Breaking the Scale Barrier: from SDG Innovation to SDG Achievement

Описание: The Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations and the UNDP Accelerator Lab Network organized a high-level event as part of the UN General Assembly 78 SDG Action Week in New York.

This high-level event, hosted by Her Excellency Ambassador Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani and opened by UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner assembled investors, innovators and academia for a discussion on how open innovation can unleash new momentum for Agenda 2030.

Learn UNDP South Sudan's Accelerator Lab's work on community banking and how they are scaling it from a traditional means of empowerment to an inclusive digital scheme.
Watch their work in action:    • UNDP South Sudan Accelerator Lab: Digitiza...  

Hear from Mr. Shavi K.V, chairman of India's National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and the UNDP India Accelerator Lab, on how they are scaling their data innovation to model climate change & agriculture through DiCRA, a digital public good that uses #openAI to capture resilient farming practices.
Watch their work in action:    • Grassroots practices of Climate Smart Farm...  

And learn from the UNDP Lesotho Accelerator Lab how an elegant grasshopper they discovered from a local farmer holds the key to safe & effective pest control, including how they measure the success of their experiments (and learn from those that don't get taken up.)
Learn more about their work: https://www.undp.org/lesotho/blog/i-a...

Lastly, hear from Frank Nagle, Assistant Professor at Harvard University who teaches the UNDP Accelerator Labs as a model, share the importance and value of the Lab's network of ecosystem approach and how it is needed in the race to achieve the SDGs.
Read it here: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/ite...

Run of show:
0:00 Talal Abdulaziz Mohammed Al-Naama, Permanent Mission Master of Ceremony.
0:57 Her Excellency Ambassador Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Qatar to the United Nations
4:31 Achim Steiner, Administrator of UNDP
14:00 Ms Sarah Ryglewski, Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
19:34 Moderator Gina Lucarelli, UNDP Accelerator Labs Team Lead introduces panel
22:02 Neo Matsoso, Head of Exploration, UNDP Lesotho Accelerator Lab
29:19 Buay Tut, Head of Exploration, UNDP South Sudan Accelerator Lab
40:20 Neo Matsoso, Head of Exploration, UNDP Lesotho Accelerator Lab
48:35 Shaji Krishnan Vimalanandavally, Chairman of India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (remote)
57:14 Swetha Kolluri, Head of Experimentation, UNDP India (remote)
1:05.01 Shaji Krishnan Vimalanandavally, Chairman of India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (remote)
1:10:24 Frank Nagle, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School (remote)