The 4th annual Science, Technology and Innovation Forum (STI Forum) will be held 14-15 May 2019 in Conference Room 4 at UNHQ, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. It will focus on “STI for ensuring inclusiveness and equality, with a special focus on SDGs 4, 8, 10, 13, and 16”. ECOSOC President of 2019, Inga Rhona King, has appointed H.E. Ms. H. Elizabeth Thompson, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations and H.E. Mrs. Marie Chatardová, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations, to act as co-chairs of the Forum.
This year’s Forum will look in detail at the innovative solutions that can push the needle on the critical issues of education, decent jobs and economic growth, inequality, climate change, peaceful and just societies, and partnerships for the goals (the SDGs under review at this year’s HLPF). It will bring together Member States, scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs and representatives from civil society and international organizations.
As in past years, UN DESA, in collaboration with the Global Innovation Exchange (GIE), invited innovators from around the world to submit their scientific and technological solutions to the challenges impeding progress towards the SDGs in focus this year. The 10 winners selected out of more than 350 entries into a global contest for Innovators for the SDGs will be displaying their projects in the Innovators’ Showcase in the GA Lobby starting Monday, 13 May.
Accounts to follow:
Twitter: @SustDev, @UNDESA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SustDev/ , https://www.facebook.com/joinundesa/
Join event: https://www.facebook.com/events/458576691615659/
Source: UNDESA
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