ED welcome to Abedian.app: It took half a century of maps by worldclassengineer Fazle Abed to integrate the 30 cooperations of community building by 1 billion poorest Asian Village mothers. Economists' diaries of The 30th cooperation begun with Economist dialogues at the height of subprime 2008 , involved 8 years of humansai pre-training that became 8 billion beings united declaration of 17 sustainability/cooperation development goals and has converged with the 8 years to date of Guterres roadmapping of UN2 comprised of 9 dynamic subystems of above zero-sum human networking. Bangladesh as deepest place branding of SDG5 celebrates being 52 years young in 2023 the 265th year of smithian moral sentiments at Abed's Alma mater Glasgow Universiity. Supporting hi-tech hi-trust Asian place winners include: singapore 2023; hong kong (22.1 Place winners 22.22022 ... Thailand2021 ..) . Abed was not just a world class civil engineer; he dedicated half a century until his death in December 2019 as servant leader. Aligned by HG Wells bon mots: civilisation is a race between education and catastrophe, Abed Bhai preferred to be seen as host of microeducationsummit not financiers summits: his gravitation purpose of 30 women empowered cooperations that of united refugees, villagers and civil societies in ENDING POVERTY. Fortunately for the worlds poorest new nation Bangaldesh 1971- Abed had networks like no other community leader. HIs friends' coop roadmapping reached out to intel vitalised by at least a billion village mothers in tropical inland asia where, a third of infants were dying of diarrhea before Abed's person to person networking became the best news ever chatted. Fro mid 1950s studies in Glasgow he spent nearly 13 years growing to be Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company's regional CEO. So his lifetime searches uniquely capitalised on what UK and Dutch Royal Societies (soon Japan Royals too) knew how to help end the poverty their colonial era had up to 1945 trapped the majority of humans world trade in. Simply put most Asian coastal belts link national borders defined by what these < a href="http://www.kc3.dev">3 kingdoms designed in to trading barriers over nearly half millennium. And which had made the English language that of world class engineering (digital age as well as pre-digital) So by 1970s these nations royal societies (including londons arts green-geographical, medicinie, science, architects ...) were happy that a grounded movement could link them into what they didnt fully know culturally or consciously. From 1970 on Abed linked in global village mapping like no one else - through these relationships and by designing business microfrachises not charity wherever possible for village women to own. To study with abed alumni is to join in the world's most cooperative empowering women movements for good as well as of childrens development.
microeducationsummit.com invites you to action network Glasgow University's 3 most important alumni of SUSTAINABILITY GENERATION Adam Smith James Watt, FAZLE ABED ..partners of abeduni.com include:
  • U Last Mile Health

  • U Early Childhood

  • U finance to end poverty


  • let's celebrate triple-win economics=
    end poverty*grow middle class*go green

SDG 5  4  3   2  1  0 welcome to Asia and the top 5 sdgoals 50 years search scaling the most exciting collaborations women-led communities empower
INDUSTRIAL REV 260th GAMES-cards of sdg-gen
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diary: next UN sdg-games
250th year review of moral sentiments and industrial revolution
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www.ukcop26.org/volunteer

green economics- the younger half of the world's only hope
Coming soon Fieldbook of Fazle Abed and 1 billion girls empowerment. I see these as 7 chapters of the fieldbook of Abed and womens nation building. Are you able to see if Shameran Abed agrees these are close to honoring his father's purpose or do you want me to do that?
Chapter 1 Ending poverty with financial services - Chapter 2 Ending famine with village agriculture and 100% employment of women geared to community building and celebrating nation's market/entrepreneurial advantages
Chapter 3 Raising life expectancy from 25 below to close to world norms through maximising last mile health service capacity with collaboration focus on affordable life-shaping solutions for infants and mothers
Chapter 4 Education designed to value's the (girl/boy) child's life, love of self, communal dignity of everyone as an action learner and livelihood co-creator Chapter 5 Community as (global village) platform search for collaboration in resiliency and family-led conscious effort to respect every person and nature's dynamics

