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Who Shapes AI Governance?
These event highlights capture key governance insights from the TASC Platform's dialogue Use at Your Own Risk? Integrating Developers into AI Governance, convened alongside the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
ILO Convention No. 193: A global framework for decent work in the platform economy
Dr Maria Mexi examines the ILO's first international labour standard on platform work, explaining how Convention No. 193 establishes a global framework for rights, governance, and accountability, and what successful implementation will require at national level.
Preparing Governance for Just Transitions: A Policy Guide and Readiness Framework
How can just transitions be delivered in practice? This article presents TASC Platform’s new Policy Guide as a governance-readiness framework for identifying risks early, closing accountability gaps, and building more coherent, inclusive, and actionable transition planning.
New UNEN Paper: Progressing Beyond GDP
A new paper by the UN Economist Network, led by Richard Samans and co-authored with Chafik Ben Rouin, Tasneem Mirza, Stuart Davies, Uma Rani, and Sara Castro de Hallgren, proposes moving beyond GDP through a Multidimensional Living Standards Index (MLSI) and a new headline measure, Gross National Sustainable Development (GNSD), integrating economic output with lived experience to better guide policy on inequality, AI, climate, and inclusive growth.
Richard Samans joins the Geneva Graduate Institute as a Senior Fellow
The Geneva Graduate Institute and Center for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) is delighted to be joined this year by Richard Samans, a leading author and international authority on the fundamental reform of economic policy, corporate governance and the academic discipline of economics to support a more inclusive and environmentally sustainable future.
Trade for Stability: Leveraging Private Sector Innovation
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.
Reshaping Trade for an Inclusive Future: Labour in Green & Digital Supply Chains
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.
Introducing The Business & Conflict Community of Practice
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.
Digital Services Pathway: The ITC-TASC Business Initiative for Refugee Integration
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.
Human-Centered Economics:The Living Standards of Nations
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.
Empowering Tech: Embracing Professor Gudela Grote’s Vision of Inclusive Innovation
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
Accepting applications for “The Women Leading Well Experience”
Accepting applications for “The Women Leading Well Experience”
TAKING stock: Trade Tools and Labour Outcomes
While international trade has created opportunities and lifted incomes in many instances, it has caused disruptions to labour markets and encouraged the lowering of labour standards in others. Poverty wages, forced and child labour and other longstanding labour challenges persist in global value chains, even as new risks emerge from geopolitical, digital and green transitions. In the context of a fast-moving regulatory landscape, this piece takes stock of various trade policy tools being used to tackle labour and human rights challenges in supply chains.
