2025report.com thanks sir fazle abed- sustainability's greatest hero in 60 years since my family first reported at The Economist critical impacts of asia's majority of our human race

38th newsletter of ESG readers of 2025report since 1984

welcome to college year 2021-22 aka 37/40 of 2025report.com major talking points & Diary of
last best chance to design world where next girl born -or child of any skin color has nature's greatest chance of a good life.
my father norman and lifelong journalist at the economist was last journalist to interview von neumann- whose biography of industrial revolutions IR3 and IR4 he later wrote- our core belief :

we 7.5 human beings have all the tech and abundance of nature to design good life opportunities for all if we unite/collaborate in doing so

BUT unlike IR1 sharing machine energy which rolled out slowly and partially, IR2-4 completely changed human potential in under a generation; we made a mess of ir2 communications tech, and the UN was born to resolve, and by 1957's death of von neumann kennedy and others were uniting the world in hope of soon no mission impossible
round any dynamics unique to human being

.transparency questions we seek to mediate in 21-22 our 37th year of updating 2025 report's countdown to sustainability generations-

what is the most entrepreneurial way teachers need to explore 4 industrial revolutions if today's younger half of the world especially poorest or colored halves are to celebrate their communal contributions to sustainability?

can leaders of entrepreneurial revolution learn systematically from what chances have we so far missed between 2021 and 1945 and 1760 when the machine age started to be webbed around the world out of Glasgow University thanks to brothers James and Adam ie through systems connecting alumni of engineering and social-economic mapmaking

welcome to abedmooc.com - 30 collaboration networks -a billion village women app'd to end poverty -2021 TOP 100 ways to change education and prevent species extinction - special thanks economistdiary.com and economistUN.com

chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk writes from washington dc and glasgow summer 2021: dear 7.5 billion human brains and beings - valuing youth's futures was easier ack in 1984 our book 2025 report, lead editor the economist's norman macrae, and biographer of von neumann's legacy of 100 fold more tech each decade 2020 back to 1960 -...

valuetrue.com- help profile ten wizard tricks for ESG-Environment Social Governance-positive cashflow business models interest me- they are both the only way to scale sustainability of all our children and how to extinguish our species
the difference is to be found in a purposeful and transparent model that is multiwin including society's need that the business is preventing the greatest risks it sectors experts know most about versus a short-term model where owners are taking from every other stakeholder every quarter
even more interesting is a partnership network of business models; unfortunately if even one core partner is not sustainable the whole network may collapse on society
as a statistician i have spent 50 years searching for most purposelful networks in the world- i don't expect to find one more purposeful than that built over 50 years by fazle abed and a billion poorest village women - goal 5 100% livesmatter communities 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6; 4 livelihood edu for all 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 ref Safiqul Islam 3 last mile health services 3.1 3,2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 last mile nutrition 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2,6 banking for all workers 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6

ABED & - help map who advises younger half of world to connect friends and alumni of late sir fazle abed founder of BRA-Coop = Bangladesh Rural Advancement and Cooperation with billion Asian poorest women sdgs and community building enterprises

Scots are about 1/400 of human species, 80% living around the world. Over two thirds of the world's mothers are Asian. In 1760 we Scota started up age of humans & machines: naturally what we have discovered about chances of human sustainability have come mostly from servant leaders of billion asian village mothers and a few euro-american maths wizards, notably von neumann, einstein
chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk writes: Dad, Norman Macrae, end poverty sub-editor of the economist during most first 45 years of the united nations died in 2010, the 250th year of humans and machines started up by Glasgow University's Watt & Smith: soon afterwards Japan's Ambassador to Dhaka arranged for a dinner party to celebrate Sir Fazle Abed as humanity's greatest entrepreneurial revolutionary - can you help us share the knowhow abed empowered a billion asian women to network? it could just save our species..EconomistDiary.com Xglasgow.com

The Economist's Macrae: 1962 Consider Japan
Abed's Billion Poorest Womens networks:1 financial services
1967 Japan Rising part 2.1
........2: food security
1972's 40 Year future history to 2012
......3 health services
1976's Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution; 12 week leaders debate
..... 4 livelihood edu
1982's We're All Intrapreneurial Now
What will human race produce in 20th C Q4? - Jan 1975

download ABED hunicorns catalogue

help us find startup networks so valuable to sustainability that they are not to be exited by investors nor quarreled over by politicians

top 100 hUNIcorns (networks that never exit life-dev purpose)

first 50 new universities who share sdg alumni

also current top 10 at worldrecordjobs.com abed 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Friday, April 16, 2021

upd 4/4/23 ...

as you may know new yorkers are hosting an alternative spring meetings apr 11-12 to world bank -- is the following a relevant meeting topic- please send in other ideas if you are able to join in for real or by zoom

37 angels is a brooklyn mainly asian female investors network formed about 7 years ago- it claims to review at least 2500 startups a year around the criteria (pretrained values) which it inducts prospective investors or partners in through bootcamps and community assemnloes

during un launch of sdgs in 2015 somebody told me that ny suburbs were one of few places in us likely to double its under 30s population by 2030 - if thats true then it seems to me that revolution in teens education and in intergenerational investors is much needed for the region let alone if the un is to discover new yorkers with a deeper commitment to sdgs than wall streets esg stuff (please note one of the angels spent 10 years leading deutche bank's esg loans audits)

so i senf this mail to you as I know you either do a lot of work with inner city community youth or on whether tech can even deeply empower community change- it may be that only parts of angels 37 are integral but is there something here several of us want to take further?

thanks chris +1 240 316 8157 http://www.economistdiary.com ed3envoyUN

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For some engineers, building 16000 homes at 5 dollars each housing total of 100000 people might have been miracle enough but then abed saw 16000 village mothers and 60000 kids starving or dying of diseases like diarrhea- so he designed microfranchise businesses for women to be the village food security and basic health servants - and two american chinese missioaries said can we swap some of your village micrfranchises (we need oral rehydration) with those in village china;

and then james grant of unicef said why not replicate your village solutions all across bangladesh, and is there something extra unicef can do for you - abed said can you arrange for the government to vaccinate half of bangadesh while our village networks do the other half. and so a blend of bottom up disater relief and sustainable micrfranchises became the world's largest ngo partnership- and all the while bottom up hunicorns networks had no taxes or traditional top down aid- empowerment is a very different way of nation building- and across the two thirds of humans who are asians - women just did it whereve extreme poverty was ended

hu01 - resilient community hu02 oral rehydration -nation wide moters training

huo3 -last mile hrlth service franchise - one village women weekly door t door 300 homes selling basic non-prescrition drugs and being mothers source of health news

hu04 - 5 times more productive village rice production...

