Welcome to GloCha

Research, Digital Innovation, Culture and Gamification for a better world

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee/Austria, 19^th of January 2023, 9.00 – 20.00h CET (virtual participation possible during workshop part of the program 10 AM – 1 PM)

Registration: link

Background:

The Klagenfurt based, UN accredited, international association IAAI (director: Miroslav Polzer) is planning to set up with partners in Austria, Slovenia and UAE a GloCha competence center on digital innovation and climate action empowerment in the context of its global challenges action empowerment ecosystem GloCha (link to draft concept note).

The center shall

• bring together research, technology development and educational competences in the field of emerging technologies (with a focus on Web 3.0 & blockchain technology) of the Alps-Adriatic region and beyond (starting with the membership of the Climate Chain Coalition)
• serve as a meeting place for youth from around the world working on knowledge-based solutions to global challenges in the context of United Nations programs and global goals/SDGs, and
• deliver digital solutions and services for energy transition, (micro) climate entrepreneurship and climate action gamification based on innovative multi-factor carbon credits schemes
• support local and subnational authorities in the implementation of their decarbonization goals (like e.g. the city of Klagenfurt as well as other EU Mission Cities and the state of Carinthia)
• support on a global level non-state actors (especially citizens/youth) climate action empowerment in the context of the EU Climate Pact and the UNFCCC Action for Climate Empowerment programme

Goals of the workshop

• Stakeholder mapping, presentation & discussion of functions/ programs and Consortium formation
• Designing the GloCha Center as an investment opportunity for cities, citizens, philanthropists and SDGs/ESG impact businesses/investors, with innovative funding instruments (e.g. tokenization of shares of GloCha TechGesmbH, first ideas, Climate Action NFTs Certification DAO, Future Carbon/SDG credits sales, Voluntary Carbon Footprint Compensation Cryptostamps, DigitalArt4Climate NFT sales)
• Preparations for an EU INTERREG Austria-Slovenia project “With Digital Innovation and Culture towards Climate neutral cities and citizens„
• Outreach and events in 2023 planning (GITEX Impact Dubai (10-12 May), GloChaMania June 2023), UNFCCC Bonn Climate conference (5 – 15 June), GloCha exhibit and conference at UN HQ NY (September, 2022 example), UN Climate Conference COP28 in Dubai (30 Nov – 13 Dec)

Agenda overview:

09.00 – 09.00 – Press conference

10.00 – 13.00 – Workshop

13.30 – 15.00 – Lunch (Villa Lido restaurant at Lake Wörthersee)

15.30 – 16.00 – Site visit I: potential location(s) of the center

16.00 – 16.30 – Site visit II Lakeside STI Park with Educational lab

18.00 – 20.00 – GloCha reception 2023 & Presentation of the DigitalArt4Climate exhibit

Agenda – Detailed plan:

10.00                    Workshop – The GloCha Research, technology development & Culture Center on Digital Innovation and Climate Action Empowerment, Klagenfurt (programs, partnerships, organization, funding and outreach)

10.00 – 10.05      Welcome by Miroslav Polzer, IAAI GloCha & Tom Baumann, Climate Chain Coalition (pre-recorded video) (2-3 min each)

10.05 – 10.15      Tour de table – brief personal introduction of workshop participants

10.15 – 10.30      Presentation dr. Wolfgang Hafner, City of Klagenfurt, The Climate action strategy of the City of Klagenfurt in the context of the EU Mission Cities programme + info about Innovation system in Carinthia (esp. Lakeside STI Park Klagenfurt) (10 min)

10.30 – 11.00      Presentation of initial ideas and programs for the “GloCha RTDI & Culture Center for Digital Innovation and Climate Action Empowerment Klagenfurt – Ljubljana – Dubai” (see Annex below) – 30 min

11.00 – 11.30      Project proposal preparation for an EU INTERREG Austria-Slovenia project “With Digital Innovation and Culture towards Climate neutral cities and citizens„

11.30 – 12.00      Funding options and taxation aspects

• public funding programs in Austria (COMET projects) & EU (Horizon, INTERREG, European Research Infrastructures, ..)
• Tokenization (GloCha Tech GesmbH) in addition to investment of public authorities, foundations and other institutional public good focused organizations, individuals can become fractional (micro share) co-owners by buying “Building stones” of the center
• DigitalArt4Climate NFTs sales (https://dafc.unique.network)
• Citizens Climate Action NFTs Certification DAO ICO
• Future Carbon/SDGs credits sales based on citizen/youth climate action enabled with GloCha programs
• DigitalArt4Climate/voluntary Carbon footprint compensation Cryptostamps
• blockchain based sustainability linked bonds,
• tax deductible donations

12.00 – 12.30      GloCha Center Consortium formation with a particular focus on the City of Klagenfurt, Slovenia (with its EXPO City Dubai pavilion, MetaCOP & IRCAI) and UAE (DWTC/GITEX,  WGEO, SUSTEX, Haqq Association)

12.30 – 13.00      Event timeline for 2023:

