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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

2nd and 3rd languages can be 10 times more affordable to learn

your mother tongue chinese and english - ecah offers a passport to world of learning and livelihoods- peer to peer practice spaces can be connected on web and resl communities making 2nd and 3rd langiages 10 times less costly to learn for everyone who wants to converse with youth worldwide

todays under 30s can only be the sustaoinability generation if they massively share solutions that work and to do that languages are vital

help us map who is doing this
rsvp isabella@unacknowledgdgiant.com

mapping georgraphy of developing economies - aka Belt Road

China and neighbors in east have created more jobs and happy development than anywhere in the last half century - the secret is trading infrastructure - ports and belts: ie rail (road, pipes) that include enterprsies howeevr small, however rural

China's BR curriculum encourages 11 regions (or more) to map what are the biggest missing traidng routes; how to bridge these; allied opportunities such as celebrating border junctions when a (new) railroad links them in - not all infrastructure mapping is expensive- for example several countries collaborated to connect a railway line that frees trade all across eurasia for china to spain - one innovation needed was way to efficeintly unpack contauiners from one train and pack onto another wherever the railway giages chnaged between

for longer term gamechnaing invetsments china has been encouraging the main developing natiosn in ech region to set up new development bank parnerships - it has led te way with aiib as a benchmar of what 80 nations' delegations can co-create ; other new development banking vraches are spreading through every hemisphere the BRICS reach

Jack ma teels the story of how a geography teacher woke him up - she said geography is interesting - go and talk to tourists to see which part of the ouside world they come from and what favorite stories they have of traveling to china- jack spent most of 20 years aged 10 to 30 learning and then teaching english thanks to guiding toursits - and then connecting hundreds of his freinds to coding the greatest job creating webs

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

big data coding for small can be for everyone

some peopel will be coders - and 10 times lest costly ways to practice that are neeed - eg audrey chengs moringa school in kenya- others can help make sure that apps really are small (detailed enough ) to be usable in lefe-shaping exchanges

every teenager shoudl experence jack ma's tgaining of 3000 people- see www.gatweway17.com

Sunday, October 15, 2017

medical friends i trust most say that adolescent peer to peer health curricula are among the biggest missing oportunities- brac led girl empowerment with after school girls clubs when girls learn about femine hygienne, safety, as well as share profesisonal skils like hairdressing

the teenage brain is designed to action learn not sit reading classroom books - for those who love examination classrooms thats fine but we now know that half of all livelihoods will be apprenticed outside the classroom

looking younger to 3rd graders brac is part of a 100 countries who co-s=hare a finacial literacy curriculum originated in an indian orphanage - aftatoun