 Hi, this is Jerry Mikulski here to explain the learning scenarios that are up top in the Exo narratives on how to leapfrog Latin America through the lens of education document the scenarios are really meant to be Different settings under which the kinds of project proposals that we're going to suggest might live and we have liberal democracy under pressure Which means countries like the United States where we're not entirely sure it's going to be a normal democracy in another four or five years Now if you look down this list, you'll see that there's no Normal democracy setting and that's because this may be a little cynical of us But we don't think there are many democracies in the world that aren't under some substantial pressure right now Now in parentheses here, we say might result in UBI UBI is universal basic income What we mean is that the kinds of pressure that these countries are under might Cause some of them to turn to policies that include a universal basic income There might be math unemployment. There might be other other sorts of pressures that that lead in that direction We don't know this kind of a wild card, but liberal democracy under pressure is a major major category here The another category is those who are involuntarily displaced So there's many different kinds of refugees. There's refugees from climate change and as Sea levels rise. They're going to be more of those right now is probably from disastrous climate events Monsoons thunderstorms in the US. We just had some terrible tornadoes that were much more deadly than than usual There are also many economic refugees and there are many refugees escaping violence in their home countries whether it's Syria falling apart or Central America and You know mortal danger and so forth, but there are a lot of people who are displaced and because they're displaced They don't have infrastructure. They don't have a home address. They don't have a lot of things that normally One would have even if one were very poor And also in some cases they may be in camps or other sorts of temporary housing where they're not Permitted to get employment or do other kinds of things So there's a bunch of issues around those who are involuntarily displaced and we'd like to pay attention to them Because there's a huge opportunity to do something really good for them That is a different category from those disenfranchised by being you know Way out in the boonies or being extremely poor whether in out in the rural areas or in cities And so disenfranchised people may still have an address. They may have reasonable internet coverage They may have a cell phone handy or something like that, but still they're disenfranchised They don't have much of a say in what gets done around them And it's really important for us in these quests that we pay attention to those people and make sure they have a voice at the table somehow There are a few places where the state is in pretty complete control And I think external ideas that the Chinese Communist Party is in full control of China are probably a stretch But certainly China has far more control over what happens inside of its walls than do most other countries on earth There are a few other countries around where the state is really wildly in control and for those kinds of places There may still be initiatives that we can propose But there would have to be framed and probably be pretty different to work in a country where the state is in control Then finally we have a pretty different scenario Which we call ready player one and this is the name of a of a science fiction book that was made into a movie Which we recommend you watch it's basically what happens when all of life sort of falls into a video game That you have to wear augmented reality headsets to to play in or virtual reality headsets and where suddenly we are citizens of the metaverse and Here the question is This scenario could cut across all countries all policies all Polities all different sorts of things that we've been talking about here. So so this metaverse kind of applies broadly and Some of us are more and less skeptical about the fact that a lot of human activity is going to move into a place where we have to wear some kind of Facial cover that gives us immersion in this world Etc. For an attempt to try to explain kind of a better way of looking at that And this is nascent there isn't much there yet, but I bought the domain the betterverse.org and We'll be putting up there some ideas of what would be maybe a better metaverse than what Zuckerberg is proposing Facebook do For us all so these the learning scenarios were not Intending these to be cubby holes to separate out different initiatives that we come up with It's entirely likely for example that an initiative might work really well for people who are involuntarily displaced and also those who are disenfranchised It's it's easy to imagine things that would work there It may be that those involuntarily displaced need a basic infrastructure like like some kind of Wi-Fi coverage and devices even And so initiatives that go there might only apply there And then it's easy to envision that a ready player one metaverse scenarios might cut across several different kinds of scenarios Of the other scenarios as we go. So we don't intend these to be buckets to separate but rather Categories of scenarios that we see covering huge Populations in the world some of them very very distributed and broken up in different places like those who are displaced But places where we can actually go in and work on initiatives and define them better We then have use cases which we'll explain separately, but for right now. That's it for for the learning scenarios