Outer Banks: Teaching at the MIT Media Lab this autumn?, Outer Voices ("dedicated to weaving unheard stories from remote parts of the world into contemporary media to educate, support and inspire others to action"), Check out Markus Kroetzsch's video, pinned here to the top of Info @ World University and School .org 's G+ feed, Main structured knowledge database heads at Wikidata/Wikibase, which is Wikipedia's "back end" in 299 languages, Markus Kroetzsch is "lead of the Wikidata data model specification and research group leader at Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany," Stanford Swiss event - "Switzerland : Growing National Startup Ecosystems via Corporates & Universities" and collaboration with World University and School

Hi Penny, Lea, Andrea, Burton and All, 

Nice talking with you recently at the Stanford Swiss event - "Switzerland : Growing National Startup Ecosystems via Corporates & Universities" ... http://events.stanford.edu/events/751/75189/. Thanks for your excellent presentation panel as well. Great to talk with Mitch and "meet" your children, Andrea, as well.

In terms of your talk, and in developing online startup MIT OCW wiki universities and schools in all languages, World University and School's motherlode / gold mine is CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in 5 languages - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ - and WUaS seeks to create major online Universities in each of all ~200 countries' official languages from this, offering online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and MD, as well as IB high school degrees, free to students (due to CC-4 licensing). So in what ways could WUaS further best facilitate "Growing National Startup Ecosystems via Corporates & Universities" in each of these countries' official/main languages online, based on your thinking? 

Per my question about potentially doing this in a 3D interactive realistic virtual earth, visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate, for example, here, in Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from here: https://twitter.com/HarbinBook?lang=en) ~ and "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown, CA. WUaS would like to create countries as place, and people as avatar bots, online to develop startup ecosystems via corporates and universities. Think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, Brain, Hangouts-into-avatar-bots, and group build-able like Minecraft (with a virtual-actual correspondence with Lago and the physical), SL, OpenSim, (but realistic, not cartoon-esque) - and at the cellular and atomic levels too. This would be a STEM field site and classrooms, as well as nation states (in Google Earth, where people in Hangouts-into-avatar bots could meet in virtual place), and would begin with online Swiss French, German and Italian MIT OCW-centric universities re Switzerland, and a Romansh wiki school in Switzerland WUaS (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Switzerland), in virtual Switzerland (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Switzerland/@46.2237315,6.1333955,3a,75y,316h,88t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMAqd664RtU75tu9wORSN6ReDwELU0BveI-qLy6!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMAqd664RtU75tu9wORSN6ReDwELU0BveI-qLy6%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-8.464018-ya207.86691-ro19.876877-fo100!7i5376!8i2688!4m5!3m4!1s0x478c64ef6f596d61:0x5c56b5110fcb7b15!8m2!3d46.818188!4d8.227512). Corporations would emerge out of this too. This is a very Google-centric planning, conceptually and Mitch could potentially help with this in these regards. 

Andrea's parking project with unfolding data machine learning and AI resources would emerge here, too, in terms of place.

And this realistic virtual earth planned at the cellular and atomic levels for bioengineering, for example, with all species, could facilitate further experimentation such as what emerges with Ava, Lea. 

Thank you for the wonderful Alphorn music too, Monika. WUaS is planning an online music school for all instruments in all languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School (which is moving into our new Miraheze Mediawiki with Wikidata/Wikibase's structured knowledge database as a "back end") - each a wiki subject page to begin for open teaching and learning. Music-making and lessons would happen in group video (as this moves to real, real time) and later in a realistic virtual earth

In conjunction with https://epfl.ch/, how might we best explore further something like "Nation State : Growing National Startup Ecosystems via Corporates & Universities" together? 

Thank you again!

Best, Scott

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