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Workshop
Youth Empowerment for Agenda 2030 Action
through Social Entrepreneurship and Digital Social Currencies
(#YouthEntrepreneurship2030 #Blockchain4Good)
Date: Monday 16 January 2017 09.00 - 17.30h Venue: Room C04, Vienna International Center Wagramer Strasse 5, AT- 1400 Vienna
Held on the margins of the 2017 ACUNS Vienna UN Conference on “Implementing the 2030 Agenda”1
1 http://acuns.org/2017-vienna-un-conference-implementing-the-2030-agenda/
Organizers and Partners
● International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI www.glocha.info
● Academic Council on the United Nations System ACUNS Vienna www.acuns.org ● UNIDO - Division of Rural Entrepreneurship, Job Creation and Human Security,
https://www.unido.org/what-we-do/creating-shared-prosperity/women-and-youth-in-productive-activities.html
● UN Habitat - Urban Economy branch / Youth and job creation unit ● Regional Academy on the United Nations RAUN http://www.ra-un.org
Context
The use of innovative technologies as well as the use of information and communication technologies in the attainment of higher levels social, economic and environmental development have gained increasing importance, and as such are key to the achievement of the SDGs and Agenda 2030. Such technologies have shown to harbor immense potential in generating the necessary momentum for broader action towards the achievement of the SDGs and in mobilizing the needed resources. Even more, these technologies find resonance amongst the key drivers of inclusive and sustainable development, namely young social entrepreneurs.
This workshop will serve to introduce and strengthen the understanding of how innovative technologies, such as digital currencies based on blockchain technology, as well as information and communication technologies can best contribute to the achievement of the SDGs and Agenda 2030, with particular focus on SDG 9. Furthermore the workshop aims to explore how these technologies can provide the necessary lever for social entrepreneurship, particularly by youth-led enterprises, considering the unmatched potential that entrepreneurship promotion and youth empowerment have in driving development and achieving the Agenda 2030.
A central hypothesis of the session is that an Agenda2030 Youth action marketplace infrastructure, based on blockchain technology and digital social currencies, is needed as a means of implementation and to facilitate the necessary mobilization and flow of local and global financial resources from different sources (public, private and philanthropic) towards youth led Agenda2030 actions. Youth will thereby be empowered to play a leading role in promoting inclusive and sustainable industrial development in a changing world.
Points of discussion:
● Highlight the role of youth social entrepreneurship as a key driver to achieving the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs;
● Discuss the potential of digital social currencies (based on blockchain technology) as enables of youth empowerment and social entrepreneurship, as well as for multi-stakeholder engagement in the achievement of the Agenda 2030; and map relevant expertise in this field;
● Discuss the concept and develop an implementation plan for an "Agenda2030 Youth Action Marketplace" to incentivize youth social entrepreneurship and mobilize the necessary financial and technological resources;
● Outline recommendations for UN inter-agency cooperation on social entrepreneurship capacity building in the context of Agenda2030 and UN System Wide Action Plan on Youth
Tentative agenda (as per 12 January 2017):
Time and Room Agenda item
8:30 - 9:30 Registration at Gate 1 of the Vienna International Center
9:30 – 10:00
Room C04
Opening session (moderated by Matteo Landi, UNIDO)
Welcoming remarks by ● Gerardo Patacconi, UNIDO
● Miroslav Polzer, IAAI
● Billy Batware, RAUN
● Douglas Ragan, UN-HABITAT
● Keynote speech by Werner Faymann, former Chancellor of Austria, and current
SG Special Envoy on Youth Employment
10:00 – 11:15
Thematic Session I: Social Entrepreneurship, Youth and the SDGs (moderated by Matteo Landi, UNIDO) Objective: To present the concept and a common definition of social entrepreneurship; To highlight the role of social entrepreneurs and youth in achieving the SDGs across sectors
Speakers
● Francesco Candelari, Social Entrepreneurship Expert, UNIDO
● Bistra Kumbaroska, Regional Program Coordinator, Impact Hub Vienna
● Gunter Schall, Business Partnerships of Austrian Development Agency (TBC)
● Okan McAllister, World Merit Austria
● Zephanii N. Smith, Agents of Change Program Coordinator, SustainUS
● Anita Živković , AIESEC Austria
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00
Thematic Session II: Digital Currencies/ Block-chain as enablers of youth social entrepreneurship (moderated by Minna Aslama Horowitz, St. John's University & IAAI)
Objective: To highlight the use of blockchain technology and digital currency as a mechanism to empower SDG-focused enterprises to achieve sustainable development through technology and the new, emerging economy.
