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SPOTLIGHT SESSION
An Equitable Recovery: How We Can Support Underserved Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses
2:30 - 4:00 P.M. ET
Location: Gramercy West
The pandemic has had a devastating impact on small businesses, especially in underserved and underrepresented communities. These populations are already constrained by limited access to capital, lower digital connectivity, and weaker entrepreneurial infrastructure. According to a recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey, women-owned businesses around the world were 20 percent more likely to report a closure due to the pandemic. In the United States, minority-owned businesses also suffered temporary or permanent closures at disproportionately higher rates. However, there are promising signs of entrepreneurial vitality and innovation. The pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital technologies by small businesses, and new business formation is surging, particularly in the United States, where online microbusinesses are booming, fueled by women and people of color.
This session will explore:
How can we expand access to flexible working capital for entrepreneurs and small businesses facing entrenched gender, racial, and geographic disparities?
How can we leverage fintech and alternative investment models like revenue-based investing or profit- sharing to spur a more equitable recovery?
How can we strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems in underserved geographies?
Speakers:
David Holt, Mayor, Oklahoma City
Steve Case, Chairman and CEO, Revolution
Melissa Bradley, Founder, 1863 Ventures
Shamina Singh, Executive Vice President, Sustainability & President, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Mastercard
Philip H. Gaskin, Vice President, Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation
Nadiem Makarim, Chief Executive Officer, GO-JEK, Indonesia, Stephen P. Groff, Vice-President, East Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Ng Yeen Seen, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Research, Advisory and Technology (CREATE), Malaysia; Young Global Leader, Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, Chief Executive Officer, Plan International, United Kingdom and Muhamad Chatib Basri, Chairman, Mandiri Institute, Indonesia capture during the session: Accelerating Inequality Reduction at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, September 12, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Leaders, social innovators, and decision makers from large and small businesses, corporations, higher education institutions, government, non-profits, social enterprises, social venture capital firms, and more joined in exploring how we can effectively collaborate to create a sustainable future as part of the Accelerate Collaborating for Sustainability Conference in Guelph ON, June 10-11, 2013.
Aiperi Omurzakova, a 28 year-old mother of three from Osh, spends every spare second working on her start-up enterprise, Som.kg. In November 2018, she pioneered a local version of Craigslist, a free classifieds website.
At first, Aiperi could only afford a shipping container as an office space, but then ololohausOsh came across her radar. ololohausOsh is a creative coworking space in the city center providing its residents all necessary amenities such as office furniture and Wi-Fi.
"When I moved here, I acquired more customers, because here in Osh, people really pay attention to how your office looks. If it's beautiful, they are impressed and ready to trust you. Now I also have two employees", Aiperi says.
Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
AP aims to inspire rising entrepreneurs in emerging regions to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities.
AP’s first project in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 was the establishment of one of Osh’s first co-working space, ololoHaus, Osh. Supported by USAID grant of $35,000, AP worked with a local entrepreneur to create a new space to help incubate and grow small to medium sized enterprises. ololoHaus, Osh, currently houses a software development training business called IT Academy, a dentistry design business amongst others, and Som.kg, a local version of Craigslist amongst others.
Accelerating Industry Decarbonization
Matt Rogers, Chief Executive Officer, Mission Possible Partnership, USA; Gim Huay Neo, Managing Director, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum
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Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
Vera Kobalia, Advisor, International Bussiness, Australia Indonesia Partnership for Economic Governance (AIPEG) capture during the session: Accelerating the AEC at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, September 13, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Participants capture during the session: Accelerating the AEC at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, September 13, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Aiperi Omurzakova, a 28 year-old mother of three from Osh, spends every spare second working on her start-up enterprise, Som.kg. In November 2018, she pioneered a local version of Craigslist, a free classifieds website.
At first, Aiperi could only afford a shipping container as an office space, but then ololohausOsh came across her radar. ololohausOsh is a creative coworking space in the city center providing its residents all necessary amenities such as office furniture and Wi-Fi.
"When I moved here, I acquired more customers, because here in Osh, people really pay attention to how your office looks. If it's beautiful, they are impressed and ready to trust you. Now I also have two employees", Aiperi says.
Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
AP aims to inspire rising entrepreneurs in emerging regions to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities.
AP’s first project in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 was the establishment of one of Osh’s first co-working space, ololoHaus, Osh. Supported by USAID grant of $35,000, AP worked with a local entrepreneur to create a new space to help incubate and grow small to medium sized enterprises. ololoHaus, Osh, currently houses a software development training business called IT Academy, a dentistry design business amongst others, and Som.kg, a local version of Craigslist amongst others.
Aiperi Omurzakova, a 28 year-old mother of three from Osh, spends every spare second working on her start-up enterprise, Som.kg. In November 2018, she pioneered a local version of Craigslist, a free classifieds website.
At first, Aiperi could only afford a shipping container as an office space, but then ololohausOsh came across her radar. ololohausOsh is a creative coworking space in the city center providing its residents all necessary amenities such as office furniture and Wi-Fi.
