Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine - April 2023
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale. Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our April edition. Inside, view conversations we found impactful so far this year! This months covers features speakers: Kim Smith, Chetna Singh, Peggy Pelonis, Angelos Pangratis, Esteban Olivares, Gautam Mukunda, and Dave Grimaldi!
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our April edition. Inside, view conversations we found impactful so far this year!
This months covers features speakers: Kim Smith, Chetna Singh, Peggy Pelonis, Angelos Pangratis, Esteban Olivares, Gautam Mukunda, and Dave Grimaldi!
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THE IMPORTANCE OF<br />
DATA TO ACHIEVE THE<br />
SDGS<br />
SERGIO DE CORDOVA, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN<br />
& FOUNDER, PVBLIC FOUNDATION<br />
George Sifakis: What are some of the<br />
current programs and, specifically,<br />
some key areas that you're looking to<br />
impact, change, and affect?<br />
Sergio Fernandez de Cordova : As I mentioned before, we have a collection<br />
of different initiatives and programs. To me, one of the most important ones<br />
is around data. The focus is on data for economic development and policydriven<br />
engagement to look at and understand what climate means, for<br />
example. What does climate mean to me in Sri Lanka? What does climate<br />
mean to me in Lithuania? What does climate mean to me in Australia? A lot<br />
of this off in the world of impact and advancing and looking at how we are<br />
advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, we have to focus on<br />
information and data as we're going into the midterms.<br />
As they say in the UN, this September is the halfway mark of the Sustainable<br />
Development Goals, and a lot of what we've been focused on since the idea<br />
of the Sustainable Development Goals was ratified in September 2015, from<br />
our perspective, has always been around the data. The media tells the story,<br />
and technology allows us to bring that information out, but gathering and<br />
focusing on the data is crucial. Additionally, getting governments and<br />
agencies to share that information has been a priority over the last seven<br />
years. We will continue to drive that and help educate governments on how<br />
they can understand that data, not from a commercial intent, but from a<br />
human rights perspective, from a human economic driven perspective, how<br />
to make their regions, their countries, their communities smarter, stronger,<br />
better, more impactful, and more effective.<br />
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