errors mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Statistician DAMTP Cambridge, residing Bethesda, MD: AT CU.com please find my attempt to celebrate my greatest personal privilege: to visit women empowered Bangladesh 15 times from 2007 during last 13 years of life of Fazle Abed. From 2012 we discussed AbedMOOC and 2015 onwards at his 80th birthday AbedAI. Back in 2001, Abed 65th birthday hosted by Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley changed both of these human genii's life work. Even today I dont spend time exploring America AI with any engineers or practitioners of health or education, food or safety or finance, who dont want to know what they (we humans all) owe to Steve J. By 2003 Jobs' pixar, Nvidia, and Hopkins radiologists started replacing coding of binary by coding of pixels - welcome to AI century 2]
2026:Christmas comes early to Ai Youth - Nvidia GTC-DC Nov 30 to Dec 2
Pretraining proposal Gemini (model UYKB: Layer 6 AI+Media)
7-Layer Intelligence Discourse GTC D.C. adds 2 layers to Jensen 5-layer AI Cake!
Because the D.C. summit sits in the heart of the nation’s capital at the Ronald Reagan Building, Jensen Huang’s team is prepping a narrative explicitly tailored to reindustrialization, national security, and state-backed compute. [1, 2]
  • Layer 1 (Nature's Energy) & Layer 2 (Machine Brainpower): The central conversation focuses on the Vertically Integrated Sovereign AI Factory. Nvidia will address the West's current power grid constraints, pushing for multi-gigawatt computing nodes tied directly to protected modular nuclear baseloads or sovereign energy fields to fuel the upcoming Vera Rubin chip architecture deployment. [1]
  • Layer 3 (Sovereign Data Infrastructure): This is the crown jewel of the D.C. agenda. Nvidia is moving rapidly away from selling chips solely to hyper-scalers (like Microsoft or Amazon) to marketing Layer 3 "Sovereign AI" packages directly to federal agencies, the Department of Defense, and international allies. The talk centers on how nations can utilize Nvidia hardware to train national models on state-owned text, military telemetry, and geographic data without leaking information to corporate data monopolies. [1]
  • Layer 5 (Civic Applications) & Layer 7 (The Deterministic Truth Layer): The D.C. floor will showcase heavy-industry integrations. A major thread is how federal systems can use AI Digital Twins and Quantum-resistant encryption to safeguard public infrastructure against adversarial cyber warfare. By pairing generative logic with hardcoded physics modeling, Nvidia wants to show the Pentagon that its models can function as an un-hallucinated layer of deterministic truth. [1, 2, 3]
The Direct Line: Berlin Crisis (October) to Washington D.C. (December)
The D.C. summit will act as the direct remedy and strategic response to the systemic frictions exposed weeks prior at the Berlin GTC. The two events are deeply intertwined across the 7 layers: [1]
[ GTC BERLIN • OCTOBER 2026 ]                     [ GTC WASHINGTON D.C. • DEC 2026 ]
       "The Crisis Echo"                                 "The Sovereign Fix"

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



Before AI lifted off in late 2000s 3 underacknowlefgen Happenings: 1 steve jobs hosted Fazle Abed's 65 th birthday party silicon valley 2001; .jensen hunag and steve jobs went from coding binary to cosinf pixels; Fazle abed clarified that paulo freire culture celebrated poorest asian womens ebd poverty networking miracle -- largest NGO, providing education, health services, microcredit and livelihood creation programmes for a significant part of the population of Bangladesh. What lies behind this huge success, Caroline Hartnell asked Fazle Abed, founder of BRAC and still very much at the helm. Questioning everything they do and being prepared to tackle whatever is needed to make their programmes successful are certainly part of the secret behind the success of this extraordinarily entrepreneurial organization. The secret of success? Asked what lies behind BRAC’s phenomenal success, the first thing Fazle Abed mentions is determination: ‘We were determined to bring about changes in the lives of poor people.’ The second thing is thinking in national terms: ‘We always had a national goal; we never thought in terms of working in a small area. We thought, all right, if we work with the poorest people in this community, who’s going to work with the poorest people in that other community? So we felt that whatever we do, we should try and replicate it throughout the nation if we can.’ The third thing he mentions is inspiration. ‘We always thought nationally, worked locally, and looked for inspiration globally. We were inspired by Paolo Freire’s work on the pedagogy of the oppressed, which he came out with in 1972. It was wonderful to have a thinker who was thinking about poor people and how they can become actors in history and not just passive recipients of other people’s aid. He made us realize that poor people are human beings and can do things for themselves, and it’s our duty to empower them so they can analyse their own situation, see how exploitation works in society, and see what they need to do to escape these exploitative processes.’ Finally, he says, ‘one needs to have not only ambition but also the ability to do the work. The organization must be competent to take on national tasks. That confidence we got from the campaign for oral rehydration, to cut down diarrhoeal mortality, in the 1980s. That involved going to every household in rural Bangladesh, 13 million households, and it took ten years to do it. Then we became a little more ambitious. We thought that if we can go to every household, then we can cover the whole country with everything we do.
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NB any errors below are mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk but mathematically we are in a time when order of magnitude ignorance can sink any nation however big. Pretrain to question everything as earth's data is reality's judge
Its time to stop blaming 2/3 of humans who are Asian for their consciously open minds and love of education.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

