To understand why Mr Trump's 1461 day presidency to end of 2020 was likely to be the most dangerous whomever ruled the wavelengths, BRI.school invites you to co-edit a 7 minute read on a short history of world trade in millennium 2 - see far right column. In Moore's laws maths -this period's exponential rise breaches singularity - for first one computer chip has more switching/analytic capacity than the human brain's cells- tenmoore.com - The Games
http://www.1461.worldhttp://www.economistdiary.com trump's 1461 days were natures, AI, SDG destiny's and most dangerous presidency this month's 3 greatest risks to under 30s goodwill webs and english-language edu- brexit, n korea and huawei (see keynesian analysis in next tweet)
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4 : special china thanks: BRI Belt Road IQ -need custom guide rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk normanmacrae foundation, DC-text 240 316 8157
Main reason for optimism is leapfrogging - thats when a society/place that was excluded from industrial age networks leapfrogs an old system to a new one thanks to 1000 times more COMstech than 1946; about a third of the world never had wired telephone lines, now almost all have mobile (text version); more than a quarter of the world never had electricity grids, now microsolar is linking in;. Prior to 2017 only Jim Kim open spaced this debated in DC: let's hope all parents and youth do now from usa to china to Rome, from Scotland to Argentina, from Bangalore to Haiti. from . G1 G2. Join Valuetrue.com and QBG -does your place have a JYK to celebrate global youth? futures of Liberty 1 & education 1
Even as the 1960s moon race inspired the world, we need to understand how unequal the opporttunity to innovate had been - even in the 1960s as many as half the world's people had no access to electricity grids so they got their news of the moon race by word of mouth.
Consider 1000-1500- until the last few years of this period , the known world was Europe-Asia and NE Africa; #BR8 the med sea was the main world trade waterway; places facing this sea increasingly developed win-win trades; moreover #BR7 the west asian border to med sea was the start of an amazing overland relay of traders which stretched all the way to china (the silk road was the greatest overland world trade route ever and to sustain its interfacing markets required positive cross-cultural bridging all along its route. Silks and spices from the Chinese end acted like a positive currency- there was much demand for them whose value naturally went up the further they were merchanted back to Europe. Everyone gained for this trading route- you can read marco polo's diaries- perhaps nowhere invested more in artistic celebrations of being a major hub of positive trade than his hometown venice in europe and the town he was asked to govern for 2 years in china Hangzhou which marco described as the great town of markets in the world.)
What happened towards 1500 that 2 long shipping routes were discovered by north europeans- the new world of the ameriucas to the west (#BR6 N, #BR10 what we now call Latin America), and a way of reaching the @BR2 South Asian coastal Belt (starting with the indian subcontinent) by sailing around africa. A ship captain couldnt affird such a long return voyage unless he goit what trade he wanted- soon this big ships were equipped with gun power and crews were pressganged or even enslaved. Next in the process was colonising. So it was that nations became big by pludering economies of other peoples places. Back in 1500 places economic size was corelated with population. Soon Britain grew at the expense particularly of the Indian subcontiuent. Mainly Britain and France colonised Africa too, Spain andPotrtugal colonised Latin America. North America was settled by a mixyure of Europeans whose declaration of Indendence in 1776 ended any attempt by Britain to colonise America, But we should note that the USA was built on a sort of internal colonisation - natives had theor places taken over and slaves were used to do most of the hard labour. In effect the old war's colonial ways casued the 2 world wars of the fkirst half of the 20th C. From 1946 most of the world's countries regained their independence but starting from (mainly undeveloped states - poverty that the colonia era had gtraped them in).
Ironically whule the UDA came to tghe resuce of the old workld and from 1946 helped relaunch the two biggest losers of world war 2 Germsny and Japan, american (not withstandiong thair family trees origins) had previously had little modern of knowledge of Eurasia but were pulled into peacekeeping and the cold war with russia through the sceond half of the 20th C. Whilst there was some understanding of the extraoerdinary progress japanese enginers made with electornics, civil and other enginnering, the rise and rise of the east and the often difficult bodrers that had been caused by British and Jpoanese colonisation of the region are not deeply studied by most Americans or their media. It should be the best news the world has ever seen that the fifth of the world in chjna tghat closed itself to the world for more than a centiry after Brfits has offered opium as a gtrading currency in 1860 is now as entrepreneurial as anywhere. With over half of tghe world's ;people facikng either the sout asia or east asia coastal belts, the opportunity the east is cfreating to win0pwin gtrade oin line with moore's ever increasing technology should make sustainable youth worlwdie the gfreatesty positive curency-invetsment the human race has ever mapped. But this is not how USA or the block of coungtriues ruled by the Euro have marketed transapfrently. Instead we are caught in the Keynsian crisis of economist not valuing the hippocratic oathes he had published as tghe final chapter of the ngeneral throy of employment money and interest. The 2020s are likely to make the system designs our tech spreads irreversible- will the end game be big brother extinction or little sister sustainability?
