2017- the year that education changed the economics of everyone

2018 - YouthWorldAffairs -what if new york was rated by sustainability goals generation world class at jobs-connecting education as well as investment banking and media - join our meetings preparing before and after collaborations with WISE@UNGA UN sept 2018

-help map education and sustainability's 7 most wonderful summits for under 30s at www.valuetrue.com xmas 2017 puzzle is it possible to blockchain the world carbon emissions market? summit debrief wise paris march 2019 - fast tracks 09

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

friends of columbia uni china networks monthly meeting 1 preparing to celebrate wise@UNGA -celebrating wise as the education laureates network inaugurated around sir fazle abed in 2011 by un eminent lady from qatar Sheikha Moza bint Nasser ,

the WISE@ world series: paris feb 2019; UNGA sept 2018; accra may 2018: qatar nov 2017; madrid february 2017; beijing nov 2016; tunisia spring 2016; qatar annually 2011- 2015; the wise laureates -2017 PatrickAwuahJr Ghana Ashesi Uni
2015 - Dr. Sakena Yacoobi, Afghanistan
2014 - Ms Ann Cotton, The United Kingdom girl schools africa
2013 - Ms. Vicky Colbert, Colombia
2012 – Dr. Madhav Chavan, India
2011 – Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Bangladesh ===================

NY Nov meeting attended by
denis gilhooly - lead connector oif what health and tech could do at UN
amy chen -columbia uni's eminent rep at un is professor j sachs; china's commisioner for education jack ma is china's eminent delegate to un; amy attended sir fazle abed's 80th birthday party and was asked by the abed family to pilot china-bangaladesh gorls friendship newsletter

thorkil sonne - creating million jobs for youth with autism'

ed resor calaloguing worldwide open learning rachel/world possible and 45th year of friending south sudan; 21st year of investing in bangladswh mobile partnerfships with vilage women ( muhammad yunus bangladesh un eminent person and sir fazle abed)

chris macrae - norman macrae foundation has arranged brand chartering youth journalists
8 trip to beijing geared to 40 yers since norman macrae survey of the future of chinese youth as pivotal to 21st c sustainablity goals curricula

15 trips to bangladesh to help adam smith scholars launch journal of social business and to celebrate sir fazkle abed as top 3 world reord jobs creatoor,
rips ro wise & beijing @madrid @ qatar 2017

online library of norman macrae--;

apologies for absence
mark thornton - past head of jp morgan private banking UK ; entering 10th year of supporting knowledge of how bangladesh village women built the 8th most populous nation which began in 1971 with next to nothing

javeed - devoting rest of his life to improving education for india's youth

Javeed MIRZA

Convener, MEI (Mass Education Initiative)

www.meiindia.org

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friends from other wise related networks
marta vernet from wise spain - coordinates experiential learning at american interional school of barcleona

australian coders of cultural app for classroom and ancestry service for businesses to profile diversity of their staff- a wise accelerati0 project 2017-2018

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Qatar bangladesh and asean

ghana

france

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2017 best year for little sisters & SDgoals generation round jobs creating education?
2000 jobs crazy educators met at qatar november for the 6th WISE celebration of

education laureates whose epicentre is the girls education superstar of bangladesh

(brac bracU bkash ,,,) sir fazle abed and education city - the girls new university-

founder first lady of qatar sheikha moza New universities won the 6th world

laureate in the form of Ghana world calss benchmark- best news for 2018

guterres has invited wise to stage the mother of all learning summits at the UN

General assembly sept 2018 , prior to that Accra Ghana will host wise@accra

may 2018 hosted by president of ghana who co-chairs the UN eminent committee

with erna soldberg the practice leader of the education commission with jack ma;

then in march 2019 wise@paris will celebrate climate and youth servant leader

agendas of Macron two months befpore the greatest ever summit of 100 national leaders

of sustainability goals the 2nd biannaual Belt Road I out of Beijing - see our fan webs at BRI.school BRI.mba and BRI.systems - read all about qatar's end of 2017 plans below;

follow through the year to celebrate wise with diferent national alumni groups including

