Emergent Futures: Innovative Technology, Finance and Localized Solutions
Date: 25th September, 8.30 – 10.30 AM
Organizers:
- GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York Inc. / International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI
- UN Environment Early Warning and Data Analytics Branch
- WINGS Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (tbc)
- Climate Chain Coalition
Registration: https://lu.ma/t5j02jwr
Objective:
Aligning with UNGA, the Summit of the Future and Climate Week, this event will harness insights to highlight transformative solutions and pathways for effective responses to emerging local and global challenges through multi-stakeholder engagement. Organized by the Global Challenges Foundation (GloCha), we will hold a design session to discuss innovative approaches to local action, focusing on geospatial information, citizen science, emerging technology and innovative funding mechanisms.
The event will unfold in four parts:
The event will include:
- Welcome: Context & Announcements
- Global Challenges Action Centers: Spaces for empowering action on global goals
- Thematic Introductions: Experts will discuss the potential of various technologies and methods for effective multi-stakeholder action and philanthropy innovation, including:
- UN Geospatial Network’s One Map initiative
- GloCha
- A Web3-powered platform supporting impact entrepreneurship and philanthropy through citizen science data.
- Edutainment & Creative Economy Programs
- Emerging technology
- Citizen science
- Group design: Collaborative emergent strategy & design thinking session
- Tour de Table: Participants will share best practices and solutions.
- Networking Reception: Attendees will network over light refreshments.
This event is a timely opportunity to exchange insights, knowledge and collaborate as we surface innovative approaches to solving critical global challenges to implement the vision of UN 2.0 and work together to collectively fulfill, and think beyond, the 2030 agenda.
Location: Eric and Wendy Schmidt Foundation, New York
This event is a timely opportunity to exchange insights, knowledge and collaborate as we surface innovative approaches to solving critical global challenges to implement the vision of UN 2.0 and work together to collectively fulfill the 2030 agenda.
Benefits for partnering philanthropists:
- Digital solutions/Tools for philanthropy innovation, connected to UN global goals/ geospatial / early warning information systems
- Involvement in UN HQ NY conference, exhibit and reception, 18th Sept 2024
- Opportunities related to UN Climate Conference COP29 through COP29 Digital Innovation pavilion
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References:
- Climate Week New York 2020 Webinar: Blockchain Technology and Digital Finance for Climate Action Empowerment, https://www.glocha.org/2020/09/11/blockchaindigitalfinancecwny2020/
- Action Giving Pledge meeting at the Bay Aquarium in San Francisco in the context of the California Global Climate Action Summit 2018 https://globalclimateactionsummit.org/events/giveyouthachance-call-for-resources-for-youth-climate-action/
- GloCha Conference with the European Foundation Center, “Global Philanthropists: Partners for a Knowledge based Response to Climate Change”, June 2008, Portorož, Slovenia https://drive.google.com/file/d/15_AXiRJgabPwhAAH_BDOANNtBPZKnx-N/view?usp=sharing