NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Join us for inspiring fireside chats, interactive workshops, and deep-dive clinics at our hybrid Summit. Together, we’ll explore, ‘How can businesses build partnerships that are fit for the future?’ Our goal is to create a renewed vision for business action on poverty, inequality, and climate change.

In the digital age, data is more abundant than ever. Data silo is also actual for social sector organizations, from program activities/outputs to stakeholder feedback to donor interactions and volunteer engagement. With the wealth of data comes the challenge of making sense of it all. How can nonprofits with many programs learn from multiple data sources—whether it’s from surveys, learning management systems, or CRM platforms—to generate meaningful insights that drive their mission forward? Join us for a comprehensive webinar where we explore why and how nonprofits can leverage modern data integration techniques to create a unified data ecosystem for multiple programs, investments, or grantees. Empower your organization to move beyond manual data wrangling and towards a future where data-driven decisions lead to robust storytelling and reporting. Ready to break down data silos, integrate diverse datasets, and utilize analytics platforms to derive actionable insights? Join us. Why invest in data integration? Successful data integration keeps your organization ahead of the competition, both now and in the future, as data possibilities expand. Getting there, however, requires a combination of technical knowledge and an understanding of the organizational impact goal. Addressing these challenges could alter decision-making processes in operations, program funding and activities, and virtually every other department.

Hosted on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, The Next 3 Billion is the premiere U.S. convening dedicated to connecting the unconnected.

More than 3 billion people lack access to the internet. They live mostly in the remote areas of low- and middle-income countries and are largely excluded from the global financial system, educational opportunities and basic healthcare. Millions do not have bank accounts, access to electricity or any form of identification.

Collectively, they represent one of the most untapped social and economic opportunities of our time.  Unlocking this potential requires a new model for cooperation between global leaders in diverging domains across government, technology, finance, health, education, cybersecurity, and energy.

This event is co-hosted with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Bruegel. It will be livestreamed from Brussels, Belgium.

We will be convening policymakers, investors and experts to discuss concrete ways to overcome the obstacles to financing infrastructure in Africa. With a financing gap expected to reach USD15 trillion by 2040, we urgently need some creative thinking and practical solutions to bridge the gap. Both the G7 and the EU are ramping up the implementation of the Global Gateway (GG) and the Partnership for Global Infrastructure (PGII) to provide investments to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in sectors such as energy, transport, digital and health. Japan, under its 2023 G7 presidency, took a leading role in coordinating donor efforts to attract private sector capital for infrastructure investment

Yet so many challenges persist, preventing these initiatives from reaching their full potential. At our last event on financing infrastructure in Africa, in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, CGD highlighted that the dearth of bankable projects, the weak mobilization of private investors and the limited financial resources from domestic public sectors are all hindering investment in Africa’s infrastructure. The event will aim to get to the crux of the matter: what needs to happen to overcome the obstacles and unlock financing for Africa’s sustainable infrastructure development.

Time: 7:00-8:30 AM EST