SDGS FOR ALL PLATFORM ANNUAL CONFERENCE: 2030 Agenda – Serbia meeting...
The ”SDGs for ALL” Platform organized an annual online conference on December 8 and 9, 2020, with the participation of more than 200 participants. The objective of the conference was to showcase the platform’s key achievements since its official launch in March this year, but also to discuss future development challenges and perspectives of Serbia in line with the 2030 Agenda.
The Platform is hosted by the Public Finance Reform – 2030 Agenda project and is being implemented in partnership with six eminent civil society organizations: Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation, Center for Democracy Foundation, Center for Advanced Economic Studies, Timok Youth Center, Belgrade Open School and Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence. (For more information please visit www.sdgs4all.rs)
During the two day event, representatives of state institutions, civil society, the business sector, international organizations, academia and the research community, professional associations, media and others, engage..
(R)evolutionary road: Where Do We Stand In The Digitalization?
Online conference 17.12.2020, 10:00
The year that is slowly coming to an end and the Covid-19 pandemic set on one hand an imperative to accelerate the digitalization process, both at the state level and in the daily lives of all citizens and businesses, and on the other hand very clearly recorded shortcomings and challenges in the revolutionary and the inevitable path of digitization of services, economy and lifestyle.
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The Happiest Warrior Bruce Herschensohn, 1932–2020
Bruce Herschensohn would hate what I’m about to do. He always lamented that Years of Lightning, Day of Drums—the acclaimed documentary he produced about the life and assassination of President John F. Kennedy—tended to get re-aired on the anniversary of the 35th president’s death. Bruce, whose innate love of America had only deepened from a life spent travelling the world, always thought it felt wrong: other countries commemorate deaths, he believed. In America, we celebrate births. Yet those of us who knew and loved the man had to wait until Bruce’s death on November 30 at 88 to pay him proper tribute, if only to ensure he wouldn’t add more accomplishments to a life already crammed with them.
Bruce was still a young filmmaker when he made Years of Lightning for the U.S. Information Agency in 1964. USIA handled the nation’s “public diplomacy,” creating pro-American, anti-Communist programming for distribution overseas, a practice that critics derided as propaganda. Bruce rejected that..
Die EU braucht eine digitale Außenpolitik
Joe Bidens Wahlsieg in den USA ist ein Zeichen dafür, dass das Land zum Multilateralismus, zum gemeinschaftlichen Handeln und zur Verteidigung der demokratischen Werte zurückkehren wird. Das tut es zu einer Zeit, in der sich das geotechnologische Zentrum – wie auch das geopolitische Zentrum der Welt allgemein – in den asiatisch-pazifischen Raum verlagert. Mit der geo-technologiepolitischen Brille betrachtet bedeutet das: Macht gilt es mit regulatorischen Mitteln einzuschränken.
Die in den Startlöchern stehende Biden-Administration hat bereits signalisiert, dass sie zweierlei Ziele verfolgt: den aus dem Silicon Valley herausgewachsenen Überwachungskapitalismus und den Tech-Autoritarismus, speziell aus China, einzudämmen. Dazu sucht das Team um Biden nach Verbündeten in Europa. Damit eine solche Allianz entstehen kann, müssen allerdings auch die schwierigen Themen auf den Tisch kommen, bei denen es grundverschiedene Ansichten und unterschiedliche Interessen gibt – vom Datenschutz über d..
Algorithms control your online life. Here’s how to reduce their influence.
The world in 2020 has been given plenty of reasons to be wary of algorithms. Depending on the result of the U.S. presidential election, it may give us one more. Either way, it’s high time we questioned the impact of these high-tech data-driven calculations, which increasingly determine who or what we see (and what we don’t) online.
The impact of algorithms is starting to scale up to a dizzying degree, and literally billions of people are feeling the ripple effects. This is the year the Social Credit System, an ominous Black Mirror-like “behavior score” run by the Chinese government, is set to officially launch. It may not be quite as bad as you’ve heard, but it will boost or tighten financial credit and other incentives for the entire population. There’s another billion unexamined, unimpeachable algorithms hanging over a billion human lives.
In the UK, few will forget this year’s A-level algorithm. A-levels are key exams for 18-year olds; they make or break college offers. COVID-19 c..
Digital Fashion Week Serbia
A unique online gathering of designers, fashion experts and influencers
Digital Fashion Week Serbia, organized by Color Media Communications and Serbia Fashion Week, is a digital event where fashion lovers can see relevant Serbian and foreign designers, have the opportunity to enjoy current collections directly from the comfort of their home. In six days from 23.11. to 28.11. every evening from 8 pm, all those interested could follow the program on the YouTube channel Digital Fashion Week Serbia.
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The World in 2021 Conference
The World in 2021 Conference is one of the oldest conferences organized by Color Media Communications, and has already become recognized as an event that closes the current year with conclusions about the political, business, and social environment in Serbia and opens issues that will be important next year.
The conference will be held on December 15, 2020 in the House of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in Belgrade.
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Online conference ‘Food Talk – You are What You Eat’
The Food Talk 2020 regional gastro conference, which brings together the biggest names from the world of gastronomy and winemaking in the region, was held on November 26, for the first time online.
The conference was officially opened by the Provincial Secretary for Economy and Tourism, Nenad Ivanišević, followed by two panel discussions and two case studies. ‘You are What You Eat’ is this year’s conference’s theme and slogan.
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Continued support in the reintegration of the returnees in Serbia reinforced...
The GIZ presented the results of its work on the reintegration of returnees in the context of the pandemic within the online conference “RE:Integrate – return and (re)integration: challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic”, held on November 17, 2020 and organized by the Global Programme “Migration for Development” (PME).
The conference was introduced by Ms. Darija Kisić Tepavčević, the new Minister of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs in the Government of the Republic of Serbia and Dorothea Gieselmann, Deputy Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Serbia.
The Minister pointed out that the Strategy on Economic Migration for the period 2021 – 2027 regulating the field of economic migration, was adopted in February 2020.
She emphasized that the aim of the Strategy is to create a better economic and social environment to slow down the drain of the working age population, strengthen ties with the diaspora, encourage return and circular migration, but also attract fo..
Conference ’Nuclear Safety Today’
Nuclear energy should not be feared, but rather we should become familiar with, study and control it, and experts in Serbia are capable of doing all of that.
Belgrade, December 2, 2020 – In cooperation with the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, the Serbian Radiation and Nuclear Safety and Security Directorate (SRBATOM) held the Nuclear Safety Today conference for the second consecutive time, but this year, it was an online conference.
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