Figure C1b.2 What top leadership does the Human have? Is it the UN?

UN Global Compact

Generally, they are linked to the UN Global Compact (voluntary initiative under the aegis of the United Nations to develop and promote adequate practices in the business sphere and to share new experiences in human rights, labor, and the environment). Participation in the UN Global Compact is a visible commitment to the implementation, disclosure, and promotion of the following universal principles:

1. To support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights.

2. To make sure that we are not complicit in human rights abuses.

3. To uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.

4. To uphold the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor.

5. To uphold the effective abolition of child labor.

6. To uphold the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

7. To support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges.

8. To undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility.

9. To encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.

10. To work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.

UN Reform

The UN general Assembly High-level Week, the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, in collaboration with many civic society organizations and networks (including C4UN) convened the 2021 Global People’s Assembly. The Assembly took place September 21-23, attracting over 950 delegates. The Assembly Declaration included a section on “UN Reform” that discussed the OCA report, welcoming in particular the report’s call for renewed social contract anchored in human rights and a 2023 Summit of the Future that is intended to consider a range of measures to strengthen the UN.

Summary of the report of the secret-general

(Source, Internet from the Coalition for the UN We Need)

We are at an inflection point in history.
In our biggest shared test since the Second World War, humanity faces a stark and urgent choice: a breakdown or a breakthrough. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is upending our world, threatening our health, destroying economies and livelihoods and deepening poverty and inequalities.

Conflicts continue to rage and worsen.
The disastrous effects of a changing climate – famine, floods, fires and extreme heat – threaten our very existence. For millions of people around the world, poverty, discrimination, violence and exclusion are denying them their rights to the basic necessities of life: health, safety, a vaccination against disease, clean water to drink, a plate of food or a seat in a classroom.

Increasingly, people are turning their backs on the values of trust and solidarity in one another – the very values we need to rebuild our world and secure a better, more sustainable future for our people and our planet. Humanity’s welfare – and indeed, humanity’s very future – depend on solidarity and working together as a global family to achieve common goals.

For people, for the planet, for prosperity and for peace.

Last year, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, Member States agreed that our challenges are interconnected, across borders and all other divides. These challenges can only be addressed by an equally interconnected response, through reinvigorated multilateralism and the United Nations at the center of our efforts. Member States asked me to report back with recommendations to advance our common agenda. This report is my response.

In preparing the report, we have engaged with a broad array of stakeholders, including Member States, thought leaders, young people, civil society and the United Nations system and its many partners. One message rang through loud and clear: the choices we make, or fail to make, today could result in further breakdown, or a breakthrough to a greener, better, safer future. The choice is ours to make; but we will not have this chance again.

That is why Our Common Agenda is, above all, an agenda of action designed to accelerate the implementation of existing agreements, including the Sustainable Development Goals.

First, now is the time to re-embrace global solidarity and find new ways to work together for the common good. This must include a global vaccination plan to deliver vaccines against COVID-19 into the arms of the millions of people who are still denied this basic lifesaving measure. Moreover, it must include urgent and bold steps to address the triple crisis of climate disruption, biodiversity loss and pollution destroying our planet.

Second, now is the time to renew the social contract between Governments and their people and within societies, so as to rebuild trust and embrace a comprehensive vision of human rights. People need to see results reflected in their daily lives. This must include the active and equal participation of women and girls, without whom no meaningful social contract is possible. It should also include updated governance arrangements to deliver better public goods and usher in a new era of universal social protection, health coverage, education, skills, decent work and housing, as well as universal access to the Internet by 2030 as a basic human right. I invite all countries to conduct inclusive and meaningful national listening consultations, so all citizens have a say in envisioning their countries’ futures.

Third, now is the time to end the “infodemic” plaguing our world by defending a common, empirically backed consensus around facts, science, and knowledge. The “war on science” must end. All policy and budget decisions should be backed by science and expertise, and I am calling for a global code of conduct that promotes integrity in public information.

Fourth, now is the time to correct a glaring blind spot in how we measure economic prosperity and progress. When profits come at the expense of people and our planet, we are left with an incomplete picture of the true cost of economic growth. As currently measured, gross domestic product (GDP) fails to capture the human and environmental destruction of some business activities. I call for new measures to complement GDP, so that people can gain a full understanding of the impacts of business activities and how we can and must do better to support people and our planet.

Fifth, now is the time to think for the long term, to deliver more for young people and succeeding generations and to be better prepared for the challenges ahead. Our Common Agenda includes recommendations for meaningful, diverse and effective youth engagement both within and outside the United Nations, including through better political representation and by transforming education, skills training and lifelong learning. I am also making proposals, such as a repurposed Trusteeship Council, a Futures Lab, a Declaration on Future Generations and a United Nations Special Envoy to ensure that policy and budget decisions take into account their impact on future generations. We also need to be better prepared to prevent and respond to major global risks. It will be important for the United Nations to issue a Strategic Foresight and Global Risk Report on a regular basis, and I also propose an Emergency Platform, to be convened in response to complex global crises.

