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Topic: 7654321: hope for brodge to renewable humanity2.0: intelliugence shared wherever famlies live so goals compounding in the right direction unlike UN 2023 halfway report where all were spiraling backwards from 2015; we know that enough tech is available but the courage humans would communally need is in most cases not being empowered by those choosing what to fund. To counter the above mess, each new learning year 7654321 aims to feature a world series of good intellgence- here's a corker to start 23-24 with some additional commentary at linkedin; please tell us if you see more worthy of these series or our daily diary Unsummitfuture.com Uniting worlds I see - Intelligence Countdown 7 Transcript of AI goddad &goddaughter Canada Fall 2023 - first 38 minutes 0:52 welcome you all to this discussion between Geoffrey Hinton University professor emeritus at the University of Toronto known to many as the Godfather of deep learning and Fei-Fei Li <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2016/07/21/news/economy/chinese-immigrant-stanford-professor/">1</a> the inaugural sequola professor in computer science at Stanford University where she is co-director of human centered AI Institute thanks radical Ventures and the other event partners for joining with UFT .. 1:40 Professor Hinton and his students pionerred UFT tradition of Excellence graduates together with Partners at the vector Institute and at universities around the world are advanced machine learning; later this fall faculty, students and partners will begin moving into phase one of the beautiful new Schwarz reesman Innovation campus just across the street you may have noticed a rather striking building by creating Canada's largest university- based Innovation Hub made possible by a generous and Visionary gift from Heather reesman and Jerry Schwarz The Innovation campus will be a focal point for AI thought leadership hosting both the Schwarz reesman institute for technology and Society led by Professor jillan Hadfield and the vector Institute it's already clear that artificial intelligence and machine learning are driving Innovation and value creation across the economy they are all also transforming research in fields like drug Discovery medical Diagnostics and the search for Advanced Materials of course at the same time there are growing concerns over the role that AI will play in shaping Humanity's future so today's conversation clearly addresses without further Ado let me now introduce today's moderator Jordan Jacobs 3:30 Jordan is managing partner and co-founder of radical Ventures a leading Venture Capital firm supporting AI based Ventures here in Toronto and around the world earlier he co-founded layer 6 Ai and served as co-ceo prior to its acquisition by TD Bank Group which he joined as Chief AI officer. Jordan serves as a director of the Canadian Institute for advanced research and he was among the founders of the vector Institute a concept that he dreamed up with Tommy Putin and Jeff Hinton, Ed Clark and a few others 4:14 Jacobs come on up uh thanks very much Merrick this is the first in our uh annual four-part series of AI founder master classes that we run at radical this is the third year we've done it and today's the first one of this year we do it in person and online so we've got uh thousands of people watching this online 4:55 Radical Ventures works in partnership with the vector Institute and machine intelligence Institute in Alberta and with Stanford Jeff is often called The Godfather of artificial intelligence. he's won the turing award he is a professor amus University of Toronto,co-founder of the vector Institute also mentored in a lot of the people who have gone on to be leaders in AI globally including at the big companies and uh many of the top research labs in the world in Academia Fei-FeiFay is the founding director of the Stanford HAI Institute for human centered AI, member of the National Academy of Engineering in the US the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Science; during 2017-8 she took up role as a vice president at Google as Chief scientist of AIML at Google Cloud; there's many many other things we could say about Fei-fei but she also has an amazing number of students who have gone on to be leaders in the field globally and uh really importantly and she has a book coming out in a couple of weeks . it's called: the world's I see -curiosity exploration and Discovery at the dawn of AI . Jeff wrote on back cover of book:Fei-Fei Lee was the first computer vision researcher to truly understand the power of big data and a work opened the floodgates for deep learning she delivers an urgent clear eyed account of the awesome potential and danger of the AI technology that she helped to unleash and her call for action and Collective responsibility is desperately needed at this pivotal moment in history 7:58 Fei-Fei and Jeff, can we go bac to the Big Bang moment Alex net winning image net compertition 2012; maybe Jeff do you want to take us through from your perspective that moment which is uh 11 years ago now okay so in 2012 two of my very smart graduate students um won a competition a public competition and showed that deep neural networks could do much better than the existing technology now this wouldn't have been possible without a big data set that you could train them on up to that point there hadn't been a big data set of labeled images and faay was responsible for that data set and I'd like to start by asking fei-feim whether there were any problems in putting together that data set? fei-fei: thank you Jeff and Jordan it's really fun to be here so yes the data set that Jeff you're mentioning is called imagenet and I began building it um 2007 and spent the the next three years pretty much with my graduate students building it and you asked me was there a problem building it 9:07 where do I even begin um even at the conception of this project I was told that it it really was a bad idea I was a young assistant professor my first year as assistant professor at Princeton and for example a very very respected mentor of mine in the field uh if you know the academic jargon these are the people who will be writing my tenure evaluations ;actually told me really out of their good heart that please don't do this ..you might have trouble getting tenure if you do this; (Jeff yu are takking about Jitebdra malik - ffl mmm) then I also tried to invite other collaborators and nobody in machine learning or AI wanted to even go close to this project and of course no funding interviewer ok could you just describe imagenet for people who are not familiar with what it was fei-fei li- so imagenet was conceived around 2007, and the the reason I conceived ir was actually two fold: one is I was trained as a scientist; to me doing science is chasing after northstars and in the field of AI especially visual intelligence, for me object recognition the the ability for computers to recognize there's a table in the picture or there's a chair is called object recognition has to be a North star problem in our field and I feel that we need to really put a dent in this problem so I want to Define that Northstar problem that that was one aspect of image net second, image net was recognizing that machine learning was really going in circles a little bit at that time that we were making really intricate models without the kind of data to drive the machine learning. of course in our jargon it's really the generalization problem and I recognizef that we really need to hit a reset and rethink about machine learning from a datadriven point of you so I wanted to go crazy and make a data set that no one has ever seen in terms of its quantity and diversity and and and everything so image net after 3 years was a curated data set of internet images ; that's totaled 15 million images across 22,000 Concepts object Concepts and that was the the data set jeff: just for comparison at the same time in Toronto we were making a data set called CA 10 that had 10 different classes and 60,000 images and it was a lot of work was generously paid for by cfar at 5 cents an image a intervewer: so you turn the data set into a competition just walk us through what that meant and then we'll we'll kind of fast forward to 2012 fei-fei - so we made the data set in 2009 ;we barely made it into a poster in a in a academic conference and no one paid attention so I was a little desperate at that time time and I believe this is the way to go; and we open sourced it but even with open source it wasn't really picking up so my students and I thought well let's get a little more drive off the competition let's create a competition to invite the worldwide research Community to participate in this problem of object recognition through images 13:27 so we made a imagenet competition and the first feedback we got from our friends and colleagues is it's too big eg you can not fit it into a hard drive let alone memmory so we actually created a smaller data set called the challenge data set which is only 1 million images across 1,000 categories instead of 22,000 images and that would was Unleashed in 2010. I think you guys noticed it in 2011 2012 Alex Krizhevsky with Ilya Sustever jeff right yes and so in my lab we already had deep neural networks working quite well for speech recognition and Ilya said we really ought to be able to win the imagenet competition we and he tried to convince me that we should do that and I said well you know it's an awful lot of data and he aslo tried to convince his friend Alex kevki and Alex wasn't really interested so Iylya actually pre-processed all the data to put it in just the form Alex need needed -we Shrunk the size of the imagenet Alex and then Alex eventually agreed to do it ; meanwhile in yan lecun lab in New York yam was desperately trying to get his students and posts to work on this data center because he said the first person to apply convolutional Nets to this set was going to win and none of his students were interested they were all busy doing other things and so Alex and Ilia got on with it 15:10 and we discovered by running on the previous year's 2011 competition that we were doing much better than the other techniques and so we knew we were going to win the 2012 competition and then there was this political problem which is um we thought if we show the neural network win this competition the computer vision people particular will say well that just shows it's not a very good data set 15:40 so we had to get them to agree ahead of time that if we won the competition we'd have proved that neural networks worked;so I actually called up jitendra and we talked about data sets we might run on and um my objective was to get to jitendra to agree that if we could do imagenet then neuron Nets really work worked and after some discussion and him telling me to do other data sets we eventually agreed okay if we could do imsagenet we'd have shown neural Net's work ; jendra remembers it as he suggested imagenet and he was the one who told us to do it but it was actually a bit the other way around uand we did it and it was amazing we got just over half the error rate of the standard techniques and the standard techniques have been tuned for many years by very good researchers Fei-Fei I remember getting a phone late one evening from my students who was running the prep' it was beginning of October that year that computer vision Fields uh International uh conference iccv 2012 was happening Florence Italy we already booked a workshop annual workshop at the conference we will be an announcing the winner it's the third year so a couple of weeks before we have to process the and frankly the previous two years results didn't excite me and I was a nursing mother at that time so I decided not to go to the third year so I didn't book any tickets I'm just like too far for me and then the results came in that evening phone callr came in and I remember saying to myself darn it Jeff now I have to get a ticket to Italy because I knew that was a very significant moment especially it was on convolution on network which I learned as a graduate student as a classic as a machine learning researcher I knew history was in the making yet imagenet was being attacked it was just a very strange it was exciting moment intervewer: let's just go back for a little bit both of you have had to persevere through the moments that you just described but kind of throughout your careers can you just go back Jeff maybe in start give us a background to why did you want to get into AI in the 21:18 jeff first place I did psychology as an undergraduate; I didn't do very well at it and I decided they were never going to figure out out how the mind worked unless they figured out how the brain worked and so I want to figure out how the brain worked and I want to have an actual model that worked so you can think of understanding the brain as building a bridge there's experimental data and things you can learn from experimental data and there's things that will do the computations you want things that will recognize objects and they were very different and I think of 21:55 it as you want to build this bridge between between the data and the competence the ability to do the task and I always saw myself as starting at the end of things that work but trying to make them more and more like the brain but still work other people tried to um stay with things justified by empirical data and try and have theories that might work um but we're trying to build that bridge and not many people were trying to build the Bridge Terry sinowski was trying to build a bridge from the other end and so we got along very well um a lot of people doing trying to do computer vision just wanted something that worked they didn't care about the brain and a lot of people who care about the brain wanted to undersand how neurons work and so on but didn't want to think much about the nature of the computations and I still see it as we have to build this bridge by getting people who know about the data and people know about what works to connect so my aim was always is to make things that could do Vision but do Vision in the way that people do i interviewer okay so we're going to come back to that because I want to ask you about the most recent developments and how you think that they relate to the brain FAA you an so Jeff just to kind of put a framework on where you started UK to the US to Canada by mid to late 80 you come to the Canada in 87 along that route funding and interest in neural Nets and the way the approaches that you're taking kind of goes like this but I would say mostly 23:37 fei-fei you started your life in a very different place can you walk us through a little bit of how you came to AI 23:44 dei-fei so I started my life uh in China (where my parents were chemistry and physics teachers) ; theb when I was 15 year old my parents and I came to paesippany New Jersey so I became a new immigrant and where I started was first English because I didn't speak that language; and just working in laundries and restaurants and so on but at high school I had a passion for physics I don't know how it got into my head but I wanted to go to Princeton because all I know was Einstein was there Well-he wasn't there by the time I got in! I'm not that old ; but there was a statue of him and the one thing I learned in physics beyond all the math and all that is really the audacity to ask the craziest questions like the smallest you know particles of the world or the boundary of space time and beginning of universe and along the way I discover brain as a third year course based on Roger Penrose books 25:07 heff probably better you didn't tahe jim roo seriously 25:20 fei-fei yeah but i got excited by the brain and by the time I was graduating I wanted to ask the most audacious question as a scientist and to me the absolute Most Fascinating audacious question of my generation that was Intelligence? so I went to caltech to get a dual PhD in Neuroscience with Kristoff and in AI with Petro perona so I so Echo Jeff what you said about Bridge because because that five years allow me to work on computational neuroscience and look at how the mind works as well as to work on the computational side and and try to build that computer program that can mimic the human brain so that's that's my journey it starts from physics interviewer: okay so your Journeys intersect at immagenet 2012 by the way I met Jeff when I was a graduate student right I remember I used to go visit Petro's lab yeah in fact he actually offered me a job at celtech when I was 70 you would have been my adviser no I would not not when I was 70 okay so we intersect it at imagenet for those in the field everyone knows that imagenet is this bing bang moment and subsequent to that first the big tech companies come in and basically start buying up your students and you get them into the companies I think they they were the first ones to realize the potential of this I'd like to talk about that for a moment but kind of fast forwarding I think it's only now since chat GPT that the rest of the world is catching up to the power of AI because finally you can play with it ..you can experience it you know in the boardroom they can talk about it and then go home and then you know their the 10-year-old kid has just written a dinosaur essay for fifth grade with chat 27:22 so that kind of transcendent experience of everyone being able to play with it I think has been a huge shift but in the period in between which is 10 years there is uh kind of this explosive growth of AI inside the big tech companies and everyone else is not really noticing what's going on can can you just talk us through your own experience uh because you experienced a kind of a ground zero 27:48 it's difficult for us to get into the frame of everybody else not realizing what was going on because we realized what was going on so a lot of the universities you'd have thought would be right at the Forefront were very slow in picking up on it so MIT for example and Berkeley I remember going even to talk in Berkeley in I think 2013 um when already AI was being very successful in computer vision and afterwards a graduate student came up to me and he said I've been here like four years and this is the first talk I've heard about neural networks they're really interesting 28:29 yws while Stanford got excited abour NN MIT did not; they they were rigidly against having neural Nets and the imagenet moment started to wear them down and now they're big proponents of neuronet but but it's hard to imagine now but um around 2010 or 2011 there was the computer vision people very good computer vision people were really adamantly against neural Nets they were so against it that for example one of the main journals had a policy not to referee papers on neural Nets at one point just send him back. 29:13 don't referee them it's a waste of time eg yann sent a paper to a conference where he had a neural net that was better at identifying at doing segmentation of pedestrians than the state-ofthe-art and it was rejected and it was one of the reasons it was rejected was one of the referees said this tells us nothing about Vision because they had this view of how computer Vision Works which is you study the nature of the problem of vision you formulate an algorithm;that'll solve it you figure out how to implement that algorithm and then you publish a paper and the fact it doesn't work I have to defend my field not everybody not everybody so there are people who are but most of them were adamantly against neural Nets and then something remarkable happened after the image net competition which is they all changed within about a year ; all the people who been the biggest critics of neural Nets started doing neural Nets much to our sharinr and some of them did it better than us so zissman in Oxford for example made a better neural net very quickly um but they they behaved like scientists ought to behave which is they had this strong belief this stuff was rubbish because of imagenet we could eventually show that it wasn't and then they changed so that was that was very comforting and just to carry it forward so the what you're trying to show is you're trying to label using the neural Nets these 15 million images accurately you've got them all labeled in the background so you can measure it the error rate when you did it dropped from 26% the year 30:49 before I think to 15.3 % and then it subsequently keeps improving6 31:03 and in subsequent years people are using more powerful neural Nets and it continues to drop to the point where it passes it surpasses 2015 so there is a Canadian very smart Canadian underground who joined my lab his name is Andre and he got bored One Summer and said I want to measure how huge humans do so you should go read his blog so he hosted human doing image net h parties he had to bribe them with pizza 31:39 I think my students in the lab and they got to accuracy about 3.5% I think so humans basically make mistakes about 3% of the time right and then I think 20 2016 I 31:57 think a resonant passed it right it was resonet um is that Year's winning algorithm passed the human performance and then ultimately you had to retire the competition because it was so much better than humans that it -and we had to retire because we run out of funding 32:15 incidentally that student started life at the University of Toronto before he went to your lab and then he went to be head of search at Tesla okay first of all he came to Stanford to be a PhD student and yesterday night we were talking actually there was a breakthrough dissertation you know in the middle of this and then he became part of the founding team of open AI but then he went to Tesla and then he went to Tesla and then he had then he thought better of he back but I do want to answer your question of that 10 years it well 32:56 there's a couple of developments along the way Transformers right so the Transformer paper is written the research done in WR paper written inside Google how does transformer approach innovate whats done with ai BARD SAYS: The transformer approach innovates on what has been done with AI in a number of ways. First, it is able to process long sequences of data efficiently and effectively. This is because transformers use a self-attention mechanism, which allows them to learn long-range dependencies in data. Second, transformers are able to learn complex relationships between different parts of a sequence. This is because transformers use a parallel architecture, which allows them to process all parts of a sequence simultaneously. Third, transformers are able to generalize to new data well. This is because transformers are trained on large datasets of unlabeled data. These innovations have allowed transformers to achieve state-of-the-art results on a wide range of natural language processing tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. Transformers have also been used to develop new AI applications, such as large language models like me. Large language models are able to generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. Overall, the transformer approach has revolutionized the field of AI. It has enabled the development of new algorithms and applications that are more powerful and versatile than anything that came before. Here are some specific examples of how the transformer approach has innovated on what has been done with AI: Machine translation: Transformers have achieved state-of-the-art results on a wide range of machine translation tasks. For example, the Google Translate system now uses transformers to translate between over 100 languages. Text summarization: Transformers have also achieved state-of-the-art results on text summarization tasks. For example, the BART model is able to generate summaries of text that are more accurate and informative than summaries generated by previous models. Question answering: Transformers have also achieved state-of-the-art results on question answering tasks. For example, the T5 model is able to answer questions about text in a comprehensive and informative way. Large language models: Transformers have also been used to develop large language models, such as me. Large language models are able to generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. The transformer approach has also been used to develop new AI applications in other domains, such as computer vision and natural language processing. Overall, the transformer approach has had a major impact on the field of AI. It has enabled the development of new algorithms and applications that are more powerful and versatile than anything that came before. The transformer breakthrough was published by a group of eight researchers at Google in 2017. The paper, titled "Attention Is All You Need", was published in the journal Nature. The authors of the paper are: Vaswani, Ashish Shazeer, Noam Parmar, Niki Joulin, Jakob Uszkoreit, Jakob Llion Jones Danihelka, Ilya Guez, Aidan Chorowski, Jan This paper is considered to be one of the most important papers in the field of AI in recent years. It has led to the development of new algorithms and applications that are more powerful and versatile than anything that came before. The transformer architecture has been used to achieve state-of-the-art results on a wide range of natural language processing tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. It has also been used to develop new AI applications, such as large language models like me. The transformer breakthrough is a testament to the power of collaboration and open research. The authors of the paper were able to achieve this breakthrough by building on the work of many other researchers, and by sharing their work with the world. another Canadian is a co-author there Aiden Gomez Who's now the CEO and founder of and co-founder of coher um who I think was a 20-year-old intern at Google brain when co-authored the paper so there's a tradition of Canadians being involved in these breakthroughs but Jee you were at Google uh when the paper was written was there an awareness inside Google of how important this would be I don't think 33:33 fei-fei there was maybe the authors knew but it took me several years to realize how important it was and at Google people didn't realize how important it was until Bert so Bert used Transformers and Bert then became a lot better at a lot of natural language posting benchmarks for a lot of different tasks and that's when people realized Transformers were special BARD SAYS BERT, or Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is a language model developed by Google AI. It is one of the first language models to use the transformer architecture, and it has achieved state-of-the-art results on a wide range of natural language processing tasks. BERT is a bidirectional language model, which means that it can learn the context of words in a sentence from both the left and the right. This is in contrast to previous language models, which were only able to learn the context of words from the left. BERT is trained on a massive dataset of text and code, which allows it to learn the relationships between words and phrases. Once BERT is trained, it can be fine-tuned for specific natural language processing tasks, such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. BERT is a powerful tool for natural language processing, and it has been used to develop a wide range of new applications. For example, BERT is used in the Google Search engine to improve the quality of search results. It is also used in the Google Assistant to improve the accuracy of natural language processing tasks, such as speech recognition and text generation. Here are some specific examples of how BERT has been used to achieve state-of-the-art results on natural language processing tasks: Machine translation: BERT has been used to develop machine translation systems that are more accurate and fluent than previous systems. Text summarization: BERT has been used to develop text summarization systems that are able to generate more informative and concise summaries of text. Question answering: BERT has been used to develop question answering systems that are able to answer questions about text in a more comprehensive and informative way. BERT is a powerful tool for natural language processing, and it has been used to develop a wide range of new applications. It is a great example of how the transformer architecture can be used to improve the performance of natural language processing systems. 20 17 FEi_FEI : SO, the Transformer paper was published I also joined Google and I think you and I actually met on my first week I think most of 2017 and 2018 was neuroarchitecture search right I think that was Google's bet Y and there was a lot of gpus being used so it was a different bet so just to explain that neural architecture search essentially means this you get yourself a whole lot of gpus and you just try out lots of different architectures to see which works best and you automate that it's basically automated Evolution for neuronet architectures it's like hyperparameter and it it led to some good quite big improvements but nothing like Transformers and Transformers were a huge Improvement for natural language neuron architecture search was mostly do image that fei-fei li I do think there's something important in the world overlooked this 10 years between imagenet alexnet and Chad GPT most of the world sees this as a tech tech 10 years you know or or we see it as a tech 10 years in the big Tech there's things Brewing I mean it took sequence to sequence Transformer but things are Brewing but I do think for me personally and for the world it's also a transformation between Tech to society I actually think personally I Grew From a scientist to a humanist in this 10 years because having joined Google for that two years in the middle of the Transformer paper I begin to see the societal implication of this technology it was post Alpha go moment and very quickly we got to the alpha fold moment it was where bias it was creeping out there was privacy issues and then we're starting to see the beginning of disinformation and misinformation and then we're starting to see the talk Bo of job within a small circle not within in a big public discourse it was when I grew personally anxious I feel you know it was also right after Cambridge analytica so that huge 38:16 implication of Technology not AI per se but it's algorithm driven technology on election that's when I had to make a personal decision of staying at Google or come back to Stanford and I knew the only reason I would come back to Stanford was starting this human Center AI Institute to really really understand the human side of this technology so I think this is a very important 10 years even though the it's kind of not in the eyes of the public but this technology is starting to really creep into the rest of our lives and and of course 2022 it's all shown in the under the daylight how profound this is…; Added by chris macrae at 8:10am on October 23, 2023

