100 times more tech every decade has changed everything - see von neumann alumni; BUT which universities and school systems are helping youth connect PRACTICE most needed for last mile sustainability everywhere children are born to sustainably co-create with;
..Can humnas design a world in which each next girl born has a good chnace to thrive?Clearly this question was not the purpose of the white men from Europe who from late 1490s set out to acquire places -in new world America via old world Africa and Asia...Scot Adam Smiyh can be read as both the last person to ask this question in would before engines (moral sentiments 1758) and first 16 yeras of engines (advantage of nations 1776) . (Adam's first disappointment was that Scotlan's land of engineer was unable to join in an united states of english speaking freedom- instead america decalred indepndenc leaving Scots ruled by London. iN 1843, Lomdon Scot James Wilson founded The Economist to renew Smith's question - could queen victoria start desiging empire of commonwealth instead of one starving the Irish, stuntiing the peoples of India etc/.The centenary autobiography of The Economist in 1943 recognises that root cause of world war was the then G* most powerful nations had not been addressing this question: when the war ended in 1945 the UN was foinded to have another go at asking this question as well as to reboot advanced economies.It can be argued that about 75 years later, digital UN2 as advanced by Guterres (with quest for digital cooperation beginning 3 months before his 10 year appointment when educatirs reviewing the first year of sdg4 saw a system with no hope of most youth's inclusion- humans didnt not just need goals but transformation of systems connecting every community) | Apps that share life critical knowhow multiply value in use unlike consuming up things. It beggars belief that essentially the same 8 empires that misapplied machines 1760-1939 have brought the world to the verge of extinction again by not valuing digital cooperation/learning economics even though we have had satellite coms since 1964 and von neumann 1951 briefed economist journalists on the world's most valuable question what (above zero-sum) good will peoples do with 100 times more tech every decade 1930s to 2020s.. | .. | You don't even need hi-tech to see how a billion asian women ended rural poverty 1972-1996. At fazle Abed's 80th birthday party a tent went up at brac's car park in dhaka with 5 subspaces - each was like a waxwork's stiry of a decade of progress so you couild see what added to what in what sequence (figures were actually made of paper mashier. We have filed the journey of the 30 greatest cooeprations womens webbed to end extrreme poverty here. Lets hope it reminds those lucky enough to be at the edge of every hi-tech under the sun that the most valauble purspoe (indeed all sustainability goals) needs to go deep into maos blueprinted by hand. Otherwise an algorithm is only as usful as what data it excluded. Abed died decembere 2019 just before guterers started to ask will un2.0and ed3 get digital cooperation right or are we condeming the younger half of the world to be the first extinction generation. | What would you do if you were a young economic journalist who had survived his last drays as a teenager as a navigator in allied bomber command burma campaign and in 1951 you meet von neumann in princeton and were instructed on the biggest journalistic scoop ever - train economic journalists to ask what peoples want to do with 100 times more tech every decade 1930s to 2020s | .I can tell you what my dad norman did, and some of his followers. Dad really liked Kennedy' two sixtoes challges: moon race mostly because staellite telecoms could one day connect all being to share life critical knowhow; and interdepence of a triad of human development - about a tenth out of atlantic 2.0 (ie america) about a tenth out of atlantic 1.0 west europe - over 65% out of pacifi ocean with perhaps 15% yert to identify which coastines to access world trade from (80% being shipped); meanwhile dad spent hos 1950s listening to what peopels wanted - eg as only journalists at borth of eu messina 1955; aged 39 the economits let dad sign one surbvey a yera so 1962 he chose peoples of japan and asia Rising; 1963 peopels of Russia; 1964 brazile and latin america...1969 rainbow alliance of usa;from 1972 dad was alarmed that nixon had taken dolar off gold standards - so he addeed in 40 year future survey focusing particulary=ly of new tech of finance, education and health; by 1976 romanno prodi was joining in translating the entrepeeuirial revolution worldwide communities would need... and from 1884 dad and I tuirned 40 yera futures into a book form - 2025 report listing sustainability deabliens and probable best first and last chnaces to globally and locally brainstorm solutions - of course alumnisat needed to bring down costs of millennails universities to near zero - the opposite of making colege studnts