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Geochelone: Heading for Burma at the end of the month, Burma World University and School, To bring into conversation your Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge with MIT OCW-centric WUaS's ISSIP Grand Challenge - Poland World University and School, "Complementary and Alternative Medicine" wiki subject page at WUaS, online Medical School at WUaS

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Will is heading for Burma at the end of the month ...


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Dear Will,

Thanks.

Here's the Burma World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Burma_(Republic_of_the_Union_of_Myanmar) - without any MIT OCW courses yet in the official language of Burmese and without the Burmese languages' WUaS schools/first pages started yet (Wikipedia is in 287 languages and MIT OCW is in at least 8 languages).
WUaS is planning that each country become its own accrediting MIT OCW-centric university (for bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. as as well as IB high school degrees in UN languages  to begin), if possible, and usually in the main language of the country, as well as every language in a country becoming its own wiki school. Burma has around 100 languages I  just read. If you happen to meet people in the Ministry of Education or other academics or lawyers there, please let them know of this possibility.

I think WUaS will do better in applying to foundations with specific introductions, if at all possible ... and I'll look through further the 4 foundation suggestions you sent. Thank you.

Have a great trip.

Best wishes,
Scott


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ISSIP currently is offering  a number of Grand Challenges.
About ISSIP Grand Challenges:
Today’s societal and business grand challenges are increasingly addressed through integrated approaches of open innovation, crowdsourcing, and multi-disciplinary collaboration that result in improving existing service ecosystems, introducing new services, or birth of whole new ecosystems. The ISSIP framework to address grand challenges includes a whole system approach to service innovation, i.e. technology innovation (social, mobile, big data, analytics, Iot, etc.), business innovation (open innovation), process innovation (crowdsourcing, multi-disciplinary collaboration, etc.), and mutli-disciplinary life-long learning that enables our members to continue to grow professionally and be prepared for the work challenges and opportunities of 21st century.

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GRAND CHALLENGE FOR ISSIP MEMBERS AND WORLD UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL UNIVERSITIANS
Engaging Watson and cognitive computing, WIKI (editable web pages) accrediting MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School would like to invite you to help WUaS become the Harvard / MIT of the internet and in all 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries, offering CC online university (bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D.) and high school (I.B.) degrees in large languages and most countries. For more information about World University and School Grand Challenge, please contact info@worlduniversityandschool.org.
AWorldUniversityHarvardsVirtualIsland

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PRESCRIPTION FOR POLAND GRAND CHALLENGE
Prescription for Poland”© is a grand challenge initiated by ISSIP institutional member, Data Techno Park, and Prescription for Poland © Network of Experts, intended to build a strong innovation ecosystem around eHealth and Regenerative Medicine in Poland. The grand challenge is to help Poland as a new EU country, possessing high ICT and medicine competences, become a leading player into the global ICT – medicine world through programs that foster collaboration with researchers, scientists, and professionals in Poland. For more information about Prescription for Poland ©, please contact grandchallenges@issip.org.


http://staging2.issip.org/?page_id=2234


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Dear Data Techno Park, and Prescription for Poland © Network of Experts,

To bring into conversation your Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge with MIT OCW-centric World University and School's ISSIP Grand Challenge, here's the "Complementary and Alternative Medicine" wiki subject page at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Complementary_and_Alternative_Medicine.

And here's the beginning online Medical School at WUaS, only in English
so far -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School -
but planned for large languages.

Here too is the Poland World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poland - not yet in Polish and without any MIT OCW courses yet in Polish. (Wikipedia is in 287 languages and MIT OCW is in at least 8 languages, by way of comparison).

WUaS is planning that each country become its own accrediting MIT OCW-centric university (for bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. as as well as IB high school degrees in UN languages to begin), if possible, and usually in the main language of the country -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links
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If you happen to know people in the Polish Ministry of Education or other academics or lawyers in Poland, please let them know of this possibility.

I've also added your Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge to the ideas' section - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poland#Ideas - of Poland World University and School for the time being.

Looking forward to further co-constituting conversation about our Grand
Challenges.

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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare
(not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit university and
school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational
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Fly orchid: Dear Angela and Victor, A little news from here ... Wiki WUaS, Yale U.P. and actual / virtual Harbin manuscript?, Piping ... to Scottish small pipes?, YogaMacFlower, Not generating loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting all the time but it continues to be a focus, About renouncing the GHB

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Dear Angela, Victor, Patricia and Andrew and L,




A little news from here:

Wiki (open editable pages, like Wikipedia) MIT OCW-centric World University and School is proceeding apace here with on the one hand open online people-to-people wiki schools in all 7,106+ languages (e.g. hop into a group video hangout and record this to your youtube channel to teach or learn something, for example, or begin a wiki subject about something you love) and with free online CC MIT OCW-centric accrediting university and high school degrees planned for many of the 242+ countries in the world and in large languages.

At Yale University Press's invitation, and having completed a 9 chapter manuscript, I sent in submission materials for my actual virtual Harbin Hot Springs' manuscript about 2 weeks ago for assessment. I'm hoping to create a virtual Harbin in a 3D interactive group build-able movie realistic virtual Harbin in digital goggles (all of which is barely on the digital horizon) - and eventually with brain wave head set such as Andrew's Brainfinger's invention http://brainfingers.com/ - as ethnographic field site (and part of a virtual earth) for a second comparative anthropological book.

Piping (and I'm about to renounce playing the Great Highland Bagpipe and move to playing Scottish small pipes - see below) and also playing keyboard for Scottish Country Dancing (loving these melodies and making harmonies with other musicians) some.

Releasing action meditation every morning in Siddhasana into Yoga mudrasana, and very enjoyably ... but not teaching yoga directly at present ...

Creating this open all-language university and school is a kind of f/Friendly leading ... and kinda fascinating ...


I post some to the social networking site associated with this email address yogamacflower@gmail.com - here - https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodYogaMacFlower/posts.

Not generating loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting all the time but it continues to be a focus (... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) ...)

Creative time here ...

Love,
Scott



About renouncing the GHB ~

I have the beginning of nerve pain on the right side of my face due to my Eustachian Tube Dysfunction in my right ear in particular, and so I'm moving to renounce (believe it or not) playing the Great Highland Bagpipe, and my small practice chanter too, due to the blowing which seems to aggravate my ETD, and related nerve sensation. I'm hoping to move to playing the bellows' blown Scottish small pipe with the same fingering as the GHB and which can also be played with other instruments soon). So, until I get a Scottish small pipe, I'm going to try to avoid triggering the nerve pain (which I don't want to get worse with time). That said, I'd hesitantly and briefly play my Great Highland Bagpipe on Saturday, November 1 at a Friend's husband's Memorial.





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Bee orchids: Two most recent poems are kinds of 1) a glow poem and 2) very loosely a potentially parallel with Meeting poem, Where o where is the generation of abundant love and joy and freedom in the world (think envisioning in India ... possibly?), Let's all melt into encounter groups and domes as young 20 year olds in Palo Alto (at Stanford) or talking with friends, bicycle commuting and living in communal houses Portland, OR (while studying at Reed), How to generate such neurophysiology abundantly these days?

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Donald,

My most recent two poems are kinds of 1) a glow poem and 2) very loosely a potentially parallel with Meeting poem ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry:)

Where o where is the generation of abundant love and joy and freedom in the world (think envisioning in India vis-a-vis its temples, art and culture ... possibly?)

