Interactive workshop: A new model of economic development, articulating Blended Finance, Engaged Philanthropy and Field Project Development Monitoring. With the Foundation in creation Geneva for Future
ORAL PRESENTATION & INTERACTIVE FACE-TO-FACE WORKSHOP

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The Foundation’s team, specialized in the transformation of the change bringing projects into an economic viability, combines Values and Trust for Impact investments.

Our multi-disciplinary team is involved in the development of companies and NGOs. In this context, it has observed a mismatch between interesting projects worthy of sponsorship funding and the requirements of public and private funding bodies. This is particularly true in terms of the presentation of projects, in order to apply for funding and - at the end of the reporting exercise - to meet their standards.

This mismatch leads to a lack of productive interaction between projects and funding agencies. If they were brought together, the available funds, which are not being met, and the serious projects, which are not being funded, would have a much greater potential for societal impact, both qualitatively and quantitatively.

We propose to make available user-friendly and efficient instruments within a Foundation called Fondation de Genève pour le Futur, which could at the same time provide the necessary services, consulting, training and coaching to the actors concerned in order to make all these interactions fluid.

The workshop will consist in crossing the needs and methods of the different professional corporations attending (investors, financiers, bankers, philanthropists, project followers, evaluators, project owners) in order to consolidate the choices proposed by the Geneva for Future Foundation.

Mr Thomas EGLI and Mrs Christa MUTH, co-founders, Geneva Foundation for the Future, Switzerland

European Investment Bank ORAL PRESENTATION

• Time for philanthropy, the role of the European Investment Bank (EIB)
• The EIB Institute Social Programme: Social Innovation, Social Incubation, Microfinance and Financial Literacy
• Impact investment, demand and supply mismatch
• How can Impact Investment become mainstream ?

Mr Francisco de Paula Coelho, Dean, European Investment Bank Institute, https://institute.eib.org/

Back to basics: Investing in Humanity for social change through the Performing Arts ORAL PRESENTATION

Opera for Peace, Leading Young Voices of the World, circular culture, integrating blockchain-based platform: talking about connection / discovery / performing arts / strategic meetings and partnerships for a new and more meaningful impactful giving

Mrs Julia LAGAHUZERE, Co-founder & General Director / Femme de Culture 2020, Opera for Peace

Impact Investing and Philanthropy: Two Concepts, One Ethics ORAL PRESENTATION - ABSENT

It is usual to present philanthropy as an initiative aiming at the public good, while impact investing is described as the promotion of private interests.

Yet, it is less and less easy to support such a Manichean distinction between a practice deemed altruistic and thus morally desirable, and one regarded as egoistic and consequently morally condemnable.
Is this distinction relevant? Are philanthropists more respectable than impact investors? Ethically speaking it appears that a polarized approach might be misleading.

Mr. Emmanuel R. Goffi, CEO, Global AI Ethics Institute, https://globalethics.ai/

Addressing long-term food challenges with technology ORAL PRESENTATION

How Ag and Food Tech investments can yield new growth and sustainability at scale

Mr Nadim EL KHAZEN, Investment Manager, Private Equity, Edmond de Rothschild, France and Switzerland

Post Pandemic: How Blockchains Will Transform Healthcare ORAL PRESENTATION

Healthcare needs an update. It does not take a pandemic to realize that. Healthcare is perfectly positioned to be the next area of blockchain adoption because it is highly fragmented, full of intermediaries, and suffers from a lack of transparency and inefficient processes. dHealth Network addresses these problems because it is not controlled by any single player, can be accessed directly by all stakeholders as a peer-to-peer network, and functions as a layer of trust.

dHealth’s proof-of-stake blockchain enables privacy-preserving interactions among healthcare stakeholders without the need to build separate data-processing infrastructures.

dHealth Network provides the world’s leading framework for health-to-earn to industry players to power their use cases.

