4.1 FROM ADULT EDUCATION TO LIFELONG LIVELIHOOD SKILLS LEARNING & MENTORING

 

This recent master's thesis by queen's university canada's Fateh Mohammad goes into remarkable depth as to how the first 10 years of brac embedded culture of paulo freire and impact on all education programs and indeed all partnership initiatives

between 2012-2017 washington dc was a breadth of fresh air thanks to appointment to world bank of jim kim- his life - both studies and work - and pretty much all american health for the poorest leaders are inspired by franciscan values; latin americans i talked to in dc explained while the 1960s world was cheering on ameruca's moon race- latin americans were debating what on earth is it that we admire from the catholic culture that colonised us- it was the franciscan way that many nations chose- while freire was a brazilian applying franciscan views to education of the oppressed kim and others talk of

 pop- preferential option poor being a movement linking many spanish speaking nations including columbia peru and the source connection with the Latin American liberation theology movement of the mid-20th century. As a developed theological principle, the option for the poor was first articulated by Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P. in his landmark work, A Theology of Liberation (1971). Gutiérrez asserts that the principle is rooted in both the Old and New Testaments and claims that a preferential concern for the physical and spiritual welfare of the poor is an essential element of the Gospel.- in turn guterrez references el salvador's oscar romero --https://ndsmcobserver.com/2014/09/gutierrez-highlights-popes-preferential-option-for-the-poor/

its the duty of any franciscan leader to serve by going and living and learning with the poor- as well as bring relevant knowhow such servant leaders observe what systems are broken/ who can they bring in to mend these systems

and first of all every time there are tech advances how to apply the advance to the poorest as a priority- this helps explain how for example brac parters have co-created the worlds largest cashless banking system www.bkash.com in terms of population of customers and trgeted previouslu unbanked with such advantages that unlike money banking all digital transaction costs are practically the same so amouts too small to save when a clerk had to collect and record the saving are now economic to process

5.2 Golden Oldies Bloomberg businessweek = 2002 fazle abed at 66; alliance magazine 2005

 

Fazle Hasan Abed

Founder and Chairman, BRAC

July 8, 2002, 12:00 AM EDT

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With his cream-colored Nehru-collar shirt, simple black trousers, and quiet demeanor, Fazle Hasan Abed could be any educated Bengali gentleman in Dhaka, Bangladesh. But Abed, 66, is one of the nation's most important men and a guiding light globally in development circles. His Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) has lifted millions out of poverty through education, health-care, and microfinance programs.

Founded in 1972, just after Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan, BRAC recently launched its own bank and is now setting up a $53 million program for the nation's poorest citizens. On June 12, it also opened its first overseas office--in Kabul, Afghanistan. Zimbabwe and other nations are modeling programs after Abed's. "Fazle Abed is a brilliant visionary," says Katharine McKee, director of micro-enterprise development at the U.S. Agency for International Development. "BRAC is an impressive organization, whether in financial services, basic education, or setting poor women up in the poultry business."

Most of BRAC's 35 million beneficiaries are women, who traditionally faced terrible exploitation. Its centers in Bangladesh's 86,000 villages operate schools that have helped some 4 million girls get at least five years of education. Centers also educate adults in health care and legal issues and offer training and small loans so villagers can start small businesses, from shops to laundry services. What's more, BRAC generates 80% of its $160 million annual budget from its own commercial farms and fisheries.

The son of a wealthy landowner, Abed's business acumen comes from his training as an accountant in Britain and as a former finance exec for Shell Ltd. He got involved in relief work when he joined the cleanup efforts after devastating floods hit Bangladesh in 1970. Now, Abed is shifting BRAC's management to a younger team. But he will remain a guiding light in development, for Bangladesh and the rest of the world's poor.

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alliance 2005

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of the world's largest non-government organisation Brac, named three factors – determination, thinking in national terms and inspiration as key to the organisation's success. 

Here is an interview of Sir Abed published by the British magazine Alliance on March 1, 2005.  

What lies behind this huge success, Caroline Hartnell asked Fazle Abed. 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.'

An expanding organization
BRAC now has 31,638 staff, but at the end of 1973 it had just 120. In 1979, before the start of the oral rehydration programme, the number was 300. When the programme started, 1,700 people were added, bringing the total up to 2,000. 'And then we grew incrementally,' says Abed. 'By 1990 we were about 3,000 staff. But between 1990 and 2000 we really grew very fast, and we became 25,000 by the end of 2000.'

The oral rehydration programme was a huge achievement. It cut down infant and child mortality dramatically – from 258 per thousand to 75 per thousand – by teaching mothers how to make oral rehydration fluid at home. It was in 1990, after the success of the programme, that BRAC went to donors in a big way. The programme had cost about $15 million, but in 1990 BRAC was looking for $100 million. But no one donor was able to meet this kind of demand.

At this stage the type of donor changed. 'It used to be NGOs that funded us,' explains Abed, 'Oxfam, Novib, and so on, the Ford Foundation. But then came the governments – the British, the Dutch, the Germans, Swedish SIDA, Canadian CIDA, the Norwegians. So we had all these governments forming a consortium to fund BRAC.' After that, says Abed, 'we grew very fast'.

While the Bangladesh Government was not one of the donor governments, Abed regards their role as a 'benign' one. 'The Bangladesh Government didn't support us, but they didn't stop us receiving funding. In other countries like India or Kenya, I think the government would have stopped it, they wouldn't like an NGO to become so large and powerful. Though the Bangladesh Government didn't actually admit that they weren't providing the services, they didn't create any particular impediments to our growth.'

If something needs doing …
The way BRAC grew seems to have been very much a case of one thing leading to another. Take the microfinance programme. 'We were providing money to village women to help them start businesses, but there were limitations on that.' For example, if the aim was to get a million women into poultry farming, the lack of a poultry vaccination programme was a problem. 'So we decided we would need to get a poultry vaccination programme going in every village.' This involved training one woman in every village to be a vaccinator, and linking her with the government livestock department. BRAC trained about 70,000 women in as many villages.

But the livestock departments sometimes didn't have the vaccines, and there was also a problem of cold chain maintenance: you have to keep vaccines at a particular temperature or they go off. The solution was to have six or seven BRAC staff maintaining cold chain for the vaccines from the government in Dhaka to the districts. There was also a group to repair the refrigerators in the district livestock departments. 'So we saw to it that the village women got the vaccines they needed.'

But this was by no means the end of it: the next issue was the variety of hens. While the normal local variety of hens give about 60 eggs a year, some hybrid varieties will lay 280 eggs a year. 'So we decided to replace the local variety with hybrids. To do this, we needed poultry farms, hatcheries, so that we could provide day-old chicks to the women. So we went into business. We set up poultry farms, producing 2 million day-old chicks a month. We therefore not only provided women with microfinance to buy the poultry but also supplied the day-old chicks.'

At this stage this wasn't a money-earning venture. The government had poultry farms too, so BRAC charged exactly the same price as the government and in fact made some losses initially. When the government raised prices, it became cost-effective.

But this still isn't the end of the poultry story. The next problem was feed. The best feed is maize, but Bangladesh didn't grow any maize. 'So we went into feed.' For maize-growing, BRAC had to go into a joint venture with an Australian farm. 'In everything that we did, we went into the details of every stage of development.'

… we'll do it ourselves
The same was true of BRAC's cow-rearing programme. 'Many women didn't want to go outside the house,' says Abed. 'They wanted a cow so they could just look after it and get milk and sell it.' But it was not that simple, they discovered. 'I went to one of the remotest areas in the north of Bangladesh,' Abed remembers, 'and interviewed a woman who had bought a cow for about $100. She was getting 2 litres of milk a day. So I said, "You must be doing very well." And she said, "No, I'm not doing well because I can't sell my milk, and if I do sell people only pay me 7 taka, which is about a third of the normal price."

