WFEO is actively invested in the fulfillment of the SDGs

WFEO is actively invested in the fulfillment of the SDGs through multiple actions undertaken by our members, Committees and Working Groups since several years.

The work of CEIT is related to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

For more information:

2024

WFEO-CEIT webinars in celebration of WED 2024

2022

WFEO CEIT Webinar on “Build Back Wiser: Engineering a Sustainable, Inclusive and Green Future with Ethical AI”

2021

Report on the second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference

United Nations releases “Resource Guide on Artificial Intelligence Strategies”

WFEO Webinar on Engineering in Poverty Alleviation

Engineering Leaders Podcasts 2021 – Engineering AI with Ming-Ming Cheng

Engineering Leaders Podcasts 2021 – Engineering Innovation with Donovan Guttieres

2020

WFEO, World Geospatial Industry Council and UN Expert Committee on Geo-Spatial Information Workshop: Build back better cities with GeoBIM technologies

Report on the second World Forum on Science and Technology Development

WFEO webinar “A Sustainable Future: Young Engineers and 4IR”

UN-GGIM / WFEO / WGIC joint White Paper: Resilient Infrastructure – Geospatial & BIM

WFEO Participation in the Creativity 2030 Forum

Engineering Leaders Podcasts – Life on land with Dr Jing Peng

“Smart Cities- Adoption of the Future Technologies” presentation by T M Gunaraja, Chair of WFEO Committee on Committee for Information & Communication

Engineering Leaders Podcasts – Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure with Stacey DelVecchio

“Big Data and AI Principles in Engineering” – In English / 中文

“Big Data and AI Principles in Engineering” presentation by Jing Peng, Chair of WFEO Committee on Engineering for Innovative Technologies

Big Data and AI Principles in Engineering

“Robots, smart helmets deployed in coronavirus fight” article published in SciDev.Net, with the participation of WFEO President Gong Ke

“AI, big data, infotech deployed against COVID-19” article published in SciDev.Net, with the participation of WFEO President Gong Ke

WFEO Secretariat Report on 2019 UNESCO Roundtables on the Ethics of Genome Editing and Artificial Intelligence

2019

WFEO CEIT Survey on Big Data and AI Principles in Engineering

WFEO President Attended the United Nations – MoST Joint Capacity Building Workshop on STI for Sustainable Development

CEIT Innovation Stories – Blasting Away the Iced Floods

WFEO participation at the World Robot Conference 2019

WFEO participation in UN STI Forum 2019

Report on the Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs

2018

International Forum on Engineering Capacity Held in Beijing, China

WFEO-CEIT Newsletter 1 – August 2018

Workshop on Human and Artificial Intelligence during WIC2018 was successfully held in Tianjin, China

World Conference on Science Literacy 2018 held in Beijing

The Beijing Declaration for Promoting Public Science Literacy Across the World

Report on Multistakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs – 5-6 June 2018

WFEO / ISTIC (International Science Technology and Innovation Centre) Cooperation agreement

ICT to Industry 4.0, the Journey thus far, and the Road Ahead

Women showcase innovations in science and technology to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Malaysia

Dr. Marlene Kanga Keynote presentation “Engineering and Technology”

Andrew Reynolds – USA State Department, Advisor to the WFEO President – presentation “Connectivity for an Urban, Peri-Urban, Rural Continuum”

WFEO Engineering 2030 Plan – Project: Innovative Technologies Assisting Disaster Risk Reduction – the International Meridian Circle Project

Jorge Spitalnik’s visit to China

World Intelligence Congress (WIC2017), supported by WFEO-CEIT, was successfully held in Tianjin, China

WFEO Side event in the UN Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation

8th China Cloud Computing Conference (CCCC2016) co-organized by WFEO-CEIT

WFEO-CEIT is exploring new approaches for Earthquake Prediction with seismo-electromagnetic technologies

Marwan Abdelhamid’s visit to China

UN SDG 9 webpage

UN SDG 11 webpage

UN SDG 17 webpage