Transcripts For CSPAN2 Discussion 20240703

International development. I am excited about the piano. I would be more excited. Let me tell you about this panel, who wanted an important hearing at the end of the day featured the hub fireside chat ego. She helps develop programs in cities and countries where j. P. Morgan served. Before that she worked with oliver and associates and Melinda Gates foundation. She is a proud child of immigrant Family International business is the of international economics. So cute. You dont need much of an introduction to know you are. If you dont know, Child Corporation given working in this area for more than three years. She has been the lead of the education and happenstance. We are delighted you could be with us and ill turn it over. And you all hear us. That afternoon. I hope you enjoy the conference so far. Hopefully we will bring the energy in the conversation, i am excited to be on stage. The legacy had history and where it is going in the future. To start off my shirt congratulations are in order, happy anniversary to your agency fresh address or Economic Development and consent invested over 17 billion 78 products and upwards of 47 countries, is not right . That is no real feet. [applause] have been on a bit tour giving speeches and wondering the challenges and work and begun. They give the question and i want to thank everybody, it is wonderful to be here. I understand all hub 1600 people here in 1500 online. Outgrowing the Ronald Reagan building so regulations even though everyone facing challenges at various times, its a joy to be with all of you talking about all the things care much about. We celebrated the actual effect a great party for the moment is important for us spending time came backwards at what has made the agent special also given the challenges we are facing now always asking ourselves what is the value we have invited that matter so much right now so the things that are really special is we are highly selective in who we work with. We are rent and we work with the country that has become eligible. We go big so the grants 500 million and pew agencies in the world provide Grant Funding to that magnitude. What is not our part we are an arrangement ourselves in the United States around the concept of reform, investing and bringing down barriers to growth and trading opportunity where particular parts of society are included. The smaller program called threshold and it has stood the test of time we have deployed 17 billion 78 contact 47 countries and sectors we are proud of the track record mostly. Asking the question what is ahead of us and being grant maker is a big difference. Im sure many of you talk about what we called locally led development, Current Business model is working closely with countries involved from the very beginning in these processes and implement the work we have working in this way since the beginning and we are very adaptable so the range of things we are working on a reflection of what the country has seen to overcome these challenges Economic Growth will be continuously unstopped so we are wellsuited to address issues of preparedness and 20th century skills and it will be a hot topic going forward. An instant hot topic and would think about innovations. We have a strong Business Model at the core of what we have going on but we continue to refine it in a group working on making sure we leaning as much as possible so locked in how we operate, are we doing this enough . One thing where working on is the procedures around procurement and that responsibility. One thing i do know we have a reputation for being artwork within the challenges we are trying to streamline so innovations of all kinds not politically they are at an interesting moment particularly when it comes to views on the u. S. Role in ornate how much, windy given what and i know mcc has legislation that would help expand and curious i see a number of audience curious about that and strategy working with Congress Might not be understanding the need for foreign aid in the Critical Role you talk about the strategy to work around the world . Connect let me back up and ask, what is the rationale we are seeing a reform is the classification seeking to lower the rate and inequity within property and we can work with it now. So the person first piece of discussion is around this we all know we have an enormous amount of work so that is the driver. We are making progress as congress having discussions about an honest very gratifying. What have to do is forge the consensus politically different political environment the long u. S. Leadership and aid this gets back to the Business Model all having democracy thrive and delivered in a transparent datadriven portable weight working closely with countries and working on Critical Issues both institutional reform and helping Critical Infrastructure needs sonatas true now as it was 20 years ago when we started in the more we talk to people on the field they agree with that. The budget i think the overall optical up. He will know better than i do but there is a misperception five, 30 of the u. S. Budget goes to ornate and its assistance as you all know, its one, if not less than 1 from a tiny given all the wonderful things we could be working on with countries we should be leaning into that so there are many examples of great countries more technology, healthcare and different ways solutions, the list goes on and on. I couldnt agree more understand the need for engagement. The partners we work with lacey those now face