welcome economistdiary.com abedmooc.com,catholicuni.com

Friends of Fazle Abed study world class scaling of what we now call UN Sustainability Goals but Abed in 1972 first called Goal 1 Poverty alleviation when he founded BRA-C (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Collabs so that Bangladesh became the first nation empowered by poorest village women. Start with 3 favorite wESG (womens Entrepreneurial Scaling Goals : human collaborations of 100K ::1billion :: 50million

  • *** 100000 lives matter eg 5.1 metavillage= 1972

  • ...***1billion girls action networking -eg 3.1 oral rehydration

  • ***50 million graduate Apps: 5.4 purpose of first 100 new unis of sdg generation
1billiongirls.com - over the last half century the greatest human development miracle (extra ref schumacher 1 million bilages) has been networked by 1 billion poorest asian village women -here we invite you to help map the 30 collaborations they linkedin - their chief guide 2019-1970 the former oil company executive fazle abed- In spite of being pivotal to how one quarter of all human beings progressed (and by far the deepest co-creators of Sustainability goal solutions- nobody ever printed any paper money for them - its only since innovating the world's largest cashless banking 1.5 systems that many westerners even began to study 21st C happiest possibilities with them.
Out of Bangladesh, village mothers hired 100000 village coaches - webbed 30 collaborations - giant leaps for womankind & youth as first sustainability generation
Intergenerational collaboration entrepreneur platforms 5.1  metavillage sustainable community building - women empowered:15000 families at a time;5.2   billion asian women,5.3  brac net; 5.4   asian universities share sdg graduates 5.5  climate smart village exchanges,5.6 meta and zoom-me up scotty
BANK FOR ALL 1.1  1.2  1.3   1.4   1.5   1.6 celebrate 30 most human collaborations from developing world of last half-century - inspiring  anyone valuing UN and youth as first sustainability generation
EDUCATION  adult village entrepreneurs 4.1; primary 4.2  ; teen 4.3; university4.4 ; pre-school4.5;tech multidisciplinary luminaries 4.6 
HEALTH oral rehydration 3.1 ;para health "doordash" basic meds 3,2; scale vaccination3.3 ;tuberculosis & 3.4  Frugal processes eg wash sanitation, maternity3.5  ; James Grant School of public health 3.6
FOOD/land security 2.1  rice; 2.2 veggie  2.3    cash crops & village fair; 2.4  poultry;2.5  dairy, 2,6  14 nation leading supply chains financial opportunities to end poverty ;

UN says: Today's Education Systems No Longer Fit for PurposeAt Economistdiary.com we search out collaboration events- most exciting in 2022 - UN total transformation of education -september NY; Neumann's families collaboration search AI Hall of Fame; fen ale owners of transmedia race to humanise the metaverse...
abedMOOC.com started from a brainstorming dinner convened by Japan Ambassador to Dhaka who noticed my father's surveys of Asia Rising begun with Japan 1962 (endorsed by JF Kennedy) had not completely detailed Bangladesh Rural Advancement's  contributions to sustaining humanity and celebrating nation building through women empowerment . Dad's last public birthday party had celebrated launch of Muhammad Yunus Global Social Business Book February 2008 with 40 guests at Royal Automobile Club, St James, London. Father had also paid for sampling 2000 of Yunus books, 10000 dvds (youtube style interviews with all grameen directors during summer 2008 when the Nobel judges opened Yunus Museum in Mirpur, as well as part of launch of 2 Journals by Adam Smith Scholars in Glasgow that had emerged from Yunus making the 250th keynote speech on Adam Smith Moral Sentiments Dec 2008. But Fazle Abed whom my father never got the chance to meet had started 11 years before Yunus Grameen Bank 1983 Ordinance , built health and agricultural foundations, and then schooling -altogether a 5 dimensions approach that was not possible to appreciate from onee dimensional microcreditsummit yunus the clintons, queen Sofia staged annually from 1997. Abed said we could do a Mooc if it was laid out round C for collaborations. He was keen to map how 6  Collabs per the 5 primary sdgs had been integrated through 2 quarters of a century 1972-1995 when rural meant no electricity grids or phones; 1995 when partnering platforms afforded extraordinary leapfrog models that could be designed with mobile networks and solar. It took 16 trips while Abed was alive (and the curiosity og many graduate journalists _ to get this mooc started, and we still try to update it even as Abed left the world in Dec 2019. We welcome corrections and omissions. We have attempted here to map the deepest economic miracle

Saturday, July 31, 2021

3.4 tb

 

BRAC’s Tuberculosis Program: Pioneering DOTS Treatment for TB in Rural Bangladesh

Citation:

May M, Rhatigan J. BRAC’s Tuberculosis Program: Pioneering DOTS Treatment for TB in Rural Bangladesh. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.
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Abstract:

This case examines the development of a tuberculosis (TB) treatment program in Bangladesh by the non-governmental organization, BRAC, from 1984 to 2006. After providing background about Bangladesh, the burden of TB there, and BRAC, the case examines how this program was piloted and grew to cover a population of 80 million people. It details how BRAC was able to create a TB control program that utilized community health workers to perform most of its essential functions including case finding, directly-observed therapy, identification of complications, and record keeping. The case concludes with a brief summary of BRAC’s expansion to Afghanistan and recently, Africa, and asks the reader to consider the feasibility of this TB care model in other contexts and in other conditions, such as HIV/AIDS.

Teaching Note available through Harvard Business Publishing.

Timeline of BRAC TB Program Expansions
Timeline of BRAC TB Program Expansions. Source: From One to Many: Scaling Up Health Programs in Low-Income Countries. Edited by Richard A Cash, A Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, George B. Smith, and Faruque Ahmed (2010). Ch 13. Islam A and May MA. Decentralized Management in the Expansion of BRAC's Rural Tuberculosis Program (DOTS). Pgs. 207-214. (Exhibit 3 in "BRAC’s Tuberculosis Program: Pioneering DOTS Treatment for TB in Rural Bangladesh" case.)

Learning Objectives: To understand effective strategies for effectively engaging community health workers to deliver complex medical and public health interventions to large populations in low resource settings.

Supporting Content: The sequel to this case is titled Tuberculosis in Dhaka: BRAC’s Urban TB Program.

Keywords: Community health workers, tuberculosis control, rural nongovernmental organizations, social enterprise

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3.4 fighting tb and the world's deadliest animal - malaria's mosquito

 the global fund bundles budgets for malaria. tb and aids together

in 2005 gates awarded abed their health prize mainly for innovation in fighting tb but also malaria

at brac the worldwide knowhow leader for tb and malaria is i think the same


brac brief on malaria and tb

hence 2021 latest repotfro gates on malaria may be of interest

By Bill Gates | August 25, 2021
Welcome to Mosquito Week 2021 on the Gates Notes.
Last year, many people feared a malaria catastrophe. An analysis by the World Health Organization found that disruptions to malaria control and treatment due to COVID-19 could lead to a dramatic increase in malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa.
A year later, I’m happy to report that this worst-case scenario, at least for now, has been avoided.
This Mosquito Week I share the story of how African countries averted disaster by quickly adapting their malaria programs to meet the challenges of the pandemic.
I also highlight the research the U.S. military is doing to combat the mosquito, which has caused more casualties for troops than bombs and bullets.
Finally, I provide an update on an amazing breakthrough that might control the spread of dengue fever, a terrible mosquito-borne disease that infects 400 million people every year.
Thanks for your interest in learning about all the innovation underway to fight diseases spread by the world’s deadliest animal.
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tb 3.4 tuberculosis dots TB

  http://www.brac.net/program/health-nutrition-and-population/tuberculosis-and-malaria-control/

Tuberculosis Control

Tuberculosis (TB) has been a major public health concern for Bangladesh for decades. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Bangladesh ranks seventh among the 22 highest TB-burdened countries. BRAC initiated the tuberculosis control programme in 1984 in one district as a pilot. In 1994, BRAC became the first NGO in the country to sign a memorandum of understanding with the government to expand directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) services across the country. BRAC also became a principle recipient (PR) of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), along with the government. The aim of the programmeis to reduce the morbidity, mortality and transmission of TB until it is no longer a public health problem.

BRAC's shasthya shebikas(frontline community health worker) play a pivotal role inconnecting individuals with TB control services during household visits and health forums. They disseminate TB-specific messages to the community, identify presumptive TB patients and refer them, for sputum examination, to the governmen tsub-district health complex or peripheral laboratories of BRAC. The frontline health workers also ensure regular intake of medicine for identified TB patients through DOTS. They refer complicated TB patients to health facilities for further treatment and for proper management of side effects and other complications during TB treatment.

BRAC's approach towards the diagnosis and treatment of TB focuses on community level education and engagement. The programme conducts orientation with different stakeholders of the community to engage them in efforts to identify TB patients, ensure treatment adherence, and reduce stigma surrounding TB. The stakeholders include cured TB patients, local religious leaders, school going children, girls' guides and scouts, other NGO workers, formal and non-formal care providers like graduate private practitioners, village doctors and pharmacists.

Currently, BRAC covers 297 sub-districts from 42 districts, 7 city corporations with a population of 92.9 million people including 31 academic institutes, 41 prisons, 405 peripheral laboratories and 26 external quality assessment centres. BRAC is leading a group of 42 local NGOs who are the sub -recipients (SRs) of the GFATM under the same umbrella of NTP. BRAC supervises, monitors, guides and provides technical assistance to the SRs,to ensure that the quality of the service delivered is uncompromised.

