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.

Monday, May 3, 2021

2025report.com countdown - part 2 2007 to 20 dec 2019

2025report.com part 1 back from future was told by economist reporters first published in english 1984 last published in swedish 1993; combined with bio of von neuman thrugh the 1990s; and norman macrae's last birthday dinner at the royal automobile club 2008

like many people 9/11 was a wake up call; i try to donate at least a day a week to pro bono stuff that mightgive me a new understanding; i volunteered to host the eu's knowledge board section on emotional itelliegence - the nearest topic they had to auditing trust my mathematical passion that i had spent the 1990s trying to ember =d in worlds lagest advertising and acunting agencies wihou success

knowledgeboard's debates across all eu contries also got observed from other parts of the world - an australian medic asked could i help run the reception at a summit he was hosting inlondon involving experts on globla reconcilation from 50 countries; sure thing and the next year i was presenting at his summit held in delhi near parliament at the indira national cultural centre - much more grassroot tha you can imagine - it was filled withgandhians and iur accomodation was the local ymca - wj=hile i researche asian markets for ubilever since 1982 - i was now opening my eyes to deeper system crises still unreolved by the old english empire... 

part 2 aka ABEDMOOC.com
our first trip to bangladesh xmas 2007 a year after george soros; unlike soros we met yunus first connected with adam smith scholars who were helping him design nearly free nursing colleges; we made 10000 dvds of all yunus partner celebrating the coming of the nobel prize judges to speak to dhaka youth in 2008; but next summer when we hosted a 69th birthday party for yunus bring the bbc's number 2 green broadcaster things started going politically wrong; from then on we decided the knowhow of fazle abed was deeper

it turns out that abed did not start with microfinance; in 1972 he built 14000 homes for refugees- a community of 100000 of the very poorest in the world; next he observed what happened in this village district far away frtom electricity grids; half the population had no livelihoods; basically women were locked down to village homes where they were expected to breed children- half of whom died before the age of 5 mainly through dehydration or lack of nutrition

so abed designed a microfranchise where a village women could earn a livelihood going door to door to 300 villagers selling non-prescription medicine and giving away the free oral rehydration solution that ends infant death by diarrhea as long as the mother does it in time

it turned out that east of bangladesh poorest village mothers in tropical china needed the same networking microfranchises; over and over bangladesh poorest women and chinese poorest women shared solutions- next cam rice science and vegetable science to end famine - 

only when abed had tens of thousands of women earning small positive incomes did he design microfinance

so an abed mooc really needs to catalogue 6 types of solutions- one space peer weekly slot in a 6 week rehearsal of asia end poverty's  -aka rural keynesianism the economist 1977-  deepest ever compendium of solutions

health
food security
education
finance
resilient community

and one abed did not talk about place branding - the last thing abed wanted to do was be a problem to the government; he always wanted to cooperate but keep womens netwrks transpatent trusted by connecting the deepest life critical data empowering their person to person networks

but in the last 20 years of abed's life 2 things started happening; workdwide tech partners designed experiments in bangla viaages; 3hat  couod village women do with mobile or with solar

meanwhile at a private dinner paerty in silicon valley mrs steve jobs asked abed why have you never shared your solutions globally; so abed knew more about how the billion poorest contintal asians ended extreme poverty than anv=yone as he lived with it 1970-2019; before thqat he had been regional ceo for shell oil so he also knew how geographically bangladesh people had got the shortest stick of the colonia area
first england had colonised their region as well as india
in the 19th century asia's biggest port was calcutta mainly connecting bangladesh
then when thr british moved the capital of idia to delhi and gave up trading much through calcutta as they were now ruling trea and sice trade diresctly out of hong kond and the caton areas

then when the englist ithdrew -declaration of indepenence assigned the region of bangladesh as colony of west pakistan

thats where sir fazles 50 year support of his poorest village peoples beigins in 1970- one millionn people killed all around him by cyclone; another million by the war of indepence and the refugee dispalement; another million by dehydration and starvation

so nobody really knew more about what the place we call bangldesh needed to develop from worlds poorest nation and 8th most populous - and as an ngo he aleays sought to advance 2 things- empower the vllage mothers to end poverty; empoer their children to expand a rising middle class

look around the world- does anywhere have a person whosr knowhow mattered more to a billion people; isnt it wrth catalogi=uing the foudations in a mooc before tech and sdg challenges spin so fast that nobody will know the whole story of the place brand of bangladesh and its worldwide collaboration with lives matters communities

footnote some more recaps of Economist norman macraes 65 years after surviving last days as teenage navigator in allied bomber command stationed in burma modernday myanmar
One of them is communist China, which has been following a policy which Macrae calls "rural Keynesianism." The others are "capitalist roaders" such as South ...
Jun 25, 2010 — Norman Macrae, who died on June 11 in London at the age of 86, looked into ... He even coined a few words like “telecommute,” “stagflation,” ...
China on Its Way to Becoming. Japan, via Sweden. Norman Macrae ... achievement of rural Keynesianism. The second greatest may be that China could be set ...

by TC MILLS · Cited by 34 — duct of U.K. monetary policy in this period can be found in Norman Macrae, 'Towards a Keynesian Friedmanism,”. The Economist, June 17-23, 1978, pp. 37-41 ...

