tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62531833375620673212024-03-24T16:32:30.447-07:00aigames.solar chrismacrae.com abedmooc.com year 73 neumann Q; can digital-ed save youth=1st sdg genchris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.comBlogger136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-41833175016631471262023-08-02T14:03:00.003-07:002023-12-23T03:23:02.846-08:00AISDGs3 SDG3 health<p>Special thanks to friends Windsor Intelligence- I first had privilege of probono work Duke Edinburgh Award Brand around 1995; the health reconciliation summit took place during 2016 first year review of sddg3 at St George's reconciliation center Windsor Castle; 2023-4 as intelligence unites the world, I happily vote for King Charles as number 1 cheerleader of AIverygood -launching AIworld Series <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq7uDCCMZ6g&t=1528s" target="_blank">Bletchley</a>/Korea/Paris...</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; 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width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_95"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_94"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_93" style="margin: auto; max-width: 300px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_92" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_91" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 300px; position: relative;"><img alt="Denis Gilhooly – Founder &amp; CEO, Global Health 2030 Innovation Task Force &amp; Co-Chair, Global Digital Health Initiative 2030" data-image-dimensions="300x300" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555566920763-E230EC6WKO94M52GAM6W/denis-gilhooly.jpg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555566920763-E230EC6WKO94M52GAM6W/denis-gilhooly.jpg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555566920763-E230EC6WKO94M52GAM6W/denis-gilhooly.jpg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555566920763-E230EC6WKO94M52GAM6W/denis-gilhooly.jpg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555566920763-E230EC6WKO94M52GAM6W/denis-gilhooly.jpg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555566920763-E230EC6WKO94M52GAM6W/denis-gilhooly.jpg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555566920763-E230EC6WKO94M52GAM6W/denis-gilhooly.jpg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555566920763-E230EC6WKO94M52GAM6W/denis-gilhooly.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555566920763-E230EC6WKO94M52GAM6W/denis-gilhooly.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555566920763-E230EC6WKO94M52GAM6W/denis-gilhooly.jpg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 300px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 300px;" width="300" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Denis Gilhooly – Founder & CEO, Global Health 2030 Innovation Task Force & Co-Chair, Global Digital Health Initiative 2030</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539668119151_59921" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Denis Gilhooly</strong> has over three decades of experience working in the field of global health and information and communication technology for development (ICT4D). He is currently Founder & CEO of the Global He@lth 2030 Innovation Task Force (2015-present) and Global Digital He@lth Initiative – successors to the UN Digital He@lth Initiative (2008-2015) – and multi-sector and inter-disciplinary partnerships dedicated to catalytic collaboration for data-driven innovation and investment in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) 2030 and the UN Global Goals.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Denis has served in the public sector as Executive Director, UN Digital He@lth Initiative and Executive Secretary and Lead Author, UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development. He was previously Principal Adviser, Innovation & Information Infrastructure, World Bank Group (WBG), Principal Adviser to the Administrator & Director, Information & Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), UN Development Programme (UNDP), and Principal Adviser & Executive Coordinator, World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He was a member and lead author of An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s two Advisory Committees on Telecommunications and ICT for the Government of Ireland, a founding Commissioner of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC), and Executive Secretary and Lead Author of the G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (G8 DOT-Force) and Director of the G8 Digital Opportunity Initiative. He was a founding member and lead author for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's UN ICT Task Force. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He has also worked extensively in the private sector as Vice President, Business Development, Teledesic LLC (the Broadband Internet-in-the-Sky venture of Bill Gates and Craig McCaw), Media & Technology Director, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones & Co., and founding Editorial & Publishing Director, Communications Week International, The Networked Economy and Global Mobile. Denis holds advanced degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and Shakespearean Studies.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539580444693_186278" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-right sqs-text-ready" data-aspect-ratio="116.39344262295081" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_40_1452810512643_15955" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_112"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_111"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_110" style="margin: auto; max-width: 846px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_109" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_108" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 456.641px; position: relative;"><img alt="Sam Pitroda – Founder &amp; Chairman, Pitroda Group" data-image-dimensions="846x846" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452818965503-IUH34YDSMFABS8YJKXK3/image-asset.jpeg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452818965503-IUH34YDSMFABS8YJKXK3/image-asset.jpeg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="846" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452818965503-IUH34YDSMFABS8YJKXK3/image-asset.jpeg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452818965503-IUH34YDSMFABS8YJKXK3/image-asset.jpeg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452818965503-IUH34YDSMFABS8YJKXK3/image-asset.jpeg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452818965503-IUH34YDSMFABS8YJKXK3/image-asset.jpeg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452818965503-IUH34YDSMFABS8YJKXK3/image-asset.jpeg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452818965503-IUH34YDSMFABS8YJKXK3/image-asset.jpeg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452818965503-IUH34YDSMFABS8YJKXK3/image-asset.jpeg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452818965503-IUH34YDSMFABS8YJKXK3/image-asset.jpeg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 456.641px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 392.328px;" width="846" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Sam Pitroda – Founder & Chairman, Pitroda Group</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_9_1452891366870_30205" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dr. Sam Pitroda</strong> is an internationally recognized telecom inventor, entrepreneur, development thinker, and policy maker who has spent 50 years in information and communications technology (ICT) and related global and national developments.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Credited with having laid the foundation for India’s telecommunications and technology revolution of the 1980s, Mr. Pitroda has been a leading campaigner to help bridge the global digital divide. During his tenure as Advisor to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Mr. Pitroda led six technology missions related to telecommunications, water, literacy, immunization, dairy production, and oil seeds. He was also the founder and first Chairman of India’s Telecom Commission. In these plural roles, Mr. Pitroda helped revolutionize India's development philosophies and policies with a focus on access to technology as the key to social change.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As a way to induce the second phase of India’s technology revolution, in 2005 Mr. Pitroda headed India’s National Knowledge Commission (2005-2009), to provide a blueprint of reform for the knowledge-related institutions and infrastructure for the 21st century in the country. Recently, Sam served as Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation, with the rank of Cabinet Minister. He served as the Chairman of the Smart Grid Task Force, as well as the committees to reform public broadcasting, modernize railways, deliver e-governance, and other developmental activities. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sam is a founding Commissioner of the United Nations Broadband Commission for Digital Development and Chairman of the International Telecommunication Union’s m-Powering Development Board that looks to empower developing countries with the use of mobile technology.In addition, he is a serial entrepreneur having started several companies in the United States. He holds over 15 honorary PhD’s, close to 100 worldwide patents, and has published and lectured widely in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. He lives in Chicago with his wife.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_23_1455663204081_14732" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_23_1455663204081_15305" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h1 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 54px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Advisory Council</h1></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_4_1455727825885_21079" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-right sqs-text-ready" data-aspect-ratio="115.98360655737704" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_4_1455727825885_112477" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_121"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_120"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_119" style="margin: auto; max-width: 1607px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_118" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_117" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 455.031px; position: relative;"><img alt="Barry Andrews – Director General, Institute of International and European Affairs" data-image-dimensions="1607x1607" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728205295-EHEX2DPXSMCA48WVD12O/image-asset.jpeg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728205295-EHEX2DPXSMCA48WVD12O/image-asset.jpeg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="1607" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728205295-EHEX2DPXSMCA48WVD12O/image-asset.jpeg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728205295-EHEX2DPXSMCA48WVD12O/image-asset.jpeg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728205295-EHEX2DPXSMCA48WVD12O/image-asset.jpeg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728205295-EHEX2DPXSMCA48WVD12O/image-asset.jpeg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728205295-EHEX2DPXSMCA48WVD12O/image-asset.jpeg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728205295-EHEX2DPXSMCA48WVD12O/image-asset.jpeg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728205295-EHEX2DPXSMCA48WVD12O/image-asset.jpeg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728205295-EHEX2DPXSMCA48WVD12O/image-asset.jpeg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 455.031px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 392.328px;" width="1607" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Barry Andrews – Director General, Institute of International and European Affairs</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539668119151_433316" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Barry Andrews</strong></h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Barry Andrews was appointed Director General of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) starting in April 2017 replacing Tom Arnold. Prior to the IIEA, Barry was CEO of international NGO GOAL from November 2012 to November 2016. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He was appointed Minister for Children by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen in May 2008 serving in that position as a member of cabinet until March 2011. Barry was called to the Irish Bar in 1997 and specialised in Children’s Law, practicing between 1997 to 2003 and 2011 to 2012. A former Minister with the Irish Government, Barry was educated at Blackrock College and University College Dublin, where he received a Master’s Degree in Modern History. He began his career as a history teacher, and spent seven years teaching in secondary schools in Dublin.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He was called to the Bar in 1997, and practiced as a barrister for five years. Barry became a public representative in June 1999 when he was elected to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the Blackrock Ward.He was subsequently elected to the Irish parliament, Dáil Éireann, in 2002 and served as a member of parliament until 2011.He was appointed Minister of State for Children and Youth Affairs in 2008. In that capacity, he drove a reform agenda in Child Protection services. One of his lasting achievements was the establishment, in 2010, of free pre-school education for all children.Barry is particularly interested in the plight of mothers and children in the developing world.He is married with three children, and lives in Blackrock, Co. Dublin.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539324402972_1127518" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-left sqs-text-ready" data-aspect-ratio="100.81967213114753" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539324402972_1207897" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; height: auto; margin-right: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_130"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_129"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_128" style="margin: auto; max-width: 325px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_127" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_126" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 327.656px; position: relative;"><img alt="Vinton G. Cerf – VP &amp; Chief Internet Evangelist, Google" data-image-dimensions="325x283" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539330281566-KC59RTE1FWUNH8D2W230/a_010.jpeg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539330281566-KC59RTE1FWUNH8D2W230/a_010.jpeg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="283" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539330281566-KC59RTE1FWUNH8D2W230/a_010.jpeg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539330281566-KC59RTE1FWUNH8D2W230/a_010.jpeg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539330281566-KC59RTE1FWUNH8D2W230/a_010.jpeg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539330281566-KC59RTE1FWUNH8D2W230/a_010.jpeg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539330281566-KC59RTE1FWUNH8D2W230/a_010.jpeg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539330281566-KC59RTE1FWUNH8D2W230/a_010.jpeg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539330281566-KC59RTE1FWUNH8D2W230/a_010.jpeg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539330281566-KC59RTE1FWUNH8D2W230/a_010.jpeg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 327.656px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 325px;" width="325" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Vinton G. Cerf – VP & Chief Internet Evangelist, Google</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539668119151_158341" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Vinton G. Cerf</h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Vinton G. Cerf has served as Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services from Google. Cerf also served at MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Agency (DARPA), and as a member of the Stanford University Faculty.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-inventor of the architecture and basic protocols of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. In April 2008, Cerf and Kahn received the prestigious Japan Prize.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cerf served as chairman of the board of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007and as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995, and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf also served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state and industry boards and committees focused on cyber-security and other topics. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He has received twenty honorary degrees.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539324402972_1206368" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-right sqs-text-ready" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1548942040711_215428" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_139"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_138"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_137" style="margin: auto; max-width: 300px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_136" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_135" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 339px; position: relative;"><img alt="Peter Cowhey – Dean, School of Global Policy &amp; Strategy (GPS), University of California (UC) San Diego" data-image-dimensions="300x339" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944110306-V4ZG5D3EFLJG3HLTXMD3/peter_cowhey.jpg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944110306-V4ZG5D3EFLJG3HLTXMD3/peter_cowhey.jpg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="339" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944110306-V4ZG5D3EFLJG3HLTXMD3/peter_cowhey.jpg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944110306-V4ZG5D3EFLJG3HLTXMD3/peter_cowhey.jpg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944110306-V4ZG5D3EFLJG3HLTXMD3/peter_cowhey.jpg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944110306-V4ZG5D3EFLJG3HLTXMD3/peter_cowhey.jpg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944110306-V4ZG5D3EFLJG3HLTXMD3/peter_cowhey.jpg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944110306-V4ZG5D3EFLJG3HLTXMD3/peter_cowhey.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944110306-V4ZG5D3EFLJG3HLTXMD3/peter_cowhey.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944110306-V4ZG5D3EFLJG3HLTXMD3/peter_cowhey.jpg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 339px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 300px;" width="300" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Peter Cowhey – Dean, School of Global Policy & Strategy (GPS), University of California (UC) San Diego</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1548942040711_215018" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Peter Cowhey</h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Peter Cowhey is Dean of the School of Global Policy & Strategy (GPS) at UC San Diego and holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Technology Policy. He is an expert on the future of communications and information technology markets and policy, specializing in U.S. trade policy, foreign policy, the Internet and international corporate strategy. His two most recent books are "Digital DNA: Disruption and the Challenges for Global Governance” and “Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation."</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cowhey has extensive experience in government. In the Clinton Administration, he served as the chief of the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and negotiated many of the U.S. international agreements for telecommunications and satellite services. He had responsibility for antitrust decisions involving the communications and satellite industries. In 2009, he served a 12-month assignment as the senior counselor to Ambassador Ron Kirk in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, playing a key role in the strategic agenda for trade policy. Subsequently, Cowhey served on a bi-national experts group appointed by the U.S. and Chinese governments to research and advise on innovation policy.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As chair of the CONNECT Innovation Institute, he is co-leading a project on U.S. innovation policies. Cowhey has served in many leadership positions in the nonprofit word. He served as the chief policy officer for the Aspen Institute’s International Digital Economy Accords project to update policies involving the Internet and global communications markets. Cowhey was also vice chair of the California Council on Science and Technology. He is currently the chair of the board of directors of the Grameen Foundation USA, the U.S. foundation supporting the work of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Muhammad Yunus.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cowhey is a member of the Global Competitiveness Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. Cowhey joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1976. He was director of the University of California's system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from 1999-2006 and Associate Vice Chancellor-International Affairs from 2007-2009. He was the Interim Executive Vice Chancellor of UC San Diego in 2016-2017. Cowhey became dean of the School in July 2002.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1548942040711_214637" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-left sqs-text-ready" data-aspect-ratio="106.55737704918033" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_4_1455727825885_143036" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; height: auto; margin-right: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_148"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_147"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_146" style="margin: auto; max-width: 1160px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_145" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_144" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 418.047px; position: relative;"><img alt="Sally C. Davies – Chief Medical Officer, England and Chief Medical Advisor, UK Government" data-image-dimensions="1160x1160" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728313009-F8XH95KGWLLZKPIWCHZ6/image-asset.jpeg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728313009-F8XH95KGWLLZKPIWCHZ6/image-asset.jpeg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="1160" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728313009-F8XH95KGWLLZKPIWCHZ6/image-asset.jpeg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728313009-F8XH95KGWLLZKPIWCHZ6/image-asset.jpeg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728313009-F8XH95KGWLLZKPIWCHZ6/image-asset.jpeg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728313009-F8XH95KGWLLZKPIWCHZ6/image-asset.jpeg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728313009-F8XH95KGWLLZKPIWCHZ6/image-asset.jpeg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728313009-F8XH95KGWLLZKPIWCHZ6/image-asset.jpeg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728313009-F8XH95KGWLLZKPIWCHZ6/image-asset.jpeg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728313009-F8XH95KGWLLZKPIWCHZ6/image-asset.jpeg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 418.047px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 392.328px;" width="1160" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Sally C. Davies – Chief Medical Officer, England and Chief Medical Advisor, UK Government</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_882933" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Dame Sally C. Davies</h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Dame Sally C. Davies (FRS, FMedSci) became Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and Chief Medical Advisor to the UK Government in March 2011, having held the post on an interim basis since June 2010. Previously, Dame Sally held responsibility for Research and Development (R&D), and was the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for the Department of Health. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dame Sally is independent advisor to the Government on medical matters, with particular responsibilities regarding Public Health. She provides professional leadership for Directors of Public Health. Sally was actively involved in National Health Service (NHS) R&D from its establishment and founded the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Sally sits on the WHO Executive Board and has led delegations to WHO summits and forums since 2004.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In March 2013, as CMO, Dame Sally published her 2011 annual report on infectious diseases. The report focused on and brought to light the increasing threat of antimicrobial resistance, calling for national and international action to address the key areas of stewardship, monitoring and surveillance and antibiotic development. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dame Sally has since been advocating globally on this topic: she has spoken on AMR at numerous events, including the WHA side event in May 2013, the G8 Science Ministers’ meeting in June 2013, the 2013 Global Health Security Initiative in Rome and a number of Chatham House conferences. She was chair of the 2013 AMR forum at the World Innovation Summit for Health in Qatar and is chair of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on AMR to the WHO. She has also raised public awareness of the issue through publication of a Penguin book and a TED talk. In 2014 Dame Sally was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539580444693_761834" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-right sqs-text-ready" data-aspect-ratio="106.14754098360655" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_923198" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_157"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_156"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_155" style="margin: auto; max-width: 300px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_154" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_153" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 318.438px; position: relative;"><img alt="Terrence Deyasingh – Minister of Health, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago" data-image-dimensions="300x300" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555576110499-W7FBG0HE2UHYLONGCDD5/terrence-deyasingh.jpg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555576110499-W7FBG0HE2UHYLONGCDD5/terrence-deyasingh.jpg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555576110499-W7FBG0HE2UHYLONGCDD5/terrence-deyasingh.jpg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555576110499-W7FBG0HE2UHYLONGCDD5/terrence-deyasingh.jpg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555576110499-W7FBG0HE2UHYLONGCDD5/terrence-deyasingh.jpg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555576110499-W7FBG0HE2UHYLONGCDD5/terrence-deyasingh.jpg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555576110499-W7FBG0HE2UHYLONGCDD5/terrence-deyasingh.jpg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555576110499-W7FBG0HE2UHYLONGCDD5/terrence-deyasingh.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555576110499-W7FBG0HE2UHYLONGCDD5/terrence-deyasingh.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555576110499-W7FBG0HE2UHYLONGCDD5/terrence-deyasingh.jpg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 318.438px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 300px;" width="300" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Terrence Deyasingh – Minister of Health, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_925972" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Terrence Deyasingh</strong></h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Honourable Minister of Health, Terrence Deyalsingh, is the Member of Parliament for St. Joseph, in the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago.<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> </em></strong>Deyalsingh’s life and career emulates the diversity of the constituency of St. Joseph, ranging from the rich agricultural Aranguez plains to the vibrant culture reflective of its ethnic, racial and religious mix. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Terrence Deyalsingh was first educated at the Curepe Presbyterian School before entering the prestigious walls of St Mary’s College. Upon completion he went on to pursue a Diploma in Pharmacy at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in 1981. Subsequently, he earned a Post Graduate Diploma in International Marketing, from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, before returning to UWI in 2007 to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy. In 2013, he qualified for the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of London, International Programme. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Before his stint in politics, Deyalsingh started his career as a lecturer in the Institute of Training and Development (INTAD). From 2011 he served as a part-time Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Mt. Hope. From 2003-2006 he was a member of the Cabinet -appointed Committee on Labour Market Reform and chaired the sub-committee on Labour Market Information, all of which derived from his passion in business management. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Subsequently, Deyalsingh entered the realm of politics, where he served as a Temporary Opposition Senator during the 10th Republican Parliament. He was appointed a Senator on November 2, 2010 and served until October 14, 2013, when he accepted the nomination to contest the St. Joseph constituency in a by-election, which he won on Monday November 4, 2013. During this tenure in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, he has served on the Standing Orders Committee of the Senate, as well as on the Finance Committee. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Deyalsingh is certainly a family man who selflessly serves his community. He has been a Curepe Presbyterian School PTA Chairman (1996-1997) and Chairman of The Curepe Presbyterian Church Local Board (2003-2004). He is currently a member of the Queen’s Park Cricket Club and the St. Augustine Tennis Club. In his home area of Valsayn, he is an active member of the Residents’ Association. More recently he became a member of the Vital Corner Boys Cultural Club of St. Joseph supporting the cultural events managed by the group.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As Minister of Health, Deyalsingh’s main goal is to bring the three highs, being blood pressure, sugar and cholesterol to the three lows. As Member of Parliament for St. Joseph his aspiration is to provide the level of representation deserving of its status to his constituents.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_922828" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-left sqs-text-ready" data-aspect-ratio="124.0909090909091" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_4_1455727825885_170951" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; height: auto; margin-right: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_166"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_165"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_164" style="margin: auto; max-width: 220px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_163" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_162" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 273px; position: relative;"><img alt="Jeremy Farrar – Director, The Wellcome Trust" data-image-dimensions="220x331" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728357771-CXZDUPRMQHHE8STL3BCQ/image-asset.jpeg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728357771-CXZDUPRMQHHE8STL3BCQ/image-asset.jpeg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="331" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728357771-CXZDUPRMQHHE8STL3BCQ/image-asset.jpeg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728357771-CXZDUPRMQHHE8STL3BCQ/image-asset.jpeg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728357771-CXZDUPRMQHHE8STL3BCQ/image-asset.jpeg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728357771-CXZDUPRMQHHE8STL3BCQ/image-asset.jpeg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728357771-CXZDUPRMQHHE8STL3BCQ/image-asset.jpeg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728357771-CXZDUPRMQHHE8STL3BCQ/image-asset.jpeg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728357771-CXZDUPRMQHHE8STL3BCQ/image-asset.jpeg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728357771-CXZDUPRMQHHE8STL3BCQ/image-asset.jpeg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 273px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 220px;" width="220" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Jeremy Farrar – Director, The Wellcome Trust</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_1468494" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Dr. Jeremy Farrar </h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Dr. Jeremy is Director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health by supporting bright minds in science, the humanities and social sciences, and public engagement. Before joining the Trust he was Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam, where his research interests were infectious diseases, tropical health and emerging infections. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He has contributed to 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has served on several World Health Organization advisory committees. Jeremy was appointed OBE in 2005 for services to tropical medicine, and he has been awarded the Memorial Medal and the Ho Chi Minh City Medal by the Government of Vietnam, the Frederick Murgatroyd Prize for Tropical Medicine by the Royal College Physicians and the Bailey Ashford Award by the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Jeremy is married with three children. He loves all sport and walking in the Alps.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_23_1455663204081_36861" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-right sqs-text-ready" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_2_1456774750161_95675" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_175"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_174"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_173" style="margin: auto; max-width: 350px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_172" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_171" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 200px; position: relative;"><img alt="Farid Fezoua – President &amp; CEO, GE Healthcare Africa" data-image-dimensions="350x200" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1456774932318-OAYSG49WIT92LMVLC5S2/image-asset.jpeg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1456774932318-OAYSG49WIT92LMVLC5S2/image-asset.jpeg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="200" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1456774932318-OAYSG49WIT92LMVLC5S2/image-asset.jpeg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1456774932318-OAYSG49WIT92LMVLC5S2/image-asset.jpeg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1456774932318-OAYSG49WIT92LMVLC5S2/image-asset.jpeg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1456774932318-OAYSG49WIT92LMVLC5S2/image-asset.jpeg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1456774932318-OAYSG49WIT92LMVLC5S2/image-asset.jpeg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1456774932318-OAYSG49WIT92LMVLC5S2/image-asset.jpeg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1456774932318-OAYSG49WIT92LMVLC5S2/image-asset.jpeg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1456774932318-OAYSG49WIT92LMVLC5S2/image-asset.jpeg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 200px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 350px;" width="350" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Farid Fezoua – President & CEO, GE Healthcare Africa</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_1512104" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Farid Fezoua</h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Farid Fezoua is President & CEO, Sustainable Healthcare Solutions – Africa, GE Health Care. He was born in France in 1966 from Algerian parents. He lived most of his life in Paris where he post Graduated in International Relations from Universit de La Sorbonne in Paris and speaks fluently French, English, Arabic and Russian. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Farid has a 15-year experience at senior positions in the International Banking sector specializing in Export and Trade Finance as well as Correspondent Banking and Institutional Relations. He started his banking career at BCEN-Eurobank, Paris (subsidiary of the Russian foreign trade Bank), he then occupied the functions of Deputy Head of Commodity and Trade Finance at B.A.I.I (Banque Arabe et Internationale d'Investissement, a subsidiary of BNP specialized in trade and investment in the MENA region) and before joining GE, Farid was Assistant General Manager & Head of Correspondent Banking and Trade Finance with Arab Banking Corporation, Paris Branch. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In his various previous roles Farid has been covering various geographies such as Europe, Eastern Europe & Russia but has continuously maintained a strong focus on MEA over the last 19 years. Farid has been intensively involved in the financing of trade and investment flows between MEA and Europe and has a deep knowledge of trade and export /project finance techniques and practices together with a large portfolio of banking and institutional relations in the Region. Farid joined GE in 2003 and led the customer finance efforts within GE Healthcare in Buc (France) covering the Middle East, Africa and Turkey Region. In 2005, Farid relocated to Dubai as Regional Executive for GE Capital Markets Corporate to lead Customer and Project Finance activities supporting all industrial businesses of GE. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Effective June 15, 2012 Farid transitioned to the position of President & CEO, GE Healthcare Africa. Farid relocated with his family to South Africa. In his new role, Farid will have responsibility for the strategy and commercial growth of GE Healthcare in Africa, continuing to build on the successes achieved in a growing region.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539324402972_944650" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-left sqs-text-ready" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1548942040711_154414" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; height: auto; margin-right: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_184"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_183"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_182" style="margin: auto; max-width: 300px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_181" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_180" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 339px; position: relative;"><img alt="Noor Hisham Abdullah – Director General, Health Malaysia" data-image-dimensions="300x339" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548942983692-1FXM2ZZFWZ323W5ABC79/drhisham.jpg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548942983692-1FXM2ZZFWZ323W5ABC79/drhisham.jpg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="339" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548942983692-1FXM2ZZFWZ323W5ABC79/drhisham.jpg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548942983692-1FXM2ZZFWZ323W5ABC79/drhisham.jpg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548942983692-1FXM2ZZFWZ323W5ABC79/drhisham.jpg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548942983692-1FXM2ZZFWZ323W5ABC79/drhisham.jpg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548942983692-1FXM2ZZFWZ323W5ABC79/drhisham.jpg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548942983692-1FXM2ZZFWZ323W5ABC79/drhisham.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548942983692-1FXM2ZZFWZ323W5ABC79/drhisham.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548942983692-1FXM2ZZFWZ323W5ABC79/drhisham.jpg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 339px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 300px;" width="300" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Noor Hisham Abdullah – Director General, Health Malaysia</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_1517159" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah</h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah is the Director-General of Health Malaysia and a Senior Consultant in Breast and Endocrine Surgery in Hospital Putrajaya, Malaysia. He obtained both his Medical Doctor (M.D.) and Master of Surgery (M.S.) degrees from the National University of Malaysia. Between 1997-1998, he completed his Fellowship training in Breast and Endocrine Surgery from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He is world-renowned for his contributions towards groundbreaking surgical techniques and approaches in endocrine surgery, which has helped to shape the landscape of thyroid surgery particularly.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr Noor Hisham has been conferred numerous local and international awards including the prestigious Fellowship Ad Hominem of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2018 for his contributions toward healthcare in his capacity as a surgeon, administrator, researcher, educator and mentor to his trainees and colleagues. He chairs multiple medical professional councils and national-level technical committees, published in peer-reviewed journals, and authored many chapters in various textbooks on endocrine surgery.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Apart from his active involvement as a policymaker in global organisations such as WHO and the Drug for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi), he is also a Councilor at Large (2017-2021) in the Executive Board of International Society of Surgery (ISS) and chairs the Global Surgery Committee of ISS. His special interest lies in enhancing the accessibility and affordability of universal healthcare coverage through digital technology innovation to bring personalised healthcare back to the community and home. He co-chairs the Telemedicine Development Group, which is a platform for regulators, academia and industry to collaborate in supporting the development, research and innovation of digital health initiatives in Malaysia.</p><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. C. James Hospedales </h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. C. James Hospedales, a citizen of Trinidad & Tobago, is the Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) since February 2013, and Chairman of the Board of the NCD Alliance. From 2006-2012, Dr. Hospedales was responsible for the PAHO program for prevention and control of chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). He played a key role in increasing priority and resources for NCDs, including helping organize the CARICOM and UN Summits on NCDs. He pioneered the Pan American Forum for Action on NCDs, which brings together governments, civil society, academia & business. He has also been a champion for civil society involvement in efforts to improve health, helping to catalyze the formation of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">From 1998–2006, Dr. Hospedales was Director of the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre. He was instrumental in developing donor partnerships for HIV/AIDS prevention, and a partnership with the Caribbean tourism industry to improve health, safety and environment conditions. Dr. Hospedales was a member of the Caribbean Commission on Health and Development, which made policy recommendations in 2005 to the Heads of Government and named chronic diseases as a super-priority for the Region. Dr. Hospedales’ career has included service as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the US Centers for Disease Control, as an epidemiologist at CAREC, and several years working in public health for the UK National Health Service. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Hospedales graduated with honors in medicine from the University of the West Indies. He has a Master of Science degree in community medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is a Fellow of UK Faculty of Public Health, and an accredited partnership broker with the Partnering Institute of the UK. He has published more than 60 papers and reports.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_1812380" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-right sqs-text-ready" data-aspect-ratio="133.42036553524804" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1551101991932_170737" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_193"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_192"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_191" style="margin: auto; max-width: 1269px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_190" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_189" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 523.438px; position: relative;"><img alt="Michikazu Koshiba – Head, Center on Global Health Architecture, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting" data-image-dimensions="1269x1693" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1551102572503-GACCT48H7H8H6BEB991F/koshiba_photo.jpg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1551102572503-GACCT48H7H8H6BEB991F/koshiba_photo.jpg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="1693" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1551102572503-GACCT48H7H8H6BEB991F/koshiba_photo.jpg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1551102572503-GACCT48H7H8H6BEB991F/koshiba_photo.jpg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1551102572503-GACCT48H7H8H6BEB991F/koshiba_photo.jpg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1551102572503-GACCT48H7H8H6BEB991F/koshiba_photo.jpg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1551102572503-GACCT48H7H8H6BEB991F/koshiba_photo.jpg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1551102572503-GACCT48H7H8H6BEB991F/koshiba_photo.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1551102572503-GACCT48H7H8H6BEB991F/koshiba_photo.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1551102572503-GACCT48H7H8H6BEB991F/koshiba_photo.jpg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 523.438px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 392.328px;" width="1269" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Michikazu Koshiba – Head, Center on Global Health Architecture, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_1824985" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Michikazu Koshiba </h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Michikazu Koshiba is Head, Center on Global Health Architecture, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd. He began his career in the field of international development and humanitarian relief fields as an NGO worker serving disaster-affected communities, where he embraced the concepts of “sustainability” and multi-stakeholder engagement as the essential value for his future career. In the creating of shared values-related businesses, especially in global health from the mid-2000s, he has worked with many established corporations and startups in Japan, as well as with the financial community, industry bodies, government, the media, NGOs, and academia. His favorite description of his role is as a nexus between conventional politics and those of the future.