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Are the tables finally turning? UN Climate Week
According to the UN, an unprecedented number of world leaders attended the UN Climate Summit, including 100 heads of state and government. They were joined by more than 800 leaders from business,...
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2015 is an important year for global sustainability. As the Millennium Development Goals conclude, the Post 2015 Development Agenda will include ambitious global Sustainable Development Goals, and...
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The transformational role of ICT in The New Urban Agenda
Next year in Quito, Ecuador, the United Nations will hold its third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, also known as Habitat III. Habitat II was held 19 years ago,...
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Ericsson Response providing internet connectivity in Nepal
On approach to the airport last night, you would never suspect that anything in particular had recently happened in Kathmandu. Electricity has been restored throughout most of the city as was...
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A common enabler after a disaster – an Ericsson Response dispatch from Vanuatu
Editor’s note: Today we are proud to feature a dispatch from Ericsson Response volunteer Daniel Figueiredo. He writes from the Vanuatu archipelago, which was devastated by Cyclone Pam in early March....
View ArticleStrategies to expand digital financial inclusion for the poor in focus at FFD...
Editor’s note: Elaine Weidman-Grunewald is attending the UN’s Financing for Development (FFD) conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopa. Today she writes from an official side event, Advancing Financial...
View ArticleAligning profit with public good, and vice versa
Last week I represented Ericsson at the UN’s Financing for Development (FfD) conference in Addis Ababa. Among other things, I was able to participate in the African Development Bank’s Financial...
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Looking to youth to make the Sustainable Development Goals a reality
It isn’t often that my morning starts with a speech from a President. And by often I mean never. So when Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia and Nobel Peace...
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The challenges of business and human rights on a global scale
Imagine a United Nations forum with some 2,300 people attending from all over the world to discuss complex yet urgent business and human rights issues. It seemed almost too good to be true – to find...
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Shouldn’t human rights be celebrated every day?
On this day 67 years ago, December 10 1948, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a common standard for all peoples and all nations. The Declaration states that...
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