June marks the 10 anniversary of death of my father Norman Macrae The Economist's entrepreneurial revolution and end poverty sub-editor. We are organising a zoom calendar. I have appended a short excerpt of The Economist's remembrance party. Favorite events after his death- the Japan Embassy in Dhaka and Open Society Laureate Sir Fazle Abed organised 2 dinner roundtables on the future of university and future of fintech -transforming education and health by 2025 was the core idea of my father and my 2025 report published in 1984 as timelines to sustainability opposite to orwell's end game Adam Smith scholars held an event at Glasgow U aiming to celebrate bottom up entrepreneurs 250th year of man and machines started by smith and james watt in 1760 - an online catalogue of papers helped me learn a lot! Dad had survived war as teen navigating raf planes over modernday myanmar- not to every politician's liking, he was always trying to roll back the traps across the old world continent caused primarily by britannia and japan's colonial era- father saw people like Soros and Gorbachev as huge heroes- one of dad's main retirement projects was the biography of John Von Neumann Optimistic Rationalism is as vital in 2020 as any time in my memory. sincerely, chris macrae washington dc +1 240 316 8157 HUMANITY'S SPRING breaking april 2020 join guterres coalitions lets end all wars on people and unite around ending virus 2020s sdgs most exciting decade - according to adam smith school of economics and humanities started 1760, at least 4 of sdg world's top 10 economists abed ma gandhi and brilliant have a lot in common- they all valued education and health as building economies not vice versa-all needed alumni to study borlaug app'd to rice science to end billion people famines across all of rural asia- furthermore, ma and abed - however much their life work focused on financing health and village markets value chains -wanted their legacy to include arts/sports for all- kobe.mba recommends you start up with cindy mi to make this connection- or global classroom twitter listings more connections at economisthealth.com economistrefugee.comeconomistarts.com economistsports.net- masterclass100.com human development's most urgent question- how will next girl/boy born be included in entrepreneurially joyful life? mapped from 3 future history's-last call UN5.0 sdgs:2030-2015 -first post-colonial call UN san francisco 2030-1945 -start of engineering & markets morals glasgowU 2030-1760 TO BE OR NOT TO BE lets begin with :IF you are a young refugee your life depends not on people chatting about the 17 sdgs but peer to peer apprenticing replicable solutions goals 1-6 go together - you need a coalition between teachers and students that explains goal 1 ending poverty is linked to how to finance the refugee to maximise community last mile health services and unless you are in a camp to maximise food and water security and safety for women as much as for boys-brac partners inspired for half a century by former royal dutch shell ceo for east pakistan fazle abed have been developing this action learning curricula for 50 years and currently update it with rohinga and wherever un hubs of education above all connect refugees -as well as curricula sustaining refugees brac partners wizards likemit/quadirs/gates/jack ma in delivering digital finance for unbanked - goal 5G 4G 3G 2G 1G 0G moonrace1960s radical edu 1 2 | Soros founded CEU-graduate institution-30 years out of homeland Budapest moved nov2019 to Vienna, Soros Central European Uni- uniting post USSR youth with global youth- mitigating conflicts of EU, middle east, landlocked epicenter of Eurasia east west- and arctic circle north to mid east to African south: the UN world of health, peace and trade, global sports, mobile tech hub out of Vienna, Geneva neutrality of bankers, ethics global sports ngos and hopefully climate adaptability risk – alumni of ban ki-moon, and music/arts city of europe OSF’s Higher Education Support Program (HESP) effectively served as a Marshall Plan for higher education in Central and Eastern Europe. CEU, founded in 1991, became a unique model in graduate education CEU hosts annual 5 day student friendships summit “get engaged” OSBs MK 1 2 Tweet Alex soros georgesoros Mar 31 The organization I founded, the Open Society Foundations, will contribute €1 million to aid the city of Budapest in solidarity with the people of my birthplace in the midst of this unprecedented emergency. https://trib.al/rGcfGjZ | Bard university- 21stc Swarthmore out of NY state- led by world class musical composer Leon Botstein- trusted by Soros as facilitator in chIef- was growing great NY hub on 86st but currently all hubs closed down- experiential learning of American and global youth friendships- first access to Soros Open Society culture hubs & economists. LB +OS global12 Soros G A MsA Kaletsky MallochB CEU Ignatieff Rev Krastev MsCattaui Gaspard D-Sachs SchiffrinCU