... in a world of (common chip- not Bonobo chimp-informed) homo sapiens :)

Let's all melt into encounter groups and domes as young 20 year olds in Palo Alto (at Stanford in the early 1970s) or conference method {talk} with friends, bicycle commute to school and live in communal houses in  Portland, OR (in the early 1980s) with people we love and who love us (ideally?) as thinking students ...

How to generate such neurophysiology abundantly these days?

Best Love,
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Lonicera Ciliosa Honeysuckle: Poland World University and School, Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge at ISSIP, WUaS Grand Challenge, Looking forward to further co-constituting conversation about our Grand Challenges, One example of how many of all 242 Country World University and Schools may begin

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Dear Andre,

Thanks for your recent email to all of us.

Yassi wrote earlier: "I think for PfP Professor Andre Rucinski who is our Ambassador to PfP would be a great candidate to speak about the PfP Grand Challenge." When might be a good time to meet with Yassi, and myself and Ral in a Google + Hangout about ISSIP Grand Challenges?

As ISSIP Ambassador to Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge, it would be great in particular to come into further conversation with you about Prescription for Poland and MIT OCW-centric World University and School. If you haven't already, please read this page about these Grand Challenges as a beginning - http://staging2.issip.org/?page_id=2234 - which includes:


PRESCRIPTION FOR POLAND GRAND CHALLENGE

“Prescription for Poland”© is a grand challenge initiated by ISSIP institutional member, Data Techno Park, and Prescription for Poland © Network of Experts, intended to build a strong innovation ecosystem around eHealth and Regenerative Medicine in Poland. The grand challenge is to help Poland as a new EU country, possessing high ICT and medicine competences, become a leading player into the global ICT – medicine world through programs that foster collaboration with researchers, scientists, and professionals in Poland.  For more information about Prescription for Poland ©, please contact grandchallenges@issip.org.


A few days ago I emailed Yassi and Jim as well as -

"Dear Data Techno Park, and Prescription for Poland © Network of Experts,

To bring into conversation your Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge with MIT OCW-centric World University and School's ISSIP Grand Challenge, here's the "Complementary and Alternative Medicine" wiki subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Complementary_and_Alternative_Medicine.

And here's the beginning online Medical School at WUaS, only in English so far -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - but planned for large languages.

Here too is the Poland World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poland - not yet in Polish and without any MIT OCW courses yet in Polish. (Wikipedia is in 287 languages and MIT OCW is in at least 8 languages, by way of comparison).

WUaS is planning that each country become its own accrediting MIT OCW-centric university (for bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. as as well as IB high school degrees in UN languages to begin), if possible, and usually in the main language of the country -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links.

If you happen to know people in the Polish Ministry of Education or other academics or lawyers in Poland, please let them know of this possibility.

I've also added your Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge to the ideas' section - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poland#Ideas - of Poland World University and School
for the time being.

Looking forward to further co-constituting conversation about our Grand Challenges.

~ Scott"


(I got a bounce back from - grandchallenges@issip.com - when I tried to reply to this Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge recently because this email isn't working yet, so Data Techno Park and PFP didn't receive this email. I've also posted this Grand Challenge information here -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/10/geochelone-heading-for-burma-at-end-of.html - along with an email about Burma World University and School to a UC Hastings' law professor who's heading there soon).


So I'm curious about ways, Andre, you and I (and all of us) might focus our ISSIP grand challenges together and collaborate further. What would you suggest? What more can you share with all of us in email about the Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge? How might you suggest integrating "The Internet of Things as a service addressing Grand Challenges" into the Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge mentioned above? Thank you.

Best,
Scott


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This is one example of how many of all 242 Country World University and Schools may begin: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States.
















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Akamas Centaury: Cynthia Barnhart, the new MIT Chancellor, her online education focus, "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University," Oct. 25, 2014 "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University," How to Get into MIT, How to Graduate from MIT

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Cynthia Barnhart, the new MIT Chancellor ...


Cynthia Barnhart MIT



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXZetM4567E

Proferssor of Engineering, online education focus, Added this to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_-_MIT


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Oct. 25, 2014 "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" (2nd hour) at World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

"Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" Oct. 25, 2014




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MosCKYyzD5Q

(History of the PC, how the personal computer, begins at about the 24 minute mark.)



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Will be relevant to WUaS student applicants ...

How to Get into MIT



Normandin, Ryan. 2014. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRp3ND-fBNw How to Get into MIT]. Cambridge, MA: Ryan Normandin Youtube channel.

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How to Graduate from MIT



Normandin, Ryan. 2014. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYGLooa3c_4 How to Graduate from MIT]. Cambridge, MA: Ryan Normandin Youtube channel.


Added to ...

Admissions at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#Select_Video_and_Audio




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Allium rouyi: Twitter revolutions? Do you think internet activism can amount to longterm offline impacts or would you say its one instrument of many? Big IT companies and digital commons?, Oct. 25, 2014 "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" (2nd hour) at World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

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Scott,

I found our discussion on social movements online and offline quite thought provoking and I was wondering do you think internet activism can amount to longterm offline impacts or would you say its one instrument of many?

Secondly, brief discussion on net neutrality in the US got me thinking about the extent to which big IT companies are changing (if at all) to move towards digital commons or is this an area which is being led by individuals (or groups) only?

Many thanks for your time, thought-provoking questions and support Scot.

Best,
Akito



Hi Akito,

I enjoy our thought-provoking conversations as well. Good questions.

To your first question, I think the so-called Twitter Revolutions include these good examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Revolution. It seems like one distinguishing characteristic of revolution in this context is when a despotic politician is deposed, compared with just unrest informed by such distributed social media discourses. Do you agree with the interpretations of "Twitter revolution" in this Wikipedia entry? It's one important instrument among many.

To your second question, I think social movements are going to try to help define how big companies will move toward digital commons (and not just how some governments and university professors do so, among many others such as Creative Commons itself).

How will this "ecosystem" look in a few years? (Have companies by way of comparison benefitted from public libraries, CC Wikipedia or CC MIT OCW in the U.S.? I hope some will benefit from CC MIT OCW).

Cheers,
Scott


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Oct. 25, 2014 "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" (2nd hour) at World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

"Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" Oct. 25, 2014





(History of the PC, how the personal computer, begins at about the 24 minute mark.)




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Amygdalus species: "Language Identification" capabilities to help boost Watson on BlueMix and ...?, Grand Challenge of "Language Identification," IBM Watson, Google & Artificial Intelligence, Resources emerging here at Artificial Intelligence at WUaS (first in English, then in other languages): http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence, Exciting to develop early World University and School with Artificial Intelligence

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"Language Identification" capabilities to help boost Watson on BlueMix? ...


How best to boost "Language Identification" capabilities in Watson on BlueMix?

At MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned for 7,106+ languages, WUaS would like to help boost Watson on BlueMix "Language Identification" capabilities too.

WUaS is also trying to anticipate interfacing with MediaWiki (like Wikipedia with the new Wikidata/Wikibase). I think it would make more sense possibly to build WUaS within the MediaWiki/qLabel/Wikipedia/Wikicommons/Wikidata/Wikibase/ and especially SemanticWiki framework/platform (but this may not be easy) with this key and central WUAS "SUBJECT TEMPLATE" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - which informs nearly all current 679 pages at WUaS, and inter-lingually, with qLabel.

