YouTube team keep it clean. Good morning. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video The subjects kind of been dying down a little bit not too much, but it's died down a lot Because he's not a free agent anymore That being Miami Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry, but I still wanted to ask you all the question this morning Or whenever you're gonna be watching this whether you're watching later on or whatnot But actually all the question if you think that the Ravens should still trade for Miami Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry now of course Just to give you a quick recap Jarvis Landry was one of the quote-unquote hottest free agent wide receivers Set to one of the hottest Another hottest wide receiver said to him free agency But then the Miami Dolphins said you know what? We can let this guy walk and we'll get a comp pick for him. No doubt But that won't be until next year. So they decided to place the franchise tag on him creating a $16 million cap hit But so they have the option to either work out a long-term deal with them or they have the option to trade them Now people have been saying Miami Dolphins are more on the lines of trading him. Oh, man I know all y'all came through so quick If that person just said zero people then I'll all of a sudden say 15 appreciate y'all coming through man. Good morning. Good morning But anyway Sorry, I can't individually call everybody out. We'll say good morning to everybody individually So this is a collective. Good morning. Appreciate y'all now. We got 20 people up in here, but that's what's up but anyway So Miami Dolphins they have the option to either sign Jarvis Landry to a long-term deal or to trade him To a team that's willing to take on that $16 million cap hit temporarily But then of course they will work at a long-term deal with Jarvis Landry And my question was should the Ravens still trade for Jarvis Landry? Before we get into that and it's gonna be a really quick video Cuz I'll be at work in a little bit. I had to take a different way to work because Today is the first day today is the official first day that the kids go back to Stoneman Douglas And I passed that way every day on my way to work. So and yesterday I was I was on my way to work and I was passing that way and the traffic was just bad And it wasn't even that first day back yet. I even know I thought they were back I thought they were back yesterday, but today is their official first day back So I had to take a different way to work. I'm not trying to get caught up.  You don't Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel turn your notifications on leave a like on the video Appreciate y'all coming through. What's up? Hollywood we all caught up on the vlogs man. We've been we've been waiting on more vlogs from you Hollywood We're waiting. We ain't just we wait and we check the channel every couple days. See oh the Hollywood put up a vlog We've been waiting for me But so we appreciate you and and your vlogs and just your channel period and all your support man So shout out to Hollywood sports y'all make sure y'all subscribe to my guy man Hollywood sports So we Should we trade should the Ravens still trade for Jarvis Landry is he really worth it? Taking that 16 million dollar cap in which would only be temporary And then working out a long-term deal with now if the Ravens my opinion If he's not gonna strap the Ravens I mean if he's not gonna put up a burden on that salary cap even even more than the burden That's already there and they can get something done. That's a team friendly deal Then fine, but if he's still calling for what I think they said he wanted something more than either more than 14 Point six million a year. He wanted something along those lines Is he worth that? I Don't know. I don't know. He would obviously don't be an upgrade from all of our wire receivers Something that I just saw my boy George put is that I mean this would be if we even kept both of them He said he would he would make a Jeremy Macklin better That's a possibility because Jeremy Macklin didn't have anybody around him last year to make him better He had Mike Wallace who Mike Wallace had himself Who was himself? He had Chris Moore Michael Campanero over sharp and he didn't have anybody to elevate his game And he sure didn't take it upon himself to elevate his own game because I mean well y'all saw the results so But that would be a big if I don't I don't think if if we got Landry that we would keep Macklin, but you never know you really never know like I always say it ain't over till it's over and It wouldn't be over until that roster set come open in day So they they know that they have a problem at wide receivers, so they got to do some upgrades, but um for Jarvis Landry If it it would also depend it doesn't even depend on just the contract because you know if you're trading You don't trade for nothing. You don't just pick up a you don't just pick up a Somebody in a trade and not give up anything. So that's another factor So it's not just about the salary cap and what the Ravens and what the Ravens can afford Or what kind of deal they can make but it's also about what would the Ravens have to give up? What would they have to give up? That's a big thing, too Yeah, Tim White is still there a lot of times I forget about Tim White But I know a lot of people put a lot of stock in the Tim White and I don't want to do that I'm not I'm not gonna do that.  I saw somebody just say that a pair men can be the next now Nelson Aguilera That would be nice. That would be very very nice That would make me excited out man That would be so nice if he could have the same story as Nelson Aguilera And basically what that story is Nelson Aguilera was the first round draft pick. I think he came from USC Don't quote me on that though, but I think he came from USC and in his first couple of years just garbage He was dropping the ball. He wasn't running around good. He just he wasn't making plays Mainly his biggest thing was drops though. His hands were just garbage then Here comes along Carson Wentz and Eagles just get they get some other receivers They upgrade the position so they take some pressure off of him.  They've done that. They've been doing that thing in this league for a while I need to step up. So he stepped up and It's been so much better. So now Tori Smith gets cut Nelson Aguilera might be ready to be that number two. We'll see We'll see So, yeah, good. That was a good point man my fault that I didn't see who put that comment, but big shout out to you So, yeah, that could be something man, that could be something with Perryman But with Jarvis Landry, yeah, it would also like I said It would depend on what the Ravens would have to give up Because if they got to give up a boat load of draft picks, especially high draft picks If they're gonna give up low draft picks like fourth, fifth, sixth, whatever fourth and under Oh, yeah, go ahead do your thing because the guys that y'all draft in those rounds don't do anything anyway But if you're gonna give up Something that's high for a second third third maybe Because third I wouldn't I wouldn't I'll be fine with that Because you know, you're getting a quality receiver And that would that would just be less pressure. You got to grab. I Don't know I just I wouldn't be mad if they traded for Jarvis Landry. Just don't don't give up the world for him I just I just don't want to get hopes up man Like when they got anquan boating what they traded way like a third and fourth round pick or fourth and fifth I think was 34th, but that was anquan boating us a well-established receiver beast and he obviously helped us a lot Sammy what I don't know what Sammy Watkins is gonna want because he ain't like I don't think he's like a premier wide receiver I don't know what he's gonna want. I don't know if he'll be too much But I wouldn't think he would be too much, but I don't know some of these guys they Some of these guys they become a free agent and um, I don't know but whatever. Yeah, you never know what's gonna happen But anyway appreciate y'all. Thank y'all for watching. I just pulled up to work right just now So y'all let me know in the comment section what you think the Raven should do if you think they should even steal a trade Form and what they should give up what would be worth it to give up for Jarvis Landry. So we'll see man. We'll see


