..PART OF THE MAP VALUING AFRICAN YOUTH  2000-2015 Bravo Kenya: K1: In 1999 Jamii Bora starts up a worldwide revolution - the first microbank to put all transaction records on mobile thus bringing down costs of serving end-slum networkers- what microcredit designs were previously thought possible only in village mothers networks (eg Bangladesh). we now see how gangs of youth can be heroes of urban regeneration. In Africa's huge extended family settings, orphans demand family health insurance  integrated before  trusting microfinance- so Jamii Nora led the way with one of most economical group health insurance ever made by partnering missionary hospitals. K2 Kenya's firsts in banking-for-the-bottom-billion progress through JB to mpesa/safari (cashless banking apart from last mile) to kiva zip, to nanocredit inventor Julian Kyula- winner of 2013's IBM Entrepreneur of the Year award; NY patient capital funds like Acumen have also been inspired out of Kenya. 2013's report on mobile money for the unbanked reveals: there are now 60 million cashless banking accounts, with majority in sub-saharan Africa. K3 Ingrid Munro founded Jami Bora (JB) in her retirement after a professional life serving UN Habitat and a personal devotion to serving orphans.  So at the Kaputei branch of Jamii Bora (JB) just outside Nairobi's beltway, it was natural to demonstrate how to empower youth to build their own ecovillages. With a little knowledge multiplying help from Ingrid's friend the late great Nobel Wangari Maathai. K4 The Economist's 2012 Xmas issue asks: Is the Kibera slum the most entrepreneurial social lab on the planet?  Three years earlier in the run-up to Spain's global microcreditsummit, Queen Sofia demands testing of the JB model in over 60 southern nations faced with the challenge of slums. In the same year, JP Morgan NY headquarters stages JB's founder Ingrid Munro as trainer on sustainable billanthropy let alone pro-youth banking! More of Africa's map below 2014-2015 Twin Nobel Laureate Summit: Cape Town-Atlanta with specil youth foci curated by Muhammad Yunus and friends 2015 is 50th year since Yunus arrived in the southern states - the same year that US universities were first integrated; the 15th year since Atlanta has staged the most collaborative black student entrepreneur competition; and the 5th year since the state educators of Georgia and Alabama asked yunus to help turn Montgomery County Alabama into a social business zone - this being the usa's poorest county and the one where Booker T Washington's University Tuskegee is currently less than half filled

Aficanidoltv welcomes the new century with the best of African Millennials news headlines rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk with your sightings  BOOKMARK TOUR OF AFRICAN MILLENNIALS NOW - item to add rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk  AfricanIdol.tv  KENYA K1 jamiiborabank.co.ke ;  K2 search mpesa , search nanocredit julian kyula , zip.kiva.org ,  acumen.org gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/state-of-the-industry-2013   K3 greenbeltmovement.org  ;  K4 search economist.com for boomtown slum,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqCrZLFeBHY ;   K5 TheGreenChildren.com , Fashion4Development.com , SingforHope.org  http://vigilante-vnm.com/  womensworldbanking.org , cluetrain.com ;   K6 ihub.co.ke  , ushahidi.com  trilliondollaraudit.org ;  K7 bridgesinternationalacademies.com ETHIOPIA  E1 Yazmi.com   E2 usadbc.org   blessedcoffee.us  AFRICA-wide A1 Africa24tv.com  ;   A2 moibrahimfoundation.org  ;    A3    gabv.org   brac.net/content/where-we-work-africa   A4 search #2030now and "world bank live millennials"  pih.org  A5 un.org/partnerships crowdsourcing.itu.int   A6 search Yunus & African Development Bank  ROA1 flyingdoctorsnigeria.com , search entrepreneurial impact role mit  SA1 search blecher maharishi,  search branson bteam africa   SA2 nobelforpeace-summits.org , theelders.org;    SA4 search gandhi einstein , search gandhi satyagraha 1906 , cmseducation.org/  From Road to Atlanta Selected Yunus and Youth Tour: YunusCreativeLab.org  NobelforPeace-summits.org SocialBusinessPedia.com Women4Empowerment.org GrameenEconomics.com ;  -search Atlanta Nobel Peace, search moocyunus