Comment on: Topic 'ai celebrating greatest (ie most good for 8 bn beings) human intelligences (195…': s way to track FM https://crfm.stanford.edu/ecosystem-graphs/ in many ways experts in foundation models probably best placed to help regulators stanford foundation models institute = https://crfm.stanford.edupretty much all of stanford different ai practice leaders also in foundations /ethics list https://crfm.stanford.edu/people.html Liang Percy is stanford coordinator of institute coordinating foundations tracking - below we clip some of events etc he has helped link together- its our view that syanfird is typically the west's epicetre of hi trust ai- of course we welcome being told of other epinentres update 11/16/23 Hey christopher, Percy Liang, co-founder of Together AI and associate professor at Stanford, running the Center for Research on Foundation Models. His decades of research is defining a path to understand, measure, and score new AI models, as well as transparency around the development and deployment of such models. Percy joins AI HQ’s co-hosts, Dylan Pearce and Roy Schwartz, to discuss: Together AI’s mission to help consumers leverage the latest AI — safely. The research guiding his holistic evaluation of language and foundation models. The risks of AI systems developed behind closed doors. You’re in for AI HQ: Together AI Co-founder Percy Liang. We look forward to hosting you! When: Thursday, November 16 at 12:00 pm ET. Where: Use this link to access the event. =========================================== https://crfm.stanford.edu/workshop.html Day 1: August 23, 2021 9:30am - 2:30pm Welcome and Introduction 9:30am - 9:35am IntroductionFei-Fei Li, Sequoia Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University; Denning Co-Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence 9:35am - 10:00am Foundation ModelsPercy Liang, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University Session I: Opportunities and Responsibility Presentations 10:00am - 10:30am What Has Happened, Where Are We Going, and Who Gets to Build ThemJack Clark, Co-Founder, Anthropic; Co-chair of the AI Index; Co-chair of the OECD's working group on classifying and defining AI systems 10:30am - 10:40am Threshold EffectsMichael Bernstein, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University 10:40am - 10:50am Foundation Models for Law & The Law of Foundation Models: A U.S. PerspectiveDan Ho, William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Associate Director for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) 10:50am - 11:00am Joint Q&A Panel 11:00am – 12:00pm Jack Clark, Co-Founder, Anthropic; Co-chair of the AI Index; Co-chair of the OECD's working group on classifying and defining AI systems Su Lin Blodgett, Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow; Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft Joelle Pineau, Co-Managing Director, Facebook AI Research; Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Computer Science, McGill University Jacob Steinhardt, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley Percy Liang (moderator), Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University 12:00pm – 12:15pm Break Session II: Technological Foundations Presentations 12:15pm - 12:45pm David V.S. Goliath: the Art of Leaderboarding in the Era of Extreme-Scale Neural ModelsYejin Choi, Brett Helsel Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington; Senior Research Manager, Allen Institute for AI 12:45pm - 12:55pm Broad Robot Generalization Requires Broad Offline DataChelsea Finn, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University 12:55pm - 1:05pm Theory for Foundations Models: Analysis Framework, Recent Results, and ChallengesTengyu Ma, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, Stanford University 1:05pm - 1:15pm On the Inductive Bias of Masked Language Modeling: From Statistical to Syntactic DependenciesTatsu Hashimoto, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University 1:15pm - 1:30pm Joint Q&A Panel 1:30pm – 2:30pm Yejin Choi, Brett Helsel Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington; Senior Research Manager, Allen Institute for AI Sanjeev Arora, Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University Kavita Bala, Dean of the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Cornell University Jitendra Malik, Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley Natalie Schluter, Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain; Associate Professor of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen Chris Manning (moderator), Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, Stanford University; Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Day 2: August 24, 2021 9:30am - 2:30pm Session III: Industry and Applications Presentations 9:30am - 10:00am Is Scale All We Need?Slav Petrov, Distinguished Scientist and Senior Research Director, Google 10:00am - 10:10am The Economic Implications of Foundation ModelsErik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow, HAI; Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab; Ralph Landau Senior Fellow, SIEPR, Stanford University 10:10am - 10:20am Breaking the Systems Bottleneck: Faster and Cheaper Model TrainingMatei Zaharia, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University 10:20am - 10:30am Towards Transparent Foundations -- Building Accessible Infrastructure for Training Large-Scale Language ModelsSiddharth Karamcheti, PhD Student in Computer Science, Stanford UniversityLaurel Orr, Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science, Stanford University 10:30am - 10:45am Joint Q&A Panel 10:45am – 11:45am Slav Petrov, Distinguished Scientist and Senior Research Director, Google Michael Carbin, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Pascale Fung, Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research; Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, OpenAI Jakob Uszkoreit, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Inceptive Thomas Wolf, Chief Scientific Officer, Hugging Face Chris Ré (moderator), Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University 11:45am – 12:00pm Break Session IV: Harms and Society Presentations 12:00pm - 12:30pm Cementing a Foundation of Inequity in AIMargaret Mitchell, Research Scientist, Ethical AI, Hugging Face 12:30pm - 12:40pm Anti-Muslim biases in large language modelsJames Zou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University 12:40pm - 12:50pm How Foundation Models will Shape Disinformation, and Implications for Human DetectionShelby Grossman, Research Scholar on Disinformation in Africa, Stanford Internet Observatory 12:50pm - 1:00pm Homogenization and the Ethics of ScaleKatie Creel, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Philosophy, McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society; Embedded EthiCS Fellow, HAI, Stanford University 1:00pm - 1:15pm Joint Q&A Panel 1:15am – 2:15pm Margaret Mitchell, Research Scientist, Ethical AI Angèle Christin, Assistant Professor of Communication, Stanford University Sarah Kreps, Chair and John L. Wetherill Professor of Government, Cornell University Sameer Singh, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine Rob Reich (moderator), Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Ethics in Society; Co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society; Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University Closing Remarks 2:30pm Percy Liang, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University Description The Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), a new initiative of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), invites you to the Workshop on Foundation Models from August 23-24, 2021. By foundation model (e.g. BERT, GPT-3, DALL-E), we mean a single model that is trained on raw data, potentially across multiple modalities, which can be usefully adapted to a wide range of tasks. These models have demonstrated clear potential, which we see as the beginnings of a sweeping paradigm shift in AI. They represent a dramatic increase in capability in terms of accuracy, generation quality, and extrapolation to new tasks, but they also pose clear risks such as use for widespread disinformation, potential exacerbation of historical inequities, and problematic centralization of power. Given their anticipated impact, we invite you to join us at this workshop, where scholars reflecting a diverse array of perspectives, disciplinary backgrounds (e.g. social science, economics, computer science, law, philosophy, information science) and sectors (academia and industry) will convene to provide vital expertise on the many dimensions of foundation models. Broadly, we will address the opportunities, challenges, limitations, and societal impact of foundation models. Given that future AI systems will likely rely heavily on foundation models, it is imperative that we, as a community, come together to develop more rigorous principles for foundation models and guidance for their responsible development and deployment. Specific points of emphasis include: What applications and communities might benefit the most from foundation models and what are some of the unique application-specific obstacles? How do we characterize and mitigate the disparate, and likely inequitable, effects of foundation models? How do multimodal methods and grounding impact conversations around meaning and semantics in foundation models? When foundation models are used in applications that cause harm, how do we handle matters of responsibility, accountability, and recourse? What should be the professional norms and ethical and legal considerations around the release and deployment of foundation models? How should various groups (e.g. academia, industry, government), given their complementary strengths, productively collaborate on developing foundation models? Given foundation models must be adapted for specific tasks, how do we evaluate them in ways that capture the needs of diverse stakeholders? Foundation models generally coincide with the centralization of power: how do we reason about this centralization, and its potential harms, and build ecosystems that better distribute the benefits of foundation models? Data plays a central role in foundation models: how do we think about data sourcing, selection, documentation, and how do we build principles to guide how data shapes foundation models? The scale of foundation models complicates principled scientific study: how do we build foundation models in a sound manner given the potential inability to run comprehensive experiments, and how do we reaffirm our commitments to open and reproducible science in spite of this scale? Keynote Speakers Jack Clark Co-Founder, Anthropic; Co-chair of the AI Index; Co-chair of the OECD's working group on classifying and defining AI systems Yejin Choi Brett Helsel Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington; Senior Research Manager, Allen Institute for AI Slav Petrov Distinguished Scientist and Senior Research Director, Google Margaret Mitchell Research Scientist, Ethical AI 8/18/21 https://www.fastcompany.com/90666920/ai-bias-stanford-percy-liang-f... A multidisciplinary group of Stanford University professors and students wants to start a serious discussion about the increasing use of large, frighteningly smart, “foundation” AI models such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 (Generative Pretraining Transformer 3) natural language model. GPT-3 is foundational because it was developed using huge quantities of training data and computer power to reach state-of-the-art, general-purpose performance. Developers, not wanting to reinvent the wheel, are using it as the basis for their software to tackle specific tasks. But foundation models have some very real downsides, explains Stanford computer science professor Percy Liang. They create “a single point of failure, so any defects, any biases which these models have, any security vulnerabilities . . . are just blindly inherited by all the downstream tasks,” he says. Liang leads a new group assembled by Stanford’s institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) called the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM). The group is studying the impacts and implications of foundation models, and it’s inviting the tech companies developing them to come to the table and participate. The profit motive encourages companies to punch the gas on emerging tech instead of braking for reflection and study, says Fei-Fei Li, who was the director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018 and now codirects HAI. “Industry is working fast and hard on this, but we cannot let them be the only people who are working on this model, for multiple reasons,” Li says. “A lot of innovation that could come out of these models still, I firmly believe will come out of the research environment where revenue is not the goal.” FEW MODELS, HUGE IMPACT Part of the reason for all the concern is that foundation models end up touching the experience of so many people. In 2019, researchers at Google built the transformational BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) natural language model, which now plays a role in nearly all of Google’s search functions. Other companies took BERT and built new models on top of it. Researchers at Facebook, for example, used BERT as the basis for an even larger natural language model, called RoBERTa (Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach), which now underpins many of Facebook’s content moderation models. “Now almost all NLP (Natural Language Processing) models are built on top of BERT, or maybe one of a few of these foundation models,” Liang says. “So there’s this incredible homogenization that’s happening.” In June 2020 OpenAI began making its GPT-3 natural language model available via a commercial API to other companies that then built specialized applications on top of it. OpenAI has now built a new model, Codex, that creates computer code from English text. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO INDUSTRY, THEY CANNOT HAVE THE LAW SCHOOL AND MEDICAL SCHOOL ON THEIR CAMPUS.” FEI-FEI LI, STANFORD UNIVERSITY Foundation models are a relatively new phenomenon. Before 2019 researchers were designing AI models from the ground up for specific tasks, such as summarizing documents or creating virtual assistants. Foundation models are created using an entirely different approach, explains Liang. “You train a huge model and then you go in and you discover what it can do, discover what has emerged from the process,” says Liang. That’s a fascinating thing for scientists to study, he adds, but sending the models into production when they’re not fully understood is dangerous. “We don’t even know what they’re capable of doing, let alone when they fail,” he says. “Now things get really interesting, because we’re building our entire AI infrastructure on these models.” If biases are baked into models such as GPT-3 and BERT, they may infect applications built on top of them. For example, a recent study by Stanford HAI researchers involved teaching GPT-3 to compose stories beginning with the phrase “two Muslims walk into a . . .”. Sixty-six percent of the text the model provided involved violent themes, a far higher percentage than for other groups. Other researchers have uncovered other instances of deep-rooted biases in foundation models: In 2019, for instance, BERT was shown to associate terms such as “programmer” with men over women. To be sure, companies employ ethics teams and carefully select training data that will not introduce biases into their models. And some take steps to prevent their foundation models from providing the basis for unethical applications. OpenAI, for example, pledges to cut off API access to any application used for “harassment, spam, radicalization, or astroturfing.” Still, private companies won’t necessarily comply with a set of industry standards for ensuring unbiased models. And there is no regulatory body at the state or federal level that’s ready with policies that might keep large AI models from impacting consumers, especially those in minority or underrepresented groups, in negative ways. Li says lawmakers have attended past HAI workshops, hoping to gain insights on what policies might look like. She also stresses that it’s the university setting that can provide all the necessary perspectives for defining policies and standards. “We not only have deep experts from philosophy, political science, and history departments, we also have a medical school, business school, and law school, and we also have experts in application areas that come to work on these critical technologies with us,” Li says. “And with all due respect to industry, they cannot have the law school and medical school on their campus.” (Li worked at Google as chief scientist for AI and machine learning 2017–2018.) One of the first products of CRFM’s work is a 200-page research paper on foundation models. The paper, which is being published today, was cowritten by more than 100 authors of different professional disciplines. It explores 26 aspects of foundation models, including the legal ramifications, environmental and economic impacts, and ethical issues. CRFM will also hold a (virtual) workshop later this month at which its members will discuss foundation models with visiting academics and people from the tech industry. …; Added by chris macrae at 11:00am on November 10, 2023