Princeton U global history lab .. mooc Hub in high schools with Brooklyn library with branches long island, Baltimore, DC, & returning citizens. Bard at berlin. At QUIDS Palestine RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS AND EDU nets Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (United States) 1 | Out of Dhaka, ABED U of BRAC & OSUN. Led today by Vincent Chang, Fazle Abed began Brac U with friends of James Grant health college including Swarthmore epidemiologist David Fraser. The goal to celebrate SDG futures of Asian youth, public servants, tech leaders, girl-safe community-links with world’s largest ngo partnership. Abed’s 50 years of poverty alleviation networking stemmed from being Glasgow engineering graduate and Royal Dutch Shell regional CEO for East Pakistan. Brac empowers village women community building- microfranchising health food, finance livelihood edu 1- first 30 years peer to peer in villages with no electricity- last 20 years choose leapfrog partners. brac and ashesi only wise laureates where university is core model celebrated by Sheihka Moza Brac = world’s largest 2g fintech poor www.bkash.com with mit-legatum, gates, jack ma and integrated partner licenes such as ultra poor recent nobel prize win for mit poverty lab, james grant school of public health, lego-brac global pre-schools with yidan (ten cent hong kong) and yidan Europe- cambridge Uni- adolescent girls clubs brac international netherlands and mastercard foundation Canada. Gabv.org with visa presencing institute mit. Brac triangualised microhealth, microedu, microfinance-in scaling economic coalition it connects 4 value chains of sustainability – ie one village, 200k villages, national, global | osun members update nov 2020- OSUN Partners Colleges and Universities Al-Quds University/Al-Quds Bard American University of Beirut American University in Bulgaria American University of Central Asia Arizona State University Ashesi University Bard College Bard College at Simon’s Rock Bard College Berlin Bard Early Colleges Birkbeck, University of London Center BRAC University Central European University European Humanities University Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania Sciences Po SOAS, University of London Universidad de los Andes University of the Witwatersran Research and Educational Institutions Bard Prison Initiative Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs Chatham House Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen Institute for New Economic Thinking Parami Institute Princeton Global History Lab Rift Valley Institute The Talloires Network University of California, Berkeley Human Rights 1 2Out of Accra, Ghana Ashesi U founded by Patrick Awuah and friends Microsoft Seattle -future of African sdg youth, public servant leaders, tech, youth hubs. Patrick adapting 20 years collaboratory of Africa new Unis and hubs (eg Kenya Ihub). Ashesi is the main U model celebrated by WISE’s Moza & Ghana president -both top 17 UN eminents of SDGs- and closely mentored by Mahbubani of Singapore Uni celebrating and dedicated to Lee Kuan Yew- next Mahbubani worldwide seminar out of china institute in NY- 4/7/2020. Africa also has greatest medical teaching school last mile health in Rwanda Jim Yong Kim/Paul Farmer. Soros had sponsored brac Liberia and sierra leone ahead of ebola)
Question – what works masterclass, zoom, various mooc platforms, Arizona states platforms, hujiang 40000 live classroom.,tencent/baidu platforms. how’s this vary by bandwidth |
Arizona state soros us trusted leader in online education- major retirement project since 2009 of former intel ceo craig barrett- craig had tried Bangladesh-intel as his last csr project but knew yunus not abed
| 2009 Soros launched ineteconomics to reverse global meltdown and map rising community nets. Soros helps mediate moving beyond paper currencies and nationalist politicians. He supports theory of economics reflexivity which can help update 260 years of Smithian moral philosophy | In late 1990s soros 2 greatest sdg successes found jim kim and paul farmer, sponsored first mobile phone village tests- boston epicenter of both- by 2005 jim kim had found both gates and abed and by 2012 soros wanted ceu to br abed’s best partner-ceu also has 20 laureate alumni curricula starting with popper | Soros partnership with gorbachev and lech walesa caused birth of open society offices in 150 capitals, and soros helped gorbachev launch annual summit on nobel peace laureates aswell as youth solidarity networks-main partnerjournalists at club of rome also green advocates Soros first philanthropy coined term entrepreneurial evolution with south African youth- potentially tracks world from mandela back to Gandhi- attenborough family is bbc world leading editor n nature and Gandhi- | London U -soas machel online – school oriental African studies & Birkbeck Paris science po-nb parish hq of UN education & Unesco ALSO American uni at Kyrgyzstan and Bulgaria, European U of humanities Lithuania, Fulbright U Vietnam, U los andes colombia |

