in 2013 we had the privlege to discuss this with fazle Abed- more than any other person his intelligence helped the world poorest vilage women build banglades as 8th most populous nation
abed died december 2019 and founded bangladesh rural advancement committee in 1972
first he made it clear c most be for cooperation; how do we design a mooc that isnt examing poeople but helps mentor them - a question also being asked in 2020s of AI agents
Lets suppose you opened fazle abed mooc - would you like to see 8 chapters- thats our guess; if so what we wnat ti do is seloect the 8 greatest transformations that abed scaled through 1972-2019
lets list chapters in order he felt he had surprised people- we can then list that sequentailly
in 2001 steve jobs staged 65th birthday wish party with Fazle Abed in silicon valley - abed suprised the valleys gtreatest cratives- he wanted to foudn a university where the graduiate research formed the most colabortaive paretnershoisp not the most exclusive alumni club; moreover he wanted brac universitgy to lead research not being domne elsewhere but relevant to women buildind nations
banglades was one of first nations to design mobile pjones and solar to leapfrog (the nation rurl areas had not enjoyed wited electrivity or fixed like phones)- while yunus tried to invent telephone girl solutions. abed surprsied people- there were at least 10 value chains that vilages had led by replicating millions of mothers franchsies; brac had ensured ownership of value chain on behalf of teh wpoemn; but now that t6he nations rural and city markets were converging, abed prioritised first 10 years of brac access to digital and solar round leading the overall value chain nation =wide of sudch markets as rice, eggs, milk, wholesaling basic meds ...
he lso waited for the best partners to connect together before designing teh largest cashless bank in tersm of population served bkash whiuch merits its own chapter
one of brac's unique networks was that which empowered vilage somen to build health services - not just with retailing basic meds but with every mother taught how to do oral rehydratyion; this was part of 15 yerar partenrship with unicel james grant - so it was natural to choose james gbrant school of global health as unique core of brac university system which also merged with the nations ch=olera lab; brac started hosting annual summirt of frogal system designs of global health
one of the questions mr and mrs job had asked abed in 2001 ws why does yunsu offer solutions intentaionally but you fociu=us on bangladesh; abed said he had been so busy it hadnt seen relevant in the era of vilages prior to mobile and solar tobuold an international office- but he would if he could find a nation with a suitable lehgal framewpork bot to handle intenational clients and to develop bracs remiitiaces service - one third of all banagldesh exports comes from remittamces; historicall the value chain supplying that had been expensive - abed saw chnace to integrate that imnto a whole range of finacial services whoich kept brac microfinance plus but now added city bank, bkash and international remittances
unfortunatley the bordering natiosn of bangladesh are ed- myanmar has caused million rohinga to seek asylom and brac has to sustain teh largest service to immigrants;
in abed's fianl years he realsied his internation focus had tried too much to please atlanti9c partners nd had not advanced bangladesh'a min proble- its infrastructure connectying natiosn is hemmed in by the colapsing nation of myanmar and lack of sonsisten undersdtan ing of bamngaldesnh and neigoring india states
more coming soo or see www.catholicuni.com or correspond chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
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