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sustaining humans on earth
as millennials celebrate being
connected by 1000 times more
learning communications tech
than existed in 1946 (we now
see end of world war 2 as
beginning of the end of industrial
revolution 1 as the dominant world
trade paradigm- if UN sustainability
goals are to empower all joyful
youth livelihoods by 2030, we
second the debate advanced by
china's leading tech job creator
jack ma that Industrial revolution 4
will be empowering joyful trades through every global village
Dedication to Norman Macrae whose 1984 book "2025 report" on joyfully sustaining millennials recommended transforming education so that evry child was free to spaek 3 tongues - chiense, english, mother tongue as well as coding maths or maps
This is how BRAC the world's largest and most collaborative ngo describes itself- at BeltUSAsia.com we also recommend BRAC as benchmark for those concerned with 21st C education systems designed round livelihoodds of the sustainability goals generations
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Sung Jae Park
President of University Innovation LabResearch Fellow, Korean Educational Development InstituteFormer) Assistant Secretary to the President for Education at the Blue HousePh.D. in Law, Korea University
Tae Yong Jung
President of Global Innovative Education LabDirector of Global Partnership, Education Commission AsiaProfessor, Yonsei University
Chang-gil Kim
Vice President of Global Innovative Education LabInvited Professor, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Seoul National UniversityExecutive Member, Technical Advisory Committee Food and Fertilizer Technology Center, Taipei, TaiwanFormer) President, Korea Rural Economic Institute
Booyuel Kim Senior Research Fellow
Professor, Seoul National UniversityFormer) Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and ManagementPh.D. in Sustainable Development, Columbia University
Hee Jin Kim Senior Research Fellow
Researcher, Cambridge UniversityFormer) Consultant, World Bank and OECDPh.D. in Education, The University of Cambridge
Tae In Park Senior Research Fellow
Academic-Industrial Cooperation Professor, Medical Big Data Research Center at Seoul National University College of MedicineFormer) Research Professor, Yonsei UniversityFormer) Chair, Study Group on Collaborative and Deliberative Governance, Asian Association for Public Administration
Jongho Shin Senior Research Fellow
Professor, Ajou UniversityPh.D. in Educational Technology, Hanyang University, Korea
Sung Ho Lee Senior Research Fellow
CEO, Inno D-LabFormer) Fellow, Korea Development InstitutePh.D. in Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Kyung Won Chang Senior Research Fellow
Professor, Kyonggi UniversityPh.D. in Educational Technology, Seoul National University
Yoon Hee Ha Senior Research Fellow
Professor, Graduate School of Energy and Environment of Korea UniversityPh.D. in Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware
Dongseok Kim Senior Research Fellow
Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and ManagementVice President, Korea Development InstitutePh.D in Economics, Stanford University
Sung Jin Kang Senior Research Fellow
Professor, Department of Economics, Korea UniversityPresident Institute of Sustainable Development, Korea UniversityHandling editor, Singapore Economic Review
Woo-Kyun Lee Senior Research Fellow
Professor, Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea UniversityDirector, OJeong REsilience Institute, Korea UniversityDirector of Institute for Climate Change Action
MinKi Kim Senior Research Fellow
<spanProfessor, College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyPh.D. in Economics, The University of Chicago
Semee Yoon Senior Research Fellow
Assistant Professor, Underwood International College, Yonsei UniversityPh.D, in Sustainable Development, Columbia University
So Yoon Ahn Senior Research Fellow
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at ChicagoFormer) Research Assistant, Pierre-André Chiappori and Bernard SalaniéFormer) Intern, Korean Women’s Development Institute
So Youjin Hahn Senior Research Fellow
Associate Professor, School of Economics, Yonsei UnviersityFormer) Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Yonsei UniversityLecturer (tenured), Dept. of Economics, Monash University, Australia
Jooyoung Kwak Senior Research Fellow
Professor, Department of Economic, Yonsei UniversityConsultant, World BankResearch Fellow, Institute for Global Engagement and Empowerment
Moonsang Kang Senior Research Fellow
Manager,Higher Vocational Research Institute, Korean Council For College University EducationFormer) Director of Induk University’s Educational Innovation Institute