 

Malaria Control

Malaria is a major public health problem in some parts of Bangladesh, particularly in 13 districts in the north-east & south-east areas which border India and Myanmar. Among them are the Chittagong hill tracts (CHT) districts which highly endemic and Cox’s Bazar which is moderately endemic. The other districts are categorised as low endemic areas as fewer numbers of cases have been reported there. Sporadic incidences occur in other parts of the country.

The National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) established an effective partnership with a consortium of 21 NGOs led by BRAC. This partnership has leveraged the programme and increased the access to malaria treatment, prevention and awareness raising activities within communities, including the hard-to-reach areas.

In partnership with the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), BRAC successfully secured a grant from the GFATM to strengthen and expand national malaria control activities to all endemic districts working directly and through other NGOs. BRAC is directly implementing malaria control activities in all sub districts of CHT, two sub districts of Moulvibazar, and through 20 partner NGOs in other districts which are monitored and supervised by BRAC. To reduce the overall burden of malaria (morbidity and mortality) by 60 percent from baseline year 2008 in 10.9 million populations in 13 high endemic districts of Bangladesh by 2015.

Goal

To reduce the overall burden of malaria (morbidity and mortality) in the 13 high endemic districts of Bangladesh by 60 percent, by the year 2015.

Objectives

  • To expand the use of Long Lasting Insecticidal bed Nets (LLIN)( two nets per household), to achieve 100 percent coverage in the three malaria endemic districts and to maintain 80 percent coverage with Insecticide Treated bed Nets (ITN)/LLIN in the remaining districts.
  • To expand and improve the quality of diagnosis and treatment of malaria cases to 90 percent.
  • To further strengthen programme management and partnership coordination surrounding malaria control.

BRAC’s community based model has been applied in malaria programmes to promote health education, empowerment and home based services. BRAC’s shasthyashebikas and shasthyakormis diagnose malaria patients using a Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kit, therefore providing treatment at a household level They also refer patients to the nearest government health facilities in case of pregnant women, children under five kilograms of weight and severe malaria cases. In addition, 121 laboratories and sub-centres have been established in remote areas to strengthen early diagnosis and prompt treatment (EDPT). LLINs are distributed in the community free of cost as one of the most important methods of preventing the transmission of malaria.

Various sensitisation and advocacy meetings are conducted among the different stakeholders of the community to make them aware of malaria symptoms and to engage them in the effort to identify patients, increase utilisation of LLIN and to create early care seeking behaviour. The stakeholders include local figures, religious leaders, headmen, karbaris, teachers, village doctors, pharmacists, private practitioners and hotel owners/ managers.

Since May 2007 to June 2014, a total of 3,067,663 cases of fever were examined nationally by RDT and/or microscopy, of which BRAC and its partner NGOs performed 1,822,086. Out of 318,649 confirmed malaria cases, 228,233 (72%) were treated at the community level in the same period. In addition, death due to malaria was reduced by 90 percent (15) in 2013 in comparison with the baseline year 2008 (154). Since the beginning of the programme, a total of 3,735,905 LLINs have been distributed among the beneficiaries in the malaria endemic areas.

Download: National Malaria Treatment Regimen 2016

Malaria Funding Request (2021-2023) to The Global Fund
We are pleased to upload Malaria National Strategic Plan (NSP) and The Global Fund Funding Request 2021-2023 for your kind feedback and comments. It will be highly appreciated if you kindly share your feedback by 08 March 2020.

· Dr Afsana Alamgir Khan, DPM, National Malaria Elimination Programme: afsanak.nmepdpm@gmail.com
· Dr Shayla Islam, Programme Head, Communicable Diseases (Malaria) Programme, BRAC: shayla.i@brac.net
· Manaj Kumar Biswas, BCCM Coordinator: bccmcoordinator@gmail.com

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Friday, July 30, 2021

3.4 how did global fund asemble through 2000s to combat tb, aids and malaria

 Global Fund  3.4 end tuberculosis, aids, malaria

this summary comes mainly from briefings jim kim gave at youth summits and the first change the world mooc during the first 18 months of his appointment to world bank by obama in 2012

any errors are mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc region MA Statistics DAMPT Csambridge

around 1987, 3 uniquely energetic graduates passionate about health service in world's poorest communities  came together in boston and formed pih.org - the only homegrown/youth=organised network which placed harvard medical students in poorest rural haiti and later nations like peru; two of these students graduated in anthropology and decided that franciscan values of servant leadership were what they wanted to apply; paul farmer had led explorations haiti the year after graduation with his friend wellesley graduate  ophelia dahl daughter of oxfords best selling author; jim kim was the other graduate studying anthropology of med at harvard the son of korean immigrants - life story at this world bank tedx; 

in boston the friends stayed with a franciscan monk originally from peru; jim kim in particular became energised abut ending tuberculosis there; 

by 2003 paul farmer had rightly become famous in books like mountains beyond mountains; 

jim kim was helping mobilise intellectually disruptive tactics including close the world bank- he connected  the most concerned stakeholders in poverty 3 worldwide health crises tb aids and malara and demanded a global fund which was perhaps the one thing that both clinton global and george busg agreed on by 2005; meanwhile kim discovered to his surprise that the worlds most effective end tb networks were brac's women in bangladesh he shared his knowledge with gates and soros who had asked farmer/kim would they help en tb in dissident russoa prisons if he soros funded that; so by 2005 the global fund was formally celebrated and while all of the above deserve congratulations it was abed-asian womens empowerment networks who had scaled the most effective tb models

you can see abed awarded gates global health prize ang both gates and soros viits tobangladesh villages 2005-6

its certainly true that each side gained from the collaboration - for example clintons and others helped: farmer build 2 world class teaching hospitals in haiti and rwands; jim kim was appointed to lead world bank in 2012; soros in helping launch brac usa 2007 talked of abed being just about the only ngo leader who scaled with the least, and all the digital wizards of banking for the poor including mpesa's nick hughes , bill gates, mit quadir/legatum, and abed to develop the world's most populous cashless bank for the poor www.bkash.com -

but would this have happened without the energy of youth's most determined health workers and movements empowering billion asian women?- over to you to debate

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

world bank, dhaka branch,  jan 2015 

The ‘science of delivery’, or bringing the right kinds of services effectively to the poor, is the key to eradicate extreme poverty, said Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder and chairman of BRAC, the world’s largest NGO. 


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The under-five child mortality in Bangladesh has decreased from 180 deaths per 1,000 live births in the 1980s to 53 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2011. The child survival rate in Bangladesh has surpassed that in neighboring countries.

smail Ferdous/World Bank

While visiting the World Bank Bangladesh office, he shared how perfecting the science of delivery helps reduce poverty; saves lives; brings prosperity; and how one impact is linked with another.

In 1972 BRAC started working on integrated rural development in Bangladesh. The country had an alarmingly low child survival rate at the time. Diarrhea was among the leading causes of the death of children. BRAC took the lead in popularizing the Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) to prevent diarrhea. Bangladesh now has the world’s highest ORT usage rate. Thanks to ORT and the later success in child immunization, the under-five child mortality in Bangladesh has decreased from 180 deaths per 1,000 live births in the 1980s to 53 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2011. The child survival rate in Bangladesh has surpassed that in neighboring countries.

A mother needs boiled water, sugar and salt from her kitchen to prepare ORT. A simple solution, but the challenge was to reach the millions of mothers, teach them how to prepare the saline solution and ensure the proper feeding of sick children.

BRAC employed female health workers from the community to go door to door and teach mothers to prepare and administer ORT. The rural and often illiterate mother would need to remember 7 simple points of ORT.  The health workers used to mark their utensils to measure half a liter of water, adding a pinch of salt with the fingertips and a fistful of molasses, a substitute to sugar in villages.

“BRACs methodology always focuses on strong monitoring mechanism to measure the progress of any intervention and maintain quality and accountability,” says Sir Abed. BRAC representatives would randomly monitor 10 percent of households. Each health worker received 10 Takas ($.12) per household if the mother could remember the 7 points of ORT accurately.

Unfortunately, the first round of monitoring showed a disappointing 6 percent household usage rate.  BRAC realized that the health workers themselves did not believe in the intervention. BRAC trained the health workers to show how ORT works. The new found belief in the intervention increased the usage rate to 19%, but still far below making a meaningful impact nationally.

Further analysis showed that men felt undermined by not being adequately engaged. BRAC workers started to engage the fathers. To cut time and cost by half, workers started teaching mothers in groups instead of an one on one basis and monitoring the monitors.  Meetings were organized in markets, schools and mosques to explain the benefits of ORT. National TV and radio launched a campaign to popularize ORT.  Once the whole village was mobilized, the results were remarkable.

Sir Abed said, “It involved several incremental steps to deliver the desirable service to the poor. First, making the program effective; second, refining the intervention based on the trial and error to make it efficient; and third, a focus on robust monitoring and accountability mechanism allowing the scaling up of the intervention nationwide.”

Citing examples of interlinked development impacts, Sir Abed highlighted that the fertility rate among Bangladeshi women declined during the same period. Bangladesh today has almost achieved a replacement level fertility rate of 2.2 children per women.

The experience shows that through efficient delivery, simple local solutions can bring positive changes in the lives of millions. And to do so, we need to identify effective and available avenues of delivery, easy ways of scaling up the initiative, learn from the failures and rectify. We learn, at each stage, vigilant monitoring, impact assessment, and quick redesigns to improve the intervention.

