For PCI Community member invitation only. To be a member of our PCI community click here. People Centered Internet community members: We are pleased to announce Dr. Grant McCracken will be our featured guest speaker this coming Sunday 11 September. Grant is an independent cultural anthropologist with a focus on U.S. culture and is the author of… Continue reading Grant McCracken joins PCI this Sunday
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
ABOUT: The Global AI Summit is a two-way conversation that engages every attendee, speaker, and partner in a rich dialogue about how AI can solve complex problems, empower businesses, shape our future, and ultimately, transform society. From local and regional “visions” to the united economic framework, the Global AI Summit gathers the most prominent policymakers,… Continue reading The Best AI for Good – Optimizing AI’s Impact on Humanity | Session Briefing – Global AI Summit 2022
There are only a couple of weeks to go until the Design Thinking community gathers at the Design Thinking ImpAct Conference, which will take place on-site in Potsdam and online on September 15th and 16th, 2022. Join us to review the highlights of the last 15 years of Design Thinking activities at Hasso Plattner Institute and discuss how we can further shape… Continue reading Design Thinking ImpAct Conference
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
