june 2021 bloomberg/qatar - qatar innovated global edu laureates with fazle abed from 2011 -this update zoomed with hilary clinton and qatar foundation's ceo discuss women leadership contributions to 2021 humanity's last chance year (kerry et al davos agena jan 2021)
AT CU.com please find my attempt to celebrate my greatest personal privilege: to visit women empowered Bangladesh 15 times from 2007 during last 13 years of life of Fazle Abed. From 2012 we discussed AbedMOOC and 2015 onwards at his 80th birthday AbedAI. Back in 2001, Abed 65th birthday hosted by Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley changed both of these human genii's life work.
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| 2015 DCAI--AI & Childhood Cancer | . | Before AI lifted off in late 2000s 3 underacknowlefgen Jappenings: 1 steve jobs hosted Fazle Abed's 65 th birthday party silicon valley 2001; .jensen hunag and steve jobs went from coding binary to cosinf pixels; Fazle abed clarified that paulo freire culture celebrated poorest asian womens ebd poverty networking miracle -- largest NGO, providing education, health services, microcredit and livelihood creation programmes for a significant part of the population of Bangladesh. What lies behind this huge success, Caroline Hartnell asked Fazle Abed, founder of BRAC and still very much at the helm. Questioning everything they do and being prepared to tackle whatever is needed to make their programmes successful are certainly part of the secret behind the success of this extraordinarily entrepreneurial organization. The secret of success? Asked what lies behind BRAC’s phenomenal success, the first thing Fazle Abed mentions is determination: ‘We were determined to bring about changes in the lives of poor people.’ The second thing is thinking in national terms: ‘We always had a national goal; we never thought in terms of working in a small area. We thought, all right, if we work with the poorest people in this community, who’s going to work with the poorest people in that other community? So we felt that whatever we do, we should try and replicate it throughout the nation if we can.’ The third thing he mentions is inspiration. ‘We always thought nationally, worked locally, and looked for inspiration globally. We were inspired by Paolo Freire’s work on the pedagogy of the oppressed, which he came out with in 1972. It was wonderful to have a thinker who was thinking about poor people and how they can become actors in history and not just passive recipients of other people’s aid. He made us realize that poor people are human beings and can do things for themselves, and it’s our duty to empower them so they can analyse their own situation, see how exploitation works in society, and see what they need to do to escape these exploitative processes.’ Finally, he says, ‘one needs to have not only ambition but also the ability to do the work. The organization must be competent to take on national tasks. That confidence we got from the campaign for oral rehydration, to cut down diarrhoeal mortality, in the 1980s. That involved going to every household in rural Bangladesh, 13 million households, and it took ten years to do it. Then we became a little more ambitious. We thought that if we can go to every household, then we can cover the whole country with everything we do. |
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 ).  | . 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 | 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? |
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
new university news linked to soros osun 4.4 africa open spciety uni
osun home page is one view of the massive collab universities will need if extinction is avoided
at sorosjobs.com we charter an older view - hopefully the two will come together so youth xcan defeat covid before 2030 as well as adapt climate
soros has also supported a young economics scholars network as antidote since 2009 peak of subprime madness - this july free summit on structural change in africa-keynotes include The conference opens with a keynote address from Prof Arkebe Oqubay (Senior Minister and Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia) and closes with a panel discussion between Prof Carlos Lopes (UCT), Dr Karima Bounemra Ben Soltane (UN-IDEP) and Prof Léonce Ndikumana (UMass Amherst).