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Since 2016, he has established an action-oriented consortium called “Access to Health” where the members are focused on how to make contribution to global health including Infectious Diseases, Nutrition, NCDs, and Maternal and Child Health to build new partnerships, create new innovative projects, businesses and products, and mobilize resources and advocate policy changes for individual and global progress. Currently he is playing a role as a facilitator and coordinator for various stakeholders, working as the Head, Center on Global Health Architecture, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1548942040711_495428" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-left sqs-text-ready" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1548942040711_361465" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; height: auto; margin-right: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_202"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_201"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_200" style="margin: auto; max-width: 300px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_199" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_198" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 339px; position: relative;"><img alt="Osamu Kunii – Head, Strategy, Investment and Impact Division, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria" data-image-dimensions="300x339" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944995261-8EWW97S34HU09FPMLQPN/osamu-kunii.jpg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944995261-8EWW97S34HU09FPMLQPN/osamu-kunii.jpg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="339" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944995261-8EWW97S34HU09FPMLQPN/osamu-kunii.jpg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944995261-8EWW97S34HU09FPMLQPN/osamu-kunii.jpg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944995261-8EWW97S34HU09FPMLQPN/osamu-kunii.jpg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944995261-8EWW97S34HU09FPMLQPN/osamu-kunii.jpg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944995261-8EWW97S34HU09FPMLQPN/osamu-kunii.jpg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944995261-8EWW97S34HU09FPMLQPN/osamu-kunii.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944995261-8EWW97S34HU09FPMLQPN/osamu-kunii.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1548944995261-8EWW97S34HU09FPMLQPN/osamu-kunii.jpg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 339px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 300px;" width="300" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Osamu Kunii – Head, Strategy, Investment and Impact Division, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1548942040711_419296" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Osamu Kunii</h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Dr.<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> </strong>Osamu Kunii, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. has more than 25 years of experience in global health and development in over 100 countries.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After working in two hospitals, he had served for two years as physician in a remote village deep in the mountains in Tochigi, Japan. He engaged in emergency medical relief in several countries as co-founder and deputy representative of international medical NGO called Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA).</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At the International Cooperation Bureau, International Medical Centre of Japan (currently called National Centre of Global Health and Medicine), he served as a doctor for emergency relief, project planning, implementation, evaluation and research in the fields of infectious diseases control, primary health care, maternal and child health, and health system strengthening, especially through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After serving as Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affair as Deputy Director of the Aid Planning Division, and then moved to the Nagasaki University, Research Institute of Tropical Medicine to serve as Professor of Global Health.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As Senior Health Strategy Advisor at UNICEF headquarters in New York, he engaged in maternal and child health policy and strategy development at global and country level. He then moved to country offices of UNICEF working for three years in Myanmar as Chief of Health and Nutrition Programme where he engaged in emergency relief during both the Saffron Revolution and Cyclone Nargis as well as infectious diseases control, HIV and malaria; for three years in Somalia Support Centre as Chief of Child Survival and Development where he scaled up essential services of health, nutrition, water and sanitation for remote communities and displaced people suffering from civil war, famine and disease outbreaks.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Since March 2013, he has served as Head of Strategy, Investment and Impact Division at the Global Fund taking the lead for four departments and one team: Access to Funding; Strategic Information; Technical Advice and Partnership; Community, Rights and Gender; Technical Evaluation and Reference Group Support.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Kunii received his medical degree from Jichi Medical University, Master of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health, and doctoral degree from the University of Tokyo.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1548942040711_360687" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-right sqs-text-ready" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_1995860" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_211"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_210"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_209" style="margin: auto; max-width: 300px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_208" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_207" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 300px; position: relative;"><img alt="Motoo Kusakabe – Founder &amp; President, Open City Institute" data-image-dimensions="300x300" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555589765646-2ELIRX9TUZ1X6C5X52GU/motoo.jpg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555589765646-2ELIRX9TUZ1X6C5X52GU/motoo.jpg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555589765646-2ELIRX9TUZ1X6C5X52GU/motoo.jpg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555589765646-2ELIRX9TUZ1X6C5X52GU/motoo.jpg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555589765646-2ELIRX9TUZ1X6C5X52GU/motoo.jpg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555589765646-2ELIRX9TUZ1X6C5X52GU/motoo.jpg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555589765646-2ELIRX9TUZ1X6C5X52GU/motoo.jpg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555589765646-2ELIRX9TUZ1X6C5X52GU/motoo.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555589765646-2ELIRX9TUZ1X6C5X52GU/motoo.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555589765646-2ELIRX9TUZ1X6C5X52GU/motoo.jpg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 300px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 300px;" width="300" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Motoo Kusakabe – Founder & President, Open City Institute</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_2042300" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Motoo Kusakabe<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> </strong></h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Motoo Kusakabe is currently Founder & President of the Open City Institute In., which developed “Community Carte System (CCS)”, life-history data platform of social/health-related risk/resilience factors that measures and predicts the risk transfer mechanisms covering infancy to old-age, physical/mental health and social capital. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Motoo previously served at the World Bank Group (WBG) as the Vice-President for Resource Mobilization and Co-financing in charge of creating global partnership to reduce poverty, promoting information and communication technology (ICT) cluster development, and community-driven initiatives in many developing countries.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Digital Vision Fellowship Program. At the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London he served as the Senior Counsellor to the President, in charge of promoting quality/economic/social impact of EBRD’s projects, promoting ICT clusters, incubators and seed funds in 14 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He was previously Chief Economist, Institute of Fiscal & Monetary Policies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Japan, Deputy Commissioner, International Affairs of the National Tax Administration of the Japanese Government, and Deputy Director-General for Banking Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan (1994-96), </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Motoo has been Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Enterprise Fellow at Essex University, UK, and Visiting Professor at Environment Institute, University College London, UK.He graduated with a BA and MA in Mathematics from the University of Tokyo, M.Phil and PhD Candidateship in economics from Yale University, USA.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_2060680" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-left sqs-text-ready" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_4_1455727825885_178888" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; height: auto; margin-right: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_220"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_219"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_218" style="margin: auto; max-width: 2500px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_217" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_216" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 392.328px; position: relative;"><img alt="Paul Litchfield – Chair, What Works Centre for Wellbeing" data-image-dimensions="2500x2500" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728470018-0KMWVSF9GEE3IS47KRLP/image-asset.jpeg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728470018-0KMWVSF9GEE3IS47KRLP/image-asset.jpeg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="2500" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728470018-0KMWVSF9GEE3IS47KRLP/image-asset.jpeg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728470018-0KMWVSF9GEE3IS47KRLP/image-asset.jpeg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728470018-0KMWVSF9GEE3IS47KRLP/image-asset.jpeg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728470018-0KMWVSF9GEE3IS47KRLP/image-asset.jpeg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728470018-0KMWVSF9GEE3IS47KRLP/image-asset.jpeg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728470018-0KMWVSF9GEE3IS47KRLP/image-asset.jpeg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728470018-0KMWVSF9GEE3IS47KRLP/image-asset.jpeg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1455728470018-0KMWVSF9GEE3IS47KRLP/image-asset.jpeg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 392.328px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 392.328px;" width="2500" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Paul Litchfield – Chair, What Works Centre for Wellbeing</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539668119151_297627" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Paul Litchfield</h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Paul Litchfield (OBE, OStJ, FRCP, FFOM) is Chair of What Works Wellbeing and former Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for BT Group plc. He has been active in the field of workplace health and disability for more than 30 years. He has been involved in UK national and European initiatives to promote good physical & mental health, to improve rehabilitation back into work and to reduce the stigma of mental ill health. In April 2015 he was additionally appointed as Chair of the UK’s What Works Centre for Wellbeing, which is dedicated to understanding what can be done to improve wellbeing across society. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Mental Health and he chairs the ethics committee for the UK Defence Medical Services. In 2013 and 2014 he was appointed to undertake statutory independent reviews of the Work Capability Assessment and to advise the Secretary of State for Work & Pensions. He was previously a co-author of the independent review for the UK Government “<em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Realising ambitions: Better employment support for people with a mental health condition”</em>.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_23_1455663204081_40350" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-right sqs-text-ready" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539324402972_1132670" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_229"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_228"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_227" style="margin: auto; max-width: 220px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_226" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_225" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 147px; position: relative;"><img alt="Nii Quaynor – Founder &amp; Chairman, Ghana Dot Com" data-image-dimensions="220x147" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539329836650-C469TVJFXXF67X92ISOA/a_007.jpeg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539329836650-C469TVJFXXF67X92ISOA/a_007.jpeg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="147" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539329836650-C469TVJFXXF67X92ISOA/a_007.jpeg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539329836650-C469TVJFXXF67X92ISOA/a_007.jpeg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539329836650-C469TVJFXXF67X92ISOA/a_007.jpeg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539329836650-C469TVJFXXF67X92ISOA/a_007.jpeg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539329836650-C469TVJFXXF67X92ISOA/a_007.jpeg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539329836650-C469TVJFXXF67X92ISOA/a_007.jpeg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539329836650-C469TVJFXXF67X92ISOA/a_007.jpeg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539329836650-C469TVJFXXF67X92ISOA/a_007.jpeg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 147px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 220px;" width="220" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Nii Quaynor – Founder & Chairman, Ghana Dot Com</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539668119151_322151" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor</h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor is Founder & Chair of Ghana Dot Com and former Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency of Ghana. He is one of the founding members of the Computer Science Department at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, and continues to hold a professorship there. He is also a member of the Council of the University of Ghana.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In 2000, he became director of ICANN for the African region. Nii graduated in engineering science from Dartmouth College in 1972 and received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Thayer School of Engineering there in 1973. He then studied Computer Science, obtaining an M.S. from the State University of New York at StonyBrook in 1974 and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 1977. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On Quaynor's return to Ghana from the United States in the early 1990s he established some of Africa's first Internet connections and was involved in setting up some key organisations, including the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG).He introduced Value Added Networks in the region through the introduction of the SWIFT, Internet and Commerce networks, and was founding chairman of AfriNIC, the African numbers registry.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Quaynor is the Chairman of the Ghanaian company Network Computer Systems, a member of the United Nations Secretary General Advisory Group on ICT, member of the ITU Telecom Board, Chair and of the OAU Internet Task Force, President of the Internet Society of Ghana, and member of the World Bank Infodev TAP. In December 2007, Quaynor was awarded the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award from the IETF (The Internet Engineering Task Force). Also on 26 June 2013, he was selected for induction into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.He serves as a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_2_1460029212650_86486" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-left sqs-text-ready" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539580444693_710481" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; height: auto; margin-right: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_238"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_237"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_236" style="margin: auto; max-width: 500px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_235" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_234" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 443.328px; position: relative;"><img alt="Johanna Ralston – CEO, World Obesity Foundation" data-image-dimensions="500x565" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539583816388-SXFXMLFSZB9X88FNUOKK/a_006.jpeg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539583816388-SXFXMLFSZB9X88FNUOKK/a_006.jpeg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="565" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539583816388-SXFXMLFSZB9X88FNUOKK/a_006.jpeg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539583816388-SXFXMLFSZB9X88FNUOKK/a_006.jpeg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539583816388-SXFXMLFSZB9X88FNUOKK/a_006.jpeg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539583816388-SXFXMLFSZB9X88FNUOKK/a_006.jpeg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539583816388-SXFXMLFSZB9X88FNUOKK/a_006.jpeg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539583816388-SXFXMLFSZB9X88FNUOKK/a_006.jpeg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539583816388-SXFXMLFSZB9X88FNUOKK/a_006.jpeg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1539583816388-SXFXMLFSZB9X88FNUOKK/a_006.jpeg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 443.328px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 392.328px;" width="500" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Johanna Ralston – CEO, World Obesity Foundation</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1539668119151_340520" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ms Johanna Ralston</strong></h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Johanna Ralston has worked in global NCDs and their risk factors for over two decades. She has served as CEO of World Obesity Federation since 2017, focusing on changing the narrative and elevating obesity on the global agenda. From 2011-2016 Johanna served as CEO of World Heart Federation, the main CVD organization in official relations with WHO and a founder of NCD Alliance. Johanna’s work included mobilizing the CVD community around the NCD agenda and WHO initiatives including the Global Action Plan on NCDs 2013-2020, Global HEARTS, and the health-related SDGs, as well as a shared strategy to address rheumatic heart disease. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Johanna also served as Vice Chair, steering group member and Interim Director of the NCD Alliance during that period, and led the communications strategy for the 2011 UN HLM and strategic planning for the second business plan. From 1999 until 2011 Johanna was Vice President of Global Strategies at American Cancer Society, overseeing global advocacy and building the global capacity building program to strengthen community-based cancer and tobacco control in LMICs. She is also a fellow at Geneva Centre for Security Policy, leading the course on global health security.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A dual citizen of Sweden and the US, Johanna is an alumna of Harvard Business School and studied public health at Johns Hopkins, after a first degree in literature. She serves on various committees and boards including Lung Cancer Alliance, the WEF Global Future of Health and Healthcare Council, and the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Surgical Care and the NCD Business Plan Expert Group. Johanna’s interest in NCDs grew significantly in her 20s when she was diagnosed with cancer and MS. She has been in remission from both for close to two decades and has written on the role of lived experience with NCDs and the NCD narrative.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_23_1455663204081_52822" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-5 span-5 float float-right sqs-text-ready" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_2256252" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 532.906px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_247"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_246"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_245" style="margin: auto; max-width: 300px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_244" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_243" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 300px; position: relative;"><img alt="Kyu Rhee – VP &amp; Chief Health Officer, IBM Corporation &amp; IBM Watson Health" data-image-dimensions="300x300" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555592618884-P7CV746G54YLT0S0RS93/kyu-rhee.jpg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555592618884-P7CV746G54YLT0S0RS93/kyu-rhee.jpg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555592618884-P7CV746G54YLT0S0RS93/kyu-rhee.jpg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555592618884-P7CV746G54YLT0S0RS93/kyu-rhee.jpg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555592618884-P7CV746G54YLT0S0RS93/kyu-rhee.jpg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555592618884-P7CV746G54YLT0S0RS93/kyu-rhee.jpg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555592618884-P7CV746G54YLT0S0RS93/kyu-rhee.jpg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555592618884-P7CV746G54YLT0S0RS93/kyu-rhee.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555592618884-P7CV746G54YLT0S0RS93/kyu-rhee.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1555592618884-P7CV746G54YLT0S0RS93/kyu-rhee.jpg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 300px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 300px;" width="300" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Kyu Rhee – VP & Chief Health Officer, IBM Corporation & IBM Watson Health</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_2296406" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dr. Kyu Rhee</strong></h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Rhee serves as Vice President & Chief Health Officer of IBM Corporation and IBM Watson Health, where he has global responsibilities for Watson Health and assuring a Culture of Health at IBM. Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Rhee was Chief Public Health Officer at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which is the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable. While at HRSA, he served on and led numerous national initiatives related to prevention, quality, and public health. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Rhee also served as the Director of the Office of Innovation and Program Coordination at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is the primary federal agency for research. While at NIH, he served on and led numerous initiatives related to eliminating health disparities and promoting health equity. Prior to his federal government service, he worked in community health settings as the Chief Medical Officer of Baltimore Medical System Inc., the largest network of Federally Qualified Health Centers in Maryland. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In addition, Dr. Rhee served five years as a National Health Service Corps Scholar and Medical Director at Upper Cardozo Health Center, the largest community health center in Washington, DC. During that time, he taught at the George Washington University School of Public Health, where he received a “Best Teacher” award for his class in Community Health Leadership.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Rhee was a Chief Resident and performed his medical residency training in both internal medicine and pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Southern California. Dr. Rhee also holds a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University with a concentration in Health Care Policy. He acquired his Bachelor in Science degree from Yale University in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, where he also served as President of the study body.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In addition to his service on various public and private sector committees and boards, including those sponsored by the Institute of Medicine, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, the National Quality Forum, and the National Business Group on Health, Dr. Rhee speaks frequently and has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">American Family Physician, Pediatric Annals,Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved</em>, and the <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">American Journal of Public Health</em>.</p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_2255854" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-4 span-4 float float-left sqs-text-ready" data-aspect-ratio="88.9344262295082" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_40_1452810512643_7062" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; height: auto; margin-right: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.328px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_256"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none sqs-narrow-width" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_255"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_254" style="margin: auto; max-width: 3419px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_253" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_252" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 348.906px; position: relative;"><img alt="Bill Roedy – Founder &amp; Chairman, Staying Alive Foundation" data-image-dimensions="3419x3419" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452817485315-6C6DHR4NLQTT8AGTADVR/image-asset.jpeg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452817485315-6C6DHR4NLQTT8AGTADVR/image-asset.jpeg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="3419" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452817485315-6C6DHR4NLQTT8AGTADVR/image-asset.jpeg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452817485315-6C6DHR4NLQTT8AGTADVR/image-asset.jpeg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452817485315-6C6DHR4NLQTT8AGTADVR/image-asset.jpeg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452817485315-6C6DHR4NLQTT8AGTADVR/image-asset.jpeg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452817485315-6C6DHR4NLQTT8AGTADVR/image-asset.jpeg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452817485315-6C6DHR4NLQTT8AGTADVR/image-asset.jpeg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452817485315-6C6DHR4NLQTT8AGTADVR/image-asset.jpeg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1452817485315-6C6DHR4NLQTT8AGTADVR/image-asset.jpeg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 348.906px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 392.328px;" width="3419" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Bill Roedy – Founder & Chairman, Staying Alive Foundation</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_2369604" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mr. Bill Roedy</strong></h2><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bill Roedy is the former Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks International, where he and his team built from scratch a global operation of 200 channels, 20 brands (including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central) in 200 countries, reaching a potential audience of 2 billion people, launching the most channels in the history of TV.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In 1998 Mr Roedy was named Ambassador for UNAIDS and he has addressed the UN General Assembly on several occasions regarding the pandemic. He was a founding member and chair of the Global Business Coalition (GBC) on HIV/AIDS from 1998 to 2002. In 2005, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed him founding chair of the Global Media AIDS Initiative Leadership Committee. Mary Robinson also appointed him as an Envoy for the Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunizations (GAVI) in 2010, and he joined the board in 2015.</p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mr Roedy is the founding Chairman of the Staying Alive Foundation, which provides young people with resources to fight the epidemic at the grass roots level, in combination with MTV’s award winning HIV/AIDS programming. </p><p style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In addition to the above, he is active in a wide range of other Global Health initiatives, including the boards of amfAR, Healthright, Fitzmi, The Hawn Foundation (Goldie Hawn) and Global Health Corps. His business roles include Zumba (Healthy Lifestyle), Moshi Monsters, Lionsgate, Ping4 (Mobile Alerts), DJZ and the private equity advisory boards of Tower Brook (NY/London) and ClearVue (Shanghai).</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Roedy holds degrees of Bachelor of Science from West Point and an MBA from Harvard. He has recently joined the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Mr Roedy is one of the Exec Producers of the film documentary “Battle of amfAR”, which premiered on HBO on World AIDS Day, December 1st 2013. He is also the author of ‘What Makes Business Rock’, one of CNBC’s Best Books of Summer 2011. Bill is currently working on a second book on the art of intelligent perseverance. </p></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_2414714" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #dddddd; height: 1px;" /></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-col-5 span-5 float float-right sqs-text-ready" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_2415499" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 17px; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 532.906px; z-index: 10;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_265"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none" data-test="image-block-inline-outer-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_264"><figure class="sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_263" style="margin: auto; max-width: 2500px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper" data-animation-role="image" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_262" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1691010239191_261" style="-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, white, black); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 332.656px; position: relative;"><img alt="Ernest Darkoh &amp; John Sergeant – Co-Founders &amp; Co-CEOs, BroadReach" data-image-dimensions="2500x1667" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1558113845645-TFX9U4ZZWX9WYU54FNED/Dr.+Ernest+Darkoh+and+Dr.+John+Sargent.jpg" data-load="false" data-loader="sqs" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1558113845645-TFX9U4ZZWX9WYU54FNED/Dr.+Ernest+Darkoh+and+Dr.+John+Sargent.jpg" data-stretch="false" decoding="async" height="1667" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1558113845645-TFX9U4ZZWX9WYU54FNED/Dr.+Ernest+Darkoh+and+Dr.+John+Sargent.jpg" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1558113845645-TFX9U4ZZWX9WYU54FNED/Dr.+Ernest+Darkoh+and+Dr.+John+Sargent.jpg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1558113845645-TFX9U4ZZWX9WYU54FNED/Dr.+Ernest+Darkoh+and+Dr.+John+Sargent.jpg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1558113845645-TFX9U4ZZWX9WYU54FNED/Dr.+Ernest+Darkoh+and+Dr.+John+Sargent.jpg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1558113845645-TFX9U4ZZWX9WYU54FNED/Dr.+Ernest+Darkoh+and+Dr.+John+Sargent.jpg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1558113845645-TFX9U4ZZWX9WYU54FNED/Dr.+Ernest+Darkoh+and+Dr.+John+Sargent.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1558113845645-TFX9U4ZZWX9WYU54FNED/Dr.+Ernest+Darkoh+and+Dr.+John+Sargent.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56980b3805f8e20acb3cc322/1558113845645-TFX9U4ZZWX9WYU54FNED/Dr.+Ernest+Darkoh+and+Dr.+John+Sargent.jpg?format=2500w 2500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 332.656px; left: 0px; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 50%; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 498.906px;" width="2500" /></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper" style="padding-top: 18px;"><div class="image-caption"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.68em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Ernest Darkoh & John Sergeant – Co-Founders & Co-CEOs, BroadReach</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1555565881664_2415090" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 426.156px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div class="sqs-html-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: "Fjalla One"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ernest Darkoh & John Sargent</strong></h2><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.72px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dr. Ernest Darkoh : Co-founder and co-CEO: BroadReach </strong></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.72px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Dr. Ernest Darkoh is an internationally respected thought-leader and expert on health systems strengthening, strategic planning and large-scale program implementation. His recent work has focused on using cutting-edge technologies, big data and analytics to drive improvements in programmatic outcomes. Ernest has worked globally with governments, international normative organizations and the private sector. </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.72px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ernest co-founded BroadReach in 2003 and serves as co-CEO. He has been recognized by New African Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Africans and named one of eighteen “Global Health Heroes” by TIME Magazine. Ernest is a popular guest speaker, most recently speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2019.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.72px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Before co-founding BroadReach, Ernest worked with the African Comprehensive HIV & AIDS Partnership (ACHAP) where he served as the Operations Manager leading the rollout of the Botswana government’s national ARV program (Masa). Prior to ACHAP, Ernest was a consultant with McKinsey & Company.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.72px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ernest earned his BS in Chemistry and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin, his MD from Harvard Medical School and his MPH from Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He completed his MBA at the Said School of Business at Oxford University as a Fulbright Scholar. </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.72px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dr. John Sargent: Co-Founder and Co-CEO of BroadReach</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.72px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. John Sargent is a globally recognised innovator focused on developing 4th Industrial Revolution technologies to radically improve healthcare delivery and catalyse broader development sector outcomes. John is also focuses on developing public-private partnerships cultivating private sector participation within the development sector. </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.72px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John co-founded<a href="https://www.broadreachcorporation.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(82, 194, 200, 0.3); color: #52c2c8; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-bottom: 0.05em; text-decoration-line: none; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s, color 0.15s ease-out 0s;"> BroadReach</a> in 2003 and serves as co-CEO overseeing the development of technology enabled solutions for the consulting business. He has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as the Social Entrepreneurs of the Year in 2015, by Frost & Sullivan with the Visionary Leadership Award in Healthcare, and by Devex as one of the Top 40 Under 40 Leaders in Development.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.72px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prior to co-founding BroadReach, John was a management consultant specializing in strategic and clinical operations projects. John earned an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree from Oxford University as a Fulbright Scholar and an MD from Harvard Medical School.</p><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-382726061004145062023-07-31T05:35:00.005-07:002023-08-07T11:19:22.820-07:00MagicSpex.com<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj23nvjmy-9sEFn3rbtXYOIIPEaH1f6pHKut985p-HA3-luJfFNdvzYcBtyJabeEEDQk6MstDXDYbmXGZ4eNEDRynpJYiKW2WR6XfJ8cnk67tTg_1L4PzCDyzAQTg3lNRxcpFwPyg7M095DkIVZetESRpqecRoB3Isl8DdSZMf3HmVN4SBO_IzQgyu23_ei/s1280/magicspex.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj23nvjmy-9sEFn3rbtXYOIIPEaH1f6pHKut985p-HA3-luJfFNdvzYcBtyJabeEEDQk6MstDXDYbmXGZ4eNEDRynpJYiKW2WR6XfJ8cnk67tTg_1L4PzCDyzAQTg3lNRxcpFwPyg7M095DkIVZetESRpqecRoB3Isl8DdSZMf3HmVN4SBO_IzQgyu23_ei/w640-h360/magicspex.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />x<table style="width: 1130px;"><tbody><tr><td><p> 2023-4 is schools year 9 of UN2 transforming humans intelligence relationship around vision of millennials as first sustainability generation magicspex.com (valuing peopels time and data as trust multipliers of advancing human race and moether earth's renewability</p><p>Regarding system mapping: the 21st C initial millennial goals were under-specified- for example if you were building primary schools you could demand a lot of aid; intelligence for any form of livelihood education that wasn't a millennium goal. In 21st C, no region's human networks kept relentlessly questioning how to advance half-time (2015) millennials-sustaining goals as much as Asia's <a href="http://1billiongirls.com">1billiongirls.com</a>/<a href="http://girlsworldbank.com">girlsworldbank.com</a>. What the west had since 1997 called microcreditsummit.com was actually microeducationsummit integration of sall deep community data if you travelleled to deep spaces like Bangladesh which our studennt mediatirs for good and ed3 fruends co-blog <a href="http://Abedmooc.com">Abedmooc.com</a> did 16 times. Their Entrepreneurial Revolution demanded intelligence transformation of how public service and businesses worlds and communities <a href="https://ggin.stimson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Global-Futures-Forum-2023-Program.pdf" target="_blank">map global village futures.</a>(aka UN college yasr 23-24)</p><p>2023-4 marks the 8th college year of transformation empowerment wherever <a href="http://www.aisdgs.com" target="_blank">human architect intelligence</a> blends with the UN. Here's how the magicspex system transformation has evolved from talk to walk , last mile systems</p><p></p></td><td><table style="width: 720px;"><tbody><tr><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbmqxISx0bGXlvSrXxA0LH0XOPTAzLih-_PVuzzXNJtyShDurmyl_Pa-dTx2INiOg0eIqYczIZs56MTDJEPB8HFnkQDPX0ofj9FfM_895Fj6gQf3imR4ky7cZiNtiKrlfIRXn_XHlgp5OAaOb8GqwApWDM2d3i6KylGDa6cEnEK8eLpiVhVFQDzeakqUu/s668/magic.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="668" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbmqxISx0bGXlvSrXxA0LH0XOPTAzLih-_PVuzzXNJtyShDurmyl_Pa-dTx2INiOg0eIqYczIZs56MTDJEPB8HFnkQDPX0ofj9FfM_895Fj6gQf3imR4ky7cZiNtiKrlfIRXn_XHlgp5OAaOb8GqwApWDM2d3i6KylGDa6cEnEK8eLpiVhVFQDzeakqUu/w602-h425/magic.JPG" width="602" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></td><td><span style="font-size: x-small;">UN2 Guterres Kim Abed Steve Jobs<br /><br />Hassabis Fei-Fe Li. Larry Page & Jerry Yang<br /><br />Neumann- Einstein (Gandhi Freud) Turing Borlaug Freire Deming<br />Jfk Korolev Moore Macarety Olsen - 52 players cards Architect Intel 23-4</span> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table>><br />.year 1 review of sdgs UN H Q sept 2016- Finding on behalf of educators <b><i>sdgs are impossible unless there is Digital Cooperation </i></b>- from this day on, if poverty-ending is the vision: , tech and every UN practice skills group must help each other and teachers end all silos, More than half of yout's time and livelihoods will be wasted unless we fix this Testimony source Jim Kim , Fazle Abed, Jack Ma. The next day presentations were being made to UNCTAD's leader based in Geneva but attending NY assembly. Within months the education demand was being valued by the<a href="https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/opb/gen/S-GEN-UNACT-2022-PDF-E.pdf" target="_blank"> ITU</a> in Geneva which had since 1865! been the epicentre of how the world cooperates around transformations in (tele) communications system<p></p><p>2016's world bank leader and health intelligence mapmaker jim kim leadership unites 2016's springs 80th birthday intelligence update which <a href="http://abedmooc.com">fazle abed </a>and global villages' <a href="http://1billiongirls.com" target="_blank">1billiongirls </a>had mapped since 2001 when they wer key practioner connectirs of global fund (with paul farmer gates health foiundation geore soros). Vilage tuberculosis networking showed how bottom-up solutions were needed to alelvaite both tb and aids. It had taken a lot of ID says(Infectious Disease) mapping to get either the WHO in Geneva or NIH in Dc to agree to this deeper modeling of health flows. </p><p>By year 2 an expert pane;l to debate transformation to end wasting peopels time was set up; digital cooperation of how to end wasting youth's time was matched by digoita; capacity building ho0w to stop wasting teachers, parents and emders time. Simulataneouely the ITU launched AIforgod. Contextually this would be a space that transitioned from WSIS annual summit theITU had hosted since 2005 in peraparation for wi-fi and 4g and datata beaming up/down from every gps. Incredibly UN in NY had not looked at gps data maps from the bottom up until Guteres was apinted as un leader bring his decade of UNexpereince of serving refugees, and befire that Portuguese red cross partnerships with geneva's red cresecent, and before that mediating the EU's impact on Portuguese speaking peoples</p><p>By colege year 2018-9, the2nd lenses was being added - gov2.0 could achieve the Un foudational system oirpoeses rights, equality, trtut/safety, stewardship of common goods if it fl=ully valued women emowerpmet and youth-intergenerational inteligences; - the deep maths data scence piece CODES was added to the time spending lens.</p><p>2019-20 - covid hit - son the mabicspex becemae the most popular zooms instead of physdical leaderhsip summits</p><p>2022-23 is the year when teh general assemply hosts inquests of every sdgs, and chooses where intelligence cooperation technnolgy (aka Human AI) can be the transfrmation of all the magcspex</p><table></table>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-40981975012086914812023-07-30T11:45:00.001-07:002023-08-06T12:28:21.941-07:00<p>Government versions of MMagicSpex.com millennials-regeneration roadmping emerges in East/South from schools year 2008-9 but not as united empowerment of 8 billion people to first year UN review of the newly listed 17 sgds (schools year) 2015-16. Sadly the yes youth can biden/obama admin is competely blind to magic spex for 4 years; only the transformation of the valley of silicon to Human Ai offeres Americans any visions the world wants Architects of Intelligence to celebrate AIgames.solar. The emergemec og HimanAI valley from scho,s yera 2008-9 coincides with 58 yer of Von Neumann training Economist Journalsits that AI will need to be transparent and sysmic in ways paper-based acadndeic Economics throrists never saw as wither a possibility or responsibility to multiply goods oif trust, peoples time and data.It was only in 2012 that Obama asked the world's number 1 economic public health servant jim kim to lead teh worldf bank (nb a korea was also now leading the UN with Gutteres potentially the graetest health and public servant experimced leader now in year 7? of UN refugee services after 5 yeras leading purtuguesd red cross after years as portugal's Prime Minister.- see also global fund and 2004 tsunam as reasn why jim kim , gates family, guterres, fazle abed, soros all started connecting inteligence networks for communities to combat AIDs, TB and malaria</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuTPJT3ZugYzPnhj_LU5rQxbPwSG2UgMtCUY7cepXZgy4UyP8qjIRZcUTOtDAjyGFwK3ngnXfeXHZ8idiDn_4Q1klkfDTfU9d08DH_jLEMeOJjicxmSmhLMUHhIDoKaaNG6p5RaO_hFLulFo_g9E9GVsu8-jzlzD5U0yDvHJLrMdteVa-HRbinyWbVf4Jr/s1280/lastlinkedin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="553" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuTPJT3ZugYzPnhj_LU5rQxbPwSG2UgMtCUY7cepXZgy4UyP8qjIRZcUTOtDAjyGFwK3ngnXfeXHZ8idiDn_4Q1klkfDTfU9d08DH_jLEMeOJjicxmSmhLMUHhIDoKaaNG6p5RaO_hFLulFo_g9E9GVsu8-jzlzD5U0yDvHJLrMdteVa-HRbinyWbVf4Jr/w984-h553/lastlinkedin.jpg" width="984" /></a></div><br /> because human development since 1970 in extremely por place sbegan with solutions incraesing life expectancy and maximising community capacity to build health, last mile food and apasulo freire type education for all: In E & S hemispheres it was common to hear amongst female community builders (1billiongirls AbedMooc girlsworldbank) from 2008 that education was broken in the sense that more than half of youth (whatever stage they left formal education) woiuld need to entrepreneur their own jobs or grow sme community networks because the hoistorical idea that was no lomger valiued that big organsiations would have plenty of jobs to recruit best education certificated students. This chalenge had been anticipate in 1976 (25th year of The Economist surveys inspired by Von Neumann and launch year of Entrepreneurial Revolution). Although 2008-2009 saw the year itu launched 100 times more data transfer from every gps G4 Cluds etc, subprime ws a downer; and in 2009 the new obab=ma/bdien admin beleived they had to save the old banking system not design ER. It was to take to the listing if sdgs for sany western gov2.0 mobvements to start to be mapped and curious;y it was multilatal leaders kim at world bank (who had stated experimenting with Ai) and Guterres whose eladership began start of 2017 to decalre gov2.0 roadmapping was needed at every place level but UN would provide a bechmark. Iromically year 2008-9 was also when Stanfird welcomed Fei-Fei LI start of rehgenerative ai/imagenet<p></p><p>diary 2016 first yera of sdgs - led by jim kim and jack ma educators say that goal 4 and all gaosls cannot be achieved unless the UN ends tech silos (ITU is in geneva; sdg leadership and kids unicef is in new york; goal 4 is cordinated by french UNCEF). First Genva connection made by Kituyi Uncatd who coning from Kenya is interested in Africa consdequence sof the question Digital Cooperation. So in terms of miagic spex year 1 od sdgs starts rioadmapping hod does E4 connect all SDGS and all technology- the Digital Cooperation inquiry</p><p>by yera 2 Guterres is making gov2.0 his signature roadmap; Houlin Zhao at Geneva ITU is asked to integrate AI fot Good. nad a Digital Coopertion expert panel from 15 countries led ny melindag gates and Jack Ma is led out of Geneva.