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Thursday, April 15, 2021

Over 40 years at the economist 1948-1988, dad norman macrae, wrote over 3000 leaders at The Economist. of which only 25 were signed - one per year from 1962

his debates turned the economist into a global viewspaper; there were 2 most popular topics

entrepreneurial revolution or future history in which norman typically chose to debate the consequences of 40 years of 1000 times more tech per decade -including the loss of human species if we failed to prepare for 2020s as the most exciting and collaborative decade ever- the last one when parents could realistically expect their millennial children rise as the first sustainability generatin

futures of regions- particularly asia where two thirds of humans live and the continent which was most trapped by the era of colonial empire and the first 185 years of humnas and machines started up in glasgow of 1760s-

all of these topics may have unique sinificance n 2021 both with glasgow ghosting cop26 in november- covid having become probably the first warning through which every human being is simultaneously what else ha everyone failed to prep in this 21st c

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abed hunicorns - scaling networks too valuable to exit or quarrel over politically
goal 5 holistic community compasses of sustainability : hUNI5.1 1970s meta-village partnering labs in women empowerment ; hUNI5.2 2010s NOUS legacy of New Open Universities Sustainability; hUNI5.3 -EG-link april21- 100 million dollar climate bridge fund starting up round Bangla and 10 Brac International nations communities
goal 4 livelihood education hUNI4
goal 3 last mile health servants hUNI3
goal 2 food/water security hUNI2
goal 1 end poverty with financial solutions networks
as soon as abed had built hu0.1 the the 16000 home village of 100000 poorest in 1972, he pursued several urgent grassroots networking agenda

the female half of the population had no revenue-creating livelihoods – how could he design microfranchises until village girls were as productive as boys?

2 data showed half of infants in bangladesh were dying before age of 5 and average life expectancy was low 40s – so he sought microfranchises – small sustainble village business on how women could 1 develop food security, 2 power their own last mile village health service

Fortunately for the world 2 networks shared same urgent concerns

South China villagers – subject to same tropical diseases and also without electricity grids

Unicefs james grant

This resulted in 4 more hunicorns--timing 76-86 was extraordinary both in terms of bangladesh and china capitalism models and thence all billion poorest women capitalism models

huEd1 what james grant, fazle abed and chinese could do by making oral rehydration the most popular lesson asian women in the tropics had ever participated in – this also was the first case of what aid now calls direct knowhow-cash transfers) connecting life-saving knowhow directly with villagers the world had left behind during first 215 years of machines - this broke through aid always trickling down between national govs before it developed people- bangladeshs cholera lab had invented or's life saving cure of how to mix water sugar salt to end death by diarrhea but brac worked out how to turn this into a lesson across its 16000 village mothers -and then got funding from unicef james grant to scale across whole rural nation of tens of millions of mothers

huh1 brac developed microfranchise village health servants as the first sustainable business to scale across the nation – initially with its 160000 hfamily lab it was discovered one women door to door 300 familiies per week-with basin non prescription drugs as well as weekly trust news on all health challenges relevant to mothers and childs up to age 5 – brac became the whiolesaler direct to the village women of the relevant cures

huh2 grant was so excited that his life’s meaning became chief oral rehydration champion that he asked abed can I do something else for you – abed said : please ask bangladesh prime minister to demand you give her funds to vaccinate half the nation while letting brac fundraise to vaccinate the other half- thus by mid 1980s bangladesh rose to be number 1 benchmark for poorest nations vaccinating whole population

4huf1 Food networks first unicorn applying borlaug to rice science to end starvation in every village through microfranchise smes -see economist 1977- happiest chart in world – japan now empowered small farmers 30 times more rice productivity than cambodia – all other asian countries in between eg bangladesh about one sixth of borlaug productivity- brac led rice science as village mothers microfranchise- this also started connecting with all first 1000 days nutrition challenge to prevent infant stunting (japan and bangladesh led rice science for poorest hub creation through phillipines hr irri)

5hub1 brac now had tens of thousands of village moms operating microfranchises – they needed a savings and loan bank for the poor- brac's form of microfinance+

More Food solutions were to become bracs next hunicorns

huf2 one veggie beyond rice per village – infants need vitamins rice alone cant provide- sir fazle found villagers were beung sold seeds that were 90% dud; as soon as brac corrected this supply chain the village veggie garden could be a profitable microfranchise

huf3 – brac put 5 solutions together so that bangladesh national market for eggs/chickens was designed round over a million jobs – as well as 1 villager with chickens jobs 2-5 2) breeding new type of chicken; 3 local vets vaccinations of chickens; 4 chicken feed collected from arable areas not capable of human food production ; 5 distribution of eggs beyond villages once they were in surfeit -as this scaled poultry became a nation leading enterprise of brac – one of 20 to emerge

huh3 returning to health- brac started to develp the village world leading program for mitigating tubeculosis- severe tb can requitre daily treatment for up to a year; brac's solutions was to turn those with tb amtibodies - ie survivors of the disease- into last mile tb health servants; later it was this solution which first connected all of bill gates, jim kim george soros with partnering brac solution extensions

Up to late 1990s fazle abed focused entirely on applying solutions to bangladesh but he had always loved to tell potential partners – if you have an invention relevant to extreme human development our village women networks can't make you the most money but your greatest purpose in life will be celebrated by seeing how to scale the most good- and then choose beyond bangladesh what your invention does -it was this attitude which attracted chinese networkers on many occasions to both bring solutions to abed – eg from china barefoot medic network and to adopt his models where relevant..

entering the new millennium it became clear brac had a portfolio of solution world class philanthropies needed to partne with - both the medica outreach to the poorest and sustainable microfranchises; abed started to search which ttechnologists wanted to form the most brilliant partnerships with billion poorest asian women

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summaring the community for all hunicorns goal 5

5hun11 1972: Fifty year action learning curves: grounded in what started as abed's bottom up relief project building 14000 homes for 100000+ turned into 5huni1 metalab for partnerships in empowering women to share life critical solutions. Until the late 1990s all needed personal grassroots networking since villages had no access to electricity or telecoms grids. Abed had designed in as much sanitation as possible round pit latrines but his first discovery as servant leader was the female half of community had no livelihoods. So it was that hUNI5.1 became the greatest lab for women's networks building a rural nation - see the economist 1977 asian rural keynesianism. Abed as an alumn of Adam Smith's engineering at Glasgow University brought an interconnecting mindset to intellectual capital scaling end poverty solutions while Bangla women energised moral sentiments of human emotional social capital.
hUNI5.2 Asked at the start of the 2010s whether 5 decades of knowhow on rural keynesianism could be turned into a MOOC- Abed said i get massive open online but want C to be Collaboration. Instead of a Mooc certificate run by one university Abed demanded university partners united alumni networks around civic and village engagement in sustainability societal actions.
hUNI5.3 Climate Bridge Fund In memory of Abed, a 100 million dollar fund aims to unite bangladesh with 9 other nations piloting community solutions to climate
huni5.4 brac internet with japans number 2 cell company

