As promised, and, with some interesting perspectives. TRANSCRIPT https://archive.org/download/fgv-brics-apr2025/fgv-brics-apr2025.EN.TRANSCRI... SUMMARY https://archive.org/download/fgv-brics-apr2025/fgv-brics-apr2025.EN.SUMMARY.... A couple of speakers refer to the "Connect Humanity" initiative. They are referring to the ITU's "Connecting Humanity" which is an ongoing process kicked off by a study in 2020. This should be not be confused with 3 other Connect Humanity entities, a US non-profit, and Indian NGO, or an initiative to distro eSIMs in Gaza. (more info <https://chatgpt.com/share/6800d5d0-81a0-8013-93fa-e4df35b13b8c>) The mentioned ITU Universal Meaningful Connectivity (UMC) dashboard is at https://datahub.itu.int/dashboards/umc/ On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
FGV livestream - Wednesday 13:00 UTC.(18:30 IST). I may summarize later in the day.
On Wednesday April 16, 2025, at 10:00-12:00 BRT (13:00-15:00 UTC) the Center for Technology and Society at FGV (CTS-FGV), the Brazilian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Brazilian Ministry for Communications, Cetic.br, and the International Telecommunica… [image: isoc live] <http://isoc.live/19218>
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The goal of the webinar is to provide an understanding of i) what is the relationship between meaningful connectivity and digital transformation, ii) and what success stories or failures can be learned from the BRICS experiences, in order to better inform other countries' approaches to digital transformation, especially in the Global South.
*Opening* *Marcelo Salomão Martinez*, Head of the Division for Digital Issues, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
*Introductory Remarks* Luca Belli, Director, CTS-FGV / coordinator , CyberBRICS project – Brasil
*Setting the scene* *Daniel Cavalcanti* - General Coordinator for Public Policies, Brazilian Ministry for Communications *Graziela Castello* - Sectoral Studies Coordinator, Cetic.br *Smriti Parsheera* - CyberBRICS Associated Researcher, Center for Technology and Society at FGV
*BRICS Multistakeholder Roundtable* *Sonia Jorge* - Director, Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (GDIP) *Abhishek Shukla* - Asst. Director General, Indian Ministry of Communications *Dr. Riham Moawad* - Digital Transformation Strategies Advisor, Ministry of CIT, Egypt *Dr. Hedaia Abd El Gaffar* - Director of the Economic Affairs and International Indicators Department, Egypt *Ekaterina Martynova* - Lecturer, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Moscow *Ibrahim Mamma Hussein* - Digital Impact Alliance, Ethiopia *Yu Tong* - Professor, Department of Data Science and Engineering Management, School of Management, Zhejiang University *Wei Li* - Deputy Director, Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute, China Academy of ICT
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