• GITEX Impact, Dubai May 2023
• GloChaMania festival 2023, June 2023
•  UNFCCC Bonn Climate conference (5 – 15 June)
• UN HQ NY Sept 2023 (similar to 2022 event)
• UN Climate Conference COP28 in Dubai, November 2023 with IAAI GloCha CCC  Digital Innovation Pavilion

Contact:

Dr. Miroslav Polzer, executive director IAAI, CEO GloCha Tech gesmbH, polzer@glocha.info,  tel: +436644203648, www.glocha.info, https://digitalart4climate.space/ https://action4climate.support/ 

Annex 1:  Initial ideas and programs for the “GloCha RTDI & Culture Center for Digital Innovation and Climate Action Empowerment Klagenfurt – Ljubljana – Dubai”

• identification, analysis and promotion of digital innovation solutions for climate action empowerment (focus on Web3.0/Blockchain) (GloCha product 1: Digital Innovation pavilion at COPs) and MetaCOP – COP in the metaverse
  • youth and citizens climate action engagement (open source) tools:
    • DigitalArt4Climate creative economy and social energy for a better world (COP28 edition with UAE Ministry of education and localization with (EU Mission) cities, …) (GloCha product 2: global art & music competition, GloCha product 2: local / city level art & music competition & NFT sales)
    • Global Challenges Mapping (note: IAAI has funding for this through the EU INTERREG Central Europe project JET4CE) (= foundation for a climate action impact information system, and blockchain based eco-social contracts based digital communities formation)
    • Global Challenges ID
    • Global Challenges Action Registry
    • Youth Climate Action Fund and Collaborative resource governance tools (United Citizens organization DAO / Decentralized Autonomous organization)
    • UNEP World Environment Situation Room Citizen Science cooperation (incl. SDG scorecard app) in the context of UN Habitat Climate Changemakers youth empowerment program
  • citizen / youth focused climate action certification (based on above mentioned tools: digital identities, digital measurement, reporting and verification (dMRV), global challenges action registry, Impact crowd-evaluation based on Challenges Mapping methodology and tools – research project proposal in the context of the 15^th Call of the Austrian Climate Action Research Programme and creation of multi-factor carbon credits/SDGs credits for voluntary carbon markets based on citizens’/youth climate action
  • (micro) climate entrepreneurship business models and tools (e.g. climate action and impact NFTs marketplace)
  • GloCha Games (knowledge and impact focused gamification of citizens’ climate action)
  • digital finance (blockchain based bonds et al.) for youth/citizens led climate action
• Collaborative Data science, Software Development and Impact Standards Work
  • Open Source Software development (linked with CAMDA, OS Climate,  Open Earth Foundation, Digital Democracy, ..)
  • Data science (Climate action reporting language with ontologies,taxonomies, etc.)

Climate/SDGs action impact standards development based on experimental research

United Citizens Organization – A Decentralised Solution for Youth Led Climate Action

On Wednesday 10th November 2021, GloCha (Global Challenges Action Empowerment Consortium) launched United Citizens Organization (UCO), a quasi-international organization aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offering a decentralised and blockchain based solution to empower and deliver youth led climate action.

Launched at COP26, UCO is rooted in the Action for Climate Empowerment Innovation Project, or ACE_AT. The purpose of this organisation is to build a bridge between the public and private sector and allow more equitable and efficient resource mobilisation for young climate activists across the globe, empowering them and giving them a better opportunity to put their ideas into action.

Founded by Miroslav Polzer, CEO of IAAI, an organisation which is an accredited as Observer of the UNFCCC, UCO in the true spirit of SDG17 brings together a wide range of partners from both the public and private sectors including UN Habitat Youth, Climate Chain Coalition (CCC), Global Youth Development Institute (GYDI), Education Communication and Outreach Stakeholder (ECOS), PHGG, APCD Chad, Arts Help, Unique Network, The Oblique Life, CoinTelegraphThe UCO’s roadmap has set ambitious targets for 2022, including publication of a white paper in late February 2022, development of a blockchain based Decentralised Autonomous Organization (DAO) and marketplace and a series of climate action awareness events across the world with Digital Art for Climate.

https://unfccc-cop26.streamworld.de/webcast/iaai-glocha-united-citizens-organization-for-actio

01 iaai glocha_slides_cop26_unitedcitizensorganizationforace_pressconf10nov_ from Miroslav Polzer

https://www.glocha.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/01IAAI_GloCha_Slides_COP26_UnitedCitizensOrganizationforACE_pressconf10Nov_.pdf

https://cointelegraph-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/cointelegraph.com/news/united-citizens-organization-launches-as-a-blockchain-initiative-at-cop26/amp

The United Nations announced 2021 as the Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development to recognise the value of creativity as a powerful resource for sustainable development and climate action. DigitalArt4Climate in partnership with UN-Habitat is an initiative to accelerate that force. The DigitalArt4Climate is an unprecedented multi-stakeholder partnership initiative which uses blockchain technology to turn art into digital assets or NFTs, which can be collected and traded, thus opening up a socio-technological innovation space which helps to unlock extraordinary potential for resource mobilization and climate empowerment.