leading soros/osun linked new university in africa is ashesi also nominated by qatar global edu as 6th wise laureate and incubated as a masters project at berkeley by patrick awuah whose first career had been technologist at microsoft - ashesi is starting its second decade - the big picture - as african population doubles 20250-2020 what will african education look like if indeed there is a sustainability generation
this is a newsletter edited by beac u srudents
Bangladesh Rural Advancement - building nations/sustainability goal networks from bottom-up and openly empowered by women and family loving communities
what is BRA-C & abedmooc.com
BRAC can be connected with in many different ways:
worlds largest ngo Collaboration
built by hundreds of millions poorest village mothers over 50 years by alumni of fazle abed (who up to 1970 was an engineer and regional ceo of shell oil company); the deepest purose was to end poverty with the world's poorest women- when bangladesh was born in 1971- it was poorest nation, 8th most populoous (today over 150 million); a crisis tto be turned into an opportunity, 90% of its peoples were rural; and almost all rural women were expected to breed children- they had no productivity, livelihoods, little education
one way to think of brac is a field network of 100000 trainers of skills
over the last 12 years of abeds life, and 15 visits to bangladesh we found it useful to make notes on 36 interconnecting empowerent anf nation building"hunicorn" networks over the 50 years; six for each of the 5 deepest goals: 100% livelihood inclusive communities 4 education for all ; 3 health for all; 2 human energy/food security for all; end poverty by everyone as well as 6 humnicors connecting all other goals including infrastructures
we have chosen 6 ways in to connecting brac to represent different stages of the 50 years abed linked everyone together; starting with building hmes for 100000 people metavilage in 1972- and paeting i20 dec 2019
historically vilages in asia mea no access to electricity grids or other modern infrastructures such as running water; from 1996 some global patners with villages brought experiments in boyth solar and mobile- this offered extreme opportunities to connect entreprenuriallyfor the first time; lets look at our 6 hunicors for goal 5 100% livesmatter communities; and goal 4 education; hopefully they illustrate the range of learning curves and so deep data networks you can choose to partner the world's number 1 ngo cooperation around
Sunday, June 20, 2021
polio gates foundation
last battle fronts afghanistan and pakistan training parallels in vaccination nation
the topic of orphan diseases is complicated - some references
X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6
towards his parting Abed demanded alumni redouble womens future possibilities; while his 50 yeras had emwpoered transition from 90% rural to 70% rural bangladesh- he valued a half urban bangladesh by 2050;
while never leaving end poverty's anchor he suggested triangularing this around
expanding middle class
and going green - we value his 6 legacy networks as Xpoor Xwomen Xyouth
XInfra Xdigital Xgreen
which research would he celebrate most? eg xgreen -asia change plastics 2021
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
brac africa
afruca is main international region of brac
typically abed chose to partner:
muslim africa countries with one lead long term western partner
eg mastercard foundation uganda secondary girls networks- in 2021 mf announced billion dollar investment in vaccinate afrca
tanzania with gates agricultural microfinance- africa had missed out on borlaug -probably biggest transfer possibility especially as gates was already trying to bring an mpesa to tanzania and more recetly a bkash
soros wanted to help in extremely poor cuntries eg liberia post-genecide, sierra leone - by planting foundations from 2009 these countries bounced back from ebola faster than if no last mile health service nets avialable; soros also supported s sudan partnership
more to come or see brac intl
5.6 sustainability's number 1 curriculum= number 1 web ranking = number 1 app
if the purpose of the un sdgs is sustainability of all of us - eg across tropical asia/africa those not yet with electricity grids, those last to get vaccinated, those babies born in war or refugee zones-
then as reported in 1984's 2025report.com we need governance of the number 1 web page/app to be a guide to where to study solutions any community most needs - related purposeful-web searches 1 2
TRUTH MEDIA TOP one of the components of assembling this needs to turn reports of any global sdg summit -especially those in first schools year 21-2 post-covid - into k to 12 lessons that teachers are free to explore (not examine) at each age of child development; this also need cultural depth that will need to value translations between 4 languages
english -where most of knowledge published/researched
chinese -thinking-doing-communicating in thousands of characters instead of 26 letters involves much more natural consciousness, ying and yang instead of restricting learning to examining one correct answer- extended reference ezra vogel asia's 2000 years of being more culturally congruent around consciousness cultures than white empires top-down rules
coding purpose? its extraordinary how much effort is going into training machines to understand english and replicate the 5 human senses but much less is going into what can a child's brain development gain from the way machines are being taught - ask hong kong's sophia un ambassador for robots if in doubt
translation purpose-map mother tongues?- every mother tongue we extinguish loses dynamics uniquely-locally relevance to communicating with nature and translating this in borderless world trade relays; whilst 90% of world trade is mapped across shipping routes- the cultural silk road as a tri-continent relay of neighbors who celebrated trade across borders is essential for valuing the old world sustainability- and on course the new continent of america needs its own north-south celebration of connections across borders...
nb catch 22's of being teacher or student 21-2; it is true that the biggest consumer sales webs/apps will auto-translate languages by 2030- however robot-translators will be coded round lowest common denominator interpretations; discuss why thats the opposite of what 2 neighbors need to translare where mother nature crises are shared between them - eg the cyclone which started FAZLE EDUCATION ALUMNI OF ABEDS 50 years of solutions empowerining billion poorest asian women to share sustanability entrepreneurship
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