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an actuary almost ever since; his wife is a teacher in madrid- hence wise in madrid following on wise in beijing from where i am now writing ( i would know ise or beijing without 3 ladies amy qin and yuxuan who i would recommend being guided by wherever you want to get grounded in exceptional common sense - or come to baltimore where www.cyberchinacenter.com ) is being launched to bridge what they connect with what wizard tech can do save disadvanataged youth - the fact is that in 2012 when kim first came to tghe world bank he asked every under 35 professional to review their profession for impact on the poorest and to end old parts of that profession- he is not winning that war of generations nor will he unless baltimore and chinese girls social justice starts editing the world value judgments i first meet peter in 2007 when i was trying to sample 2000 of muhammad yunus book on model bangladesh used to end extreme female poverty- peter hosted the book clubs out of new york - it turned out we had both previously worked for price water house coopers - me as intangibles valuation consultant and researcher of the world's biggest brand leaders lack of consciousness, peter as chartered accountant - we both know that big organisations are now run by the least sustainable metrics in the world i dont know if there is a smart staring point in this discussion/open space i found back in 1996 that i dindt trust any of the biggest professions metrics- there was no point trying to improve them - one needed an opposite way round model and when that showed red lights believe in that odel clearly aig among others proved there is big bad insurance just as there is big bad banking just as there is big bad accountancy the problem is not having fixed this the ex[oential cost maybe youth livelihoods everywhere chris From: Peter Burgess <peterbnyc@gmail.com> To: christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, 16 April 2017, 12:47 Subject: Re: Fw: Dear Chris Thanks for sending this to me ... interesting. I have been interested in the actuary field since a friend at college went into it ... and then later in the 1960s when I got more deeply in to the work being done by accountants and financial analysts. As ability to do analysis got more sophisticated, the process and the results became worse and worse. My agenda was to broaden analysis so that everything was brought into the thinking, as well as past, present and future ... and this worked very well for me in a limited way in my work in corporate profit improvement management. When I got into consulting with the World Bank, the UN and others, I was disappointed at the simplistic analysis, the silos and the unwillingness to be intellectually honest. Last week at a meeting at Fairleigh Dickerson University (FDU) there was some discussion of the need for accountants to incorporate actuarial thinking into their work. My take is yes and no. Accounting has to do the accounting so that we know where we are and where we have been ... accountability ... and that should remain rather simple. Financial analysis and thinking about the future needs to be done with a very open mind and an appreciation of everything, and especially future risk. A quick scan of TEA suggests that the actuaries in Europe have a very limited financial view of the future of the world ... and in the end ... perhaps sooner than they can imagine ... their financial framework is going to break catastrophically. Interesting and though provoking ... thanks ... and Happy Easter !!!!!!!!!!!!! Peter _____________________________ Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society True Value Accounting ... Multi Dimension Impact Accounting http://www.truevaluemetrics.org LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/ Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/PeterBurgess2/ Twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc Telephone: 570 202 1739 Email: peterbnyc@gmail.com Skype: peterbinbushkill On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 6:37 AM, christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: peter are you interested in what actuaries are thinking about ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Henry <henry124a@gmail.com> To: 'christopher macrae' <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Saturday, 15 April 2017, 19:33 Subject: Chris, I send you the attached pdf in case you are interested in what actuaries in Europe are thinking about. Also it contains an article on blockchaining, which you have explained in some of your e-mails can help trade to be direct between supplier and purchaser and which is likely to be a significant catalyst for income generation in the future. Best wishes. Henry.…
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rsal starting with the poorest.
Affordable Access means mediating both the sharing of life critical communications and open sourcing job creating apps/microfranchises that change market's value chains.