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Hello and welcome to this session where we will be discussing an important element of all of our futures regarding reimagining schooling. Thank you for joining us for this session where we have an expert panel that will be discussing what schools will look like tomorrow and in the long term future. Of course, COVID-19 has accelerated a lot of the decisions and the thinking that was being had previously when it came to schooling, whether it's the type of schooling that can be provided, the impact of technology, the needs to meet the requirements of the job market in addition to thinking about lifelong learning. At the height of COVID-19 lockdowns, 188 countrywide school closures happened around the world. 1.54 billion learners were impacted. Some of them are impacted to this day. So on the one hand, you had the immediate need to deal with the crisis of ensuring that children, young adults in addition to life learners continue their learning. On the other hand, you had to think about whether the strategic repercussions for both COVID-19, the economic impact, but also what we can learn and the opportunities that are posed there. So on the one hand, there's innovation, but there's also the need for collaboration. Across the world, there are opportunities and ways that people are learning how to make do with this challenging but interesting time that we find ourselves in. Our panel today will be here to discuss this and more. I will be introducing them individually now as I introduce each of you kindly respond to this question. The question is, what is the one issue that you think needs our immediate attention? I am going to start with Mr. Tareq Al-Guruk, who is Chief Executive Officer at Dubai Care's United Arab Emirates. Tareq, welcome. Thank you, Mina. Well, to me, end of the day, it's education systems, Mina. That's what we need to focus upon. Systems that turn children into resourceful, resilient and responsible human beings and citizens. Education systems that turn children into drivers of their own future and not just focus around economic productivity and endless career growth. A system that will be flexible to expand and evolve so that we don't get stuck with the same system for another hundred years. Thank you, Tareq. Next, I'd like to introduce Ashish Advani, President and Chief Executive Officer of Junior Achievement worldwide. Ashish, same question to you. Thanks very much. I can now start my video. Thank you very much. Good to see you all. Good to see you, Tareq, as well. I agree with Tareq completely. The flexibility is critical, but if I had to pick just one thing, I would say less reliance on high stakes testing. This is the time when even some of the wealthiest communities of the world have finally realized that high stakes testing through canceled GCSEs or SATs is impacting their life and is unfair. Let's use this opportunity to help truly address inequality by focusing less on high stakes testing and more on truly assessing the soft skills and emotional intelligence that young people will need to actually become job creators in the future and be ready for the job market in the future. Thank you, Ashish. Next, I want to introduce Linda Wei Matlali, Chief Executive Officer of Africa Team Geeks from South Africa and Schwab Foundation Social Innovator. Linda Wei, same question for you. The one issue we should be focusing our attention on. Thank you so much, Sis, and good afternoon, everyone. For me, I think the most important thing that I've seen that has been affecting everything right now, especially for children in developing countries, I would say access to the internet. The majority of kids who are from poor countries right now have not been able to actually pivot the education to online. So just in Africa alone, 250 million kids have not been able to continue with their schooling during this crisis because they just could not go online. So I think for me making sure that everybody has access to the internet is a critical issue that we all have to focus on. Thank you very much, Linda Wei. I'm sure there are many people that would champion these ideas, but particularly the access to connectivity. Next, I would like to introduce Alice Albright, Chief Executive Officer of Global Partnership for Education, based in the US for really global reach like many of us on this call. Thank you, Mina, and hello, everybody. It's wonderful to be here. What I would say is when we think about the reset and the reset for the 21st century, we have to make sure that it's a reset that works for everybody. It can't just work for the rich kids in the richer countries and it can't just work for the rich kids in the lower income countries. It has to work for everybody. And so we have to think through all these solutions through the lens of how do we make sure that we don't wind up in a world that has more have and have not. So it's really about for us. It's about reaching the most marginalized kids with all the different ways that we're going to think about the reset. Thank you, Alice. Next, I'd like to introduce Henrietta for Executive Director of UNICEF. Henrietta, please tell us your one issue to focus on. Thank you very much, Mina. So why don't I go to the young people themselves. It's going to be really important for young people to move into a time when they can learn what they want to learn when they want to learn it so that it's self directed education, and that they see a route between what they're learning to making a livelihood. It's the number one request that we have all around the world so it's engaging those young people. Thank you, Henrietta. Absolutely. This is what will in the end matter most and they'll create their futures. I'd like to next introduce Anthony Salcito, who's Vice President of Worldwide Education at Microsoft. Anthony, please tell us your one issue. Thanks, Mina, and thanks everyone. It's great to be here. Lots of good things have happened and I think equity has got to be the area that we focus on urgently. It's frustrating to me to hear from employers and country leaders that we have talent gaps in their countries. And we really don't have a talent gap. We have an opportunity gap and we've got to do more to help make sure that every student can unleash their talents on the new economy. Thank you very much, Anthony. And last but not least, Grace, I want to turn to you, Vice President of Education at IBM. Thank you, Mina. So the one issue for me, I think immediately is really thinking about the tremendous loss of learning as a result of COVID. And certainly thinking about it through the lens of equity and how the growing student achievement gap as a result by income level and race is exacerbated by COVID and how we're going to create more resilient systems to respond. Thank you very much, Grace. Well, in some way, all the issues that you raised are interconnected. And I'm sure many people on the school that are working on the reset, whatever sector it is in requires that real change and impetus that is created in improving opportunity for all inclusiveness as we go forward. I now want to go until deeper into this conversation and turn to you, Ashish, to ask about the lessons learned when it comes to education and delivery mechanisms for education. Thank you. And, you know, one thing we've learned, we operate with different brands around the world, junior achievement in the US, a young enterprise in the UK, in jobs in the Middle East and all my colleagues around the world are adapting programming to actually be relevant for no tech, low tech and high tech environments. I mean, first of all, we can actually teach entrepreneurship in a no tech environment. It's something which we've had to pivot very quickly to learn how to do. But when I'm observing the mindset shift that young people need at that age where they start to think of themselves as entrepreneurs that they actually need to have multiple interactions