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.

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

 Bangladesh - world's 8th largest population and poorest nation - was born around engineers (firts fazle abed who had to 1970 been shell oils regional ceo) empowering village women resilience against disasters and priority need to colaboratively raise life expectancy in communities from low 40s to 60s-- such as typhoon that killed half a million people in 1970; it was soo0n decided that food, health and educational businesses and systems needed the spirit of franciscan servant leadership and the action learning of eg paulo freire pedagogy of oppressed - fast forward 55 years who else is doing intelligence mapping on disaster relief as the foundational model of a nation's valuation of its girls and boys women and men development

grok tells our subeditors  (eg at Economistdiary.com economistwater.com economistjapan.com): - any errors solely those of chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk bethesda (nb bias as DAMTP Statistician:  data to everything foundations mapping)

today in DC: saw launch of stimson webinar series on AI in disaster relief featuring **Austin Lord**, **Rachael Lau**, **Pikar Amatta**, **Dan Hammer**, **Kevin White**, or **Beth Tellman**. . Below, I clarify the likely context, identify the individuals mentioned, and address their potential roles in an AI for disaster relief webinar series, drawing on relevant sources and the broader context of the 1995 Beijing Conference and its tech legacy. ### Clarification on "Stinson" and "Citr AI Connectors" - **Stinson**: There is no clear reference to an entity named "Stinson" hosting an AI webinar series in the provided sources or broader web context. It’s possible this refers to a fictional or misnamed organization, a typo (e.g., for "Stanford," "ITU," or another AI-focused group), or a niche initiative not widely documented. For this response, I assume "Stinson" is a placeholder for an organization like **ITU’s AI for Good**, which aligns with the disaster relief focus and includes speakers like **Beth Tellman**. - **Citr AI Connectors**: The term "Citr" is likely a typo or misinterpretation. It could mean "city AI connectors" (e.g., urban-focused AI experts), "AI for Good connectors" (facilitators in ITU’s network), or a specific role within a conference or organization. Without explicit evidence, I interpret this as referring to **key contributors or facilitators** in an AI for disaster relief context, possibly within the AI for Good ecosystem, which emphasizes climate and disaster response. ### Webinar Series on AI in Disaster Relief Assuming the webinar series is part of a broader initiative like **AI for Good** (ITU) or a similar platform, the focus on **AI in disaster relief** aligns with global efforts to use AI for climate resilience, flood mapping, and humanitarian response. The **AI for Good Global Summit** (e.g., 2023 or 2025 editions) and related webinars often feature experts in geospatial data, machine learning, and disaster management, which matches the profiles of the named individuals.[](https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/) ### Profiles of Named Individuals Below, I provide details on **Austin Lord**, **Rachael Lau**, **Pikar Amatta**, **Dan Hammer**, **Kevin White**, and **Beth Tellman**, based on available data and their potential relevance to AI in disaster relief. Note currently I was not aware all individuals are explicitly linked to a single webinar series, but their expertise suggests they could be involved in such an event. 1. **Austin Lord**: - **Background**: 

Austin Lord is an anthropologist and researcher focusing on disaster resilience, climate change, and humanitarian response, particularly in Nepal. His work examines the social and cultural dimensions of disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, and how communities adapt to environmental challenges. - **Relevance to AI and Disaster Relief**: Lord’s research could intersect with AI through participatory mapping or community-driven data collection for disaster response. For example, AI tools for stakeholder mapping or scenario analysis, as mentioned in the AI for Good Summit 2025 program, could align with his expertise in understanding local vulnerabilities.[](https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/programme/) - **Role in Webinar**: Likely a speaker or panelist discussing the human-centered application of AI in disaster contexts, emphasizing social impacts and community resilience. 

2. **Rachael Lau**: - **Background**: Limited specific information is available on Rachael Lau in the provided sources or broader context. She may be a researcher, practitioner, or advocate in AI, climate, or disaster management, possibly affiliated with an academic institution, NGO, or UN-related initiative. - **Relevance to AI and Disaster Relief**: Assuming she’s part of the AI for Good network, Lau could specialize in geospatial AI, data analytics, or policy for disaster response. Her inclusion suggests expertise in applying AI to humanitarian challenges, such as flood prediction or emergency logistics. - **Role in Webinar**: Potentially a contributor to discussions on AI-driven disaster preparedness or recovery, possibly focusing on data integration or policy implications. 