Arguably China's Jack Ma (Ali Baba) was the first to free e-commerce for maximum jobs for previously disconnected- in Bangladesh's case first ecommerce app was designed by tech wizard linked to both MIT's grameen phone and Kenya's mpesa. This tech wizard now leads BRAC's cashless banking bkash
In terms of future models of banking brac is represented in each segment:
what used to be manual microcredit and its interface with village education and bottom-up market designs
urban regeneration banking
cashless banking ( more accurately last mile banking where instead of atm most trusted village merchants become agents of translating mobile currency into cash)
advising global banks on values
(likely to be most trusted by nanocredit and w4e partnerships)
cashless banking makes remittance processes virtual while serving cash for last mile; in developing bangladesh foreign remittances from diaspora are largest inward investment ; further most economical remittance processes from city to rural are hugely valuable in ending poverty
MIT's Dlab summit feb 2014 sponsored by Abdul Latif (Owner of Middle East Toyota Franchise) who has also just opened a water lab at MIT featured the 4th known entrepreneurial revolutionary (with Yunus, Abed, Quadirs) of Bangladesh's race to need poverty: namely Paul Polak. He has identified a top 20 last mile multinationals which bottom billion populace need most urgently. Friends of Bangladesh are well placed in other future gamechanging sectors too -witness sal khan's peer to peer elearning (uniting medical millennials as well as maths and coding millennials)
All of mobile empowerment goes hand in hand with solar empowerment- if you have no access to electricity grid then access to solar energy is as great an economic and social advancement as mobile to communications. Moreover many villagers need solar to recharge their mobiles!
If you own the satellite which chooses what continent wide job-creating education content anyone can laptop, you need educators and milleniails aware of the future map illustrated above. If you have resources to choose partners in the world's first open learning campus, you can win-win too. Best of all if girl power, ultra poor, and millennials have first shared access to this sort of future map they can return economics and education and open societies to designing job creating systems and peacefully advancing human sustainability of every global village
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ty generation
what if from age 9 up open space was as much a literacy as any other primary literacy
if jack ma and sir fazle abeds ideas were accessible (number 1 web link) to youth who could openly quiz educators - how could that change things- if youth were freed by kalams rule what would happen - tear up any non-sustainable curriculum (deadline india 2020)
the two biggest changes we need to navigate require experiential learning by adolescents
turning community green- coding for social (4000 fold change factor of communications etch)
how does edusummit tap into latest change reports at un - eg digital coop report, refugee learning reports (academic impact hubs)
new universities - pro-youth, disadvantaged - either pay later if successful, or offering training back from future of public servants - or why would societies want to charge youth who saving the human race
why not only one university- curriculum of doing sustainability ending global poverty - the best - why cant we make market of best content presenters - then work back from how to locally coach that - eg bridges less than 5% make content
mooc missed opportunities- first one eg kims change the world got million people but didnt then branch into an entrepreneur competition - missed opportunity of realty tv story- sustainability livelihoods apprentice
missing curricula and missing modalities - eg 10 times more affordable languages will come from peer to peer webs not classroom
spiritual curricula before adolescences - city montesorri, maharishi, tokyo mayors memory of zen
cases where exchanges are happening - arctic circle experimenting with virtual reality of learning by "being" in each other's community - creating exchanges that are youth led on local community issues- collaboration curricula arcus
systems that have been founded round livelihoods not standard examination
brac since 1972
thelearninweb.net since 1984
montessori since 1920 (including village systems - india gandhi- brac banglaldesh)
most famous people didnt go through standard school system
-how do we clarify different behavioural learning systems for different types of successful people - how do we make sure news is released at youth expos eg at olympics
stories of how the classroom was designed around empire bureaucrats - not maximisng individuals diverse born-with talents nor communities diverse contexts
are any nations putting even 2% of educational money into learning - if so what sorts - america sees khan as normal ; china may see AI teaching assistants as the norm;
