towards cases composing an sdg curriculum

please help us with goal by goal lessons 

 goal 17 partners youth triangularuses private public partnership pop 2.0 - preferential option poor includes priortising how can each leap in tech apply to poorest going post-colonial-

 the first 185 years of glasgow uni's man and machines (first engineer james watt, first ethical economic mapping adam smith) ended in 2 world wars- the age of empires had failed to exclude eg access to electricity bgrids to over three quarters including continental asians majority of humans, and the south; 

the birth of the united nations san francisco opera house 1945- 5 extraordinary technologies mainly innovated by americans before 1960 -three tech advances closely connected with hungarian american john von neumann- father of programable computer, rapid development in communications media - tv satellite telecoms, space: nuclear- plus deming's transformation of the quality of being an engineering worker plus borlaug's leaps in village food security without which probably a billion would have starved over a billion asians mothers empowered their sons and daughter development beyond poverty aid needed changing from top down government bureaucratics to direct skills/cash transfers and wherever possible microfranchising village businesses with positive cashflow-- 

- economist survey rural keynesianism reports solutions shared by villagers in bangladesh and south china-- the 50 year curriculum of this 2020-1970 is most simply benchmarked round the solutions catalogue of fazle abed - so we try to comment on his solutions linked to the very poorest as well as others solutions

million-killer events -extreme poverty where life expectancy is in the 40s not the sixties or more

fazle abed experienced four and half events that were killing a million people each i his homeland during the 1970s

1 cyclone 1970 - probably the most concentrated cyclone on human record that killed a million people all around him in a week or so

2war of independence and displacement of peoples along religious lines 1971

3 famine 1974's was the biggest the region had seen

4 up to a third of children dying before the age of 5 - either due to diarrhea or not having enough nutrition during the first 100 days

4.5 many times more mothers dying of childbirth than other countries

if your places average life expectancy has not reached at least the 60s -due to these or other reasons you observe - then resilient community building to change this comes first - it connects all 6 goals together with disaster preparedness which in places without access to electricity requires urgent word of mouth networking as well as cultural/skills preparedness

jim kim whose life has been dedicated to health of the poorest until his 6 year stint at the world bank has made it very clear- national economic growth plans are not worth the paper they are written on if any of these basic human development structures are not in place- in other words health safe societies generate strong economies not vice versa

what brac did from year 2 of the new nation of bangladesh was identify health and nutrition including rehdration solutions that every rural family needed to apply- the capacity of community health turned out to be smething only vilagemothers could offer requiring both adult education programs eg every mother knowing how to rehydrate an infant with fever caused by diaarthea,  and wherever possible microfranchising positove cashflo family business- rice and other local agricultural solutions. a village para health franchise where mothers could make a living from 10 most hasin solutions of infant/maternal health

you can see that all of goals 2 hunger 3 health 4 education 5 changing the culture valuing womens productivity as much as men, 6 sanitation need skilled solutions and to build these finance designed for the poorest village women of bangladesh and asia needed invention of its own banking and bottom up grant systems

goal 1 poverty

the total system of allocating credit/money needs transformation wherever the extreme poverty of the type illustrated above occurs; there is a back from the future element to this- when new technologies eg solar as a leap beyond historic electricity grids, mobile as a leap beyond wired telecoms landed on mother earth, partnerships designing poorest applications needed to be prioritised; becausse sir fazle abed had risen in his twenties and early thirties to be regional ceo of royal dutch shell oil company he was always questioning timing for such possibilities though as we can see the first half of his 50 years of empowering rural womens networks brac 1072-1976 literally connected person to person training and support systems

while listing of goal solutions makes sense chronologically for goal 2-6, it may help every financier to see they have sustainability lessons to connect with abed's knowledge to describe the back from the future financial system abed had built by his death in 2019

partners of bkash brac's digital cash for the unbanked system early 200s to 2019 - bill gates has clarified he sees this as emerging as the most populous system serving over a billion unbanked

ultra a grant and apprentice system for the very poorest before they use financial services - started in bangladesh international partnership have extended to 8 countries and the overall method won the nobel economics proze 2019