K5 Years before Kenya's youth star is born, the social business pop group TheGreenChildren can be found celebrating with Ingrid; the joyful cluetrain rolls on in New York with Monica Yunus' singforhope and the UN's fashion4development offering celebrities unprecedented reach to grassroots movements including those tha US-Africa and US-Muslim millennials value most. Seattle's 2014 film festival premiers the movie of Ann Dunham's contributions as an unacknowledged giant : pioneering microcredit in Indonesia and helping found womensworldbanking

                     
K6 Kenya's youth ihubs design ushahidi software ("twitter plus GPS") - so that in Kenya, youth action networking ranges from helping to end riots caused by politics of elders to open sourcing solutions with youth wizards around worldwide exchanges of collaboration entrepreneurial revolution. As The Economist foresaw in 1984: the net generation can be defined as that which searches for 10 times more economic value in collaboration between peoples than competition over things

K7 The Bridges primary schooling system (goal to serve 10 million poorest children by 2023) becomes one of the fastest growing, effective and economical on the planet

ETHIOPIA
E1 Beaming knowledge to everyone: Ethiopia's launch of Africa's first satellite was led by Noah Samara whose dream was to free life critical info (eg how to prevent spread of aids). He is now focusing on elearning. Also last time we checked in with $100 laptop/tablet friends at MIT's Media Lab, Addis Ababa was becoming its African epicentre.

E2 Ethiopian's coop farmer structure provides one of the 2 loci (farmers & spiritually/consciously linked customer communities) that whole truth value chains are composed round. They need to take back (as the French would say "entrepreneur") most of the 90% of costs caused by middlemen. For how, see DC's Inauguration of the US Africa Diaspora summit June 2014

AFRICA

A1 The continental satellite tv broadcaster africa24tv aims to search out good news of industry leaders trying to develop sector self-sufficiency by and for africans;

A2/K8 Africa24tv's co-founder was inspired by Mo Ibrahim - the first mobile telecoms billionnaire to sell out of telecoms (cellnet anchored around Kenya) and devote his family's future fortunes to prizing bottom-up leadership

A3/K9 MIT team linkin with Mpesa's tech wizard NIck Hughes so that cashless banking can come to Bangladesh bkash.com. BRAC's world leadership of banking with values gives it the authority to hunt out massive partnership entries into Africa and across girl effect networks - like Mastercard Foundation in Uganda , and Gates Foundation in Tanzania.

A4 Partners in Health worldwide intervention in developing a drug for HIV taught Jim Kim why and how to rework Porter's Value Chain maps from top-down to bottom-up. Without Africa's urgent need the World Bank wouldn't be emerging today as leader of pro-youth economics

A5 Enjoy the web hosting of the UN's Global Partnership with Youth GPY2015 is staged by the ITU led by African IT activist Dr Hamadoun Toure

A6 Monitor Yunus partnership with the African Development Bank as an incubation network of young social business entrepreneurs is launched starting out of Tunisia and Uganda . Dr Yunus speaks as the keynote speaker at the closing luncheon for governors of the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) during the 2013 annual meeting of the Governing Board of the AfDB in Marrakesh, Morocco recently, said a press statement.

Prof Yunus was invited by the president of the AfDB there.

SOUTH AFRICA
SA1  Back in 1999, South Africa's own entrepreneurial revolution took a leap forward with  the foundation of free universities for job creating entrepreneurs thanks to Porter's former value chain accountant Taddy Blecher. Watch out for free university partnerships  starting with E-cubed

SAE1 Blecher partners with Maharishi -curriculum of Empowerment

SAE2 Blecher partners with Branson - curriculum of Entrepreneurship and Bteam and Mandela Elders reconciliation methods. This good news celebration came about after Branson's TV reality Apprenticeship discovered Sara Blakely as its Social winner. She not only linked Branson in with Blecher but has become Atlanta's youngest billionnaire through her own womens enterprise Spanks