This early seed phase of WUaS might also be a time, Jim Spohrer, IBM Global University Director, to think about anticipating, and building in, language data sets, Watson, Cognitive Computer and algorithms.

As a Grand Challenge, what would all of you suggest for "Language Identification" capabilities to help boost Watson on BlueMix?




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IBM Watson (and Bluemix), introduced by IBM CEO Ginni Rometty:


Replay: IBM Watson Group Launch Event Jan. 9 in New York






Google & Artificial Intelligence: 



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Resources emerging here at Artificial Intelligence at WUaS (first in English, then in other languages): http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence.

Exciting to develop early World University and School with Artificial Intelligence.







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Anthoceros: When Angela and Victor's yoga web site was "forbidden" on the internet, My actual / virtual Harbin ethnographic manuscript and Yale U.P., Innovative ethnography with countercultural themes, WUaS ACADEMIC PUBLISHING HOUSE, Liking your web site ~ http://angela-victor.com/ :), On with loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting particularly with generative music-making

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Hello Angela, Victor, Patricia and Andrew and L, 

Apart from a few hours about a week ago when your web site was "forbidden" on the internet, Angela and Victor, (about which I've communicated with Patricia), here's a recent blog post about some news - 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/10/fly-orchid-dear-angela-and-victor.html. Yale U.P. got back to me yesterday with its editorial director saying publishing my actual / virtual Harbin ethnographic book "is not something we can take on at this time" - alas. I'll explore Duke University Press, University of Chicago Press and Bergahn Press now, some of which have published innovative ethnography with countercultural themes (e.g. http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/09/orchid-mantis-meditative-harbin-warm.html), or if not these, explore publishing this as the first book at the WUaS Academic Press - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School - an WUaS ACADEMIC PUBLISHING HOUSE planned for many, many languages.  

Liking your web site ~ http://angela-victor.com/ :) On with loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting particularly (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)) with generative music-making ... :)

Love, 
Scotty

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Antirrhinum subbaeticum: WUaS HIVE meets on M 11/3 and W 11/5 from 10 a-12 at AFSC in SF, Hive visit from Dirk, "Western Friend" Magazine Video-chat with Molly Wingate, co-author of Slow Parenting Teens on Thurs. October 30th at 6:30 pm PT, WUaS Admissions' info

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Dear Friends,

The open FriendlyWorld University and School HIVE meets at AFSC offices/SFFM on Monday, 11/3, and on Wednesday, 11/5, at a new time - from 10a-12.

Come help create in person at this HIVE people-to-people Ffriendly-informed online learning - and planned for all 7,106 languages and 242 countries at MIT OCW-centric World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - the way you would like education to be ... and via this Friendly wiki (editable web pages) - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com. Friendly WUaS is planning online, accredited MIT OCW-centric degrees, and these hives are meeting spaces to ask questions, explore what you'd like to teach online, volunteer, learn how to curate WUaS, attend a WUaS workshop, and/or share your ideas about WUaS.

WUaS is particularly seeking Friends who know SQL and are interested in a Friendly grand challenge (e.g. http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/10/amygdalus-species-language.html).

A kind of leading, Quaker MIT OCW-centric WUaS would like to become the online Harvard / MIT / Swarthmore / Haverford / Oxbridge of the Internet, and in all languages and countries, while facilitating F/friendly open Wiki (editable web pages) schools in all 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries.

Unprogrammed Quaker Meeting at AFSC/SFFM will meet around 10 am for ten minutes or so, and before each WUaS hive.

Looking forward to meeting with you.

Friendly regards,
Scott


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"Western Friend" Magazine Video-chat on 10/30, Hive visit from Dirk, WUaS Admissions' info


"Video-chat with Molly Wingate, co-author of Slow Parenting Teens"

Hi Mary Klein (editor of "Western Friend" Magazine),

Looking forward to this "Western Friend" online conversation "Video-chat with Molly Wingate, co-author of "Slow Parenting Teens"" - http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=0f903ecd7fe40d2cc1c8380a3&id=bf7b2ae72c&e=002edc1fb4 - on Thursday at 6:30 pm Pacific Time, and thanks. Curious about reaching out to young F/friends and their parents here about upcoming free and CC MIT (OCW) online accrediting university and high school degrees. See the developing "Registering" link here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and the developing "Admission's" page with various degrees planned here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links. How best to reach out to Unprogrammed Meetings around the world in many languages, as well, is something I'm wondering?

I was glad that Dirk N from Berkeley came to the World University and School hive meeting space in Monday morning at AFSC / San Francisco Friends' Meeting (meeting on M and Ws newly from about 10-noon PT in November - and here's this blog entry about this - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/10/antirrhinum-subbaeticum-wuas-hive-meets.html).

What a pleasant surprise and interesting conversation. Dirk asked particularly about initial accreditation costs for Friendly-informed MIT OCW-centric World University and School and I mentioned $5,000 for BPPE (CA state) and $10,000 for WASC senior (accrediting agency which accredits Stanford and Berkeley, etc.).

Dirk is blind so he recorded this information among other bits to his audio cassette player, for referring to later. He also expressed interest in coming on WUaS's Board, - possibly as WUaS's much-needed fundraising Board member. As you may know he was in the first high school class at John Woolman school (a 3 year program then) in the foothills of the Sierras in the early 1960s, went to Cal Berkeley, was involved in Viet Nam protests and was a stock broker until he became blind, and is active in Berkeley Friends Meeting. (His mother also went to Reed College, which a number of Universitians have gone to as well).

Meet with you online soon.

Friendly regards,

Scott




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Astragalus: Remarkable parallels between free K-12 public schools in the US. and public libraries, as well as free university around the world - e.g. "This Country Just Abolished College Tuition Fees," WUaS would like to become the online Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet

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There are remarkable parallels between free K-12 public schools in the US. and public libraries, as well as free university around the world - e.g. "This Country Just Abolished College Tuition Fees" ... http://thinkprogress.org/education/2014/10/01/3574551/germany-free-college-tuition/ - and FREE CC MIT OCW-centric World University and School, which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, in terms of the free university and high school education WUaS plans to share. 


WUaS would like to become the online Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet, and in all languages and countries, while facilitating F/friendly open Wiki (editable web pages) schools in all 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries.


 ... Again, I added "This Country Just Abolished College Tuition Fees"http://thinkprogress.org/education/2014/10/01/3574551/germany-free-college-tuition/ ... added to "Admissions" at CC free MIT OCW-centric WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School.




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Aquilegia: "In what ways might it be possible to explore beginning a new Wikidata/Wikipedia languages' complementary project with the languages engineering team, namely CC World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW (planned for 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries)?", Saving, preserving and generating knowledge in all languages (7,106 languages - 287 Wikipedia languages = 6,819+ other languages) as online MIT OCW-centric wiki schools

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Dear Lydia and Runa,

Thank you for your recent email, Runa (on the WikiMedia languages' engineering team), and your suggestion to begin a conversation with Lydia about what I emailed you, emerging out of a number of Wikitech office hours in IRC in which we participated together:

"In what ways might it be possible to explore beginning a new Wikidata/Wikipedia languages' complementary project with the languages engineering team, namely CC World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW (planned for 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries)?"