to be able to change that mindset to think of themselves not as somebody who will sort of need to be employed but somebody who can actually be a job creator. You know, Henrietta had quoted some data saying that eight out of 10 young people will have to learn to think of themselves as being job creators, particularly in load of the modern income countries. So to be able to truly address inequality, we have to change mindsets at a young age and I think that's the opportunity we have to focus on. Thank you Ashish. Mindsets and the opportunity that's there. If I can please ask you if you're not speaking to be on mute so we try to limit any noise interruption, but thank you for that. Henrietta, I want to turn to you. Where public private partnerships can come into play, especially to accelerate action on Giga, which actually you have launched in September 2019, which in some way seems like a long time ago, but actually had a lot of foresight because ultimately that's what we all need to make sure the old kids do have access to connectivity. Yes, so we really need to shatter this digital divide that exists in the world. I mean, one half the world do not have connectivity and when we had 1.6 billion young people out of school. I mean, you realize that this is the wave of the future so we can do it without private industry and the Giga initiative and Generation Unlimited that Tariq is very much part of is opening up a new world. So, right now we've got 16 countries that are rolling out the connectivity we want to connect every school in the world to the internet by the year 2030, and we think we can do that given today's technologies. We also need to get online great learning materials, and this is going to be very important with Microsoft we're doing the learning passport, which is in your own language you're able to download your national curriculum whether you're a team or less or Jordan or another country. This can change the world so these big platforms that are scalable that are digital will change the world and they will make it more equal. If every young person has this chance early in life, and they can overcome this digital divide and Mina, particularly girls, we need to get girls on the right side of the digital divide so that they are excited about STEM and they're excited about connecting. We'll need to do all of our jobs. Thank you Henrietta well that segues perfectly to Anthony to learn about these sorts of partnerships and in some way how the role of the private sector, especially when it comes to technology companies in helping to ensure inclusiveness this won't rely just on governments or international organizations the private sector has a crucial role to play here. Absolutely, as certainly as employers, we have to get much more engaged in creating opportunities for students, and certainly that's going to be true for technology companies, specifically, but really every industry needs to lean in to help students. We've got to really think about inclusiveness across the ways in which we approach even the opportunities in education we've seen this with coven really even well out credit, you know connected and technology access homes had challenges because of multiple students and multiple environments so we've got to be much more dynamic in the systems with asynchronous and synchronous learning, leveraging offline and low connect tools. Henrietta highlighted the work that we're doing with learning passport and there's ways in which we can optimize technology to help the realities of what exists because we certainly know we've got a rush to digital access device access connectivity. But there's going to be some time that we've, we've got to deliver on that we've got to think much more aggressively on creative models to ensure that all learners are participating in this different dynamic that exists, and will exist going forward. And we've got to embrace that with the right mindset so it's going to be critical and I would actually suggest that countries hold their, their corporations accountable. The private sector accountable to leaning in, whether that's required internships and entrepreneurship, whether that's investment or tax impact implications we've got to be much more engaged with making sure that we've got learners progressing. And that's certainly true with emerging countries to have global companies lean in and participate and that's one of the reasons why many of the companies on this, this, this chat are so engaged across the world. So, Grace, I want to bring you into this conversation because of course, IBM is also part of that. And just, if we can hone in on this idea of the private sector and how it is collaborating directly with educators again it's not something we would have thought possible maybe 20 years ago, even up to 10 years ago so how that should happen, what lessons have been learned. Yeah, so, you know, we in our work really do believe, as Anthony said that the private sector has a critical role to play in ensuring that people from all backgrounds have the skills that they need to participate in this digital economy with technology moving so quickly and accelerating the change in jobs and everything that we do in our, in our daily lives it's critical that public private ecosystems come together to strengthen education. Our main signature program and k-12 education is called P tech P tech is a model for secondary schools or high schools students graduate with both a high school diploma as well as a college degree. It's completely free it's completely open and designed to serve underserved youth. It's a combination between high schools community colleges and industry partners and industry partners are providing opportunities like mentoring paid internships and first in line for job opportunities. So we do think that thinking out of the box pushing systems to think differently about how education is delivered is critical to closing the equity gap. Some things that we've learned is that it's really important for industry to be able to articulate skills that students need for new jobs and it's not just about academic and technical acumen. It's also about professional skills. So we've done some research and I've seen over the last four years that CEOs are placing greater priority on skills like critical thinking problem solving communication and those have become really paramount. Of course academic and technical skills are always going to be important. The second thing we've learned is that industry should offer their best expertise, which often comes in the form of experiences like mentorship and internship, especially when you're working with young people whose families may not have social capital. These kinds of experiences can help young people build the networks that we know are so critical for getting a future job. Finally, what I'd say is that the pandemic and closing of schools have really reiterated for all of us how important is for our systems to be resilient. So as everybody on this has been saying the need to make sure that all our schools have hardware connectivity, but also great content. So one of the things that we're doing through something called open P tech is providing students with the opportunity to learn about emerging skills like AI blockchain and quantum and also professional skills like design thinking and agile and they earn the same kinds of badges that industry professionals are earning. So those three things are powerful lessons that we've learned trying to be student centered and database and looking at outcomes. Thank you Grace and the what you said about the new skills also you know again we've been hearing at the World Economic Forum and other venues for for years that the jobs that will be needed in the next 510 years actually don't exist now and so how do you scale students and also you know people who already in certain industries scale them up that way and I want to bring Linda way in at this point into the conversation because you know part of it is how do we take opportunity of all these changes to hard wire stem into some of this education reset but also those skills that are necessary for the future. Linda way you're on mute. Thank