https://www.unsdglearn.org/podcast/how-can-we-use-science-technology-and-innovation-sti-in-achieving-a-sustainable-future/

sdg best of month pick from womensai.com (swap learnings rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk 2025report.com est 1984 The Economist & teachforsdgs.com- extinction generation edition eta 2023 (also 100th year since birth of dad norman)

WELCOME To the 2022 Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Forum (5-6 May 2022)

CHECK OUT THE NEW PODCAST FEATURING THE CO-CHAIRS OF 2022 STI FORUM

Just Released! A new podcast featuring the two co-chairs Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya (Ukraine) and Ambassador Kennedy Godfrey Gastorn (Tanzania)-"How can we use science, technology, and innovation (STI) in achieving a sustainable future?" is now available on all major podcast platforms! Tune in and listen to the co-chairs of the 2022 STI Forum speak about science, innovation and technology for the future: bit.ly/STIPodcast. 

Side events start TODAY (4 May)!

The 2022 Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Forum will kick off with a whole day of exciting side events TODAY, 4 May! Please check the list below of 30 side events which you could join on Whova:

TODAY's Side Events Overview

(TIME ZONE: EASTERN TIME/NEW YORK TIME)

 

TIME	EVENT NAME	ORGANIZERS	DURATION
6:00am	Role of Green Business Incubator in Developing Green Startups & SME’s for the Climate Resilience	GreenTech Foundation Bangladesh	60minutes
7:30am	Partnerships for Innovative STEM Teaching & Learning	Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)	60 minutes
7:30am	Open Science Promoted Quality Graduate Education in Global South	China Association for Science and Technology (CAST)	90minutes
7:30am	Innovative Technology Solutions to Marine Pollution in the East Asian Seas Region	United Nations Environment Programme & Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia	60 minutes
9:00am	Research on innovation as opposed to research in innovation: transforming innovation education for a better tomorrow	AfricaLics	60 minutes
9:00am	Using a comparative risk framing to strengthen policy decisions for sustainable development	Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs	90 minutes
9:00am	Metaverse Mindset Project	Gratia Christian College UNPRME	60 minutes
9:00am	Building Back Better with Games, Hands-on Activities, STI for Sustainability and 2030 Agenda	HaritaDhara Research Development and Education Foundation (in special consultative status with the UN ECOSOC since 2018)	60 minutes
9:00am	Saving the Banana: Innovative and Multi-Stakeholder Approaches to Confront the Global Challenge of Fusarium Wilt, Tropical Race 4	Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture	60 minutes
9:00am	Launch of a Global Network of AI Centres of Excellence for Sustainable Development	Permanent Mission of Slovenia to the UN	90 minutes
9:00am	Science for SDG 14, the Early Careers perspective	RedLAtM (Regional Representative LAC Region-MGCY) & LACEMOS	60 minutes
9:00am	Green hydrogen windows of opportunity for developing countries	UNCTAD	90 minutes
9:00am	Masterclass on how innovations can transform the path to the 2030 Agenda	United Nations World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator	60 minutes
9:00am	Innovation for Sustainability in Our Common Agenda: Partnering With Business to Turbocharge SDG Action	United States Council for International Business - USCIB	90 minutes
9:00am	Youth-led Solutions for a Better Food Future	World Food Forum (by FAO's Youth Committee)	75 minutes
10:30am	Progress through Partnerships: How can private sector partnerships assist in achieving SDG 2 (zero hunger)?	Baha'i International Community	90 minutes
10:30am	Why we need local social goods to achieve the Goals - lessons from the World Social Capital Monitor 2021	Basel Institute of Commons and Economics	75 minutes
10:30am	Indigenous Knowledge Research Infrastructure: A Novel STI Solution to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals	CANEUS, FILAC and UNOOSA	90 minutes
10:30am	DigitalArt4Climate & Blockchain4Climate – Developing the Ecosystem & Digital Skills for SDGs aligned Creative Economy and Climate Entrepreneurship	International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI GloCha	90 minutes
10:30am	Innovation for emergency connectivity	International Telecommunication Union (ITU)	60 minutes
10:30am	Operationalizing Sustainable Development and Science and Technology Cooperation:  Global Strategies	The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine	90 minutes
10:30am	Just and inclusive clean energy transition in Africa: partnerships with non-State actors for technological and innovative solutions	The Permanent Mission of Italy to United Nations	90 minutes
10:30am	Applying Diverse Knowledge Systems to Address Systemic Risks of Rapid Technological Change	United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction	90 minutes
10:30am	Strategies to Strengthen National and International Policies in Education and Health	Women's Health and Education Center (WHEC)	75 minutes
10:30am	XPRIZE Rainforest: Innovating, accelerating and scaling biodiversity technologies for a more resilient future	XPRIZE	75 minutes
12:00	Nuclear Technologies in the Fight against Marine Plastic Pollution: An IAEA Initiative	IAEA	60 minutes
12:00	Transforming education for a human-centred approach to STI and SDGs	International Labour Organization (ILO); Work Stream 10 of IATT	75 minutes
12:00	The key role of digital technologies in developing countries to enhance climate action and SDG achievement	United Nations Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)	75 minutes
1:30pm	The role of women-led global co-op networks in addressing gender equality amid COVID-19 and beyond	Impact Arts Society	75 minutes
6:00pm	Nigeria Youth Environment Dialogue 2022	Community Action Against Plastic Waste (CAPws)	90 minutes

