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The Industry Panels that help the ASA and CAP in their regulatory decision making

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA and CAP often need to make decisions in areas that are very complex and in exceptional cases we may need to take a view from industry experts to ensure our recommendations and decisions accurately reflect the realities faced by the industry we regulate.  The advertising industry is central to the success of the self-regulatory system and as part of that, the ASA and CAP receive valuable support from three industry Panels.  These Panels bring together a mix of industry experts who volunteer their time to give advice on…

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Unilever CEO – Marketing has a titanic trust problem

Stuart Mitchell

Alan Jope has been CEO of Unilever since May 2019, and was formerly President of their Beauty & Personal Care division. Alan has written a piece on what he feels are the issues with Marketing and trust, please dfeel free to read it on the Unilever site here or I have copied below, but the text is (c) Unilever. At Unilever, our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace. We believe in being a business which takes a stand, and acts, on the big social and environmental issues facing the…

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18 New sites join UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme today added 18 new sites in 12 countries to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, which now numbers 701 biosphere reserves in 124 countries around the globe. The International Co-ordinating Council of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB-ICC) meeting in Paris from 17 to 21 June approved these additions along with the extension of eight existing biosphere reserves, which in most cases also led to a change in their official names. The Kingdom of Eswatini joins the MAB Network this year with…

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IIX and UN Women partner to empower millions of women through innovative finance

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women—the UN organization dedicated to gender equality—has partnered with Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)—a global organization dedicated to changing financial systems and creating innovate solutions to women’s empowerment—to mobilize large-scale capital to empower underserved women through innovative finance. With the shared goals to close the funding gap for advancing gender equality and the dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, IIX and UN Women will collaborate on a series of activities including the development of financial instruments that leverage public funding to unlock greater private capital for women; the engagement of…

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UNESCO and DPC release Executive Guide on Digital Preservation

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) have collaborated to produce the UNESCO/DPC Executive Guide on Digital Preservation (link is external), an online resource for raising awareness of the importance of digital preservation, leading to action to preserve digital assets, including digital documentary heritage, in an institution, organization or government. The Executive Guide was released on May 1 and announced at the International Council on Archives (ICA) Forum of National Archivists meeting, hosted by the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Abu Dhabi. The development of the…

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