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Events & Publications on the topic: Inclusive Innovation

The AI for Social Good Summit Policy Insight Brief I: Four Abilities for Governments to Leverage AI for Social Good

January 2021 APRU

AI for Social Good, a partnership between the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), United Nations ESCAP and Google, released Policy Insight Briefs from the AI for Social Good Summit, taken place in November 2020. This Brief provides a strategic summary of policy insights from three expert panels on building an effective enabling environment for AI for social good at the national level.

The AI for Social Good Summit Policy Insight Brief II: Seven Challenges to Govern AI

January 2021 APRU

AI for Social Good, a partnership between the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), United Nations ESCAP and Google, released Policy Insight Briefs from the AI for Social Good Summit, taken place in November 2020. This brief provides a strategic summary of policy insights from three expert panels on AI governance and accountability for social and environmental benefit.

The AI for Social Good Summit Report

January 2021

While the AI research ecosystem is growing, there is still limited research into how AI can positively transform economies and societies. In light of this, United Nations ESCAP, APRU, and Google partnered in 2018 to fill this void by setting up the AI for Social Good Project and bringing together regional scholars and experts from industry and government.

26 Oct

ESCAP and Mahidol University signed a memorandum of agreement to establish SDG Solutions Lab in Thailand

26 October 2020 United Nations ESCAP & DRI
Mrs. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, ESCAP Executive Secretary, and Prof. Banchong Mahaisavariya, M.D., President of Mahidol University witnessed signing of a Memorandum of Agreement  on SDG Solutions Lab by Mr. Adnan H. Aliani, Director, Strategy and Programme Management Division, ESCAP and Assoc. Prof. Jackrit Suthakorn, Ph.D., Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University. 
2 Nov

Webinar on Promoting Grassroots Innovation: Present Situation, Challenges, and Policies

2 November 2020 United Nations ESCAP, GIAN, Honey Bee Network
2 NOV 2020 TO 3 NOV 2020 BANGKOK, THAILAND VIRTUAL Grassroots innovation is a modality of inclusive innovation that enables affordable, niche-adapted solutions developed by members of informal sector at community level, like farmers, artisans, workers, mechanics, children etc., to address unmet needs or local problems, often unaided by public sector or actors in the formal sector, including firms, science and technological institutions, and non-governmental organisations.
3 Dec

Accelerating Impact Investment in Asia and the Pacific

3 December 2020 United Nations ESCAP, GSG
3 December 2020, 3:00 pm (Bangkok time; 8:00 am GMT) Virtual event   Join UNESCAP and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) for impact investment digital policy resource launch: "Towards an Enabling Policy Environment for Impact Investment in Asia and the Pacific".
19 Aug

Committee on Information and Communications Technology, Science, Technology and Innovation, Third Session

19 August 2020 United Nations ESCAP
The Committee on Information and Communications Technology, Science, Technology and Innovation, Third Session will be held at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok from 19 to 20 August 2020 virtually via video conference. Bangkok-based representatives from member States and international organizations are welcome to participate in person at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok. Provisional agenda