Demonetization, Digital Identity and Universal Basic Income – How Big Ideas Are Changing India and What it Means for the World
According to The Economist, India's proposal to give every citizen a cash transfer using the digital platform Aadhar could reduce absolute poverty from 22 percent to 0.5 percent. For a country that is home to a third of the world's poor, could Universal Basic Income (UBI) fundamentally change the picture of poverty, health and well-being in India and the world?
At the same time, removing 86 percent of the cash circulating in a cash-heavy economy had a sudden, negative impact on India’s growth rate. Almost six months – and a major regional election – later what are the lasting effects of demonetization? Is a cashless society in the future?
The architect of India’s annual Economic Survey, Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian - a CGD senior fellow currently on leave – returns to the Center to discuss the big policy ideas making a dramatic mark on India’s economy, and what they could mean for the world.
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South East Asia’s First Blockchain Incubator Opens Applications For 1st Batch / 50k per Startup
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South East Asia has got it’s first Blockchain Incubator. Mentored/invested by Bitcoin Pioneers like Roger Ver, Amit Bhardwaj, Michael Terpin to name a few.
The Incubator is very aptly named Satoshi Studios and is inviting applications from entrepreneurs working in South East Asia region. The incubator has a 3 month intensive residence program in New Delhi India, where the founders will spend time with the other Blockchain startups and receive 50K USD in funding for 8%-15% equity in the company.
In conversation with the Incubator’s co-founder, Sahil Baghla, said, that ”we had been receiving a lot of interest from fellow entrepreneurs seeking feedback on their ideas using the Blockchain technology and some of the entrepreneurs we’ve met are building some really interesting applications, and we wanted to work with them and see if we could get an opportunity to know and work with more of these geniuses”.
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http://126kr.com/article/49l27cnzkg6 By Fintechnews Singapore
Vietnam is a very Internet-connected country, and with the increasing penetration of smartphones there is a wealth of opportunity for online businesses, digital agencies and application developers.
Like other late-adopters of Internet technology, Vietnam has benefited from the cheap hardware like wireless routers and the very affordable Internet access.
Most particularly, mobile phones and smartphones are the main drivers of Internet penetration in Vietnam. A research conducted earlier this year found that in 2015, mobile phone and smartphone penetration reached 69% in Vietnam. For most consumers, their first online experience was via mobile, leapfrogging other devices.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
this looks like quite an interestmg delhi financial inclusion conference and i wondered if we know if anyone who may be going
of if there is a preferred global youth summit on these issues where and when it is?
thanls chris
intros
mostofa and abhisheik grew up in bangladeshi and indian villages and help youth connect learning of yunus , abed, wikipedia, mit media lab dubao
divai was one of the last high school alumni awarded by president kalam while he was alive- she was youngest international delegate to world bank youth in development summit
-additionally amy represented china and stephanie canada-african dispora at youth in development - hey guys can we put togetrher a communal list of who you still talk to of the 400 delegatres before i go debrief the sponsors
ranga worked with kalam in the days that learning satelliites was new and hoped to be india youth's greatest advantage; i am not uptodate as to whether village broadband is now connecting the whole of india the way nilekani and kalam hoped -including lkalam's 2020 plan to tear up any noin-sustainable curriculum
prita is a friend of ramga amy and me and comes from the hometown of www.amma.org - sections of the un host summits on how to connect all academic research on poverty around amma- indeed if a woman becomes the next head of the un this kind of network is expecetd to increae in active importance
yuxuan connects yale china programs to serve china villages and has been asked by sir fazle abed - the world;s number 1 partner in ending extreme village and girl poverty for report on china and wise and liberia summits she connects
john cheers us up whernever we are passing through new york and wants to help linkin the coders who can save the woprld
sunita is daighter of the flounder of the world favorite school lucknow according to the guiness book of records and unesco (if you value peace and youth exchnages without borders ) www.cmseducation.org - mostofa organises leaders quests there quite regularly
thanks chris
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We are at a moment of time, when we should look at leveraging the several strengths of MFIs as well as Banks and future Banks focussed on the poor, such as – wide outreach and presence in remote areas, high customer loyalty and trust, improved access to financial resources through internally accrued profits as well as support of investors – in order to pursue a broader developmental agenda.