COP26 Collection „Humanity challenged by Climate Change“, exhibited in Glasgow, UK 2021.

Visit https://digitalart4climate.space/#rec374020001 to meet the finalists & winners & find yourself in the Metaverse by Artgence (https://digitalart4climate.gallery/).

Official video here. For press here.

For the Climate Chain Coalition the COP26 – UN Climate Change Conference has been a wonderful opportunity to present ourselves as the leading multi-stakeholder partnership in the field of #blockchain4climate.

IAAI GloCha is one of the co-founders of the Climate Chain Coalition and IAAI GloCha executive director Miroslav Polzer, who is also the strategic director of the CCC helped to organize an official CCC COP26 press conference and a session on Systemic Transformation with blockchain technology at the COP26 UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub

#DigitalArt4Climate Milan 2021 Youth Climate Action Celebration

Organizer:

In cooperation with

• UN Habitat Youth programme  https://www.unhabitatyouth.org/  
• Unique Network https://unique.network/
• Social Alpha Foundation https://www.socialalphafoundation.org/
• HubZine Italy
• MEET Digital Culture Center Milan / Fondacione Cariplo
• FIABCI Italia – IL PUNTO Real Estate Advisor srl – Campagnoli & Calvi Studio Legale – Lex CC

Event Aims

• Inspiring public support for bold and effective climate action with youth focused narratives, inspiring artwork (DigitalArt4Climate and its Art Competition (submission deadline 8 Oct 2021)), music and celebrities’ engagement
• Informing/Educating the audience about United Nations led global efforts to master the climate crisis (UNFCCC process, Paris Agreement, Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) program, UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow/UK in November 2021)
• Mobilizing financial resources for systemic solutions to youth focused climate action empowerment
• Movement building and individual (youth) climate action empowerment with social and digital innovation & blockchain based climate action digital collectibles/NFTs platform and app

Day 1: 27th of September 3 – 6 PM CEST

Venue: Viale dell’Innovazione, 2, 20126 Milano

• youth climate action innovation panel
• NFTs for Climate – Climate action as a digital badges collection game panel
• Milan 2021 DigitalArt4Climate event badge (NFT) airdrop (=free distribution to event participants)
• networking meeting with local digital art & climate action leaders

Day 2: 28 September 2021 3 – 5 PM CEST

Venue: MEET Digital Culture Center Milan & virtual participation through various platforms including Youtube and Facebook

• Presentation of the DigitalArt4Climate initiative
• Creative Industries for Climate Panel I – Visual Arts & Fashion
• Creative Industries for Climate Panel II – Music
• Event NFT airdrop

Background:

COP26, ACE, ACE_AT, IAAI & ECOS:  https://unfccc.int/news/action-for-climate-empowerment-new-drive-for-society-wide-climate-action

Why Milan?: Italian COP26 co-presidency Pre-COP youth event in Milan and All4Climate campaign context

DigitalArt4Climate: resource mobilization innovation for ACE, spin-off initiative of ACE_AT project – rooted also in the Digital Innovation Community in the context of the UNFCCC process – and DA4C beneficiaries.

With the event we are building a new narrative of hope and collaboration in light of the climate crisis. The event title provides a thematic framework: The Storm, the Haven and the Angel (themes that are also guiding the DigitalArt4Climate art competition). The Storm: uncertainties and fears in a rapidly changing world. The Haven: people/communities joining hands towards mastering the climate crisis and The Angel: the individual global citizen as the centre of a value and cultural shift towards empathy, solidarity, who creates with his/her individual climate action legacy (documented/certified with digital badges) the foundation for a good life for all.

Detailed Agenda:

Agenda Day 1 – Monday, 27th of September 3 – 6 PM CEST

link to live broadcast: https://youtu.be/oHtlBDxjnAM

Venue: Viale dell’Innovazione, 2, 20126 Milano on-site participation capacity of the venue is limited because of COVID, please write an email to polzer@glocha.info if you would like attend in person

• Welcome (host: Antonio Campagnoli, moderators) (5 minutes)
• Youth climate action innovation panel
  • Timothy Damon, youth climate action movement leader & Education, Communication and Outreach Stakeholders Community/ECOS
  • Dolphine Magero, Global Youth Climate Action Fund
  • John Crowley – former director of the UNESCO Management Social Transformations Programme
  • Doug Ragan (UN Habitat Youth Programme)
  • Alexandre Caldas (UN Environment)
  • Miroslav Polzer (IAAI GloCha)
• (Clean) NFTs for Climate – Climate action as a digital badges collection game panel
  • Digital Innovation keynote: Mario Taddei, academic, science communication expert, digital artist. Reinventing art, markets and global cooperation with NFTs/digital collectibles
  • Bruno Škvorc, Web3 Foundation – a brief general introduction to Web 3.0, Proof-of-Stake on Polkadot/Kusama (Clean NFTs), RMRK/Kanaria, as example of NFTs as enablers of innovation in the domains of art, governance, business, .., explanation regarding the handling of our DigitalArt4Climate Milan2021 event NFT drop
  • Irina Karagyaur, Unique Network, a NFT chain for Kusama and Polkadot, Essential Art Tools
  • Miroslav Polzer, IAAI GloCha – DigitalArt4Climate overview & NFTs for GloCha ACE support ecosystem & COP26 plans
  • Alexandre Gellert Paris, Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Unit, United Nations Climate Change Secretariat – UNFCCC (to be confirmed)
• DigitalArt4Climate Milan 2021 event badge (NFT) airdrop (= free distribution to event participants)

