INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING'S ALPHABET : World Class Biobrains: Drew Endy, Matt Scullin, Daniel Swiger++- BI BioIntelligence, the most collaborative human challenge Mother Earth has ever staged?
NB any errors below are mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk but mathematically we are in a time when order of magnitude ignorance can sink any nation however big. Pretrain to question everything as earth's data is reality's judge
Its time to stop blaming 2/3 of humans who are Asian for their consciously open minds and love of education. Do Atlantic people's old populations still trust and celebrate capability of generating healthy innovative brains? What's clear to anyove visting Washington DC or Brussels is a dismal mismatch exists between the gamechanging future opportunities listed below and how freedom of next generation learning has got muddled by how old male-dominated generations waste money on adevrtising and bossing. Consider the clarity of Stanford's Drew Endy's Strange Competition 1 2:
Up to “60% of the physical inputs to the global economy”7 could be made via biotechnology by mid-century, generating ~$30 trillion annually in mostly-new economic activity. 8 Emerging product categories include consumer biologics (e.g., bioluminescent petunias,9 purple tomatoes,10 and hangover probiotics11 ), military hard power (e.g., brewing energetics12 ), mycological manufacturing (e.g., mushroom ‘leather’ 13 ), and biotechnology for technology (e.g., DNA for archival data storage14 ). Accessing future product categories will depend on unlocking biology as a general purpose technology15 (e.g., growing computers16 ), deploying pervasive and embedded biotechnologies within, on, and around us (e.g. smart blood,17 skin vaccines,18 and surveillance mucus19 ), and life-beyond lineage (e.g., biosecurity at birth,20 species de-extinction21 ).
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notes on drew endy testimony on bio tech 2025 strange competition

Natural living systems operate and manufacture materials with atomic precision on a planetary scale, powered by ~130 terawatts of energy self-harvested via photosynthesis

Biotechnology enables people to change biology. Domestication and breeding of plants and animals for food, service, and companionship began millennia ago. Gene editing, from recombinant DNA to CRISPR, is used to make medicines and foods, and is itself half-a-century old. Synthetic biology is working to routinize composition of bioengineered systems of ever-greater complexity

 https://colossal.com/  20 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/34914  19 https://2020.igem.org/Team:Stanford  18 https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/12/skin-bacteria-vaccine.html  17 https://www.darpa.mil/news/2024/rbc-factory  16 https://www.src.org/program/grc/semisynbio/semisynbio-consortium-roadmap/  15 https://www.scsp.ai/2023/04/scsps-platform-panel-releases-national-action-plan-for-u-s-leadership-in-biotechnology/  14 https://dnastoragealliance.org/  13 https://www.mycoworks.com/  12 https://serdp-estcp.mil/focusareas/3b64545d-6761-4084-a198-ad2103880194  11  https://zbiotics.com/  10 https://www.norfolkhealthyproduce.com/  9 https://light.bio/     8 https://web.archive.org/web/20250116082806/https:/www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/BUILDIN G-A-VIBRANT-DOMESTIC-BIOMANUFACTURING-ECOSYSTEM.pdf  7 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/the-bio-revolution-innovations-transforming-econo mies-societies-and-our-lives     6 https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/safeguarding-the-bioeconomy-finding-strategies-for-understanding-ev aluating-and-protecting-the-bioeconomy-while-sustaining-innovation-and-growth   5 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2650-9  

  4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40199-9

AIH- May 2025.Billion Asian womens end poverty networking 2006-1976 is most exciting case of Entrepreneurial Revolution (survey Xmas 1976 Economist by dad Norman Macrae & Romano Prodi). In 2007, dad sampled 2000 copies of Dr Yunus Social Business Book: and I started 15 trips to Bangladesh to 2018- many with apprentice journalists. This is a log of what we found - deepened after dad's death in 2010 by 2 kind remembrance parties hoist by Japan Embassy in Dhaka with those in middle of digital support of what happened next. We witnessed a lot of conflicts - i can try and answer question chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk or see AI20s updates at http://povertymuseums.blogspot.com. I live in DC region but see myself as a Diaspoira Scot. Much of dad's libraries we transfreered with Dr Yunus to Glasgow University and enditirs og journals of social business, new economics and innovators of Grameen's virtual free nursing school.
Bangladesh offers best intelligence we have seen for sdgs 5 through 1 up to 2008, Search eg 4 1 oldest edu 4.6 newest edu ; .620th century intelligence - ending poverty of half world without electricity -although Keynes 1936 (last chapter General Theiory: Money, Interest, Employment) asked Economists to take hippocratic oath as the profession that ended extreme poverty, most economists have done the opposite. What's not understandable is how educators failed to catalogue the lessons of the handful who bottom-up empowered villages to collaboratively end poverty. There are mainly 2 inteligences to understand- Borlaug on food science -arguable the forst Biointeligence rising ar1950 on; fazle abed on everything that raised life expectancy in tropical village (zero-electricity) asia from low 40s to 60s (about 7 below norm of living with electricity and telecomes). Between 1972 and late 1990s, Abed's lessons catalogued in this mooc had largely built the nation of Bangladesh and been replicated with help of Unicef's James Grant acroo most tropical asian areas. What's exciting is the valley's mr ad mrs steve jobs invted Fazle Abed to share inteligences 2001 at his 65th birthday party. The Jobs and frineds promised to integrate abed's inteligence into neighborhod university stanfrd which in any event wanted Jobs next great leap the iphone. The Valley told abed to start a university so that women graduates from poor and rich nations could blend inteligence as Abed's bottom of the pyramid vilage began their journey of leapfrog modles now that grid infrastructures were ni longer needed for sdiar and mobile. Abed could also help redesign the millennium goals which were being greenwashed into a shared worldwide system coding frame by 2016. There at Abed's 80th birtday party , the easy bit was checking this mooc was uptodate. The hard bit - what did Abed mean by his wish to headhunt a Taiwanese American to head the university's 3rd decade starting 2020?