Water and sanitation is an area where several MFIs have been able to play a role by providing loans that have enabled their clients to secure water connections, install hand pumps and construct toilets. Many SHPIs and MFIs have also been involved in efforts related to water conservation and use of solar energy. We need to collaborate and find ways to scale these up so that they can bring about a significant change.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Dear Diva wonderful to hear from you -so much i always want to find out with young people who the late great kalam started to empower- he was pretty much the only national leader who worked much of his life with satellite communications, knew what an opne learning revolution they could be for worldiwde youths livelihoods and was totally concerned with the future of youth. We call places led by people who value youth superplaces- i am always trying to understand where they are at regional levels underneath the radar of national policies. This also seems to me to be one of the very few really unique pro-youth purposes that hubs can serve. 1776 being one ehub space to study as it cross ferilises youth experiments from san francisco to DC to dubai to brooklyn (and so UN) to canada.
Additionally my mothers side of the family spent many generations in india as pharmacists and lawyers. To this day Mumbai has a major suburb named kemps corner after the pharmacy my family one used to run and my grandad worked 25 years in mediating mahatma gandhi- grandads last job was to write up the legalese for India's Independence. All this means is Gandh or montessorri or mandela inspired youth networks are among my very favorite to try to map- albeit I have only been to India 3 times and only once to a summit of 1000 Gandhians organsied by an australian paul k who appeared to be a friend of George who gave that tremarkable presentation on how much peer to peer networks on adolesecent hea;lth can now change the world
Firstly can i ask you - did you meet John Kiehl? I set up a meeting between you and him on day you were travleing to new york but never got any feedback. His circles might know some clues to your question on how to be involved with such spaces as worlkd economic forum
Second your famous project was to put sensors on anilmals to monitor their weelbeing - does this mean you are interested in sensors worn by humans too. I know the person who started all of that but dont understand which youth networks change the world with him
People with formal positions like lundberg at the world back or i assume top professors at big universities are formally bettetr placed to answer your question of would a space like world economic form empower a youth like you. I specfialise in not having any formal permissions partluy because I dont have any acknowledged status abnd partly becasue most of the world economic forum has caused the loss of youth sustainabiulity that is still spinning (see attached brochure revisiting 45 years of my fatthers Entrepreneuriak Revolutiuon purpose as a keynsian pro-youth economist)- so i am interested in spotting what hi-trust people pass through there but not myself relating to its organisers. In the days that WEF was mainly a few leaders skiing , my dad was one of the originators. Then WEF had a lucky accident -it happened to have quite a strong arab group membershilo the year oil prices went crazy - so it has always been an opportunity space where middle east and other leaders can try and find common grounds but only off camera. Most of the publicised proceedings is just PR
I have copied the two young people at the world bank event that i most know and hope to continuously research with. Have you cintunued concersations wuth both of them. Basically i have an old fashuined jouralist model in mind of wanting to linkin youth correspondents all of the world. many of you will have at least 2 places you are passionate about. So stephanie is the main young person i know who is semi-peremanently based in new york. She van "invetsigate" eg the UN something that is one of the continuous actions of Jhn Kiehl;s circles. She is also passionate about Cameroon - her family's original countruy and if I call corretly grew up in Canada which actiually has one of the most positive dynamics on the americas- i personally dont see USA under clinton or trump leading the deepest solutions youth need over next 15 years - canada is the one place on the continent that can. Of course indiviuduals and subnetworks can often do extreme innovation in ways that national policy cannot anyway
I have worked with china' amy continuously for her year abrioad in usa london dubai. In the last 4v weeks chiense youth have recipricated the exchnages with my fitrst 2 visits to china and the hope that we can arrange leadership toutrs there. I have tried to uinderstand through amy's eyes each of the 17 sustainanilty goals networks which she was in new york to see born. Then with hi-level people's access like dianne john naila -each is deeply connected wit 3 or 4 goals whenever the UN hosts a goal related event. So amy has the permissions to find out from tese people what I cant and reconnect it with her home - what is it that only china and quarter a billion young chiense women can lead sustainability world around
