Mastering the Challenges of Our Time

With New Thinking, Culture & Emerging Technologies based Mass Mobilization

Exhibit of the “Global Challenges Action Innovation & Emerging Technologies” Partnership

UN HQ NY, 3 – 7 Feb 2025, organized in the context of the UN ECOSOC Partnership Forum 2025

Why?

• Global Challenges are growing
• SDGs implementation is low
• Exclusive, nation state multilateralism is underperforming
• Innovation is needed

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Our Common Agenda &

The Call for a New Social Contract

We urgently need a renewed social contract, .. , one that allows many more actors to tackle increasingly

complex and

interconnected

problems.

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UN SG Report “Our Common Agenda”,

2021, Page 22

The Meta-Challenge:�

Envisioning and creating an innovation ecosystem for multi-stakeholder action coordination and incentivization towards the provision of local and global common good.

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Mobilizing in a meaningful and rewarding manner everyone, everywhere to contribute

• knowledge
• data & digital solutions
• heartpower
• financial resources
• creativity and much more

towards collaborative action for the common good.

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The Answer – �The “Global Challenges Action Innovation & Emerging Technologies” Partnership

Systemic innovation:

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• New Thinking / Paradigm shift: It starts with me and with my city, local community and region!
• Social Innovation / Public Sector / Knowledge system Innovation / Impact Entrepreneurship & Job Creation Innovation: We need to cooperate better on local and global level and set up new coordination and incentive systems for the multi-stakeholder provision of public goods - a New Social Contract.
• Digital Innovation – Emerging technologies (Blockchain/Web3, AI, IoT, digital twins, ..) are a game changer, enabling new forms of multi-stakeholder action coordination and incentivization
• Cultural Innovation and Movement building

Vision

We can build the biggest movement in human history, everyone joining forces for the local and global common good.

Mastering the challenges of our time – one challenge at a time!

Prelude at the Summit of the Future

• Challenges Mapping & Local Pacts for the Future
• Exhibit
• Conference

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Flagship initiatives

• Global Challenges Action Day
• Data and Digital Innovation Consortium
• Knowledge Innovation Summit
• DigitalArt4Climate

Global Challenges Action Day (GCAD)

GCAD Mission statement:

• GCAD is built on the shared vision that all members of global society in a concerted effort can collectively deliver to solve global and local challenges through effective action.
• GCAD embodies a global consensus on the need for having shared reporting and impact assessment standards and an emerging technology based data and digital innovation infrastructure, which is being developed and governed with global public goods provision optimization as guiding goal system.  
• GCAD represents a specific time window for collective stocktake of individual and combined pledges and delivered action
• GCAD is a celebration of a new culture of globally coordinated local action for the common good. 
• Through a GCAD resolution of the UN General Assembly, the UN system acknowledges the value of such globally concerted and emerging technology enabled non-state actors’ action

A day of celebration of global unity and collaborative action for the common good in partnership with the UN - a New Social Contract.

A day on which people make pledges, report action and impact (to the UN) and celebrate communities in relation to specific challenges, which are identified, specified and tracked in an knowledge and impact data information system, which is enabled by emerging technology .

GCAD Leader amb. Stan Smith (Bahamas)

“I am a firm believer in the potential of the UN to transform and to revitalize its structures and processes towards effective multilateralism in partnership with non-state actors.”

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“GCAD will be a value and impact multiplier, amplifying, the relationship between the local space and the global community; and with this comes the hope, confidence, and enabling forces to realize together our development goals.”

amb. Stan Smith at the Global Challenges Action Empowerment Workshop at UN HQ DEc 3rd 2024

Proposal for a GCAD UN GA Resolution

• Acknowledging the systemic need to engage non-state actors, including citizens, youth, and sub-national governments, in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other global initiatives,
• Emphasizing the importance of innovative tools, platforms and responsible and sustainable deployment of emerging technology for local and global action
• Proclaiming a specific date (tbd) as "Global Challenges Action Day," to be observed annually;
• Encouraging non-state actors, particularly citizens, youth, and sub-national governments, to actively participate by making pledges and reporting actions related to global challenges, such as climate change, sustainable development, and other SDGs
• Welcoming the collaborative investment of intellectual and financial resources by Global Challenges Action day partners into the development of the global digital public goods (data and digital innovation infrastructure) needed for the implementation of the Global Challenges Action Day resolution
• Calling upon Member States to support this initiative by: a. Facilitating the participation of sub-national governments, youth, and communities; b. Collaborating with non-state actors to leverage local knowledge and resources in addressing global challenges;
• Inviting Member States and relevant UN bodies to explore synergies between "Global Challenges Action Day" implementation supporting data and digital innovation ecosystems and existing global efforts, including those led by United Nations agencies and programs