 rural microfiance plus- the village circle system started by brac in the late1970s as soon as tens of thousands of mothers were operating village microfranchises- almost all of which had through fazle abed innovations redesigned the whole value chain of a market to value the productivity as well as empowerment of village mothers

from late 1990s city bank- funding small enterprises in cities from savings of daughters and sons who as second generation had moved from village o city

various forms of merchant banking for the poor not the least remittances- up to a third of bangladesh's income comes from diaspora remittances- brac international hq in netherlands seeks to help design the lowest cost remittance to village system as well as intercae development partners which has turned brag into the lathest ngo partnership in the world

 has long been anticipated as a transformational opportunity beyond any traps that paper money inadvertently or deliberately spun

latest un update sept 2020 - over 4 years digital task force has consulted wizards from 30 nations such as melinda gates and jack ma - all sorts of ai finance ideas are being piloted including sme stockmarket in one african country; its commonly agreed that the most scaleable solution for up to a billion unbanked is www.bkash.com connecting partners of fazle abed; however each digital market offices an opportunity to design digital cash for poorest - see eg jack ma's connection of finance to ecommerce; others are racing over deep data in markets such as health, agriculture, media of those whose demographics/lives matter had been included- all of these leap fowards are connected with universal accessibility of last phones only imaginable recently

village smartphones began bagladesh with grant from soros and mit tech wizards the quadir family - african cell phones for the oor took a lead with eg mpesa; all of this learning curve was integraed by bkash

during abed's first 25 years of empowering poorest village phones there were no electo=ricity grids let alone smart phones- so he developed microfinance wherever a replicabke village microfranchise could be developed -listed in other goals- as well as direc training grant process for the ultra poor

UPDATE FROM BRAC UNI VC VC

 

Educational initiatives going forward – international and virtual

Publish Date: 

November 23rd, 2020

Facilitating online education at Brac University has been one of Vice-Chancellor Professor Vincent Chang’s most important responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Virtual classes and the introduction of buX will path ways to the next generation of learning and teaching. Recently, he has been taking steps to strengthen the university’s ties with our international partners.

UK High Commissioner supporter of higher education in Bangladesh

The British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson invited Professor Chang and VP International Jonathan Cartmell to his residence last week. The meeting was held under strict precautions due to the ongoing pandemic. Together with the Country Director of British Council Tom Miscioscia, they decided to establish a liaison between British universities and Brac University. The United Kingdom will help to improve higher education in Bangladesh. Such educational endeavours will greatly impact the international culture at the Brac University. 

(from left to right: Jonathan Cartmell, Tom Miscioscia, Robert Chatterton Dickson, Vincent Chang)

OSUN opening up new opportunities for Brac University

In the spirit of internationalization and online education, Professor Chang stayed closely connected to the Open Society University Network (OSUN) leadership team during lockdown. The network actively promotes virtual education and a lively exchange between the partnering institutions. Brac University was able to offer summer online classes to its students with renown institutions like Princeton University, Bard College and Central European University. 

(from left to right: Jonathan Becker, Leon Botstein, Vincent Chang)

While maintaining social distance and taking precautions, Professor Chang visited Jonathan Becker, Vice-Chancellor of OSUN, and Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, a few weeks ago in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA. Bard College functions as the basis of OSUN and connects the partners and their initiatives. The three leaders spoke about the successful launch of the network, despite the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic provided. OSUN links up universities and research institutions globally, which naturally places it in a position to communicate virtually. So, the restrictions imposed by the pandemic didn’t hamper the network’s mission. Going forward, Professor Chang discussed multiple collaborations with Brac University that will improve its educational capacity.

sustainability uni coalition - as the crow flies

 y6 crow arizona osun

.HESI Special Event: Where Next? Reimagining Further Education for the Future
The SDG Academy
On July 8, 2020, the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) hosted this special event alongside the United Nations ...

transcript extract 80.40  president arizona state uni, with covid and other www community crises, we are where we are, not only because of politics and capitalism, but at the root of it all is us the universities- we are universally inadequate to what lies ahead in terms of the future of our species and our relationship to our beautiful planet which we are all dependent on -let me outline 5 inadequacies

