AT CU.com please find my attempt to celebrate my greatest personal privilege: to visit women empowered Bangladesh 15 times from 2007 during last 13 years of life of Fazle Abed. From 2012 we discussed AbedMOOC and 2015 onwards at his 80th birthday AbedAI. Back in 2001, Abed 65th birthday hosted by Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley changed both of these human genii's life work. Even today I dont spend time exploring America AI with any engineers or practitioners of health or education, food or safety or finance, who dont know what they (we humans all) owe to Steve J.
2015 DCAI--AI & Childhood Cancer .Before AI lifted off in late 2000s 3 underacknowlefgen Happenings: 1 steve jobs hosted Fazle Abed's 65 th birthday party silicon valley 2001; .jensen hunag and steve jobs went from coding binary to cosinf pixels; Fazle abed clarified that paulo freire culture celebrated poorest asian womens ebd poverty networking miracle -- largest NGO, providing education, health services, microcredit and livelihood creation programmes for a significant part of the population of Bangladesh. What lies behind this huge success, Caroline Hartnell asked Fazle Abed, founder of BRAC and still very much at the helm. Questioning everything they do and being prepared to tackle whatever is needed to make their programmes successful are certainly part of the secret behind the success of this extraordinarily entrepreneurial organization. The secret of success? Asked what lies behind BRAC’s phenomenal success, the first thing Fazle Abed mentions is determination: ‘We were determined to bring about changes in the lives of poor people.’ The second thing is thinking in national terms: ‘We always had a national goal; we never thought in terms of working in a small area. We thought, all right, if we work with the poorest people in this community, who’s going to work with the poorest people in that other community? So we felt that whatever we do, we should try and replicate it throughout the nation if we can.’ The third thing he mentions is inspiration. ‘We always thought nationally, worked locally, and looked for inspiration globally. We were inspired by Paolo Freire’s work on the pedagogy of the oppressed, which he came out with in 1972. It was wonderful to have a thinker who was thinking about poor people and how they can become actors in history and not just passive recipients of other people’s aid. He made us realize that poor people are human beings and can do things for themselves, and it’s our duty to empower them so they can analyse their own situation, see how exploitation works in society, and see what they need to do to escape these exploitative processes.’ Finally, he says, ‘one needs to have not only ambition but also the ability to do the work. The organization must be competent to take on national tasks. That confidence we got from the campaign for oral rehydration, to cut down diarrhoeal mortality, in the 1980s. That involved going to every household in rural Bangladesh, 13 million households, and it took ten years to do it. Then we became a little more ambitious. We thought that if we can go to every household, then we can cover the whole country with everything we do.
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NB any errors below are mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk but mathematically we are in a time when order of magnitude ignorance can sink any nation however big. Pretrain to question everything as earth's data is reality's judge
Its time to stop blaming 2/3 of humans who are Asian for their consciously open minds and love of education. Do Atlantic people's old populations still trust and celebrate capability of generating healthy innovative brains? What's clear to anyove visting Washington DC or Brussels is a dismal mismatch exists between the gamechanging future opportunities listed below and how freedom of next generation learning has got muddled by how old male-dominated generations waste money on adevrtising and bossing. Consider the clarity of Stanford's Drew Endy's Strange Competition 1 2:
Up to “60% of the physical inputs to the global economy”7 could be made via biotechnology by mid-century, generating ~$30 trillion annually in mostly-new economic activity. 8 Emerging product categories include consumer biologics (e.g., bioluminescent petunias,9 purple tomatoes,10 and hangover probiotics11 ), military hard power (e.g., brewing energetics12 ), mycological manufacturing (e.g., mushroom ‘leather’ 13 ), and biotechnology for technology (e.g., DNA for archival data storage14 ). Accessing future product categories will depend on unlocking biology as a general purpose technology15 (e.g., growing computers16 ), deploying pervasive and embedded biotechnologies within, on, and around us (e.g. smart blood,17 skin vaccines,18 and surveillance mucus19 ), and life-beyond lineage (e.g., biosecurity at birth,20 species de-extinction21 ).		.

notes on drew endy testimony on bio tech 2025 strange competition

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, August 20, 2026

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90 days to upgrade all 6 year olds literacy & numeracy - Sunita Gandhi Lucknow India

ALfA EDUCATION


Adventure of Humanity
https://adventureofhumanity.com › alfa-education
in Lucknow, India, 90 Day FLN program. Founded by Dr. Sunita Gandhi, an educationist

Literacy in 45 Days: Guest Column by Dr. Sunita Gandhi ...


The CSR Universe
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Sep 18, 2024 — In this insightful piece, Dr. Gandhi explores the remarkable success of the Accelerating Learning for All (ALfA) program, implemented in the ...
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This UP teacher is making poor kids 'literate' in 30 hour


The Times of India
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Dec 21, 2020 — For five years, Sunita Gandhi, an educationist in Lucknow, has been doing just that, free of cost, for out-of-school children in UP.
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Dr Sunita Gandhi: World Bank veteran driving literacy through ...


