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Paddy Payne Director, Intergen Limited
UNANZ National Council member
The business/human rights nexus, sustainability and the UN Global Compact
2015 UN Human Rights Day UNANZ seminar
ICT and Sustainability
“The spread of ICTs and global interconnectedness
has great potential to accelerate human progress, to
bridge the digital divide and to develop knowledge
societies.”
from paragraph 15 of the Final Outcome Document on sustainable development, produced by the UN’s Open Working Group, charged with developing the post-2015 sustainable development agenda
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ICTs integrate and accelerate all three pillars of sustainable development
social inclusion
economic growth
environmental sustainability
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enhancing international cooperation and coordination
promoting technology transfer
capacity building
forging multi-stakeholder partnerships
enabling and improving data monitoring and accountability
ICTs have a role to play in:
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Nkalo – market intelligence service, Ivory Coast and Mali
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Fatoumata Kebe – CONNECTED ECO in Mali
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Baye Oumar Hueve, supporting diabetics in Senegal
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Dr James Fu and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology
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Programme in Colombia for visually-impaired people giving autonomy
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Dr Daniel Duffy – NASA Centre for Climate Simulation
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Environment Public Authority, Kuwait
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Open Data portal, Government of Mexico
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Eleven ELEVEN makes the case that a
sustainable future will require an ethical
revolution, one that will wholly
transform humankind, reshaping its
inner life and external conditions. This
process will result in the emergence of a
new culture, a new agriculture, and
ultimately a new human race.
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