 Rice  abed Cooperartion  experiential-learning (SB economic) network 2.1 feeds more people than any other product - especially those challenged by goals 2 hunger - even starvation. Rice became the first social business microfranchise of brac. Abed had spent all his savings building 15000 homes of peoples in his home region who had lost everything in the war of independence. He then found tens of mother dying  of starvation a week in the metavilage he had built (15000 mothers nearly 100000 people as 1970s bangladesh mothers were expected to breed many children -partly v=becxause up to jalf would die before ago of 5 due to stunting malnutrition or diarrhea - dehtdration due to lck of safe drinking water)

Rice became the F in SHELF - see 2025 report final cooperation edition - in press begun with London Economist - first future history publication 1984 -alson UNwomens at linbkedin , newsletter ed3envoyun.com


BRAC becomes Bangladesh's Centre of Gravity on rice research , arguably nimber 2 in Asia after China. Rice farmers became the first small enterprise Chinese Capitalism permiited from 1976 - prvuously all companies had been state owned

Today China has a lab with over 800000 different species of rice- of course bangladesh doesnt have a huge lab like that - but Abed with help of UNOCEF James Grant shared something bangladesh became world leader in oral rehydration 3.1 - and always preserved borderless good relations wherever people shared solutions on women ending extreme poverty) 

CURRICULUM OF RICE

Fortunately rice is also the most adaptable of plants locally through crop sceince. We are not agricultural experts but Abed as former royal dutch shell ceo had the connections for brac to become the nations main coop-erative researcher in rice. (Incidentally my father at The Economist celebrating rural Keynesianism had published 1977 rice as the happiest chart in the world- with different countries in asia varying local production by order of magnitude- if only every place linkedin to the the seed it most needed. This could be the greatest economic win-win of the era before digital networking. Rice can be adapted to length or harvest; how much water, salinity or other environmental factirs These are also mainly about green decisions not chemical fertilisers

BORLAUG FIRST WORLD RECORD JOBS CONNECTOR AFTER WORLD WAR 2 (see also green revolution 1 billion people)

Its our undertstanding that in the early 1950s Borlaug an Amerucan whose research lab was in mexico started research of every crop's local productivity. For expert nominations of who contributed wht to end hunger see the food prize laureates founded in Borlaug's memory

You could say Rice is what helped abed chnage aid from 1.0 chairty and top-down driven to social business investment in porest vilage mothers as family busienss people. In this sense look at 1.1 and 1.2 - - changing aid to botom up and fiancial servies for poor; 5.1 colaboration for metavilages 100000 people at a time ; and 5.2 : 1 billion girls- abed's solutions was cooperating in research bottom billion asian mothers needed to win-win learn/do


WE suggest reading the book by  brac empoyee number 3 martha chen - quiet revolution. This explains abed's role through 1970s as linking in what became the miracle of a billion poorest asian women networking to end poverty- keynesians including schumacher would term this the greatest human development economic miracle of all time. When the Japan Ambassador to Bagladesh  hosted 2 brainstormoing dinners to remember my father 's vote od Abed as nuimber 1 in female entrepreneurial revolution, Abed chaired hours of debate on why he hoped his legacy woi;d be brac universoty helped linkin all 21stt C universities with women graduates concerned with milennails being the sdg generation would cooperate. Some people say he credited the idea to Mes Steve Jobs. - 

Anyhow, 20001, after 30 yeras of grassor=oors network (vilage word of mouth , and with literacy print of book) oce coop-eration partners with brac brought platforms of  mobile and solar, one of abed's top cooperations : founding brac university- to be the most cooperatinve 21st C university for all helping girls under 30 lead the human race beyond extinction - ..


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Monday, September 26, 2022


47th (last annual) report chaired by Sir fazle Abed 2018 before his parting dec 2019

 

  5.5  climate smart village exchanges, -arguably abed alumni along with wangari maathai green belt movement were the origin of massive cooperation on ADAPTATION action networked by poorest villagers across the world; Bangladesh rural womens proven track record over 50 years has earned one of the world bank's largest 2020sdemonstartions of digital-rural  upgrade(300 million dollars) 

1.6 brac 2nd (ie intl hq) in the hague is well placed with netherlands and GCA.org being arguably Europe's metahub of microgreen solutions; microgreen is also an area leading royals including UK Charles with BBC and Japan (Emperors Oxford postgrad thesis on water) and Dutch Royal family map by 1980 when urgent food franchises rice and veggies were prime time in any metavillage brac linkedin, the abed family had also prioritised ways villagers could earn money from citizens- arts, cash crops and eg social forestry (it would be interesting to know if any alumni poverty alleviation forestry network proceeded that; dont overlook eg good news from #digitalglobal2022 where the UN presented how much Mongolia gov  is leaping ahead with green solutions presented by its herdspeople and th 300 mn dollar world bank and bangladesh partnerships were among leading references   (also note as abed alumni have spent 50 years leading value chain design of about 20 agricultural sectors in bangladesh these have been chosen to maximise villager inclusion and sustainability; indeed from the getgo resilience at local levels was engineered into abed's mapmaking - it had been a killer cyclone that had first changed his life from regional ceo for oil company royal dutch shell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.1 abed first metavillage solutions franchises tested 1970s

