how are you so I guess that when you
were in school and you were children and
everybody starts asking what do you want
to be when you grow up
did anybody raise the hand and say I
want to be a philanthropist or I want to
work in social responsibility anyone
know that happens all the time in every
class that I give this is a profession
you normally stumble upon and where you
start finding there’s interest is there
ideas that you start picking along the
way and realize you play a role in the
social impact that you make and I
studied social studies and education and
I also felt a cringe like a pain you
know a stomachache when I saw injustice
when I saw hunger when I went through
environments that showed me that child’s
rights were not in place or you go
through a me-too movement myself and
that’s where you think there’s there’s
something I could do and at some point a
long decades of of the work that I’ve
been doing personally living my mission
my personal mission which is to make a
social impact I realized that at this
point in humanity as Lloyd Weber would
say in the Phantom of the Opera we are
at a point of no return a point in in
which the disparities inequalities are
unsustainable in which we feel that we
can’t understand why still at this day
and age human rights are not respected
and kids are going through situation
that nobody would fathom to go through
and that’s where I go back to why did I
study social studies and education and
maybe it was to understand at this point
the similarities that I feel there are
between the French Revolution and the
actual fourth Industrial Revolution that
we are living through crazy Jennifer’s
idea you would say yeah probably but
think about this the French Revolution
was about a movement it wasn’t a
political party it was a movement and
like Eric husband would say it was about
the old regime and a new force and this
movement was about the inequalities
between the nobles and the Commons and
Eric husband would also say and talk
about the dual revolution he would talk
about how the French Revolution created
an Enlightenment created a new social
thinkers created a new new ideas around
democracy around nationalism about
liberty and most of you might know the
French Revolution big motors where
liberty equality and dignity and then he
Eric husband explains how the industrial
revolution that came shortly after
infused those ideas with the technology
and with the economies it created so
when I’m thinking about that French
Industrial Revolution and the actual
fourth Industrial Revolution I’m
thinking how at this day and age those
ideas are meaningful still now how I
hope that this fourth Industrial
Revolution will come
with a social commitment with a social
movement that will also inspire us to
think again about that liberty that
dignity and that equality we know and
last a World Economic Forum shared some
numbers about how the 500 billion dollar
made by billionaires in 2017 could end
poverty now when we know that 3 billion
people live in poverty 767 million
people live below the poverty line with
one point ninety dollars a day so that
is a mathematical possibility right it’s
not a social political or historical
possibility but it makes us think about
changing this which is an imperative for
a planet and our world to be sustainable
changing these inequalities and I think
it’s an imperative for all when when we
talk about the fourth Industrial
Revolution I don’t want to take for
granted that all of you know exactly
what it is it’s about the fast pace and
exponential rate that industries are
changing either physically biologically
or digitally and I’ll give you a quick
example of how this compares to the past
this is a corner in New York the
Flatiron Building and this is oh this is
not it yet how it looked when the
industry was about the blacksmith the
horses food the horses care the
carriages the carpenter who did the
wheels this was a whole industry come a
few decades later they’re no horses left
in the same corner what happened with
those farmers what happened with
those blacksmiths they had to transform
themselves to become mechanics care care
for the cars and just to give you a
glimpse of how this fourth Industrial
Revolution now is also going to impact
in the transformation of the future of
work and when we look at that rapid
transformation of technology impacting
our lives we know that it is an
opportunity for those farmers to change
their professions for example but there
is also a risk of leaving billions of
people behind part of my work as in
Microsoft philanthropies is exactly to
focus in our mission about empowering
people and that mission we live through
our work to empower people to invest in
communities and to look after our planet
but focusing on the empowering people to
ensuring that nobody is left behind we
focus on something very specific that
has to do with our with our know-how
which is digital skills and digital
skills is not just about the digital
literacy that billions of people still
need to have but it’s also about
computer science so how we become not
only users of technology but creators of
technology and here in the UK it’s a
privilege right computer science is part
of the education from kinder to high
school to secondary school but that’s
not the reality in most of the world we
work around computer science policy to
ensure that countries are including
computer science as part of the
education curricula most importantly we
work to include girls many of you know
for example that the girls were the
first coders women were the first Corps
the first coders
after the Second World War men came back
all these ladies are just typing and
they got out of those career paths that
was there for women and now things
happen like the a/c is created and we
all women freeze I always joke that I
work for micro Frost because I freeze
all the time women were not part of
those engineer groups that were created
the air conditioning and it was built
according to the body mass height and
weight of men
same thing with crash dummies I always
ask this question say why do you think
women were more injured in car accidents
and we wouldn’t always play the guilty
thing all because we were tatting or
because we were distract no just don’t
blame yourself know it because the crash
dummies were created by a group of men