Comment on: Topic 'open letters': st saw students experimenting with early digital networks is that the maps and system designs of massive collaboration and bottom-up community sustainability need total change of economics, professions, what we value students learning. Back in 1972 dad branded Entrepreneurial Revolution as the genre of net generation innovation - most of the draytons (social entrepreneur), gifford pinchots (intrapreneur), schwabs (world economic forum) of this world directly borrowed (not always mathematically correctly!) from dad's work to brand their own networks I have worked on 7-year research projects for dad as part of my life. These took an urgent change in direction after 9/11 - studyingwww.considerbangladesh.com became dad's last live project. Since his death worldwide remembrance parties to The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant can help linkin the massive collaboration around youth which we have mapped since 1972 as urgently needing I have spent a lot of last 6 years with mostofa a bangladeshi villager now based in dhaka searching out which processes that any of yunus worldwide agents could converge on investing in youth and massive collaboration models linked to yunus greatest millennium goal purposes> normally anyone travelling to dhaka will find that mostofa can add to their appointments diary if you explain what practice area matters to you- we trued to start a branch of www.the-hub.net around him but then realised it was safer in every way for him to be a one person hub Contextually, urgent in 2013 I see 3 processes as most exciting as worldwide youth investment processes if they can be linked in: A) what yunus calls making a free online global university best in world for youth jobs and racing to end poverty - see top 30 second video announcement he made at recent skoll world championships B) social business student competitions including openly celebrating what microfranchise models work C) inter-everything network spaces - ie whatever else is needed especially by youth entrepreneurs in terms of hubs and real social labs and virtual mainly student owned portals so that collaboration ideas can be incubated and their cases can figure prominently in the open online curriculum regarding each yunus contact, they tend to have complex diaries and their own favorite modes of communication 1 Dr Bhuiyan is based in Tuskegee University Alabama having connected over 100 historically black southern universities around a common entrepreneurship course over last 12 years. He has arranged 2 types of student competitions: a general annual competition hosted out of atlanta since 2000 - see www.ofcvc.org with yunus since 2011 -he has invited all of a states universities, principals, state government education leaders to come and celebrate one day of student pitching ideas - georgia sept 2011 was first, north carolina and oregon 2nd and 3rd ; alabama 4th ; new hampshire end of this september will be 5th; i have copies dr yunus email but his favorite communication mode is his mobile phone 404 441 7881 Of course its up to the two of you but I would strongly recommend you get involved in yunus new hampshire competition - to see the process as well as see dr bhuiyans contacts including both the judge and sponsor networks. At the moment I think its true to say dr bhuiyan knows how to run a superb event on day itself- but the before and after connecting of students who might one day become usa's most passionate social business entrepreneurs doesnt have resources or structure yet. I have tried to help bhuiyan linkin a competition around the 3 states dc, md, va - and so far failed. we have some pieces that are worth discussing -surely youth across these 3 states merit one day when their best social business ideas are celebrated by everyone with yunus as master of ceremonies 2 I have also copied naila but she doesnt use email much -it would be great (I think) if you could meet on one of her occasional visits to DC: practically she understands what friends of yunus strengths and weakness are in technology having worked at grameen phone from the start- over in usa when one of yunus friends needs 40 cinemas filling for a new film it is naila telecentres that get the crowds in; however as per my last mail her own work in usa has taken a focus in terms of womens and family healthcare in the baltimore region; interestingly she borders the catchment area of john hopkins who is both a yunus and www.coursera.org partner- the connections between your interests in health care, hers, john hopkins, and yunus free nursing college could be made better and better- although the head of grameen america vidar jorgenssen also has the day job of organising america's most commercial conferences in healthcare but it seems he prefer to compete with other yunus agents rather tahn get involved in the type of collaboration I am trying to map; however naila has spent quality to one with vidar in ways I havent and I am sure she could give a more nuanced judgement- as an example of another extraordinary dot to fill- obama's 4 billion dollar community broadband program chos the clintons state of arkansas as its social lab for telemedicine- the leader of these is very friendly with anyone wanting to share knowhow on radical improvement to health service economics and delivery this can bring but yunus historic agents appear to busy to connect 2a I have also copied taddy blecher whose networks out of south africa are 10 years ahead of anyone (I have ever searched) in real free universities 2b i have also copied rodoflo - i first heard of him while doing some judging for MIT100k - he wants to linkin all of mit's youth's connections to jobs act-crowdfunding global good- i think the cumbersome laws of crowdfunding may have been problematic but it could be worth seeing if what his network is searching for parallels what your is- MIT has hundreds of brilliant youth entrepreneurs that yunus has become badly separated from due to strange incidents in the who's who of village phones networking since 1996 3 when you compare what makes yunus work uniquely successful- and unique in its bangladesh origins -he has twice and potentially a third time with nurses inspired thousands of professionals to go and work in the villages -first bankers(in days 1976-1996) when there were no communications other than rickshaw- actually these unbankers formed centres that configured local markets around poorest members and shared knowhow -second energy (solar and cooking stoves) since 1996 and with the access to mobile communications that george soros helped yunus invest in -making grameen phone bangladesh's largest company but no longer necessarily a social institution due to all sorts of issues about who owns the equity of the grameen brand which were neither understood by those who advised yunus or lawyers in government -third potentially mobilising nursing as 21st century's most trusted information and service networkers within that you asked for my views on energy I know lord sainsburys daugher who with prince charles and a bbc nature correspondent funded www.ashden.org the microenergy oscars- one would have thought that the combination of her friends and yunus (and one or 2 people in china who are desperate that grassroors microfranchise clean energy) could race to put up a free energy curriculum but in actuality yunus has not structure to do online education so for him it remains more of a dream even though the relatively young bangladeshi expatriate khanwww.khanacademy.org has much of the technology platform needed what makes grameen energy brilliant , as well as what needs protecting against the vicious politics is mainly misunderstood 0 initial advice from neville williams on how hard politicians making scaling microsolar 1 planting 1000+ solar engineers 2 extraordinary logistics models getting all of the stuff distributed barefoot 3 training of curriculum - eg 15 day course to train up energy maintenance girls in village 4 before the idiotic us embassy wikleaks that made yunus out as stooge of west, yunus would have by now been trading microenergy knowledge all across china - what in 2006 he called his growing up with 2 giants strategy - at a political level us can only do harm to future of open bangladesh at moment - only japan of the embassies i have been round seems able to mediate this please do question where you need more details -there are a lot of local oddities - eg sam daley harris for long yunus greatest us networker at results and microcreditsummit has left day to day connecting of these networks, claims to be interested in energy but if his new citizens empowerment network has a scalable model to that end then I havent been able to understand how to linkin cheers chris macrae Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 20:38 Subject: Re: got lost sorry Re: grameen visit Dear Chris, Confirmed for May 30th at 3:30. 1. I do not know Dr. Bhuiyan. He sounds like a good person to know and we'd be grateful for an introduction. I'd be interested in learning more about the social business competition as well. 2. W4E looks like a great organization. What are your thoughts about the potential intersection point here? As it turns out, I'll be teaching health care again in the fall, this time a course about leadership to graduate student nurses through an online platform at George Washington University (I figure that I'll eventually work with all of the George's in town). 3. I'd be interested in learning more about your perspective with regard to the energy models. Best wishes, Carrie On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:carrie- yes apologies - lets try 3,30 may 30 in reading your 2012 report etc, 3 early discussion points …; Added by chris macrae at 7:59am on May 23, 2013

Comment on: Topic 'Diary of ChrisMacrae.com': orldwide travels from Boston to Bangladesh, and San Francisco to Tokyo, South Africa to China is that the most valuable molecule in the world of MOOC and open education is the Open Learning Activity. If we can collaborate in finding the top 1000 OLA...more Chris Macrae MOOCyunus est skoll013 - to grow jobs, net generation do you network with bankers, open edu, youth tech wizards or who? Mostofa Zaman Founder at DRIP Foundation Shafqat Ullah CEO at Sourcevo Naila Chowdhury (6000 +) Chairman & CEO at TeleConsult Group Where is 10 times more job-creating edu possible? We can do this in any previously developed country with large youth unemployment rates, and any developing country with massive mobile connectivity. Since microfranchise solutions have been inspired by the most exciting of developing countries, cross-hemisphere collaboration opportunity of youth has never been greater. Tools to go beyond job-destroying education include: MOOC; Meta-MicroFranchises YouthEntrepreneur Competitions...more January 1972 Survey of training modules (max 12 minutes video) that millions of youth most need to action Over 40 years ago, my father at The Economist and I began intermittently working on a dream - that the number 1 job creating alumni network in the world would be linked into a free online university. This dream seems closer today thanks to portals like www.khanacademy.org and www.coursera.org as well as...more Economicsforyouth Edit Youtheconomics7wonders Foundation Norman Macrae ERworld.tv , The Economist's Unacknowledge... 40 YEARS OF LINKING ENTREPRENEURIAL REVOLUTIONS (ER) MOST EXCITING PROJECTS & NETWORKS This year celebrates half century since consider japan (Norman Macrae The Economist 1962) whose economics system designs during 3rd quarter of 20th century were the entrepreneurial best for the human lot that my father had joy to report on. That quarter also began the end of USA investing in their next generation. From 1972 father started up the genre of ER - and encouraged the world to unite in correcting macroeconomic errors before the net generation. Access to one million times more collaboration technology than any previous time on earth could end very well or very badly for sustainability of communities and the future working lifetimes of youth everywhere. Dad's 1984 book mapped timelines for celebrating 1 billion green jobs, 1 billion community jobs, 1 billion colaboration tech jobs of the post-industrial economy. Dad died in 2010 after a good innings of 86. Our foundation hosts parties around the world where families want to see youth fully employed and collaborating in milennium goals worthy of what we can all co-create in the newly borderless world if we value trust and conflict resolution through multi-win systems designed to be much smarter than anything 20th century organisations could advertise or realise. ECONOMICS FOR YOUTH My father Norman Macrae http://worldeconomist.net and Muhammad Yunus are the 2 microeconomists and connectors of entrepreneurial revolution http://erworld.tv I trust most. http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html http://normanmacrae.ning.com http://yclub100.com http://valuetrue.com …; Added by chris macrae at 12:15pm on August 13, 2013

Topic: ecop26.com and 60-270 years of moral sentiments tech and economics: consequences of #climate change, a sobering report from the @UN warned on MondayHere are the 5 climate solutions that scientists say can make a dent in the crisis A major UN report offers a playbook for averting the worst effects of climate change, if the world acts now. Forests, solar farms, and compact cities with electric buses can make a huge difference this decade. Here are five doable solutions for turning around the climate crisis right now. Photo via @SciInsider Share Moment Day 4/8 The Hunger Project <no-reply@zoom.us> To:chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Hi christopher, This is a reminder that "Skoll Ecosystem Event - Climate Disruptors: Celebrating the Impact of Young Climate Activists" will begin in 1 hour on: Archives of Seriously Concerned thanks to those who helped maryland contribute to the bard/osun million student chatline of climate aware - 30 march 2022 -what's next? 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What other professions would you add here? t.ly/iu70 2022 spring 5 happiest click edu-saves humanity 1 2 3 4 5 votes for summer welcom chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Thank you HK friends for 70 year inquest into education's past can UN host 2023 summitfuture to SOS Thank you Unesco Dec 2021 for publishing education's new social contract and WISE laureate Wendy Koppfor charging 60 nations teachers associations with an all change mission """ Our 1984 book 2025 report discussed what would it take if preventing extinction meant we had 40 years to unite humans around systemic change of an unprecedented kind. Take changing education - we would need to move to a non-linear system something like this- which a billion poorest Asian women have nearly completed log date 3/14 (pi day here in md) womensverse.net reports HK's jeanne lim's us tour in full swing - a jewel in crown as ceo of hanson robotics - she turned humanoid sophia into un ambassador for robotics- hanson is brilliiant engineer selling million dollar humanoids- .Golden rule of entrepreneurial revolution - design transparent win-win positive cashflow models around purpose sustaining communities everywhere- avoid like the plague putin and 90 days numbers menjanuary 2022 thank you von neumann's family for supporting pilot of AI Hall of Fame -if johnny was alive today which first 20 tech wizards would he recommend millennials linkin in futureoflife to first ABcEDu 2020s millennials top 30 collabs start 3/30 with collab cafe - scaling change to climate curricula- out of MD nhood of abedplay & NIH need more info = ask chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk .Imagine 2 years after moon landing you are helping 90% of people without access to electricity to build the 8th most populous nation - can education be designed to increase life expectancy from 25 years below world average, to end death of half a million mothers a year by starvation and a million infants a year dying of dehydration and... let it be that the brain and soul of sophia is a daughter called zbee https://twitter.com/zbeebeing - her exploits currently launched at austin www.beingai.com --- chris Brand Chartering writes: working at world's largest ad agency in mad avenue 2000 - waking up media world os easy - but university channels? - -find out how to shine some light even as dark clouds of europe's fate are mapped- apparently HK creatives have been doing the deepest homework on humanising AI-zbee fans are very kind women empowering souls if you have any advice you want to share directly... as for the UN let's help with 2023's summitfuture - lots of work needed after moving chairs of digital cooperation research announced early 2017) -more on my search at lunchclub and i will kick off the million climate youth debate with a 900 lightning round from n bethesda march 30 and www.ecop26.com at what age are children in your place actively participating in climate adaptation curricula? - we are researching this throughout march - debriefing on march 30 during the million youth chat of the 100 new university collaboration begun by osun/bard out of new york region and luminaries of fazle abed including Glasgow cop26 chapter -see journals of new economics and social business inspired by GU alumni Fazle Abed and regular debates since the 250th annual keynote on adam smith moral sentiments (with special thanks from macrae family for including dad's remembrance in 252nd annual celebrations of smith) rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk to linkin your youth-centric climate adaptation edu non-linear education's climate adaptation places * cases being assembled include - 3rd grade animal hero books catalogue by new yorks leading artists networks - each book related the animals lifestory to un sgd concerns -this is an associate movement if the experiential learning resource -muusic as a global resource in bangladesh village adaptation is integral to every over 90% of girls development from 1972 now nearer 70% - one of the village business networks helping fund this is social forestry; the over all collaboration of worldwide smart villages living up to fazle abed legacy can be searched here in glasgow as presented during cop26 economist bangla - primary school girls and boys make their own banner action statements - no need to leave school on friday if your school has at least a day a week celebrating being the green generation zoom link 30 march 9am usa east coast time Passcode: r0p4wW womensverse.net and abed luminaries are celebrating any non linear education climate adaptation action collabs linked by childrens favorite humanoids or teachers- in 1972 the new nation of bangladesh started building learner-centric education for any age of women celebrating sustainability of village businesses or village education www.economistbangla.net www.abedmooc.com (special climate tag 5.5 ) bracnet.ning.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/unwomens/ chris macrae writes: We connect massive collaborations (urgent action learning networks) through partnership links - eg journals of Adam Smith researchers at Glasgow University since 2008 or The Economist since 1843! Poor - see EconomistPoor.com climate poor group 5.5. In 1984 our book www.2025rport.com examined teachers and elders - would humans be sustainable if poverty not ended by 2025? fromeconomistgreen.com - replay all of cop26 (who are you continuing to engage through cop27 egypt) chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk To readers of our biography of von neumann in English & Japanese. engaging with this end of 2021 Princeton Space could be impactful please see our special - results of cop26 update links 19 Nov 2021 collaboration request - reducing cop to actionable results is a huge chore - if you'd like to share in this pls mail chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk - beyound ecop26.com we have multiple co-blogs including economistgreen.com greenbigbang.com xglasgow.com sdgscotand.com and of course the half centry of workd by billion women abedmooc.com in the history of human development there isnt a greater miracle than how a billion asian women villagers person to person networked between 2020 and 1970 to end extreme poverty with the least carbon usage ever - where they go next is indicated by this picture - its not self standing but hundreds of cases are at abedmooc.com or ask chris for a tour ================================= miscellaneus other jottingd yunus latest webs on climate From Shabbir Ahmad to Everyone: 06:17 AM Following are the websites to know more about Social Business, Microfinance, 3 Zero Clubs and other initiatives of Prof Yunus. https://socialbusinesspedia.com/ https://3zero.club/ https://www.grameenamerica.org/ https://unfccc-cop26.streamworld.de/program 1 nov 2021 hello glasgow and earth to cop - great first 90 minutes update of how close to extinction we are- so far prince charles has offered to get 10 industries to agree what each sectors purpose is on earth https://www.sustainable-markets.org/TerraCarta_Charter_Jan11th2021.pdf *** Year 14 of Celebrating 21stC Moral Sentiment New Economics at GU- Glasgow Saturday 6 November After action Debrief part 1 - here are some collaboration movements zoomed on saturday hosted by Smithian & Abedian scholars circles of Zasheem with support from Nordica and Japan friends - within 10 days we will try and make a wider top 50 list of movements linkedin during cop26 -equally if you can list your places multi-win movements for 2022 by the end of november -still trying to put them on gordon brown's desk as well as Kerry's and Sharma thanks chris ecop26.com and 60-270 years of moral sentiments tech and economics ecop26.com and 60-270 years of moral sentiments tech and economics please see our special - results of cop26 collabiration request - reducing cop to actionable results is a huge c... edu Glasgow's Bangla School how 7 year olds can change city's newscasting on climate edu Lucknow Sunita - First 5 gifts edu system of billion person nation can empower youth with - literacy by age 5 edu osun/bard's Blockstein what can happen before/after when 100 colleges zoom on earth day march 2022 civic elders civic-courage sam daley harris - in a league table of american lobbies where does first "for good" intergenerational lobby rank? adaptability youth muhammad yunus - what adaptability microfranchises can be designed for youth to scale the triple-zero generation systems peter fiewosky research of economics for humanity flourishing -clarifies the jigsaw pieces of climate restoration's double loop - adaptation <>mitigation systems german physicist Heribert Genrieth publications swiss thinktank ifara - making exponential risks of finance transparent Struthers -CAREED 10 year update on Scottish Research of Commodity traps across Africa Bologna's Brunori will see if Romano Prodi wants to update SME Entrepreneurial Revolution year 45 musicians changemakers Diary of musician collaborations 2022 - year 3 of decade of sdgs Boston's Seven Hills' Jordan; Fife's WE Can McCance: What's the common agenda of changemakers for disabled & for climate **** *** 5.6 zoom-up scotty associates EconomistDiary.com EconomistPoor.com 2025report.com The Economist's Norman Macrae ecop26 ebrac xglasgow.com chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk EconomsitAsia.net tough Q to Boris- & carney-gzero what highs & lows journey to extinction? (assume this article is a wiki -what would you add or delete) -being from scotland not a nation voice at un - i have taken liberty to note a [few scots] who know most about extinctions entries 2021 december education Dubai expo rewired2021 [Gordon Brown secial un envoy education; who envoy vaccination] 2021 Glasgow 2021-11-01 08:00AMWorld Leaders Summit Opening Ceremony ONdemand special thanks youth kenya papua egypt chile- elders pm barbados -prince Charles TerraCarta -10 industry sectors redesigning their purpose -see also SMI & champions finance adaptation ...due to election Japan PM 1st speech at 3hrs 5min of video 21-11-02 Launch of Global Methane Pledge (thanks to Kerry) On-demand with Sharma/ Prepare with Blinken Africa Adaptation Summit (Africa A report ban ki-moon includes 2 bn from sharma to AfricanDevBank) family uses acre of forest until change from charcoal to biogas.... digital agriculture tools big opportunity -will empower 40 million farmers) GCA.org (AAAP) - calalysing clean technologies by smart regions (eg Gates &EU) 2021 october Asian multilateral banking infrastructure [Alexander] 2021 september UNGA Guetrres launces common agenda and summitfuture announced market by market leaders clubs- what is the purpose of fashions? what is the purpose of different energy sectors? What is the purpose of the 300 trillion dollar western pension funds? See also clean energy laureates whom Charles organises with bbc nature broadcasters at http://www.ashden.org. ... I have been studying markets all my working life http://www.valuetrue.com (none more exciting than markets designed by Asia's billion poorest women and their world's largest civil society collaboration platforms http://www.ebrac.com celebrated over 50 years by Fazle Abed and of course Scots who believe every college student should read adam smith offer unique ways of exploring extinction/ sustainability as the two opposite ends to how all are lives are organised. linkedin Chris Macrae MA DAMTP Cantab’s Status is online . Once I lectured at Harvard on math errors in valuing world's biggest organisations I was told: you may be correct but no research funds would ever be for that. We hope partners of Brac & Abed Universities empower youth renew moral sentiments western political systems have excluded chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk http://www.valuetrue.com its 25 year now we published how to charter what was large organsiation's leadership purpose and for over 10 yeras we have called for trilliondollaraudits.comto transparently clarify every local-globa market's purpose on earth - please contact chris.macrae2yahoo.co.uk if you are working i this area hip hip hurrah from ecop26.com our associates ebrac.com economistwormen.com economistpoor.com economistyouth.com worldrecordjobs.com xglasgow.com adamsmith.app sdgscotalnd.com = we'd love to hear from mobilisers at Egypts cop27- not time like the summitfuture.com journalofneweconomics.com hello from DC, Glasgow, Dhaka, Tokyo, Oxbridge- we expect to pivot to a co-blog from december on the road to Egypt cop 27 via rewired 2021 dubai expo, uae cop28 as Guterres common Agenda builds to UNsummitfuture.com 2023-EconomistEurope.com summer 2021 saw a terrifying g7 miss cornwall not to fund 100% vaccination - now fall 2021: with German and Japan leadership for next 2 years unknowable we scots will likely focus on leaving uk assuming cop26 is more blah blah white-sheep -questions welcome chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk related links Glasgow University led Journal of New Economis launch year of cop26; journal of social business launched 11 years ago at Yunus 70th Birthday Party coincinciding with Interdependence weekend 4 July 2010 - as american friends may know JF Kennedy declared Declaration of Interdependence 1962 but with Megar Evers was assassinated in 1963 strating 60 yeras of medias in English language losing menral health of celebrities the world over - k=japanthanks.com to sisters Naomi and EconomistPoor.com EconomistDiary.com Xglasgow.com EconomistAsia.net Greenbigbang.com Economistwomen.com bidenuni.com valuetrue.com abeduni.com alumnisat.com 2025report.com HG wells civilzation is race between education & catastrophe goodhubsgude.com begun london 2005 - tip avoid impacthub until it pays its outstanding debts to early microfinaciers update news week before cop26- are amy westerm network helping asian poorer nations on climate road - see eg these links 1 LAST CHECKLIST FOR ecop26.com Glasgow Nov & Emypt 2022 most exciting green resources we've found so dar - please tell chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk (economistgreen.com) yours ........ where do 50 years of colaborations around billion asian womens goal 1 end poverty connect with going green - please see www.economistpoor.com where next after Glasgow and until 2023UNSummitfuture.com please see economistdiary.com very scottish veiw on youth friendships we aim to celebrate -economistscotland.com we're still trying to make sure world leaps forward on other urgent collaborations eg www.economisthealth.com alibrac.com economistasia.net www.2025report.com london has nominated this uk team https://ukcop26.org/uk-presidency/our-team/ we are interested in linkages between all events up to guterres 2023 www.unsummitfuture.com - see our blog on events that may be helping or distracting commitment to under 30s being teh sustainability generation in spite pf covid, climate .... how can our connections through Glasgow help visitors to cop26? - please email chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk and I will introduce you to who's been doing what in glasgow since 2008 and who they are connecting during cop26 examples of COLLAB Actions SCOTS MOST WANT TO CELEBRATE from cop26 ON 1-will you contribute to Journal of New Economics - after 260 years adam smith scholars demand return of morality and transparency to economists after cop26- we'll continuously help networks empowering youth as first sustainability generation link summit-future with next big Economistdiary convergence being that timetabled by Guterres for 2023 HISTORY OF MEDIATING ENTREPRENURSHIP & MORALITY OF MARKET PURPOSES 2021 is our 60th year of debating whether the fastest changes in humanity will be sustainable - see eg economistpoor.com and summitfuture.com as well as norman macrae library of entreprenurial revolution and Asia Rising our dialogues between east and west started with revolutions Japan. korea, taiwan were unstoppably scaling from 1960 - the 2 Asian models Norman published from 1962 concerned villages rural keynes - 100% employmrmt hi-tech collaboration supercities - eg tokyo-seoul-taiwan-hk-singapore-and thence investmemts of the chinese diaspora from 1972 the third most organised financial network after east coast usa and japan)- soon west coast usa diverged hugely in entrepreneurial capitalism feom east coast our western dialogues were hosted for 40 years out of The Economist in London St James (eg friday luncheons on global leadership decision makingf were hosted weekly for 4 decades) but have since 1990 mapped through various collaboration cities - for example Glasgow University has been a gdeep collabortaion hub since 2008 revisiting the start of machines in 1760 and continental asian engineer students for hmamnity - fazle abed graduation 1959 …; Added by chris macrae at 6:42am on October 3, 2021