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GLASGOW IS NOT LAS VEGAS_ GAMES THAT STARTED IN GLASGOW 1760S GOT PLAYED WORLDWIDE_ BUT WHO WAS TO BE INCLUDED IN MASTERING THE GAMES: EVER FEWER WHITE MEN OR PEOPLE OF EVERY ETHNICITY

AdamSmith.app scots invite everyone to cnsider how to share 4 games:

billions times more energetic power than horse and man

billions times more communications capabilities than shouting at each other

these two games led to world wars because where men led by londons capitalists did not share the equally the way smith had advocated naturally; instead mainly 7 white empires ran the world of the second quarter of the 20th century; there were some other small advanced mainly european places eg austria hungary nordica that got in their way but a far bigger problem the un was born to address : two thirds of humans who were asian had been left out of the first 2 games with the exception of japan which behaved terribly from 1900-1945 but more humanly than any other empire since; the situation of the 13% of African origin was dismally unequal; they were either trying to evole out of being treated as slaves in usa or they were trying to free a continent whose national borders had been drawn by colonists whose main purpose had been to extract africa's natural resources to play war games back home.

INTO 1945's mix a hungarian america von neumann worked feverishly for 12 yearts- his legacy two new engineering games linked by exponential multiplies of 100 times moore (moores law) each decade to the 2020s:

what sorts of livelihoods would children of 21st c need to learn to commune round if human species was to survive nature's evolutionary rules

what would happen as ever more systems once run manually by government became real time platforms mediated by machine intel

oddly most people of the 1960s failed to explore the biggest lesson of moon landing; quite literally this was the first time a team of people put their lives in the hands of coders; why because the algoritmh of landing on the moon couldn't afford one mistake in a sequence of many thousands of decisions interacting in such a short period of time that no human brain could have computed them correctly

-CHALLENGES OF 2020s

THE UN HAS DONE AT LEAST 2 wonderful things in the 21st century building on its 55 years in the 20th century; it has mapped 16 o 17 goals that could return human beings to sustainable worldwide journeys round mother earth; it is in the middle of mediating #aiforgood and operational consequences of borderless ai played round nature's bottom up systems

however before we rush into heady global debates, please note the logic of goal 1 end poverty begins and ends with designing a world so that wherever the next black girl or white boy is born she has a great chance to grow up because the community is a thriving space for families to be. If we can reflect on that, the the celebrations of the 80th birthday of the servant leader who spent his last 5 decades on earth empowering the billion poorest asian women are worth joining in- i am sorry if you were not there in spring 2016 dhaka; the young female journalists who accompanied me also got the chance to visit what felt like a madame tussauds exhibition of how the worlds oorest mothers developed a nation out of nothing- but here is the written guided tour- please forgive any errors of translating bangla into english

n 2016 it was abed's 80th birthday party; the forecourt of brac's office sprouted a tent -inside a display akin to a madame tussauds show guided visitors through village development over 4.5 decades; two youthful chinese female provincial graduates -one who grew up in mao's hunan, the other grew up in the province bordering north korea were there to observe; this is the translation story they were given as a souvenir -dear friends of women empowerment across asia - please celebrate with us::

HAPPY 80^th BIRTHDAY – Sor Fazle Abed, BRAC, Bangladesh

45 Years of Building the Most Valuable Network on Sustainability Youth’s Planet

1 RESILIENCE NOT JUST RELIEF –INNOVATION’s CORE OF BOTTOM-UP DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

The seeds of BRAC were planted in the efforts of Sir Fazle and friends to assist families affected by the Brola cyclone in 1970. BRAC was then officially established after independence, supporting refugees to rebuild their lives. At a critical early juncture , we abandoned our focus on relief and adopted a longer-term objective of development, opting to work side by side with community members for decades to come.

We do not ignore emergencies and their impact on people living in poverty. We build community preparedness and grassroots platforms that activate in natural disasters to minimize damage and to channel relief. Our goal is to help households bounce back better.

Better often means changes such as stronger infrastructure or new livelihoods for families that depend on agriculture, for example, and are therefore increasingly vulnerable to climate change.

As Bangladesh urbanizes, we have expanded our focus to include manmade disasters like fires and building collapses, most recently Rana Plaza in 2013.

Massive natural disasters internationally have triggered us to expand into new countries like Haiti and Nepal to support national recovery the way we did in Bangladesh so many years ago

2 Healthy Lives and healthy futures

Doctors and hospitals were scarce in Bangladesh’s early days. We created an army of community-based entrepreneurs to bring medicine to every doorstep. Over time, the army became all female, challenging social norms and enabling women to access important products and information

We challenged the global health community by putting the life saving treatment for diarrheal disease in the “unqualified” hands of mothers, and generated evidence that they could use it effectively. We created a community-based tuberculosis control model, expanding over time to become the government’s largest partner in combating the disease.

The growing numbers of people living in poverty in urban areas face serios health risks, including maternal and infant mortality. Our network of healthcare entrepreneurs continues to ensure that women can access care safely, quickly, and with dignity.

Recent breakthroughs in cognitive science have shown that focusing on early childhood development has transformative effects over a lifetime. Pilot programmes are putting this research into action at the grassroots level

The primary challenge of healthcare now is less about access and more about quality. We are building financial tools to continuously ensure more people can access services that meet their evolving health needs.

3 EDUCATION FROM LITERACY TO LEADERSHIP

We started by teaching basic literacy to adults, then realised we needed to start from the start. We changed our nor-formal primary schools as “second chances’ for people living in poverty especially girls. Our pedagogy focused on joyful learning, incorporating the best practices from around the world.

As students graduated from our schools. We felt a need for creative ways to continue learning beyond the classroom. Libraries offered reading materials, and adolescent clubs created safe spaces and opportunities to teach life skills.

Our focus moved towards quality, with universal access towards education in sight, through strategies such as teacher training and increased use of technology. We proactively recruited students with special needs and expanded our curriculum into multiple ethnic languages to ensure that our schools were successful to all children.

Our ultimate goal is to build a nation, and for that we need leaders. That is where our focus is now – creating opportunities for youth to take responsibilities in programmes, as mentors, and as teachers themselves. Our university creates even more opportunities to contribute on a global scale.

4 Financial Inclusion

We started by bringing people living in poverty together. We quickly learnt that what they needed most urgently was access to economic opportunities and financial services.

We brought women together into village organizations to organize credit and savings arrangements, and then used these meetings as a platform by delivering a wider range of services.

Over time, we expanded our reach to unserved populations, such as the “missing middle” (enterprises that were too large for the loans offered by microfinance but excluded from commercial banks) and a comprehensive grants based programme for people living with poverty, who could not benefit from microfinance.

