our species depends on urgently
improving understanding of peoples across hemispheres- none more so than east-west; two thirds of humans live on the continent of asia with a few more per cent of the world's population living in what have emerged as the extraordinary productive hi-tech islands - japan, taiwan , hk, singapore. by the late 19th century all of the people on the asian continent had been colonised or had their trading systems blocked by western empires- primarly britain's. given this, we find it extraordinary valuable to study how 3 people from the orient travelled to the west and went on to change both hemispheres: gandhi
fazle abed

jack ma
below we look at how jack ma's first trip to the usa - seattle 1995 changed the world. he was then his city hangzhou's most popular english teacher- amazon's launch of ecommerce he returned to china to form a network with energetic youth and extraordinary investors including japan's hi tech billionnaire masa son and the silicon valley founder of yahoo jerry yang- how can ecommerce and efinance create the most jobs when china's web infrasucture arrives-?
Having become one of the world's biggest marketmakers, ma was tech city host of china's g20 2016 and at the un he was invited to become worldwide youth jobs adviser;in 2017 he announced that from 2019 september he would return full time to education- according to ma he couldnt see how to impact the 4 most vital social markets with commerce- this web tracks his progress as a return to full time education and his goal of celebrating how the sdg generation can change education , health, green markets, sports and arts markets

unlike ma, gandhi and abed travelled to britain in their teens - gandhi to study law in 1880s, abed to study engineering and shipping at glasgow uni of 1950s.--all three changed the livelihoods and sustainability of hundreds of millions of people in the race to end systemic poverty. unlike gandhi, graduate abed's 10 year spent ascending to become regional ceo of royal dutch shell gave him the perfect mix of engineering and admin experience to empower the poorest to nation build
AI foci of ali- I&V: QC; sec; ML; NLP; big data
https://www.jackmafoundation.org.cn/ welcome to digital silk road plus 6 youth Belt Road Maps ... Changing Education - the most exciting times to parent or grow up sustainably. Our old versions: EW , AU ...how can web maximise sme value and job creating education? -help welcomed in compiling top 100 alumni networks of alibabauni.com -UNited fintech & edutech & 17 goals-- notes on china's greatest educators ggv podcast limebike.. sinica -notes who's helping jos number 1 educator? Kenyann, Bangla girls Tsinghua, olympians-for-all, IR4-forhumans - rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

official alibaba (also notable apps - eg missing children )
*taobao university up to 100 million alumni in China - received training on how to taobao; as of 2017 established 1311 taobao e-commerce villages
*Damo Academy 1 2 started with 15 billion dollar investment by jack ma's as intercity top notch research on humanising livelihood advantages of major components of Industrial Rev 4 such as AI, blockchain, internet of things .. related IR4 at world economic forum: san francisco hub; wef summer china summoit
*gateway17 ma's 3000 citizens and leaders one day masterclass in ecommerce
*ma's personal mentoring (aka efounders) of first 100 entrepreneur chorts chosen with unctad and developing nations that have asked jack ma to help
+Aliresearch 1 tsinghua alumni network of Ying Lowrey's SME curriculum aligned to AliBaba model
Podcast Ant Finance

*hong kong 100 million dollar youth entrepreneur fund: AI webs 1 2 : Jumpstarter competition.-see also hk youth entrepreneur curricula YFS & MIT -- taiwan ma entrepreneur fund
*alibaba entrepreneur fund
*poverty funds 1 :: blockchain research china poverty association 1 - alibaba 0.3 revenue to green foundation 1
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jack ma- when i first studied (e)commerce in states i was surprised to find that each market was dominated by 2 or 3 manufacturers- i decided to design china ecommerce to maxise small enterprise suppliers and local jobs

.ying lowrey is tsinghua's professor of small enterprises- her book alibaba way is eyeopening:

foreword by nobel economist edmund phelps, columbia....Alibaba uses information technology to enable mass innovation to flourish.and to improve the lives of the people

related tsinghua - innovation events
lowrey beijing coorindtaor of aliresearch whose dean at hq is Hongbing Gao