Sixth, now is the time for a stronger, more networked, and inclusive multilateral system, anchored within the United Nations. Effective multilateralism depends on an effective United Nations, one able to adapt to global challenges while living up to the purposes and principles of its Charter. For example, I am proposing a new agenda for peace, multi-stakeholder dialogues on outer space and a Global Digital Compact, as well as a Biennial Summit between the members of the Group of 20 and of the Economic and Social Council, the Secretary-General, and the heads of the international financial institutions. Throughout, we need stronger involvement of all relevant stakeholders, and we will seek to have an Advisory Group on Local and Regional Governments.

For 75 years, the United Nations has gathered the world around addressing global challenges: from conflicts and hunger, to ending disease, to outer space and the digital world, to human rights and disarmament. In this time of division, fracture and mistrust, this space is needed more than ever if we are to secure a better, greener, more peaceful future for all people. Based on this report, I will ask a High-level Advisory Board, led by former Heads of State and Government, to identify global public goods and other areas of common interest where governance improvements are most needed, and to propose options for how this could be achieved.

In this spirit, I propose a Summit of the Future to forge a new global consensus on what our future should look like, and what we can do today to secure it. Humanity has shown time and time again that it is capable of great achievements when we work together. This common agenda is our road map to recapture this positive spirit and begin rebuilding our world and mending the trust in one another we need so desperately at this moment in history. Now is the time to take the next steps in our journey together, in solidarity with and for all people.

SPC in a process

Academia Letters, July 2021 ©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0 Corresponding Author: Zdenek Chalus, zchalus@gmail.com

Introducing the Self-Powered Community

Development is a set of theories and practices that gained a new impetus after World War II. The underdeveloped world has earned its name “developing country.” It is 70 years of experience together with UN practice. The professional style of development was on the table, and its institutions grew. However, a consensual model of preparation and implementation of development has not come. Therefore, the global strategy offered an idea to link development programs’ economic and social elements.

But it wasn't readable either was not readable. Eventually, the world began to change. The Human Development Index (HDI) has entered the evaluation of development results. In addition to economic indicators (GDP, GNP), there is a new opportunity to measure and benchmark healthy life, education, and freedom of speech worldwide.

According to Nobel laureate in economics Amartya Sen, people are not poor because of what they do not have, but because of what they cannot do or otherwise, people most often fall into poverty because of their limited means or opportunities without access. One can only wish that the initiative “Coalition for the UN we need” will change in the coming 25 years so that the UN’s centenary accepts it. Science and technology help. Once again, new options exist for normal science. Applied research focused on global and local development and security issues have got new targets. New technologies penetrate people’s lives smoothly, even into the most impoverished areas (examples are mobile phones and the Internet). New theories are coming into practice. The Algorithmic Framework Theory (AFT) and the Unified Economics proposal are two examples.

We are beginning to perceive the importance of Big Data to understand our development. New technologies, Blockchain and Smart Contract are entering the project’s preparation and implementation stages. Computer algorithms affect our thinking, whether we like it or not. A new project paradigm is emerging, new thought patterns for preparing, implementing, and using projects (project portfolios) for the necessary economic, social, and security investments.

We can see all this around us. As has already been said, a person does not come into an inferior (poor) position just because he has no money, but above all, he/she has limited options. Suppose people (states, cities, individuals) can’t absorb the data pouring in on them from all sides. In that case, they do not manage what they do, and navigation of paths where they go is insufficient. We are all in danger of being poor, both in spirit and money, simply because the scope of our possibilities would be diminishing.

Fortunately, we already have computers and mobile phones around us, and more and more people are thinking about nature’s algorithms and the causes of the failures that belong to them. A growing number of scientists and managers can assist politicians with what AFK means, new perspectives of the local and global economy, and what that all means for human society’s security and coexistence on a common Earth. It is a call for universities. So that universities pay attention to a balance of understanding of what science tells us, what new technologies we can apply, and what visions politicians form, which projects supports, and finally, what they promote after elections.

We are motivated to social and economic development (SED) on a global and local scale. We all want to have a better and safer life. Impacts of climate change, pandemics, and other threats underline the need to introduce Disaster Risks Reduction (DRR) measures. It leads to an increase in financial costs, especially at the time of implementation of individual projects.

Projects of SED programs must respect DRR measures and react to impacts of any Humanitarian Aid (HA) operations. Linking programs SED, DRR measures, and HA actions into one whole (package) make sense if we look at them as projects. It requires regional, national, and local strategies, individual studies, and large and small plans by individuals and communities. It is a very high integration. Therefore, allow me a short excursion to human history.

I want to remind the thinking of two worlds of antiquity, Eastern and Western, more than 2000 years ago. The Chinese philosopher Confucius preferred a ritual with specific needs for a virtuous act. The tradition said when, where, to whom, with what motive, and how should perform a moral action. The aim was to spread and promote ethical and intellectual behavior.