china whose innovations in edutech inspire QuarterBillioGirls even more than eton musks itechnology of green - tell us who we should be celebrating as world record jobs creators - isabella@unacknowledgedgiant.com

what is a new universtity? its founded to help youth create the 3 billion new jobs of sustainability generation asnd to tear up any certificates and non-sustainable curricula however much money some old wetern president believe they are supposed to extract from students- many new universities are free in the sense that they reaslise disadvantaged studnts traibn up to be the nations's most energetic future public servantds and successful alumni can awlays help pay forward any university that is lesding the sustainability of youth and mother nature's borderless world-new universities dare develop real world curricula at the hardest speace all over Belt Roads including bodrers where refugee children need the greatest innovations eductech has ever app'd

tech at UN - genomics ..3year 33 :: can humans network learning in time to celebrate sustainability

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Norman Macrae

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follow the Ma: jack has spent since 1994 searching for where big-small chnage will come to chich markets - so fast moving consumer goods chnaged by ecommerce; finance and social sharing markets eg bikes by mobile apps-clouds; furniture by OTO; jobs education and happiness sectors by 1 refugee and border crossings, 2 experiential learning olympics and the games of education of youth as sustainability goals generation on every belt road map

nov 2017 welcomes the birth of DAMO invites educators to make WISE@UNGA sept 2018 a summit that brings education to every belt road .and China Scours the Globe for Talent to Transform into World Leader in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data; China and the CIA Are Competing to Fund Silicon Valley’s AI Startups; Qualcomm Invests in Chinese AI Facial Recognition startup SenseTime.

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As you might expect new york is a crossroads for some of the most wonderful learning networks -tell us if we can help connect you

isabella@unacknowledgedgiant.com coordinatir friendship exchanges and languages for all

special thanks

NY ed resor world possible online learning ,

worldpossible, Ed Resor

45th year of friends of south sudan

thorkil sonne million jobs networks for youth with autism the specialists - world connector has spent 18 months linking in usa from new york region

amy chen - columbia university graduate alumni of earth lab, sino-NY agent for open space, juice xlearning teams, baltimore union baptists tech networkers, emerald planet, jobenomics, friends of yazmi elearning satellite, sir fazle abed china friendships of BRAC, china friends of south africa's free university maharishi institute, 2nd most active alumni of icaf creative children olympiads, west coast china friendship networks around stanford &

Thorkil is coming up from delaware to spend 3 hours with amy and me and maybe others (join us if you wish 1 2 ) at columbia uni new york on wednesday

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bbc oceans broadcster paul rose muhammad yunus ashden awards royal geographical society solar grameen bangladesh

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33.30 i am a believer in blockchain tech

36.13 - can you explain why EWTP is so disruptive for youth economies who value small enterprises

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Denis Gilhooly is currently founding Executive Director, Global He@lth 2030 Innovation Task Force a public-private partnership dedicated to digital innovation & investment for health-care & well-being transformation. He previously served as founding Executive Director, UN Digital Health Initiative and Executive Secretary, UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development. Denis has been Principal Adviser to the Administrator & Director, Information & Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Principal Adviser & Executive Coordinator,World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on secondment to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU),and Principal Adviser, Innovation & Information Infrastructure, World Bank Group (WBG). He has worked extensively in the private sector as Vice President, Business Development, Teledesic LLC (the broadband Internet-in-the-Sky venture of Bill Gates and Craig McCaw), Media & Technology Director, The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones, and founding Editorial & Publishing Director, Communications Week International, ITU Telecom Daily Newspapers, and The Networked Economy and Global Mobileconferences, and ITU Telecom Strategies Summits.

He was, a founding Commissioner of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC), and Executive Secretary and lead author of the G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (G8 DOT-Force) and Director of the G8Digital Opportunity Initiative. He was a founding member of the UN Secretary General’s UN ICT Task Force.He was a member and contributing author of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Innovation & Technology, and a member of the Innovation Working Group (IWG) of the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy on Women’s and Children’s Health,the Working Group on ICT for theCommission on Information and Accountability for Women & Children’s Health, and the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Digital Health.

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Dr. Sam Pitroda is an internationally recognized telecom inventor, entrepreneur, development thinker, and policy maker who has spent 50 years in information and communications technology (ICT) and related global and national developments.