Apr 2, 1978 - ... and what Norman Macrae, deputy editor of The Economist, calls China's present‐day rural Keynesianism are expressions of that compulsion.

Sunday, May 2, 2021

remembering 2015 yearof hope, and years of agont since spring 217

2015 was the year when sdgs were launched; hugely privileged me i visited vatican university and www.premiosciacca.it and a 20 person expert group on can health reconcile people beyond borders convened at windsor castle - listening to some of the most dedicated servant leaders blew my mind- how useless has my life been compared with these valuetrue greats- but than i am just a pure maths guy - ma in statistics of 1973 from damtp university of cambridge (in my year the only practical risk we learned about was avoiding beng run over by the wheel chaired steve hawkins no small challenge in the narrow musty corridors of maths schools in 1973 where computers were not yet installed ) look for partners to app with

-2015: my main question before and after pope francis comes to usa to celebrate sdg launch is there one catholic university in usa who moocs or otherwise shares franciscan economic development ideas; after 
note on pop and pyp
in franciscan pop =preferential option poor- a latin american idea that rose in 1960s (chat to PARTNERS IN HEALTH SERVANTS JIM KIM OR PAUL FARMER TO UNDERSTAND FULL CONTEXTS) while folks north of the border were moon racing; lets ensure that ever 100 time gordon-more alumni advancement in tech per decade is app's with the poorest first

PYP ENSURE YOU TRIANGULARISE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ORGANISATIONAL CONSTITUTIONS WITH MEDIA/VOICE THE YOUNGER HALF OF WORLD WILL NEED IF MILLENNIALS ARE TO BE THE FIRST SDG GENERATION- this 2015 update can be studied from 1976 onwaRds in the economist genre of entreprenurial revolution started up by dad norman macrae biographer of von neumann

12 months research friends in rome and i decided not- and yes we did interviews in almost every famous us university- they were all jesuit very different ideology- master-administrate the poor dont empower them to develop

a chance 5 day youth celebration on the elipse the week before independence day celebrate youth arts from 50 countries; the chinese were there trying to understand how do american youth spend their summers; what could chinese youth do to engage communities with their summers; there the origins of Cindy Mi were blossoming; the most extraordinary network that has gone on to employ 50000 american housewives tutoring chinese children virtually in learning english- even more amazingly before kobe bryant died he set up an investmet fund and cindy was its star partership with kai fu lee- networks where lives matter are alive and well if they make any of these connections

thanks to 3 chinese graduate students my favorite times on eart were those spent in 2017 an early 2017 communing between bangladesh beijing and washington dc; ;learnt so much on tech needed for #aifirgood before darth vader trump ruined relationships and health of so many decent people- how can it be democratic that one guy can tear up decades of negotiating climate; ok i am biased i have been working with adam smith scholars at glasgow university since 2008 on both climate and nearly free nursing colleges; i can tell you american leaders really dont need to come to glasgow in november unless they are going to start with confessions o the harm they have so far doe everywhere since 9/11; i get it 9/11 future shocked americans like never before but they didnt have to destabilise every border round europe by lying about iraqs non-chemical weapons; they dindnt have to subprime the world nor seven to trump it; of course this paragraph doesnt live up to any of the values of abedmooc oreconpomistdary.com but pretty much every catholic uni in usa needs closing if their professors are not to take responsibility in ensuring usa never again:
convenes random warts
collapses financial systems -see subprime
is clueless about last mile hralth apps
tears up everyone elses work on climate
whats the point of being a teacher if you let those thongs happen to the youth who you generate


pope francis - growth is for the people
Jim Kim
: I asked Pope Francis to work with us and to speak out on the need to end extreme poverty and to ensure where there is growth that the poorest 40% are always included - if he does get involved, and he does become one of our leading spokepeople for the fight against poverty i think we can build a movement the likes of which has never been seen before on earth

HAPPY 2015 Jim Kim2030nowjimkim2transcripts.doc 2030nowjimkim2transcripts.doc,

http://www.tedxwbg.com/ Sources for millennials Happy 2015 dialogues of pih on 1 Ebola 2 how to leverage technology to radically engage patients on health care; UN is 2015 year of all change to sustainability goals

Trillion Dollar Audit Now: Global Social Value Health

--- world bank tedx ;

Saturday, May 1, 2021

4.3 changing edu from 11+

 bangladesh (fazle abed) invented secondary scholarships almost as soon as abed had transformed village primary education- nb no un goals included secondary until 2015 (millennial goal edu had gravitated round primary schooling); the least a nation could do : trace its greatest teenage end-poverty community builders which in bangladesh of the late 20th c as in china needed to be rural teenage women - oxbridge update with yidan shows how this idea has been translated to sub-sahara africa by camfed


related why lancet has argued for decade: number 1 missing curriculum is peer to peer pre and early teens health

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


Web results

The LEGO Idea Conference 2021 More information to come. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. Winner 2018. Awarded for his tireless efforts to positively impact the lives of ...

