Women Leaders Cultivating Long-term, Systemic Solutions to Climate Change1:42 PM Carmen Capriles / Founder-Coordinator, Reacción Climática Jody Williams / Chair, Nobel Women's Initiative Osprey Orielle Lake / Founder , International Women's Earth and Climate Initiative Rosemary Enie / Director, Women's Environment Climate Action Network Sally Ranney / President, American Renewable Energy Institute Creative for Good: Creating Bold and Effective Social Issue Campaigns2:03 PM David Gallagher / CEO, Europe, Ketchum Jenny Nicholson / Associative Creative Director, McKinney Peggy Conlon / President & CEO, The Advertising Council A World without Malaria: The Tipping Point to Change Isn't Always What You Think2:24 PM Deb Derrick / President, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS Edson and Naomi Kodama / Secretary General, Junior Chamber International,, 25th Nothing But Nets Campaign Champion Gregory E. Meeks / Congressman Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen / CEO and Owner , Vestergaard Frandsen Empowering 2030's Change-makers: Millennials and the Next Generation of Volunteerism2:40 PM Jason Rzepka / Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, MTV Rachael Chong / CEO & Founder, Catchafire Frontlines of Women’s Health: Stories of the Present, Hope for the Future2:51 PM Aaron Sherinian / Vice President of Communications & Public Relations, United Nations Foundation Ken Weiss / Journalist,, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Sandra Keats / Documentary Film and Television Producer Digital Jobs Africa: Tackling Youth Unemployment in Africa3:07 PM Heather Grady / Vice President for Foundation Initiatives, Rockefeller Foundation Vanessa Kanyi / Operations Manager, Techno Brain BPO ITES The Water Tank Project: Public Art for Social Change3:18 PM Mary Jordan / Founder and Creative Director, The Water Tank Project Making the invisible visible. Using innovation to #ENDViolence Against Children3:26 PM Anthony Lake / Executive Director, UNICEF Haroon Mokhtarzada / CEO & Founder, Freewebs Ishmael Beah / Author, Advocate for Children Affected, UNICEF Jimmie Briggs / Journalist and Educatior Rebecca Chiao / Co-Founder and Director, HarassMap Refocus Wellness: How Shifting the Basics Can Change the Course of Global Health3:47 PM Adrianna Logalbo / Campaign Director, 1,000 Days Partnership Gene Gurkoff / Founder, Charity Miles Greg Spencer, Jr. / Co-Founder, The Paradigm Project Ido Leffler / Co-Founder, Yes To Inc Julie Smolyansky / CEO, Lifeway Foods Social Enterprise Collaboration: Providing 20/20 by 20304:08 PM Elizabeth Gore / Resident Entrepreneur , United Nations Foundation Jordan Kassalow / Founder and Co-Chairman, VisionSpring Neil Blumenthal / Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Warby Parker Action vs. Dollars: The Future Currency of Creative Campaigns4:24 PM Chevenee Reavis / Director of Strategic Initiatives, Water.org Ian Haisley / Vice President of Interactive Marketing, Opportunity International Ryan Gall / Co-Founder & Executive Producer, Global Citizen The Mobile Revolution: A Case Study of the New Tools in Action4:40 PM Alnoor Ladha / Co-Founder & Executive Producer, /The Rules #zerohungerchallenge: Small Act Big Impact4:48 PM Ertharin Cousin / Executive Director, World Food Programme Gary Flood / President of Global Products and Solutions, MasterCard Worldwide Hunter Biden / Chairman of the Board, World Food Program USA Lauren Bush Lauren / Founder and CEO, FEED Reimagining Online Activism for #20305:09 PM Matt Mahan / President & CEO, Causes.com Why Clicktivism Isn't a Dirty Word5:15 PM Jay Jaboneta / Co-Founder, Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation Liba Rubenstein / Director of Outreach, Tumblr Ramya Raghavan / Head of Politics and Causes, Google+ Ruben Cantu / Founder, CORE Media Enterprises #Unplug & Look Up: Re-examining our Future Relationship with Technology5:44 PM Baratunde Thurston / Comedian/ Author and Co-Founder of Cultivated Wit Jacob Park / Principal Sustainability Advisor, Forum for the Future Megan Kashner / CEO & Founder, Benevolent You Can Tell A Lot About People From the Jokes They Tell6:00 PM Hasan Minhaj / Host, Stand Up Planet No matter where you live, this year YOU have a seat at the Social Good Summit. On Sunday September 22, 2013, we are going to make history. On that day (or around that day if it works better for you) we are inviting people all over the world to create and join Meetups to connect with people to discuss the biggest challenges facing our world. We’re all answering the same big question: "How can new technology and new media create solutions for the biggest problems facing my community and create a better future by the year 2030?" Our goal is to hear the voices and ideas of people everywhere. We are bringing together a global social good community, tackling the same question, exchanging information and sharing the same spirit and the same hashtag #2030NOW. We want to create one of the biggest, most global and most powerful conversations the world has ever seen. And we want you to join us. To do this, we need the social good community everywhere to get engaged. On Sunday September 22, 2013, we are going to make history. On that day (or around that day if it works better for you) we are inviting people all over the world to create and join Meetups to connect with people to discuss the biggest challenges facing our world. We’re all answering the same big question: "How can new technology and new media create solutions for the biggest problems facing my community and create a better future by the year 2030?" Our goal is to hear the voices and ideas of people everywhere. We are bringing together a global social good community, tackling the same question, exchanging information and sharing the same spirit and the same hashtag #2030NOW. We want to create one of the biggest, most global and most powerful conversations the world has ever seen. And we want you to join us. To do this, we need the social good community everywhere to get engaged. Last year, nearly 300 communities around the world took part in the Social Good Summit. We launched +SocialGood to help those communities stay connected throughout the year. Visit +SocialGood to collaborate with other organizers and get tools, tips and resources to help plan your Social Good Summit meetup. Organizer Tools Download Logos JPG / PNG / EPS Facebook Group Mashable Meetup Organizers Hashtag #2030NOW Video Tutorial Organizing a Meetup 92nd Street Y 1395 Lexington Ave / New York, NY …; Added by chris macrae at 8:05am on September 25, 2013