We are now building a broader set of financial products, including insurance and pensions, and leveraging the growing ownership of mobile phones to use digital channels for financial services.

5 Market Solutions for the Poor

A fundamental driver is a lack of power – at the individual, household and community level alike... Power dynamics need to change in order for people living in poverty to realize their potential , and they only change when people do it themselves.

We promoted consciousness raising and empowerment from our earliest interactions with communities, inspired by teachings on social movements. We underestimated the complexity of power dynamics though and learned the hard way that we needed to create new organisations, where women could come together in solidarity. These community action groups became important social platforms; for example, supporting health workers who faced harassment for their services.

We widened our work over time to help people living in poverty to participate in formal government structures and leverage public services. We also increased our engagement with public official and village leaders to build wider support for women’s empowerment. These discussions have risen to the national level, where we advocate policies that support gender equality and human rights. Internally we have worked to build a female-friendly work environment and actively strive to recruit women.

Gender equality remains one of the greatest unfinished works of our generation, and an area in which we have to continue changing power dynamics. We still see that child marriage is the norm, sexual violence is pervasive, and women are under-represented in the workforce.

6 Changing Power Dynamics

As we began to provide financial services to people living in poverty, we noticed that many rural communities did not have access to markets

We started building value chains, connecting thousands of farmers and artisans to national markets. We focused on silk, poultry, clothing and retail, in many cases the viability of new sectors in Bangladesh. The successful scaling up of one value chain often spawned new livelihood opportunities, from poultry vaccinations to artificial insemination for dairy cows.

Entrepreneurship is also a long standing part of our development approach. Over time we have built a national cadre of local change agents, usually women, who receive training and support from us, but are paid for their services by their neighbours. These grassroots entrepreneurs distribute a wide variety of products and services, from sanitary napkins to high quality seeds.

As local and global labor markets offer new opportunities. We are supporting migrants to seek and finance work abroad safely, and equip youth with in-demand skills

7 BRAC INTERNATIONAL

By 2002 we had over 30 years experience of piloting and perfecting programs, and scaling them to reach millions. The time had come to bring what we had learnt in Bangladesh to the rest of the world.

Relief and rehabilitation were immediate needs after war and natural disasters plunged millions into poverty in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. We focused on peace and building stability through jobs, education and financial inclusion, continuing to put girls and women at the centre of opportunities.

We expanded into Africa four years later, starting development programs in Tanzania and Uganda. We continued to pilot, perfect and scale rapidly never losing focus on contextualising every opportunity created

Opening now in 12 countries gives us a rich knowledge base to further our work in Bangladesh, while providing us with a global network in which to pilot new solutions for the world’s problems. In 2016, we create opportunities for one in every 50 people in the world.

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as 2020 closes - one ray of hope: two thirds of world who are asian now celebrate round education commission asia and then nov 2020 global leaders forum hosted by korea, keynote by gordon brown

rough transcript gordon brown - korea global leaders forum

00:01 i'm delighted to join you at this eighth global leadership forum and i congratulate you on choosing as this year's theme the biggest question of our time

00:12 what will our post-covid world look like?

and i want to start by thanking all those who contributed to the organization of this important event and in particular the leader who asked me to speak to you my friend professor lee whose distinguished career has included his great success in reforming education in the republic of korea as minister of education science and technology and his path-breaking work on the global and korean education commissions that i had the privilege to chair

00:37 and who as an academic and writer is recognized and admired for his innovative research and insights especially in HTHT: High-Tech High-Touch education, admired not just in this continent but in every continent --now this conference meets at the right time because we're indeed at an inflection point

00:53 covid 19 this microscopic parasite 10000 times smaller than a grain of salt has not only infected 50 million people( ed some models of asymptomatics figure nearer 500 million)

-and destroyed more than a million lives, but it has made us as individuals come face to face with our own vulnerability- and indeed our mortality

01:10 and it has brought more economic havoc, disrupted more trade, killed off more jobs, led to more lost production, caused more company closures than has any modern recession

01:20 And it has not only undermined the cultural and social foundations of our lives but it is making us rethink the way we live, the way we work, the way we travel. the way we learn the way we study

01:31 in some cases it is accelerating already underway changes: like the online economy…in other cases exposing age-old problems like poverty and deprivation which have come to the surface and in other cases making what previously seemed impossible

-- work is changing as more people work from home and communicate online the consumer economy is changing as retail moves online

01:55 public services are changing as we see online education and online health dramatically expand

02:01 the social contract is changing as we reframe the rights and responsibilities of individuals and governments

our ideas of fairness are changing as we recognize we will have to do more to value and reward all those who have been underpaid and under recognized ;especially those running personal one-to-one face-to-face

services like social care where some of the lowest paid workers in the world have had to take some of the biggest risks and the jobs we do are changing as IT , logistics, the digital economy as well as social care have to expand to meet new needs-

our ideas of what is acceptable are changing as workers who have been prepared to be self-employed (without job/health/pension contracts) now seek greater security-

our idea of society is changing but people have been isolated now more than ever that being part of a community matters more to them than ever it did

02.58 and so each country will have to find its own way forward as it rebalances the relationships

between individuals and communities
between markets and states,
between risk and security,
between freedom and control; .
between the very rich and the rest and of course between man and nature

03:08

and education is changing; and this is where i want to focus the rest of my remarks

indeed i want to suggest today that because we are now more aware than ever of inequality of families and children denied opportunity- of the vast gap between the world's education rich and the education poor,

there is now no route to the future that does not have education at its center, no route to greater equality of opportunity that does not involve education

03:35 no route to more prosperous economies, stronger communities and fairer societies without investing in education, no route to rebuilding our countries too -

03:44 no route to building back better without the contribution of education of teachers, trainers, researchers, academics to the common good

04.00 -so for all these reasons, i have to say to you that the pandemic has robbed millions of children of the future

because the education they once enjoyed has been interrupted- many of whom may never return to school, or even if they do they may never catch up on their learning

04:08 you know at the height of the pandemic 1.6 billion children and young people- 90 percent of the world's pupils and students had their education disrupted-nearly a billion students are still shut out from schools today

and the risk is that short-term school closures will lead to long-term reversals in educational attainment with the opportunities available to the world's poorest and most marginalised children already diminished and hit even more

04:34 before the pandemic

let us remember 260 million school-age children did not go to school,

400 million children left education at 11 or 12 never to return,

800 million half the developing world's children left education without any usable qualifications for the workplace

and that while the numbers of graduates (from high school) has increased from 100 million 50 years ago to 400 million in 2 000 to 700 million now ..even in the 2040s when children born today will first come of age 70% of all the adult population of the world will never have the secondary nor college nor university qualifications needed for the well-paying jobs the world can offer

