United States of America

Posts on the Country "United States of America"

29/ 05

2025

30/ 05

2025

New York, United States of America 29/05/2025 – 30/05/2025

New York City, May 21, 2025 – The countdown is on for the Reboot the Earth 2025 Hackathon in New York City, set to take place on May 29 and 30 at the iconic Salesforce Tower.

30/ 03

2023

Washington DC, United States of America 30/03/2023

BioSolutions: Emerging options and opportunities - Learning from French Ecosystem Webinar  March 30, 2023, Thursday, 9:00 - 10:30 AM, EDT (Washington DC time)Click here to convert to your local Time WebEx (information enclosed below)

Moderator: Christian Le Roux, General secretary, M2i Life Sciences

03/02/2022
The Worldbank Group has recently published a new edition on “ Digital Transformation of the Agrifood System” as part of the What’s Cooking series. The Agriculture and Food Series is intended to prompt public discussion and inform policies that will deliver higher incomes, reduce hunger, improve...

06/ 05

2020

09/ 05

2020

New York, United States of America 06/05/2020 – 09/05/2020

This virtual ICT4D conference is a global transformative peer-learning digital development event specifically designed to include practitioners from low- and middle-income countries.

Organizers

26/09/2019
The INNOVATION Quartely Update (2019 #3) has been released! The update provides an overview of highlights from the innovation activities of UN organisations affiliated with the UN innovation Network.There are very exciting news from the UN Community, below we review a few selection of the...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
11/08/2019
The world is facing an imminent challenge – the world population is expected to grow from 7.7 billion to 10 billion by 2050; today (with a population of 7.7) more than 820 million people are hungry globally. Does this mean that the world needs to produce more food to feed the hungry? Evidence seems...
03/06/2019
The GSMA has announced GSMA Innovation Fund for eight grants of £220,000 each to support projects for 24 months duration. The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains aims to scale digital solutions for the agricultural last mile and improve smallholders’ financial...
20/03/2019
In an opinion piece on CNN Business, the WorldBank Group CEO and interim presidents noted that automation and artificial intelligence (and other disruptive technologies) could revolutionize the industrialized world, and with great potential to the developing world. O n her tweeter account, Ms...

11/ 03

2019

22/ 03

2019

New York, United States of America 11/03/2019 – 22/03/2019

The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019.

Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world are expected to attend the session.

Priority theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;

19/02/2019
The Digital Development for Feed the Future a project within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with their partners published a paper on Digital Farmer Profiles paper. The paper seeks to explain how technologies can be used to include smallholder farmers into the broader...