SAE3 Blecher partners with google  -whose curriculum of E-includes offering free web site to South African small enterprises that host youth apprenticeships

YEEES: with the approval of the South African government Youth Entrepreneur curricula are now being extended to 14 million school children with the goal of creating one million jobs by 2020

SA2 Cape Town Oct 2014 hosts the Youth Nobel Laureate summit -a best for the world chance for African Millennials to train up to social action networking  Mandela's legacy

SA3 Cape Town youth also motivated George Soros' 1978 transformation into a philanthropist. Structurally his last 35 years of investments have focused on open society and ineteconomics.org - rethinking economics from the ground up. Practically it was Soros who provided Yunus the funding that started Grameen Phone- ensuring the pro-poor focus of Bangladesh's first mobile telecoms network.

SA4 Rewind the world to 1906 and it was South Africa that turned the mindset of Mahatma Gandhi from that of a Bar of London barrister to

"The inventor of a completely new and humane means for the liberation war of an oppressed country, and practised it with greatest energy and devotion. The moral influence he had on the consciously thinking human being of the entire civilized world will probably be much more lasting than it seems in our time with its overestimation of brutal violent forces. Because lasting will only be the work of such statesmen who wake up and strengthen the moral power of their people through their example and educational works." Alfred Einstein.

The whole concept of Satyagraha (Satya is truth which equals love, and agraha is force; Satyagraha, therefore, means truth force or love force) was profoundly significant to me. As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first time its potency in the area of social reform. ... It was in this Gandhian emphasis on love and nonviolence that I discovered the method for social reform that I had been seeking. Martin Luther King

ROA1 Rest of Africa- space doesn't permit me to begin to do justice to this wondrous youth continent but if ever there were to be an election for premier under 25 changemaker, I would vote for Ola Orekunrin whose star-spangled livelihood to date has navigated British and Japanese medical schooling to found Nigeria's Flying Doctors, and caused the founder of MIT's entrepreneurial curriculum at Sloan Management School to leap out of his chair with glee.

Intelligence Platforms at first 25X energy efficient supercomputers

 Taipei Cluster ; Softbank-Arm-Tokyo Cluster (including Arabia I), Mumbai Cluster, Memphis Cluster

6 dimeniosn intelligence world game

1 Connecting academia (eg lecun launch graduate student union without borders); 

2-4 ai wizards; move to min 24.40 jensen huang https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-remarks-on-investments-in-the-us/659307 mapping business AI leadership futures

5 Sovereignty (including language-culture unitting) leaders include UK & Japan Royals, Qatar, Canada?Italy (G7 minus 1), India

6 Biotech Viral Storytellers eg Enbdy & Attenborough.

Endy agri stories eg dandelions, first 250 million protein stories, biotech continent stories, japan expo and olympics stories (also osaka track and society 5.)

Taiwan - prevent viral disasters (most successful ai containing covid); digital twin Financial Capitals Training Hospitals; whats 2nd most important digital twin service replication; ;First worldwide data collab- eg cancer (prevention) databank

end student debt and brain training of milennials whose intelligence can unite theur generation win-win gials

Is it the case that less than 25% of americans or europeans have access to both water & electricityto maximise intelligence productovity- whats ai distribution grid & gridless map to resolve this; other infrastructure chalenges where borrders have been the problem (whether uniting states or nations)

Taiwan earth 2.0 as well as eg hurricane alerts - wjy not malarai map; water angels map with Japan Emperor

memphis what is low latency 10g so no vialge left out of intel sharing; what is marryingh millennials pop and inttel stars; what is cuber brain implants; 

How does open driverless city platform connect - open humanoids safety- story DeepSeek US CEO; 45 safest supercities (eg bloomberg Road of Things)

 From Drew Endy 2025 BIo AI testimony pp3  https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/Drew_Endy_Testimony.pdf

For President Xi Jinping, biotechnology is arriving on time and in ways that are directly responsive to China’s highest-level needs and goals including: 