The delivery mechanism in ORT initiative reconciles with many projects within the Bank to reach out to the poorest of the society.  This experience  can be applied to bring services to millions of people worldwide for poverty reduction and human development.

“Bangladesh has shown remarkable progress through simple solutions as ORT. These efforts could be replicated as a model in any development project world-wide,” remarked Sir Abed ending his knowledge sharing with staff in the Dhaka office.

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Friday, July 23, 2021

5.2 culture at heart of sdgs

unesco 2013 congrees hangzhou- cultural declaration
  • Irina Bokova (Panel Chair), the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • hangzhou declaration

Panellists

  • Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chairman of the BRAC Foundation
    Transcript (PDF) - in English - & Abstract 
  • His Highness the Aga Khan, Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network and 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim
    PDF Presentation - in English -  
  • H.R.H. Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA)
    Speech (PDF) - in English -
  • Petko Draganov, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 
    PDF Presentation - in English -  
  • Rt. Hon. Michaëlle Jean, Co-Founder and Co-President of the Michaëlle Jean Foundation (FMJF) and former Governor of Canada
    PDF Presentation - in French -  
  • Zhang Lin, Executive President of the Dalian Wanda Culture Industry Group
    PDF Presentation - in Chinese - 
  • Wiendu Nuryanti, Vice-Minister of Education and Culture for Cultural Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia
    PDF Presentation - in English -  
  • UNESCO Background Note (PDF)  on Culture in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda


    • Useful links on Culture and Development
    • Final Programme 
    • Speakers Biographies 
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

 how and why did the new nation of bangladesh empower 90% of women to find their own partners to build community economies? 

and why/how did this new economic model network across a billion women 1972-2020?

a long answer to this question involves clicking through our 36 subsystems hu1.1-1.6 hu2.1-2.6 etc of abedmooc - 15 visits to bangladesh turned our notes into this pattern for you to click through if you choose - we have arranged 6 pieces for the first5 sdgs -poverty food health livelihood safe/ghappy community building 100% by/for all-  each from 1972 and with lower numbers representing first 25 years when a village meant no electricity, no communications with rest of nation other than person to person;

 or you can map back from now that bangladesh is desiigning leapfrog solutions often empowered by mobile phones and solar power - the last 6 pieces connect not just future of combating poverty but 2 more futures abed saw women as leading: growing middle class and going green as bangladesh plans to be 50% urban by 2050

the simplified answer - and please correct me if i get a detail wrong but note i am not interested in ideologies whether left right or from the moon! - i am a maths guy, i try and map piece by piece so that each builds each other

in most newly independent nations a powerful man and political party make choices like which foreign business to throw out and which to keep - this is not a simple question and is sometimes determined by bribes or better as a way of getting public funds possibly to serve all the people; often the new leader wants to serve the people but first must protect the nations borders by building an army and make some infrastructure decisions as well as choose if lands have all been legally distributed- there is so much to do that what doesnt get equal first attention is the rural most disconnected people from the capital's throne of power

-in bangladesh's case , the first 2 national leaders (one was assassinated) had to keep securing the borders from the war of independence- but there were hardly any business or citizens taxes - the best the government could do was start serving the 10% or urban peoples

so the rural peoples looked for partners- and by great good fortune: fazle as the nation's leading engineer- former regional ceo for shell oil - had started a pilot metavillage of 15000 homes, 100000 people whose homes had been flattened by war; mothers were dying of starvation, infants of dehydration ; he searched for solutions rest of world used, designed local microfranchises village mothers could turn into business- word of mouth spread- the same life saving solutions in the first metavillage were wanted by village mothers across the90% rural nation

fazle abed motivation was to serve -to end poverty, to raise life expectancy; indeed (BRA) Bangladesh Rural Advancement never sought to compete with the government just get on with doing empowered by village mothers

it happened that bangladesh had invented a new to the world health cure every tropical village wanted oral rehydration; unicef sent its people to understand how this work and show it to any village women - it happened by accident that of all the nations on the continent the chinese of 1972 had exactly the same famine and dehydration crises - and idea of women being as productive as men- the reason for women empowerment way have been different with one child per family half of all parents had to make sure girls were as producitve as boys; this started free knowhow swaps between bangladesh and chinese village networks - ultimately this is how a billion women collaborated across the asian continent ending the most extreme local poverty

as i say anything i write aims to be plain reporting with no ideolgical spin- this mooc aims to offer action learning the way it happened- nature has her own ways of valuing what truly works: in these cases womens networks were indeed largely guided by fitting in with nature which is why there could be at least partial lessons for anyone in the younger half of the world aiming to unite the first sustainability generation- 

that's up to you to interpret chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc region & sometimes Glasgow or an Asian country from which the world seems youth-motivated



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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

dc 6 beyond ppp partnerships with sustain youth women poorest

 example https://p4gpartnerships.org/news-events/67-world-leaders-call-investing-climate-solutions-developing-countries-2021-p4g-seoul

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Monday, July 12, 2021

six dimensional education "squared" for nation building and 1 billion women sustain our species!

 which of these dimensions interest you most?

4.1 adult-lifelong edu- this is where billion womens empowerment began in 1972- why women and infants were literally starving to death in villages- so almost everyone fazle abed hired for a skill a village woman could make a business put of - eg growing rice, tending for 6 families infants while other village mothers worked on agriculture, learning oral rehydration; ; some adults started asking could they train to be teachers of kids 6-10

4.2  classrooms with one village and 25 kids aged 6-11 took off in mid 1980s - 30000 skills were franchised- hapines, confidence, peer to peer montessori style was the culture

4.3 resources for designing edu for teens were much more constrined- what took off was peer to peer apprentice spaces for particular skills as well as scholarships for those who made the most of primary; the whole area of non-classroom secondary matters everywhere that there is a livelihood mismatch- for 15 yeqrs now we have estimated the world is short of nearly 100 million last mile health workers- covid may have shown thats an under-estimate; secondary girls apprentice clubs have proved particularly successful in clarifying what skiils teens most want; finding enough trainers has been relatively simple for brac in bangladesh since most brac co-workers recruited as trainers in villages- 

5.3 brac internet from 1996 was the first time brac could search for 2.0 partners - previously there was no point hiring trainers / attracting investors unless solutions worked in villages without electricity-now brac had both second Generation To support eg village daughters moving to cities as well as possibility of experimenting with solar and mobile in villages- the need was for brac university - now brac could offer deep learning: village research and connect university research around the world with 4.4 new uni (squared now alumni of abed could blend the 6 age groups of traditional real education with anything digitall connections with mother earth's urgent climate etc demands can offer

4.5 what new to the world masters of arts do you think abed chose first? early childhood education - can you think of reasons he valued this global innovation in addition to it being the one age group brac hadn't educationally served?

4.6 abed asked for his legacy to be a luminaries network- each luminary to bring a different piece of the jigsaw education is everything in developing peoples and nations


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Monday, July 5, 2021

5.3 bracnet beyond einstein and moore's law: abed's law Sustainability=e*billionwomensquared

https://www.google.com/search?q=bracnet+1996

1996 BRACNET began second half of Abed's poverty alleviation by and for fenale empowerments - after 25 yeras of directly person to person networking solutions, now poorest asian women could value mobile and solar partners

Back In 1971 Bangladesh was born - 8th largest nation in population terms ; poorest; the peoples of the bay of bengal had drawn double short straw of colonisiation - by britain then (west) Pakistan; when people say 90% of the population was rural they meant without access to electricity grids; 

so the world of partnerships in women empowerment changed around 1996 when both solar and mobile partners came to bangladesh- what woukd brac do with opportunities to leap from designing village womens productive collaborations from the era of no electricity and co connectivity to designing collaboration sdg networks with tech support?======================

FIRST THE RACE FOR NATIONAL VALUE CHAIN LEADERSHIP - brac wanted to retain markets it had designed to maximise inclusion of poorest through village mothers microfranchises

update can you imagine running a nation leading business without any sort of telephone line - oddly that was what most businessmen experienced as recently as 1990 in both bangladesh and china- with very small per cent of business addresses having a phone- even if a businessman had a phone relatively little could be done with it- it was seizing this opportunity of mobile which enabled brac to scale 14 nationwide leading enterprises from mid 1990s - all designed around wholesaling to the poor the best quality lowest cost of items needed to run their microfranchises- although bangladesh remains a poor country as it has no superport world trade access- countries which never had nationwide outlets until mobile /digital have uniquely common entrepreneurial revolutions that western countries with mature phone lines and brick intensive corporate assets cant fully imagine- so it turns out that western partners of brac internet get insights into digital asia and continental development that they might never otherwise see. This has particular relevance to questions like how deeply diverse is your ai model - and will you ever lead you sectirs climate innovations 


5.3 bracnet

from 1996 abed started building virtual leapfrog partnerships for millions of women villagers thanks to internet silicon valley -bracnet case 5.3 since 1996  George Hara Founder at DEFTA Partners who also linkedin japans number 2 cell company


George Hara - BRACNet Limited

https://bracnet.net › boardofdirectors › george-hara
George Hara was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1952. After graduating from Keio University's Faculty of Law, Mr. Hara became involved in archaeological research in ...