with a greater number of opportunity, highly think about this major flautist mcc become more capital . One of the reason countries are mentally embedded one of the distinguishing features we are a great countries also driver seat that is one thing we think is very appealing. We start with a straight growth analysis is closely as partners to date into the main challenges toward prosperity and Economic Growth and then countries choose what they want to work with. I can beginning countries have the ability to determine what they want and we think is the right approach are longterm sustainable country owned development and something that is the right way to go in terms of our agencies and how we work on u. S. Relationship. We think about the countries in which they can work with and among but it has become known for, how does that change and evolve . The mark is the legislation we certainly hope it will. It will add more from we can collect more countries but in and of itself is incentivizing the core aspect will not change. Every country will be scored and a lot of attention to the eligibility on the statement trajectory and you can tell what the eligibility requirements are. For this in the challenges within design and set up and they become responsible and implement and we do evaluation work so that will not change. What will change as more countries from a what areas of reform to undertake and in Central Latin America and africa and i am confident we have terrific work there but there are also areas that are important. Onto tentative it, it is important to these and education, what are the trends in education in the next 20 years and beyond . Great question right now without really interesting programs, a work in progress. So if i were to generalize a couple of things personal, education is a driver of economic and in terms of the collection better educated people and Digital Skills but also the skill set for the job opportunity so there are a lot of opportunities and Economic Growth. We are increasingly asked things will help countries prepare for the 21st century. It is a slightly different focused and complementary but printers are interested in making sure the workforce is prepared for the future and they have rapid population growth countries are getting younger and younger so education is a pressing. I couldnt agree more. If you think about both countries you work with one question comes to mind imagine the development mentation from how we think about the role in advancing equity . Michael thought, how would you define level poverty election and what is the agencies will and not . Thats a great question to talk about. But alas, equity what you think about the connection between Economic Growth cannot foresee successfully growing parts of the population left out. We continue to refine strategy and policy. You start studying where the issues are, is it women, Rural Communities . Certain ethnic minorities in the country . Then we take a systemic look, why are people being included . Is a something to do with Legal Framework . What is it exactly . Then we figure out how we can work and consultation with it to make sure we really understand a critical part and then we will even solutions. Let me make it real. A couple of years ago we signed 300 million system but working and understanding what became clear was the fact that women could not inherit land so it would stand in the way of women who owned the land and used it as collateral so after a lot of close work with local organizations and traditional community, a lot of work, the loss of been changed. A fundamental change for better opportunity in this community. As an example of this based approach so does the right thing to do for so many and matters on equity and more people are able to participate and understand in the dialogue and certainly for Economic Growth. One question you mentioned mccs main vehicle for vestment working in partnership to figure out the system, im curious 20 years forward bringing the full force of the bank to address customers need. I wonder about the Poverty Reduction and moving forward working alongside agencies to get the best of the best in terms of Meeting Development needs, what does it look like in the 20 your trajectory and beyond . We have good relationships and regular contact. A lot of information we share in the tools themselves are complementary. We try to finance so we must take a whole of government approach in the International Talent we must. Now, it goes beyond that. We need to work with all of you. Its a great gathering of many people in different parts of our community, the private Sector Foundation and a lot of folks need to work because he will have to offer whether its working directly or providing information comparing notes, what you know about this, work at things on this . You know the whole of government approach and many of you are familiar with the trillions, that is also in that sector will put you all the approach and one thing thats real opportunity for the american environment is because we have such Richmond Capital market and government tools we have if you begin to stitch it together, the u. S. Will make a powerful contribution. I will relay the message. At the close i love it. One thing that is you hopeful in the engagement brought her with partners working their best to create an environment, what is one thing you can leave us with . I can imagine the headlines there may be a bit of a clonus when you look at ukraine, the middle east, you name it. It is a difficult moment and