(REF S720) SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy - ITER and Fusion Energy

20 September 2021 - Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort, 1047, 1049 Wavamunno Rd
Kampala, Uganda
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The first 2022 Making Finance Work for Women Webinar

Speakers announced! Join industry experts for the first 2022 MFWW Webinar to honor International Women's Day. #BreakTheBias How to Engage Men in Finance to Increase Gender-Diverse Leadership Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022 Time: 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM ET Register Speakers & Panelists include Sarah Kleiner Buitoni Director of Leadership & Diversity Programs Women's World Banking Uzoma Dozie… Continue reading The first 2022 Making Finance Work for Women Webinar

PCI Community Call: Anir Chowdhury

Speaker: Anir Chowdhury -Policy Advisor, Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme, Cabinet Division/Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Division/UN Development Programme (UNDP) Bangladesh

Content: This event is for members of the PCI Community and by invitation only. To request membership, please follow this link.

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STAR-TIDES Fireside Chat Featuring Mei Lin Fung

Join the STAR-TIDES Fireside Chat on Tuesday, Mar. 15th, 2022, from 4:00-4:50 pm EDT, featuring Mei Lin Fung, Chair and Co-Founder of People-Centered Internet (PCI), a nonprofit organization that works to make sure that the Internet is a positive force for good, improving the lives and well-being of people around the world.

Digital Cooperation & Diplomacy Network Meeting

Agenda: 10:30 am Welcome – Dr. Nele Leosk, Chair Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy 10:35 am Digital Citizenship Test (DCT) – Yuhyun Park, Founder, Digital Intelligence Quotient 10:50 am National Research & Educational Networks (NRENs): Current and Future Roles (slides) – Yousef Torman, Managing Director, ASREN 11:20 am G7 Digital Public Goods for Health Update (brief) – Sarah Fischer (GIZ), Skye Gilbert (PATH) 11:35 am “Charter for Digital Public Goods”… Continue reading Digital Cooperation & Diplomacy Network Meeting

UN Forum: Diversity/Representation Matters for Climate Justice

The voices of women and girls in politics and the media have been stifled and excluded from the decision-making conversations around climate justice. This globally representative panel of climate activists will focus on the rights of women and girls to engage with and be represented in both politics and the media on the issue of climate justice. They will discuss why representation matters for successful climate justice and provide examples of initiatives across the media and politics which promote a more diverse and intersectional approach to finding solutions to the existential threat we all face.

Responsible Asset Owners Global Symposium

Join the debate, build relationships & network with key industry players in the global Responsible Asset Owners market.

It's a busy week next week with some interesting topics lined up for debate. One of the events we're most looking forward to is the Responsible Asset Owners Global Symposium, where PCI Board Tamara Singh will be participating in two conversations. For those who had the chance to work on Technology and Innovation, do join and add to the conversation between Manish, Tony Á and Tamara.

PCI Community Call: Dr. Kathy Laskey

Dr. Laskey will speak about George Mason's Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC which brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse, sustainable backgrounds to address locally led resilience and sustainability initiatives supported by effective, replicable models. Accelerating rates of technological, social, and climate change are placing unprecedented stresses on communities. These stresses demand an integrated approach to fostering resilience. As the world becomes ever more interconnected, the information technology revolution has created disruptive change, but also offers the opportunity for unprecedented good. Enhanced connectivity and digital opportunity are key elements of community resilience in today’s world. C-RASC’s community-focused approach to digital opportunity harmonizes with the People Centered Internet’s vision of an Internet that is a positive force for enhanced well-being of all people.

WSIS Forum: Transformative Change

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Exploring holistic solutions and implementation strategies for the challenges of the day, and the future

The session aims to examine holistic solutions to understand what has worked, and what has not, in stewarding the necessary paradigm shifts and practices.  What is the role of policy, and what incentives and nudges can be set?  Outcomes of the workshop will include an understanding of models that have been successful, and what limits their scale, as well as an initial framework for development of policy proposals to support the development of regenerative economies.

clean-IT Conference

March 30, 2022 The clean-IT Conference is an international platform for the exchange of ideas to make the digital world more sustainable. High-ranking policy and industry leaders engaged in a dialogue with academia and civil society to address the pressing issue of how digital technologies can support the fight against climate change and what needs… Continue reading clean-IT Conference

Conversation on Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement

https://youtu.be/DlvLdB4b_sk To better assess the extent, process, and impact of community engagement, the NAM Leadership Consortium partnered with a diverse and inclusive Organizing Committee to develop a new resource illustrating the dynamic relationship between community engagement and measurable and meaningful outcomes, called the Assessing Community Engagement Conceptual Model. The model demonstrates how meaningful community engagement… Continue reading Conversation on Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement

Oregon Tribal Broadband Summit

This event will continue to build a collaborative community of practice as we bring together Tribal leaders and technology staff, relevant federal & state government agency representatives and policy makers, broadband infrastructure experts, and others working in areas related to Tribal broadband in Oregon and surrounding regions.

Internet Poverty Index Launch Event

Be part of the discussion on the methodological breakthrough and extension of the current definition of global poverty by examining innovative thresholds to assess the internet poverty concept. Sign up for our exclusive webinar if you haven't registered yet for free.