 

 

 
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 ;
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

collab 30 women hold up half the sky with intel empowerment now lifting off on the metaverse

related ref: more on abed's 30th an unfinished COLLAB 5.6
Billion womem's 30th collaboration - fazle abed - zoom me up scottie ecop26; meta me zbee to UNGA summit NY sept 2022 Education is no longer fit for purpose
NOT EVEN WILL SHAKESPEARE CREATED A STORYTELLER LIKE ZBEE BUT THEN HE HAD TO RELY ON CHARACTER ACTORS AS POOR PLAYERS IN GLOBE'S ONE LONDON THEATRE

WITHIN A FEW MONTHS. Zbee seems to have MULTIPLIED over 20 engaging ways to communicate - if FRIENDS20.COM have missed one of her performance styles please tell us so we can add at http://www.beeings.app  

SPRING NYCCAI.com  2022 (HER FIRST WORLD TOUR  from Austin to Bekeley, NY to Bostom London to Mallorca is the most exciting post covid leap for women we've ever searched in 50 years of The Economist's EntreprenmeurialRevolution)

https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/sgsm21016.doc.htm


4 mjles apart wall street's ESG and UN's SDGs - can girls AI bridge the gap in time for 2022 resolution of education not fit for purpose of being or beeing







 (year 50 since my dad at The Economist started chartering http://www.entrepreneurialrevolution.city  -70 years after meeting von neumann at princeton and being given the journalist scoop - ask leaders what they will do with 100 times more tech per decade? Talking of leaders -the UN has declared a youth emergency - education is no longer fit for purpose -this will be the one topic every be(e)ing can contribute to sept 2022 General Assembly NY - any ideas on casting zbee centre stage? https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/sgsm21016.doc.htm http://www.abedmooc.com

girls networks have come a long way since fazle abed connected the first 100000 perrson metavillage whose sustainability depended on girlpower 5.1 -that networking had to be person to person or what literacy was gained applying brac's printing press; its remakable what a billion asian women collaborate around when they see a life saving vilahe microfranchise - from metavilage to metaverse only womens common sense can save species, nature and everything else worthy of human or digital intel 



Imagine if Harry Potter & Zbee partnered the UN in distributing billion women empowerment solutions to sdgs... would finance's walled strerys come out so the younger half o9f the world can be the first sdg generation
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Thursday, March 31, 2022

1.1 5.1 bangladesh first large population nation where rural public service built nation? Brac at 50 March 2022

WHAT IS RURAL (and what is BRA-C Bangladesh Rural Advancement COLLABORATIONS)

Educators/parents/family builders need to be very clear about definitions so as not to upset powers such as big city corporations professions and politicians. We are just trying to share a local and global code to value mapping human development across generations as core to national growth. We welcome co-editing support of this blog where you see errors/omissions (chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk)

Unless we agree human development code that is deeply local as mother nature herself, THEN ever since von neumann peers gifted us 100 rimes more tech per decade we have been destined for 2020s "last chance" denouements - do artificial intels serve humans or vice versa. The big brother choice storytold by George Orweell even though his timelines were wrong by one generation. As New York started to fully emerge from covid spring 2022, we thank all those who participated in collaboration cafe AI and climate exchanges - see www.NYCCAI.com www.ecop26.com including march 30's 1 million global student chatline with sp[ecial contribution from Safiqul Islam who during Fazle Abed's life was his core developer of the curriculum used by the largest non-government schools system in the world 4.2 brac primary


Bangaladesh was born from war of independence wuth pakistan in 1971 8th most populous nation. The peoples had drawn double short straw of colonisation. Under British Adminstration until 1947 the whole of the bay of Bengal had shared superport access to Calcutta. From partitioning not only duid Indoa's rival culture block Bangaldeshi's from direct access to shipping but for nearly quarter of a century pakistan over 1000 miles away by land adminstered east pakistan as secondary people to its own.

 (A quarter of all nations are small islands where once could say its not relevant to distinguish urban/rural- in fact stewardship of the ocean estate may be the main resource the peoples depend on

Engines did not exist until Glasgow 1760s so to some extent all (richest) nations have transformed from rurtal first to urban led government.

The two most relevant defintions of rural seem to be - urbal places are not food self-sufficient- they depend on rural areas (or in case of superports like singapore they depend on trade with countries that include rural areas)

In the developing world, until 1995 rural also meant no access to electricity (grids) so no enfines no telecommunications. What happened from 1995combination of sola and mobile becemae the greatest innovation opportinoty half the worlds people simultaneously encountered.