It’s time cities played a game of their own. In exchange for tax breaks, cities should have companies train those residents who might lose out if Amazon comes to town. We’ve seen what happened in the Bay area, when long-term city dwellers who weren’t drawing hefty paychecks from the likes of Apple, Facebook or Google were priced out of their neighborhoods.
“Silicon Valley tech companies love to build super awesome campuses that their employees will never want to leave,” writes reporter Emma Grey Ellis, “[T]hey’re also at least partially responsible for tech’s biggest sins: a lack of diversity and gentrification.”
Amazon is skilled at using competition to its advantage, receiving financial benefits from multiple cities that use them as inducements to have a piece of one of the largest companies in the world. The economic development policy group Good Jobs First, a watchdog of sorts that has documented Amazon’s exchanges with cities preceding the competition, found that “Amazon has continued to receive subsidies from cities valued at least $115 million (not including four deals of undisclosed value), for a long-term total exceeding $1 billion.”
What’s less clear is what cities stand to gain from participating. Who gains the most? Upwards of 50,000 hires at an average salary of $100,000 is certainly a benefit to the home of HQ2, not to mention the $5 billion in capital expenditures Amazon plans to fork over to build it. However, the RFP also states, “A highly educated labor pool is critical and a strong university system is required.” Amazon wants people who are already “work ready,” in a city that already possesses the educational institutions to produce them.
More high-paying jobs should not be the sole measure of reward. Sure, if your mayor is selling your city, you’d like to see more and better-paying jobs in return. But if you’re not working at a place like Amazon, its presence can price you out, and divide your city into enclaves of the haves and have-nots.
What if we used innovation and competition to build inclusive economies instead?
The gambit of offering tax incentives while promoting the idea that employees must enter the door “work ready” is decreasing cities’ and states’ abilities to fund the building of an inclusive workforce.
We share a collective responsibility in training those who don’t yet have the skills to work at places like Amazon. Schools, universities and private industry all play a role. Each needs resources to do the arduous work of training underrepresented folk in industries that have left them in the dust. However, the gambit of offering tax incentives while promoting the idea that employees must enter the door “work ready” is decreasing cities’ and states’ abilities to fund the building of an inclusive workforce.
Businesses can eradicate racial and educational disparities in the workforce tomorrow if they hire underrepresented groups today, though it’s unreasonable to think companies will hire people not ready for the job. Still, it’s also not right for companies to absolve themselves from participating in training people. Schools clearly can’t shoulder all the responsibility of preparing the public for the workforce — that has long been the model, and it is not working for everyone.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Dear Jialing http://www.21cedu.cn/ wise lead partner china (friends)
EDUCATION CORE ROLE IN Valuing 21st C economies as growing people not just consuming things
The one-pager below is what i came up with as a discussion list that interests me most. However I should say that as a statistician once I start listening to other WISE delegates and youth I often find they have a better way of wording similar challenges- very interested to understand your foci while I am in Beijing if your time permits.
Below i mention Gordon Dryden www.thelearningweb.net who first discussed radical change in education with my family 33 years ago while dad was deputy editor of The Economist and Ed Resor's www.worldpossible.org the english speaking world's main cataloguing of who is using what completely open learning modules. For those educators concerned with Xi Jinping's first centenarian goal of ending poverty in china by 2020 I would always recommend a field visit to sir fazle abed in brac who was WISE first educational laureate. He was kind enough to be chief guest a remembrance party to my father at Japan Embassy in Dhaka in 2012 where four hours were spent on such topics could microeducationsummit ever scale globally or will there ever be one end poverty mooc of the sort that ensures succession of his knowhow. While his BRAC University will no doubt sustain his knowledge in Bangladesh the deepest solutions used by village women to change cultures and build rural bangladesh from nothing in 1972 have been misrepresented in all English speaking universities due to financiers not educators being the sponsors of microcreditsummit since 1997. When it comes to summits for changing finance the AIIB format is the best I have ever experienced with the one concern - it doesnt have a team turning its work into educational formats
BRAC www.brac.net and www.bkash.com (the largest cashless banking system of MP3 text-mobiles) are developed by the most exciting 100000 girl empowerment educators in one network that I have been able to find in a lifetime of searching. Amy (Chen Qian) now at Columbia University was one of only two Chinese students to attend sir fazle abed's 80th birthday party. Her female teams including graduate of Tsinghua and Serve China Villages were in the process of organising some student exchnages between Beijing and Sir Fazle Abed when the terrorism crisis in Dhaka last summer caused China to ban visas to Bangladesh
The Learning Web - Home Page
Education, Schooling and Learning breakthroughs. The Learning Web Home Page. Free-to-read chapters online and fr...