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Sir Fazle Abed - legacy of world;s number 1 ngo partnership in sdg economics, Bangla womens empowerment and livelihood education 1 2 3 4

contents 0 graduating adam smith 200th class glasgow

1,2 mr and mrs ayesha abed 3,4 mr and mrs chen 5 paulo freire 6 borlaug 7 deng 8 montessori 9 james grant 10 david fraser 11 soris 12 iqbal quadir 13 kamal quadir 14 neville williams 15 Ron Grzywinski ·16 Mary Houghton 17 mrs steve jobs 18 jim kim 19 paul farmer 20 bill gates (21 abdul latif 22 sheikha moza 23 yidan 24 jack ma ... 25 shinzo abe)

zasheem as i think you know from your first meeting sir fazle abed whilst he was ceo for shell and found himself in the midst of the cyclone 1970 that killed a million people in under7 days

there was a simple collaboration promise fazle abed made to extreme sdg innovators who valued empowering poorest village womens bottom billion : if you have a solution - eg oral rehydration - which village mothers need to educate/develop/network everywhere brac cannot promise to make the most money for you but we will do our utmost to give the most meaning of life to it and you-whomever can most save lives with it will be our connectors

can you help list the 100 people he most deeply partnered in this and what diary sources of how this came about

footnote the same quiz is absolutely relevant to adam smith and the scottish view of sustaining human race since mid 1700s which became the original meaning of the french word entrepreneur in early 1800s but which the eu is now terribly abusing because bossy administrators doesnt know how to translate language let alone culture

marta chen's book is a beautiful source- her husband an she worked with sir fazle and his first wife when brac was a start up roughly 1972-1979 then sadly his wife died

Abed's personal experience. His mother and all three of his sisters died young, and in 1981 his first wife and partner at BRAC, Ayesha Abed, died while giving birth. He was left with a 7-year-old daughter tamara and a newborn son shameran to care for. ... Today more than 11 million children have graduated from BRAC's schools.

A Quiet Revolution : Women in Transition in Rural Bangladesh Paperback –

it explains how the four of them -two husbands and two wives - started up the rise and rise of village health services

basically the founding dna of brac-abed serant leaders economies:

sir fazle and his first wife who died so early

marta and her husband lincoln chen

ideology - fazle also adds in paulo freire's pedagogy of the oppressed - he was always about livelihood learning/servant leadership the franciscan way- and for 25 years this all had to be done peer as rural networking meant with out access to electricity grids or any infrastructure other than natures

not only did these 4 network village bangladesh but they networked enough of village china to empower village entrepreneurs there - what china sloganised as women hold up half the sky- unlike refugee bangladeshis, in chinese families thousands of years valued educating children so at the deepest data of ending poverty there is no wall between village women empowerment wherever this miracle has scaled across billions on continent of asia

two other things came together at the roots of brac

borlaugs crop science especially rice science -

there is a very nice story about deng - if you have never capitalised private companies up to 1976 what do you do

-he was thinking invite billionaire inward investors of infrastructure from diaspora chinese

but one chinese village of 17 cooperative families formed small enterprises- the families made a bargain if any of us get closed diwn for breaking the law the others will keep supporting everyone- in the event the 17 smes with rice science were so productive that deng proclaimed type 2 companies are village smes- in other words bangladeshi women empowerment capitalism was married in to chinese capitalism from the getgo-

AND SCHOOLS

village montessori schools though fazle abed never called it that citing paulo freire instead

i dont think abed ever met borlaug- my fathers1977 survey of rural keysianism implied it was the japanese who shared rice science but we need to understand who really was the crop scientist that shared all his knowhow

back on the health track

from oral rehydration at east pakistan lab

the two couples abed and chen linked in james grant- he was best head unicef eve had because his dad was a medical missionary in china- interestingly there is a parallel with john bard - see footnote 0 and the stanfords

the next immunologist i know joined in was the 80s head of swarthmore david fraser

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- in fact fraser continued on to be on founding board of brac university

1996-2002 is a very peculiar time - because by accident the quadirs at mit gave yunus the first shot at village mobiles - the 1996 grant was soros though oddly he never takes credit for being the first village phone connector- yunus needed solar to charge phones so neville williams network gave yunus that knowledge (neville's number 2 man bob self is still in dc and his wife is chinese so at the same time that they gave yunus microsolar knowhow they gave village china microsolar- neville's origin had been jimmy carters clean energy csar)

both the quadirs and neville williams team say they were very hurt- yunus never credited them at all until the forfeiture of his bank where he once released where he had found all the knowledge he applied)

the good news of this is the quadirs took everyone( mit legatum ..) to brac and this started http://www.bkash.com in parallel to the others who started brac city bank for smes and savings of village daughters who inter alia were the garment industry's workers in the cities

we know that banking advice came from the founders of shorebank Ron Grzywinski · Mary Houghton · - the community bank that funded black south chicago, out of whose communities obama sprung

remnants of shorebank knowhow are at Global Alliance for Banking on Values -

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fortunately they went under in subprime

back on the soros track - it doesnt seem he ever visited bangladesh to understand village phones but instead around 2000 jim kim approached soros - it was kims idea with paul farmer in boston to lobby who/ national institutes in health - hiv and tb need to be resolved by interconnecting investments - this is actually the only undeniably good thing bust did linking the global fund (as you know zasheem we met paul farmer at ceu budapest 2023- sasly he and kim have always made one mistake- they only design rural hospitals as a charity - they have never connected sustaible jobs of rural enterprise with funding health services so they never scale even though their 2 teaching hospitals in hsaiti and rwanda are best in world and without rwanda and soros funded brac liberia/sierra leone ebola might not have been contained)

so soros said to kim - dissidents in russian prisons are dying of tb - if you solve that i will help fund you but also do a worldwide search who solves tb bottom up

