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UNDP ... Digital Challenges and Solution for Sustainable Development
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| Default profile image Stephen Young • from South Africa • 2 weeks ago Hi everyone, It’s great to be part of this discussion. I’m a member of an open source community called The Commons Stack that is trying to scale the commons and re-prioritize people and the planet. Q1: A fundamental issue that continues to plague the nonprofit sector is a lack of sustainable and continuous funding. Currently, nonprofits are largely funded by individual and institutional donors as well as public and private grants. Nonprofits experience a large opportunity cost when they have to spend a considerable amount of time and energy seeking funding, increasing their administrative costs instead of spending more time on supporting beneficiaries. More often than not, donors tend to be from outside the community being served by the nonprofit, hence the incentives for financial participation are, inherently, not totally aligned with the needs of said community. When you add in the cost of R&D and development of software solutions the problem is just exacerbated. Q2 With the advent of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) also known as cryptocurrencies or Blockchains we now have a set of tools that allows us to create circular, regenerative economies that align incentives of a group of people towards common goals. The distributed, open and permissionless nature of these technologies grants maximum transparency to all community expenditures on administration and production. While the potential for these technologies is great they are brand new and inherently complex with many feedback loops between technological systems and the people they serve. As such, there is a huge amount of R&D required to get the technology to a point where it can be broadly applicable for mass market adoption. What is needed is open source software components that enable purpose-driven communities to raise and allocate capital towards community goals, with co-ownership and co-governance over pooled funds. By leveraging DLT work done within these communities is rewarded with additional stake in the community currency, which operates as an independent economy running on its native token. The introduction of a cryptographic token brings a capitalist funding model to commons projects. This allows the commons to scale and create abundance in the same way that the stock markets enabled corporations to scale. Without the ability to incentivising governance and participation, the Commons are in peril of being abused aka the tragedy of the commons. It is with this goal in mind that the Commons Stack project was conceived. It is our goal to create the conditions and tools to allow motivated citizens to take part in the governance and betterment of their communities. To fund, govern, curate and develop that which is closest to them, without relying on external donors and influences. The Commons Stack aims to build the underlying crypto economic infrastructure and tools needed to scale the commons using DLT technology. This will allow community projects and open source commons projects to build on top of theoretically sound, scientifically validated open source components without having to do the significant research and development required to produce a well functioning cryptoeconomic ecosystem. The Commons Stack is an open source project, consisting of a set of open source components and cutting edge simulation tools, aimed at building community-driven economies and resource management through sustainable, continuous funding, dynamic decision making and robust decentralised governance. It is a growing library of open source component blueprints for governance, funding, and other critical infrastructure to enable communities to act as platform cooperatives, co-owning and co-managing shared funds as a commons. The Commons Stack infrastructure would facilitate commons initiatives to act more like startups, by incentivising participation through membership investment, and in return offering common ownership and shared decision making in the use of those funds for effective realisation of community goals. 0 likes Cavin Mugarura Cavin Mugarura • Lead at Blue Node Media from Germany • 2 weeks ago That is an interesting project, although it's not very clear, can you share real life examples of what type of work the commons stack does. 0 likes Default profile image Stephen Young • from South Africa • 2 weeks ago Cavin Mugarura The Commons Stack is busy building the research tools including computer aided design tools that will allow us to model these new economic systems. We are also producing a set of smart contracts and distributed apps that once complete can be used by any community cooperative to raise funding, make decisions and pay contributors for their work. Currently Nonprofits are outgunned when it comes to competing with corporations in the unbalanced economic models we have today. The Commons Stack however, can be used to give communities access to community capital, similar to how large companies can leverage investor capital to grow. We are still in the building phase but once complete all the tools we build will be open source and free to use by any community projects. 