my father was keysnian deputy editor of The Economist for half of his 40 years there 1948-1988- by Keynsian he would analyse any market's or hemisphere's long term leadership story around 2 system goals
1 end poverty - particularly the fact that under industrial revolution 1 (steam engine) the opportunity to live very unevenly distributed -eg in 1960s one segment of humanity racing to moon probably third still not on electricity grids
2 places should value developing next generations' livelihoods however much the future's most trusted entrepreneurship was likely to be exponentially different from history
in 1972 my first job was for the uk's national development project for computer assisted learning - over the next 12 years mainly dad but partly I wrote up entrepreneurial revolution - what would 3 billion new jobs look like if by mid 2010s human race was spending 1000 time more on communications technologies than 1946 -our field book was called 2025 report - a concise future history of education and economies by the american publisher (the english edition that came out in 1984 being called the 2024 report)
in 2007 dad's last project sent me and about 20 young people to bangladesh over a 5 year period of interviews:: to understand the miracle if how poorest village girls were empowered to build a 100+ million nation out of nothing -the exponentially sustainable systems story turns out not to be primarily muhammad yunus' but sir fazle abed's at brac; unfortunately no college in usa where i live actually teaches how sir fazle did it; even after george soros and gorbachev's 20th open society laureate to sir fazle in 2013 this greatest end poverty story of the manually networked www.brac.net and the digitally networked www.bkash.com isnt widely understood in colleges or schools - if it were the gap between education and livelihoods would have become so big
motivated by belief in sir fazle's goals, over the last decade my family's friends and I have become crazy about researching two stories- those of a handful of world record job creators like sir fazle abed and jack ma; what youth (the half of the world under 30) say they need at very practical levels - for example there is a huge demand among worldwide youth but most of all among girls and chinese youth for english as a second language to be 10 times more affordable/accessible to action learn- in brexit world, this could be britain's greatest trading opportunity; it wont happen fast enough through classical schools and their unions; it could happen if british council celebrated every way that youth could be encouraged to peer to peer learn and teach english- since that was jack ma's life to age of 29 it shouldnt be that difficult to ask for his partnership with british council and with friends of gordon browns Home | the Education Commission to which jack has already testified half of youth will be unemployable by 2030 unless we celebrate experiments in transforming education beyond classrooms and beyond standardised exams on old siloised theoretical subjects
i always like to clarify where an idea was sourced - the value of english as a second language is something 4 young female chinese graduates have brainstormed with me for 2 years now and accidentally this led me to one of dad's 1976 stories in The Economist; that we could encourage 1.3 billion underemployed people to come out from behind their wall ; and learn from how they designed digital media leapfroging uninhibited by the various ways that western mass media has spun many totally unnecessary disasters
whats worth following up now is that xi jinping's main job is to design valuable livelihoods fir half a billion youth , in a system where most parents main security net is the livelihood of one child per family- so now is the time for any country that wants to value its youth livelihoods to collaborate around the many sustainable solutions that xi jinping and jack ma launched at the china g20, and are using each g20's next location to identify best job creating partners; argentina 2018 and india g20 2019 are the two that interest me most because the franciscan models of development are best for girls empowerment and spreading families healthy peace-loving communities everywhere, and china and india have to celebrate every coding leapfrog they can - but most of India's youth solutions will be win-win with developing any youth who have opportunity to join in either in english or chimese
my apologies if this was a long introduction ; in writing our future history in 1984 our core hypothesis was that really only 2 opposite outcomes would spin from 1000 times more communications technology- orwell had already clarified big brother non-sustainable end game of humanity; I believe brexit britain can make huge contributions to celebrating little sister economics and diversity of societies if we open space massive debates around sorts of ideas above
at the moment my favorite space to help do this in the west is west baltimore- back in 1881 4 black girls started what has become every case law intervention freeing black and female americans; pope frrancis recoginses this community as one of the outstanding paradigms for goal 11; i wonder where in the UK could become a sister city of baltimore as we try and linkin 100 mayors of supercities (designed to girls and francsican valuation ) around the world
thank you for your consideration, chris macrae washington dc 240 316 8157
projects of norman macrae foundation include
supercity.university Can world's biggest broken system be fixed? - yes only with mass collaboration and
The Games of World Record Job Creation
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