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Peter Burgess

Gmail Peter Burgess Fw: introducing intel's Fahim Kader to Tebabu Assefa and Naila Chowdhury christopher macrae Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:59 AM Reply-To: christopher macrae To: Tebabu Assefa , Naila Chowdhury , Nina Oduro , 'psamb@gyin.org' , 'atlu@ucsd.edu' , Mostofa Zaman , Taddy Blecher , Alizee , Shafqat Ullah , King Christopher , Steve Foerster , Mohammad Bhuiyan , Atsufumi Yokoi , 'abbycapobianco@gmail.com' , 'naysa.ahuja@gmail.com' , 'sunitag@globaleducation.org' , Peter Burgess , Andrew Simmons , 'andrew.mount@southernoregonaquaponics.com' , Devin Yeomans , Ryan O'Donnell , 'kate.thornton@auburn.edu' , sam daley-harris , Anna Barrera , Adella Tebabu (leader of ethipoian diaspora learning and jobs creating networks in washington dc) and friends a dialogue (footnoted) has started between world bank youth society africa and grameen intel office in dhaka whom I visited 3 weeks ago with mostoifa who is locally able to go and see them any time- basically these are 20 or so tech wizards in bangladesh empowered by intel to try and make a living but not a profit beyond that turning huge databases into mobile apps the one being discussed first relates to agriculture where the india version is most advanced naila and I also know the ceo of grameen intel over in usa -intel has sustained a partnership with yunus since about 2006- back in the day Craig Barrett led the partnership- these days he's trying mainly to reform education and enthocal eladershipcurricula out of thunderbird busienss school in arizona I dont know whether this is a connection any of your networks may want to join at some stage I guess some perspectives I am surveying are: 1 who are the agricultural millennials? and what information do they open source to create jobs - I think I understand tebabu's approach to try and benchmark international produce markets minimising middle men (a main subject of his june summit); 2 I sort of hope this discussion with young afruca society will lead to finding where brillaint open source technoolgy youth are swapping apps on agriculture or on open education related to agriculture; 2 is there a connection between agriculture millennials and energy and water and food security millennials? and if so given we live in dc how do we ground the global experts on that in very local connecting through millennial youth I expect many of you know practice experts in some or all of these areas. Clearly I have no expertise in agriculture but wish to help search out who's collaboration knowhow actually creates local jobs and community sustain ability which is the opposite search to what most global corporations (and their government lobbies) have been doing cheers chris macrae isabella wm ‏@globalgrameen how to value millennial goals… - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tu2Ue18x1DQzbYGccoIoE6LTlHzrAL6jXxYgT_S5E5Q … sharing knowhow how millennials create quarter a billion natural cap jobs in africa ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Fahim Kader To: Yvonne Kirabo Cc: 'chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk' ; Elikia M. V. Kamga Nenkam ; Naila Chowdhury ; Saqif Khan ; Nafis Chowdhury ; 'Garudachar, Srinivas B' ; Pavel Hoq ; 'Huque, Kazi' ; 'Sundararajan, Narayan' Sent: Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 1:39 Subject: Re: introducing intel's Fahim Kader to Tebabu Assefa and Naila Chowdhury Hi Yvonne, Thanks for your interest. Would love to help. Here's a quick overview: Grameen Intel Social Business is essentially a software company seeking to contribute to development of the communities around the globe. That may be through ventures in agriculture, healthcare, and/or education. Where agriculture is concerned, we look at the various stages of the crop cycle and address specific issues: seed selection, fertilizer recommendation, pest control, and sales. The most important thing to note is that we are not the agro experts, and this is where 'partners' come in. Consider the picture: If you were to partner us in taking our solutions to Uganda, you would have to, first, provide us with the backend inputs. For instance, for our fertilizer recommendation app (mrittikā), you will have to provide us with the soil parameters for the specific regions/areas in Uganda that you wish to cover, the pertinent crop nutrients, the fertilizer dosages etc. In Bangladesh, the Government agriculture offices provide the required information; much of it is publicly available. So, we will give you the list of inputs required, you will have to collect them from the expert sources and feed us back. Secondly, you will have to select the entrepreneurs (who operate in a business model whereby they use our applications to provide seed selection, fertilizer recommendation, pest control and/or sales recommendation services to farmers in their communities), the farmers, the (agro) experts etc. In addition, you will have to arrange the necessary orientation and training sessions in the local communities, wherein our project team will bring everyone concerned up to speed and train the users. If you want to discuss more, please add me on Skype: fahimkader13. We can schedule a convenient time for both parties. Best regards Fahim On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Yvonne Kirabo wrote: Hello Fahim, Great to hear about the great work your organization is doing. The Ugandan Government is keen on getting the Youth involved in agricultural Initiatives, can you please tell us more about what ‘partnering’ in agricultural initiatives means or entails? We can talk about this if you are available, my direct number +1202-817-7333 Look forward to hearing from you soon. Yvonne Catherine Kirabo YAS_logo005 From: Fahim Kader [mailto:fahim.kader@grameen-intel.