Our current live real world solutions include: Incentivizing patients when they give permission to use their healthdata, Real World Evidence Symptom monitoring and GDPR compliant retargeting, Tracking vaccines in Subsaharan Africa, Health Certificates protect vulnerable populations during the pandemic, etc

Dr. Quy Vo-Reinhard, Co-Founder / Director, dHealth Foundation, Switzerland

Digitalization as a tool to promote Internationalization of E-Commerce SMEs in Africa ORAL PRESENTATION

As the world is experiencing innovations in modern information and communication technologies revolutionizing the business environment, the internet also provides challenges and opportunities to new and existing companies which conduct business in innovative ways with a growing share of international activities. This new form of the marketplace on the internet “digital sales channels” differs from the traditional market environment. Their value creation and delivery seem to attract and encourage SME’s from emerging economies to explore the model to its delivery. Taking a look at the United Nations Sustainable eighth goal which factors the promotion of inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all which has the support by the current President of Ghana’s initiative as the head of the African Union on “transforming an economy through digitalization”, the use of these digital sales channels has created an avenue for E-Commerce businesses to thrive. COVID-19 has disrupted billions of lives and endangered the global economy.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects a global recession as bad as or worse than in 2009. As job losses escalate, the International Labor Organization estimates that nearly half of the global workforce is at risk of losing their livelihoods. Even before the outbreak of COVID-19, one in five countries home to billions of people living in poverty were likely to see per capita incomes stagnate or decline in 2020. Therefore in the regard to help reduce the job losses and create job avenues and opportunities, this research is undertaken to create awareness and help provide a new perspective in the E-Commerce industry. The study will look at how does the adoption of digital sales channels enable E-Commerce SMEs in developing countries to internationalize and enter into foreign markets.

Mr Oduro NANA YAW NKANSAH, Geneva Business School, Switzerland

Combining Crowdlending with A Crypto-Currency to Increase the Efficacy of Economic Development ORAL PRESENTATION

The efficacy of socio-economic development programs that utilise fiat currencies to provide economic aid, both international and domestic, whether to emerging nations or in many cases even within donor countries, is often limited by political, cultural and structural factors. The advent of blockchain technology, combined with different classes of cryptocurrencies and payment tokenization offer a novel approach that can multiply the efficacy of economic development aid and programs several-fold. The presentation will describe how such a novel approach can offer unprecedented efficacious solutions, utilizing three examples: 1- The UK government’s recent decision to reduce international development assistance from 0.7% to 0.5% of GDP; 2- The income gap between indigenous and non-indigenous populations: the case of Canada’s sovereign First Nations; 3- The catastrophic economic collapse of the Lebanese economy that was accelerated by the Beirut port explosion in August 2020, exacerbated by a crash of more than 90% in the value of the national fiat currency in a matter of months.

Mr. Rachad ITANI, President, and Mr. Alberto RAVAGNI, Phoenix Economic Developement Agency (PHOEDA)

Announcement: Geneva Foundation for Future, Values and Trust for Impact investing ORAL PRESENTATION

Our multi-disciplinary team is involved in the development of companies and NGOs. In this context, it has observed a mismatch between interesting projects worthy of sponsorship funding and the requirements of public and private funding bodies. This is particularly true in terms of the presentation of projects, in order to apply for funding and - at the end of the reporting exercise - to meet their standards.

This mismatch leads to a lack of productive interaction between projects and funding agencies. If they were brought together, the available funds, which are not being met, and the serious projects, which are not being funded, would have a much greater potential for societal impact, both qualitatively and quantitatively.

We propose to make available user-friendly and efficient instruments within a Foundation called Fondation de Genève pour le Futur, which could at the same time provide the necessary services, consulting, training and coaching to the actors concerned in order to make all these interactions fluid.
Mrs Christa MUTH, co-founder, Geneva Foundation for the Future, Switzerland

The role of Reinsurance in The Economic Develpment of Emerging Countries ORAL PRESENTATION

<docNNNN|left> The reinsurance industry provides many important contributions to the economy : as insurer in last resort, it brings liquidity to primary insurers in case of disasters and insures their solvency ; it pools large risks coverage ; it brings capacity and reduces costs attached to large risks insurance ; it guarantees insurability of all risks and can promote innovation in coverage products. It so contributes to the development of primary insurance in emerging economies in Non-Life as well as Life Insurance. Therefore, it promotes economic efficiency, by substituting market financing to public budgetary resources, which then can be devoted to other more important uses in terms of development, such as Infrastructures, Education or Health financing.

Mrs Josephine Sandrine BILOA, Entreprise Financière et d’Assurance, Chad