Please note: Side events are hosted by independent organizers and do not reflect the views of the United Nations.

 

2022 STI Forum Secretariat
Organizer,
The Seventh Annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum)

In this episode, we speak with the co-chairs of the Science, Technology, and Innovation or STI Forum–Mr. Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations and Mr. Kennedy Godfrey Gastorn, the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations. They both shared their insights on advancing science and technology achievements while also addressing global challenges of inequality, digital divide, inclusion, and climate change, to name a few issues, through collaboration among different actors in society. We need novel ways to mitigate emerging risks to scientific research and we also need to further the collaboration among scientists, researchers, and policymakers in an ongoing dialogue in networks of trust and transparency to address the global challenges.

The STI Forum of the United Nations provides this space for scientific cooperation and collaboration. It is also an important space for reflections on global development problems and discussions on how science, technology, and innovation can help contribute to approaches and solutions to achieve the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. To know more and to register for the upcoming STI Forum, please go to https://sdgs.un.org/tfm/STIForum2022. 

Want to learn more about sustainable development and learning? Subscribe to SDG Learncast. Visit the UN SDG:Learn website at www.unsdglearn.org to get the latest learning offers on the 2030 Agenda and SDGs. The transcript of the podcast is available at https://www.unsdglearn.org/podcast/. 

[Transcript of the podcast]

Paulyn Duman: Welcome to the SDG learncast with me, Paulyn Duman. In every episode, I bring you insightful conversations around the subject of sustainable development and learning, helping us all to achieve a sustainable future.

In this episode, we will be speaking about science, technology and innovation otherwise known as STI, especially in the context of the STI Forum of the United Nations.

Science and technology is intricately meshed together with society. You cannot see one without the other. For example, a lot of people depend on their mobile phones, whether they are smartphones or analog phones, for daily living. A study by the Pew Research Center in 2019 reported that nearly 50% of adults said they could not live without their smartphones. In the COVID-19 pandemic, science research has tremendously helped reduce the spread of the coronavirus the same way that scientific research has addressed several diseases globally, both infectious and non-communicable ones. Innovation, which does not always require high technology or high investment, has helped millions of lives and we will speak more about this later in this episode.

For this episode, we have the honor to have with us the co-chairs of the STI Forum, Mr. Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations and Mr. Kennedy Godfrey Gastorn, the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations.

Perhaps before we start, could you tell us about the Science, Technology, and Innovation Forum of the United Nations?

 

Ambassador Kennedy Godfrey Gastorn: The STI Forum is a venue where you facilitate interaction, matchmaking, and establishment of stakeholders, networks and partnerships. It’s also a platform that allows people to exchange ideas and share experiences on how science, technology, and innovation could further accelerate the implementation of sustainable development.

It’s also important to note that the STI Forum is able to identify lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss how to better mobilize STI for sustainable development. Furthermore, at the Forum, we anticipate that we’ll discuss how can we improve the science policy-society interface at all levels, and also increase international scientific collaboration for tackling the world’s most intractable challenges.

Now, in terms of participation, the Forum will bring together high-level policymakers and senior government officials, including ministers, scientists, research institutions, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, representative of organized science-acknowledged communities, the UN system and international organizations from various parts of the world. They will all come together under the umbrella of the upcoming STI Forum.

Now regarding the question on the topics that will be discussed during the forum, I can say that the forum will have two parts which are the ministerial session and which will focus primarily on science, technology and innovation for the SDGs and sustainable coming from COVID -19 pandemic. This session will also among others discuss best practices of technologies and innovation that have emerged during the COVID-19 crisis to tackle inequities or inequalities, particularly affecting vulnerable groups, including those equalizing access to good, quality healthcare, education and finance, and perhaps also, how can the national STI roadmaps and many other action plans can be aligned regionally and globally towards a more cost-effective SDGs-focused STI development.