'So this made me think that maybe we should set up a milk plant. Collect milk from villages where there's no demand, chill it and bring it back to Dhaka by tanker, pasteurize it, make butter, yoghurt and milk, and sell it in the market. So we did that. Most of the women who were getting very little money for their milk now get double the amount. In order to ensure that women's income went up, we had to get into different kinds of businesses, which did not exist before in Bangladesh.'

Producing iodized salt is another BRAC business. 'I was so mad at the salt-makers,' says Abed. 'Iodine is provided by government, but they wouldn't mix it with the salt because mixing is another operation and it costs money, so they were just throwing it away. We need iodized salt in our country because there are a lot of goitres and so on.' So BRAC hired about ten people to visit salt plants and check whether they were putting iodine into the salt. 'But many of them found that they were not welcome and they were thrown out. In anger I said, I am going to produce salt myself with iodine in it. So we went into the salt business.'

Apart from providing iodized salt themselves, BRAC's move seems to have forced other salt-makers to follow suit. 'Our competitors are now coming back with iodized salt. I suppose in a way we have spurred them into action.'
This attitude – if something needs doing, we'll do it ourselves – must surely be one of the key reasons why BRAC has been able to do so much.

These BRAC enterprises now provide 80 per cent of the organization's operating costs, with the rest coming from external donors. Although BRAC's annual report distinguishes 'programme support enterprises' from 'commercial enterprises', in fact all serve the same dual purpose of producing income for BRAC and supporting poor people.

From local to national
But although expansion has been so rapid and so dramatic, it is always carefully planned, Abed insists. 'Everything that we do, we always try out in a small area first. We try to become effective – ie we're delivering the service we want to deliver and people are getting what they need – and then we try to become efficient, discarding non-essential tasks. So you are basically looking at what activities you do that are essential and what could be cut out with not much impact on effectiveness. When you are effective and efficient in a small area, you are ready to expand. This is the model for franchising, though in our case this is within the organization.'

Not that a 'small' area here means very small. 'It has to be large enough to have all kinds of problems in it,' explains Abed. With BRAC's tuberculosis control programme, for example, they worked in one area first and then went into ten different areas. When that worked, they were ready to cover the entire country. 'But we have been waiting ten years to get the $100 million we need. We now have $44 million from the Global Fund for Tuberculosis, Malaria and AIDs to start off our tuberculosis control programme. But we were prepared, we had everything worked out. We had the methodology, the infrastructure, the ability to train people, we just needed money. Now we've got it and we're on our way to implementing it.'

Ongoing research and monitoring
The oral rehydration programme provides a good example of the sort of tireless research and monitoring of its programmes that BRAC does. When they started to follow up to find out how many women actually used oral rehydration, they found only 6 per cent were doing so. 'We found teachers themselves didn't really believe in what they were teaching; they felt the method was second-rate. So we brought 100 workers to Dhaka and demonstrated the therapy to them and the teaching improved.' (BRAC fully recognizes how vital it is to train people well, with 10 per cent of the salary budget set aside for training.)

The use rate now went up to 18 per cent, which Abed was still not happy with. 'We then discovered you need to teach fathers too, in fact the entire family, the entire community. We started advertising on TV and radio. We went to mosques and marketplaces.' The use rate then started rising, eventually reaching a much healthier 60 per cent. 'Our original conception was just to teach the mother, but it didn't work.'

Working with government
For a smaller social enterprise that works with government or other large donors, there can be a danger of getting swamped and not being able to do things in your own way. But working with governments doesn't seem to have been a problem for BRAC.

'By the time we came to larger donors,' says Abed, 'we were mature enough as an organization to deal with them. It was almost 20 years after we started, and we were prepared to meet all kinds of demands that they made of us in terms of reports and so on. They also sent out teams to look at our programmes. Consultants would come from a specific donor like the UK's Department for International Development, or the donor consortium would send four people to come and look at various aspects of our organization and programme. But we came out fairly well in these reports; we were quite good at meeting the objectives and targets set.'

Was there pressure to do things differently from how they wanted to do them? 'Not a great deal,' says Abed. 'There were certain things that we wanted to do that the donors said. "OK, you can do it but we can't give you money for that." But there was no great deal of difficulty with the donors.'

One problem they did have was with bureaucracy within donor organizations, particularly the European Community. 'If they committed funding, it would take about a year to get the money, and by that time I had to borrow money from banks and so on.'

Learning from mistakes
What about mistakes? Did BRAC make mistakes along the way as they developed things? 'Continuously,' is Abed's immediate answer. But mistakes were spotted fairly quickly. In fact, as with the other social entrepreneurs who talked to Alliance about learning from mistakes, many of these so-called mistakes are at the conceptual level.

To take a typical example. 'Initially,' says Abed, 'we held dear in our hearts that we should work only for five to ten years in a community. After that poor people would take over and do things themselves.' The idea that poor people, once empowered, should be able to demand services and get them, came from Paulo Freire. 'Otherwise, how do I cover the entire country? But in the end we came to the conclusion that poor people, however much they are empowered, need certain services, and if the government is not providing them, basically we have to be there – providing antenatal care to women, children's healthcare, immunization and so on. So the initial idea of withdrawing from an area had to be adjusted.'

Letting the government off the hook?
It seems slightly ironical that BRAC should have started off with the idea of empowering people to demand services from government and ended up providing them itself. In one sense this isn't a problem at all because it works and BRAC is almost self-sustaining. But is BRAC letting the government off the hook?

'In a way we are,' Fazle Abed admits. But the problem as he sees it is that Bangladesh is still very much centrally governed: it doesn't really have a local government structure. 'BRAC could withdraw from rural areas if local government was empowered. So we are now basically demanding from the central government a strong local government structure so that poor people can get services that they now get from us. Putting pressure on central government is much more difficult than putting pressure on local government. Getting government to take responsibility will be possible once we get a local government structure.'

If BRAC is successful in this, it will probably cease to offer certain services, for example primary education. 'Why shouldn't primary education be available to all children? It's compulsory and it's supposed to be provided by the state. We will certainly withdraw from primary education if we can. But that doesn't mean that BRAC will get out of education altogether – we will then move on to secondary education. I'm not worried about losing a particular niche for our work. Needs are always evolving and BRAC will always have work to do.'

Moving into Afghanistan
Since June 2002, BRAC has also been working in Afghanistan. In fact, BRAC Afghanistan now has 2,000 staff members – 200 Bangladeshi staff and 1,800 Afghans – working in education, health and income generation. How did this come about?

'Well,' says Abed. 'when I saw 2 million Afghans going back home, I remembered how in 1972 10 million Bangladeshis returned home to Bangladesh. So thought, we have got all the experience of relief and rehabilitation followed by nationwide development. Why don't we send 50 of our staff to Afghanistan? So we sent 50 of our staff initially, and they hired Afghans. We found we had to adapt what we learned in Bangladesh a little, but not a great deal.'

Moving on as leader
Fazle Abed founded BRAC in 1972 and has headed the organization for 32 years. At some stage he will presumably want to step down. In fact, he has already taken a step back. For 30 years he was executive director of BRAC, but a couple of years ago he hired a new full-time executive director; he is now the chairperson. 'I want to wean myself gradually out of BRAC,' he says. 'I think if I do it well, and the next leadership continues in the same entrepreneurial fashion, the organization will survive and flourish.'