• Conversation with the artists who created the DigitalArt4Climate Global Angel: Theofilos Mantzoros (Greece) and Roger Haus (Switzerland)
• Networking meeting with local and international digital art & climate action leaders

            Agenda Day 2:  28 September 2021 3 – 5 PM CEST        

link to live broadcast: https://youtu.be/BLmEyiS0fhQ

Venue: MEET Digital Culture Center Milan , https://goo.gl/maps/SdBodiqCdwHoMpn27

on-site participation capacity of the venue is limited because of COVID, please write an email to polzer@glocha.info if you would like attend in person

• Introduction: videos & images from Pre-COP Youth event & from DA4C Day 1 event  (5 min)
• Presentation of the DigitalArt4Climate initiative (lead presenters: Anna Dart, ExquisiteWorkers & Irina Karagyaur, Unique Network & partners’ statements, potentially also DA4C Designathon winning team voice) (15 minutes)
• Creative Industries for Climate Panel I – Visual Arts & Fashion (45 minutes)

Panel moderator: Liliana Carrillo, UNESCO Creative cities network, Social Digital Innovation Expert

Digital Art keynote: Refik Anadol,: Digital art/artists and their potentials for doing good

Panelists:

• Maria Grazia Mattei, President and CEO of the MEET Digital Culture Center Milan
  • Olga Chernysheva, Chief Sustainability Officer, DRESSX – digital fashion
  • Katherine Foster, Social Alpha Foundation & Open Earth Foundation & DigitalArt4Climate partner
  • Camilla Delpero, CEO of CD Arts Consulting

·         Creative Industries for Climate Panel II – Music (20 minutes)

• Ricky Kej, Grammy award winning musician, UN goodwill ambassador and GloCha partner (Earth Music Awards)
  • Sol Moran Broza:  Be.Together For The Amazon: raising awareness, movement building and resource mobilization with music & outline of a collaboration with DigitalArt4Climate on music NFT collection
  • MusicforSDGs https://www.facebook.com/MusicforSDGs/ 
  • et al.
• DA4C Milan 2021 event badge airdrop

About the Action for Climate Empowerment Innovation Project ACE_AT:

Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) is a term adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to denote work under Article 6 of the Convention (1992) and Article 12 of the Paris Agreement (2015). The over-arching goal of ACE is to empower all members of society to engage in climate action, through education, training, public awareness, public participation, public access to information, and international cooperation on these issues. (source: https://unfccc.int/topics/education-youth/the-big-picture/what-is-action-for-climate-empowerment)

The Project ACE_AT is a collaborative global effort towards strengthening Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) within and beyond the UNFCCC process. The goal is to empower all members of society to engage in Climate Action and to change the perception on ACE.

The main task of the non-party stakeholder partners of ACE_AT IAAI & ECOS is to develop the plan for a self-sustaining ACE non-Party stakeholders support structure/office (potentially in the institutional setting of a quasi-international Organization as offered by Austrian legal system: https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/european-foreign-policy/international-organisations-in-austria/ngos-and-quasi-international-organizations/) with a corresponding business plan, resource mobilization innovation and digital tools and a digital global ACE platform (more information: https://action4climate.support/2021/03/29/ace_at-rethinking-and-reorganizing-action-for-climate-empowerment-ace/)

About DigitalArt4Climate: DigitalArt4Climate is a multi-stakeholder partnership initiative which uses blockchain technology to turn art into digital assets or NFTs, which can be collected and traded, thus opening up a socio-technological innovation space which helps to unlock extraordinary potential for resource mobilization and climate empowerment, which is being used to enable realization of youth focused ACE programs of IAAI GloCha and UN Habitat.  https://digitalart4climate.space/



References (related events and initiatives organized by IAAI GloCha in the past):

• DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition Launch on International Youth Day (12 August) 2021, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k18/k18n5bpoob
• DigitalArt4Climate virtual exhibit in the context of the Un High Level Political Forum 2021, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSMGbkgEP3NyCgiBVXdhdts6LhPzaP1E_KOE3sCUCoKe86iU-V4w5TySkyB5Qfvw08hhFp3cD1t1PxZ/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000
• Climate Celebrations 22nd of September 2019, Ethical Culture Institute, New York City (in the context of the UN Secretary General Climate Summit) https://www.facebook.com/100001382161861/videos/pcb.2513554358700612/2513542418701806
• COP21 Global Challenges Youth Music Contest (in collaboration with UNESCO and UN Climate Change secretariat) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ4pObZWg5A
• Global Climate Action Summit Climate Consciousness Concert Youth Creating Global Change, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco (organized in the context of the California Global Climate Action Summit) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL07aAmDA8jk3h-IzDPvXDDcbA5cb06VpO
• Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest (organized in the context of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro 2012 https://www.academia.edu/2401920/The_Rio_20_Global_Youth_Music_Contest_Journey_Towards_The_Future_We_Want_Photo_documentary_presented_in_the_context_of_International_Day_of_Youth_12_August_2012