what are the most extreme edutech platforms already designed- what the most creative thing being done with it eg hujiang (plus chinese tedx convener only of new education)
the hidden agenda - no homework easy to be successful where communities safe and rish for youth to try stuff in - ie community thriving and ending classroom double looped
-why would a community not prioritise making sure any unique skills to that culture are given precedence in education system (ie everyone's potentially a teacher and a learner - not a profession of teachers - 4 monopolies of teachers- what adam smith said about system whose higher education's inost designed for the youth
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suppose we now can design bank for 2 billion unbanked but not livelihood training (or no sme market) for them -= will we be doing any sustainability good
what if education was discussed everywhere new belt raid infrastructure invested in - ie what if livelihood learning had equal first access to infrastructure or any other financial access - cf 300 trillion dollars that does not see humanity's sustainability goals as asset class
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is death by diarrhea in calcutta 9 months into his mission authorised by queen victoria -charter bank - aimed at financial services designed for and by the peoples of south asia
1 born 1936 - abed's first 19 years have parallels to gandhi 67 years earlier - both travelled at 19 from far corners (gandhi nw , abed ne) of british raj map of india to study in britian- gandhi law at bar of london, abed to study naval engineering at adam smiths glagow uni -more
2 geo-history; at its core 1945's birth of united nations ( san francisco opera house ) needed to remap a post-colonial world mainly designer around the interests of 7 white empires -about 8% of people plus japan- most of 70% of humans who were asian had been left out of 185 years of progress of humans and machines- eg rural in asia meant no access to electricity grids or telecoms - more
3 whilst the vast majority of asia's colonisation was done by britain, the country was effectively bankrupted by world war 2 and quickly agreed to demands for independence- but in the case of abed's homeland in 1955 it would have been 7 years of being reassigned as colny of pakistan- as far as stimulating asia rising the americans had by 1955 put japan on a growth path and kept south korea free; coastal roadster capitalism grew from japan to singapore -see the economist to 1970 by which time abed had risen at shell oil to be regional ceo for his region- this was when his life was to be changed at age 33 by 3 by one-million killer disasters- cyclone, war of indepenence, famine - more
4 1968-1977 was also an extraordinary time in china- by 1968 the chinese had totally rejected the russian ideology - a country which had no-non state corporation as late as 1975 started to explore 3 types ofnew capitalism - licences to run companies:
inward investment by china diaspora, now the 3rd wealthiest financial network after usa and japan; direct knowledge transfers from japan engineers to state industries; and what the economist called rural keynesianism - by 1977 bangladesh and chinese women started having a lot of knowhow to exchange on how women could hold up half the sky - eg barefoot health workers, borlaug crop science which increased local food security sometimes by 10 fold -more
5 between 1970 and 1995 brac was concerned with core interventions:
sustainable communities with inclusion of women as economic actors
last mile health
last mile agriculture to end starvation
finance and servant leadership for poorest
education for livelihoods -
we discuss the solutions here which had made bangladesh the world's micro-partner open village university by 1995
5a both because of asian history, and his corporate experience at royal dutch shell- uk, netherlands and japan have provided consistent partnership to brac- however it was in the 1980s that james grant of unicef made the biggest and deepest american-led UN partnership with brac- in under a decade village mothers had been trained in oral rehydration for every infant and one village mother for every 300 had started to make a living trained by brac on what non-prescription medicines to sell and where to take villagers for nationwide vaccination -the extraordinary idea that abed and grand proved possible
6 1995 was an extraordinary year as seeds for future human development grow - china's jack ma happened to be on his first us visit in seattle as bezos was launching amazon- for the first time asians started to conceptualise online future world with as much think time as americans (even though it would be at least 10 years before chuia's rails and online would reach inland) ; meanwhile it was actually bangladesh that became the first least developed nation to enjoy experiments in mobiles for poorest villagers) accompanied by solar for charging; while grameen preceded brac in such partnerships, 1995-2019 was to be the era that sir fazle abed steadily started to maximise engineering for the poorest- and how brac went from rural national institution to global ngo partner - more