Let me introduce you to mostofa who does adevnture touts to the gtreatest end ;poverty partnerships the young world is free to know- he also has direct experience of being conected with some of the clinton networks. Also if your home schedule permits you to travel to dubai on 29 november it would be useful to see if there is an area of research - eg improving peer to peer knowledge of how to choose a global university (one of the topics that the world bank recognoised partly becauise of your questioning). Mostofa is coordinating a summit in which superplace dubai hopes to empower relationship with 100 youth and their mentoring networks as part of the regions two goals:
1 to generate huge numbers of new jobs
2 to be a regiuon extremely innovative youth want to be a frend of over these next 15 yeras of winning or losing sustainability
Yuxuan and amy try nd help each orher on biggest projects chinese girls ever come across. As a graduate of the university where most of chiuna's leaders emerged Yuxuan's knindness to show us round beijing has no equal that I will ever meet. Additionally Yuxuan is already a youth fellow of WISE the other greate UAE network to be linking in to
I do invite particularly you ladies and mostiofa to chat; my family remembers the freedom of spoeech days where young reporters were put onto subjects they were most curious about but had no expertise; i would like to get back to a world where everyone is free to report what they are ciurious about searchking relentlessly and without fear or favor - that means we will often make mistakes but sincere ones in trying to connect this world in different bottom-up pro-youth ways than top-down systems can beging to imagine let alone action
thanks chris macrae
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
my father's last project became searching bangladesh's most effective sustainable goals youth networks.discuss valuation video
Dad had previously helped The Economist previously map japan's impact on livelihoods around the world from 1962, open learning worlwide from 1972 and china's from 1975 but had been refused a visa from Indira Gandhi's India in spite of being married to the daughter of the scottish judge who wrote up the legalese of india's independence with Gandhi. He had also served in world war 2 as teenage navigator of RAF planes over modernday Bangladesh and Myanmar. So he knew the nature of the region so to speak. And all this gelled with returning to cambridge to be last alumni class informed by keynes on hippocratic oath of professional economists as exponential futures primary system mapmakers. Dad also shared in his father's hairy experiences as a british consul in stalins moscow and later the last red sea port used by Jews to escape Hitler. His childhood geographically often mirrored peter drucker who was about 10 years elder and whom he first met in Moscow. History the way small business peoples entrepreneurially freed ,it not how the richest paid academics to write it up always seemed to offer dad peacemaking clues. So John's final contributor to MIT week on how American politicians of all stripes have lost any spiral understanding of history even as mainly american technology/coding has globalised us all is scary to me. I would suggest black and latino youth write their own curricula as fast as possible and peer to peer teach it but then america's youth sustainability challenges may be the hardest in the so called civilised world.
Dad had previously helped The Economist previously map japan's impact on livelihoods around the world from 1962, open learning worlwide from 1972 and china's from 1975 but had been refused a visa from Indira Gandhi's India in spite of being married to the daughter of the scottish judge who wrote up the legalese of india's independence with Gandhi. He had also served in world war 2 as teenage navigator of RAF planes over modernday Bangladesh and Myanmar. So he knew the nature of the region so to speak. And all this gelled with returning to cambridge to be last alumni class informed by keynes on hippocratic oath of professional economists as exponential futures primary system mapmakers. Dad also shared in his father's hairy experiences as a british consul in stalins moscow and later the last red sea port used by Jews to escape Hitler. His childhood geographically often mirrored peter drucker who was about 10 years elder and whom he first met in Moscow. History the way small business peoples entrepreneurially freed ,it not how the richest paid academics to write it up always seemed to offer dad peacemaking clues. So John's final contributor to MIT week on how American politicians of all stripes have lost any spiral understanding of history even as mainly american technology/coding has globalised us all is scary to me. I would suggest black and latino youth write their own curricula as fast as possible and peer to peer teach it but then america's youth sustainability challenges may be the hardest in the so called civilised world.
John and Jayfus i think it would be invaluable if you establish all direct modes of chatting with mostofa eg skype zaman.mostofa . I hope the question of most concern to all of us is ... what does the map of all brac's wizard app teams look like - and what other wizard app teams might BRAC want to partner next- and for those of us who believe open learning is the sustainable economy how can we linkin worldyouthcommunity.com everywhere youth livelihoods matter.