Credited with having laid the foundation for India’s telecommunications and technology revolution of the 1980s, Mr. Pitroda has been a leading campaigner to help bridge the global digital divide. During his tenure as Advisor to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Mr. Pitroda led six technology missions related to telecommunications, water, literacy, immunization, dairy production, and oil seeds. He was also the founder and first Chairman of India’s Telecom Commission. In these plural roles, Mr. Pitroda helped revolutionize India's development philosophies and policies with a focus on access to technology as the key to social change.

As a way to induce the second phase of India’s technology revolution, in 2005 Mr. Pitroda headed India’s National Knowledge Commission (2005-2009), to provide a blueprint of reform for the knowledge-related institutions and infrastructure for the 21st century in the country.

Recently, Mr. Pitroda served as Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation, with the rank of Cabinet Minister. He served as the Chairman of the Smart Grid Task Force, as well as the committees to reform public broadcasting, modernize railways, deliver e-governance, and other developmental activities.

Mr. Pitroda is a founding Commissioner of the United Nations Broadband Commission for Digital Development and Chairman of the International Telecommunication Union’s m-Powering Development Board that looks to empower developing countries with the use of mobile technology.

In addition, Mr. Pitroda is a serial entrepreneur having started several companies in the United States. He holds over 15 honorary PhD’s, close to 100 worldwide patents, and has published and lectured widely in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. He lives in Chicago with his wife.

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chris macrae

-connecting top 10 wise events of 2010s with top 10 other global 2.0 action network summits-

-popularising DAMO and gateway17-20 and hujiang

- missing curricula over half of youth to be employable as sustainability gener h ation:

belt road sustainability mba;

2nd languages and girls adolescent health 10 times more affordable- eg peer to peer

sharing your greatest community arts/sports association around the world and experiential learning beyond classroom; mooc of 30000 microfranchises open sourcing local jobs and community self-sufficiency

map of leadership universities for disadantaged students

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Dr. Vinton G.Cerf

Dr. Vinton G. Cerf has served as Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services from Google. Cerf also served at MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Agency (DARPA), and as a member of the Stanford University Faculty.

Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-inventor of the architecture and basic protocols of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M.Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. In April 2008, Cerf and Kahn received the prestigious Japan Prize.

Cerf served as chairman of the board of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (CANN) from 2000-2007and as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995, and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf also served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state and industry boards and committees focused on cyber-security and other topics.

Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He has received twenty honorary degrees.

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Professor Dame Sally C. Davies

Prof. Dame Sally C. Davies(FRS FMedSci) became Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and Chief Medical Advisor to the UK Government in March 2011, having held the post on an interim basis since June 2010. Previously Dame Sally held responsibility for Research and Development, and was the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for the Department of Health.

Dame Sally is independent advisor to the Government on medical matters, with particular responsibilities regarding Public Health. She provides professional leadership for Directors of Public Health. Sally was actively involved in NHS R&D from its establishment and founded the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Sally sits on the WHO Executive Board and has led delegations to WHO summits and forums since 2004.

In March 2013, as CMO, Dame Sally published her 2011 annual report on infectious diseases. The report focused on and brought to light the increasing threat of antimicrobial resistance, calling for national and international action to address the key areas of stewardship, monitoring and surveillance and antibiotic development.

Dame Sally has since been advocating globally on this topic: she has spoken on AMR at numerous events, including the WHA side event in May 2013, the G8 Science Ministers’ meeting in June 2013, the 2013 Global Health Security Initiative in Rome and a number of Chatham House conferences. She was chair of the 2013 AMR forum at the World Innovation Summit for Health in Qatar and is chair of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on AMR to the WHO. She has also raised public awareness of the issue through publication of a Penguin book and a TED talk.

In 2014 Dame Sally was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

Jeremy Farrar

Jeremy is Director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health by supporting bright minds in science, the humanities and social sciences, and public engagement. Before joining the Trust he was Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam, where his research interests were infectious diseases, tropical health and emerging infections. He has contributed to 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has served on several World Health Organization advisory committees. Jeremy was appointed OBE in 2005 for services to tropical medicine, and he has been awarded the Memorial Medal and the Ho Chi Minh City Medal by the Government of Vietnam, the Frederick Murgatroyd Prize for Tropical Medicine by the Royal College Physicians and the Bailey Ashford Award by the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Jeremy is married with three children. He loves all sport and walking in the Alps.

