Monday, May 3, 2021
2025report.com countdown - part 2 2007 to 20 dec 2019
Sunday, May 2, 2021
remembering 2015 yearof hope, and years of agont since spring 217
: 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
The GG Book of World Record Job Creators
HAPPY 2015 Jim Kim 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
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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
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Sir Fazle Hasan Abed - LEGO Idea Conference
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
BRAC University and U.S. Embassy announces hosting Fulbright program, Academy for Women Entrepreneurs

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
