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SUMMARY:Community Organized Event: Invitation to UN World Data Forum webinar
DESCRIPTION:[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEk-yf68C4[/embedyt] \n  \nDear Colleagues\, \nThe United Nations World Data Forum (UNWDF) team is pleased to invite you to the upcoming webinar on “Reflections from the 2021 UN World Data Forum: the evolving data ecosystem and the role of National Statistical Offices” \n \nFor more details and to register\, click here. \nFor a quick snapshot from the UN World Data Forum 2021\, including the participant demographics and list of organizations involved\, click here.  \n Read the policy brief on how the recent Forum is “Bringing the data community and policymakers together to ensure a world with data we trust” here. \n  \n  \nThe webinars are open to all. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. \nWe hope you’ll join us. \nKind regards\, \nUnited Nations Statistics Division (UN World Data Forum Secretariat)\nhttp://undataforum.org/ | http://unstats.un.org/\nTwitter: @UNDataForum
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/community-organized-event-invitation-to-un-world-data-forum-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Community Organized Event
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SUMMARY:Brainstorming and Knowledge Café ICTs for Gender Mainstreaming
DESCRIPTION:Every voice counts  \nWould you like to contribute towards building the agenda and programme of the #WSIS Forum 2022 Gender Mainstreaming Track?  \nRegister –https://bit.ly/3DGJxs0- and join us for a Brainstorming and Knowledge Café \n Friday\, 26 November 2021 – 2:00-3:00 PM CET \n 
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/brainstorming-and-knowledge-cafe-icts-for-gender-mainstreaming/
CATEGORIES:Gender
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SUMMARY:Digital Cooperation & Diplomacy Network Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Agenda: \n\n10:30 am Welcome – Vint Cerf\n10:35 am Generation Connect & Youth Summit (slides)- ITU Sylvia Poll Ahrens\, Dunola Oladapo\n10:45 am Digital Capacity Building (slides) – Robert Opp\n10:55 am Financing Micro\,Small\, Medium Enterprises and COP26 (slides) – Tamara Singh\n11:10 am Human Geography Update (slides) – Eric Rasmussen\n11:25 am India Stack\, Account Aggregator (slides) – Arvind Gupta\, iSPIRIT\n11:40 am Singapore GovTech Covid Response – Chan Chi Ling\n12:05 pm Remarks on Accessibility – Vint Cerf\n12:15 pm Newcomers and Introductions\n12:25 pm Closing Remarks – Vint Cerf\n12:30 pm Close
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/digital-cooperation-diplomacy-network-meeting-20/
CATEGORIES:Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy
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SUMMARY:PCI’s Global Help Desk and the Vaccination Equity Consortium By Todd Hoskins\, Senior Fellow for the Global Help Desk
DESCRIPTION:Last month\, Microsoft publicly announced its commitment to the Vaccination Equity Initiative. In the last four weeks a new consortium has formed – the Vaccination Equity Consortium (VEC) – with Microsoft\, Amazon\, Dell\, Moderna\, GSK\, Pfizer\, Quest Diagnostics\, Easterseals\, United Way\, Kaiser Permanente\, the CDC Foundation\, the California Medical Health Reserve Corps\, and many more. PCI’s Global Help Desk is proud to be playing a key role in this group. \nOver the last decade\, there have been voices calling for more ambitious forms of public/private partnerships to address key global issues. Don Tapscott created momentum with the idea of Global Solutions Networks\, and Steve Waddell wrote a book on Global Action Networks. The idea is that we need broad networked collaborations that attend to complex needs that are both interconnected and contextual. Solutions need to be adaptable\, localized\, and coordinated\, with resources and strategies as diverse as the unique needs being addressed in each region. Governments\, community organizations\, corporations\, NGO’s\, and volunteers must learn to share knowledge and coordinate efforts. \nIn this case\, the universal need is greater than “shots in arms”–it’s equipping healthcare systems to move beyond a COVID-survival state by giving more people appropriate\, local access to vaccines. Imagine the wide variety of approaches across the globe to health records\, data sharing\, volunteer management\, connectivity\, communication\, and coordinating at the grassroots level. This is the challenge\, one that is technical\, complex\, and relational. \nWhat is the Global Help Desk’s role? “Not About Us Without Us” guides our journey to vaccine equity. GHD is both driving and evolving the scaffolding and framework for inclusive sustainable digital cooperation\, coordinating parties and actions to ensure ongoing trust\, recognizing that the future we want will be fueled by friendship–networks of affection.  We at PCI are working hard so that the evolving GHD makes sure the present is balanced with the future\, prioritizing the voices of the too often overlooked and underserved so their needs are known and addressed. \nBuilding on concepts that emerged at the very beginning of the Internet by Douglas Engelbart and evolved in the work of (US) Federal Health Futures: We are setting up interaction and engagement for local communities developing their network competencies so local community hubs operate as independent parts of the global network for Vaccine Equity. GHD is shepherding digital tools and services to recognize local community needs\,  knowledge\, people and assets\, and connect them to global expertise and resources. The work already underway at PCI’s Tribal Resource Center will be the first node of the Global Help Desk network with many more to come. \nThe world is moving: The G20 2021 High-Level Panel has called for a Global Pandemic Deal.  The VEC is emerging as the private-sector body that the Global Deal needs. We know that the success of this network is important in moving toward a post-COVID world\, but also important in bringing equity to center stage in the global digital transformation. \nPCI’s Global Help Desk helps build local capacity for digital transformation by playing the role of coordinator between networks\, governments\, organizations\, and volunteers. As a people-powered initiative of the People-Centered Internet\, GHD is committed to principles of JEDHI (justice\, equity\, diversity\, healing\, and inclusion)\, and supporting the sustainability of networked improvement communities across borders and boundaries. \nTo join our call on November 21st and to learn more about the Global Help Desk and the Vaccination Equity Consortium\, please reply to this email.
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/pcis-global-help-desk-and-the-vaccination-equity-consortium-by-todd-hoskins-senior-fellow-for-the-global-help-desk/
CATEGORIES:Global Help Desk
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SUMMARY:Annual Summit on Technology & Policy for The Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls
DESCRIPTION:  \nRegister and Join via Zoom: \nhttps://tinyurl.com/EndVAWG21
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/annual-summit-on-technology-policy-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women-and-girls/
CATEGORIES:Gender
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SUMMARY:Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy Meeting Agenda
DESCRIPTION:By invitation only. \nTo request an invitation you have to be a member of the PCI Community click here.
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/digital-cooperation-and-diplomacy-meeting-agenda/
CATEGORIES:Digital Finance
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SUMMARY:Community Organized Event this Friday: “Logging off Facebook. What comes next?”