Ai in education
around grade 5 - a
around12th grade - about 50 podcasts and notes here
10th grade ai history from circa 1996?
15th grade ai earlier 2018 Kai-Fu Lee hope was us would lead ai discovery, china implementation
15th grade china top50 ai
15th grade 14 billion dollar uniciorn ai in china - wef 2018 review- speakers Speakers: - Dai Wenyuan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, 4th Paradigm Data & Technology Co., People's Republic of China. - Huang Dinglong, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Malong Technologies, People's Republic of China. - Wendell Wallach, Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, USA. - Wang Xiaoming, Director, Center for Innovation Strategy and Policy Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China. - Yuan Hui, Chairman, Shanghai Xiaoi Robot Technology, People's Republic of China.
.partners of ma &
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*jack ma chairs cen 1- 2 = china's 50 most respomnsible businessmen - search curricula funds etc - location close to tsingua beijng

example founder of shanghai conglomerate fosun actively celebrates CEN, and partners in one of Jack Ma's universities at hangzhou and supports new york greatest yoth-led arts movement singforhope.com

co-sponsor: wise@beijing: Zhejiang Zhipu Foundation Founded by the six founding members of Alibaba Group, Zhejiang Zhipu Foundation supports rural education and promotes healthy and sustainable relationship between human and the society, as well as between human and the nature.
Guterres UN Digital Cooperation Panel #DigitalCooperation
The Panel is expected to raise awareness about the transformative impact of digital technologies across society and the economy, and contribute to the broader public debate on how to ensure a safe and inclusive digital future for all, taking into account relevant human rights norms.

Panel Members

Co-chairs

Panel members

  • Mohammed Al Gergawi (UAE), Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, UAE
  • Yuichiro Anzai (Japan), Senior Advisor and Director of Center for Science Information Analysis, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Nikolai Astrup (Norway), Minister of International Development, Norway
  • Vinton Cerf (USA), Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
  • Fadi ChehadĂ© (USA), Partner at ABRY Partners
  • Isabel Guerrero Pulgar (Chile), Director, IMAGO Global Grassroots and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Marina Kaljurand (Estonia), Chair of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace
  • Bogolo Kenewendo (Botswana), Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry, Botswana
  • Akaliza Keza Ntwari (Rwanda), ICT advocate and entrepreneur
  • Marina Kolesnik (Russian Federation), senior executive, entrepreneur and WEF Young Global Leader
  • Doris Leuthard (Switzerland), Head of the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, Switzerland
  • Cathy Mulligan (United Kingdom), Co-Director of Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency
  • Edson Prestes (Brazil), Professor, Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
  • Kira Radinsky (Israel), Director of Data Science, eBay
  • Nanjira Sambuli (Kenya), Digital Equality Advocacy Manager, World Wide Web Foundation
  • Sophie Soowon Eom (Republic of Korea), Founder of Adriel AI and Solidware
  • Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah (Australia), Secretary General, CIVICUS
  • Jean Tirole (France), Chairman of the Toulouse School of Economics and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
The deliberations of the Panel will be supported by a small secretariat, co-led by:
  • Amandeep Singh Gill (India), Executive Director, Secretariat of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation (ex officio)
  • Jovan Kurbalija, (Serbia), Executive Director, Secretariat of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation (ex officio)
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  • Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
  • Markus Brunnermeier, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics, Princeton University
  • Bengt Holmstrom, 2016 Nobel Laureate, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT
  • Lars Peter Hansen, 2013 Nobel Laureate, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics, Booth School of Business & The College, University of Chicago
  • Preston McAfee, Most Recently Served as Chief Economist and Corp VP at Microsoft
  • Christopher Pissarides, 2010 Nobel Laureate, Regius Professor of Economics, LSE
  • Yingyi Qian, Distinguished Professor and Dean of School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
  • Alvin Roth, 2012 Nobel Laureate, The Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics, Stanford University
  • Thomas Sargent, 2011 Nobel Laureate, W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, New York University
  • Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel Laureate, William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business, NYU Stern
  • Steve Tadelis, Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
  • Neng Wang, Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate & Professor of Finance, Columbia Business School
  • Shangjin Wei, Professor of Finance and Economics, Professor of International Affairs, and N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Columbia University
  • Wei Xiong, Trumbull-Adams Professor of Finance, Princeton University
  • Chenggang Xu, Quoin Professor in Economic Development, University of Hong Kong, Professor of Economics, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
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the wicked problem of missing curricula youth most need- as jack says this is a huge problem; correspondenmce case posted may 2018: moreover we have atended many world bank youth summits where missing curricula have been pitched and everyone cheered the value but getiing each different nation to newly cetrtify suc new learning is a fools erand
-here part of a specific example- do you know a missing peer to peer curricula that needs similar linking in

