On June 20, I was invited to participate in the G20 Bali Global Blended Finance Alliance Dialogue. Local government and international leadership included Rockefeller Foundation, Pegasus Capital, GEAPP, OECD and Conservation International.
My session led the discussion on family office investments, where I shared my local data economy model to stabilise data, wages and revenues given that less than 10% of global Official Development Assistance dedicated for low and middle income countries reaches local community organizations. The recognition of local knowledge, combined with free and open source tools enables local communities to generate faster, more accurate, verifiable and representative data at scale at least 50% lower costs and environmental footprints. Not only does this hyper local recruitment and training method include everyone to participate in collecting and reporting data, but it enables an increase in up to US$100 hourly data wages, 2-5 times higher staff wages and high local revenues for the catchment areas. Data collection, research and business intelligence can be transformed into direct economic, social and environmental impacts for the program catchment areas.
United in Diversity wrote a detailed program and presentation recap here: https://www.thkforum.org/thk-g20-bali-gbfa-dialogue-20-june-2025/