1 we are inadequate in terms of our self-awareness- institutions of higher edu of the net outcome of our design – why do we have business schools that are teaching economic models that are working against our own in sustainability, why do we have a lack of communication between chemists and biologists and economists and engineers and philosophers and historians and everyone else -82:33
inadequate. We are wholly, universally inadequate to
82:38 what lies ahead in terms of the future of our species and our relationship with 82:42
this beautiful planet that we're all dependent on it. Let me outline five
82:47 arguments for that. First, I think that we're inadequate in terms of our
82:52 self-awareness, as an institution of higher education or as institutions of 82:56 higher education, of the net outcome of our design. Why do we have business 83:00 schools teaching economic models that are in fact working against our own 83:06 sustainability? Why do we have a lack of communication between chemists 83:13and biologists and economists and engineers and philosophers and 83:18 historians and everyone else who sit inside university environments arguing 83:24 with each other in ways that are not just about intellectual development but 83:28 are in some ways inane? And so we have never thought ourselves, 83:35 we've never been adequately focused on our own self-awareness to understand 83:41
that in fact our highly disciplinary design, as Jeff Sachs indicated, our
83:46 highly structured way of doing things, our way in which theories evolve, our 83:50 ways in which faculty are recognized, the ways in which knowledge is advanced, the 83:55 net outcome of all of that is exactly where we are in terms of a non- sustainable trajectory,83:59 the non-sustainable trajectory that we're on is 84:03 a product of us. Point number one. Point number two: that same university 84:10 enterprise, that same higher education enterprise, is inadequate in terms 84:15 of its production of systems-level tools. We're an observer. We're obsessed with 84:22
reductionism. We're obsessed with the belief that somehow if we can only
84:26 understand everything down to the atomic scale, if we could only understand 84:31 everything at the genetic and sub-genetic mechanism, that somehow we would 84:37 be able to find the solution to all things. And so the answer is, no,84:41 reductionism is not the method by which we will gain an understanding of the 84:46 interconnectedness of the systems of the planet and the role of humans. It's only 84:50 through our ability to emerge systems-level thinking of equal 84:55 intellectual stature and of equal intellectual value. Third, our 85:01 universities and our higher education systems in the United States and in 85:05 other parts of the world are completely inadequate in terms of their 85:08 intellectual diversification, their cultural diversification, their socioeconomic diversification,85:13 their lack of recognition of indigenous cultures and
85:18 indigenous knowledge, the dismissal of entire cultural paradigms, all around 85:26 this notion of somehow there being one path and one trajectory and one route 85:31 forward. Well, there isn't. And this lack of diversification, lack of women in 85:37 science, technology, engineering, and math, lack of cultural diversification at 85:43 universities which actually is accelerating not decelerating. That 85:47 lack of diversification is accelerating if you look around the world, is in fact 85:52 limiting our overall intellectual contribution. We have a narrower and 85:57
narrower intellectual contribution ,not a broader and broader intellectual
86:01 contribution. So that's the third factor that I think is a key part of the design 86:06 limits. I think forth, and I would probably rank 86:10 this actually first, universities really don't care as institutions about much of
86:14 anything. They care about bringing in faculty. They care about hiring faculty.86:19They care about having students. They care about their budgets. They care about 86:23 arguing with the government to get more money. But they don't really care 86:26 about sustainable outcomes as an institution. They do not take activist 86:32 positions, intellectual activist positions, as Jeff has built his career 86:36 around, and some of the rest of us have been fighting for decades. We just 86:40 sit back and say, "Well, we did what we could do. We educated the people we could 86:43 educate. We put out the theories that we could put out, and