you so much. You know, for the first for the past six years, our organization has been working with the South African government to develop a coding and robotics curriculum. That will be taught, you know, from next year as a compulsory subject from great art to nine. So when kids are basically when they start school from age six up until when they're age 14. So, so we we wanted to make sure that every child gets their skill because we've seen, you know, for a few years in South Africa a lot of kids drop out of school from grade nine. And we wanted to make sure that they get all the skills they need. We, you know, the curriculum we've integrated integrated also imagine skills. AI, we have virtual reality so we, and we've also worked to make sure that you know it can be taught by anybody. So we we any teacher irrespective of the skills that they have. So we built our own platform basically targeted at South Africa is called Miss Zora and it's AI powered and basically it basically assists the teacher by basically becoming also a teacher's assistant because at the marriage of our teachers unfortunately don't have the skills and you can't take a teacher and train them for like two months and expect them that they can stand in front of a classroom in teacher robotics or even teach coding. So we wanted to make sure that one part of it is make sure that we also start creating a generation of kids that are self directed because the majority of the learning is basically left to the learner because the teacher would not have much of the technical skills. So everything they need is on the platform so they have to learn by themselves. But also, I mean, I believe that opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. So a lot of the opportunities that we have right now is you can learn anything online. I mean, I've been teaching my kids they from when they were six years old so they can do anything they know AI, they, they can do that because they've got one, they all had devices from when they were three years old, they've got access to the internet, you know, all their lives so they don't know what it feels like not to be online. But the majority of kids, of poor kids specifically don't have that. So as much as we can talk about all the opportunities and say we want to close the opportunity gap, unless we deal with the with access issue from from the device. I mean, we talk about how Africa has pivoted from, you know, skipping, you know, the landline to the cell phone, but what kind of cell phones to the majority of our people have. It's not your smartphone where they can be able to use an iPhone and be able to access all the amazing opportunities that are there from Coursera to edx they cannot access that because the devices they have are not capable for them to be able to do that. So it's important as we talk about all the opportunities and make sure that we always keep in mind that opportunity dances with those that are already on the dance floor. Those who already have are going to succeed and just fly, but those who don't have will remain where they are because we cannot break the cycle of poverty, unless we deal with the systematic or, you know, issues that are currently there. Anyway, I mean, you raise such important points, especially, you know, it's cycle of poverty but also a lot of middle class families, you know, they have three or four children, they don't have three or four devices ready to go they don't have necessarily the bandwidth to do it. So I think it's actually the the impact is so broad reaching there are very few who are fortunate enough to deal with this, but you also raise the issue of the teachers themselves you know we spoken about corporations was talking about education systems spoken about the students but importantly teachers themselves were going through so much change. And so Alice I wanted to come to you about empowering teachers and how we make sure teachers and educators are empowered to deal with all these changes. Thank you very much, Mina. So I'm thinking about the reset I think there's a couple of a couple of points to really drill down on one is teachers I'll make a couple of points about that in a moment and then how do we more broadly think about the reset. There's no doubt that teachers are the backbone of education systems. There are many countries that do not have the number of teachers that they need their estimates for example that the world lacks right now 70 million teachers. With COVID, the teachers that are on the job have had to adapt, you know, virtually overnight to new curriculums to how to teach remotely, and in many environments across or long distances. So when schools are able to reopen safely, we need to treat teachers as frontline essential workers. This means access to testing to PPE to the vaccine when it's available to involve teachers in every level of decision making. And where teachers are high risk in terms of their, their susceptibility to the virus figure out a workaround to help them so we need to really put teachers in the middle. In terms of the reset COVID is a chance to reset and rethink how education is delivered. What does this mean. We're looking at multiple delivery channels for education. In addition to traditional it means radio TV SMS mobile, and also different ways of getting paper based content out there, and really listening to what countries want. It means supporting teachers as I've said to help them adapt to a new world, and in particular be able to cater to children that are most at risk of being left out, whether or not it's girls or children who are remote or children with disabilities. We've really got to think about the left out part. Another I think important component is rethinking partnerships. When I think about the reset what I think about is a joint venture a joint endeavor between countries teachers technology connectivity finance, all coming together to figure out how to do a reset at GPE. We think that there is an absolutely vital role for the private sector here and we are very eager to work with the private sector at GPE. And looking forward to being in touch with many of you on that. And we've begun to see this already in the work that we've done it for COVID. I mean GPE put out $510 million. Most of which has gone to the countries to help them respond to COVID and there's some incredibly interesting ideas coming out of that so I think there's some some a lot that we can learn there is a final point around the idea of reset. I think that we've got to rethink how we work together. We've got to work effectively as an education sector, along with the private sector, but also reach out to other sectors I'm thinking in particular of health. There's also some very good work that's going on right now, you know, coming out of UNESCO coming out of others that have worked on a white paper that really put on put down sort of what is the to do list around resetting education so there's a lot to be done. But I think we've got to think very critically about what it takes to do the reset and put in place the work plans working together to make that happen. So very eager to continue on with the conversation. Thank you. Thank you so much, Alice. Well, this sets us perfectly to come to product because a lot of this change is going to need financing at a time where the world is going through a lot of economic troubles, but also figuring out the most effective way to carry out this financing because you don't want to double up efforts or basically there is no money to be wasted at the moment so tell us about new opportunities in education financing. Well, mean if you need all the money Alice has all the money you can take all the money she has so so just kidding. Look, what we have look the education sector is going through really a critical time. It's an opportunity at the same time. That's how I see it. Let's let's look into health. For example, Alice mentioned about the health sector we have to work closely with health. Exactly. We should not be competing with health, although education has been neglected for a couple of decades. Not a lot of attention has been given to it. But to bring back to bring back finance