Month: May 2026

EPLO(European Public Law Organization & IAAI_GloCha Side Event to the 35^th Session of the Un Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice #35CCPCJ

Digital Public Infrastructure for People-centred, Inclusive and Responsive Justice Systems

Thursday 4^th of June 2026, 10-11 AM CEST

Conf. Room M5, Vienna International Centre, Austria & on zoom (link)

In partnership with

• The Permanent Mission of France to the UN in Vienna
• The Permanent Mission of Poland to the UN in Vienna
• Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan

Event rationale:

Crimes that affect the environment—such as illegal wildlife trade, illegal logging, illegal fishing, pollution crimes, and related organized and financial crimes—pose a growing threat to the rule of law, sustainable development, and human security. At the same time, new international commitments, including the BBNJ High Seas Treaty, require justice systems to become more transparent, inclusive, and responsive while strengthening prevention and enforcement capacities.

This ancillary event responds to these challenges by showcasing how Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) can support people-centered justice systems and enhance the prevention of environmental crime. DPI—understood as open, interoperable, and rights-based digital systems for identity, data, registries, and service delivery—offers practical tools to empower citizens and communities, improve evidence integrity, enable early warning, and strengthen cooperation among institutions and across borders.

By bringing together UN entities, Member States, technical agencies, and civil society innovators, the event will present concrete use cases of DPI applied to environmental crime prevention, environmental compliance, and treaty implementation. It will contribute to the Congress’s focus on prevention, trust in institutions, and the effective use of innovation to strengthen justice systems worldwide.

Chair:     Ambassador Ugljesa Ugi Zvekic, European Public Law Oorganization (EPLO)

Welcome remarks

• Nicolas Karges, from the Permanent Mission for France to the UN in Vienna, and Co-chair of the Members States’ Group of Friends on Crimes that Affect the Environment
• Jacek Emmel, Permanent Mission of Poland to the UN in Vienna

Speakers:

• Nicole Quijano-Evans, Deputy Head, UNODC – Crimes that Affect the Environment (CAE), “AI and Emerging Technologies for CAE Enforcement: Opportunities and Risks”
• Miroslav Polzer, Executive director, IAAI GloCha, “Digital Public Infrastructure & Citizens Engagement in the Prevention of Crimes that Affect the Environment”
• Remi Chandran, Senior Expert (Information Management and Global Environmental Governance), Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, (online), Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) to address Human Nature conflicts
• Wenwen Lyu, University of Vienna – Environmental Politics Research Group, The BBNJ Clearing-House Mechanism and Its Innovative Potential for Inclusive and Just High Seas Governance
• Anais Clermont, IAAI GloCha Youth Delegate, Youth Perspectives

Official Side Event to the

UN Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs 2026

Global Challenges Action ID & Global Challenges Action Registry –

Empowering Youth Led Action for Healthy Lifestyles,

Healthy Communities and a Healthy Planet

with Digital Public Infrastructure

Venue:

United Nations Headquarters New York, Conference Room 4

With live and on-demand broadcast on UN Web TV

Date and Time:

Thursday, 7 May 2026, 1:15 – 2:45 PM EDT

Organizer

International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI GloCha www.glocha.info

In Partnership with

• Permanent Mission of The Bahamas to the UN in NY
• Permanent Mission of Dominica to the UN in NY
• Science, Technology and Innovation Secretariat, Republic of Uganda
• Climate Chain Coalition
• Rotary Climate Action Club / Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group
• International Organization of Youth
• Long Beach City College
• UN Office for Outer Space Affairs – UNOOSA
• Music for SDGs

About the Event

This side event will showcase the GloCha Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) solutions stack as an open, interoperable set of digital building blocks that enables people- and grassroots-challenges-focused multi-stakeholder coordination, action documentation, and incentivization for healthy, inclusive, climate-resilient cities and communities (SDGs 9 & 17, with applied use cases for SDGs 3, 11 and 13) with the goal for global community to know who is taking what kind of action for the common good, where, how, with what kind of resources and outcomes.

