THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz

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The UN Brief interviewed legal expert and scholar Dr. Joseph Cannataci, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy. We spoke about the right to privacy on health data, medical records, surveillance, and how cyberspace regulation needs the political will of UN country-members to create a proper legal framework.

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The UN Brief interviewed the recently appointed Tech Envoy of Brazil to Silicon Valley, Eugenio V. Garcia, who will be Deputy Consul General in San Francisco. He will start on the 1rst of September at the Consulate General of Brazil in San Francisco, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

The idea came from recent developments on tech diplomacy, as countries in Europe opened offices to engage directly with technology companies to address issues of mutual concern, trade in services, and to shape policies to stimulate technical and scientific cooperation. 

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Interview with Marc Olivier Strauss-Kahn, Honorary Director-General, Banque de France, to speak about digital currencies, crypto assets, the ECB research, his work as Chair of the Scientific Council of City of Economics, an interactive museum tracing back the history of economics, and his work as Chair for France for the NGO Global Dignity. 

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This coming Tuesday, 27 July, 2021 at 15:00 CET, via Zoom, the World Health Organisation is presenting a webinar with experts in mental health, to discuss innovative approaches to addressing trauma during a pandemic. 

Among the panelists are Dr. Gregory Keane, Mental Health Advisor at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Doctors Without Borders, in France, who will speak about the interventions that MSF has deployed, as well as present challenges and uses of new technologies to address care for frontline health workers, women, and children. 

Watch my interview with Dr. Keane to discuss strategies delivered by MSF in the past when he was posted in Iraq, what works and what are the challenges to onboarding people to digital healthcare platforms, the digital divide and access, how to combine face-to-face interventions with tele-health, and ensure the safety of women and children when using these tools.

The UN Brief interviewed Harvard University Kennedy School of Government professor and international relations scholar, Joseph Nye, to comment on the US-Russia Summit that took place in Geneva. We also discussed his latest book, required reading for IR students, as it addresses the question of moral views of US Presidents, from FDR to Trump, and its impact in foreign policy, and on the importance of having an ethical compass when defending one’s country national interests while articulating cooperation at the international level.