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Investing in the collective intelligence commons for a sustainable and inclusive recovery

18 Oct 2022 14:00 – 15:00
Online

This event took place on Tuesday 18 October. You can watch the recording below.

We brought together innovation experts to mark the launch of our new report on designing the collective intelligence commons.

To achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and to accelerate our path to a green and just transition for a sustainable recovery, we have to mobilise both funding and our collective intelligence. The digital commons can play a vital role in this.

Why you should watch the recording

This free-to-attend event explored the benefits of investing in the development of the collective intelligence commons – the open infrastructure for developing and scaling collective intelligence projects – and how this could help us achieve sustainability goals.

Listen back to hear about the latest research from Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, in partnership with Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Their new report explores the benefits of investing in the development of the collective intelligence commons and the role open hardware, software, data and content play in developing collective intelligence projects.

If you’re working in international development or have a broader interest in technology and social innovation, then this event recording is for you.

This event was hosted by Nesta and AFD and is part of the fringe event programme of Finance in Common, an international event focusing on investing in a Green and Just transition for a sustainable recovery.

Event Recording

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Speakers

Kathy Peach

Kathy Peach, Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, Nesta (Moderator/Chair)

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Kathy is the Director and co-founder of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design at Nesta, which explores how human and machine intelligence can be combined to develop innovative solutions to social challenges. Kathy was the lead author of the Collective Intelligence Design Playbook, and lead the Centre's partnerships with UNDP and the International Federation of the Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies - applying collective intelligence design to address the Sustainable Development Goals and improve local humanitarian response. She also oversaw the Centre's grants programme, which has supported 30 different experiments around the world. Her Nesta publications include Collective Intelligence for Sustainable Development, Collective Crisis Intelligence for Frontline Humanitarian Response, Our Futures: By the people, for the people, Participatory AI for Humanitarian Innovation, and Combining Crowds & Machines. Previously, Kathy was Head of Innovation & Foresight at Bond - the global network for international development organisations. She has also held leadership roles at a range of non-profits, including disability charity Scope, international development agency VSO, and the public body Healthwatch England. She was a board member of the Nobel prize-winning charity Mines Advisory Group (MAG) between 2013-2019, and a member of the Newton Fund Prize Committee in 2018 and 2020. She is currently an expert adviser to the World Economic Forum on Technology & Society.

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Peter Baeck, Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, Nesta

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Peter is responsible for a number of large scale research projects and experiments that explore how human and machine intelligence can be combined to solve social challenges. As the Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, Peter's work focuses on areas such as labour markets, health care and digital democracy. His work also covers the role of digital technologies in public and social innovation, crowdfunding, smart cities, the collaborative economy and public innovation labs. Peter has led much of Nesta's research into crowdfunding and P2P lending as an innovative way of financing products and services in the UK, and has co-authored the reports Understanding Alternative Finance, Pushing Boundaries and Crowdfunding Good Causes. He has also worked on developing a number of practical tools programmes for those interested in crowdfunding such as the Working the Crowd guide, the UK’s first online crowdfunding directory Crowdingin.com and the arts and heritage matched crowdfunding pilot funded by the DCMS. Alongside this he has been involved in Nesta research projects on public sector innovation labs and led Nesta's research on digital social innovation. He’s published a number or studies this, including What Next For Digital Social Innovation (funded by the European Commission and i-teams: The teams and funds making innovation happen in governments around the world (in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropy).

Pierre Arnaud

Pierre-Arnaud Barthel, Head of Public Transformation & Citizens, AFD

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With a doctorate and former lecturer in urban planning at the French Institute of Urban Planning (University of Paris-Est), P-A Barthel joined AFD in 2014 as a project manager in the Urban Development, Planning and Housing Division. He then became head of the Capacity Building Unit in August 2020, which was renamed the Public Transformation and Citizens Division in 2022. He currently manages a team of 8 people dedicated to supporting project owners in the preparation of their projects / public policies in foreign countries with an expertise in organisational transformation, citizen participation engineering and public policy methodology and design. He has written several articles and participated in collective publications dedicated to the Arab Mediterranean countries. More recently, he has communicated on the digital transition of local authorities and is co-author of the AFD/IDDRI Smart city guide.