this is where kim discovered abed- in spite of being bostons leading slum expert on tb , kim hadnt previously known of abed and his last mile health worker- so kim told soros and gates about abed

the result 2005 gates fiudation prize awarded to abed

2006 soros vistits bangladesh for the first time -and unlike the clintons who took yunus tour of villages in 1990 soros took the 2006 tour with abed

within 9 months soros was launching abed creating bracusa in new york -fall 2007

soros in his understated way said- i cant tell you how many ngos claim to be successful at doing good but abed is the only ngo leader i have met who scales good-it was from here on that abed started to build the largest ngo partnership on earth

if you want to use value chain/market economics language - abed developed the number 1 economic model of the sdg generation by always mapping 4 value chains at the same time

the most efficient effective expandable model for

1 village

200k villages

national leadership

global leadership ie replacing government aid with blend of direct cash transfers and sustainable charities - aka social/purpose/sdg driven businesses

frankly when computing numbers became a dime in dozen the profession of economics got flooded by ten times more macroeconomists hiring themselves out for disgraceful political chicanery as described in dads 1984 book the 2025 report- the whole of adam smith economic models were shredded; without abeds model sdgs will never be invested in- and if his logics are not used in coming back from covid and leaping forward to green cop26 glasgow - odds are 100 to 1 against humans ever uniting sustainability

soros arranged for the then dean of columbia univrsity medical school to chair brac usa though this chair soon returened to marta chens husband

from 2007 on abed knew that if he had an idea he could phone either gates or soros and they would help- to add a little spice to the story abed says i never thought anyone needed me apart from bangladeshis until i was teased for having such a small imagination by steve jobs wife at a private dinner they hosed for me around 2001

-it is not clear that the jobs ever gave brac anything else

and so it goes on- somewhere in brac the connector of brac research (red) and abed's long time personal secretary must know of others- and the reality is once he started to have international partners you cant run international development out of a bangladesh ngo so abed had to find partners that became global connectors outside of his family ngo's remit

gates is example; quadirs mit/legatum are an example- there is the very peculiar example of ultra poor - now done in 12 countries the poverty lab at mit gets nobel economics prize for random pairs tesing of the solution abed shared with 12 countries- probably the main anchor of this is the middle east toyota franchise abdul latif who are the main origin of mit poverty lab

and of course the coalition of universities is peculiar; i still dont understand- we went to ceu budapest 2013 to witness soros giving sir fazle the open society award but osun wasnt launched then- meanwhile we know that coalition of universities became sir fazle favorite chat line with every asian ambassador starting with both chinese and japan ambassadors 2011/12

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C FOR COLLABORATION

abed would always play games with this c- as you know when we tried to ask him why nit a mooc with the world bank- he asked to clarify acronym

m for massive you know i like that

o for open you know thats part of us

o for online ok i get digital and real intel need mashing up

c - why is c for course not curriculum -its a pity andrew ning co-founder of coursera never heard that in time - he sold off coursera to dreadful venture capitalists so to this day coursera moocs are part of putting students in debt and over-examining them even though ng is desperate to open up ethical ai

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10 stories of the real adam smith

smit never ever said the natural state of markets is free/moral- ho did define a transparent market to be one where enough members of the community have open information on costs , quality and innovative purpose that goodwill instead of badwill multiplies- he had just written the book on that in 1758 when o my god he sees first engineer james watt

about 50 years earlier scotland had been colonised by london

the last thing in the world smih wantedwas slave making and tto down bureaucratic empires who failed lives matter everywhere they colonised to be responsible for how machines got shared the world over

he advocated that scots and irish should become a united state of america's english speaking world but on one condition - as machines rolled out down north east cast up the louisisana purchase across west slavery should not just be repealed but all businesses depending on cheap labour should be bought out and redeveloped around lives matter and machines empower social business models; that way as us growht scaled a continent and went west instead of american navies in late 1800 scaring japan to race to be as bad an empire as britian in trapping the whole of asians in poverty, machines could have freed peoples intelligence and love and trust everywhere they go- today its the same question will ai spread faster between we the peoples or end up being controlled by the biggest least sustainable organisations - if nov 2021is the first time after covid tens of thousands meet to unite climate, post covid, community redevelopmemt, sdgs youth then we better find out who the abed AI partners are and celebrate them- maybe a poster with the two faces of adam smith and abed watching over us can provide glasgow signage together with a wish yiu were here postcard version we mail out from glasgow

the story of john bard mid 19th century founder of bard college also co-founded the medical college at columbia uni and his rich wife's family were at founding of nyu- sadly their teen son died touring europe so they put more or less everything into bard college in remembrance of him; on the other coast the same thing happened to the 5th governor of california- his teen son died of infectious disease whilst traveling europe - from that moment the stanfords declared all of the state's children are our children and founded stanford university to honour that promise

it seems wherever you search abeds hi-trust partners you get clues on how abed can linkin coalitions of universities worthy of late teens becoming the first sdg generation - and wherever you read adam smith in the context of the scots being one of the first to be colonised and not being free to share engineers as a decolonial movement, you can see why unlike gandhi its great that abed travelled as a teen to graduate in engineering in glasgow instead of lawyering out of london -- bracnet

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50 Gates Melinda & 49 Gates Bill & 48 ban ki-moon (last global visitor to cheer sir fazle abed on in person) Keynes & 47 Guterres & 46 Schwarzman 46d Maria Montessori The royal families of 43 UK 56 quadirs 56a Reeta Roy 62 Jin ... JFKennedy 68 queen rania

Hong Kong Ka-Shing TenCent co-founder Beijing

Hangzhou Jack Ma

Shenzen Pony Ma, Ren Z

UN Guterres &

Scotland, Oxbridge Attenborough

Japan Masa Son, founder uniqlo

Ghana

India founder Tata

New York -schwarzman &

UAE

Geneva

Chile

Ghana

Rwanda

Indonesia Widodo

Duisburg turns into world's largest dryport - thanks to the 26 nations Rail across Eurasia Belt Road

Italy becomes west europe leader of belt riad mapping - with 10 yeras of studnet-friendly research by italian michele geraci

