most of the Latin American countries, the few that has made progress with regard to that has bean because off the pressure that some multilateral corporation has put in them, E would say that during that it was during the early nineties, where most of these questions and most of these countries have started to ask the black questions.
Should this technology governance be orchestrated at the international level? Let the multilateral organization define money? Should we think that we should operate like the banking system?
So the contextual, they need to be there. In a multilateral sense, especially in the current world that we're living in, there's been some progress,
I think there will be fields where they do that. There are very few multilateral institutions that are functional.
I believe in its mission. I believe in multilateralism. But many of my UN coworkers and I have a sneaking sympathy for that famous remark by John Bolton, who
level of the government level over the last During the nineties, there was a movement toward including the black identity in many of these countries. If you look at the agenda off most off most multilateral development institutions just to mention one the World Bank, you will see that many of them started to create offices to deal with the black agenda that they created offices toe to deal with. Each of they have to deal with indigenous people. They created offices to deal with women issues,
declaration. And in the declaration we talked about, we started talking about the issues off recognition, justice and development. And in that declaration, we go to any of that traditional multilateral development institutions, right, that which are the the one that had bean providing most of the financial assistance toe
international organizations. It's not a coincidence we're meeting today during the UN General Assembly week, because technology and digitalization is going to be an important topic on development, on the future of the multilateral systems. But the core of what we are trying to do, and what my team is trying to do, is to offer to Danish authorities
these countries have started to ask the black questions. And it was because in many of the transactions in many of the lungs that multilateral development institution were given toe toe those countries there wasa conditionality require them to allocate, Resource is and the poorest communities and the poorest communities happened to be
declaration. And in the declaration we talked about, we started talking about the issues off recognition, justice and development. And in that declaration, we each of the existing governments, including multilateral organizations, and when most of the cases the system is has been detrimental to many off us.
applicable to what I'm talking about. They're directed at government aid, multilateral aid, not at the NGOs that I would recommend you give your aid to. Very few of us say we want to give money to the government so we can increase its aid.
What would the benefit be? But there certainly is now enough data from the World Bank and from other multilateral institutions that suggest that what is lost to violence is massive. And that if we don't get out in front of it, that kind of cost is just going to grow.
What we really need is sectoral reform. And as we talk about reengaging with the world and revitalizing our multilateralist traditions
to discuss how to combat VUCA-- Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity-- a concept introduced by the US Army War College to describe more volatile, uncertain, and complex and ambiguous multilateral world perceived as resulting from the end of the cold It's a concept that can be readily applied to the corporate organization or anyone navigating the changing dynamics of a global pandemic or the growing complexities
And only a fraction of it is about science. We're a Swiss foundation, but we're a multilateral organization that functions like the UN, but we're not the UN.
It's about letting music be the fabric that binds us. It's about music being a tool to bridge countries, to build bilateral relations, to build multilateral relations, to bring people together. Today's talk is also about Cuba.
And only a fraction of it is about science. We disperse about $4 billion a year, collect and disperse about $4 billion a year, which makes us the largest multilateral funder of the global health
And after a few minutes, which is actually a considerable amount of time when someone is in a distressed situation, as Shaffi's mother was, I think that entrepreneurs have done more than any charity, philanthropy, or nonprofit organization, or multilateral organization
We have all kinds of players. A recent addition, which is a strange addition, some of the multilateral institutions are joining us, the IMF for instance, which desperately needs to diversify, and the CIA.