15th December, 1030-1130 am (UK time): The Research Consortium for the 2022 SWVR will host a symposium to explore themes in the State of the World’s Volunteerism Report 2022: Building Equal and Inclusive Societies, that was launched by UN Volunteers on 02 December 2021.

From December 6 - 10, 2021 Poland hosted the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2021) in Katowice. The headline of this year’s Forum is Internet United – the Internet connecting all its users into one community, responsible for its shape and functioning. Our shared dreams, ideas, needs and actions are what shapes the Internet of the future!

The Impact Taskforce (ITF) is a global initiative formed out of the belief that our economies today are not meeting the needs of people and planet. The #G7-backed Impact Taskforce has released groundbreaking reports looking at the urgent actions governments, investors and others must take to put impact at the heart of investing - and help finance a just and inclusive transition to net zero.

A UN forum has called for countries in Asia and the Pacific to move away from traditional innovation policies and put in place next-generation, inclusive policies that are designed beyond economic imperatives to solve the pressing social and environmental challenges of our time.