</p><p>By year 4 the so-cateed tech envoy now has 8 transformation sub-pieces whoih add a 9th codes for envirinmental adaptation as roadmapping goes virtual during covid- see un tech envoy ungoing work</p><p>in termes of spend 8 billion epopels time:</p><p>Digital cooperation now meands revolution in edtech and sdgspractices for under 30s; over 30s and tecahers need retraining too caled digit gopertaion; universal connectivity is the responsibility that the ITU is now asked to map to nit just design data beaming up/down from every gps but see that educational and other sdg concerned millennail movements connected from every gps</p><p>AIforgood is now in the middle of all UN institution - Geneva, Ny Head quarter , and about 50 operational branches with compoendium of ai pilots by every Un branch</p><p>Giv 2.0 (also league tabled as UN egov) is mapped as digita public goods, digital valuation/goverance trust/safety (ending compoud rissdks eg those caused by economists mot counting externalities like carbon)</p><p>digital inclusion with places</p><p>digita ights across borders of olaces and oransiationsl systems</p><p><br /></p><p>codes deep maths places need to won so that what japang20 calls osaka data trach aond society 5.0 are mappable not just big corporates 4th industrial revolution</p><p>22-23 idecared year og education no longer fit for purpose for any age group</p><p>2023-2024 is decalerd as year of inquests - all 17 sdgs as subsystems are as yet collabping - what needs to be done with tech; in other words how can 2022-2023 as ai moment year also become yeras of turning round combos of sdg system ; 23-24 is decalred year of under 30s casking over 30s what global future transformations will they invest in and let AI LLM s medite </p>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-6086473100121251082023-07-27T07:31:00.000-07:002023-07-27T07:31:35.874-07:00Do humans have enough inteligence to end academics silos<p> I liked the<a href="https://uk.mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/APRIYkER-xnHZMEf4gB5GL7SRtE?.intl=uk&.lang=en-GB" target="_blank"> talk of the senator from michigan</a> yesterday at axios DC showroom sponsored by world food program us. She is completing her 3rd 5 year synthesis of Farm USA. She says where I come from michigan we grow (eg food) and we make (eg cars) and we see the two's futures must win-win for our state, for america for the world. It led ne directly to obtaing this advice from and LLM.</p><div class="s7d4ef" style="margin-left: calc(-1*var(--center-abs-margin)); padding-left: var(--center-abs-margin); width: calc(652px + var(--rhs-margin) + var(--rhs-width));"><div class="OZ9ddf JXwM2 GkDqAd" style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: row; gap: 16px; height: 32px; padding: 20px 0px;"><div class="Fzsovc O3Fcxe cwYVJe RJPOee" jsname="cUzNTd" style="animation: auto ease 0s 1 normal none running none !important; color: var(--mc5); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; z-index: 1;"><strong>Generative AI is experimental</strong>. Info quality may vary.</div></div></div><div data-mstk="AZAkUu_WZm7NmDAPQxO8Ecr3tXPF8qKausgg_bWHamGWC7PfopF821hFy7p9YiaWR9FXDRVR66D5xa9v4JTR2bdFxVIddApaZYKrP9JBPl1sXQZ4ErwoVGTzXHRWdjKyxfaLwQbmgLyQRVHRJ6FWouCie1_LwFw66o-gvJ-1KKLEnply" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md" jscontroller="rqo4xf"></div><div class="RJPOee mNfcNd" style="animation: auto ease 0s 1 normal none running none !important; position: relative;"><div class="EyBRub" data-hveid="CAEQAg" data-ve-view="" data-ved="2ahUKEwifvcas8q6AAxUaRTABHYLrAGcQ2b4KegQIARAC"><div class="Bb1JKe Pqkn2e" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md;CDsptd:xS7bof;FJQNc:i4GAQc" jscontroller="Aof5cd" jsname="HKDuG" style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;"><div class="jloFI OWyYme GkDqAd" style="color: var(--mc5); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative;"><div data-tbm="20" data-thb="88" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md;WyFUae:Rh0Hrd;T0EDCc:WnEfM;CDsptd:HhCLg;FJQNc:HhCLg" jscontroller="l56mw"><div class="VEQDmc RJPOee" style="animation: auto ease 0s 1 normal none running none !important;"><div aria-label="Expand" class="RJPOee KksMAe k0Jjg fCrZyc LwdV0e FR7ZSc OJeuxf" data-hveid="CAEQBA" data-ved="2ahUKEwifvcas8q6AAxUaRTABHYLrAGcQ3fYKegQIARAE" jsaction="KoToPc" jsname="K8Pnod" role="button" style="animation: auto ease 0s 1 normal none running none !important; display: inline-block; outline: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px !important; top: -54px; vertical-align: middle; z-index: 1;" tabindex="0"><div class="niO4u VDgVie SlP8xc iCQO5d" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; border-radius: 9999px; border: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--mc14) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 36px; justify-content: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 50px !important;"><div class="kHtcsd" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: center; align-items: center; background-color: var(--mc3); border-radius: inherit; border: none; display: flex; height: 36px; justify-content: center; width: 50px;"><span class="d3o3Ad" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; display: flex; height: 18px;"><svg height="18" viewbox="0 0 18 18" width="18" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path class="ddewCb" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M16 15C16 15.5523 15.5523 16 15 16L11 16C10.4477 16 10 15.5523 10 15L10 14C10 13.4477 10.4477 13 11 13L15 13C15.5523 13 16 13.4477 16 14L16 15ZM10 10C10 10.5523 10.4477 11 11 11L15 11C15.5523 11 16 10.5523 16 10L16 9C16 8.44771 15.5523 8 15 8L11 8C10.4477 8 10 8.44771 10 9L10 10ZM10 5C10 5.55228 10.4477 6 11 6L15 6C15.5523 6 16 5.55228 16 5L16 4C16 3.44772 15.5523 3 15 3L11 3C10.4477 3 10 3.44771 10 4L10 5ZM8 15C8 15.5523 7.55228 16 7 16L3 16C2.44771 16 2 15.5523 2 15L2 4C2 3.44771 2.44772 3 3 3L7 3C7.55229 3 8 3.44771 8 4L8 15Z" fillrule="evenodd"></path></svg></span></div></div></div></div><div class="UxeQfc" style="display: flex; gap: 42px;"><div class="LT6XE" style="flex: 1 1 0%; max-width: 632px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="h7Tj7e" style="max-height: 240.75px; min-height: 208px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: max-height 400ms cubic-bezier(0.05, 0.7, 0.1, 1) 0s;" tabindex="-1"><div class="D5ad8b" id="m-x-content" style="background-color: #fef1ed; color: #360f00;"><div class="RJPOee EIJn2" style="animation: auto ease 0s 1 normal none running none !important; color: var(--mc5);"><div class="f5cPye" jsname="dvXlsc"><div class="WaaZC Zh8Myb"><div class="rPeykc PZPZlf" data-attrid="MagiParagraphFeedback" data-hveid="CAEQCA" data-ved="2ahUKEwifvcas8q6AAxUaRTABHYLrAGcQo_EKegQIARAI" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The 2023 Farm Bill is a significant piece of legislation that reauthorizes many agriculture and nutrition programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The Farm Bill is considered critical for the food system, environment, and health and nutrition of communities across the nation. It also provides direct support to US farmers and safety net and nutrition assistance programs for US families.</div></div><div aria-hidden="true" class="WaaZC Zh8Myb" data-x-ah="true"><div aria-hidden="true" class="rPeykc uP58nb eUu65e PZPZlf" data-attrid="MagiParagraphFeedback" data-hveid="CAEQHQ" data-ved="2ahUKEwifvcas8q6AAxUaRTABHYLrAGcQo_EKegQIARAd" data-x-ah="true" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 22px; margin: 20px 0px;"><span aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true">Here are some details about the 2023 Farm Bill:</span></div></div><div aria-hidden="true" class="WaaZC Zh8Myb" data-x-ah="true"><ul aria-hidden="true" data-hveid="CAEQPw" data-ved="2ahUKEwifvcas8q6AAxUaRTABHYLrAGcQm_YKegQIARA_" data-x-ah="true" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><li aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true">The CBO's May baseline confirms that the 2023 Farm Bill could potentially be the first trillion-dollar farm bill in U.S. history</span></li><li aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true">Total spending is projected at $1.51 trillion, $31.5 billion higher than CBO's February baseline</span></li><li aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true">The Farm Bill gradually increases the acreage cap for Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to 27 million by 2023</span></li><li aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true">The current Farm Bill is set to expire in September 2023</span></li><li aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true">If Congress does not pass a bill reauthorizing the programs in the Farm Bill by September 30, 2023, they must pass a short-term extension</span></li><li aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true">The baseline for all farm bill titles is estimated at $725 billion over 5 years and $1,463 billion over 10 years</span></li><li aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span aria-hidden="true" data-x-ah="true">The Farm Bill determines federal policy in agriculture for the next five to 10 years following its passage</span></li><li></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>Then tiday i receieve this superb newsleter from rebecca fannin- frankly amerucans need ti see their problem is not woth china it is with the 1990s managemenyt consultancies that moved moist manufactiring jobs inckuding smart stuff eg semiconductirs and the experimenting of those semiconduvctirs on grow and make to all parts of Asia</p><p>Pergahsp you'll disagerree but in the hyperconnecetd woirld that my family and the economist first started future backing with von neuman n in 1951! www.economistdiary.com making ameic b=great again = making american millennails great again = making energy for humans everywhere on the planet that families grow (and make)</p><p><br /></p><p>put another way sdg 2 is about integration orrual (matures labs) and urban (ma's artificial labs- the word artic=ficial in engneering means man made); there is a conflict between feedoing 8 billion humans and feeding engines until or unless we app natures abundant clean sources eg solar, wind, waves. I understand america's greatness historically has been built on over 5 times more carbon than teh average human accessed; innovating beyond whatever sovieties are most addicted to (even stuff once best to use) is our species' chalenge</p><p>ai wont cause extinction as such - expoential errors of man-made engineering will (starting with what we feed the engines) </p>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-4314929728335402342023-07-14T09:31:00.001-07:002023-07-28T09:43:03.245-07:00UN sdg2 fao aigoodmedia.com <p> last updated un compendium AI report up to end 2022</p><p>Project 1: Strengthening global access to agricultural information and knowledge
(Hand-In-Hand Geospatial Platform)
• Project Description: Earth observation and geospatial IT play a critical role in the
agricultural and related sectors. FAO has created the Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform
that hosts data sourced from FAO, FAO partners in the public and private sectors including
from across the UN, NGOs, government institutions, academia and space agencies.
The platform has significantly increased the interoperability of FAO geospatial data as
well as the cost-effective maintenance and sustainability of different FAO geospatial
applications. <b>Machine learning and AI are used in cutting edge quantitative remote
sensing in agriculture; world class cloud computing capabilities; enabling unprecedented
cross-sectoral knowledge discovery by integrating data on Soil, Land, Water, Climate,
Fisheries, Livestock, Crops, Forestry, Trade, </b>Social and Economics and much more.
• Project Type/Output: Dataset, Software tool
• Project Status: Ongoing
• Project Start Year: 2020
• Project End Year: 2025
• Project Domain: Agriculture
• Data Source: FAO projects data and relevant data from external data providers, covering
all sub-disciplines of agriculture from animal health to trade/markets.
• Publicly Available Data: Yes
• Technology/Platform: Google Cloud Platform; TerriaJS; GeoNetwork; CKAN
• Reported as part of 2021 Compendium on UN AI Activities? Yes
• Project Updates: more datasets added or updated, new functions such as zonal statistics
and remote sensing data products integrated.
• Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 1 – No Poverty; SDG 2 – Zero
Hunger; SDG 13 – Climate Action.
• Links and Multimedia:
o <b>https://www.fao.org/hih-geospatial-platform/en/</b>
o https://youtu.be/xKON7YWWXUI
• <b>Lessons Learned: Data federation supported by standardization make a huge difference
in data sharing. Open data sharing enables various users to contribute and get good
results to solve identified problems.</b>
• Contact information: Karl Morteo (karl.morteo@fao.org);Zhongxin Chen (zhongxin.chen@
fao.org)
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• Project Description: Crops phenology and crop calendars are essential to many agricultural
applications. This project uses time-series satellite remote sensing data and auxiliary data
to generate crop phenology data and crop calendar, with employing machine learning
and GEO-AI. There are 2 phases of the project. First, algorithm development is committed
in several pilot regions, and then global dataset will be produced.
• Project Type/Output: Dataset
• Project Status: Development
• Project Start Year: 2022
• Project End Year: 2023
• Project Domain: Agriculture
• Data Source: Satellite data, agricultural statistical data, landcover land use data and in-situ
data
• Publicly Available Data: Yes
• Technology/Platform: <b>Google Cloud Platform; </b>Python
• Reported as part of 2021 Compendium on UN AI Activities? Yes
• Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 1 – No Poverty, SDG 2 – Zero
Hunger, SDG 13 – Climate Action
• Contact information: Pengyu Hao (pengyu.hao@fao.org); Zhongxin Chen (zhongxin.
chen@fao.org) </p><p>Project 3: Global and Country ASIS (Agriculture Stress Index System)
• Project Description: The Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS) monitors agricultural
areas with a high likelihood of water stress/drought at global, regional and country
level, using satellite technology. ASIS uses satellite-based remote sensing data to detect
agricultural areas (cropland or grassland) with a high likelihood of water stress (dry spells
and drought). It simulates the analysis that an expert in remote sensing would undertake
and simplifies the interpretation and use of the data for non-technical users (not remote
sensing experts).
• Project Type/Output: Dataset, Software tool
• Project Status: Complete
• Project Start Year: 2014
• Project End Year: 2016
• Project Domain: Agriculture
• Data Source:
o https://www.fao.org/giews/earthobservation/access.jsp?lang=en
o https://www.fao.org/giews/earthobservation/reference.jsp?lang=en
• Publicly Available Data: Yes
• Technology/Platform: GLIMPSE, SPIRITS
• Reported as part of 2021 Compendium on UN AI Activities? Yes
• Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 2 – Zero Hunger
• Partnership(s)/Collaborator(s):
o UN Partners: European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)
o Private Sector: Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO)
o Academia: The University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth
Observation (ITC)
FAO
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• Links and Multimedia:
o https://www.fao.org/giews/earthobservation/asis/index_2.jsp?lang=en
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlW6qowJlU8
• Contact information: Yanyun Li (yanyun.li@fao.org), Mr. Oscar Rojas (oscar.rojas@fao.org) </p><p>Project 4: FAO Data Lab
• Project Description: The Data Lab developed and implemented a new set of tools in order
to assist FAO and all stakeholders in analysing how exactly COVID-19 is affecting food
value chains and food security around the world. The tools use open-access resources,
are updated daily and are complemented with useful visual representations. This way, raw
data are enriched with additional value, consisting in the possibility of sorting information
by relevance and carrying out semantic searches, according to the users’ needs.
• Project Type/Output: Dataset
• Project Status: Ongoing Programme of work
• Project Start Year: 2019
• Project Domain: Agriculture, Trade, Food and Agricultural Statistics
• Data Source: Internet web scraping of prices’ data, sentiment analysis data, social media
data, Earth Observation satellite imagery, Government policies
• Publicly Available Data: Yes
• Technology/Platform: R, Jupyter, Python, running on the <b>Google Cloud Platform</b>
• Reported as part of 2021 Compendium on UN AI Activities? Yes
• Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 2 – Zero Hunger; SDG 12 –
Responsible Consumption and Production
• Links and Multimedia: https://www.fao.org/datalab/website/web/home
• Contact information: Carola Fabi (Carola.Fabi@fao.org) </p><p>Project 5: Detecting Fall armyworm through user submitted photos (FAMEWS)
• Project Description: Combines an online monitoring platform for mapping data collected
by the FAMEWS mobile app whenever fields are scouted, or pheromone traps are
checked for FAW. The platform provides a real-time situation overview with maps and
analytics of FAW infestations at global, country and sub-country levels. The FAMEWS
mobile app enables data collection of scouting data, which can be collected manually
or through an image recognition model which provides immediate advice on FAW
infestation. The global monitoring platform and the mobile app are designed to expand
with the evolving needs of farmers, analysts and decision-makers. Both are accessible for
free and are helping to reduce crop yield losses and minimize risk of further introduction
and spread of FAW.
• Department/Division: Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP)
• Project Type/Output: Dataset
• Project Status: Ongoing
• Project Start Year: 2019
• Project End Year: 2022
• Project Domain: Agriculture
• Data Sources: Field scouting geo-referenced data, Pheromone traps data, Picture of FAW
damage from the field.
• Link to Data:
o https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZDViYTBkMjctN2IyNi00NWM0LW
JkOTUtNTQzN2NiY2NiZWM0IiwidCI6IjE2M2FjNDY4LWFiYjgtNDRkMC04MW
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o https://data.apps.fao.org/
• Publicly Available Data: Yes
•<b> Technology/Platform: Google AI, TensorFlow
•</b> Reported as part of 2021 Compendium on UN AI Activities? Yes
• Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 2 – Zero Hunger
• Partnership(s)/Collaborator(s):
o Academia: Penn state University, USA (PlantVillage platform)
• Links and Multimedia:
o www.fao.org/fall-armyworm/monitoring-tools/en/
o http://www.fao.org/3/CA1089EN/ca1089en.pdf.
• Lessons Learned:
o The most important challenge was promoting the adoption of the application and
convincing FAO members to share their data.
o The second challenge was the sustainability of the project as it is difficult to maintain
and promote the system without any financial support.
o The accuracy of the collected data was also another challenge as it is crowed sourced
data.
• Contact information: Maged Elkahky (maged.elkahky@fao.org)</p><p> Project 6: FAO Digital Portfolio (FDP)
• Project Description: The project covers internal efforts to apply machine-learning and
natural language processing to transform FAO project related data into global digital
trends and insights as well as an organization’ wide portfolio of products for reuse
and reinvestment in future projects. Current effort is focused on taking FAO project
descriptions as inputs and producing the related business and technology thematic areas
the projects relate to as outputs.
• Department/Division: Digitalization and Informatics Division (CSI)
• Project Type/Output: Dataset
• Project Status: Ongoing
• Project Start Year: 2016
• Project End Year: 2025
• Project Domain: Agriculture, Business process improvement
• Data Source: FAO Project data including project metadata.
• Publicly Available Data: No
• Technology/Platform: <b>Microsoft Power Platform, Azure, Python, Google Cloud Platform
</b>• Reported as part of 2021 Compendium on UN AI Activities? Yes
• Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 2 – Zero Hunger
• Contact information: Paul Whimpenny (paul.whimpenny@fao.org); Sergio Bogazzi
(sergio.bogazzi@fao.org)
FAO
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• Project Description: iSharkFin is an expert system that uses machine learning techniques
to identify shark species from shark fin shapes. Aimed at port inspectors, custom agents,
fish traders and other users without formal taxonomic training, iSharkFin allows the
identification of shark species from a picture of the fin. The iSharkFin follows an interactive
process. Users only need to take a standard photo, select some characteristics of a fin
and choose a few points on the fin shape; iSharkFin will then automatically analyze the
information and identify the shark species from which the fin comes.
• Project Type/Output: Academic paper, Software tool
• Project Status: Completed
• Project Start Year: 2014
• Project End Year: 2019
• Project Domain: Agriculture
• Data Source: Database of images of shark fins
• Publicly Available Data: No
• Technology/Platform: The software is a net based Windows-desktop application that ships
with a small SQLite data base information of shark species. The iSharkFin algorithm is built
on a decision tree, that despite being one of the oldest methods in machine learning, is
accurate and recommended before trying any more complex learning algorithm.
• Reported as part of 2021 Compendium on UN AI Activities? Yes
• Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 14 – Life Below Water
• Partnership(s)/Collaborator(s):
o UN Partners: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora (CITES)
o Government: Government of Japan, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration of the United States of America
o Academia: University of Vigo (Spain)
• Links and Multimedia:
o https://www.fao.org/ipoa-sharks/tools/software/isharkfin/en/
• Lessons Learned: From our experience with the shark fin ID identification tools, the proper
photo collection and the number of training images represented the main impediment
to the use of more complex algorithms.
• Contact information: Kim Friedman (Kim.Friedman@fao.org)
Project 8: WaPOR (Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed
derived data)
• Project Description: WaPOR is FAO’s portal to monitor Water Productivity through
Open-access of Remotely sensed derived data. It assists countries in monitoring water
productivity, identifying water productivity gaps, proposing solutions to reduce these
gaps and contributing to a sustainable increase of agricultural production. At the same
time, it considers ecosystems and the equitable use of water resources, which should
lead eventually to an overall reduction of water stress. The WaPOR portal provides open
access to key land and water variables (including reference and actual evapotranspiration,
biomass, land cover, precipitation) in near – real time for the whole of Africa and the Near
East, from 2009 to date, at a spatial resolution ranging between 30 and 250 meters.
• Project Type/Output: Dataset, Software tool
• Project Status: Ongoing
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• Project Start Year: 2016
• Project End Year: 2025
• Project Domain: Agriculture
• Data Source: Geospatial Database with remote sensing data input. The database is
publicly accessible, developed with open access data and open-source algorithms. It
provides near real time information from 2009 to date.
• Publicly Available Data: Yes
• Technology/Platform: Google Cloud services, Python, Jupyter
• Reported as part of 2021 Compendium on UN AI Activities? Yes
• Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 2 – Zero Hunger; SDG 6 – Clean
Water and Sanitation; SDG 13 – Climate Action
• Partnership(s)/Collaborator(s):
o Government: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
o Private Sector: FRAME Consortium (eLEAF, VITO)
o Civil Society: not for profit organizations in several project countries
o Academia: IHE Delft, ITC Twente
• Links and Multimedia:
o https://www.fao.org/in-action/remote-sensing-for-water-productivity/en/
o https://wapor.apps.fao.org/
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX7SOhk97hA
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_t4HuFNhM
• Contact information: Livia Peiser (Livia.Peiser@fao.org), Jippe Hoogeveen (Jippe.