Chapter 6 Did Abed discover optimal framework matching The Economist's 150 year searching for Entrepreneurial Revolution ie a third movement to mediate historic empires, big politics and big corporate through intergenerational and inter-hemisphere sharing of advances in engineering. Specifically matching Von Neumann's definition of industrial revolution 3 as era of above zero-sum value exchange modeling coherent with 100 times more tech per 8 decades 1945-2025 compounding to everyone's collaborative and natural advantage. Chapter 7 Exploring Abed's checklist of the most urgent work to be done through the decade after his passing and purpose of the younger half of the world in connecting first true decade of sustainability generation through hi-trust behaviors and borderless transparency of data mapping integrating every GPS

 https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/fei-fei-li probably most important tech for sdgs connector in world today ; secondly people abed inspired are trying to transform un via https://www.un.org/techenvoy/content/ongoing-work now led by indian civil servant amandeep gill;; guterres is making this his signature transformation but the 4 people who started this in 2016 after abed's 80th birthday jim kim  ban ki-moon jack ma and melinda gates dont seem to know the indian civil servant amandeep gill who has taken over - also when kim got education un to finally connect with geneva it was through 2 propel: kituyi who then led unctad but may be rival to ruto and houlin zhao whose 8 years chair itu has just gone; its not clear whats happening with kenya unhabitat but hope to observe mar 22-25 new york with singapore friend jack sim number 1 practice connector of sdg6 www.worldtoilet.org and www.bophub.org - jack is the one person I can regularly communicate with have introduced john to jack and vincent chang who has just ended 4 years leading brac university but john is having up to 70 million property assets stolen from him by the person he though was his 45 year partner so not able to focus this month; meanwhile the metaverse has become a race - culturally can womens kindness take back web spaces - johns honk kong friend  jeanne lim www.beingai.com having a good go; johns most powerful friend in ny remains chandrika tandon sponsor of nyu engineering campus in shanghai; unfortunately these dots need connecting ; I may need to relocate to glasgow as it has lower cost of living and currently cant find one project to work on; i want to finish last book dad worked with von neumann family since 1951- dad and i started co-authoring 2025 report genre from 1984; it seems the world really is at final sdg ai crossroads; sadly cant find which one human being bow represents all that fazle did for bangladesh- if you ever chat to monica yunus i would like to know how much succession she will take on ( - at brac i have to assume it couid be shameran but cant fond way to communicate with hum and I am told that tamara and asif sent 25 family members to eg glasgow cop26 - not one was up to fazle level of connecting -anyhow I dont want people politics around ai for good - thats a maths thing- john and i have found www.nexteinstein.org training 100 brilliant mathematicians for africa .... still know sunita gandhi scalling literacy across india like never before -so if you kmnow which countries become pivotal to your diary please tell me ahead of time so i can shoirtlist who just might be the extra connector women empiwerment needs lastly this shows some examples of chatgpt and why iot may be possible to redsign brac uni around it http://innovations.ning.com/forum/topics/what-if-ai-wants-humans-intel-to-be-sustainable  - overall until trumps wave of hate if china disapates I am focusing on singapore and hong kong - all through my life those 2 groups of 8 million people have multiplied so much good

welcome to SDGscotland. lifelong action learning on ending poverty, celebrating health #AIforgood (glasgow's 260th year of first engineer james watt & first IR economist adam smith): growing green:
humanity's last best chance ...economistdiary.com -
THANKS be TO Glasgow U alumn fazle abed- small may be beautiful but in ending poverty, large scale coalition empowering women community building is essential..1billiongirls.com asks how many 1 billion dollar sdg investments a year can women empowerment coalitions inspire: brac bangladesh billion dollar microfinance loans ; abed ultra poor billion dollar grants a year; bkash billion dollar cashless banking for poor ; brac bank billion dollar youth engagement and sme city bank; billion dollars of lowest cost remittances; billion dollar investments in each of 5 ages of schooling ; billion dollar vaccine empowering poorest families grants ; 15 agricultural value chains whose crop science and ai data is networked around poorest asian farmers...


Friday, July 31, 2020

join entrepreneurs co-editing 38th annual action-letter of 2025 report

2025now,com back in 1984 i co-authored the 2025 report -lead editor the economist's norman macrae - was there a way out of orwellian big brother syndrome-transforimg education would be how ro prevent extinction

 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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The Open Society University Network (OSUN) is a new global network that integrates learning and the advancement of knowledge across geographic and demographic boundaries, promotes civic engagement on behalf of open societies, and expands access of underserved communities to higher education.

OSUN Connected and Blended Learning Toolkit

OSUN CONNECTED AND BLENDED LEARNING TOOLKIT

Placing Liberal Arts Pedagogies Front and Center
The OSUN Connected and Blended Learning Toolkit, developed by the Center for Learning in Practice (CLiP) at the Carey Institute for Global Good in collaboration with the Open Society University Network and Bard College, is a living document that is open and accessible to faculty across the network, offering support for connected and blended course development.

Mission
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

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  • 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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    Engaging Across Global Networks
    The Open Society University Network, in partnership with the Talloires Network, announces the launch of COV-AIDCommunities oVirtual 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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    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

  • 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.
  • 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.

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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 Courses
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: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference
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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