I'm including both Markus Kroetzsch (founder of SemanticWiki and one of three initial core developers of Wikidata/Wikibase) and Magnus Manske (who is Swedish and an expert in Wikidata/Wikibase I think) in this email as possible technical leads for exploring developing this project in SemanticWiki and Wikidata/Wikibase, which could be a significant growth story for WikiMedia and Creative Commons in general, including eventually in terms of job generation worldwide as a far-reaching online CC MIT OCW-centric wiki accrediting University in many languages and countries.

In addition, I hope CC MIT OCW-centric WUaS will be significant in saving, preserving and generating knowledge in all languages (7,106 languages - 287 Wikipedia languages = 6,819+ other languages) as online MIT OCW-centric wiki schools.

Lydia and Runa, in what ways could we begin a exploratory project in, say, four or so languages - e.g. English, German, Swedish and Hindi - around this WUaS "SUBJECT TEMPLATE" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - and using MediaWiki/qLabel/Wikipedia/Wikicommons/Wikidata/Wikibase/ and especially SemanticWiki framework/platform in the process (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/10/amygdalus-species-language.html), and anticipating artificial intelligence / cognitive computing developments (e.g. http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/10/amygdalus-species-language.html)?

Markus, would working with your new research group - https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/ - be a possibility in this too?

Thank you, Runa, for suggesting this conversation with Lydia!

Thanks,

Scott



Scott MacLeod

http://scottmacleod.com/
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/




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Birch species: Grand Challenges: Prescription for Poland and MIT OCW-centric World University and School at ISSIP, Five main videos, and some out takes, from our video conference conversation yesterday 31 October 2014

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Dear Andrzej and Yassi,

Here are the five main videos, and some out takes, from our ISSIP Grand Challenges' video conference conversation yesterday:


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ISSIP Grand Challenges' Overview: PfP and MIT OCW-centric WUaS -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H16beeDGwZc


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Grand Challenge: Prescription for Poland at ISSIP - Prof Andrzej Rucinski -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE0gdNy9wl0


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Grand Challenge: Prescription for Poland at ISSIP - Prof Scott MacLeod -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYaQniKk1XE


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Grand Challenge: MIT OCW-centric World University and School at ISSIP
- Prof Scott MacLeod -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmiTVYN4kGs


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Grand Challenges: Prescription for Poland and MIT OCW-centric World University and School at ISSIP -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll-GHk-RLF0 - 53 minute video conversation between Profs. Andrzej Rucinski (UNH) and Scott MacLeod (WUaS) (full original 1 hour 5 minute conversation -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvfHpRS5C4)

You'll find all five main videos public here at WUaS' Youtube video
channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch.

I hope we can add some of these videos to the ISSIP Grand Challenges' pages here:

- http://www.issip.org/grand-challenges/

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http://www.issip.org/grand-challenge-for-issip-members-and-world-university-and-school/


Best regards,
Scott
Scott MacLeod

http://scottmacleod.com/
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

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Hi Yassi,

Andrzej and I had a productive beginning ISSIP Grand Challenges' conversation today.

As a consequence of our conversation, Andrzej proposes the following (beginning about the 45 minute mark here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll-GHk-RLF0 - in the 53 minute ISSIP Grand Challenges: PfP and MIT OCW-centric WUaS video):

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PfP and MIT OCW-centric WUaS working together through ISSIP


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Begin integrating a critical mass of interest in PfP with IBM's Jeff Brody (who was in the video) in New Hampshire in conjunction with WUaS connections on the east coast


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Low hanging fruit:

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include the name of WUaS as part of Prescription for Poland document which Andrzej is developing for the US State department

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something specific which both PfP and WUaS can start working on together (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poland).

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how best to introduce MIT OCW-centric WUaS for global conference in Dubai which Andrzej is attending?


Andrzej, what would you add? Yassi, how might we work together with ISSIP in bringing these Grand Challenges closer together.

Best wishes,
Scott

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Marsh Earwort: WUaS, ISSIP Grand Challenges, Conversation, "Poland World University and School," and low hanging fruit

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Dear Lars (and Universitians),

Nice to talk with you just now, Lars. I didn't mention during our call about developments in ISSIP Grand Challenges vis-a-vis WUaS (see: http://www.issip.org/grand-challenges/ and http://www.issip.org/grand-challenge-for-issip-members-and-world-university-and-school/). I had an hour long Google + group video conversation on Friday with University of New Hampshire Professor of EE Andrzej Rucinski (and ISSIP ambassador) -


Grand Challenges: Prescription for Poland and MIT OCW-centric World University and School at ISSIP



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll-GHk-RLF0

- who spoke on behalf of the ISSIP Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge, while I spoke on behalf of World University and School as an ISSIP grand challenge. For example, Andrzej would like to engage WUaS within the ISSIP Grand Challenge's framework, and in conjunction with ISSIP executive director Yassi, which is great. Here, for example, is the Poland World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poland (planned to be in the Polish language) - which might come into conversation in many ways with his low hanging fruit, as well as be a first approach at developing a Nation State's accrediting MIT OCW-centric WUaS.

Andrzej mentioned a variety of possible low hanging fruit at the end of our recorded video conversation, which I wrote out in this first blog entry that follows. In the blog entries you'll also find video excerpts from our hour long talk on Friday -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/birch-species-grand-challenges.htmlhttp://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/11/grand-challenges-prescription-for.html. Both posts are slightly different.

These ISSIP Grand Challenges are exciting possibilities for collaboration, and growing and networking with ISSIP, and this is a great first example.

Sincerely,
Scott





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Medicago: "Bonobos are just wonderful,""The Bonobo in All of Us," Jane Goodall, Primate research, Wikipedia, Technology use, Vegetarianism? / nonharming?, Bonobo research, Wikipedia, Just came across new insight into common chimpanzee violence recently in the "Jane Goodall" Wikipedia entry ... Question for peace studies, nonviolence and primate studies at a Quaker talk for a new book "Waging Peace" at San Francisco Friends' Meeting

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Bonobos are just wonderful

http://www.janegoodall.org/bonobos-wonderful


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The Bonobo in All of Us

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/bonobo-all-us.html


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"Bonobo chimpanzee" wiki subject page at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bonobo_chimpanzee

"Primatology" wiki subject page at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Primatology


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Just came across this new insight into common chimpanzee violence recently in the "Jane Goodall" Wikipedia entry ...


Jane Goodall, Primate research, Technology use, Vegetarianism? / nonharming? among common chimpanzees?


From Wikipedia:

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Goodall's research at Gombe Stream is best known to the scientific community for challenging two long-standing beliefs of the day: that only humans could construct and use tools, and that chimpanzees were vegetarians.[17] While observing one chimpanzee feeding at a termite mound, she watched him repeatedly place stalks of grass into termite holes, then remove them from the hole covered with clinging termites, effectively “fishing” for termites.[18] The chimps would also take twigs from trees and strip off the leaves to make the twig more effective, a form of object modification which is the rudimentary beginnings of toolmaking.[18] Humans had long distinguished ourselves from the rest of the animal kingdom as "Man the Toolmaker". In response to Goodall's revolutionary findings, Louis Leakey wrote, "We must now redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human!".[18][19][20]

In contrast to the peaceful and affectionate behaviours she observed, Goodall also found an aggressive side of chimpanzee nature at Gombe Stream. She discovered that chimps will systematically hunt and eat smaller primates such as colobus monkeys.[17] Goodall watched a hunting group isolate a colobus monkey high in a tree, block all possible exits, then one chimpanzee climbed up and captured and killed the colobus.[20] The others then each took parts of the carcass, sharing with other members of the troop in response to begging behaviours.[20] The chimps at Gombe kill and eat as much as one-third of the colobus population in the park each year.[17] This alone was a major scientific find which challenged previous conceptions of chimpanzee diet and behaviour.