Hoogeveen@fao.org)
2. Related Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 1, 2, 6, 12, 13, 14
3. Relevant Links
https://www.fao.org/home/en
Contact Information
CSI-Director (CSI-Director@fao.org)</p>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-82116288775925803262023-07-13T09:46:00.005-07:002023-07-28T09:50:07.774-07:00AI UN sdg2 ifad AIgoodmedia.com<p> 1. Description of Activities on AI
Project: Athena: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for IFAD 2.0
• Project Description: The ATHENA project seeks to unlock the potential of artificial
intelligence and machine learning to accelerate knowledge generation and strengthen
data-driven decision-making in IFAD. The project developed an AI toolbox with three
main objectives: (1) systemize IFAD’s portfolio to facilitate results measurement and
institutional learning, (2) enhance knowledge management through deployment of AI/ML
in IFAD ICT systems to make project results and lessons learned accessible and actionable
for staff, and (3) predict performance and impact of IFAD projects to inform decisionmaking, optimize targeting, and maximize impact. The (AI) “tool box” contains:
o AI-based Intervention Dashboard: a searchable dashboard that classifies IFAD’s
investment portfolio by project features, including interventions, outcomes, animal
and plant products, among others using natural language processing (NLP);
o Lessons Learned Web App: an application to search for relevant “lessons learned” as
reported in previous projects to inform new designs reports;
o Trend analyses of strategic themes: historical evidence of activities related to strategic
topics, such as SDGs, food systems and ICT4D, to understand IFAD’s support and
allocation of resources to different activities historically;
o Project performance prediction model: a framework for ex-ante prediction of project
performance based on a set of project features to facilitate better design and early
action throughout project implementation;
o Project impact prediction model: a framework to predict the probability of a positive
impact of IFAD-supported interventions using impact evaluation data;
o Project targeting optimization model: framework and tool to identify beneficiary
features to maximize project impact; and
o Covid-19 impact prediction model: model to predict impact of the pandemic in IFAD’s
beneficiary countries.
The tools developed by the project fill a gap within IFAD and the field by aiding and
simplifying IFAD reporting, especially for more complex and data hungry thematic areas
(i.e. food systems); leveraging under-utilized data resources, namely textual data buried in
project reports; and enabling ex-ante data driven design and decision-making by closing
the gap between policymakers and project evaluation and by translating data and project
insights into actionable metrics. Together, these tools not only enhance IFAD’s knowledge
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management but also embed learning and data-driven decision-making into existing
project design and implementation processes
• Department/Division: Programme Management Department (PMD)
• Project Type/Output: Report, Academic paper, Dataset, Seminar/meeting, Software
tool
• Project Status: Complete
• Project Start Year: 2019
• Project End Year: 2021 (Projected)
• Project Domain: Agriculture, Poverty
• Data Source:
o AI-based Intervention Dashboard: Corporate IFAD data on the investment portfolio
(financing, sectors, and project type) and textual data from project reports
o Lessons Learned App: Textual data from project reports
o Trend analyses of strategic themes: Corporate IFAD data on the investment portfolio
(financing, sectors, and project type) and textual data from project reports
o Project performance prediction model: Corporate data on project performance
ratings at design, during implementation, and at completion, corporate financing
data and project features, and external open-source data on country-specific risk
factors and characteristics from World Bank (WDI), IMF (WEO), and other sources.
o Project impact prediction model: Household survey data from IFAD impact assessments
o Covid-19 impact prediction model: Google Mobility data, Google Trends data,
John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center data, and INFORM Covid- 19 risk data,
containing data on movement and search prevalence as well as actual reported
Covid-19 incidence and risk factors.
• Publicly Available Data: No
• Technology/Platform:
o AI-based Intervention Dashboard: Python, AWS Elasticsearch & Kibana
o Lessons Learned App: R Shiny
o Trend analyses of strategic themes: Python, R
o Project performance prediction model: Stata, R
o Project impact prediction model: Stata, Python
o Covid-19 impact prediction model: Python, R
• Reported as part of 2021 Compendium on UN AI Activities? Yes
• Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): All SDGs
• Partnership(s)/Collaborator(s):
o Academia: several consultants from various academic institutions contributed to the
project over the two years of its implementation. Please refer to the acknowledgments
sections in the final reports.
• Links and Multimedia:
o Phase 1 Report: https://www.ifad.org/en/web/knowledge/-/publication/accelerating
-knowledge-generation-for-data-driven-decision-making
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o Phase 2 Report: https://www.ifad.org/en/web/knowledge/-/leveraging-artificial
-intelligence-and-big-data-for-ifad-2.0-phase-2?p_l_back_url=%2Fen%2Fweb
%2Fknowledge%2Fpublications
• Lessons Learned:
o Open-Source AI/ML: Open- Source AI/ML and code transparency are essential
elements that ensure that dashboards and apps can be updated in a real time fashion,
when new data comes in as well as integrated with the organization’s data ecosystem.
o Human element to improve algorithmic performance: the human element is essential
to improve the accuracy of algorithmic performance and overall quality of the models.
In the case of the AI-based intervention dashboard, IFAD staff and domain experts
have provided accurate taxonomies and training datasets that have fed the models,
producing classifications that are “realistic”.
o The complexity of IFAD project documentation is a key challenge for models that
require standardized data. Not only are project reports written in four different
languages, but they also vary in format and length. Data processing requires the
development of multi-lingual algorithms and sensitive data filtration strategies to
ensure relevant text is extracted for analysis.
o Integration with existing ICT systems and business model: Sustainable and sustained
AI/ML and “big data” use cases require appropriate data repositories, server space,
and secure data storage within the business model.
o Institutional buy-in and support for innovation: Support and buy-in from key actors
and a willingness to experiment is crucial to the successful adoption and integration
of new data-driven tools for decision-making.
o The next steps would include the following activities: users’ validation and scaling-up
of the algorithms and tools generated so that they can be integrated in existing IFAD
systems (for automated reporting and briefs). Additionally, future phases of the project
would also foresee additional work to explore and validate the prediction models by
leveraging additional data sources and integrating additional cost data to predict
return on investments.
• Contact Information: Alessandra Garbero, Phd., Lead Regional Economist, Near East,
North Africa, Europe and Central Asia Division (NEN) (a.garbero@ifad.org)
2. Related Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
3. Relevant Links
https://www.ifad.org/en/
Contact Information
Alessandra Garbero, Phd., Lead Regional Economist, Near East, North Africa, Europe and
Central Asia Division (NEN) (a.garbero@ifad.org)
IFAD
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United N</p>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-50518233872152420112023-03-08T00:29:00.004-08:002023-03-08T03:04:19.943-08:00A very scottish journey of how Abed's spirit transcended western subprime and united 8 billion peoples intel UN tech envoy<table border="1" style="width: 900px;"><tbody><tr><td><p> Unlike my grandfather sir ken kemps hero Gandhi, Abed trekked as a tennaget to study ship engineering at Glasgow instead of law at the bar of London. Both had assumed there would be knowhow at the motehr of all empires that could offer inteligent insights to freedom and even survival in places with up to 30 years life expectancy than the English speakinh empires headquareter</p><p>Click to 2008: my father was privileged to host his last public birthday party at the Royal Automobile club 58 years into being Von Neumann surveyor of what good can human unite where they have first acces to 100 times more intel-tech. Forty peopel atending comprsied stidents , economist journalists, smithian scots who were preparing 250th moral sentiments summit , bangaldesh women empowerment networketrs. There were 2 top debates at that time - would subprime conflict wiuth the urgent chnages mil,ennilas needed to celebrate if they were to be the first sustainable generation; how to help people redesign media to be educationally trustwirthy raher than advertsising faked. Father died 2 yeras later and reciprocal remembrance parties were hosted by The Economist Boardroom, Adam Smith schilars in Glasgow who were launhing the virtuallt frre nysring cilege and 2 new economics jiournals, and the Japan Ambassador to bangladesh who invited fazle abed to chair two by 3 hour dinner braisntormings on his last decade and his legacy. Abed explaoned how his networking dna was paulo freire's pedgaofy of the oppressed - he was just serbant leader mappin g cooperations throuhh which up to a billion b=vilage women did the hardwork of developing places that time under teh era of emire had forgot. His coopertaion maps played a game iof 2 halves - up to 1996=5 when a japese partner had brough brac net, every solution was linked in entirely by vilage motehrs with no electricity grids, and only work=d oy mouth and book of print commu iucations. This had given one coordination advantage essent=tially brac's printing office had been the core content of how every vilager transformed their lifetimes. From 1995 he was needing to underdytand how to help with leapfrog models. He was awarethat the Un was shaping a new set of goals in 2015 so he auggested that his 30th cooperation integrating all previous ones needed to pretrain for the sdgs. He was also happy to annouce his 80th biurthday would fall in spring 2016 - so he would invite anyone who catred to this event in dhaka and hoped they would all coinberge on the year 1 education review of the sdgs. This they ultimately did but what was remarkable was the 6 transformational items open s[aced by his 80th birthday party</p><p>7 urgently change media (and whom youth heroise) towards education back from drowning in advertising and green washing</p><p>6 lifetime livelihood education - change for all ages of learning teaching and action (note 2 opposite skills - in leading edge science half new every 3 years making 4 year certificates likely to banktupt youth; last mile service/kindness is a flow requiring maximum practice at edge of unique ability) </p><p>5 abediuans seek out those humanising artificial intel in ways that neumann year survey year 66 could celebrate the world over (the deepest societal data is trusted to last mile communitrt servants not the extreme innovators)</p><p>4 2020s goats of maths should be trained to be the deepest bottom-up data diversity coders</p><p>3 un2 and giv2.0 return pyblic servants to service ;eaders of trust safety and interenerational infrastucture mapping</p><p>2 communities colapse unless gravitated by kindness - don't exclude be intel auditing by abed's prime inspiration 9 year old girl refugees for inclusion and rights beyond age of externalising borders</p><p>1 all of these dynamics would need recursive iteration/investment (smithian transoreny of SWOT) - each college year of 2030 race to sdg gen- give female graduates an even deeper cooperation challenge - from te year of whos the best sdg stirytleer in web3 - to who is openly replicating what solutions with =in an overall open digital uibersity of ending poverty - nb dont treat sdgs as silos- best to view themn like an alphabet of building blocks - your weakest combo could uet be what lets in extinction (did we learn that from eg covid?</p><p><br /></p></td><td width="80"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">abed 7654321<br />neumann 654321<br />einstein 65432<br />fei-fei li 7654321<br />J Yang 654321<br />jack sim 76543<br />yat siu 7654<br />guterres 7654321<br />Jim Kim 621<br />Abdul latif 654321<br />Qatar firrst lady 654321<br />Reeta Roy 54321<br />quadir family 5432<br />melinda gates 521<br />? mrs bezos, <br />mrs & mr steve jobs 654321<br />(Zhao 65432)<br />(jma 65432)JUN royals 765432<br />MTs rowloings 71<br />emanuel faber 54<br />marcu shingles 7<br />chrales yidan 6<br />nexteinstein 4<br /><br /></span></td><td width="100"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">youthful<br />ola brown<br />audrey cheng<br />vrut saeaf<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-44998964359416740302023-03-01T00:34:00.003-08:002023-03-08T00:35:24.395-08:00<p> </p><h3 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.07692em; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; margin: 0px 0px 0.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a _snid="6537428:Topic:42604" href="http://innovations.ning.com/forum/topics/what-if-ai-wants-humans-intel-to-be-sustainable" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #3c78a7; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">what if AI wants humans intel to be sustainable</a> report from biden year 1 pretraining of DC (ai.gov) </h3>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-33445468705989940452023-02-28T05:27:00.001-08:002023-03-18T05:31:07.300-07:00<p> i would never forget from 8 tours of tsingua U that Xi Jinping is a world leader with degree in rural food production - pretty useful - what do your nation leaders practice </p><p>https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3213767/chinas-xi-jinping-says-ukraine-war-has-shown-extreme-importance-food-security?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cm&utm_campaign=enlz-globalimpact&utm_content=20230317&tpcc=enlz-globalimpact&UUID=c877315c4475add6703613db0144c20c&next_article_id=3175459&tc=11&CMCampaignID=0fa221590bb37040fd5eee451fa7d8fc</p><div class="wrapper__head head" data-v-7b84c559="" style="-webkit-box-align: start; 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line-height: 1rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17 Mar 2023</p><div class="top-picks__cover-image-wrapper top-picks" data-v-bad474fa="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 5.42857rem;"><img alt="China faces increasing pressure to feed its 1.4 billion people and mounting external uncertainty, says Xi Jinping. 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Illustration: Henry Wong</div></div></div><div class="main__row row" data-v-7b84c559="" style="-webkit-box-align: start; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: stretch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-flow: row nowrap; font: inherit; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="row__details details" data-v-7b84c559="" style="-webkit-box-align: start; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: stretch; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-flow: column nowrap; font: inherit; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 774.023px;"><div class="lazyload-component" data-v-1854add0="" data-v-7b84c559="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div data-v-1854add0="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: inline-block; font-family: Merriweather, "Merriweather fallback", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.28571rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 2.14286rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.42857rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 774.023px; word-break: break-word;">China has taken another step towards unclogging a bottleneck in national food output by expanding the number of accredited seed breeders, as the country pushes for self-sufficiency in the face of rising geopolitical uncertainty.</p></div><div data-v-7b84c559="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Font Roboto", "Roboto fallback", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p" data-v-7b84c559="" data-v-e5d603e4="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: inline-block; font-family: Merriweather, "Merriweather fallback", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.28571rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 2.14286rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.42857rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 774.023px; word-break: break-word;">For the first time since 2013, China has enlarged its list of state-sponsored seed breeding and production bases, adding 116 to the existing 100 hubs already operating, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.</p></div><div data-v-7b84c559="" style="background-color: white; 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<tbody><tr><td>.tech1=Global connectivity</td><td>.tech2=AIforGood</td><td>.^</td><td>Public Goods.</td><td>Trust Safety.</td></tr><tr><td>.ED1=Digital Cooperation</td><td>ed2=Dig Capacity Building.</td><td>^.</td><td>.Rights at and beyond borders</td><td>.Inclusion</td></tr></tbody></table>^^ deep data codes =adaptation empowered by copperation platform s of community empowered by women<div>source fazle abed cooperation platforms Billion Asian Village Mother Human Development maps</div><div> 1972 to 2019 and <a href="https://www.un.org/techenvoy/content/ongoing-work" target="_blank">UN2 emergence from Digital Cooperation</a> movements by education transformation friends of Sbed from 2016 annual reviews of sdg4 education Parrt 1 of fazle abed cooperation grassroot networked 1 billaion asian mothers kiving in rural regions with out electricity - necessarily this quarter centiry 1972-1996 granvitayed round cooperation round what the Un has since 2015 dalled goals 1-5= overall abed empowered womne to run vilage microfranchsies and design vital gov services from the bottom up; before abed's death he was horing 6000+ vilage trainers as well as franchsisng the latgest non government school system as an example government could benchmark; hist para health cilge service franchised about 60000 last mile sheakth service livelihoods; also several thousands barefoots lawyers were trained to run their own franchises</div><div><br /></div><div>a japanese silicon valley partner brough abed mobile too9ls from 1996 ; together with microsilar a quaretr century of leapfroging cooperation platforms were designed - still graviatted overall by vlage poverty alleviation - second generation vilge children trunerd the composition of bangladesh from 90% rural at birth of nation in 1971 to 70% rural at abed's death in 2019; abed asked his partners to continue his legacy with the expectation by 2050 that bangladesh's population might be half urban; for women to continue to community build towards this progress abed fotresay a three-in-one gravity - end poverty, maximise middle class, go green; this indeed is a journey that all of asian people - over 2/3 of youth aspire to with differing races to complete as function of rural-urban capital</div><div><br /></div><div>there is a close correspondence between abed's designs for blending digitla and real community reality celebrating family building and that which can assist UN2 urgently uinite generation towards sustainability of our species as well as benchmark gov2.0 empowering peoples out of every community to map this journeuy of maximising the happiest of human and artificua=ial intel not the most voilent and fearsome</div><div>we will keep seatvhing all 9 un2 windows for maximum cooperation alumni of abed can make - the reasons why he alsoi founded in 2001 the new university movement aimed at sharing all female alumni concerned with maximising sdg cooeptaion- as we can see the four education and tech change levers can enable people to hround the origiunal specification of thye UN's 4 dimensions: public goods for safety/truct by valkuing humans at and beynd boderes and inclusinbcely within nations</div><div><br /></div><div>This map emerging round abed alumni at the UN dirst review 2016 of sdg 4 eduaction has over the period 2017-2020-23 become Guterres 0=9 piece transformation jgsay of Un2.0 and indeed any gov that wished to transform to serving its people integrated with deepst data/intel which only telecomputing (also known as Von neumann Goats Artificial Intel labs) can now integrated real-time ops of public services from everyt GPS on the planet . This si why the final piece of the un envoy has optimitsically been called COES fit for environmental adadptation out of every community rising in line with nature</div><div>see economiustdiary or twiier of UN envoy for prioriity regional celebrations 22-23 - eg indonesia and india g20 follow on from gloval digital celebrating Mongili'sd rise in Un egov rankings</div><div>see Economist co-blogs by different gaols market purposes eg food health university as well as abedmooc