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 1:10 AM To: chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Cc: tebabu@blessedcoffee.us; Pavel Hoq; Garudachar, Srinivas B; Huque, Kazi; Sundararajan, Narayan; Saqif Khan; Nafis Chowdhury; Mostofa Zaman; Yvonne Kirabo; Taddy Blecher; Nina Oduro; psamb@gyin.org; imunro.kenya@gmail.com; Atsufumi Yokoi; atlu@ucsd.edu; brittell@capitolfoodventures.com; simmonsa@gmail.com; steve@stevedenning.com; matthewbishop@economist.com; sarah.bs@ashdenawards.org Subject: Re: introducing intel's Fahim Kader to Tebabu Assefa and Naila Chowdhury Hi Chris, Thanks for the email and excellent support. My skype ID is fahimkader13. Great to know that you discussed our work with Sir Fazle Abed and that he was excited. Grameen Intel was formed on the belief of the potential, wonderful avenues we can open up by connecting agriculture, education and healthcare with technology; for the development of communities around the world. As I discussed with you, we are moving ahead one step at a time, and would be interested in aligning our work with that of other institutions (within our current range of expertise). We are partnering other institutions in agricultural initiatives in different countries, and would be looking forward to making impact in Africa. We will be discussing with Tebabu soon enough, you can join us if you want to. We will also get in touch with Ms. Naila and discuss how we can avail each other's support. Best regards Fahim On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:04 AM, christopher macrae wrote: hi fahim- what's your skype? Tebabu is east coast usa time zone- washington dc region -neighbouring naila and I his cell 301-802-2812 his skype tebabu.assefa naila's cell 202 777 3637 and skype naila.h.chowdhury my skype chrismacraedc (301 881 1655) naila (bangladesh , grameen phone, nanocredit connector, friend of president of ITU, womens empowerment ) and tebabu uber-networker for ethiopia from coffee framers to african satellite owner- are at the practice-entrepreneur crossroads of many african millennial and open tech networks - the da aftre I met you in dhaka, sir fazle abed was quite excited by this good news regarding potential for open education gamechanging now right now- unlike anything I have seen in washington dc over last 15 years, the dynamic for celebrating the most educated 25-35 year olds is being transformed by 3 dynamics at world bank - youth summits, open learning campus, millennial entrepreneur competitions -kim transcript shared with first 50000 mooc alumni of change the world attached youth and african summits going on in dc over 7 days keep on reporting agriculture and technology are the only ways that jobs for africans will begin to improve african futures chris macrae collaboration research for african version of world record book of job creators at http://africanidol.tv - tell me if there's a bookmark to intel I should be including from connecting african jobs perspective From: Fahim Kader To: Tebabu Assefa Cc: chris macrae ; Tadesse Meskela ; Pavel Hoq ; 'Garudachar, Srinivas B' ; 'Huque, Kazi' ; 'Sundararajan, Narayan' ; Saqif Khan ; Nafis Chowdhury Sent: Monday, 4 August 2014, 14:38 Subject: Re: introducing intel's Fahim Kader to Tebabu Assefa and Naila Chowdhury Dear Tebabu, Thanks for your email. Would you prefer Skype? If you do, please share your Skype ID. Either way, I will schedule a call - please let me know where you're located so that I can work out time that's convenient for both parties. Thanks Fahim On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Tebabu Assefa wrote: Dear Chris, Thank you for you the introduction. Dear Fahim, It is great to hear from you and thank you for your support. I have visited your site and appreciate the Grameen Intel’s vision, mission and work. Yes, I am more than happy to further discuss with you to explore the possibilities. I am coping this email to Mr. Tadesse Meskela, the founder and manager of the Oromia Coffee Framers Cooperative Union, with 254,000 small coffee members organized under farmer managed cooperatives in Ethiopia - http://www.oromiacoffeeunion.org It would better if we talk over the phone at your earliest convenience. Please find time to visit the links below to learn more about Blessed Coffee. 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