05:20 in low-income countries today a staggering 90 percent of children are in learning poverty which means they cannot read a basic text by the age of 10;now in the last financial crisis the typical child fell six months behind in their educational attainments . but children who are out of school for more than a year are even more unlikely even to return,

and in crisis settings,

girls are two and a half times more likely to drop out of school than boys; but missing out on school means millions of children also go hungry; indeed during this pandemic 370 million children have been missing out on free or subsidized school meals which have often been their only regular source of nourishment

06:01 and with families under extreme financial pressure millions of boys and girls may soon join the 152 million children already forced into child labour

06:11 and many girls will join the 12 million girls a year who are forced into becoming child brides

06.21 with one estimate suggesting this illiteracy could lose us as a society as much as 10 Trillion dollars per year in future earnings we are standing by doing too little as havoc is reaped by one of the biggest forces accelerating inequality in our generation

06:35 quality education is vital to lift people out of poverty; to ensure healthier families advance racial and gender equality, unlock job opportunities increase security

06:45 and create a more just peaceful and sustainable world- and girls education is a proven link to lowering fertility rates and reducing population growth which itself is one of the key drivers of climate change

06:56 education especially of girls leads to better health- a child whose mother can read is

· fifty percent more likely to live past the age of five

· fifty percent more likely to be immunized twice as likely to attend school

07:09

and so this is why we must come together as a global community and save the future of our children in response to this crisis

07:18

the education commission in partnership with an unprecedented global coalition of international organizations launched save our future to call for urgent investigation in education to prevent what we call the generational catastrophe

07:33

three actions are urgently needed

· first we must reopen schools but make sure they are safe schools

· second we must prevent what the world bank and unesco estimate could be a funding gap of 200 billions in education budgets in the next year as countries reallocate resources to health and social welfare and

· third to use available resources to greatest effect we must be innovative

by creating the international finance facility for education securing 500 million of grants and government guarantees that could unlock two billion dollars of educational investment to be made through the asian development bank and other development banks

08:13 and i urge the korean government to join as a funding donor of the development banks and we must use this crisis as an opportunity to transform education

8.25 you see if you think of the monumental changes we have seen in the way we organize our factories, our homes, our hospitals and our travel,

08:30 and then think of how little education has changed with until recently so little online and how little the school itself has changed from the setting of world classrooms with the teacher as the sage on the stage and the pupils sitting in rows of desks

08:44 think of the educational revolution we need as we meet the demand for ever-changing skills: continuous learning and try to harness technology to support those most left behind

08:55 a study published just last year revealed how disparities in learning achievements have not diminished over the last 50 years; the most disadvantaged still perform at levels that are three to four years behind the most affluent and we must change this

09:09 online learning became a necessity almost overnight but yet close to half of the world's pupils and students don't have access to the internet

09:17 across the world more than 460 million- almost one third of school-aged children had not been reached by remote learning at all -so this could be the moment for us to transform education, to create individualized adaptive learning which meets children where they are with personalized learning, at scale for every student not just the lucky few

09:39 https://educationcommission.org/about/commission-leadership/

this is why the education commission and its hub in asia under the leadership of korea’s ju-ho lee are spearheading the high tech high touch for all initiative: combining the power of human touch and interaction from teachers with the power of adaptive learning and technology such as artificial intelligence. the high-tech refers to an adaptive technology that can help deliver personalized learning. it identifies prior knowledge and tailors instruction to diverse learning

needs allowing students to be stimulated and nurtured as they progress at their own pace. this can also be done initially in low-tech ways but artificial intelligence can allow us to track a child's

experience with software informed data and gear every child's learning to their aptitude is one way forward. the high touch element is the indispensable human connection provided by teachers. with the use of high tech teachers, can give more personalized guidance.no longer just the lecturer who's the sage on the stage but also the tutor and mentor who is the guide by the side.

10:38

we've already seen the promise of this approach in asia in vietnam as well as in india-and here in korea the HTHT university consortium which includes 16 member institutions provides support to korean universities that use the HTHT approach in their curricula and the k-12 consortium targets low-income students across multiple cities

TODAY. i'm glad to announce the launch of HTHT for all a global consortium across governments, ed tech innovators, industry providers and educators that will develop a rigorous evidence base and create a collaborative network to support bold ways to address the digital divide so let us be the first generation where every child not only goes to school and learns but feels able to bridge the gap between what they are and what they have in themselves to become and let us be the first generation where instead of developing only some of the talents of some of our children in someof the world's countries we develop all of the talents of all children in all countries

11:40 thank you very much

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with approaching two thirds of the world's youth asian hubs were also led by korea's Ju-Hu Lee, and jack ma and japan's koike and india's Kailash Satyarthi and uae's Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi and Baela Raza Jamil from pakistan as well as the support of korean-american and then world bank leader jim kim

further support for africa came from tanzania's then president Jakaya Kikwete, tunisia's then minister of tourism Amel Karboul, nigerian billionnaire dangote, zimbabwe's london based billionate technologist and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa, south africa's machel, ghanian- brit Theo Sowa,nigeria's and vaccine ngo gavi's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, uganda's teacher union's Teopista Birungi Mayanja,

for america south: mexico's former president Felipe Calderón, colombian superstar Shakira Mebarak, Fundacion Chile's Patricio Meller and for america north came from former unicef director general anthony lake , economist larry summers, philosopher sen, harvard edx edutech's argawal,liesbet steer

for europe from former eu supremo portugal's baroso, former denmark president and save the children's Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former norwegian minister of education clernet

for australia, former prime minister gillard

in this 38th year of linking action to 1984's 2025 report we search for nominations of people whose contributions will be as important to youth if their solutions are scaled

In this year’s edition of the Yidan Prize Summit -edu foundation of china's largest digital space inventor of wechat/whatsap-, held virtually in Hong Kong dec 2020, 16 academics have been named to the Council of Luminaries.

They are
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder, BRAC (posthumous); bangladesh and world's largest ngo partnership
Anant Agarwal, CEO and Founder, edX and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Kamal Ahmad, Founder, Asian University for Women;
Vicky Colbert, Founder and Executive Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva;
Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University;
Usha Goswami, Director, Center for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge;
Eric Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow and Professor, Stanford University and Hoover Institution;

Larry Hedges, Chairman, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University.
Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University;
Salman Khan, Founder and CEO, Khan Academy;
Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All;
Patricia Kuhl, Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Co-Director, University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences;
Lucy Lake, CEO, CAMFED; Angeline Murimirwa, Executive Director-Africa, CAMFED;
Carl Wieman, DRC Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Physics and of Education, Stanford University;
Zhu Yong-xin, Founder, New Education Experiment.

