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Renewed call for changes to Pact for the Future & Declaration on Future Generations ahead of UN Summit of the Future

This post is part of the RealKM-KM4Dev-K4DP knowledge management (KM) and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) campaign.

A coalition of global knowledge management (KM) organizations has renewed its call for changes to the Pact for the Future and Declaration on Future Generations ahead of the United Nations (UN) Summit of the Future in New York on 20-23 September.

Please circulate these calls as widely as possible, including to your UN contacts with a request for them to advance the calls.

Members of RealKM Cooperative Limited (RealKM), the Knowledge Management for Development Community (KM4Dev), Knowledge for Development Partnership (K4DP), and Knowledge Management for Development Journal are calling for:

  1. New text for Action 35 of the Pact for the Future (Rev.3) to support the critical role of multiple knowledges in achieving the SDGs.
  2. New text for Items 14 and 25 of the Declaration on Future Generations (REV3) to support the decolonization of knowledge in achieving the SDGs.

1. Proposing new text for Action 35 of the Pact for the Future (Rev.3) to support the critical role of multiple knowledges in achieving the SDGs, with supporting evidence

Proposing new text for Action 35 of the Pact for the Future (Rev.3) to support the critical role of multiple knowledges in achieving the SDGs

2. Proposing new text for Items 14 and 25 of the Declaration on Future Generations (REV3) to support the decolonization of knowledge in achieving the SDGs, with supporting evidence

Proposing new text for Items 14 and 25 of the Declaration on Future Generations (REV3) to support the decolonization of knowledge in achieving the SDGs

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Bruce Boyes

Bruce Boyes is a knowledge management (KM), environmental management, and education thought leader with more than 40 years of experience. As editor and lead writer of the award-winning RealKM Magazine, he has personally written more than 500 articles and published more than 2,000 articles overall, resulting in more than 2 million reader views. With a demonstrated ability to identify and implement innovative solutions to social and ecological complexity, Bruce has successfully completed more than 40 programs, projects, and initiatives including leading complex major programs. His many other career highlights include: leading the KM community KM and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative, using agile approaches to oversee the on time and under budget implementation of an award-winning $77.4 million recovery program for one of Australia's most iconic river systems, leading a knowledge strategy process for Australia’s 56 natural resource management (NRM) regional organisations, pioneering collaborative learning and governance approaches to empower communities to sustainably manage landscapes and catchments in the face of complexity, being one of the first to join a new landmark aviation complexity initiative, initiating and teaching two new knowledge management subjects at Shanxi University in China, and writing numerous notable environmental strategies, reports, and other works. Bruce is currently a PhD candidate in the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group at Wageningen University and Research, and holds a Master of Environmental Management with Distinction and a Certificate of Technology (Electronics). As well as his work for RealKM Magazine, Bruce currently also teaches in the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) Certified High-school Pathway (CHP) program in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China.

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