0 likes Cavin Mugarura Cavin Mugarura • Lead at Blue Node Media from Germany • 2 weeks ago Stephen Young - fair enough do you have an example of one of the projects under development 0 likes Martin Cadena Martin Cadena • Facilitator – Community of Practice Environment and Energy (UNDP) at UNDP from Mexico • 1 week ago Moderator Dear Stephen Young thank you for this insightful comment and for sharing this innovative idea. Thank you also Cavin Mugarura for your questions. Following your last question, I would like to invite Stephen to post about some of the projects they are developing and to share any lesson learned generated so far. Best Martin 0 likes Default profile image GBADI • Expert en Genre at Projet de Pole Agro-Industriel dans la région du Bélier from Côte d’Ivoire • 2 weeks ago Merci à Martin Cadena et Joel Zongo, pour continuer nos échanges, je voudrais noter que l'une des téléphonie mobile essaie d'adapter ses produits aux besoins des populations analphabètes. C'est ainsi que 3 ou 4 langues locales sont intégrées surtout pour le mobile money. Cette adaptation nécessite toujours l'alphabétisation car si le chiffre est mentionné dans la langue locale, il faudrait pouvoir allier le discourt oral au visuel afin de permettre à la personne d'appuyer sur la bonne touche et faire les bonnes opérations. Une formation en langue locale sur le clavier pourrait être un bon début pour la personne qui traite avec la messagerie vocale dans sa langue. Merci pour ce débat très enrichissant. 1 like Martin Cadena Martin Cadena • Facilitator – Community of Practice Environment and Energy (UNDP) at UNDP from Mexico • 1 week ago Moderator Dear GBADI thank you for highlighting the importance of local-language training in these initiatives to increase the possibilities of success when implementing digital solutions for development. 0 likes rajesh k verma rajesh k verma • vice president,kabir foundation,kunderpura, at kabir Foundation,Kunderpura,khajuraho from India • 2 weeks ago Dear sir, The three fundamental requirements you will agree in inclusion of the communities residing in remote areas are medical advice, agricultural adcice monetary transactions the postal sub centres are prolific,having presence in nearly every nook and corner of our rural space,the post man caries a mobile device with transaction facilities and is useful for the illeterate /semi literates bank a/c holders. for timely medical or marketing advice of the rural product, villages are equipped with Pragya kendra or e choupals besides the cluster of farmers active as JLG or SHG can leverage their expertise and financial health in accelerating the financial and social inclusion by selective utilizaction of the technological products. the infrastructural gap is there but it is being minimised through group sharing. 1 like Beniam Gebrezghi Beniam Gebrezghi • Programme Specialist, Civil Society and Youth (UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub) at UNDP from Sweden • 1 week ago Moderator Thank you Rajesh for your insights. Some follow-up questions: Do the postal sub centres have a national presence in India? Can you explain more the Pragya kendra and e choupals concepts? 0 likes Cavin Mugarura Cavin Mugarura • Lead at Blue Node Media from Germany • 1 week ago Beniam Gebrezghi - I researched e agriculture initiatives while working with the International Food Policy Research Institute in 2009, e - choupal is one of the most successful ICT initiatives. They are not using rocket science, they are use everyday tools, to tackle the issue of little education among rural farmers they have what I will term as a senior farmer but in this project known as a Sanchalak. In Brazil, Embrapa has many good initiatives. The key is to use human centered approaches not dream up some fancy initiative which will fail before grant money dries up. All these are local solutions implemented by local players not someone holed up in Washington DC air conditioned office. 0 likes Dr. Audrey POMIER FLOBINUS Dr. Audrey POMIER FLOBINUS • Président & Fondateur at Humanity For The World from Martinique • 1 week ago 1. What are your biggest challenges and concerns when adopting digital technologies to address current development issues? In an interconnected global context, on the road to globalization, the question of digitization or digitization of the world no longer arises because it is now one of the greatest challenges this century will face. Indeed, in a world that is digitizing faster than it becomes literate, how to reconcile national, international, global digitization, by guaranteeing for each individual, each country: - Freedom, security - Data integrity - Data security If no solution is proposed, we will go beyond recurring digital wars. The countries of Europe protect themselves by establishing rules (RGPD) and the Americans are working on the subject to propose a response. The challenge is to harmonize internationally around standards, rules guaranteeing