But perhaps more startling, and disturbing, was the tendency for aggression and violence within chimpanzee troops. Goodall observed dominant females deliberately killing the young of other females in the troop to maintain their dominance,[17] sometimes going as far as cannibalism.[18] She says of this revelation, "During the first ten years of the study I had believed […] that the Gombe chimpanzees were, for the most part, rather nicer than human beings. […] Then suddenly we found that chimpanzees could be brutal—that they, like us, had a darker side to their nature."[18] She described the 1974–1978 Gombe Chimpanzee War in her memoir, Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe. Her findings revolutionised contemporary knowledge of chimpanzee behaviour, and were further evidence of the social similarities between humans and chimpanzees, albeit in a much darker manner.

Goodall also set herself apart from the traditional conventions of the time by naming the animals in her studies of primates, instead of assigning each a number. Numbering was a nearly universal practice at the time, and thought to be important in the removal of one's self from the potential for emotional attachment to the subject being studied. Setting herself apart from other researchers also led her to develop a close bond with the chimpanzees and to become, to this day, the only human ever accepted into chimpanzee society. She was the lowest ranking member of a troop for a period of 22 months.

Among those that Goodall named during her years in Gombe were:[21]
  • David Greybeard, a grey-chinned male who first warmed up to Goodall;[22]
  • Goliath, a friend of David Greybeard, originally the alpha male named for his bold nature;
  • Mike, who through his cunning and improvisation displaced Goliath as the alpha male;
  • Humphrey, a big, strong, bullysome male;
  • Gigi, a large, sterile female who delighted in being the "aunt" of any young chimps or humans;
  • Mr. McGregor, a belligerent older male;
  • Flo, a motherly, high-ranking female with a bulbous nose and ragged ears, and her children; FiganFabenFreudFifi, and Flint;[23][24]
  • Frodo, Fifi's second oldest child, an aggressive male who would frequently attack Jane, and ultimately forced her to leave the troop when he became alpha male.[25]

Jane Goodall Institute


Jane Goodall in 2009 with Hungarian Roots & Shoots group members.
In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), which supports the Gombe research, and she is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. 



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At a talk for his new book "Waging Peace" by David Hartsough at San Francisco Friends' Meeting (Quaker) in the "second hour" yesterday (http://www.peaceworkersus.org/books/bookschedule/), I asked an out of the box question about David's thinking, for peace studies, and about ways in which we humans can learn from common chimpanzees and Bonobo chimpanzees about nonharming. I asked something to the effect:

"As an out of the box question, in what ways can humans learn about nonviolence/nonharming more explicitly from Pan troglodytes (chimps) and Pan paniscus (Bonobo) - I didn't mention out of 376 primate species - than we have already, given that chimps can be violent, aggressive, and seem to practice primitive forms of war (also not mentioning Jane Goodall's above primatological observations that dominant chimp females have been observed to kill the infants of other non-dominant females to maintain their status), and Bonobo chimps are matriarchal, egalitarian, very sexual and seemingly nonharming toward each other (they do kill small rodents however for example); how might peace studies and the peace movement, and humans in general, learn from this primatological research, and why haven't we done so significantly already, since say the 1960s, when the implications of such research for peace among homo sapiens started to become part of a wider societal discourse, with primatological writers such as, for example, Jane Goodall for chimps, and Frans de Waal for Bonobos, sharing what they've learned about our closest genetic relatives in the field; given that Quakers teach peace, and that humans learn, how can we bring lessons from these two species especially into peace studies much more fully, and significantly lessen human violence?"








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Carum flowers: What hoops do you have to hop before asking for accreditation?

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Hi Dirk,

Thanks very much for your email - and great questions.

Here are some of the initial accrediting forms (mostly from California agencies): 


BPPE (Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education) -






WASC senior (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) -



IB Programme (International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme) ? -



I've talked with and or met at some length with both BPPE (state of CA) - $5000 - and WASC senior representatives - stage 1) $10,000 initially ; stage 2) a per student per annum fee with the first undergraduate online class in English graduating in 2020, if things go according to plans (hundreds of thousands of dollars?) ; stage 3) $25,000? - after WUaS graduates our first undergraduate class and pays this fee, WUaS will become fully accredited. Stage 2 will be a huge cost as WUaS also develops Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, and in large languages with a possible undergraduate class size of 2,000 students first in English year after year, for example.

For planning and accrediting purposes, these Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW faculty are WUaS's first professors - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - and in all nine MIT OCW languages - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/. WUaS plans to hire MIT, Stanford and HYP, Oxbridge, Cal Berkeley graduate students, if possible, for example, as our first instructors in group video online. Because of  Creative Commons' licensing, they can't take fees; I've met with MIT OCW external relations director twice in person in Cambridge, MA, and WUaS now adds "not endorsed by MIT OCW" in our outreach.

Former UC Berkeley Manuel Castells is one of my most influential professors and he would easily get a hypothetical $100,000 reward in the future, if he were to teach and communicate as effectively as he did in his talks in 2000 in which I sat. But WUaS wants face-to-face communication with instructors to be integral to our degree process in all languages, in group video, so it's the graduate student instructors becoming full faculty who might get such award monies eventually. 

CC MIT OCW audio/video - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - has around 30 majors. 

MIT, Harvard and Stanford attract some of the highest achieving students and faculty and are excellent in so many ways. WUaS plans however to focus on greatest universities' Open Educational Resources around the world, for example, these universities in this wiki list - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings - where you'll also find the universities you mention. Please wiki-add other great universities here if inclined. 

Exploring making learning as enjoyable as watching TED Talks is something WUaS would like to measure with time. If graduate students for MIT OCW courses in video initially "assign" TED Talks, then yes, TED Talks can be watched for credit. WUaS, however, will seek, in accrediting, to ask undergraduate students to take 32 MIT OCW courses over 4 years for free and MIT-centric degrees - which could include watching a lot of TED Talks. 

If you're available to meet from 3:30 to 4 tomorrow in Berkeley, where would you suggest meeting?

WUaS hasn't yet begun to explore collaborating with the UN, but the UN languages are some of the first largest languages WUaS will develop in after English. 

Friendly regards,
Scott




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Bindweed: Has WUaS "considered the idea of a payment to Yale for the right to use one or more of their courses on your World University site"?, Creative Commons' licensed knowledge generativity, Non CC Yale Schools and Yale OYC, Hope these courses will all be streamable on TV and also anticipate people with all kinds of disabilities (see WUaS "Assistive Technologies," toward the undergraduate WUaS degree at "The College at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links - accrediting on - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/, WUaS's open monthly business meeting meets this Saturday

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Hi Jas,

Having gone to Harvard College and Stanford Law (in the 50s?) I'm particularly interested in your thoughts about the following:

Before calling Yale on behalf of WUaS, I'm glad you just asked today whether WUaS has "considered the idea of a payment to Yale for the right to use one or more of their courses on your World University site." WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed (CC) focused. MIT OCW is CC, Wikipedia is CC, WUaS is CC and Yale OYC are CC. CC is a new form of licensing to complement copyright law, etc. - see: https://creativecommons.org/. You can read about these organizations' CC licenses here -

http://ocw.mit.edu/

http://oyc.yale.edu/

https://www.wikipedia.org/

http://worlduniversityandschool.org


(I also haven't yet followed up in seeking IBM's philanthropic foundations or on writing grant proposals to them ... but that's in the plans as well, especially when an executive director comes on board).