cataloguing 30 cooperation platforms abed would hop 2020s alumni will youthfully shape in time for better UNfuturesummi as well as schools years <a href="http://www.sdgmetaverseprize.org" target="_blank">22-23 sdgmetaverseprize.org</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Back in 1984 our number 1 edtech priority visioned a digital dashboard of skils accomplished identified with every child supported by a person trainer bot on next lessons to linkin as function of expereiential learninhg directed towards livelihood and quality of life</div><div>our last edition of 2025report looks for 100 wways ed and tech can save youth as first sustainabilioty generation -we can see <a href="http://sdgmetaverseprize.org">sdgmetaverseprize.org</a> as straming 16 toutes towards the 100; however equally imporatnt will be combinatorial skills relted <a href="http://youthmarkets.com" target="_blank">to market</a>s most sustaimable purposes; to search this we invite you to join the game of <a href="http://worldrecordjobs.com" target="_blank">worldrecordjobs</a> updated with 52 playing cards each yera since 2008; if your duaghter or son could be cooperation alumni of world class futures for all- who would you choose them to celebrate through awarness and where relevant their own action learning maps; as argued since 1999 at trilliondollaraydits.com profesisonals will need to transfornto 2.0 at least as fast as government themselves; those who are not openly able to value services around doing no harm need closing down faster than we all can bid 7 no trumps. Family building of susdtainable communities and nations is not a party politcal tghisng in the w3ay massive media has spun; mathematcians can help evidence this with the most diverse data your locality beams up with; we dont need startways bodily transportation for human and artificial intel to ground diecersity's motst exciting opportunities forevery living gps o the planet. The ITU started this global connectivity cooperation out of switzerand in 1865; we all alive today are verybfoirtunate that Gneva's digotal twins since Un birth are being reconcted at digiral warp speed with UN HQ NY mediation and pilcy making</div>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-45918384828220108762022-09-20T01:39:00.010-07:002022-09-23T03:32:00.230-07:00<table><tbody><tr><td width="120">HOW 5 Extraordinary MEN EDUCATED & LINKED IN MY URGENT CONCERNS FOR PREVENTING EXTINCTION OF YOUTH ESPECIALLY SIR FAZLE ABED.Having gained an MA in statsitics at Cmabdrige's main maths lab DAMTP (Colleg Corpus Christi) I am intereted in data and purpose- specifically are we designing sustemsd that are advancing the human lot or ending it.I did not know that was my interest when I ended formal studies aged 22 in 1973. Dtata that I saw more of than most people led me into this as wellas what became a fascination for people's live stiries - particularly fazle abed and john von neumann as wellas the 3 most recent men in my family tree. This web site isd mainly an attempt to curate how anybody who wants today's kids to be the first sdustainability generation probably needs to be aware of at least 30 cooperative platfomrs that Fazle Abed and a billion poorest Asian womne built over half a century from 1970 when ended being Royal Dutch Shell's leading young asian engineer tonembark on helping build what emerged as the largest new nation (today 8th most populous, then in 1971 so poor (90% without electricity) that Kissinger caled it a basket case. If you want to test whether you can gain from learning from Fazle Abed's alumni including quarter of the world's people then in English there are mainly 3 outstanding booksd - one new summer 2022, the next written by arguably Canada's mots experienced human development networker james Smili circa 2008; thse first written on brac's firts 9 yeras - or yoiu can look at AbedMooc whoch student journalists and I compiled through 16 visits to bangladesh. Although I have only studied Fazle Abed for 14 yearsd now, he was introduced to me by the japan Ambassador to bangladesh in a way that connecetd with the other 4 men'sd life expereinces. Dad died in 2010 and in remebrance of his sub-editing of end poverty at the economist, the ambassador kindly organsiaed 2 brainstorming dinners with fazle abed. Through this means we hear of the future cooperations that most concerned him. Each of the 5 decades of Abed was amazing - the firt half of his 50 years designing partnershipmplatforms with vilage women whose grassroot networking withhout electricity was word of mouth and one they had gained literacy through currciulum of lifelong learning geared to stsraing upo smallest but most urgent of community busiensses.Three of the men whose life work I have studied most were the most recent men in my family ie dad , and my 2 grandfathers - one of whom wrote up India's Independence aftre quarter of acentiry of mediation with Gandhi in the city then called Bombay (now Mubai). My paternal gradfather worked in British embassies between the world wars mainly collectin intel on the calamitie aboyt to happen due to hitler and stalin. My dad having survived spending his last days as a teenager navigating airplanes allied bomber command out of Burma (today;s Myanmar) had more good fortune. After being in keynes last class, he joined the Economist was seconded to new york for the year of 1951 where he met Von Neumann at Princenton. Neumann asked him to mentor Economist journalist in the greatest scoop ever - what =goods will peoples do with 100 times more tech per decade through the century 1930s to 2020s. Although all 5 me'sstories interact systematically if you support the UN SDGs or uniting 8 billion peoples in preventing extinction - I do suggest you access one of the sources on fazle Abed as well as work out what to you is the relevance of one billion poorest womens endeavours and partnership platfomrs over the alst 50 yeras and tech leap(frogs) interacted around Guterres by the tech envoy and any deep data AI partner of UN2 digital roadmapping. While governmenetsd are faced with ine revolution -getting back to servant leadershi; the web and education is now embracing its 3rd revolution in just over 2 decades; whereas according to world economic forum insudtry is being asked to navigate its 4th industrial revolution , and japan the country turned dad's war time enemy to greatest inspiration for Asia Rising from 1962 -see teach for sdgs has asked g20 platforms to value society5.0 as well as Osaka data track. If you look at which nations most consustently supported abed's billion women empowerment I condlude it was the anglo dutch cultures which he had got an inside track to in his life as an enegineer and Japan which has given back to Asia wherever its unique tech advances co-ctreated win-wins. America and the rest of the West followedthe clinton's pathway guided by Muhammad Yunsu stirytelling. I admire great stories as chnaging peopels motivations but if you want to understand how a billion poorest womens productivity today offers deep clues to sdg challenges please make sure you check out at least one source of Fazle Abed. I have tried to explain my biasses; I am happy to donate a 30 minute zoom to anyoone who has questions..</td><td><p>Hello my name is Chris Macrae -chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk currently in washington DC region but helping prep <a href="http://www.microeducationsummit.com" target="_blank">Glasgow's 265th Adam Smith Moral Sentiments </a>Summit June 2023. I spent my working life on the future search of most purposeful organisations, markets and cooperation networks. This seemed to be an interesting way to apply my MA in statistics which I acquired from Cambridge's leading maths lad DAMTP, Corpus Christi 1973. It also blended with responsibility for the most valuable question ever asked: what goods will peoples do/build with 100 times more tech per decade through the century 1930s to 2020s.</p><p>My father had met Von Neumann in 1951 in Princeton whilst on a year's secondment to New York from London's Economist magazine. Von Neumann asked dad to train economics journalist in the question of 100 times more. Both men had experienced bads that technology could do. When dad met Von Neumann the greatest web of mathematicians had less than 6 years left to work on goods after spending most of their energy on the bad of the nuclear arms race.</p><p> My dad had only been jobwise free to question the goods of life after spending his last days as a teenager navigating airplanes in allied bomber command stationed in Burma. He was blessed not only with survival but "google maps" in his head of the old world. Moreover, Gandhi-Einstein-Neumann offered Norman a heroic GENerational viewpoint of mediating which came from dad marrying Sir Kenneth Kemp's daughter. Sir Ken's last job was writing up the legalese of India's Independence after 2 decades of dialogues with Gandhi given Kemp's responsibility as Chief Justice of Mumbai. Kemps had brought pharmacy to India - although today Kemp's Corner is mainly a rounabout in the city centre of Mumbai.</p><p>My firts two employers were the UK's national development centre for computer assissted learing and National Ipinion Polls. These provided me with questions on the future which interacted with the start of father's 4th decade of valuing Vo Neumann's question. So in time for an alterive to Orwell's Big Brother endgame, we first published 2025 Report in 1984. This sought to map exponential timelines if the expecetd 8 billion brains of the 2020s were to be multiplying the greatest goods that humans and artioficial intel could bring to mother earth</p><p>Our datestamping of worldwide webs1 and 2 was pretty accurate. But so far the good purposes may have been declared as goals elders intended the millennial generation to be the first to sustain. They have not been actualised. In this final edition of 2025 report, we make the case one more time that transforming education is the key to the door of all joyful and productive future lifetimes. We leave to an appendix a checklist of timing opportunities to chnage systems that have so far been overshot. </p><p>I would like to clarify the oportunity and threat dynamic of Von Neumann's question at least as I understand it. Von Neumann was not predicting that everyone would have simultaneous access to experumenting with 100 times more technology. This brought moral judgements to valuing good - search for way above zero sum valuation of purpose and know that uniting 8 billion peoples futures on earth wpouild require nations to stop externalising risks at their borders. </p><p>Indeed the root cause of world war 2 was what had become the assymetries of the 8 most powerful nations - 7 white and representing less than a sixth of peoples. To scots who brought the world the start of engineering, a world in which the vast majority of children being developed in mid 20th century had no access to the benefits of engineering needed not only rectifying but positive reconciliation by those whose process of world domination had used slavery, gunpower and genocide, or control of how/why market trade was mapped. </p><p>BURDEN OF ENGLISH MINDSET</p><p>The transformation of the English langiage from the verse of Shakespeare to the science of newton offered advantaes to minds primarlit programed and communicating with this code. But by 1843 London Scot James Wilso had founded The Economist to raise debates with Royal Society and Queen Elizabeth hersself. If Engloish democarcy aimed for good, why had Lomdon's parliamnet passed Corn Laws that effectively starved half of the Irish peoples. And what mischief was the globally most powerfgul coprpoarte Eaest Indoes company up to - could it be prevented from ruining half of all human livelihoodsd on the subconinents of India and China. </p><p>From Adam Smith through to John Von Neumann there was a clear and present concern for systems expoenetail consdequence. Vin Neumann hoped that his alumni would not only celebrate the joy of abundeany=t analytic and communication capabilkities but clarify how we code both mind and machine to go way above zero sum market maps. To the extent that Kennedy decalared two extraordinaruy visions for 1960s moon race and world of interdependence, he seems to have been the last american president fully in tune with expoenetially advancing the human lot. Still with twin ai lavs facing the 70+% of people despendemt on pacific ocean and teh 20% most depende3nt on atlantic trade, the 1960s appeared to offer a remarkably improved position for uniting nations than 1945. </p><p><br /></p><p>Writing in 2022 it is evident that chuman civilisation has not yet advanced as many goods as von neumann hoped for. Mathematically I feel that valuing the netwoirk a child is born into offers us ways of mutual understanding between parents and youth of the world. May I suggest that we seieze the chnace to design wed 3 as if hg wells was corect in saying civilisdation is a race between eduxcation and catastrophe. I think itb helps to see the future history of human kind as have spun through 7 webs. Web 1 started around 1990 literally with friends of berners lee who moved his location from switzerland to MIT. Web 2 leapt into a whole new ballgame with smart personal deices- both the apps the mobilised and the data they gave a very few big orgabsiations control over. So if every millennial is to enjoy being the first sustainability generation a lot of cooepration (eg the un2 franeowrk at the very elast) must be designed into web3. May i suffe=hgest that before web 1 the age of tv mass media was dominant for how and who could most shape society as well as growth. Before that access ti electricy before that the beginning of engines; before that the first to naviage old and new world. Its important to study who did what wuth furst access to these 7 worlds and how did they value their privileged opportunity as first exploieres in relation to the rest of humans and family building</p><p>The main education idea of 2025 report was that the world would be celebrating children whose identity is sempowered by their own skills dashboard and bot curatormatching next lessons with next livelihood aspiration</p><p><br /></p><p>this book will invite you to explore the action agenda- by designing this digital learners agency and web3 eduation optimally for today's youth and tecahers youth can evolve the first sustainability generation - yes solve peace and climate chanelnges as well as health nutrition and ither purposes. However to prepare for this i suggesdt a tour of the 6 cooperation platforms that Fazle Abed arguably the greaest educatior built</p><p>legacy 3 and estanblished 3</p><p>most cooperative university in women graduates world</p><p>adpatation exchnage between the third or most ruralpeoples</p><p>zoom and meta me up scotty- how fast can we chnage curricula </p><p><br /></p><p>etablished 100k women o=commnuiyty building</p><p>1 billion women advance to be as productibve as men</p><p>leapfroging into web wporld with mobile and sdolar having missed out the wprld of electricity grids and fixed line coms</p><p>and then participate in a game - if you could carry pack of 52 playing crads around with uyou - which 51 world record job creators would you choose so that any time you encountered people facing a sustainability chalenge you could suggesdt an alumni group they might furts gain from cooperating with</p><p><br /></p><p>2022 action sdgemetaverseprize.org ed3dao celebration of 9pieces UN2</p><p>=============</p><p>futureb summit </p><p>mimimum, 3 more nfts</p><p>health</p><p>food</p><p>women community builders among young professdionals</p><p>continue celebating ascendants in un egov rranking -who will match mongilia as globaldigital2022 world leapfrog chmapion</p><p>(somehow europe meeds a plan that makes most russians want a world beyond putins vision - having spent 25 yeras designing the oppoosite -the eu may have a lot to chnage educationally among elders as well as youth)</p><p>=====================</p><p>somehow americansd need to chnage politics to celebrating being loinkedin with rest of worlds diversity</p><p><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-24503479120005813952022-08-23T09:28:00.002-07:002022-08-23T10:21:40.009-07:00chrismacrae.com about Macrae's<p> Both sides of my family tree comprise diaspora scots. My mother grew up in Bombay while her dad sir kenneth kemp mediated dialogues with Mahatma Gandhi dircted towards independence of the quarter of the people of the indian subcontient. </p><p>My dad Norman Macrae was home schooled in Britieh Emabassdy's including Stalin's Moscow to age of 13. His father had been doing graduate studies in heidelberg when world war 1 broke out. Speaking German he became a british envoy of intel especially the wrongs of Hitler and Stalin. Dad went on to spend his last days as a teenager in allied bomber command Burma campaign. You could say this gave him google maps of pacific and indian coasts and much of the old world a geeration ahead of other historians or futurists let alone professional systems designers</p><p>Surviving world war 2 he enjoyed 3 extrardinary mentors- last class of keynes cambridge (see eg last chapter of general theory of employment, money & interest), sir geoffery crowther who had just finished editing the centeeary biography of The Economist and Von Neumann. Dad met von neumann in Princeton while seconded to New York for a year by The Economist. Von Neumann asked dad to mentor Economist journalists in the most balauble question evcer asked - what Good will peoples do with 100 times more tech every decade 1930s to 2020s. (In those days before the emwpoerment by neumann analytic tools, economists slide rulers could not manipulate many numbers- so probably most economists were for good philosophers. Would economist be chnaged for better or for wirse?</p><p>This later question might be quite consequential for species sustainability. If the exponeneial growth of applying Glasgow's engines had been a root cause of world war 2 between the 8 financially biggest empires of 1939 it seemed important to design systems by 2020s so that 8 billion beings were freed from wars and the basic constraints of life that history has so far led many children to be born into. It wasnt until age 39 that The Economist let dad ssign one annual survey. So in the 1950s his reporting as only journalist at Messina bort of EU was anonymous. Dad chose to make his first 10 surveys from 1962 focues on peoples whose freedom he sought: Japan Russsia, latin America ... South Africa. There was huge joy that Japan 1962 had discovered rising models relevant for all of Asia and seconded by JF Kennedy. Immediate opportunities for freeing other peoples were not so clear , still norman made checklists of what needs to happen and how the rest of the world's people need to seize future windows of opportunity so that tech for good means sooner retahrer than later every next birl of boy born enjoys a quality chance at life. Erath has abundant diversity. There's quite enough natural assets for every child to thrive if we unite peopels in positive emotional inteligence instead of hate that media histiries and tech leaps have previously been prone to. </p><p><br /></p><p>Actually I was born in 1951 and soon after my bitrth my parnets left for new york. My gayhgetr was born in 1997 the year the clintons started an annual millennials cheering event called microcreditsummit. I was interested to finnd out what the connections were between von neumanns work, my dad's work and that of women empowered networking which has been the greatest human development miracle since 1970 across tropical asia particularly bangladesh and tropical china. In 2007 my data had started to die of cancer but picked up an advance copy of dr yunus social business book. We sampled 2000 copies to students and 10000 youtube style dvd interviews of yunus leadership team. Dad hosted his ast public birthday party at The Royal Automobile club - a last chance for journalists and youth to work out how women empowerment fitted into the goods of von neumann alumni searches.</p><p>What I discovered was somewhat sad. Yunus had got too close to the inspirational story telling that buoys up the us democratic party. It had iondeed helped him win the nobel prize. But it had angered bangladesh prime minister whose father founded the nation. She made sure yunus forfeited his bank - there was a government rule than bank directors had to retit=re at 65. Meanwhile you might hope university professors or at least public broadcasters like the bbc had got the right end of the curriculum of how a billion village mothers networked to end the extreme poverty that had arisen from no access to electricity grids but which from late 1990s became a game of leapfrog partnering with solar and mobiles. not onw western university, and certainly none of 100 i interviewed (as part of sponsoring yunus) offered the real knowhow the greatest good in population terms ever generated. If you have any doubt look at the <a href="http://abedmooc.com" target="_blank">top 30 cooperation platforms</a>. which we have filed details on after 16 visits to Bangladesh and studying how 12 years before Grameen Bank'soeiudnance a former shell oil ceo sir fazle abed had started devoting 50 yerar to empowering women to build last mile health microfranchises, local agriculture to end starvation, sch0ols and much more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course now we are hurling into post covid 2020s. Do you think knowing the reality of asian women empowerment helps the reality of how to help <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/year-15-games-players-worldrecordjobs-rank-guterres-1-chris/" target="_blank">Antonio Guterres </a>lead digital roadmapping Un2.0 .Its flabbergasting that in the 70+ years of trying to mediate what to do with 100 times more tec/decade the UN has become the first major western gov institution advancing this good. Perhaps every gov can learn from UN2.0 if we the peoples all help guterres now and web3 freedoms never yet webbed nor mediated</p><p><a href="https://opensustainability.blogspot.com/2021/07/" target="_blank">more on what macrae networks linkin</a></p>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-26441446048085853522022-05-30T16:12:00.002-07:002022-07-18T12:25:56.685-07:00hepatitis a can be transferred to produce when handled by ill agri people who havent washed their hands<p> but this doesnt explain why organic foods ofetn seem to be more prone to this</p><p>latest case us/canada strawberries</p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Produce can become contaminated with hepatitis A if it is handled by someone with the infection who has not washed their hands properly, according to Britain’s National Health Service. Washing food items in dirty water can also lead to infection.