86:46 we're really sorry that the politicians are too stupid or or too 86:51
lazy or businesses are too greedy or too selfish." And so this notion of not taking 86:57 some sense of responsibility, we don't realize that it is in fact our own lack 87:03 of transdisciplinary capability, our own lack of adequate, our own lack of 87:09 diversification. It's our own lack of systems-level thinking, it's our own 87:13 obsession with reductionism that actually has brought us to this point. So 87:18 when we look out and we're concerned about rapidly rising CO2 levels or we're 87:21 concerned about the overwhelming human consumption, and a manifestly negative
87:28 overwhelming consumption of fresh water, or the elimination of the entire fishing 87:33 stock or conservation disruptions on a global 87:37
scale of geological time, we don't realize that that we're responsible for
87:43 that. If you take response⁠—if you know you've contributed to something and it's not87:47going well, if you're a responsible person or a responsible institution, you 87:51 change what you're doing. We don't have much change in what we're doing.87:54 Fifth on my list is, universities are archaic, at least in the European model, 88:01 archaic, slow, non-adaptable, non-technologically sophisticated 88:05 institutions. We're not moving at the speed of climate change. We're not moving
88:11at the speed of complexity, of complexification. We're too slow. We have 88:17no sense of time. We might argue about something for 15 years and in the same 88:22 15 years the Ross Ice Shelf cracked off of Antarctica and led to some 88:27 massive change in the in the ocean circulation cycle and thus impacting 88:34 climate etcetera, etcetera. So the five points here: inadequate self-awareness,88:38 inadequate emergence of systems-level thinking, wholly inadequate 88:42 diversification of the university itself, no sense of moral duty or moral 88:46responsibility as institutions, and inadequate speed and adaptability. If we 88:51 don't change those things, there's not going to be any climate adaptation or 88:55 climate change. There's not going to be movement back towards a sustainable 88:59
trajectory because we're not producing the people, the ideas, the tools, the
89:04 mechanisms, the devices, the theories, the assumptions⁠—the young students who 89:08 are just presenting, they get this. They understand that they enter a university 89:12 which is in fact an archaic institution,incapable of having self-awareness 89:17 relative to where we're headed. So what are we doing at my institution arizona state, we've 89:22 done everything and then some, and still it's a slow slog. We've built the Global 89:28
Futures Laboratory, the Global Institute of Sustainability. We're
89:31 dramatically lowering our carbon footprint. We have thousands and
89:34 thousands of students. We change the design of engineering. We changed parts 89:38 of the design of our business schools. We built a new school on the Future of 89:41 Innovation and Society, a new School of Sustainability, and we're still moving 89:47 too slow. And so I think the point I'd like to make to 89:50 the audience here is, let's listen to these students. They have a sense, they 89:54 have an awareness, and they are able to see immediately upon entry into our
89:59 bureaucratic institutions that we're inadequate to the assignment and we 90:06 ought to take that as a serious, serious criticism. Now let me tell you 90:09
what's happening right now. So right now, and COVID sort of expresses this, we are 90:14 largely as colleges and universities place-based institutions, driven where we 90:21think that excellence is a function of who we exclude, and this is true all over 90:24 the world, where our structure, our technology, our flexibility, our 90:29
adaptability are completely inadequate. So my message to ministers, to UN leaders,90:35 to SDSN leaders, to higher education leaders, to students, to faculty, is that 90:40 let's shake it up. It is time to shake the foundation of the universities and 90:45 have them raise their hand and say, "Yes. We want to be responsible for the 90:50 climate outcome of our planet, for our species outcome, for the 90:56 sustainability of our species." And to do that we're going to have to change 91:00 everything down to the root. So I think that's about 12 minutes and I'll 91:05 stop there.91:13

