The International Trade Centre (ITC) hosted a panel at the WTO Public Forum 2024, to explore how businesses can support refugee integration through the labour markets. Read TASC’s Executive Director, Kitrhona Cerri insights on creating sustainable pathways through digital employment and the emerging Business Community of Practice co-hosted by the TASC Platform and ITC.

Janine Berg from the International Labour Organization (ILO) presents a realist view on AI and technological unemployment, acknowledging both risks and rewards. While AI may not eliminate most jobs, vulnerable workers, particularly women, face significant risks. Effective policies like reskilling, redeployment, and social protections are essential to minimize negative impacts.

The TASC Platform and the World Economic Forum Inclusive Trade team hosted a roundtable on labour in the green and digital transitions. Key discussions centered on the Trade and Labour Nexus in Kenya and Indonesia, exploring strategies to protect workers and reshape supply chains transitions, during the Geneva Trade Week 2024, hosted in the margins of the WTO Public Forum 2024.

In June 2024, Bridging-Changes Foundation's Leadership Academy brought together 12 participants from Myanmar for a transformative leadership training in Bangkok. The program fostered trust, introspection, and personal growth, equipping participants with leadership skills vital for navigating Myanmar’s challenges. By Claudine Haenni, Managing Director, Bridging-Changes Foundation.

The 100-day AI Futures Challenge, launched by Source Transitions at the AI for Good Summit in May 2024, focused on transforming visionary concepts into actionable steps. Two scenarios emerged from the challenge, centered on lifelong learning and local food networks, ready for further development

Melissa Pitotti, CEO, Facilitating the Future, celebrates the work of the humanitarian women’s leadership peer community. Sharing about key events like the "International Women's Day" and the upcoming "System Changer Sleepover" foster collaboration, well-being, and transformation, empowering women to lead with purpose and reshape the systems in which they work.

Since August 2024, the TASC Platform, alongside the Geneva Trade Platform, is now co-hosting the Business & Conflict Community of Practice, which began in 2022. This global network connects over 200 professionals, fostering responsible business practices in conflict-affected environments. The Business & Conflict Community of Practice is managed by Annika Erickson-Pearson, facilitating regular exchanges and relationship-building.

Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute, reflects on the launch of the Global Coalition for Social Justice at the International Labour Conference. With inspiring speeches from President Lula of Brazil and President Paudel of Nepal, discover how the event emphasized the critical need for multilateral collaboration.

Addressing the urgent need for human-centered AI at the AI for Good Summit, Dr. Stéphanie Camaréna shares how 70 participants engaged in the Bottom-Up Engagement (BUE) framework, focusing on AI sustainability, ethics, and inclusivity.

Dr. Maria Mexi illuminates the complexities at the intersection of AI and migration, and the urgent need for inclusive policies to combat inequality and exploitation. Engage with the nuanced discussions on shaping a future where AI and migration coexist for the greater good.

Geneva Graduate Institute's first year International Law Master's student, Rukhsora Satimboeva, delves into her experience at the Future of Work Summit 2024, where global experts tackled AI and migration's impact on labor. 

Giulio Ratto, Geneva Graduate Institute's first year International Law Master's student, recounts insights and interventions on how we can manage our evolving relationship with AI and its impending permanence.

Join our Digital Services Pathway initiative, a collaboration between the International Trade Centre (ITC) and TASC Platform, aimed at harnessing the power of private sector innovation for refugee integration.

Are you part of a forward-thinking business that has leveraged refugee talent in digital services? Your experience could light the way for others, fostering a global network of inclusion and opportunity. Share your success and inspire a movement towards a more diverse and resilient digital economy.

At the FIFDH in Geneva, Saša Uhlová's documentary "The Limits of Europe" unveiled the harsh realities of migrant labour through her eyes. Maria Mexi, Senior Advisor on Labour and Social Policy at the TASC Platform, highlighted the film's profound impact on understanding the systemic exploitation of migrants in Europe.

In honour of International Women’s Day 2024, the TASC Platform was delighted to be invited by Logitech to join 5 senior leaders from across the organization to discuss the issue of equity in the tech industry. Here, Christa Sürth, Executive Communications Lead at Logitech shares the insights gained through this lively discussion.

Following a Roundtable co-convened in January 2024 by IDH, TASC Platform, and the World Economic Forum, Marcel Vernooij, Director of Public Sector Engagement at IDH shares updates on recent advances on the definition and operationalization of living wages at the ILO, and the road ahead for ILO, IDH and all stakeholders in global supply chains.

Catch the recording of our event with Richard Samans discussing his latest book "Human-Centered Economics: The Living Standards of Nations." The book advocates for an economic model that harmonizes growth with societal welfare which, which according to Samans and fellow panelists Sung Min Rho, Didier Chambovey, Cédric Dupont is not only possible but essential.

Join us in celebrating International Women's Day in welcoming Professor Gudela Grote, from ETH Zurich specializing in Work and Organizational Psychology, as the newest Co-Chair of the TASC Platform. Explore her groundbreaking insights on the future of work, AI , and the critical role of diversity and inclusion in technology in our latest TASC Takes podcast