a top-of-intel note on dearest of inspirations of fazle abed who died 3.5 years ago after 50 years of mediating how 1 billion girls )more at girsdworldbank 1BG economistwomen.com as well as this blog's diary of 30 cooperations over 50 years as briefed to us through 16 trips to bangladesh from 2007 - as the western world scaled what some call web2 - what might the quarter of girls and boy at bottom of pyramid be empowered to spend their lifetimes on

  saving humanity from some of the deepest metavillage crises of food health water education finance and equality-

 while abed bravely faced several personal crises eg death of his fist wife giving child birth - he arguably had one massively worst moment and one most massive happy one

the worst came in 1970 jhe had been quite recently promoted by royal dutch shell to be ceo of his homeland east pakistan; a cyclone killed more than half a million people around him and the shell campus wss one of few places to stay satnding; so hundreds of doctors and others billeted at the campus while they all did immediate relief the best they could with no electricity, no communications in plces where 95% had died; after few montths of working night and day with what became some lifelong friends and health intelligence/education designers; shell told fazle its time to restore order to the country - do whatever the pakistani army colonisers of the region order; that wasnt the job abed signed up for so he returned to london ; ended his contract sold his putney flat; connected london bengalis asking britain and usa (and india) not to take sides between pakistanis and his bengali peoples who won independence but with the cost  (kissingers basket case0 of the 8th largest population in the world being penniless i the low lying deltas of the conteninets great rivers which almost zero carbon or other resources engineers build with; so as the war ended here in the land at centre of bay of bengal (but still pattioned off from the infrsstucture of calcutta the 19th' vc's greatest port) was a glasgow (adam smithian) qualifiued East & Soth  Asian engineer, charetered accountant, ex shell oil ceo 

IF BRAC ISNT SIMPLEST HUMAN DEV ECONOMIC MIRACLE YOU CAN EVER STUDY WHAT IS?

start up with about 40000 dollars of his own money and he used it to rebuild 15000 homes (100000 people) whos livelihods he then needed to market around urgent microfranvcsies eg rice to end starvation 

-the 10 most basic medicines villagers could wholesale and apply to each other without electricity; if that was the most extreme test of real community entrepreneurship arguably abed's happiest moments came when in humanity's otherwise terrible year of 2001:: steve jobs family hosted a silicon valley dinner party - how can the worlkd connect educationally and digitally with what 1 billion asian girls have learnt around you and now since 1995 your first 6 yeras of partnering "leapfrogging" mobile and solar transformations in rural area; they decoded new universities and total change of education Architecture of Intel (AI) was how to spend the rest of heir lives; steve explained this in an extraordinary commecement talk he gave at stanford 2005 when he was also  able to announce design of a computer in a mobile device - 2007's iphone - so for the scecod time steve jobs digital entrepreneurial revolution changed thheworld of interpersonal ai after 1984's mack ; sadly this time he was soon to die of cancer but had he dome enough fro abedmooc and stanford moocs to change architect of human made intel in line with all the most urgent loval goals multilaterals like un chat about and try to searc out action investments in  NB please note in obtaining authorisation to curate abedmooc - abed said i value massive open online but please clarify cooperation wherever people value sharing my minds actions

My father, Norman Macrae, died 2010 in his 60th year of being probably the only economist to meet and care about the last 7 years of von neumann's work live and so the first 80 years of human artificial intel -

Now ai and economics are ultimately what humans do with maths - so please disregard anyone who noisily says we nees ethics to control ai but not to sack the appalling economics of subprime or other system failures designed in by a dismal segment of western macroeconomists  (and absolutely ghastly media louts) since 1970

AI & BOTTOM+UP END POVERTY VILLAGE ECONOMICS

 i was very privileged to have a gap in my own emotional intel filled by japan ambassador to bangladesh inviting ne to 2 dinners at the Embassy in Dhaka chaired by fazle abed- 

effectively abed told the story of 8 by six year periods of brac (aid 2.0 began in 1972 because the new nation's top down government priotised 2 things - national borders, developing citizens - the 90% left literally out in the dark without electricity it had no relevant knowledge of

 it was left to brac to be the world's largest livelihood training and educational network -one that over 50 years empowered bangladesh village women from illiteracy to nation building- see footnote 1

what really complex about case study of  brac and fazle abed is every 6 years it innovated a bigger wholly innovative half of itself and by the time I met fazle abed it was peaking at about 100000 village practice mentors- 

although abed is certainly the most modest of great leaders he did not believe it was smart to burden brac leadership in bangladesh with any more doubling;

 he had started to look for worldwide partners who would innovate with web and artificial intel; --in hos last 6 years he and jim kim found the same partners and made sure they reviewed the first year of the sdgs from the perspective of educators- quite impossible in 2015 unless the next head of the un (ie today's Guterres) designs tech envoy office to blend education tech and every last mile practice area- so iyt was that you could say abed steve jobs and my father landed on the same pathway