to towards the sector to to mobilize resources. It has to start with trust. That's how I see it from a donor's perspective. I mean, we are donors. I'm a donor and how I see it if I'm going to go in. The first thing I would see is, is there any collaboration happening Alice also mentioned about collaboration. Also mentioned with the Giga project that cannot happen if we don't have a global collaboration so collaboration at a global level, we should have collaboration on the ground. That's through the implementing partners. And if we can't if we can't unite and have that kind of collaboration, it will be very difficult so that you start with collaboration. And then you move to the second step, which is, we have to streamline our efforts. We're working in silos. Yes, education has been fragmented for a long time. That's why we have GPE filling a big important vacuum. UNICEF is doing what others are not doing. We have UNESCO on one side we have education cannot wait, and all these are actually on mechanisms that that we can fund. So once, and these mechanisms now they talk to each other they work with each other. And once these efforts are streamlined and we know what needs to be done and what kind of traumatic interventions that are needed, what kind of innovation and we streamline our efforts, then we go to the main point, which is my topic, which is, how can then we mobilize resources. How can we then go to the donors and tell them, look, we have a system set. We are collaborating on a global level and on the ground, we have our efforts streamlined, and we have these global mechanisms, finance mechanism that you can inject your investments towards We, as I mentioned, we have education cannot wait. We have GPE UNESCO just launched the their global education coalition for COVID-19 response we have saved our campaign that was actually launched today. They launched an action oriented white paper. Congratulations, Elizabeth, if you're there and your team. And what they have listed there is budget for education are at risk of being slashed due to the financial impacts of COVID. And this could lead to a huge funding gap of almost $200 billion we're talking about per annum. And that's only for low and middle income countries. It's a huge challenge. And I just want to end by saying that we should not only depend on national governments and the international community and the usual suspect when it comes to donors. We should we should engage new private sector actors through global advocacy. But we also have to engage it through the G seven the G 20. And these are very important education is not been prioritized at the G 20. Unfortunately, I don't know much about the G seven but I don't see a big emphasis as well on education so we have to push agendas. The World Economic Forum, for instance, they played a very big role into launching education 4.0. So I wish, and I hope that the G seven G 20 walk on the same path and and and we will be taking very deep dives about these talks all of these talks at the Rewired Summit that we are working closely with with with all the organization that I have mentioned, and we're going to have these talks at Expo 2020 Dubai, December next year at the Rewired Summit. And and and this topic is one of the three verticals. And I hope you guys will join us. Well, unfortunately, we're out of time. We could go on about this topic for many hours to come because it is so important it will be at the heart of our futures. However, the conversation will continue the World Economic Forum continues to drill down on this so stay tuned and thank you to all our panelists for an exciting half an hour.


We have General Questions. To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making on securing decommissioning jobs for Dundee. The Government's—regarding its £10 million investment in the Port of Dundee that's equipped in the surrounding area in a strong position to maximise the economic and employment benefits that decommissioning… …and indeed the offshore win can deliver for Scotland— …the oil and gas strategy, which was published on the 8th, set out of how Scotland can play a leading role of a global decommissioning market, while at the same time recognising that all efforts must be taken to avoid premature cessation of production in the North Sea. With the latest industry estimates suggesting that around £50 billion will be spent on decommissioning in the North Sea over the next four decades, we must ensure that the decommissioning process is managed effectively and that the Scottish supply chain can capitalise on the value of these projects. The cabinet secretary will have also noted the comments from Charles Hammond, the chief executive, saying that public investment is also needed. To that end, the city deal for Dundee, the first minister said to me in response last week that the city deal is under discussion. Can he give me an update on how his discussions are progressing with the UK Government on a city deal for Dundee? The first part of the answer to that is that when the city deal develops, we will take forward the discussions with the UK Government as we do on all of those questions. As we did on Glasgow and Aberdeen, we will continue those discussions as the detail emerges. A city deal that emerges will be part of a long-standing series of support that the Scottish Government has given to the city of Dundee through the substantial investment in the V&A, the long-term commitment to the development of the waterfront. Indeed, I was delighted to see the progress update just the other day in media reports of the success of the waterfront developments and the opening up of much of the much-transformed infrastructure of the city to the wider public. The Government will maintain strong support to the city of Dundee as it always has done. 2. Alasdor MacKinnis, the question has been withdrawn for understandable reasons. 3. Claudia Beamish, to ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing from its international development fund to assist with medical and humanitarian aid in Syria. In October 2015, the Scottish Government provided £300,000 to support humanity and assistance to refugees arriving in mainland Europe. The majority of our support went to British Red Cross and Mercy Corps. A contribution was also given to two smaller Scottish-based charities, Edinburgh Direct Aid and Glasgow the Caring City. In January this year, we donated a further £70,000 to support British Red Cross's medical response in Lesbos. In previous years, the Scottish Government has donated £200,000 in 2013 to the Disasters Emergency Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to those who most in need both within Syria and in refugee camps in the neighbouring area. I thank the minister for that answer and really wanted an update that is valued. However, I wondered the degree to which it is possible for the Scottish Government to identify or whether the Scottish Government has identified Scottish charities that are able to work in Syria or in the wider Middle East in relation to those people who are civilians who are afflicted within Syria now, and what relations and discussions have gone on with the UK Government in relation to how the Scottish Government and the UK Government can work together about this? I really thank the member for bringing the issue to the chamber, because often it can be forgotten everything else that is going on. We are in the 50-year of that conflict, 4.6 million sitting in refugee, more than 10 million internally displaced as well, so I thank the member for bringing it up. I should give credit where credit is due also to the UK Government, the response in terms of financial contributions and aid to that region is among the second best in the world. In terms of identifying Scottish-based charities, there are a number that do come to us with proposals. Recently, I am always very open minded where we have potential funding to give to help in that area and that region, because it is a disastrous situation, a humanitarian situation or a crisis that we are more than willing to help. Proposals do come away, so I can promise the member that they will be viewed very sympathetically