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
The UK has invested more than any nation in social broadcasting media but at a time when peoples around the world need world service investigative journalism as to why low-trust top-down systems are spinning so much youth unemployment even as we could be celebrating the freedom of a million times more collaboration technology that when man raced to the moon.
..It was UK economist Keynes that concluded economists were capable ofdesigning futures that people most needed or destroying futures peoples most needed but nothing much in between at times of great change. My father's life work mainly at the Economist mapped how to make 2010s the most productive time for youth with the maturity of the first net generation and the possiblity to invest in co-producing exciting millennium goals - see his 1984 bookon first 3 billion jobs for net generation to produce help us find 100 leaders investing in 2010s = youth's most productive decadehttp://wholeplanet.tv
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................................................................................................................................................................................................... http://grameenscotland.com : Ever since Glasgow University welcomed Yunus as the 21st C Adam Smith, at the 2008 quarter of a millennium celebrations - Glasgow has arrived as one of the 3 great academic (Kyushu Japan, 100 southern usa university consortium of SB studentcompetitions) and pro-youth economics partners of Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus . It has started up 2 journals of Social Business in 2010 as well as Glasgow Caledonian investment in the second social business professorship (first on healthcare and microcredit), the virtually free nursing college and from October 2012 Yunus as Chancellor. Of course, just as Scotland became one of the first worldwide diaspora nations we aim to maintain the most uptodate collaboration entrepreneur partner maps with Yunus and his 50 most exciting youth projects around the world of investing in net generation's co-production of millennium goals. For example down south in London, Yunus inspires the great microenergy awards network championed by Prince Charles and Lord Sainsbury's eldest daughter http://ashden.org/ and his briefings 123 of staff at The Economist are world famous among leaders celebrating the 40th year of the magazine's genre of net generation Entrepreneurial Revolution and 170 year since Scot James Wilson started the world's number 1 end hunger viewspaper mediating sustainability of cross-cultural commonwealth. join in mapmaking at http://yunuscity.ning.com/http://leadersandyunus.ning.com/http://youthandyunus.com/ questions welcome chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk linksman to Foundation Norman macrae, The Economist's Unacknowledged Gianthttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/
Back at his Nobel Prize, Muhamad Yunus surprised the world: he declared that he wanted to go beyond microcredit and converge microbanking, micro education for jobs and microtechnology. Look right to see the sort of expoential progress he's been making. Could it just be that 2012 will be the last year that presidential candidates spend billions of dollars advertising that they dont know how to invest in youth creating jobs...Could state by state youth jobs competituions be more economic than billion dollar naysaying elections. Why not join Georgia, North Carolina, Oregon, Dc. MD , VA in test marketing what student sb entrepreneurs can do thru ac year 2012-2013 - chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk -special thanks to all those involved in reporting the first month of how NC started up the year 012-013
What Futures do Net Generation and Yunus Investors want to spend life times working on?
Youth JobsCompetition Winners
Futures of Heroes - Oregon's number 1 winner wants sports stars and university campuses and students to give back to celebrate handicapped children's sports leagues across state of Oregon - see student entry OSU-STARSports.pdf -tell us if you can help
Futures of Energy- Youth competition entries wanting to invest in clean energy include these projects
Futures of Nutrition here are some youth competition entries redesigning value chains of agriculture for food security and to end obesity in developed nations and end hunger in developing nation
Futures of Healthcare - here are some student competition entries :
Yunus Investor networks HEROES- Yunus number 1 suoerstar give back network is coordinated by his daughter - see singforhope
ENERGY Yunus has a world leading franchise of solar for the poor here and he inspires the number 1 microenergy prize awards coordinated by Prince Charles and the Sainsbury philanthropy here
NUTRITION One of the reasons why Grameen emerged as the world's number 1 youth investment bank was that its first non-financial product line was nutritional : vegetable seeds; and its first global social business partnership with a corporation was nutritional - case danone. In the US the number 1 goodwillparner of yunus is www.wholeplanetfoundation run by the most purposeful nurtrition corporation in the world of pro-youth capitalism
HEALTHCARE - yunus leading projects include free nursing colleges creating huge numbers of jobs as number 1 joy of vilage girl power; emdic projects with intel ; ...
Some special focuses of youth - how to attract funds for the most brilaint jobs creating projects and how to design incubators and acceleratprs so that everyone in a city can colaborate around youth who want the purspoe of education to celebrate job creation and 2010s nbeing the most productive deacde of worldwide youth - some projects leveraging colaboration tech wizards are ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From http://TXyouth10000.blogspot.com
Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 14:04
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