it would be shortsighted but it difficult moments, opportunity and meaning and and making the best of those moments. I was working in banking and j. P. Morgan for a while but even before that i was working in banking early on and people thought the ceiling was falling in the world would never be the same but what came out was transactions you took the debt and into equity investing in became what is now emerging market. And it was on its own so that difficult moment was difficult but led to something interesting. In the early 2000s we were perplexed in the developing world put together a full entity now along the global front is very successful. I remember i was at gpe, 2020 we had to go home and the sky was falling but covid was not only a Health Crisis but the only Public Policy tool only our government by governments around the world to curtail the spread of covid to shut down schools which had obviously ramifications. What we did, we looked at our financing contract and put together 250 million 509 window and enable them to do the network. The something that was not ideal but we did and got grants. Those are small examples of the u. S. Is good at innovating and i am confident what will come out of this is a renewed understanding of how critical this is, renewed desire to from the best partnership we can and make the best of what we have and offering to the partners we have. We are in the right place with the right people and i know its been a very busy week for you. Thank you for taking the time to come. I you all enjoy the conversation and get some rest this weekend. Back. What a great discussion. He got an idea the past two hours. I serve as Senior Vice President opportunity. We are thrilled to be a sponsor. We value the work done. So much of our interaction conference so firsthand in the cochair of the agricultural work. Theres so many fantastic things we really appreciate. I would forward to the next session we are going to talk about the foreign assistance act. It resonates with all of us do at this conference. Encouragement and support in their essence to acquire the knowledge essential to the development and political and social institutions. I know an opportunity with done for the last 52 years and im sure many of you in this room resonate in some of the way. While is the same week have evolved together with it with opportunity and it looks like were going in the 90s and early 2000s to implement my credit project and then working with the Global Development and the financial institutions. Then you as a development the rest lending. Now working with the newest strategies in the Education Sector and in these outcomes. Sure the same is the case for many of you, youve grown and evolved as well. Im looking forward to hearing from the panel on how usa responding and new impactful ways. No better person to get off then dennis baker swearing in ceremony and you are the leader i need for the agency needs and this Administration Needs that the people out there in the world made given the last two years wondering whether the administrator is weve experienced the most challenging situations political, environmental. As a key member of the Leadership Team at the forefront of the apartment and we happen talking about because i can tell you as of monday the assistant administrator, it is my pleasure to share some insight and help us in the final discussion today. [applause] it is good to see everyone i will be very short because i note we are keeping you all from the reception so i dont want to be too long. Im sure youve all talked about this a lot we are dealing with three realities in the world. The first are outpacing our ability from the standpoint we are in a situation where the goblins are bigger than any other agency to deal with. The second is new technologies are going to force the change of how society functions and we have a change. The one that i feel most in developing challenges political issues. In the differently to working a way that meets those challenges and thats where our approach on programs started. An idea that we have to think beyond our efforts and how we can get change. We are doing that in three ways focused on how we can be the catalyst in the world and bring more resources and work with different partners. We look at how we can really invest our work. We got a lot of real challenges. We dont have the capacity right now to engage in private sector we have spent a lot of work past two years establishing new policies but also really doing the puzzle work with the private sector. We have increased engagement by 60 so a big accomplishment. The second thing is focusing on how we are the communities we work with a partner. That is where progress has been slow. It takes a while to turn things around. Takes a while to keep things changed. Weve seen progress in the amount of partners we are working with locally. Local partners and he had on and development. Best i can think is how we can get better bang for our buck and thats a focus on effectiveness and how we can make sure we have dollars spent. Thats why we have concomitant work with them to increase our effectiveness last year chief economist work with our mission and with our bureaus in frederick going with the contracting grant. The last thing for all of this is to build a strong workforce. We walked across all of our agencies and bring equity and work out how we incorporate contractors better and get benefit our workers and modernize to meet the need we have. How do we balance . With done a lot of National Empowerment