25 years ago while working at coopers and lybrand and then the world's largest ad agencies of martin sorrell, i started developing maths for valuation of the most trusted brand partnerships geared to the purpose of connecting youth to end poverty and all sustainability goals. My EIU-published book Brand Chartering describes how to test whether any global brand leader values a higher purpose. It was later plagarised (and also misapplied in terms of its valuation component) by a west coast american professor who better remain nameless
The week beginning april 24 mostofa and amy and Yuxuan will visit the family who founded BRAC- today in my view the brand partnership that values youth the most. BRAC was asked last month by Bangladesh gov to put the curricula it has taught for real in 25000 village primary schools and which earned it the first education laureate WISE on a digital platform reaching all 20 million primary children and teachers. This will be the daughter of all gamechangers in little sisters attempts to save human race from the big brother endgame- now countries with not enough teachers will lead the way in digital learning with most relevant curriculum accessible to all communities. This is not an expensive process (or difficult coding challenge) if the government says use it everywhere. What expensive is the marketing cost when gov and trade unions say use it nowhere or the biggest universities profit models for bankrupting students depend on each university owning curricula/certificate which necessarily have nothing to do with sustainability (otherwise youth not be suffering both sustainability and jobs crises)
BRAC's cashless bank Home | bKash has just become the largest in the world after just 5 years of development with help from MIT coders and dubai's main sustainability investment bank and a bit of moral encouragement from george soros whose 20th open society awards went to sir fazle abed founder of BRAC. Over the last 20 years Soros is actually the common thread between Yunus, Sir Fazle Abed, Paul Farmer and Jim Kim- all of whom in effect have their greatest pro-youth successes when implementing the Franciscan models of Preferential Option Poor http://smbaworld.com/id73.html - the most bottom up and open everything model that professionals and youth can network around.
When Mostofa and i first started searching we were evaluating muhammad yunus and grameen- my fathrers last public birthday party 2008 was with yunus- his remembrance party at the economist was co-staged with yunus, but soon yunus was to lose everything in bangladesh in a great political war with the current prime minister. Sheikh Hasina's father founded the nation of bangladesh and she didnt not want yunus to be more famous than her dad. Sounds like the bottom-up nursery rhyme of a kingdom being lost for a nail, but in this case whole of youth's planet...
7 years ago mostofa and i first met naila (founding female director of grameen phone in 1996) and discovered she was the only person then in bangladesh able to walk into 3 courts simulatanously - yunus, hasina and sir fazle abed. Oddly the year before we met naila we helped worlwide youth host yunus 69th birthday wish party in the form of an open space with yunus and brac kindly sent two of its top people to whom yunus was very cold. It was the first time that I sensed that Yunus had all the wrong sorts of american PR backing to last out whatever was going to be the digital youth futures of bangladesh and end poverty's greatest bottom-up solutions catalogue
chris macrae www.economistasia.net
Later as our journals turn out : it can be seen that while yunus had done a few miraculous things, he had alos told stories on the world stage he cfreated around Grameen about system innovations that brac had actually founded first. It is brac that built health and school systems from scratch in the rural areas- and brac didnt just give loans to village mothers it changed value chains first. Footnoted is how BRAC created million jobs by taking over leadership of the poultry sector in bangladesh- arguably the most successful pre-digital app of chuck's methodology. So while today's most urgent questions are next linkins of digital coders to sustainability's bottom up amps, BRAC' s scale of replication is grounded on being peoples and communities most trusted economic kind (provided we are talking about modeling how to maximise the opportunity of every human beings livelihood in ways that open learning can take way above zero-sum because knowhow multiplies value in use unlike consuming up things)
Owning a few chickens to lay eggs was a typical villager income earner in 1970s Bangladesh. BRAC analysed that the value of the number of eggs laid by the traditional scrawny chicken couldn’t amount to a living wage. So BRAC bred a superchicken that laid many more eggs. The problem with this hard working chicken was that it needed periodic veterinary attention. The three jobs – breeding superchickens , laying eggs veterinary services for village chickens were supplemented by 2 other job descriptions: retailing the now surplus eggs to villagers requirements; producing chicken feed from areas not capable of cultivating human crops. In all these 5 microfranchises, created nearly a million womens jobs in BRAC’s race to end villager poverty, and had made BRAC the leading player in Bangladesh ’s poultry market. The whole value chain is designed so that the once poorest local female producers can sustain a good livelihood. Constituted and owned as a village trust, BRAC isn’t sucking out quarterly profit to any global shareholders the way that most nations' chicken industry leaders do.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Dear Sir Tomlinson
