we welcome ideas on zooms june 2020 -10th remembrance of dad norman macrae - chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
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 abedma 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 withcindy mi to make this connection- or global classroom twitter listings
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
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”
Mar 31The 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
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (United States) 1 Chatham House (United Kingdom) 1 Institute for New Economic Thinking (United States and United Kingdom) -see lower box Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Austria) 1 Open Society Archives (Hungary) 1 Rift Valley Institute (Kenya) 1 The Talloires Network boston tufts uni 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
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
12Out 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-
Open society laureates Austrian Karl popper origin of laureates 1994– global 2016 / MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERE 2014 / KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA EU crisis response Haiti, Pakistan, and Chile after natural disasters. 2012 / ARYEH NEIER, Former President of the Open Society Foundations- 2011 co-recipient 2011 / JAVIER SOLANA, RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE, 2010 / LOUISE ARBOUR, President and CEO of The International Crisis Group 2008 / KOFI A. ANNAN, Seventh Secretary-General of the United NationsGlobal south 2013 / SIR FAZLE HASAN ABED KCMG, Founder and Chairperson of BRAC 2006 / RICARDO LAGOS, Former President of ChileCentral Europe: 2018 / JANOS KORNAI 2007 / CARLA DEL PONTE, Former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 2002 / MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, Former Minister of Justice of Georgia and co-recipient ZURAB ZHVANIA, 2001 / BRONISLAW GEREMEK, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland2000 / ARPAD GONCZ, President of the Republic of Hungary and co-recipient MAMPHELA RAMPHELE, a Managing Director of the World Bank1999 / VACLAV HAVEL, President of the Czech Republic :: 2017 Germany Joachim Gauck 2015 / THE INTERNATIONAL RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION creation open society Ukraine- 2009 / MARTTI AHTISAARI, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2008), Former President of the Republic of FinlandUS 2019 / STIGLITZ T 2003 / TOM LANTOS, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives
where is this debate opening across societies and borders
now that every person is onlin how do we map a global beyond borders
chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
can boston make a come back with kimuniversity.com
will osun make this curriculum of the year across its 20 plus worldwide scholars webs
will jack ma's second year returning to being youth full time educator turn from olympics of sports celebrities to olympics of local heroes- does community health ai exist as a field if so why dont bezon and ma's beb services unite to show us how ro rock
ater 10 dusastrous statistical mistakes will governors take back escape from the virus world wherever americans most despeately need community action not washigon grandstanding
send us your question on the debate of a lifetime
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I once asked who will pay for the COVID? From what I have seen, here are some possibilities 1. Individual taxpayer (no surprise, what else?) 2. Corporate taxpayer (especially those who have made a lot of money during this period) 3. Petro taxes: keeping the retail price constant, the government can cash in on the low petrol prices. 4. Insurance companies (this is what they do). 5. Governments could take debt (so finally taxpayer but spread over the years to our children and grandchildren). 6. Shareholders take risk and should bear risk as far as bankruptcy is concerned. This includes pension funds who took the risk... can't just have gains. 7. Charity. 8. Issue new money (see Milford Bateman's comment below). 9 China pays (can't understand why, wonder which country is going to be charged for Ebola or AIDS or any other illness). Of course, China may say US pays... lets make US great again? 10. Germany pays! This is a new one, in the name of European solidarity. Not so new if one remembers my paper on Greece: the price of access to markets must be social security subsidies for weaker countries. (At that time I hadn't thought of "weak" meaning those more susceptible to a virus, though). https://lnkd.in/dCmMQ-N
www.economistrefugee.com important debate- expect youth as sdg generation pays & gandhian truth mediation loses http://www.worldrecordjobs.com/2020/04/gandhi-is-one-of-leaders-it-is-most.html unless sun fights virus, india pay a lot as local health systems and tech app unfit fifth of human beings -also India most complex combo of borders/neighbors on mother earth- virus being mediated in west by orwell big brothers having compounded risks to local communities keep making big bigger abusing nature's evolutionary code- at tech crossroads how big data is designed for AI needed vibrant/FEARLESS local community actions, last mile frontline servants -unless education starts up a k-12 curriculum making exponential risks truly transparent all the poorest historically most divided will pay - 3 halves of our world : poor, youth, women have less than 10 voice in investment - thats before virus- may be less than 1% over 2020s instead of human relation maps to make sdgs possible www.kobe.mba chris.macrae.yahoo.co.uk ps last visit delhi 2004 1000 gandhians and health servants from 50 countries met at indira gandhi centre of arts- a lot of notes to publish but then next week tsunami hit so practitioners had other fires to fight
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
sos virus- which city will be first to design the 1000 youth franchise needed to trace the virus- this became the main agenda of the 10th annual summit of #cgiu2020, first virtual summit- edinburgh university vc was promised april 2021 for next cgiu real summit- chelsea clinton announced boston coordinated by pih paul farmer will lead the way in designing us public health service of youth tracers - part of the puzzle paul farmer is medical worlds chief saint but scaling has often involved support of soros, jim kim and last mile health in rural areas - a curriculum developed by fazle abed and launched within the medical college named after james grant - the first of several world class scholars movements gravitated by the abed university of brac andnow of soros
