ALUMNI OF LAST 12 YEARS OF SUSTAINABILITY GAMES
note from the diary: march 2019 sees many deadlines critical to 12th last year of students and leaders for livelihoods of sustainability
jack ma and melinda gates and others deliver to UN head guterres report on digital cooperation - he will then share this with 100 national leaders who come to celebrate xi jinpings latest version of sustaionable world gtrade mapping : beijing april 2019 BRI.school -see also


 in kenyya this in Unhabitat CEO (the former female mayor of penang) deadline for sending best city livelihood cases to head of unhabitat- her start the 20s report is expected to issue premier league of livelihood cities (and border hubs) and sdg economic zones relevant to eg goal 11 sustainable cities and goal 5 women audit places/culture for families to thrive- more on supercity and sustainable global vilage rankings ...

in this world there are 2 oposiye kinds of univerities- those like oxbridge which adam smith clarified serve the comforts of old academics not youth livelihoods - and thise that value youth serving their nation and the world's sdgs - tsinghua in beijing is the number 1 benchmark of tyupe 2 universitoies- it stidnts taravle the wlorld making sustaoinability froendships and linking in coders of the same joyfulness as jack ma- even oxbridge's most bkiassed ranking table said this at the start of the last but 12 university years of winning or losing the sustainability games

A year of firsts

Asian universities have always had a strong presence in the THE lists. But this is the first time a Chinese university has led the way in the region. Tsinghua University rose eight places to hit number 22, which is the highest climb by any university in the top 30. Not only is Tsinghua now the highest-placed Asian university, but this is also the first time it has outperformed Peking University. It is now classed as an “international powerhouse” by THE, having previously been in the “regional stars” category.

- it is not yet clear whether there will be an extra legend for green vaut le voyage or twin sister cities- we invite youth to monitor this by the 11 main regions of BRI.school and mother earth's diversity - we are aware that arctic circle needs adding - tell us if we have missed out anywhere else that will most determine whether humans exist in C22

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RWANDA FIRST IN AFRICA TO JOIN ALIBABA-LED EWTP Alibaba Group and the government of Rwanda have agreed to multiple bilateral initiatives to promote the African country’s economy through increased cross-border trade, capacity building and tourism. The signing of three memoranda of understanding, witnessed by Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma, took place on Wednesday in the capital city of Kigali. First eWTP Hub in Africa A major tenet of the agreements is Rwanda’s admission to the Electronic World Trade Platform, the first in Africa so far.  The eWTP provides small and medium-sized enterprises with operational infrastructure, such as commerce logistics, cloud computing, mobile payments and skills training. By doing so, the eWTP allows SMEs the chance to participate in the global economy when that opportunity might otherwise be available only to multinational companies. This is Ma’s second trip to Rwanda after his initial visit to Africa in 2017. During those visits, Ma had said he was impressed by the country’s young entrepreneurs and local businesses and pledged to support the growth of the digital economy in Africa. The partnership is a step toward fulfilling that pledge.

