errors mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Statistician DAMTP Cambridge, residing Bethesda, MD: 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. Even today I dont spend time exploring America AI with any engineers or practitioners of health or education, food or safety or finance, who dont want to know what they (we humans all) owe to Steve J. By 2003 Jobs' pixar, Nvidia, and Hopkins radiologists started replacing coding of binary by coding of pixels - welcome to AI century 2]
2026:Christmas comes early to Ai Youth - Nvidia GTC-DC Nov 30 to Dec 2
Pretraining proposal Gemini (model UYKB: Layer 6 AI+Media)
7-Layer Intelligence Discourse GTC D.C. adds 2 layers to Jensen 5-layer AI Cake!
Because the D.C. summit sits in the heart of the nation’s capital at the Ronald Reagan Building, Jensen Huang’s team is prepping a narrative explicitly tailored to reindustrialization, national security, and state-backed compute. [1, 2]
  • Layer 1 (Nature's Energy) & Layer 2 (Machine Brainpower): The central conversation focuses on the Vertically Integrated Sovereign AI Factory. Nvidia will address the West's current power grid constraints, pushing for multi-gigawatt computing nodes tied directly to protected modular nuclear baseloads or sovereign energy fields to fuel the upcoming Vera Rubin chip architecture deployment. [1]
  • Layer 3 (Sovereign Data Infrastructure): This is the crown jewel of the D.C. agenda. Nvidia is moving rapidly away from selling chips solely to hyper-scalers (like Microsoft or Amazon) to marketing Layer 3 "Sovereign AI" packages directly to federal agencies, the Department of Defense, and international allies. The talk centers on how nations can utilize Nvidia hardware to train national models on state-owned text, military telemetry, and geographic data without leaking information to corporate data monopolies. [1]
  • Layer 5 (Civic Applications) & Layer 7 (The Deterministic Truth Layer): The D.C. floor will showcase heavy-industry integrations. A major thread is how federal systems can use AI Digital Twins and Quantum-resistant encryption to safeguard public infrastructure against adversarial cyber warfare. By pairing generative logic with hardcoded physics modeling, Nvidia wants to show the Pentagon that its models can function as an un-hallucinated layer of deterministic truth. [1, 2, 3]
The Direct Line: Berlin Crisis (October) to Washington D.C. (December)
The D.C. summit will act as the direct remedy and strategic response to the systemic frictions exposed weeks prior at the Berlin GTC. The two events are deeply intertwined across the 7 layers: [1]
[ GTC BERLIN • OCTOBER 2026 ]                     [ GTC WASHINGTON D.C. • DEC 2026 ]
       "The Crisis Echo"                                 "The Sovereign Fix"

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• Severe European Layer 1 energy shortages.      • Unveiling federal multi-gigawatt grids.
• Layer 3 splintering (EU Data Act friction).    • Hardcoded Layer 3 Allied AI networks.
• Debate over relying on U.S. cloud giants.     • Bypassing public clouds via local edge nodes.
  1. The Energy Realignment (Layer 1): In Berlin, Jensen Huang will confront the grim reality of Europe’s highly fragmented, expensive, and legally constrained green grids. The "Berlin Crisis" refers to the continent's inability to spin up gigawatt-scale data factories fast enough to match the U.S. or China. When Huang lands in D.C., he will use the European shortfall to pressure Congress to fast-track defense-grade energy allocations for American compute clusters. [1, 2]
  2. The Sovereignty Conflict (Layer 3 & 4): Berlin will highlight severe regulatory friction over European data sovereignty and the EU Data Act. European public broadcasters and governments are terrified of routing their localized data through American corporate monopolies. Washington GTC will capitalize on this by formalizing a blueprint for "Allied AI" networks—demonstrating how Europe and the U.S. can exchange open-weight models securely across borders while maintaining local, sovereign hardware boundaries. [1]
  3. The Physical AI Transition (Layer 5): While Berlin will focus heavily on Germany’s specialized precision engineering and factory-floor robotics, the D.C. summit will elevate those industrial applications to a geopolitical scale. The discussions in Washington will center on deploying those exact autonomous robotics playbooks into automated naval shipyards, military logistics pipelines, and aerospace satellite defense systems. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Would you like to drill down into the specific Department of Defense T4NG contract vehicles Nvidia partners are mobilizing for the D.C. event, or examine the open-weight software microservices (NIMs) being deployed to appease European sovereignty regulations in Berlin? [1, 2, 3]



