Help young refugees from Ukraine to find new jobs FIND OUT MORE DONATE REGISTER HERE FOR THE UPCOMING LAUNCH EVENT! Youth IGF for Ukraine! #YouthigfActs April 11, 5:30 PM CET Opening by Marina KALJURAND, Former Estonian Foreign Minister. Current Member of the European Parliament. With testimones of Ukrainian youth. REGISTER I'm Yuliya, the Youth IGF Founder.… Continue reading From the Youth IGF: Ukrainian Youth urgency
Dear Colleagues, I wanted to share a quick update regarding a special CxOTalk live discussion organized by Michael Krigsman. Live on Tuesday, 12 April 2022 - he will host both Konstantin Vasyuk - Executive Director of the IT Ukraine Association, the largest association of the tech industry in Ukraine - and I for a conversation on what is… Continue reading Ukraine IT Update 2022: Resilience and Leadership
Agenda: 10:30 am Welcome – Dr. Nele Leosk, Chair Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy 10:35 am UNSG Digital Cooperation – Marco Obiso, Head, Cybersecurity Division, ITU-D 10:50 am G7/G20 Think7 Update (slides) – Mei Lin Fung, Chair, People Centered Internet 11:10 am Updates on DNS, ICANN and Ukraine (slides) – Steve Crocker 11:40 am Introductions and Discussion 12:00 pm UNGA Science Summit (slides) – Declan Kirrane, CEO ISC Intelligence 12:20 pm Dr. Nele Leosk… Continue reading Digital Cooperation & Diplomacy Network Meeting
Greetings to the PCI Community: This Sunday 24 April at our regular time, 8:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET, we invite you to join us for a PCI Community Open Mic session. This is your opportunity to bring up topics you want to share, have had on your mind, or want our brain trust to consider.… Continue reading PCI Community Open Mic
Join Vint Cerf – WORLD AUTHORITY FIGURE IN TECHNOLOGY – as he explores the emerging technologies and the impacts they will have on business, culture, Climate Change and Global Warming.
As part of WSIS' work on gender mainstreaming, WSIS Gender Trendsetters have been appointed to act as trailblazers and take action in strengthening gender equality. Each Trendsetter has chosen a specific challenge or pledge to advance gender mainstreaming efforts in the field of ICTs.
This session will provide an opportunity to meet the inaugural cohort of WSIS Trendsetters and to hear more about their respective commitments and activities for the forthcoming year.
The PCI Community Call Planning Committee is happy to feature Tiffany Brar, PCI Fellow and Ambassador to the Community of the Visually Impaired.
Special educator, disability and gender activist, accessibility evangelist, motivational speaker Award-winning activist Brar is known for her organization, the Jyothirgamaya Foundation, which began as a mobile blind school in 2012, and is actively involved in the empowerment of persons with visual impairments, teaching life skills to people of all ages. Tiffany works with the PCI Community to broaden access to tools and services, so more of the community of the visually impaired can acquire the digital skills to participate and contribute more fully to society. She received the “Nari Shakti Puraskar” Award, which is the highest civilian honor for women in India, presented by the President of India on March 8, International Women’s Day.
Equal opportunities in the working world of the IT sector need a cultural change in companies. The Hasso Plattner Institute's first Women in Tech conference creates a stage for strong voices to speak up about biases and hurdles in corporate structures and become vocal about the challenges and the change needed.
"STAR-TIDES in a World of Interconnected Disruptions: A Fireside Chat with Linton Wells II, PhD" is scheduled for 4:00-4:50 pm EDT on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022. Here is the registration link: https://go.gmu.edu/FChat4.
Dear Colleagues, I would like to invite you all to an event at the Stimson Center to launch "The Green Job Machine" focused on Catalyzing Collective Climate Action. You're welcome to join either in-person (we would love to see you!) or virtually. Detao;s below. Event: Catalyzing Private Sector Capital for Collective Climate Action Date and… Continue reading Virtual event: Catalyzing Private Sector Capital for Collective Climate Action
Bastian is an economist with 18 years of experience in various multilateral organizations focusing on decentralization, regional development, and public financial management. Able to undertake analytical work and research projects with minimal supervision and equipped with advanced knowledge of STATA and GIS applications. A team worker with experience in managing teams with different backgrounds and multiple priorities. Led the implementation of Public Expenditure Analysis and Capacity Harmonization (PEACH), a USD 9 million grant implemented by the World Bank to support subnational PFM improvements.
The Think7 Summit will be held on 23 and 24 May 2022 in Berlin. Its preliminary agenda is online, now. While it will be mainly an on-site event, parts of the Summit will be held as hybrid sessions. The on-site venue will be the premises of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. Register for the Summit here.