shannon may brjdges international #BR9

We've been busy running Bridge nurseries and schools plus supporting government schools and teachers over the last month. Hear about some of the highlights:  A new UK Government DFID report makes landmark findings that parents' income is not related to strong learning in Bridge schools in Lagos Nigerian government teachers celebrate as 7,000 of them graduate from Bridge training The IFC show their support for Bridge at the World Bank's annual meetings We meet Everline, a top pupil sitting her end of school exams in Kenya A London think tank looks at the evidence of our outcomes and praises Bridge's work A new UK Government DFID report ‘Learning in Lagos’  revealed that in our schools in Nigeria family background was not correlated to children’s high learning outcomes. The DFID report makes a landmark finding that in Bridge schools children enjoy equal learning benefits. Parents' income, education, and speaking English at home had no link to their children's academic performance in Bridge. The report states: “Students from better socioeconomic backgrounds have higher learning achievement in private and public schools, but not at Bridge schools.”  A London think tank, Centre for Policy Studies, supports Bridge's work tackling the global learning crisis. The author says the global education shortage is a combination of children out of school and children in school not learning. The think tank outlines how Bridge is working to improve the situation: "Bridge schools in Lagos are delivering an education that is both of a higher standard and more equitable than the alternatives."  The author, Oliver Wiseman, goes on to say that "Bridge looks a lot like a good news story: not just more schools in parts of the world that need them, but an approach that appears to be working where others have failed." Read the full article on CapX here In Benin City, Nigeria, seven thousand government teachers have been celebrating their graduation into the local government's new education improvement programme called EdoBEST. These teachers in over 600 schools are now educating around 150,000 children across Edo state. The aim of EdoBEST is to improve the state’s 1,500 public primary and junior secondary schools; develop the skills of 15,000 government teachers and impact 300,000 pupils over a 4 year programme. Bridge is proud to be the technical partner on the teacher development and instructional design element of the programme. We are focused on supporting the Government to enhance teacher capacity and capability through a training programme that leverages technology and empowers teachers to improve learning outcomes.  Read the full story about EdoBEST here Philippe Le Houérou, CEO of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) was interviewed at the World Bank’s annual meetings in Bali. Houérou outlined why investments in private sector actors are key to the success of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He expressed his support for Bridge's work saying “I grew up in Africa. It’s a situation of very bad public services in health and education. Repeating the same old recipe and expecting a better outcome is weird. Same cause, same consequences. We owe it to the kids, to the next generation, to try new things. We try with Bridge. I do believe that experimenting is good and we’re using economists to do evaluations."  Read more about the IFC CEO's view now The World Economic Forum published an opinion editorial by Adesuwa Ifedi, Bridge Vice President of Policy and Partnerships for Africa. She writes about education reform in Nigeria highlighting the Edo government initiative and the UK DFID report. Adesuwa Ifedi says that what’s underway in the country is a huge boost for children. She highlights how innovative models, strong leadership and higher levels of learning attainment are transforming state schools across the region. Ifedi adds: “Strong political leadership and a clear vision demonstrate that state schools in Nigeria can be high quality, today. A generation of children can receive transformational learning opportunities enabling growth and prosperity in a state where 60% live below the poverty line.” Visit the World Economic Forum story Meet Everline Sumuni who goes to Bridge Kwa Reuben in Nairobi, Kenya   She's been a Bridge pupil for six years now after moving from her public school. She says: "I was learning nothing. I knew I had to improve." Her school is in one of Kenya's biggest slums, Mukuru, which is home to 100,000 people and sits on wasteland by the Nairobi river. Everline is the youngest in her family and currently, she is sitting her end of primary school exam (KCPE). At 14, she is very motivated to succeed, not least by a determination to beat her sibling's scores! She's is on track to score 400+ marks in her exams; which would put her in the top 1% of pupils nationwide. Good luck Everline!  Read Everline's journey here News in Brief The US think-tank Brookings has published a piece by Bridge's Christine Okudi saying teachers can empower girls through sex education in Uganda.  Dr Shannon May, co-founder of Bridge, delivered a keynote speech at the GSG Impact Summit 2018 in New Delhi, India.  Business Fights Poverty have published a piece that looks at the new independent evidence of high attainment and equal learning inside our schools. Why is a weaker teachers union in the USA good news for teachers in Africa? Our Head of Bridge Uganda writes for Impakter magazine. Bright magazine has mentioned Bridge in its long list of education innovations in Kenya. Country Director Marcus Wleh has been talking about the transition of the Liberian government's education reform program from PSL to LEAP. The UK Institute for Economic Affairs posted a blog by an English professor looking at the findings of the new DFID paper Learning in Lagos. Have you seen our shiny new website? Take a look here.  For more Bridge news visit our social media channels: Copyright © 2018*  Bridge International Academies*, All rights reserved. Contact us via media@bridgeinternationalacademies.com Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list About | Press Office | Careers

