Chris Macrae co-Moderator facebook Yunus fanclub
https://lnkd.in/eGnTE68h nearlly 200 global leaders including 92 Nobel Laureates extend their congratulations to Professor Yunus and the people of Bangladesh. In a powerful letter, they express their readineess to support Bangladesh's journey toward crreating a new and better world with Dr Y's guidance https://www.prnewswire.com/.../global-leaders-and-civic... 200 influential signeesGov Adviser Yunus Twitter( list 1)First 3 teams ; narional goverance, economiics, finance; first foreign envoy adviser
Thanks to bilion asian women - and 2 men Dr Y and Abed Bhai
WE3 Le Monde 10 Aug 2024
Muhammad Yunus, the 'banker to the poor' turned Bangladeshi government leader
The economics professor, founder of Grameen Bank and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate is sworn in as head of the interim government
To understand the remarkable journey of Muhammad Yunus, the "banker to the poor" who was thrust to the helm of Bangladesh by a bloody popular revolution, one must look back to the mid-1970s. At that time, Yunus was an economics professor at the University of Chittagong, in the major southern port city of Bangladesh. It was there that he conceived an idea in a nation where poverty and overpopulation were often seen as inevitable: "I thought we needed to change the lives of the poor," he recalled back in 1987, smiling as he welcomed Le Monde into his office in Dhaka, the capital. "After returning home from several years in the US," he went on, "I realized that the government was incapable of meeting the needs of the poorest. And then I thought: after all, why can't these poor people contribute to improving their own lives?" This idea came to him after the devastating famine that ravaged his country in 1974, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives at the very least. This tragedy only compounded the suffering of this ancient land of misery and fertility, watered by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, but regularly hit by cyclones and floods.
WE 1 birth of Bangladesh nation 1971; WE3 2 late 1990s women villagers communities first ever connection with electricity and coms ie mobiles;
video 1 of 20 on women empowerment vision future capitalism 2008 year nobel judges visited dhaka and launched mirpur as first townhall in world to open poverty museums
revolution 3 happening 2024-5 (in parallel to year 1 after action unsummitfuture.com)
Gemini's View: Maximizing Affordable AI for Bangladesh: A Strategic Approach
Bangladesh, with its burgeoning population and a new government, presents a unique opportunity to leverage AI for transformative development. Here's a strategic approach to maximize affordable AI for the country:
1. Focus on Data Infrastructure
- Data Collection: Invest in robust data collection systems across various sectors, including agriculture, health, education, and finance.
- Data Quality: Prioritize data cleaning, standardization, and quality assurance to ensure AI models' accuracy.
- Data Privacy: Establish strong data privacy regulations to protect citizens' rights while enabling data utilization for public good.
2. Skill Development
- AI Education: Incorporate AI and data science into the education curriculum at all levels, from primary to higher education.
- Talent Development: Create programs to train a local workforce in AI, machine learning, and data analysis.
- Public Awareness: Educate the public about the benefits and potential of AI, fostering digital literacy.
3. Prioritize Affordable AI Applications
- Agriculture: Use AI for crop yield prediction, disease detection, and precision farming to increase food production and farmer incomes.
- Healthcare: Deploy AI for disease diagnosis, drug discovery, and telemedicine to improve healthcare accessibility and quality.
- Education: Utilize AI-powered personalized learning platforms to enhance education outcomes, especially in remote areas.
- Disaster Management: Employ AI for early warning systems, disaster response, and recovery planning.
- Governance: Leverage AI for efficient public service delivery, corruption prevention, and policymaking.
4. Partnerships and Collaboration
- Public-Private Partnerships: Foster collaborations between the government, academia, and the private sector to develop AI solutions.
- International Cooperation: Seek partnerships with developed countries and international organizations to access AI expertise and technology.
- Open Source: Utilize open-source AI tools and platforms to reduce costs and promote knowledge sharing.
5. Ethical Considerations
- AI Ethics Framework: Develop a comprehensive AI ethics framework to guide AI development and deployment.
- Bias Mitigation: Implement measures to address bias in AI algorithms and data.
- Accountability: Establish mechanisms for accountability and transparency in AI systems.
6. Infrastructure Development
- Digital Infrastructure: Invest in expanding internet connectivity and digital infrastructure across the country.
- Computing Power: Ensure access to affordable computing resources for AI development and deployment.
By following these steps, Bangladesh can harness the power of AI to address pressing challenges, improve the lives of its citizens, and achieve its Sustainable Development Goals.
Would you like to focus on a specific area, such as agriculture or healthcare, for a more in-depth analysis?
