The International Telecommunication Union is organizing the ITU workshop on Distributed Ledger Technology Scalability and Interoperability.

Objectives
The objectives of the workshop are to:

• Examine scalability requirements of DLT platforms;

• Discuss approaches to benchmark DLT platform performance;

• Identify components of DLT that would benefit from interoperability;

• Discuss approaches to minimize DLT platform differences from the user perspective;

• Review related standardization activities;

• Propose a way forward for related standardization work in ITU-T Study Groups.

Target Audience
Participation in the workshop is open to ITU Member States, Sector Members, Associates and Academic Institutions and to any individual from a country that is a member of ITU who wishes to contribute to the work. This includes individuals who are also members of international, regional and national organizations. Participation in the workshop is free of charge, however seats are limited and no fellowships will be granted. The workshop will be held in English only.

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Combining his technical experience with his insights as an Incubation Manager at Nile University’s TechSpace, Mr. Mohamed Gouda leads this TechNovation talk on the evolution of tech and business trends. This includes discussions on cloud computing, virtualization, AI, smart devices, blockchain, and other frontier technologies trends. This talk brings forward the technologies, their case-uses, and positioning in Egypt. Techies, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts are invited to this special edition of the TechNovation series, co-organized by UNTIL Egypt and Nile University. 

About the Speaker 
Mohamed Gouda is the Incubation Manager at Nile University TechSpace. Gouda has a strong technical background and project management skills. He has a track-record working with academia and the entrepreneurship ecosystem, civil society, as well as the private sector. An engineer by training and techie at heart, Gouda has participated various trainings and hands-on professional experiences from numerous institutions, including Cisco, Google, and IEEE. 
Techspace is the first software incubator specialized in Web 3.0 technologies, such as blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, in Egypt.
 

About the TechNovation Talks & Workshops

The TechNovation talks feature specialists from academia, private and public sector who explain cutting-edge technologies and their possible uses in education, health, industry, agriculture, and other sustainable development sectors.

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The focus areas of this year’s fellowship scheme are:

• Data Science (Education)

• Statistics (Disability)

• Predictive Analysis

• Business Strategy

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Policymakers are increasingly turning to the behavioral sciences to tackle intractable policy challenges, including increasing student learning, raising savings rates, promoting energy and resource conservation, increasing productivity, improving sanitation practices, strengthening institutions, and reducing corruption. Behavioral insights (BI) comes into a key place in the associated behaviorally informed policy work.

The World Bank and UN Women cordially invite you to a brownbag exchange on BI, where the Mind, Behavior, and Development Unit (eMBeD), the World Bank’s behavioral sciences team will present experiences with behaviorally informed policy work, with a special focus on the gender stream.

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Development requires a new set of pathways and parameters, designed with courage and creativity. The UNDP Accelerator Labs will create new capabilities for national partners in 78 countries to reimagine development for the 21st century.

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) together with core investors, the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Qatar, is building the world’s largest learning network to tackle development challenges. This is a new kind of partnership – one where we engage together in a global experiment explore, test, and grow solutions.

Interested in learning more and become part of this global initiative? Join us in Berlin for the official presentation of the Accelerator Lab Network:

When: 26 June 2019,
16.30h Arrival of Participants and Registration
17-18h Official Programme
18-19h Networking opportunity

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The 2019 Circularity Gap report warns the rate of raw material extraction at 92 billion tonnes per year is already exceeding planetary boundaries, and that due to population and economic growth this figure could swell to a staggering 184 billion tonnes per year by 2050. The report points out that only a mutually reinforcing combination of low-carbon development and resource efficiency can shift our world economy to a low carbon pathway. Consequently, a systematic and holistic approach to climate change is needed which doesn’t focus on single sectors or industries and instead focuses on a new vision of sustainable, low-carbon growth while re-writing the narrative that reducing emissions is costly to the economy.

This webinar will provide a brief overview of how circular economies, which are aimed at minizing production of wasteful materials and making the most of resources, are well placed to target consumption-based emissions and address responsibilities for outsourced industries. This webinar will also discuss cooperative climate finance approaches that can take into consideration emissions generated along the supply chains and address the emissions embedded in the products as well as off-shore finance markets and related climate finance calculations.

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The rise of Impact Investing shows that positive, measurable, environmental and social change is an investment opportunity that can yield financial returns. Impact Investment is changing the way in which capital is allocated. Its grows steadily year after year and perhaps signals the «paradgim shift» needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

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