engineers that built the dummy according
to men’s height and weight so when you
tested the cars boom boom crash dummies
of course they were okay but when a
woman was driving she would get injured
until her women joined the team and then
the crash dummies also included our
height our weight so these little things
that seemed oh you know just examples is
what hat what happens when we’re not
inclusive of women in learning computer
science just coding you know learning
how to code I want to tell you about
wonder son wonder son is a Brazilian
teen who was dealing with drugs and he
ended up in an juvenile institution for
some years in and out in and out from a
favela in Rio and he found that learning
digital literacy and computer science in
that institution gave him his passport
out and now he’s paying it forward he’s
teaching kids all around the country how
to learn computer science and he always
talks about
have fire in your eyes for what you do
but the story about wondersin is that
the guard told him all of you kids that
are dealing drugs you should all be dead
when he was out a year later and
teaching others he said can you please
teach me the guard had no digital skills
nor could he ever think about creating
computer in any computer science
solution so this work has to be very
aligned with what when we look at the
United Nations mission around the
sustainable development goals but this
is not a United Nations mission it’s
everybody’s mission it’s a business
imperative it is a personal imperative
for all of us to ensure that the world
is sustainable by 2030
there are dear consequences if these
goals are not achieved many of you might
know them but I want you to reflect on
which one of them are more dear to you
gender equality as you can imagine is
one which I’m very committed with as
well as quality education ensuring
quality education will have the most of
the impact in all of the other
sustainable development goals and of
course goals 16 on piece and how we
ensure that refugees 65 million refugees
and displaced people have the skills and
the opportunities to be included in this
future of work and the fourth Industrial
Revolution many people actually fear the
fourth Industrial Revolution to me
personally it gives me hope it gives me
hope that we think again about that
liberty equality and dignity and that
the fourth Industrial Revolution it’s
not just a technology revolution it is a
revolution about people about a better
place for people with less inequalities
with a better distribution of well
with a less concentration of wealth five
billionaires now have the wealth of
fifty percent of the planet and that
doesn’t make any sense to me this
concentration of wealth is unsustainable
it’s unsustainable for our future so I
hope this fourth Industrial Revolution
comes with a movement like did the
French Revolution some people are
talking like Yunus about social
businesses others are talking about
philanthropy to capitalism as
contradictory as it seems it isn’t
philanthropies is about the love for
Humanity anybody can be a philanthropist
not only just a wealthy person anybody
can be socially responsible being
socially responsible is not about oh the
company does it my school does it and if
your company doesn’t do it your school
doesn’t do it what it’s about each one
of us embracing that role understanding
we play a role in enabling a future that
is for everyone
a future that is inclusive a future in
which we think and hopefully a present
that wages have to democratized
that the disparities between what a CEO
earns and an intern earns can be such
have such a gap in which stocks have to
be redistributed and I’m just giving
some ideas I’m not saying that’s what
all of us will collectively make happen
but we have to use our collective
intelligence our collective action to
rethink how do we want this fourth
Industrial Revolution to be and I’m
inviting you to do two things to be part
of this fourth Industrial Revolution
personally first of all if you haven’t
maybe many of you do here but many of us
don’t young
or senior learn the basics of computer
science understand there is a new
alphabet farmers would say oh why do I
need to read and write when I’m just
planting a seed and harvesting and
that’s where we had literacy problems in
the past so learn the new alphabet take
an hour of code learn the basics of
computer science that will enhance
logical thinking skills problem solving
skills and above all creativity
creativity will not ever be replaced by
machine learning or artificial
intelligence in fact if we think about
artificial intelligence we think we have
to think about it the same way we’re
thinking about our social responsibility
role it has to be ethical it has to be
democratic but it has to be sustainable
and of course ensure our privacy so
that’s my first invitation for you to
learn computer science if you haven’t I
learned and I don’t come from a techy
background anybody can can learn a new
alphabet and the second thing I’d like
to invite you to do is to think about
those sustainable development goals and
pick one one that is dear to your heart
one that you can embrace and one that
you can embrace and then pay forward and
say I’ll do something that I can make an
impact by 2030 because every decision
that you make every day really counts it
does make a difference and maybe many of
you have not watched The Matrix
it’s an old movie you would say but neo
the main character had two options he
had to drink the blue pill and continue
in that living in that start of school
or he could drink the red pill and see
reality differently I’m inviting you to
drink the red pill too
challenge yourselves to think and think
together all of us how we can make the
fourth Industrial Revolution to be a
revolution for the people to be
sustainable to think about that
collective action it does make a
difference when you decide one day not
to use makeup that is tested that
through a company leaders animal testing
it’s not the same the day that you
decide not to use a straw and not to use
a plastic bag it’s not the same the day
that you decide to volunteer a few hours
in your community it’s not the same it’s
not the same when you speak up so that’s
my my challenge for you to be a force
for Humanity and to be a force for good
thank you so much [Applause]
