Thursday, May 14, 2020

Blue lotus: Agenda & News for Saturday, 5-16-20, World Univ & Sch open monthly business meeting



Dear Universitians and friends,

Please join our open WUaS monthly business meeting this Saturday, May 16, if you might be interested. Thank you for your generous contributions to 501 c 3 World Univ & Sch.

Please find the April 2020 financial reports for A) World University and School, and for the B) WUaS Corporation, attached. 

Please join us at our OPEN (& hour-long) World Univ & Sch
@WorldUnivAndSch (@WUaSPress) monthly business meeting this Sat 5/16/20, at 9 am PT, 12 noon ET, electronically in Google Meet video conference, by emailing info@worlduniversityandschool.org if interested in joining & from all time zones!
> https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1261300161927471104?s=20


World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for Sat., May 16, 2020:

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/05/agenda-news-5-18-20-world-univ-sch-open.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/blue-lotus-agenda-news-5-18-20-world.html

The next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting will meet on the 3rd / THIRD Saturday of the month, on Sat., June 20, 2020.

Sincerely, Scott


Agenda & News ... 



World University and School


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- Major online Universities in all ~200 countries accessible from here https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planned in ~200 nation states' main languages)
- Wiki schools for open teaching & learning planned in 7117 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - where you, for example, can add a new academic or creative wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - in an area you love).

Free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric online Bachelor, Ph.D., law and medical degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas planned, beginning this autumn with - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School.


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World University and School emailed this letter to MIT President Rafael Reif - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - and as a consequence videoconferenced with MIT Professor and VP in the Office of Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma, for 30 minutes on F, May 1, 2020. See, too:  

"WUaS LiveStream M, May 11, 2020 - MIT collaborations as Harvard & MIT go online?" 


2 
With Professor Sanjay Sarma's interest in the many languages' focus of World University and School - India has 22 official languages - and in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, WUaS is seeking to explore further a way to expand our multiple language focus, as well as, conceptually, a CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx on edX approach, by building a platform in collaboration with MIT and Harvard's emerging online course platforms. WUaS is inquiring whether the MIT Office for Digital Learning might be able to bridge something in a new way in these regards, and make something happen collaboration-wise.


3
WUaS is seeking to matriculate 500-2,000 undergraduates this autumn in English online from all ~200 countries, for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees that are CC-4 MIT OCW-centric. Students would register, sign up, and apply via - worlduniveristyandschool.org - and WUaS will seek reimbursement from all ~200 countries' departments of education per student per year, as we plan to offer online MIT or Stanford-caliber degrees. 


4 
WUaS seeks to add a money transfer mechanism for reimbursements, and as WUaS plans to build code for matriculating students in all ~200 countries' official languages, then also for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki teachers and learners, and then, conceptually, for each of all 7.5 billion people on the planet (also as wiki learners and teachers) - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University. WUaS would likely begin this coding process in Wikidata's ~300 languages for something like every wiki WUaS teacher/learner a Wikidata Q-item #  or a Wikidata PIN # ... (and which money transfer mechanism could work in numerous ways, eg for UBI experiments? Bookstore? In Quickbooks ? in the online teaching hospitals).  


5
WUaS is in communication with Nidahas Vidyālaya - Freedom College - නිදහස් විද්යාලය - in Sri Lanka (southeast of India) about online WUaS degrees there in the Sinhala language as well as in English.

See the beginning Sri Lanka World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka - and in the Sinhala language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sinhala_language (planned in Sinhala, and in Tamil too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tamil_language in Tamil itself).

Here is some of our correspondence thus far:

(Greetings to Nidahas Vidyālaya - Freedom College's founder Mohamed Rifai in Sri Lanka; WUaS is developing a similar approach in German and Greek - see:  "WUaS LiveStream M, May 11, 2020 - MIT collaborations as Harvard & MIT go online?" https://youtu.be/XYWHeG434xw from  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ - and seeking potential heads in Chinese, Spanish, and other WUaS pilot university languages).


6
World Univ & Sch was glad to learn in the Stanford Law CodeX presentation by Ivan Lee yesterday https://law.stanford.edu/2020/05/12/codex-meeting-may-14th-2020/ - https://twitter.com/CodeXStanford/status/1260997323284287489?s=20 - that the project he's working on recently added Thai language capabilities to the Chrome browser - thus I think completing all ~200 countries' main / official languages regarding information technologies on the web. 

WUaS was also very glad to learn that Ivan Lee's datasaur.ai - "data labeling software for training natural language processing models, including ML-assisted labeling and workforce management features" - is offering their project for free to universities,  and, again, World Univ & Sch is planning ~200 online universities in countries' main & official languages. Amazing, and thank you!




WUaS Corporation 

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The WUaS Press's financial report shows, percentage-wise, a tremendous increase over last month's revenue - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress.


B
The WUaS Corporation plans also to develop a payment money transfer mechanism which could work in numerous ways, e.g. for Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments to facilitate distribution of a single cryptocurrency backed by a large number of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states). WUaS Corp seeks also to list on the Silicon Valley long term stock market, and perhaps with regard to UBI experiments, as WUaS codes for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, (again probably in Wikidata's ~300 languages for something like every wiki WUaS teacher/learner a Wikidata Q-item #  or a Wikidata PIN #) and in facilitating a single cryptocurrency. So WUaS seeks to facilitate UBI experiments for all 7.5 billion people in this 'WUaS coding moment' to alleviate poverty (via distributing single cryptocurrency).


C
This WUaS Corp payment money transfer mechanism would also function in the 7,117 languages' WUaS bookstores/computer stores/robotic stores, as well as in WUaS hospital technologies' distribution centers - both on-the-ground and online - and potentially in Quickbooks with "Mine Pi" digital currency too, for example.




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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- 415 480 4577
- http://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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