7 out of america microcreditsummit was launched as a huge multiplier of bangladeshi awareness in 1977 around muhammad yunus- this coincided with the second term of bill clinton- the clinton family having visited yunus before bill's presidency- in our view education or health world have been much more exciting and multidisciplinary identities to celebrate bottom-up economic design around- anyhow by the early 2000s all of jim kim paul farmer bill gates and george soros had started connecting with sir fazle abed's knowhow on last mile health networking - brac had always empowered health and education by and for village mothers as integral with finance in ways grameen ordinance 1983 legislated 11 years after brac's foundation as ngo in 1972
from 2000 fazle abed took brc international after a why not conversation with mrrs steve jobs and started a new wave of national leadership networks including brac university and brac citizeb bank... more
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aboration Revolution: elearning Platforms -10 times more economical ways of action individual and networked knowhow include:Yazmi
Khan academy
Coursera on-demand and Open Learning Campus
MIT open edu; reclaim our learning; edx; berners lee
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WomenUni.com 2 Jobs-apps networks and women4empowerment platforms includetelecentres for jobs
nanocredit for jobs
whichever blend of organisation is going to become chief investor in microfranchises (microbank? microeducator? micromobile owner,
GrameenScotland SinoScotland FutureofBBC world service: 3 nations whose citizens are (with their access to worldwide diasporas) shaking up independence eg the importance of the scotland debate-elearning shows how the most abundantf 21st world trade needs to be directly between borderless citizens; time to mediate whole truth that top-down bureaucrats and bankers of borders spin our greatest risks3a in other cases citizens are mass scaling curriculum - austraila 10 thousands girls of financial literacy and million green energy action learners network
Communal family-loving identity built round promise to primary scho... and providing secondary scholarships
Mobile learning movements - for most practices led by others but active connector of nearly free nursing college
Background to yunus number 1 personal gpal since nobel prize - health partnerships - good start with greenchildren and aravind and some early pilots through wonrd congress but urgent needto relinkin with open health learning campus
4 Celebrate collaboration Search for partners for missing curriculum
South Africa world leaderon literacies of entrepreneurship (main partner branson), coding (main partner google africa), self-empowerment main partner (maharishi), financial literacy (various partners aligning small business life long learning and apprenticeship redesign); internal partner now whole schooling system of 14 million children; typical best twin capital partners ihubs founded by open source import-export
5a curriculum of leapfrogging - map back what knowledge is needed in next billion gamechangers - mobile phones, energy off grid, cashless banking,- what knowhow needs to be exactly opposite to pre-digital's conventions
Youthcreativelab
5b practice professional areas need to be connected with young professional networks -and total value chain movement celebrated by jim kim and world youth summits Twin cities in a movement more valued than any sporting olympics). These include:
next half billion jobs of free nursing college
next half billion jobs of clean energy college
next half billion jobs of job-creating economics and multi-win business-social models
pope's public service of ending inequality curricula and need to take beyond religion -why wouldnt club or romes 15th annual nobel pace and youth summit converge on this
valuetrue.com trilliondollaraudit.com 6 the ultimate hidden agendas is that 20th c peoples gave away monopolies of being ruled over by professions of separation; professions of ending externalisation and compounding risks on to least socially connected must end now as this is integral to any whole truth millennial goals race to end poverty
7 OLA the unexpected- eg now that India has proven that almost any illiterate adult can be helped to read a newspaper within a month- how does that change all formal education of literacy?
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KERRY GLASGOWIS HUMANITY'S LAST BEST CHANCE - Join search for Sustainaabilty's Curricula