von neumann #BR6 #BR4 1 to 3 tiimes moore

Von Neumann  (1903- 1957 -)

 moore tech: e-scale doubles every 7 years

Johnny was probably the most creative person of his lifetime- definitely the most creative mathematician. He was catapulted into the 3 most urgently accelerating sciences of the time
nuclear
computers for analysis
computers as bridge to media and human intelligence purpose

war forced him to be in the middle of all three of these - and nuclear was the cause of his short life
in fathering the ;programmable computer- post-war free of state secrets, he took extra joy in open sourcing all his discoveries much to the displeasure of some of his academic brethren at princeton who wanted to keep it to themselves- ibm was one of those gain most from Johnny's shared economy of his life's great works 

probably aware of the fact that analysis power would double way almost every year beyond his life span, he moved from design of programmable computer put of coding and into his last works at yale modeling the human mind as a neural network- in other words how much more programmable are human minds than we like to believe and is this overlap good or bad news for where artificial intelligence will also take us

von neumann cautioned - dont let your world be ruled by zero-sum economists- that was how the past empire and industrial age constrained the human lot- he would have loved digital currencies replacing politicians paper ones but only if they were designed to open source sustainability most urgently massive improvements for all people s not as some new hidden ponzi scheme ruler

one of the other most fascinating questions- is how did eastern europe train such a great cluster of mathematicians as von neumann, einstein etc- and how is it that american education has never begun to replicate such maths education- in 2018 its also noticeable that eastern europe is the one place in the wporld demanding its brightest lawyers focus on blockchain law- this will be the antidote to how much harm the EU has done eastern europe- see also works of today's Hungarian exile George Soros

for those who prefer to question rather than examine everyone they meet reading my father's biography of von neumann may yet help you help us all cooperatively prevent some of the great  threats to human sustainability- for the rest of us well the age of 4000 times moore wouldnt have been launched without von neumann

Gandhi M #Br2

World Record book of Jobs Creators

Gandhi, tags: sustainable world trade corridor #BR2
Languages Hindi , English
exp-era 0 assassinated 1946

few centuries have started up with a more exciting vision than Gandhi's : end colonisation which became his life's work from 1906 - what could the future of sustainable world trade look like noting that half of the world's people live in south asia or China? more on Gandhi as WRJC http://www.worldrecordjobs.com/search?q=gandhi - tags languages Hindi, English ...world trade #BR2 #theEconomist- see http://www.bri.school

more Gandhi was one of the most global people born in the 19th century - age 18 he went from his area of upbringing - states surrounding Mumbai (then called Bombay) to read law at the Bar of London- most of his professional work as a Barrister was done in South Africa- the Gandhi world travel triangle became bombay-durban-london related WRJC Mandela

in 1906 about half way through his life he had his aha moment he called satyagraha (search for while gtruth) - his profession the law of the English Empire was what was holding back native Africans as well as his peoples in India- the aha moment came when he was thrown off a train for having the wrong colored skin-

Gandhi continued professional work as a Barrister in South Africa but decided from 1906 that he would need to design a whole new education system in India before aiming to take on the British in demanding independence
maria montessori helped gandhi with the most famous educational innovation - village montessori

gandhi also revitalised ashrams - rural cooperatives for people of all ages to build community
Gandhi valued l.ivelihood education everywhere this different from classroom theory- as well as agricultural apprenticeships which village children gain from approaching adolesecence

- gandhi aimed to maximise yo0uth's appreciation of cultural diversity before adolescence - moreover, he had himself served as a first aid networker on several occasions including London during the first 6 months of world war 1- so maximising understanding of personal health would have been a curriculum Gandhi would have cheered

Gandhi's Talisman for peer to peer networking
"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."
- One of the last notes left behind by Gandhi in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought.

India upodates of most scale : Nilekani