 

Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya: The STI Forum is exceptionally important to all countries, all the United Nations, because we can’t imagine any advances in the areas of responsibility of the United Nations without applying modern technologies and advancing science achievements. As the world becomes even more sophisticated, and it is very difficult sometimes even to learn about the advance of science, let alone use it in practice. So I’m very happy that scientists and scholars all around the world are so engaged in, and are happy to work with us politicians here in the United Nations for the benefit of the countries, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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UNESCO and Nokia to co-chair new UN Broadband Commission Working Group on AI Capacity Building

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications expand opportunities for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the benefits and risks of AI technology are not equally distributed across the world. There is an accelerating divide in terms of human and institutional capacities needed for AI and digital transformation.

Many governments worldwide are implementing digital transformation programmes to strengthen public services and citizen engagement using online platforms and technologies like AI. Digital governance, whether it concerns regulation of AI systems or protection of personal data, will mediate how societies leverage the economic potential of new technologies while minimising the risks.

Civil servants are important actors in shaping how governments and societies undergo digital transformation. They are often responsible for regulating technologies; devising strategies as well as providing incentives and an enabling environment for their creation, adoption, and use; shaping the infrastructure ecosystem in which technology will operate; and making decisions about public sector digital innovation and transformation. Effectively exercising this important digital governance function requires knowledge, competencies, and skills. The UN Broadband Commission has launched the Working Group on AI Capacity Building, to help build public sector capacities for digital innovation and transformation. The Working Group will be co-chaired by UNESCO and Nokia, and has Smart Africa, World Health Organization (WHO), 5Rights Foundation, European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSO IGO) and International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation (ISTIC) as some of its members.

Dr Tawfik Jelassi, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, underlined the importance of “operationalizing a multi-stakeholder approach to include actors from the public sector, academia, civil society and the private sector in this capacity-building effort for AI and digital transformation”.

Ms Julia Jasinska, Head of International Relations & Trade Policy at Nokia, highlighted the core tenet of the Working Group that “technology alone is not enough; we also need to empower citizens and governments to make the best use of emerging technologies”.

The Working Group on AI Capacity Building will generate a knowledge base and recommendations that can underpin a knowledge platform that ensures public sector access to capacity building tools for AI and digital transformation. With the collective expertise of its members, the Working Group will analyze digital transformation-related use cases and good practices worldwide and develop a digital transformation and AI competency framework for civil services that can be adapted to the contexts of low- and middle-income countries.

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• Artificial Intelligence in UNESCO
• AI Needs Assessment Africa
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Bloomberg live - ny & global

2022 most exciting collab events

4 education 1 finance & esg 2   food & nature adaptation 3 health 5 platforms for 100000 livesmatter community collabs... 6-17 100 times more tech compound

please tell us 

ed 4 education  UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) aims at reshaping ideas and practices in higher education to ensure sustainable development for the planet and humanity.

Barcelona, 18-20 May 2022

In the view of the global health crisis, UNESCO World Higher Education Conference, initially planned to be held in 2021, will take place from 18 to 20 May 2022. The goals and strategic scope of the conference remain, and the new time frame represents an opportunity to deepen and expand our common efforts of knowledge production, policy dialogue, exchange, and networking. UNESCO considers the process of collective construction as the greatest richness of this conference, which aims to become a global conversation nurtured by diverse narratives on higher education.

UNESCO thanks all organisations and individuals that have already expressed interest and are working to collaborate with and substantively contribute to the WHEC and even beyond. We encourage those who have not yet consider engagement to do so and coordinate via the WHEC Secretariat: whec2022@unesco.org(link sends e-mail)

The WHEC will maintain a hybrid format to provide opportunities for broad participation.

most imp collab cafe week ever

 each spring & fall since 2002 (when i volunteered for 2 years to host europewide dialogues on emotional intel of knowledge management - eu knowledgeboard) we have blended fall and spring collaboration cafe weeks

eg this cafe series spring 2008 out of ny bronx uni where un in ny 1946 began
- collab topic on the education revolution of women empowerment bangladesh

from 24 march to 30 2022 New York Plus we host the most urgent collab cafe ever

we start with 2 real days of meetings in ny cafes with hong kong women tech leaders and all friends eg of the UN robot ambassador sophia's networking - whats next in women's metaverse and every way media connects education or sdgs or ai or ESG...?

we conclude with event in the million youth climate chats

we welcome opportunities to list your collaboration connections during this timeline or following up actions younger half of world neef to connect if there is to be anytjhiong left after recent war covfid and climate disasters

chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk n bethesda maryland

join this million youth chat march 30

are there big win-wins between america's top 10 natural jewels - eg chesapeake bay - foundations, donors and colleges whose students could apprentice in green projects and solution - america green biggest mooc ever - but not examined on pieces of papers but by which colleges and societies renew their natural assets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHtacTJ-DnA