As it turns out, it has not been that easy to find the right successor. The new executive director came from the government and is an interim appointment. 'I wanted to retire but I couldn't find anybody at that point to take over from me internally. Two or three BRAC people are now vying for the top post, and in the next couple of years we will make the change.' He will stay on as chairman for the time being – 'it's not a big deal.'

Fazle Abed doesn't appear to have too many anxieties about the culture of the organization changing when he does finally manage to leave. Having a long-term BRAC employee taking over the running of the organization will clearly help.

'We have worked so hard on the BRAC culture,' he says. 'The way we operate is very entrepreneurial, we question everything, we're continually learning to do things better. I hope that we will have the same culture in the organization when I am no longer there.'

Transmission of the unique BRAC culture throughout the whole organization is based partly on an extraordinary system of staff reporting. All BRAC's 31,000 staff members report upwards once a month. 'Groups of field workers meet with their immediate supervisor, and those supervisors then meet with their supervisors … and so it percolates upwards.'

This may be time-consuming but it's very important, says Abed. 'Other people in the organization get to understand what's happening in the field; field workers know that what they say is going to percolate up. As a result, no one feels that decision-making is being done in isolation at the top; everybody knows their own views and assessment of the situation will feed into decisions.'

Decisions are in any case taken 'at the lowest possible level rather than at the highest possible level. So if somebody makes a mistake, they can say they have made a mistake, but they must please report it back.'

Fazle Hasan Abed is Founder and Chairperson of BRAC, formerly known as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee. An accountant by training and originally by profession, he founded BRAC in 1972 after the war of independence from Pakistan, initially to provide relief and rehabilitation to returning war refugees in a remote area of the country. A year later, the organization turned to long-term poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor, especially women. BRAC works in health, education and microfinance. It is active in 68,408 villages in all the 64 districts of Bangladesh. It has 4.8 million group members, 4.2 million borrowers, and 31,000 one room, one-teacher schools. Eighty per cent of BRAC's annual budget of US$235 million comes from its own enterprises, and 20 per cent from external sources. In June 2002 BRAC Afghanistan was founded. It now runs schools, health centres and credit operations in seven provinces out of twelve. Fazle Hasan Abed has received numerous awards, both nationally and internationally, most recently the Gates Award for Global Health 2004 and the UNDP Mahbub ul Huq Award for Outstanding Contribution in Human Development, 2004.

soros thanks

 

Is George Soros The World Record Jobs Creator ?

compare other WRJ here - soros is america's top 2 philantropist along with giving fund of gates/buffett etc...AS FAR AS I CAN SEE

Soros foundations are a case uniquely worth because they have never suffered from one of the ailments of not for profit world which like government seems to absolve itself from the discipline of positive cashflow - see next right; very best cases of soros: **south africa seeding fight against apartheid-see far right **global fund helping jim/kim /farmer in middle of global fund early 2000 -see mid right and apparently its sad ending feb 2022 with death of paul farmer following covid and death of fazle abed leaving jim kim in boston in his mid 60s with pih.org (haiti rwanda) but only a charity ,model?  **finding bangladesh women empowerment second time -ie partnerships with fazle abed finding bangladesh first time-more middle right ** the huge impact of being first to partner poorest villagers with mobile phones (below 1995 on) **the complicated partnership with gorbachev -middle  **the call to unite graduates around the world who want to collaborate across alumni groups in their race to be the sustainability not the extinction generation what I love about all these things - they were worth a try -apparently soros didn't blame anyone as long as they tried their best with his money

Entrepreneurs advancing the human lot (according to 150 yeras of diaries the economist 1843-1990 - has happened when a founder of a solution people need has deigned a positive cash flow model round the purpose of maximising peoples affordable access. So if not for profits are about systems that fail to help communities entrepreneurially start up positive cash flow models to resolve communities sdg needs I am unsure what the purpose is.

WHITES WRONGS -even if you are a daispora sct- the curse of being a white european (less than one eight of the human race) is we did slave trade, genocide across the new world as well as gun fights in which texas became the operating system of the usa (oil power, enough gun power to force mexicans to sell the west coast) even as dc apparently mediated over laws, colonisation -britannia having first access to engines but being repelled by usa doubled up under the worst corporation the world has ever seen colo0nising south asia and closing china to world trade for over a century as the chinese sensibly declined to accept opium as a currency- the consequ7nece of the human wrongs was world war 2 - the un was birthed around 3 challenges - seeing the advanced economies kick start; outlasting stalin -sadly one od the 2 maddest men to rule would win world war 2 as they were on opposite sides; helping the 75% of people that white empires had left out of access to engineering as they grew their places (with independence); depending how you look at history 1945-1989 - human development did some amazingly positive things to the death of jf kennedy; it stopped doing anything but outlast the cold war; from the early 1980s as it was clear ussr was not sustainable soros did the decent thing of trying to help gorbachev and when he lost inside russia started the open society foundation with him and backed parallel networks situated on the boundary between rome and the vatican- particularly gorbachev chairing of the nobel peace laureate summit which shared the same secretariat as the green club of rome

I am aware that soros and jim kim and paul farmer found each other at start of 21st century; this was very good because between them bush's only totally positive impact emerged : global fund - by clarifying overlapping needs in fighting tb and aids global progress was made in combatting both of these diseases - the very best of this progress was wherever kim-farmer-soros also found brilliant bottom up health service networks; in many ways these continued what unicef's james grant had done; when they all found sir fazle abed (bangladesh woemn empowerment) as did bill gates this was one of the great leaps forward for humanity; peculiarly soros had also hugely helped bangladesh around 1995 though i have never seen his foundation take full credit for being first to invest in mobile ends poverty (help needed to understand)...

.I was at argubalky sors' hapiest moment reurning to his ciry of birth 2012- celebarting sir fazle abed as 20th open society laureate; paul farmer gace a side lecture; ceu university looked lik e a becaon for freedom - within a year of two budapest was flooded by refugees; the government5 turned right and against soros; eu joined in making it impossible for the university to keep its students both safe and free of speech - requiring a move to vienna whcich has ben slowed down by covid for me this is also a tragedy ; maybe i was starry eyed but my first and only visit to budapest saw the convergence of 3 great heroes - fazle abed whose empowerment has reached billion poorest village women; the birth place and education system that grew von neumann - whose tech advances we have been compounding 100 fold since 1955; and soros... ..

Can anyone help me i understand soros first foundation intervention supported south african black youth end apartheid ; clearly that was on the correct side of history; as far as I know soros only claims a small part of that but it convinced him he could do good;

Thursday, March 3, 2022

 2.25 dreadful years for all who wanted to help soros connections

largest ngo partnership leader fazle abed died

depest health networker paul darmer4 died 

and now putin 33 years on from gorbachev/coros co-founding open society and with club of rome nobel epace laureate summits and climate adptation 

- can any future good connections of soros as america's biggest philantropist be saved

Monday, February 28, 2022

 I aim to submit a paper next week to unesco's global university conference in barcelona though quite frankly i have more hope for the survey with non neumann's daughter AI Hall of fame - pilot stage 20 nominations from around the world of entrepreneurial revolution /technologists linked by johnny's gift of 100 time more tech per decade (aka moores law) of he was alive) would celebrate as pivotal to under 30s as first sustainability generation. This survey has particular challenges - eg is there a germanic group who accept this is the only way to outlast putin. It is a pity that soros central european university seems to have lost the freedom to be in the middle of this unless eg malloch brown has a plan that he has not yet launched. There is however a space in the hague that will likely determine whether abed alumni flourish in the 2020s. My understanding is gca.org (climate adaptability) has moved from vienna/ban ki-moon to the hague; and that those solutions abed designed for worldwide dissemination though university partners (particularly ultra poor but also core learning elements of pre-school) depend om brac international out of the hague (the dutrch royal family also supports both literacy and financial inclusion through un envoys roles but gordon brown does not seem to have integrated that in his special education envoy roles which have spintered into 2 hi-tech commissions and 2 low tech refugee movements neither of which connect with yidan or wise). Only the Hague can keep Abed practice open until or unless what drives brac out of dhaka is settled. There are people like Makoto who can apply asian consciousness movements like musician/arts for all  (which could also have been botstein's legacy and indeed paulo freire community engagers   www.premiosciacca.it being vatican university's hub, a few minutes walk from the secretariat of green club of rome and the gorbachev/soros annual nobel peace laureates summit, as well as origin of the clares - franciscan women have always been last mile health networkers) without needing to know that the abed half century of knowhow seems to be at a crossroads. If you pass through new york again , we search to maximise both arts/sports/fashion and von neumann ai hall of fame surveys - in the latter case through wall street people claiming ESG can change the world and un related friends who see sdgs as demanding Collabs around abed's non linear education friamework instead of the standarsied linear one (that can be seen to have enforced colonisation not smithian morality/commonwealth..)