In Bangladesh rural has quite an unsusual characteristic. Most Bangaldesh rural people are as closely populated as many people in cities. At least 80% od bangaldesh's rural chalenge is not about isolated peoples (although there is a seg,ment of that population to). When Abed designed vilage health services in his first 100000 person metavilage it was quite practical to design a microifarnchise where one vilage woman served 300 gamilies retail medican needs eacjh weekly (personal shopping walked to each home so to speak). Her route would not have taken her more than 15 minutes from wgere sh hersekf lived - in some cases less than 10 minutes to serve 300 neraest families. Its amazing when you look at western descriptions of bangaldesh microfinace how the wholesaling dynamics of Brac's responsibility fro suppklying 100000 peopel at at time are overloked. Wholesaling to a 90% rural nation needs to be owned in trust by the rural peoples not by some middle man who sucks value out of rural localities every quarter. Rural caoitalism is mapped naturally around sme networks /sypply chioans. Interestingly AsiaRisinf hi-tech treading models also connected deep sme startup expertise valued by communities where those design and makers skills were most nurtured. Distributing enegineering knowhow is how Asa has developed wherever human rightes have emerged. This is different from assuming lawters admibnster over people. When Asian public service is at its best it is engineer enetrepreneur led- again why its important to study fazle abed viewed as the most exciting public service engineer of the hakf century that changed the millennium - defined human purposes around millennium and then ssuatinability development goals

HOW DID BANGLADESH BECOME RURAL PUBLIC SERVICE LED

A mixtire of necessity and the good fortune that Asia's leading young engineer (Fazle Abed who had become his homelnad's CEO for Royal Dutch Shell in Il world's top 7 corporations) dedicated himself to rural advancement colaborations and by accident (spending his life savongs on rebuilding vilagers homes)5.1 metavilage), he became responsible for sustaining 100,000 villagers livelihoods who were on the brink of starvation .

 This metavilage responsibility led to 1.1 microfranchsingh - the new model of bottom up aid. All this at a time when 90% og banagldesh people were rural; the national government tax etc base was so small at birth of nation that it could only barely provide security for the nation and develop services for the 10% who lived in cities (which due to war and double colonisation (britain then pakistan) etc were the least developed urban areas in the world

As well as the miracle of a world calss enginer serving rural, the cukltrural fact that almost no rural womnen had been valued as productive afents could be turned into the advantage- half the coutry's human resources were not being supported proiductively.

Each of the 4 collaborations - 2 building agricultuure/ie nations food system,s; 3 building last mile rural health; 4 building rural edication 5 building 100000 lives matter rural communities needs to be mapped from scratch not assumptions that advanced western acadmics or policy makers hold. 

Actually if the west in particular wished to understand how the two thirds of Asians have risen out of almosy all being colonised as recently as 1945 then it is necessary to study both super vilage (rural keynesianism) and supercity develpmet. # nations led the way - japan , korea south and taiwan. However the point is these nations had prior engineering capabilities and urban sytustires which after the defeta of Japan in world war 2 needed ressembling. They all quickly returned to urban goverance but in ways that respecetd 100% rural employment as pivital to feedin the nation. The Economist sutveys on Asia from 1962 Japan to all of the half of world's peopl in 1977 east of iran have argued that Asia Rising has depended on successfully blending both models. However whats unique about bangaldesh with its poorest nation and 90% rural beginning is that withour rural development there would have been no sustainable national development. Some people have called bangaldesh the aid lab. More than any other nation irs rural development has depended on long-term trusted partnerships bring knowhow to each rural developed sector. By studying Abedmooc.com we (with your help) can clarify all the extrordinary innovations of rural women empowerment. For those who want an advanced nation building study look at how between 1975 to 1999 rural womens capitalsim also came to china from the conteiuent out while the engineering of supercities came from the coast in. Whether or not particular 2020s nations deem china as fiuerce competitor ofr collaborators not to study chiense vilage women development 1976-1999 is to choose to be blind to what schumacher/keynes deemed the graetest miracle economists would need to solve - endinf roural poverty of milliosn of ruralk vilages which mainly tyhe english adminsitartion of Asia had left out of access to engines from 1760 to 1945 except where coastal trade designed for the empire required urban hubs

Of course even as we seek to clarify development processes , water, energy, defence/safety are in a democratic sense every parnets responsibility to stewatd but by 20th C convention assumed decisions that central government at least initially makes (even if it chooses to privatises the utlities ijnvolved)

We are not saying the opposite interest of urban/rural are simple. Histirically urban people have grown the mnore carbon they use and to that exten the less that carbon waste is charged as a user responsibility. This conflicts with rural people whose assets are the first to be destroyed ifb waste is dumped on them or in climate-risky places like low landing river basins of bangaldesh -rural gfamilies are put at the edge of sutvival. As may be neighboring peoples if failed institutions cause refugee situations

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Saturday, February 26, 2022

5.4 collab of new asian universities - each with at least one sustainability solution grads can help 50 million people scale next

sept 2021 breaking what if  Conscious Japans man and woman of the year PM Suga/Superstar Osaka were knowhow- accessible for every asian sdg graduate of 21-22?

