Digital Solutions for Sustainability Events

10/07/2016

On the occasion of the Women20 (W20) summit in Berlin, on 25 and 26 April 2017, Emerging Market Sustainability Dialogues (EMSD)  jointly with W20 and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy  launched the Executive Summary of the study  “The Effects of Digitalisation on...


Peking, China 31/10/2016 - 04/11/2016

Economic Policy Forum (EPF) hosted this year’s Think Week from October 31st – Nov 3rd, 2016, in Beijing, focusing on ‘The Digital Economy – Pathways for the Global Sustainability Agenda’. During two days of roundtable discussions sustainability-related challenges and benefits...


13/12/2016

Economic Policy Forum hosted this year’s Think Week from October 31st – Nov 3rd, 2016, in Beijing, focusing on ‘The Digital Economy – Pathways for the Global Sustainability Agenda’. During two days of roundtable discussions sustainability-related challenges and benefits of...


Berlin, Deutschland 28/02/2017

The Emerging Market Sustainability Dialogues (EMSD) team facilitated a meeting convened by the Women20 engagement group of the G20, at the GIZ Representative Office in Berlin, Germany, on Feb 28th, focusing on digitalization and bringing together all  G20 engagement groups. With digitalization...


06/03/2017

As a follow-up to the EPF Think Week 2016 on “The Digital Economy – Pathways for the Global Sustainability Agenda”, Economic Policy Forum (EPF) has supported international think tanks for collaborations on policy recommendations. Those are intended to flow into...


13/03/2017

In the light of the upcoming Argentine G20 presidency, Women20 Argentina (#W20ARG) launched the first G20 engagement group dialogue meeting in Buenos Aires on March 20th and 21st. The two-day conference and dialogue forum was facilitated and supported by the...


Buenos Aires, Argentinien 20/03/2017

In the light of the upcoming Argentine G20 presidency, Women20 Argentina (#W20ARG) launched the first G20 engagement group dialogue meeting in Buenos Aires on March 20th and 21st. The two-day conference and dialogue forum was facilitated and supported by the...


Amman, Amman Governorate, Jordanien 14/04/2017 - 17/04/2017

Given the importance of the topic, the T20 Summit featured a vast variety of inputs on digitalisation, such as the panels on “Digitalisation: Enabler of Inclusive Global Growth and Development” and “Dealing with Labour Market Challenges in the Digital Economy”....


27/04/2017

On the occasion of the Women20 summit in Berlin, April 25th and 26th 2017, Emerging Market Sustainability Dialogues (EMSD)  jointly with Women20 and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy  launched the Executive Summary of the study  "The Effects of Digitalisation on Gender Equality...


Merchant House, Buitengracht Street, Kapstadt, Südafrika 28/04/2017

To share the research results and underlying ideas of the T20 Policy Briefs on digital skills and literacy, HSRC hosted an online presentation on “Bridging the Digital Divide: Skills for the New Age & Measuring Digital Literacy”. The seminar was...


08/06/2017

As part of its Policy Initiative on the Digital Economy, which was formally launched during the EPF Think Week 2016, the Economic Policy Forum (EPF) has been able to feed three policy briefs facilitated by it and authored by its...


13/06/2017

Following a G20 engagement group meeting in Berlin on international challenges of rapid digitalisation, representatives from Business20, Think20 and Women20 have now published a joint G20 engagement partners statement on ‘Ensuring Inclusiveness in a Digitalized World’. The statement was facilitated...


Goa, India 24/01/2018 - 25/01/2018

Building on the discussions around the Future of Work at the EPF Think Week 2017, EPF-members Tandem Research (India), CIPPEC (Argentina) and HSRC (South Africa) launched a project that seeks to shed light on future socio-economic and particularly employment impacts...


02/02/2018

16 January 2018, Stockholm Stockholm Green Digital Finance and the Emerging Markets Dialogue on Finance (EMDF) team have convened on 16 January in Stockholm to kick off project activities for the Green Assets Wallet (GAW) innovation project. Participants discussed possibilities...


02/03/2018

The Emerging Market Sustainability Dialogues (EMSD) announces the Second Call for Proposals for its Challenge Fund. The Fund seeks to bridge the gap between communities of practice and thinking. It aims at incubating projects that through their specific cross-stakeholder character,...


31/05/2018

Innovate 4 Climate Workshop in Frankfurt on 24 May 2018 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) are emerging as a force to transform the way climate action happens. This was emphasized in the session “Blockchain to Drive Climate and Development...


31/05/2018

Tandem Research hosts Scenario Workshop | 24-25 January 2018, Goa Building on the discussions around the Future of Work at the EPF Think Week 2017, EPF-members Tandem Research (India), CIPPEC (Argentina) and HSRC (South Africa) launched a project that seeks...


28/08/2018

                TRANSFORMATIONS IN WORK A Webinar Series About Our Changing World of Work Hosted by the JustJobs Network and Emerging Market Sustainability Dialogues (EMSD)   The world in which we live and work is undergoing dramatic changes. Technological...


04/12/2018

TRANSFORMATIONS IN WORK A Webinar Series About Our Changing World of Work Hosted by the JustJobs Network and Emerging Market Sustainability Dialogues The world in which we live and work is undergoing dramatic changes. Technological advancements from the “app economy”...


28/01/2019

TRANSFORMATIONS IN WORK A Webinar Series About Our Changing World of Work Hosted by the JustJobs Network and Emerging Market Sustainability Dialogues The world in which we live and work is undergoing dramatic changes. Technological advancements from the “app economy”...


26/03/2019

  Background and Objectives The digital economy is changing business around the world, creating a more efficient intermediation of supply and demand for goods and services. It is disrupting sectors from commerce to transportation and accommodation to finance, while allowing...


14/05/2019

TRANSFORMATIONS IN WORK A Webinar Series About Our Changing World of Work Hosted by the JustJobs Network and Emerging Market Sustainability Dialogues The world in which we live and work is undergoing dramatic changes. Technological advancements from the “app economy”...


01/12/2020

Platform work in the Global South implies several benefits for workers such as more flexibility and more performance-oriented, uncapped pay. At the same time, several adverse working conditions such as a de facto lack of social protection or the inability...