I am staying at brac in bangaldesh my favorite girls education network in the world as well as largest ngo in wortld and partnership networkwe will see dean of james grant school of public health at brac university tomorrow- do you still have any message you wanted passed to brac about the peer to peer adolescent health program you and lancet have been building? we are mainly working with brac's overall education director as specified directly by sir fazle abed when i met him in qatar 2017 - sir fazle kindly gave a lot of his time to remembrance parties of my dad norman macrae at the japan embassy in dhaka in 2012more generally brac and jack ma started fin tech partnership earlier this month with brac's BkashSMS in bangladesh but for s asia (the whole 2 billion of china's neigbors particularly poorest girls on china south and south westren borders), for sustainabiliuty generation to scale and gain from these 2 superstars we believe partnering relations will broaden into looking at skills education ; we will be trying to form team both on bangladesh and china side to monitor this however fast or slow it goesmostofa has been working on bangladesh side for very long time- he also worked with modjtabia sadria then at aga khan in london while they were in london at time muhammad yunus was at his social business peak ; i believe modjtabia is now back in iran after some years with paul at monash? ( i didnt get to pauls grn summit in jordan 2006; i believe sadria did; i note that jack ma just made donation to queen of jordans education fund)

we are trying to invite any university student to form a club to see where is the nexus between what students most want to study practically and training that sir fazle and jack ma could mooc or otherwise maximally distribute to benefit livelihoods- togther the names of jack ma and sir fazle can be a top 100 web and top 1 web for open action learning- in branding terms this is easy as long as we quickly get all best friends of ma and abed signed up at one launch summit blessed by china and on the road to ma's sponsorship of huge expo at tokyo olympics

after 8 visits to beijing i am reasonably confident that we can get as much additional support as we want from tsinghua university in beijing (over there they know thgere are half a billion undre 30s and that china cant afford any youth left legless by mismatch between jobs and what colleges like examining-- ) additionally tsinghua with aiib is heavily into belt road pitches to india this year so education can be 2 for 1 so to speak
as long as both jack ma and sir fazle have approved a subject area as being one that needs development in this type 2 pee to peer or apprentice mode i believe we can help scale missing curricula

as you think you know i first met pauil komesdroff in 2004- i love everything he was trying to create volunteer expereinces abroad around monash and medics and cultural/arts translators;I hope we can find the right way to linkin monash as this idea gains momentum
coming soon at wechatuni : difficult questions like what happens when ai or robotic intelligence is inside your phone?
- world's largest market fund Yu'e Bao Sesame Credit score

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

help us prepare for the greatest poverty alleviation knowledge exchanges
in october aliresearch's lead professor tours best bangladeshi girl empowerment has to offer out of brac and dhaka - please tell us if you have nominations for her visit

big data small tech - bkash
crop science uni
last mile health uni
partnerships in sdg economic zones
end poverty's greatest student cubs dialogue agenda
2019 launch of micrfieducationsummit
20200 back from future partners of maolympics.com tokyo 2020
quarterbillion girls correspondent networks - 100 chinese girl journaalist for humanity; 50 bangladesh girl journalists for humanity - 50 other girls journalists for humanity

rsvp isabella@unacknowledgedgiant.com

Tuesday, May 22, 2018



before we get to what jack ma is doing - we need to understand what he needs- he needs one of his top 5 tech subrands to represent girl empowerment - the bird logo of bkash may well be the future of that


breaking feb18 alibaba chooses singapore as first university partnership outside china
breaking news alibaba tech