the integrity of international human rights. In the underdeveloped countries where literacy rates are high, many people paradoxically evolve in a preconceived digital world, thus regulating billing routines, various and varied costs; the challenge is to educate the population on the issues of: - Respect for the freedom of others - The property of the data - data security - the preservation and integrity of their data The major challenge of these countries is multiple when we know the costs generated by digitization, digitization, data security. Indeed, if these countries are not at the financial rendezvous, and aware of this wave of global digitization we can expect the development of digital traffic, aimed at developing popular mass manipulation in order to increase the influence of autocratic political, economic, and social systems. These countries could thus fall prey to profit-making international lobbies. While resources are struggling to feed the population, the challenge for these countries is to mobilize the financial resources and skills needed to ensure the security, sovereignty of their country and the data of their citizens. 2. What are the breakthrough digital ideas you think could exponentially advance sustainable development? Digitization of the world can contribute to the acceleration of global sustainable development, for example in agriculture, where the mechanization of actions can lead to the improvement of living conditions at work (SDG8), to development and to increased production of agrarian resources, which could lead to the reduction of hunger (SDG2) and the improvement of the economic system by the sustainable development of the export with a relevant return on the economy of the country. Digitization of the world can also contribute to the harmonization of practices in all areas at a global level (SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17), which could help humanity in its quest for the preservation of the climate and the environment (SDG14, SDG15) through the sharing, pooling of knowledge acquired by each country (SDG17) . The parallel development of social networks could be fertile ground for the development of positive international influence networks aimed at democratizing good practices in relation to a significant acceleration of the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Dr.h.c Audrey POMIER FLOBINUS Chairwoman & CEO Humanity For The World (HFTW) www.humanityfortheworld.org 1 like Martin Cadena Martin Cadena • Facilitator – Community of Practice Environment and Energy (UNDP) at UNDP from Mexico • 1 week ago Moderator Dear Dr. Audrey thank you for your comment. Is there any example of a solution you may want to share in the key areas you mentioned: freedom, data integrity, data security, and data property? 1 like Dr. Audrey POMIER FLOBINUS Dr. Audrey POMIER FLOBINUS • Président & Fondateur at Humanity For The World from Martinique • 1 week ago Dear Martin Cadena, The solution is based on high-level training for reference personnel in charge of security, computer intelligence, the legal watch on the freedom of computer data, the security of personal data, for all sensitive areas, including personal medical, public health, political, social-economic data, etc., which represent considerable international issues. This staff will have to respond to a high-level training that they should receive from world economic powers already running into this digital information management system such as the European Union and the US or Russian IT management systems. Thus they will be able to acquire bases of defenses and especially of international standards as regards good practices of digital data management. Then we need to inform vulnerable populations who are unaware of the digital challenges of their rights and duties in terms of digital data. We must democratize, popularize information so that it also learns best practices, and is aware of the benefits and dangers of digitalization. 1 like Saúl Morales Saúl Morales • Research and Analysis of Human Rights at Saul Morales from Mexico • 1 week ago 1. What are the biggest problems and concerns in adopting digital technologies to address current development problems? In relation to this question, I can say this: in Mexico can be surrounded by millions of people, but at the same time can not communicate with any of these people. This problem is based on the serious problem of racism and discrimination in the country. , Ideological, economic, social, cultural, etc. Wall creates an unfortunate human communication in Mexico and this is worrying. You must understand that people were not made in series as technological machines to have the same information in mind. We are different but with the same fundamental human rights. Every human being has the right to obtain the same information as everyone, to meet their own human needs, food, health, education, economics, etc. I think the biggest challenge of digital technologies is not addressing development issues in the world today. It is to prevent and eliminate obstacles to humans obtain the information necessary to develop their lives properly and appropriately. Solve the problems of racism and discrimination that affect human communication, causing poverty, ignorance, insecurity and other serious problems. 