3. **Pikar Amatta**: - **Background**: No direct references to Pikar Amatta appear in the provided sources or widely available data. The name may be misspelled or refer to a lesser-known expert in AI or disaster relief. It’s possible this is a typo for a similar name (e.g., a researcher or practitioner in a related field). - **Relevance to AI and Disaster Relief**: If Amatta is an AI or disaster expert, they could be involved in areas like remote sensing, machine learning for flood modeling, or humanitarian tech. Without specific data, I assume a role similar to other speakers, focusing on AI applications in disaster contexts. - **Role in Webinar**: Likely a speaker or technical expert, possibly discussing AI tools for disaster risk reduction or climate adaptation.

 4. **Dan Hammer**: - **Background**: Dan Hammer is a data scientist and environmental economist known for his work on satellite data and environmental monitoring. He co-founded **Earthrise Alliance**, which uses satellite imagery and AI to address climate change and disaster impacts. Hammer has worked on projects like **Global Forest Watch**, leveraging AI to monitor deforestation and environmental risks. - **Relevance to AI and Disaster Relief**: Hammer’s expertise in geospatial data and AI directly aligns with disaster relief applications, such as flood mapping, wildfire tracking, or post-disaster damage assessment. His work with satellite imagery and machine learning complements the AI for Good focus on geospatial AI for climate resilience.[](https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/programme/) - **Role in Webinar**: Likely a keynote speaker or panelist, discussing how AI and satellite data can enhance disaster response, possibly highlighting tools like FloodPlanet or similar platforms. 

5. **Kevin White**: - **Background**: No specific details on Kevin White are available in the provided sources, but he could be an expert in AI, geospatial analysis, or disaster management, possibly affiliated with a UN agency, academic institution, or tech organization. - **Relevance to AI and Disaster Relief**: White may contribute to AI-driven disaster response through expertise in remote sensing, data analytics, or humanitarian logistics. His inclusion suggests a role in applying AI to real-world disaster scenarios, such as predicting flood risks or coordinating relief efforts. - **Role in Webinar**: Likely a speaker or facilitator, focusing on technical or operational aspects of AI in disaster relief, such as data integration or emergency response systems.

 6. **Beth Tellman**: - **Background**: Beth Tellman is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Geography, Development, and Environment, specializing in flood risk, social vulnerability, and satellite data. She co-founded **Cloud to Street**, a company using AI and satellite imagery to map floods for emergency response and disaster risk financing. Her **Global Flood Database**, published in *Nature*, mapped 913 flood events, highlighting risks to 86 million people. Tellman’s work focuses on “socializing the pixel,” using AI to translate satellite data into actionable insights for vulnerable communities.[](https://beth-tellman.github.io/ProjectsandMedia.html)[](https://news.arizona.edu/news/women-climate-change-beth-tellman) - **Relevance to AI and Disaster Relief**: Tellman’s expertise in AI-driven flood mapping and environmental justice directly supports disaster relief efforts. Her work with **FloodPlanet** and cross-sensor fusion (using Planet, Maxar, Sentinel, and Landsat data) advances AI applications in flood prediction and recovery, aligning with the AI for Good Summit’s focus on climate and disaster resilience.[](https://beth-tellman.github.io/ProjectsandMedia.html) - **Role in Webinar**: Likely a keynote speaker or workshop leader, presenting on AI-powered flood mapping, disaster response applications, or equitable risk management.