  • Artificial Intelligence Enters the Fashion World: Alibaba Hosts the First Global Fashion AI Algorithm Challenge
  • Fashion meets technology! On March 12th, Alibaba AI will open a new cross-border chapter - jointly launching FashionAI Global Challenge 2018 with Institute of Textile & Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (hereinafter referred to as PolyU's ITC) and The Textile Institute
  •  2018-03-12     From: Alibaba Tech

  • Inside the Chinese lab that plans to rewire the world with AI
  • Alibaba is investing huge sums in AI research and resources—and it is building tools to challenge Google and Amazon.
  • 0,1 jack ma often gives back to places where he is most appreciated- see this video with award to ma ad octorate  and how speech typifies Ma's concern to change education round jobs

    0,1.1 this podcast described how in 2015 jack ma wanted to do something for youth in hong kong - announced 100 million dolar fund both for pitching and interning A Look (& Listen) Inside Alibaba's Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund

    0.2 EASTTECH worldwide
    uniquely for china jack has very pooitive relatins in hong kong taiwan and japan - all places that invested in him early 2000s while no internet companies were in favor in china-together with s korea and singapore, these advanced eastern hemisphere developing nations can take tech to advancing human lot in ways silicon valley tech cant-

    0.2.1the question remains will ultra poor labs be included - i think that something brac-clubs should keep on asking of course with added emphasis of ultra poorest girls; is it possible to re-release consuder bangladesh mix it with the stories of yunus growing up with 2 giants but now make bkash, brac and jack ma those 2 -way channles of how youth in each nmatiuon can helpo each others sustainabiliuty chalenged communities';also stories of what bracs main tech paryners eg gates say- bkash has become his favorite banking model! and it could yet be soros' about the only petrson who can get columbia or berkeley to live up to previous if no longer curriculum partnerships with brac uni

    0.2.2 jack will love that if bkash leaders say that is part of their mission but if for some reason the quadirs dont fully include the brac mission in their early planning with jack ma the opportunity might be missed; i know that for 10 years jack has been trying to underdstand the very best of bangaldesh but he has so much to do now that bkash ultra needs a voice - a dedicatrion to sir fazle's life worlks if you will- this is where part of our agenda with shameran may be secondf meetin g mostofa and sultan to try to get into sharean mind how much alumni of sultans school want to live upo to the future sir fazle would stand for if he were 45 agian and leadin g negotiatiomns with ma

    bteween now and may 2019 xi jinping aims to have at least 100 national leaders trusting several to one development dicsussion around china- often jack ma is brought in if national leaders want to dicsuss start up culture now that china has 5 million startups a year amd is exploring internet relations to sustainability goals not the us internet purpose for big business leaders and big media intrests only

    0.2 xi jinpoing has assigned about 8 sipercity roles- taht of jack ma's city leads social and colaboration apps (what guterres has called global 2 action solutins not just endless chat)


    0.2.1 with unctad he has selected entrepreneur cohorts to train from develoing countries where he spoken with unctad
    37 asian entrpreneurs "efounders" were trained for fortnight last month in hangzhou called efounders described here -why not bangaldesh up this next round; november had seen first 28 local entrepreneurs trained from africa