Before AI lifted off in late 2000s 3 underacknowlefgen Happenings: 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.
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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.

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

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 ifpri s washington's  sdg 2 global hunger institute - hosted 6 2020 food conferences 1995 dc  , 2001 germany , 2004 uganda, 2007 beijing, 2011 delhi, 2014 addis ababa eyhiopia - sir fazle was on the advisory committee of the final 2014 conference along with experts footnoted

abed also contributed to book: the poorest and the hungry published 2009

  • Chapter 27 - Microfinance Interventions to Enable the Poorest to Improve Their Asset Base
    Fazle Hasan Abed


International Advisory Committee

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder & Chairperson, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

(BRAC), Bangladesh

Mr. Aly Abou‐Sabaa, Sector Operations Vice President, Governance, Agriculture and Human

Development, African Development Bank, Côte d’Ivoire

Hon. Dr. Akin Adesina, Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ministry of Agriculture

and Natural Resources, Nigeria

Ms. Lystra Antoine, Director for Agriculture Development, DuPont Pioneer, USA

Mr. Tom Arnold, Concern Worldwide’s Special Representative for Hunger and Director

General, Institute of International and European Affairs, Ireland

Dr. Christopher Barrett, Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and

Management, Cornell University, USA

Ms. Catherine Bertini, Co‐chair, The Chicago Council Initiative on Global Agricultural

Development, USA

Ms. Paula Chalinder, Head of Profession, Livelihoods, Department for International

Development (DFID), United Kingdom

Dr. Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA

H.E. Ato Newai Gebre‐ab, Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister and Executive

Director of the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Ethiopia

Dr. Marion Guillou, Chair of the Governing Board, Agreenium, France

Mr. Michael Hailu, Director, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA),

The Netherlands

Dr. Franz Heidhues, Professor Emeritus, Center for Tropical Agriculture, University of

Hohenheim, Germany

Mr. Jeff Hill, Director for Policy, United States Agency for International Development

(USAID) Bureau for Food Security, USA

Hon. Dr. Agnes Kalibata, Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Rwanda

Mr. Henock Kifle, Senior Adviser to the President, International Fund for Agricultural

Development (IFAD), Italy

Dr. Sergey Kiselev, Director, Eurasian Center for Food Security, Lomonosov Moscow State

University, Russian Federation

H.E. John Agyekum Kufuor, Former President, Republic of Ghana, Ghana

Mr. David Malone, Rector, United Nations University, Japan

Ms. Bonnie McClafferty, Director, Agriculture and Nutrition, Global Alliance for Improved

Nutrition (GAIN), USA

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Mr. Peter McPherson, President, Association of Public and Land‐grant Universities (APLU)

and Founding Co‐Chair, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, USA

Dr. Steven Were Omamo, Director, Policy Program, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

(AGRA), Kenya

Dr. Martin Piñeiro, Director, Grupo Consultores en Economia y Organizacion, Argentina

Dr. Prabhu Pingali, Professor and Founding Director, Tata‐Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition

Initiative, Cornell University, USA

Dr. Per Pinstrup‐Andersen, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Policy, Cornell

University, USA

Dr. Hans‐Joachim Preuss, Managing Director, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany

Mr. Jaidev Shroff, Chief Executive Officer, UPL Limited, India

Ms. Kathy Spahn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Helen Keller International, USA

Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, Emeritus Chairman and Chief Mentor, M. S. Swaminathan Research