to really focus on how to make them better Leaders Within our mission. Thats really what we have been trying to do. Theres a lot of work to be done and we hear from my colleagues about that work and for us it really is a focus on how we can deliver the impact together over the next few years i hope you all had a great day today. Thank you all. [applause] welcome. As you get settled in, i want to tell you a story. This morning when we were called together she said asked chatgpt to describe the analyst. She was told we were going to be radiant and celestial. [laughter] so i just wanted to put that out there you know what the expectation is i welcome everybody, this is our last panel of the day. We thought it was born to pull it together officials from usa to hear about important issues you are laughing with. Bios are in your program but ill introduce quickly. We worked together for years and im really happy you are here. Deputy assistant to the minister funeral for humanitarian assistance long time fixedrate usa and has worked there for 28 years programming. I dont think that is to say hes one of the world leading experts on eight so thank you for being with us. The Senior Deputy assistant administrator and inclusive growth partnerships and innovation, Senior Foreign Service officer and particular expertise. Assistant administrator planning learning and she has been in and out a couple times under the Obama Administration chief of staff and the agency and worked for the House Committee and the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Did not go into the court. Same with me. I want to jump right in and i mentioned your bureaus, auto to everybody so it is a level setting. I want to ask you to describe a little more on what you do especially because the agency has a reorganization in your bureaus that have been configured. Cheryl your inclusive ownership and innovation ipi was a broad mandate, tell us what areas you covered. Thanks for having us today, its great to be here. We are grateful for your work. The partnerships and nation became operational last october and are mandate and the conflicts develop a challenges and at their capacity and we do work on a bunch of key priorities, gender equality, Inclusive Development and private sector engagement in the center of excellence education and Economic Growth and technology. Thats a lot of things. Education localization on publicprivate ohio you as a leader and they do therapeutic. Economic development and the priorities of the agency. Making sure. I would say we dont try to integrate we try demand this will provide training based on the conte of we are breathing and modernize our approach. That includes Technical Assistance and its a lot of training and digital gender localization and Inclusive Development and education economic officers and we are trying to take a leave making sure the system for these officers to thrive and give one example modernizes a great example working on reforms that the way in the private sector engagement because we have to increase the area so trying to figure out all the things a mission with need so they actually become capable and engaging the private sector. One thing i would mention particular as we launch the corporate partnering total so one thing bad habit of speaking to people and acronyms or Development Rather than meeting people where they are. Making sure we come to the table so that is a switchable we are trying to do. Second, the sum of our parts. We are very clear on these needs. One example in the Digital Economy, we just started this women Digital Economy getting to how we make sure they have better access to Internet Digital Technology created this technology and other private sector investments in the women in the Digital Economy initiative and received 700 million to work on closing digital gender divide so the program will take a big bite jobs to women the Different Companies seven country so that us the iti gender equity, education and engagement in the private sector vestment and i think i forgot one. We are looking at all of these pieces. Lastly what they we are focused on leveraging everyone think that is on leveraging we also wanted Leveraged Technology and collaboration you heard in the development corporation. We have Development Innovation of suffering researchers together for cutting edge and practical problems and solutions that is a big focus and we have a dedicated unit to better equip that it is sits on the boards to advocate for development, focus and investment and work on programs more directly. That is very broad but thank you very much. Just so everybody here is clear. First of all, thank you and thank you for hosting us it euro many of you will be familiar, so honored to work with and a lot has stayed the same. We still are the home of the cycle we are still on the Country Strategies and would look. Countries evaluation and plans and teaches activity design. The barrel responsible for development policy. Continue to work on these policies. We are responsible for those multilateral and that of the g7 and t20. There coming into our hero and it is similar to for the budget office. What we are trying to do is say that the country has decided we want the strategy to be different, how can the budget numbers affect the . And what happened in one year but maybe two or three. A leader is interested in the initiative, how can we have resources toward that and countries integrate that an bartender and digital . How can they become part of what they are doing . When really i think