there is this strange part of the un called academic impact hubs- this is related to those of us who study wise summits and education above all as qatar foundations is the un hub for refugee learning- when i attended 1 day unai summit 2015 they were celebrating their amma-kerala based partnership with connecting nanotech academic partners with goal 1 ending poverty particularly by empowering village women - cf nanotech with ai-big data

upate 2020 THE UN is complex with ITS MOVING PARTS WHEN IT COMES TO EDUTECH

unctad in geneva now runs ali baba enrepreneur training college without any way of tracking this

while amma doesnt appear as a hub - the time i went to a unai summit it was all amma- as well as being a deeply spiritual movement in india the un has ordered that any researcher who wants to link the un name with nanotechnology must do it with amma!

UNAI Hubs | Academic Impact United Nations Academic Impact hubs are UNAI member institutions that have been selected to be centers of resear...

Addressing Poverty – Dr. Bhanuben Nanvati College of Architecture for Women 
Capacity Building – Handong Global University  
Education for All – Education Above All 
Global Citizenship – Ana G. Méndez University 
Higher Education – CETYS Universidad 
Human Rights – Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne 
Intercultural Dialogue – this hub is currently vacant 
Peace and Conflict Resolution – Pomona College 
Sustainability – Al Farabi Kazakh National University 
UN Charter –  J.F. Oberlin University 

my understanding is that our friend prita's family own an emerging retreat/small conference center in kerala and have been long term friends of the movement

i believe its really important to connect china india bangladesh most trusted networks especially girl empowerment these next few months; i note that modi and jinping have a two day get together at end of this week- if they invite youth tech or other actions please can india watchers tell us

june is biggest month so far in meetings 9mumbai aiib 2018, qingdao sco 2018) reviewing how seriously india and china see need for totally different investmentys in development -after all one third of people live in these two countries and its really not obvious that g7 bankers and western aid has been cogherenet in education or any of the rapidly leapfroging tech areas

and we need to get to un delegations of these coutreis too if the un summit on learning at general assembly is to be of value

in washington dc usa has tried to order india to join a club with japan and australia - this direction is totally absudrd compared with trying to positively link the whole eursaian coastline with gulf suez and emd sea - the route that british empre's colonisation traped in poverty but which we could all now be freeing

any suggestions via amma, via some other movements that linkin india? bangladesh? pakistan?

chris

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From: Karen Moawad <karen@amrita.edu>