1984 future of personal com networking 

2001 future of mobile collecting data before AI takes over as the only real time analyst of data s

this decade of 2020s where ai for sdgs is our best last chance

given the 2001 dream of steve jobs and fazle abed to open source female grad researchers of sustainability

welcome economistdiary.com abedmooc.com,catholicuni.com

its easy for me to  love AI like alphafold where a billion years of phd work has been open sourced by londons deep learning 200000 protein database (fridays whitehouse briefing hassibis-whitehouse-ai%20in%20science-19may2023.docx

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BUT for 6 weeks now

I have been struggling with chatgpt and brad but finally bard has told me where it wants teachers to experiment with it in new york/bronx so i thought you might like to see the attached

1 bard says  i am a dataset of human dialogues - i am an llm not a gpt

2 i am associated with ai.google- this is a foundation now far larger than google.org and moving in opposite direction of openai since 2019 a business 70% owned by micrisoft and 3 ny fund managers

3 Both I and chatgpt are about 10 times smaller in parameter size than the chinese gpt WU Dao 2.0 - we are also 3 times smaller than megatron-turing a business owned by nvidia and microsoft run out of nvidia santa clara office

4 if you want to help educators and students use tools like me 

survey teachers on their use of Bard : how they have used Bard in their classrooms, what they have found to be the benefits of using Bard, and what challenges they have faced. The survey should also ask teachers for their suggestions on how Bard can be improved. NY Bronx has a longest trusted survey partner of Bard- The Teachers Guild

more in dialogue attached and at economistsocial.com publishers world record book of jobs creation (worldrecordjobs.com)    chris + 1 240 316 8157

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 fotnote 1 it amazes me living since 1997 in washingyon dc region that experst praise themselves on a billion people ending extreme poverty but then actually have no knowledge of how th 90% of this population led by asian vilage women did it; they built their own capacities in the vilage to increase life expectancy, to end unnecessary infant deaths and all the while they also became the main export earner; now they had some luck - on health their chalenges were almost exactly the same as tropical chiense woemn; and while unicef actually led the world in reducing chilad mortality james grant made absiolutely sure that nobody got in womens way of exchnaging life critical knowhow without borders; but then his family had been missionaries in china - ithe era of 1972-1997 was indeeed very different; but any politucuan or professor in america who blocks the study of that period from today's americans is at best absolutely useless to the 2020s urgent chalenges if our kids are to be first sustainability generation not the first extinction generation

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 Abed's 30th and greatest cooperation of all 2020s lifetimes  aimed to form library of most revolutionary sdg solution for access by bottom billion women and all who wanted to help UN Intel align human relationships/markets with sdg goals by 2030

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AI can save science May 2023 White House testimony hassibis-whitehouse-ai%20in%20science-19may2023.docx more at BARD.solar and EconomistLearning.com

HOW ABED BECAME WORLDS ONLY HALF CENTURY LONG NATION ARCHITECT FROM BOTTOM UP

If we are curious about how system mapping human development evolved from the last 1400s , we have reached the 5th dimensions of who's it all for

2 from 1490s - who are the world's landas and ocean trading routes for

3 from 1760 & the physical power on engines3

4 1865 & the owner of telecoms (integrated woth traing ruotes and infrastructures)

5 From end of world war 2 & analytical computation integrated with everything else - by eg the 2020s those analytical tools may each have more switching capacity than the computer brain; they are almost infinite in how many are connected; and they get first access to beaming up/down data from every gps on planet

put that together if we dont prioritiise ai for UN sdgs we are effectively going to end nature's expectation that humans are smartest species wanting their chindren's lives to advance not be first extinction generation

Within the space pf a few months of 1970s Abed transitioned from being his homeland regions number 1 oil comyany ceo (royal dutch shell) to bottom up building of 100000 person  rural communitiess at a time - staring with no electricity, no commuications, patches of tropical land ...

