🔜Innovation, Start ups, Technologies help reduce inequalities, promote social inclusion and create opportunities for large scale human development. What are the ways forward to harness this power for #HumanRights? 🗓️Friday @UNGeneva #HRC41 w/🇮🇱🇧🇷🇸🇬🇺🇳👨‍🎓

Fadi Swidan is the Director of the #Nazareth Business Incubator Center & Hybrid accelerator. His goal: encourage entrepreneurship and #innovation among the #Arab community in #Israel,and bridge the “technological entrepreneurship gap”. 🔜 Fadi will be with us today! #HRC41

A packed room for our side event on the role of innovation in bridging the digital divide! Thank you all for being part of the discussion.

Fadi Swidan, #Israel's Hybrid Accelerator: “We work at two levels, the economic level, but also at the social level. It is the only way to have a real impact. Hybrid supported 90 successful startups, created more than 300 jobs in the Arab communities.” #HRC41 #SDGs #innovation

Amb. Foo @SGPMissionGva : “The focus of the 🇸🇬Smart Nation Initiative is not in hardware or software, but it is about putting people in the center, and shape the tools for their benefits." #HRC41 #SDGs #innovation #HumanRights

Jonathan Andrew, @Geneva_Academy: “There is a need to find a balance between the speed of progress and the changes it is producing” #HRC41 #SDGs #innovation #HumanRights

Peggy Hicks, @UNHumanRights: “Some companies with enormous power, are trying to find solutions. They usually do it in an isolated way, and they need to follow HR standards.” #HRC41 #SDGs #innovation #HumanRights