- i think that can be a big win-win post covid between museum donor and foundation particularly if that 4thly connects with college doing real student projects in heritage communities; i would love to try and blitz every colege that could be getting its student uniting round chesapeake bay projects - maybe thats a discussion after jeanne lim's moved on ; it relates to which are nature's biggest jewels in usa and do colleges near those jewels free student apprentice solutions- my expereinnce is college projects are so silioised even though natures jewel is begging out to unite all foundastions all donors and neighboring colege students- conversely about 4 years ago IADB hosted vc og salisbury university - he was discussing place branding - salisbury has enough collaboration projects going that he was thinking of renaming chesapeake university

the whole could be mooced as new green curricula - i have always wanted to see moocs whose perpose is not an exam certificate but massive youth collaboration entrepreneurship - we have a million students chatting from over 300 us places on march 30- what we dont have is which of these chats connects a nature project and a college https://earthday.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/3099472c8d794908917c23d06dffd2cb what absurd is this million chat is effectively sponsored by soros open society foundation hq's in new york and all its related foudations carnegie ford etc but the foundation and the colelge people are in separate silos never getting on the same diary in ways that youth could benefit from

millennials superstars need to bridge what made them world famous with what millenials most need - being the sustainability generation ...at what 2022 summit will this scale   ??

haven't yet found anyone who wants to apply her fame more to sustain her whole generation - your nominations welcome chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk -naomi osaka still number 1 generation caniddate at universyofstars.com and BloomBerg Los Angeles February? 

did biles miss her chance as - michigan/US Olympics gymnastics fork out nearly half a billion in reparations - why not build a womens college worth of 21st c sportswomen and all

Guterres & 2021-3 the most urgent years to collaborate round UN Leadership

 The world is very lucky that Antonio Guterres is leading UN collabs 2022-2023. See his life experience curves and peoples dedication (arguably the second most dedicated servant leader in Franciscan tradition after Pope Francis - before he headed the UN he headed its refugee actions through every community with the urgent crises refugees map; previously he had led Portugal ( he knows what its is like leading a nation, and one incidentally at far end of the EU's comprehension - ed note I helped design the largest every survey of how an EU budget on a nation had been spent in the early 1990s - he was well placed to learn from PEDIP

ON the UN's 75th in 2021 Guterres launched UN2.0, and leapt forward with operational branches of UN's application of Artificial Intel and FinTech

At UNGA in 2021 , Guterres report Common Agenda has earmarked 2023 as the optimal year for the UN to host summit future - in many ways this will be a bottom up complement as cop26-cop28 rolls on. The world is also hugely fortunate that Indonesia hosts teh G20 in 2022 . How else can we help Guterres maximise leadership and grassroots mapping of sdg collaborations

g1:21 COLLABorations

 Since 2007we got some advance notice of subprime-we have merged 2025report.com analysis first made in 1984 with  collabs sustainability millennials research - see eg www.economistwomen.com - we have been trying to map where community collaborations entrepreneurially took back control of their own future sustainability (matching work on that my dad  norman macrae first published in the economist in 1962; with support of eg romani prodi 1976 entrepreneurial revolution; and gifford pinchot intrapreneur 1982)  

urgency multiplies when you consider half-time sdgs 2022=9; guterres timeline 2023 summitfuture:

we have come to the conclusion that the way tech interacts in the 2020s with the 5 primary markets revolving round sdg1-5 times  together with  xfactors (change to green, change infrastructure/commons, where humans give control to machines to run realtime systems ie humansAI  matter most

so we will be paying particular attention to logging up zooms and diary of events round

g1 g2 g3 g4 g5 and these xfactors

we welcome collaborative recommendations chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

example

g1:21 12.1 - 

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happy thanks investing

 november that was the world's learning curve on climate that was   -cop27 handover to eqypt from glasgow cop26 and kunming, g20 handover from italy to indonesia  

december here comes 3 bites at how world design learning of its younger half from  HK dec 5 qatar 3 days from dec 7 dubai 3 days from dec 12 and with uae 6 month expo - handover to japan osaka 2025

that was year 2 of covid's decade - heavens knows if we dont learn from 50 years of womens greatest 30 collaborations soon how many last chances are there?

 its been 4 years since I heard bankers debate as humanly consciously as this - thanks to FT's Gillian Tett for superb moderation thanks to Maldives and Philippines and Pres J

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 through 4th quarter vietnam host digital world with united nations geneva ITU

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iib   octo9ber 26-28 with ---6 months uae expo and dubai indluding decemeber education's rewired2020.com

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Harnessing Technology to Build Human Capital in South Asia

South Asia is among the fastest growing regions globally, with a vast human capital potential. By 2030, it will be home to over a quarter of world’s working adults. Despite the potential, the region faces persistent human capital deficits—one out of every three children is stunted here, and four out 100 do not live beyond the age of five