Introduction Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for health in many countries in Africa will include addressing sickle cell disease (SCD), a chronic non-communicable disorder (NCD) Africa is the epicenter of the disease burden: an estimated 80% of patients live in Africa and more than 300,000 new babies with SCD are born on the continent… Continue reading Science Summit meeting on Sickle Cell
Watch the event on-demand. Read the report. Speakers: Jochai Ben-Avie (Connect Humanity) Ben Matranga (Connectivity Capital) Jane Coffin (Connect Humanity) Bruce Patterson (EntryPoint Networks) Carlos Rey-Moreno (Association for Progressive Communications) Shaun Pather (Zenzeleni) Anoop Nagendra (Connectivity Capital) Chris Conder MBE (B4RN) Juan Peirano (Internet Society We are pleased to invite you to the launch of… Continue reading Report launch webinar | Financing mechanisms for locally-owned internet infrastructure
ABOUT MediaTech Hub Conference is the only B2B event in Germany focused on media technologies. These include all video and audio-related technologies and business in the digital sphere, and it’s clear that MediaTech is massively accelerating the changes to how we live and work. At #mthcon we benchmark these changes, framing discussions around the advances made… Continue reading #MTHCON22 OPENING TALK: How Mediatech shapes society sustainably
World Habitat Day is held on the first Monday of October and launches Urban October. The day centres around the global observance, which is held in a different country each year with keynote speakers and roundtable discussions focused on a specific theme. World Habitat Day was first celebrated in 1986 in Nairobi, Kenya, with the theme ‘Shelter is my right’.
On 3 October 2022, the Global Observance of World Habitat Day, under the theme Mind the Gap. Leave No One and No Place Behind, will look at the problem of growing inequality and challenges in cities and human settlements.
Greetings People Centered Internet community: This coming Sunday 9 October Helen Armstrong will be our guest speaker on the PCI Community call. Helen is the author of Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care About Artificial Intelligence and is a professor at North Carolina State University. Join us starting at 11:30 AM ET | GMT-5 in the PCI… Continue reading Helen Armstrong – “Big Data, Big Design”
BerkeleyHaas is proud to host the 5th US India Conference, on 11th Oct at the UC Berkeley Campus.
Click here for complimentary registration: https://bit.ly/USindiaConf2022
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Alex is Senior Strategy Advisor and Lead, Giga, in the Telecommunication Development Bureau with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). He is working on a number of issues that relate closely to PCI, and can provide some reflections on opportunities for the ITU now that Doreen Bogdan-Martin is Sec Gen elect. He is closely affiliated with the programs Partner to… Continue reading Conversation with Alex Wong
Agenda: 10:30 am Welcome, Mei Lin Fung, People Centered Internet 10:45 am UNDP update – Keyzom Ngodup Massally 10:55 am Partner2Connect and ITU Update, Alex Wong, ITU (Link to slides) 11:15 am Coolabilities Report – Cyndi Coon, People Centered Internet 11:30 am Hack for Public Good. – Hongyi LI, Director Open Government Products, Singapore 11:45 am Africa and the Internet – Josef Noll, Basic Internet Foundation, University of Oslo 12:00 pm Puerto… Continue reading Digital Cooperation & Diplomacy Network Meeting
Gender diverse teams make better decisions across a wide range of settings, including startups. Nevertheless, investors make few investments in women, especially female CEOs. This talk will share data-driven research findings that shed light on the nature and extent of gender bias in venture capital allocation. Solutions for lasting change will be discussed.
ABOUT THE EVENT The Decade of Digital Inclusion convenes leading visionaries in technology, business, policy, and digital inclusion to help build pathways to digital equity by 2030. Through timely panel discussions and keynotes featuring leading visionaries, this event seeks to generate concrete solutions to the complex issue of digital inequality. In addition to a lively virtual… Continue reading The Marconi Society’s Symposium Will Be Virtual!
