Digital Global Solutions Summit 2020
Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, the 4th Global Solutions Summit was held online. 36 Global Tables, with keynotes, panel discussions and vision statements, the Digital Global Solutions Summit tackled the T20 and G20 agenda as well as generated policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As always, the purpose of our work is to support multilateralism and the G20 from a civil society and research-based perspective.
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Selected Contributions
- Summit Round-Up: Interview with Albert K. Ting
- Summit Round-Up: Interview with Young Global Changers
- Summit Round-Up: Interview with Ulrich Störk
- The Role of Civil Society and Businesses for Fostering Recoupling
- The Social and Economic Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Risks and Opportunities for the Global South
- On Crisis Moments and Paradigm Shifts – Will this Pandemic derail Globalization?
Who We Are
The Global Solutions Initiative is a global collaborative enterprise that proposes policy responses to major global problems, addressed by the G20, the G7 and other global governance fora. The policy recommendations and strategic visions are generated through a disciplined research program by leading research organizations, elaborated in policy dialogues between researchers, policymakers, business leaders and civil society representatives.
The Global Solutions Initiative was founded during the 2017 German G20 Presidency. Since then, the Global Solutions Initiative supports the Think20 process for think tanks. Read more about the Global Solutions Initiative’s Vision & Mission.
The Global Solutions Initiative is primarily funded by major German foundations and public institutions. Please find a complete list of our partners here. Funds are mainly used to support independent research serving the G20’s global public interest.
Policy Advice
The Socioeconomics of Pandemics Policy
To encourage people around the world to cooperate globally in tackling global problems, policymakers at local, national and global levels will need to encourage people around the world to cooperate globally in tackling global problems, with the aid of two powerful tools that humans throughout history have used to coordinate their efforts: identity-shaping narratives and institutions of multi-level governance. Read more.
D. Snower (Global Solutions Initiative)
Global Trade Cooperation after COVID-19: Can the G20 Contain Disintegration?
Since the current health crisis feeds into, and greatly amplifies, the prior disintegrative forces set in motion by a number of causes, the analysis is embedded in a broader view of the prospects for the G20 to restore international trade cooperation. It concludes by offering a framework to guide international trade cooperation beyond the COVID-19 crisis, anchored in the military notion of ‘dual-use technologies’, and with a view to containing the worst protectionist impulses the crisis is feeding. Read more
P. Draper (Institute for International Trade)
Measuring what you treasure: The Recoupling Dashboard
To stop fragmentation among societies and to ensure economic activities are carried out sustainably, the use of GDP as an indicator of prosperity is no longer enough.
D. Snower (Global Solutions Initiative), K. Lima de Miranda (IfW Kiel)
News
Don't save the economy. Change the economy.
In our post-pandemic future, consumption and production will have to be compatible with social distancing, writes Dennis J. Snower, President of the Global Solutions Initiative, in this article for Politico.
G20 stakeholders discuss recoupling in the post-pandemic world order: “resilience is the opposite of efficiency”
Representatives of the current, past and coming G20 Presidencies, examined the role of recoupling economic and social progress to ensure market economies deliver sustainable, inclusive social prosperity with a focus on resilience.
Realizing opportunities of the 21st century for all
In this year’s Global Solutions Journal, the G20 Sherpa of Saudi Arabia, Fahad Almubarak, lays out the Saudi Presidency’s vision and priorities for the Group of Twenty in 2020.
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Policy brief by @Jelinekt @WendellWallach & D. Kerimi @WorldEconomicForum proposes to #G20 @g20org implementation of a Coordinating Committee for the Governance of #AI, to coordinate the prevention/mitigation of cyber-physical threats #T20 @T20Solutions https://www.g20-insights.org/policy_briefs/coordinating-committee-for-the-governance-of-artificial-intelligence/
What lessons can be learned from cities like #Singapore, #Seoul & #HongKongSAR in light of #COVID19? @PwC’s Hazem Galal, Speaker at the #GlobalSolutions Summit 2020 on sustainable & smart urbanization, shares his take #G20 https://pwc.to/GSS-HG20
The #GlobalSolutions Summit 2020 was "a gathering unlike any we could have imagined half a year ago," said Dennis Snower at the Round-Up of the annual conference, which was held online this year due to #COVID19. Read, hear, see his conclusion and outlook: https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/press-news/digital-global-solutions-summit-2020-closing-address/