</span></p><div class="teaser-content grid-center" style="font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3;"><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px;">Consumers, restaurants, and retailers should not sell, serve, or eat any fresh organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo or HEB if purchased between March 5, 2022, and April 25, 2022,” the FDA wrote <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbreak-investigation-hepatitis-virus-strawberries-may-2022" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); color: #1955a5; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">in a statement</a> published Saturday.</p></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px;">The FDA said the potentially affected fruit had been sold nationwide in at least nine popular grocery chains, including Aldi, Safeway, Trader Joe’s and Walmart, adding that the strawberries were “a likely cause of illness in this outbreak.”</p></div>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-77981403128121731292022-03-28T04:08:00.002-07:002022-03-28T04:15:00.969-07:00poverty ending miraculous journey billion village mothers 2020-1970<p> In 1970 (at today's population levels) 1 billion asian vilage women were illiterate and without livelihoods primarily beccause their places had not been connected to the first 200 years started up round glasgow machines (smith, watt0> Thgey had no9 access to electri8city gri8dss let alone other energy or communications infrastructures (IT1, 2). By energy we mean bot energy machines need and food/water inpouts needed to feed and sustain human health. Indeed these vikage mothers were often destined to average life expectancy 45 - thats over 20 below world average (critically it means a whole generation of knowledge building is lost- whats the point of going to college if more than half your life is gone before you get a paper certificate?</p><p>Education networks traveled through</p><p>word of mouth/person to person action learning to</p><p>plus primnted word education</p><p>plus lrapfroging to apps when solar and mobile offered viilage women giant leaps</p><p><br /></p><p>What mattered in buiklding an education system foir 90% rural people which bangaldesh was born to start up eiund as world's 8th largest and poorest nation?</p><p>NON LINEAR EDUCATION</p><p>-most relevant whatever the age</p><p>indeed brac started with adult action learbning of village micr0ofranchsies - designed round positive cashfkow however small and vital community need - eg most productive rice microfranchise- even a franchise through whiuch one vfilage mum visited her route of 300 hoi,mes a welk selling teh 10 most basic medicines - by starting last mile healths ervoce here brac became the nations's largest wholesaler of basic medicines (lowest cost best quality improvements) whiclt the village mom became her community fo 300 families mpst trusteed helath adviser- soon she was in the middle of oral rehdration practices, explaining why nationwide vaccination with ORD and diet bring down iunfant deaths from one in three to rest of world norms - in the porocess the pressure on moms to breed 10 children families would too come down to comparable worldwide places</p><p>after brac's first 12 yeras of training vilage moters as microfrachisers they demand brac start the world's largest non-gov primary schooling system geared particularly to their daughters</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9YjL38BzO_9GK3zJZhwN0pIHWLSUl3UZLpGVeZJy5XA79dp2JzSf3I08Hd_baYiBLMqGtueyCOdSaIUoQXcTREzuaoLBGFzAdEzeulSGiQ2pNz-EUWfF-5pbWoG8ZTKeyJtaTKRJThQdRlgg8cUeMlJisNzOqG4uh2IXGMdJ2AXtmP9HLFqyHdfFcg/s545/ednonlinear.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="545" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9YjL38BzO_9GK3zJZhwN0pIHWLSUl3UZLpGVeZJy5XA79dp2JzSf3I08Hd_baYiBLMqGtueyCOdSaIUoQXcTREzuaoLBGFzAdEzeulSGiQ2pNz-EUWfF-5pbWoG8ZTKeyJtaTKRJThQdRlgg8cUeMlJisNzOqG4uh2IXGMdJ2AXtmP9HLFqyHdfFcg/w442-h363/ednonlinear.JPG" width="442" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>the figure shows how 6 components iof non linera education were integrated over abed's half centurey economic and hujan developement which up to a billion villlage mums built. This put the educational dimension of bith community , national and global investmnent as much in the middle of deep data innovation as food health, finace. Abed was always searching for lifelong partners- he builkt teh world's largest ngo collaborations -30 plus when mapped by time they weere next piece needed for vilage women ending poverty as well as effectively speaking the first 4 sdgs and 5-16 seen as platforms scaling humnan development 100000 person communities at a time where all lives matter with women ensuring that is what drives development (eg heaslth sciety grows economies leyt alone sustainability expoentialks across generations not vice versa </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMp835fy_DrdOmgF4Kt0bDLqFabGArRqfzry1qls7XRakvejmtFvF19qtfHO95Hb1YSliANOg-h11WqZTRWGkfcWWvn4RdWlnBgtB-YwphYtenS8S1ECRkRNYjPQAIrFdUNDk56FhNTeb7i_-_Rffl0id60zNTJVvD-O5bRRBt4f6-yk_kvQ-lriDnyw/s1280/eduxx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMp835fy_DrdOmgF4Kt0bDLqFabGArRqfzry1qls7XRakvejmtFvF19qtfHO95Hb1YSliANOg-h11WqZTRWGkfcWWvn4RdWlnBgtB-YwphYtenS8S1ECRkRNYjPQAIrFdUNDk56FhNTeb7i_-_Rffl0id60zNTJVvD-O5bRRBt4f6-yk_kvQ-lriDnyw/w504-h896/eduxx.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-QKYYhI3fIR_2Ea1ontT9wkpE17ANxeQEdLzWfDV_DeYWXtgdbEsIml5zTmb12g8O5aZWj2waLpLttqqoOWodJz1Er6GeThmlLoQQ8ztWxNrK6MuHtUNaqa1U1SGyeqNr6NuAMNG-xAsyFg2Bvqs-I-CDzdRTG6yR6L0CP2RWfkONvXiJKUxYvLGkg/s989/2025xa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="989" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-QKYYhI3fIR_2Ea1ontT9wkpE17ANxeQEdLzWfDV_DeYWXtgdbEsIml5zTmb12g8O5aZWj2waLpLttqqoOWodJz1Er6GeThmlLoQQ8ztWxNrK6MuHtUNaqa1U1SGyeqNr6NuAMNG-xAsyFg2Bvqs-I-CDzdRTG6yR6L0CP2RWfkONvXiJKUxYvLGkg/w531-h309/2025xa.jpg" width="531" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-11873626172411892182022-01-30T15:56:00.001-08:002022-01-30T15:56:13.729-08:00<p> hi could we connect? my dad the economist\s norman macrae was also first biographer of von neumann--; FEB SEES 2nd neumann bio "man OF THE future" published; aim to help von neumann family with ai hall of fame survey - who's AI is helping millennials be the esg cop26 & sdg generation?CHRIS.MACRAE@YAHOO.CO.UK WASH DC <a href="http://WWW.TEACHFORSDGS.COM">WWW.TEACHFORSDGS.COM</a></p>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-67759845121704450942022-01-30T03:59:00.001-08:002022-01-30T03:59:13.637-08:00<p> chris.macrae.co.uk writes (<a href="http://www.teachforsdgs.com" target="_blank">dedicated to 12th year since dad Norman's parting</a>) Ironically as a clan that values networking of livesmatter communities and the in the entrepreneurial revolution of small entrepriese and startup networking for humanising artificial intel and sustsinability :</p><p> my first 3 jobs were for the old (British) Empire's Ministry of Transport, Office of Population Censuses and Survey's , National Development Project in Computer Assisted Learning . From there I spent 25 years market modelling societal purposes of the west's biggest corporations (eg helping MIT compile 1980s first database on that0 to discover that father and my 1984 book on would tech sustain millnennials had gone badly off copurse (9/11 and in the place why my daughter was 4 at playschools, anthrax in the sma post, snipers shooting the local xmas tree seller, national institute of health appearning bliunder than a bat to community safety.. How will the rest of humanity play out - is there a future history beyond 2025 - EconomistDiary.com 2035rport.com . Ironic for a brain t5hat loves maths small as my mind is compared with mathematicians that made US East Coast 1920s-1950s ready for space and so much moore.</p><p>Chris Macrae DAMTP MA Statistics 1973 Corpus Chriti College CANTAB (Oxbridge)</p>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-69861276879224940572021-11-17T08:42:00.007-08:002021-11-17T10:25:05.587-08:00<p> 260 Years of First & Last Chances of Man and Machine</p><div>When Sir Fazle Abed died on 20 December 2019, the 260th year of Glasgow moral exploration of humans and machines was coming to an end. In the view of Adam Smith Scholars, few if any engineers have made more human sustainable application of machines than Sir Fazle Abed and the billion village women he helped empower from 1970 in their families and communities race to end poverty. That over a billion Asian villagers have ended extreme poverty is the greatest economic miracle at least the way Smithians value the purpose of economics. The uniqueness of the miracle is that for 25 years valiage mothers had no access to machines so they developed the most trusted person to person community networking round life saving skills. Once tech partners started linking in, the vilage mothers were ready to make giant leaps for nature and chld development.</div><div><br /></div><div>Economistpoor.com associates were privileged to visit Bangladesh 15 times since December 2007 mainly to listen to Fazle Abed. Perhaps uniquely we celebrated the opportunity created by the Japan Ambassadir to Bangladesh to join in 2 brainstorms chaired by Sir Fazle at a time when a kot of civil society was in flux. Sheika Hasina had just forfeited Grameen Bank from Dr Yunus. Abed's response was to double up on future projects that young women could look forward to provided the most sustainable partners were found. For example, he used one of the brainstorms to start inviting Asian Ambassadors to unite 100 universities' graduates in SDG collaboration projects. Since starting Brac University in 2001 he had demonstrated how university blended with digital and community collaboration offered a partnership platform unlike any ever seen before. </div><div><br /></div><div>He had shared research of how to expand ultra poverty graduation scaled in Bangladesh to what has become 50 countries and rising at the time of his death. Thats quite a lot of shared work for young economists to linkin everywhere through the UN's SDG decade. And the idea of connecting universities was in the Abedian mind a loving world with deep and diverse opportunity to innovate wherever sustainability challenges mattered.</div><div><br /></div><div>We invite you to join in draft an updatable book on the most exciting collaborations global village world has ever seen, and the 2020s race to app these at every GPS on planet earth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Dc67hQThZlpHHbT-b4TBD2_SHdCsISofrFH3jXJ7LX_TpIDSyzmEaRJ7gdkaS0i5isNJla3x5Y2Mhzpb2gKLAE729YEiKOy3LAmtCI-PyvPyxNcyo9LnjczR9wHr7KqBNJefvSWJYPUB/s1280/bookx.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Dc67hQThZlpHHbT-b4TBD2_SHdCsISofrFH3jXJ7LX_TpIDSyzmEaRJ7gdkaS0i5isNJla3x5Y2Mhzpb2gKLAE729YEiKOy3LAmtCI-PyvPyxNcyo9LnjczR9wHr7KqBNJefvSWJYPUB/w640-h360/bookx.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><div>Abed's final gift returned to his core belief on education - create a space where children experience love and safety to an early childhood format. All over the world knowledgeable communities and parents are simultaneously recognising early childhood play as a missing opportunity; the "luminaries partnerships" Abed has formed around this education revolution are proof that parents and communities everywhere demand no delays in celebrating this development start for children the world over.</div><div><br /></div><div>About 50 young journalists, mainly Asian for joyful cultural translations , have helped us search out how Abed's collaborations evolved over half a century ago from what was potentially his biggest mistake - building 15000 homes for 10000 people in a space so isolated that dozens of mothers were dying of starvation every week. Abed had put his life savings into these homes; Abed not only pivoted but energised servant leadership - entrepreneurail revolution n less - in designing microfranchise business to end startvation and to empower village mothers to linkin their own village health service. Fortunately his 1960s connections from a decade rising as shell oil companys leading young Asian engineer and chartered accountant helped locate in southern and eastern hemispheres had to discovered how to produce 10 times more village rice and why veggie microfranchises were also needed as basic rice doesn't have enough vitamins to prevent infants from stunting during their first 1000 days. The first health service networks BRA=Colaboration built were probably what saved Bangladesh (8th largest and very poorest population ever born as a new nation) from being a basket case and why Chinese village mothers wanted to share analogous solutions in their own journey towards women hold up half the sky. Indeed oral rehydration invented in Bangaldesh became the number 1 celebration of Unicef James Grant wherever he led nations uniting around child development . And James reciprocated by sponsoring brac to go nation wide. James asked Abed do you have another core idea for village health services? Abed said continental scaling of vaccination. So anyone who linkedin with brac womens knowledge got to see how to do that too- no worries if vaccination literacy became as vital as other literacies!</div><div><br /></div><div>What's amazing about Abed is he practised engineering in a way that revolutionised the morality of development economics and he demonstrated over and over that collaboration not competition is the most valuable dynamic, poorest families empower by community scaled entrepreneurship must race together to sustain. So we hope you will help us improve this book if places and people you love are facing any sustainability crises. 2020s children need us to connect the simplest, lovig and most urgent practices to skill up in. When as Abed's women experienced for 25 years no communications other than people you meet, girl do you need trust, collaboration, focus on what businesses you enetrepreneur locally.: and yes when suddenly new technology partners seek you as they did through fazle abed from 1996, girl do you want machines to make giant leaps for girlkind, down on earth, with nature as your resilient judge.</div></div>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253183337562067321.post-80486505333089769922021-10-29T10:13:00.005-07:002022-06-08T11:58:35.108-07:00<table><tbody><tr><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD6cWa2yTkEs7mYLxU8HdKojvHKeNv28e1-RxT0I6J55P6bcQfpteGxeBwSxQdgABzkCJgaKr4RJRAOugIkYYgnVeQvz2SDiWrLXmCFIWy2cybt07FAJjzaYviNJ_mcgjUt2dP0QS9jnqr/s1280/xnorman1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="432" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD6cWa2yTkEs7mYLxU8HdKojvHKeNv28e1-RxT0I6J55P6bcQfpteGxeBwSxQdgABzkCJgaKr4RJRAOugIkYYgnVeQvz2SDiWrLXmCFIWy2cybt07FAJjzaYviNJ_mcgjUt2dP0QS9jnqr/w216-h640/xnorman1.jpg" width="216" /></a></div></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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...</p><p>The main ways a billion village women in Asia ended poverty were through microfranchises :</p><p>replicating last mile rice production where knowledge linked ti alumni of borlaug increases village productivity several fold</p><p>designing last mile health services in bangladesh over 100000 village others made positive cashflow by doordashing 10 non prescription medical items; each mother had a route of 300 homes to visit weekly; over time she because the most trusted person for medical news such as when to get vaccinated</p><p>It wasnt until 1996 solar and mobile partners came to villages that village networking could be anything other than person to person; after that both internet and university could be designed to both connect partners COLLAB platforms and both microfranchise specifications and deeper research - see these 36 collaborations which have turned brac into both the largest ngo partnership and the number 1 universities of 1 early childhood play, 2 last mile medicine, 3 ultra poor financials services...<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9622226874?profile=original" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_blank">download one page guide</a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span></p><p>=====================</p><p>partnership links </p><p>U of Last Mile Health</p><p>U of Early Childhood</p><p>University of End Poverty</p><p>Women Univeristy of triangularising : end poverty, grow middle claas, go green</p><p>refs</p><p> Journal of New economics- G;asgow University- friends of Adam Smith Scholar</p><p><a href="http://EconomistPoor.com">EconomistPoor.com</a> <a href="http://EconomistDiary.com">EconomistDiary.com</a></p><p>===========================================</p><p>Between founding in 1843 to 1990 The London Economist overarching editorial purpose was mediating end of poverty.Its sub-editor Norman Macrae 1947-1988 was also biographer of John Von Neumann and advanced the logic of The Economist December 1976 that designing every community as a thriving place to ne born into would need bottom-up transformation in which biggest corporates and governments were likely to pose the greatest compound risks to the 21st C celebrating the first sustainability generation</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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enjoy peer to peer events like circular sing songs</div><div>make sure teacher is respected by whole community </div><div><br /></div><div>make sure tehre is a fullstructural program - playbooks which are understood for their learning content (eg montessori is about 90 yeras int this)</div><div><br /></div><div>thetre are also some special and some magic additions</div><div><br /></div><div>specials if some or all kids are under huge stress (eg refugees) then there is now a lot of transferable knowhow on why this is the urgent stage to inetrvene and help reset child's school expereince</div><div><br /></div><div>magic we now know that if for example children are still having readinfg difficulty - there is a 30 hour intervention (90 days of 20 minute ie abou one term to resolve this )- no child should leave at age 6 illiterate; this also means chhildren start with much more equality (good for everyone) at primary school</div><div><br /></div><div>-there are huge adcanatge to community parents teachers as well as kids if best way of playschool is applied</div><div><br /></div><div>=========================================</div><div>poart 2 over last 14 yera we have received mire and more reports all of the world that half of kids are not going to find jobs unless they havenew abilities - eg enetrepreneurial and financial literacy wjasts jhappened is that classrook schools are gerareed t age of big employers that icreasingly doesnt exist; class room schools are not geared to amximsing apprenticeshops or community engagement even though these are where 21st c jobs are increasigly found</div><div><br /></div><div>most skils now need esxpereintial practice- while we know a mistcian needs her own eperientual learning, its just as true of any use of technology or any perfor,ace in a service economy</div><div><br /></div><div>by focusing the whole world on the emnw opportunity of early childhood we can resent relationships between school systems communite9s etachers kids and make sure that where needed all ages of schooling are redesigned</div><div><br /></div><div>if you look at educational chpaters in 1984's 2025 report you will see much more exploration on why rechnology required chnage to schools; eleders have left it late not continuous belnding real and digital until covid came along- nows the time to make sure we seriously help everyone redesign including making sure teachers have time to relearn</div><div><br /></div><div>if you look at antonio gutteres proposal to hold youth futuers summit in 2023 - the advantage will go to places that take the urgent opportunity to join in designing co-creative schooling processes which are simly at teh heart of playschool<br /><div><br /></div></div>chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com0