So WUaS aggregates and adds online resources, references, courses, etc., as links and citations (planned for all languages) engaging the fair use principle of copyright law, or else because courses are CC, for example.


What I wondered about on the phone with Yale's School of Forestry staff member K.D. about a month ago is whether the Yale School of Forestry could share CC courses with Yale OYC (and WUaS would then list, link and aggregate these courses on WUaS wiki pages) - and which I then emailed him about and bcc-ed Yale Professor of ... and OYC head C.W. at the time. Let me know what you think about Creative Commons' licensing before calling the Yale School of Forestry if inclined.



In terms of legally developing in CC Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikibase, here by the way is a Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation, L.V. whom I've met at a Stanford Law event some months ago. I'm planning to email him the following question -

"In what ways it might be possible to explore beginning a new CC Wikidata/Wikipedia languages' complementary project with the languages engineering team, namely CC World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW (planned for 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries)?"

At R.B. (on the MediaWiki Languages' engineering team) suggestion from India to contact L.P., Wikidata's Communications' person, I've already inquired about this question with co-founder of Wikidata and founder of SemanticWiki M.K. and with L.P. and R.B. - and haven't heard back yet.


Per another of your questions in your email below, I hope these courses will all be streamable on TV, and also anticipate people with all kinds of disabilities (see the "Assistive Technologies" wiki subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies) - and in all 7,106+ languages - for reasons of digital access. You'll see the WUaS TV plans here at the bottom of the main SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - per your question.

Would you like to be executive director of WUaS and eventually potentially head/dean of the all-countries (242) WUaS Law Schools? WUaS would like to become a significant employer worldwide
(800,000-1,000,000 million hires possibly eventually)?

So WUaS might considering contributing financially to Yale OYC some years in the future (but after considering contributing financially to MIT OCW) when we become financially operational, and build on CC resources currently, first toward the undergraduate WUaS degree at "The College at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links - accrediting on - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/.

Let's talk further too about writing grants to IBM philanthropic foundations - and perhaps with you as executive director.

WUaS's open monthly business meeting meets this Saturday (2nd Saturdays for an hour) at noon ET, presently in conference call.  Would you like to join this call?

Best regards,
Scott





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Apid den Bermejo: November 8, 2014 Monthly Business Meeting for World University and School (open, electronically-mediated and hour-long), ISSIP-WUaS Grand Challenges, "Brainstorming - "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University"", MIT OCW-centric "The College at World University and School"

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November 8, 2014 Monthly Business Meeting for World University and School (open, electronically-mediated and hour-long):


http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/11/november-8-2014-monthly-business.html


And here's the announcement:

Dear Universitians,

News:

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WUaS is collaborating with "The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP (pronounced iZip)." WUaS is helping to develop and offer ISSIP Grand Challenges (see: http://www.issip.org/grand-challenges/ and http://www.issip.org/grand-challenge-for-issip-members-and-world-university-and-school/) as a kind of service innovation. I had an hour long Google + group video conversation on Friday 10/31 with University of New Hampshire Professor of Electrical Engineering Andrzej Rucinski (and ISSIP ambassador) who spoke on behalf of the ISSIP Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge, while I spoke on behalf of World University and School as an ISSIP grand challenge. For example, Andrzej would like to engage WUaS within the ISSIP Grand Challenge's framework, and in conjunction with ISSIP executive director Yassi, which is great. Here, for example, is the Poland World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poland - which might come into conversation in many ways with his low hanging fruit, as well as be a first example of developing a Nation State's accrediting MIT OCW-centric WUaS.

These ISSIP Grand Challenges offer exciting possibilities for collaboration, and this is a great first example. Here are video excerpts from an hour long conversation on Friday 10/31 about two current main ISSIP Grand Challenges -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/birch-species-grand-challenges.html - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/11/grand-challenges-prescription-for.html. Both posts are slightly different.


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WUaS is re-scheduling its "Brainstorming - "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University"" course from Saturdays to Tuesdays from 11a-1p - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/09/information-technology-network-society.html. Participants are welcome in an ongoing way. Come explore Harvard's virtual island in Second Life by getting an avatar, and also join in a Google + group video Hangout to see what they're like, and learn about the information age.

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BPPE documentation  (Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education in the state of California) is next to be submitted toward WUaS accreditation toward receiving undergraduate applications for this autumn 2015 for free (since C.C.) MIT OCW-centric bachelor's degrees.

Students will be taking 32 of these courses over 4 years - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - for free (C.C.) and MIT-centric, online, accrediting, WUaS undergraduate degrees, in English, (then in other languages - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/).

The College at World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School.



Universitians:

Thank you for joining the World University and School team. WUaS would like to invite you to participate in our hour-long, monthly, business meeting this Saturday, November 8th, beginning at 9 a.m., PDT / 12 noon EDT.

This month we'll meet in Free Conference Call.  And this month, I'll continue to send out a second email a few minutes prior to 9am PT with the phone number and access code, to our entire WUaS email list with the actual web address / URL of the Google + group video Hangout, as well as send a third email after business meeting with WUaS Minutes.

You'll also find some previous monthly business meetings (conducted electronically in the manner of F/friends) as examples in Google Hangouts here - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm. WUaS's active blog with past monthly business information is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com.


The agenda for the upcoming November 8th, 2014 WUaS, monthly, business meeting is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/11/november-8-2014-monthly-business.html.


There are no changes since in WUaS finances since the October financial report.

World University and School is looking for a new, Board member to focus on fundraising, and to actually bring in significant monies for WUaS, which you'll see on the above agenda.

The next, open, hour-long, WUaS, monthly business meeting is on Saturday, December 13th, 2014, and will meet in Free Conference Call.


For people on the sporadic, somewhat frequent, WUaS, email list, or who wish to be, WUaS is posting actively to both the WUaS Google Group (world-university-and-school@googlegroups.com), and the WUaS Yahoo Group (worlduniversityandschool@yahoogroups.com), both of which allow for daily and weekly digests. Please join these groups for daily and weekly digests.

Concerning this WUaS team email list, we'll generally send out business meeting emails once a month. If you'd like to receive more frequent, sporadic, WUaS emails, please reply to this email telling me so. If you could, please REPLY with UNSUBSCRIBE, or an alternative email address, if you wish NOT to receive WUaS's emails, or receive them in a different email account, - and WUaS would be very grateful.

World University and School is planning to become the MIT / Harvard / Yale / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet, and in all 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries, with online, Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW-centric, university degrees in large languages.

Free, Creative Commons' licensed, online, wiki WUaS, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, is planned for all 3,000-8,000 languages and for around 240 countries, with free degrees accrediting on C.C. MIT OpenCourseWare+, - and will help many, many people.

Thank you again for your generous contributions interest in helping grow World University and School.