you are selling new head of the bureau of humanitarian assistant is supposed to be with us a step to depreciate or travel unexpectedly stepped in on short notice so we are grateful to you. Your bureau is charged with responding to natural disasters and complex crises around the world of which there are many. I mean i cannot really get my head around how you all manage everything youve got on your plate right now. Can you give us a quick overview of what you are grappling with . Sure. I apologize on behalf and she was like dont screw this up. [laughter] you probably should have stayed. When they get to go to gaza, i totally get it. Thats what we do soap apology on behalf of her for not being here. Sorry you all are stuck with me but i will try my best here. It really is an honor to be a from the bureau of planetary assistance. Talk about recent, even though it really was about three years ago they did come into existence from our legacy food for peace and things. Some of us at the front line. So a line that would never happen. I actually stand here to that to say two and a half plus years later feel like we are starting to gel as the lead humanitarian coordinator for the u. S. Government. And i am proud to be sitting here to do exactly that to be honest with you all. For those of you do not know our goal remains the same or to alleviate suffering, save lives and get communities back on emergency recovery path. And unfortunately we are not winning. The humanitarian community are not in the best place. If we look at a time frame lets frameslets say a year before c, to now we have had over double increase upwards of 180 Million People in need of not just regular aid but like life saving humanitarian need. The arrow has gone erratically back a different way. We can trace this back to covid and some of those impacts. But we can also very much trace back to Climate Change on one very real level in the sense of increased intensity of those natural disasters. And then it lets just put it out there, the intensity and number of conflicts in the world has just changed the game again. I do think if i take my hat off a little bit and try to prophesies we are going to need to look at this more greater in the humanitarian community to figure out how were going to do some of these things differently. We are and one of those pivotal moments what to radically think on that i was that usaid and our partners are incredibly wellplaced to be a leader in that discussion. I cannot wait for that to go forward because i think its going to need all of that. But again that almost 180 Million People in need in the world. We currently have five major crises we are responding to right now. For those who know we have Disaster Assistance Response Teams out in the field right now. Not even for five years ago we would do two or three at any given time when shut down one and so we are at five. We actually had up to seven going on at one time. That means is a huge amount of resources we have fielded and in washington to do this. Would it really means is all of you. All of the humanitarians and Development Partners on the front lines. I started my talk about the incredible gratitude from usaid d, from your teams out in the field who are literally rise on the front line it really does mean the front line. It is an important aspect to remember and please know what usaid that is not lost at all. Our local squats on both sides theyre having to be impacted so greatly. Just a continual feeling of respect and humbleness from our side that continues in places we are rolling right now is a big responses of hating and ukraine, gaza, sudan, and yemen comes to the list. Continues to be where we are doing our focus. But then, going into drc, other than the horn, ethiopia, taking huge amount of time and resources as well. That continues to be something i wish i could be better on the numbers and how it is getting better. I do feel that we are in it is daunting. Backdrops and much of our conversations about the crises in the world. Matt, theres not enough people and not enough money to meet the challenges. More about how does you do you prioritize are you looking at new ways of working with the resources you have . Indefinitely. Its what we continue to do all of the time. Our budgets change from house votes one year to everything else. We are continually having to do exactly that. One thing that i will not go into detail on this is relevant and tracks with but the agencies are doing and what dennis was talking about earlier as systems and processes things internally those big aid and how would you grant making an award making it all about. Recently internally has really decided to knock down the walls and take her grantmaking and award making it down to its basics and start rebuilding that up. I feel and come back to say this out loud publicly so you all can hold this to try to change some of those practices. That is something on the mechanics side of it but i do see that having a lot of impacts going forward. It dovetails to me the other big things we are talking about. That being the localization of humanitarian assistance. Luckily for us, i said that a b a year end a half ago or two years ago grudgingly and now i feel like a convert. This local idea especially on the humanitarian side was like no, no, no we are too fast we dont need to do that. The administrator has been pretty relentless but we are doing localization you better jump on board. It is changing a lot of how we mechanically do things. But also with our partners as well across the