EDUCATION CORE ROLE IN Valuing 21st C economies as growing people not just consuming things
China as educational benchmark for every where:
ØBecause of half a billion under 30s to create livelihoods around
ØBecause of 80 million public servants leading THE DREAM of all young people who want to be sustainability generation. In my professional view as author on brand valuation, Chinese media eg CGTN asks urgently creative questions on education unlike any western media
ØBecause China’s commissioner on education Jack Ma most clear of 30 national leaders – unless we change education (bring beyond classroom) half of youth will be unemployable by 2030 www.educationcommission.org
Questions from Wise China
Anyone studying how issues raised at Wise China connect with issues raised by Jack Ma
What types of approaches – eg China’s leadership of Moocs – can lead to transformational education – compared with worldpossible.org demonstration
Is anyone at Wise China interested in the world of Wise’s first Laureate my friend Sir Fazle Abed whose 100000 girl empowerment educators in Bangladesh is extreme poverty reconciliation’s benchmark model
Does anyone in China still use www.thelearningweb.net a best seller written by my friend Gordon Dryden which was read by nearly 10 million Chinese parents
How does Wise China connect with other Wise Summits
Eg Wise Madrid friends attending Wise – Graeme Atherton knows most UK education networks; Marta Vernet at Barcelona International school is well connected on all outside the classroom experiments in her region. Back in 2001 I volunteered at Europan Union to survey citizens across 20+ countries on localities that were most collaboratively entrepreneurial. Barcelona was voted top and Brussles staged an event there procliaiming it the number 1 knowledge city. So while I have no understanding of deep local politics in Spian, I feel that youth are losing out on what Pope Francis has pointed out in his speech at Strasbourg as the big failure of EU systems. Whether there is a chance to constructively raise this issue at Argentina G20 is something youth are currently debating with world bank headquarters and some other interested parties in Canada and elsewhere
How can we help youth connect UAE superb contributions – WISE & Varkey summit – with other regions of the world. Mostofa has spent most of last decade trying to connect youth summits between uae, bagladesh and india -as well as poorest communities in USA, and Scotland - but we made a false start spending over a year's work trying to support muhmmad yunus before we realised politicas around him was not likely to help build sustainable relationships with Chinese Jobs creators.
MISSING CURRICULA AS A WAY FORWARD
By listing missing or as yet under accessible curricula, we are customizing experiment networks by particular curricula youth demand most –examples;
6th grade up curricula of indsutrial revolution 4 and blockchain - a catalogue of cases to explore not something to be examined on as its changing too fast
How to make English (or Chinese) 10 times more affordable to learn as second language
How to reconnect Youth (sports, arts, arts) in community with expereintial learning. This is Jack Ma's post 2020 agenda at Tokyo Olympics- we believe student unions should now be cataloguing their favorite practice in community networks - special olympics, Yao Ming Foundation, SingforHope.org are examples who can become world class partbershios in scaling such a movement.
How to turn geographical economics and culture exchanges of Belt Road into an educational curriculum from 6th grade up - some homework on maps appears at blog www.chinathanks.com (if blogs are banned and you would like some maps ask me to send a powerpoint)
How to collaborate around lead cases for each of the 17 sustainability goals in such a way that improved solutions are part of the design ( ie inquiry not being examined on perfection is part of how the curriculum is open space facilitated). In parallel we are helping search for world record jobs creators of 3 billion new jobs triangularised by 1 going green, 2 renewing every community’s inclusion, 3 understanding whether local to global belt road has kept up with 1000 times more being spent on digital now versus 1946
Specific markets (eg adolescent female health curricula propesed by first ladies and advancing mainly out of Australia and The Lancet) and skills shortages as industrial revolution 4 changes half of the most valuable vocational or professional capabilities every 5 years
sincerely chris macrae (email is by bets contact or my us mobile 240 316 8157 which sometimes works on whatsapp)
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Previously Dear Jialing
I will be spending most of my weekend trying to tidy up notes on past wise connections and will write again after that
Chartering human purpose- best or worst of times?