ABED 1970-1996-2019- 
imagine replacing e=m-csquared by sustainability=e*billionwomensquared
whats extraordinary is the second half of abed's empowerment of billion women could now square solutions from 1.1 grassroots villagers previously disconnected from the world with potentially deep learning solutions from any gps on earth
imagine connecting 4.4 uni-world, 1.1-1.2 billion womens world and 5.3 internet
2001: within 5 years abed started a university- from the triangularisation of 
  • 1,1-1.2 women villagers microentreprenurship, 
  • 5.3+ emerging platform partners in worldwide digital exchanges,, 
  • 4.4 graduate students to become his legacy of collaboration around his life's work- brac university
 he could help billion women build the largest ngo partnerships and why not the greatest collaboration of universities of sustainability generation
abed spent his last decade inviting every sustainbility university to unite their students of being the first sustainability generation


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From Sir Fazle's last 47th annual report (2018) as chairman of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Cooperation


For nearly half a century, our work at BRAC has

supported the building of a gender-equitable

world.

What would a gender-equitable world look like?

A world where cultures, embedded systems,

and values based on patriarchy are replaced by

cultures, systems, and values that empower and

create opportunities for all. A world where girls are

just as likely to gain education and skills as boys,

where women are just as likely as men to own

land, have control over assets and decisions, and

succeed in the workplace, and where men and

women share responsibilities at home equally.

Gender equity is a cross-cutting issue for all

of us - individuals, communities, corporate

organisations, non-governmental organisations,

and governments. We all need to push ahead

and find new ways to achieve this. Gender equity

plays a vital role in both social development and

domestic harmony and, as such, remains one of

our top commitments at BRAC. We will continue

to fight against anything that stands in the way

of women’s development, holds women back,

deprives them of their rights, and damages their

self-esteem or self-respect.

Only a few countries have come close to

achieving gender equality. By comparison, in the

11 countries where BRAC operates, the work

is just beginning. Despite making creditable

progress on some socioeconomic indicators,

we still lag behind in ensuring respect and fair

treatment for women. We must be steadfast in our

struggle to create an equitable society.

Although the challenges may be daunting, we

must not accept the world as it is today. Children

should not be forced to become brides, women

should not have to do more work for less pay,

and wives and mothers should not have to carry a

disproportionately high burden of responsibility at

home. We cannot sit idly by as the harassment of

women and girls continues unabated - at home,

in public spaces, and in the workplace. Rather,

we must continue to act on our conviction that

women are the real agents of positive change for

their families, communities, and for societies as a

whole.

BRAC continued to tackle many of these issues

head on in 2018. This report highlights some of

our work in these areas. As we move forward

towards the third decade of this century, we

must continue to prioritise action that will lead us

towards gender equality, and must do so with a

sense of impatience and urgency. We must strive

to create a world free of systemic prejudice, where

gender-based violence in all its forms is rooted out

for good. For we cannot and will not have peace,

justice, or shared prosperity

MIT's great intro to BRAC ..-happy 50 brac & happy 21st to partners Abed Uni: 2022 trilliondollaraudits.com: prioriitising fazle abed friends 10+1 global market purposes
conflicts to solve-
5.4 why is it difficult to get 100 universities to share graduates and replicable sustainability solutions?
5.5 human wrongs: why are nations failing to unite around climate races even as tech is making outer space races celebrated? which of the top 30 abed collabs do you most need help conflict resolving - chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
5.6 zoom me up scotty- updated tour of zooms no world leader or college student or professor of covid & cop generations can afford not to click
1-2-3 of monetary systems of Asian 1 billion girls
Economistwomen.com teachforsdgs.com Scots since Adam Smith have been curious about how the invention of engines Glasgow 1760s would be applied. In our view; the root cause of the world wars was that over nearly 2 centuries only about 20% of people (mainly white European/American) had access to the benefits eg electricity grids and emerging telecoms. Particularly across the Asian contient wher4e 60%^ of people lived, colonial empires especially Britain had not shared engineering except to control trade. My dad Norman Macrae hoped that teenagers would enjoy happier and more productive lives than serving as a navigator allied bomber command world war2 burma campaign. Thanks to Americans he survived; met Keynes, became The Economist's sub-editor of ending poverty, met von neumann whose industrial revolutions 3 ,4 he became biographer to; was delighted in 1962 to see that he his war time enemy Japan and Taiwan had started up 2 Asia Rising models supervillages and supercities. By early 1970s fathers started debating Entrepreneurial revolution 3, 4 in the economist also known as industrial rev 3, 4. Dad defined IR3 as the era of racing to end poverty with win-win community shared solutions networking value that big corporations and big government alone could not sustain; for more details see our 40 year future history 2020report written 1984. By the mid 2020s tata from every gps on the planet would not be real time governed by humans but ai algorithms if these were diversely calibrated. During my father\s life- the all time great entreprenurial revolutionary was fazle abed whose Collab platforms have formed the world's number 1 civil society network, helped celebrate empowerment of 1billiongirls, and offer 2020s benchmarks for sustainability generation. Lets explore 30 collabs abed invites all sustainability millennials to linkiin as well as ideas to resolve final system conflicts eg climate that Abed demanded that hundreds of universities' graduate partnerships and humanising of AI would achieve in time.
.5.4 sdg uni collab links from south 1 2 3
4.5 why not abed playschools everywhere


Help assemble library - 2025 - valuing younger half of world NOW! as Sustainability Gen is not mission impossible
Sustainability never seemed impossible 15 times we were privileged to notetake from Fazle Abed in Bangladesh; it didnt seem impossible in 1984 when I co-authored 2025 report with dad Norman Macrae drawing on 22 years of notes from Asia Rising Models; 30 years of notes from meeting von neumann; 40 years of surviving being teenager in bomber command burma campaign; 141 years of notes since James Wilson started The Economist (1843) to help Queen Victoria mediate commonwealth instead of slavemaking empire; 225 years of notes since adam smith asked are humans capable of applying machines morally, with emotional intel advancing the human lot; last chance to Humanise Artificial Intel is 2020s? Please mail links you feel 2025 library must celebrate doing now- chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Fazle Abed's 50 years of networking 1billiongirls to end poverty established the largest civil society partnerhip at his death in 20 dec 2019- help us map who's who as his movement geared to under 30s being the sustainability generation celebrates collabs the world over rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk to add a missing link

 partners/alumni continuing Fazle Abed legacy (year 2 since his parting) -who have we left out at www.teachforsdgs.com

Abed family
Guterres https://lnkd.in/dMjh3wq5 -alumni UNICEF James Grant & www.icddrb.org & Larry Brilliant https://lnkd.in/dcWM_3mn , & David Fraser (ex Swarthmore) & Manzoor Ahmed https://lnkd.in/dPY9kKh9
Quadir family https://lnkd.in/gDN5szHc
Abdul Latif (Toyota) https://lnkd.in/dgvg_paM
Netherlands Royal Family https://lnkd.in/defBESSH https://lnkd.in/d22XQUvq
British Royal Family https://lnkd.in/gJFKqH_7
Qatar First Lady & UN SDG advocate Sheika Moza
Billionaire Charles Yidan www.teachforhk.com
Billionaires Melinda & Bill Gates
Billionaire George Soros
Hara & Onodera https://lnkd.in/dkn2xpmU
Reeta Roy (Mastercard Foundation & Tufts alumni)
GABV https://lnkd.in/duhNNqUE
Klaus Schwab https://lnkd.in/dhiRYGjQ
Singapore Diaspora Association https://lnkd.in/d6z7EHT9 BOP hub https://lnkd.in/dFXZXQuS
Lego Foundation
LSE https://lnkd.in/dngxqGZX
Alumni Borlaug World Food Prize https://lnkd.in/dGRY2P2T
Ki-moon https://lnkd.in/dgwQG3Vs https://lnkd.in/d6FXsQUA
IFC & Jack Ma https://lnkd.in/davGhvku
see list Ultra Poor partners https://lnkd.in/dD9eTKeg
Jim Yong Kim & Paul Farmer
Education:
Gordon & Sarah Brown
Wendy Kopp - www.teachforall.org year 10 wise laureate inaugurated by WISE Sheikha Moza women's education city
Major authors Quiet Revolution :employee #3 Professor Martha Chen 1985 https://lnkd.in/dPUdc3DB ; Freedom from Want 2009 Canada's Lead Development Ian Smillie - see our 15 reports from 2009 & legacy interviews www.economistwomen.com www.abedmooc.com www.fazleabed.com fazle abed facebook fans group is at https://lnkd.in/d-QpvT5g
>>>Dhaka 2018 final climactic dialogue Fazle Abed - see www.teachforxx.com
..Sustainability's future - The Economist 1972
BRAC annual reports
2021 update scaling emergency solutions - published june early childhood play in rohinga/myanmar refugees 4.5
international youth newsletter aug 2021
humanitarian newsletter ================================= magic moments 2016 nationwide digital access to happy schools

 As homework for final ed of 2025 report: co-launching teachforFA.com teachfor.net teachforUN.com teachforAI.com teachforsdgs.com

In 1984 chris & The Economist's Norman Macrae co-authored 2025report.com-will education sustain or destroy millennials world?: in prep for final edition in 2023 along with feedback from von neumann biography in english and japanese: follow through Glasgow's ecop26.com & summitfuture.com JournalofNewEconomics.com  Economistwomen.com- partners welcome chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Don't let fame media dsitract you - we 8 billion people4 neeed media of 2020s most exciting decade to be alive:

3 generations grand parents, parents, under 30s need 

to map collaboration races round these 16 life shaping goals;

wherever process 17 big corporations and big governments ask for help; eg at cop26 they needed asked community on earth to connect diverse data through smart devices and tech which is now trillion times

more connecting than that needed to moon race 1960s 

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abed pdfs on university 1 :: tour AI for girls 1
fazle abed quoted by donella rapier 2018 : “The passion of my lifetime has been to work with people living in poverty and to see them, with the right resources and opportunities, transform into agents of change in their own lives, families and communities. The inequalities that create divisions of rich and poor, powerful and powerless, are made by humans. So change is also possible through human acts of compassion, courage, and conviction. I have spent my life watching optimism triumph over despair when the light of self-belief is sparked in people. As a team, I want us to keep lighting these sparks.”
global leaders who appear to have liked Abed include

  x UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a message read out by UN Resident Coordinator Mia Seppo  said Abed’s contribution in poverty alleviation and sustainable development are sources of great inspiration for the UN.  