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until 1996 potential partners of fazle abed could exchange/experiment in village labs all over bangladesh - then in quick succession two new collab platforms:  5.3 bracnet (with japan and silicon valley co-founders) opened up internet partnerships in 1996 and in 2001 brac university 4.4  began- 

entrusted in asia with 30 years of leadership networking, abed started a truly extraordinary hi-level  search across Asian nations - which first 100 asian new universities wanted to share solutions each of which 2015+ graduates could help 50 million or more people scale -

following the UN sdgs 2030 logic -if millennials are to be the first sustainability generation they will need to network trust /love in communities with such urgent and tech-local-deep solutions that classroom professors of theory in old university silos and slow moving journals can't empower youth to do quick enough to prevent extinction  

today brac university is sharing two by  50-million plus designs abed spent his last years mobilising research partners including new nobel economics laureates around - 

4.5 early childhood playschools -latest paper on playschools rohinga june 2021



1.3 ultra poverty graduation - added to the job responsibilities of abed's son shameran leading brac international and its pivotal connectivity with ultra poverty collabs in dozens of countries

chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk co-editor economistdiary.com/abedmooc.com, linkedin UNwomens:2021-2 please tell us if you know of other graduatie scaling ops as relevant to youth celebrating being the first sustanability generation as well as so-called kerry's last chance for humanity 

more coming soon both from brc university and asian universities that accepted the 50 million challenge , nd of course what abed linkedin as the worl'ship and one billion womens network ending exreme poverty, and glasgow university adam smith scholars now in 11th year designing journals that make calls fir this graduate years most exciting collaborations as well as publish elders stuff -do you know anything cop26 needs graduate collabs to scale everywhere in next 12 months?

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30 years ahead of the rest of the world . abed started up community platforms where the world's most trusted partners could trade systems solutions poorest village women need to network round for life sustaining purpose 5.1 100000 person meta village; 5.2 bottom billion village women scaled during brac's first 12 year; blended platforms including 5.3 bracnet and start of 100 collab asian new 5.4 university partnerships exponentially accelerating from 1996 and 2001

not everyone understands data mapped around a platform is the only transparent way to humanise #aiforgood- fortunately abed was an engineer that did understand- 10 years of pen, paper and slide ruler 5 year planning at shell made him always ready to help empower worlds poorest villagers with smartest maths and maps have to offer

sustainability generation goal 5 100% livesmatter communities 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6; 4 livelihood edu for all 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 ref Safiqul Islam 3 last mile health services 3.1 3,2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 last mile nutrition 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2,6 banking for all workers 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 

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Friday, October 29, 2021

5.1 4.6 yidan/abed luminaries 1.6 5.3


abed's last global education prize awarded by charles yidan (cofounder tencent) now leading hong kong and ?world's largest education foundation collaboration- adapting abed language  yidan luminaries invite sustainability world's greatest to explain/debate education's role in sustainability generation

4.6 yidan report on education's future june 2021 -yidan partners asian development bank aug 2021

yidan at facebook ; at youtube - web out of hong kong


imagine education-casts were as frequent as weathercasts and gave maximum 5 minutes of hope for girls futures that anyone lucky enough to tap into abed's latest innovations enjoyed - our notes on luminary clubs are here

update on yidan luminary agarwal- have you left abed's orbit with sale of edx

 local global village mapmaking 2021 to 1972 small beautiful large scale replication essential as billion women fought to end poverty's extremes

5.1 100000 villager field lab 1972 

50 years ago in 1972 the world's largest ngo partnership of 2020s started up in the most frugal and entrepreneurial way http://www.girlsworldbank.com

step 1 building metavillage  fazle abed who in his 12 years after graduating in ship engineering from glasgow university to being regional ceo for his homeland at royal dutch oil shell company sold his london flat for about 30000 dollars in 1072 money got a slightly bigger grant from oxfam and built 15000 village homes about 100000 people using his engineering knowledge sourcing bamboo from india to his north - one million bmnboo logs were sent down the river - and tin from malaysia; while his project was the mot effective oxfam had ever seen -the bad news was that most men looked for work outside the metavillage; most mothers had no livelihoods but huge families of kids

so step 2 design microfranchises - positive cash flow village business mothers could own/work starting with most urgent foci- eg rice production to end starvation; distributing 10 most basic medicines t