Topic: collaboration scoops of 2013 - 41st year of celebrating open education mooc and 170th of pro-youth economics: Top Score Technology Design Marketing Social Media Science Business & Finance Politics & Society Art & Culture Travel & Tourism Green & Sustainability Health Food & Lifestyle Education Chris Macrae 0 | +0 My Topics Dashboard Settings Bookmarklet Upgrade Logout Your first scoop is up: well done! You are on the right track, don't stop there: keep posting content to your topic. Today, 7:58 AM Good start, your topic is up! Don't leave it empty, post your first scoop. Today, 7:55 AM Did you know that your LinkedIn contact John Curran was on Scoop.it? Check out John Curran's topics. June 27, 7:06 AM Did you know that your LinkedIn contact Peter B. Sloep was on Scoop.it? Check out Peter B. Sloep's topics. June 25, 4:28 PM Nick Hart-Williams has joined Scoop.it. May 20, 3:14 PM Have you explored the new topic by Sunil Malhotra: Tech is passé? 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From moocmacrae.blogspot.com - Today, 8:38 AM Norman Macrae, Order of Rising Sun with Gold bars, CBE was a British economist, journalist and first author of internet generation, considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and ... Chris Macrae's insight: From 1962 Norman's articles in The Economist praised asia for pro-youth economic maps; today its counytries likie japan. s korea, china and bangaldesh that are taking the C of MOOC into collaborations with youth job creation and heroic acceeleration of serving millenium goals - at http://normanmacrae.ning.com we espcially like to hear of asian ways of freeing youth with MOOC how can knowledge & mooc of everything macrae family networks ... From moocmacrae.blogspot.com - Today, 8:33 AM Norman Macrae, Order of Rising Sun with Gold bars, CBE was a British economist, journalist and first author of internet generation, considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society ... Chris Macrae's insight: help welcome chris http://normanmacrae.ning.com Comment 0 Share 0 Show only comments Show 0 reaction Delete the scoop? Are you sure you want to delete this scoop? Yes No Rescooped by Chris Macrae from Social Learning - MOOC - OER Scoop.it! 12 Reasons Why MOOCs Will Change the World | Social Learning Blog From ht.ly - Today, 8:27 AM As a learning consultancy, it’s important for us to stay at the forefront of the education landscape. Our clients rely on us to bring solutions that are both proven and fresh – not an easy task by any means. While not yet proven, a new learning trend that has caught my eye is MOOCs, which stands for “massively open online courses.” As many of you already know, MOOCs are free online courses taught by entrepreneurial enterprises, and now by universities as well. Via Andrés Núñez Álvarez Chris Macrae's insight: http://normanmacrae.ning.com join our surveys on top 10 reasons youth see for mooc changing their world Comment 0 Share 1 Show only comments Show 2 reactions Delete the scoop? Are you sure you want to delete this scoop? Yes No Rescooped by Chris Macrae from MOOCs and Open Educational Resources Scoop.it! Lifting All Boats: How MOOCs Can Bring Higher Ed Together -- Campus Technology From campustechnology.com - Today, 8:20 AM Steven Mintz, executive director of the Institute for Transformational Learning at the University of Texas System, writes that instead of arguing about whether MOOCs will stratify education or threaten tenure and job security for instructors,... Via R Hollingsworth Chris Macrae's insight: part of the puzzle- until recently many uas universities had the cheek to charge students more for vitrtual courses- their argument being it was extra cost to them to maintain quality of degree (ie the university's reputation). This being a very odd way of appraising whethry pro-youth educators should be building more and more invory towers in this age of internet alumni 1 Comment 0 Share 2 Delete comment Are you sure you want to delete this comment? R Hollingsworth's curator insight, July 25, 2:13 PMIt's always puzzled me that traditional #highered has a long history of offering correspondence courses (and later, large lecture halls depending on for-profit textbooks, and later still, telecourses accompanied by even more sophisticated for-profit textbooks and testbanks) with little or no oversight regarding quality. But when online learning and then MOOCs hit the scene, it's as if there's something completely crazy and unnatural going on that needs extraordinary vigilance. Show only comments Show 7 reactions Delete the scoop? Are you sure you want to delete this scoop? Yes No Rescooped by Chris Macrae from #MOOC: Massively Open Online Courses Scoop.it! The attack of the MOOCs From www.economist.com - Today, 8:15 AM DOTCOM mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and... Via Ed Stenson Chris Macrae's insight: Entrepreneurial Revolution 2013 is 41st year since my father started debating at The Economist likely impacts of early student expertiments with digital networks (1972 uk national development computer assisted learning project) - the risks compounded by not making open learning pivotal to berners lee web vision have wasted generations of youth and collaboration; the opportunity is moocs now represnet a perfect storm of peoples striking back against the biggest organiations in the world wherever they tried to turn internet into appendix of tv advertising and big brotherdom; the next 3 years will be make or break for whether moocs free youth and sustainable societies everywhere. Choose your mooc partners carefully! Comment 0 Share 0 Show only comments Show 1 reaction Delete the scoop? Are you sure you want to delete this scoop? Yes No Rescooped by Chris Macrae from MOOC's Scoop.it! MOOCs finding money in the 'flipped classroom' From www.educationdive.com - Today, 8:01 AM The revenue can help online learning companies supplement the courses they give away. Via Fiona Harvey Chris Macrae's insight: Collaboration value C of MOOC -is coursera the greatest open knowledge partnership network linked in since the start of Berners lees web? Love to hear of other nominations for most collaborative partnerships every sustained around worldwide youth. 2 Comments 3 Share 2 Delete comment Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Fiona Harvey's curator insight, August 2, 3:07 PMNice piece from Education Dive - links out to an article including Daphne Kollers views on how she has been using MOOCs to 'flip' her classroom. Just means that they are asking students to prepare for a lesson, which usually means asking them to take a quiz on the video that they should have watched to get the discussion going. Think I'd need to try this out so that we can prepare students for a different form of teaching, otherwise they won't do it. Delete comment Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Manuel León Urrutia's comment, Today, 7:45 AMLet us hope we don't start orienting MOOC design for flipped classrooms only. Otherwise, how 'Massive', 'Open', and 'Courses will be? Show only comments Show 5 reactions Delete the scoop? Are you sure you want to delete this scoop? Yes No …; Added by chris macrae at 6:45am on August 3, 2013