GCAD Data and Digital Innovation Consortium

Localization of Global Challenges Action and Impact

GCAD with GloCha Digital Innovation Pavilion at UN Conferences/COPs�The place to showcase leadership and build partnerships

COP30

Brazil

Outlook

GCAD Partnership’s Links to the Global Digital Compact

GDC Preface: (page 37)

• As Governments, we will work in collaboration and partnership with the private sector, civil society, international organizations, the technical and academic communities and all other stakeholders, within their respective roles and responsibilities, to realize the digital future we seek
• The digital world is evolving at pace. Our cooperation must be forward-looking and capable of identifying, anticipating, assessing, monitoring and adapting to emerging technologies so that we can seize opportunities and respond to new and emerging risks and challenges

Digital public goods and digital public infrastructure (Page 41)

• We consider such digital public goods and digital public infrastructure to be key drivers of inclusive digital transformation and innovation We recognize the need to increase investment in their successful development with the participation of all stakeholders

ENHANCE INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLI­GENCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF HUMANITY

• We encourage the development of international partnerships on artificial intelligence capacity-building to develop education and training pro­grammes, increase access to resources including open artificial intelligence models and systems, open training data and compute, facilitate artifi­cial intelligence model training and development, and promote the participation of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises in the digital econ­omy (SDGs 4 and 17).
•  We emphasize the importance of increased investment, particularly from the private sector and philanthropy, to scale up artificial intelligence capacity-building for sustainable development. We request the Secretary-General, in consulta­tion with potential contributors and the United Nations system, to develop innovative volun­tary financing options for artificial intelligence capacity-building

GCAD Partnership on Building Emerging technology / AI capacity for climate entrepreneurship and locally led climate action programs within the Green Climate Fund

DigitalArt4Climate

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• Technology adoption,
• Digital skills development
• Resource Mobilization and
• Community building with Web3 technology

Partnership Tools and Deliverables

• (Free) Commemorative digital collectible/NFT for Partnership Inception – April 2025 (UN ECOSOC Youth Forum, NYC)
• #InvestInYourFuture Building brick digital collectibles – Mai 2025 (UN STI Forum, NYC)
• Global Challenges Action ID card – June (first 100 distributed at the UN Oceans Conference, Nice)
• Global Challenges Action Registry
• With email based user identification: spring 2025
• User identification with digital self-sovereign identity/wallet: autumn 2025
• GCAD data layer (ESRI Storymap) in connection with UN One Map – One Humanity of the UN Geospatial Network – Spring 2025
• Global Challenges Mapping
• Basic version – JETforCE Challenges Mapping Tool – exists / 2024
• With unique identification of chakllenges and cahllenges communities formation function – autumn 2025
• Onboarding of 20 GCAD partner organizations by September 2025
• Formation of 3 GCF project consortia by Sept 2025
• UNGA GCAD resolution by Sept 2025
• 10 000 GCAD friends/supporters registered based on Social media posts in support of GCAD by November 2025/COP30

Funding so far

• IAAI GloCha and Digital Innovation pavilion partners/sponsors
• Climate Chain Coalition
• Council of Global Change (tbc)

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Fiscal sponsor:

• GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York Inc. (501c3 public charity)

Ecosystem

Sane Future

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Community & Movement Building

Tech solutions

Culture &

Edutainment

Resource Mobilization

IAAI GloCha

Council on Global Change

Mission of Bahamas /

amb Smith

Revolution Love

Music for SDGs

NVIDIA

UN Geospatial Network / One Map

Creators 2030

UN Habitat Youth Programme

OIJ

World Merit

IEEE

BlockScience

GESDC

Bioregional Embassy

Climate Chain Coalition

Subconscious

Bloom Network

Knowledge

Innovation Summit

Regen Foundation

IIASA

Hub Culture

BioFi

Omni Mapping

Research, Ethics & Metrics

R3.0

Int. Research Center for Artificial Intelligence IRCAI

Endemic

The New Quo

Good Standing

Metabolic

Global Unity

First Principles First

Kinship Earth

Contact�

www.glocha.org/partnership

www.gcaday.org

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office@glocha.org