"When I moved here, I acquired more customers, because here in Osh, people really pay attention to how your office looks. If it's beautiful, they are impressed and ready to trust you. Now I also have two employees", Aiperi says.
Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
AP aims to inspire rising entrepreneurs in emerging regions to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities.
AP’s first project in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 was the establishment of one of Osh’s first co-working space, ololoHaus, Osh. Supported by USAID grant of $35,000, AP worked with a local entrepreneur to create a new space to help incubate and grow small to medium sized enterprises. ololoHaus, Osh, currently houses a software development training business called IT Academy, a dentistry design business amongst others, and Som.kg, a local version of Craigslist amongst others.
Leaders, social innovators, and decision makers from large and small businesses, corporations, higher education institutions, government, non-profits, social enterprises, social venture capital firms, and more joined in exploring how we can effectively collaborate to create a sustainable future as part of the Accelerate Collaborating for Sustainability Conference in Guelph ON, June 10-11, 2013.
Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
AP aims to inspire rising entrepreneurs in emerging regions to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities.
AP’s first project in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 was the establishment of one of Osh’s first co-working space, ololoHaus, Osh. Supported by USAID grant of $35,000, AP worked with a local entrepreneur to create a new space to help incubate and grow small to medium sized enterprises. ololoHaus, Osh, currently houses a software development training business called IT Academy, a dentistry design business amongst others, and Som.kg, a local version of Craigslist amongst others.
More recently, the AP team have started working with with UNICEF and the UK’s DFID to support water management and cross-border conflict resolution programme.
Aiperi Omurzakova, a 28 year-old mother of three from Osh, spends every spare second working on her start-up enterprise, Som.kg. In November 2018, she pioneered a local version of Craigslist, a free classifieds website.
At first, Aiperi could only afford a shipping container as an office space, but then ololohausOsh came across her radar. ololohausOsh is a creative coworking space in the city center providing its residents all necessary amenities such as office furniture and Wi-Fi.
"When I moved here, I acquired more customers, because here in Osh, people really pay attention to how your office looks. If it's beautiful, they are impressed and ready to trust you. Now I also have two employees", Aiperi says.
Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
AP aims to inspire rising entrepreneurs in emerging regions to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities.
AP’s first project in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 was the establishment of one of Osh’s first co-working space, ololoHaus, Osh. Supported by USAID grant of $35,000, AP worked with a local entrepreneur to create a new space to help incubate and grow small to medium sized enterprises. ololoHaus, Osh, currently houses a software development training business called IT Academy, a dentistry design business amongst others, and Som.kg, a local version of Craigslist amongst others.
Aiperi Omurzakova, a 28 year-old mother of three from Osh, spends every spare second working on her start-up enterprise, Som.kg. In November 2018, she pioneered a local version of Craigslist, a free classifieds website.
At first, Aiperi could only afford a shipping container as an office space, but then ololohausOsh came across her radar. ololohausOsh is a creative coworking space in the city center providing its residents all necessary amenities such as office furniture and Wi-Fi.
"When I moved here, I acquired more customers, because here in Osh, people really pay attention to how your office looks. If it's beautiful, they are impressed and ready to trust you. Now I also have two employees", Aiperi says.
Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
AP aims to inspire rising entrepreneurs in emerging regions to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities.
AP’s first project in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 was the establishment of one of Osh’s first co-working space, ololoHaus, Osh. Supported by USAID grant of $35,000, AP worked with a local entrepreneur to create a new space to help incubate and grow small to medium sized enterprises. ololoHaus, Osh, currently houses a software development training business called IT Academy, a dentistry design business amongst others, and Som.kg, a local version of Craigslist amongst others.
This is just one side as I didn't want to be invasive. There's many tourists but also many Mexican people worshipping. Would love to get in there for a couple of hours alone with my camera!
In all ancient cities of Mexico, Cathedrals were considered the most important buildings as they represent the ecclesiastical power and were a symbol of the social and economic standing of the community.
The first steps undertaken for the building of this majestic Cathedral go as far back as 1855, under Bishop Pedro Loza y Pardavé, and it took several decades to complete.
In 1875, thanks to the efforts and tenacity of Father Michel Lacarra, construction was accelerated and the main body of the building was finished at the beginning of 1880.
The construction of this Cathedral was made possible by the copious contribution of the city’s prominent catholic merchants and business people. One of the principal benefactors at this stage was Don Pedro Echeguren y de la Quintana, a native of San Sebastian, Spain. He was one of the wealthiest men in the region, owner of the rich Guadalupe de los Reyes mines, the Hilados y Tejidos factory, the water supply company and countless buildings and urban lands. It is said that his extreme and unusual kindness was due to his word as a gentleman, given to Father Lacarra to put an end to his life of sin. He was living with his concubine, Doña Concepcion Moreno, and he would be married in the Cathedral, once all works came to an end.
Mazatlan Cathedral Is the main religious building in the city of Mazatlan, in Baroque style of Sinaloa, Mexico, and home of the Catholic Diocese of Mazatlan. The consecration of the temple like basilica was realized 12 of December 1941.
Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
AP aims to inspire rising entrepreneurs in emerging regions to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities.
