Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata): World Univ & Sch wins ISSIP Award for “Facilitating Excellence in Learning," Honorable Mention, from The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP (pronounced iZip) http://issip.org/ - https://issip.org/issp-excellence-in-service-innovation-award-recipients/ * * * Stanford talk (5/11/21): The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction - "To what degree could we model in VR the economics' questions you're asking - and, say, planning for electricity, and roads, and returns - in a single realistic virtual earth for economics (think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, Tensorflow Artificial Intelligence, and with avatar bots too for virtual social returns, esp.)?" - PS CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned in each of 200 countries (per Olympics), and in all 7,139 living languages, seeks to facilitate such a single realistic virtual earth and for everything, including STEM field sites and classrooms

ISSIP Excellence In Service Innovation Awards 2021 Results

Dear Scott,

The results of the ISSIP Excellence In Service Innovation Awards are in, and the ISSIP Awards Committee is delighted to recognize your submission, “Facilitating Excellence in Learning," to the ISSIP Awards Program with Honorable Mention.

The ISSIP Excellence in Service Innovation Award is given once each year to companies or organizations that have deployed a new service that, in the judgment of the ISSIP Award Committee, is the most innovative of all the submissions for that year. This competitive, annual award recognizes exemplary innovation in the design and deployment of services. The judging criteria is based on the uniqueness, creativity, technical merit, value generation and impact of the innovative solution.

The competition between your submission and the winning submission was very close, and the Awards Committee wishes to congratulate you and your team for the innovation in that you have pioneered. Your submission will be posted on the ISSIP web site and a link to this site will be highlighted in the ISSIP Newsletter. We encourage you and your team to continue this course of innovation and to promote your progress through ISSIP’s publication channels.

With congratulations,

ISSIP Awards Committee:

Ralph Badinelli, Chair, ISSIP Awards Committee, & Member, BOD (Virginia Tech)

Haluk Demirkan, Member, ISSIP BOD (U. of Washington - Tacoma)
Sunil Kripalani, Member, ISSIP BOD

Yassi Moghaddam, ISSIP Executive Director

Heather Yurko, ISSIP Past President (Facebook)

Dear ISSIP Award Committee,

Thank you so much for your ISSIP support, on behalf of MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned in each of all ~200 countries and in their main and official languages, and in all 7139 known living languages, as wiki schools for open teaching and learning.

2021, May - “Facilitating Excellence in Learning," Honorable Mention, from the ISSIP Awards Program:

The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP (pronounced iZip)

http://issip.org/ - https://issip.org/issp-excellence-in-service-innovation-award-recipients/ .

I will add this to the CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School Agenda and News for this Saturday, 15 May 2021 open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting (9am Pacific Time -meet.google.com/asu-ftca-fnd), having added it too to the 3/2021 WUaS Minutes - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/32021-wuas-minutes-for-open-monthly.html , the 3/20/21 WUaS Agenda and News - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/03/wuas-agenda-news-for-open-32021-monthly.html , as well as to this World Univ & Sch post - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/03/noteworthy-innovations-in-2020-for.html.

I will also seek to add this to our WUaS website - worlduniversityandschool.org - as it becomes more professional, and is translated into many languages, as well as to the World University Foundation page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation.

Thanks ISSIP Awards Committee for this great Honorable Mention on behalf of MIT OCW-centric World University and School.

Kind regards,

Scott

Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org -
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html -

I've also added the above Honorable Mention to my personal CV:

CV: https://goo.gl/JZheSb

http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm

PPS

Here is the WUaS ISSIP application from Tuesday, March 16, 2021:

Dear ISSIP Award Committee,

Please find attached and below World University and School's application for the ISSIP excellence in service innovation award. Thank you.

Kind regards,

Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org -
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html -

CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki WUaS is planned in all ~200 countries and in their official languages for free-to-students' Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school degrees, accessible from here in due course - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ... for example (and see, too, the MIT OCW on some of the academic wiki subjects here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects).

World University & School - WUaS - Innovations in 2020:
Facilitating Excellence in Learning via best STEAM CC-4 OCW (in 4 languages) with Wikis (Wikidata/Wikipedia) in 300 languages +

Overview

World University and School's mission is to offer free university degrees and IB high school diplomas to students in their own countries and in their own languages, building upon Open Courseware in its current languages, and to facilitate Wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all living languages. WUaS is currently in the process of partnering with edX (founded by Anant Agarwal, a MIT and Harvard Professor, and the CEO of EdX) to offer online free-to-students' Bachelor and PhD programs in the autumn 2021. This would start in English, with students matriculating from as many as 200 countries. WUaS plans to license and accredit at the university and high school levels for its online degrees and diplomas, including Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school, in the countries' main languages - http://worlduniversityandschool.org. Our Wikis will involve open and editable people-to-people teaching and learning, both creative and academic (see - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects), but will also involve non-editable courses prepared under a Creative Commons’ license. With time, WUaS will use universal translators to extend the project automatically to any language. Part of WUaS's focus will include an academic press (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html) with machine translation and learning. Due to the rapid spread of broadband worldwide, WUaS plans to make this accessible to underserved parts of the world and to poor people everywhere.