“Sir Fazle Abed’s vision became Brac’s vision. He was against all forms of exploitation and discrimination. He was a strong advocate for women and through Brac he designed development models that placed women at the centre,”

Abed also understood that opportunity starts with the help of education, and Brac’s education model has been replicated around the world. 

“For Bangladesh, in the 1970s diarrhoea was the biggest killer. Sir Fazle Abed helped the country make dramatic advances in overcoming the disease through highly effective national campaigns. 

“Today the focus is shifting towards resilience in the face of climate change and humanitarian crises. Brac today is among the main responders to the Rohingya crisis. I know that Brac will continue to keep alive the vision of its founder.”

Guterres said the UN will stand with Brac in carrying forward Abed’s important work.


national leaders who appear to have innovated a partnership with abed - your nominations welcome
2020 qatar's first lady offers this report- she had started the 2010s with biannual summits wisE awarding education laureates, wisH -health laureates - abed came first among her education awards 21 wish nurses equity report
which tech leaders inspired abed most?
during a millennial goals brainstorming dinner, mrs steve jobs asked fazle abed why hadn't he gone a step furthet- beyong bangladesh why not brac intl to serve people outside bangladesh: consequences: fazle abed had been relentlessly questioning ops to go local to global from the mid 1990s three dynamics gravitated around fazle abed- how to share solutions the world wanted from bangladesh, and how to operationally serve those needs reliably - could new technologies finally empower villagers so he decided his questions and mrs jobs were huge enough to merit founding a new university - designed as much to explore what no western university knew about billion rural womens main advancement priories as teaching students as being a magent for susy=taiability worlds best longer tem partners






















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Xglasgow.com – what do scots -1/400 beings - uniquely know about extinction? Please mail chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you can report your peoples most unique sdg knowhow to multiply through collab networks and local communities www

2021 is most exciting time to be alive; we have 6 months left for peoples everywhere to unite in new edcation, health and and other system trajectories out of extinction. We agree with us climate tsar (hungarian-american) kerry- glasgow nov 2021 is humanity’s last best chance - economistdiary.com notes the last world series of summits advocated by scot and un global education envoy gordon brown nov cop26 october italy g20 sept unga76 ny; august un limit nuclear spending and proliferation

G5 G4 G3 G2 G1 valutrue goals- last chance 2021; 2nd chance birth un 1945; 1st chance glasgow 1760

Global village guide: we value fazle abed as glasgow and english speaking world’s number 1 partner in empowering women to end poverty and linkin sustainable communities. Among the 13% of the world of white ethnicity we were the first to be colonised by london from 1710. One consequence is 80% of us are diaspora- having made our livelihoods as worldwide immigrants. We are very happy for our fellow celts the irish- they have played eu and un to maximum development advantage through the 76 years of the un and 3ed/4th industrial revolutions which stem from the greatest 12 years of scientific change offered by one man : hungarian american john von neumann – see our biography.. We scots have never been a recognised nation at un/eu or in brexit. We second pope francis at strasbourg- although wondrous at birth messina 1955, from 1963 common ag policy: the eu has been mainly designed as ponzi scheme for elderly infertile descendants of white empires. Today Its top bureaucrats will spin fame media unless they now value billion poorest girls futures worldwide.

Only by lovingly and courageously doing this can parents celebrate youth who help change the failed G5 G4 G3 G2 G1 systems and legislators that stood by and let covod, climate and sub-prime ravage societies without borders. Mathematically borders are where greatest risks multiply because they are where professional monopolies and academics hide assumptions made to make the vested interests of their biggest clients bigger. Check that out by what einstein said about man’s science being an approximatio as nature is always integrating dynamics at more micro levels than man. Let’s hope that chaos Mathematicians re-edit tales of amazonia butterflies wing -flapping from 2020 by storytelling chaos of how a virus whose total size fits in a can of coke can dominate furure of life

Extinction will happen unless enough 2020s people everywhere celebrate actions of billion poorest womem who ended poverty 2020-1970 ; eg abedmooc offers you over 30 networks to collaboratively practice – we have longer diaries/learning curves of man and machine age because it started at glasgow university around james watt and adam smith; we agree with swiss and japanese urgent questions on society5.0 and understanding industrial revolution 4 exponential multipliers; when it comes to two thirds of humans who are asian it make sense to listen to tranformations advised by 3 royal families -Brits, Dutch, Japanese- who historically trapped most asians in poverty




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changing employment

the change from real world jobs to digitally empowered blended services is not an unprecedented rundown. In the 1890s, around half of the workforce in countries like the United States were in three occupations: agriculture, domestic service and jobs to do with horse transport. By the 1970s these three were down to 4 per cent of the workforce. If this had been foretold in the 1890s, there would have been a wail. It would have been said that half the population was fit only to be farmworkers, parlourmaids and sweepers-up of horse manure. Where would this half find jobs? The answer was by the 1970s the majority of them were much more fully employed ( because more married women joined the workforce) doing jobs that would have sounded double-Dutch in the 1890s: extracting oil instead of fish out of the North Sea; working as computer programmers, or as television engineers, or as package-holiday tour operators chartering jet aircraft.

The move in jobs in the past fifty years in the rich countries has been out of manufacturing and into telecommuting.

Changing education

There has been a sea-change in the traditional ages on man. Compared with 1974 our children in 2024 generally go out to paid work (especially computer programming work) much earlier, maybe starting at nine, maybe at twelve, and we do not exploit them. But young adults of twenty-three to forty-five stay at home to play much more than in 1974; it is quite usual today for one parent (probably now generally the father, although sometimes the mother) to stay at home during the period when young children are growing up. And today adults of forty-three to ninety-three go back to school - via computerised learning - much more than they did in 1974.

In most of the rich countries in 2024 children are not allowed to leave school until they pass their Preliminary Exam. About 5 per cent of American children passed their exam last year before their eight birthday, but the median age for passing it in 2024 is ten-and-a-half, and remedial education is generally needed if a child has not passed it by the age of fifteen.

A child who passes his Prelim can decide whether to tale a job at once, and take up the remainder of his twelve years of free schooling later; or he can pass on to secondary schooling forthwith, and start to study for his Higher Diploma.

The mode of learning for the under-twelves is nowadays generally computer-generated. The child sits at home or with a group of friends or (more rarely) in an actual, traditional school building. She or he will be in touch with a computer program that has discovered , during a preliminary assessment, her or his individual learning pattern. The computer will decide what next questions to ask or task to set after each response from each child.

A school teacher assessor, who may live half a world away, will generally have been hired, via the voucher system by the family for each individual child. A good assessor will probably have vouchers to monitor the progress of twenty-five individual children, although some parents prefer to employ groups of assessors - one following the child's progress in emotional balance, one in mathematics, one in civilized living, and so on - and these groups band together in telecommuting schools.

Many communities and districts also have on-the-spot 'uncles' and 'aunts'. They monitor childrens' educational performance by browsing through the TC and also run play groups where they meet and get to know the children personally...

Some of the parents who have temporarily opted out of employment to be a family educator also put up material on the TC s for other parents to consult. Sometimes the advice is given for free, sometimes as a business. It is a business for Joshua Ginsberg. He puts a parents advice newsletter on the TC , usually monthly. Over 300,000 people subscribe to it, nowadays at a 25-cent fee per person, or less if you accept attached advertisements. Here's an entry from the current newsletter:..

here you can download 2025 report-the whole of our 1984 book written to offer an alternative systems end game to orwell's big brother- you can also help us coblog 37th annual revisions at www.bidenuni.com- Q&A welomme chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk in wash dc +1 240 316 8157to cop26 glasgow nov 2021

as well as connecting the first 40 years of dad's diaries as teenager navigating allied bomber command over modernday myanmar/bangladesh to notes from keynes last class in cambridge to 40 years of scribbling leaders at the economist only 30 of 2000 of which he was permitted to sign - one anual suvey from age of 40 starting 1962 consider how japan (his teenage combatant)can help sustain two thirds of world's peoples who are asian. in fact the 1964 olympics was a joyous time in tokyo with prince charles and japan emperor mapping back how to end all the poverty traps their nations had compoubded in the past era or mercantile empires led by 2 small islands at exreme ends of the old world's continents -what marred this celebration was jf kennedy did not live to brainstorm mon races down on earth nor the consequences of the first wordwide satellite broadcast-and equally lives matter remapping did not kickstart inside the new world across peoples of every skin type

in my family tree 5 generations of diaspora scots -mainly medics social justice mediators, community builders and british embassy storytellers of loving different peoples- saw the world wars as mainly due to london corporate empire's mercantile age misusing james watt's and adam smiths machines stared up at glasgow u 1760- -if only lives mattered wherer humans and machines linkied in the world - goodwill could have multiplied sustaiablity across the road- give moores laws exponentials in dad's view the 2020s would be the last chance decade to humanise ai so that wherever next girl was born she and her community thrived