Aurelie Drouet

Aurélie Drouet, Digital for Development Expert, Expertise France

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Aurelie currently oversees Digital Projects for Expertise France, an international technical cooperation agency which is part of the AFD Group. Aurelie previously worked in the US as the Business Development Director of Bio2Market, a consulting firm supporting Biotech, Diagnostic and Digital Health companies. Aurelie also led Product Marketing at Sama, a company that provides training data for AI teams and expand opportunity for low-income people in East Africa through the digital economy. Before then, she managed Strategic Partnerships at Dreem and the Leila Janah Foundation.

Peter Addo

Peter Addo, Head of Emerging Tech Lab, AFD

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Dr Peter Addo is an experienced data scientist, and has an extensive background in working with data, and emerging technologies in the developing contexts. Currently, he is the lead on Artificial Intelligence, and serves as the head of Emerging Tech Lab under the Innovation Strategy and Research (ISR) directorate at the French Development Agency (AFD), Paris, France. He leads efforts to provide advisory and actionable research on harnessing data and the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) driven by artificial intelligence (AI) for a sustainable development agenda, both broadening and deepening current action of Groupe AFD. In particular, he contributes to the responsible adoption and investment of emerging technologies for sustainable development and growth. He formerly worked at the French National Centre for Scientific research (CNRS) as a researcher, and at the French National railway company (SNCF) as the Lead Data Scientist. He holds a double PhD in Applied Mathematics and Economics and is a member of several expert networks including the OECD Network of AI Experts.

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Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director, Ushahidi

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Angela is a technologist, community builder and open-source software advocate who is passionate about building and using appropriate technology tools to impact the lives of marginalised groups. She has over ten years of experience in software development, global community engagement, and non-profit organisational management. She is the Executive Director at Ushahidi, a global non-profit technology company that helps communities quickly collect and share information that enables them to raise voices, inform decisions and influence change. Since her appointment in 2019, Angela has led a strategic shift that has seen Ushahidi reduce barriers of access to its tools, leading to increased use of the Ushahidi platform, most notably to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in over 140 countries. Angela previously served as Ushahidi’s Director of Community Engagement, creating, fundraising for and managing programs for Ushahidi’s diverse global community. She sits on the Creative Commons Board of Directors and is also a co-founder of AkiraChix, a non-profit organisation that nurtures generations of women who use technology to develop innovations and solutions for Africa.

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Chenai Chair, Senior Program Officer - Africa Innovation, Mradi - Mozilla Foundation

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Chenai Chair is the Senior Program Officer - Africa Innovation Mradi - at Mozilla Foundation. Chenai coordinates Mozilla's Africa Mradi project focused on supporting the innovation ecosystem in East and Southern Africa. She also leads the Mozilla Common Voice African languages program work focused on East Africa. Her work draws on principles of feminism in assessing and implementing digital technology. She has developed projects focused on privacy, data protection and AI as Mozilla 2019/2020 fellow - available

Gayan Peiris

Gayan Peiris, Head of Data and Technology, UNDP

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Gayan is the Head of Data and Technology with Chief Digital Office at UN Development Programme (UNDP). He leads the implementation of the Data Strategy for UNDP which includes driving the transformation of UNDP into a data-driven organisation and advising member states on their data, digital and cloud strategies. Gayan is also an advisor member states in building Digital Public Infrastructure that includes data strategies and data exchanges. Gayan is also an expert in bringing people’s voices into policy making. He has experience in digital campaigning and led data collection and analysis efforts of several global initiatives such as UN75 and MYWorld which brought in over 10 million voices worldwide through both public and private sector partnerships.

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18 Oct 2022 14:00 – 15:00
Online