Sincerely,
Scott





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Brimeura: "IBM Global University Director Jim Spohrer writes:" - MacLeod IBM global university faculty 1 page proposal Spohrer, Artificial Intelligence developments viz. parallel computation, big data, and better algorithms

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IBM Global University Director Jim Spohrer writes:


“If a university faculty were to write a very short 1 page proposal, I could circulate it to a couple IBMers to get feedback to the faculty.”


Dear IBMers, 


At the invitation of IBM Global University Director Jim Spohrer, I’m writing with a research proposal to IBM Global University and a related network of IBMers to study how to plan for adding Watson, BlueMix, cognitive computing and artificial intelligence to MIT OCW-Centric wiki World University and School, and in particular around this WUaS "SUBJECT TEMPLATE" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - and using a MediaWiki/qLabel/Wikipedia/Wikicommons/Wikidata/Wikibase and especially SemanticWiki framework/platform in the process (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/10/aquilegia-in-what-ways-might-it-be.html), and in anticipating further artificial intelligence / cognitive computing developments by faculty. In this proposal, I extend the main idea in this letter to include “If a WUaS faculty member in “The College at WUaS” (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School),  “”Ph.D. Degrees at World University and School”  (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School), “World University Law School” (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School), “World University Medical School” (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School), - all planned for large languages, and accrediting in most nation states - were to write a 1 page proposal for adding cognitive computing in their discipline in their language to facilitate open teaching and learning (e.g. “Conference Method of Teaching and Learning” - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning), STEM-, MIT OCW and Humanities-centric, in the information technology age, what would they want and how could they even best and differentially co-develop such cognitive computing technologies with Watson, Bluemix and IBM Global University?


While such A.I. developments viz. parallel computation, big data, and better algorithms (http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligence/), and especially in the case of WUaS vis-à-vis datasets of all 7,106 languages, in terms of reasoning by cognitive computing machines, might seem more straightforward in the future in S.T.E.M. education subjects and academic disciplines

(e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics#World_University_and_School_Links), I would like to also inquire about the multiple ways in which faculty members could bring machine learning to the humanities (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Humanities#World_University_and_School_Links) digitally, as well as in creating new wiki “Subjects” at WUaS in subject areas that one loves teaching and learning about and creatively?


Additionally, as a faculty member, founder and developer of MIT OCW-centric WUaS, I would like to inquire of you IBMers how WUaS might best develop cognitive computing in WUaS’s 12 main areas - Languages, Countries, You at WUaS, Subjects, Courses & Schools, Music School at WUaS, Library Resources, Museums, Hardware Resource Possibilities, Educational Software, Research, and at the Foundation at WUaS (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) - including in WUaS “board room” (e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Brilliant-Boardroom-Cognitive-Computing-DCEC-6729452.S.5933951739307765763) most of which are planned for 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries. I particularly would like CC MIT OCW-centric WUaS to be significant in saving, preserving and generating knowledge in all languages (7,106 languages - 287 Wikipedia languages = 6,819+ other languages) as online MIT OCW-centric wiki schools, and how WUaS could best develop with cognitive computing for this?


Guide A.I. Conversation

World University and School, which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW with plans to be in all 7,106 languages as wiki schools, and to offer online accredited MIT-centric university degrees in most countries and large languages, including law degrees, will develop with A.I. – e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence - and may be one international university institution which will be significantly part of the "Guide A.I." conversation. In what ways might A.I. inform this further and significantly? I’d like to propose here exploring the above queries.


Scott MacLeod, http://worlduniversityandschool.org/, November 5, 2014, scott@scottmacleod.com








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Buglosse crépue: Nov 8 2014 Monthly Business Meeting Minutes and Agenda for World University and School

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Nov 8 2014 Monthly Business Meeting Minutes for World University and School


Present: Larry Viehland, Scott MacLeod (head clerk and recording clerk)



Minute –


Dirk N. – meeting with Scott in the AFSC hive meeting space in SF, and then in Cocolet cafe meeting on Thursday November 6 in Berkeley can get $5,000 for BPPE for WUaS, and possibly more for WASC senior initial fees



Minute -


Larry Viehland will begin to complete the BPPE forms



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WUaS will further draw up business planning documents:


budgeting expenses for -


- BPPE

- WASC senior

- NACAC

- Common App

- (MIT?) graduate student interns and other interns

- outreach - advertising



Minute –


Friend Rolene Walker in SF is not interested in being WUaS executive director.



Minute –


If international WUaS friends and Universitians are interested in participating in WUaS monthly business meeting, WUaS will return to holding monthly business meeting in group video conferencing, such as in Google + Hangouts.





November 8, 2014 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School


World University and School

{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)

Saturday, November 8, 2014

9 a.m., Pacific Time



Email here if you'd like to participate: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com



1. Welcome and Greetings



1.1 News:



News:


a

WUaS is collaborating with "The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP (pronounced iZip)." WUaS is helping to develop and offer ISSIP Grand Challenges (see: http://www.issip.org/grand-challenges/ and http://www.issip.org/grand-challenge-for-issip-members-and-world-university-and-school/) as a kind of service innovation. I had an hour long Google + group video conversation on Friday 10/31 with University of New Hampshire Professor of Electrical Engineering Andrzej Rucinski (and ISSIP ambassador) who spoke on behalf of the ISSIP Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge, while I spoke on behalf of World University and School as an ISSIP grand challenge. For example, Andrzej would like to engage WUaS within the ISSIP Grand Challenge's framework, and in conjunction with ISSIP executive director Yassi, which is great. Here, for example, is the Poland World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poland - which might come into conversation in many ways with his low hanging fruit, as well as be a first example of developing a Nation State's accrediting MIT OCW-centric WUaS. 


These ISSIP Grand Challenges offer exciting possibilities for collaboration, and this is a great first example. Here are video excerpts from an hour long conversation on Friday 10/31 about two current main ISSIP Grand Challenges - 



b

WUaS is re-scheduling its "Brainstorming - "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University"" course from Saturdays to Tuesdays from 11a-1p - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/09/information-technology-network-society.html. Participants are welcome in an ongoing way. Come explore Harvard's virtual island in Second Life by getting an avatar, and also join in a Google + group video Hangout to see what they're like, and learn about the information age.


c

BPPE documentation  (Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education in the state of California) is next to be submitted toward WUaS accreditation toward receiving undergraduate applications for this autumn 2015 for free (since C.C.) MIT OCW-centric bachelors’ degrees. 


Students will be taking 32 of these courses over 4 years - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - for free (C.C.) and MIT-centric, online, accrediting, WUaS undergraduate degrees, in English, (then in other languages - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/). 


The College at World University and School - 



1.2 Minutes



2. Committees



2.1 Planning committee


see Master plan and Business plan below


2.1.1



2.2 Finance


a.

Treasurer's report for October 2014



b.

Dirk N.


WUaS's business model relies on people donating


WUaS's main risk is that we're not successful ...

this is a high risk proposition


If we were to get a loan of $20,000

and we ultimately failed, a lender could lose $20,000 -

you could lose a lot of money


In terms of credentials ... say we don't get become an accredited school school


So, again WUaS's business model relies on people donating


where people can write off donations as 501 c 3, and which tax write offs could be much more of a savings than any possible loan which we could default on at your loss, and which isn't also in our business model


Before WUaS's accepts the money, you've got to realize how how risky doing so is as a loan, but by donating money to WUaS, he would save 1/3rd of this money from taxes - but losing such money would only happen after WUaS's fail ...


