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Expo 2020 Dubai spotlights five grassroots innovations
DUBAI, 4 hours, 5 minutes ago A wearable device that warns when social distancing is not being respected and a Jordanian programme helping vulnerable communities grow online businesses during lockdown are among five new projects selected. The selection was from a call for Covid-19-related proposals from Expo 2020 Dubai’s Global Best Practice Programme. The hand-picked initiatives join 45 existing best practice projects, whose simple, effective and locally based solutions solve some of the world’s biggest challenges, including those laid out in the Sustainable Development Agenda – 17 global targets designed to achieve peace and prosperity for people and the planet.
April 21, 2021
The latest additions come as the United Nations marks World Creativity and Innovation Day on April 21, celebrating human ingenuity and the creative economy, and their essential role in helping communities throughout the pandemic. WAM photo
DUBAI A wearable device that warns when social distancing is not being respected and a Jordanian program helping vulnerable communities grow online businesses during lockdown is among five new projects selected from a call for COVID-19-related proposals from Expo 2020 Dubai’s Global Best Practice Programme.
The hand-picked initiatives join 45 existing best practice projects, whose simple, effective, and locally-based solutions solve some of the world’s biggest challenges, including those laid out in the Sustainable Development Agenda 17 global targets designed to achieve peace and prosperity for people and the planet, according to a press release on Wednesday.
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