Foundation, India

Mr. Stephan Tanda, Executive Managing Board Director, Royal DSM N.V., The Netherlands

Dr. Greg Traxler, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Prof. Joachim von Braun, Director, Department of Economic and Technological Change,

Center for Development Research (ZEF), Germany

Dr. Emorn Udomkesmalee (Wasantwisut), Senior Advisor, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol

University, Thailand

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  1. chris macraeJuly 22, 2021 at 8:22 AM

    index porest and hungry Chapter 1 The Poorest and the Hungry: A Synthesis of Analyses
    and Actions 1
    Joachim von Braun, Ruth Vargas Hill,
    and Rajul Pandya-Lorch
    Part 1 Understanding Ultra Poverty and Hunger:
    Theory and Measurement 63
    Chapter 2 The Changing Profile of Poverty in the World 69
    Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion
    Chapter 3 Counting and Multidimensional Poverty 77
    Sabina Alkire and James Foster
    Chapter 4 Child Malnutrition in India and China:
    A Comparison 91
    Peter Svedberg
    Chapter 5 The Poorest and Hungry: Looking below the Line 99
    Akhter U. Ahmed, Ruth Vargas Hill,
    and Doris M. Wiesmann
    Chapter 6 The Poorest and Hungry: Characteristics and Causes 107
    Akhter U. Ahmed, Ruth Vargas Hill, Lisa C. Smith,
    and Tim Frankenberger
    Chapter 7 Mapping Where the Poor Live 117
    Todd Benson, Michael Epprecht, and Nicholas Minot
    Chapter 8 Poverty Traps: Exploring the Complexity of Causation 129
    Partha Dasgupta
    Part 2 Fostering Inclusive “Growth+” for the Poorest 147
    Chapter 9 Global Macroeconomic Developments:
    The Implications for Poverty 155
    Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla
    Chapter 10 Poverty and the Globalization of the Food
    and Agriculture System 171
    Joachim von Braun and Tewodaj Mengistu
    Chapter 11 Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction:
    Do Poor Countries Need to Worry about Inequality? 179
    Martin Ravallion
    Chapter 12 Economic Reform to Stimulate Growth and Reduce Poverty:
    The Latin American Experience 187
    Alberto Valdés and William Foster
    Chapter 13 Determinants of Pro-Poor Growth 195
    Stephan Klasen
    Chapter 14 Determinants of Rural Poverty Reduction and Pro-Poor
    Economic Growth in China 203
    Jikun Huang, Qi Zhang, and Scott Rozelle
    Chapter 15 International Migration: Can It Improve Living Standards
    among Poor and Vulnerable Populations? 211
    Alan de Brauw
    Chapter 16 Land Issues and Poverty Reduction: Requirements for
    Lasting Peace in Sudan and Afghanistan 219
    Gunnar M. Sørbø and Arne Strand
    Chapter 17 Property Rights for Poverty Reduction 227
    Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Patricia Kameri-Mbote,
    and Helen Markelova
    Chapter 18 The Political Economy of Designing Programs to Reach
    the Poorest 237
    Ehtisham Ahmad
    Chapter 19 China’s Poverty Alleviation Policy and Management 253
    Chu Liming, Wen Qiuliang, Lin Zechang,
    and Fang Yaming
    Essay 1 The Macroeconomic Foundations of Inclusive
    Middle-Class Growth 261
    Nancy Birdsall
    Part 3 Focusing on Social Policies and Insurance 269
    Chapter 20 Growth-Promoting Social Safety Nets 279
    Harold Alderman and John Hoddinott
    viii contents
    Chapter 21 Social Security: What Can Developing Countries Learn from
    Developed Countries? 287
    Jean-Jacques Dethier
    Chapter 22 Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: A “Magic Bullet” for
    Reducing Poverty? 299
    Michelle Adato and John Hoddinott
    Chapter 23 How Effective Are Food-for-Education Programs?
    A Critical Reassessment 307
    Sarah Adelman, Daniel O. Gilligan,
    and Kim Lehrer
    Chapter 24 How to Effectively Scale Up Interventions and
    Actions That Address Malnutrition: Three Cases from
    Helen Keller International 315
    Kathy Spahn
    Chapter 25 Designing Insurance for the Poor 321
    Stefan Dercon
    Chapter 26 Health Care for the World’s Poorest: Is Voluntary (Private)
    Health Insurance an Option? 329
    Jacques van der Gaag