DESCRIPTION:This Friday\, Micah Sifry and Kaliya Young (“Identity Woman”) are organizing a half-day\, online event to discuss: \n“Logging off Facebook. What comes next?”\n\nRegistration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/logging-off-facebook-what-comes-next-tickets-201128228947\n\nDescription:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA half-day unconference for technologists who are making alternatives to Facebook; policy makers with ideas about how to fix\, regulate and/or break-up Facebook; and organizers looking for answers that address Facebook’s central and toxic role in civic life. \nNovember 12\, noon-5pm Eastern\, 9am – 2pm Pacific\, Online in QiQoChat \nHosted by Kaliya Young and Micah L. Sifry and organized by Planetwork \nOur goal is to create space to talk about what comes next after #TheFacebookLogout. \nThe agenda will be co-created by all attendees in the first hour of the event.Format: Open Space TechnologyOpen Space Technology is a facilitated method for co-creating an agenda in real time at the beginning of a conference. All participants are welcome to call a session in the opening circle. Sessions can be discussions about critical questions\, presentations\, requests for feedback on a paper or proposal\, demo’s of tools or other creative forms.There are no keynotes or panels\, so it’s about connecting with others\, and sharing information about ideas\, projects and collaboration.Each room in the virtual venue will have a space to take notes and track outcomes from the event. Each person who attends will get a copy of all the notes from the sessions which can support organizing and coordination around next steps.The Hosts:Kaliya Young also known as the Identity Woman for her work on user-centric digital identity\, a keystone tool needed for migration off of Facebook. Since 2005 she has convened the Internet Identity Workshop that uses Open Space Technology. She also founded Unconference.net to work with organizations and communities helping them design and facilitate interactive events.Micah L. Sifry is a writer and organizer who focuses on the intersection of politics\, tech and civic life. He was the co-founder of Civic Hall and the longtime curator of Personal Democracy Forum\, and currently publishes a weekly newsletter called The Connector while he finishes work on his first novel.Co-Convening Participants: \n\nAnkit Bhatia\, Sapien\nJohn Bonifaz\, Free Speech for People\nDivya Siddarth\, RadicalXChange Foundation\nCharlotte Slaiman\, Public Knowledge\nJames Slezak\, Swayable\nAstra Taylor\, WhatIsDemocracy\nDanielle Tomson\, Columbia School of Journalism\nBecky Chao\, Anti-Monopoly Fund\, Economic Security Project\nEvan Greer\, Fight for the Future\nJustin Hendrix\, Editor\, TechPolicy Press\nJohannes Ernst\, IndieComputing\nJim Fournier\, Tru.net\nEli Pariser\, New_ Public\nClaire Potter\, Public Seminar\nDouglas Rushkoff\, author\nAdam Lake\, Mosaic Social\nBob Wyman\, independent\nElana Levin and Charles Lenchner\, Organizing 2.0\nDavid Segal\, Demand Progress\nEvan Henshaw-Plath\, Planetary.social\nNora Benavidez and Tim Karr\, Free Press\nDenise Duncan\, Unfinishted Labs\nAra Nalbandian\, Unfinished Labs\nJames Vasile\, DSNP.org\nGolda Velez. whatscookin\nDaniel Buchner\, Identity Hubs Editor\n\n*Individual affiliations do not imply group endorsements.Join Us!Here are some potential topics from already registered attendees: \n\nAnnotation as a new paradigm for social media\nThe Tabloidization of Facebook\nMaybe something about how marketing to niches can benefit indie efforts?\nThe power of asynchronicity\nDigital Acquisition: Without FB\, how can nonprofits reach more people at scale?\nMy company is building a platform Democratic campaigns and progressive nonprofits will be able to use to grow their opt-in email and SMS communities. It is intended in part to be an alternative to Facebook for one narrow purpose: Reaching and mobilizing potential supporters and donors. Obviously don’t want to do anything that feels like a pitch for the company\, but would be happy to preview what we’re working on and brainstorm other alternatives to FB for progressive organizers and Democratic practitioners\, if appropriate.\nSo many! How to get our users (and data) back? Specifically\, if Facebook is now largely pay to play\, what are the implications – how do we take back our audiences\, incentivize them to come to our platforms?\nWould like to dig in on transparency as a mechanism for accountability and supporting researchers like Laura Edelson.\nSession on addressing the core issue facing us today: loneliness and lack of community.\nI’d be interested in participating in a session talking about alternatives to Slack\, and/or scaling up Slack networks.\nCould Congress be remade as a Trust Engine?\nI’d like to showcase our decentralized social network and community moderation protocol\nEconomic Models for Functional Separation (how to fund moderation VS how to fund hosting)\nDecentralized social networks\nIs FB compatible with a Just Economy?\nWhat are the requirements for a Human-centered social media paradigm?\nHow can we create communication solutions that bring out the best in people online?\nWhat antitrust can and can’t do to stop Facebook\nHow to create FB replacements that are prosocial\, decentralized\, and that allow collective action for Good (not hijacked by bad actors). And how to achieve tipping point to the new models.\nWhat is the fastest way to replace Facebook Groups with usable\, non-manipulative\, ad-free forums (ideally self-hosted/peer-to-peer)\, including handling spam\, and get people all over the world feel happy to migrate rapidly?\nhuman-friendly alternatives\nAvoiding perceptions of political bias in tech\nalternative to facebook\nBest platforms for informing/organizing…what if wikis and hyperlocal daily news and a powerful CRM had a baby?\nWho is pushing decentralized social media and why; how to keep decentralized social media from devolving into genocide\nVerifiable identity through decentralized means\nIssues of Free Speech with accountability; why we are suing Twitter; the progressive potential of behavioral targeting with accountability and restraints.\nFacebook as alternative political media\nWhat governance and social incentives are needed to help move toward more responsible digital ecosystem?\nDecentralized Governance\nDecentralized identity\nHappy to talk about Hylo and the interoperability efforts of the Collaborative Technology Alliance\nmicroevents\, non-technical participants\, community building\nMicro-influencer campaigns as a replacement for FB Ads: is this something? (anotheracronym.org/influencer-toolkit)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare with friends \n\nDate and time\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri\, November 12\, 20219:00 AM – 2:00 PM PSTAdd to calendar
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CATEGORIES:Community Organized Event,PCI Community Call
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SUMMARY:Connecting Your Inner Engineer to Your Inner Leader By IEEE Women in Engineering
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: If you see an “Email me a magic link” button during the registration process\, please click on it and follow the instructions. \nAbstract \nAs up-and-coming engineers\, we develop perspectives and ways of working that are essential to being good students and thorough researchers. Some of the approaches that help your inner engineer excel and continue to be valuable in all aspects of life. But others can hold your burgeoning inner leader back — causing you to feel at war with yourself. In this webinar\, Jelena Kovačević\, William R. Berkley Professor\, and Dean of NYU Tandon will discuss the lessons she has learned on the path to becoming a successful researcher and leader\, and the times that breaking with those engineering conventions have helped her inner engineer and inner leader become more at peace and\, in turn\, advanced her career. \nBIO \nJelena Kovačević became the Dean of NYU Tandon in August 2018. She is the first woman to head the school since its founding in 1854 as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. Under her leadership\, the school has enrolled a record percentage of women — 46% of the class of 2023 — and achieved multiple awards from ASEE and the NCWIT to increase diversity and inclusion while continuing a historic jump of 44 spots to #36 in the U.S. News & World Report Rankings since 2009. She received her Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Belgrade\, Yugoslavia\, in 1986\, and her MS and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University\, New York\, NY\, in 1988 and 1991\, respectively. Before joining NYU\, she was the Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Jelena has also worked in the private sector at Bell Labs and was the co-founder and Technical VP of the company xWaveforms. \nRegister here https://bit.ly/3aAqmU5!
