The development path of public welfare organizations driven by new technologies— Bridging the Digital Gap under the influence of COVID-19 epidemic
Youchang Consulting
Session 437
WSIS Forum 2021 aims to foster digital transformation and global partnerships to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The global social landscape has changed in many ways since the new coronavirus epidemic, and global partners have become key players in global activities. The ultimate goal of communication and collaboration through ICT is to promote digital transformation and global cooperation, where WSIS will be an important part of bridging the gap. This will be an innovative structure for social globalization information cooperation. The online forum of WSIS provides a stage for young people to present new ideas, and Youchang Consulting has seized this opportunity to organize this dialogue to try to discuss an important topic: exploring effective paths for digital international public interest organizations to help the public achieve digital transformation.
With a focus on public interest consulting, Youchang Consulting is exploring new models for using information skills to support sustainable societies and economies in the context of global epidemics, and working to achieve global sustainable development goals. We have met many like-minded partners along the path of development, and Ms. Sherry, the moderator of this session, invited them to the round-table to share their successes, explore new ideas, and seek broader digital access. For example, Planet Net Zero, the circular economy project of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers’ Community Shanghai hub, is trying to bridge the information gap and promote a circular economy in society through field research.
In this round-table, young social influencers will discuss the development of public interest organizations driven by new technologies from the perspective of information access. This is bound to be a profound and lively dialogue.
Ms. Haiyun Zhang is the founder of Youchang Consulting and Sky Ocean Media, co-founder of Planet Net Zero Project. Besides, she serves as the Director of Public Relations, China Council for G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance Program, and the incoming vice curator of Shanghai I Hub, Global Shaper Community of World Economic Forum. She is currently a postgraduate student in the Department of Law at National Taiwan University. She finished her bachelor’s degree at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. Currently, she functions as the journal editor of the China Guiding Cases Project at Stanford Law School, and the director of the Network Department of the China Public Affairs and International Relations Association(CNPAIR). She previously worked as an intern in the U.S. Congress and was also invited to participate in the 11th UN General Assembly, the 66th UN Civil Organization Assembly, the 68th UN Youth Power Conference. She also worked as a former Hilary Clinton’s campaign volunteer, a research assistant at the Department of Economics, Harvard University as well as the Department of Psychology, Stanford University.
Ms. Yujie Chen is a Chinese youth with multicultural backgrounds, she shines in both the academic and professional arena. She is now running a consulting company as Co-founder, which offers strategic professional advice to NGOs and social enterprises. She also contributed to G20 Youth Enterprises Alliance and World Economic Forum as an intern. As a journalism student, Yujie has worked for China Daily, Yicai global and several prestigious news agencies, writing more than 30 news as gained billions of traffic. She was invited to Blue House as the Chinese correspondent in 2019 and became the first Chinese scholar of Samsung Foundation. She also works as a researcher at China Public and International Relations, writing editorials and leading a team of Public Lectures. She was also selected as a delegate of China for the UNDP Youth Forum and Global Youth Climate Challenge.
Ms. Sha Luo studied at the University of Melbourne in Australia, Washington University in St. Louis in the United States, and the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. She used to be the vice president of international trade finance of a top 500 foreign bank and she is now the founder of Jiuyusi International Education and the co-founder of Shangyuan Advantage Education. She has rich experience in helping students with career planning and entrepreneurship counseling. It has won the national top ten in the Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurship Competition. She also has professional qualifications such as Gallup Advantage Certified Coach, Career Planner Certification, Advanced Certificate in Psychological Counseling, Satya Family Therapy Certification. She is also a professional career counselor at East China University of Political Science and Law.
She provides social-emotional education and career counseling for left-behind children. She has created a public welfare platform for barrier-free love, promoting social concern for people with disabilities and assisting employment and integration of people with disabilities and society.
Ms. Xiaojing Fei is responsible for the overall corporate management, strategic development planning and incubation system of Impact Hub Shanghai. She has been working in the field of sustainability and innovation leadership for many years. Xiaojing has served as a representative of Chinese civil society organizations in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations and as a youth representative in the 2041 Antarctic Polar Leadership Program. Before founding Impact Hub Shanghai, she worked for top sustainability consulting firms and environmental organizations in China and abroad, providing solutions for sustainable change in business and government, and participated in the founding of several social enterprises and charitable organizations. She studied in Sweden and holds two master's degrees in ecology and sustainable strategic management.