Help us question UN report on DIgital Cooperation 1 2 due summer 2019 with all star expert panel led by melinda gates and jack ma- both partners in celebrating brac's bkash.com as world elader in digotal banking for the poor

stories of cities

BRI.school surprising Belt Road Cities

BR2 Dhaka where to go to with jack ma to see banking for billion poorest girls and more

BR2 home of nilekani - the billion person id an

BR6 Luxembourg hub of aiib2019

BR0 beijing - binnaul home of BRI weher 100 most trsetd national eladers of sustainable youth likon: home of tsinghua- universitiues that dont have partnerships with tsinghua will end up failing over 505 of their stidents livelihoods

BR0 Hangzhou - home of jack ma alumni

BR0 hongkong-shenzen - one of the world's 7 most wonderful bridges - china owes more to hongkong than it recognises with a new twist - all the best manufacturing jobs died before 2015-

25:55

Shenzhen: City of the Future.

can shenzhen show how smart manufacturing jobs dont compete with sustainable communities they collaborate with them -can hpng kong arrange daytrips to the mainland for financial mivestors to understand the future of sdg economic zones

7:41

Funds challenge set by Head

1 Investing in Girls Sustainability Goals
1.1 BRAC -how to build 100 million person rural health service with a 20 million dollar loan and girl empowerment other most amazing stories of the world's largest NGO- join the week long celebration between academic alumni of jack ma and girl empowerment epicenttre BRAC 30 sept 2018 - queries chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

1.2 BKASH 1 2 3 since april jack ma has taken 20% partnership
1.3 China Capitalism (CC)
1.4 Project Everyone
2 ValuingYouth
2.1 partners of 7 billion peoples' S-goals-Goal 17
2.2 end poverty -Goal 1
2.3 end hunger - Goal 2
2.4 healthy, lives - Goal 3
2.5 Quality Education - Goal 4
2.6 Gender Equality -Goal 5

please make sure our future events diaries are win-win www.economistdairy.com

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Entrepreneurial Revolution - an investigation started at The Economist in the 1970s as to whether intergenerational investments in future systems would empower the net generation to be exponentially sustainable. Surveys of the next 40 years asked questions of 2015-2025 such as:

Would the global financial system be designed to sustain or collapse local communities?

Would 2015-2025 be the under 30s most exciting and productive time to be alive as they linked in sustainability of the human race. Would the parts of the Western hemisphere that advanced the industrial revolution's empires demand that its politicians, professions and academics "happily get out of the way of the sustainability generation being led by the half of youth living within 3000 miles of Beijing"?

POP -Preferential Option Poor

Would every community's most trusted practitioners be educator, health servant and banker.

What would be the top 50 MOOCS that freed access of action learning of sustainability goals as worldwide youth's most joyful collaboration through way above zero-sum models of wporldsocialtrade? This web makes the cases that the Abed family needs to be youth's number 1 hero to MOOC with - we always love to hear who your vote for number 1 MOOC is -text usa 240 316 8157 family of unacknowledged giant

100 links to BRAC

wanted - ideas on how anywhere could unite in celebrating good news of collaborating with brac

tools worth a look https://learning.accredible.com/

help worldwide youth networks action learn how curriculum of BRAC makes one of top 10 networks for womens livelihoods

defining question of our life and times-can online education end youth unemployment for ever ? yes but only if you help map how!

youth world of 2013 most exciting curriculum??

twelve minutes presentations

1 the billion girl club - how the first billion teenage girls of the 21st century mentored each other in learning a living, and regenerating all 4 hemispheres

2 how open technologists helped nursing to become the most trusted grassroots information networkof the 21st century, and saved the affordability of healthcare and nutritition for everyone

3 how community clean energy microfranchises became the number 1 educational curriculum that the chinese authorities invited the world to co-blog

more coming soon

4 cashless bank-a-billion -a project of the global banks with values network

5 orphanage networks as the world's most inspired jobs agency network and home of financial literacy mooc

6 bottom-up EAgri: designing a collaboration portal on the top 30 crops that need to be mobilised by local value chain maps so that hard working nutrition workers are sustainable however small their farming assets and however variable a particular season's climate

7 what do BRAC's barefoot professionals linkin so that village organisations are collaboratively resilient whatever nature-made or man-made disasters popup

Special child health, nutrition, family and educational development series:

*The First 1000 Days

*Pre-Primary

*Primary

*Choices to make the first 2 years after primary

BRAC has more staff grounded round the child and parent-eye view of these challenges in the poorest communities than anyone else. Their collaboration knowhow is as valuable as body of knowhow that I have come across in studying societies' value multiplying needs in over 40 countries

next billion green jobs
next billion family/community sustaining jobs
next billion open technology jobs most worthy of our borderless and interconnected futures

contribute to survey of world's other favorite moocs-40th annual top 10 league table

1) e-ME
3) 6 week tour of brac curriculum and mapping microeducation summit for post 2015 milennium goals

send votes to chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk , Macrae Foundation

5 what to do now for green energy to save the world in time
6 nurses as 21st world's favorite information grassroots networkers and most economical cheerleaders more

7 how food security as a mising curricululum of middle schools can co-create more jobs than any nation can dream of
8 pro-youth economics and public servants
9 celebrating china as number 1 creditor nation
10 questions worldwide youth are asking about what was true last decade but false this decade because that's what living in the most innovative era means chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Financial literacy education links:

BRAC's partner aflatoun

uk's www.mybnk.org face

oz's www.10thousandgirl.com

Number 1 in Economics for Youth

online library of norman macrae - The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant -

videos 1 2 -fansweb NMFoundation- youth projects - include yunuschoolusa

xxx

Economistgirls.com - dedicated to girls and boys who survived wars (worldwide or region's Belt Roads)