    0. further ma believes the majority of education needs new curricula and new modalities eg peer to peer- he has announced this will be his main responsibility from sponsoring tokyo olympics onwards; prior to this he has record of starting experiments where he visits, 

    examples


    37 Asian entrepreneurs join Alibaba’s eFounders Initiative

    there is a lot of coordination between where jinoping puts effort and where ma pouts effort- because china is claimiing 2 of its 4 innovations of value everywhere are ecomerce and mobile cash- for example all brics leaders have tabled they want to hear from ma; moreover one of the things that ecommerce is impacting is t5hat real trade is reducing customs forms at boirders to one instead of many different bureaucracies; we try and study upcoiming summit agendas at economistdiary.com - because of india elections next year the next 6 months are expected to have a lot of china - s asia conversations many of which jack ma and so potentially bkash could be part of ; ultimately the opportunity is to get india youyth technolgists and bangla and chiense doing some joint innovations round ma's big data small and sme livelihood designs of world trade



    3 While alibaba has made purchases in many tech companies,

    I am not aware of him forming a purchase partnership with a worlrldranked fintech bkash and with education partners of brac 

    therefore bangaldesh could become a lab second only to china - my recommendation is find every brac connected institution that will help youth and younger staff (who see tech will  come to brac hq in next 10 yeras as well as everywhere else- can branstorm ideas of what could next transfornmatuion of bangladesh be-  brac university hackathons could now be in to league of world hackathons- thjemed clubs that get year round youyth meeting up could then be franchised to universities around the world building on bangaldesh's special charcteristics- gorl empowerment, and ultra poor connection with all 17 goals (while china has about 3 billion neioghbors its the 2 billion in th south west arc that is s. asia which it knows have the greatest development needs - what ma and brac learn could be replicable across s,asia - for example currently alibaba owns the number 1 browser used in mobiles in india - but opportunity windows like this often require innovation in 6 months not 6 years that non-digital markets often work on

    4 while there is cultural trust to build on each side and bkash has a lot of its focus to upgrade one can argue that china is the only country that jack ma has potentially such big data permissiuonsd as bangaldesh now gives- for ma most big dayta analysis is done for big organisation- a core innovation of alibaba is big data local benefoits

    5 in some ways alireserach foundation is jack ma's RED (of brac); from the getgo its being publishing hiostory of allbaba tests= fortyunately there is an excellent book on this by ying lowrey at tsinghua who we have met- we believe at every level - education, tech, new devlopment banking corridors- exhnages with tysinghua should start with brac and indeed with all who develop freindship between china and bangaldesh using the bkash-ma movement as a benchmark


    6 as well as the alireserach foundation which from 2004 has eixsted eg to train vilagers in ecommerce and help regions turn selected crops into national or international quality - see book alibaba way by ying lowrey who runs a course on this at tsinghua and is main beijing represnetative of aliresearch team-back in 2008 there were only a handful of tech startups- now there are 5 million a yera- aliba is one of the 3 main incubatiors and thge ebtrepreneur suburb in beijing at the gates of tsighua univeristy is the bencmark for alln supercity entrepreneur clubs; this spoace also hots the club of the 50 wealthest china entrpreneurs who want to chnage the world - jack chiars it and has been asked to connect this with jinpoings visions

    6,1moreover when ying heard that yuxuan was spending year in serve china they became best of friends - even jack ma hasnt yet sent 1000 top gradiates to lve in vilages for a yera to specify missing tech

    7 becuase china was first to host g20 after un sustainability goalos jacvk ma put about 6 months into preparing hangzhou g20 - some of the documents are here- his main announcement- in aiming to develop a global free etrade platform for smes he would fund the first 2 EWTP countries- malaysdia has taken up that offer

    -8a there are extraordinary partnres o - eg bijing's national poverty association on blockchain


    8b alibaba annually host cloud, green and other tech entrprenur countries with established funds in china, hong kong etc

    inspired by the annual china world economic forum of top 10 tech industries in play by 2025 that will either create jobs or decomate them jack is 15 months in investing 15 billion dolar dfa,mo academy- this is world elading stuff on future of ai blockchain big data small platformd whilst at smae time ma had gone out of hids way to open branches in underlooked places ehg isrela moscow;; these are not necessarily large but very focused tech hubs; one could imagine opne of tehse aliongisde bkash as putting bangaldesh on jack ma's world class map of tech who want to app the futiure 