Speakers
● Ari Eisenstat, UN Global Sustainability Index Initiative, Thematic introduction
● Hallelujah Lewis, Mia C. Ross, Chiang Zhu, Chenjiazi Li, St. John's University,
International Communication course, Presentation of student research work
● Eric Demuth & Paul Klanschek, BitPanda, expert on Bitcoin
● Aleksander Vidmar, Aquapreneurship, Ocean Conservation through Blockchain
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:15
Thematic Session III: Elements for establishing the Agenda2030 Marketplace
Introduction "Concept Outline: Global Challenges Youth Empowerment Partnership GloCha & Agenda2030 Youth Action Marketplace" and moderation by Miroslav Polzer IAAI Objective: To present the core elements necessary to establish a global marketplace for youth action toward achieving the SDGs, including: impact evaluation, the youth entrepreneurship ecosystem, accessibility, blended financing and access to technology.
Speakers
● Roland Schatz, UN Global Sustainability Index Initiative & Media Tenor
International
● Tihomir Divjak, GoForeSight Institute Ljubljana-Belgrade & Abdrahamane
OUEDRAOGO, IAAI Global Challenges Center Burkina Faso (video message),
Empowering young social entrepreneurs in West Africa through satellite based
internet access and local institutional and technological support
● Douglas Ragan, UN Habitat - local institutional infrastructure (Youth Centers)
● Mark McCaffrey, ECONGO Climate Change Education, Communication and
Outreach Group, Documenting and Incentivizing Climate Action
● Mr. Peter Šúrek, Head of Social Banking Development of Erste Group
● Roxane Jurkovskaja, E4SC, Social Entrepreneurship eco-system
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:15 Action Session: Social Entrepreneurship Design Lab
facilitated by Ari Eisenstat, UN Global Sustainability Index Initiative Objective: Design a social enterprise for sustainable development using blockchain technology
● Teams will be given tools to create a vision for the most innovative and
impactful solution for the Global Goals
● Social Entrepreneurs will give a 2min and 1 slide presentation on social,
environmental, and economic value
● Top pitches will be honored with SDG Design Award Certificate at the UN
ECOSOC Youth Forum 2017 announcement
17:15 – 17:30 Wrap-up and closing (moderated by Matteo Landi, UNIDO): Ravi Karkara, senior adviser at UN Women, co-chair of UN Inter-agency network on
youth development (video message)
Recap and open discussion about next steps with audience. Acknowledgements
Registration (closed)
link to registration on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-youth-agenda2030-social-entrepreneurship-digital-social-currencies-tickets-30553443171 There is no registration fee. Participants cover all costs of their participation themselves.
Contact:
▪ Miroslav Polzer, International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI, Neuer Platz 10/I, At 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, [email protected], Tel.: +43 664 4203648, www.glocha.info
▪ Mateo Landi, Industrial Development and Youth Employment Expert, UNIDO Vienna [email protected]
▪ Michael Platzer, ACUNS Vienna [email protected] ▪ Douglas Ragan, Chief, Youth and Livelihoods, Urban Economy Branch, United Nations Human Settlements
Programme (UN-HABITAT), [email protected]
5 Guiding Questions:
1. How can UN agencies, non-governmental actors, local and national public authorities and private sector create in a multi-stakeholder partnership framework a market for products and services of young people / social entrepreneurs who contribute to achievement of SDGs. (proposal of IAAI: "Agenda2030 Youth Action Marketplace" within GloCha Youth Empowerment Partnership)
2. How can there be introduced a new global-local digital social currency that integrates science based, transparent and participatory evaluation, and verification as well as monetary and non-monetary incentive mechanisms (incl. games) for facilitation of globally coordinated multistakeholder Agenda2030 action.
3. How can young social entrepreneurs get access to global financial resources in the field of philanthropy (e.g. The Giving Pledge) and climate change action (e.g. the 100 billion US$/year of the Green Climate Fund and certified emission reductions markets) as demand side of Agenda 2030 Youth Action products and services.
4. How can science (universities, research institutes and citizen science) help to build the knowledge base for questions 1-3
