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<p><em>Beijing, June 13 2018 I </em><strong>On June 13, SwedCham Beijing invited Dr. Ying Lowrey,<span> </span></strong>Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University and Deputy Director of the Tsinghua Research Center for Chinese Entrepreneurs, for a sharp talk on the secret behind Alibaba’s success. <img class="alignright wp-image-26140" src="http://www.swedcham.cn/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/l-118-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="400" height="300"/></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lowrey initiated with a discussion on Alibaba’s innovate strategies and the economic theory behind its huge success.<span> </span></strong>Highlighting the importance of pervasive small business ownership and improving economic well being, Dr. Ying Lowrey also told the story of the Taobao village, a whole village dedicated to sell local products via Taobao. According to a recent survey, there is more than 2100 villages just like this one in China today.</p>
<p>At the end of the sharp talk, Dr. Lowrey came to the following conclusions:</p>
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<li>The cyberspace inclusion unleashes grassroots entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Internet platforms provide unprecedentedly public goods and services</li>
<li>Alibaba is growing by unleashing grassroots entrepreneurship, stimulating pervasive business ownership, fostering the sustainable economic ecosystem, and shaping a new order</li>
<li>Under this order, all participants in the economy must follow rules of “invisible hands” and invisible moral standard” for Co-prosperity</li>
<li>Alibaba uses capitalist means to help reaching socialist goals</li>
<li>If Alibaba can do it, why can’t you?</li>
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<p><strong>Dr. Lowrey is also a member of the Academic Committee</strong><span> </span>for Alibaba Group Research Institute. She received her economics Ph.D. from Duke University, economics MA from Yale University and mathematics BS from Wuhan University. Currently she is writing on a new book that will be released in 2019.</p>
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<tbody><tr><td width="350"><font color="black">extract from 2024/2025 report written 1984 </font><font color="#3366FF">The 20th C Economist's end poverty deputy editor Norman Macrae's what if we redesign every value chain around Small Medium family networking enterprises "Microfranchises" not Orwell's Big Brother</font><font color="black"><span> </span>- what sort of transformation to education systems could sustain 21st c youth worldwide webbing so communities thrive wherever girls and boys are born </font><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/id550.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><font color="black"><font size="1" color="black">full book download here </font></font></a><p><font color="black"> </font></p>
<p><font><strong><font color="black">Changing education</font><br/></strong></font></p>
<p><font color="black">There has been a sea-change in the traditional ages on man. Compared with 1974 our children in 2024 generally go out to paid work (especially computer programming work) much earlier, maybe starting at nine, maybe at twelve, and we do not exploit them. But young adults of twenty-three to forty-five stay at home to play much more than in 1974; it is quite usual today for one parent (probably now generally the father, although sometimes the mother) to stay at home during the period when young children are growing up. And today adults of forty-three to ninety-three go back to school - via computerised learning - much more than they did in 1974.</font></p>
<p><font color="black">In most of the rich countries in 2024 children are not allowed to leave school until they pass their Preliminary Exam. About 5 per cent of American children passed their exam last year before their eight birthday, but the median age for passing it in 2024 is ten-and-a-half, and remedial education is generally needed if a child has not passed it by the age of fifteen.</font></p>
<p><font color="#black">A child who passes his Prelim can decide whether to tale a job at once, and take up the remainder of his twelve years of free schooling later; or he can pass on to secondary schooling forthwith, and start to study for his Higher Diploma.</font></p>
<p><font color="black">The mode of learning for the under-twelves is nowadays generally computer-generated. The child sits at home or with a group of friends or (more rarely) in an actual, traditional school building. She or he will be in touch with a computer program that has discovered , during a preliminary assessment, her or his individual learning pattern. The computer will decide what next questions to ask or task to set after each response from each child.</font></p>
<p><font color="black">A school teacher assessor, who may live half a world away, will generally have been hired, via the voucher system by the family for each individual child. A good assessor will probably have vouchers to monitor the progress of twenty-five individual children, although some parents prefer to employ groups of assessors - one following the child's progress in emotional balance, one in mathematics, one in civilized living, and so on - and these groups band together in telecommuting schools.</font></p>
<p><font color="black">Many communities and districts also have on-the-spot 'uncles' and 'aunts'. They monitor childrens' educational performance by browsing through the TC and also run play groups where they meet and get to know the children personally...</font></p>
<p><font color="black">Some of the parents who have temporarily opted out of employment to be a family educator also put up material on the TC s for other parents to consult. Sometimes the advice is given for free, sometimes as a business. It is a business for Joshua Ginsberg. He puts a parents advice newsletter on the TC , usually monthly. Over 300 million people subscribe to it, nowadays at a 5-cent fee per person, or less. Here's an entry from the current newsletter:</font></p>
<p><font color="black">"Now that TCs are universal and can access libraries of books, 3-d video, computer programs, you name it, it is clear that the tasks of both the Educator and the Communicator are far more stimulating that ten years ago.</font></p>
<p><font color="black">One of my recent lessons with my ten-year-old daughter Julie was in art appreciation. In the standard art appreciation course the TC shows replicas of famous artists' pictures, and a computer asks the pupil to match the artist to the picture. Julie said to the computer that it would be fun to see Constable's Haywain as Picasso might have drawn it. The computer obliged with its interpretation , and then ten more stylised haywains appeared together with the question 'who might have drawn these?'. I believe we are the first to have prompted the TC along this road, but it may now become a standard question when the computer recognises a child with similar learning patterns to Julie's.</font></p>
<p><font color="black">It is sometimes said that today's isolated sort of teaching has robbed children of the capacity to play and interact with other children. This is nonsense. We ensure that Julie and her four year old brother Pharon have lots of time to play with children in our neighbourhood . But in work we do prefer to interact with children who are of mutual advantage to Julie and to each other. The computer is an ace teacher, but so are people. You really learn things if you can teach them to someone else. Our computer has helped us to find a group of four including Julie with common interests, who each have expertise in some particular areas to teach the others.</font></p>
