News
Digitalization in health demands a governance architecture that generates trust, empowers people, and checks the power of Big Tech. Read the article by Nicoletta Dentico.
Explore the Mattei Plan’s ambitions and contradictions, how Italy’s initiative in Africa balances political interests, private sector involvement, and the challenges of equitable cooperation. Read the article by Nicoletta Dentico.
As we edge closer to the half of this quarter, we invite you to keep tabs with some of our engagements through our thematic programmes as we share with you our first edition of the SID Africa newsletter. In this edition we apply back-casting to highlight our engagements in 2024, and how these lay the foundation of our work and shape the year ahead.
Italy's Piano Mattei initiative promises partnership with Africa, but its top-down approach and historical echoes of colonialism raise doubts about its genuine commitment to equitable cooperation. Read the article by Arthur Muliro.
As part of the G2H2 Policy Debates, SID webinar on 23 Jan 2025 will explore overlooked aspects of the energy transition, emphasizing the essential steps for ensuring it is both sustainable and equitable, while also revealing the human health impacts of failing to act.
As part of the G2H2 Policy Debates, SID webinar on 22 Jan 2025 intends to shine a light on the WHO debates on the pandemic treaty, One Health and the fight against AMR, taking stock of the research work conducted in this area in past years.
If the recent events that unfolded in Kenya starting in June 2024 are anything to go by, the questions on how to engage, participate and call for accountability will be the crux of the African post-modern revolution. The youth are demanding a different future from the current crisis in governance and contemporary capitalism has ravaged to their nation and this starts taking shape towards a state of civil unrest.
The 2nd edition of the dialogue featured discussion on locating Africa’s engagement and input in the Summit of the Future and Pact for the Future. The need to understand the convergence of thought and expectations from the Pact and the chapters therein, with the session paying particular attention to the fourth chapter on Youth & Futures Generations.