Saturday, August 28, 2021

soros thanks

 its not my place to try and understand all of soros foundations investments - i just wish to make note of movements he supported in extremely timely ways that hopefully all educators and sustainability loving parents would cheer even if not all of the goals are yet evidently orbiting the way nature will judge

soros first investment - supporting peaceful - eg mandela alumni end apartheid youth in s africa

debating 7 years ahead of fall of berlin wall smartest collaborations west would seek eg gorbachev as soon as wall fell

asking which youths side eu bureaucrats are on -ref pope francis hypothesis - none?! 

1996 being first grantee of mobile phone partnerships to empower poorest women

supporting many women empowerment health networks especially end tuberculosis

surveying if any western or african universities want to join asias collaboration of 100 sdg universities

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Dear Friends and Colleagues, George recently spoke to Gregor Peter Schmitz for Augsburger Allgemeine. The interview was widely syndicated around Europe, I have provided an English translation below. I am also sending you a piece George wrote last week laying out the case for Europe to issue “Consols” or perpetual bonds.   Best regards, Michael Vachon ON POINT: Insider Interview  The Crisis of a Lifetime George Soros Speaks with Gregor Peter Schmitz Widely Syndicated: May 11, 2020 GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ: You have seen many crises. Is the COVID-19 pandemic comparable to any previous one? GEORGE SOROS: No. This is the crisis of my lifetime. Even before the pandemic hit, I realized that we were in a revolutionary moment where what would be impossible or even inconceivable in normal times had become not only possible but probably absolutely necessary. And then came the COVID-19, which has totally disrupted people's lives and required very different behavior. It is an unprecedented event that probably has never occurred in this combination. And it really endangers the survival of our civilization. GPS: Could this crisis have been prevented if governments had been better prepared? SOROS: We have had infectious disease pandemics ever since the Bubonic Plague. They were quite frequent in the nineteenth century, and then we had the Spanish flu at the end of World War I, which actually occurred in three waves, with the second wave being the most deadly.  Millions of people died. And we have had other serious outbreaks, such as the Swine Flu just a decade ago. So it’s amazing how unprepared countries were for something like this. GPS: Is that the biggest problem of the current situation – this lack of certainty about how to deal with this virus and how to proceed in the coming months or years? SOROS: It is certainly a very big one. We are learning very fast, and we now know a lot more about the virus than we did when it emerged, but we are shooting at a moving target because the virus itself changes rapidly. It will take a long time to develop a vaccine. And even after we have developed one, we will have to learn how to change it every year, because the virus will most likely change. That’s what we do with the flu shot every year. GPS: Will this crisis change the nature of capitalism? Even before COVID-19 led to the current catastrophic recession, we saw discussions about the downsides of globalization and free trade. SOROS: We will not go back to where we were when the pandemic started. That is pretty certain. But that is the only thing that is certain. Everything else is up for grabs. I do not think anybody knows. GPS: Could this crisis bring people – and nation-states – closer together? SOROS: In the long-run, yes. In the present time, people are dominated by fear. And fear very often makes people hurt themselves. That is true of individuals as well as institutions, nations and humanity. GPS: Are we witnessing that in the current blame game between the United States and China over the origins of the virus? SOROS: The continuing conflict between the US and China complicates matters, because we ought to work together on climate change and on developing a vaccine against COVID-19. But, apparently, we cannot work together because we are already competing over will develop – and use – the vaccine. The fact that we have got two very different systems of government, democratic and … GPS: Autocratic? SOROS: Right. That makes everything much harder. There are a lot of people who say that we should be working very closely with China. But I am not in favor of doing that. We must protect our democratic open society. At the same time, we must find a way to cooperate on fighting climate change and the novel coronavirus. That won’t be easy. I sympathize with the Chinese people, because they are under the domination of a dictator, President Xi Jinping. I think a lot of educated Chinese are very resentful of that, and the general public is still angry with him for keeping COVID-19 a secret until after the Chinese New Year. GPS: Could Xi’s grip on power weaken as Chinese come to recognize that the handling of the crisis was sub-optimal? SOROS: Very much so. When Xi abolished term limits and named himself, in essence, President for life, he destroyed the political future of the most important and ambitious men in a very narrow and competitive elite. It was a big mistake on his part. So, yes, he is very strong in a way, but at the same time extremely weak, and now perhaps vulnerable. The struggle within the Chinese leadership is something that I follow very closely because I am on the side of those who believe in an open society. And there are many people in China who are very much in favor of an open society, too. GPS: Then again, the current US president does not really represent the values of an open and free society… SOROS: Well, that is another weakness that I hope will not last very long. Donald Trump would like to be a dictator. But he cannot be one because there is a constitution in the United States that people still respect. And it will prevent him from doing certain things. That does not mean that he will not try because he is literally fighting for his life. I will also say that I have put my faith in Trump to destroy himself, and he has exceeded my wildest expectations. GPS: What role does the European Union – your home that you care about so much – play in this power struggle? SOROS:  I am particularly concerned about the survival of the EU because it is an incomplete union. It was in the process of being created. But the process was never completed and that makes Europe exceptionally vulnerable – more vulnerable than the US not just because it is an incomplete union but also because it is based on the rule of law. And the wheels of justice move very slowly, while threats such as the COVID-19 virus move very fast. That creates a particular problem for the European Union. GPS: Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court exploded a bombshell last week with its latest ruling on the European Central Bank. How seriously do you take it? Soros: I take it extremely seriously. The ruling poses a threat that could destroy the European Union as an institution based on the rule of law, precisely because it was delivered by the German constitutional court, which is the most highly respected institution in Germany. Before it delivered its verdict, it had consulted with the European Court of Justice and then decided to challenge it. So you now have a conflict between the German Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice. Which court has precedence? GPS: Technically, the European Treaties give the ECJ supremacy in this area. That is very clear. SOROS: Right. When Germany joined the EU, it committed itself to abide by European law. But the ruling raises an even bigger question: if the German court can question the decisions of the European Court of Justice, can other countries follow its example? Can Hungary and Poland decide whether they follow European law or their own courts – whose legitimacy the EU has questioned? That question goes to the very heart of the EU, which is built on the rule of law. Poland has immediately risen to the occasion and asserted the supremacy of its government-controlled courts over European law. In Hungary, Viktor Orbán has already used the COVID-19 emergency and a captured parliament to legally appoint himself dictator. The parliament is kept in session to rubber-stamp his decrees – , which clearly violate European law. If the German court’s verdict prevents the EU from resisting these developments, it will be the end of the EU as we know it. GPS: Will the ECB need to change its policies after this ruling? SOROS: This ruling requires the ECB to justify its current monetary policies. It has been given three months to justify the actions it has taken. That will consume a lot of the ECB's attention when it is the only really functioning institution in Europe that can provide the financial resources needed to combat the pandemic and to establish a European Recovery Fund. GPS: Do you have any suggestions where these resources could come from? SOROS: I have proposed that the EU should issue perpetual bonds, although I now think that they should be called ““Consols” because perpetual bonds have been successfully used under that name by Britain since 1751 and the United States since 1870. Perpetual bonds have become confused with “Corona Bonds,” which have been rejected by the European Council – and with good reason, because they imply a mutualization of accumulated debts that the member states are unwilling to accept. That has poisoned the debate about perpetual bonds. I believe that the current predicament strengthens my case. The German court said that the ECB’s actions were legal because they adhered to the requirement that its bond purchases were proportional to the member states’ shareholding in the ECB. But the clear implication was that any ECB purchases that were not proportional to the ECB “capital key” could be challenged and deemed ultra vires by the court. The perpetual bonds that I have proposed could sidestep this problem, because they would be issued by the EU as a whole and would automatically be proportional and would remain so eternally. This would leave the annual interest payment, which is so minimal – at, say, 0.5% – that the bonds could be easily subscribed by the member states, either unanimously or by a coalition of the willing. