Entrepreneurs are solving critical challenges affecting gender equality, such as financial inclusion and healthcare, that have only been exacerbated by Covid-19. Yet women entrepreneurs who have experienced such inequalities first-hand often do not receive the resources needed to scale their businesses and solutions. In emerging markets, women-led startups receive only 11% of seed funding and … Continued
This project aims to support UNESCO Member States in implementing the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI and ensuring the ethical design, development and use of AI, through the development of an Ethical Impact Assessment (EIA). EIA will help to predict consequences, mitigate risks, avoid harmful impact, facilitate citizen participation and awareness, and deploy various … Continued
The Government of Japan aims to lead the development and promotion of international behavioral norms on rendez-vous and proximity operations (RPO) in space. Concentrating Japan’s most prominent experts in space engineering, policy and law, the University of Tokyo conducted a preliminary study funded by the Ministry of Education and Science (MEXT) and supported by the … Continued
2024-25 Scale-up project Presentation of the project The majority of planet Earth’s surface is covered in ocean, yet about only one-quarter of the seabed has been mapped to a resolution comparable to a single depth measurement within the area of a football field. The Mapping for People and Planet project aims to increase access … Continued
The Global Coordination Platform (GCP) is a secure platform that aims to create economic opportunities for IsDB’s Member Countries (MCs), helping them reach their development targets in the short, medium, and long term. The GCP is a free market system that allows registered countries to explore services offered by various providers worldwide, allowing them to … Continued
The initiative aims to encourage organizations to adapt and improve their internal culture and process to increase online trust and the safety of internet users. In the longer term, the Digital Accountability Process will provide independent evidence to regulators, companies, and their stakeholders about organizational progress and challenges in digital responsibility. A first accountability report … Continued
Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) is a controversial proposal for reducing some of the impacts of climate change by reflecting a fraction of sunlight away from the Earth. Developing countries should play a central role in global efforts to understand SRM, yet most research and discussion have taken place in the world’s wealthiest nations. The Degrees … Continued
The Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI) improves the quality of jobs in multinational companies’ operations and supply chains by enhancing corporate transparency and accountability, supporting SDG 8: decent work for all. Founded in 2016 by NGO ShareAction and supported by an international investor coalition, WDI promotes disclosure of impactful metrics related to working conditions and engages … Continued
This project aims to partner with developing space powers to deliver Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services and telescopes adapted to the surveillance of space debris. Share My Space is a French start-up that provides SSA services to space agencies, private operators, and the military. Today, space situational awareness (satellite positions, debris trajectories, collision prediction) is … Continued
Funded by the Italian Episcopal Conference – CEI, the project consists of a 2-year program for 11 young local leaders coming from communities characterized by situations of conflict, tension, and lack of socio-economic development in Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria. The project has four components: learning, training, cohabitation, and generation of impact … Continued