Contact:         

Miroslav Polzer, polzer@glocha.info, https://digitalart4climate.space/

Thursday August 12^th  2021  4-6 PM CEST

Live & On-demand on UN WebTV webtv.un.org/   www.youtube.com/user/iaaiglocha   www.facebook.com/unhabitatyouth

In commemoration of the International Youth Day (IYD) 2021, the DigitalAr4Climate initiative celebrates and mainstreams meaningful and rewarding youth engagement in sustainable development goals implementation and launches its art competition as an innovative mechanism to engage the creative community and to mobilize resources for youth climate action empowerment in the run-up to the 2021 UN Climate Conference COP26.

Agenda:

Welcome by the Moderators:

• Timothy Damon, Global Youth Development Institute, YOUNGO (UNFCCC Youth Constituency) ACE Working Group & ECOS (Climate Education, Communication and Outreach Stakeholders Community)
• Quratulain Tejani, IAAI youth delegate to the UN HQ in NY, co-founder Generation Next Youth network

Part 1 –   Action for Climate Empowerment flagship initiatives & Youth Climate Action Empowerment Needs

• Miroslav Polzer IAAI GloCha – Systemic Solutions for Youth Climate Action Empowerment (ACE_AT, IAAI COP26 pavilion, DigitalArt4Climate, DigitalArt4Climate/ACE marketplace, ACE Youth Fund)
• Doug Ragan, UN Habitat Youth Programme & The World Environment Situation Room Youth Engagement Programme
• Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng, Deputy Director Climate Change EPA Ghana & UNFCCC ACE National Focal Point in Ghana –  Action for Climate Empowerment Innovation for and with youth in Ghana/Africa

Part 2 – DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition Launch by UN Habitat Youth Programme, IAAI GloCha and the Consortium Partners

• Miroslav Polzer IAAI GloCha
• Anna Dart, Exquisite Workers and creative director of the DigitalArt4Climate initiative
• Irina Karagyaur, Unique Network NFT Platform
• Prescille Cernosia  or/and Katherine Foster  Social Alpha Foundation
• Domenico Vito/Hubzine Italy (DigitalArt4Climate Marketplace UX/UI Designathon Coordinator) & Pravanjan Patnaik/Palette69 (UX/UI Design Mentor) & Wisdom Osenemendia (DigitalArt4Climate Designathon participant) & Daniel Thomas (Unique Network NFT Platform) – Pathways towards the DA4C Marketplace

Launch of the DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition: Themes, terms, conditions and submission process (visit https://digitalart4climate.space/ for more info)

Questions and Answers Session and Closing

International Youth Day is celebrated annually on 12 August to bring youth issues to the attention of the international community and celebrate the potential of youth as partners in today’s global society.

International Youth Day (IYD) gives an opportunity to celebrate and mainstream young peoples’ voices, actions and initiatives, as well as their meaningful, universal and equitable engagement.

DigitalArt4Climate is a multi-stakeholder partnership initiative which uses blockchain technology to turn art into digital assets or NFTs, which can be collected and traded, thus opening up a socio-technological innovation space which helps to unlock extraordinary potential for resource mobilization and climate empowerment. www.digitalart4climate.space/ – explanatory video: www. youtu.be/UObkHpLTjDk 

UN Habitat, IAAI and GloCha  Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) flagship initiatives: – Action for Climate Empowerment Innovation project ACE_AT www.action4climate.support/ – https://unfccc.int/news/action-for-climate-empowerment-new-drive-for-society-wide-climate-action – ACE & Digital Innovation pavilion at the UN Climate Change conference COP26 in November 2021 in Glasgow, – the World Environment Situation Room youth engagement programme www.wesr.unep.org/citizen

Contact:          polzer@glocha.info, +43 664 4203648, www.linkedin.com/in/miropolzer/  https://digitalart4climate.space/

DigitalArt4Climate is a multi-stakeholder partnership initiative which uses blockchain technology (non-fungible tokens/NFTs) to turn artwork into digital assets, which can be collected and traded, thus opening up a socio- technological innovation space which helps to unlock unprecedented potentials for resource mobilization in support of Sustainable Development Goals/ UN Agenda2030 implementation in general and Action for Climate Empowermentin particular.

Why a Designathon?