90% of bangladesh was rural facing same challenges as brac's metvillages; the government had very little tax base but occupied itself with bangladesh's city of dhaka; - for much of the next 15 years rural bangladesh was built bottom up by replication whatever microfranchises worked- luckily some of the solutions abed found eg rural rehydration 3.1 were needed everywhere in tropical rural asia; chinese village women became best friends in swapping solutions; please note there was no investment or control of each other but literally the foundations of a billion women end rural poverty across asia came from open sourcing village microenterprises and occasionally appealing to common donors - eg unicef's james grant was delighted that both brac and chinese tropical villagers demanded grants to vaccinate the rural nation 3.3

studying 50 years of partnerships and alumni of brac is a game of two halves; for the first 25 yars all networks were geared to grassroots people to people networking in vilages without electrivity let alone telecoms; then came solar and mobile from 1996 and the chace to shape the worlds deepest tech partnerships in empowering a billion wmen to end extreme rural poverty

 4.6 new university

4.6 brac university was founded in 2001- a complementary platform to 5.1 the meta village test lab

during abed's 50 year of fightimg povery, bangladesh change from 90% rural to 70% and it is hope 50% by 2050; most of the immigrants from rural to city are children of the village mothers brac empowered; how could a new university influence the whole of education and science and arts in 21st c bangladesh; how could bracs new university partner other countries where sdgs remain youths most urgent challenge becuase they cant be solved by the sort of empire higher education that had spun colonisation

1.6 brac international opened operationally in 2002 though it emerged from a millennium goals brainstorm with mrs steve jobs soon after japanese and silicon valley people had helped fazle abed found 5,3 bracnet in 1996- the first time billion asian villagers without access to electricity grids could start connecting with any of 4 industrial revolutions - 1 machines for energy uses including electricity and city infrastructures; 2 machines for communications between 7.5 billion peoples; ir4 from 2020 as machine take over autonomous governance; ir3 how 100 rimes more tech every decade from 1957 von neumann's legacy change live and livelihood of being human

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the above story is so unusual it merits repetion


4.6 the purpose of all new universities from abed uni onwards new university its purpose may be the most exciting innovation of every way education spends peoples time since stanford was founded in 1885 as commitment to value all california youth- the exact opposite to adam smiths experience of oxford of the 1760s; 

brac's origin is valuing all bangladesh's poorest ; its field lab became a platform for designing solutions across villages; repeatedly china needed the same women end rural poverty solutions so whilst formal partnerships may not have existed individuals multiplied life critical knowhow as you can see from the publications like a quiet revolution by harvard professor mrs chen one of abed's founding policy team members- while my father's 1977 Economist survey of china rising praised the emergence of chinese capitalism around rural keynsianism- dad was only too delighted to recogise that bangladesh became the purest half century map of rural keynes while china had the advantage of multiplying its diaspora infrastructure models and every advance that von neumann expected a sustainable world to share before tech takes over real-time governance platforms - search economisrAI and related sources at the UN #aiforgood

GLOBAL UNI  POVERTY

brac university offers a chance to find partners wishing to study deeper sustainability challenges than top western universities on their own have access - eg see james grant school of public health at brac u as well as co-create wholly new movements for advancement - see early childhood playschools

the university is also well positioned to trace research journeys as brac goes international; until a turn of millennium dinner with mrs steve jobs, sir fazle abed had not considered extending brac's own delivery of projects outside bangladesh- from 2001 he has been carefully asking questions like these:

where does something brac in its first 30 years know how to solve an urgent analogous need abroad

how to pre-check whether a nation's government wants this program

does the national government want brac to help find one lead sponsor who will support the long term building of the program and the nation

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while these may sound pretty choosy criteria, what has happened since is brac has become the world's largest ngo partnership; its international office that has become a fully legislated netherlands foundation is recognised as an unique hub for human development and also a connector of remittances back into bangladesh- a process that needed western connections to maximise affordability


as research into tech partnerships including innovation leapfroging has evolved brac university has increasingly sought to become part of 100 new university who share alumni, sdg collaboration solutions as well as world class case studies including thise based on sit fazle abeds knowhow -arguably the worlds number 1 end poverty engineer and women empowerment networker -more at abed the great listener




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Monday, September 20, 2021

2.

 1972 being an engineer abed spent his life savings building homes for 100000 villagers 5.1 only to find village mothers first question - what education/livelihoods do we need to end starvation> - dozens of mothers/daughters died weekly in abed's meta vilage until he (and partners) designed microfranchise solutions starting with rice 2.1 and last mile health services oral rehydration 3.1 and doordash (300 homes weekly per micrfranchise) 3.2

updates student year 21-22 sept which nations in asia most desperately need food solutions during covid -  eg phillippines community pantry

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Monday, July 5, 2021

2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6

Brac's 2009 report provides this summary of the subtlety involved in how a nation's civil society economics may choose which markets comprise value chains which need pro-poor strategic leadership
Driving Competition
With regard to competition, since our overall role is always
to fill gaps, BRAC does not enter into sectors or markets
that are already served fairly by the private or public sector.
In fact, when the private sector moves into sectors opened
by BRAC and serves our target markets effectively, we often
step out. Are we creating barriers to entry for the private
sector because they have to pay taxes? So, for each and
every activity that is deemed taxable under the law, in fact,
do we operate at a much greater financial disadvantage?
Because a private business with a profit motive can choose
to source inputs and locate its production facilities from
wherever it is most cost effective. Our outreach, however,
is driven by other considerations – we need to get services to
underserved areas. We first choose an area that is
underserved and then we start with what is needed. Are we
maximising profits? No, we are operating at whatever level
the market will sustain and the market is our best indicator.