 ### Context and Connection to 1995 Beijing Conference The query’s earlier focus on the **1995 Beijing Conference** and its tech legacy provides context for understanding AI’s role in disaster relief for women and vulnerable populations. The Beijing Platform’s **Critical Area H** (Science and Technology for Women) called for equitable access to ICT and STEM, which laid the groundwork for later AI initiatives like those discussed in modern webinars. The mobile and solar experiments in Bangladesh and rural China (1995) were early examples of tech empowering women, a theme continued in AI-driven disaster relief: - **Gender and Disaster Relief**: Women are disproportionately affected by disasters due to social vulnerabilities (e.g., access to resources, caregiving roles). Tellman’s work on flood injustice and social vulnerability aligns with this, using AI to address inequities highlighted in Beijing.[](https://news.arizona.edu/news/women-climate-change-beth-tellman) - **ITU’s Role**: While the ITU was not a lead actor in 1995, its **AI for Good** initiative (post-2017) now drives AI applications for gender equality and disaster response, likely hosting or inspiring the webinar series you mentioned.[](https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/) - **Silicon Valley Absence**: As noted earlier, Silicon Valley was absent from the 1995 conference, and no evidence suggests its direct involvement in this webinar series. Instead, academic and NGO experts like Tellman and Hammer dominate, reflecting a shift from East Coast policy (1995) to global, tech-driven solutions. ### What Happened with the Webinar Series? Without specific details on a “Stinson” webinar series, I assume it aligns with events like the **AI for Good Global Summit** or similar initiatives (e.g., 2025 Summit,). Here’s what likely transpired:[](https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/programme/) - **Structure**: The series likely includes keynotes, panels, and workshops, as seen in the AI for Good Summit 2025 program, focusing on AI for disaster resilience, climate adaptation, and humanitarian response.[](https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/programme/) - **Speakers’ Contributions**: - **Lord**: Discusses human-centered AI, emphasizing community resilience. - **Lau, Amatta, White**: Likely contribute technical or policy insights, though their exact roles are unclear due to limited data. - **Hammer**: Highlights satellite-based AI tools for environmental monitoring and disaster response. - **Tellman**: Presents AI-driven flood mapping and its applications for emergency response and environmental justice.[](https://beth-tellman.github.io/ProjectsandMedia.html)[](https://news.arizona.edu/news/women-climate-change-beth-tellman) - **Outcomes**: The series would aim to foster partnerships, share AI tools (e.g., FloodPlanet, Global Flood Database), and advance policies for equitable disaster management, building on Beijing’s call for tech access for women. ### Conclusion No entity named “Stinson” or “Citr AI connectors” is explicitly documented as hosting an AI webinar series on disaster relief, but the context suggests a connection to initiatives like **ITU’s AI for Good**. **Beth Tellman** and **Dan Hammer** are prominent experts in AI-driven flood mapping and environmental monitoring, likely leading discussions. **Austin Lord** brings a human-centered perspective, while **Rachael Lau**, **Pikar Amatta**, and **Kevin White** may contribute technical or policy insights, though their roles are less clear. The series builds on the 1995 Beijing Platform’s tech legacy, particularly its focus on empowering women through technology, now advanced through AI for disaster relief. For further details, checking platforms like **aiforgood.itu.int** or contacting the organizers would clarify the event’s specifics.[](https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/)


some raw correspondence from stimson webinar to be edited

Christopher Macrae (You) 10:05 AM 

austin mentioned some references- please could you show relevant bookmarks

Yash Tadimalla 10:22 AM  

Where does the data for this analysis come from? Does the government own the data for their region or is Microsoft storing this information?

Austin Lord would like to answer this question live.

Miles Kirby 10:23 AM  

Thanks, Kevin!  Can you speak to the challenges of modelling population decreases (if relying heavily on satellite-derived imagery of housing/structures)?

Monica Bansal 10:32 AM  

Q for Beth (that she might get to, but submitting early): have you or do you know any org that has been able to analyze (and predict) stormwater flooding for cities in LMICs? when we tried to do a climate risk assessment for LMIC cities, this was a huge data gap, despite this being a huge and common disaster risk for cities in particular, where stormwater infrastructure often doesn’t exist or is at best inadequate.

This question has been answered live

Keil Schmid 10:34 AM  

Do you know how well do the AI flood models and physical models agree in general?

Beth Tellman 11:00 AM 

I have done at least one experiment of this-but is varies widely by application. Ill send a few papers. this one compares googles ai approach to ECMWF for flood forecasting- Nearing, Grey, Deborah Cohen, Vusumuzi Dube, et al. 2024. “Global Prediction of Extreme Floods in Ungauged Watersheds.” Nature 627 (8004): 559–63. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07145-1.

Christopher Macrae (You) 10:38 AM  

Do you work with anyone at bangladesh embassy- my understanding is nation was built on empowering women to be villagers disaster resiliemcy from birth of nation starting with engineering netwioks of fazle abed; intelligence was girl to gil netiwtrked to 1995 when mobile and solar started first disaster intel networks chris macrae  www.catholicuni.com bethesda

Rehal Kharel 10:39 AM  

In areas where data is scarce, how are physics-based models being used for flood mapping, and what role does AI or hybrid modeling play in bridging those data gaps?