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that Europe needs about €1 trillion to fight this pandemic and she should have added another €1 trillion for climate change. Perpetual bonds could provide those amounts if the EU’s member states authorized it. Unfortunately, Germany and the “Hanseatic League” states led by the Netherlands are adamantly opposed. They should think again. The EU is now considering doubling its budget, which would provide only about €100 billion and yield only one-tenth of the benefit that perpetual bonds could provide. They would be much better off if they became avid supporters of perpetual bonds.   They would only have to pay annual interest that at, say, 0.5% would be peanuts. It could be easily underwritten by the member states acting either unanimously or by a coalition of the willing. GPS: When the EU relaxed its rules against state aid, Germany submitted more than half of the requests. Some people argue that this undermines the principles of a single market because it gives Germany an unfair advantage. What do you think? I agree with their argument. It is particularly unfair to Italy, which was already the sick man of Europe and then the hardest hit by COVID-19. Lega party leader Matteo Salvini is agitating for Italy to leave the euro and also the European Union. Fortunately, his personal popularity has declined since he left the government, but his advocacy is gaining followers. This is another existential threat for the EU. What would be left of Europe without Italy, which used to be the most pro-European country? Italians trusted Europe more than their own governments. But they were badly treated during the refugee crisis of 2015. That’s when they turned to Salvini’s far-right Lega and the populist Five Star Movement. GPS: You sound very pessimistic. Far from it. I recognize that Europe is facing several existential dangers. That is not a figure of speech; it is reality. The verdict of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court is only the most recent challenge. Once we recognize this, we may be able to rise the occasion. We can take exceptional measures that are appropriate to the exceptional circumstances we’re in. As long as I can propose such measures like issuing perpetual bonds, I won’t give up hope. *** The Case for Perpetual Bonds By: George Soros Widely Syndicated: May 9, 2020 Within a matter of weeks authorities will have to take decisions that will determine the fate of the European Union. The EU can either pull together and fulfill the expectations and aspirations of its citizens or it will continue to disintegrate. Commission President von der Leyen said that the EU needed at least €1 trillion to fight against the novel coronavirus. She did not mention the fight against climate change which would need a similar amount. I believe that there is only one way such a large amount could be raised – by issuing perpetual bonds. The European public and its leadership are not familiar with perpetual bonds, but they have a long history. Britain first issued consolidated bonds, or Consols, in 1752, and later used them to finance the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars, the Slavery Abolition Act, the Irish Distress Loan, and World War I. The United States Congress authorized issuing Consols in 1870 to consolidate the debts accumulated in the Civil War. As its name implies the principal on a perpetual bond never has to be repaid; only yearly interest payments are due. A €1 trillion issue carrying a 0.5% interest would cost €5 billion a year to service. The €1 trillion would not have to be issued all at once; it could be sold in tranches. The first tranches would be snatched up by long-term investors like life insurance companies and as other investors familiarize themselves with perpetual bonds, they would eventually fetch a premium. In the current low interest environment, Germany was able to sell a 30 year bond at a negative yield. The ratio between the amount of annual interest paid and the amount received is 1:200. Of course the interest has to be paid annually but the present value of future payments is continuously declining and eventually approaches but does not reach zero. €5 billion is a paltry amount to pay for a €1 trillion that are urgently needed. It constitutes about 2.5% of the last European budget and little more than 1% of the next budget currently under discussion. Yet perpetual bonds were not given any serious consideration at the April Summit. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez proposed the idea but he was ignored. The discussion focused on the monies that could be raised by increasing the size of the next budget. After the meeting President von der Leyen started talking in terms of billions, not trillions. Something seems to have gone grievously wrong. My guess is that the idea of issuing perpetual bonds was dismissed because it is a novelty that did not exist when the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) was compiled. But exceptional circumstances require exceptional measures. They should not be issued in normal times. If the EU is unable to consider them under the current exceptional circumstances it may not be able to survive the challenges it currently faces. This is not a theoretical possibility; it is the tragic reality. The coronavirus and climate change are threatening not only people’s lives but the survival of our civilization. The European Union is particularly vulnerable because it is based on the rule of law and it is proverbial that the wheels of justice turn very slowly. By contrast, the novel coronavirus moves very fast and in unpredictable ways. That is why the EU needs to issue perpetual bonds. I want to explain why perpetual bonds are needed in Europe today. They are not to be confused with coronabonds which have been discarded and with very good reason. Coronabonds are divisive; they reinforce the already gaping gap between North and South and they also create divisions between East and West, the new members and the old ones. By contrast, perpetual bonds are unifying. They provide financial resources to the EU and all its members that are incomparably larger than what the European budget can offer. They could help the EU to fulfill the expectations and aspirations of its citizens. The cost/benefit analysis is so lopsidedly in favor of benefits that it opens up an amazing amount of fiscal space. If the EU issues bonds on its own account it can distribute money to the countries in greatest need as defined by the Commission and governments in accordance with mutually agreed rules and budgetary procedures. The additional spending would not require new legislation. The decision to issue perpetual bonds must be reached by the summer because without it Italy could be bankrupt by the fall. That would be a tremendous blow to the EU. Being able to allocate funds to those who need it most would open up tremendous possibilities. Most of the money would go to the Southern countries because they were hit the hardest. But they could be allocated to those who are most vulnerable. Caritas Europa, a Catholic charity just published a very interesting analysis about undocumented migrants working mainly in agriculture who live in abysmal conditions and create hot spots of infection. Add to them the Syrian and other refugees pushed out of Turkey into Greece and you have identified the main sources of infection. They don’t bring the virus with them, they catch it in the country of their destination because of the horrendous conditions in which they have to live. Regularizing their position would save not only their lives but also the lives of the general population by bringing the virus under control. A trillion euros for fighting the novel coronavirus could actually accomplish its objective. And the same applies to a trillion euros devoted fighting climate change. The case for issuing perpetual bonds is so strong that the burden of proof falls on those who oppose it. Yes, there is an element of mutualization but it pales into insignificance in comparison with the benefits it brings. There is very little time left to understand and appreciate the opportunity that perpetual bonds offer. ***For more information, including essays by George Soros, please visit www.georgesoros.com.