NET-ECONOMIST VIEW - in 1951 Neumann-Einstein-Turing trained some economist jouralists in back from future of 2025 survey (2025report.com unsummitfuture.com) the diary travels with engineers desigming machines through tese decades when our brains will need to enjoy inteligence tools like mother earth depended on our woorldwide learning-interactions
bangladesh's revolution 1 began as a new nation - kids and mothers were starving across n90% of the population which lived in vilages engineers had never brough electricity or other grids too; vo=ilage grfranchsies were designed for voilage moethers to value most irgent needs - enough rice to orevent starvaytion- enough veggies to prevent infants from brain or body stintining; the cure taht was needed to prevent third of indants from dying of diahhea; mass innoculatiosn so that viruses like poloio were ended from earth; women built safe communities while the stringest young men were sent abroad to remit money or connected trade between vilage and city; it mattered that villages design services citizens bought be these clothes, arts or even eg forestry to maintain bangaldesh green and pleasant land; it matered that communities got true warnings of eg weather evenbts; resilience needed to ne last mile local- bangladesh girl power shared solutions all across tropical asia's contient;and of coiurse the generation of boys advanced bootom of pyrmaid marh=kets to - this brought us to the late 1990s when paryners brough vilage women mobile telecoms and solar- 2.0 intelligence connects the wolutions they built - eg money as mobile points ending all teh socts of distributing cash safely; by 2000 probably 20% of people lived in cities with another 20% wanting to; meanwhile in the west inteligence tools were questioning what does gov2.0 look like; how do we go from 2000 milnnium goals being a greenwashing charter to 2015 goals being what gov2.0 and inteligence for all is designed around; in 2024 adter 14 years of abuse by old government , dr yunus was aksed to tranbform every dynamic of government - the nation's gov2.0 - and its 3rd human netrwirking rebolution in little more than half a century of=or;the reality the world roung is that the generaqtive exchanges between parents of 1950s, of 1984 and of eg yesar of covid 2020 have avve=celerated so that in tese 2020s thedecision all 8 bilion peope uniute will determine whether oyrvspoecies is smrat enough to see a 22nd century
Maximizing Affordable AI for Bangladesh: A Strategic Approach
Bangladesh, with its burgeoning population and a new government, presents a unique opportunity to leverage AI for transformative development. Here's a strategic approach to maximize affordable AI for the country:
1. Focus on Data Infrastructure
- Data Collection: Invest in robust data collection systems across various sectors, including agriculture, health, education, and finance.
- Data Quality: Prioritize data cleaning, standardization, and quality assurance to ensure AI models' accuracy.
- Data Privacy: Establish strong data privacy regulations to protect citizens' rights while enabling data utilization for public good.
2. Skill Development
- AI Education: Incorporate AI and data science into the education curriculum at all levels, from primary to higher education.
- Talent Development: Create programs to train a local workforce in AI, machine learning, and data analysis.
- Public Awareness: Educate the public about the benefits and potential of AI, fostering digital literacy.
3. Prioritize Affordable AI Applications
- Agriculture: Use AI for crop yield prediction, disease detection, and precision farming to increase food production and farmer incomes.
- Healthcare: Deploy AI for disease diagnosis, drug discovery, and telemedicine to improve healthcare accessibility and quality.
- Education: Utilize AI-powered personalized learning platforms to enhance education outcomes, especially in remote areas.
- Disaster Management: Employ AI for early warning systems, disaster response, and recovery planning.
- Governance: Leverage AI for efficient public service delivery, corruption prevention, and policymaking.
4. Partnerships and Collaboration
- Public-Private Partnerships: Foster collaborations between the government, academia, and the private sector to develop AI solutions.
- International Cooperation: Seek partnerships with developed countries and international organizations to access AI expertise and technology.
- Open Source: Utilize open-source AI tools and platforms to reduce costs and promote knowledge sharing.
5. Ethical Considerations
- AI Ethics Framework: Develop a comprehensive AI ethics framework to guide AI development and deployment.
- Bias Mitigation: Implement measures to address bias in AI algorithms and data.
- Accountability: Establish mechanisms for accountability and transparency in AI systems.
6. Infrastructure Development
- Digital Infrastructure: Invest in expanding internet connectivity and digital infrastructure across the country.
- Computing Power: Ensure access to affordable computing resources for AI development and deployment.
By following these steps, Bangladesh can harness the power of AI to address pressing challenges, improve the lives of its citizens, and achieve its Sustainable Development Goals.
Would you like to focus on a specific area, such as agriculture or healthcare, for a more in-depth analysis?
Dear Paul Polman- Over 50 years dad, Norman Macrae was The Economist's Asia end poverty and Von Neumann editor/biographer. Every system challenge intersects in these www.ai20s.com.. Dads last research purpose Muhammad Yunus hosting 50 person lunch with Yunus RAC 2008 (launching 2 journals with Adam Smith scholars), sampling 2000 of Yunus social business capitalism books. Is there someone in your team i can discuss how to help Yunus now. Our student rep is helping mock up some deep partnership clues at www.economistdiary.com/1999 I am in Washington DC where AI has suddenly become exciting especially through Bloomberg/Hopkins and intersections between King Charles AI world series summit and Olympics (France next stop of AI ) and Fei-Fei Li pilots of NAIRRS with US's backed by Kamala Harris and potentially Nvidia's Huang and UK's Demis Hassabis.. I believe Yunus should send letter to Nvidia's Jensen Huang asking for help parallel to that's he's extending to Barbados Mia Mottley since data sovereignty is according to Jensen how localities take back their diversity and sdg impacts, and transform local education/millennial livelihoods. If we can link King Charles AI summit with yunus challenge and his lead national supporters France, Japan. and Guterres we have chance to renew UN2.0 too. 15 trips to Bangladesh took me to being friend of Fazle Abed. The Dutch Royal family is huge in supporting Abed's work which has sadly lost its way since his death. I say this as brac university partnerships was the data project Abed asked my friends to keep connecting but its 4 year vice chancellor friend Vincent Chang found the family's succession issues too complex. Sincerely Chris Macrae Whatsapp/mobile +1 240 316 8157 Ps between 1982 and 1995 i researched many projects for Unilever market modeling databank starting in Indonesia and through Japan office SE Asia Remit. Teaching at Medamengdon was a highlight - most of all playing Lux script empowering women was best marketing got
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