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.HESI Special Event: Where Next? Reimagining Further Education for the Future

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On July 8, 2020, the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) hosted this special event alongside the United Nations ...

transcript starting in 81st minute extract 80.40 president arizona state uni, with covid and other www community crises, we are where we are, not only because of politics and capitalism, but at the root of it all is us the universities- we are universally inadequate to what lies ahead in terms of the future of our species and our relationship to our beautiful planet which we are all dependent on -let me outline 5 inadequacies

1 we are inadequate in terms of our self-awareness- institutions of higher edu nof the net outcome of our design – why do we have business schools that are teaching economic models that are working against our own in sustainability, why do we have a lack of communication between chemists and biologists and economists and engineers and philosophers and historians and everyone else -82:33

inadequate. We are wholly, universally inadequate to

82:38 what lies ahead in terms of the future of our species and our relationship with 82:42

this beautiful planet that we're all dependent on it. Let me outline five

82:47 arguments for that. First, I think that we're inadequate in terms of our

82:52 self-awareness, as an institution of higher education or as institutions of 82:56 higher education, of the net outcome of our design. Why do we have business 83:00 schools teaching economic models that are in fact working against our own 83:06 sustainability? Why do we have a lack of communication between chemists 83:13and biologists and economists and engineers and philosophers and 83:18 historians and everyone else who sit inside university environments arguing 83:24 with each other in ways that are not just about intellectual development but 83:28 are in some ways inane? And so we have never thought ourselves, 83:35 we've never been adequately focused on our own self-awareness to understand 83:41

that in fact our highly disciplinary design, as Jeff Sachs indicated, our

83:46 highly structured way of doing things, our way in which theories evolve, our 83:50 ways in which faculty are recognized, the ways in which knowledge is advanced, the 83:55 net outcome of all of that is exactly where we are in terms of a non- sustainable trajectory,83:59 the non-sustainable trajectory that we're on is 84:03 a product of us. Point number one. Point number two: that same university 84:10 enterprise, that same higher education enterprise, is inadequate in terms 84:15 of its production of systems-level tools. We're an observer. We're obsessed with 84:22

reductionism. We're obsessed with the belief that somehow if we can only

84:26 understand everything down to the atomic scale, if we could only understand 84:31 everything at the genetic and sub-genetic mechanism, that somehow we would 84:37 be able to find the solution to all things. And so the answer is, no,84:41 reductionism is not the method by which we will gain an understanding of the 84:46 interconnectedness of the systems of the planet and the role of humans. It's only 84:50 through our ability to emerge systems-level thinking of equal 84:55 intellectual stature and of equal intellectual value. Third, our 85:01 universities and our higher education systems in the United States and in 85:05 other parts of the world are completely inadequate in terms of their 85:08 intellectual diversification, their cultural diversification, their socioeconomic diversification,85:13 their lack of recognition of indigenous cultures and

85:18 indigenous knowledge, the dismissal of entire cultural paradigms, all around 85:26 this notion of somehow there being one path and one trajectory and one route 85:31 forward. Well, there isn't. And this lack of diversification, lack of women in 85:37 science, technology, engineering, and math, lack of cultural diversification at 85:43 universities which actually is accelerating not decelerating. That 85:47 lack of diversification is accelerating if you look around the world, is in fact 85:52 limiting our overall intellectual contribution. We have a narrower and 85:57

narrower intellectual contribution ,not a broader and broader intellectual

86:01 contribution. So that's the third factor that I think is a key part of the design 86:06 limits. I think forth, and I would probably rank 86:10 this actually first, universities really don't care as institutions about much of

86:14 anything. They care about bringing in faculty. They care about hiring faculty.86:19They care about having students. They care about their budgets. They care about 86:23 arguing with the government to get more money. But they don't really care 86:26 about sustainable outcomes as an institution. They do not take activist 86:32 positions, intellectual activist positions, as Jeff has built his career 86:36 around, and some of the rest of us have been fighting for decades. We just 86:40 sit back and say, "Well, we did what we could do. We educated the people we could 86:43 educate. We put out the theories that we could put out, and

86:46 we're really sorry that the politicians are too stupid or or too 86:51

lazy or businesses are too greedy or too selfish." And so this notion of not taking 86:57 some sense of responsibility, we don't realize that it is in fact our own lack 87:03 of transdisciplinary capability, our own lack of adequate, our own lack of 87:09 diversification. It's our own lack of systems-level thinking, it's our own 87:13 obsession with reductionism that actually has brought us to this point. So 87:18 when we look out and we're concerned about rapidly rising CO2 levels or we're 87:21 concerned about the overwhelming human consumption, and a manifestly negative

87:28 overwhelming consumption of fresh water, or the elimination of the entire fishing 87:33 stock or conservation disruptions on a global 87:37

scale of geological time, we don't realize that that we're responsible for

87:43 that. If you take response⁠—if you know you've contributed to something and it's not87:47going well, if you're a responsible person or a responsible institution, you 87:51 change what you're doing. We don't have much change in what we're doing.87:54 Fifth on my list is, universities are archaic, at least in the European model, 88:01 archaic, slow, non-adaptable, non-technologically sophisticated 88:05 institutions. We're not moving at the speed of climate change. We're not moving

88:11at the speed of complexity, of complexification. We're too slow. We have 88:17no sense of time. We might argue about something for 15 years and in the same 88:22 15 years the Ross Ice Shelf cracked off of Antarctica and led to some 88:27 massive change in the in the ocean circulation cycle and thus impacting 88:34 climate etcetera, etcetera. So the five points here: inadequate self-awareness,88:38 inadequate emergence of systems-level thinking, wholly inadequate 88:42 diversification of the university itself, no sense of moral duty or moral 88:46responsibility as institutions, and inadequate speed and adaptability. If we 88:51 don't change those things, there's not going to be any climate adaptation or 88:55 climate change. There's not going to be movement back towards a sustainable 88:59

trajectory because we're not producing the people, the ideas, the tools, the

89:04 mechanisms, the devices, the theories, the assumptions⁠—the young students who 89:08 are just presenting, they get this. They understand that they enter a university 89:12 which is in fact an archaic institution,incapable of having self-awareness 89:17 relative to where we're headed. So what are we doing at my institution arizona state, we've 89:22 done everything and then some, and still it's a slow slog. We've built the Global 89:28

Futures Laboratory, the Global Institute of Sustainability. We're

89:31 dramatically lowering our carbon footprint. We have thousands and

89:34 thousands of students. We change the design of engineering. We changed parts 89:38 of the design of our business schools. We built a new school on the Future of 89:41 Innovation and Society, a new School of Sustainability, and we're still moving 89:47 too slow. And so I think the point I'd like to make to 89:50 the audience here is, let's listen to these students. They have a sense, they 89:54 have an awareness, and they are able to see immediately upon entry into our

