UN STI Forum 2023 Side Event

DigitalArt4Climate & Blockchain4Climate COP28 Edition: Edutainment, Data and Digital Innovation for Citizens and Youth Climate Action Empowerment

(UN STI Forum 2023 Homepage: https://sdgs.un.org/tfm/STIForum2023)

Date: 2^nd May 2023, 10:00 AM – 12:00 EDT / 4:00 – 6:00 PM CEST

Format/Venue: The side event will be virtual. The broadcasting studio will be set up at the Vienna International Center. There will be provided a live web-broadcast (with the possibility for audience interaction) on the IAAI GloCha Facebook page & UN Habitat Youth Program YouTube Channel & live and on-demand broadcast coverage on UN WebTV https://media.un.org/en/webtv/.

Context and Aims of the Side Event

This official side event to the UN STI Forum 2023 sheds light on the game changing potentials of digital innovation and especially blockchain technology as enabler of all of society action for climate empowerment and local SDGs implementation. A special focus will be laid on edutainment and youth with a vision that we can help the UN Climate Conference COP28 in Dubai/UAE in December 2023 to be successful as a unique moment of unity and action oriented mobilization for the world.

At the side event IAAI GloCha, the UN Habitat Youth programme, the Climate Chain Coalition and partners from the UAE and other parts of the world will present the roadmap towards

• the DigitalArt4Climate COP28 edition (which will have several innovations, like e.g. a Music Video Award category),
• the Data and digital innovation for citizens and youth climate action empowerment partnership of GloCha and the Climate Chain Coalition (incl. activities in relation to the development of a citizens climate action app),
• plans for the COP28 Blue zone Digital Innovation/ Blockchain4Climate pavilion in the context of broader networking and capacity building efforts of the global Blockchain4Climate community, etc.

Agenda (as of 1st of May 2023)

Welcome:

• Miroslav Polzer, CEO of IAAI GloCha & Strategic director of the Climate Chain Coalition (moderator)
• Doug Ragan, UN Habitat Youth Programme
• Nena Dokuzov, Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport, Slovenia
• Lisa Lang, Climate KIC

DigitalArt4Climate (DA4C) COP28 Edition

• Presentation of the DigitalArt4Climate concept
  • Irina Karagyaur, Co-coordinator of DA4C
• Experiences with past editions:
  • COP26: DA4C COP26 Special Award Winners Young Mothers from the informal settlement Mathare, Nairobi
  • COP27 / ClimateTechRun:  Tamer Taha, Ministry of International Cooperation, Egypt
• Miroslav Polzer – Presentation of DA4C plans for COP28((1) preparation with CoCreation festival/Workshop series, (2) launch at the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Conference June 2023,  (3) innovations: (a) music video award, (b) artists with special needs award (in collaboration with Art for All Center Sharjah, (c) DA4C edition on national level with Earth Day Network Japan, (d) edutainment show, ..), (4) Climate Changemakers conference and DA4C exhibit at UN HQ NY in Sept. 2023, (5) DA4C Edutainment hub @ GITEX Impact in Dubai UAE 16-20 October 2023, (6) exhibit, NFT drop and programs at COP28 Digital Innovation pavilion, (7) Cryptostamps and citizen climate action app
• Christina Stevens – Outline for a DA4C COP28 Edutainment Show
• DA4C COP28 edition partners:
  • Mo Ghoneim, Founder at ArtsHelp, Conscious Crypto Creators programme
  • Ruba Hussain, Art for All Center Sharjah
  • Mari Asada, NFT artist (video) & Makoto Okubo, Music4SDGs program & Earth Day Japan Network

Blockchain4Climate, Data and Digital Innovation for Youth and Citizens Climate Action Empowerment & COP28

• Miroslav Polzer & Hossein Hassani & Tom Baumann – Climate Chain Coalition- Presentation of Data and Digital Innovation for Youth and Citizens Climate Action Empowerment partnership program of IAAI GloCha and the Climate Chain Coalition, GloCha Center for Digital Innovation and Climate Action Empowerment Klagenfurt, EU INTERREG SI-AT project initiative „Citizen Climate Si-At“ & JETforCE (Just Energy Transition for Central Europe) EU INTERREG Central Europe project
• Mahdi Jalili, RMIT University, Australia
• Trang Fernandez Leenknecht, Holistik Wealth Planning, Blockchain enabled resource mobilization innovation
• Jane Thomason & Tadej Slapnik, CEO at Hashnet – The World Metaverse Council and its Flagship initiative “COP in the Metaverse”
• Raymond Van Ermen, BC100+ (Blockchain for the UN charter values and the SDGs) initiative

Concluding remarks

Contact: Miroslav Polzer, IAAI GloCha, www.glocha.info, polzer@glocha.info,