EconomistYouth.com
Dear President
Would you or colleague be interested in short meeting to
discuss tipping point movements in education and millennials goals that we have
been researching particularly out of DC, Rome
and Tokyo ?
My family's passion for understanding education's role in
millennials sustainability started in 1972 when father at The Economist, and I
a new maths graduate, discovered UK
's National Development Project in Computer Assisted Learning. This evolved an
early online maths version of what khan academy is now famous for. Father,
Norman Macrae, spent the rest of his life interviewing leaders on the
Entrepreneurial Revolution of what they committed to develop across pre- and
post- digital generations. Death of Distance as our primary challenge for
innovating economics can be framed around the leadership value - if human
race is going to spend over 4000 times more on global communications technology
in 2030 than 1946 then those new media better revolve round smartest learning
not advertising PR.
2015: Our family's recommendations of most urgent calendar linking
changes in education from 8 up in schools, through university and post-graduate
millennials include these DC-relatedopportunities:
1) DC june 30 for 4 days massive convergence from nearly 100
countries on mall of youth and teachers from age 8 up - arts olympiad empowers child
creativity as ultimate goal of all we love most about education
2) Briefings from Rome 's
faith, education and peace networks on need to build student union networks
around each major faith's locally sustainable equivalent to catholic POP
(Preferential Option Poor) culture before 23 September
3) Millennials of open technology summit at World Bank in August.
Our lead co-partner mobile women4empowerment is headquartered in this region
having been sent over from Bangladesh
in 2012 after 16 years of helping Muhammad Yunus design partnerships around
Grameen Phone
4) Celebrating movement of World Bank start of year meetings
to Peru (home
of POP and Jim Kim's most extraordinary work in combating mdr tuberculosis) in October
What students value most from such events we tape for the 5
billion person elearning satellite Yazmi owned by an Ethiopian American and
headquartered in Silver Spring .
For the next 40 days: prep for collaboration networking
where nearly 100 countries youth come to celebrate creativity on The Mall June
30- July 4 is taking up most of my time. In view of my interviews in February
in Rome , I feel energetic colegiate presence on the Mall would be invaluable in spite of this being outside the university
year.
Yours sincerely
Chris Macrae
