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Understanding Digital Public Infrastructure: What it Means — and Why it Matters — to Businesses and Governments in Emerging Markets

James Militzer

In a paper written last January, David was able to identify just one substantive definition of DPI at that time — that offered by the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s GovStack working group. This heightened definitional discourse is encouraging, especially considering the global prominence of those involved.

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Sustainable engineering: a 'triple win' for businesses, stakeholders and the planet

Sustainability Matters

As climate change fears loom, countries the world over are urgently working towards emissions reduction goals. But the pathway to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 is narrow: it will require unprecedented transformation of the industrial sector, which currently accounts for more than 25% of emissions worldwide.

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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. None of the studies were written by ourselves.

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Call for Abstracts: 2024 International Conference on Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development Network

Amplifying all Voices for SDG Achievement 1A Elevating the pluriverse: Indigenous and diverse visions for sustainable development solutions Chairs: Tamara Dionne Stout, University of Winnipeg; Dave Wilsey, University of Minnesota With layered environmental crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, food and water insecurity, etc.,

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Live From UNGA 77 - September 22

3BL Media

The Smart Africa Secretariat and Ericsson have entered a collaboration that will support Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA)’s mission of promoting digital transformation across Africa through education and capacity development. climate roundtable hosted on Wednesday afternoon by U.N. Read more here: [link].