In order to design the initiative’s front-end solutions in a time efficient and attractive manner, the DigitalArt4Climate consortium decided to invite the „crowd“ of designers, software and game developers to help design – under the guidance of the DigitalArt4Climate Lead Technology Partner Unique Network NFT Platform, which provides the blockchain based back-end of the DigitalArt4Climate digital collectibles/NFTs solution and the Lead Creative Community partner of the DigitalArt4Climate initiative, Exquisite Workers – the user experience (UX)/user interface (UI) of the DigitalArt4Climate platform and app as well as easy to use software solutions for participating artists, collectors, the climate action community and the general public.

What: Crowdsourcing of design and software solutions for a digital collectibles /NFTs platform and app in the context of the all of society climate action empowerment initiative #DigitalArt4Climate, which is using blockchain technology based digital collectibles (non-fungible tokens/NFTs), to document, tokenize, trade and gamify contributions to local and global climate action empowerment in the context and in support of the Action for Climate Empowerment program of the United Nations  (links to further information: https://www.glocha.org/digitalart4climate/ & Video on demand of the first presentation of the initiative 4th of June 2021 in the context of the World Environment Day 2021: https://youtu.be/SsgTJqfeByI?t=3262)

Aims of the Designathon:   

(1) Finding UX/UI (User experience/User interface) design solutions (the “look and feel”) for (a) a digital art collectibles/NFTs platform and app for artists, collectors, the public and (b) a #DigitalArt4Climate marketplace for digital art collectibles/NFTs trading, which is envisaged as some kind of foundation for a future Action for Climate Empowerment resource mobilization marketplace on which different types of contributions to local and global climate action empowerment (art, ideas, funding, volunteering, etc.) as well as verified climate action outcomes/impact will be presented and traded as unique digital collectibles/NFTs, thus enabling new forms of innovative climate related social entrepreneurship   

(2) Development of Front-end software solutions for the DigitalArt4Climate initiative, built on the backend of the technical ecosystem of the Unique network NFT platform for the Polkadot and Kusama proof-of-stake blockchain ecosystem (Tech details: https://unique-network.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) 

(3) forming a community of design and software solutions providers, who will work with the #DigitalArt4Climate consortium on implementation of the identified solutions and designs 

Who(Organizer)

The designathon is being organized by the Austria based UN accredited civil society organization International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI GloCha in partnership with the UN Habitat Youth Programme (=Lead UN Partner of the initiative), Unique Network NFT Platform (Tech Partner), Exquisite Workers (Creative Community Partner), Hubzine Italy, Palette69/Boolien (UX/UI Design partner) and Social Alpha Foundation.

Who(Participants)

UX UI designer, web designer, digital market place designersindividuals and teams

Website/Landing Page: https://www.glocha.org/digitalart4climate-designathon/

Awards   

• monetary: 500 € for the best design solutions and 500 € for the best software solution
• non-monetary: (1) participation in DigitalArt4Climate hackathon award ceremony on 12th of August (=launch of the DigitalArt4Climate Call for Art) and potentially also in future DigitalArt4Climate edutainment shows and (2) opportunity to work with DigitalArt4Climate consortium (especially Unique Network tech team on the implementation of the winning solutions and potential employment opportunities)

Registration:   https://forms.gle/HXceHwhJXpdca9gx5

Designathon Communication: Discord (link will be shared upon completed registration)

    EVALUATION CRITERIA 

• Sustainability
• Scalability
• Technical Applicability
• Implementability
• Accessibility

Contact:

office@digitalart4climate.space

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2021#exhibit

DigitalArt4Climate elements and timeline:

• World Environment Day 2021 webinar (pre-launch of the initiative), 4th of June 2021 (please find detailed event information as well as a link to the video on demand on UN WebTV in this article below)
• virtual exhibit (content: presentation of the aims, partners and activities of the initiative) in the context of the UN High Level Political Forum 2021, 6 – 18th of July (see virtual exhibit above, from 6th of July onwards)
• virtual hackathon, 14 – 28 July, GOAL 1: Design the #digitalart4climate user Interface, bridge among unique network NFT platform backend and user devices ; GOAL 2: Design of an digitalart4climate gallery and market place (more info: www.glocha.org/digitalart4climate-hackathon)
• launch of the DigitalArt4Climate contest and Call for contributions (to the competition/contest), 12th of August 2021 (International Youth day)
• accompanying activity (timing to be determined): resource mobilization (auction of high profile art of digital artists (example of successful digital art for climate fundraising: CarbonDrop) or/and crowdfunding
  • for DigitalArt4Climate presence at COP26 (exhibit at ACE COP26 pavilion, see attachment, COP26 press conference, .. ) and
  • for DigitalArt4Climate / ACE marketplace development
• 30 September – DigitalArt4Climate exhibit and edutainment show in Milan/Italy in the context of the Pre-COP Youth event of the Italian co-presidency of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26
• 31st October – 12 November – DigitalArt4Climate exhibit and edutainment show at the IAAI Action for Climate Empowerment Innovation Space (pavilion) at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow

DigitalArt4Climate Partners:

Institution	Role in DigitalArt4Climate
–   IAAI – International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges, Klagenfurt  (Austria) –   GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York (501c3 public charity in the US) –   GloCha Tech GesmbH, public benefit limited liability corporation, Klagenfurt	Co-ordinator:  IAAI is the organizer of DigitalArt4Climate initiative, GloCha Fdt NY and GloCha Tech GesmbH will be used as institutional vehicles where tax deductability in the US and/or limited liability company structures will be needed
Unique Network NFT platform https://unique.network/	Lead Tech partner : –   NFTs minting –   Smart contracts –   Gallery https://whitelabel.market/#/all-tokens –   Marketplace https://whitelabel.market/#/market –  online payments –   support in marketing and general communication (Discord channel) –   support in hackathon organization –  organization of events
Hubzine Italy (Domenico Vito)	Co-ordinator hackathon 14-21 July Lead local partner for activities in the context of the Pre-COP in Milan (end of September)
UN Habitat Youth programme https://www.unhabitatyouth.org/ https://wesr.unep.org	DigitalArt4Climate Lead UN Partner –   Outreach –   Events in UN context –   Local events with city partners –   Resource mobilization beneficiary (World Environment Situation Room youth engagement programme)
Excuisite Workers https://exquisiteworkers.com/	Lead Creative Community partner – creative director of the DigitalArt4Climate initiative
Social Alpha Foundation https://www.socialalphafoundation.org/	Philanthropy Partner
	



DigitalArt4Climate Marketplace Vision:

#DigitalArt4Climate – Harnessing the Power of Culture and Technology for Action for Climate Empowerment

Webinar in the context of the World Environment Day 2021, the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development, 2021 and the #All4Climate Event Series of the Italian Co-Presidency of the UN Climate Conference COP26

When: 4 th of June 2021 ● 3.00 – 5.00 PM CEST / 9.00 – 11.00 AM EDT

Where: Milan / Italy & Streamyard, https://www.youtube.com/user/iaaiglocha, fb

and live web-broadcast on UN WebTV http://webtv.un.org/

Organizer:

• International Association for the Advancement of innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI www.glocha.info
• GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York www.glocha.org

In cooperation with

• UN Habitat Youth programme https://www.unhabitatyouth.org/
• UN Environment (to be confirmed)

The Challenge:

Paris Agreement implementation – a climate safe future – requires all of society engagement in climate action.

The UNFCCC Action for Climate Empowerment programme ACE is the governance innovation space for national governments and non-party stakeholders to find pathways towards all of society climate action empowerment. A key issue is lack of resources (reference: UNFCCC Future of ACE Options document)

The #DigitalArt4Climate / #DigitalCollectibles4Climate initiative recognises the value of artistic expressions (ideas/text, images, videos, music, …) as enabling resources for climate action. By means of transforming conventional art with the help of technology (enabled by blockchain technology) into digital assets (digital collectibles, non-fungible tokens NFTs) the potentials of art for climate action empowerment can be significantly increased. IAAI, as an associated partner of the Action for Climate Empowerment innovation project ACE_AT and as coordinator of the GloCha Global Challenges Action Empowerment consortium and its partners are planning to establish a mechanism/marketplace for climate related digital art through which auctions and other forms of value exchanges can be organised in order for ACE stakeholders, on all levels of society, to be equipped with the needed financial resources for their work and rewarded for well documented climate action and impact (=ACE marketplace, which has been called for by several stakeholders in the UNFCCC Future of ACE consultations, see above listed UNFCCC reference document).

During the DigitalArt4Climate webinar there will be launched a “Call for visual art for climate action empowerment” as an experiment on systemic Action for Climate Empowerment innovation with the transformative power of art and technology.

Tentative Agenda:

Moderation: Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr, Cointelegraph

Welcome

• Miroslav Polzer IAAI GloCha
• Doug Ragan, UN Habitat Youth Programme

Thematic introductions

• Talieh Wögerbauer, ACE ambassador for the UNFCCC & ACE national focal point, Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Republic of Austria – Action for Climate Empowerment Innovation
• Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, New York UNCTAD Office – The International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development 2021
• Giselle Alers, Global Creative Economy Inc. and representative of IAAI at the UN HQ in NY The creative community and its underutilized potentials for local and global sustainable development action empowerment in times of post-COVID recovery
• Tim Damon, ECOS & YOUNGO ACE WG, GYDI – Why the world needs an ACE Marketplace?
• Tom Baumann, Climate Chain Coalition, Digital Innovation for Climate Action – The Big Picture
• Alexandre Caldas, Chief, Country Outreach, Technology, Innovation & Big Data at UN Environment – World Environment Situation Room Youth Engagement Programme
• Katherine Foster – Open Earth Foundation & Social Alpha Fdt

#DigitalArt4Climate Call Launch

• Miroslav Polzer – DigitalArt4Climate roadmap: GloCha Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) digital art gallery, DigitalArt4Climate/ACE marketplace, ACE edutainment and digital art auction shows & Call to action for artists and young software developers/game designers
• Irina Karagyaur, Unique Network NFT Platform  – Information about creation of low-carbon-footprint digital assets/digital collectibles/NFTs on the Kusama Proof-of-Stake blockchain
• Domenico Vito, Climate Leader, Climate Reality EU Team Italy  – Pre-announcement of a Youth hackathon for ACE marketplace development

Future prospects

• Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng, Ghana Environmental Protection Agency and UNFCCC ACE Focal Point for Ghana – Action for Climate Empowerment Innovation for and with Youth in Ghana/Africa
• Subnational governments and local authorities, local communities, youth networks
• ..