To: chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk>

Sent: Monday, 23 April 2018, 23:28:47 GMT-4

Subject: Amma's US Summer Tour--Meet the Amrita International Team

Dear Mr. Christopher Macrae, Employer Unknown Our Chancellor and Founder, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, whom we fondly refer to as Amma (Mother), will, again, be visiting the US this summer. This will provide a unique opportunity for you, your family, and colleagues to meet Amma, to receive her darshan, and to meet the International Team to discuss potential scientific collaborations, student and faculty exchanges, etc. Here are the dates and cities where we will be.  Please let me know if you wish to come: Seattle Washington Area Hilton Bellevue Hotel 300 112th Avenue SE Bellevue WA 98004 Saturday June 2 & Sunday June 3  San Francisco Bay Area, CA Castro Valley, CA M.A. Center 10200 Crow Canyon Rd. Castro Valley, CA 94552  Tuesday, June 5 to Sunday, June 10    Los Angeles LA Airport Hilton 5711 West Century Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90045 Tuesday, June 12-Saturday, June 14 Santa Fe Buffalo Thunder Resort 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail Santa Fe, NM 87506  Saturday, June 16- Tuesday, June 19      Dallas Embassy Suites by Hilton Denton Convention Center  3100 Town Center Trail  Denton, TX 76201   Thursday, June 21 - Friday, June 22       Chicago M.A. Center Chicago 41W501 Keslinger Rd Elburn, IL 60119  Sunday, June 24 - Tuesday, June 26  New England Boston Area Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center 181 Boston Post Rd W,  Marlborough, MA 01752-1840 Thursday, June 28 - Friday, June 29 Washington DC Marriott Gateway Crystal City 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, VA 22202 Sunday, July 1 - Monday, July 2  New York Wednesday, July 4 - Friday, July 6  Toronto Delta Hotel by Marriott Toronto Airport and Conference Centre 655 Dixon Road Toronto, ON M9W 1J3 Sunday, July 8 - Wednesday, July 11 As an update: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham ranked in the Top 500 in THE’s World University Rankings 2018 for Clinical, Pre-Clinical, and Health, and also for International Outlook and Industry income.  In THE’s Asian University Rankings 2018, Amrita is ranked as the #1 Private university in India.  In a major breakthrough, scientists at Kochi's Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences have found a safer way to kill cancer cells by using a biodegradable material found naturally in bones. Calcium phosphate can be used as a fully biodegradable radio frequency agent, a finding that is a big leap forward in the safe treatment of cancer using heat generated by radio waves. Amrita Hospital was the first in the country to perform surgery using 3D printed patient-specific models ahead of surgery so as take a closer look at a specific anatomy of a particular patient.  Using a CT or MRI scan of a patient, 3D printing technology gives the doctors an exact replica of the patient’s heart in their hand, which can be observed and understood before the patient’s chest is actually cut open for the surgery. It was used only in complex cardiac surgeries initially for a more precise result, but is now being used in orthopaedic, neuro and maxillofacial surgeries. The result is improved surgical outcomes as a better prepared surgeon reduces the time patients have to remain under anaesthesia, less time the incision is kept open, and minimizes blood loss as well as post-operative recovery time.  Live-in Labs® Program Amrita University is in the process of establishing Live-in-Labs® at 100+ locations, mostly in rural areas spread across the length and breadth of India. These live-in-labs have varied focus areas such as energy, water, healthcare, education, waste management, ICT for billion, skill building etc.  We propose a partnership with your university, where your students both undergraduates and graduates who would like to get an experiential learning opportunity, they can come and spend for 2 weeks to a semester in one of the live in labs based on the area. They will become part of the interdisciplinary team of students and faculty and each team will be guided by a group of 2-3 faculty members, also drawn from across the disciplines from all participating universities. The program allows international students to study, observe, and interact with rural populations while living in rural communities (village labs) to gain a better understanding of challenges  in the areas of Health & Livelihood, Education & Technology, Environment & Farming, Energy, and Infrastructure & Basic Facilities.  The students share village life and observe and understand problems encompassing health and hygiene, energy, water, waste, environment, etc., touching the villagers’ lives, and define projects that seek to address these problems, devise solutions, implement, test and eventually demonstrate innovative solutions. One definitive achievement is that they receive a deeper understanding of challenges faced by emerging developing countries.  We are very eager to initiate the Live-in-Labs® programs with your university. Past participants have come from the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, Ireland, and Brazil.  For more information about the Live-in-Labs® program, please visit: https://www.amrita.edu/international/live-in-labs Live-in-Labs® Completed Projects: https://www.amrita.edu/international/live-in-labs/projects Live-in-Labs® Field Stories : https://www.amrita.edu/international/live-in-labs/field-stories Promo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qaan85ov4U Around 100,000 villages in Kerala, spread across 14 districts, have begun to receive clean drinking water as part of the Jivamritam Project launched by Amrita Vishwa Peethan six months ago. As many as 127 water filtration units have been installed as part of the project, which was inaugurated by President Ram Nath Kovind in October last year. Our virtual labs project has been selected as the winner for the 2018 GOLC International Online Laboratory Award (Visualized Experiments category).   The award was presented by the International Association for Online Engineering and Global Online Laboratories Consortium in Germany. Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham have jointly won the Aegis Graham Bell Award 2017 in the ‘Innovation in mHealth’ category. They were recognized for their joint initiative in diabetic health care which will offer millions of diabetic patients an easy-to-use mobile app. This initiative also exemplifies industry-academia collaboration for research and innovation in healthcare. The University of Glasgow worked with collaborators from Ammachi Labs at Amrita to take a water hauling robot to a village in rural India.  Water transport is a real problem in rural India. Over half of the population doesn’t have tap water at home, so people (usually women) have to go get water from a central location and haul it back. They spend roughly 5 hours every day doing this, carrying jugs of water on their heads. Warm Regards, Karen Sneha Moawad Program Manager, North America Amrita Center for International Programs (ACIP) Amrita University (Amrita VishwaVidyapettham) Amritapuri, Kollam 690525 Kerala, India e: karen@amrita.edu m: +1 206.660.6296 (USA) m: +17034024294(India) www.amrita.edu www.amrita.edu/global