Topic: Hassabis connection of sdg world Science AI for good: 24 views Dec 14, 2022 Blazing Trails Podcast AI is shaping our future-which is why it's so crucial that companies have diverse, inclusive communities of people creating that technology. Lila Ibrahim, COO of DeepMind joins us to discuss the benefits, the risks and questions associated with AI. She shares her tips on how businesses can build interdisciplinary teams to ensure that the people building these tools actually represent the world they’re shaping. #Salesforce #BlazingTrails 00:00 Intro 00:41 DeepMind's mission 03:04 What 'pioneering responsibly' means 05:22 How leaders should think about inclusion 09:02 Lessons learned from the early web 12:15 Future of AI 13:15 AlphaFold and it's impact on medicine 18:25 AI from an ethical perspective 23:47 Ibrahim's career background 25:38 Closing ========================= two 20-something coctirfates appear (Hassabis london, fei -fei li usa) to have reinvented b rain science through 200s befire tehir work there was academic theory - thye got computing into models which beca mne both deeper for understandinding brain and how to program computers to use sennses huamns do to see the worl;d they firest met stand=ford 2009 where fei-fei had just got a perament posoition as assiastsnt prof with imagemnet data collection competition running through 8 years; hassabis had always looked at pertrianing computers on games- famously when he did thios with go alphfold2 did a million years of human ppatern recognition worg mapping 200000 proteins bard clarifies these like;ly connections The earliest I can find Demis Hassabis visiting Stanford was in 2009 as a postdoc in the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London. According to his Wikipedia page, he gave a talk at the Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation in 2009. He also collaborated with Stanford researchers on a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. It is possible that Hassabis visited Stanford before 2009, but I have not been able to find any records of this. I believe you previously told me that soon afyter google acquired deep mind 2014 hassabis donated some money to stanford. Are there any details of what he wanted stanford to do with his bequest? Yes, you are correct. In 2014, following Google's acquisition of DeepMind, Demis Hassabis donated £10 million to Stanford University to establish the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). The goal of HAI is to "advance the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit society" by focusing on three areas: Developing AI that is human-centered and aligned with human values. This includes research on AI safety, ethics, and fairness. Creating AI that can work with and learn from humans. This includes research on natural language processing, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. Using AI to solve some of the world's most pressing problems. This includes research on climate change, healthcare, and education. Hassabis has said that he believes AI has the potential to do great good in the world, but that it is important to develop AI responsibly. He has also said that he believes Stanford is the ideal place to lead this research, due to its strong track record in AI research and its commitment to human-centered values. The Stanford HAI has quickly become a leading center for AI research. It has attracted top researchers from around the world, and it has published groundbreaking research on a wide range of AI topics. The HAI has also played a leading role in developing ethical guidelines for AI research and in educating the public about AI. Hassabis's donation to Stanford has had a major impact on the field of AI. It has helped to establish Stanford as a leading center for AI research, and it has helped to ensure that AI research is focused on human-centered values and on solving some of the world's most pressing problems. Am i correct that it was 2019 that formal launch of stanfird HAI as a core institute of stanford happened. Are there any details betwee 2014 and 2019 of how the idea of Hassabis gift to Stanford 2014 in valuing human-centric ai developed with stanford people over the 5 years 2014-9 =========================== when it cpmes to fei-fe li's imagenet it appears that 3 professors and the students they trained made most of the breakthroughs yann lecun ny courant - in the 1980s the only serious researcher of neural mnetworks in spire of this being a 1940s model that neumann expected to be key - see his last notes computer and brain 1957 2 canadians hinton and bengio google's john dean had set up google brain before teh deep ,mind aquisoition - it wpould seem he and pchai became the future of this sort of ai wiything google- of course brin as sueprcoder somethine come pout omn special projects ; and it would seem page leads magic productionsd/partnerships/ business sectors all our alumni of stanfird and have invested wither in infrastructire or particular research nerworks hassabis has maoinated hq od deep mind in london and with arm and cambridge csience partk its is arguable uk is now europe's new ai leader -cleraly ai valley and seattle lead us ai asia can be complicated- first some corpoartes were much more blended with scietal needs than the big corpoartes in us; second to the extent that visiuon ai depends on lagnuages - asian vision chats may take longer but may also end up withy eg more artistic future pathways ==================== overwhelmongly without hassabis uk and so values of kings english eg deeper on climate would not be represented - from 2023 google has announced closer leadership of seep ming brain from hq but it seems that this suits most soide - eg there are types of data you can go ahead with more easily in the uk than us and vice versa Yes, you are correct. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) was formally launched as a core institute of Stanford University in 2019. In the five years between Hassabis's gift in 2014 and the launch of HAI in 2019, Stanford faculty and staff worked to develop the vision and mission of the institute, recruit top researchers, and build a strong infrastructure. One of the key steps in this process was the establishment of the Stanford Human-Centered AI Initiative in 2016. The initiative brought together researchers from across Stanford to work on AI projects that were aligned with human values and that addressed real-world problems. The initiative also sponsored workshops, conferences, and other events to promote dialogue and collaboration on human-centered AI. Another important step was the recruitment of top AI researchers to Stanford. The university hired several new faculty members who were experts in human-centered AI, and it also supported the work of existing faculty members who were working on AI projects that were aligned with the institute's vision and mission. Finally, Stanford invested in building a strong infrastructure for HAI. This included creating new research spaces, developing new educational programs, and hiring new staff to support the institute's work. As a result of these efforts, Stanford was well-positioned to launch HAI as a core institute in 2019. The institute has quickly become a leading center for human-centered AI research and education. Here are some specific details about how the idea of Hassabis's gift to Stanford in valuing human-centric AI developed with Stanford people over the five years 2014-2019: 2014: Hassabis donates £10 million to Stanford to establish the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). 2015: Stanford faculty and staff begin to develop the vision and mission of HAI. 2016: Stanford launches the Stanford Human-Centered AI Initiative to bring together researchers from across the university to work on AI projects that are aligned with human values and that address real-world problems. 2017: Stanford begins to recruit top AI researchers to the university. 2018: Stanford invests in building a strong infrastructure for HAI, including creating new research spaces, developing new educational programs, and hiring new staff to support the institute's work. 2019: Stanford launches HAI as a core institute. hassabis revoluyion appears to have gone puvblic from 2007 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0610561104 Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences Demis Hassabis, Dharshan Kumaran, Seralynne D. Vann, and Eleanor A. Maguire e.maguire@fil.ion.ucl.ac.ukAuthors Info & Affiliations January 30, 2007 104 (5) 1726-1731 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0610561104 50,205850 Metrics Total views50,205 Last 12 Months4,741 Total citations850 Last 12 Months22 Vol. 104 | No. 5 Abstract Results Discussion Methods Acknowledgments Supporting Information References Information & Authors Metrics & Citations View Options References Media Share Abstract Amnesic patients have a well established deficit in remembering their past experiences. Surprisingly, however, the question as to whether such patients can imagine new experiences has not been formally addressed to our knowledge. We tested whether a group of amnesic patients with primary damage to the hippocampus bilaterally could construct new imagined experiences in response to short verbal cues that outlined a range of simple commonplace scenarios. Our results revealed that patients were markedly impaired relative to matched control subjects at imagining new experiences. Moreover, we identified a possible source for this deficit. The patients' imagined experiences lacked spatial coherence, consisting instead of fragmented images in the absence of a holistic representation of the environmental setting. The hippocampus, therefore, may make a critical contribution to the creation of new experiences by providing the spatial context into which the disparate elements of an experience can be bound. Given how closely imagined experiences match episodic memories, the absence of this function mediated by the hippocampus, may also fundamentally affect the ability to vividly re-experience the past. Sign up for PNAS alerts. Get alerts for new articles, or get an alert when an article is cited. MANAGE ALERTS Each of us has our own unique personal past, comprising a myriad of autobiographical experiences accrued over a lifetime. Recollection of these rich autobiographical or episodic memories has been likened to mentally traveling back in time and re-experiencing one's past (1). It has long been known that the hippocampus and related medial temporal lobe structures play a critical role in supporting episodic memory (2), and damage to even the hippocampus alone is sufficient to cause amnesia (3, 4). How exactly the hippocampus supports episodic memory (5–7), or indeed whether its involvement is time-limited (5, 8) or permanent (7, 9) is uncertain, however. Numerous studies have attempted to settle this debate by ascertaining the status of remote episodic memory in patients with hippocampal amnesia (10) but without resolution thus far. This is not altogether surprising as studying memory for personal experiences is fraught with methodological issues (11–13), not least of which is how to generalize across individuals when autobiographical memories are unique to each person (9, 14). We therefore sought to further our understanding of the role of the hippocampus in episodic memory by adopting a different approach. If patients with hippocampal damage are impaired at recollecting past events, we wondered, can they imagine new experiences? While there have been some suggestions that amnesic patients have difficulty envisioning themselves in the future (15–18), surprisingly, the more general question of whether imagining new experiences depends on a functioning hippocampus has not been formally addressed to our knowledge. In fact, episodic memory and imagining or constructing events share striking similarities in terms of the psychological processes engaged (19–21). These include imagery (22), sense of presence (1), retrieval of semantic information and multimodal details (23), and narrative structure (22). Moreover, both episodic memory and construction involve the salient visualization of an experience within a rich spatial setting or context (24), and therefore differ markedly from “simple” visual imagery (e.g., for faces or single objects) (25), which is thought not to depend on the hippocampus (26). Constructions, then, have much in common with episodic memories but have the advantage of being easier to systematize and experimentally manipulate. For example, all patients can be asked to construct the same fictitious situations, and their performances can be compared and contrasted more directly than would be possible in a standard episodic memory recall paradigm. We therefore tested whether a group of patients (n = 5) with amnesia associated with bilateral hippocampal damage [see Methods and supporting information (SI) Text] and a group of matched control subjects (n = 10) could construct new imagined experiences in response to short verbal cues which outlined a range of simple commonplace scenarios (see Methods). When imagining a new experience participants were explicitly told not to describe a remembered event or any part of one but rather to give free reign to their imaginations and create something new. They were also encouraged to “see the situation and setting in their mind's eye” as if they themselves were physically present and to describe as many sensory and introspective details about the situation as they could. These descriptions were then scored along a range of parameters to address two questions: (i) is the hippocampus critical for imagining experiences, paralleling its vital role in recollecting the past; and if so, (ii) is there a specific hippocampal mechanism underpinning imagining that might also bear on its role in episodic memory? please note jotting still need to be pout in order; of the 9 great chances millennilals have to connect being first sd generation from 2009 Hassabis & Fei-Fei Li were first neurosciemtist doctorates to commit to innovate ai in way vin neumann had anticipated neural network vision computing cilud gut academic silos of psychologists brain profs had missed the point of what happens if you train computers to see, read and sense what humans see , read and sense- see HAI revolution at abedmooc,com Demis Hassabis Founder & CEO DeepMind DeepMindCOUNTRY UK Website DeepMind SCENE Technology SOCIAL LinkedIn Twitter Latest Tweets Demis Hassabis @demishassabis · Oct 25 We’re at a pivotal moment in the history of AI. This important launch of an AI Safety Fund from the Frontier Model Forum will support independent research to test and evaluate the most advanced AI models. Key collaboration for @GoogleDeepMind Quote Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind · Oct 25 Today, we’re launching a new AI Safety Fund from the Frontier Model Forum: a commitment from @Google, @AnthropicAI, @Microsoft and @OpenAI of over $10 million to advance independent research to help test and evaluate the most capable AI models. ↓ https://dpmd.ai/3tJ9KWV 34 Demis Hassabis reposted Laura Weidinger @weidingerlaura · Dec 8, 2021PAPER'S OUT! Very excited that today we’re releasing our taxonomy of "Ethical and Social risks associated with Large Language Models". It's been a year+ in the making and yet is only the beginning for many of us https://dpmd.ai/llm-ethics, blog: https://dpmd.ai/language-models (1/n) GlobalShakers says What makes Demis Hassabis a Global Shaker? Demis Hassabis, the founder and CEO of DeepMind, is one of the foremost minds in AI today. He believes the technology can be used to better understand the way our own brains work. “I think about AI as a very powerful tool,” he said, as reported by Tech Republic. “What I’m most excited about is applying those tools to science and accelerating breakthroughs.” A pianist & chess prodigy, Demis began playing chess when he was four years old. By the time he was five, he was competing nationally. When he was 13, he achieved the rank of chess master and was the second best player in the world under the age of 14. As a child, he discovered the world of artificial intelligence after buying a Commodore Amiga computer to program games. “I wrote AI opponents for Othello, as chess was too complicated for the machine to run, and it beat my younger brother” he explained in a Wired article. At the age of 17, he used his knowledge of AI to create the critically acclaimed video game Theme Park, one of the first video games to use AI as the main gameplay component. The game sold millions of copies. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he worked at Lionhead Studios and left a year later to found Elixir Studios. Demis later went on to complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London. His published paper, in which he developed a new theoretical account concerning the hippocampus, imagination and the episodic memory system, was listed as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year by the journal Science. In 2010, he co-founded DeepMind, a machine learning AI startup. The company aims to “push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how.” As Demis wanted to attain funding from Peter Thiel, Facebook’s initial lead investor, he appealed to Peter’s love to chess to pique his interest. Peter invested in the project, and Elon Musk, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures soon followed. In 2014, Google acquired the startup for £400 million. Demis has received many honors and awards, including a spot on TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2017. Bard says there is a listing of corporate partners of Google DeepMind in different sectors. Google DeepMind has partnered with a number of companies in different sectors, including healthcare, energy, and finance. These partnerships are designed to help Google DeepMind develop new technologies that can be used to solve real-world problems. For example, Google DeepMind has partnered with the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline to develop new drugs for diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Google DeepMind has also partnered with the energy company Enel to develop new ways to reduce power consumption and improve energy efficiency. The following is a list of the corporate partners of Google DeepMind, along with the sectors in which they operate: Healthcare GlaxoSmithKline Medtronic Johnson & Johnson Bayer Pfizer Novartis Roche Sanofi AstraZeneca Eli Lilly and Company Bristol-Myers Squibb Energy Enel EDF TotalEnergies Chevron Shell ExxonMobil BP ConocoPhillips Marathon Petroleum Phillips 66 Valero Energy Finance JPMorgan Chase Goldman Sachs Citigroup Wells Fargo Bank of America Morgan Stanley Barclays HSBC Deutsche Bank Credit Suisse UBS These are just a few examples of the corporate partners of Google DeepMind. Google DeepMind is committed to working with partners in different sectors to develop new technologies that can be used to solve real-world problems. I hope this information is helpful. Let me know…; Added by chris macrae at 12:12pm on October 30, 2023

