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Nestor Osorio Londono the Colombian administrative lawyer and Representative to the UN has been interviewed by Gustavo Capdevila for the IPS News Service in an article titled ‘Q&A: Innovation Key to Sustainable Development Goals’ In the article Osorio Londono states “I believe it [Innovation, as the fruit of science and technology] is a cross-cutting issue within many of the objectives for the post-2015 period. We’re talking about the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] – that is, how to do something beyond the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] and bring together industrialised and developing countries in an ongoing process of irreversible compliance with fundamental goals for integral sustainability. …We’re talking about water conservation, more liveable cities, food security, infrastructure and curtailing (green house) gas emissions. We have to decarbonise the planet. And all of this forms part of innovation. …Those who can participate in a very efficient manner, as we have seen, are young people. Young people are and always have been involved in the origins of the biggest innovations. Microsoft, Facebook and others have been created, innovated, by 20 or 25-year-old kids.So there’s a very important link here: how innovation and connection and preparation of future work go together. And when it comes to gender equality, we’re talking about the same thing. …I think they could do it with a fundamental commitment by governments, which translates into budget allocations. The partnership between government and private sector is also essential throughout this process. I’ll cite an example of what we have done in Colombia: the policy of President Juan Manuel Santos has been to earmark – and a law was approved to this end – a portion of oil and mining industry royalties to the Institute of Sciences and Technology. …Companies gradually discover what their needs are and how they have to adapt to the requirements of sustainability. (For example), there can’t be investment in projects that use huge quantities of water, because that is wasteful. Companies have to adapt to the requirements that the world presents…”  Inspired by Gustavo Capdevila, IPS News ow.ly/kBeTC Image source Twitter ow.ly/kBg0S Innovation key to sustainable development goals (May 30 2013)Nestor Osorio Londono the Colombian administrative lawyer and Representative to the UN has been interviewed by Gustavo Capdevila for the IPS News Service in an article titled ‘Q&A: Innovation Key to Sustainable Development Goals’ In the article Osorio Londono states “I believe it [Innovation, as the fruit of science and technology] is a cross-cutting issue within many of the objectives for the post-2015 period. We’re talking about the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] – that is, how to do something beyond the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] and bring together industrialised and developing countries in an ongoing process of irreversible compliance with fundamental goals for integral sustainability. …We’re talking about water conservation, more liveable cities, food security, infrastructure and curtailing (green house) gas emissions. We have to decarbonise the planet. And all of this forms part of innovation. …Those who can participate in a very efficient manner, as we have seen, are young people. Young people are and always have been involved in the origins of the biggest innovations. Microsoft, Facebook and others have been created, innovated, by 20 or 25-year-old kids.So there’s a very important link here: how innovation and connection and preparation of future work go together. And when it comes to gender equality, we’re talking about the same thing. …I think they could do it with a fundamental commitment by governments, which translates into budget allocations. The partnership between government and private sector is also essential throughout this process. I’ll cite an example of what we have done in Colombia: the policy of President Juan Manuel Santos has been to earmark – and a law was approved to this end – a portion of oil and mining industry royalties to the Institute of Sciences and Technology. …Companies gradually discover what their needs are and how they have to adapt to the requirements of sustainability. (For example), there can’t be investment in projects that use huge quantities of water, because that is wasteful. Companies have to adapt to the requirements that the world presents…”

 

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Jose Antonio Ocampo Gaviria the 60 year old Colombian Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs has been interviewed by Marzieh Goudarzi for the IPS News Service in an article titled ‘Moving Away from “Elite Multilateralism”’. During the interview Ocampo-Gaviria states “I have written extensively on the G20 and my perspective is that these informal institutions, which I call “elite multilateralism”, are not the best form of global governance. I like “the G’s” when they are part of multilateral institutions. Global governance derives its legitimacy at the global level just as governance does at a national level, from universality. You have to have universal membership. For that purpose, the best way for these “G’s” to work is within a formal multilateral setting. At the same time, I agree that you have to have effective decision-making mechanisms. Smaller decision-making bodies, in which everyone is directly represented, are fundamental. In all democracies, decisions are taken by a limited number of actors at the end, but those actors have to be representing all of the membership. …The basic problem is that power ends up in the hands of the elite that uses power to further its own interests. This has been associated with developing countries, but it can also happen in developed countries, particularly in the financial sector. There has been a change in that regard during the recent crisis; now there is a bit more hope that financial policy will be detached from financial interests. Successful human development strategy has to include very active social policy, including education, health, and social protections, and at the same time very active economic development policy, particularly the generation of employment. We have seen so many cases of countries that have improvements in education and when an educated labour force comes to the market, there is no employment to absorb that population. You have to have an active social policy but also an active economic policy and the basic connection between the two is called employment.”  Inspired by Marzieh Goudarzi, IPS News ow.ly/k8TND Image source Wikipedia ow.ly/k8UQp Moving away from elite multilateralism (May 12 2013)

 

Jose Antonio Ocampo Gaviria the 60 year old Colombian Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs has been interviewed by Marzieh Goudarzi for the IPS News Service in an article titled ‘Moving Away from “Elite Multilateralism”’. During the interview Ocampo-Gaviria states “I have written extensively on the G20 and my perspective is that these informal institutions, which I call “elite multilateralism”, are not the best form of global governance. I like “the G’s” when they are part of multilateral institutions. Global governance derives its legitimacy at the global level just as governance does at a national level, from universality. You have to have universal membership. For that purpose, the best way for these “G’s” to work is within a formal multilateral setting. At the same time, I agree that you have to have effective decision-making mechanisms. Smaller decision-making bodies, in which everyone is directly represented, are fundamental. In all democracies, decisions are taken by a limited number of actors at the end, but those actors have to be representing all of the membership. …The basic problem is that power ends up in the hands of the elite that uses power to further its own interests. This has been associated with developing countries, but it can also happen in developed countries, particularly in the financial sector. There has been a change in that regard during the recent crisis; now there is a bit more hope that financial policy will be detached from financial interests. Successful human development strategy has to include very active social policy, including education, health, and social protections, and at the same time very active economic development policy, particularly the generation of employment. We have seen so many cases of countries that have improvements in education and when an educated labour force comes to the market, there is no employment to absorb that population. You have to have an active social policy but also an active economic policy and the basic connection between the two is called employment.”

 

Inspired by Marzieh Goudarzi, IPS News ow.ly/k8TND Image source Wikipedia ow.ly/k8UQp

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