Monday, May 4, 2020

please can we confirm best time eg does 9am east coast time tuesday work- any time's good for me but i assume early is best not to get too late in india

i am updating a lot of research on soros networks which i hope to be able to send by next weekend

there are a lot of complicating factors but the first question i would like to debate is which indian  university partner would be best for osun  launched by soros jan world economic forum to converge impacts of all his lifes knowhow/solidarite with societies- in other words is there one uni vice chancellor that all of you trust most as well as seeing compatible with soros and eg tatas circle of top ndia founding business families

soros osun weforum 2020 - Google Search

whats complicated at least as i search

soros is over 90 - in legacy phase of life

he has several progeny- as far as i can see alex soros is the society leader

soros has 2 main boards at new york offices that are about 3 blocks apart

the investment fund isnt easy for me to identify members - great if you can

the global board of open society starts off clear enough here

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/who-we-are/boards/global-board

tricky about global board is: only one educator botstein- however botstein has been vice chancellor for bard over 40 years, lives about hour north of soros at new york campus but has created 2 youth hubs in new york- the osun annoucement says all 20 first partners coordinate through botstein but i am told by some of his new york staff that no getogethers happened before the virus lockdown- a big one had been intended in vienna as early as april then june but that too has been postponed  botstein is also world class musician and author book calling for revolution in us education 11th, 12th grade inner cities - but his people are only just experimenting with online zoom - arizona state is stated as main online partner across osun which makes sense because craig barrett former intel ceo made this retirement purpose but i cant yet find any connection of arizona state and rest of osun

when i say the board has no people who do education -of course soros himself founded central european uni 30 years ago and just last november as the krishnans know it moved from budapest that i had visited to vienna

to add to complications many believe that soros unique success as philanthropist was last mile health especially infectious disease control - jim kim paul farmer boston fazle abed bangladesh but there is no direct boston representation at osun- after 13 months of disappearing from youth summits jim kim announced 2 weeks ago he has left the infrastructure investment back and gone back to boston partners i health to empower boston as a benchmark us city for tracing- so another overlap with core purpose of batra family and partners

i will keep looking but on the open society leadership teams i cant yet find who soros trusts most on india's fifth of world population sdgs - hoping you can search what i have so far failed to clarify

cheers chris -tours - lockdown location 20 minutes walk us national institutes of health

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

would it be possible to have a short meeting with you in baltimore in next 15 days or so?

system conflict barriers of going post colonial post industrial and sustainable worldwide in 80 years

my family of 4 generations of diaspora scots have been trying to system map with adam smith  common sense values -community rising entrepreneurship - pretty much across the globe -what with grandad sir ken mumbai chief justice for 20 years with gandhi -last job writing up india's independence

... and dad norman macrae surviving teenage navigation of airplanes over modernday myanmar in world war 2 and then making friends with japanese emperor/prince charles from 1962-4 and china by 1977 much to congress' chagrin

dad at the economist last project sent young journalists to bangladesh -15 times cos after we invited directors of brac to a birthday party with dr yunus in 2009 with the bbc oceans and polar explorer paul rose but even he couldnt get yunus to want to collaborate - to start a journal with adam smith scholars- professor skinners last contribution attached

entrepreneurialrevolution.avi Editors at The Economist discuss entrepreneurial revolution and why Norman Macrae supported Bangladeshi Microfin...

i am just a statistician who helped mit collect the first database on what 50 countries societies wanted from global corporations but today everything to do with sustainable trade mapping seems to come back to translating smith into context out of every cultures interaction

2 things are top of my priority list before easter in this virally controlled world

1 how to find whomever values smith most to webinar a meeting out of london or glasgow before next student year- this is a request from vc of the south asian university https://www.bracu.ac.bd/about/people/professor-vincent-chang-phd that became fazle abed's legacy- fazle kindly debated this goal in 2012 at japan embassy remembrance party to my father norman macrae the economist's smithsian sub-editor- how could the worlds largest ngo partnership linkin girls sdg universities once he had gone? - project OSUN-weforum jan2020

Fazle Abed died 20 dec 2019   hence timeline of vice chancellor vincent chang's request to stage summer smith event and make this one step to cop26 glasgow- friends of soros and ban ki-moon out of vienna ny state (as well as some brad schools in dc/baltimore/brooklyn) and online learning wizards out of arizona are busy on different parts of this jigsaw but we're never quite sure who gets smiths support for market transparency at community level essential for girls to safely  build sdg nations out of the least resources

2 inclusion inner city americas youth

along the way in trying to host remembrance parties to dad atlanta was due to host a nobel peace laureate summit 2015 (soros with club of rome is main sponsor of this gorbachev solidarite project) valuing luther king, mandela and putting obamas legacy into youth hands especially hbuc colleges and caribbean ones - somehow all the great and the good quarreled with each other so atlanta never got youth to the start line... 5 years on

 friends in baltimore are within my circles the last ones left standing where we still chat about how can inner city black students rebuild communities cheered on by rev al hathaway - do you already know him or is there a different circle of bloomberg cities that include students of color

Baltimore Faith Leaders Meet With Pope Francis Pope Francis prayed for our city with a group of local religious leaders who traveled to Rome.

all mistakes in reporting solely mine

thanks

chris macrae norman macrae foundation bethesda +1 240 316 8157

oops its not well known in usa that sir fazle abed is adam smith's action learning servant leader at year 210-260 of industrial revolution begun by watt and smith in glasgow- having graduated at glasgow uni around 1960 he took smith values to royal dutch shell before 50 years mapping them out of rural womens bangladesh- hence priority of abed university to issue some joint declaration of common sense economics out of london glasgow dhaka vienna rotterdam and other sister cities this summer- al hathaways community nurtured thurgood marshall and was the first successful reparation black girls got from the 13th amendment- a special enough space for pope francis to receive al in italy's happier days

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Friday, March 27, 2015

George Soros was first person to invest in mobile yunus lab and women empowerment in 1996 and thence www.unwomens.com,

 and  in south african youth in 1978 and thence 16 years of mandela extranet partnerships started up in 1999,

 and in gorbachev open society in 1992 and thence to Budapest and Rome being the last 2 chances of saving lost generations of youth fomte finacial tyrammies or berlin and basle and brussels now your www.entrepreneurialunion.com

and oops second main investor in 1996 in farmer's www.pih.org and POP goes http://www.jimkim.info , and in BRAC coming to west africa and in helping last mile networkers end ebola- so we hope those who value soros as millennials greatest investors in jobseconomics also enjoy this review of advances in open learning generation  <

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Monday, March 23, 2015

Hello friends of sustainability and Preferential  Option Poor curricula on 5 billion person elearning satellite www.yazmi.com -main blog http://www.sorosjobs.com   (previously known as Yunus brand- -soros being the 1996 investor in both yunus and bangladesh's largest corporation)
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Episode 1 water POP and 3rd anniversary of japan ambassador and sir fazle debate on elearning as only way back to millennials sustainability;11th anniversary since EU destroyed water angels network

Question to Dr Ranga

http://www.springhealth.co.in/index.php/people
Until someone points me elsewhere I believe paul polak (see conversation tread below) is best solution connector to rachel rutos questions on water discussed by naila chowdhury and all the UN womens events of the last 2 weeks https://www.facebook.com/groups/drmuhammadyunusfanclub/permalink/10155349967590641/

 he is also well connected through mit where abdul latif water lab is connection that mostofa and I have spent long time making with toyota and best of everything japan brings to development world

Is it viable to offer him one free video ad on yazmi - I mean all his solutions are massive bottom up so the borderline between ad and education  (as in shelly's case) is positive anyhow

If we can start engaging him we can find out water he might also become a premier league education partner

chris

30 march brac sir fazle abed celebrates with the first ever bangladeshi studies institute in the west - it will be hosted at UC Barclays san francisco campus- its an absolute priority to go film some content with brac that works on elearning channels- otherwise coursera will take over brac partnerships and we'll get locked out


Lecture | March 30 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, The Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall | Note change in time

Speaker: Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Bangladeshi Social worker, the founder and chairman of BRAC
Moderator: Ananya Roy, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice, University of California, Berkeley
Welcome Address by: Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
Sponsors: Institute for South Asia Studies, Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Department of Sociology, Masters in Development Practice, UC Berkeley Graduate Division, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Center of Evaluation for Global Action, University Relations, The Asia Foundation, Ahmed & Leena Badruzzaman

We are proud to announce that founder and chairman of BRAC, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed will inaugurate the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley.