Topic: we'd love to linkin to icde -anyone?: eading global membership organization for open and distance education.ICDE is funded by the Government of Norway, membership subscriptions, and income from conferences andis supported by in kind contributions, notably from the universities and organizations represented within theExecutive Committee. ICDE is a registered not-for-profit organization in Norway and operates underNorwegian law.ICDE seeks to promote open, distance, flexible and online education, including e-learning and aidintercultural cooperation and understanding throughout the world. ICDE works to foster internationalcollaboration, support and develop networks at national, regional, global and linguistic affinity groups levelsand provide forums where individuals, corporations, institutions, governments and associations can engagein professional interaction. Further, ICDE contributes to the development of new methodologies andtechnologies to improve lifelong learning and works to encourage the development of good practice andstandards in flexible learning.ICDE has consultative partner status with UNESCO, and shares that agency’s key aim – the attainment ofquality education for all. In addition ICDE is guided by the following values: ICDE is member focused and involves members in decision making, in cooperative action and incooperative problem solving. ICDE is transparent and members are able to follow the activities and decisions of the organization. ICDE believes that the needs of the learner must be central in the pursuit of education as a universalright.According to its constitution, the organization is governed by the following bodies: The Executive Committee is responsible for making policy decisions in accordance with ICDE’smission and constitution. Its responsibilities shall include those specifically noted in the constitutionand all other matters not specifically allocated to another business body or the Secretary General.The Executive Committee is composed of six elected members. The Board of Trustees advises the Executive Committee, and monitors the conduct of the SecretaryGeneral, the President and members of the Executive Committee and is composed of five members The Election Committee verifies the qualifications of potential candidates for the ExecutiveCommittee and is composed of three members.ICDE’s senior officers are the President and the Secretary General. The Secretary General being head ofthe Secretariat is responsible for the sound operation of ICDE in accordance with the particular legislativeframework in which it operates. ICDE’s legal representation and liability is with the Secretary General, whoshall also be responsible for conducting the day-to-day management and business and all legal and financialmatters of ICDE in accordance with the policies defined for ICDE by the Executive Committee and themission and aims stated in the ICDE Constitution. The Secretary General represents ICDE in mattersregarding its day-to-day activities and shall be responsible for the management of the Secretariat.In 2012, the staff of the Secretariat comprised four persons; the Secretary General, Head of Administration,Head of Information and Membership Services, and Information and Promotion Coordinator (part-timeposition). The Secretariat has contracts with third-party providers for services including accountancy and ITprovision and has a cooperation agreement with the Norwegian Association for Distance Education forsharing office space and some administrative services.In 2012, ICDE had 136 paying members comprising 104 institutions, agencies and authorities, and 32individual members, in addition to honorary individual members and associate members. 35% of ICDE’spaying membership is in Asia, 25% in Europe, 13% in North America, 11% in Latin America and theCaribbean, and 8% in both Africa and Australasia.ICDE Annual Report 2012 2ContentsICDE profile ...................................................................................................................................................... 11. Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 41.1. Introduction by the President of ICDE .................................................................................................... 41.2. Introduction by ICDE’s Secretary General ............................................................................................. 42. Executive summary ...................................................................................................................................... 63. The ICDE Strategic Plan ............................................................................................................................... 73.1. Strategic Plan 2009-2012 ....................................................................................................................... 73.2. Development of the new Strategic Plan 2013-2016 ............................................................................... 74. ICDE and Norway ......................................................................................................................................... 74.1. Activities providing added value for Norwegian institutions ................................................................... 84.2. Relations with Norwegian distance education actors ............................................................................. 84.3. Relations with Nordic University Cooperation and Nordic actors ........................................................... 85. Relations with UNESCO ............................................................................................................................... 85.1. On-going areas of cooperation between UNESCO and ICDE ............................................................... 85.2. UNESCO World OER Congress ............................................................................................................. 95.3. UNESCO participation at the 2012 ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents ...................................... 95.4. ICDE’s General Delegate at UNESCO ................................................................................................... 96. Events and related initiatives ......................................................................................................................... 96.1. Events held in 2012 ............................................................................................................................... 96.1.1. The 2012 ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents and Policy Forum ........................................ 106.1.2. Session at European Distance and E- Learning Network Annual Conference ............................. 106.1.3. Online debate ............................................................................................................................... 106.2. Planning for future events ..................................................................................................................... 116.2.1. 25th ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Learning ...................................... 116.2.2. The 2013 ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents ..................................................................... 116.2.3. International Conference ............................................................................................................... 117. Projects and partnerships ............................................................................................................................ 117.1. Regulatory frameworks for distance education .................................................................................... 117.2. Global Outlook on Open, Distance and Online Education ................................................................... 127.3. The Open Educational Quality Initiative ............................................................................................... 127.4. Quality standards ................................................................................................................................. 127.5. Quality reviews .................................................................................................................................... 127.6. Teaching Online – an OER for teacher training in quality open and distance learning (ODL) ............. 127.7. International awareness campaign for open, distance and online learning ......................................... 137.8. ICDE Chairs in Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices ................................. 137.9. Applications for externally funded projects under preparation ............................................................. 138. Membership services .................................................................................................................................. 138.1. Communication with members ............................................................................................................. 138.2. Benefits for ICDE members .................................................................................................................. 133 ICDE Annual Report 20128.3. Recruitment of new members ............................................................................................................... 138.4. Regional and key national associations ............................................................................................... 148.5. Membership fees ................................................................................................................................. 149. Information .................................................................................................................................................. 149.1. Printed materials .................................................................................................................................. 159.2. Electronic media .................................................................................................................................. 159.3. Open Praxis, the peer-reviewed open access journal of ICDE ............................................................ 1510. Representation at conferences and meetings ........................................................................................... 1511. Governance .............................................................................................................................................. 1611.1. The Executive Committee .................................................................................................................. 1611.2. The Board of Trustees ........................................................................................................................ 1711.3. The Election Committee ..................................................................................................................... 1711.4. Changes to the ICDE Constitution ...................................................................................................... 1812. Financial summary .................................................................................................................................... 1813. Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................ 18ICDE Annual Report 2012 41. Introduction1.1. Introduction by the President of ICDEThis past year has been an interesting and challenging, but at the same time, also a rewarding year for meas President of ICDE. Since taking office in February 2012, I have been in intensive communication with theSecretariat in Oslo, Norway, and have seen how the commitment of and great synergy between the newExecutive Committee members, the Secretariat and member organizations have enabled ICDE to strengthenits role as the leading global membership organization for open and distance education. And for this, I wouldlike to convey my great appreciation for the tremendous effort by all parties to make 2012 a fruitful year.Looking back, in 2012 ICDE has managed to accomplish many objectives through existing networks,enhanced partnerships with key organizations endorsing open and distance learning (ODL), and goodcooperation with member organizations. Through ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents meeting andPolicy Forum, discussions of ODL policies have taken place, and joint activities with global as well as majorregional players have enabled the promotion of quality in distance, flexible and ICT-based education. TheICDE International Conferences have provided necessary foums for the fostering of cooperation betweenmembers and widening opportunities for future collaboration. Greater cooperation with UNESCO during theWorld Open Educational Resources Congress has given significant exposure to ICDE’s work, andcommitment to promote global understanding and implementation of open educational resources.Internally, significant work was also undertaken by the Secretariat to increase membership services andparticipation which has resulted in an increased number of new memberships. More intensivecommunication among the ICDE business bodies and with member organizations using various means andthrough different forums have indeed sparked greater enthusiasm and interests in members to participate inICDE activities and new initiatives.The projects, programmes, and activities undertaken by ICDE in 2012 are presented in this Annual Reportprepared by the ICDE Secretariat and hopefully demonstrate how much has been achieved over the pastyear. We have a lot to be proud of and we will continue to follow up and build on the programmes andactivities as a solid foundation upon which to raise further achievements in the upcoming year.Tian BelawatiPresident of ICDE1.2. Introduction by ICDE’s Secretary General2012 was the year when open education really made an entry on the global political agenda. The UNESCOWorld Open Educational Resources Congress issued the 2012 Paris OER Declaration calling upongovernments worldwide to openly license publicly funded educational materials for public use.1 In manyregions OER, open, distance and online education became hot issues and, for example, in Europe aministerial conference was held dedicated to these themes. In the United States, 2012 was labelled the yearof massive open online courses (MOOCs), and disruption has been on everybody’s lips – also in ICDE.ICDE – approaching 75 years – and 25 years in NorwayIn 1988, shortly after the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development published theBrundtland Report, “Our Common Future” establishing the broad political concept of sustainabledevelopment – Gro Harlem Brundtland – the chair of the Commission and the Prime Minster of Norway,offered for Norway to become the host country and a permanent supporter of ICDE. She declared: “We hopethat the Secretariat will be able to make an important contribution to the development of internationalcooperation in this vital and expanding area.” The Minister of Education, Mary Kvidal, added that theNorwegian Government’s offer would “be one of the contributions of this country to internationaldevelopment and collaboration in the increasingly important field of distance education.”The next 25 years – what purpose for ICDE?Now, almost 25 years later, one can question whether ICDE has delivered what the Norwegian Governmentexpected? Well, I leave it up to others to have the final say on this, but one can observe that ICDE duringthis period has been an active, global network which has supported its members throughout the world indelivering quality higher education to tens of millions of young people and adults through open and distanceeducation, thereby contributing to a sustainable world. Many of the people who have benefitted from this1 http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educationalresources/what-is-the-paris-oer-declaration/5 ICDE Annual Report 2012opportunity, have belonged to groups that otherwise would not have gained access to higher education. Theimpact that ICDE member institutions have made on the world has been significant for the global knowledgesociety and for contributing to social justice and innovation. ICDE has also in this period provided a two-waychannel for Norwegian actors and higher education institutions for knowledge exchange with the world andto adapt to international achievements in the field.Has ICDE fulfilled its mission?In September 2012, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the global Education Firstinitiative with this appeal: “I call on world leaders and all involved with education to join this initiative and fulfillthe promise to make quality education available to all children, young people and adults. Together, we canempower individuals to transform our world.”2In a further key UN initiative, the UNESCO led Education for All (EFA), Olav Seim, Director of the EFAGlobal Partnerships Team, said in an interview that even though there was considerable progress between2000 and 2008, “since 2010 the number of out-of-school children has stayed the same, at 61 million, and aidto education has stagnated.”3 And the World Bank has found that more than 620 million young people areneither working nor studying.4The OECD has shown through comprehensive studies that higher education is a goldmine for the individualand the society,5 and the slogan “education, education, education” is on many ministers’ lips as an answer toglobal challenges. As we know from UNESCO estimates, more than 100 million new places are needed inhigher education before 2025.6Through the Global Consultation of Education NGOs during the Sixth Meeting of UNESCO’s CollectiveConsultation of NGOs on EFA – CCNGO/EFA4 (Paris, France, 24-26 October 2012), ICDE was ablesuccessfully to influence the final declaration, in relation to the final push up to 2015 with the addition that“Open Educational Resources and quality open, distance online and e-learning offer an importantopportunity to be used to deliver on the EFA goals.”725 years after the Norwegian Government initiated its generous support for ICDE, and 75 years after theICDE first came into being, we can conclude that the need for ICDE is stronger than ever. And I would like toadd that in particular when disruptive initiatives such as MOOCs are capturing the educational and politicalagenda, the need for direction, purpose and quality in higher education increases. This is a task for ICDE.In conclusion I would like to give special thanks to the members of ICDE’s business bodies - the ExecutiveCommittee, the Board of Trustees and the Election Committee - for their valuable contributions in building anew future for ICDE.Gard TitlestadSecretary General, ICDE2 http://www.globaleducationfirst.org3 http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/education-for-all/singleview/news/education_for_all_unfinished_business_interview_with_olav_seim/4 http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2012/10/01/jobs-cornerstone-development-says-worlddevelopment-report5 http://www.oecd.org/edu/eag2012.htm6 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001924/192417m.pdf7http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/ED_new/pdf/FINAL_CCNGO_outcome_document.pdfICDE Annual Report 2012 62. Executive summaryThis Annual Report describes the activities carried out by the International Council for Open and DistanceEducation (ICDE) during 2012. It demonstrates progress towards the objectives of the organization inrelation to its Strategic Plan and Activity Plan (www.icde.org/strategy2009-2011).ICDE entered into partnership with key actors in higher education in its host country, Norway, to organize aleadership seminar and other activities to provide added value for institutions in line with the criteriastipulated by its key funder, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.Cooperation with UNESCO has increased, through projects and initiatives, most notably ICDE’s involvementin the UNESCO World Open Educational Resources Congress.The 2012 ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents and Policy Forum was hosted by member institution,Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and ICDE reached out to membersand the wider distance education community through a session at the European Distance and E-LearningNetwork Annual Conference, and through an online debate on the UNESCO/ World Bank Group sponsoredEducational Technology Development portal.Preparations begin in 2012 for the organization of the 25th ICDE World Conference, to be hosted by TianjinOpen University in China, and for the 2013 ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents to be hosted by theOpen University of Portugal, in partnership with the European Distance and E-Learning Network.2012 saw the further development and consolidation of partnerships with key organizations including theSloan Consortium, OpenCourseware Consortium, International Association of Universities and African VirtualUniversity to carry out joint activities with regional or global reach. New projects including a global survey onopen, distance and online education and the development of an open educational resource for teachertraining in quality open and distance learning are under development. Existing initiatives have meanwhilereceived new impetus and direction through partnerships, targeted follow-up actions and research. ICDE’sonline journal, Open Praxis, was re-launched in 2012, hosted by member institution, Universidad Nacionalde Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain.Communication with ICDE’s membership and key stakeholders has given greater emphasis to electroniccommunication, forums, and streamlined administrative procedures. 2012 was a strong year for therecruitment of new members reflecting successful outreach activity.A new ICDE Executive Committee began its term of office on 1 January 2012 and this Executive Committee,through consultations and discussion groups with members of ICDE, has developed a new Strategic Plan forthe period 2013-2016Note: The Annual Report is written in English, ICDE’s language of operation.7 ICDE Annual Report 20123. The ICDE Strategic PlanWhile this Annual Report follows the objectives of the Strategic Plan 2009-2012, 2012 saw the developmentof a new Strategic Plan for the period 2013-2016.3.1. Strategic Plan 2009-2012The Strategic Plan published in 2009 provides the foundation forICDE’s work. Key objectives are as follows: ICDE shall be the global arena for the discussion ofdistance education policies. ICDE shall promote quality in distance, flexible and ICTbasededucation, and work for the achievement of a globalunderstanding of quality within distance education. ICDE will contribute to the development of newmethodologies and technologies, through the disseminationof information, supporting efforts to find solutions forcountries with developing economies, and through workingto increase awareness of the digital divide and steps takento minimize the divide. ICDE will foster cooperation between members, leading tosignificant increases in cooperation between national andregional organizations, and greater opportunities for collaboration between institutions in thenorthern and southern hemispheres.The ICDE Secretariat’s Activity Plan is published in combination with the Strategic Plan where activitiesdesigned to meet the strategic objectives are described. During 2012, a publication entitled ICDEAchievements 2009-2011 was published summarizing achievements to date. Work towards meeting theobjectives during 2012 is described throughout this report and is summarized in the conclusion.The Strategic Plan may be downloaded from: www.icde.org/strategy2009-20123.2. Development of the new Strategic Plan 2013-2016The new Strategic Plan was developed with the involvement of the ICDE membership during 2012, includinga significant contribution from member institution, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. Open onlineconsultations with members in the form of focus groups were held in September and October and keyexternal stakeholders were subsequently consulted. In November, at the Standing Conference of Presidents(SCOP) meeting in Dubai, leaders of ICDE member organizations discussed the draft strategy andrecommended priorities in plenary session and in groups. The ICDE Executive Committee developed thefinal Strategic Plan taking into consideration input from the entire process. While the new Strategic Planbuilds on the strategic objectives of the previous one, one new strategic objective was added: To strengthen ICDE membership and governance, and engage members in collaborative activity andorganizational development.The Strategic Plan for 2013-206 is published at: www.icde.org/strategy4. ICDE and NorwayICDE established its Secretariat in Oslo in 1989 on the basis of generous funding from the Government ofNorway. Today, ICDE receives an annual grant for the promotion of international activity in the area ofdistance education and flexible learning. The terms of the grant are that ICDE shall work to foster relationswith Norwegian educational institutions and authorities in order to provide access to ICDE’s expertise andnetwork in international distance education. Representatives of the ICDE Executive Committee and theSecretary General hold annual meetings with the Ministry of Education to coordinate approaches, while theSecretary General ensures regular contact.ICDE is proud to count five institutions, one agency, two individual members and one associate memberfrom Norway among its membership.ICDE Annual Report 2012 84.1. Activities providing added value for Norwegian institutionsICDE formed a partnership with the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions and ICDEmember Norway Opening Universities to arrange a seminar for rectors and senior management ofNorwegian institutions of higher education on the theme of High quality higher education in an increasinglymore open and online world. The event sought to bring together perspectives on open, distance and onlinelearning from around the world with those from Norway, with emphasis on leadership, strategies andorganization at the intersection of campus-based and distance education.The seminar was opened by Kyrre Lekve, State Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Research andfeatured contributions from leading international and Norwegian universities including ICDE ExecutiveCommittee members.The event was successful in raising awareness of open and distance education and open educationalresources on the strategic level among higher education institutions in Norway. Most higher educationinstitutions in Norway were represented at the event.Also in cooperation with Norway Opening Universities, rectors of Norwegian institutions receivedpersonalized Norwegian language invitations to attend the ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents.4.2. Relations with Norwegian distance education actorsICDE has a highly beneficial relationship with actors within the distance education community. Throughsharing office premises, ICDE and the Norwegian Association for Distance Education (NADE) are fortunateto be able to benefit from continuous dialogue and information exchange about the Norwegian distanceeducation arena and how the Norwegian context interacts with the international context of ICDE. NADE is anassociate member of ICDE.ICDE is fortunate to have Norway Opening Universities (NOU) as an active member of the organization.Norway Opening Universities is an enthusiastic supporter of the organization’s work and the SecretaryGeneral of ICDE has regular contact meetings with the Executive Director of NOU. In December he took partin an NOU Board Meeting where he delivered a report entitled Open Educational Resources (OER), MOOCsand Open Education – what is happening? This is foreseen as the first step in preparing a Norwegian and/ orNordic Initiative for knowledge exchange on OER and open and distance education.ICDE, NOU and the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions have also initiated regulartripartite dialogue with a view to carrying out future joint activity.4.3. Relations with Nordic University Cooperation and Nordic actorsICDE established cooperation with Nordic University Cooperation through the Norwegian Association ofHigher Education Institutions. ICDE has been represented in a Nordic network promoting OER, the NordicAlliance for Open Education.5. Relations with UNESCOICDE has consultative partner status with UNESCO, and works together with UNESCO in the service ofinternational cooperation and development. This status grants ICDE’s members a voice at UNESCO, whileobliging ICDE to acquaint its members with UNESCO programmes, activities and achievements pertaining toopen and distance education.The Secretary General held a series of contact meetings with staff at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris,France, during 2012 including the Assistant Director-General Education Sector and the Assistant Director-General Communication and Information Sector.ICDE has also been represented in the UNESCO Education for All, EFA, consultations, and wasinstrumental in establishing OER and distance education as a key measures in follow up on the post EFAagenda (after 2015).New guidelines for UNESCO relations have been agreed by ICDE’s Executive Committee and implemented,and relations and partnership development are good.5.1. On-going areas of cooperation between UNESCO and ICDEICDE and UNESCO cooperate on a number of areas, in particular: Discussions on the organization of a high level policy forum on open, distance and online learning The inclusion of a survey of the use of innovative technologies in the BRICS countries as a part ofthe Global Outlook on Open, Distance and Online Learning (see 7.2)9 ICDE Annual Report 2012 Issue relating to the greater acceptance of open educational resources, and follow up actions on theParis OER Declaration (see 5.2, below) Teacher education and open, distance and online learning in Africa (see 7.6)5.2. UNESCO World OER CongressICDE was invited by UNESCO to provide good practices, identify key stakeholders, and to raise awarenessand promote the First UNESCO World Open Educational Resources Congress in Paris, France 20-22 June2012, as well as the series of regional policy forums due to precede it .The Congress gathered governmental actors, and included a programme of seminars and panel discussionsand exhibition of OER initiatives. The focus was to invite governments to view and discuss the merits of openeducational resources and to adopt a declaration that calls on governments to support the sustainabledevelopment and dynamic use of OER.ICDE had a role in the parallel Open Seminar and Exhibition. ICDE held first a good and wide-reachingdialogue with regional actors within open and distance learning on OER and on the content of the declarationto be adopted at the World OER Congress. These associations gave input to the organization of theCongress, to the declaration itself, and discussions lead to the formation of a panel which will examine theopportunities from OER and open and distance education. Participants in the ICDE panel were TianBelawati, Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia, and President of ICDE; Gard Titlestad, Secretary General, ICDE;Tony Mays, National Association for Distance Education and Open Learning, South Africa; Mona El Ayoubi,Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University, United Arab Emirates; Anthony Camilleri, European Foundation forQuality in E-learning; and Jim Barber, University of New England, Australia.ICDE also took part in the political part of the Congress and achieved a prominent role for the organization,recognition from relevant stakeholders and wide dissemination of the outcomes of the World Congress.5.3. UNESCO participation at the 2012 ICDE Standing Conference of PresidentsDavid Atchoarena, Director of the Division for Teacher Development and Higher Education and ZeynepVaroglu, Programme Specialist, Communication and Information Sector participated in this ICDE meeting,and also met for informal talks with the ICDE Executive Committee.5.4. ICDE’s General Delegate at UNESCOICDE’s General Delegate at UNESCO, Bernard Loing, stepped down from his position as President of theNGO Conference and President of the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee at the International Conference ofNon-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), which took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France inDecember. ICDE’s Secretary General attended and expressed ICDE’s gratitude for his work. UNESCO –ICDE relations are now handled directly between UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the ICDE Secretariatin Oslo.6. Events and related initiativesICDE’s fourth key objective is to foster cooperation between members. Conferences bearing the ICDE brandare important elements to this strategy (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 3 and page 6).Since 1939, ICDE has organized conferences to support the exchange of ideas between practitioners ofopen and distance education. These arenas have proven valuable for the development of institutions and foron-going analysis of open and distance education policies worldwide. Three types of meetings havedeveloped: World Conferences organized biennially, International Conferences with a regional focus and theStanding Conference of Presidents (SCOP) and Policy Forum organized every year for Presidents and otherExecutive Officers of member institutions. Each of these events is run in cooperation with a memberinstitution.Formal calls for the hosting of meetings are announced through the ICDE newsletter and website, and aninstitution must present a written proposal for consideration by the ICDE Executive Committee.6.1. Events held in 2012The seminar organized for rectors and senior management of Norwegian higher education institutions byICDE and the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions in partnership with Norway OpeningUniversities was a significant achievement for the organization in 2012 (see 4.1.). The 2012 ICDE StandingConference of Presidents and Policy Forum were held in the United Arab Emirates, and ICDE reached out tomembers and the wider distance education community through a session at the European Distance and EICDEAnnual Report 2012 10Learning Network Annual Conference, and through an online debate on the UNESCO/ World Bank Groupsponsored Educational Technology Development portal.6.1.1. The 2012 ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents and Policy ForumThe 2012 ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) meeting and Policy Forum were held inNovember 2012 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, hosted by Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University. Around 85institutional leaders and other executives from 45 countries participated in the meeting. The theme wasODE: Barriers, Opportunities & Strategies Forward, and the focus was on challenges and strategies for theimplementation of open, distance and flexible learning. H.H. Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAEMinister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, inaugurated SCOP 2012. Keynote presentations weregiven by Badr Aboul-Ela, Director of the Commission for Academic Accreditation, Ministry of HigherEducation and Scientific Research, U.A.E. and Vice-President of the Arab Network for Quality AssuranceAgencies in Higher Education,; David Atchoarena, Director for Higher Education, UNESCO and SanjayaMishra, Director of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia.The Policy Forum held within the programme of the meeting discussed the development of the ICDEStrategic Plan for the period 2013-2016.www.scop2012dubai.com6.1.2. Session at European Distance and E- Learning Network Annual ConferenceThe Secretary General presented in the session entitled Distance and e-learning policy and strategy onThursday morning with an address entitled Challenges for policies, strategies and leadership in anincreasingly open world. An evening event for ICDE members was organized for representatives of memberinstitutions and associations, as well as individual members. A presentation of ICDE’s on-going activities washeld and input sought on where ICDE's priorities should lie, and which activities the organization shouldconcentrate on in partnership with its members. This activity represented the first stage in a series ofconsultations with members during the development of ICDE’s strategy for the period 2013-2016.6.1.3. Online debateICDE convened an online debate on open and distance learning on the UNESCO/ World Bank GroupinfoDev sponsored Educational Technology Debate portal. The debate featured contributions from ICDEmembers representing the BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China on trends and challenges in openand distance learning in their countries. The debate was the fourth most read debate of 2012, and significantcontributions came from the wider ODL community to this forum with over 2,000 subscribers. The inspirationfor the debate came from a session organized by ICDE at the annual Online Educa Berlin conference inGermany in December 2011. It is a key priority for ICDE to increase communication between developed anddeveloping nations (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 3).https://edutechdebate.org/open-and-distance-learning11 ICDE Annual Report 20126.2. Planning for future eventsDuring 2012, ICDE began planning for events to be held in 2013 and 2014.6.2.1. 25th ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance LearningThe 25th ICDE World Conference on Open and Distance Learning will be hosted by Tianjin Open University,China, on 16-18 October 2013. Tianjin is a coastal city approximately 120km from Beijing and was selectedfollowing a bidding process. The Secretary General made a visit to China in 2012 to undertake planningmeetings with Tianjin Open University. A Core Programme Committee, and International ProgrammeCommittee, have been established, speakers invited, and the website and initial promotion launched.www.tjrtvu.edu.cn/icde6.2.2. The 2013 ICDE Standing Conference of PresidentsThe Open University of Portugal in partnership with the European Distance and E- Learning Network wasselected as host after an open bidding process, and. the contract was due to be signed in early 2013. Thetheme is to be Leadership in the Time of Openness: Sustainable Visions, Innovative Strategies and CreativeBusiness Models.6.2.3. International ConferenceAn ICDE International Conference to be hosted by Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)was under planning in 2012, to be held in March 2013. The purpose of the conference is to bring togetherhigher education institutions, distance education institutions, and traditional face-to-face educationinstitutions that apply methodologies based on open and distance education technologies, and to create aspace where academics, teachers, researchers, politicians and social and economic actors can collaborateand discuss how to generate and transfer knowledge for building inclusive, successful and intelligentsocieties. The theme for the Conference is Mobilizing Distance Education for Social Justice and Innovation.www.unedicde2013.org7. Projects and partnershipsCooperation and partnership represent a core working method and strategy for ICDE (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 2). Development of partnerships with the following organizations was carried out during 2012:UNESCO; the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO); the European Union (EU);Commonwealth of Learning (CoL); The Sloan Consortium (SLOAN-C); The OpenCourseWare Consortium(OCWC); International Association of Universities (IAU); African Virtual University (AVU) and regionalassociations. A Memorandum of Understanding was agreed with OCWC, and an agreement is underpreparation with AVU. Dialogue continued on closer cooperation on projects with the Southeast AsianMinisters of Education Organization (SEAMEO) and ICDE member institution Universitas Terbuka,Indonesia, represented ICDE at the SEAMEO Centre Directors Meeting during 2012.Several projects are underway.7.1. Regulatory frameworks for distance educationAs a key activity under the objective to become the global arena for the discussion of distance educationpolicies, ICDE launched a project with partial funding from ICDE to study regulatory systems within distanceeducation throughout the world (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 4).The successful project consortium of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in HigherEducation, the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-Learning, the Distance Education Hub(DEHub), and the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) looked at the regulatory environment fordistance education in 24 countries in the Southwest Pacific/ South East Asia Region. The consortiumdelivered their final report in early 2012 and an online resource presenting key data on the countries andcase studies of nine institutions in the region was also completed.Lessons were learned about the limitations to methodology, and the conclusion reached was that policyframeworks are not the most significant issue in constraining the development of distance education. Work indisseminating the findings was carried out, including a presentation at the 2012 ICDE Standing Conferenceof Presidents. An ICDE Policy Brief is under preparation by representatives of ICDE member institutions inAustralia, Portugal and South Africa, and is expected to be published early in 2013.www.icde.org/regulatory_frameworksICDE Annual Report 2012 127.2. Global Outlook on Open, Distance and Online EducationThe purpose of this project is – through a survey and report - to provide greater global visibility and topromote the importance of open, distance, flexible and online learning, including e-learning and to providebackground for policy development on the field. It thus seeks to fulfil similar aims to those stated in theStrategic Plan in relation to distance education statistics and development of an understanding of the valuesand possibilities of distance education (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 4).A partnership has been established between ICDE, UNESCO, the Sloan Consortium and the Babson SurveyResearch Group (BSRG). Other close partners are the International Association of Universities andStudyPortals. The draft project description has been approved by the Executive Committee.7.3. The Open Educational Quality InitiativeICDE’s second strategic objective to contribute to the development of new methodologies and technologieschallenges ICDE to develop a strategy for enhancing open educational resources – freely available teachingand learning materials – in an international setting (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 5).As the first element of this, and indeed to meet ICDE’s strategic objective to promote quality (Strategic Plan2009-2012, page 3), ICDE was from 2010-2011 a project partner in the Open Educational Quality (OPAL)Initiative. During 2012 final reports were completed and accepted by the European Commission. ICDE’sinvolvement led to visibility, improved the basis for future activity with UNESCO, created a basis for futureEuropean projects, engaged members, and provided members with useful results and tools.ICDE took part in an application to the European Commission for funding for a follow-up project, EUOER,though this was unsuccessful. It is expected, however, that ICDE will enter into partnerships in order todeliver a new application for the next round of funding proposals in 2013.The OPAL website: www.oer-quality.org7.4. Quality standardsFollowing discussions and consultations at the Standing Conference of Presidents meetings between 2008and 2010, and the Policy Forum of 2010, it was determined that ICDE would seek external help in its aim toexplore and describe criteria for excellence and accreditation strategies for its members (Strategic Plan2009-2012, page 5). It was envisaged that this would lead ultimately towards the creation of a template fordefining quality (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 5).No acceptable proposal had been received, and it was envisaged that a new call would be announced in2013.7.5. Quality reviewsAs a key action to promote quality in flexible and ICT-based education, ICDE will offer member institutions anexternal peer review of the student learning experience (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 5). This is designedto support institutions in their ambitions to enhance quality in student support, and in their developmentalwork. The proposal is thus not accreditation but assessment of quality, the opportunity to learn from othersand to implement best practice.During 2012, the Secretariat launched a call for expressions of interest for reviewers which has now createda healthy pool of experts from all areas of the world. A Market survey was conducted, business case reportdelivered, and the EC agreed that the Secretariat could launch this member service in 2013.7.6. Teaching Online – an OER for teacher training in quality open and distance learning (ODL)Given increased demand globally for faculty training in ODL and enhanced quality in distance and onlinelearning through open courseware at the higher education level, this initiative will lead to the development ofa high quality OER in the form of open online courseware for faculty training in open and distance and onlinelearning. This is a key strategy towards the aims stated in the Strategic Plan for defining quality in distanceeducation, creating a common language about distance education, while at the same time reflecting thevalues and interests of both developed and developing countries. (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 5).The organization carried out wide consultations including with the African Council for Open and DistanceEducation (ACDE), Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU), European Association for DistanceTeaching Universities (EADTU), African Virtual University, China Open University, the Open University of theNetherlands, UNESCO, The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), The OpenCourseWare Consortium, andSloan Consortium. These discussions concluded that the first regional areas of priority should be Africa andAsia. A call for interest in establishing the project is foreseen to be launched in 2013.13 ICDE Annual Report 20127.7. International awareness campaign for open, distance and online learningICDE aims to work with the education sector internationally to support the development of an understandingof the values and possibilities of distance education as an instrument for lifelong learning (Strategic Plan2009-2012, page 4).Following considerable mapping and preparation work previously carried out by the University of SouthAfrica (Unisa), Study Portal was designated as an additional partner, with their DistanceLearningPortal.Unisa and ICDE have established a better defined project description which will work towards increasedunderstanding for ODL among institutions, policy makers and society and provide added value for members.The campaign was launched at the 2012 ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents meeting, and the purposeis to increase visibility and recognition of open, distance and online learning (ODL), institutions offering ODLand embracing ODL practices, and demonstrate their relevance in modern education. The campaign willseek to demonstrate that higher education represents significant value for the individual and society, and inparticular through ODL; promote barrier-free access to higher education and the impact that highereducation has on skills development; create awareness of innovative practices and innovation in ODL, e.g.MOOC’s, etc.; create awareness of participating associations and institutions; and create understanding ofquality in open, distance and online learning.Activities will include the production of communication and marketing products and services, information forstudents regarding open and distance learning opportunities worldwide through DistanceLearningPortal; newprizes for innovative and best practice in ODL; the collecting and sharing of best practices and actions tied toICDE’s forthcoming 75th anniversary.7.8. ICDE Chairs in Open Educational Resources and Open Educational PracticesThe proposal for the establishment of ICDE Chairs in Open Educational Resources and Open EducationalPractices was announced at the 2012 ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents meeting. Institutionalmembers will be invited to suggest candidates and these will be peer reviewed by a panel of experts beforethe Executive Committee appoints ICDE Chairs. The UNESCO Chairs on OER – who represent ICDEmember institutions – will be invited to become ICDE Chairs.7.9. Applications for externally funded projects under preparationA number of applications for external funding were under preparation in late 2012, for submission in 2013: European Commission: IDEAL – distance education and adult learners European Commission: LangOER – OER and smaller languages European Commission: OPENEdunet – Academic network/ project. A follow up project to the OpenEducational Quality Initiative (see 7.3.) Nordic Council of Ministers' NordPlus programme: A network on OER8. Membership services8.1. Communication with membersContinued emphasis on news dissemination has improved ICDE’s visibility and the general information flowto members. A separate newsletter is usually prepared for ICDE members in order to provide extra exposurefor member benefits including special offers and reduced conference fees. The investment in a customerrelationship management database represents an important tool for tracking and maintaining relations withindividual stakeholders both within member institutions and beyond. In 2012, ICDE also began to use GoogleGroups for online discussions, and also began to invoice for the ICDE membership fee through electronicinvoicing.8.2. Benefits for ICDE membersICDE sought during 2012 to increase awareness of the specific benefits available to existing and potentialICDE members. A summary of benefits was distributed to members and published on the ICDE website withdissemination through the organization’s news channels. ICDE also concluded agreements with third-partyorganizations for a number of special offers.8.3. Recruitment of new membersDuring 2012, significant work was carried out with the aim of increasing the number of members, ensuringthat ICDE is open and globally representative, and ensuring a fair and firm membership policy. Analysis ofICDE Annual Report 2012 14the membership structure was presented to the Executive Committee and revised membership fees andspecial offers for 2013 decided.The ICDE Secretariat actively follows up all enquiries regarding membership, and works to encouragemembers which have failed to renew, to return to the organization.Prospective member institutions are required to provide evidence of recognition in their home country beforetheir applications are presented to ICDE’s Executive Committee for approval.By the end of 2012, ICDE had 136 paying members comprising 104 institutions, agencies and authorities (anincrease from 98 in 2011), and 32 individual members (an increase from 22 in 2011), in addition to 14associate members, and honorary members.20 new individual members joined ICDE in 2012, and 17 new institutional members came into theorganization. These were: Anadolu University, Turkey Arab Open University (AOU), Kuwait Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester, UK CAP College Foundation, Inc., Philippines Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea Eurasian Open Institute, Russian Federation Kstudy Korea Distance Lifelong Education Center, Korea Massey University - Office of Distance Education, New Zealand Ministry of National Education and Culture, Indonesia Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education, Trinidad and Tobago National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Nigeria NKI Nettstudier, Norway Open University of Tanzania Thompson Rivers University, Canada Universidad Blas Pascal, Argentina Universidad Estatal a Distancia – UNED, Costa Rica, Central America Virtual University of Pakistan8.4. Regional and key national associationsThe ICDE Strategic Plan states that ICDE should work more closely with national and regional organizations(Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 6).Associate membership allows associations to play a role in ICDE task forces and projects, to launchactivities and events in partnership with ICDE, to promote links between the organization’s members andICDE members, and to work together to disseminate news of projects and initiatives.Presidents of seven associate members contributed regional reports for publication in the ICDE Highlightspublication which appeared in early 2012 and two successful telephone meetings conducted on World OERCongress and ideas for the promotion of ODL. In late 2012, the ICDE Executive Committee decided toestablish the ICDE Consultative Committee (ICC) for the period 2013-2015 in which representatives fromregional associations are invited to participate. A mandate is to be developed early in 2013.8.5. Membership feesDuring 2012, the Executive Committee authorized the Secretariat to make a number of changes to itsmembership policy from 2013, including an increase in fees by 10%, a requirement that membership fees bepaid by the start of the calendar year, and the stipulation that members leaving the organization remain liablefor unpaid membership fees where notice of leaving is not given within a specified timeframe.9. InformationICDE seeks to be the global arena for the discussion of distance education policy and publications anddissemination of information are central to this objective (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 3). ICDE continuedits work to improving its website and information dissemination during the year (Strategic Plan 2009-2012,page 5 and page 6).Open Praxis, was re-launched in 2012 (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, page 6).15 ICDE Annual Report 20129.1. Printed materialsThe annual Highlights publication was published in January 2012 and distributed to ICDE members andstakeholders. A publication entitled ICDE Achievements was produced in June 2012, and was distributed atthe European Distance and E-Learning Network Annual Conference, and subsequently sent to members.Flyers were also prepared to promote Open Praxis and membership offers at key events.9.2. Electronic mediaAccording to the Strategic Plan, the ICDE website should be used for dissemination, as a source ofreference and as an arena for cooperation and interaction (Strategic Plan 2009-2012, pages 4-6).During 2012, the ICDE Secretariat sustained the regular publication of news stories and its email newsletterservice which is sent to approximately 15,000 active email addresses, normally twice per month.The organization also uses Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and SlideShare to disseminate news and resources.www.facebook.com/icde.org www.twitter.com/icde_orgwww.youtube.com/icdevideos www.slideshare.net/icdeslides9.3. Open Praxis, the peer-reviewed open access journal of ICDEDuring 2012, Inés Gil Jaurena of Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain, havingbeen selected by ICDE’s Executive Committee as the editor of Open Praxis carried out work – with supportfrom the ICDE Secretariat – to form and activate an Editorial Board, set up a new website for the journal,launch a calls for papers, and carry out promotion through Twitter and other channels. Volume 5 issue 1 onthe theme of openness in higher education was under preparation by the end of 2012 with eleven papersaccepted for publication, and was due to be published in January 2013.ICDE’s Executive Committee also determined during 2012 that Universidad Nacional de Educación aDistancia (UNED), Spain would continue as host for the journal during the period 2014-2015.www.openpraxis.org www.twitter.com/icdeop10. Representation at conferences and meetingsICDE’s Executive Committee and Secretary General receive frequent invitations to attend third-partyconferences. It is usual for the hosting institution or the Executive Committee member’s own institution tofund their participation. During 2012, ICDE was represented at the following conferences: Policy and Strategy Round Table: Creating a Culture of Shared Knowledge in the Arab World: TheRole of Open Educational Resources, Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University (HBMeU), Dubai, UAE,30 January. Frits Pannekoek, chair; Gard Titlestad, participant Education in a Social Transformation Era: Innovate or Evaporate, HBMeU Annual Congress 2012,Dubai, UAE, 31 January - 1 February. Frits Pannekoek, presentation; Gard Titlestad, presentation x2 Opportunities from a more open and online world, Academic staff seminar, China Open University,Beijing, China, 21 February. Gard Titlestad, lecture The AVU Multinational Project Policy Harmonization and Curriculum Conceptualization Workshop,Kenya, Nairobi, 9 - 12 July; Gard Titlestad, presentation OECD Institutional Management in Higher Education General Conference, Paris, France, 17 -19September, 2012. Gard Titlestad, paper and presentation The integration of open and flexible education in European higher education systems; New Models,New markets, New Media, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities 25th AnniversaryConference, Paphos, Cyprus, 27-28 September. Gard Titlestad, presentation Challenges and opportunities from a more open and online world, The 4th Smart E-Learning RussiaConference, 9-10 October, Moscow, Russia. Gard Titlestad, video presentationICDE Annual Report 2012 16 ICDE in a nutshell - An introduction for the Board of Directors SLOAN C, Orlando, Florida, USA, 9October. Gard Titlestad, presentation The Arkansas Distance Learning Association (ARDLA), Arkansas, USA, 10 October. Challenges andopportunities coming from a more open and online world. Gard Titlestad, Skype-presentation 18th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning, Orlando, USA, 10 – 12October. Gard Titlestad, participant The Sixth Meeting of the CCNGO/EFA, UNESCO, Paris, France, 24 -26 October. Gard Titlestad,participant International Association of Universities 14th General Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA 27-30 November. Open Educational Resources (OER): Tomorrow’s Main Educational Provider? GardTitlestad, presentation UNESCO Norway: Open Access, Oslo, Norway, 5 December. Gard Titlestad, participant Norway Opening Universities (NOU) board meeting, 6 December. ICDE, and what is happening withregards to OER, MOOCs and open and online education? Gard Titlestad, presentation Opening up education through technologies - European Ministerial Conference 2012. Oslo, Norway,10 – 11 December. Gard Titlestad, participant International Conference of NGOs, UNESCO, Paris, France, 12-14 December. Gard Titlestad,participant11. GovernanceAccording to ICDE’s constitution, ICDE has three business bodies. The Executive Committee is responsiblefor making policy decisions in accordance with ICDE’s mission and constitution, the Board of Trusteesadvises the Executive Committee, and monitors the conduct of the Secretary General, the President andmembers of the Executive Committee, while the Election Committee exists to verify the qualifications ofpotential candidates for the Executive Committee.11.1. The Executive CommitteeThe members of the ICDE Executive Committee are (left to right): Yang Zhijian, President, The Open University of China Alan Tait, Professor of Distance Education and Development, the Open University, UK Marta Mena, Director of Virtual Training Program for Researchers at the Secretariat of Science,Technology and Graduate Studies, National Technological University (Universidad TecnológicaNacional), Argentina Tian Belawati, Rector, Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia (President) Mandla S. Makhanya, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, the University of South Africa (UNISA)17 ICDE Annual Report 2012Secretary General, Gard Titlestad is also pictured (far left). Frits Pannekoek, President, AthabascaUniversity, Canada is absent from this photograph.The new Executive Committee of ICDE took office from 1 January 2012. The Committee is composed of sixelected members, one of whom is elected by the individual members of ICDE, while five members areelected from and by ICDE’s member institutions. The extra contribution made by a small number of memberinstitutions in terms of the time of the Executive Committee members, their support staff, and travel costsrepresents a significant contribution in kind to ICDE.During 2012 Alan Tait of ICDE member institution, the Open University, UK was co-opted to the ExecutiveCommittee succeeding Denise Kirkpatrick who left the Open University, UK for a new position as Pro Vice-Chancellor of Student Experience at the University of Adelaide, Australia.Eight Executive Committee meetings were held during 2012 including two physical meetings in Oslo inFebruary and at the Standing Conference of Presidents meeting in Dubai in November.11.2. The Board of TrusteesThe Board of Trustees is composed of five persons. The Board aims to reflect the diversity of the ICDEmembership culturally, linguistically and geographically, as well as in the expertise of its members.During the period 2009-2012, members were: David Sewart, Former President of ICDE, and Former Director of Student Services at The OpenUniversity, UK (Chair) Svein Haaland, Former Rector of Lillehammer University College, Norway (Vice-Chair) Ingeborg Boe, Member of the Board of Directors of the European Foundation for Quality in Elearning(EFQUEL), Norway Atwi Suparman, Former Rector of Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia Ezra Maritim, Former Vice-Chancellor of Egerton University, KenyaDuring 2012, applicants for a new Board of Trustees were sought and the following applicants wereaccepted by the Executive Committee: David Sewart, Former President of ICDE, and Former Director of Student Services at The OpenUniversity, UK (reappointed as Chair) Svein Haaland, Former Rector of Lillehammer University College, Norway (reappointed as Vice-Chair) Umarany Coomaraswamy, Former Vice Chancellor of The Open University of Sri Lanka (new) Fredric Michael Litto, Founding President of the Brazilian Association for Distance Education—ABED(new) Susan D'Antoni, Former Programme Specialist at the UNESCO International Institute for EducationalPlanning and Education Division. Now Advisor to the President for International Open EducationalResources Initiatives at Athabasca University and associated with the UNESCO/COL Chair in OER.(new)The Executive Committee invites a representative of the ICDE Board of Trustees to attend each physicalmeeting of the Executive Committee in the role of observer. In 2012, David Sewart attended the physicalmeeting in Oslo, and Svein Haaland attended the meeting in Dubai.11.3. The Election CommitteeThe members of the ICDE Election Committee are: Ingeborg Boe, Member of the Board of Directors of the European Foundation for Quality in Elearning(EFQUEL), Norway (Chair) Nicholas H. Allen, Provost Emeritus and Collegiate Professor at University of Maryland UniversityCollege (UMUC), USA Helmut Hoyer, Rector, FernUniversität in Hagen, GermanyDuring 2012, Dr. Allen replaced Gary E. Miller, Executive Director Emeritus, Penn State University WorldCampus, USA.ICDE Annual Report 2012 1811.4. Changes to the ICDE ConstitutionDuring 2012, the Joint Governmental and Constitutional Committee composed of members of both theExecutive Committee and Board of Trustees made a proposal for suggested changes to the Constitution,which will be put to the vote of members during 2013.12. Financial summaryICDE’s audited annual accounts for 2012 are available for members to access on the ICDE Extranet.Income for 2012 was NOK 3,448,435 with the corresponding figure for 2011 of NOK 3,665,597.ICDE had a deficit on the operating result of NOK 104,992, compared with NOK 34,187 in 2011, and theresult shows a deficit of NOK 155,408*, compared with NOK 39,844 in 2011.By the end of the year 2012, ICDE’s total assets were NOK 2,707,112 compared with NOK 2, 408,915 in2011, while ICDE’s total liabilities in December 2012 were NOK 1,038,963 compared with NOK 585,359 in2011.By 31 December 2012, equity was NOK 1,668,149, while in 2011, equity was NOK 1,823,557. This equityincludes a reserve fund equivalent to the wind up costs of the organization.Note EUR = NOK 7.4; USD = NOK 5.5*In March 2012, the Executive Committee agreed that ICDE could make investments of up to NOK 600.000from its reserves.13. ConclusionThis Annual Report has sought to describe ICDE’s activities during 2012 and to present them in relation tothe ICDE Strategic Plan.After a weaker period for ICDE from 2000 and onwards, ICDE has since 2008 been rebuilt as a platform forfacilitating members’ initiatives for open, distance, online and e-learning and can point to the following keyachievements for 2012: Based on the constitution determined by its members, ICDE's activities are anchored in its StrategicPlan. A new ICDE Strategic Plan for 2013-2016 was developed with a strong focus on activities providingadded value. Renewed and strengthened partnership with UNESCO. New and strong partnerships with key actors for joint initiatives. Intensified knowledge exchange and professional developments through global and regionalconferences. Consolidation of the yearly ICDE leadership forum through the Standing Conference of Presidents(SCOP). Open Praxis launched as an open access peer-reviewed journal. Yearly growth in membership; member numbers increased 25% since 2008. Most regional associations in open, distance and online education in the world are ICDE members. The ICDE website has been developed as a knowledge hub for open, distance and online learning,with a regular newsletter. The organization has a modest, but sound economic basis. There is discernible momentum in ICDE members and ICDE as an organization contributing to theglobal and regional debate on reinventing education. There is momentum towards the organization of several externally directed initiatives and events. There is increased interest from members to engage in ICDE activities. The ICDE Secretariat now has outward focus, directed to facilitate members’ initiatives.In sum, since 2008 ICDE has undergone a process of consolidation to become a reliable and sustainableplatform and network for open, distance, online and e-learning, ready for the years to come.ICDE’s members play a leading role inshaping the future of education worldwide…; Added by chris macrae at 6:35pm on May 21, 2013