<p><font color="black">The TC also makes it easier to play games within the family. My parents used to play draughts, halma, then chess with me. They used to try to be nice to me and let me win. This condescending kindness humiliated me, and I always worked frenetically to beat my younger brother (who therefore always lost and dissolved into tears.) Today Julie, Pharon and I play halma together against the graded computer, and Julie and I play it at chess. The computer knows Pharon's standard of play at halma and Julie's and mine at chess. Its default setting is at that level where each of us can win but only if we play at our best. Thus Pharon sometimes wins his halma game while Julie and I are simultaneously losing our chess game, and this rightly gives Pharon a feeling of achievement. When Julie and I have lost at chess, we usually ask the computer to re-rerun the game, stopping at out mistakes and giving a commentary. As it is a friendly computer it does a marvelous job of consoling us. Last week it told Julie that the world champion actually once made the same mistake as she had done - would she like to see that game?</font></p>
<p><font color="black">I intend to devote the next two letters to the subjects I have discussed here , but retailing the best of your suggestions instead of droning on with mine."</font></p>
<p><font color="black">While the computer's role in children's education is mainly that of instructor (discovering a child's learning pattern and responding to it) and learning group matcher, its main role in higher education is as a store of knowledge. Although a computer can only know what Man has taught it, it has this huge advantage. No individual man lives or studies long enough to imbibe within himself all the skills and resources that are the product of the millennia of man's quest for knowledge, all the riches and details from man's inheritance of learning passed on from generation to generation. But any computer today can inherit and call up instantly any skill which exists anywhere in the form of a program.</font></p>
<p><span>This is why automatically updated databases are today the principal instruments of higher education and academic research. It is difficult for our generation to conceive that only forty years ago our scientists acted as tortoise-like discoverers of knowledge, confined to small and jealous cliques with random and restricted methods of communicating ideas. Down until the 1980s the world has several hundred separate cancer research organisations with no central co-ordinating database.</span> </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0004.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 2</font></font></a></p>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black"><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0005.pdf">chapter 3 part 1</a> </font></font><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0006.pdf"><font color="black">chapter 3 part 2</font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0007.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 4</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0008.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 5</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0009.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 6</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0010.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 7</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0011.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 8</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0012.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 9</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0013.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 10</font></font></a></p>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black"><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0014.pdf">chapter 11 part 1</a> </font></font><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0015.pdf"><font color="black">chapter 11 part 2</font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0016.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 12</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0017.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 13</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0018.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 14</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0019.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 15</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0020.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 16</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0021.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 17</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0022.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 18</font></font></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0023.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 19</font></font></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0025.pdf"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font color="black">chapter 21</font></font></a></p>
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<p><font color="#FF00FF"><span>A British economist, journalist and author, considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society. These forecasts mapped back to system designs mediated so that readers and entrepreneurial networks could exponentially calibrate shared alternative scenarios. He joined The Economist in 1949 and retired as its deputy chief editor in 1988. He foresaw the Pacific century, the reversal of nationalization of enterprises, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the spread of the internet, which were all published in the newspaper during his time there. Not to get bored, his first ten years in retirement produced the biography of Johnny Von Neumann (the mathematical father of computers and networks), a column for the UK Sunday Times, and a 'Heresy Column' for Fortune. He was the father of mathematician, marketing commentator, and author Chris Macrae. Their joint future history on death of distance in 1984 forecast that 2005-2015 would be humanity's most critical decade irreversibly impacting sustainability. In 1984, he wrote "The 2024 Report: a future history of the next 40 years". It was the first book to: provide readers with a brainstorming journey of what people in an internetworking world might do, and predict that a new economy would emerge with revolutionary new productivity and social benefits enjoyed by all who interacted in a net-connected world. In this book, he wrote: "Eventually books, files, television programmes, computer information and telecommunications will merge. We'll have this portable object which is a television screen with first a typewriter, later a voice activator attached. Afterwards it will be miniaturised so that your personal access instrument can be carried in your buttonhole, but there will be these cheap terminals around everywhere, more widely than telephones of 1984."</span> </font></p>
<p>Norman penned his last articles in 2008 for a compendium Consider Bangladesh handed out at his remembrance parties.</p>
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<p>He foresaw that that subprime would sadly delay sustainability's last call decade by about 10 years from his 1984 estimate. This would multiply the risks to all our children but the game of living up to 4000 times moore technology by 2030 would remain that whicd determined survival or extciction of our species<br/> <span>Y chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk :: </span><a href="http://www.rowp.tv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><font color="black">rowp.tv</font></a><span> :: linkedin UNwomens :: WASHINTGON DC TEXT HOTLIENE (USA=1) 240 316 8157</span></p>
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