101ways-generation.docx 101 ways education can save the world WHAT IF WE DESIGNED LIFELONG LIVELIHOOD LOEARNING SO THAT so that teachers & students, parent & communities were empowered to be ahead of 100 times more tech rather than the remnants of a system that puts macihnes and their exhausts ahead of human life and nature's renewal 2016 is arguably the first time thet educatirs became front and centre to the question that Von neummn asked journalist to mediate back in 1951- what goods will peoples do with 100 times more tech per decade? It appears that while multilaterals like the Un got used in soundbite and twittering ages to claim they valued rifghts & inclusion, pubblic goods & safety, they fotgot theirUN tech twin in Genva has been practising global connectivity since 1865, that dellow Goats of V neumnn has chiared Intellectual Cooperation in the 1920s which pervesrely became the quasi trade union Unesco- it took Abedian inspired educations in 2016 ro reunite ed and tecah as well as health and trade ; 7 decades of the UN not valuing Numenn's question at its core is quite late, but if we dare graviate UN2 aeound this digital coperation question now we give the younger half if the world a chnace especially as a billion poorest women have been synchronised to deep community human development since 1970
Dear Robert - you kindly asked for a short email so that you could see if there is a CGTN anchor in east coast who might confidentially share views with my expectation of how only Asian young women cultural movements (parenting and community depth but amplified by transparent tech in life shaping markets eg health, food, nature..) can return sustainability to all of us
three of my father's main surveys in The Economist 1962-1977 explain imo where future history will take us (and so why younger half of world need friendship/sustainable adaptation with Chinese youth -both on mainland and diaspora)
1962 consider japan approved by JF Kennedy: argued good news - 2 new economic models were emerging through japan korea south and taiwan relevant to all Asia Rising (nrxt to link the whole trading/supply chains of the far east coast down through hong kong and cross-seas at singapore)
1 rural keynsianism ie 100% productivity in village first of all food security- borlaug alumni ending starvation
2 supercity costal trade models which designed hi-tech borderless sme value chains- to build a 20 million person capital or an 8 million person superport you needed the same advances in engineering - partly why this second economic model was win-win for first time since engines begun Glasgow 1760 ; potentially able to leverage tech giant leaps 100 times ahead; the big opportunity von neumann had gifted us - knowhow action networking multiply value application unlike consuming up things
1976 entrepreneurial revolution -translated into italian by prodi - argued that future globalisation big politics big corporate would need to be triangularised by community scaled sme networks- this was both how innovation advancing human lot begins and also the only way to end poverty in the sense of 21st C being such that next girl born can thrive because every community taps in diversity/safety/ valuing child and health as conditions out of which intergenerational economic growth can spring
in 1977 fathers survey of china - argued that there was now great hope that china had found the system designs that would empower a billion people to escape from extreme poverty but ultimately education of the one child generation (its tech for human capabilities) would be pivotal ( parallel 1977 survey looked at the futures of half the world's people ie east of iran)
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IN MORE DETAIL TECH HUMAN EXPONENTIALS LAST CHANCE DECADE?
- we are in midst of unprecedented exponential change (dad from 1960s called death of distance) the tech legacy of von neumann (dad was his biographer due to luckily meeting him in his final years including neumann's scoping of brain science (ie ai and human i) research which he asked yale to continue in his last lecture series). Exponential risks of extinction track to mainly western top-down errors at crossroads of tech over last 60 years (as well as non transparent geonomic mapping of how to reconcile what mainly 10 white empires had monopoly done with machines 1760-1945 and embedded in finance - see eg keynes last chapter of general theory of money); so our 2020s destiny is conditioned by quite simple local time-stamped details but ones that have compounded so that root cause and consequence need exact opposite of academic silos- so I hope there are some simple mapping points we can agree sustainability and chinese anchors in particular are now urgently in the middle of
Both my fatherwww.normanmacrae.netat the economist and I (eg co-authoring 1984 book2025 report,retranslated to 1993 sweden's new vikings) have argued sustainability in early 21st c will depend mostly on how asians as 65% of humans advance and how von neumann (or moores law) 100 times more tech every decade from 1960s is valued by society and business.