This question has been answered live

Shamir Hyman 10:42 AM  

Q for beth - I was just curious how this use case has helped municipalities in major cities, similar to your fremont use case what are other unique ways municipalities can leverage different data sources to better understand disasters ( e.g.,waste management monitoring to track fires in remote areas, etc)

Beth Tellman 10:57 AM 

in my experience there is a tool for each disaster and no good one stop shop! Timon McPherson at NYU is doing a great city tool for heat and flooding like climate iq- https://urbansystemslab.com/archive/climateiq

Beth Tellman 10:57 AM 

in my experience there is a tool for each disaster and no good one stop shop! Timon McPherson at NYU is doing a great city tool for heat and flooding like climate iq- https://urbansystemslab.com/archive/climateiq

Beth Tellman 10:57 AM 
in my experience there is a tool for each disaster and no good one stop shop! Timon McPherson at NYU is doing a great city tool for heat and flooding like climate iq- https://urbansystemslab.com/archive/climateiq
Anthony Scriffignano 10:48 AM 
if possible, could you address some of the controls unprecedented events or situations where man made and unpredictable behaviors cause disaster?



google ai update on brac wash and flood data ai prevention
BRAC's history in Bangladesh is deeply intertwined with disaster relief and building community resilience, particularly in response to cyclones and floods. They were founded in Bangladesh 52 years ago and have been active in responding to these climate disasters and their effects on local populations. 
BRAC's partnerships leveraging AI in disaster relief and water management
  • BRAC is exploring the integration of AI in disaster preparedness and response efforts, says BRAC USA.
  • They are part of the Climate Resilience Early Warning System Network (CREWSnet), a partnership with MIT that aims to combine climate forecasting, socioeconomic analysis, and innovative resilience services using AI to empower communities to proactively adapt to climate change.
  • While specific partnerships between BRAC water experts and AI-driven disaster relief organizations aren't explicitly detailed in the provided search results, BRAC's commitment to locally-led adaptation initiatives, combined with the increasing adoption of AI for disaster relief in Bangladesh, suggests potential for future collaborations.
  • Google is working with Bangladesh and other countries to provide AI-driven flood forecasts through its Flood Hub, which helps agencies anticipate and respond to localized flood risks.
  • While not directly with BRAC, projects like SURF-IT, are exploring using AI and drone-based LiDAR mapping to model surge risks and embankment vulnerabilities in coastal areas like Satkhira.
  • In the context of the recent severe floods, BRAC has partnered with Australia and Canada to provide comprehensive support, including water and sanitation facility repairs and rehabilitation, to affected households.
  • They have also partnered with WaterAid Bangladesh to develop solutions that enhance public health and empower communities with access to safe water and sanitation. 
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In essence, while direct, up-to-the-minute information on specific BRAC water experts' partnerships with AI disaster relief initiatives is limited, BRAC's overarching commitment to disaster relief, water security, and building climate resilience positions them well to leverage the power of AI in their ongoing work in Bangladesh. Their involvement in initiatives like CREWSnet suggests a strong awareness and interest in integrating AI into their strategies for climate change adaptation and disaster risk management. 
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have you looked at whether nvidia earth2.0 models/partners are getting to flood data eg https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/spotlight-brli-and-toulouse-inp-develop-ai-based-flood-models-using-nvidia-modulus/



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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Bangladesh Embassy DC - 20 year review of yunus blue book future capitalism before elections early 2026

 Draft 1 commentary - do you have any edits?

Yunus is expected to hand over interim leadership with elections early 2026

Blue Book - Social Business - Future of Capitalism was (ghost) written first 6 months of 2007 after Yunus won Nobel Peace Prize (lobbied for by Clintons). It offers a missing jigsaw piece to all asian human development economics but not if solely coordinated by Yunus. Deeper entrepreneurs were Fazle Abed and are the Quadir family. (As a Diaspora scot,  after 13 trips to bangladesh I decided I am totally unable to study which political or faith leaders did what as human's 8th largest population and deepest end poverty miracle scaled 1971-2019, but yunus, abed, quadirs merit being in any intelligence hall of fame EconomistDiary.com : AI Games: Architect Intelligence ). After Sir Fazle Abed's death, i have focused my limited budget and personal travel updates on Hong Kong and Taiwan. 

