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SUMMARY:7th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science\, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals
DESCRIPTION:Credit to Grace Chenxin Liu for her design and creation of this artwork\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe seventh annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science\, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum) will be held from 5 to 6 May 2022. The Forum will be convened by the President of ECOSOC H.E. Mr. Collen Vixen Kelapile who has appointed two co-chairs – H.E. Mr. Kennedy Godfrey Gastorn\, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations\, and H.E. Mr. Sergiy Kyslytsya\, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. As per its mandate\, the Forum will be organized by the UN interagency task team on STI for the SDGs (IATT)\, convened by UN-DESA and UNCTAD\, and the 10-Member Group of high-level representatives appointed by the Secretary General. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs in previous years\, the theme of the STI Forum will be closely aligned with that of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)\, to be held from Tuesday\, 5 July\, to Thursday\, 7 July\, and from Monday\, 11 July\, to Friday\, 15 July 2022\, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council\, but have an exclusive focus on the role and contributions of science\, technology and innovation. The HLPF in 2022 will review in-depth Sustainable Development Goals 4 on quality education\, 5 on gender equality\, 14 on life below water\, 15 on life on land\, and 17 on partnerships for the Goals. The upcoming HLPF will take into account the different and particular impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across all Sustainable Development Goals and the integrated\, indivisible and interlinked nature of the Goals. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccordingly\, the theme for the STI Forum 2022 will be: “Science\, technology and innovation for building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by SustDev\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://esgnews.com/esg-lifestyle/ \nMatt BirdMatt Bird is the Founder\, CEO\, and Editor-in-Chief of ESG News. He brings 25 years of experience in corporate strategy\, media\, fintech\, and communications\, including 15 years specializing in news and journalism. Matt was recognized by the United Nations as #3 of the “Top 10 Most Influential Media Executives for Impact” in 2015 during the launch of the UN SDGs.\nHe has advised the Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative (SSEI)\, UNCTAD\, and the UN\, and hosts event coverage at the World Economic Forum\, ADFW\, Climate Week NYC\, EU Parliament\, COP\, the Vatican\, NASDAQ\, NYSE\, and more. Matt is a founding board member of the Humanity 2.0 Foundation\, a Vatican-based NGO focused on identifying and removing impediments to human flourishing.\nHe previously rang the NASDAQ Closing Bell in honor of his partnership with NASDAQ OMX to launch the world’s first retail investor targeting and newswire monitoring platform with the NASDAQ Financial Services Group. Matt launched ESG News in 2021\, leading coverage of more than 10\,000 news stories as of 2026—and truly loves what he does. \nesgnews.com
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/7th-multi-stakeholder-forum-on-science-technology-and-innovation-for-the-sustainable-development-goals/
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SUMMARY:STI Forum Side Event: Digitalization to Achieve the SDGs - promoting effective and coherent UN support through mapping and country-level initiatives
DESCRIPTION:Background Information on Side Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe would like to showcase the mapping of digital-related initiatives across the UN System\, which was conducted from 30 November 2021 to 31 January 2022. Accordingly\, we would like to share that we have received 489 inputs from 39 UN entities during the mapping exercise. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo highlight the outcomes and initiatives of this mapping\, the Office of the Tech Envoy and DESA are organizing an STI Side Event aiming to raise stakeholder awareness on how digital technologies can boost the process to achieve SDGs and the significance of coordination to implement the Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. Through presentations by UN Agencies and UN country presence\, the event will also explore how digitalization can help facilitate the achievement of socio-economic and environmental\, sustainable development\, with a specific focus on country-level needs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by SustDev\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://esgnews.com/esg-lifestyle/ \nMatt BirdMatt Bird is the Founder\, CEO\, and Editor-in-Chief of ESG News. He brings 25 years of experience in corporate strategy\, media\, fintech\, and communications\, including 15 years specializing in news and journalism. Matt was recognized by the United Nations as #3 of the “Top 10 Most Influential Media Executives for Impact” in 2015 during the launch of the UN SDGs.\nHe has advised the Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative (SSEI)\, UNCTAD\, and the UN\, and hosts event coverage at the World Economic Forum\, ADFW\, Climate Week NYC\, EU Parliament\, COP\, the Vatican\, NASDAQ\, NYSE\, and more. Matt is a founding board member of the Humanity 2.0 Foundation\, a Vatican-based NGO focused on identifying and removing impediments to human flourishing.\nHe previously rang the NASDAQ Closing Bell in honor of his partnership with NASDAQ OMX to launch the world’s first retail investor targeting and newswire monitoring platform with the NASDAQ Financial Services Group. Matt launched ESG News in 2021\, leading coverage of more than 10\,000 news stories as of 2026—and truly loves what he does. \nesgnews.com
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/sti-forum-side-event-digitalization-to-achieve-the-sdgs-promoting-effective-and-coherent-un-support-through-mapping-and-country-level-initiatives/
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