New Innovations at World University and School

In 2020, WUaS innovations included beginning to: partner with edX; coding for anyone, with each getting a Wikidata Q-item (or similar) number; a new WUaS Opencura WBstack Wikibase platform; creating 1 Realistic Virtual Earth (think Google Street View with time slider) for use as field sites/classrooms, and everything, including a realistic virtual earth for genetics for aging reversal drug therapies; WUaS is planning tele-robotic surgery, and in a realistic virtual earth for surgery at cellular and atomic levels too; #WUaSHomeRobotics developing courses for each of 3 physical WUaS Lego Robotics' kits for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalVirtual robotics with the #Scratch3 programming languages with #GoogleTranslate & its100 languages in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & re https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/; using a crypto-currency; and, experimenting with Universal Basic Income to alleviate poverty, and connected with free universal Wiki education; reimbursement from ~200 nation states' counties for CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees; Sri Lanka WUaS in Google Sites for smartphone in the Sinhala Language https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka and WUaS in English in Google Sites https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/; credit for individual classes along the way to Bach and PhD degrees; print with machine translation to new language from a single book's page URL in the WUaS bookstore; WUaS’s 3 legal entities – a 1) federal 501 c 3, and 2) a non-profit and f3) or profit general stock company in California - are developing; the WUaS Corporation first filed its tax returns for 2017, 2018, 2019.

More information

“Noteworthy Innovations in 2020 for World University and School”
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/03/noteworthy-innovations-in-2020-for.html

http://issip.org/recognitions/issip-excellence-in-service-innovation-award/

The application to be considered for the ISSIP Annual Service Innovation Award. Innovations that helped customers, users, or citizens in 2020 are currently being considered for the annual ISSIP award.

Deadline: March 16, 2021, 11:59 pm, US, Pacific Time. Please send your application to awards@issip.org.

Application requires a 500-word (max) description. More details here.
See application examples from previous years: example1, example2.
Award recipients are listed at the ISSIP website, and announced in a press release (example here)
ISSIP membership is not a requirement of eligibility. Submitter must be an individual member. S ing up here to join ISSIP at no cost.

Feel free to share with other colleagues.

If you have any questions, please send a note to awards@issip.org.

Thanks,

ISSIP Awards Committee

- Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Stanford talk (5/11/21):

The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction

https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/global-infrastructure-gap-potential-perils-and-framework-distinction

Dear Peter and Frank,

Thank you for your great presentation, and conversation. It excites me to think of the potential here for modeling economic development in Africa in brand new ways. My questions are as follows, and have to do especially with virtual reality as modeling (and with Stanford-Google-centricity), as well as with the significance of making, or coding, all of this for economics' questions.

1
"Thank you for your great presentation.
To what degree could we model in VR the economics' questions you're asking - and, say, planning for electricity, and roads, and returns - in a single realistic virtual earth for economics (think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, Tensorflow Artificial Intelligence, and with avatar bots too for virtual social returns, esp.)? Could we model these with the framework for economic data from the 1985 World Bank paper (with perhaps its focus on data questions emerging even from 1960s and 1970s critiques of economics) you mentioned too? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) -

#RealisticVirtualEarthForEconomics

- https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForEconomics?src=hashtag_click …

2
"Thank you for this great presentation, Peter and Frank. Frank, if you were seeking to reply to my questions, I’d clarify with: in the laying out of roads, for ex., in computer simulations, with costs and returns, and in each of the countries of the world (eg African, & Silk Road countries), how could such VR modeling be extended to, for example, electricity systems’ modeling (and its economics), to city development modeling in VR simulations (including AutoCad architecture and probably road programming, with costs and returns in the coding), and their economics, and even with people as avatars, and related economic questions? In doing so, could one use, again, the data categories, for example, and from the World Bank’s 1985 paper, with its focus on individual countries, and their infrastructure, for example? Thank you.

3
Thank you, both! - and in one realistic virtual earth for everything (for economics) … (think Google Street View - for the artificial intelligence too), and here's an example of Street View (with my Actual-Virtual Ethnographic field site Harbin Hot Springs) - ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)

I appreciate both of your responses to my questions, and would like to add that - In the making of the simulations, - say by Google / Stanford - or by institutions - there's an opportunity to shape infrastructure ahead remarkably.

In addition, what role could UBI experiments, to distribute a mineable single cryptocurrency worldwide - for all 7.8 billion people - think "Stanford Mine Pi" - play in even informing stock markets in African and Chinese individual countries ? (Some recent single cryptocurrency, regarding Stanford Mine Pi, and the former Mayor of Stockton CA, Michael Tubbs, and guaranteed income experiments, with the state of CA at bottom here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/norway-spruce-picea-abies-languages.html).

Thank you,

Scott

Scott GK MacLeod

PS CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned in each of 200 countries (per Olympics), and in all 7,139 living languages, seeks to facilitate such a single realistic virtual earth and for everything, including STEM field sites and classrooms - and for the Social Sciences esp - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click - (as well as free-to-students, online, Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school degrees, in all ~200 countries in their official and main languages, as WUaS partners newly with edX, - and in addition to with OCW.mit.edu ).

Peter Blair Henry

https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/peter-henry

Frank Fukuyama

https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/francis-fukuyama

- Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com