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The papers presented in the conference are made available at the SCITEPRESS digital library, published in the conference proceedings and some of the best papers are invited to a post-publication with Springer, [1] in a CCIS Series book. ICISSP also counts on keynote talks.
3rd International Conference on Small Island Developing States, Samoa, September 2014 The SIDS are some of the regions most vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change . Due to their oceanic environment, SIDS are especially vulnerable to the marine effects of climate change like sea level rise , ocean acidification , marine heatwaves , and the ...
[20] [7] The five year review of the Barbados Conference, conducted at a special session of the UN General Assembly in 1999, found that the SIDS efforts to make progress towards sustainable development had been limited, [7] while the ten year review of the Barbados Conference, which took the form of an international meeting in Mauritius in 2005 ...
The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) is an office of the United Nations Secretariat [1] which deals with the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States.
2014 Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States and the SIDS ACCELERATED MODALITIES OF ACTION (S.A.M.O.A.) Pathway The S.A.M.O.A. Pathway recognize that Small Island Developing States continue to grapple with the effects of disasters, some of which have increased in intensity and some of which have been exacerbated by ...
The SIDS were first recognized as a distinct group of developing countries at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in June 1992. The Barbados Programme of Action was produced in 1994 to assist the SIDS in their sustainable development efforts.
The conference is preceded by the ICIS Doctoral Consortium, [5] held off site, usually in a nearby resort. The consortium brings together senior faculty from Information Systems (many of whom were participants in past consortia) and ~40 doctoral students, selected from ~120 nominations (each university or institution is allowed to nominate only ...
The Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) was held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 9–13 May 2011. It was attended by Ban Ki-moon, the head of the UN, and close to 50 prime ministers and heads of state. The conference endorsed the goal of raising half the existing Least developed countries out of the LDC category in 2022.