and with an open mind. To ask the Scottish Government how many responses it received to its consultation on the comprehensive review of the planning system that closed on 1 December. The independent planning review panel received 392 responses to their call for written evidence. All of the responses are available to view online. One of the contributors to the consultation is the Edinburgh Southwest Communities Forum, which represents seven community councils in my constituency. They have submitted a detailed 12-page submission that has a number of innovative ideas from low-cost rate of appeal to statutory compensation to communities from developers. Given the level of interest in the issue, are there any other ways that individuals and communities can engage in the independent review before it reports later this year? The Scottish Government is hosting an online discussion forum on behalf of the independent panel. That will run until 29 February, and comments are welcome from any interested parties. That will be used to inform the review panel's thinking in addition to the formal written and oral evidence. In addition, I understand that the Edinburgh Association of Community Councils is giving oral evidence to the independent panel today. I am aware that, literally, hundreds of my constituents are appalled at the decision of one Scottish Government reporter against the unanimous view of the council's planning committee to allow the demolition of a much-loved restaurant at Cannon Mills in order for it to be replaced by an unattractive building that blocks a beautiful vista down the water of Leith. Will the cabinet secretary do everything possible to reverse that decision? More generally, does he not think that it is time to abolish the developer's right of appeal in circumstances where a council planning committee has been unanimous? On the latter point, that is a matter for a review by the independent review panel. It is those kinds of issues that they are reviewing, and I hope that the member will have submitted either written or oral evidence to that effect if that is what he would like to see happening. As far as the reporter's decision is concerned, it is not possible for me to reverse that decision. To ask the Scottish Government when it will next meet Orkney Islands councils and what issues will be discussed. On Monday, I, along with my ministerial colleague Derek Mackay, met the leader and chief executive of Orkney Islands council as part of the latest island areas ministerial working group meeting. The minister for transport and islands also met representatives of the council on Tuesday to discuss ferry's issues. I thank the minister very much for that answer. Yesterday, the finance secretary delighted in telling the chamber that every council in Scotland had accepted his plan to remove £500 million from their budget. Does the minister accept that this was only achieved by strong-arming councils with threats of penalties and sanctions tactics that one senior independent councillor in Orkney described as quote, reprehensible bully boy tactics? Does he agree with the leader of Orkney Islands council Stephen Heddle that quote, local government is a separate tier of democracy and should be afforded the respect to carry forward their own decision making, rather than being threatened with a fine of £1.7 million? I would certainly take the view that it is far better when asking local government to take forward key priorities such as living wage for every social care worker, protecting the council tax freeze, maintaining the pupil-teacher ratio that we put money on the table to fund that as we have. When we take into account the £250 million, the overall reduction in funding overall for local government is less than 1 per cent of total estimated expenditure. In light of the cuts that have been happening to the Scottish Government's budget since 2010, in part from a coalition government that he supported, I think that that has been a very good deal for local government. It is challenging but it is fair. In respect of the freezing of the council tax, I note that, during the time before the freeze, the council tax in the Orkney Islands increased by 116 per cent, compared with 62 per cent for the Scottish average. Therefore, I think that the people of Orkney will probably be welcoming Scottish Government action as well. Thank you. What actions has the Scottish Government taken to capitalise on Orkney's successful use of renewable energy and what steps have been taken to decarbonise the base load for Orkney? The subject of the interconnector in particular for Orkney to the rest of Scotland to be able to export the renewable energy has been the subject of some debate in the islands areas ministerial working group. There are discussions about that vis-à-vis the islands deal. I have also just this week had meetings about building standards with developers in Orkney to discuss how we may be able to respond to calls for a different approach on building standards in Orkney on the basis of the large amount of renewable energy that is being generated, but we are very supportive of the amazing work that has been done in Orkney. It is very much a leader in the field of renewable energy and something that the whole of Scotland should be proud of. To ask the Scottish Government how many Da Vinci surgical systems for the treatment of prostate cancer there are in Scotland. There is currently one robot to provide robot assisted surgery for prostate cancer located in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow is finalising a robot assisted prostate ectomy service, which is expected to be in place by April 2016. A £1 million capital contribution from the Scottish Government has been committed for each robot. NHS Lothian has also been offered £1 million capital to support the introduction of a robot assisted surgery service in the south-east of Scotland within the next two years. Presiding Officer, a constituent from Wesson All recently underwent surgery in Aberdeen where the Da Vinci robotic keyhole procedure was used. Three days after surgery for prostate cancer he walked two miles and he was off painkillers after four days. Clearly this is a transformable effect for patients. What plans does the cabinet secretary have to increase the numbers of Da Vinci systems across Scotland to match the coverage in England and Wales? First of all, I am pleased to hear about the patients experience that David Stewart highlighted. Boards are aware of the need to move away from providing open radical prostate ectomy and working towards making minimally invasive radical prostate ectomy the norm. The west of Scotland boards are developing their plans to introduce a robot around the summer of this year. As I said in my initial answer, NHS Lothian has also been offered £1 million capital to support the introduction of a robot assisted surgery service in the south-east of Scotland within the next two years. Progress is being made and I am very happy to keep David Stewart updated on that progress. To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has made of the economic impact in Scotland of the recent flotation of the Clyde'sdale bank. Clyde'sdale bank has an established presence in Scotland as a bank servicing personal and business customers and as a substantial employer. We would expect the Clyde'sdale bank to continue to have a similar presence in Scotland following the recent flotation of shares on the stock market. I thank the cabinet secretary for the reply and I wonder if he agrees with me that it is important to have independent Scottish companies headquartered in Scotland as this has a positive impact on the quality of jobs in the wider economy. I agree with John Mason in that respect. Where we have headquarters functions located within Scotland, it is clear that they knock on effects in terms of the quality of employment in supporting organisations, in the professional services and in the wider community to create strong opportunities for other organisations within the Scottish market. Obviously, it has been particularly significant that Clyde'sdale bank has been one of those companies with that strong presence in principally the city of Glasgow but also the city of Edinburgh. We look forward to working with Clyde'sdale bank as we always have to support the company in ensuring that it makes a strong economic contribution to Scotland. To ask the Scottish Government how it supports the renewable sector. The Scottish Government provides a wide range of support for the renewable sector. That includes support for renewables projects and related technology development, a planning system that supports the transition to a low-carbon economy and strong partnerships with industry, academia and the Scottish agencies, such as through the Renewables Industry Advisory Group. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Can the cabinet secretary provide an update on the Beatrice offshore wind farm and how a tendering process is progressing? The cabinet secretary will be aware that BiFab, based at the Fife Renewables Centre within my constituency, is linking to win a share of our contracts, which is vital to future employment within my constituency. The Beatrice offshore wind farm project is a partnership form between SSE renewables, Copenhagen infrastructure partners and Repsol. The project was consented by Marine Scotland in March 2014 and granted an investment contract by the United Kingdom Government in May 2014. Mr Ewing and officials from the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, have been working closely with all Scottish offshore wind farm developers to ensure that the Scottish supply chain is used, and that has been the case in relation to the Beatrice project. There has been further dialogue with the company, Scottish and Southern Energy, about the use of the supply chain within Scotland, and they have assured the Scottish Government that they are committed to providing opportunities for Scottish businesses to tender for such activity. It is, of course, essential that the contracts and the tenders that are returned are competitive to be taken forward. Any contracts awarded from Beatrice would depend on a positive final investment decision that has yet to be taken on. How many of the 750 renewables jobs that the SNP promised to Dundee have been delivered? The issue that we have faced with the renewables industry and the development of the offshore sector has been that the framework in which companies have been developing their propositions has taken longer to materialise, and changes in the United Kingdom Government arrangements for those things have made that more challenging. In addition to the fact, it is clear to anyone that is looking dispassionately at the issue that investment by renewables companies has been more challenging to secure and more challenging for those companies to commit to because of the changing environment. I can assure Jenny Marra that she has questioned the Government on the issue before. The whole issue of pursuing jobs in the renewables industry for the city of Dundee has been an absolute priority for the Scottish Government, and it will remain an absolute priority as does other investment for Dundee, which, as I said in my earlier answer, has been formidable from the Government within the city of Dundee, and I expect further investment to be delivered for the city of Dundee into the bargain. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to tackle childhood obesity. The Government is committed to tackling Scotland's issue with obesity through our strategy of preventing overweight and obesity in Scotland, a route map towards healthy weight. We recognise that there is no simple solution under pursuing actions across a broad front. One that makes it easier for children to be more active, for example, is where we have increased children doing two hours or two periods of PE from less than 10 per cent in 2004-05 to 98 per cent in 2015, and to what they eat with our provision of free school meals. I welcome the reply from the minister, but it is disappointing that Fife and Tayside in particular still have a very high number, a stubbornly high number of children who are at risk of obesity while their class is overweight. The Scottish Government Food Commission has expressed support for a specific children's food policy that takes a much more strategic approach towards children's diets. Does the minister agree that this approach is necessary if we are to achieve long-term cultural change? I agree that we need to fund the child healthy weight intervention programme. We will continue to fund that programme through the outcomes framework, which will provide greater local flexibility on decisions on how to maximise the value from that resource against clearly defined outcomes, and with a focus on delivering strategic priorities such as reducing health inequalities. Given that breastfed children are much less likely to present as a base, can the minister give an update on the Government's strategy to support and promote breastfeeding? I continue to take a keen interest in that. In fact, I am visiting another breastfeeding initiative in the west of Scotland in the next few weeks. We are clearly making progress, but it is very slow progress on persuading more women to start breastfeeding. Thank you. Before we move to the next site of business, members will wish to join me in the welcome to the gallery Mr Atan Nae, the UK Shady Affair for Israel. We now move to First Minister's questions.


Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a war crime's war of savage attrition. We should all be worried about it. Putin continues, making it a siege, a war of attrition, a genocide war without end. Like other autocrats, and not unlike his friend Trump, he is willful, driven, persistent and relentless. He certainly hasn't withdrawn, and is determined to pursue his outrageous invasion of Ukraine's sovereignty. He has made himself commander and is still sending his Russian teenage neophytes in to do atrocities. He continues in his missile and tank attacks on civilians, syncopated by his hacking of everything left there. He continues in his war crimes while we wait for the war crimes trials that could stop them. He continues in his threats to neighboring countries that help Ukraine. And all the while he is ignoring and largely evading the sanctions. He's still getting rubles for his gas and oil from Nord Stream 1, China, India and other dependent acolytes. He still elicits loyalty from countries in Africa and Latin America, and his friends in the Middle East, like Syria and Iran. Don't forget Viktor Orban in Hungary, an autocratic thorn in NATO's side, delaying the applications of Norway and Finland. And of course, Putin continues in his Orwellian brainwashing of the Russian people themselves. While the world suffers and literally starves, Putin continues in his daily efforts to wear us all down. The refugees continue to stream out of Ukraine, putting a burden on all of Europe. Some Ukrainian fighters have had enough and are leaving. Some American and EU fighters who came to help are losing their enthusiasm. Others are being killed, captured and or brutally deported into Russia. Putin's adventure is going on for months now, and his strategy is to tire us out. All of this stresses the will and determination of Ukraine and the coalition. Predictably, the news cycle moves on and the outrage at what Putin is doing is getting old. The coalition worries instead about oil prices, inflation and the threat to their economies. They forget that the price they are paying is the cost of protecting themselves and the liberal world order. Unfortunately, many in the US are focusing on gas prices and returning to thoughtless nationalism. Sorry too that the UN is completely ineffectual even in the face of this continuing crisis. All of these factors put pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky to settle, but Putin will never settle. With his war of attrition, Putin has taken 20% of Ukraine and wants much more in and beyond Ukraine. He is not about to stop. We should not weaken in our efforts to support Ukraine. They are doing our global moral work for us. Be strong Zelensky. Be strong Eastern Europe. Continue in your courage. Glory to the people. Glory to democracy. Glory to Ukraine.