89:59 bureaucratic institutions that we're inadequate to the assignment and we 90:06 ought to take that as a serious, serious criticism. Now let me tell you 90:09

what's happening right now. So right now, and COVID sort of expresses this, we are 90:14 largely as colleges and universities place-based institutions, driven where we 90:21think that excellence is a function of who we exclude, and this is true all over 90:24 the world, where our structure, our technology, our flexibility, our 90:29

adaptability are completely inadequate. So my message to ministers, to UN leaders,90:35 to SDSN leaders, to higher education leaders, to students, to faculty, is that 90:40 let's shake it up. It is time to shake the foundation of the universities and 90:45 have them raise their hand and say, "Yes. We want to be responsible for the 90:50 climate outcome of our planet, for our species outcome, for the 90:56 sustainability of our species." And to do that we're going to have to change 91:00 everything down to the root. So I think that's about 12 minutes and I'll 91:05 stop there.91:13

Ok. Thank you, President Crow. I like the way you framed it because

some early nominations

botstein - as early as 1990s botstein -author jeffersons children- was arguing for a revolution in bridge between high school and college- in particular the end of education designed as a linear age process rather than everyone's potential as lifelong learner and coach- as well as his concern for changinn teen education, as a musician he had designed a new york ihilharmonic, and he had become the youngest ever vice chancelolr starting before the age of 25 at bard college an institution he has networked for over 40 years as a bencmark for 21st c liberal arts

learning curve journey - 2009 2010

of course with a vision like botstein its fascinating to see who he has chosen as equally concerned for new education- i dont yet know who is top 10 are but i see they include

soros central european university and open society and new economics networks

president crow - arizona state has the highest raking of all universities in goal 1 end poverty -and frees youth to explore radical opportunities of tech for sdgs

patrick awuah who founded ashesi university in ghana as a graduate thesis ar berkeley about 17 years ago because he believed in a platform debating future of education on a continent expecting to double population from one billion to 2 billion- and his career at microsoft had impressed on him that tech would change every element of how education spends african peoples time

there are up to 50 education institutes soros and botstein are linkinng in - sometimes asking of an institute who is its most innovative futurist isnt easy but its a qiestion 2025 associates have been surveying since 1984 wherever that freedom of debate is permitted

anothervradical network is schwarzman - there it is clear who signed up from mit, tsingus, oxford to valuing global scolars in a way never done before but since two of the three coleges are only just opening their schwarman branch i dontwant to prejudge who they chooseas coordinator of practicing education collaboration /exploration of ai's 2020s

there are countries that already valuechildren very differently - singapore, several nordica nations clearly so as do those places who dare to join jack ma's hunt at the united nations- back in 2016 30 nations education leaders started this debate but its not yet ready to publish its league tables becuae all 6 primary sdgs need to be interfaced not education as separate from g=finance hunger health , lives matter, infrastructures

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This year’s Yidan Prize Awards Presentation Ceremony and Summit was successfully held virtually on 7 December. Our three laureates, Professor Carl Wieman, Ms Lucy Lake and Ms Angeline Murimirwa, received their awards from the officiating guest, The Honourable Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, GBM, GBS, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. We were delighted to have our Board Director, HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, and former Australian Prime Minister, Ms Julia Gillard as our keynote speakers at the Summit. We also announced the formation of the Yidan Council of Luminaries – a transformational force and support closer collaboration among the world’s most distinguished educational leaders, to amplify their collective voice and take practical action in educational policy and reform.11:34

dr charles chen yidan

11:41

dr chen :the honorable chief executive of hong kong .royal highness princess laurentien of the netherlands the honourable miss julia gillard

it's my great pleasure to welcome you; this is an unusual year which has seen over 90

of the world's students affected by school closures due to the pandemic

12:47

students teachers and parents are all coming to terms with a different

form of teaching and learning- no one could have predicted education systems globally we've faced sustained disruption of this scale

people are feeling anxious because no one can be sure what lies ahead

13:22

the worsening inequality must be adjusted and we will have to find solutions

13:50

While some of these students have seen able to switch on their laptops and walk to virtual classrooms with relative ease that experience is a far from universal

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only half of the world's children have access to the internet; it's

15.02 my greatest hope is that this crisis has given us time for self-reflection on what we have

Learned about education and how we can ensure it's fairly distributed in the future

faced with the challenges we must work together if we are going to create a better education

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we must collaborate education experts across all fields must come together to share their ideas top quality research must drive real life learning which in turn can give us the

basis for more education research that is why the yidan price foundation has a call

for international experts to work together and build a better world through education

17:45

the world bank recently launched a global education evidence advisory panel leaders are looking to understand not only what is effective in getting more children into school but also how to improve learning outcomes once they are there; given the scale of the challenge, resources

need to be directed to the most cost effective and impactful approaches now only

19:34

the yidan price foundation joined the unesco global education coalition earlier this

year with a commitment to strengthen learning systems we are partnering with

OECD to empower teachers and student,s we believe the rules of students and teachers will

Change ,we believe schooling and learning will take a new form in the future

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innovation and inspiration we are actively taking many new steps

because we care very deeply about our future generation-it will be the choices they make that

determine their future ;we are here to offer them the right tools to bring on this journey

of discovery and exploration; we are also offering inspiring stories of passionate actors

on this international platform their work has brought about hugely positive changes

to communities all around the world they have made transformation possible in innovative sustainable ways

our independent judging committee has selected a new batch of highly impressive educators

who have transformed the way science is taught in major universities and how

girls and young women are educated in africa

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professor carl wyman professor of physics and graduate school of education and drc chair at Stanford university was awarded the 2020 yidan prize for education research his work prepares the next generation of students to make sound decisions based on scientific measures he created tools to encourage active learning the physics education technology - this

has delivered more than 700 million simulations in languages in physics chemistry math earth science and biology professor wyman we thank you for making this possible-go to minute 30

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miss lucy lake chief executive officer and miss angeline

marimo executive director of africa of the campaign

for female education or camfed for short -were awarded the prize for providing a

scalable approach to recognize the untapped potential of education young women to drive

change across Africa their programs have a chance for four million lives thus far

it's most interesting to know that angie

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was among the first girls to benefit from camfed program some 27 years ago – go to minute 41 of video for more on camfed

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quiz if you are touring asia where to stop off fist to see education transformation city by city

-nominations welcome chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

hong kong - yidan prze hub

korea - eg

Mr Ki-Sang Song

Professor of Korea National University of Education, Dean of Graduate School of Korea National University of Education

My name is Ki-Sang Song, and I am a Professor of Computer Education of Korea National University of Education, and the director of the Global Education Cooperation Center at the Korea National University of Education (KNUE).

I served as an international consultant for enlarging the education opportunities and improving education system through information technologies with the cooperation of World Bank, IDB, KOICA, IACE, and KEFA. I directed international teacher training programs in several countries including 11 years in Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Paraguay, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar.