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

 

BRAC University and U.S. Embassy announces hosting Fulbright program, Academy for Women Entrepreneurs

Publish Date: 
May 26th, 2022

BRAC University on 25 May, 2022 announced its partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka on the resumption of the U.S. Fulbright program in Bangladesh after six-years. The university also made public its collaboration in launching an “Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE)”, a Department of State global initiative to promote small and medium enterprises (SME), foster local women entrepreneurs, especially from underprivileged backgrounds, and overall promote gender equality and equity.

The announcements were made at an event titled “Celebrating Fulbright and Entrepreneurship Collaboration between BRAC University and US Embassy Dhaka” at the BRAC University auditorium. U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas, Dr. Sharon Hart, US Fulbright Specialist, Tamara Hasan Abed, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of BRAC University, Professor Vincent Chang, Vice-Chancellor of BRAC University, Dr Sang Lee, Dean of BRAC Business School (BBS), Professor Matin Saad Abdullah, Senior Technology Adviser of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) of BRAC University, and Professor Mohammad Mujibul Haque Associate Dean of the BRAC Business School, spoke at the event.

The Fulbright program is one of United States’ flagship exchange programs that strengthens and expands people-to-people ties and educational linkages between the United States and Bangladesh. More than 4,000 State Department Exchange program alumni, including 650 Bangladeshis, travelled to the United States under the Fulbright exchange programs and more than 250 Americans have conducted research and/or taught in Bangladesh. The Women Empowerment Center of BRAC University’s BBS is hosting Dr. Sharon Hart, the first Fulbright Specialist. She will be staying for six weeks helping to develop a curriculum for women entrepreneurship and leadership training, design research questions on gender and women economic empowerment issues and build the capacity to conduct workshops for researchers and the BBS faculty members.

The AWE program gives enterprising women the knowledge, networks and access they need to launch and scale successful businesses. This is the first time a Bangladeshi university will be conducting such a program through which 50 women entrepreneurs will have access to mentorship opportunity with successful business owners as trainees to understand the practical challenges on the ground. This AWE project directly supports the U.S. National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality.

Dr Sang Lee said the joint efforts would have long-lasting snowballing effects to solidify commitments for quality education. He said Dr Sharon Hart had already started contributing through the establishment of the Women Empowerment Centre at the BBS. The centre would work on upskilling and reskilling women entrepreneurs and leaders in Bangladesh with support of corporate partners and evidence-based research on best practices, he added. He said the AWE program would be run at the CED.

Thanking the US Embassy Dhaka for its continuous collaboration with BRAC University, Professor Vincent Chang said the developments were a part of three components which BRAC University was focusing on -- international engagement and collaborations, student centred initiatives and research with impact. BRAC University has been connecting with networks of hundreds of universities worldwide and in exchange and cooperation with universities in the US, UK and soon Tokyo, which are all the first of its kind in Bangladesh, he said. The government feedback has been to find good international partners and BRAC University is the only

private university in a steering committee on the fourth industrial revolution of Bangladesh, said Professor Chang. “At international conferences, people always ask ‘What is your secret sauce?’. I say we do not have secret sauce. We simply did the right thing,” said the Vice-Chancellor. Professor Chang informed the university’s resilient response to Covid-19 and its growth even in this challenging time.

BRAC University champions excellence in higher education and recognizes the pivotal role the entrepreneurs play in creating not only a robust economy and adjust an inclusive society but collaborations among entrepreneurs of difference countries, deepen understanding among people and build ties among nations, said Tamara Hasan Abed. The inclusion of women entrepreneurs, especially small-enterprise owning women and grassroots women entrepreneurs, in the mainstream economy faces many challenges. World-class training programs create new hopes, bolstering their confidence and showing the way. To that end the AWE program will immensely benefit its target audience with BRAC University as the collaborating partner, she said.

Peter Haas said Bangladesh was going to become a middle-income country in a couple of years and the role of women in economic empowerment is very important. Therefore, it makes it all the more special to resume the Fulbright Program.

The program ended with Tamara Hasan Abed and Professor Vincent Chang presenting Peter Haas tokens of appreciation.

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

4.4 vincent chang 2019

4.4 brac university was formed in 2001 .... 

imagine being asked to take over as vice chancellor of the most collaborative university in sdg world - abed's brac university in feb 2019-but before your first 12 months are complete sir fazle dies dec 2019 and covid closes down 2020 with bubbles expected for most of sustainability's last decade

meet vincent chang - do you have a 50 million scaling of sustainability to share

...and as for 2020 here is part of vincent's orientation speech