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
osun
arizona state scholars - online edu- walter kronkite journalism
ny state - world class performing arts - bard catalogue of community building - example brooklyn microuniversity ;; dc-baltimore schools- ineteconomics leader kaletsky- celebrating diverse societies - soros laureates.. with rome prize of aanual summit of nobel peace laureates lead host gorbachev,partner hub green club of rome
ny ineteconomics leaders include antone kaletski; uk partners include lord turne
eg edinburgh summit scottish awakening
vienna - ceu - world hub for global climate adaptability world class city of musicians
dhaka world class women solve community sdgs-
edu partners include lego pre-school yidan wise first laureate mastercard teen girls livelihood clubs
tech partners include mit legatum dubai
poverty partners include mit poverty lab abdul latif nobel economics 2019
health partners include soros jim kim paul farmer columbi u ;berkeley bangladesh diaspora irri - see james grant school public health
nutrition partners world food prize partners
curriculum of global banks with values - presencing institute mit
ghana alesi uni 6th wise laureate - also micrsoft and other top us internet alumni- collaboratory of new unis africa
open society communities require such basic capacities as
health and safety -soros alumni core partners include pih's jim kim and paul farmer from 2000, alumni of fazle abed soon thereafter- during q3 of 20th century 2 billion people life-saving apllicion netwrks - asian alumni of america borlug applied to rice science alumni of brefoot medics a network started in china but whose firstr gamechanng cure -billion person lifesaver oral rehydration - in both cases alumni of fazle abed bangladesh women empowerment linkin half century of applications by poorest village women- to serve small businesses across hundreds of thousands of viillage brac also invented microfinance
resilience through relief to development
Sunday, March 15, 2020
america never learnt from ebola because trump and fauci hated obama and jim kim- now they will lose the nation because og their egos - lets hope mayors and governors get the peoples support -now
rational optimism essential to mass media
rational optimism-
#evilfauci his goals will continue crisis across usa for more than a year- he has the precept healthy society generates strong economy wrong way round - he had years to learn from ebolathat testing needs to be last mile up for infectious diseases but the combo of cdc nih and trumpenomics made usa least prepped rich nation for a virus- and today we are crying wolf with a minor virus compared with one with a high mortality rate
nyu langone columbia presbyterian will be faster tester- the greatest public servant debrief than you mayor
Drones can reduce the cost of fertiliser in agriculture (eg rice paddy japan) by 90% as well serve organic systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michinoku_Bank this rural bank in japan has revised its business model - it no longer only finances separate businesses-itis financing the training a
and development of drone farming- see nhkworld 1/20 earlier in the week nhkworld reported that japan is investing in agricultural drones - globally a sector 70% led by china
the sustainability of half a billion women owned family businesses by brac emerged from a similar system mapping- one of the great models of rural keynesianism hubbed across continental asia (the majority of the worlds people) in the 1970s
the rural community recovery network brac started focusing on training that built
3 rural economies in one
village health workers - see parallel chinese network barefoot doctors
nutrition - see alumni o borlaug which became irri asian rice science
women - in bangladesh women are the resident family and so community builders but they had previously been excluded from finance
faced with tens of thousands of village microfranchises - family owned positive cash flow models in the villages) microfinance of brac was innovated to be the banking system in trust for what compounded as millions of women owned sustainable village business
sustainable humans cannot end poverty unless banking prioritises financial services for replicating 30000 community solutions- we have known this since 1984 or earlier - those who regulate train or invest in banking that fails this should be removed from every place
- those needing to see solutions
primarily because of the island empires of uk and japan-over half of the worlds people living on the continent of asia had been trapped in poverty
it makes sense to understand how 100 million girls ended poverty with solutions pioneered in bangladesh - study at brac university if there are no investors in world casds infrastructure-
if your place is fortunate enough to have a rich diaspora or other long-term investors study how chinese rural families started by sharing bangla solutions in the 1970s then added infrastructure solutions all the time checking in on what leapfrog solutions bangladesh girl power used henever given a chance at entreprenurial revolution eg mobile finance bkash, microsolarpower
1. Individual taxpayer (no surprise, what else?)
2. Corporate taxpayer (especially those who have made a lot of money during this period)
3. Petro taxes: keeping the retail price constant, the government can cash in on the low petrol prices.
4. Insurance companies (this is what they do).
5. Governments could take debt (so finally taxpayer but spread over the years to our children and grandchildren).
6. Shareholders take risk and should bear risk as far as bankruptcy is concerned. This includes pension funds who took the risk... can't just have gains.
7. Charity.
8. Issue new money (see Milford Bateman's comment below).
9 China pays (can't understand why, wonder which country is going to be charged for Ebola or AIDS or any other illness). Of course, China may say US pays... lets make US great again?
10. Germany pays! This is a new one, in the name of European solidarity. Not so new if one remembers my paper on Greece: the price of access to markets must be social security subsidies for weaker countries. (At that time I hadn't thought of "weak" meaning those more susceptible to a virus, though).
https://lnkd.in/dCmMQ-N