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Digital Cooperation & Diplomacy Network Meeting

Agenda: 10:30 am Welcoming Remarks – Guest Chair Robert Opp, Chief Digital Officer, UNDP 10:40 am Digital Public Goods – Liv Marte Kristiansen Nordhaug, NORAD 10:50 am WTDC: ITU Framework to help countries with their digital transformation, plan for how Partner 2 Connect Pledge and Global Compact Update – Alex Wong, ITU 11:00 am IFAD.org Top Secret Hotline – Maine Astonitas 11:15 am ASREN’s Strategy on Open Science – Raed AlZoubi… Continue reading Digital Cooperation & Diplomacy Network Meeting

People First Community Talks:Mauricio Miller and Steve Dobo

In this talk, Mauricio will share his thoughts on how to foster agency and leadership from within communities themselves, and the power of peer-driven change to further activate leadership from within. Please share this invitation with others in your organization and register here to join.

Science Summit UNGA77

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw1vUIVrRaQ   This conference will focus on the role and contribution of science to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and will run from the 13th to the 30th of September 2022. Highlights of the summit will include: 20 Keynote Lectures by leading scientists and thinkers 12 Thematic Days covering soil, biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, materials, and clean water 100 Ministers covering… Continue reading Science Summit UNGA77

Science Summit meeting on Sickle Cell

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

Report launch webinar | Financing mechanisms for locally-owned internet infrastructure

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

#MTHCON22 OPENING TALK: How Mediatech shapes society sustainably

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

Global Observance of World Habitat Day 2022

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.