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/connecting-your-inner-engineer-to-your-inner-leader-by-ieee-women-in-engineering/
CATEGORIES:Gender
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SUMMARY:PCI Community Call - Technology for Humanity with Sarah McCue
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce that Sarah McCue will join us on Sunday\, November 7th at 8:30 AM PT ( 11:30 AM ET) \nTopic: Technology for Humanity: Will Connectivity Progress Humanity? \nThe United Nations estimates that 3.6 billion people\, almost half of the world’s population\, currently lack access to the Internet.  However\, in less than a decade\, the UN is predicting that most every person will have safe and affordable access to the Internet. \nThis universal connectivity is expected by 2030\, and it is breathtaking to ponder what the world will be like when most are interconnected.  Will greater peace\, prosperity\, education\, cultural understanding\, transparency\, and overall happiness increase\, or\, instead\, will universal access to the Internet result in more war and violence\, less prosperity\, no greater access to education\, the same levels of corruption\, and a world population that is more anxious\, isolated and depressed? \nTo predict the future\, we must know our past.  We must understand how connectivity has profoundly changed our way of life since the Internet took hold in the mid-1980s\, including impact on mental and physical health\, loss of human connection\, transformation of physical communities\, loss of privacy\, and attacks on truth. \n  \n\nLoss of Human Connection\nTransformation of Physical Communities\nLoss of Privacy\nAttacks on Truth\nIs There Hope That Connectivity Will Progress Humanity?\n\n  \nSee the attached document “Technology For Humanity” for more on the outline above. \nAbout Sarah McCue \nA well-known advocate for the innovative use of information and communication technologies in developing countries\, Dr. Sarah McCue is the author of several technical books and social entrepreneur. \nShe is founder of BluWorld\, launched in collaboration with Google and Cisco Foundation to provide opportunities to youth in developing countries; co-founder of The Remembering Site\, a memoir-writing platform to write and preserve the stories of our elders; and is founder of Women with 2020 Vision to empower women through online mentoring\, initially funded by the Elon Musk Foundation. She has served the United Nations as manager of the United Nations Development Program Information and Communications Technology for Development practice; Panel of Advisers to the United Nations Global Alliance for Technology and Development; World Bank senior partnership adviser for the technology industry; senior adviser to the United Nations International Trade Centre as well as consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development\, United Nations Industrial Development Organization\, and World Bank. She served as President of WorldQuant University\, a worldwide accredited master’s degree program in quantitative analytics\, and donates her time to serve on the Board of Directors of several emerging firms and organizations to bring innovative and transformative technology and online education opportunities to underserved regions\, and is currently chairperson of A Nobel Campaign to encourage awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the founders of the Internet. An innovator and change agent at heart\, she is a team member recipient of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s 2014 Robert H. Goddard Honor Award for Quality and Process Improvement and the 2015 NASA Group Achievement Award. \n  \n 
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/pci-community-call-technology-for-humanity-with-sarah-mccue/
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CATEGORIES:PCI Community Call
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SUMMARY:Cultivating Resilience in Museums and Cultural Heritage Sites
DESCRIPTION:The Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC)’s annual meeting is set to take place between November 3rd & 5th. Curators\, educators\, scholars\, and researchers will gather virtually to discuss themes related to historical sites\, indigenous peoples\, and social justice. The individuals will also reflect on cultivating resiliency and what it means during a global health crisis. \n“Resilience begins with us\, and it can spread with enthusiasm\,” says Verónica Forte\, Vice President of the Society of Friends of the West Indian Museum of Panama (SAMAAP). \nRegister to join the conference here https://caribbeanmuseums.com/maccon2021/
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/cultivating-resilience-in-museums-and-cultural-heritage-sites/
CATEGORIES:Building Resilient Communities
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SUMMARY:PCI Community Call - The Next Rules of Work with Gary Bolles
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce that Gary Bolles will join us on Sunday\, October 24th to discuss the ideas in his new book “The Next Rules of Work:: The Mindset\, Skillset\, and Toolset to lead your organization through uncertainty.” \nThe Next Rules of Work \nThe PCI community knows what the i4j Community knows: The world of work has gone through “the great reset\,” and will never be the same again. In his brand-new book “The Next Rules of Work: The Mindset\, Skillset\, and Toolset to lead your organization through uncertainty\,” longtime PCI and i4j member Gary A. Bolles provides a range of insights into the brave new world of work and offers a variety of strategies for ensuring a more people-centered future of work and learning. He’ll begin this session with several “firestarter” ideas about the next rules of work and then dive into a discussion with PCI members. \nAbout Gary A. Bolles \nGary A. Bolles is the author of the brand-new book “The Next Rules of Work: The mindset\, skillset\, and toolset to lead your organization through uncertainty.” A global expert on the future of work\, learning\, and the organization\, he is the adjunct Chair for the Future of Work with the global virtual learning community Singularity University and has nine courses on LinkedIn Learning with a total of over 900\,000 learners. He lectures to and consults with businesses\, non-profits\, government agencies\, and community groups around the world to help them understand effective strategies for dealing with tectonic shifts in work and learning. As co-founder of eParachute.com\, he helps job-hunters & career changers with programs inspired by “What Color Is Your Parachute?”\, the world’s enduring career manual. Gary is dedicated to helping individuals\, organizations\, communities\, and countries to collaborate on effective strategies to ensure that everyone can have access to meaningful\, well-paid work and lifelong learning opportunities. You can learn more and subscribe to his newsletter at gbolles.com.*** \nHost User is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: PCI Community Call \nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nDaily: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZIodOiprTIjH9CAPUX-ym93p9KVw3PkY0Iv/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGuqzgrG9ecuRyDRpwAGYjCd-vztlhEgvp-vS_QO21Kb1qlJrtpBKUsINPp \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86531139954?pwd=MFpWNDExeldma3NCczV2cGlWTkpGUT09 \nMeeting ID: 865 3113 9954\nPasscode: 506229
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/pci-community-call-the-next-rules-of-work-with-gary-bolles/
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SUMMARY:The Decade of Digital Inclusion - Marconi Society
DESCRIPTION:The Decade of Digital Inclusion brings communities together in the service of a digitally inclusive future. This timely conversation can only be hosted by the Marconi Society\, a nonprofit that bridges the communities of advanced technology and digital inclusion. \nThe event itself will explore how leaders in policy\, technology\, and digital inclusion advocacy can collaborate to identify the most critical problems and develop innovative\, practical solutions. \nWho should attend? \nTechnologists from academic and corporate environments \nDigital inclusion stakeholders\, including practitioners and advocates \nPolicymakers from all levels of government and GovTech \nPhilanthropists in the digital inclusion and technology for good spaces \nFor the October 22nd speakers\, schedule and tickets\, visit https://www.marconisociety.org/events/the-decade-of-digital-inclusion/
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/the-decade-of-digital-inclusion-marconi-society/
CATEGORIES:Digital Inclusion
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SUMMARY:Global SME Finance Forum 2021
DESCRIPTION:Welcome & Keynote: Facilitating Green and Inclusive Solutions through Technology \nWelcome \nMC – Georja Calvin-Smith\, Writer\, TV Journalist\nOpening Keynote: Facilitating Green and Inclusive Solutions through Technology \nSpeaker: \nVint Cerf\, Vice President\, and Chief Internet Evangelist\, Google \nTamara Singh\, Board Member\, People-Centered Internet \nJustin Rice\, Vice President of Ecosystem\, Stellar Development Foundation \nPlease register here  (http://www.globalsmefinanceforum.org/2021/).
