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The storm: Pandemic and oil price crash

Diplomatic Council (DC) Members are invited to join webinars by the DC partner organisation Brussels Diplomatic Academy (BDA), which belongs to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

The Perfect Storm. How the COVID-19 pandemic and oil price crash combine to undermine prospects for geopolitical and economic stability in 2020 & beyond.

Speakers

Bashir Bernard Siman OBE, Financial Diplomacy Coordinator, BDA, and former UK Special Representative for Financial and Professional Services.

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ITU asking Diplomatic Council Members for Anti-Covid ICT Response

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), part of the United Nations, is asking Diplomatic Council members to apply for the COVID-19 Response ICT Case Repository.

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COVID-19 Safe Certification Program for hospitals and clinics

Diplomatic Council partner and global accreditation leader, Temos International Healthcare Accreditation, announces the launch of its new “Certificate of Compliance: COVID-19 Safe” program for hospitals and clinics to address the crucial issues facing them during the SARS- CoV-2 crisis while looking ahead to the provision of services post-coronavirus. The program is officially recommended by Diplomatic Council, a global think tank enjoying United Nations Consultative Status.

Thought Leadership

None of us is safe until we all are

None of us is safe until we all are, says UN chief at EU push to end COVID-19 pandemic

In a strongly-worded personal message, UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed donor countries’ contributions to a more than $8 billion fund, to speed up the production of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines to end the new coronavirus threat.

But he said that five times that amount will likely be needed to put us all on “a path” to a world free of the disease.

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Raise your voice in a UN survey about Covid-19

Evidence for Transformative Change: UNRISD Survey on Responses to Covid-19 and Vulnerable Communities

The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is interested in Diplomatic Council members` assessment of government policy responses to Covid-19, particularly from the perspective of groups that may be especially disadvantaged or left behind by the responses that governments are pursuing or not pursuing.

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DigiHealthDay 2020 Update 

The Diplomatic Council partner organization International Society for Tele-Medicine and eHealth (ISfTeH) informs about the DigiHealthDay 2020. The ISfTeH is in official relationship with the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and also a partner of the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT) organizing the DigiHealthDay 2020.

Thought Leadership

Go digital on diplomacy

by Diplomatic Council partner Sunil KC, CEO Asian Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs (AIDIA), a foreign policy think tank based in Nepal. Statement republished from myrepublica.nagariknetwork.

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G2K announces Covid Control Suite

Diplomatic Council corporate member G2K has developed a holistic Application Suite that can help overcome the corona virus crisis and allow for a return to public life. Its scope ranges from fever detection via registration, treatment and attendance  to the top-level tracking of the virus’ spread.

Thought Leadership

Universal Masking is Urgent

A global call for Universal Masking in the COVID-19 Pandemic: SEIR and Agent Based Models, Empirical Validation, Policy Recommendations