(i) “complete domestic circulation” of China’s economy,

 (ii) “improve and stabilize” supply chains,

 (iii) “improve the mix of scientific and technological inputs and outputs,

” (iv) “ensure harmony between humans and nature,” and 

(v) “develop a bottom-up (public health) system that ensures early detection, warning, and response so as to control diseases as they arise.”22 

When Xi wrote during a pandemic, “we need to attach greater importance to basic research in life sciences, including genetics, genomics, virology, epidemiology, and immunology; accelerate R&D and innovations in relevant medicines and vaccines; and put more emphasis on the use of IT and big data in these fields,”22 he meant it. Behind Xi’s statement, “China must be basically self-sufficient in food production and industrial development. We must never forget this,”22 is a primal driver; compared to the United States, China must secure food for ~4-fold more people with ~25% less farmland.23 

CHINA AND BIOTECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP There is ongoing debate whether China is already the world leader in biotechnology.24,25,26 From a policy-maker perspective this debate risks missing the point. The progress of students, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and leaders in transforming China into a biotechnology powerhouse over the past twenty years has been extraordinary.27 

Through hard work, ambition, and an all-of-nation effort, China is at-least matching the United States in key elements of biotechnology’s “strategic stack” (education, research, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing), is now better organized and supported by Beijing and beyond, and has tremendous momentum. What do these accomplishments look and feel like from a competitive perspective? Let’s start with education. In 2003 I helped launch what became the iGEM competition. Just 16 undergraduates with four instructors at MIT,28 modeled after Lynn Conway’s 1978 VLSI System Design Course that helped launch a revolution in computer chip design.29 iGEM is now the world-leading synthetic biology “olympics,” held in Paris each fall. Teams of students compete to design, build, and test bioengineered systems for useful purposes that they define. Last year’s champion from Germany sought to reprogram dandelions to produce carrot-shaped roots in support of sustainable latex production.

Endy :recommmendsworldwide it will be impoertant to trtack peoples who pioneer biotech: Paying careful attention to the cultural context, support for, and engagement with biotechnologies will matter most in the long run. Paying careful attention to how such opinions are shaped and sculpted is important. If your nayion is a follower in biotech innovation- how do you map its positive emotional enerhgies?

ARE SHORT_TERM RULED PEOPLES (eg USA) DESTINED TO BE LAGGARDS IN BIOTECH

POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS Public funding for biotechnology research in the United States is grossly misallocated. We tend to spend most public treasure on the immediate applications of biotechnology. 63 We fail to sustain public investments in the foundational science and tool development needed to generate an evergreen transformation in how we partner with biology to solve problems. The private sector attempts to fill the gap (e.g., Codon, Gen9, Amyris, Zymergen, Gingko) but more often than not fails to mature new tool platforms soon enough to realize commercial success. Consider how much money the NIH spends, directly and indirectly, supporting researchers building the DNA constructs they need to conduct NIH-sponsored research (over a billion dollars per year). Now ask how much money the NIH spends getting better at building DNA (at most a few percent of the cost to the taxpayer of building DNA). The situation is akin to if computer scientists could only receive funding for working on mobile phone applications that help patients in doctors’ offices tomorrow. Proposals to create new compilers, programming languages, and operating systems – all seeking to make the process of solving problems with software, in general, easier – would be rejected. What disease does “making it easier to cure diseases” cure? To lead in biotechnology in perpetuity the United States needs to smartly spend only a few billion dollars per year. But we must transpose how capital is allocated. Public capital must focus on extraordinarily high leverage and risky foundational research. Private capital should support entrepreneurs who can quickly and reliably translate scaled-solutions to market

ENDY suffests tese 2025 solutions if USA is to transform its valuation of biotech

(1) Resource NIST to create a Bio-Measurement Laboratory (BML). The NIST BML should push the limits of measurement science in biology to establish and promulgate the standards that accelerate scaling of the US bioeconomy and guarantee that as much of the world as possible is operating on America’s biotechnology stack. Leading in biometrology and standards setting will advantage all US activities globally, from biotechnology regulation to biosafety and biosecurity policy and beyond.