board. I think a localization the idea of we are going a bigger impact. We are going to save money i move faster in certain ways to do that. I think the locally led humanitarian side something when you talk about for a long time. Im getting that to be real. The efforts to be part of this. The other buzzword thats been talked about for long time i am glad to see the peace building aspect being pulled more readily into this. I think again ive been around long enough to find a different side of developments and pointing fingers and everything. That is okay, that should continue we should continue to see each other on different places off to that kind of thing. What it really does mean for us and i think i see it change we have a bigger role wait the humanitarian side. The needs are growing. Bring in the aspect of it is a really good binding force. Its me as an operating talking. I see that really happening and i see on the side of it a little bit better participation in this at the Mission Level but are partners all across the board. I am positive that will continue as we go forward. I think, beyond the locally and the nexus i think what we are trying to do. Im going to use other buzzword dennis throughout i could hear exactly dennis was saying i was thinking i hope im not saying a thing he did. The idea of progress without programs. It is a buzz thing. But in actuality we the humanitarian side of not flex into that enough on how we can really bring our skills of convening and having that impact without the programs entering the dollars at it. But flexing in the humanitarian Community Bring those tables together. We are seeing that a lot in the private sector engagement part we are seeing that a lot dovetailing we havent talked about this before. We are all right on that team mendoza bankers to be doing seven different areas and i really do think that is with the agencies moving forward. I like before i was kicking around we are not just sheltering the humanitarian in the corner for lunch to go play and we see a role there. Well be seeing that moving forward. To end it is a much what we are seeing at vha and usaid is a yes, the humanitarian unfortunate side of this is going to continue. Instead of just suctioning ourselves off and pretending we dont have much of a role lets get it to a place where they can do that and better way. No other time then now really does call for that. With leadership before it is becoming more of our dna. That is great. Thank you. Im going to turn to localization in a minute. I want to ask you a hard budget question. You got Resource Management now you are fair game. For understandable reasons human turn assistance only went up. Global Health Economic all went down. Is that the world we live in now where there is a tradeoff between humanitarian assistance and Development Assistance . What are your views on the balance between those two . Of a see a couple of things. This is a very fair question. What i would say is we have to wait and see. Last year we spent over 70 billion on development and ee mentoring and health programming. We were never going to maintain those levels. And if you look around the world many of the g7 donors and other likeminded down assessing the pressure per the world is changing. A face some hard choices trying to understand see it as an opportunity that sounds very trite think about the programs how did they need to be adjusted tech we make this Connection Development funding. Both have been very wellfunded. From that likeminded donors be more harmonized by the countries will rework were working we arg closely with ireland on Agriculture Programs in zambia. We are never forced to do that kind of thinking before but now we are all trying to figure out how do we leverage each others resources and get a better outcome. Laster and october we hosted a trilateral conference with japan and korea. Thinking about the new ways we could all be working. And now we are doing Global Health Security Program in ghana where korea is funding this piece, we are fighting that peace and japan is finding that piece. I think it will be beneficial at the country level but for us to really think about what is our added advantage in these conversations . I think i have avoided your question is much as i possibly could. [laughter] but it is going to force us to act and be different. I am hopeful that next year the advocacy im not asking you all to do. [laughter] that perhaps will see different numbers in the probations bill. Did not hear you pick oxide notes on cspan. I have been given the high sign. We started late we do not want to keep people too long on a friday afternoon. We will look to the lightning round now. Two quick things i want to ask you about is going to ask each of you to comment and im not going to do that at this time. I do want to touch on a locally locallyled development and artil intelligence because both of them have been a very large subject today. Which one of you wants to look at localization . What i would like to know is the administrator set out ambitious targets the agency is having trouble meeting them for a reason we understand. Could you talk a little bit about the challenges our and how theyre trying to address them . Is that for who . Oxen happy to take the generalization. Quick and brilliant and radiant and select. [laughter] deal me too start . Yes. We have talked a lot about Artificial Intelligence today. People are excited about it. People are nervous about it if you could see from the agencys perspective quickly and another thats not