Saturday, September 14, 2019
Basic 6:
development of 8 billion humans begins and ends with
how you design
finance explains goal 1 poverty
livelihood education goal 4
the 4 most basic community-grounding apps of your worldwide design of finance and livelihood education are
health and safety goal 3
end hunger/famine- goal 2 - local food security
sanitation and water goal 6
gender equality 5 - historically human strength impacted agricultural and industrial market efficiency- cultures and history often made women underclasses - ie 4 billion people were less valued for their life's productive possibilities; this is one of the market (vale chain design) changes the age of trillion tomes moore tech (5G 2020s 4G 2010s 3G 2G 1G 1980s 0G 1970s) than moon race (as breakthrough use of machine ai) needed to leapfrog with the way humans collaborated around machine intel and not juts machine power
MAPPING 4 GOALS EXPLAIN FUTURE HISTORY OF WHERE A CHILD IS BORN:
they also explain the 2 meta-chinges drover of 1960-2030 tech how humans use artificial intelligence, and how we go beyond carbon chains in markets including energy and packaging eg reducing plastic
7 Energy (eg in industrial age markets of coal and steel as well as other natural resources); primarily G8 nations grew bigger and bigger empires designed to extract these resources from everywhere else- in so doing some of their people advanced at least 100 fold beyond subsistence- opportunity to innovate was also very unevenly distributed- even as some men landed on the moon in 1969 more than half of people had no access to electricity grids so eg only person to person communications- moores law timelined 1 trillion times more coms tech by 2030- sustainability would depend on how digital cooperation preferentially applied poorest
Goal 16 Peace/Justice it was known that the world wars were a single that 200 nations needed to mediate beyond the G8 world to value diversity and end inequalities- no peace could link places around the world including the bbc's Attenborough's 7 planets one world without redesigning the legislatures of 200 places and ending externalisation across borders the main driver of big get bigger emperors
Over 50 nations (small island developing nations) have huge water estates and small land to produce with - they depend on goal 14 knowledge.markets of life below water eg fish a product nature has always distributed in boundariless ways through oceans - remaps the 7 worlds ; precursor blue planet shows eg ending plastic essential
Over 25 nations have the opposite challenge- only knowledge of land markets (goal 15) no ocean access- this accelerates many conflicts - eg 90% of world trade depends on shipping so these nations need infrastructure belt roads shared with neighboring nations if they are to participate in globalisation-some nations like the congo have the unfairest history of all- empires have exploited their natural resources while leaving their peoples no trading infrastructures other than those that the world's biggest corporations design for their extractive economic models including 90 day profiteering
Are the other goals actually jigsaw pieces in system integration of 5G to -0G world
goal 17 private and public partners fails to triangularise ngos etc who value the younger half of the world as every place's win-win currency
GOALS THAT CANT BE ACHIEVED BY BUILDING WALLS ( ZEROSUM GREATNESS OF SEPARATE PLACES( FAILURE TO TECH LEAPFROG WHEREVER INFRASTRUCTURE UNEQUAL
11 Sustainable cities and communities
10 Reduced inequalities
9 Infrastructure, Innovation/Industry
8 Decent world and economic growth
12 responsible production and consu,ption - market media and
13 climate action - market governanace &
Friday, September 13, 2019
hoping to help connect every UNGA event ny sept 22-27
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Sunday, September 1, 2019
Hosted by
Supporting Governments
The Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Finland, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Italian Republic
Supporting Partners
About the Business Forum
in New York on 25 September 2019. The Business Forum provides a unique multi-stakeholder platform to support business action and partnerships to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – fostering public-private dialogues, catalysing new partnerships and alliances, and exploring innovative business solutions to accelerate sustainable development.