 (2) Re-task DARPA BTO and ARPA-H to focus on the foundational science and technology opportunities and surprises that will fill in biology as a strategic domain (e.g., create and secure a “bionet” unlocking distributed manufacturing resilience). Dramatically dial back the focus on immediate utility to the warfighter and patient, respectively. 

(3) Repurpose or increase DOE funding to launch and support one or more National Biotechnology Accelerators whose primary mission is to relentlessly improve how researchers practice biotechnology and its underlying workflows (i.e., measuring, modeling, and making with biology). Public treasure gains the highest leverage when taxpayer money supports developing the tools that entrepreneurs later build upon for free.65 World-leading biotechnology tools are an absolute requirement if the United States is to be the world leader in biotechnology. 

(4) Repurpose or increase DOE funding to launch and support one or more Large Language Laboratories (LLLs) whose mission is to guarantee that the United States has the world leading foundation models in biology and biotechnology. 

(5) Repurpose or increase DOD, DHS, HHS, and USDA funding to launch and sustain a joint National BioDefense Institute (NBDI) that convenes and supports the nation’s best scientists and engineers in leveraging emerging biotechnologies to secure biology. To the greatest extent possible the NBDI should conduct its work in the open and in partnership with industry and international partners. 

(6) Akin to GEOINT, task and support the Intelligence Community, DOD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), DHS, and the private sector in launching and sustaining a BIOINT consortium whose mission is to see behind the “molecular curtain” and help win a future free of biological catastrophe.66

 (7) Increase support to the National Science Foundation for foundational science and engineering research in biology and biotechnology ten-fold. Make sure the support is used for foundational, blue-sky discovery and innovation. Adopt more effective models for allocating research funds.67 

(8) The relevant Senate and House committees overseeing science and technology should make it obvious that America is “all in” on biotechnology by showcasing the nation’s priorities, actions, successes, and opportunities via a central online resource, “bio.gov.” This online resource must endure across administrations (e.g., where is ai.gov?).

 In 1940 Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat. The choices we make, or fail to make over the next few years, will determine the architecture of a global biotechnology system. One path leads to multilateral flourishing within a human generation. Another leads to scarcity, stress, and worse. 67https://www.hypothesisfund.org/ 66https://www.linkedin.com/posts/drew-endy-69ba17_winbywinning-biopartisanship-activity-7261753530116448256-qYzQ

~100,000 students have participated so far.31 31https://igem.org/ 30https://2024.igem.wiki/marburg/ 

 30 https://2024.igem.wiki/marburg/ 

29 https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/MIT78/MIT78.html 

28 https://news.mit.edu/2003/blinkers-0226 

27 https://itif.org/publications/2024/07/30/how-innovative-is-china-in-biotechnology/ 

26 https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/biotech-us-china-competition-drug-deals/737543/ 

25 https://cen.acs.org/business/economy/Chinese-biotech-attracting-global-attention/102/web/2024/12 24 https://www.labiotech.eu/in-depth/china-biotech-industry/ 

starting in 2012 China adopted and went all-in on a 20-year roadmap for synthetic biology 1 2 that was developed in partnership with the UK and US.33

bloomberg jhu connection wolberger lab

 Ever since, students in China have benefited from all-of-government tailwinds. Last year ~50% of the 400-plus iGEM teams were China-based. Incredibly, some students in California found it easier to participate in iGEM by traveling to China and joining a team there.34 China has also made significant progress in scaling biotechnology and biomanufacturing education, more broadly.35

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38:12

Data Centers at Scale in the Age of Accelerated Computing

May 2025

, Chief Data Center Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA

Wade will delve into how NVIDIA’s digital twin simulations empower data centers to enhance operational efficiency through holistic energy management.

43:05

Pushing Spectral Efficiency Limits on CUDA-accelerated 5G/6G RAN

March 2025

, Principal Engineer, Aerial, NVIDIA

, Senior Director of Software, Aerial, NVIDIA

, Senior Software Engineer, 5G – Algorithms, NVIDIA

The characterization is performed in a digital twin environment, where the radio environment is closely resembling the field.

