Welcome to session four, Diaspora as Diversity. The Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Framework. My name is Dr. Liesl Riddle, a Diaspora researcher from the George Washington University in Washington, DC. And I'm honored to be the moderator for today's important session. Core to the SDGs is a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Diaspora communities occupy a unique position in the global quest for diversity and inclusion. The multiple senses of belonging that often characterize the diaspora experiences at the very core of how diasporas can contribute to global understanding and progress on diversity, inclusion and belonging in the 21st century and beyond. This session will explore some of the early innovators and change makers in diversity, inclusion and belonging efforts locally, globally and transnationally. First, we begin learning from the host government for today's session, the government of Mexico. Mr. Luis Gutierrez Reyes is the director of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad and a great promoter of social transformation and social justice. An engineer and computer scientist by training, Mr. Gutierrez Reyes has more than 30 years of experience in the design and implementation of projects and strategies that use technology as a transversal tool to improve decision-making in a collective and efficient way. He's applied his technological expertise to promote ethics, public integrity, prevent conflicts of interest and combat corruption across several public and private sector organizations. The representative from the governor of Mexico has the floor for the next 10 minutes. Thank you, sir. So everybody, thanks for having us here. I have the paper, I'm gonna share the screen. Please. So we have the presentation, this presentation in English but I will explain in Spanish. So I think that right now it's working the translation. Yes, okay. Muy buenas dias a todas y todas. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for having us in this diaspora summit. We will be presenting the work of the Mexican government at the Institute of Mexicans Abroad. This institute is in the chancellery of Mexicans abroad that we would like to share with you at work when it comes to global tensions to Mexican communities abroad. Next slide, if you please. Where are Mexicans in the world? We have 12 millions of Mexicans who emigrated all around the world, most of them for several regions but 97% emigrated to the U.S. And for those Mexicans in the U.S., six millions of them are undocumented. We also know that 38 millions of Mexican origin live in the U.S. We are working with this population of six million undocumented by developing policies for helping them. And we work with all those millions of dreamers, those children who emigrated with their parents and they don't have documented status in the country. We also have many indigenous people who emigrated to the U.S. and we're talking about a full population of indigenous people who talk the indigenous languages of Mexico and those languages will be lost in the U.S. And so the Mexican government is working on it to preserve this cultural asset. We also have quite important population in different sexual orientation. And we also identified over a million people highly qualified who reside abroad, mailing in the U.S. as I said, these is the Mexican talent who emigrated and are working in different countries. Next slide, please. I would like to briefly say that through the consulate networks of Mexico all around the world and especially in the U.S., we work in three ways. First, protection. We pay attention to vulnerabilities and assistance in crisis situations. Then we work on documentation on insurance of identity and nationality documents and then the community work of global image. We seek networks of leaders, associations, civil society, organizations and government agencies. These are web of networks. In 2022, we focus on global attention to Mexican communities in free access. First of all, international and international strategic engagement. We want to create a web of networks to strengthen and represent and defend the Mexican immigrant community worldwide. Secondly, a full representation of the community abroad. We seek to recognize these patterns with new models of political organizations taking into account the diversity of the Mexican population according to their regions and social demographic profiles. And thirdly, we seek to empower communities. We want to accelerate program and place more emphasis on providing communities the tools to defend their interest. What does I am, the Institute of Mexican Tribality is an agency within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs created on April 23, that we should promote the recognition of migration phenomenon at the dignified treatment of Mexicans abroad, encourage the establishment of dialogue, Mexicanism and promote communication with and between Mexican communities living abroad, establish coordination with governments, institutions and organizations of states and municipalities regarding prevention, attention and support for Mexican communities. And we seek to collect and systematize proposals and recommendations to improve the quality of life of Mexican communities abroad. How are we present in the Mexican Consulate? We created some assistance for educational orientation, we focus on health, education, finance, we help indigenous people, sports and cultural and civic engagement. How do these committee resource centers or windows operate? We have a central government and for instance for the health window, the health ministry