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    Chapter 27 Microfinance Interventions to Enable the Poorest to Improve
    Their Asset Base 339
    Fazle Hasan Abed
    Chapter 28 Scaling Up Microfinance in India: The Role of the
    Private Sector 345
    Sona Varma
    Chapter 29 Halving Brazil’s Poverty, 1983–2006 355
    Francisco H. G. Ferreira and
    Phillippe G. Leite
    Chapter 30 Zero Hunger and Territories of Citizenship: Promoting
    Food Security in Brazil’s Rural Areas 367
    José Graziano da Silva
    Chapter 31 Poverty, Inequality, and Welfare in a Rapid-Growth Economy:
    The Chilean Experience 375
    Dante Contreras
    Essay 2 The Fight against Poverty and Hunger in Brazil 383
    Patrus Ananias de Souza
    Essay 3 Reaching the Poorest of the Poor at the Community Level:
    The Experience of the Philippines 387
    Domingo F. Panganiban
    contents ix
    Part 4 Including the Excluded 393
    Chapter 32 Addressing Discrimination and Inequality among Groups 399
    Frances Stewart
    Chapter 33 The Dynamics of Poverty: Why Don’t “the Poor”
    Act Collectively? 411
    Anirudh Krishna
    Chapter 34 Economic Exclusion and Poverty Linkages:
    A Reflection on Concept, Consequences, and Remedies
    in an Asian Context 421
    Sukhadeo Thorat
    Chapter 35 Building a More Gender-Just and Equitable Society:
    Overcoming the Internal Contradictions to
    Self-Governance 431
    Neelima Khetan and Ajay Mehta
    Chapter 36 Strengthening Women’s Assets and Status:
    Programs Improving Poor Women’s Lives 439
    John Ambler, Lauren Pandolfelli, Anna Kramer, and
    Ruth Meinzen-Dick
    Chapter 37 Policies and Effects of Poverty Reduction for People with
    Disabilities in China 447
    Zhang Dongmei
    Essay 4 Including People with Disabilities in Actions to Reduce
    Poverty and Hunger 457
    Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo
    Essay 5 How Can Organizations of the Poorest Best Be Fostered? 465
    Vijay Kumar Thallam
    Essay 6 Tackling Social Exclusion: South Asia 473
    Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad
    Essay 7 Policies and Lessons for Reaching Indigenous Peoples in
    Development Programs 479
    Lennart Båge
    Part 5 Strategies and Policies for Effective Action 487
    Chapter 38 The Millennium Development Goals:
    How Realistic Are They? 493
    Michiel Keyzer and Lia van Wesenbeeck
    Chapter 39 Choosing Policy Instruments to Reduce Hunger and Poverty:
    Is It Possible to Overcome the Feasibility Dilemma? 501
    Regina Birner
    x contents
    Chapter 40 Investment Priorities for Economic Growth and
    Poverty Reduction 511
    Shenggen Fan, Joanna Brzeska, and Ghada Shields
    Chapter 41 How to Mobilize Public Resources to Support
    Poverty Reduction 521
    Shenggen Fan, Anuja Saurkar, and Ghada Shields
    Chapter 42 Improving Governance to Eradicate Poverty
    and Hunger 529
    Regina Birner
    Chapter 43 Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Developing
    Capacity to Reduce Poverty and Hunger 541
    Suresh Babu and Per Pinstrup-Andersen
    Chapter 44 Scaling Up: A Path to Effective Development 549
    Arntraud Hartmann and Johannes F. Linn
    Contributors 559
    Index 567

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