Farid Fezoua

Farid was born in France in 1966 from Algerian parents. He lived most of his life in Paris where he post Graduated in International Relations from Universit de La Sorbonne in Paris and speaks fluently French, English, Arabic and Russian.

Farid has a 15-year experience at senior positions in the International Banking sector specializing in Export and Trade Finance as well as Correspondent Banking and Institutional Relations. He started his banking career at BCEN-Eurobank, Paris (subsidiary of the Russian foreign trade Bank), he then occupied the functions of Deputy Head of Commodity and Trade Finance at B.A.I.I (Banque Arabe et Internationale d'Investissement, a subsidiary of BNP specialized in trade and investment in the MENA region) and before joining GE, Farid was Assistant General Manager & Head of Correspondent Banking and Trade Finance with Arab Banking Corporation, Paris Branch.

In his various previous roles Farid has been covering various geographies such as Europe, Eastern Europe & Russia but has continuously maintained a strong focus on MEA over the last 19 years. Farid has been intensively involved in the financing of trade and investment flows between MEA and Europe and has a deep knowledge of trade and export /project finance techniques and practices together with a large portfolio of banking and institutional relations in the Region. Farid joined GE in 2003 and led the customer finance efforts within GE Healthcare in Buc (France) covering the Middle East, Africa and Turkey Region. In 2005, Farid relocated to Dubai as Regional Executive for GE Capital Markets Corporate to lead Customer and Project Finance activities supporting all industrial businesses of GE.

Effective June 15, 2012 Farid transitioned to the position of President & CEO, GE Healthcare Africa. Farid relocated with his family to South Africa. In his new role, Farid will have responsibility for the strategy and commercial growth of GE Healthcare in Africa, continuing to build on the successes achieved in a growing region.

Dr. Paul Litchfield (OBE OStJ FRCP FFOM) has been Chief Medical Officer for BT Group plc since 2001 and has been active in the field of workplace health and disability for more than 30 years. In April 2015 he was additionally appointed as Chair of the UK’s What Works Centre for Wellbeing,He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Mental Health and he chairs the ethics committee for the UK Defence Medical Services. He was previously a co-author of the independent review for the UK Government “Realising ambitions: Better employment support for people with a mental health condition”.

Denis Gilhooly is currently founding Executive Director, Global He@lth 2030 Innovation Task Force a public-private partnership dedicated to digital innovation & investment for health-care & well-being transformation. He previously served as founding Executive Director, UN Digital Health Initiative and Executive Secretary, UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development. Denis has been Principal Adviser to the Administrator & Director, Information & Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Principal Adviser & Executive Coordinator, World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on secondment to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and Principal Adviser, Innovation & Information Infrastructure, World Bank Group (WBG). He has worked extensively in the private sector as Vice President, Business Development, Teledesic LLC (the broadband Internet-in-the-Sky venture of Bill Gates and Craig McCaw), Media & Technology Director, The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones, and founding Editorial & Publishing Director, Communications Week International, ITU Telecom Daily Newspapers, and The Networked Economy and Global Mobile conferences, and ITU Telecom Strategies Summits.

He was, a founding Commissioner of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC), and Executive Secretary and lead author of the G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (G8 DOT-Force) and Director of the G8 Digital Opportunity Initiative. He was a founding member of the UN Secretary General’s UN ICT Task Force.He was a member and contributing author of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Innovation & Technology, and a member of the Innovation Working Group (IWG) of the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy on Women’s and Children’s Health, the Working Group on ICT for the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women & Children’s Health, and the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Digital Health.