- 2025 report was revised in different ptint languages to 1993's sweden's new vikings -

1984littlesister.JPG

wanted round world happiness letters rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

....example dc<>tokyo

Dear Tsutomu and Yuko -happy new year to you and peoples in all hemispheres

would the publisher and you be interested in making a shortlist of people to send an early review copy of Von Neumann in Japanese to?

one difficulty is finding people who joyfully remember how exciting the 1960s seemed to be both because of Japan Rising with Deming and USA rising with Von Neumanns artificial intel and moon race

sadly the main historian at Harvard of this promise to unite youth: Ezra Vogel died in the last 10 days;

my guess is that leaves one pivotal Japanese person in Boston to send a copy to as joi ito - you probably know he was headhunted to lead MIT media lab and to bridge us-japan entrepreneurs; the media lab borders at least 5 generally interesting labs in addition to specific ones such as health, agriculture, ;

the original artificial intelligence lab formed with 3 years of Von Neumann's death,

Tim Berner Lee's www lab,

Rosalind Picard's lab - how do advances in machines 5 senses also augment senses for humans with disabilities

the new Schwarzman transformation of MIT linking in oxford and China's Tsinghua and 9 leading Japanese graduates, - if you could send a copy to Tokyo's Mayor/Governor Koike - she cares about education imagineering as much as Beijing's mayor -and both are caught up in the mess covid has made for Olympics youth - i once hoped that Naomi Osaka would win the tennis Olympics and go on to be Japans youth Sustainabiilty Development Goals ambassador but it looks like that world stage for lives matter societies has been lost

and mobile tech end poverty labs- these dont have one simple name but having visited mit most years since 2008 i can help ask around for a full list

none of these labs integrated edu tech the way dad and my 2025report.com first debated in 1984- frankly Nordica and Chinese diaspora eg Singapore seem to do that in ways that neither MIT AI lab nor the other twin AI lab at Stanford yet do

the japan society in new york one block from the United Nations is a pivotal community discussion hub- except while covid reigns; they staged an event with Joi Ito 2 years ago which i attended ; i tried to ask who was their new york number 1 humaniser of technology was but didnt get an answer- indeed they were also in the process of changing the organisational team-it may be a question the publisher can ask more directly than i

back in 2007 my next door neighbor Shimada, Takehiro worked at the japan embassy in DC; he was in charge of the annual cherry blossom festival; he connected me with the then head of JICA in ysa Yamamoto Aiichiro who shared my interest in Bangladesh as a tech lab for the poor as well as my fathers 1960/1970 surveys of japan and asia rising and humanising tech, I dont know how to contact these two people but tech for sustainability goals is something only japan can lead collaboratively in todays G7

Although my father supported Schwab world economic forum in its early days as an apres ski dinner roundtable Schwab's weforum managers dont recall; however it would be fascinating if Tokyo;s industrial revolution 4 hub of Schwab has any connections with the history of tech- I know Schwab's AI conference organiser so i could ask her for one name at Schwab IR4 Tokyo lab but I am not sure if Japan'sG20 please for society 5.0 and Osaka data track were ever understood in the west. probably the most highly connected person of all is Koji Tomita - I dont know if there is somebody in his team at USA embassy who might have time to read von neumann
BRIDGING 3 GENERATIONS WHO WIN OR LOSE OUR SPECIES
A key future history question seems to me to start up around who remembers why von neumanns inspirations in usa never came humanly together with Deming's inspiration in japan; there is even the extraordinary story around 1965 when intel received its then largest silicon chip order from a Japanese calculator company and rather than become too dependent on one client invented the programmable chip -why didnt Japan and silicon valley twin in the 1970s?

back in 1964 Prince Charles was inspired by the Tokyo Olympics, met Akio Motita of Sony, asked him to inwardly invest in wales one of the first Japanese inward investments in the west- but i dont know in both countries who connects that 57 years on

i realise both Prince Charles and the Emperors family are huge supporters of green technology; if anyone is preparing Japanese connections with Glasgow cop 26 my friends are trying to celebrate all youth organisations without borders; we have hired the Glasgow University Union for middle Saturday nov 6 so that youth and sdg led discussions connect with what Adam Smith and James Watt started 260 years ago

the two places to host briainstorming remembrance events of my fathers work were Glasgow University and thanks to Ambassador Sadoshima - in 2012 the Japanese Embassy in Dhaka - there my father's greatest end poverty hero chaired 2 dinner sessions:
*the future coalition of new universities needed if there is ever to be a first sd generation
* the future of fintech and economics for the poorest billion female Asians

Compared with the 1960s computing/commuications NIT team needed to code the moon landing, Moores law suggest we have multiplied capacity to analyse 10 fold every 5 years -approaching a trillion times moore by 2025 - but we don't seem to have united human and machine intel by any exponentially positive multiplier- i think von neumann would be sad that worldwide collaboration round trust in tech-youth had not yet multiplied across asia , europe, usa but then i grew up optimistically with Yoko Ono and John Lennon imagineering scripts in my mind-

the sdg generation is all to play for in the 2020s if Asians let it be
-as we enter 2021 it is not likely to be led by America's 5% of peoples not the EU's 5% unless something hugely different emerges at cop26

happy 2021 chris macrae wash dc +1 240 316 8157 Xglasgow.com
year 38 of project maps of dictionary ai and 2025 report by norman macrae and chris macrae

dictionary ai and 2025 report by norman macrae and chris macrae





On Sunday, 20 December 2020, 21:44:07 GMT-5, Tsutomu Yawata wrote: Dear Chris


The Japanese publisher also thank you for the updated bio. They will include this summary in their paperback edition. They appreciate your assistance.All the best, Tsutomu Yawata The English Agency (Japan) Ltd.

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On 2020/12/19 21:55, christopher macrae wrote:Hello Tsutomu and Yuko -may i wish you a happy/safe new year

I drafted a biographical summary of Norman Macrae. Can you and the publisher choose if you want to use parts of it on the book cover or inside?

I see Japan as making unique world leading choices with Society5.0, Osaka track, Reiwa era...Olympics, Expo25...

Personally I don't well understand the world of the 2020s: so please ignore this unless there are parts of it that resonate with you

Norman Macrae; Future Historian
1760s: When James Watt and Adam Smith started up lives of humans assisted by machines they hoped to map out worldwide improvement of the human lot.

By 1843, it was clear to Diaspora Scot James Wilson that empires led by Britain were spinning the opposite of a world in which all lives matter. He started up The Economist as a newsletter mediating purposeful futures of London’s Royal Society. The Economist’s 1943 centenary autobiography written at the height of world war 2 summarises how much more trusted mediation needed doing if technology was not to destroy the human race. At that time, Norman Macrae was spending his last days as a teenager in world war 2 with allied bomber command hubbed out of modern-day Myanmar.

1945 Surviving world war 2, Norman saw the opportunity to Unite Nations as a chance to sustain our species. From the last class at Cambridge to be instructed on Keynesian systems for ending poverty, Norman was overjoyed to be offered a job at The Economist paying 8 pounds a week. The other two most joyful events in Norman’s second twenty years of life were an interview with John Von Neumann on the legacy of his life’s work, and The Economist offering Norman one signed survey per year from 1962. Norman chose 1962’s survey to be about the rise and rise of Japan, and hopes for all of Asia’s reversal of the poverty traps that Empire had caused.

1960s John Von Neumann’s immediate legacy after his death in 1957 comprised the moon race and two Artificial Intelligence labs- at MIT Boston facing the Atlantic Coast, at Stanford facing the Pacific Coast.

Norman disagreed with western economists who started hiring themselves out to big government and big corporations in the 1970s. He sought to mediate an optimistic global village viewspaper and adopted the Keynesian role of future historian. 1970s Economist surveys epitomised this: 1972 the next 40 years, 1975 Asia Pacific Century, 1976 the Entrepreneurial Revolution of value chains integrated by small-medium sized enterprises, 1977 celebration that Asian village women empowered by rural Keynesianism and China’s happy intent to seed transformational education. In 1984, his family joined Norman in editing The 2025 Report- a 4 decade exponential countdown to sustainability

In 1989, Norman started an active retirement receiving the huge honours of Japan’s Order of Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon and Britain’s CBE. His first project: this biography on John Von Neumann. Norman died in 2010 but not before discovering one more unacknowledged hero- women empowerment’s Sir Fazle Abed.

2020s. Post-covid19, will humans open every society anew and value the futureoflife.org? Will we the peoples celebrate the third and probably ultimate chance to humanize machines by valuing all lives matter?

Let it be: the future of the Olympics out of the Orient, the future of climate summits out of Smithian Glasgow, the future of all humans-artificial intelligence communities everywhere : the flourishing of girls, boys, and every colored skin under the sun.


