Official Off-Site Side Event to the UN Partnership Forum 2026 „Digital Public Infrastructure for Global Challenges Action Empowerment„
26th of January 2026, 10 AM – 1 PM ET
Commonwealth Joint Office, 11th floor, Conference room, 685 Third Av (entrance 44th St.), NY
Registration: https://forms.gle/sMkeroHHMpYtTGig8
Organizer:
- International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI www.glocha.info
In Partnership with
- GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York Inc. https://www.glocha.org/
- Rotary ESRAG – Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group https://esrag.org/
- Permanent Mission of The Bahamas to the UN in NY
- Permanent Mission of the Commonwealth of Dominica to the United Nations
- UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, UNOOSA https://www.unoosa.org/
- Long Beach City College – Public Health Department
- American Public Health Association (APHA) – Health Informatics Information Technology Section
- National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter https://www.naswca.org/
About:
The side event explores how digital public infrastructure can unlock new forms of partnership and resource mobilization for local action on global challenges. Building on the COP30 “Global Mutirão” all of society engagement vision and Rotary’s worldwide network of professionals and community leaders, the session will showcase emerging partnership models that connect citizen-level climate and SDG action with trusted data, geospatial tools and innovative finance.
Speakers from UN missions, Rotary, GloCha, UNOOSA, Uganda, Long Beach City College, APHA, NASW/CA and other partners will present concrete use cases on community action empowerment, social justice and systemic change, (micro) impact entrepreneurship and public health and wellbeing capacity building and discuss how interoperable digital solutions can strengthen accountability, scale impact and support collective action for people and planet.
Draft Agenda:
- Welcome by the organizers and partners
- HE Ambassador Stan Smith, Permanent Representative, Mission of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas to the United Nations in NY
- HE Ambassador Philbert Aaron, Permanent Representative of Dominica to the UN in New York
- Alberto Palombo, Rotary Club Brasilia International – Rotary Climate Action Club, Global – Local Trust Infrastructure for Global Challenges Action on Community Level (virtual)
- Miroslav Polzer, IAAI GloCha & RCAC (in person), ONE project / One App – GloCha Partnership as DPI service provider and partner of Rotary
- Hossein Hassani GloCha Challenges Mapping Tool Lead Expert, (virtual)
- Alexey Shadrin, Evercity / Climate Chain Coalition (virtual)
- David Gonahasa, Team Lead Industry 4.0, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Republic of Uganda, Uganda as DPI for Climate champion: Uganda Climate DPI 2026 conference announcement & ONE project use case Youth & Carbon markets/GCF readiness (virtual)
- Lóránt Czárán, UNOOSA – Geospatial data for Climate Action Empowerment, GloCha partnership & ONE project use case Lusaka task force & DigitalArt4Climate fundraiser (virtual)
- Ruby Gullen (in-person for APHA & NASW/CA), Dr. Diane Adams (in person for APHA), Jayanthi K. Daniel (in person for NASW/Ca), Frank Henry-Ala & Grace Pokorny (virtual for LBCC), ONE project use case Global Change Ambassador certification, health and social workers as validators of global challenges / #GoodLifeForAll action and impact claims and One app -> LA2028 legacy initiative: GoodLifeForAll Global Challenges Action Dashboard app
- Moran Sol Broza – GloCha, Rotary Climate Action Club & DigitalArt4Climate @ Venice Climate Week 2026 on UN Environment Day 2026
- Susanna Choe, Bioregional embassy, Planetary party and GloCha: IEEE bioregional data working group — data / action registration and rewarding synergies through ONE app & Planetary Party as a social engagement process for local action & synergies with the Global Challenges Action Registry DPI
- Eric Hansel, Scubaverse / GloCha, Explorable Marine DPI for Virtual Tourism and beyond (climate/policy/risk modeling, MPA monitoring/verification
- Observers: Dr. Oscar Alleyne [in -person for APHA], John German (Rotary Club New York), Ali Mustafa (International Organization of Youth), Anais Clermont (Columbia University student), Eric Hansel, Scubaverse / GloCha
- Interactive session
Contact:
Miroslav Polzer, IAAI GloCha (Founder and CEO) & Rotary Climate Action Club (Charter president)polzer@glocha.info, +43 664 4203648, www.glocha.info