Ok. Thank you, President Crow. I like the way you framed it because this

bio of crow

Dr. Michael M. Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar and higher education leader. He became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University in July 2002 and has spearheaded ASU’s rapid and groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of the world’s best public metropolitan research universities. As a model “New American University,” ASU simultaneously demonstrates comprehensive excellence, inclusivity representative of the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the United States, and consequential societal impact.

Lauded as the ”#1 most innovative” school in the nation by U.S. News & World Report (2016-2020), ASU is a student-centric, technology-enabled university focused on complex global challenges related to sustainability, economic competitiveness, social embeddedness, entrepreneurship and global engagement. Under Dr, Crow’s leadership, ASU has established twenty-five new transdisciplinary schools, including the School of Earth and Space Exploration, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and launched trailblazing multidisciplinary initiatives including the Biodesign Institute, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and important initiatives in the humanities and social sciences.

your sustainability games

-when you turn over a game card it tells you what "new world" questions over how many years people have explored futures started around the named person & gives you some references to click worldwide

ecommerce for example as 21st c world biggest market makers both bezos and j.ma started asking the same question in 1995 -

sequentially, they mapped very different answers for what ecommerce could be

 bezos had to immediately get money from wall street- he assumed he had to own things consumers wanted to buy- he chose books as first e-market because if he could e-market that category with millions of products he could market any category

j ma had about 10 years to find funding partners both in stanford with jerry yang and tokyo masa son-he had chance to map back future of smart mobiles and china's new infrastructure before he really scaled- he was always asking development question- livelihoods of his generation and integrating rural and urban china-

ma was also the leading dual language teacher of his generation, curious about the whole world while bezos had no such cultural or lives matter raison d'etre- when you're 90 day reporting to wall street you dont have time to think outside the box even when 7.5 billion peoples lives may be impacted

 j.ma chose to design algorithms around the data of local and global delivery -when it comes to a nation or region you love, whose 25 years of ecommerce celebrations values lives matter most?

when you value a quarter a century more than quarter of a year,  the exponential consequences of what tech multiplied can be extraordinary- according to because moore's law -which silicon valley was branded around eg by leland stanford junio alumni since 1972,  after compounding 100 quarters of a year, you can expect brings 30000+ more analytic intel than eg bezos started up with in seattle 1995

 eg today china can ship and do a virus test for anyone anywhere in china within 36 hours for less than 5 dollars usa cant ship and do a virus test for less than 100 dollars and in under 10 days- its not bezos fault but he privatised 90-day profit-making the data platform and ai -whereas jack m's market mapsa were linked in for equality with 1.5 billion people in china and anyone/anywhere his friends including ai wizards whom jerry yang searched around stanford and masa son connected out of tokyo

history note - californian leland stanford junior died  aged 15 of typhoid while touring europe 1884- his parents founder stanford alumni so that youth futures could be healthier as well as greater
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LSJ was the only child of Governor of California Leland Stanford and his wife Jane Stanford (née Lathrop). His mother was 39 years old when he was born, after 18 years of childless marriage to Leland Stanford.

Illness and death[edit]

Leland caught typhoid two months before his 16th birthday, while on a Grand Tour of Europe with his parents. He originally fell ill in Athens. His parents rushed him to Italy for medical treatment, first to Naples, then to Rome, and eventually to Florence, where he died after weeks of alternately improving and worsening condition.^[2]

Stanford University[edit]

Leland Stanford Sr. told his wife that "the children of California shall be our children."^[3][4][5] To honor their son upon returning to the United States, the Stanfords devoted their fortune to a memorial in his name: Leland Stanford Junior University. The university opened its doors in 1891.

Leland Stanford Jr. is interred beside his parents at the Stanford family mausoleum on the Stanford campus. After the death of his father on June 21, 1893, his mother guided the development of the university until her murder on February 28, 1905.

Nomenclature[edit]

Although the university is generally referred to as "Stanford University" or "Stanford", its official name is still "Leland Stanford Junior University", as seen on the university seal.^[6]

FAZLE ABED IS CELEBRATED FOR HALF A CENTURY OF HELPING HALF A BILLION VILLAGE WOMEN END POVERTY- HE IS LESS WELL KNOWN FOR STARTING UP THE COALITION OF 21ST C NEW UNI
-THE FIRST WOMAN TO SUPPORT HIS IDEA : SHEIKHA MOZA FIRST LADY OF QATAR

what changes would 200 universities need to make if urgently valuing sustainability generation is the reason why we still the purpose of parenting

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extract from transcript 1 of 5 - the life in an hour of sir fazle abed

50.00 Usually when the Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh calls me he is looking for ideas on poverty alleviation, but back in 2011 I suddenly got a call asking me about a different sort of noble project : did I have ideas on how china could avoid the middle income trap – it turned out the economist had just done a survey on that https://www.economist.com/special-report/2011/06/25/beware-the-middle-income-trap Do you have ideas about things that we (China) can do to avoid the middle income trap?