were in school and you were children and
everybody starts asking what do you want
to be when you grow up
did anybody raise the hand and say I
want to be a philanthropist or I want to
work in social responsibility anyone
know that happens all the time in every
class that I give this is a profession
you normally stumble upon and where you
start finding there’s interest is there
ideas that you start picking along the
way and realize you play a role in the
social impact that you make and I
studied social studies and education and
I also felt a cringe like a pain you
know a stomachache when I saw injustice
when I saw hunger when I went through
environments that showed me that child’s
rights were not in place or you go
through a me-too movement myself and
that’s where you think there’s there’s
something I could do and at some point a
long decades of of the work that I’ve
been doing personally living my mission
my personal mission which is to make a
social impact I realized that at this
point in humanity as Lloyd Weber would
say in the Phantom of the Opera we are
at a point of no return a point in in
which the disparities inequalities are
unsustainable in which we feel that we
can’t understand why still at this day
and age human rights are not respected
and kids are going through situation
that nobody would fathom to go through
and that’s where I go back to why did I
study social studies and education and
maybe it was to understand at this point
the similarities that I feel there are
between the French Revolution and the
actual fourth Industrial Revolution that
we are living through crazy Jennifer’s
idea you would say yeah probably but
think about this the French Revolution
was about a movement it wasn’t a
political party it was a movement and
like Eric husband would say it was about
the old regime and a new force and this
movement was about the inequalities
between the nobles and the Commons and
Eric husband would also say and talk
about the dual revolution he would talk
about how the French Revolution created
an Enlightenment created a new social
thinkers created a new new ideas around
democracy around nationalism about
liberty and most of you might know the
French Revolution big motors where
liberty equality and dignity and then he
Eric husband explains how the industrial
revolution that came shortly after
infused those ideas with the technology
and with the economies it created so
when I’m thinking about that French
Industrial Revolution and the actual
fourth Industrial Revolution I’m
thinking how at this day and age those
ideas are meaningful still now how I
hope that this fourth Industrial
Revolution will come
with a social commitment with a social
movement that will also inspire us to
think again about that liberty that
dignity and that equality we know and
last a World Economic Forum shared some
numbers about how the 500 billion dollar
made by billionaires in 2017 could end
poverty now when we know that 3 billion
people live in poverty 767 million
people live below the poverty line with
one point ninety dollars a day so that
is a mathematical possibility right it’s
not a social political or historical
possibility but it makes us think about
changing this which is an imperative for
a planet and our world to be sustainable
changing these inequalities and I think
it’s an imperative for all when when we
talk about the fourth Industrial
Revolution I don’t want to take for
granted that all of you know exactly
what it is it’s about the fast pace and
exponential rate that industries are
changing either physically biologically
or digitally and I’ll give you a quick
example of how this compares to the past
this is a corner in New York the
Flatiron Building and this is oh this is
not it yet how it looked when the
industry was about the blacksmith the
horses food the horses care the
carriages the carpenter who did the
wheels this was a whole industry come a
few decades later they’re no horses left
in the same corner what happened with
those farmers what happened with
those blacksmiths they had to transform
themselves to become mechanics care care
for the cars and just to give you a
glimpse of how this fourth Industrial
Revolution now is also going to impact
in the transformation of the future of
work and when we look at that rapid
transformation of technology impacting
our lives we know that it is an
opportunity for those farmers to change
their professions for example but there
is also a risk of leaving billions of
people behind part of my work as in
Microsoft philanthropies is exactly to
focus in our mission about empowering
people and that mission we live through
our work to empower people to invest in
communities and to look after our planet
but focusing on the empowering people to
ensuring that nobody is left behind we
focus on something very specific that
has to do with our with our know-how
which is digital skills and digital
skills is not just about the digital
literacy that billions of people still
need to have but it’s also about
computer science so how we become not
only users of technology but creators of
technology and here in the UK it’s a
privilege right computer science is part
of the education from kinder to high
school to secondary school but that’s
not the reality in most of the world we
work around computer science policy to
ensure that countries are including
computer science as part of the
education curricula most importantly we
work to include girls many of you know
for example that the girls were the
first coders women were the first Corps
the first coders
after the Second World War men came back
all these ladies are just typing and
they got out of those career paths that
was there for women and now things
happen like the a/c is created and we
all women freeze I always joke that I
work for micro Frost because I freeze
all the time women were not part of
those engineer groups that were created
the air conditioning and it was built
according to the body mass height and
weight of men
same thing with crash dummies I always
ask this question say why do you think
women were more injured in car accidents
and we wouldn’t always play the guilty
thing all because we were tatting or
because we were distract no just don’t
blame yourself know it because the crash
dummies were created by a group of men
engineers that built the dummy according
