The CyberPeace Institute launches its latest report on healthcare. Playing with lives: cyberattacks on healthcare are attacks on people. The Institute's CEO, Stéphane Duguin, explains its findings and recommendations to our journalist and tech editor, Zelda Chauvet.

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#3 Stéphane Duguin

Girls in Tech Switzerland is a network that was founded in Geneva. Today, the organisation is active in the Leman and Zurich areas, but accessible in the whole country. Girls in Tech is a community, a way to connect with women in a field where they are a minority. The co-managing directors, Corinne Ruckstuhl and Lisa Stähli, discuss the challenges but also the opportunities in tech with our journalist, Zelda Chauvet.

#4 Girls in Tech Switzerland

"This body of knowledge is the Silicon Valley of multilateralism."

Francesco Pisano is the director of the United Nations Library in Geneva. He reflects on the importance of  substance versus data in a world where change is necessary to rethink the global framework and face the future, by setting up collaboration across disciplines in the interest of many and not the competition of few.

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Conversations on Resilience #5 – Francesco Pisano

Technology and innovation in the field have proven to be effective  to contribute to maximise a positive impact on the athletes and the public and minimise the negative potential effects. To understand the challenges around sports, technology and innovation to come, Microsoft, the Graduate Institute and UNESCO have invited experts from the field to share their experience in the upcoming 2030 Digital Fasttrack Studio. Among the guests, EPFL’s Sport Tech Initiative co-manager, Emilie Michel.

With her colleague, Pascal Vuilliomenet, they help to build a strong regional ecosystem, and insist on the importance of federating efforts for better results with our journalist, Zelda Chauvet.

#6 Sports, technology and innovation

During her first semester at MIT, Joy Buolamwini got a computer-vision software that did not recognize her face until she put on a white mask. This was the beginning of her quest against biases in technology, and the story of a documentary, “Coded bias” presented at the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in March.

To get a better understanding of theses issues, our journalist, Zelda Chauvet, explores the issues raised by the film with AI Crowd CEO and co-founder, Sharada Mohanty.

#7 Decoding "Coded Bias"

Health data governance has emerged as a major issue since the WHO declared Covid 19 a pandemic. Today, with vaccination campaigns being launched over the world, the question of immunity certificate systems arise. To understand the challenges to come and discuss the importance of international governance, the think tank Foraus has invited experts from the field to share their experience. Foraus project manager, Moritz Fegert gives us an insight on the importance of engaging in a constructive dialogue, with our journalist, Zelda Chauvet.

#8 Tackling the immunity certificate conundrum with Moritz Fegert

'Bringing the Silicon Valley spirit to Geneva'

Open Geneva is an association created to promote open innovation in the greater Geneva area. In this episode, our tech editor, Zelda Chauvet talks to its president Thomas Maillart about the power of a community of innovators. By bringing together public institutions, universities, research centres, local and international companies, associations and citizens, ideas can be brought to life.

Continue reading here: https://genevasolutions.news/explorations/geneva-solutions-podcast-resilience-series/open-geneva-bringing-the-silicon-valley-spirit-to-geneva

'Conversations on Resilience' is our podcast series in collaboration with Open Geneva and the Geneva Tsinghua Initiative at the University of Geneva, on open innovation and resilience. 

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Conversations on Resilience #1 – Thomas Maillart

'AI is like a toolbox that can help solving real-world problems'

After several years working at CERN and then embarking on a PhD at Lausanne’s EPFL, Sharada Mohanty, founder of EPFL-spinoff AIcrowd, chose to leave academia to embrace what he calls “true open research”. He wanted to create an open-source platform where researchers compete to solve data challenges using artificial intelligence.

Continue reading here: https://genevasolutions.news/articles/sharada-mohanty-ai-is-like-a-toolbox-that-can-help-solving-real-world-problems

'Conversations on Resilience' is our podcast series in collaboration with Open Geneva and the Geneva Tsinghua Initiative at the University of Geneva, on open innovation and resilience.

Geneva Solutions is a non-profit newsroom, based in Geneva, focused on international cooperation and development. A constructive approach to the news. Follow us on http://genevasolutions.news

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Conversations on Resilience #3 – Sharada Mohanty

'We're using entrepreneurial thinking to inspire collective action'

Pearl Mao is director of Tsinghua University’s x-lab in Beijing, China. By applying entrepreneurial thinking to coeducational projects, she aims to inspire students to make a difference. In the latest episode, she explains how she seeks to develop new models to engage students to innovate and contribute to a more sustainable world.

Continue reading here: https://genevasolutions.news/explorations/geneva-solutions-podcast-resilience-series/pearl-mao-we-re-using-entrepreneurial-thinking-to-inspire-collective-action

'Conversations on Resilience' is our podcast series in collaboration with Open Geneva and the Geneva Tsinghua Initiative at the University of Geneva, on open innovation and resilience.

Geneva Solutions is a non-profit newsroom, based in Geneva, focused on international cooperation and development. A constructive approach to the news. Follow us on http://genevasolutions.news

Our content is licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Conversations on Resilience #4 – Pearl Mao

“I think it's important for me to articulate in my work that people are not inherently vulnerable. There are situations and there are oppressive systems that then create vulnerable situations that people find themselves in.”

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng took up her role of UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health in July, at a time when governments around the world were beginning to reflect on what the pandemic had revealed about their health systems.

For the latest episode of the Geneva Solutions podcast, we look back at the conversation we had with Dr Mofokeng in October, ahead of her first address to the UN General Assembly, and discuss the lessons to be learned from Covid-19, the need to decolonise global health, and how the right to health can be used to restore dignity.

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Geneva Solutions is a non-profit newsroom, based in Geneva, focused on international cooperation and development. A constructive approach to the news. Follow us on genevasolutions.news.

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#1 Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng

Against all odds, human rights defender Lottie Cunningham has been at the helm of the battle for indigenous rights in Nicaragua for the past 20 years. She was among four activists this year to receive the Right livelihood award, the alternative Nobel for peace, for her decades-long work. 
Read the full article here: https://genevasolutions.news/climate/lottie-cunningham-s-relentless-battle-for-indigenous-rights-in-nicaragua

#2 Lottie Cunningham Wren

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