39:08

Driving 6G Development With Advanced Simulation Tools

March 2025

, Senior Director, Aerial Product Management, NVIDIA

, Chief Technologist, 6G, Keysight Technologies

, Senior Principal Product Specialist, Ansys, Inc.

, William Lincoln Smith Professor, Northeastern University

The NVIDIA Aerial Omniverse Digital Twin has also empowered academia to unleash the potential of cloud and AI-native networks for 6G system research, design, and development.

01:30:25

Connecting Industrial Data to Digital Twins With Microsoft Power BI, NVIDIA Omniverse, and OpenUSD

March 2025

, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

, Principle Product Manager, NVIDIA

This lab is ideal for software developers interested in cloud-based IoT solutions, real-time data streaming, and industrial digital twin applications. Prerequisite(s): Knowledge of cloud computing concepts and Microsoft Azure services.

35:04

Exploring Factory-Scale Digital Twin Simulation

March 2025

, Business Manager - Emulate3D, Rockwell Automation

, Applications Consultant Manager, Emulate3D, Rockwell Automation

Join Rockwell experts to hear how Emulate3D, OpenUSD, and Omniverse Cloud API’s are helping power factory-scale digital twin simulations, and how engineers can use these to virtually commission plants before they're even built.

31:58

City-Scale AI with Digital Twins

March 2025

, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Linker Vision

By integrating DeepStream, TensorRT, Triton, NVIDIA AI Blueprint for video search and summarization, and MTMC (Multiple-Camera Tracking), alongside digital twin simulations, we ensure real-time data collection, continuous model retraining, and robust anomaly detection across dozens of urban scenarios.

38:18

Build your next Vision AI application for Physical AI on a Digital Twin

March 2025

, Product Manager - Metropolis AI Workflows, NVIDIA

, Co-founder and CEO, MetAI Technology

, Product Manager, NVIDIA

Physical AI improves the efficiency and safety of large space environments such as factories and warehouses by using cameras and advanced computer vision models to facilitate tracking and dynamic responses based on the spatial insights. However, developing vision AI applications for such settings often presents challenges, including …

37:03

Creating a Digital Twin of the French Railway: From Point Cloud to Operational Efficiency

March 2025

, Consulting Director, Sopra Steria Next

, Signalisation Tools Manager, SNCF Réseau

, Head of Digital Interaction, Sopra Steria

Learn how the SNCF, which operates over 27,000 kilometers of tracks, is leveraging a digital twin to enhance operational efficiency. We'll explore the real-world implementation of this innovative tool, which uses 3D and business data (point clouds, repositories, BIM models, etc.) to optimize worksite planning, secure critical spots like…

42:57

Designing and Simulating Next Generation Data Centers & AI Factories With Cadence and NVIDIA

March 2025

, Senior Data Center Cooling and Infrastructure Engineer, NVIDIA

, Sales Development Group Director, Cadence

Explore how advanced physics-based simulations, powered by Cadence Reality Digital Twin, NVIDIA Omniverse, and OpenUSD, enable data center teams to design these complex AI factories at scale with greater efficiency and optimized performance.

42:01

Revolutionizing Merchandising With Digital Twin Tools: Enhancing Retail Strategy and Visualization at Lowe's

March 2025

, Senior Director, Lowe's

Dive into the transformative role of digital twin technology in retail merchandising. Discover how advanced Omniverse-driven technology can create dynamic, data-driven visualizations and simulations of store layouts, product placements, and customer behavior.

24:53

Preserving a Medieval Tower in Italy Using a Digital Twin Built With NVIDIA Omniverse

March 2025

, Project Manager, CINECA

To improve monitoring in this complex scenario, a digital 3D twin of the monument was developed using NVIDIA Omniverse, in collaboration with the Municipality of Bologna, the University of Bologna, and CINECA.

37:53

 

March 2025

, GM, Fii (Foxconn Industrial Internet)

Digital twin evolution represents the progressive development and implementation of digital twins, beginning from simple geometric representations to comprehensive enterprise-wide systems.