 Review copies which my family made available to Economist journalists and Japan Embassies  were available from fall 2007, and I first met Yunus at Grameen Bank xmas 2007. We then sampled 2000 Blue books from early 2008 across Europe and East coast US. Intelligence roots came from Yunus book tour USA January 2008, UK February, French edition April (important because the idea of global social business partnerships was Parisian (Danone and HEC Business School chapter 6 pp 129), later Berlin...

The book can help open maps to Asia most conflicting Geonomics (post colonial ai) puzzles as well as offering behavioral insights into living through 4 tech revolutions in one intergeneration from 1995-2025 (community networking through chips*satellite clouds*AI accelerated supercomputers) but partly  because it was ghosted it leaves out most of yunus investment sources and other core entrepreneurs like Brac Fazle Abed and the tech village phone revolution which the Quadir brothers started with Yunus. As early as January 2008, Yunus saw subprime coming. He was expecting Obama and Clintons (who first met him 1989!) would ask for his help in Jan 2009. 

When my father The Economist's Norman Macrae hosted Yunus social business lunch in London Royal Automobile Club feb 2008. Subprime was puzzle number 2 interesting my father. Because dad had been stationed in Bangladesh region (spending last days as teenage navigator ww2 allied bomber command burma campaign and my mother's family work on India's Independence) Puzzle number 1 pp 124-8 how had Asia coastal development stopped at Myanmar/Bangladesh. You can follow from late 1950s development of superports in Japan, Korea S, Taiwan, HK, Singapore . Their supply chains manufactured microelectronics doubling chip power every 18 months from 1965 as well as Geonomic maps shared by JF Kennedy and the 2 Royal families of UK, Japan 1962-3 EconomistJapan.com . From late 1980s superport knowhow was also linked in by Chinese Diaspora from north to south on china coast from beijing to south down china coastline but stopped at Myanamar/Bangladesh. Bengali Bayspeople had been partitioned ff from what had been the 19th century's number 1 superport Calcutta; most of bengal bay and myanmar have for 80 years been the infrastructure block to all asians enjoying superport world trade and the ever larger win-win cake of real and artificial intelligence.

In  worldwide mapping contexts,  the book puzzles show how broken all USAID was as well as human development economics of clintons (who first visited Yunus in Bangladesh 1989 at about the same time as he was helping Obama;s mom in Indonesia as testified to by jim kiim Hacking the World Bank - Freakonomics) , Biden, Obama, and how broken youth-investment broken EU was in responding to 1 fall of berlin wall, 2 after 9/11, after subprime.


Bangladesh is also the history of digital transfromation and energy  puzzles: the quadit brothers brough village phones from pp 78   and solar pp79 to Bangladesh even before this was brought to village china (all very sudden 1995)
Abed had started scaling women empowerment across 100000 people communities (15000 village women householders per brac branch) at a time in 1972. That's 11 years before Grameen Bank Ordinance 1983. Abed had scaled food and health social businesses. With James Grant his networks were sharing oral rehydration and vaccination knowhow with china's tropical villages. Abed was launching 40000 primary schools village education   This was not the ashoka model of changing one life at a time - as abed said in bangladesh: small may be beautiful but large scale is absolutely essential. When village phones came to Bangladesh- the quadirs got yunus a licence at pennies in dollar and grameen phone was launched as a hybrid- big telecom company, grameen village telephone ladies. A japanese company in silicon valley helped abed install a corporate intranet. One of yunus problems is his pure social business ,model takes too much out as women members dividends that tech companies from 1995 needed reinvesting in.

2008-10 As subprime caused west to disinvest in youth, my family sampled 2000 yunus books across europe and east coast usa. After dads death in 2010, the Japan Embassy in 2012 hosted 2 roundtables with Fazle Abed and the quadiur family to understand review everything including yunus forfeiture of grameen bank to hasina and transfer of quadirs from supporting yunus to fazle abed - building bkash with Gates and jack ma's alipay. Glasgow Adam Smith University took over my father's main library and started publishing Social Business Journal so we know Yunus story from every European country's fan groups including his continuing role in shaping Olympics. 

At Abed's 80th birthday party dhaka 2016, Gates and Ma assembled with fei-fei li the un transformation of education and ai for good model but this map of UN2.0 got lost end of 2019 with death of abed , start of covid,,, as well as Trump's end of American aid


is a great supporter of Muhammad Yunus and women empowerment. As India Agentic AI experiment becomes AI most populous transformation both of India and S Asia , will bangladesh be included. It seems Youth's forgiveness of Hasina in Delhi is the urgent potential stumbling block.