AP’s first project in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 was the establishment of one of Osh’s first co-working space, ololoHaus, Osh. Supported by USAID grant of $35,000, AP worked with a local entrepreneur to create a new space to help incubate and grow small to medium sized enterprises. ololoHaus, Osh, currently houses a software development training business called IT Academy, a dentistry design business amongst others, and Som.kg, a local version of Craigslist amongst others.
More recently, the AP team have started working with with UNICEF and the UK’s DFID to support water management and cross-border conflict resolution programme.
The 1976 Formula Atlantic Chevron B34 driven by Clive Wood - which finished in 6th place during the second Aurora Trophy race of the weekend.
Amrita Cheema, Senior Anchor, Deutsche Welle, Germany capture during the session: Accelerating Inequality Reduction at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, September 12, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Stop-motion animation exercise about acceleration done for a class.
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Exercice d'animation en stop-motion sur l'accélération fait en classe.
Leaders, social innovators, and decision makers from large and small businesses, corporations, higher education institutions, government, non-profits, social enterprises, social venture capital firms, and more joined in exploring how we can effectively collaborate to create a sustainable future as part of the Accelerate Collaborating for Sustainability Conference in Guelph ON, June 10-11, 2013. www.naturalstep.ca/
A dentistry design business based at ololoHaus, Osh.
Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
AP aims to inspire rising entrepreneurs in emerging regions to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities.
AP’s first project in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 was the establishment of one of Osh’s first co-working space, ololoHaus, Osh. Supported by USAID grant of $35,000, AP worked with a local entrepreneur to create a new space to help incubate and grow small to medium sized enterprises. ololoHaus, Osh, currently houses a software development training business called IT Academy, a dentistry design business amongst others, and Som.kg, a local version of Craigslist amongst others.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most-populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.
Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. Depending on the particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the world's fifth or sixth busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing, Caterpillar, Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines Holdings, and Walgreens.
Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, as compared with New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018. The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Park
Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre (489-hectare) park situated along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N) on the south to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue. Several museums and a zoo are located between North Avenue (1600 N) and Diversey Parkway (2800 N) in the eponymous neighborhood. Further to the north, the park is characterized by parkland, beaches, recreational areas, nature reserves, and harbors. To the south, there is a more narrow strip of beaches east of Lake Shore Drive, almost to downtown. With 20 million visitors per year, Lincoln Park is the second-most-visited city park in the United States, behind Central Park.
The park's recreational facilities include baseball/softball fields, basketball courts, beach volleyball courts, cricket pitches, football/soccer fields, a golf course, lacrosse fields, rugby pitches, tennis courts, volleyball courts, field houses, a target archery field, a skate park, and a driving range.
The park also features several harbors with boating facilities, as well as public beaches for swimming. There are landscaped gardens, public art, bird refuges, a zoo, the Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Chicago History Museum, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, and a theater on the lake with regular outdoor performances held during the summer.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Park_Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo is a 35-acre (14 ha) zoo in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. The zoo was founded in 1868, making it one of the oldest zoos in North America. It is also one of a few free admission zoos in the United States. The zoo is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
Lincoln Park Zoo is home to a wide variety of animals. The zoo's exhibits include big cats, polar bears, penguins, gorillas, reptiles, monkeys, and other species totaling about 1,100 animals from some 200 species. Also located in Lincoln Park Zoo is a burr oak tree which dates to 1830, three years before the town of Chicago was incorporated.
Muhamad Chatib Basri, Chairman, Mandiri Institute, Indonesia, Amrita Cheema, Senior Anchor, Deutsche Welle, Germany, Nadiem Makarim, Chief Executive Officer, GO-JEK, Indonesia and Stephen P. Groff, Vice-President, East Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, Manila capture during the session: Accelerating Inequality Reduction at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, September 12, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
AP aims to inspire rising entrepreneurs in emerging regions to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities.
AP’s first project in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 was the establishment of one of Osh’s first co-working space, ololoHaus, Osh. Supported by USAID grant of $35,000, AP worked with a local entrepreneur to create a new space to help incubate and grow small to medium sized enterprises. ololoHaus, Osh, currently houses a software development training business called IT Academy, a dentistry design business amongst others, and Som.kg, a local version of Craigslist amongst others.
More recently, the AP team have started working with with UNICEF and the UK’s DFID to support water management and cross-border conflict resolution programme.
Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
AP aims to inspire rising entrepreneurs in emerging regions to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities.
AP’s first project in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 was the establishment of one of Osh’s first co-working space, ololoHaus, Osh. Supported by USAID grant of $35,000, AP worked with a local entrepreneur to create a new space to help incubate and grow small to medium sized enterprises. ololoHaus, Osh, currently houses a software development training business called IT Academy, a dentistry design business amongst others, and Som.kg, a local version of Craigslist amongst others.
More recently, the AP team have started working with with UNICEF and the UK’s DFID to support water management and cross-border conflict resolution programme.
The Recovery Act has left its mark throughout the 586-square-mile Hanford Site, building a skilled workforce and accelerating the removal of contaminated waste and buildings left behind from decades of plutonium production.