Top 10 Right Old Muddles

I was tidying up my father's office when I came across a little black book. It was a diary. Many pages were headed Another Right Old Muddle. There in not much more text than a twitter profile of a young man. The bottom line was replicated on every page . XXX YYY flew off at 8am and did not return

leap beyond 10 old muddles

1 value girls - eg brac girls or the most courageous and loving under 30s girls entrpreneurs - eg AC Ori YC - have you met a woman under 30 who you'd vote for as matching these extraordinary multipliers of goodwill and action? Or an elder they all wish to be an alumni of - eg sir fazle abed

2 value girls, boys, those born poorest - three halves of the world youth, women, poor- all have less than 10 per cent share of voice in the future of their generation - if your born into all 3 of these categories you used to have less than zero positive say- until from 1972 sir fazle abed started to empower vilage girls to buuild a nation - and along the way he interescted 3 times with china who had also gone through the cutiral revolution of girls hold up half the sky. This was good news because the peoples connected by the south and east asian coatsal belts number half the world's population- those that had been most victiomised by Britannia- thise that the books of adam smith, keynes and gandhi provide suffiecnt slues to know how to value sustainability and action networks sdgs - should that be a job worthy of all of us alive tioday.

3 understand that the root cause of world wars was need to end colonisation -whiuch inkconevneintly was how large countriues developed between 1500 and 1946

4 Celbrate belt road trading models that go beyiond colonisation with win-win tyrades

5 First learn from any period in history when positive currencies or other mechnaisms permitted win-win trading to be mapped- identify the expoemtial balance rising or crashing that history revolved round

6 Clarify the unprecdented chnage that is defing life of the 3 generations mainly responsible for 1946-2030- technolgy's moore law in any forms that grand parent parents and youth could be educating each other one

7 Correct the desin ofault in empire education Adam Smith was forst to clarify- it was never to desinged to avlue youth , their livelihhods, innovation forces

8 Agree that as well as coms tech (digital and real world, human and artifician intelligence) compounding round us - we needed to celebrate chnaging machine and huiman sources of energy to be renewable amd to keep commons resources like wagter and air clean

9 Understand that the west's 3 main corporate forms and their lawyers needed transfromation if all peoples places are to be sustainable. MOre than that we need to freinds each other helping each other nations out of hostory's system traps. Any media that doesnt do that is fame media'

10 Wherever politicians or their academkic hacks tell you there isnt enough work for youth to do- something is desperatly wriong with the education, economics and valuation metrics being siued. THere is so much work to be done if we are to lap beyong systesm that are expoebntaoly crashing towards extinction. These are the most exciting tiemns to be alive- our family trees of grandparent parents youth are detemining whether tere will be any moore tres

map first 10 places of www.supercityuni.com and alumnisat.combr /> no particular order - tokyo from 64 and 2020
beijing tsinghua from 1984 -uni or rural little sisters
hangzhou to 1500 and from 2008

hong kong under chiense british and chiense rule
singapore under 3 rules
dubai under 3 rules
glasgiw when adam smith or fazle abed were there
america's south while martin luther king and muhammad yunus were there

BRAC quiz -help us compile the most exciting quiz of sustainable world

Q did brac create 100 million rural health service with 20 million dollar loan A

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

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

Q before Jack Ma's partnership with one of brac's networks can you name 5 of brac's partners in being the world's largest NGO?

Q before Jack Ma's partnership had brac's educators assisted with livelihoods of over 150 million people

Q True or false: China and Bangladesh are the 2 most populous nations whose economies are sustained by girls as much as boys

top partners making brac worlds larfest ngo at brac.tv

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what if only educators technologists and youth can sustain our species?

infrastructure banking most exciting cases

EconomistGIRLS.com Keynes alumni Schumacher is famous for saying the greatest economic miracle of all would be ending poverty in millions of villages-- observe how 1960s climaxed with one network of adew thousand americans racing to the moon while over a third of worlds people still had no elecrtricity. What happened next is truly miracolous -its the tale of 2 regions coastal bangladesh and mainland china separated by some land partitoned for India when (grandad) Sir Kenneth Kemp was ordered to hastily write up legalese of India's Independence. For the history search mediation between Gandhi and Mumbai Chief Justice Kemp 1925-1946. For Do Now futures linkin AIIB2018 Mumbai June - for the greatest education revolutions study 1972-2015 in Bangladesh's BRAC eg at this Ning and with over half a billion chinese women. For next education steps in valuing girls livelihoods linkin WISE@Accra May 2018, at United Nations sept 2018, at Paris Mar2019 or more at ERworld.tv and Economistdiary.com

fan webs:brac.tv and fazleabed.com

brac turned aid into sustainable business franchises run by village

our dream - fav bookmark on www = free lessons on working to unite all 17 sustainability goals

4 Goal Edu &

Rice science – most valuable lesson

Half of life saving health services are free

A nation without locally owned banks for the poor cannot sustain girls nor entrepreneurs of jobs sustainability generation needs to celebrate

Happy 80th birthday by 100000 people of BRAC to Sir Fazle Abed

1 RESILIENCE NOT JUST RELIEF –INNOVATION’s CORE OF BOTTOM-UP DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

The seeds of BRAC were planted in the efforts of Sir Fazle and friends to assist families affected by the Bhola cyclone in 1970. BRAC was then officially established after independence, supporting refugees to rebuild their lives. At a critical early juncture , we abandoned our focus on relief and adopted a longer-term objective of development, opting to work side by side with community members for decades to come.

We do not ignore emergencies and their impact on people living in poverty. We build community preparedness and grassroots platforms that activate in natural disasters to minimize damage and to channel relief. Our goal is to help households bounce back better.

Better often means changes such as stronger infrastructure or new livelihoods for families that depend on agriculture, for example, and are therefore increasingly vulnerable to climate change.

As Bangladesh urbanizes, we have expanded our focus to include manmade disasters like fires and building collapses, most recently Rana Plaza in 2013.