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/global-sme-finance-forum-2021/
CATEGORIES:Digital Finance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T040000
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SUMMARY:2021 Global Talent Competitiveness Index
DESCRIPTION:Talent competitiveness in times of COVID \nJoin the virtual launch of The Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) 2021 on October 19th at 1 pm CET. \nThe GTCI is the leading annual benchmark on talent competitiveness\, ranking 134 countries on how they grow\, attract and retain talent. This year’s report has been compiled by Prof. Felipe Monteiro and Dr. Bruno Lanvin\, INSEAD Distinguished Fellow\, in partnership with Accenture. \nBruno and Felipe will be joined by Gianmario Pisanu\, Managing Director Strategy & Consulting\, Accenture Capability Network Lead – Growth Markets at the launch where they will explain the findings and take part in a panel discussion. \nFind out how different countries stack up\, what the leaders do to foster talent competitive nations\, and what the laggards need to do to catch up. Another regular feature of the report is a ranking of 155 cities along the various dimensions of the Global City Talent Competitiveness Index (GCTCI)\, including quality of life and international connectivity. \nRegister here: https://insead.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OuDsEv6QTimeAnsrSJa8Bg
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/2021-global-talent-competitiveness-index/
CATEGORIES:Building Resilient Communities
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SUMMARY:Digital Cooperation & Diplomacy Network Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Agenda: \n\n10:30 am Welcome – Mei Lin Fung\n10:35 am Road to ADDIS – Anne-Rachel Inne\, ITU African Director\n10:45 am Integrated Approach – Oswald Kuyler\, International Chamber of Commerce Digital Standards initiative\, Managing Director\n11:05 am Project Jake – Steve Crocker\n11:25 am An Integrated Approach for School Connectivity – Josef Noll\n11:45 am Digital Planet – Bhaskar Chakravorti and Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi\n12:15 pm Newcomers and Introductions\n12:30 pm Close
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/digital-cooperation-diplomacy-network-meeting-21/
CATEGORIES:Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy
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SUMMARY:(REF DF28)Roundtable discussion on how Development Finance can support the SDGs\, with particular focus on Hi-Tech Skills including leveraging funding instruments at a global level.
DESCRIPTION:15h00 Declan Kirrane\, Welcome Remarks\nDr. Rita Lawlor Biobank Director\, ARC-Net and University of Verona\, Moderator\n15h05 Ms. Eva Kaili MEP\, European Parliament\, Keynote Remarks\n15h15 Prof Ian Jones\, Innopharma Education\n15h25 Prof Kurt Zatloukal Medical University Graz\n15h35 Discussants:\n          Mr. Barry Palte CEO\, EQ Capital Partners\n          Dr. Fuad Mrad Director\, United Nations Economic and Social Commission\n          Dr. Alex Cahana Partner\, BTBlock\, Advisor\, IMF Advisor\n          Ms. Nicole Patrice Tesla Skills Fund for Africa\n          Ms. Selam Ayele Kebede Antler\n          Mr. Oliver Blantern Impact Rooms \n          Prof Mammo Muchie Chair Rated Research Professor in Innovation Studies\, the Tshwane University               of Technology\n          Dr. Samuel Adunreke Innovea Hubs Board Chair\, Innovea Development Foundation\n16h05 Minerva Novero Policy Specialist\, Digital Transformation\, Skills\, Governance\, Smart Cities United Nations Development Programme (invited)\n16h20 Recommendations\n16h30 ConclusionThis Session will explore the link between development financing and a global approach for a skills agenda\, using the European union approach as a basis.\nThe commitment to addressing the Covid pandemic by development banks and many multilateral fora is extensive. It can be informed by a more comprehensive engagement with the science and medical research community. Digital tools for steering financing and directing funding to better effect and accelerating results towards achieving the UN SDG’s can significantly enhance policy development and operational oversight. Skills are and will be central to achieving this global agenda.\nThe Session will examine how:\nLinking development finance to science and research can improve both;\nTo maintain policies\, legal frameworks\, regulations\, and programmes which promote multi-disciplinary cross-sector research collaboration for achieving the UN SDG’s – among scientists\, research institutions\, and innovative businesses;\nSupport global coordination and delivering a global skills agenda\nDevelopment finance using digital finance tracking innovations can improve science programmes funded by nations\, science funding bodies\, and others;\nImproving development finance funding mechanisms are defined for international comparison and learning can increase synergy and generate re-usable scientific knowledge from the global initiatives for science;\nDevelopment finance can support capacity building for scientific research addressing COVID 19 and other diseases in areas including clinical trials\, biobanking\, other medical sciences\, agri-food\, and environment\, amongst others;\nSupporting blockchain\, AI\, and federated learning can enable data analytics and evidence-based response to pandemics and pandemic preparedness and the required skills;\nInput on science and innovation for policymakers at regional\, national and multistakeholder levels can increase global scientific impact in achieving the UN SDGs;\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nSelam Ayele Kebede\nDirector\, Antler\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOliver Blantern\nFounder & CEO\, Impact Rooms\nOliver is an entrepreneur\, Venture Partner\, and startup Advisor\, dedicated to unlocking Africa’s potential. Based in London\, Oliver is the Founder and CEO of Impact Rooms\, a global investment enablement platform for Africa’s tech and impact ecosystem. Prior to this\, Oliver has… Read More →\n\n\n \nRita Lawlor\nBiobank