Around the same time, Aristotle, the philosopher of ancient Greece, explained his moral (ethic) attitude and intellectual virtues. His approach differed in that he preferred practical wisdom. The time of antiquity confirmed that legislation aimed at the operation, development, and defense of the community could not replace the importance of virtue.

This attitude has withstood criticism that ritual can quickly solidify and become callous, and just as practical wisdom can end up standing like a beacon by the sea that lost its function. The times of antiquity, renaissance, and the present confirm that the message of developing virtues is still relevant, and the critique of virtues is healing.

The link of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with human ethical and intellectual integrity forms the base of the proposed project paradigm. I am convinced that the new paradigm of preparation, implementation, and evaluation of projects from the SED, DRR, and HA package is the way to this goal. It is a path for a deeper coexistence of people with and in the new electronic environment.

There are several reasons why I present the text in such a wide range. The text respects foreign investment aid principles, relations between high and low-income countries and the definition of poverty by Amartya Sen. Text calls on universities to participate and recalls that the developing world is already strong enough to promote its values independently. The Letter aims to outline a room both for scholars ’theories and politicians’ pragmatism. The Letter is written both for this innovation’s target group (for critical donors and decision-makers on national and global levels) and for final beneficiaries (for families and entrepreneurs in all low-income provinces).

The text is about process digitization in the SED, DRR, and HA package to attract current project managers, IT experts, and others to reduce risks that we call digital inclusion. SPC Concept that takes the form of a technological ritual and does not need to correct any ethical defects in advance is outlining as a helpful case for a more detailed and practical approach presentation. This a task (test) of the feasibility of Project Preparation Machine (PIM), Project Implementation Machine (PIM), and other tools of service of the SPC Utility network in low-income countries.

The SPC Concept assists the base technical infrastructure investment market. SPC Utility cooperates with Local Government Units (LGUs) and other local public and private entities. The BOT (Build, Operate, Transfer) model is the priority. The SPC Utility cooperates with the IFI and initiates the establishment of local banks. SPC Utility represents a joint-stock company that reinvests its profits in its projects. The SPC Driver’s task is to design, defend, and monetize SPC Utility services connected with central and local governments’ plans.

There are primary and secondary drivers. Water, electricity, materials, atmosphere, and finance are primary Drivers (WEMAF), and health, education, disasters, the environment, and local capital growth are secondary drivers (HEDEC). Drivers operate in peri-urban and rural areas with low-incomes, in an area of around 1 million (working we call them provinces). The reason is more straightforward algorithmization of informal business relationships than in the formal relationships in developed countries.

The SPC Concept sets and enforces the specified principles of ethics in the sense of knowledge “any computer does not negotiate with you, everyone who uses its services must fully respect its algorithm.” The Blockchain secures and protects data, and the Smart Contract ex- acts ethics in a chain of project contracts. The project paradigm reflects the form of project operations, and the technological paradigm reflects the higher level of artificial intelligence (AI).

SPC Utility has the ambition to present ethics in project preparation and implementation processes via the extended scope of set limits for the project content, financial thresholds, and project timing according to the contract. The letter presents Big Data, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and Smart Contract as core tools of a project paradigm proposal for the SPC Utility in the SPC Drivers scope for specific business and investment processes of any low- incomes province worldwide.

As I wrote this text, I looked at the tiny figurines on the shelf at my working desk. Among them, I stared into Don Quixote’s face. I realized what I had in common with this literary figure. Yes, it is a conflict with the contradiction between reality and illusion. I see myself browsing the Internet with my SPC Concept, just like he rides his aged horse around the world back and forth.

Nevertheless, I remain optimistic. Besides, I signed up for the Gates Foundation as The Optimist. It was at the time when COVID-19 pandemic hit our world. It was the right step for the Foundation to encourage optimism around the world. Now we can see results.

The international co-existence of rich and poor communities exists, the COVAX vaccine is reviving ethical and intellectual virtues between the two worlds which seems to be an illusion before. I am sure that in the scale of foreign aid and subsequent cooperation there exists a broad space for absorption of new technologies and creative international professionalism worldwide. I believe that this Letter will help initiate the next new future for the SPC Concept.

References

Genesis and more details of the SPC Concept are on www.5pforres.eu, and others more are under preparation of the following web-book2021. Anyone can get and read hundreds of exciting and actual articles related to the SED, DRR, and HA issues and other areas via the Internet and mobile connections. With a link to Acadamie.edu services and opportunities to link academic people worldwide, I would like to add two articles supported by present email communication:

• Li Bin, “The Birth of a Unified Economics, an Introduction to the Algorithm Framework Theory,” The Acedamy.edu discussion forum, March 2021.

• Ebinezer R. Florano, “The role of transnational actors in building climate-resilient cities: case studies on Dagupan City and Sorsogon City, Philippines,” The Acedamy.edu discussion forum, March 2021.

Academia Letters, July 2021 ©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0 Corresponding Author: Zdenek Chalus, zchalus@gmail.com. Citation: Chalus, Z. (2021). Introducing the Self-Powered Community. Academia Letters, Article 2039.