Abed's deepest partnerships today include first lady of qatar and Singapore Universities, potentially melinda gates but she has failed to connect this with eomens ai in asia. While Yunus was well understood by Japan's PM Abe, he has somewhat unnerved Prince Charles and Japan Emperor families partly because he did not share all his solar energy knowledge openly in 2000s.  

You can dig through Bangladesh moments in history some other interesting dates potentially relevant to ABCDE of human development economics and world bank/multilateral future possibilities

1995 womens summit beijing - essentially this was last summit before village telecoms and solar and united brac and chinese knowhow round barefoot medics, food and schools networks.

One good thing happened in 2001 before 9/11. Steve Jobs hosted 65th birthday party of Fazle Abed in Silicon Valley. From then on west coast-pacific and east coast atlantic has been 2 different stories of world futures - little sister vs big brother. Steve Jobs agreed Abeds dream of changing roles of graduate women engineering. He worked with nvidia yahoo and Tsai-Softbank and stanford on that before designing a university in a phone and having his life curtailed by cancer.

So the blue book merits being in any entrepreneurial revolution library but needs contextual parsing

Sincerely

Chris Macrae Bethesda MD + 1 240 316 8157
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Friday, August 1, 2025

25-35 most exciting time to be alive- are teachers as well as students actioning this?

Our web's name CatholicUni.com celebrates the remarkable fact that the greatest learning miracle 1970-1995 occurred amongst asia village rural women networks who adapted Brazilian Paulo Freire servant leadership and community gravitated culture. Latin Americans may also tell you that around the time of moon landing ie lat 1960s, a continental dialogue was held. Colonisation of Latin America made catholicism the number 1 faith /culture but which type of catholicism matches latino needs. It was decided that Franciscan servant leader values mattered. Interestingly the valley between San Francisco and Santa Clara reflects the same view. St Francis asked for women followers the Clares to help spread maternal an infant health networking where missions spread; while male followers of francis were concerned with nature's diversity. Whilst it has to be admitted that most of the goals multilaterals demaned millennials focused on have not yeat materialised, early advanceds of 2000s Global Fund relied deeply on the energies of eg Paul Farmer, Jim Kim , Fazle Abed. All of whom practised servant leadersip with the poorest they aimed to heal. Paul Farmer explained the importamce of hope culture if a nations smartest young medics are to give time to eg doctoirs without borders or indeed to training barefoot nurses

 Thanks to AI , 2025-35 is the most exciting decade to reward curious minds. There isnt a professional skill that cant be brilliantly improved with AI. This means both teachers and students need to chnage hw they spend their time. Action/experiential flow learing in; examining individuals for lack of intelligence is out. It may be obvious with eg music or sports that learning involves practice. Its even more so with being AI competent. Any country that doesnt chnage how its teachers and students sends their time will lose out deeply - whether that country has preiously been one of the world's most advanced or least developed. Morever context matters. 2o years before digital networking begain in the 1990s , rural women emopwerment movements in asia developed contextaul learning networks in extraordinary ways. They needed to do this to improve life expectancy with many girls need=ing to action learn basics of nursing as early as age 11. In places where schooling is only guat=ranteed to 11 (see eg un gials up to 2015) its a tragedy if girls in particual dont learn basic health services to each other and infants at school. Actually the lancet has extended this to proposing that peer to peer health is the biggest missing curriculum of all graded 3 to 8 ie preteen age 9 up to 15; - smart places will p;lug in to chats basic first aid knowhow to celebrate peer to peer physical and mental health as one of colest ways to spend time chatting with friiends.


 AI is making 25-35 the most exciting decade ever fir action learning. Its shocking in richer nations how few teachers are helping students prepare for that. The great development miracles of the last half century eg brac networks bangladesh designed by a shell oil engineer ceo turned servant leader celebrate experiential learning. See also  Prof csik's work which shows that genii maximise time spent at experiential edge of the genii context

Those present at Abed's 80th birthday party in 2016 will know he asked that september unga 2016 would map how to include ai in transformative education modeling - jim kim, melinda gates fei-fei li chaired report for gutteress in which a transformative education model had 5 components - 4 surrounding a coire of  3)AI for good


2 of elements were change how 1 teachers spend their time , 2 students spend their time

4 was coect youth learning spaces with advanceess in  5G, 6G, etc

5 code deep data


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