Director\, ARC-Net\nRita Lawlor is a Computer Science graduate of Trinity College Dublin with a doctorate in Oncological Pathology from the University of Verona where she is co-founder of the ARC-Net (www.arc-net.it) applied cancer research centre where is director of the ARC-Net biobank and coordinates… Read More →\n\n\n\n\n \nMammo Muchie\nChair Rated Research Professor in Innovation Studies\, Tshwane University of Technology\nDST-NRF SARChI Chair Rated Research Professor in Innovation Studies\, Tshwane University of TechnologyProfessor Mammo Muchie did his undergraduate degree in Columbia University\, New York\, USA\, and his postgraduate MPhil and DPhil in Science\, Technology\, and Innovation for Development… Read More →\n\n\n \nMinerva Novero\nPolicy Specialist\, Digital Transformation\, Governance\, Smart Cities\, United Nations Development Programme\nMinerva Novero-Belec is a Policy Specialist in the Governance and Peacebuilding (GP) Cluster of UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) in New York. She serves as UNDP’s co-focal point for urbanization\, with a focus on “smart cities” and smart approaches to sustainable… Read More →\n\n\n \nIan Jones\nCEO and President\, Innopharma\nFounder and CEO of Innopharma Group\, IrelandProfessor Ian Jones is the CEO and President of Innopharma Group – an Education and Technology Institute. He has worked for the past 25 years within the pharmaceutical\, and food manufacturing sectors where he has become a global leader… Read More →\n\n\n \nEva Kaili\nMEP\, European Parliament\nEva Kaili is a Member of the European Parliament and a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. She is the Chair of the STOA Panel\, as well as Chair of the Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly\, a member of the Committee… Read More →\n\n\n \nKurt Zatloukal\nDirector of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular BioMedicine\, Director BBMRI.at\, Medical University Graz\nKurt Zatloukal\, M.D.  is professor of pathology at the Medical University of Graz\, Austria\, and is head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine. His research focusses on molecular pathology of diseases as well as biobanking and related technologies. He coordinated… Read More →\n\n\n \nDeclan Kirrane\nChair SSUNGA76\, ISC\nDeclan Kirrane is the founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science in Brussels. He has more than 25 years of experience disseminating scientific and research activities in Europe and worldwide from organizations and governments. He has been involved in the dissemination… Read More →\n\n\n \nAlex Cahana\nPartner\, BTBlock\nWith 27 years clinical practice\, 17 years in digital health and 7 years in distributed ledger technology\, I am currently a UN/CEFACT expert for blockchain and health\, advisor to AfyfaRekod and board member for AdaLabs and the AI Center of Excellence in Africa.As an industry leader… Read More →\n\n\n \nBarry Palte\nCEO\, EQ Capital Partners\nBarry Palte is a global investment expert with a primary focus on sustainable investing and achieving positive social and private investment outcomes through his private investment platform. Barry served as Global Chairman of the International Association of Investment Bankers… Read More →\n\n\n \nFuad Mrad\nSenior Programme Manager\, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia\nFouad Mrad has been with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA) in Beirut since January 2010. He was the founding Executive Director of ESCWA regional Technology Centre (ETC) in Jordan (2011 -2017).  He is leading efforts to pilot AI and Big… Read More →
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-df28roundtable-discussion-on-how-development-finance-can-support-the-sdgs-with-particular-focus-on-hi-tech-skills-including-leveraging-funding-instruments-at-a-global-level/
CATEGORIES:Digital Finance
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SUMMARY:(REF PC30) People Centered Internet and the SDGs
DESCRIPTION:Increasingly the realization is dawning that digital technology is not serving us well\, when designed without regard to impact on people and planet. The concept of a People Centered Digital Future can come to the front and center of our collective effort to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Families\, neighbourhoods\, our homes and our communities are central to our dignity and well being as human beings throughout our lives\, from cradle to grave. The UN Digital Cooperation Roadmap calls for us to Connect\, Protect and Respect. And yes\, it’s going to be much harder to achieve the 2030 SDGs if we put on these essential constraints. The question of who is doing the designing can no longer be separated from our understanding of who is going to use the systems\, tools and services\, and whether digital helps us positively to flourish and thrive or negatively put us at risk and be depressed. “Not about Us Without Us” applies to women\, youth\, people with disabilities\, the vulnerable\, the overlooked and we must not forget the people who do not speak English\, whose connections are non existent or intermittent due to lack of electricity\, or suffer from hunger or thirst\, or lack of a place to call home. \nJust as Science Labs brought science to the mainstream of society\, and science labs in education increased scientific literacy. Community Living Learning Labs can now be used to design digital innovations that are fit for purpose and everyday use in the living rooms\, workplaces\, agricultural fields\, retail floors and factory floors. Community Digital labs in educational institutions will bring digital literacy accessible to all\, in a return of the one-room schoolhouse where the advanced learners teach the newcomers. The challenge we face is how can all countries and communities turn on headlights to see the road ahead\, instead of driving forward\, looking only in the rear view mirror. The volatility\, uncertainty of the newly globally connected world means the road ahead is no longer straightforward and increasingly challenging as digitization accelerates in all spheres of life\, around the planet.
