A task force of the G20 research and policy advice network, Think20 (T20), has identified artificial intelligence (AI) based learning technologies as the recommended approach to overcoming current educational challenges and ensuring existing and future employees are prepared to be a member of the workforce of today and tomorrow. With economies reeling from the repercussions...
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Reloading She Love Tech Pakistan
Groundbreaking startup CIRCLE, is bringing She Loves Tech 2020, a women-centric global technology startup competition, back to Pakistan for the fourth time. This year CIRCLE will be hosting She Loves Tech Pakistan in 10 cities including Azad Kashmir, Sukkur, Multan and Faisalabad – while working with different NGOs, academic institutes, incubators and ecosystem partners across...
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Five entrepreneurship-focused webinars in August under Badiris Knowledge Exchange series
August 11TH, 2020, SHARJAH (UAE): Following the huge success of its virtual educational initiative, Badiri Knowledge Exchange, Badiri Education and Development Academy, the education and capacity building arm of NAMA Women Advancement Establishment (NAMA), has announced five more workshops to be held through August. The online education series was launched in April following the Coronavirus...
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Concrete steps sought from govts to push world out of crises
The members of the Major Groups and Other Stakeholders, official stakeholders to the United Nations Sustainable Development processes, are concerned and disappointed that governments have failed to deliver a Ministerial Declaration at the end of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The forum was held virtually from July 7-16, 2020. ?We attended...
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Women Gain Key Economic Benefits from Greater Trade, World Bank Study
July 30, 2020, Washington (USA): Trade increases women’s wages and helps close the wage gap between men and women while creating better jobs for women, a new World Bank Group report concludes. Countries that are open to international trade tend to grow faster, innovate, improve productivity, and provide higher income and more opportunities to their...
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Fast tracking the Elimination of Hepatitis B Among Mothers and Children
July 27th, 2020: The proportion of children under five years of age chronically infected with hepatitis B (HBV) dropped to just under one percent in 2019 down from around five percent in the pre-vaccine era (the period between the 1980s and the early 2000s), according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO). This...
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Experts at Irthi, Bvlgari discussion assert artisanal & heritage products still very much a part of the new global reality
July 26th, 2020, Sharjah (UAE): In light of sudden new realities facing both artisans and big fashion houses worldwide, Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council, a Sharjah-based entity engaged in the revival and modernisation of the traditional crafts of the UAE, recently convened an expert panel which has asserted that artisanship will continue to generate interest, find...
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Women 20, Aramco partners to promote gender equality
July 21st, 2020, Riyadh (Saudia Arabia): Women 20 (W20), an official G20 engagement group, and Aramco, the worlds largest integrated energy and chemicals company, announced their partnership as part of this years Saudi Presidency of the G20. In the lead up to the G20 Leaders Summit in Riyadh in November 2020, W20 will formulate actionable...
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Special Olympics Announces Global Expansion of Inclusive Education Initiative
The Special Olympics announced on July 20th, 2020, the next phase of global expansion of Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® (UCS) one of the largest initiatives for inclusion in education for young people with and without intellectual disabilities through the support of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of...
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Big Heart Foundation Facilitates Healthcare Capacities For Refugees Amid COVID19
TBHFs international partners receive US$100,000 each to boost healthcare capacities for refugees and IDPs in Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Bangladesh and Kenya July 19th, 2020, Sharjah (UAE): Sharjah-based global humanitarian organization, The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF), has announced the allocation of US$500,000 to boost healthcare capacities in sites hosting refugee and internally displaced people (IDP) in...