IGF 2024 WS #101 Food crisis - urgent technology action is needed!

    Organizer 1: Natalia Filina, 🔒At-Large (ICANN)
    Organizer 2: Andrey Aleinikov, Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ
    Organizer 3: Laura Margolis, 🔒Internet Society Uruguay Chapter

    Speaker 1: Yik Chan Chin, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
    Speaker 2: Amrita Choudhury, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
    Speaker 3: Abdulkarim Oloyede, Technical Community, African Group
    Speaker 4: Natalia Filina, Private Sector, Eastern European Group

    Moderator

    Natalia Filina, Private Sector, Eastern European Group

    Online Moderator

    Andrey Aleinikov, Private Sector, Eastern European Group

    Rapporteur

    Laura Margolis, Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)

    Format

    Theater
    Duration (minutes): 90
    Format description: This session will be an exchange of information about specific practices and it is very important not just to give the floor to speakers, but to get feedback from the audience. That is why the best duration is 90 minutes. the best layout room is theatre.

    Policy Question(s)

    How do the owners of digital technologies, inventions, access or distribute developments and achievements, best practices for use by other actors of agro-industrial and logistics systems responsible for providing people with food?
    What role can technology play in addressing sustainable development issues such as climate change, biodiversity, nature conservation, and food shortages?
    How do states support the development and implementation of digitalization of agriculture with saving ecology, defending the ecosystem of the earth?

    What will participants gain from attending this session? We have to save people's lives, to save people from hunger. This discussion is acute. Technology which may help and solution is in the hands of our community today.
    The outcomes of this session will be thoughts and (MUCH IMPORTANT) intention (people, IG actors, IT corporates) to exchange knowledge, cooperate on this direction, to achieve better result, to focus of the most problematic issues, cases and quick implementation technologies
    And will remind us to use technology at first there are problems of hunger, food shortages, and uneven distribution of resources.
    At this session we will gather participants of the digitalization process from different areas (science, technology, civil society, researchers), who will give concrete examples of existed and created effective technological achievements of the agro-industrial and logistics industries, which help to obtain, preserve, multiply, distribute and deliver food resources at all stages of their life cycle to those in need.

    Description:

    We all dream of a harmonious course of life and the abundance of all resources for all mankind, water and food. It is a disaster that a significant part of the world's population is facing food shortages and hunger. Global forecasts for 2024 continue to name food crises as one of the main threats. Further cuts in funding and unequal distribution of food between regions are expected.
    What are the reasons? Conflicts, climate change, inefficient management of the economy and food distribution, disruption of the supply chain, unfair global competition and artificial prohibition of access to food…
    One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is to reduce hunger and malnutrition in the world. One of the most humanistic and socially significant tasks of scientific breakthroughs, discoveries and technological development is to improve the quality of life of people in all aspects. First of all, providing everyone living on the planet with vital resources. Food.
    This session will consider specific examples, best practices showcasing of technological advances, digitalization of the agro-industrial and logistics industries, which help us use resources carefully and with maximum effect and make quality food available to as many people as possible. We will focus on concrete action. implementation and results we already have from different regions of the globe.

    Expected Outcomes

    The desired continuation should be a discussion at the global level, follow-up events. We are ready to organize a coalition or global working group - "Digitalization and the fight against hunger", which will hold discussions at different venues of IGF every year. And to help direct the attention of the global digital community to those regions that need specific help that technology can provide.
    We will unite digitalists who can help fight hunger by sharing knowledge, access to technologies and their implementation, specific examples of implementations and improvements. We will start a regular study on the best practices of digitalization of agro-industrial and adjacent industries in 5 global regions in order to summarize the experience of achievements and observe the dynamics in the future.
    I will publish a joint article and organize discussion in diverse parts of the Internet governance communities (ICANN, ISOC) at regional IGF level too.

    Hybrid Format: The speakers of the session will speak in person and online (we will alternate their reports), use the opportunity to show a presentation explaining solutions and achievements. The moderators will give the session listeners the opportunity to add comments to the chat or ask a question at the microphone - time will be allocated for this. At the beginning of the session, the moderator will show a mounted 3-minute video, which will be an informative intro to the discussion.