Massive natural disasters internationally have triggered us to expand into new countries like Haiti and Nepal to support national recovery the way we did in Bangladesh so many years ago

2 Healthy Lives and healthy futures

Doctors and hospitals were scarce in Bangladesh’s early days. We created an army of community-based entrepreneurs to bring medicine to every doorstep. Over time, the army became all female, challenging social norms and enabling women to access important products and information

mothers -and this redesgned whole market value chains to be lew in trist for poorest and where necessary eg kids education invented conditioanla cash transfre - ie where donation is given to specific identifiable task - eg scolarships for thise secoindary chikdren who had best results in brac primnary schools

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Mary, and friends: after leaving qatar mid novmenber, where 3 of top 10 sustainability summits of next 15 months prior to beijing belt road 2.0 may 2019 were announced on behalf of wise education laureates and with the blessing of antonio guterres...this brac tour has been my main focus- all errors are therefore mine; good parts javeed's amy's mostofa's ..

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the last one took chinese graduates like amy to sir fazle’s 80^th birthday party- attached is brac’s own birthday history of sir fazle’s 45 years. Amy who grew up in Hunan villages is currently post graduating at columbia’s earth institute in new york while her fellow companion yuxuan is Rhodes scholar in Oxford and daughter of public servants in china’s province bordering North Korea,. Sir Fazle’s daughter is a Columbia Alumn

RECAP OF LAST TOUR

Happy 80th birthday by 100000 people of BRAC to Sir Fazle Abed

1 RESILIENCE NOT JUST RELIEF –INNOVATION’s CORE OF BOTTOM-UP DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

Better often means changes such as stronger infrastructure or new livelihoods for families that depend on agriculture, for example, and are therefore increasingly vulnerable to climate change.

As Bangladesh urbanizes, we have expanded our focus to include manmade disasters like fires and building collapses, most recently Rana Plaza in 2013.

Massive natural disasters internationally have triggered us to expand into new countries like Haiti and Nepal to support national recovery the way we did in Bangladesh so many years ago

2 Healthy Lives and healthy futures

We challenged the global health community by putting the life saving treatment for diarrheal disease in the “unqualified” hands of mothers, and generated evidence that they could use it effectively. We created a community-based tuberculosis control model, expanding over time to become the government’s largest partner in combating the disease.

The growing numbers of people living in poverty in urban areas face serious health risks, including maternal and infant mortality. Our network of healthcare entrepreneurs continues to ensure that women can access care safely, quickly, and with dignity.

Recent breakthroughs in cognitive science have shown that focusing on early childhood development has transformative effects over a lifetime. Pilot programmes are putting this research into action at the grassroots level

The primary challenge of healthcare now is less about access and more about quality. We are building financial tools to continuously ensure more people can access services that meet their evolving health needs.

3 EDUCATION FROM LITERACY TO LEADERSHIP

We started by teaching basic literacy to adults, then realised we needed to start from the start. We changed our nor-formal primary schools as “second chances’ for people living in poverty especially girls. Our pedagogy focused on joyful learning, incorporating the best practices from around the world.

As students graduated from our schools. We felt a need for creative ways to continue learning beyond the classroom. Libraries offered reading materials, and adolescent clubs created safe spaces and opportunities to teach life skills.

Our focus moved towards quality, with universal access towards education in sight, through strategies such as teacher training and increased use of technology. We proactively recruited students with special needs and expanded our curriculum into multiple ethnic languages to ensure that our schools were successful to all children.

Our ultiimate goal is to build a nation, and for that we need leaders. That is where our focus is now – creating opportunities for youth to take responsibilities in programmes, as mentors, and as teachers themselves. Our university creates even more opportunities to contribute on a global scale.

4 Financial Inclusion

We started by bringing people living in poverty together. We quickly learnt that what they needed most urgently was access to economic opportunities and financial services.

We brought women together into village organizations to organize credit and savings arrangements, and then used these meetings as a platform by delivering a wider range of services.

Over time, we expanded our reach to unserved populations, such as the “missing middle” (enterprises that were too large for the loans offered by microfinance but excluded from commercial banks) and a comprehensive grants based programme for people living with poverty, who could not benefit from microfinance.

We are now building a broader set of financial products, including insurance and pensions, and leveraging the growing ownership of mobile phones to use digital channels for financial services.

5 Market Solutions for the Poor

A fundamental driver is a lack of power – at the individual, household and community level alike... Power dynamics need to change in order for people living in poverty to realize their potential , and they only change when people do it themselves.

We promoted consciousness raising and empowerment from our earliest interactions with communities, inspired by teachings on social movements. We underestimated the complexity of power dynamics though and learned the hard way that we needed to create new organisations, where women could come together in solidarity. These community action groups became important social platforms; for example, supporting health workers who faced harassment for their services.

We widened our work over time to help people living in poverty to participate in formal government structures and leverage public services. We also increased our engagement with public official and village leaders to build wider support for women’s empowerment. These discussions have risen to the national level, where we advocate policies that support gender equality and human rights. Internally we have worked to build a female-friendly work environment and actively strive to recruit women.

Gender equality remains one of the greatest unfinished works of our generation, and an area in which we have to continue changing power dynamics. We still see that child marriage is the norm, sexual violence is pervasive, and women are under-represented in the workforce.

6 Changing Power Dynamics

As we began to provide financial services to people living in poverty, we noticed that many rural communities did not have access to markets

We started building value chains, connecting thousands of farmers and artisans to national markets. We focused on silk, poultry, clothing and retail, in many cases the viability of new sectors in Bangladesh. The successful scaling up of one value chain often spawned new livelihood opportunities, from poultry vaccinations to artificial insemination for dairy cows.

Entrepreneurship is also a long standing part of our development approach. Over time we have built a national cadre of local change agents, usually women, who receive training and support from us, but are paid for their services by their neighbours. These grassroots entrepreneurs distribute a wide variety of products and services, from sanitary napkins to high quality seeds.

As local and global labor markets offer new opportunities. We are supporting migrants to seek and finance work abroad safely, and equip youth with in-demand skills

7 BRAC INTERNATIONAL

By 2002 we had over 30 years experience of piloting and perfecting programs, and scaling them to reach millions. The time had come to bring what we had learnt in Bangladesh to the rest of the world.

Relief and rehabilitation were immediate needs after war and natural disasters plunged millions into poverty in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. We focused on peace and building stability through jobs, education and financial inclusion, continuing to put girls and women at the centre of opportunities.