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Future History

Net Futures - The 2025 Report (title of american edition, english publisgers preferred 2024 report ie orwell +40)

Back in 1984 , Norman and Chris Macrae wrote "The 2025 Report: a future history of the next 40 years". It was the first book to:

.provide readers with a brainstorming journey of what people in an internetworking world might do

  • predict that a new economy would emerge with revolutionary new productivity and social benefits enjoyed by all who interacted in a net-connected world, designed for every community to thrive in diversity and goodwill multipliers of sustainability exponentials across generations

Our 1984 scenario of an internetworking world

Changing communications, and what makes people distant, bossy, etc

Changing national politics

Changing economics

Changing employment

Changing education

Our 1984 scenario of an internetworking world

The great technological event of the next 40 years will be the steady rise in importance of the Telecommunications-Computer terminal (TC for short)... Eventually books, files, television programmes, computer information and telecommunications will merge. We'll have this portable object which is a television screen with first a typewriter, later a voice activator attached. Afterwards it will be minaturised so that your personal access instrument can be carried in your buttonhole, but there will be these cheap terminals around everywhere, more widely than telephones of 1984. The terminals will be used to access databases anywhere in the globe, and will become the brainworker's mobile place of work. Brainworkers, which will increasingly mean all workers, will be able to live in Tahiti if they want to and telecommute daily to the New York or Tokyo or Hamburg office through which they work. In the satellite age costs of transmission will not depend mainly on distance. And knowledge once digitalised can be replicated for use anywhere almost instantly.

Over the last decade, I have written many articles in The Economist and delivered lectures in nearly 30 countries across the world saying the future should be much more rosy. This book explores the lovely future people could have if only all democrats made the right decisions.

Norman Macrae, 1984.

Changing communications, and what makes people distant, bossy etc

Telecommunications are now recognised as the third of the three great transport revolutions that have, in swift succession, transformed society in the past two hundred years. First, were the railways; second the automobile; and third, telecommunications-attached-to-the-computer, which was bound to be the most far-reaching because in telecommunications, once the infrastructure is installed, the cost of use does not depend greatly on distance. So by the early years of the twenty-first century brainworkers - which in rich countries already meant most workers - no longer need to live near their work.

All three revolutions were opposed by the ruling establishments of their time, and therefore emerged fastest where government was weak. All three brought great new freedoms to the common man, but the railway and motor-car ages temporarily made access to capital the most important source of economic power. As most men and women did not like being bossed about by capitalists who could become more powerful because they were born stinking rich, they voted to give greater economic power to governments during the railway and motor-car ages. This was economically inefficient, and also made tyrannies more likely and more terrible. The information revolution was fortunately the exact opposite of the steam engine's industrial revolution and of Henry Ford's mass production automobile revolution in this respect. The steam engine and mass production has made start-up costs for the individual entrepreneur larger and larger, so that in both the steam and automobile ages to quote Bell Canada's Gordon Thompson in the early 1970s, there was 'no way an ordinary citizen could walk into a modern complex factory and use its facilities to construct something useful for himself'. But, as Thompson forecast, the databases of the next decades were places into which every part-time enthusiast could tele-commute. In all jobs connected with the use of information, start-up costs for the individual entrepreneur in 1984-2024 have grown smaller and smaller. It was 'never thus', said Thompson, 'with power shovels and punch presses'.

In consequence, in the TC age, the most important economic resource is no longer ownership of or access to capital, but has become the ability to use readily available knowledge intelligently and entrepreneurially.

Changing national politics

For a region's people to succeed in the Telecommuting Age there are four main requirements - satisfied in places as far apart ad Guam and Queensland and Cape Province and California and Penang and Scotland. First , as the prophet John Naisbitt said in 1982, 'the languages needed for the immediate future are computer and English'. Second, the area has to be a nice one in which to live. Third, it is important that all income earners should adapt happily to a 'cafeteria of compensation' schemes. These allow the individual employee to decide what mix (s)he wants of salary, job objectives, career aims, flexitime, job sharing, long or short holidays, fringe benefits or fringe nuisances. Fourth, there needs to be a competitive and quickly changing telecommunications system. The TC age is making understanding of these requirements increasingly transparent among human beings worldwide.

Governments at first tried to impede or regulate much of this, but an early discovery of the Telecommutung age was that we could change the way we chose our governments. Until the 1990s we had pretended to ourselves that we could alter our lifestyles by choosing on each Tuesday or Thursday every four years whether Mr Reagan or Mr Carter , Mrs Thatcher or Mr Kinnock, was putting on the tribal demonstration which at that particular moment annoyed us less. After the advent of the TC we found that the more sensible and direct way in which a free man or woman could choose government was by voting with his or her feet. The individual could go to live in any area where the government - which could from then on be a very local government - permitted the lifestyle, rules and customs which suited that human being.

Changing Economics

The introduction of the international Centrobank was the last great act of government before government grew much less important. It was not a conception of policy-making governments at all, but emerged from the first computerised town meeting of the world.

By 2005 the gap in income and expectations between the rich and poor nations was recognised to be man's most dangerous problem. Internet linked television channels in sixty-eight countries invited their viewers to participate in a computerised conference about it, in the form of a series of weekly programmes. Recommendations tapped in by viewers were tried out on a computer model of the world economy. If recommendations were shown by the model to be likely to make the world economic situation worse, they were to be discarded. If recommendations were reported by the model to make the economic situation in poor countries better, they were retained for 'ongoing computer analysis' in the next programme.

In 2024 it is easy to see this as a forerunner of the TC conferences which play so large a part in our lives today, both as pastime and principal innovative device in business. But the truth of this 2005 breakthrough tends to irk the highbrow. It succeeded because it was initially a rather downmarket network television programme. About 400 million people watched the first programme, and 3 million individuals or groups tapped in suggestions. Around 99 per cent of these were rejected by the computer as likely to increase the unhappiness of mankind. It became known that the rejects included suggestions submitted by the World Council of Churches and by many other pressure groups. This still left 31,000 suggestions that were accepted by the computer as worthy of ongoing analysis. As these were honed, and details were added to the most interesting, an exciting consensus began to emerge. Later programmes were watched by nearly a billion people as it became recognised that something important was being born.

These audiences were swollen by successful telegimmicks. The presenter of the first part of the first programme was a roly-poly professor who was that year's Nobel laureate in economics, and who proved a natural television personality. He explained that economists now agreed that aid programmes could sometimes help poor countries, but sometimes most definitely made their circumstances worse. When Mexico was inflating at over 80 per cent a year in the early 1980s , the inflow to it of huge loanable funds made its inflation even faster and its crash more certain. The professor set Mexico's 1979-1981 economy on the model, pumped in the loaned funds and showed how all the indicators ( higher inflation, lower real gross domestic product and so on) then flashed red, signaling an economy getting worse, rather than green, signaling an economy getting better. ..The professor then put the model back to mirror the contemporary world of 2005, and played into it various nostrums that had been recommended by politicians of left, right and centre, but mostly left. The dials generally flashed red. Then the professor provided another set of recommendations , and asked viewers who wished to play to tap in their own guesses on the consequent movement of key economics variables in the model. Those who got their guesses right to within a set error were told they had qualified for a second round of a knock-out economic guesstimators' world championship. Knockout competitions of this sort continued for viewers throughout the series of programmes.

In the second part of that first programme, the presenters dared to introduce two political decisions into the game. They said that government-to-government aid programmes had been particularly popular among politicians during the age of over-government, but there was growing agreement that government-to-government aid was the worst method of hand-out. The excessive role played by governments in poor countries was one of the barriers to their economic advance, and a main destroyer of their people's freedom. Could anyone have thought it would be wise to give aid to President Mbogo?

In consequence, the most successful economic aid programmes had been those operated through the International Monetary Fund, which imposed conditions on how borrowing governments should operate. The professor showed that IMF-monitored operations in most years had brought more green flashes from the model than red. But this involved IMF officials - often from the rich countries - in telling governments of poor countries what to do; and one of the objectives of this town meeting of the world was to diminish such embarrassments.

The first questions to be asked in the next few programmes, said the compilers, were 1) which countries should qualify for aid? ; and having decided that, 2) up to what limits and conditions? ; and 3) through what mechanisms? They promised that later programmes after the first half-dozen would examine how any scheme could be used to diminish the power of governments and increase the power of free markets and free people.

Changing employment

In a typical 21st C scene, obedience to consumer needs is shown by every car plant in the world because of better and more customised information available on all our TCs. Most people buying a car in 2024 will key into their special requirements into their TCs.

The TC will reply: "You can get a customised car which meets all of your specifications by putting personalised instructions on the software of the assembly line's robots in one of these factories (choice of nine) requesting that the next car on the line be modified as you dictate. But that would cost up to $40,000 (Click to factories for quotations and credit facilities). For a fifth of that price, you can meet most of your requirements by the following standard computer programme at present scheduled for production in June at Nissan Kanpur; or July at Ford Manila (and so on). Click to factories for precise specifications and prices.

All of this has become commonplace after 2000. How has it affected employment?

For a new industry of 2019-2024 let us cite the intendedly short-lived example of the Clark-Schmidt Robot Gardener. Matthew Clark was a 53-year old on his third university course (he had started the other two at the ages of nineteen and thirty-seven respectively) telecommuted through the University of Southern California, although he took it while living in his native Australia , when, together with two other student's telecommuting through USC's database, he devised a system for a robot-driven lawnmower which could also scan soil and assess the possibilities for reseeding. It signaled the videos to be called up on your TC to show alternative uses for the soil in your garden. If you picked one video display that particularly suited your taste, you keyed in its number into the Robot Gardener and it signaled back, 'put such-and-such chemical into my tank and seeds 1234, 3456 (et cetera), plus software program 29387 - both orderable through your TC - into my reseeder.'