My research concentrates on the area of ICT application in education and Learning Science. Currently I am doing research on the development of Intelligent Tutoring System using Machine Learning for software education. Also, I am directing the in-service teachers training program for empowering AI teaching competencies at KNUE.

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260 years of failing adam smiths recommendations on era of humans and machines suggest 2020s really may be the last decade for choice between

spiralling towards sustaiability or
death of our species

those who know a lot about human and machine intel - see the membership at www.futureoflife.org say that technology has reached the stage where all life could thrive like never before of self-destruct

firstly that means the 2020s are the most exciting time to be alive - what a shared responsibility across generation: youth, parents and grandparents to trust in each others actions and learnings

secondly there is a mathematical construct which makes understanding exponential opportunities and threats to our future real and in this case urgent

by definition : system = connected relationships all of which are spiraling one of two opposite waus: sustainably up or collapsing down until the system is lifeless- the trajectory of spirally involves exponential acceleration- this the opposite of linear though exponential curves are tricky- often they look flat or linear until they pass a tipping point - after that sage it will be far more costly to turn round than the extra costs caring for the system in the first place

- the operand of systems is multiplicative - this has strange consequences : if two systems spiralling in the same direct multiply the exponential gets much steeper; sadly there are many multiplier of cliate going the wrong way- climate risk is vastly under-estimated by most linear minded scientists

when a negative spiral connects with a positive one it is usually the case that the negative one takes over- this is bit like the problem the body has with healthy and cancerous cells; usually the cancerius cells take over

here are the 4 most critical stories adam smith wrote about- admittedly we apply the lens of what its like to be trapped as some other country's colony or sponsored dictatorship

1 like newton and true maths/systems people, smith respected natures systems -in particular health, green, cultures and languages

in this he admired scottish missionaries who adapted the code of franciscans- wherever women network abroad they bring maternal and infant health care - i met the vatican lawyer who is still responsible for funding the clares which is the network name of female followers of francis

wherever franciscan men networked or marco polo mapped abroad they should value nature - anthropological skills help- when you meet a new culture or language you learn how to behave within its codes not just word of mouth it

there was a good reason for this system respect - the black death -island nations were the must vulnerable to pandemics brought in by seafarers- the main connectivity of the day- oddly though the french like to claim they ended the extreme greed of euro-kings first- the black death redesigned london in time to be the largest warfaring capital of the imperial era- so that the king and his west end were indebt to the city's merchant bankers- it was a pity the pound was always a currency designed to benefit the biggest not to serve all peoples- its global rise becae ever leess secure from silver to gold to the queens promise on a bit of paper abused by rival political parties the less they served lives matters peoples- how the bbc failed to be the publics servant is where any transparency in english speaking media died- i have known the attenboroughs intermittently for 60 years so unless i can find a gandhian to write to them or unless muscatelli personally invites them i very much doubt they will turn up on nov 6- of course delighted to be proved wrong

2 in the 1750s moral sentiments said the exact opposite of all man made markets are free-

smith defined a transparent market like a community market where enough of all the buyers, sellers, suppliers knew the costs, the quality, the safety so that the invisible hand multiplying purposeful goodwill sustained rising not collapsing impacts by and for the peoples of the community- smith had an urgent motivation to talk of moral intel/sentiments - scotland became a coly of england/london's slavemakers etc in the 1700s- it was already evident that london was quarterly sucking out of scottish communities -by the 1800s it was called thinning- and thats why we are mainly a worldwide diaspora nation - what had previously sustained them- ok scotland does not have the same agricultural climate of england- no large farms

3 can you imagine just having written moral sentiments when the professor in the class next to you shows you the first steam engine- abed learnt a lot from being in 200th class of humans and machines

smith spent the rest of his life writing why the age of man and machines should not be marketed by londons slavemakers and colonisers of the old world; he is very explicit scotland and ireland should join in the united states of english speaking world to the west but on one condition- not just law repealing slavery- everywhere down the west coast of usa up the louisana purchase across the west that man introduced machines those operating a business mode where lives were not valued should be bought out at a fair price

4 actually smith as soon as he saw machines meant most of his 1760s tutoring a wealthy family's son through oxford university as well as a few visits to scots old entrepreneurial ally the french

there he wrote the famous paper on how empire's higher edu system had nothing to do with valuing innovations youth needed to sustain- fortunately the irish-scottish female vice chancellor of oxford promised schwarzman she understood this when he asked if oxford would like half a billion to mediate the ethical fusion of tech wizards at mit boston and tsinghua beijing- tsinghua is a very respectful place in cultivating students -i have done 8 walking tours of the campus -much happier to be an engineer at than oxbridge both of which i know well - tsinghua was founded by money from roosevelt- the roosevelt family are the closest partner to bard and soros living about half way between their homes

sadly for our species the way we code data is on an even faster exponential than climate so somehow we need to animate humans artificial intel as well as climate arguments as well as free kids to explore moon races on earth not be examined by old lawyers rules

the interesting thing if we go back to bottom up moral sentiments is both aged and soros demand its practice wherever people truly follow open society and seek to remedy the great failings of the last 20 years:

not applying ai to viruses first even though people as different as bush gates soros kim abed brilliant were calling for that in 2005

not refinancing the opposite of subprime which is what digital cash could do as abed's team facilitated at the 2nd japanese embassy in dhaka event in memory of my father

the most exciting briefing i have ever witnessed - remembrance party to dad where sir fazle chaired debate on the new sdg university coalition- actually every ambassador who spoke to abed since 2011 will confirm coalition university and so total change of edu systems was his favorite story of 2010s just as starting up brac university was his idea of the 2000s- as you well know abed never spent money granted for one purpose on another - so the university had to find its own funds- but since it began as the epicentre of tbe virus last mile health workers and worlds number 1 in end cholera/diarrhea its seed was the same as stanford founded after the 5th governor of california's teen son died of virus while traveling - the same story befell john bard founder of bard; the story of being a single parent of a 7 year old girl and a son whose birth killed mrs abed is ultimately the reason why i really dot want to meet anyone in scotland who hasnt heard this tales on the roads to and from glasgow cop24

when bush and blair went to war against saddam they did the two most evil things i have seen westerners do in my lifetime:

they lied about why attack hussein

they didnt have a culturally renewable plan

the cost is border chaos all across europe from brexit to the lost of soros and neumann's home country as a tolerant place that grows the greatest statistical minds to the chaos of failed nation in africa and south west asia- ever more terror

it was bangladesh's great good fortune that their teen went to glasgow to study engineering unlike gandhi who about three quarters of a century wen to the bar of london studying law and spent most of his last 25 years debating english constitution with my grandfather sir kenneth kemp who wrote up india's independence on a type writer in london at end of ww2 under the assumption that the whole of the british raj was being launched as one nation not the messiest scenario of all - making bangladesh a colony of west pakistan

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