Established in 2013 with a generous gift from the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley

currently I am borowing cousrera's wiki on water so if anyone has ideas on what else to search for please say https://share.coursera.org/wiki/index.php/Water


On 3/26/15, 6:50 PM, Paul Polak wrote: 
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Thank you Chris - We do feel that it will be a fit for Kenya as we continue to grow and prove out our concept in India.  Please continue to follow us and our work as we continue to grow.  We look forward to potential collaborations in the future



On 3/15/15, 1:39 PM, Chris Macrae wrote: 
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How would you test optimality of model in Kenya if capital is solvable and nation's leadership is wholly behind finding most sustainable model for poorest women empowerment

Are acumen still your representative for this in new york for kenya or who does Naila talk to. Naila worked over nearly 20 years  as dr yunus first female director of grameen phone and now aims to link first ladies to best end poverty solution, The demand for finding best model of affordable water for poorest kenyan women comes from Kenya's second lady.

Your last mile design paul is extremely important - best I have seen with possible exception of someone like paul farmer who's focused on one professional area - so thats why I wouldnt have wanted kenya to miss your work if you feel it fits some regions of Kenya

chris

On 3/15/15, 12:45 PM, Paul Polak wrote: 
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Hello -

Thank you for the question.  We are first launching in India but hope to move to Kenya at some point in the next few years if possible as the model is developed and capital is raised.  Thank you

On 3/14/15, 11:08 AM, Chris Macrae wrote: 
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is spring health best solution for clean water in any parts of kenya? if you have time pls reply -naila is rachels best friend in usa- question asked at conclusion of un women week yesterday

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Sunday, December 7, 2014

..Logo launching Atlanta's Yunus Creative Lab aiming to make twin capitals of jobs summit more popular to partner than the Olympics.

While the grameen brand was built out of Bangaldesh villages networks by muhammad yunus and pooerst vilage mothers from 1976, it largest owner is now Grameen phone, the ownership of grameen bank appears to have been re-regulated in 2010 by politicians and lawyers,  most other Grameen brands were either founded directly by Yunus before 2005  or since the meeting in 2005 with Danone, HEC , Veolia, and Credit Agricole as global social business partnerships. Spome publicist platforms and funds have since 2010 used the Yunus name often with the sub-brand creative lab In some cases national brands of Grameen were founded with national agents - eg GrameenHealth and GrameenAmerica (bank) with Vidar Jorgennsen in USA. Around 1990, Yunus was asked by international friends to form Grameen Trust as a consultancy for foreign processes of microcredit staffed by Bangaldeshi consultants chosen by Yunus. Also the anerican journalist Alex Counts was given the opportunity to start Grameen Foundation for foriegn fundraising for microcredit around the time that microcreditsummit was launched in 1997. It is our understanding that Yunus no longer directly makes leadership decisions regarding Grameen Foundation Please help us with 2 listings Global Grameen Partners operating out of Bangladesh.. Grameen Danone est 2005 with paris based funding and sb portfolio. Grameen Green Children Eyecare est 2007 Grameen Intel est 2008 BASF Grameen 2009 Grameen Yukiguni Beans 2011? Global partners and Yunus friends supporting knowledge Bangladesh needs to end poverty.... Tech lab for Grameen partnered by Kyushu University Japan Catalogue of reliable agricultural microcredits by nation maintained by whole planet foudation

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Will Atlanta become Youth and Yunus most valuable sister city?

In the 20th C Atlanta brand spent oh so much sponsorong sporting olympics- how about obs olympics in 2015 - 2 seminal events

May Dialogue on Youth Futures of Health Technology Education

November Youth and Yunus celebrate Nobel Peace Laureates Social Action networks with local lead hosts - Turner Family, Carter Family King Family

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Over 40 years of societal research, the simplicity of grounded theory makes it my favorite learning game. Its open dynamic is not just iterative but recursive - the quality proven to empower human mind as always more sustainably innovative than computers (Turing)  You start with a transcript of a conversation or lecture. The student is empowered to highlight two or three texts that she is most curious about -eg
  The teacher and student then Q&A around the highlighted texts
SO:
In my attempt to explore week 3 videos: I would like to inquire what concept of service process the teacher has? Back in 1982 my father (Norman Macrae's end poverty)  friends at The Economist noticed that the industrial age was no longer the main value driver of the bigger economies- human service was.
SO
 If millennials were to be sustainable ten we would need a gamechanger in auditing leadership from manufacturing things to service (alive and human) to knowledge multiplying value (were boundary collaboration /open design takes even economics above the constraints of zero sum thinking - first western thinker to trust on this in modern age orbit is Von Neumann)

So they surveyed intrapreneurship as a bottom-up way of designing service franchises. hoping it would become a curriculum from grade 5 up before elearning reached the tipping point of open learning campus

For a current example if a national airline was truly intrapreneurial its crew processes would be designed around what crews said they needed to be mutually socially emotionally intelligent day after day after day- not at all the same thing as an airline designed around maximising profit quarter after quarter after quarter. (Advanced questions on above from peer networks in Rome as one of youth's premier league of sustainability  capitals: What did Pope Francis say at European Union Strasbourg last fall and what will he say to US Congress this september 24) 

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GT week 3 Question 2 after discussion with http://www.unwomens.com
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1.0 20th C Theory of development - a process run between governments
2.1 Mobilised since 1996 Bangladesh among partners of womens empowerment ( initially Soros fund, Yunus women villagers networks, MIT open tech wizardry, norway's telenor infrastructure)

So i would also ask : are we free in this course to discuss the bottom-up mindset which considers how different 2.1 public service delivery in villager engagement is from the top-down processing of 1.1 citizen engagement in public service. 

For gamechanging bottom-up and open system designs read anything on nature's evolutionary code or   from jim kim or paul farmer or pope francis or the south american schools of Preferential Option Poor or Pedagogy of Oppressed or now being celebrated by 7th grade south african girls with ipad connections to the mandela extranet partners . 

Example POP: 1-2-3 Value recursion grounded (started 34 years ago tanks to Paul Farrners Twinning of Boston and Haiti and community grounded Catholic vision across continent of americas (updated next week in panama ))   if you start from service living wit the poorest, then not only 1) empowering them with service knowledge (eg up to 90% of staff at www.pih.org are former patients just as kenya's slum microcredit was founded around over 90% of staff being former youth clients), but 2) how to get out of any poverty traps and 3) celebrating with the millennials world how every advance in new technology can mobilse new value co-creation with the poorest. (Ultimately if economics saw its role as optimalising 7 billion human livelihoods the sustainability impacts would be huge.. )

Further references - 1982 The Economist and Gifford-PInchots: We are all Intrapreneurial Now

April 30th BRAC and University of Berkeley take studies of bangaldesh development designs to a new level

Last week at UN womens empowerment conference the Kenyan "second lady's" case of empowering joyful women villagers services through 5 billion person elearning satellite  . Two weeks ago the same team asked about what is the world favorite replicable clean water franchise for the poorest. I did try to send that question to several of the designers of tgis course but ... beter luck on tuberculosis where shelly batra's world bank tedx talk is now prime time on te 5 billion persons elearning satellite in recogintion of last tuesday celebrations of TV day at the house of congress

Friday, January 10, 2014

• ER survey Peace1 To Naila Chowdhury
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1 is the yunus family brand , youth's most valuable brand to network with?