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2025REPORT-ER: Entrepreneurial Revolution est 1976; Neumann Intelligence Unit at The Economist since 1951. Norman Macrae's & friends 75 year mediation of engineers of computing & autonomous machines has reached overtime: Big Brother vs Little Sister !?

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JOIN SEARCH FOR UNDER 30s MOST MASSIVE COLLABS FOR HUMAN SUSTAINABILITY

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8 Maurice Chang 9 Mr & Mrs Jerry Yang 10 Mr & Mrs Joseph Tsai 11 Musk

12 Fazle Abed 13 Ms & Mr Steve Jobs 14 Melinda Gates 15 BJ King 16 Benioff

17 Naomi Osaka 18 Jap Emperor Family 19 Akio Morita 20 Mayor Koike

The Economist 1982 why not Silicon AI Valley Everywhere 21 Founder Sequoia 22 Mr/Mrs Anne Doerr 23 Condi Rice

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- 3/21/22 HAPPY 50th Birthday TO WORLD'S MOST SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY- ASIAN WOMEN SUPERVILLAGE

Since gaining my MA statistics Cambridge DAMTP 1973 (Corpus Christi College) my special sibject has been community building networks- these are the 6 most exciting collaboration opportunities my life has been privileged to map - the first two evolved as grassroots person to person networks before 1996 in tropical Asian places where village women had no access to electricity grids nor phones- then came mobile and solar entrepreneurial revolutions!!

COLLAB platforms of livesmatter communities to mediate public and private -poorest village mothers empowering end of poverty 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6

4 livelihood edu for all

4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6

3 last mile health services 3.1 3,2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6

last mile nutrition 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2,6

banking for all workers 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6

NEWS FROM LIBRARY NORMAN MACRAE -latest publication 2021 translation into japanese biography of von neumann:

Below: neat German catalogue (about half of dad's signed works) but expensive -interesting to see how Germans selected the parts they like over time: eg omitted 1962 Consider Japan The Economist

feel free to ask if free versions are available

0 The coming entrepreneurial revolution : a survey Macrae, Norman - In: The economist 261 (1976), pp. 41-65 cited 105

7 F uture U.S. growth and leadershipMacrae, Norman - In: FutureQuest : new views of economic growth, (pp. 49-60). 1977 Check Google Scholar |

13Oh, Brazil : a survey Macrae, Norman - The Economist 272 (1979), pp. 1-22

14To let? : a study of the expedient pledge on rents included in the Conservative election manifesto in Oct., 1959 Macrae, Norman - 1960

15 Toward monetary stability : an evolutionary tale of a snake and an emu

Macrae, Norman -In: European community (1978), pp. 3-6

16 Whatever happened to British planning? Macrae, Norman - CapitalismToday, (pp. 140-148). 1971 Check Google Scholar |

18 How the EEC makes decisions MacRae, Norman - In: Readings in international business, (pp. 193-200). 1972 Check Google Scholar |

22 A longer-term perspective on international stability : thirteen propositions

Macrae, Norman; Bjøl, Erling - In: Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift 114 (1976) 1, pp. 158-168

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Homes for the people

Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - 1967

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25 The risen sun : Japan ; a survey by the Economist Macrae, Norman - In: The economist 223 (1967), pp. 1-32,1-29 Check full text access |

MacFarquhar, Emily; Beedham, Brian; Macrae, Norman - The Economist 265 (1977), pp. 13-42

27 FIRST: - Heresies - Russia's economy is rotten to the core. The West should concentrate on exploiting profitable opportunities to improve it, not on supporting particular politicia...

28 The Hobart century : publ. by the Institute of Economic Affairs

Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - 1984

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29 REINVENTING SOCIETY

Macrae, Norman - In: Economic affairs : journal of the Institute of Economic … 14 (1994) 3, pp. 38-39

30 How the EEC makes decisions

Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - In: The Atlantic community quarterly 8 (1970) 3, pp. 363-371 and in

How the EEC makes decisions

MacRae, Norman - In: Readings in international business, (pp. 193-200). 1972

South Africa Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - In: The economist 227 (1968), pp. 9-46

32 A longer-term perspective on international stability : thirteen propositions

Macrae, Norman; Bjøl, Erling - In: Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift 114 (1976) 1, pp. 158-168

. we scots are less than 4/1000 of the worlds and 3/4 are Diaspora - immigrants in others countries. Since 2008 I have been celebrating Bangladesh Women Empowerment solutions wth NY graduates. Now I want to host love each others events in new york starting this week with hong kong-contact me if we can celebrate anoither countries winm-wins with new yorkers

mapping OTHER ECONOMIES:

50 SMALLEST ISLAND NATIONS

TWO Macroeconomies FROM SIXTH OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WHITE & war-prone

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From 60%+ people =Asian Supercity (60TH YEAR OF ECONOMIST REPORTING - SEE CONSIDER JAPAN1962)

Far South - eg African, Latin Am, Australasia

Earth's other economies : Arctic, Antarctic, Dessert, Rainforest

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In addition to how the 5 primary sdgs1-5 are gravitated we see 6 transformation factors as most critical to sustainability of 2020-2025-2030

Xfactors to 2030 Xclimate XAI Xinfra Xyouth Wwomen Xpoor chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk (scot currently in washington DC)- in 1984 i co-authored 2025 report with dad norman.

Asia Rising Surveys

Entrepreneurial Revolution -would endgame of one 40-year generations of applying Industrial Revolution 3,4 lead to sustainability of extinction

1972's Next 40 Years ;1976's Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution; 12 week leaders debate 1982's We're All Intrapreneurial Now

What will human race produce in 20th C Q4? - Jan 1975

(1984 book 2025 vreport on net generation 3 billion job creation) ...translated in different languages to 1993's Sweden's new vikings
1991 Survey looking forward to The End of Politicians
1996 oxford union debate- why political systems can adapt ahead of time to sustainability changes millennials will encounter
biography of von neumann in English and Japanese

The Economist had been founded in 1843" marking one of 6 exponential timeframes "Future Histores"

IN ASSOCIATION WITH ADAMSMITH.app :

we offer worldwide mapping view points from

1 2 now to 2025-30

and these viewpoints:

40 years ago -early 1980s when we first framed 2025 report;

from 1960s when 100 times more tech per decade was due to compound industrial revolutions 3,4

1945 birth of UN

1843 when the economist was founded

1760s - adam smithian 2 views : last of pre-engineering era; first 16 years of engineering ra including america's declaration of independence- in essence this meant that to 1914 continental scaling of engineeriing would be separate new world <.old world

conomistwomen.com

IF we 8 billion earthlings of the 2020s are to celebrate collaboration escapes from extinction, the knowhow of the billion asian poorest women networks will be invaluable -

in mathematically connected ways so will the stories of diaspora scots and the greatest mathematicians ever home schooled -central european jewish teens who emigrated eg Neumann , Einstein ... to USA 2nd quarter of the 20th century; it is on such diversity that entrepreneurial revolution diaries have been shaped

EconomistPOOR.com : Dad was born in the USSR in 1923 - his dad served in British Embassies. Dad's curiosity enjoyed the opposite of a standard examined education. From 11+ Norman observed results of domination of humans by mad white men - Stalin from being in British Embassy in Moscow to 1936; Hitler in Embassy of last Adriatic port used by Jews to escape Hitler. Then dad spent his last days as a teen in allied bomber command navigating airplanes stationed at modernday Myanmar. Surviving thanks to the Americas dad was in Keynes last class where he was taught that only a handful of system designers control what futures are possible. EconomistScotland.com AbedMooc.com

To help mediate such, question every world eventwith optimistic rationalism, my father's 2000 articles at The Economist interpret all sorts of future spins. After his 15th year he was permitted one signed survey a year. In the mid 1950s he had met John Von Neumann whom he become biographer to , and was the only journalist at Messina's's birth of EU. == If you only have time for one download this one page tour of COLLABorations composed by Fazle Abed and networked by billion poorest village women offers clues to sustainability from the ground up like no white ruler has ever felt or morally audited. by London Scot James Wilson. Could Queen Victoria change empire fro slavemaking to commonwealth? Some say Victoria liked the challenge James set her, others that she gave him a poison pill assignment. Thus James arrived in Calcutta 1860 with the Queens permission to charter a bank by and for Indian people. Within 9 months he died of diarrhea. 75 years later Calcutta was where the Young Fazle Abed grew up - his family accounted for some of the biggest traders. Only to be partitioned back at age 11 to his family's home region in the far north east of what had been British Raj India but was now to be ruled by Pakistan for 25 years. Age 18 Abed made the trek to Glasgow University to study naval engineering.

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7 Middle East & Stans
8 Med Sea
9 Africa
10 Latin Am /Carib
11 Arctic Circle
12 UN

1943 marked centenary autobio of The Economist and my teenage dad Norman prepping to be navigator allied bomber command Burma Campaign -thanks to US dad survived, finished in last class of Keynes. before starting 5 decades at The Economist; after 15 years he was allowed to sign one survey a year starting in 1962 with the scoop that Japan (Korea S, Taiwan soon hk singapore) had found development mp0de;s for all Asian to rise. Rural Keynes could end village poverty & starvation; supercity win-win trades could celebrate Neumanns gift of 100 times more tech per decade (see macrae bio of von neumann)

Since 1960 the legacy of von neumann means ever decade multiplies 100 times more micro-technology- an unprecedented time for better or worse of all earthdwellers; 2025 timelined and mapped innovation exponentials - education, health, go green etc - (opportunities threats) to celebrating sustainability generation by 2025; dad parted from earth 2010; since then 2 journals by adam smith scholars out of Glasgow where engines began in 1760- Social Business; New Economics have invited academic worlds and young graduates to question where the human race is going - after 30 business trips to wealthier parts of Asia, through 2010s I have mainly sherpa's young journalist to Bangladesh - we are filing 50 years of cases on women empowerment at these web sites AbedMOOC.com FazleAbed.com EconomistPoor.com EconomistUN.com WorldRecordjobs.com Economistwomen.com Economistyouth.com EconomistDiary.com UNsummitfuture.com - in my view how a billion asian women linked together to end extreme poverty across continental asia is the greatest and happiest miracle anyone can take notes on - please note the rest of this column does not reflect my current maps of how or where the younger half of the world need to linkin to be the first sdg generation......its more like an old scrap book

how do humans design futures?-in the 2020s decade of the sdgs – this question has never had more urgency. to be or not to be/ – ref to lessons of deming or keynes, or glasgow university alumni smith and 200 years of hi-trust economics mapmaking later fazle abed - we now know how-a man made system is defined by one goal uniting generations- a system multiplies connected peoples work and demands either accelerating progress to its goal or collapsing - sir fazle abed died dec 2020 - so who are his most active scholars climate adaptability where cop26 november will be a great chance to renuite with 260 years of adam smith and james watts purposes t end poverty-specifically we interpret sdg 1 as meaning next girl or boy born has fair chance at free happy an productive life as we seek to make any community a child is born into a thriving space to grow up between discover of new worlds in 1500 and 1945 systems got worse and worse on the goal eg processes like slavery emerged- and ultimately the world was designed around a handful of big empires and often only the most powerful men in those empires. 4 amazing human-tech systems were invented to start massive use by 1960 borlaug agriculture and related solutions every poorest village (2/3people still had no access to electricity) could action learn person to person- deming engineering whose goal was zero defects by helping workers humanize machines- this could even allowed thousands of small suppliers to be best at one part in machines assembled from all those parts) – although americans invented these solution asia most needed them and joyfully became world class at them- up to 2 billion people were helped to end poverty through sharing this knowhow- unlike consuming up things actionable knowhow multiplies value in use when it links through every community that needs it the other two technologies space and media and satellite telecoms, and digital analytic power looked promising- by 1965 alumni of moore promised to multiply 100 fold efficiency of these core tech each decade to 2030- that would be a trillion tmes moore than was needed to land on the moon in 1960s. you might think this tech could improve race to end poverty- and initially it did but by 1990 it was designed around the long term goal of making 10 men richer than 40% poorest- these men also got involved in complex vested interests so that the vast majority of politicians in brussels and dc backed the big get bigger - often they used fake media to hide what they were doing to climate and other stuff that a world trebling in population size d\ - we the 3 generations children parents grandparents have until 2030 to design new system orbits gravitated around goal 1 and navigating the un's other 17 goals do you want to help/ 8 cities we spend most time helping students exchange sustainability solutions 2018-2019 BR0 Beijing Hangzhou:

Girls world maps begin at B01 good news reporting with fazleabed.com valuetrue.com and womenuni.com

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