Contact:      dr. Miroslav Polzer, IAAI GloCha, www.glocha.info, polzer@glocha.info, +43 664 4203648, www.linkedin.com/in/miropolzer/  

Another #DigitalArt4Climate / #DigitalCollectibles4Climate resource mobilization for ACE
mechanism will be voluntary carbon footprint compensation cryptostamps/digital collectibles, which we are going to introduce as a tool for city and citizens level climate neutrality goals implementation (for more info see https://daringcities.org/program/with-blockchain-technology-and-digital-innovationtowards-
climate-neutral-cities-and-citizens/ & https://youtu.be/4w5twspoqFY?t=6585).

recommended reading: Digital SDG Finance Bulletin May 2021: https://www.climatechaincoalition.io/digital-finance-2

Empowering Climate Action of Citizens/Youth and Communities with Science, Technology and Innovation –

ACE_AT & GloCha Side Event to the Sixth Annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals

https://sdgs.un.org/tfm/STIForum2021

Date and time: Monday, 3rd of May 2021 5.00 – 8.00 PM CEST (11 AM-2 PM EDT)

Organizer:  International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI

Organizing partners:

• Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action https://www.bmk.gv.at/en.html
• UN Habitat  https://www.unhabitatyouth.org/
• UNESCO MOST https://en.unesco.org/themes/social-transformations/most
• ECOS – Education, Communication and Outreach Stakeholders Community https://climateecos.org/
• ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability  https://iclei.org/
• Climate Chain Coalition https://www.climatechaincoalition.io/ 
• GloCha Foundation NY www.glocha.org / Generation Next Voice of Youth www.facebook.com/gnvoy
• GloCha Tech GesmbH public-benefit corporation, Klagenfurt/Austria

Where?   On Streamyard platform with live webbroadcast on https://www.youtube.com/user/iaaiglocha, www.facebook.com/unhabitatyouth/ & UN WebTV http://webtv.un.org/

The ACE_AT & GloCha side event to the UN STI Forum 2021 is going to showcase systemic, knowledge-based solutions for the youth focused empowerment of climate action of citizens and communities developed by the UN ECOSOC, UN DGC and UNFCCC accredited NGO IAAI www.glocha.info and partners (see list of organizing partners).

Themes of the side event:

• The Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) research project initiative Knowledge4ACE (= data and information management focussed applied research and multistakeholder climate action innovation system model development)
• the Action for Climate Empowerment Innovation project ACE_AT (for more detailed information please visit  https://action4climate.support/2021/03/29/ace_at-rethinking-and-reorganizing-action-for-climate-empowerment-ace/)
• technological and non-technological solutions for global and local Action for Climate Empowerment, developed by the Global Challenges Action Network GloCha www.glocha.org and its links to the UN Digital Cooperation Agenda
• Partnership with UN Habitat Youth Programme on “Climate Action Empowerment as a Service”
• Resource Mobilization for Climate Action Innovation & Mass mobilization for climate action with the power of music

Speakers:

• Miroslav Polzer, Executive director – IAAI, Chairperson – GloCha Ftd.NY, CEO – GloCha Tech GesmbH  
• Talieh Wögerbauer, Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action – ACE focal point, Republic of Austria, ACE^AT project coord.
• John Crowley, UNESCO Management of Social Transformation Program – Climate Action Empowerment through Knowledge
• Doug Ragan, UN Habitat Youth Progamme – Youth Engagement in World Environment Situation Room w. UN Environment
• Yunus Arikan, Local Governments for Sustainability ICLEI, Action for Climate Emppowerment Innovation for and with Cities
• Tim Damon, Co-Focal ppint, Education, Communication and Outreach Stakeholders Community ECOS
• Marie Claire Graf, Co-Focal Point, YOUNGO – Children & Youth Constituency – UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Tom Baumann, Climate Chain Coalition, Data and Digital Innovation Infrastructure for Climate Action Empowerment
• Katherine Foster, Open Earth Foundation – (Youth) Climate Action Tracking and Reporting
• Alexey Shadrin, Evercity.io & Climate Chain Coalition – Digital Finance for Climate Action Empowerment
• Jim Fournier, Tru.net – The next generation of purpose driven social networking
• Eileen Doohan, GloCha Fdt NY, ClimateHacks.org
• Ali Mustafa, GloCha Fdt NY / Generation Next Voice of Youth
• Hawa Diallo, UN Department for Global Communications, Chief, Civil Society Engagement Unit  
• Tihomir Divjak and Blaž Golob, GoForesight Institute, Satellite based internet access and e-learning solutions for Africa
• et al.