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-pc30-people-centered-internet-and-the-sdgs-andrew-rugege-joy-malala-matthew-parin-mei-lin/
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SUMMARY:(REF SS30) Sudan and its Contribution to the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals\, Convened by the National Centre for Research\, Sudan Zeinab Osman
DESCRIPTION:The Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations require international action\, the collaboration of individual states as well as national initiatives. Action and involvement of less developed states are equally important and essential as initiatives taken by developed countries.\nThis session will shed some light on Sudan and its contribution to the SDGs in the context of science and innovation. Sudan’s science and Innovation sector addresses SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation\, Goal 13 Climate Action\, Goal 14 Life below Water and Goal 15 Life on Land.\nThe themes this session will address include biodiversity\, water and agriculture among others. \nThursday September 30\, 2021 3:00pm – 5:00pm CEST\n\n  SDG 8
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-ss30-sudan-and-its-contribution-to-the-achievement-of-sustainable-development-goals-convened-by-the-national-centre-for-research-sudan-zeinab-osman/
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SUMMARY:(REF S1730) Science and SDG 17: Partnership for the Goals
DESCRIPTION:SDG 17 Partnership for the Goals\nThe SDG 17 is a universal and urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development by 2030. The goal\, being adopted in 2015 is a follow-up of the partially achieved millennium goals.\nAmong others\, this goal includes the strengthening of domestic resource mobilization\, including through international support to developing countries\, full implementation of development assistance commitments by developed countries\, mobilization of additional financial resources for developing countries\, and the enhancement of North-South\, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation. The creativity\, know-how\, technology and financial resources from all of society is necessary to achieve the SDG 17 in every context. \nThursday September 30\, 2021 12:00pm – 2:00pm CEST\n\n  SDG17
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-s1730-science-and-sdg-17-partnership-for-the-goals/
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SUMMARY:(REF UV30) The role of universities through research and strategic partnerships in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
DESCRIPTION:The role of universities through research and strategic partnerships in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) \nIn an era where global concerns about sustainability issues are at a peak as shown by the current agenda of the international community\, international universities have a crucial role to play. The UN Gs) provide a platform for country-level commitments towards transforming our world and different national governments have been aligning and trying to comply with these. Internationally\, however\, the success of a sustainability framework has been dependent on cohesion and a strong working relationship between the public and the private sector through in many parts of the world; this remains a challenge. With the private sector contributing overwhelmingly towards national economic output\, while at the same time in part responsible for devastating environmental degradation\, what is the role of universities navigating and influencing government\, private sector and local communities towards achieving the UN SDGs? \nAs Africa witnesses an increase in private sector investment\, technological development and industrialization across a wide range of sectors and with the recent and ongoing pressures from the global pandemic\, there is a need for a national policy level consideration of sustainable models that promotes eco-innovation for a green economy and solution-driven research is at the heart of this\, addressing the UN SDGs.  \nEco-innovation has the capacity to deliver the tools needed for Green Growth and sustainable development. Those tools will be commercially successful products\, services and technologies that reduce the impacts of human activities on the environment\, achieve more efficient/responsible uses of natural resources and enhance societal\, economic\, and technological resilience to environmental pressures. These are key objectives of the UN SDGs. However\, it must be clear that eco-innovation cannot be achieved without quantitative and qualitative research\, resource mobilization and strategic partnerships. The focus must be given to sustainable solution-oriented research models that bridge the gaps between academia and industry.\nFor universities to fulfil their role in achieving or supporting the UN SDGs\, there must be a high-level management buy-in and strategy to integrate sustainable principles in every aspect of its operations. Whether it be in research\, training/teaching and learning of students\, engagement with communities\, infrastructural development or administration. \nExperiences at different sustainable development projects\, including the Lancaster University 7 million pound Circular Water Economy RECIRCULATE project and the 700\,000 pounds ACTUATE waste to energy demonstration project in West Africa\, show that universities are key drivers of effective eco-innovation for two reasons. First\, they are ‘anchors’ in co-designing co-developing and co-delivering research-driven eco-innovation partnerships with the private sector\, which ultimately deliver “environmental solutions”. Second\, they play a key role in delivering the high level (graduate/post-graduate) skills that are essential to driving forward eco-innovative policies\, products and services. However\, exploiting the power of universities to drive sustainable development will require significant capacity building to bridge the current\, very significant gap between academia and industry.
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-uv30-the-role-of-universities-through-research-and-strategic-partnerships-in-achieving-the-un-sustainable-development-goals-sdgs-kirk-t-semple-lawrence-ezemonye-akanimo-od/
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SUMMARY:(REF SS30) Schools Satellite Project: Supporting Space Science\, Digital Skills and Kids Diplomacy in Our World
DESCRIPTION:Thursday September 30\, 2021 9:00am – 10:00am CEST\n\n  Schools Satellite
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-ss30-schools-satellite-project-supporting-space-science-digital-skills-and-kids-diplomacy-in-our-world/
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SUMMARY:(REF ESG29) Environmental\, Social and Governance: How ESG influences progress towards the SDGs
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, social\, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments. Environmental criteria consider how a company performs as a steward of nature. Social criteria examine how it manages relationships with employees\, suppliers\, customers\, and the communities where it operates. Governance deals with a company’s leadership\, executive pay and shareholder rights. \nWednesday September 29\, 2021 6:00pm – 7:00pm CEST\n\n  Financing
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-esg29-environmental-social-and-governance-how-esg-influences-progress-towards-the-sdgs/
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SUMMARY:(REF SA29) Global Skills Agenda and Related Funding Mechanisms Ian Jones
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday September 29\, 2021 3:00pm – 6:00pm CEST\n\n  SDG7
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-sa29-global-skills-agenda-and-related-funding-mechanisms-ian-jones/
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SUMMARY:(REF MT29) Roundtable with Malta (TBC) Alex Grech • Fabri Anthea
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URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-mt29-roundtable-with-malta-tbc-alex-grech-fabri-anthea/
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SUMMARY:(REF SH23) Roundtable with the High Representative of the Coalition for the Sahel\, Dr Djimé Adoum\, High Representative\, Coalition for the Sahel.
DESCRIPTION:“The real Southern Frontier of Europe\,” as EU Special Representative for the Sahel Emanuela del Re describes the region\, is central to the transit of goods and people between the continents. The Sahel is home to some of the world’s least developed and youngest nations with 50% of its inhabitants less than 15 years of age. \nOften cited as the region with significant concurrent development challenges\, countries in the region often experience fragile governance (Mali\, Chad and Sudan each have transitional governments) which results in limited delivery of public services from education and healthcare\, to peace and security. “The Sahel is a microcosm of cascading global risks converging in one region\,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. \nClimate change adds a new dimension to challenges in the Sahel\, sending semi-nomadic livestock herding and farming practices to the brink and forcing communities to overuse the resources of their land. COVID-19 has further exacerbated these vulnerabilities\, adding pressure to the economic and health challenges\, while pushing an additional six million people into extreme poverty. \nSince 2014\, the countries of Mauritania\, Mali\, Burkina Faso\, Niger and Chad have joined forces under the “G5 Sahel” umbrella\, and the Sahel Coalition was launched in 2020 to coordinate regional responses to the intersecting security and development challenges\, which combine to make the Sahel a unique opportunity to achieve significant progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. \nThis session will explore: \n\nPoliy responses by individual member states and regional bodies\nOpportunities for increased international support and funding priorities\nRoadmaps toward stronger\, more ambitious partnerships with the Sahel\nPriority areas of cooperation\, research and development partnerships\nClimate change and its impact on security in the sub-region\nShort and medium-term economic growth and job creation opportunities\nBoosting regional economic integration through innovative financing mechanisms\n\n 