World Possible
Hello I attended your wonderful event wise beijing last november. I would welcome chance to meet any of wise beijing delegates who are attending wise qatar. I will also be in Beijing Nov 5-11 - could we meet?
I am working with youth around the world on how to make friends with China - its the only major nation that is demanding youth take sustainability livelihoods seriously . As Jack Ma has said , half of all youth will be unemployable by 2030 unless we transform education chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc
Can people of faith help build a movement to end extreme poverty? Can they seize this opportunity at a time of conflict in some regions -- some of it driven by groups claiming religious justification?
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. ET | 19:00 – 20:30 GMT or convert time Location: World Bank Group Headquarters, Preston Auditorium & Online
2015 is a landmark year that will define the global development agenda for the next 15 years. By year’s end, the world’s leaders are likely to adopt a new set of global development goals and reach a critical agreement on tackling climate change. Achieving both will require a paradigm shift in how development is financed.
This event will bring together all the key groups who will play a part. Development organizations, governments, the private sector and civil society, will discuss what it will take to finance development in a post-2015 world. The discussion will showcase the latest thinking on domestic resource mobilization, private sector leverage, and development financing mechanisms, solutions and initiatives that go beyond filling financing gaps.
The discussion will also explore how the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund and regional multilateral development banks can use their unique platforms and diversity of finance and knowledge instruments to attract the financing needed to end extreme poverty and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
xxFlagship Event: April 19
Global Voices on Poverty – Interactive Live Blog & Webcast Watch and join the conversation in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish11:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m. EDT (15:00-16:10 GMT or convert time)
Participate in an interactive conversation on ending poverty with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Global Voices on Poverty will bring together world leaders, opinion makers, and a global online audience to discuss what #ittakes to end poverty.
What's On: April 15 The Private Sector and Ending Poverty – Live Webcast Watch and join the conversation in English, Spanish10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EDT (14:00 – 15:00 GMT or convert time)
IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, is hosting a conference with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to explore whether effective results measurement can help companies increase impact.
Joseph Stiglitz on the Causes and Consequences of Growing Inequality – Webcast and Live Blog Watch and join the conversation in English12:30 – 2:00 p.m. EDT (16:30 – 18:00 GMT or convert time)
In this live webcast, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz will discuss how inequality inflicts social and economic damage around the world. Stiglitz will outline effective responses to inequality and discuss the contexts in which various policies work.
What's On: April 17 Bending the Arc of Poverty Featuring Jim Yong Kim and Kaushik Basu – Webcast and Live Blog Watch and join the conversation in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT (15:00 – 16:00 GMT or convert time)
Join World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and World Bank Group Sr. Vice President Chief Economist Kaushik Basu for a conversation on ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
Equal Futures Partnership: From Promise to Progress – Webcast and Liveblog Watch and join the conversation in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish11:00 – 12:30 p.m. EDT (15:00 – 16:30 GMT or convert time)
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will host the heads of delegation from the Equal Futures Partnership's founding member countries for a roundtable discussion about their efforts to expand economic opportunities and political participation for women and girls.
Girl Rising: A Rally for Girls and Women – Webcast and Live Blog Watch and join the conversation in English 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. EDT (22:30 – 23:00 GMT or convert time)
Join World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Actress and Activist Freida Pinto, CNN’s Jake Tapper, and more for an on- and off- line rally calling for the empowerment of girls and women around the world.
What's On: April 19 Global Voices on Poverty – Interactive Live Blog & Webcast Watch and join the conversation in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish11:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m. EDT (15:00-16:10 GMT or convert time)
Participate in an interactive conversation on ending poverty with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Global Voices on Poverty will bring together world leaders, opinion makers, and a global online audience to discuss what #ittakes to end poverty.
What's On: April 20 Spring Meetings 2013 Press Briefing: Development Committee5:30 – 6:30 p.m. EDT (21:30 – 22:30 GMT or convert time) Watch World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim address the media at the close of the 2013 Spring Meetings in Washington, DC.
What's On: April 21 Financial Inclusion Pathways for Women and the Poor Watch and join the conversation in English 9:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT (13:00 – 20:00 GMT or convert time) Join a conversation with global leaders on creating financial pathways for women and the world's poorest.