It is really nice to be introduced- and I hear the recent dubai educator summit https://educationandskillsforum.org/speakers/ was probably the most valuable one ever if my father was around to value youth
Because my daughter was born in washington DC, mostofa has mainly be helping me out of .london in the last 5 years of my fathers life and the 6 since
Actually at my fathers last public birthday party in 2008, 2 years before his death we discovered sadly that there isnt one person in power at The Economist or of his former peers or mentees that actually understood how he analysed the futures - which from 1972 when he first saw students testing online learning networks, he saw as ending in a race to gain or lose sustainability- as a systems analyst big brotherdom was one likely outcome; the bottom up open elearning futures which we could also call little sisterdom the other exponential outcome
i think the systems narrative of my fathers key curriculum Entrepreneurial Revolution its mathematically quite simple - every 7 years since 1946 we have doubled spends on communications and computing that can either advertise (pied piper) us to hell, or open learn youth action networks back to the best of times; if that maths is right it means by 2030 we be spending 4000 times more than in 1946 on what could be learning communally with anyone apps and open space systems, reducing degrees of separation on life-saving information to the minimum ;
but with two additional economic catch 22s - first if we are spending all that much more on money and time, then costs of other life saving services eg basic health should be coming down; that was why dad wrote a survey on search for cheaper healthcare in 1984 at the same time as writing up the 2025 report- based on 12 years of leadership interviews around the world on whether the future of the net generation would lead to exponential sustainability- and which borderless under 30s would need to lead- father always projected young chinese womnen would need to be sustainability's most innovative collaboration entrepreneur agents because half the world lives on the 1% of the planet with 3000 miles of beijing- and partly because he believed the visibly celebrated values of young females determine the next generation of any culture
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second we need a maths and currencies that trade way above sum as knowledge multiplying in use (and natures gifts like solar) can instead of being based on zero sum scarcities of thing consumption
to father the least probable 2030 of all would be in some in between state still reversible from losing sustainability
If you know of anyone who might still want to understand the urgency to youth of my fathers way of mapping i would always be happy to try to connect
In UK we have some good maps growing in Glasgow
Since Adrian Cadbury died not anyone I really know in your region; there was one outstanding NHS lady about 13 years ago but I think she has moved on
In London its really only the networks of Lord Sainsbury's daughter Sarah Butler Sloss that I know I ma at home in;
whats not helped by the anonymous journalism of the economist is offering any one the freedom to to look at my fathers body of work and see how different it is from macroeconomics of the biggest; with dads last articles in 2008 he tried to help nobel laureate dr yunus and youth understand the consequences of subprime but it turned out yunus got marooned in losing his own grameen bank to political chicanery
when it comes to the open educational world I start every year by asking what new around www.BRAC.net and its partners; why dont people like khan academy partner with brac on 17 sustainability curricula; why are there so many blocks in education systems these days with livelihoods of youth; as it happens i am accompanying some of the sharpest young chinese minds to tour brac next week with mostofa - and it sounded as if dubai is the right p;lace to start linking a club of people who believe the education system, in most places need total transformation if those inder 30s are going to freely co-produce their sustainability goals
I do look for advice particularly in euerope and usa; one movement we are partnering is chuck vollmer's job creation analysis www.jobenomics.com and partner cable tv network that starts with the usa - takes each market- says how could we make Small/Medium Enterprises thrive again in that market and create jobs; the aim is to make that a global channel where we go interview all educators with job creating system transformations
Love to know what you are doing and if we could come over and tour what you see as getting better in education consequences on youth livelihoods; i feel the next few years are likely top see the last tipping points
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sincerely
chris macrae
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