51:05 I said off the cuff I'll tell you one or two things that I think will be important for you to do to avoid middle income trap because the two countries that have become high-income countries in our region during the last thirty years are Singapore and Korea

and what have they done that peer countries in the region didn't do, I can see only two things

51:39 one thing singapore built a very high quality university designed to be the powerhouse of creating jobs, and enterprise innovation all kinds of things like that… so did korea…so if you want to build China as a high income country for one fifth of the human race, then you have to build a dozen Oxfords, dozen Cambridges dozen Harvard/MIT and dozen Stanford

do that and then you China can build a high income Society

52:22 And the ambassador said why is this? so I said well it's because in order to build these

universities you need to endow them well and you have to give complete freedom to and for the intellect- intellectual freedom will mean no controls of state – you will have to forego that -- you can't you can't get the faculty to think only on what the party line is

52:56

the other thing is that they must be self-governing institutions -universities : if you can build that then you will have a high income Society- if you can’t then you fail

among alunnii circles of 2020s, professor jan kregel at the levy institute of bard links the most inspiring economist circles since the death of

• my father norman macrae, japan order of rising sun, uk cbe, 40 year sub-editor of poverty and tech friendship from east to west and south to north
• sir fazle abed whose girl empowerment health, education and economics partners i was privileged to visit 15 timen in bangladesh between 2007 and 2018

links of kregel levy institute bard

& soros

& unctad/un-ny

& soas london, guy standing

& columbia uni

& johnson/ineteconomics/kaletski

& keynes or joan robbins

& adam smith or glasgow or oxford
& stefan brunnhuber

back in 1760 2 glasgow university co-workers first engineer james watt, first transparent market mapmaker adam smith started up the revolution og humans and machines-

those who financed the first 185 years of this did the opposite of adam smith's principles embedding slavery, genocide and lang grabbing that climaxed in 2 world wars

humans had another chane to unite nations when over 75 national leaders met at san francisco opera house 1945- in 2020 we get arguably one last chance to design economcs in which all lives matter- sustaining las mil health , restoring climate and love of each others childrens if we want to use tech so that the younger half become the first sdg generation

if you know anyone as connected as jan levy scholar networks in valuing youth's futures we would love to know whom to study chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk WWW.ENTREPRENEURIALREVOLUTION.CITY year 60 of humanising tech dialogues started at the economist

a norman macrae family foundation search co-sponsors of glasgow's journal of new economics in search of deep data for societal business

open tech arts colleges

related- futurising the liberal arts uni -hasnt the world changed a lot since the greeks defined the 7 studies that liberated men

the greeks literally could have imagined the challenges 7.5 billion people unite roind today if  we are to humanise artificial intel

nore recently 80 and 260 years ago
both keynes and adam smith were very clear about machine age development of peoples- when young people and their teachers are skilled in how economics and arts determine what futures can be hubbed communally they can triangularise a live-saving 3rd skill -be that health, resilient community-building, ... public servant leadersnot political supreme being..

in 20th c america the most productive economics arts schools were governed by epidemiliogists with practice projects connecting friends around the world- none more so tan the synergy between swarthmore and brac- where fazle abed became the benchmark for female development out of poverty

some of the triplewins you can study if you are in a bard affiliated alumni networker of
economics and arts by and for all peoples

• conscious belief in self but the opposite of the self-gratification kind that sadly has made both tv and digital media the most fake and anti-social of any so-calleed free nation- we need journalists for humanity and diversity of nature eg david attenborogh not the media-inflated egos and the dismal media barons that run them
• &dual languades/cultural flows - why a diplomat should love anothers country's peoples  before serving to connect transnational sustainability

