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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

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Ben Shneiderman – “Human-Centered AI”

Greetings People Centered Internet (PCI) Community members: Our next PCI Community call will be Sunday 28th of August at 11:30 AM ET GMT-5 featuring   Ben Shneiderman will be our guest speaker this Sunday 28 August. We’re grateful to have Ben join us again and unpack highlights from his new book: Human-Centered AI (2022) - “The remarkable progress… Continue reading Ben Shneiderman – “Human-Centered AI”

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.

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Grant McCracken joins PCI this Sunday

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

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

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The Best AI for Good – Optimizing AI’s Impact on Humanity | Session Briefing – Global AI Summit 2022

Location: King Abdulaziz International Conference Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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

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Design Thinking ImpAct Conference

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

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.