    neither jinping and m,awant this said but theoir visions are inseparable if you understand the combination of thingds that hapened in 2008:
    western banks failed; china did not yet have credit cards - jack ma became the micredit card before any china big banks

    in china the smartp;hine becaome the universal device to design intrerent companies around

    jinping was being groomed for leaidng china from 2013- giving away e-media to 3 people of the quality of patritism of jacm ma ensured that china would never ned upo with us fame medi facebook; tpoday cgtin declares china's 4 mdern inventiosn wutb a twist are ecommerce mobile money shared biccycles, fasdt trains- specifically china leads various clusters on nations gopupsd like brics and sco- jinping has got national leaders to demand china ecomerce trading; meanwheile jack ma has been perfecting 3000 leaders one day msaterclass see toronto http://www.gateway17.com

    wherever a sustainability goal or key service sectior will, only include ultyra poor in the tech, its really only jack ,ma and brac can choose the partnbers to do this-it twons with every belt rop0ad map china makes on infrastructire snd new dev banking

    there is also some othert stiff oln ma at will you partner world record jobs 

    nite i will keep working oin this tromoroiw but i laso need alibaba way back

    Monday, May 21, 2018

    Sunday, May 20, 2018

    Tuesday, May 1, 2018

    Home - ThinkInChina even if it doesnt credit ying lowrey she is very closely associated with it and eg arranged for martina to host a lot of chinese students in italy and get cheng li from brookings to tutor them and this is also why she is very strongly connected with italy chamber of commerce-  by now there are probably many chambers of commerce that ying and her students exchange through both in beijing and nationally - eg she seems busy linking in sweden this summer and certainly has done parts of germany in past- of course mostifa can finds out more as they wechat





    we really ought to get on their 2018-2019 agenda- mostofa maybe you could find out from ying the dates of their first events in august or september- can someone either speak about the bangladesh gathering (girls greatest ngo tech partnership meets china greatest tech for youth researchers) or at least announce dialogue is starting and see if  brac u or somewhere can be welcoming committee as someone this network can also ask question to  (eg i havent found out whether brac has an intern alumni contact point but something is needed to effectively mirror how china values its youth knowing which youth in every country or every summit netwrk are sgd -committed- would you believe in chjna the mass media strongly helps youth in these regards? )

    in addition the space they regularly use is close to the campus gate of tsinghua is a huge cafe owned by a very friendly lady called lily who seemed to say anything connected with youth and girls sustainability she would always try and help open space to

    you can look at website and see history of alumni-speakers etc   1 2  3










    Beijing team 2017-18

    Martina Poletti (Italy), Project General Manager, Junior Research Fellow, Torino World Affairs Institute (T.wai)
    Bulat  Nurmukhanov (Russia), Project Officer, Special Projects Department, Moscow Centre for International Cooperation

    Rebecca Arcesati (Italy), TIC Special Projects Manager, Yenching Scholar, Peking University
    Andrea, Barbieri (Italy), TIC Associate Beijing, Prospect MA Student, Graduate Institute of Geneva
    Thiago Bessimo (Brazil), TIC Associate Beijing, Yenching Scholar, Peking University
    Alessia Bonato (Italy), TIC Associate Beijing, MA Student, University of Torino and BFSU
    Vincenzo Casciaro (Italy), TIC Associate Beijing, MA Student, University of Torino and BFSU
    Luis Felipe Checa (Peru), TIC Associate Beijing, Schwarzman Scholar, Tsinghua University
    Otávio Costa Miranda (Brazil), TIC Associate Beijing, BA Student, Renmin University of China
    Sara Paganini (Italy), TIC Associate Beijing, MA Student, University of Torino and BFSU
    Ruslan Pentyskul (Ukraine), TIC Associate Beijing, MBA Student, Renmin University of China
    Julia Oliveira Rosa (Brazil), TIC Associate Beijing, MA Student, Renmin University of China
    Theresa Stubhan (Germany), TIC Associate Beijing, Yenching Scholar, Peking University