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-sh23-roundtable-with-the-high-representative-of-the-coalition-for-the-sahel-dr-djime-adoum-high-representative-coalition-for-the-sahel-ciara-leonard-nacro-hassan-bismarck/
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SUMMARY:(REF S1629) Science and SDG 16: Peace\, Justice and Strong Institutions
DESCRIPTION:SDG 16 Peace\, Justice and Strong Institutions\nThe SDG 16 is a universal and urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development\, provide access to justice for all and build effective\, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels by 2030. The goal\, being adopted in 2015 is a follow-up of the partially achieved millennium goals.\nAmong others\, this goal includes the reduction of all forms of violence and related death rates\, the end of abuse\, exploitation\, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children\, the promotion of the rule of law\, reduction of illicit financial and arms flows\, reduction of corruption and the achievement of responsive\, inclusive\, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels. The creativity\, know-how\, technology and financial resources from all of society is necessary to achieve the SDG 16 in every context. \nWednesday September 29\, 2021 10:00am – 11:00am CEST\n\n  SDG16
URL:https://peoplecentered.net/event/ref-s1629-science-and-sdg-16-peace-justice-and-strong-institutions/
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SUMMARY:(REF NI29) Roundtable on Nigeria Jaagz Bajaj • Samuel Adunreke
DESCRIPTION:THE ROLE OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION IN ADDRESSING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN NIGERIA \nScience and Innovation have a significant role to play in the attainment and realization of economic\, political and social independence in Nigeria and Africa at large. The issues of underdevelopment in Africa had in the past been multi-dimensional in nature and as such requires a multidimensional approach to address. This calls for “aggressive intervention”. Having identified our peculiar problems and limitations\, we can’t afford to undermine our own development. It would be a great crime in humanity if we fall off the scale of development. With efforts of various International and Inter-Governmental Institutions globally like the United Nations\, The European Union and other agencies and International Development Organizations in participatory development\, we have to put into consideration what research\, sciences and innovation has in place for us so that we would not be a victim of underdevelopment. \nThe outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic no doubt is a difficult development in the world today and the whole world is ravaged by this negative development. Notwithstanding\, we have seen the important role of science\, research and innovation plays through surviving the pandemic. This without doubt has exposed the weaknesses in National and Global Structures and in particular the field of sciences in Africa.\nThe European Union through her Horizon Europe Program is set out to promote science and Innovation for the preservation and transformation of lives and humankind. \nThe need for the promotion of science and innovation in building the development bridges among nationalities across education and academic institutions cannot be over emphasized as the benefits spans the timely and meaningful attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. The calls for scientific approach in closing the gaps and vacuums dealt to the Sciences\, Innovation and RD &D Industry in Africa and the need to transform the Continent by changing the narratives; taking into account the role of science and innovation plays in the new approach for fostering economic growth of modern societies and the mobilization of capital and improvement of Foreign Direct Investment. This is instrumental to the attainment of the SDGs cannot be ruled out. This is certainly one of our mandate at Innovea Development Foundation to build development bridges through innovations. \nThe compartmentalization of innovation and the removal of stereotypes through the depolarization of cross cutting issues like addressing gender imbalance represented in most of the representations is another good way forward. Marginalization is certainly a major challenge in Africa\, this had led to underdevelopment in Africa without doubt infrastructural deficits has undermined our evolution and journey to self-actualization. The access to financing of research and academic works in the field of sciences needs thorough governance and looking through the lens of equitable financing and promotion of the efforts of governments in Africa in these topical issues and thematic. \nIt is about time the ordinary people take ownership of sciences as we humanize research and innovation; creating a space where the little ingenuity in our younger generation and little child in the African villages can be translated into dreams spanning a millennial period. The European Union’s Intervention in Sciences through the Horizon Europe is helping developing nations realize the attainment of global cooperation in research and innovation. \nAccording to Declan Kirrane at a recent Africa-Europe Innovation Partnership event\, the success stories in the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) is radically saving lives and is an intervention that is multi-transformational in nature since the outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic\, The European Commission has taken leadership to support the entire humanity. \nResearch and Development are imminent in transforming these sectors in their intersections. These areas include but not limited to the understated: \n\nThe Food Systems: The food systems safely in a manner that promotes nature positive and healthy nutrition as alternates the genetically modified seedlings\, innovations for reduction of food waste\,\nCircular Economy:\nEnergy Development at a time when the world is in desperate transition to carbon free energy is another good reason for mitigating the impact of fossil fuels on both economic and social lifestyles of global citizens. The Nigerian Nuclear Energy commissions can be better empowered to conduct research and improve existing pragmatic solutions to reduce the negative footprints of the Nuclear energy on environment and Human Health\nTelecommunications: The improvement in the Telecommunications space for intelligence gathering\, aerial security and territorial integrity protection is a formidable tool to combat insecurity in Nigeria and The Sub Saharan Africa Region. Leaving no stone unturned Nigeria has the capacity to provide leadership for the continent. Through efficient utilization and maximization of the capacities of the NigComSat.\nAviation Technology: The nexus of Blue\, Green and Digital Economies allows for improvement in Renewable Energy\, Telecommunications and Space research in find lasting solutions to addressing basic challenges in the global aviation space. This definitely can make something happen to human mobility as there are improvements on Aviation fuels through the use of fuel cells and Hydrogen technology to replace existing aviation fuels. According to IRENA 2020\, The need for the scaling of hydrogen technologies in mitigating emissions from entirely hard to abate sectors like aviation and manufacturing cannot be over emphasized.\nBio-sciences\, Medicine and Health:\nParticularly\, we believe that the Climate Science is a reason for\nAccording to the recent submissions of Intergovernmental Party on Climate Change IPCC; climate science needs improved environmental research and strong international governance\nHelispherical and Meteorological Sciences\nAnthropology\nSpace Sciences and Technology: Satellite technology is essential through governance that avails the need for clearer\, precise climate\, weather and ecological prediction for a more sustainable and accurate predictions\, early warning systems\, flood predictions among other ecological advancements which abates the adversities in and limitations in geographical strata. Through data interoperability\, space governance and solutions for interplanetary benefits. The United Nations office of outer space can accelerate the major space science and research towards addressing the major challenges in outer space technologies and had lived up to her responsibilities in providing thorough political and governance structure for development globally. The Nigeria Government should look to strengthen and empower the National Space research and Development Agency for optimal capacity.\nInformation and Communication Technology and the capital flights\, Nigeria must live up to her responsibilities through the policies and social governance.\nEnvironmental Sciences and biodiversity research\, Animal Science\, Health Science\,\nResearch in the areas of climate science can better be improved upon by in-depth review on past literatures in solar and the roles of Centers of Excellence\, Academia and Research Institutions in improving on research outcomes can never be over emphasized. This should go beyond politicizing\nMarine Sciences: There is a lot of advancement in the marine spaces with sporadic transformations in the context of oceanography\, adaptation and oceanographic manage
