Digital Cooperation & Diplomacy Network 2021

10:30 am Welcome – Vint Cerf
10:35 am Generation Connect & Youth Summit (slides)- ITU Sylvia Poll Ahrens, Dunola Oladapo
10:45 am Digital Capacity Building (slides) – Robert Opp
10:55 am Financing Micro,Small, Medium Enterprises and COP26 (slides) – Tamara Singh
11:10 am Human Geography Update (slides) – Eric Rasmussen
11:25 am India Stack, Account Aggregator (slides) – Arvind Gupta, iSPIRIT
11:40 am Singapore GovTech Covid Response – Chan Chi Ling
12:05 pm Remarks on Accessibility – Vint Cerf
12:15 pm Newcomers and Introductions
12:25 pm Closing Remarks – Vint Cerf
12:30 pm Close

10:30 am Welcome – Mei Lin Fung
10:35 am Road to ADDIS – Anne-Rachel Inne, ITU African Director
10:45 am Integrated Approach – Oswald Kuyler, International Chamber of Commerce Digital Standards initiative, Managing Director
11:05 am Project Jake – Steve Crocker
11:25 am An Integrated Approach for School Connectivity – Josef Noll
11:45 am Digital Planet – Bhaskar Chakravorti and Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi
12:15 pm Newcomers and Introductions
12:30 pm Close

10:30 am Welcome – Mei Lin Fung
10:35 am Road to ADDIS – Anne-Rachel Inne, ITU African Director
Partner2Connect website – where you can find the Expression of Interest: https://itu.int/itu-d/sites/partner2connect/
10:45 am Integrated Approach – Oswald Kuyler, International Chamber of Commerce Digital Standards initiative, Managing Director
11:05 am Project Jake – Steve Crocker
11:25 am An Integrated Approach for School Connectivity – Josef Noll
11:45 am Digital Planet – Bhaskar Chakravorti and Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi
https://sites.tufts.edu/digitalplanet/us-digital-divide/
https://sites.tufts.edu/digitalplanet/digitalintelligence/
12:15 pm Newcomers and Introductions
12:30 pm Close

10:30 am Welcome – Vint Cerf
10:35 am Digital Capacity Building (slides) – Robert Opp, UNDP, and Marco Obiso
11:00 am “What Digital Public Goods need to thrive” (slides) – Heath Arensen
11:15 am CyberTech Accord (slides) – Rachel Azafrani and John Hering
11:30 am Digital Planet and Measurement (slides) – Bhaskar Chakravorti and Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi
12:00pm AERAP Europe Africa Science Digital and UN76 Programme – Declan Kirrane
12:10pm Global Connectivity (GIGA) (slides) – Chris Fabian UNICEF, Alex Wong, ITU
12:20 pm Newcomers self-introduction
12:25 pm Closing Remarks – Vint Cerf
12:30 pm Close

10:30 am Welcome – Vint Cerf
10:35 am Digital Cooperation and Digital Capacity Building – Robert Opp, UNDP
10:45 am ITU WDTC regional consultations update – Doreen Bogdan, ITU
10:55 am Regional Collaboration on Climate and Disaster Insurance (slides) – Benedikt Signer, World Bank Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program
11:20 am Digital Building Block working groups Update – David Roos, GIZ, Germany
11:30 am IEEE Standards Association – Open Source Platform – Alpesh Shah and Adam Newman
11:45 am Rethinking the mSME Financing Ecosystem (slides) – Barbara Meynert, UNESCAP Sustainable Business Network
12:00 pm AERAP Europe Africa Science Digital and UN76 Programme – Declan Kirrane
12:10 pm Newcomers self-introduction and discussion
12:25 pm Closing Remarks – Vint Cerf
12:30 pm Close

10:30 am Welcome – Vint Cerf
10:35 am Digital Cooperation and UNDP – Robert Opp, UNDP
10:45 am Calendar – Please send me opportunities for collaboration – Mei Lin
10:50 am Working together to accelerate inclusive national digital transformations – Kate Wilson – Digital Impact Alliance (slides)
11:20 am Digital ASEAN in historical cultural context (slides) – Leng Lim
11:35 am Metrics and baselines for Meaningful Connectivity (slides) – Thierry Geiger & Alex Wong, ITU (followed by exchange with participants)
12:00 pm Digital Building Blocks – the Estonian perspective Marten Kaevats – Estonia National Digital Advisor
12:10 pm Newcomers self-introduction and if time permits, discussion
12:25 pm Closing Remarks – Vint Cerf
12:30 pm Close

10:30 am Welcome – Vint Cerf and Mei Lin
10:35 am Data Driven Digital Transformation – Ray Wang, Constellation Research
10:45 am Newcomers self-introduction
10:55 am Global Public Utility for SME Financing – Nitin Badjatia PCI-Digital Finance
11:05 am Citizen Journalism & Transterra Media – Maria Dayton
11:15 am Digital Building Blocks enable Local Digital Capacity- Mei Lin Fung, PCI (8 minutes)
Invited Remarks (5 minutes each):
Christian Gmelin – Germany, Head of Collaborative Innovation, GIZ
Marten Kaevats – Estonia National Digital Advisor
MJ Kochendorfer – Director of Policy at DIAL – Digital Impact Alliance
Michael Sung – Fudan University, Center for FinTech Research, Chair CarbonBlue
11:45 am Metrics and baselines for Meaningful Connectivity – Doreen Bogdan & Alex Wong, ITU (followed by exchange with participants)
12:00 pm Planet Home – Antony Randall, Planet Home
12:10 pm Digital Transformation Building Blocks: A Perspective – Robert Opp, UNDP (followed by exchange with participants)
12:25 pm Closing Remarks – Vint Cerf
12:30 pm Close

10.30 am Welcome – Vint Cerf; Purpose of meeting – Mei Lin Fung
10.35 am Data Capital & Global Economy (slides) – Nitin Badjatia, Customer Commons with Doc Searls
10:45 am UNSG Digital Capacity Building Update Robert Opp, Chief Digital Officer, UNDP
10.50 am Perspective on the UN SDG Digital Building Blocks – David Roos, GIZ, Germany
11:00 am Unpacking the FinTech Stack – Discussion (slides) – Prof. Michael Sung, Carbon.Blue
11:10 am UNSG Digital Cooperation – Global Connectivity and the Digital Transformation Centers, Doreen Bogdan, Director ITU-D, Mike Nxele, DTC’s – ITU
11:20 am Update on Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy informal network (slides) – Mei Lin Fung
11:30 am Introductions –Name, location, affiliation – brief remarks by newcomers
11:50 am Alliance for an Affordable Internet Update – Sonia Jorge, Web Foundation
11:55 am About Community Networks – Jane Coffin, the Internet Society
12:00 pm Moderated Discussion and Final Remarks – Vint Cerf
12:30 pm Adjourn

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