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SUMMARY:Off-grid Energy Access & Innovation in Africa
DESCRIPTION:Approximately 573 million people still lack adequate access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 calls for action to ensure access to affordable\, reliable\, sustainable\, and modern energy for all by 2030. The Startup Tuesday – “Impact Insights”\, edition is not necessarily focused on a startup\, but rather on innovation in general. The presentation will explore some of the challenges and opportunities that incumbents and start-ups in East Africa face when deploying technological innovations in off-grid areas. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: \n\n\n\nElsie Onsongo is the Manager of the Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa – Kenya Hub. Her research interests relate to innovation for inclusive development in sub-Saharan Africa\, with a current focus on frugality\, inclusion and sustainability in healthcare and energy access. In her energy research\, she focuses on developments around modern energy cooking services and off-grid energy in East Africa. Elsie has a PhD from Friedrich Schiller University Jena\, Germany\, and she previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam\, The Netherlands. She has been a visiting research fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)\, University of Sussex\, UK\, and has worked at Strathmore University in Kenya in various teaching\, research and administrative capacities. \n\n\n\nSummary of the presentation: \n\n\n\nApproximately 573 million people still lack adequate access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 calls for action to ensure access to affordable\, reliable\, sustainable\, and modern energy for all by 2030. Meeting this need is a challenging task given that electrification\, particularly in rural areas where most un-connected households live\, is capital intensive\, and demand is unproven. Nevertheless\, research and development in this area has yielded promising frugal innovations\, among them\, off-grid solutions such as mini-grids and solar home systems. The presentation will explore some of the challenges and opportunities that incumbents and start-ups in East Africa face when deploying technological innovations in off-grid areas\, the business models underlying them\, socio-cultural factors that influence the demand for and use of off-grid solutions\, and a brief commentary about enablers in the policy environment. \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom Link here on the 3rd of November at 17.00 CET : https://zoom.us/j/91593664457
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/off-grid-energy-access-innovation-in-africa/
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SUMMARY:How SDG 16 can help salvage the 2030 Agenda in the wake of COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has now entered a ‘Decade of Action’ meant to accelerate progress towards sustainable development that would ‘leave no one behind’. \n\n\n\nYet\, at out the outset of this 10-year period\, the 2030 Agenda is in jeopardy. With the majority of the World’s poor living in fragile and conflict affected contexts the underperformance of SDG 16 on peaceful and inclusive societies\, threatens a repeat of the past\, whereby the Millennium Development Goals did indeed leave people living in such contexts behind. COVID-19 has now increased the urgency of responding to this deficit\, with the pandemic compounding existing conflict and violence\, while threatening the erosion of fragile development gains. \n\n\n\nWhen it comes to conflict\, a business as usual approach to the SDGs is no longer enough. \n\n\n\nAt this event International Alert will share findings from its report with the British Council\, ‘Peace is the cure: How SDG 16 can help salvage the 2030 Agenda in the wake of COVID-19’. This session will unpack the obstacles to more effectively advancing peace both in terms of SDG 16 itself and across the SDGs as a whole. It will prompt a discussion around a necessary course correction to ensure those living in fragile and conflict-affected contexts are not left behind while at the same time facing down the conflict challenges amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic. Perspectives from Nigeria\, as provided by Alert’s Country Director will help ground the conversation. \n\n\n\nHosted by the UK Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Global Goals.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/how-sdg-16-can-help-salvage-the-2030-agenda-in-the-wake-of-covid-19/
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SUMMARY:Introduction to the Renewed Sphere Standards
DESCRIPTION:The Sphere Handbook is the oldest initiative in the field of humanitarian standards and has recently been updated. The Sphere Standards have been field-tested over twenty years\, updates ensure it remains fit for purpose in a changing world.\n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs and KUNO\, the Platform for Humanitarian Knowledge Exchange in The Netherlands\, invite you to an expert meeting on the Sphere Standards on Monday 19 October (time to be announced) in The Hague. \nProgramme \nIn the first part of the expert meeting participants will be updated on the renewed Sphere Standard by trainers Tristan Hale and Axel Schmidt. You can read more about them below. \nIn the second part of the workshop\, a discussion will be facilitated on the application of the Sphere standards\, including the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS)\, in the work of NGOs and donors. To kick-start the discussion in the second part of the session\, a representation of a NGO and MoFA will pitch the use of Sphere and CHS in their respective organisation. \nAfter the expert meeting there is the opportunity for drinks & networking. \nWe kindly request you to register via kuno@kuno-platform.nl
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/expert-meeting-on-the-renewed-sphere-standards/
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SUMMARY:International Law for a Digitalized World
DESCRIPTION:Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NETHERLANDS SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW \n\n\n\nThe worldwide use of the internet seems to have a natural fit with both public and private international law. However\, while the Internet stands for ‘transboundary’\, international law is primarily based on ‘territoriality’. Key concepts that come into play then are state sovereignty and the limits thereto\, and questions such as how to deal with the ‘dual use’ of the Internet\, being an instrument in the hands of peaceful protest movements\, but also of people engaging in cyber-espionage\, of e-commerce as well as human trafficking. \n\n\n\nOver the decades\, international law adapted in many ways to the quickly evolving\, multi-facetted digital reality\, and one of the central questions now is whether or not concepts and ideas developed in the ‘predigital era’ still fit the digitalised world. Is international law\, both public and private\, ready for the digital era or has it rather been a ‘fragmented follower of developments’ and should it fundamentally rethink a number of notions and approaches? \n\n\n\nThe Royal Netherlands Society of International Law decided to put the issue on the agenda and invited four legal experts to draft a report (a ‘pre-advies’) on this. Together they deal with a long list of very fundamental questions as well as practical issues across a range of subdisciplines of international law. In doing so\, they challenge both current legal practitioners\, business people\, NGOs and policy makers\, as well those who would like to work in this field in the future. \n\n\n\nAt the 2020 Annual Meeting these authors will present their reports. The presentations will be followed by a Q & A session\, via chat. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\n\n\nDR MARJOLEIN BUSSTRA AND WIETEKE THEEUWEN\, LL.M.International Law in the Context of Cyber Operations \n\n\n\nPROF. MR DR YBO BURUMAInternational Law and Cyberspace – Issues of Sovereignty and the Common Good \n\n\n\nPROF. DR DAN J.B. SVANTESSONIs International Law Ready for the (Already Ongoing) Digital Age:Perspectives from Private and Public International Law \n\n\n\nAt 13:00 hrs CET the Annual General Meeting of the KNVIR will be held\, to which only members are admitted. \n\n\n\nThe presentation of the biennial François Prize will take place immediately following the members-only part of the meeting\, at approximately 13:15 hrs CET. \n\n\n\nThe presentations and discussion will be held in English. \n\n\n\nThe printed version of the Collected Papers\, containing the reports\, has been published by T.M.C. Asser Press in The Hague and may be ordered by non-members by applying to press@asser.nl (price € 25.00 + p.&.p.). Members have received or will receive a copy of the Collected Papers via regular mail. \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: If you wish to attend the meeting\, you are required to register by sending a message to info@knvir.org no later than Tuesday 3 November 2020.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/international-law-for-a-digitalized-world/
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