From Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform
 7 June 2016 
UN Funds and Programmes and Global Pulse in cooperation with the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth and the Mission of Denmark to the United Nations are hosting an event on how innovation is key to delivering on the 2030 agenda and leaving no one behind.

 

Register here to attend: 

You can also watch the event live online here: http://goo.gl/mpAUZb

Please note that we will not be able to provide guest passes for the UN Building for attendees registering after Thursday 2 June.

The first annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals will take place on 6-7 June 2016 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The 2016 Science Technology Innovation Forum will address the topic “realizing the potential of science, technology and innovation for all to achieve the sustainable development goals.”

 

As part of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism mandated by the 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the annual collaborative Multi-stakeholder Forum on science, technology and innovation for the sustainable development Goals  is expected to “provide a venue for facilitating interaction, matchmaking and the establishment of networks between relevant stakeholders and multi-stakeholder partnerships in order to identify and examine technology needs and gaps, including with regard to scientific cooperation, innovation and capacity-building, and also in order to help facilitate development, transfer and dissemination of relevant technologies for the sustainable development goals.” It will “discuss science, technology and innovation cooperation around thematic areas for the implementation of the sustainable development goals, congregating all relevant stakeholders to actively contribute in their area of expertise.” 

 

The President of ECOSOC will convene the meetings of the Science, Technology and  Innovation forum once a year to discuss science, technology and innovation cooperation around thematic areas for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The General Assembly also decided that the meetings of the forum will be co-chaired by two Member States and will result in a summary of discussions elaborated by the two co-Chairs.

In this regards, H.E. Mr. Oh Joon, the President of ECOSOC, appointed H.E. Mr. Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kenya to the United Nations and Dr. Vaughan Turekian, the Science and Technology Adviser to the US Secretary of State, to act as co-chairs for the Science, Technology and  Innovation  forum.

Source: https://goo.gl/KQkgoy