Professor Nii Narku Quaynor is Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency of Ghana. He is one of the founding members of the Computer Science Department at theUniversity of Cape Coast in Ghana, and continues to hold a professorship there. In 2000, he became director of ICANN for the African region. On Quaynor's return to Ghana from the United States in the early 1990s he established some of Africa's first Internet connections and was involved in setting up some key organisations, including the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG).He introduced Value Added Networks in the region through the introduction of the SWIFT, Internet and Commerce networks, and was founding chairman of AfriNIC, the African numbers registry.Quaynor is the Chairman of the Ghanaian company Network Computer Systems, a member of the United Nations Secretary General Advisory Group on ICT, member of the ITU Telecom Board, Chair and of the OAU Internet Task Force, President of the Internet Society of Ghana, and member of the World Bank Infodev TAP.

Professor Sinclair Stockman is currently Chairman, Connected Health Innovation Centre, University of Ulster and Director, Digital Northern Ireland 2020. He is on the Advisory Board of FabLab Ireland, and Advisor to the Health Analytics Collaborative Network and an Associate of the TM Forum (Smart Cities and Health), and European Connected Health Forum..Sinclair was Founder ofActive Minds (Smart business models, with focus on large scale transformation, business and social, enabled by digital technology), Sinclair has served on the Advisory Board of the UN Digital He@lthInitiative and Advisor to the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development.

Wendy Taylor is Director of the Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact at the US Agency for International Development (USAID)

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more notes on greatest friends of youth livelihoods

Even if i say it myself amy is quite lucky to have 3 of the best mentors in jobs creating and china-english language friendships world -we now have a specific collaboration supercity test - changing new york to be a learning supercity (as circulated) it would be good if thorkil becomes a 4th-

thorkil has already met billy at stanford; he's on a us visa to march forming partnerships all across usa - eg when i met him he was going up the next day to see the people at MIT media lab (augmenting handicapped people with robot and other sensor skills) i would have advised as starting with- i met them once but hadnt got the projects to continue interesting them

as soon as his is done he's off to beijing in spring to see a senior minister in china; also back in new york someone near the top of the ckgsb school is interested; also there is a whole college on autism research in qatar who with sir fazle abed and others are staging the un's greatest learning summit in september

i do have some new china leads who are deep into how artificial intelligence can augment teachers in the classroom -but they all said wait until the new year; and of course a1 is a core part of jack ma's 15 billion dollar research academy damo announced last month- additionally if student unions are to catalogue every communities best sports/arts/music for all project in time to expo these with jack ma in tokyo then anyone who loves torkil is likely to be win-win with all of above -wise's own community for all summit follows the un one fen 2019 in paris where i am heavily connected as that was where yunus went global and where scots needs to renegotiate brexit - as you know for the first 100 years of the existence of the world entrepreneur 1758-1858 it was french and scots who lived it

everything thorkil connects (as well as anyone who truly values loveq above the other so-called leadership skills) and whether this may interest anyone else who advises you either at columbia or ed resor who also want to meet us on wednesday- ed says he knows his way into the un and various embassies once he knows who is really assembling this mother of all jun learning summits

chris

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reports of wise2017 qatar

from bridges international schooling system

For three days every two years, the focus of the world’s education sector is on the tiny, yet beautiful Arabian peninsula of Qatar. This is where the who’s who of the global education community come together for the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), an unparalleled gathering of the best and the brightest from the public and private sector, journalism and academia in education. The themeof WISE 2017 was “Co-Exist, Co-Create: Learning to Live and Work Together.” Bridge returned on a range of panels as a long-term supporter of WISE and winner of a coveted WISE Award in 2015.

Beginning in 2009 as an initiative of the Qatar Foundation, WISE has quickly become a reference point and a place to feel the pulse of global education; a place to understand what’s happened, what’s happening on and what’s coming next. In its first eight influential years, it has done much to raise the profile of education in the developing world, which is currently in “crisis.”

Worldwide, 387 million primary school-aged children are out-of-school. The sense of urgency is heightened when we learn that this number is actually increasing. This being the ‘official’ statistic from UNESCO. Unofficially, up to 350 million people remain ‘invisible’ to statistics — equivalent to the population of the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain combined. The true figure of those out-of-school is therefore actually much higher than we can possibly know.

Further, six-out-of-ten children in school are what is known as ‘in school but not learning,’ as they fail to meet basic proficiencies in reading and maths. This represent an additional 600 million children. This problem is particularly acute in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 88% of children and adolescents will enter adulthood without a basic proficiency in reading.