Thematic introduction: High level Member states representatives will frame DPI-enabled cooperation for the common good in the context of UN system reform (PR of Bahamas) and global impact entrepreneurship markets (Representative of the Ministry of STI from Uganda).

Digital and Organizational Innovations & Pilot use cases: Team members of IAAI GloCha and Rotary will present the GloCha DPI stack and the Rotary Climate Action Club, including the Global Challenges Action ID / Impact Passport, Action Registry, and Challenges Mapping Tool,

Pilot use cases: (1) youth focused community-level climate action documentation, certification and incentivization with Rotary and partners in Uganda; (2) public health challenges mapping (citizen science) and volunteer action certification aligned with the Long Beach City College Public Health curriculum and LA28 volunteering programs; (3) #GoodLifeforAll global youth mobilization campaign for healthy people, healthy communities and a healthy planet.

Presentations by Partners of the GloCha Global Challenges Action Partnership

Interaction: The event will offer opportunities for Member states and other stakeholders to discuss the presented solutions and to explore engagement opportunities.

Draft Agenda

Welcome

Moderator: Anais Clermont & Jose Negrete IAAI GloCha Youth delegates

Introductory Keynotes:

• HE Amb. Stan O. Smith, Permanent Representative of The Bahamas to the United Nations in NY – Reimagining Global Cooperation for Individual Wellbeing and for the Common Good with Digital Transformation and Partnerships
• David Gonahasa, Team Lead Industry 4.0+, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Republic of Uganda – Digital Public Infrastructure for Climate Entrepreneurship Empowerment and Carbon Market Readiness

Demonstration of Tools – The Digital Public Infrastructure Stack of GloCha (the Global Challenges Action Empowerment Partnership):

• Miroslav Polzer, Executive Director of IAAI GloCha
  • Global Challenges Action ID / Impact Passport
  • Global Challenges Action Registry &
  • Challenges Mapping Tool

Pilot Programs and Partnerships:

• Alberto Palombo, Rotary Club Brasilia International / Rotary Climate Action Club & ESRAG Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action group, (pre-recorded video) GloCha DPI Pilot 1 – Documentation, Certification and Incentivization of individual and community level climate action with GloCha DPI and Rotary‘s social infrastructure
• Ruby Guillen (APHA, NASW-CA & GloCha-CA) & Frank Henry-Ala (Long Beach City College) (pre-recorded video) – GloCha DPI Pilot 2: “Public Health Challenges Mapping and Volunteer Action Certification in the context of the LBCC Public Health curriculum, aligned with LA28 Community Volunteering Programs”
• Ali Mustafa & Lamar Zala Gran, IOY – GloCha DPI Pilot 3; #GoodLifeForAll Global Youth Mobilization for Healthy People, Healthy Communities and Healthy planet

Presentations by Partners of the GloCha Global Challenges Action Partnership:

• Mack Okubo, Music4SDGs, Asia Pacific Financial Forum (APFF) & Nippon Life, Sustainable & Digital Finance expert 
• Lorant Czaran, UNOOSA, Harnessing the Potentials of Collective Geospatial Intelligence through Innovative Partnerships (pre-recorded video)
• Alexey Shadrin, Climate Chain Coalition: Presentation of the COP31 Digital Innovation Pavilion
• Susanna Choe, Bioregional Embassy & GloCha Foundation NY
• Emilie Mc Glone, Peace Boat US, Youth Engagement Innovations and Ocean Citizen Science
• Alexandre Caldas, Kiplomacy.Org & Member of GloCha Fdt NY Board of Advisors
• Nadya Komendantova, IIASA, Cooperation & Transformative Governance Research Group 
• Eric Hansel, Scubaverse & HE Amb. Philbert Aaron, Permanent Representative of Dominica to the UN in NY
• Moran Sol Broza, Be1.Life & Metaverse Platform Maloca of the COP30 Presidency