2 how is valuation of most job creating brands measured? 

- my family have worked 30 years on the latter and therefore know who knows how to do IT and perhaps more importantly who hasnt got the foggiest idea

while open education world is free for leading, it is quite easy to gravitate around singfrorhope and women4empowerment to make the connections in best order for youth if we map how to do that now- however as soon as one (mad avenue or wall street) heavily conflicted choice is made it becomes so much work that nobody I know can afford to do that probono

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[1webs include blecher http://maharishiinstitute.org/  ; chowdhury www.women4empowerment.org  ; foerster at www.newworld.ac   ; javalquinto 

About us 1972 was one of the most exciting years on the planet. In Bangladesh ( barely 1 -year old as a new nation) Job-creating village networks started to emerge around the poorest mothers on the planet - thanks to the most purpose-led systems I have ever encountered: BRAC and then Grameen. DR Yunus became the face of worldwide job creation by and for the poorest mothers. and their next generations. In the same year, my father Norman Macrae who, after spending his last days as a teenager navigating RAF airplanes in ww2 over Bangladesh,a nd who  had been mentored by Keynes that the main job of economist is to end poverty through developing livelihoods - first saw students testing digital earning networks.

Dad spent rest of his life debating how and why smart networking media could be the most collaborative innovation our human race ever connects around the planet- he started the curriculum of entrepreneurial revolution in The Economist. My fathers' last public celebration (birthday 85 occurred in 2008- the guest he was overjoyed to celebrate at the Royal Automobile Club in Saint James was Dr Muhammad Yunus. Anyway we love all job creating networks and brands- who do your ne(x)t generation vote for as number 1 collaboration brand of job creation. One of father's impudent mediation stories made the yunus party even more fun- back in the day he had helped elect the RAC's first female member (at the time london's most empowering womens journalist without the members fully knowing who'd they'd elected)
links to youth co-branding with yunus include YCL SfH W4E YB.com MOOCyunus rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

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Soros foundations are a case uniquely worth because they have never suffered from one of the ailments of not for profit world which like government seems to absolve itself from the discipline of positive cashflow - see next right; very best cases of soros: **south africa seeding fight against apartheid-see far right **global fund helping jim/kim /farmer in middle of global fund early 2000 -see mid right and apparently its sad ending feb 2022 with death of paul farmer following covid and death of fazle abed leaving jim kim in boston in his mid 60s with pih.org (haiti rwanda) but only a charity ,model?  **finding bangladesh women empowerment second time -ie partnerships with fazle abed finding bangladesh first time-more middle right ** the huge impact of being first to partner poorest villagers with mobile phones (below 1995 on) **the complicated partnership with gorbachev -middle  **the call to unite graduates around the world who want to collaborate across alumni groups in their race to be the sustainability not the extinction generation what I love about all these things - they were worth a try -apparently soros didn't blame anyone as long as they tried their best with his money

Entrepreneurs advancing the human lot (according to 150 yeras of diaries the economist 1843-1990 - has happened when a founder of a solution people need has deigned a positive cash flow model round the purpose of maximising peoples affordable access. So if not for profits are about systems that fail to help communities entrepreneurially start up positive cash flow models to resolve communities sdg needs I am unsure what the purpose is.

WHITES WRONGS -even if you are a daispora sct- the curse of being a white european (less than one eight of the human race) is we did slave trade, genocide across the new world as well as gun fights in which texas became the operating system of the usa (oil power, enough gun power to force mexicans to sell the west coast) even as dc apparently mediated over laws, colonisation -britannia having first access to engines but being repelled by usa doubled up under the worst corporation the world has ever seen colo0nising south asia and closing china to world trade for over a century as the chinese sensibly declined to accept opium as a currency- the consequ7nece of the human wrongs was world war 2 - the un was birthed around 3 challenges - seeing the advanced economies kick start; outlasting stalin -sadly one od the 2 maddest men to rule would win world war 2 as they were on opposite sides; helping the 75% of people that white empires had left out of access to engineering as they grew their places (with independence); depending how you look at history 1945-1989 - human development did some amazingly positive things to the death of jf kennedy; it stopped doing anything but outlast the cold war; from the early 1980s as it was clear ussr was not sustainable soros did the decent thing of trying to help gorbachev and when he lost inside russia started the open society foundation with him and backed parallel networks situated on the boundary between rome and the vatican- particularly gorbachev chairing of the nobel peace laureate summit which shared the same secretariat as the green club of rome

I am aware that soros and jim kim and paul farmer found each other at start of 21st century; this was very good because between them bush's only totally positive impact emerged : global fund - by clarifying overlapping needs in fighting tb and aids global progress was made in combatting both of these diseases - the very best of this progress was wherever kim-farmer-soros also found brilliant bottom up health service networks; in many ways these continued what unicef's james grant had done; when they all found sir fazle abed (bangladesh woemn empowerment) as did bill gates this was one of the great leaps forward for humanity; peculiarly soros had also hugely helped bangladesh around 1995 though i have never seen his foundation take full credit for being first to invest in mobile ends poverty (help needed to understand)...

.I was at argubalky sors' hapiest moment reurning to his ciry of birth 2012- celebarting sir fazle abed as 20th open society laureate; paul farmer gace a side lecture; ceu university looked lik e a becaon for freedom - within a year of two budapest was flooded by refugees; the government5 turned right and against soros; eu joined in making it impossible for the university to keep its students both safe and free of speech - requiring a move to vienna whcich has ben slowed down by covid for me this is also a tragedy ; maybe i was starry eyed but my first and only visit to budapest saw the convergence of 3 great heroes - fazle abed whose empowerment has reached billion poorest village women; the birth place and education system that grew von neumann - whose tech advances we have been compounding 100 fold since 1955; and soros... ..

Can anyone help me i understand soros first foundation intervention supported south african black youth end apartheid ; clearly that was on the correct side of history; as far as I know soros only claims a small part of that but it convinced him he could do good;

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my family asserts open source origin rights to following terms- if you believe you used these terms first - lets chat

Entrepreneurial Revolution (The Economist 1968)
Intrapreneur jointly with J Gifford Pinchot (The Economist 1982)
Brand Architecture (with Gary Hamel) and Brand Chartering (with world class brands network) (The Economist Intelligence Unit 1991); World Class Brands 1989; TrillionDollarAudit 2001 IntagiblesCrisisUnion 1999; we prposed that trust be the number 1 exponentrial metric of brand -eg to survey writer of The Economsit's Year of the Brand 1988- father used various terms such as telecommute and future-history from start of 1970s as a way of segmenting job-creating system designers and public servants from other. (I welcome clarification of all netgen vocabuiary that started near the ned of the 3rd quarter of 20th century when humanity's biggest ever mediation challenge became replacing the dumbest media the 20th century had spun with the net generations's smarters, mots bottom-up grounded, and most collaborative. Because The Economist maintains a colegiate (not individual branding policy) it was 15 yeras before my father was first permitted to sign a survey consider japan for which he was later awrded Japan's highest economic and leadership honor. Thye onlky signed surveys of my father are here. He wrote approximately 3000 leaders in The Economist - if there is a tech wizard anywhere who can develop a search program by writing style that heps identify more of this 3000 curriculum of job creation and livelihood sustainability I would love to hear from you

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