Sadly, this means the combined figure of children out-of-school, or in school but not learning, is in excess of one billion. It’s critical therefore that the global education community both recognise and respond to this. How can we get these children not just in a school, but out of the other end with a good-quality education?

The answer may lie in the growing number of private providers and a range of non-state actors, both nonprofit and for profit. This was alluded to at WISE 2017 when it was shown increasing numbers of African parents are opting for an education from private providers, which now educate 21% of all African children. The lack of schools and the absence of learning in the public system when they do exist largely accounts for this.

The success of private providers is well documented, with a growing body of evidence as to the efficacy of their methods — which are often, more accountable.

Private providers have an incumbent responsibility to a consumer — parents, sometimes a government — who will rightly demand education is delivered in the best possible way within limited budgets. The consequence of poor delivery is that parents choose alternative options and Government’s alternative partnerships. This is in contrast to the public sector, where accountability can be limited and the response to failure is often pinned to limited resources rather than adapting to, or even adopting, new and efficient approaches and technologies.

Danish Faruqui writing for WISE ed.review outlines four “strengths and realities” of engaging the private sector in providing education in Sub-Saharan Africa, these being: access, innovation, quality and relevance. In every example, it is clear how the private sector can both complement and enhance the public sector. It’s been noted too, those private providers like public providers of education can vary dramatically in quality.

However, the best private providers can bring fresh investment, innovation, approaches and experiences; for example, many have credited them with transformative effects in healthcare systems. In education, they can bring innovations like new technology that can track attendance and performance of both pupils and teachers in real-time. In Kenya, where Bridge operates, teacher absenteeism is as high as 30%; in Bridge schools, through the use of technology that monitors attendance, this has been brought down to close to 0%.

Speaking at WISE 2017, Sandeep Mallareddy, Bridge’s Academic Director for India presented his paper ‘Improving lessons design through data-driven feedback,’ which explained how Bridge uses data to not just make education accessible but to make it more impactful. Mallareddy’s session was well received with active participation from the audience of mainly teachers who shared their own experience of how data-driven feedback had improved lessons. He concluded by illustrating how Bridge pupils can learn twice as fast compared to their peers in public schools.

As well as improving overall attendance and performance, new technologies can be both flexible and scalable making them useful in a variety of contexts — such as educating children who are escaping conflict. Stacey Nwokeyi, Academic Director for Bridge in Nigeria presented her project on the refugee education crisis to a packed WISE Hackathon Workshop.

The two-day Hackathon was closed with a fascinating session from internationally acclaimed Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie in discussion with Stavros Yinnaouka, CEO of WISE and BBC presenter Yalda Hakim. The session centred on the transformation of nations from knowledge economies to knowledge societies and the role that educators need to play.

The question of who will pay for education obviously didn’t escape the attention of the WISE audience. Bridge Board Member and Managing Partner of Learn Capital, Greg Mauro was on a panel about ‘New actors and perspectives in funding education,’ which agreed while finding alternative reliable, responsible and sustainable funding models has been difficult, the efficiency of donor-funded agencies is in the meantime was improving through use of technology.

The panel explored the massive potential of digital technology and new models using technology for enabling maximum impact. There was no denying that technology has been the biggest shot in the arm for the entire sector by providing education with more equitable access to everyone.

Using Bridge’s success in Africa and India as an example, Mauro went on to say: “The results that public-private partnerships in education have unlocked are massive. They provide massive opportunities for organisations such as Bridge to assist Governments with outcomes focussed education provision and have increased the opportunities fourfold in developing markets.”

Given the theme of WISE 2017, learning to live and work together, perhaps a more blended approach of public and private provision is the future of education.

By the end of WISE there was consensus amongst the thousands of participants from over 100 countries that two days and three nights every two years is simply not enough to consume all the knowledge, expertise and diverse opinions on offer.

Everyone gathered in Qatar would surely agree that the depth and diversity of discussions there left them enriched and motivated to meet the challenge of the global education crisis, and with a variety of experiences, ideas and lessons waiting to be implemented in rising to the challenge of giving one billion people a quality education.

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