Saturday, November 30, 2019

4.2 4.3 lifelong mentors: teaching and studying -barefoot teachers


http://blog.brac.net/educating-a-generation-bangladeshs-barefoot-educators/

 Rubia teaches 25 children with neurodevelopmental disabilities who would otherwise have no access to special education. She went through comprehensive training on how to work with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities

“I have never stop learning as a teacher,” says Rubia Akhter, “I recently received vocational training so that I can help my students with their crafts, which helps to improve their sensory and motor skills.”

Rubia started teaching in 2003 in one of BRAC’s primary schools. She had no formal qualifications.

Now in 2019, more than 12 million children have graduated from BRAC’s pre-primary and primary schools because of women like Rubia.

How did thousands of women like Rubia, in the most rural, remote parts of Bangladesh, who previously had little to no education, educate almost 13 million children?

Our approach was unconventional, but effective. BRAC has always been a catalyst, creating platforms for people to realise their potential. We believe people, no matter who or where they are, are powerful agents of change – even without the formal qualifications they never had the opportunity to attain.

These local women who became teachers, and leaders in their villages, were no different.

Now, in 2019, the landscape of education in Bangladesh has changed significantly. The government has ensured access to education, with a public school in almost every village in the country. The way BRAC delivered learning has also changed, with newer kinds of schools and centres, interactive digital material, and focus on 21st century skills.

What still remains true to the core of BRAC’s education programme is the idea that teachers serve as leaders – leaders who inspire and engage their students with courage and creativity, rather than making them simply comply.

Leadership is at the core of who our teachers are. Our leaders had to be confident, creative, and constantly learning. This requires rigorous training and continuous assessment. 

It begins with a two-week training before she begins her classes. Over the course of a four-year-long academic cycle, she receives 140 days worth of monthly refresher trainings. These include capacity training to help them prepare and plan for their regular activities and lessons, identify gaps and assess themselves. Dummy classes are also held by the programme’s staff. They discuss what more they need to learn and plan for their subject-based training, which covers a range of topics, and covers the most burning contemporary issues, such as climate change and values education. Continual assessments are based on the teacher’s subject knowledge and values, depending on how they plan and apply their day-to-day lesson plans. How they maintain discipline in their work, engage and interact with students with sensitivity and care, and their ability for storytelling are key areas of work for their assessment.

“It’s not enough that you have learned something today. Share your knowledge with the world. Tell your siblings and parents. Tell your friends who cannot come to school,” Hasne Mahbuba Munni tells her class.

In a country where more than half of girls are married before their 18th birthday, Munni fought to take control of her life. Her conservative brothers wanted her to marry at an early age. Munni went on to stop three early marriages as a member of BRAC’s adolescent clubs. She has come a long way from being a student in BRAC’s one-classroom school to being the headteacher of Shishu Niketan, one of BRAC’s multi-classroom schools in Rangpur, northern Bangladesh.

“I want every girl in my class to believe that she can achieve everything she wants.”

“I fled to Bangladesh with nothing, but I had an education,” said Rojina Bibi, “I have been luckier than most. I may not have a home anymore, but I know my education can help make a difference. I want my students to know they can too.”

Rojina is one of more than 700 Rohingya teachers who are helping teach more than 58,000 children in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar. She teaches in Burmese while another teacher, recruited from the host community, teaches in English.

Of the million Rohingyas who fled to Bangladesh, more than half were women and children. Rohingya women were the first to step forward to help others. BRAC responded to the crisis, with women at the centre of our humanitarian work- from going door-to-door with life-saving messages, to ensuring safe spaces where children can learn and play.

The world needs 69 million new teachers to achieve the global goals in education by 2030. We must recognise and empower people who are passionate and driven to educate. Our hope is that all children have teachers that ensure both their childhood and their future.

 

Dr Safiqul Islam is the director of BRAC Education Programme and Zaian F Chowdhury is the communications porfolio lead of learning, empowerment and innovation of  BRAC Communications.

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