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Spotlight: OECD’s COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard

01.12.2022

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) aims to put people and their well-being at the center of public policy by generating new data and approaches to improve people’s well-being and reduce ine...

Facilitating Online Meetings and Events: Key Considerations for Local Private Sector Organizations

01.10.2022

Online meetings and events offer a unique opportunity for business membership organizations (BMOs) and other civil society organizations (CSOs) to reach wider audiences than ever before while significantly reducing expenses and time, for both attendees and organizers. The COVID-19 pandemic forced co...

Balancing Data Privacy and Growth in the Digital Economy

12.29.2021

If not safeguarded correctly, data can be a vulnerable point of security for a business. Stories of data breaches and cyber-attacks consistently make their way into headlines. For example, the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain breach that was carried out through the compromised Orion network manag...

‘Our Business Too: Democracy and Private Enterprise Delivering Together’ Kicks Off Democracy Summit

12.17.2021

The Biden administration wants to make 2022 a year of action to promote democracy and opportunity. That, of course, is CIPE’s reason for being. The administration’s first step was hosting a virtual Summit for Democracy in an effort to reassert the leading role the United States plays in encourag...

Priorities for Democracy that Delivers: FEDN Conference Wraps Up Summit for Democracy Events

12.16.2021

This month’s Summit for Democracy provided an opportunity for leaders of government, civil society, the private sector, and philanthropy to reaffirm and reinvent how democracy delivers. Timely issues from the Summit, including the role of technology, journalism and the informal economy, were ...

An Inescapable Truth

12.09.2021

We talk a lot about defending democracy when in fact we should be focused upon advancing democracy — or, more specifically, advocating for the free enterprise system — anywhere in the world because it is inextricably linked to democratic governance. I’m afraid to say that when we talk ...

Our Business Too: A Call to Action

12.06.2021

The most successful democracies are built upon inclusive and constructive discourse, as well as the freedom to think and act. Later this week, democratic leaders from around the world will gather virtually to discuss ways to promote and expand those principles. It’s important to note that inclusi...

National Women’s Business Agendas for Central Asia

11.29.2021

This piece was first posted on the WAGE blog. The American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI)-led Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) consortium, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, is pleased to announce its new initiative “N...

Philippines’ TVET System: Raising Solutions Through Multistakeholder Perspectives

11.04.2021

With the drastic shift in the labor market during the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for technological innovation to continue business operations in many industries worldwide is increasing. As new technology disrupts the workforce, new skills are necessary to keep up with these developments. Technica...

CIPE Launches New Technology for Democracy Online Course

10.28.2021

CIPE recently launched the newly enhanced Technology for Democracy Online Course to empower business associations and partner organizations to leverage civic technology tools more efficiently and effectively. The tailored curriculum is designed to improve the knowledge and use of digital tools and s...