2. What are the innovative digital ideas that you think could exponentially boost sustainable development? There are many ideas about digital technologies that can help promote sustainable development. But this question, specify two ideas: DOUBLE SYSTEM EDUCATION SYSTEM AND JOB INTERVIEW WITH INCLUSION. a) Joy educativo.- System In Mexico, the lack of space in schools cause serious conflicts and a preparatory and college level. But digital technologies support the resolution of this problem, with studies at school and at home. In other words, the double education means studying at school and at home during the school term, in person and online. Duplicate education places in schools. For example, if there are only 10 places in a school and have a group of 10 students registered to take these places, with a weekly study of five days, from Monday to Friday. Applying the double education system, get these 10 students at school for 3 days and study at home online 2 days. For school register another group of 10 students. Assuming that the school believes in two groups, Group A and Group B. Group A will be at school on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Study online on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Group B will be at school on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Online studies on Wednesdays and Fridays. Duplicate school places. b) Job interviews with inclusión.- In Mexico, the problem of discrimination affecting labor activity of citizens. The profile of the worker is related by their physical characteristics and not their academic knowledge or work experience. With the labor system includes interviews, public institutions work or employment have to integrate an online interview system on their digital platforms. For companies to conduct online interviews with people interested in the vacancy. Avoid discrimination issues and save time in companies and job seekers. 0 likes Martin Cadena Martin Cadena • Facilitator – Community of Practice Environment and Energy (UNDP) at UNDP from Mexico • 1 week ago Moderator Dear Saúl Morales thanks for your participation in this Global Discussion. Indeed solving the problems you mentioned (i.e., poverty, discrimination) are at the core of the sustainable development agenda: SDG1: No poverty SDG 10: Reduced inequalities Regarding the ideas you mentioned, do you have some examples where these solutions have been implemented: Schools which have doubled their capacities and institutions which have implemented online interviews to guarantee impartiality? We also have to consider how to work on digital literacy and accessibility to contribute to an integral solution 0 likes Saúl Morales Saúl Morales • Research and Analysis of Human Rights at Saul Morales from Mexico • 1 week ago Martin Cadena Good day. Thank you for your observation for my comments. I inform you that unfortunately I don't know real examples that serve as the basis for my proposals. Because if these measures are implemented before, it would be necessary to modify the education system or labor laws in Mexico, with legislative reforms. But in any case, I mention to you that in Mexico there is private universities, which perform a modality of face-to-face and online study, during the same school period. And also the university publishes UNAM, with its SUAyED educational model, which in its open mode since its inception, combines the presence and distance teaching practices. Where the educational space for interaction and communication relies fundamentally on technological means, which allows the teaching and learning process to develop more flexibly, in different times and places. https://web.cuaed.unam.mx/proyectos-educativos-para-entidades-universit… In relation to the job interviews, the public institution of Secretaria del Trabajo y prevision social, has a work program for young people, called 'Jovenes construyendo el futuro'. Where young people have to put their profile on the Digital Platform of the program, which is the electronic medium, that has all the information for that automatically making the links to associate the profiles of young people, according to their interests with available spaces in work centers. In this program there isn't dynamic of online job interviews, but the linkage objective is similary. https://jovenesconstruyendoelfuturo.stps.gob.mx/ The Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social also collaborated with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the “I am the future of work” campaign, through the 'Jovenes construyendo el futuro' program. where the objective is make a change towards the new world of work, defined by digitalization, globalization and demographic changes. Because the benefits aren't shared for everyone. Many people are experiencing the negative effects of increasing inequality in salaries and work risks. Being worrying trends for the future if they aren't resolved. https://www.gob.mx/stps/articulos/i-am-the-future-of-work?idiom=es 0 likes | |||||||||