We expanded into Africa four years later, starting development programs in Tanzania and Uganda. We continued to pilot, perfect and scale rapidly never losing focus on contextualising every opportunity created

Opening now in 12 countries gives us a rich knowledge base to further our work in Bangladesh, while providing us with a global network in which to pilot new solutions for the world’s problems. In 2016, we create opportunities for one in every 50 people in the world...

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Before a tour guide to brac/bangladesh- here’s a brief review of all of China’s neighbors and why the old English Raj is in population terms the biggest of china’s belt road tours and new development searches. Brett’s x times great grand father JAMES WILSON started this tour with Queen Victoria – after founding The Economist to help her debate what was London doing to Ireland (see current pbs episode of Victoria) he was dispatched to Calcutta started standard bank, died 1860 of diarrhea 9 months into the project. His son-in-law Walter Bagehot refocused on English constitution and pound sterling as commonwealth reserve currency with Victoria.

Accidentally the next time The Economist had a sub-editor with east west experience was my dad who waa a teenage navigator over modernday Myanmar in world war2 , who married the daughter of sir Kenneth Kemp whose 25 years as Mumbai chief justice mediating Gandhi ended up writing up legalese of india’s independence; most of dad’s first 20 years The Economist celebrated the East’s post colonial win-win economies ie japan s korea Chinese diaspora superports (archives) and by 1976 asked americans to celebrate asian pacific china global century as much as their own third century.

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At the time of moon landing dad started his other main dialogue of the 20th C world’s favorite viewspapre – Entrepreneurial Revolution – assuming the world was in 1968 destined to spend 1000 times more on commons tech in 2016 versus 1946 would we transform education to sustain all millenials livelihoods or the opposite?

ANTICLOCKWISE REVIEW OF CHINA’S NEIGHBOURS, STARTING AT ITS EAST COAST:

1 China’s east coast supercity connection are great : every positive win-win trading future can be dreamed with them : the superports and trains are ready to connect more than half the world’s economy which is how sustainability mapmaking should be with half the world’s people living within 3000 miles of Beijing but crowded in to less than 10% of the earth’s land

2 china’s border with asean looks pretty good ( asean with singpaore as its cultural soul is in top 6 development miracles with china mainland , china superports diaspora, s korea , japan , Bangladesh girls)

3 Now we come to the crucial corridor Myanmar Bangladesh India Pakistan – all old British Raj; what important to bring 2020 vision to first

Bangladesh is a key coastline – if it had a superport that united all trade interest on china India Bangladesh Myanmar that would change more girls lives than any single superport anywhere

The miracles of Bangladesh and mainland china both started at beginning of 1970s. In fact to start with japan shared rice science in a partnership with brac and china that was number 1 solution in ending famine. However china developed with the diaspora (the 3^rd greatest financial power by the 1970s) inward investing in superb infrastructure; bangladesh girls had to build their nation with what aid they could turn into sustainable social business (the invention many people believe muhammad yunus designed but actually brac did. See The Economist article it wasn’t microcredit it was BRAC)

4 Next we come to Pakistan corridor to united arab emirates and thence djibouti to Africa, up the suez and through the Mediterranean sea- the brilliant new maritime silk road

5 As you continue tour of landlocked neighbors, its impossible for china to make anything much better without mediating Russia’s goodwill. Even the ovetland Chinese Express to west Europe passes through the Shanghai Cooperation neighbours of which Russia is a core dynamic , and which India joins for the first time as full member this year (2 incredible summits in june aiib Mumbai and SCO qingdao)

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6.1 You then have 4 trajectories through Russia but which you can also call the artic belt road. One is direct trade route to Nordica via st Petersburg which organisies a major annual economic summit- here the articuniversity.com shared by 8 countries and pivoting out of finland is the best news of all new universities of 2018 following damo as best news of 2017

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6.2 Direct route to Moscow – essentially what is the strategic future of Russian and East Europe people the west (EU) had first chance to mediate if the fall of the berlin wall had been about more than reuniting Germany

6.3 Direct north through mongolia – quite an unpopulated region but potentially renewable as pivotal natural space

6.4 north east where the dream has always been a runnel across Bering Strait so that north east Eurasia Alaska Canada West Coast usa van all be one supertrain corridor as well people spaces that are totally complementary as sustainable economies if 20^th c borders hadn’t been erected primarily by stalin

6.5 Of course the last border challenge: as neighbors turn full circle is north korea- here we have 30 million underdeveloped people ; they too need one superport; this solution can really only come about if russia china japan and south jorea start to trust each other

I welcome being told what stories youth should map differently than above; if I have over-simplified or got them wrong please don’t throw out the brac and bangaldesh superport challenge without looking at it in more detail.

First if you put a straight railway line from Beijing to xi’an to chengdu to the coast you would almost hit the Myanmar-bangladesh border- at cox’s bazzar which yunus and my father discussed as needing to be a superport with 50 people at the royal automobile club london in feb 2008! Second if you did a railway from chengdu to Gwadar you would almost pass through new delhi thus opening up all the route to emirates : Oman , Djibouti and Adrican silk road, suez and med sea silk road. But third if you review every sustainability goal in terms of which communities face the hardest entrepreneurial challenges you would come back to bangaldeshi girls as still being the SDG17 world's most vital youth partners. If climate goes wrong there will be more initial flooding of peoples along bangladesh coastline than anywhere. Brac has designed an economy where communities and girls networks maximizing their own capacities to build the future. This is the story that all of sheihka moza’s wise partmers can honor as brac was their first educational laureate and now that guterres has asked them to stage the girls and refugee learning summits at the UNGA Sept 2018.

TOURING BRAC AS INTEGRAL TO 2018 teachers Game of Fives and World Record Jobs Creators

Publishers of the sino-english world record book of jobs creation demand that any educator responsible for youth future livelihoods understands teachings of these 5 peoples alumni network if they are to help with sustainability rising out of every community

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BRAC also works with other development organisations to expand education opportunities for disadvantaged children by partnering with them and providing them with technical and financial support to implement BRAC’s non-formal primary education model with changes as needed. These collaboration activities are called education support programmes.