to men’s height and weight so when you
tested the cars boom boom crash dummies
of course they were okay but when a
woman was driving she would get injured
until her women joined the team and then
the crash dummies also included our
height our weight so these little things
that seemed oh you know just examples is
what hat what happens when we’re not
inclusive of women in learning computer
science just coding you know learning
how to code I want to tell you about
wonder son wonder son is a Brazilian
teen who was dealing with drugs and he
ended up in an juvenile institution for
some years in and out in and out from a
favela in Rio and he found that learning
digital literacy and computer science in
that institution gave him his passport
out and now he’s paying it forward he’s
teaching kids all around the country how
to learn computer science and he always
talks about
have fire in your eyes for what you do
but the story about wondersin is that
the guard told him all of you kids that
are dealing drugs you should all be dead
when he was out a year later and
teaching others he said can you please
teach me the guard had no digital skills
nor could he ever think about creating
computer in any computer science
solution so this work has to be very
aligned with what when we look at the
United Nations mission around the
sustainable development goals but this
is not a United Nations mission it’s
everybody’s mission it’s a business
imperative it is a personal imperative
for all of us to ensure that the world
is sustainable by 2030
there are dear consequences if these
goals are not achieved many of you might
know them but I want you to reflect on
which one of them are more dear to you
gender equality as you can imagine is
one which I’m very committed with as
well as quality education ensuring
quality education will have the most of
the impact in all of the other
sustainable development goals and of
course goals 16 on piece and how we
ensure that refugees 65 million refugees
and displaced people have the skills and
the opportunities to be included in this
future of work and the fourth Industrial
Revolution many people actually fear the
fourth Industrial Revolution to me
personally it gives me hope it gives me
hope that we think again about that
liberty equality and dignity and that
the fourth Industrial Revolution it’s
not just a technology revolution it is a
revolution about people about a better
place for people with less inequalities
with a better distribution of well
with a less concentration of wealth five
billionaires now have the wealth of
fifty percent of the planet and that
doesn’t make any sense to me this
concentration of wealth is unsustainable
it’s unsustainable for our future so I
hope this fourth Industrial Revolution
comes with a movement like did the
French Revolution some people are
talking like Yunus about social
businesses others are talking about
philanthropy to capitalism as
contradictory as it seems it isn’t
philanthropies is about the love for
Humanity anybody can be a philanthropist
not only just a wealthy person anybody
can be socially responsible being
socially responsible is not about oh the
company does it my school does it and if
your company doesn’t do it your school
doesn’t do it what it’s about each one
of us embracing that role understanding
we play a role in enabling a future that
is for everyone
a future that is inclusive a future in
which we think and hopefully a present
that wages have to democratized
that the disparities between what a CEO
earns and an intern earns can be such
have such a gap in which stocks have to
be redistributed and I’m just giving
some ideas I’m not saying that’s what
all of us will collectively make happen
but we have to use our collective
intelligence our collective action to
rethink how do we want this fourth
Industrial Revolution to be and I’m
inviting you to do two things to be part
of this fourth Industrial Revolution
personally first of all if you haven’t
maybe many of you do here but many of us
don’t young
or senior learn the basics of computer
science understand there is a new
alphabet farmers would say oh why do I
need to read and write when I’m just
planting a seed and harvesting and
that’s where we had literacy problems in
the past so learn the new alphabet take
an hour of code learn the basics of
computer science that will enhance
logical thinking skills problem solving
skills and above all creativity
creativity will not ever be replaced by
machine learning or artificial
intelligence in fact if we think about
artificial intelligence we think we have
to think about it the same way we’re
thinking about our social responsibility
role it has to be ethical it has to be
democratic but it has to be sustainable
and of course ensure our privacy so
that’s my first invitation for you to
learn computer science if you haven’t I
learned and I don’t come from a techy
background anybody can can learn a new
alphabet and the second thing I’d like
to invite you to do is to think about
those sustainable development goals and
pick one one that is dear to your heart
one that you can embrace and one that
you can embrace and then pay forward and
say I’ll do something that I can make an
impact by 2030 because every decision
that you make every day really counts it
does make a difference and maybe many of
you have not watched The Matrix
it’s an old movie you would say but neo
the main character had two options he
had to drink the blue pill and continue
in that living in that start of school
or he could drink the red pill and see
reality differently I’m inviting you to
drink the red pill too
challenge yourselves to think and think
together all of us how we can make the
fourth Industrial Revolution to be a
revolution for the people to be
sustainable to think about that
collective action it does make a
difference when you decide one day not
to use makeup that is tested that
through a company leaders animal testing
it’s not the same the day that you
decide not to use a straw and not to use
a plastic bag it’s not the same the day
that you decide to volunteer a few hours
in your community it’s not the same it’s
not the same when you speak up so that’s
my my challenge for you to be a force
for Humanity and to be a force for good
thank you so much [Applause]
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