So, to start with, to start with I'd like to just so that you can see the range of opportunities for reflection that we've identified in the room. Every table identified a different one, and so if you just sort of say what one, your group identified. So starting over here. Which? What's the opportunity for reflection? Well, we have a problem with deploying code to production. Deploying code to production. Okay, we're back from that here. This says you do requirements for readiness for development. Okay, ready? The requirement readiness for development. This table? Arms is version of tracking. Version tracking. Okay. Defects and alarm impacts, retrospectives on those. Okay, so we're de-passing the alarm. Okay. Our problem is that the retrospectives weren't being followed through one, so nothing was coming out. Oh, so after a few retrospectives, looking at what's going on with the actions that are coming out of the retrospectives. Okay. Over here? Yeah, so maybe the co-perdue is an opportunity to turn that into team learning, as opposed to just individual learning. Over here we have... It's basically a retrospective on the release planning phase. So the question on how we're doing release planning. Stakeholders are coming to the normal views that we scheduled. I'm sorry, everyone? What we want to do is be able to increase the use of our stakeholder or the normal views. Oh, stakeholder views. Okay, all right. Yeah. Just locking on devils, too. Yeah. Back there? All right, so what now needs to do is to describe this great team. So we're locking on... retrospectives. Opportunity for team reflections is reflect on how you're reflecting. Okay. So given the time, and I know that we are going to break at five, and I've got one more thing to do before we do that, and we've got 11 minutes. So what I'd like, I think maybe three table groups who feel like you've got a pretty good flow that you could come up and give a three-minute report. So who would like to come up and do just three minutes?  Come on down. Okay, here's my living microphone. So basically our problem is, is we can't get people to take ownership or participate adequately in the retrospectives. So our workshop is about helping the team understand the values or the value they get out of the retrospectives themselves, as opposed to sitting there looking like I'm an alien when I'm asking them to reflect on the past sprint. So the objective is for the team to identify values and the importance or insights that benefit the team, that they get out of the retrospective itself, and what it does is it creates ownership and participation. And we have the slogan, it is what you make it. So basically what we're going to do is in each retrospective, we're going to spend a few minutes retrospecting on our process so that we don't have an additional meeting. So basically it just happens during the retrospective. And we basically talk about the values and we just want to use some basic sticky notes and have people write down some of the things that they think are important, things that they do well, things that they need to improve on, but more specifically, what does inspect and adapt mean for a team and have them tell us what it means. So the idea is that they can look at the value from the team perspective versus just individual perspective. We think that that will help create some ownership and basically come up with a list of power questions ahead of time that we can ask the team, well, when you did this and this happened. What could you have done differently? It has some specific examples so that they can have some fodder to have the discussion around and maybe we would take something like the Five Wise or some method like that to break down the problem. So at the end of the retrospective, we would essentially have a list of things that they could do better and a list of values that they understand they're getting out of the retrospectives themselves. The team doesn't come up with any values because they don't find a value. Interesting. I'd want to try it out a little. I need a list of questions that says, when this happened, why could you have done it differently and show very specific examples?  So you have to go into variable specifics. When burned down as a flat line, what was happening, things like that. Really fast. It's a brief report. There's a number of releases and we want to have, in the next release, we want to make one or two improvements to how we do that. So to set the stage for this, what we wanted to do was communicate what we think as a management group are the key goals of release planning. And we identified a few of those. And then what we did is we came up with, based on that list, a few areas that we want to feedback from the team on their confidence in that area. So those things were estimated in our ethnicity from one to ten. So these different areas, what we would do is give everybody sticky notes and they would just write it on a kind of secret ballot style, put it in the hat, and then we'd plot them on a whiteboard. And so you'd kind of get a scatter plot of what the confidence is. So that just kind of gathers the data and then based on that we would have some other techniques, I want to hurry, but some other techniques to choose one of those based on people being able to plus, minus different ideas for how to improve what they thought the most important ones were. Thank you. So tuning up the effectiveness of release planning. Okay. Do we have one more group? It looks like we've done something similar to everyone else. Retrospectives need follow through. The opportunity is to make them effective. There was complaints around our table that the development team didn't feel that they were useful. And eventually they went to the wayside. The test is to test things. The team thinks, at the end, the team thinks they're valuable. The actual retrospectives are valuable. You can see ours is a bit higher level compared to the others. Instructions reflect periodically daily within a sprint the following. Review the action items that were provided at the last retrospective. Measure that success. And some of the measurements were actually previously talked about. We'll just use theirs. And that's part of lean, actually. And then determine the root cause. And then follow through with an action for the next day, for that action item. What's interesting to me about this is going back to that initial principle about regular intervals, the team reflects on its effectiveness, tunes, and adapts. So all of these are opportunities. And the breadth of opportunities, of kinds of opportunities for that kind of reflection. And it can happen in a moment. Because earlier, as I said, the minute you begin to ask a question, you've begun the process of the change. So it might be as much as at the end of any conversation your team has, saying on a scale of 1 to 10, how did this go? How do we think we could make it better? Or keeping a chart where people write their confidence level in something. All of that is a way of asking the team, asking itself a question. And if you begin to ask those questions and take them seriously, then the tuning and adapting, the opportunities, you can use your regular retrospectives as the opportunities to do some of that tuning and action planning for where you want to go next, or what else you want to do with that particular issue, with version tracking, or with peer reviews, or whatever you choose. But I mean, I think it's just amazing how many different things came up in this room. So I am continually collecting activities that teams can use and do use. I like to see them actually in practice, and then I collect them in their retrospectives and to just help themselves become more effective. Anything that will help a group become more effective, or leaders of groups become more effective at what they do. So if you have stories that you could share with me, I hope you would share them. And you can find me in a number of ways by email and Twitter and on my website. On the blog that I write, I have, I catalog new retrospective activities that I find. And so you can go there and you can find some new activities. And again, if any conversations you want to have about the Agile Alliance while we're here for these couple of days, or if you want to drop me a line in the future, that's okay too. So I'm interested in staying in touch with you about all of these things and in any of these ways you can do that. So with that, I like to start and end on time. And we started a minute early, so I'm ending a minute early. Thank you for coming and playing with me this afternoon.