Clark and his two colleagues put their tentative ideas for this device on the researchers' database monitored by the University of Southern California. The entry numbers to the USC database were held by people who had promised to accept the computer's judgement of the value of any ideas they might contribute to projects entered on it. In all, 1213 people - domiciled from Hanoi through Penang and Capri and Bermuda back to Queensland in Australia itself - tapped in suggestions for improvements, of which 176 were accepted nby the computer as worthwhile. The payments recommended by the computer ranged from $42 ( for a cosmetic improvement recommended by an eleven-year-old schoolboy) to one tenth of the equity (eventually worth several million dollars) for a proposal by a research team from another telecommuting university which proved important enough for Clark to feel slightly guilty about calling the Robot Gardener after himself.

When the improvements suggested by these 176 contributors had been incorporated by Clark into the appropriate software program for making the Robot Gardener , it was advertised on USC's entrepreneur-browsing program available on any TC. Entry numbers for the lowest echelons of this can be bought for a very few dollars, but the Robot Gardener was put on a higher echelon because USC's computer had signaled this was a potential quick winner.

One of those who had paid for an expensive entry number into browsing among good 'proffered opportunity products' (POPs) was a Dutchman called Carl Schmidt. He had become a successful 'arranging producer' in an earlier venture, and now occupied himself browsing through his TC looking for a second bonanza. He made an offer to Clark to tale an option for launch in return for a fairly complicates programme of profit sharing, which in practice (because arranging is nowadays a more skilled job than inventing) eventually gave Schmidt more money than Clark. Clark accepted this and Schmidt produced a prototype within three days by reprogramming robots in an experimental plant. A video of the prototype was put on consumers' TC channels worldwide the next week, and most of the 400 odd gardeners' TC channels round the world picked it out within days as a 'best buy'.

Schmidt's video advertisement said 'If you key in your order now with your credit number, you can get a Robot Gardener for a bargain price (applies to the first 10,000 orders only). Tenders are also invited for part of the equity.' The advance orders and bids for equity made it possible to finance assembly of the Robot Gardener for early-bid customers within a few weeks...

Note that there was never any intention that Robot Gardeners Inc should grow into a huge and long-lasting company. Clark and Schmidt are already researching and browsing into other possibilities, on separate courses. About fifty of those who succeeded by early participation in this venture hope to become the equivalent of Clark and Schmidt in other things.

At no stage has this enormously successful manufacturing venture employed more than 1000 people. It is therefore true that the loss of nine-tenths of manufacturing jobs , which we saw has been highest in car-making in rich countries, has also been true there in manufacturing jobs as a whole. Where these countries had 20-40 per cent of their workforces in manufacturing in 1974, they typically have 2-4 per cent now.

This is not an unprecedented rundown. In the 1890s around half of the workforce in countries like the United States were in three occupations: agriculture, domestic service and jobs to do with horse transport. By the 1970s these three were down to 4 per cent of the workforce. If this had been foretold in the 1890s, there would have been a wail. It would have been said that half the population was fit only to be farmworkers, parlourmaids and sweepers-up of horse manure. Where would this half find jobs? The answer was by the 1970s the majority of them were much more fully employed ( because more married women joined the workforce) doing jobs that would have sounded double-Dutch in the 1890s: extracting oil instead of fish out of the North Sea; working as computer programmers, or as television engineers, or as package-holiday tour operators chartering jet aircraft.

The move in jobs in the past fifty years in the rich countries has been out of manufacturing and into telecommuting.

Changing education

There has been a sea-change in the traditional ages on man. Compared with 1974 our children in 2024 generally go out to paid work (especially computer programming work) much earlier, maybe starting at nine, maybe at twelve, and we do not exploit them. But young adults of twenty-three to forty-five stay at home to play much more than in 1974; it is quite usual today for one parent (probably now generally the father, although sometimes the mother) to stay at home during the period when young children are growing up. And today adults of forty-three to ninety-three go back to school - via computerised learning - much more than they did in 1974.

In most of the rich countries in 2024 children are not allowed to leave school until they pass their Preliminary Exam. About 5 per cent of American children passed their exam last year before their eight birthday, but the median age for passing it in 2024 is ten-and-a-half, and remedial education is generally needed if a child has not passed it by the age of fifteen.

A child who passes his Prelim can decide whether to tale a job at once, and take up the remainder of his twelve years of free schooling later; or he can pass on to secondary schooling forthwith, and start to study for his Higher Diploma.

The mode of learning for the under-twelves is nowadays generally computer-generated. The child sits at home or with a group of friends or (more rarely) in an actual, traditional school building. She or he will be in touch with a computer program that has discovered , during a preliminary assessment, her or his individual learning pattern. The computer will decide what next questions to ask or task to set after each response from each child.

A school teacher assessor, who may live half a world away, will generally have been hired, via the voucher system by the family for each individual child. A good assessor will probably have vouchers to monitor the progress of twenty-five individual children, although some parents prefer to employ groups of assessors - one following the child's progress in emotional balance, one in mathematics, one in civilized living, and so on - and these groups band together in telecommuting schools.

Many communities and districts also have on-the-spot 'uncles' and 'aunts'. They monitor childrens' educational performance by browsing through the TC and also run play groups where they meet and get to know the children personally...

Some of the parents who have temporarily opted out of employment to be a family educator also put up material on the TC s for other parents to consult. Sometimes the advice is given for free, sometimes as a business. It is a business for Joshua Ginsberg. He puts a parents advice newsletter on the TC , usually monthly. Over 300,000 people subscribe to it, nowadays at a 25-cent fee per person, or less if you accept attached advertisements. Here's an entry from the current newsletter:

"Now that TCs are universal and can access libraries of books, 3-d video, computer programs, you name it, it is clear that the tasks of both the Educator and the Communicator are far more stimulating that ten years ago.

One of my recent lessons with my ten-year-old daughter Julie was in art appreciation. In the standard art appreciation course the TC shows replicas of famous artists' pictures, and a computer asks the pupil to match the artist to the picture. Julie said to the computer that it would be fun to see Constable's Haywain as Picasso might have drawn it. The computer obliged with its interpretation , and then ten more stylised haywains appeared together with the question 'who might have drawn these?'. I believe we are the first to have prompted the TC along this road, but it may now become a standard question when the computer recognises a child with similar learning patterns to Julie's.

It is sometimes said that today's isolated sort of teaching has robbed children of the capacity to play and interact with other children. This is nonsense. We ensure that Julie and her four year old brother Pharon have lots of time to play with children in our neighbourhood . But in work we do prefer to interact with children who are of mutual advantage to Julie and to each other. The computer is an ace teacher, but so are people. You really learn things if you can teach them to someone else. Our computer has helped us to find a group of four including Julie with common interests, who each have expertise in some particular areas to teach the others.

The TC also makes it easier to play games within the family. My parents used to play draughts, halma, then chess with me. They used to try to be nice to me and let me win. This condescending kindness humiliated me, and I always worked frenetically to beat my younger brother (who therefore always lost and dissolved into tears.) Today Julie, Pharon and I play halma together against the graded computer, and Julie and I play it at chess. The computer knows Pharon's standard of play at halma and Julie's and mine at chess. Its default setting is at that level where each of us can win but only if we play at our best. Thus Pharon sometimes wins his halma game while Julie and I are simultaneously losing our chess game, and this rightly gives Pharon a feeling of achievement. When Julie and I have lost at chess, we usually ask the computer to re-rerun the game, stopping at out nmistakes and giving a commentary. As it is a friendly computer it does a marvelous job of consoling us. Last week it told Julie that the world champion actually once made the same mistake as she had done - would she like to see that game?

I intend to devote the next two letters to the subjects I have discussed here , but retailing the best of your suggestions instead of droning on with mine."

While the computer's role in children's education is mainly that of instructor (discovering a child's learning pattern and responding to it) and learning group matcher, its main role in higher education is as a store of knowledge. Although a computer can only know what Man has taught it, it has this huge advantage. No individual man lives or studies long enough to imbibe within himself all the skills and resources that are the product of the millennia of man's quest for knowledge, all the riches and details from man's inheritance of learning passed on from generation to generation. But any computer today can inherit and call up instantly any skill which exists anywhere in the form of a program.

This is why automatically updated databases are today the principal instruments of higher education and academic research. It is difficult for our generation to conceive that only forty years ago our scientists acted as tortoise-like discoverers of knowledge, confined to small and jealous cliques with random and restricted methods of communicating ideas. Down until the 1980s the world has several hundred sepaate cancer research organisations with no central co-ordinating database.


2025 report authors' prologue

chapter 6 fintech for the unbanked, media true to goal of end poverty

chapter 7 changing manufacturing employment

chapter 8 changing education

chapter 9 digital infrastructure revolution

chapter 10 -changing politicians

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1 globalgrameen and the Medgar Evers Devate on Social Solutions the Moore the Better -with thanks to SoundtrackNY top 100 Open Spaces of Sustainabilituy=Youth's Productive Decade (To Be In the half Of the wrld aged under 300
2 Yunus.tv with special features on AfricanIdol.tv
3 Yunus10000.com - the 69th birthday wish of muhammad Yunus for 10000 Yuth Ambassadors

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8 check up with the ny bangladeshi poverty research institute at berkeley and help tross check up whether clinton university is preparcd to celebrate chinese millennials april 1-what else does she need to research before obamas relaunch as a professor in columbia uni

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