Tokyo International Conference on African Development

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31 August 13:00 BST (14.00 CET)

Professor Georg Holländer of Oxford University with Koji Fusa as moderator

The digitalisation of the healthcare sector in Africa.

The discussion will focus on the benefits of an electronic health record for both an individual and the health care provider but will also relate these benefits to issues of public health and research. The technical challenges of providing the conventional infrastructure to establish health care records will be touched on with a focus placed on data security. Reasons will be pointed out that impede the uptake of electronic health records, especially in low and middle income countries, and possible solutions are presented to overcome this problem.

31 August 14:00 BST (15:00 CET)

Professor Koji Fusa, Cyber Security Innovation Centre, Aston University, CEO of GVE Ltd.

CBDC and private sector digital currency will facilitate the digitalisation of nations in African countries. CBDC will require the highest security and privacy protection.

The discussion will focus on the benefits of a comprehensive digitalisation of fiat currency. This will become a powerful digital infrastructure which could expand into other areas like healthcare. The cyber security issue pointed by the US NIST in 2016 could be solved by having a different set of systems which could reduce the risks being presented by international hacking groups having quantum computers in the future.

01 September 15:00 BST (16:00 CET)

Takashi Miyahara, Executive Director, The World Bank Group, with Koji Fusa as moderator

The World Bank in African countries.

The World Bank’s support for digitalization of Africa

This session will be presented by the Executive Director of the World Bank in his personal capacity. Mr. Miyahara will briefly introduce World Bank’s contribution to date, and Japan’s collaboration with the Bank, for digital development of Africa. Mr. Miyahara worked for the Ministry of Finance of Japan since 1986 before he took the current position in January 2021

5 September 09:00 BST (10:00 CET)

René Karsenti is Senior Adviser and HonoraryPresident of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), former Board Chair of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), Honorary Director General of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and member of the Global Advisory Board of GVE Ltd

Vaccine and climate transition in Africa: two major challenges, lessons from innovative ESG financing and future endeavours

Health and vaccine finance , climate transition and sustainable finance have sparked a revolution in thinking about innovative solutions leading to implementing successfully new humanitarian finance such as IFFIm , financing GAVI , the Vaccine Alliance , as well as other new ESG investments to achieve a positive impact.

Needs remain huge in Africa .

We are now at a decisive moment in such ESG investments. We have evolved in a few years from a situation where investors knew - and cared - little about what their investments were supporting, to one where purpose matters more than ever. But only by recognizing the urgency for action particularly in Africa and the power of ESG investment, collaboration, technology and innovation would get us there.

9 September 10:00 BST (11:00 CET)

Professor George Feiger, Executive Dean, College of Business and Social Science, Aston University

Cyber Security, Financial Integrity and Developments

Truly secure data transfer has the capability to transform more than medicine and finance in the efficiency sense. It also holds out the promise of helping to clean up the even more consequential problem of looting of the state.

15 September 09:00 BST (10:00 CET)

Tadashi Maeda, Chairman of Japan Bank for International Cooperation, JBIC

Mr. Maeda has been regarded as the most well known Japanese banker for years as the governor of Japan Bank of International Cooperation, JBIC. He has become Chairman of the Bank in June. Chairman Maeda will talk about JBIC’s work in African countries and how JBIC can help African nations to leap frog.

Speakers:

Takashi Miyahara, Executive Director, The World Bank Group

Professor Georg Holländer, Head of Paediatrics Department, Oxford University, Professor at Basel University

Professor Koji Fusa, Professor at the Cyber Security Innovation Centre, Aston University, CEO of GVE Ltd.

René Karsenti, Senior Advisor and former President of International Capital Market Association, ICMA,

Professor George Feiger, Executive Dean, College of Business and Social Science, Aston University

Tadashi Maeda, Chairman of Japan Bank for International Cooperation

宮原隆世銀理事

ゲオルグ・ホランダーオックスフォード大学教授およびバーゼル大学教授

房広治アストン大学教授兼GVE株式会社CEO

レネ・カルセンティICMA Senior Advisor and former President

ジョージ・ファイガー　アストン大学　ビジネス及び社会学大学学長

前田匡史JBIC会長