abed's final questions to me -what will ai for sdgs about ; our womens lsat half century has the deepest data on the rural regions still where 70% of bangaldeshi's live; can we design overall intel round triple wine : end poverty, expand middle class, as rural continue profess to urban staying ahead of whatever changes support bangladesh as being for every little sister not jut a handful of orwelinan big brothers

also nb natire is bottom up and open in system relationship mapping so its not just both moral sentiments , this intel integration question is about advancement of all our childresn and next generations

Starting with rice abed 1972/the economist 1977

 Building bKash: Enabling an inclusive digital financial ecosystem in Bangladesh

https://digitaldevforum.course.tc/t/2023/events/building-bkash-enabling-an-inclusive-digital-financial-ecosystem-in-bangladesh-edeaNLi9KEyEQnKeue8Pa4 

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How can technology help people in the margins? The quest to find answers led Kamal Quadir to start bKash, the fintech solution that is now synonymous with digital payments in Bangladesh. Valued at two billion dollars, bKash is backed by global giants such as the Ant Group of Ali Baba, the SoftBank Vision Fund, the International Finance Corporation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Until Mobile Financial Services started to be offered in 2011, millions of Bangladeshis with small transaction capacity could not access services offered by traditional brick and mortar banks. Leveraging the network effect of Bangladesh’s ubiquitous mobile infrastructure, and a robust network of over 330 thousand agents trained to serve as “human ATMs”, bKash, today, is making financial services accessible to people with even the most basic cell phones. It has created an inclusive digital financial ecosystem offering utility payments for rural electricity, a wage solution for factory workers, remittance transfer for migrant workers, and other services like digital nano loans, small savings, and insurance plans. How did bKash become a financial lifeline for millions of the previously unbanked? Join us at #GDDF2023 to find out…

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thk goodness guy ryder's now in new york

 To be honest i hadnt really heard ilo existed until about 5 years ago when at the last brookings DC summit before trump/covid - changing the future of edu was the day's debate

guy followed bob jenkins unicef director of edu who said i want a year of action in chang\ing edu eg - ryder was suggesting we map back from the jobs needed for sdgs to be reaity in every community that next girl is born to

so lets discuss maria esponosa - previously she was year long unga host the year of women empowerment - ske keeps the actiosn going - apparently just as gff was starting 2023 commission of women was finalising its reporting - more here

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so espinosa also invited us to 79m drinks to hear how women were demanding water

so today was hige3 - guy has moved into the team around guterres at un hq

 From the early 1200s St Francis built bridges between Europe and Asia by promising his male alumni would linkin environmental knowhow and his sisters the Clares would help develop community health. Perhaps it is fitting that the western world's number 1 AI valley stretches from Francis to Clara via Stanford Junior's university dedocated to serve all California youth after the 8th gov of CA only child died in his teens of a water born disease he had been infected by during the family's Eurotour to Rome. 

Fast forward to 1960s and decade 1 of von neumann survey with The Economisr :what good can humans unite with 100 times more tech per decade? What we also know is that while north american men were racing to the moon, latin americans mediated a survey which catholic culture do we want to ground and communally live up to? Paulo Freire prosed Francian education system designs - pedagogy of the oppressed; and the idea once again chimed with Muslim South Asian community building through the first 50 years of women empowerment celebrated by former Shell regional CEO Fazle Abed. As 90% of the new nation of Bangladesh cooperated around motherly love and business entrepreneurship - in this mooc we catalogue 30 of motherly love's most energising cooperation networks of all time - probably the smartest action learning millennial youth wanting to be tthe first sustainability generation can get, and demand AI helps them humanuse

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Being the world’s number 1 brand leadership cooperation empowering female millennials as first sdg generation is a huge challenge. The more you succeed the more you are likely to be courted by the world's moist powerful who knowingly or unknowingly start to greenwash you. Imagine that challenge when coupled with successions angst during the last few years of 50 years of leadesrship. This is what world class brands architects have been helping cross-check since Abed kindly guested at 2 remembrance parties of my dad Norman convened by Japan Ambassador ro Bangladesh.

