There are 175 corps/institutions now overseeing your children's #education going forward. They will be shaping/molding your child's #ideologies & #worldviews - all while harvesting their data.
Global Education Coalition Members (announced Mar 18 2020):
"A new project on connectivity for education & learning [] is underway to develop an Int. #Declaration on Connectivity for #Education that is expected to be endorsed by countries at the end of 2021. Work on the declaration will be steered by a small int. advisory group.." [p 59]
The group includes Ericsson, GIGA, GSMA, #Huawei, ITU, #Mastercard Foundation Regional Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning in Africa, #Microsoft, NetHope, Smart Africa, UN Envoy on #Technology, UNHCR, UNICEF, #WorldBank, & the World Economic Forum.
"UNESCO will coordinate [] & develop reports about [] #risks associated w/ the digital transformations
to education & growing reliance on connectivity. [It] will work to [] establish consensus about the [] declaration & help countries operationalize [] following its endorsement."
Code.org-creator of Code Break. "Each #CodeBreak episode included inspiring guests... guests included leaders or #founders of other #GEC members such as Khan Academy, #Microsoft, #Google, #Facebook, & YouTube."
"Students completed 35 million hours of #coding in 2020." [p 49]
"Cohort Young People" (NHS #Behaviour Change Unit) is today a primary aspiration of corporate power - (consolidating in real time) along w/ the institutions, NGOs, Gov'ts serving power/capital.
To this effect, #Facebook is "Building An Instagram For #Kids Under The Age Of 13".
"The Coalition is committed to [] #lifelonglearning for all, in line w/ the fourth Sustainable Development Goal..." [p 9]
"Prior to April break, more than 99% of students & staff did not have a current case of #COVID19. Since Sept, 99.2% of students & 98.6% of staff never reported a COVID-19 case."
African Internationalism discussing Russia/Ukraine struggle as part of negating #colonial#capitalist narrative being spread to paint Russia as aggressor while exposing the US & other European imperialist powers role as instigator/orchestrator of crisis:
"It is no secret that White Power is working overtime to shut down any form of communication from #Russia to parts of the world - which means that most of the #propaganda churned out by the colonial capitalists goes uncontested."
"The same US #imperialism that was built on #slavery, #genocide, & colonialism, is now posturing as the moral & political authority of the world. The US colonial capital state murders African people inside the US every single day... Floyd, Locke, Taylor, & millions of others."
Nov 1 2021, #CBDC India: "so every single person today, even if he's not able to afford all the 3 meals, is having a #Smartphone in his hand. And I must thank some of the Asian countries which actually revolutionize[d] the smartphone market"
"so these three: the #biometric identity, the no-frills savings account [], & of course the #smartphone, & the fact that data is so cheap in India was the one which actually set the ground... I think #Canada & India started on this journey of instant payments almost together..."
Jan 18 2021, Payments #Canada: "Design attributes for a retail #CBDC... introduction of a new channel for illicit activities, money-laundering, terrorist financing other socially undesirable behaviours."
Following #Canada's ban on Russian crude - #fuel prices soar to record high. #Food crisis to follow.
Small print: Canada hasn't imported Russian crude since 2019. In 2021 Canada's petrol imports from Russia amounted to 350 million - out of $32 billion.
"The United States has not imported any petroleum gases from #Russia since 2019 and, as I previously reported, only imported 3.5% of the more important category of oil from there in 2021."
Cont'd: "When it comes to petroleum gases, which includes natural gas & liquified natural gas — [] — better than 90% of U.S. imports came from #Canada last yr, w/ none from #Russia."
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Mar 12, 2022: 1.1 million following 55 accounts curated by Twitter.
Batch 1 of 3 (12 screenshots in total).
Starting w/ 1st chosen (Lokot: affiliated w/ School of Communication, Ireland & Global Voices) & MacDonald ("New Voice of #Ukraine" which joined Twitter Jan 22, 2022).
"The erosion of meaningful culture, the domination of corporate & state media [] the loss of a knowledgable audience. And as one sees w/ the Russophobic response to Ukraine, the entire pandemic only served as a precursor to some complete mental collapse."
"And perhaps the best place (or one of them) to start is with ideas of #autonomy, #AI, and #tech (#media). For #automation and the internet have both, in their own ways, contributed hugely to the layers of mystification surrounding everything in the #capitalist west today."
"#AI seeks to achieve the same control over mental processes that #scientific management sought to achieve over physical #labour [in 2nd industrial revolution] through a process of rationalization, fragmentation, mechanization and routinization."
Pan Africanist/socialist Omali Yeshitela gives profound analysis of world economy in terms of #colonialism as means of production - a dialectic that connects entire world.
"Liberals & leftists are fighting to protect the #UnitedNations & [] #NATO as if they were [] legitimate ... the UN was founded for the purpose of peaceful collaboration among the colonizers to maintain domination of the world..."
The Russia-Ukraine conflict "clearly represents a fracture in U.S. #hegemony. It's a threat to U.S. hegemony and it destabilizes the exact/existing kind of of political and economic arrangements that that have dominated the world up to now."