Marvin Owens, Senior Director, Economic Programs at NAACP, and Ethan Powell, Founder of Impact Shares talks with TheIMPACT host Jeff Gitterman about the recent protests, racial inequality, and using capital and corporations to fight social injustice.
Leaders Who Care® Nada Majdalani, Palestine, Yana Abu-Taleb. Jordan, Gidon Bromberg, Israel, EcoPeace Middle East
EcoPeace Middle East is a unique organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists. Our primary objective is the promotion of cooperative efforts to protect our shared environmental heritage. In so doing, we seek to advance both sustainable regional development and the creation of necessary conditions for lasting peace in our region. EcoPeace has offices in Amman, Ramallah, and Tel-Aviv.
Leaders Who Care® Nada Majdalani, Yanu Abu-Taleb, Gidon Bromberg_Influencers
Meet Yana, Nada, &Gidon. EcoPeace Middle East is a unique organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, & Israeli environmentalists. Our primary objective is the promotion of cooperative efforts to protect our shared environmental heritage. In so doing, they seek to advance both sustainable regional development and the creation of necessary conditions for lasting peace in our region. EcoPeace has offices in Amman, Ramallah, and Tel-Aviv.
Stopping Amazon Deforestation
Suzanne Pelletier, Executive Director at Rainforest Foundation US talks with host Vince Molinari about efforts to save the Amazon and the upcoming live stream event.
Live stream Info:
June 21st, 3 pm EST.
SOSRAINFORESTLIVE.ORG
Saving Our Oceans
Lorenzo Rosenzweig, Founder, and CEO of Terra Habitus talks with host Vince Molinari about making an impact in marine conservation and the Mesoamerican reef leadership program.
Making a Difference: #WethePlanet
Kunal Sood, Founder & CXO of NOVUS talks with host Vince Molinari about #WeThePlanet, making the impossible possible and NOVUS’s special Father’s Day Event.
Leaders Who Care® Jen Littlejohn
Jen is all about Communications, Community, Diversity & Inclusion. Her mantra is Work with “head, heart, hands”, and “lean in with #empathy” whether at Nike, Target and at home in her new community of Minneapolis. She would tell you ‘If they think your dreams are crazy, show them what crazy dreams can do.’ And she means you support the community, who will then be the best to bring the story and change.
Blockchain and the Global Commons (SDGs)
Summary of Thinkathon – Blockchain and the Global Commons (SDGs)
At the 2019 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York, an increasing number of Blockchain events were focussed on how Blockchain can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UN pointed out that blockchain technology could act as a game changer, having a massive impact on economic development to build a better world. At the same time the pandemic has exposed weaknesses in global supply chains and over reliance on single suppliers. The China US divide is uncomfortably exposed. The race for digital currencies has accelerated – what are the political dimensions (eg sovereign control of digital currency as an instrument of fiscal and monetary policy) for the current monetary system? What global infrastructure and governance models could work in the digital age? Can blockchain enable sustained and purposeful global collaborations to prevent future pandemics? Blockchain allows large groups of like minded people to connect, to determine causes worth supporting and to what extent; to improve the way we collaborate and the outcomes of these collaborations and enables individuals and groups to support other individuals and groups who pursue causes they believe to be of value to others. Blockchain networks give us new ways to design and build incentive systems and we have the capacity to rapidly build and implement large-scale structures for incentivizing human behavior. Can we create incentive systems that align the interest of the individual with the overall beneficial outcomes for the planet?
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Thinkathon – Blockchain and the Global Commons (SDGs)
Thinkathon Moderator
Dr Jane Thomason
As Chief Inspiration Officer for Fintech.TV, I am a global thought leader for social impact and digital transformation and I aim to influence startups, governments, organisations, and industry on transformational opportunities of the digital economy. My job is to inspire and educate about social impact and digital transformation for social change. I am an advocate for ESG investments in emerging economies and enabling Frontier Technologies to accelerate achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Thinkathon Speaker
Kevin Monserrat
Founder and Director Consilience Ventures.
Thinkathon Speaker
Thessy Mehrain
Co-Founder of Liquality @Consensys, a project to enable peer-to-peer exchange across BTC and ETH blockchains and founder of ‘Women in Blockchain’, a community for women defining the blockchain space. She also worked on self-sovereign identity and a supply chain solution and with the Consensys Social Impact team.
Thinkathon Speaker
Jeremy Wilson
Experienced Chairman, guide and counsellor. Application of the new technologies in sustaining humankind & the world it inhabits. Across societies, across cultures, across all people and all peoples.
Thinkathon Speaker
John Kamara
John Kamara is the Founder of afyarekod and Adalabs. He is a Tech Entrepreneur using smart technology to drive exponential growth in data driven organisations. Visionary and thought leader with experience in new markets and vertical across multiple sectors. John Kamara has over 15 years experience in business strategy, digital technology and development while being heavily involved in business growth and building new markets for various companies.
Thinkathon Speaker
Susan Oh
Autodidact civic technologist in AI & blockchain; founder & advisor to AI & blockchain projects serving the UN’s sustainable development goals.
Keen to Participate in the next Thinkathon? Visit Thinkathon Website and reserve your seat, it’s totally free!
Leaders Who Care® Jen Littlejohn_Influencers
Jen is all about Communications, Community, Diversity & Inclusion. Her mantra is Work with “head, heart, hands”, and “lean in with #empathy” whether at Nike, Target and at home in her new community of Minneapolis. She would tell you ‘If they think your dreams are crazy, show them what crazy dreams can do.’ And she means you support the community, who will then be the best to bring the story and change.
COVID Fighters: Meet the Mask Makers
Albert Chen, Co-founder of Masklab.hk talks with TheIMPACT’s Georgia Fairweather about ramping up production to make life-saving masks for people around the world.