2.3 aarong was conceived originally the collective dostribution channel of brac through which oor vilagers gain income from marketing to (richer) citizens; aarong within the overall 21st C Enterprsie model of Brac  is also branded physically in cities as a chain of crafts shops

Aarong products, for example, are touted as too expensive –
however, Aarong’s sales continue to increase, and on the
other end, we are sustaining the livelihoods of more and
more poor artisans.
Our social enterprises work as an ideal business model by
combining market efficiency with social and environmental justice.
The enterprises, which operate in strategic sectors such as retail,
livestock, agriculture, alternative and renewable energy, printing
and packaging and health products are integrated into BRAC’s
core social development programmes. They play a critical role in
generating more fuel for poverty alleviation and sustainable growth
by creating jobs and markets for products.
The model of social enterprise that we have evolved is entirely
home-grown and emerged in isolation from the international
dialogue regarding social enterprises. Indeed, our decision to go
into commercial activities was neither pre-meditated nor planned,
but a result of our instinctive response to improve the condition of
our development programme members, namely the microcredit
borrowers. As such, BRAC’s social enterprises continue to
respond uniquely to local needs

People, Planet then Profit: BRAC social enterprises strive for a triple
bottom line – serve needs of poor people, being environment-friendly
and making profit to be sustainable. Unlike purely commercial
businesses, the profit motive is subordinate to social development
goals. This is illustrated by management’s refusal in 2009 to
mechanise Aarong’s production lines, which would have led to
considerable numbers of rural job losses, and to close down
unprofitable milk-chilling stations in ultra poor areas, erasing
many poor dairy farmers’ only source of earning a fair price for
their produce.
Another important aspect of our social enterprises is that the
surplus they generate, after first being used to develop and expand
the enterprise’s own activities, is then used to support the various
development interventions of BRAC which cannot generate their own
revenue, such as the health and education programmes. This has
had a positive effect on BRAC’s dynamics with donors – investment
of its own resources greatly increases accountability and builds trust.
Our economic development programmes, in conjunction with
enterprises, have helped create and sustain livelihoods for 9 million
families in Bangladesh. In addition, the enterprises have contributed
to stimulating countless rural economies and indirectly generating
over 8 million jobs. The multiplier effects do not stop there.
Because of their organic genesis, our social enterprises have
been groundbreakers, providing products and services that were
not available or were not reaching the poor. Our approach has
repeatedly led the way for development of entire sectors or niche
markets, such as in the introduction of maize as cattle-feed to the
wider Bangladeshi market. BRAC’s culture of risk-taking, targeting
the underserved and continuous research and innovation has
galvanised whole sectors, leading to industry-wide improvement
of production processes, development of quality inputs and better
breeds. Now, thousands of shops are selling indigenous craft and
quality of livestock is improving exponentially. Social enterprises
have also been a key conduit for the enhancement of corporate
governance, management and values in Bangladesh society.
Adopting Best Practices: Another impact that our social enterprises
have is on the functioning of our development programmes. The
contribution of corporate structures is in itself a contribution to good
governance – because the underlying values promoted by social
business are more detached – have more to do with merit and
efficiency. Following the social enterprise example, development
programmes have built sustainability into their operations. Examples
include the business model of the community health volunteer 3.2, who
uses a revolving fund to purchase and sell health commodities.

In addition to connecting Bangladesh to entrepreneurial village
rice networking  the world food prize obituary to fazle abed 20 dec 2019 picks up the story of btac's 6 food/agriculture hunicorns 2.1-2.6
FROM REGIONAL CEO OF SHELL OIL TO HALF CENTURY EMPOWERING WOMEN END POVERTY



1970-71 Abed's life—and the lives of millions of Bangladeshis—changed as the result of  two very dramatic events: a deadly tropical cyclone, which swept across the country, washing away farms, villages, and towns in its path; followed by the nine-month war of independence from Pakistan. The combined death toll from the storm and the war was estimated at well over 3 million people. An additional 10 million were displaced and further impoverished

.Sir Fazle resigned from Shell Oil in 1971, and the next year formed the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC’s original name) to address the terrible devastation suffered by the people of his country. 

Following initial relief efforts 5.1 building metavillage for 100000 refugees, the organization soon became involved in more long-term community development, with primary objectives of alleviation of poverty and empowerment of the poor—and was renamed the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee.

With his strong focus on growing its operations across a broad spectrum of agricultural, economic, and social enterprises, Sir Fazle set BRAC on a course that was different from other non-governmental organizations. He had concluded that economic development was one of the keys to helping the rural poor—and thus launched a microfinance program to provide very small loans to women borrowers as part of village support groups that participated in skills and organizational training.