the biggest debt class. | While covid makes Asian networking a challenge, I mainly host meetings in ny (eg around Flatiron) or DC region or by zoom; i am interested in people who have a solution they want to mentor 1000 student community builders to apply; speed & scale- if app is really useful you soon get 1000 by 1000 alumni actions for sustainability -12 years ago my number 1 sdg hero started debating 100 times more effective universities and this matched my dad's life work at the economist so this is why- i now believe 1000 mentoring circles can be funded through NFTeds but only where endorsed by United Nations- could this fit with whatever you most want to share?? - more coming at www.alumnisat.com and friends' co-platforms of metacodes.com | welcome from chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Who do you learn from most? 40 years ago - I co-authored 2025report.com - searching for world's partners in sustainability. After 9/11 I nearly gave up until my friends and I came across Fazle Abed and a billion Asian women's work since 1972. After 15 trips to Bangladesh here's a catalogue of extraordinary partners in sustainability and transforming education |
Monday, December 31, 2007
Xmas 2007: we first traveled
to Bangladesh to ask whether
youth could help transform
education and economics
around the worldwide goal of
ending poverty. In 2009 we
hosted a party with brac and
grameen directors. Our dreams
of learning from both Yunus and
Fazle Abed started to disappear
as ever more conflicts surrounded
yunus. We started to see tech wizards
gravitating round BRAC. To remember
the passing of The Economist's Norman
Macrae the Japan embassy asked Fazle Abed
to host 2 roundtables on the future of teach and
of Brac University. 2017: Alipay's first published
partnership with sir fazle abed. In 20 dec 2019
sir fazle abed died. This brings us to our number 1
search of 2020s - can ali and brac scholars help
youth be the first SDG generation?
Friday, November 30, 2007
Selection of PovertyMuseums newsletters 2008
In january yunus technology director asks for worldwide search of next stage of developing village hubs- as microcredit.tv pro-youth journalists know know: in the pre-digital era it took yunus directors 7 years to develop their centre format (massively repicated from 1983) in which one branch manager could network 60 by 60 hubs of village women (walked to by POP/bareffoot banker once a week) being responsible for their livelihoods and the sustainability of the 3600 families tey represented - in other words each grameen bank branch served life critical needs of about 20000 peopaulo freire type action learning network arouhd 16 decisions; and the (first no financial service didtributed by bank managers- carrott seeds)- so that every centre was twinned with a vegetable garden); and groups of 60 women organsiing their mnen to develo sanitation systems around pit latrinnes, and then aan aga khan award for the safest minimalist cyclone proof hut with an unique mortgage system (only the mother coould take pout tyhe lopa- so for the first time village women and their children were more legally secure than their husbands)_
because of this bottom-up hub structire yusnu was choseb by by soros, MIT and telenor to be worlds first partner in experimnnting with mobile phmne empowerment of village women back in 1996
but the biggest question of end poverty world at start of 2008 was - what ahs been learnt form fisrt 12 years of mobile women4empowement and what are most exciting timmping points are parallel experiments around mobile now freeing around world of ending poverty -and PovertyUni that may most openly study this
during 2008 Kenya became a world leader in answering this quesion - see stories of IHUB and ushahidi, and mpesa and safari, and how tis all started back in 1999 wit yujus friend ingrid munro inventing te world's nmber 1 model of banking for slums and happy families here youth are trusted to rebuiold communities
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Selection of PovertyMuseums newsletters 2014
July
visiting Japan for first time in 20 years- always the place that inspired 2 generation of my family most having started the quality systems revolution out of which electronics and computers became possible- and tus starting 1960-2060 as asia pacific collaboration century
here are my souvenir business cards as I chat to medical students at tokyo university, sons of Toyota presidents and Dr Yunus main connector in Japan - Okada-san

July
visiting Japan for first time in 20 years- always the place that inspired 2 generation of my family most having started the quality systems revolution out of which electronics and computers became possible- and tus starting 1960-2060 as asia pacific collaboration century
here are my souvenir business cards as I chat to medical students at tokyo university, sons of Toyota presidents and Dr Yunus main connector in Japan - Okada-san
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