& lives matter - be that women or black or latino or asian (all devalued by white fascist men whose values still remain in the american constitution)

and servant leadership- not just emotional quotient needed to facilate social innovation but loveq
& new school pathways - in america there is an assumption that every child has equality of age progression- education is broken in usa wherever it fails to see that abused kids need lifelong opportunities to get back in the system and indeed if every human had their own dashboard of skils accomplished the end of stardardised examinations and student debt would be the liberation needed to humanise machine intel

we were lucky to visit bangladesh 15 times to listen to sir fazle's legacy wishes- among the worlds largest ngo coalition he asked all those who had learnt most about golls 1 to 6 from him to design a global university of poverty in which any youth committed to life matter could graduate without debt- his last video to the world made it clear that uniting nations to help women end poverty woulnt happen until the safety of cities is based on deep data of 9 year old girls feedback (what was once called the popsice economic index in usa) and until arts spread joy out of even those communities whose hard work saved us all from the edge of extinction- mother nature is very tough on species who fail to understand her games are borderless not walled in; arts can translate beauthy across cultures -the east's consciousness movements start from this p-rinciple; the west golden rule constitutions exclude this foundation

young un-soros scholars

2025now,com back in 1984 i co-authored the 2025 report - was there a way out of orwellian big brother syndrome-

 in updating this book in 2020, the next 5 years seem like no other in my living memory- i grew up a scot in 1950s/1960s london- first

•  i was taught by my family i wouldnt have existed without the kind intervention of americans in 2 world wars that the old world had spun through empire processes that included genocide, slavery, and quite literally 5% of the world's people in nw europe mattered more than 65% who were asian, 12% who were african, 5% that were latin american 
• between the ages of 8-12 i was very lost by 2 subjects taught at school: history why did we start with being examined on the romans who dismissed scots as to be walled off (hadrian) and why did history end around 1845- only much later i realised it wasnt politically correct in england to teach we were the peoples whose island-governed empire brought poverty and war across the 3 tricontinent of eupe, asia and africa; in london religious instruction as well as daily hym singing concentrated on reading the bible but in the opposite way that my family tree which had been populated by missionaries who went worlwide as scots were thinned by 19th century london's ruling classes

so i wonder are humans only capable of dreaming never the courage to mediate reality-making ::

leadership serving all lives matter coming from public servants and professionals- we the peoples give a monopoly to rule over us to those we assume to value our species greatest need - exploring why extinction is where we are being pied pipered to unless we are all empowered to linkin round end poverty

what kind of human intelligence could those of us who parent supply and demand from the younger half of the world if they are to be the sustainability generation-  i have chosen 16 worldecordjobs creators as a guide but frankly this is as much a survey- dig deep into your skin color, gender, ethnicity, faith, geohistoric roots- who do you nominate culturally as your cultural translator of gola 1 end poverty rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

2 economists of how the first 18 decades of man and machines climaxed in world wars - adam smith and keynes

a legal and maths researcher of system transformation gandhi & einstein

2 of the most practical, loving and hope inspiring ladies celebrated through first half of 20th century - florence nightingale and maria montessori

2 science fiction writers hg wells and ac clarke- has the time come when science fiction is dead because we now have the tech to achieve anything for better or worse

2 american facilitators of consciousness and bottom-up openness - harrison owen and meg wheatley

2 storytellers in different type of media and english mindsets - william shakespeare and david attenborough

royal forces that survived the old world entering 3rd millennium - anglo dutch and japanese

pope francis and sir fazle abed -2 servant leaders of end poverty for all seasons and all hemispheres

introducing VEST 4 solutions  1945-1960 to  SHELFsafety-health-reducation-leadership-ser

back from the future value mediation of the 6 decades following moon race decade -5g 20202, 1g 180s, 0g 1970s UNITES university-nature,infrastructure, technology, energy, sports

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Central European University, Vienna.

