Notes of IT for Climate-Smart Development
Notes of the Global ICT Department event IT for Climate-Smart Development: “Not Your Grandfather’s Bank” at the Social Development Forum on January 20.
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We don’t have solutions for climate change and as there are very many stakeholders it is hard to agree on a solution
Global ICT department addresses this issue from the policy angle, but there have to be business models for private investments as well
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Frank Rijsberman, Director Program of Google.org
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Climate change is impacting people in poor countries
- Sea level rise in Holland and Bangladesh is the same
- But Bangladesh is impacted quite more
Information scarcity increases climate change vulnerability
- acquiring information
- disseminating information
- enabling
Examples where Google.org is involved:
Notes of IT for Climate-Smart Development
was published on 20.01.2010 by Florian Sturm. It files under global
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