You could say that dad The Economist's Norman Macrae learnt economics and tech's most exciting future purposes more from Bay of Bengal than any one other natural resource- even when Von Neumann asked norman to survey over 6 decades - what can humans unite with 100 times more tech per decade, Norman never forgot to apply that to Bengali GPS as much as more illustrious spaces such as advice now King Charles and Japan wanted to share or ideas that President Kennedy endorsed
Q&A (especially on 16 mapping/learning trips to Bangladesh) welcome chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Dad spent his last days as teen navigating airplanes allied bomber command stationed in burma; so evet flight improved his mind's maps of the coastal belts of the indian subcontinent, se asia down to singapore, chinese mainland over which Japan as war time enemy might fly direct. During downtime between sorties, his desert island textbook was adam smith's moral sentiments; fast forward 65 years his last public birthday in 2008 at London's royal automobile club St hames 5 minutes walk from Economist building and the palace was guested by Muhammad Yunus- 2000 of whose social business books and 10000 dvd interview with his founders Macrae's family gave to youth to help us design the curriculum of 1billiongirle.com who with the same number of boys built quarter of the world's human development - partnering in the deepest solutions of ending village poverty 20219-1970; it tunbed out to be a game of 2 halves- until late 1990s with no electricity grids so networking only by word of mouth and printed pper; then with solar and mobile launching the most extraordinary digital cooperations which in the last 4 years of Fazle Abed life time also became the origin of UN2 digital roadmapping
who were the billion girls- basically mothers to village famili9es in the tropics across the continent either inland or without access to trading ports; they were the unintended historical victims primarily of british, dutch and japanese empires; perhaps that was why even muhmamad yunus would not have enlivened the world's conscience with out Fazle Abed, 12 year an oilman fir royal dutch shell before 1970 on dedicating half a century to supporting women end poverty; although the predigital cooperations of abed were all tested in 100000 person village communities in bangladesh - knowhow was shared with tropical china; it was bangladesh that invented how village mothers could prevent infant deaths from diarrhea - oral rehydration which Unicef James Grant open sourced everywhere- the chinese in gratitude gave bangladesh the best rice crop science (originated by Borlaug alumni from 1950s) for small female farmers to turn into microfranchise businesses; as Abed would say in tropical villages the deepest data/solutions/ scaling replications are not defined by national border or creed but by mother natures coons
what changed the games of billion women empowernent were solar and mobile- now tech's deepest partners could be sought out- abed started the 21st C with the magical idea - a university for all women to share sdg solutions continuing with the most extremely challenging ones Bangladesh village mothers now discussed through all ages of education- as well as building business solutions, changing eveyone's life as both student and teacher was abed's interpretation of paulo freire and indeed all servant leaders- you can choose from the 30 most exciting cooperations pre-digital and digital womens world has ever co-create at www.abedmooc.com