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SUMMARY:(REF DT28) Digital Transformation for Health for the SDGs\, Convened by HSE\, Ireland
DESCRIPTION:The Digital Transition for Healthcare – Stay Left\, Shift Left [DT 28]\nA paradigm\, policy\, platform and prescription for wellness and better health \nProf. Martin Curley\, Director Digital Transformation and Innovation\, HSE\nDeclan Kirrane\, CEO\, ISC Intelligence in Science \nThe broad adoption of Digital Health as a paradigm\, platform and a policy will be fundamentally important to the achievement of SDG #3; Ensure Healthy Lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages.\nIntroduction – Why?\nAll around the world healthcare systems are facing increasing pressures and demands. Well developed countries are facing epidemics such as Diabetes or Obesity while developing countries struggle to leverage diagnostics and access to medicines. All health systems have struggled to cope with the Covid 19 pandemic but there has been a benefit in that many health systems turned to digital solutions to cope. Despite the progress many countries have runaway health budgets with rates of growth which are unsustainable. Arguably Digital is the best Medicine for our sick healthcare systemi. Leading physicians such as Erik Topol and Robert Wachter have written about the creative destruction of medicine and digital doctors respectively but how do we make the digital transition of healthcare as quickly and sustainably as possible. Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg have long advocated for redefining healthcare using value based competition. In this context a new paradigm is emerging\, Open Innovation 2.0 which helps enable structural transformation of an Industry through digital technologies and trust based co-opetition1. \nIn the past the arrival of a single disruptive technology such as railways or the internal combustion engine drove dramatic societal change and benefit. Today we are at a unique point in history where we have multiple digital disruptive technologies all showing up at the same time. Technologies such as Cloud Computing\, Mobile and Social\, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things create opportunities to radically transform healthcare. According to the OECD Healthcare is a decade behind other industries in digitalizing https://www.oecd.org/health/health-in-the-21st-century-e3b23f8e-en.htm but the time is now to harness these digital technologies to help lengthen life expectancy and provide more effective and cost efficient care. Covid 19 has been a big bang disruptor forcing the healthcare industry to adopt digital solutions – necessity is the mother of invention. Digital technology can be a democratizing force for achieving health equality with digital solutions enabling remote diagnostics\, consultations and more effective medicines for all.\nThe opportunity: The Digital Dividend\nDigital Technologies create the opportunity for the dominating paradigm of healthcare to change. Today’s healthcare systems are reactive and focussed on trying to restore health to ill people. The opportunity exists to shift resources and focus to keep well people well or helping treat people with\nchronic conditions mainly in their homes or in the community. With digital technologies it is becoming possible to offer citizens equivalent or better care in their homes than in a hospital or clinic and at lower infection risk. Acute Hospital services consume much of healthcare systems budget but basing the healthcare system on secondary care is inefficient – there is a higher return both financially and in terms of patient outcomes by applying a proactive healthcare approach\, for example monitoring citizens proactively to detect chronic disease emergence allowing for earlier more holistic interventions.\nWhat? – Stay Left\, Shift Left\nTo align and accelerate progress we propose that countries adopt a Stay Left\, Shift Left paradigm\, policy and platform for adopting digital health solutions. The HSE’s digital innovation strategy is called Stay Left\, Shift Left (SL2) and extends the concept of “Shift Left” which was first introduced by Intel Corporation’s Doug Busch and Andy Grove and is an approach to using solutions to make people’s health better. SL2 helps implement the Irish Government Health policy Slaintecare.\nStay Left: is about keeping well people well or if you happen to have a chronic condition you can be managed best of all at home\nShift Left: is about moving patients as quickly as possible from an acute to community to a home setting \nEach time we seek a disruptive technology outcome we look for four linked outcomes\, the so called quadruple aim\, improvement in quality of care\, quality of life\, clinician experience and reduction in cost of care. 2 For such a complex transition we need take a new approach\, choosing platforms not products for building next generation healthcare systems. By using interoperable platforms with open programmable interfaces (APIs) we create a platform for both significantly improved healthcare and\nfurther innovation. The use of digital and other technologies can achieve 10X impacts in cost or quality of care and life. \nLeap Frog Strategy \nWith the confluence of different digital technologies there is the possibility for both developing and developed countries to agree and execute a Leapfrog strategy. Instead of concentrating on deploying monolithic electronic healthcare record systems in acute hospitals\, countries should focus on deploying home and community based solutions and shared care records that are mobile and cloud based. Advances in the Medical Internet of Things mean that low cost but effective remote monitoring and consultation tools can be deployed. Health system wide efficiency and effectiveness can be significantly improved as well as individual outcomes being be significantly better. \nWe propose that countries move their healthcare systems from paper and presence based systems to digital\, virtual and cloud based systems where healthcare takes place primarily in the home and community. In this new model the focus shift to proactive\, preventative and predictive health. Data is more joined\, linked and used to better specify and target interventions. The use of closed loop digital systems which enable precision real-time care to be provided. Digiceuticals and digital theraputics will become common place with physicians or real-time AI systems suggesting and actioning new or modified titrations of medicine. Already Germany has moved to put in place a registry and approval progress for so called DIGAs.3 \nMany countries lack of a roadmap for digital health progression. Together with the Innovation Value Institute and other stakeholders we have set a collective goal of building a Digital Health Capability Maturity Framework which will allow countries assess their current level of digital health maturity and determine next actions to improve outcomes. Having a simple common model will streamline how all actors in the digital health ecosystem can innovate and work together to provide best outcomes for all. \nThe capability maturity framework consist of four macro capabilities and maturity paths how much and how we spend our digital health budget\, how we develop and orchestrate collective digital health capability\, how we measure and manage digital health value and finally the business model we deploy and use for digital health. We expect that in the future all health will become digital health but for now it is useful to discuss and measure digital health maturity.\nDeterminants of Health \nMost healthcare spending is focussed on Healthcare Delivery but paradoxically healthcare outcomes are only 10% determined by Healthcare delivery. Other factors such as behaviour\, genetics and public health are far more impactful as shown in the attached figure. The emergence of digital technologies such as the internet of things and artificial intelligence can significantly influence and change behaviours and create precision medicines for people with certain genetic dispositions. The digital transition thus can also enable a shift in policy\, budget and emphasis on proactive/preventative healthcare. \nA H \nTuesday September 28\, 2021 3:00pm – 5:00pm CEST\n\n  SDG10
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SUMMARY:(REF DP28) Data Protection and trust for innovation for the SDGs
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday September 28\, 2021 10:00am – 2:30pm CEST\n\n  SDG 8
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SUMMARY:(REF GN28) Genomics for Shared Research and Better Health Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:Genomics is a highly important tool in achieving SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-being. In the context of UNGA76 ISC will convene this session focussed on research and policy priorities in the development of genomics and precision medicine as a driver of beneficial health outcomes for world citizens. \nThe session will bring together leaders from government\, industry\, and healthcare to share practical examples of how genomics is being utilised as a tool to deliver benefits to citizens and to share practical learnings that arise when undertaking research collaborations between various states and continents. \nGenomics is a prime example of innovation\, driven through international collaboration and hence an exemplary realization of SDG 17 – Partnerships to achieve the Goals. \nTopics explored will include opportunities for the advancement of the field of genomics by ensuring diversity in genome research\, the application of genomics in understanding the biological drivers of mental illness and policy priorities for genomics development globally. \nTuesday September 28\, 2021 9:00am – 10:00am CEST\n\n  Clinical Trials
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