My father (awarded Japan's Order of Rising Sun and one time scriptwriter for Prince Charles trips to Japan) had served as teen allied bomber command burma campaign - he therefore had google maps in his head 50 years ahead of most media people, and also believed the world needed peace (dad was only journalist at messina birth of EU ) ; from 1960 his Asian inclusion arguments were almost coincidental to Ezra Vogel who knew much more about Japan=China last 2000 years ( additionally cultural consciousness of silk road's eastern dynamics not golden rule of Western Whites) and peter drucker's view of organisational systems
(none of the 10 people at the economist my father had mentored continued his work past 1993- 2 key friends died early; then the web turned against education-journalism when west coast ventures got taken over by advertising/commerce instead of permitting 2 webs - one hi-trust educational; the other blah blah. sell sell .sex sell. viral trivial and hate politicking)
although i had worked mainly in the far east eg with unilever because of family responsibilities I never got to china until i started bumping into chinese female graduates at un launch of sdgs in 2015- I got in 8 visits to beijing -guided by them around tsinghua, china centre of globalisation, a chinese elder Ying Lowrey who had worked on smes in usa for 25 years but was not jack ma's biographer in 2015 just as his fintech models (taobao not alibaba) were empowering villagers integration into supply chains; there was a fantastic global edutech conference dec 2016 in Tsinghua region (also 3 briefings by Romano Prodi to students) that I attended connected with great womens education hero bangladesh'sfazle abed; Abed spent much of hs last decade hosting events with chinese and other asian ambassadors; unite university graduates around sdg projects the world needed in every community but which had first been massively demonstrated in asia - if you like a version of schwarzman scholars but inclusive of places linking all deepest sustainability goals challenges
and i personally feel learnt a lot from 3 people broadcasting from cgtn you and the 2 ladies liu xin and tian wei (they always seemed to do balanced interviews even in the middle of trump's hatred campaigns), through them I also became a fan of father and daughter Jin at AIIB ; i attended korea's annual general meet 2017 of aiib; it was fascinating watching bankers for 60 countries each coming up with excuses as to why they would not lead on infrastructure investments (even though the supercity economic model depends on that)
Being a diaspora scot and a mathematician borders (managers who maximise externalisation of risks) scare me; especially rise of nationalist ones ; it is pretty clear historically that london trapped most of asia in colomisdation ; then bankrupted by world war 2 rushed to independence without the un or anyone helping redesign top-down systems ; this all crashed into bangladesh the first bottom up collaboration women lab ; ironically on health, food security, education bangladesh and chinese village women empowerment depended on sharing almost every village microfranchise between 1972 and 2000 especially on last mile health networking
in dads editing of 2025 from 1984 he had called for massive human awareness by 2001 of mans biggest risk being discrepancies in incomes and expectations of rich and poor nations; he suggested that eg public broadcast media could host a reality tv end poverty entrepreneur competition just as digital media was scaling to be as impactful as mass media
that didnt happen and pretty much every mess - reactions to 9/11, failure to do ai of epidemics as priority from 2005 instead of autonomous cars, failure to end long-term carbon investments, subprime has been rooted in the west not having either government nor big corporate systems necessary to collaboratively value Asian SDG innovations especially with 5g
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I am not smart enough to understand how to thread all the politics now going on but in the event that any cgtn journalist wants to chat especially in dc where we could meet I do not see humans preventing extinction without maximising chinese youth (particularly womens dreams); due to covid we lost plans japan had to relaunch value of female athletes - so this and other ways japan and china and korea might have regained joint consciousness look as if they are being lost- in other words both cultural and education networks (not correctly valued by gdp news headlines) may still be our best chance at asian women empowerment saving us all from extinction but that needs off the record brainstorming as I have no idea what a cgtn journalist is free to cover now that trump has turned 75% of americans into seeing china as the enemy instead of looking at what asian policies of usa hurt humans (eg afghanistan is surely a human wrong caused mostly by usa); a; being a diaspora scot i have this naive idea that we need to celebrate happiness of all peoples an stop using media to spiral hatred across nations but I expect that isnt something an anchor can host generally but for example if an anchor really loves ending covid everywhere then at least in that market she needs to want to help united peoples, transparency of deep data etc
please map how and why - more than 3 in 4 scots earn their livelihoods worldwide not in our homeland- that requires hi-trust as well as hi-tech to try to love all cultures and nature's diversity- until mcdonalds you could use MAC OR MC TO identify our community engaging networks THAT SCALED ROUND STARTING UP THE AGE OF HUMANS AND MACHINES OF GKASGOW UNI 1760 12 3 - and the microfranchises they aimed to sustain locally around each next child born - these days scots hall of fame started in 1760s around adam smith and james watt and 195 years later glasgow engineering BA fazle abed - we hope biden unites his irish community building though cop26 -ditto we hope kamalA values gandhi- public service - but understand if he or she is too busy iN DC 2021 with covid or finding which democrats or republicans or american people speak bottom-up sustainable goals teachers and enrrepreneurs -zoom with chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you are curious - fanily foundation of the economist's norman macrae- explorer of whether 100 times more tehc every decade since 1945 would end poverty or prove orwell's-big brother trumps -fears correct 2025report.com est1984 or the economist's entreprenerialrevolutionstarted up 1976 with italy/franciscan romano prodi