Mission

• Foster critical thinking, open intellectual inquiry, and fact-based research to strengthen foundations of open society amid authoritarian resurgence
• Educate students to address tomorrow’s global challenges by getting to know other societies from the inside
• Expand access to higher education at a time of growing inequities
• Counteract polarization by promoting global research collaboration and educating students to examine issues from different perspectives and advance reasoned arguments
• Bolster efforts by universities in challenging environments to build their own capacity through global partnerships to make greater contributions to their societies

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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  VIDEO: Civil Society and Social Movements

  A Conversation with Patrick Gaspard
  July 1, 9:00 am EDT
  On July 1, The Open Society University Network (OSUN) hosted a candid dialogue with Patrick Gaspard, president of the Open Society Foundations. Moderated by Jonathan Becker, vice-chancellor of OSUN, the discussion was cosponsored by OSUN and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
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  Announcing COV-AID

  Engaging Across Global Networks
  

  The Open Society University Network, in partnership with the Talloires Network, announces the launch of COV-AID: Communities of Virtual Alliance & Inter-Dependence, to support universities engaged in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. COV-AID seeks to collect and share stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, document practical steps and strategies that may be of use elsewhere, provide uplifting content, and strengthen public support for engaged universities.
  
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  Tomorrow Is Now:
  The Eleanor Roosevelt Conferences

  The Val-Kill Partnership, in conjunction with the COV-AID Project sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network present a virtual discussion series highlighting the importance of Eleanor Roosevelt's legacy in today's crisis.

  Join us for the Tomorrow Is Now virtual conference series via live Zoom sessions where speakers from around the world will reflect on the relevance of Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy during the pandemic. View Schedule
  
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The first episode features Bard College President and OSUN Chancellor Leon Botstein, Universidad Veracruzana Rectora and Talloires Network Vice Chair Sara Ladrón de Guevara, and Tufts University President and Talloires Network Chair Anthony P. Monaco.

Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope

A Webinar Series Sponsored by Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network

This series aims to serve as a beacon of light, providing uplifting content and strengthening public support for universities. It features leaders in higher education from around the world speaking about ways their institutions are responding to the current crisis and offering strategies that can be adopted by others.

OSUN STRUCTURE

FOUNDING MEMBERS

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  BARD COLLEGE

  (United States)
  

  Bard College, founded in 1860, is highly regarded for its excellence in liberal arts and sciences teaching and its innovations in bringing high-quality education to underserved communities. Bard is a leader in forging international partnerships and integrating civic engagement and the arts across its undergraduate and graduate programs.
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  CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY

  (Austria)
  

  The Central European University (CEU) is a graduate institution founded in 1991. Its mission is to promote open societies and democracy through advanced research and research-based teaching, primarily in the social sciences and humanities.
  
  

EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS

Institutions Participating in First-Phase OSUN Projects*

• COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

  Al-Quds University/Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences (Palestine)
  American University of Bulgaria
  American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
  Arizona State University (Unites States)
  Ashesi University (Ghana)
  Bard College Berlin (Germany)
  Birkbeck: University of London (United Kingdom)
  BRAC University (Bangladesh)
  European Humanities University (Lithuania)
  Princeton University: Global History Lab (United States)
  Sciences Po in Paris (France)
  SOAS University of London (United Kingdom)
  Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
• RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS AND
  EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (United States)
  Chatham House (United Kingdom)
  Institute for New Economic Thinking (United States and United Kingdom)
  Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Austria)
  Open Society Archives (Hungary)
  Rift Valley Institute (Kenya)
  The Talloires Network (United States)
  
  
  *OSUN is actively in discussions with other potential partners that share its principles and academic ambition.

PHILANTHROPIC PARTNER

OSUN builds on the accomplishments of several major initiatives in higher education supported by the Open Society Foundations (OSF). In the 1990s, 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, combining cutting-edge research and research-based teaching with a focused social mission.

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

Network Debate with students from international partner institutions.

Network Courses

Challenging Students to Examine the Ideas and Practices of Being a Global Citizen in the 21st Century
OSUN Network Courses are virtual international exchanges that unite students and faculty from several universities located in different parts of the world in the classroom, sharing faculty and conducting joint research projects in which people from many universities collaborate.

Get Engaged Conference, Budapest. Photo by Zarlasht Sarmast

Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Empowering Young Leaders of Change
Student leaders from an international network of institutions gather every spring for a five-day conference at Central European University's campus in Budapest, Hungary. The Get Engaged Conference gives students the opportunity to develop community leadership skills and collaborate on solutions to local and global challenges.

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