The Business Forum will be held during the UN’s 2019 SDG Summit which will be held under the theme of: “The SDGs... Turning Promises into Reality."
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2019 Outline Agenda
7:30 - 9:30 | SDG Solutions Immersive Breakfast* The SDG Solutions breakfast will be an opportunity for companies to showcase their upcoming technologies. This two-hour buffet style breakfast hosted by ICC and UNGC will allow companies to erect exhibits or tables dedicated to their latest innovations. It will be an invitation only event and an opportunity reserved for companies that have displayed true leadership in the SDG arena. |
10:00 – 10:30 | Introduction Ms. Lise Kingo, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the UN Global Compact, and Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Under Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations will open this year's SDG Business Forum. H. E. Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations will deliver keynote remarks. |
10:30 – 11:15 | Sustainable Financing for 2030 Some of the world's largest corporations are increasingly vocal about the SDGs. What implications does this positioning have on corporate strategies and business models? What steps can companies take to tangibly integrate the SDGs into their financing, operational processes and internal decision-making? What incentives are needed for investors and companies to expand their investments in emerging and frontier markets? How can governments and investors support a shift towards SDG-aligned business models? Can MNCs help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to fund their plans for SDG adoption? |
11:15 – 12:00 | The Future of Business This panel will explore the changing landscape of business as it contends with global changes and the challenges associated with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As we approach the deadline for the 2030 Agenda, how are businesses incorporating the SDGs into their organizations? With rapidly occurring advances in technology, what kind of transformation of the workforce can we expect in the coming years, and what are the implications of this? How can ambitious climate action lay the groundwork for a more sustainable and equitable world? |
12:00 – 12:45 | Scaling Ambition While the SDGs have provided a framework for governments to improve the livelihoods of their citizens, and the Global Compact has tracked business engagement with its ten principles, we must acknowledge that there is still so much work to be done. Business and Industry stakeholders must do their part to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This section will highlight those companies that have gone “above and beyond” the call of duty. Whether they have eliminated modern slavery in their supply chains, invested in the adoption of sustainable technologies, or promoted gender equality in the workplace, the speakers during this panel will be leaders in their field who are working to go the extra mile. |
12:45 - 13:00 | Closing Remarks John W. H. Denton, Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce and Paul Polman, Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce and Vice Chair of the UN Global Compact will deliver closing remarks. |
2019 Featured Speakers
![]() | Mr. Liu Zhenmin Under Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations | ![]() | Mr. John W.H. Denton AO Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce | ||
![]() | Ms. Lise Kingo Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, UN Global Compact | ![]() | H.E. Ms. Amina J. Mohammed Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations | ||
![]() | H.E. Mr. Hubert Minnis Prime Minister of the Bahamas | ![]() | Sir Suma Chakrabarti President, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development | ||
![]() | Ms. Madelyn Antoncic Chief Executive Officer, SASB Foundation | ![]() | Mr. Francesco Starace Chief Executive Officer, Enel | ||
![]() | Ms. Farzana Chowdhury Chief Executive Officer, Green Delta Insurance | ![]() | Ms. Claudia Azevedo Chief Executive Officer, Sonae | ||
![]() | Mr. Emmanuel Faber Chief Executive Officer, Danone | ![]() | Ms. Gamze Cizreli Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Big Chefs Café and Brasserie | ||
![]() | Ms. Flora Mutahi Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Melvin Marsh | ![]() | H.E. Mr. Ibrahim Mohammed Solih President of the Maldives | ||
![]() | Mr. Kent Walker Chief Legal Officer, Google | ![]() | Mr. Cyrill Gutsch Founder, Parley for the Oceans | ||
![]() | Ms. Pamela Molina Chief Executive Officer, Agrolibano | ![]() | Ms. Rose Stuckey Kirk Chief Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon Communications |