Zainab Kakal
@zainabkakal
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Innovation in development Playing at @UNDP_innovation Previously @UNDPAccLabs @WRIRossCities @Xynteo @wef
Fiji
Joined January 2010
In the panel discussion "Beyond the National: How to Future at the Multilateral, Global and Local Levels?", @zainabkakal emphasizes the importance of helping people see themselves and their future generations in foreisght work. #MuseumoftheFuture #DubaiFuture #FutureForum24
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We're excited to introduce the now complete Regional #Innovation and #Digital Team at @UNDPasiapac. @zainabkakal @afreenundp @melly_frederika @aishamarzuki @sriganeshl @AlexOprunenco @UNDP_innovation
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The @UN Summit of the Future concluded yesterday. In the @UNDP_Pacific, we continue building governance structures for #anticipatory development action, guided by humility and traditional knowledge. https://t.co/eenJax915j
@TuyaLive #pacific #OurCommonFuture
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You are invited to join the @COL4D “Digitalisation and Future Learning” webinar on 25 September 2024, from 1700 to 1830 hrs Pacific Standard Time (PST North America) and 1100 hrs in Suva on Thursday the 26 September 2024. This interactive session will feature a distinguished
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Congratulations @PaulaCirikiyas3 Much well deserved!
Big congratulations to my good friend and colleague Paula! what a great appointment! Good luck @PaulaCirikiyas3 in this mission!
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Tuvalu is the world's first digital nation. "If you were about to lose everything, what is that one thing that you would save?" https://t.co/CqSHhncOae
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“This is a crazy situation. Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making, a crisis that will soon swell to an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to safety. But if we save the Pacific, we also save ourselves.” https://t.co/c3X3Twm5Mv
theguardian.com
António Guterres calls for a ‘massive’ increase in finance and support for the countries most vulnerable to rising sea levels
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This is us transforming @UNDP's internal engines and in the process development paradigms. For collabs / questions, reach out!
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Women are less likely to think that generative AI will enable them to develop new skills (40% vs 51% of men), change jobs (36% vs 44%), create new opportunities (33% vs 40%) or increase their income (35% vs 42%). https://t.co/TuSUxsRMCP.
theconversation.com
The majority of jobs will be affected by AI within the next 10 years. Women need to learn how to use this new technology if they don’t want to lose momentum in the job market.
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Amid a turbulent time for our planet, the Pacific Islands region is a beacon of solidarity and strength, environmental stewardship and peace. The world has much to learn from the Pacific Islands.
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The word “Protopia�� was coined in a 2011 blog post by Wired’s founding editor Kevin Kelly. Kelly’s initial idea of the concept came from the word “pronoia,” (the opposite of “paranoia”): an exuberant feeling that the entire world is rooting for you.
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"Science fiction is about anticipation, and this is a big problem. Society is perfect in North Korea; the hierarchy is perfect, so why dream about the future? How to imagine the future when society is perfect?" https://t.co/tpnGCH1G8y
arstechnica.com
Unusual and often breathtaking, the genre is relatively unknown in the West.
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Royal Mint opens factory in south Wales to recover gold from e-waste
theguardian.com
‘Pioneering’ facility will extract precious metal from up to 4,000 tonnes of scrap circuit boards a year
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Tonga's annual debt repayments to China are nearly 4 per cent of its GDP — the third-highest level in the world. https://t.co/sNbXcd2zAB
abc.net.au
Pacific Island nations are spending big to repay loans from China. But some say there are other roads available to them if they want to overcome their debt burdens.
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The islands of the Hawaiian archipelago were once divided into self-sustaining communities called ahupuaʻa. Through collective stewardship, they provided people with food, building material, and other basic and cultural necessities. https://t.co/6KyYgcq4T7
nationalgeographic.com
The moku and ahupua’a systems provide a blueprint for communities and nations hoping to maintain thriving ecosystems.
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One vision of Indigenous futurism is alternative history. A time line where Captain Cook never makes it to Hawai‘i, Cortés never arrives at Tenochtitlan in search of gold, and the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María are still trees planted in the earth. https://t.co/1YisTPZmQZ
nationalgeographic.com
National Geographic Explorer Keolu Fox says the key to harnessing the technology of tomorrow is centering traditions of the past.
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As we all strive to imagine the future, the inevitability of extractive capitalism should not be assumed. It’s important to build an alternative reality—one where Indigenous perspectives on relationships to land, sea, sky, and cosmos are the guiding force https://t.co/1YisTPZmQZ
nationalgeographic.com
National Geographic Explorer Keolu Fox says the key to harnessing the technology of tomorrow is centering traditions of the past.
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Water and wealth are constructed from the same word in Hawaiian. These terms—wai and waiwai, respectively—are an indelible part of who I am, and who Native Hawaiians are. https://t.co/1YisTPZmQZ
nationalgeographic.com
National Geographic Explorer Keolu Fox says the key to harnessing the technology of tomorrow is centering traditions of the past.
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