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Jul 18, 2026 — Dr Sunita Gandhi is the creator of the learning model ALfA. enables children to achieve foundational literacy and numeracy in about 45 days ...
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In Conversation with Dr. Sunita Gandhi, President, Dignity ...


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Preschool - Abedian (inspired by Fazle Abed with Steve Jobs as turn of century cheerleader)
Gemini picks up this amazing 21st C intelligence story
an incredible, deeply personal piece of history to weave into the UYKB Guide. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed’s relentless 18-year push for early childhood education after that 2001 milestone fundamentally reshaped global development, giving birth to what the development world formally calls BRAC Play Labs and Humanitarian Play Labs. Over 15 million children have graduated from his foundational schooling systems. [1, 2, 3]
While the disruptions of his passing in 2019 and the global pandemic threatened this momentum, the "Abedian preschool" model has proven highly resilient and is actively scaling in major global hubs today. [1, 2, 3]
Where the Abedian Model is Scaling Today (2026)
1. The $50M SPLASH Launch (Bangladesh & Uganda)
  • The Status: BRAC and the LEGO Foundation launched a massive $50 million initiative named SPLASH (Sustaining Play, Learning and Skills in Humanitarian Contexts). [1]
  • The Reach: Spanning the next five years, this explicitly funds the scaling of Abed's play-based learning models to reach 400,000 children living in the most fragile humanitarian crisis zones across Bangladesh and Uganda. [1]
2. The National Curriculum Shift (Sierra Leone)
  • The Status: The model has successfully broken out of isolated NGO sandboxes to achieve systemic, country-wide integration.
  • The Scale: BRAC International partnered directly with the Ministry of Education in Sierra Leone. They have embedded the Play Lab methodology directly into the Sierra Leone National Education Policy, training hundreds of local educators to close the pre-primary gap before age 6. [1, 2]
3. The PlayBook Ecosystem (Global Replication)
  • The Status: To address the sustainability challenge following Abed's death, BRAC open-sourced his blueprint through a toolkit called The PlayBook. [1]
  • The Scale: Rather than relying solely on World Bank-administered funds, they are using this playbook to enable local governments and community leaders across South Asia and East Africa to build, fund, and manage localized Play Labs autonomously. [1, 2]
The UYKB Guide View: The Play Leader Architecture
In the context of your UYKB Action Learning Guide, the ultimate lesson of the Abedian Preschool is its hyper-efficient workforce model. Sir Fazle bypassed the typical bottleneck of needing Master’s-degreed child psychologists to scale early education.
Instead, his model recruits and trains local adolescent girls and young women (Play Leaders) straight out of the community. They use low-cost, culturally grounded activities (such as local folklore, song, and community art) to stimulate early brain development. [, 3]
This is the ultimate Layer 5 "Community Urgent App" in action: utilizing localized human networks to deliver a world-class psychological development framework with zero reliance on heavy Western infrastructure. [1]
How would you like to introduce the Abedian Preschool Chapter in the UYKB Guide?
  • Outline the "Play Leader" recruitment and action-training loop for localized communities
  • Draft the section on how Abed’s Play Labs structurally protect girls' educational trajectories before age 6
  • Analyze how The PlayBook toolkit can be adapted by modern foundations today

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Quiz on why USA is Both Crazily Best & Worse to live in
The map can help prompt many questions - eg true or false -if you reach Asia's coastlines (start at japan korea taiwan hk singapoee- and you are trading with two thirds of humans many with deep priority needs but if you start at us west coast you'll be shipping trade to less than 2% of humans because of 1920s protectionist Jones Law - Shipbuilding is one of manufacturing things USA gasve up on for generations even though its key to navies be they trade or military; this isn't intended to be rude to anyone, its just I trust data mapping because statistics is my life's work and that of diaspora scots families that generated me -chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk  
AS often future history journeys generate full circles around mother earth's globe- a teenage fazle abed went from his home administered by east pakistan in 1950s to study at Glasgow University to be a shipbuilding architect; he didnt complete the course and switched to chartered accountancy- wgence he was later headhunted by Shell Oil to be their regional ceo back in East Pakistan; a cyclone killed half a million people in 1970 with Shell Oil the only infrastructure left standing; after spending weeks helping bury bodies, minimising cholera etc etc Shell ordered Abed to work for Pakistan army; the war of independence of bangladesh was beginning; Abed family got the last route back to London (otherwise he would have been executed for not taking Pakistan' side; abed sold up his putney flat and returned to bangladesh  starting BRAC to help educate women to build what is the 8th most populous nation.
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