Ms. Xin Zheng is currently studying Economics at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University International Business School. She was selected for the talent development program of OUKE-CHAIN Group and has interned at Everbright Securities M&A Financing Department. Now she is a project manager of YouChang Consulting, and Planet Net Zero program, a circular economy project of the Shanghai I hub of the World Economic Forum's Global Shaper Community. She aims to help the people and the world, and she is committed to promoting the development of society for good through youth innovation.
Mr. Yang Wen received a Master's degree in Electricity and Energy from Arizona State University and was involved in the construction of the world's first Hualong-1 nuclear power plant as a nuclear power engineer. He has been a speaker at UNDP, UN Women, Shell, TEDx, etc. He published the paper "Approaches to Diversifying the Programmer Community - The Case of the Programmer Community" in 2021.
As a project researcher for international organizations, Ms. Ye Huang has conducted in-depth research and public welfare projects in seven African countries in areas such as women's empowerment and wildlife protection. In 2017, her story was featured on the CCTV news program "China Has Me." In 2018, as a youth representative, she had a dialogue with Sa Beining in the special program "One Belt And One Road" of Kenya on CCTV. In 2019, she spoke at the University of Copenhagen Business School as a special guest in the field of Central Africa. Since 2020, she has been to Yunnan, Jiangxi and other places to pay attention to vulnerable groups such as children and pneumoconiosis in Myanmar, and is responsible for the construction and operation of the computer classrooms of the Anti-circumcision Center in Kenya, Africa.
Mr. Weiyang Kang is the president of FutureChina NGO. He graduated from the philosophy department of Peking University with both a bachelor's and a master's degree. Now he is the the president of FutureChina NGO as well as the executive team leader of NetEase Public Foundation's "One Screen" education poverty alleviation system. He has been responsible for comprehensively supporting more than 20 county high schools in Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan and other places, deeply helping more than 3,000 students in areas with less developed educational resources to grow and become talents, and promoting Chinese youth to pay attention to the development of education at the county level.
Johns Hopkins SAIS International Economics and International Political Economy, Minor in Energy and Environment. She has been engaged in entrepreneurship and public welfare practice for almost seven years, and has served as an intern at Xinhua News Agency, Phoenix TV, and City of Chicago. She was also a RA at Harvard and Stanford. She is currently an editor and RA at Institute of Belt and Road Initiative, Tsinghua University; Member of Ox China Public Affairs and International Relations Think Tank; Assistant editor of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Emily is founder of cultural and lifestyle platform “Shake To Win,” (赏游地)launched in 2018. Shake To Win is a double side platform which connecting the Chinese new generation and 4000+ global cultural destinations and brands via technology (Travel apps + cultural commerce mini-app). The mission is to help preserve cultural heritage across countries through sustainable tourism. Shake To Win is the first Asian shareholder of the Van Gogh Site Foundation from the Netherlands and also the go-to-market partners of Picasso foundation Malaga, Spain. Before founding Shake To Win, the cultural tech platform, Emily co-founded CREATEC, a full-service cross-culture communications agency founded in 2014 and recently named China Advertising’s award - 2017,2018,2019,2020 Independent Ad Agency of the Year. She has nourished the growth and transformation of the agency as well as many of its clients, including, including brands such as JNBY Group, Ballantine’s, Coty Group, Zegna, Descente, GNC, Target China, Skechers China and so on. She is also a Co-Founder of Shanghai Creative Collective, a dynamic non-profit community of the city’s top young creative professionals, where she helps produce its slate of MADNESS events and more art-collaborations between brands and independent creatives. Emily is an avid adventurer, which has allowed her to set foot on all five continents and in over 60 countries 200+ cities before the age of 35, and to share her experiences through her travel blog, published e-book and published journals.
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C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
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C2. Information and communication infrastructure
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C3. Access to information and knowledge
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-employment
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C9. Media
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Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
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Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
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Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
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Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
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