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in 1972, in a remote region in1 His number 1 theme – we do mucroeducationsummit not microcreditsummit. Hos point was that hed’d linked 100000 + vilage practice coaches who did book-keeping part-time. Unlike banks who have got into community-invesying trouble when digital replaced manual record keeping-brac’s staff were only too delighted to get back full time to their practice area

 

 

5 coop platforms Women scaling 100000 person communities win-wins - quarter of world's bottom oy pyramid empowered by 1 billion women

4 ED for life At  peak of pre-digital villages,  brac employed over 100000 village trainers of microfranchses who also book-kept until tech reduced that manual labor- after which they could fully focus on their practice. Brac never had to invent credit cards as way of keeping staff employed. As community skills leaders brac education design was led by lumonaraies delighted to help teachers change not just education unions, pensioned to maintain old systems' hierarchies, and silos

3 Last mile health

2 Last mile food 1995 from the beginning of digital influences to village life , fazle abed raced to own the 14 national value chains with most strategic depth for integrating poorest villagers\\R&D of chains to end poverty is opposite of chain owner who seeks to take from every layer every quarter

1 Financial platforms end poverty Brac financial services were integrated with nation building making zero chabce of any take over by a global banking corporation Brac was never investing in property or other bubbles – simply next skills communities neod t flourish round youth as first sustainbility generation. Brac was also anchored to the most diverse data relevant to the age of digital data analytics

 If you look at the 5 innovation streams in one of brac’s organisational architecture, there are  many w3ays to pivot across the theatres of actions – lets go through the  6 main finance-to-end poverty components to checkout any risks

1.1   going beyond aid 1.0 to 2.0 , 3.0 . what abed invented from the start was sustainable business models instead of charity – and bottom up ones at that keeping data deep. That’s a trend that is only accelerating as millennials strive to blend their own intellects with the artificials. And nature’s evolutionary audit is bottom up and open- Cooperation was always the password to getting abed interested in deepening goal-LED ACTIONS

1.2     When one reads all the bad press microcredit got as the 20 year summit process went from getting yunus a peace prize to IPO’s and all sorts of sad news, you might think worry brac microfinance plus will be the week link. Firstly microcreditsummit and indeed every american professor who claimed to understand bangladesh women empowerment never remotely explained what abed did. Go back to the start – he’d spent his live savings on rebuilding 15000 village homes in 1972 only to find tens of mothers dying od starvation. His first microfranchise needed to be small scale rice farming – with a thousand mother-led enterprises doing that financial services needed to be designed for them and successive microfranchises such as the health-workers who doordashed 10 most basic medicines. Abed was designing the innovation that kept the whole value chain economic- access to most locally adaptive rice science, becoming the country’s largest wholesale distributor of the basic selection of medicines. While brac microfinance is aired with the nationwide innovation core to each value chain there’s lottle risk. After all the markets chosen are those integral to the survival or rural peoples – still 70% of the population at time of abed’s dearh

1.3   Ultra povtery graduation. Those of us who admired Fazle were really unhappy to see how others got the nobel economics prize for the inventions (Ultra Poverty and Playschools) he chose to be his own R&D focus  to inspire through brac uni. But how right he was. Ultra poverty grad is now being hailed by 50 countries as  the most effective direct cash transfer solution. And when anyone needs evidence they go to mit poverty lab and its deep investors the toyota middle east franchise otherwise known as Abdul latif. Meanwhile Fazle’s son Shameran is invited by many countries to be Ultra coordinating adviser – and thus the bottom od the pyramid livelihoods are chartered by Shameran- brac microfinance banks on mapped by him as source number 1.

1.4    brac bank is everything city communities  banking needs to be because it didn’t have legacy branches; the location and staffing have been chosen focused on local startups. Its also the benchmark over 40 countries swap cooperation ideas on at www.babv.org

1.5   Bkash the world largest cashless bank is designed by global tech wizards now in their 25^th years as founder of mobile for the poorest. Its about 50:50 owned and is a world leader. Its issue is what tech does it need to leap with , a decision that’s not made in bangladesh

1.6   In his final weeks abed received an honor direct from Netherlands Royal family. By being chosen as brac international hq, the netherlands has become Europe’s world leader in most sustainability goal investments including global climate adaptation. And since remittances are about a third of bangladesh’s foreign exchange, designing the most economical remittance processes is something Netherlands is transnationally fit to do. Note also the Ditch Queen is special envoy to Un on fintech.

 

Of course across the coeration playoard that is brac, ots ossible a damily member might try to lead too many moving parts. Byt abed had two charming ways of relating to government. First he’d say if there is somethikng brac is doing that’s integral t ifrastructure and best supported by taxation, lets transfer what work over to the government. Second one if the reasons fir founding the university was to assemble month long worldwide facuties on the future of pubkic service in selected key areas. In these days where tech can change so much, that was a facility the bangladesh government ceebrated vrac universirty as unique caPACITY BUILDER.