Based on the March 2026 Bridging the Digital Divide event, this paper explores partnerships for sustainable school connectivity. Drawing on international cases, it emphasizes aligning providers, government involvement, and adaptation with local goals. Success requires shared objectives, broad stakeholder collaboration, and mapping connectivity gaps to guide investment and implementation effectively.

Access the full event recording of the Bridging the Digital Divide session on lifelong learning in the digital age. The discussion explored how technology and AI can support continuous learning without replacing the human relationships, critical thinking and practical experience at its core. Experienced professionals from academia, international organizations and the private sector highlighted the importance of relevant content, peer learning, experimentation and inclusive learning ecosystems. Through an interactive exercise using Tortin and Lovable, participants then applied these ideas by using AI tools to turn real-world challenges into working prototypes.

Discover the Geneva Innovation Movement Association’s 2025 Annual Report, highlighting a year of growth, collaboration, and practical action across our network. The report shares key achievements, event highlights, and reflections on how GIM continued to connect and support innovation-minded professionals across Geneva. It also offers a look at the people, partnerships, and activities that shaped the year, and at GIM’s continued role in strengthening Geneva’s innovation ecosystem.

Access the full event recording of the Bridging the Digital Divide session on “Can Doing Good Be Good Business? Building Tech-Enabled Business Models for Impact.” The discussion explored how social impact can be built into viable and scalable business models, moving beyond good intentions toward incentives, market shaping, accountability and cross-sector collaboration. The panel of experiences professionals in the field highlighted that sustainable impact requires understanding the business case for each actor involved, while Master students studying the concept showed how demand aggregation, risk sharing and long-term commitments can help align social value with commercial viability.

Access the full event recording of the Bridging the Digital Divide session on innovative public–private collaboration models for school connectivity. The session brought together practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to explore how to move from evidence to implementation. The discussion highlighted that connectivity is not only an infrastructure challenge, but also one of governance, incentives, and local context. Speakers emphasized the importance of data to make gaps visible, cross-sector collaboration to align efforts, and grounding global initiatives in community realities to ensure meaningful and sustainable impact.

A decade after the Paris Agreement, climate governance has evolved from a single global treaty into a network of nationally led but interconnected policies. Countries set their own targets, yet coordination increasingly occurs through shared standards, finance, technology, and data. With emissions reductions lagging, climate policy is now tightly linked to economic competitiveness, security, and industrial strategy. Cities, businesses, and investors play a growing role, while resilience and adaptation have gained prominence. The article argues that future progress depends on “connected autonomy” rather than grand global agreements.

Relive The 3rd Innovation Debate! The full recording of the event is now available. Enjoy the debate between Olga Londer (Technical Director, Strategic Pursuit and Partnerships, Microsoft), Christopher Fabian (Co-Founder & Co-Lead, Giga (UNICEF)), Prof. Phanish Puranam (Roland Berger Chair Professor of Strategy & Organization Design, INSEAD), and Diana Zamora (Global Public Policy Director, Mastercard) on the motion "AI is solving humanity's greatest challenges".

"Merit goods” like clean-cooking solutions struggle with adoption despite clear benefits. Traditional assumptions about rational consumers and financial barriers fall short; people stay with familiar habits, doubt product fit, and wait for social proof. The Clean Cooking Alliance’s User Insights Lab shows that success comes from improving product-market fit, reducing friction in the customer journey, and shifting industry culture toward genuinely user-centred design. These lessons apply widely across social-impact products.

The international development system stands at a tipping point where old structures are collapsing and new ones must emerge. Fear and competition risk accelerating decline, while empathy, solidarity, and collective intelligence can drive renewal. Honest recognition of systemic failures, attention to the emotional strain within institutions, and collaborative rather than hierarchical leadership are essential. The future of multilateralism will depend on whether humanity responds to instability with fear or with shared purpose and grace.