WUaS will further draw up a document ...


c.

budget expense for (MIT?) graduate student and other interns


d.

budget expense for outreach - advertising



2.3 Information Technology


a.

Scott installed database at worlduniversityandschool.org


b.

IBM

Brimeura: "IBM Global University Director Jim Spohrer writes:" - MacLeod IBM global university faculty 1 page proposal Spohrer, Artificial Intelligence developments viz. parallel computation, big data, and better algorithms


c.

Aquilegia: "In what ways might it be possible to explore beginning a new Wikidata/Wikipedia languages' complementary project with the languages engineering team, namely CC World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW (planned for 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries)?", Saving, preserving and generating knowledge in all languages (7,106 languages - 287 Wikipedia languages = 6,819+ other languages) as online MIT OCW-centric wiki schools



2.4 WUaS Outreach


Autumn 2014 planning


a.


need students -


Woolman Semester gap semester outreach ?


Western Friend magazine parent outreach ...


b.

- apply to BPPE and pay initial fees


c.

- apply to WASC senior and pay initial fees -


d. 

- apply to Common Application, first becoming member of the NACAC (National Association for College Admission Counseling) - http://www.nacacnet.org/ in January 2015



2.5 Hiring planning


John M. - executive director?



2.6 Fundraising


- Have offer of $5,000 to pay for BPPE fees



2.7 Nominating committee


Seeking committee members, facilitators and recorders



2.8 Languages' and Countries’ committee


Andrzej R.? - Poland, Polish


Gerard M.? - Holland, Dutch


Joan O.? - Kenya, Swahili


Larry M.? - Tunisia



2.9 Accreditation committee


2.9.1

BPPE


2.9.2

WASC senior


2.9.3

Common Application / NACAC - how to get on their list of schools? Costs?



2.9.4

Become member of NACAC for Common Application



3. WUaS Master Plan




4. WUaS Business Plan




5.  WUaS Board


- is looking for a new Board member to focus WUaS fundraising



6. New WUaS pages and updates


a. Updates:



b. New pages:


c. Blog entries:



November 7, 2014


Brimeura: "IBM Global University Director Jim Spohrer writes:" - MacLeod IBM global university faculty 1 page proposal Spohrer, Artificial Intelligence developments viz. parallel computation, big data, and better algorithms



November 5, 2014


Bindweed: Has WUaS "considered the idea of a payment to Yale for the right to use one or more of their courses on your World University site"?, Creative Commons' licensed knowledge generativity, Non CC Yale Schools and Yale OYC, Hope these courses will all be streamable on TV and also anticipate people with all kinds of disabilities (see WUaS "Assistive Technologies," toward the undergraduate WUaS degree at "The College at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links - accrediting on - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/, WUaS's open monthly business meeting meets this Saturday



November 4, 2014


Carum flowers: What hoops do you have to hop before asking for accreditation?



November 2, 2014


Marsh Earwort: WUaS, ISSIP Grand Challenges, Conversation, "Poland World University and School," and low hanging fruit



October 31, 2014


Aquilegia: "In what ways might it be possible to explore beginning a new Wikidata/Wikipedia languages' complementary project with the languages engineering team, namely CC World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW (planned for 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries)?", Saving, preserving and generating knowledge in all languages (7,106 languages - 287 Wikipedia languages = 6,819+ other languages) as online MIT OCW-centric wiki schools



October 24, 2014


Lonicera Ciliosa Honeysuckle: Poland World University and School, Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge at ISSIP, WUaS Grand Challenge, Looking forward to further co-constituting conversation about our Grand Challenges, One example of how many of all 242 Country World University and Schools may begin



7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments


a

Dirk N. - AFSC hive meeting space in SF

Cocolet cafe meeting on Thursday November 6 in Berkeley

can get $5,000 for BPPE for WUaS


b

Sue R - Tanzania - pilot WUaS school in Dar Es Salam?


c

Ellen L - Belgium - I.B. math


d

Jared B. New Resource - and WUaS online bookstore and SFFM?


e

WUaS students -

Woolman Semester events

Western Friend magazine

outreach - advertising


f

Friend Rolene Walker is not interested in being WUaS executive director.


g

Michelle at SFFM - Genent. clinical trials? ... WUaS is a Friendly-informed 501 c 3



8. Closure



9. Next Meeting - Saturday, December 13, 2014, 9 am Pacific Time



Scott MacLeod


President and Head Clerk




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Buglosse crépue: Nov 8 2014 Monthly Business Meeting Minutes and Agenda for World University and School
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/buglosse-crepue-nov-8-2014-monthly.html


November 8, 2014 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/11/november-8-2014-monthly-business.html


Apid den Bermejo: November 8, 2014 Monthly Business Meeting for World University and School (open, electronically-mediated and hour-long), ISSIP-WUaS Grand Challenges, "Brainstorming - "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University"", MIT OCW-centric "The College at World University and School"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/apid-den-bermejo-november-8-2014.html






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Hamamelidaceae: The Witch Hazel Family - Woolman Semester gathering, "Scottish Gaelic language" wiki subject page at WUaS, "Celtic Music" wiki subject page at WUaS, Violin, World University Music School with plans to be in all instruments, each a wiki subject page to begin, in all 7,106 languages (a humongous vision) but where Wikipedia is in 287 languages with millions of articles, and they just wrote a new inter-lingual database (and MIT OCW is in at least 9 languages), Where's the loving bliss caring generation culture that is envisionable?

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Hi RoseHazel,

It was really nice to meet and talk with you a little on Thursday evening at the Woolman Semester gathering at the Trueblood's. 

Here's the "Scottish Gaelic language" wiki subject page at WUaS with main current links - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language#World_University_and_School_Links - with many resources, and which we can all add to, and which can also be very much DIY (do it yourself). If you start or find a "Scottish Gaelic language" Google + group video Hangout for learning, for example, please add it here.

And here's "Celtic Music" wiki subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music#World_University_and_School_Links - with many musical subject pages (extensible too), related to what we talked about. I play my Scottish Highland Bagpipe practice chanter often with Youtube videos by great pipers Stuart Liddell and Ian Duncan, for example, as a way to learn (and hope to take Skype lessons with him from Scotland in January also :). And interactivity in Google + group video Hangouts (but not yet in real, real time for jamming and playing in time together) is possible here too.

And we can also all begin new wiki subjects about things we love to think about or do at WUaS (and in Scots' Gaelic as well - which is a really good way to learn a language - that is, by writing it, and in wiki).

(I'm including Liz in this email too to share some of these WUaS "schools," as well as the violin page here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Violin).

Check out all the instrument and other links at the World University Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - with plans to be in all instruments, each a wiki subject page to begin, in all 7,106 languages (a humongous vision) but where Wikipedia is in 287 languages with millions of articles, and they just wrote a new inter-lingual database (and MIT OCW is in at least 9 languages).

Nice to have spoken with you and let's stay in touch. Please let me know your thoughts, observations or questions about all of this, as well.

Cheers,
Scott


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El, 

But where's the loving bliss caring generation culture that is envisionable? :) 

... and how might we / people generate this far-reachingly? 

... seeking Harbin book publisher 

... making music enjoyably 

WUAS monthly business Meeting just happened yesterday ... but no femme music yet :)




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