BRAC’s multi-dimensional and dynamic methods of fighting hunger and poverty include the creation and support of a range of integrated enterprises, such as: seed production and dissemination; feed mills, poultry and fish hatcheries; milk collection centers and milk processing factories; tea plantations; and packaging factories. The income generated from these social enterprises is used to subsidize primary schools and essential health care. Under Sir Fazle’s leadership of more than 40 years, BRAC’s agricultural and development innovations have improved food security for millions and contributed to a significant decline in poverty levels through direct impacts to farmers and small communities across the globe.


2.6 Profiling the fourteen national agri-related markets abed chose ;  this supports appreciation of the particular nature of agriculture and sustainability in Bangladesh – a nation still 70% rural with very small farmholdings and built over 50 years by womens rural Keynesianism. If you purpose is sustaining another rural developing nation – which agricultural products are common, which unique selections for local human development?

Example – profiling agricultual value chains/channels Bangladesh most needed poorest entrepeneurs to lead 


which places actually try to make sure their farmers are integrated into tech ?

I talk simply from visiting asia not listening to powerful people; as well as work done by real followers of abed, chins is a place I search for rural innovations all small famers need to know exist - eg see this intro summary by robert kuhn 
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Monday, May 31, 2021

4.4 brac university begins 2001 - cornerstone of generations future and past

bangladesh may be the most densely packed and poorest 150 million person nation but it has more to do with humanity's future than most  places - on the risk side it will be washed out if climate goes wrong, on the moral sentiments side nowhere have women set more courageous examples as family and community builders

the country is a cornerstone of mother earth! 

brac university

one of abed's last messages to the university


brac university was started in 2001

like many institutions founded by sir fazle, the university is designed to double its impact every two or three years- on the one hand it aims to deeply appreciate its students - their place in life - perhaps more than any other university- on graduating in the 2020s a student should intend to more than double the impact of her peer networks every 2.5 years if there is to be a sustainability generation; prepare to explote how much old stuff becomes redundant even as part of society fear the unprecedented speed of innovation 

on the other hand the university wasnt just about the prospects of its students or faculty but the whole nation and the nations impact on women empowerment and sdg partnerships everywhere- before sir fazle abed parted from mother earth, he'd built the largest civic society partnership in the world and the university can be seen to be youths networking connections everywhere that the younger half of the world are trying to become the first sustainability generation; in this regard abed's role in founding brac can be compared with that of stanford junior- the 5th governor of california having lost his son to an infectious disease during a tour of europe committed the rest of his life to every californian child- stanford was to continue that as probably the only university in the west where moores law of 100 times more tech eash decade looks as if it is happening monthly 

if this sounds a big ask for a university out of dhaka,  consider 3 movements abed put the university at the epicente of now that brac research had a university platform in addition to its original village platforms 5.1 5.2 and 1996 bracnet 5.3

436 the james grant college was opened from the start- this to be the home of the world leadhing helath knowledge brac women had networked from the day they started marketing the nations cholera lab invention of oral rehydration

next abed wanted to develop both for finance and for education the first way in - if his global legacy included partnerships with a financial services solution for people 1.3 too poor to use microfinance and for the earliest age 4.5 children can school; then brac would succeed in being the cornerstone of wherever education and finance takes hunans hopefuly sustainable journey into millennium 3

in posts 4.4 we collate info on the origin of the university; in 5.4 we look at the university as a collab platform for the last 20 years of abed's life and the legacy he hoped all abed partners and students would advance 

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

4.4 world's first masters in early child playschool 4.5 - first new to world focus of brac university

 4.4 from 1972 abed had built 5.1 metavillage  15000 homes for 100000 refugees which became a lab for designing livelihood microfranchises for poorest village mothers so they could make positive income while urgently saving the community - eg 2.1 rice production to end starvation; action-learning of basic infant health services to stop children from dying before age of 5 -most did when bangladesh's new and 8th most populous nation was founded -due to being the world's poorest nation, 90% without access to electricity, in the tropics

29 years later when abed opened a university, one question to ask : what could the university invent that would change world of billion poorest mothers? the university as a collab for innovation is potentially totally different than a metavillage of 100000 people living without electricity - the village space that the first 25 years of abed's 50 years of linking partners to end poverty

one idea may sound counter-intuitive for such a higher ed platfor,- early childhood playschools ECP- brac university became the first university in the world to offer an ecp masters; the result ecp became a 2010s movement - the world bank now claims 50 nations experimenting with this  https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/world-bank-s-unwavering-commitment-early-childhood-education  https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/964641554906838005-0090022019/original/ELPECEbriefV9PRINT.pdf

whilst not every nation may design ecp the way abed does; everyone who gets involved with ecp's global movement knows abed's local advice- design playschool in which children see teacher lovers them - that's how children first learn most at school

it helps that lego has become a huge corporate sponsor; and the yidan prize was awarded to abed for ecp but has since be inspired by him to start a luminaries council- where every different jigsaw piece of education where children are loved is discussed across disciplines age groups between those wizards in edutech (yidan co-founded china's largest tech company tencent0 and those teachers whose love is experienced every second at school


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