fair. What do you see as the positives . What are you worried about are there guardrails that need to be established . Are the things that you as an agency we as a Community Need to be working on together to make sure we dont do this wrong . I will chat she bt the answer on that one. I have a couple five points on localization. First thing im going to say is the administrator believes firmly wish we were at local organizations, International Ngo multilateral ecosystem when she set the target of 25 below organization, deming 75 continues to go to the partners in this room and outside this room. First of all thats the first thing for the second thing is we did this differently than we did u. S. A forward print to set up a task force ipi, plr. What do we need to do to change ourselves as an agency . How to make it easier for the local partner to partner with us . What do we have to give to our staff so they can do this better . Everything from changing riskmanagement statements to new tools to new ways of learning. We partnered with new folks we have three new mou to bring it new and different partners. We collaborate enter agencies to change the code of regulation. That was a huge difference in terms of what will be needed. What i will say this is something we are committed to. Well be doing direct local funding. Well be looking at how we do our work. Estimate 50 or work very closely with local partners new ways of working over too just quickly mr. Woody said no regardless start consulting with our partners on the field side i can say my not been there before is exactly that. We are hiring hiring translating services. To get through awards to make the whole process easier of how were going to respond there. Thats a thousand flowers blooming sort of thing. Im being paid by three or four different layers. We are work with them directly. Themselves directly to work on the disaster of his production beyond red cross at that local levels hyper as well as even filtering up to nationwide response apparatus. This is something we are all in on. Its also important is the change of christies like me have been a bureaucrat for a long time to really believe in this . Yes we actually do this time around. The hold up to the baby savers and all that are on board two. Weve been working two years on their own policy. That is going to be coming out. Its one of the indicators when i was growing up we rarely if ever did anything about a pooled fund. Country funds have pretty good local contacts as a barometer until taking it seriously bring us home with something quick and smart. [laughter] i was going to mention just forget the opportunities in digital. Thanks we are certainly worried about cybersecurity practices. We do more on and have Major Initiative on that. On the aei side specifically we of course the opportunity as well as risk. We really want to focus on responsible use of ai. We see this as a point in time there is an opportunity to do that. We are very concerned about ai and how it can be use that it will for example roll back some gender equity things we are looking at we certainly think ai can be used to undermine the relevance of experience on a resume or Credit Ratings between men and women we are very concerned about that. We have a responsible ai challenge for crowdsourcing in Different Solutions to that. We also a joint partnership looking at responsible ai in africa. With the canadians, the brits, the germans, and the gates foundation. Really focus on that very much. There are several things the u. S. Government is also doing to really come at this point in time, how do we look at opportunities. There is a new executive order out from the white house. With already put ai action plan into place. We are look at more responsible use of ai and our programs. We are looking at protecting ecosystems among our partner countries and we are really training many, many more people and responsible use of ai weve already trained five or 50 staff in the sitting area that demand exceeds the availability. Im not going to say more in unlessyou want me too because yy proud to work at usa. [applause] but that glorious those animating force behind shes a conference or is going to close us out with a quick closing one final video thank you all again. Thank you wade, michelle and matt for coming and sharing your views with us. We come to the end of a conference but cant believe its all over, market. After prebid meeting every week for the last four months on behalf of the Planning Committee like to thank you for being with us today and for our sponsors for the support youve given us. We hope you find events worthwhile hope and optimism for the future. I like to invite you all to the reception. But before you go we have one last lightning thought contest winner. This is a very interesting one. Its called preschool entitlement. It talks about hope for the future. Our children. Something that is often overlooked or misunderstood. And the right around it. Its very interesting. I hope you enjoy it. Its for three minutes i ask you to watch it. And then join us for the reception. Once again on behalf of the Planning Committee, thank you all very much for being with us all day. Thank you. [applause] [applause] former President Trump was again held in contempt ofourt by justice juan merchan prevailing the gag order imposed in the hush money trail in new york. The judge were in t former president he will sve jail time if he continues to ballot the gag order which forbids mr. 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