Karla Diaz, PhD, Service-Learning Coordinator and Faculty at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador Samuel Jude Acquaah, Manager for Outreach and Experiential Learning Programs, Ashesi University, Ghana The final part of the presentation puts forward some ideas on how frugal innovation thinking can dynamize policy agenda’s on for example (agro-)industrialization and local economic development in Africa. The next step is to discuss three main types of frugal innovators (firms, NGOs, citizens), provide some examples, and then go into how such frugal innovations have become a focus in academic studies trying to make sense of the importance of innovation, outside of the R&D departments of large companies, in the ongoing digital revolution. While conventional innovations are often over-engineered and thus initially too sophisticated and expensive for middle-class and poorer consumers, frugal innovations are developed specifically for less affluent users. The webinar explains frugal innovations as simple, affordable, robust innovations developed for/under conditions of scarcity, in many cases also with more careful resource use or making use of renewables. Professor of Private Sector and Development, The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam
It will highlight steps that all relevant businesses should take, in line with the Gender Framework of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, not only to remove gender bias from new technologies but also harness their potential to achieving substantive gender equality in society. Against this backdrop, this seminar will explore the human rights responsibility of businesses linked to new technologies. However, this need not be the case, as technologies could become part of the solution too. Many new technologies are being developed in a ‘gender-neutral’ way or are reinforcing and perpetuating existing gender bias against women. For example, it is increasingly becoming clear that many new technologies – from artificial intelligence to automation, algorithms, facial recognition, and cryptocurrency – are already having a differentiated and disproportionate impact on women and their human rights.
New technologies will have a significant positive as well as negative impact on individuals and their human rights in the coming years.
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During this session, Burckart will build off of the book to show investors and their advisors the what, why, and how of system-level investment: what it means to manage system-level risks and rewards, why it is imperative to do so now, and how to integrate this new way of thinking into their current practice.Īssociate Professor at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong They preserve and strengthen these fundamental systems while still generating competitive or otherwise acceptable performance. In the new paradigm-shifting book 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change, co-authors William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg show how system-level investors support and enhance the health and stability of the social, financial, and environmental systems on which they depend for long-term returns. It is time for a new way to think about investing, one that can contend with the complex challenges we face in the 21st century. President, The Investment Integration Project (TIIP)
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