Key features

The one-teacher school is operated by the same teacher for the same cohort of children for a period of four years and delivers lessons in all subjects
The school hours are flexible and fixed according to needs
Children do not pay any fees and there are no long holidays
Little or no homework as most of their parents are not capable of assisting them
Children with special needs receive corrective surgeries along with devices like wheelchairs, hearing aids, glasses and ramps
Children belonging to ethnic communities receive class lectures and course materials in their own languages up to class 2 so that they can overcome language barriers and cultural gaps
BRAC develops textbooks and other materials for up to class 3 and government textbooks are used in classes 4 and 5
Students are taught about social values and their rights and responsibilities coupled with basic financial education to empower them
BRAC primary school graduates are being tracked by BRAC for further study

Mechanism to ensure quality of teaching
A typical BRAC teacher is a woman from the community in which the school is, with 10 years of schooling experience. Teachers undergo an initial 12-day training course in order to repeat basic information on teaching and learning and to enhance their teaching abilities. They subsequently participate in monthly, subject-based refresher courses and yearly orientation prior to advancing to the next class. In collaboration with BRAC University’s Centre for Language (CfL), BRAC provides a two-month long (21 days each) teacher training programme in English to the teachers.

What is the linkage with the government education system?
Bangladesh government has allowed BPS students to appear for Primary Education Terminal Examination which is a fundamental board examination that takes place at the end of class 5.

The effectiveness of this programme was evident when the graduates of the non-formal schools were well ahead of the country average when it came to passing grade for the primary school examination - 97 per cent success rate in 2009, and 99.54 per cent in 2010.

How do we track graduates at secondary schools?
BRAC experienced that its graduates admitted in secondary schools often cannot complete their education due to many critical circumstances. We started the ‘tracking of BRAC graduates at secondary schools’ programme to ensure their enrolment at the secondary level, promote regular attendance, reduce dropout rate so that they successfully complete the course.

BRAC is also regularly in touch with secondary school authorities and other organisations to manage scholarships and full/half free education for BPS graduates.

Projects:
a.    Shikkha Tari: Boat School
b.    School for dropped out children
c.    Performing and fine arts
d.    Total learning experience (TLE)
e.    School for street children
f.     Social and emotional learning (SEL)
g.    Aflatoun
h.    Mobile library for BRAC Primary Schools
i.   Interactive digital content in primary education
j.     Kumon mathematics at BRAC schools

Quick facts:
14,153 primary schools
389,910 students, of whom 62.17% are girls
5.3 million students completed courses to date, of which 60.43% are girls
5.55 million students transferred to formal schools to date, of which 60.12% are girls
14,153 teachers

Read Stories:
Innovative Steps Towards Primary Education in Haor Area
Akhi studies hard to be a teacher.
Alam, a Non-formal Primary School Student, Now Runs His Own.

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Open Learning Campus welcomes you. If you are looking for World Bank OLC please start at http://www.jimkim.info or http://www.sorosjobs.com ; other search queries text usa 240 316 8157 -or start at superplaces -sustainability designed by every family not a handful of bi-polar political big brothers

Breaking news Match 2016 - chinese youth lead creative children delegation to brac to discuss open education's entrepreneurial revolution and joyful consequences for girls the world over

Breaking News March 2015 First Bangladesh OLC launched by U of Berkeley and BRAC Sir Fazle Abed.

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Four world record job creation explorations in one

1 Open Platforms eg 5 billion peoples: Xprize replaces Yazmi?, Khan and OD Coursera- NG leads china partners out of Baidu

2 Labs for partnering the greatest changes in teachers and students, families and communities

3 Designers of the future of the net -generating the smartest liveliood creating media

4 Missing job creating curricula and ending the 4 monopolies of pre-digital state-dominated examination of youth’s futures

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with learning satellites of 5 billion people in play, there is a lot of mashing up of curricula going on - and it would be really useful if Rome and Glasgow and Paris and Madrid and Budapest and Warsaw could find common ground over next few months if any is to ever be found out of Europe in time to valuing millennials livelihoods

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Timeline of Open Learning Campus (OLC) -latest newsletter

2014 world record top10 job creator jim kim's world bank takes collaboration lead : launching OLC (with coursera) august 2014, 2nd annual youth summit october 7 2014, first annual UN-partnered millennials competition spring 2015

100 links to BRAC

how did villager networks around Sir Fazle build rural health service? build village education? build banking networks? build valuetrue maps of food , water and safe-for-children communities?

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1972: in the West The Economist starts debating OLC after seeing students experiment with early digital learning network (UK national dev program computer assisted elearning; milllenials goals www.thelearningweb.net- book form becomes favorite export to 10 million chinese parents

in East BRAC starts greatest bottom-up lab for OLC -

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1989 Berners Lee launches the web- soon mit media lab in boston becomes most resourced open source tech wizards innovation lab;early -Kenya's IHUB backed by ushahidi becomes the worldwide youth's most exciting open source technology wizard's networking space

youth african ihub partners all over africa

Late 200s Khan Academy invents the most valuable reporting format of all -maximum 9-minute audio blackoards-0 game is on- which audio-blackboards are so valued by youth to peer to peer learn with that their viral action networking makes trending on twitter look like a sideshow

puzzle 1 : Back in 1962 The Economist celebrate the win-win peace economics model of japan and projects milennial population statistics will require Asian Pacific milllenials to be responsible for more than half of the planet's open and sustainbility investments 1975- 2025- who;s connecting this? jack ma? Yao Ming with Brookings Inside Out China and Unseen Wealth teams? rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc hotline 301 881 1655

How did bottom-up NGO BRAC become the world's largest most collaborative network for partnering in millennials sustainability? While it is known globally and locally for sharing extreme innovations in community banking, its foundations were first built on 3 subnetworks:

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What is more the Abed alumni have spent more energy on future of schools than anyone we know -chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

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