provides us with some millions of dollars to be distributed through the consulates and every consulate will seek and alliance and allies in order to provide different services to migrants and we wanted to provide these health services to migrants. What are health activities? We have currently 51 health resource centers or windows in this consulate network and we need to say that the Mexican consulate network in the US is the biggest consulate network in the US. We started on health and psycho emotional support. For instance, when it comes to mental health, during the COVID pandemic, we cooperated with many health authorities and we provide mental health support. Also, due to the pandemic, we developed some strategies for mental health through some universities in Mexico in order to broaden the specialist networks in order to detect mental health issues in the consulates for those migrants who approach the consulates. And we have some psychologists, networks at the university who provide services to those people in order to work in early prevention. And we provide services, especially to female Mexican and students during the quarantine periods and during all the pandemic period at the end of the day. What about education? We established a very important project. These are grants for young people. We also have a network in the US in order to approach those youngster who immigrated to the US. And we created a consortium of higher education institutions for economic development of Mexican abroad. Financial inclusion and economic development. We are helping migrants with the finances and we provide services such as migrant banking, social securities and so on. You can see the list. We are currently developing a consulate entrepreneurship program for Mexican women abroad with Arizona University. This is the second edition and it was developed 26 Mexican repetition edition in the US and one in Europe. When it comes to civic participation strategy, we are working on a strategy for ID so that people abroad can vote. We are creating spaces in Mexico where they can be represented at the federal and local level and we also seek to work in a binational leadership of the Mexican community abroad with dual citizenship and fluency in the language of the country of residence. One of those strategy in order to seek this link with the community abroad, well, the Red Global MX is the network, talent network. It has a 71 chapters distributed in 35 countries, 6,000 members and we seek to gather all the emigrated Mexican talent. We wanted to keep the link with Mexico through digital platforms. We work on culture and engagement. We have some networking sessions with dreamers in the US and in Canada. Those dreamers came summer to Mexico. They shared a time with indigenous people and with artists. We also provide us, well, we created this thing, we seek in Mexican award. When it comes to culture, we have some cinema sessions in order to promote indigenous languages and now we are created in the indigenous migrant forum in order to defend their indigenous migrant rights. When it comes to gender equality and inclusion, we are creating a network of Mexican LGBT and plus a community abroad community forum and we also have an inter-intititional task force for returning Mexicans, different branches of the Mexican government are included here, so they can provide help to return to Mexicans when it comes to health, education, labor and development, among others. We're talking about diaspora. So during the pandemics, obviously, there was a record number of remittances to Mexico, 27% more or less. And as we said, diaspora in France organized with some psychologists, some psychologists support for students and women and they will provide with health assistance during the pandemic. And that will be all as I just run short of time. Thank you very much for your attention. Thank you for those inspiring words, Mr. Gutierrez Reyes. It's clear that Mexico is doing very much to leverage social capital for its diaspora abroad. Next, Ms. Melek Polutkonak will share her insights based on her experience as the founder of the Turkish Women's International Network, Turkish Win. For over a decade, Turkish Win has gathered open-minded and open-hearted women with cultural, professional and family ties to Turkey to build a legacy in supporting the next generation of Turkish women. Ms. Polutkonak, you have the floor for the next 12 minutes. Thank you. Thank you, Liesl. And as I'm going to share this presentation, I believe you are here at the diaspora family. And as you listen to my presentation, I would like you to think that, to remember that I am a Turkish citizen, a US citizen, a dual citizen and all the work that I've done is a social entrepreneurs doing. And as we are a family here, I would like to introduce you to my family. Meet my aunt, Osman. She migrated to the United States in the 50s. Her reason for leaving is Turkey is quite unique to divorce her husband. In Turkey at the time, you couldn't divorce your husband without him granting access or agreeing to it. So she thought outside the box and thought, if I get married in another country, he will surely divorce me. And as luck turns out, there was a Turkish American from New York looking for a bride and didn't mind that she was already married. So she moved to New York without speaking a word of English and took a chance, got married to get a divorce in Istanbul. But her husband didn't agree to the divorce for eight long years. So her story started. The United States gave my aunt, Osman, more freedom for starters to build a successful business. She's still working at the age of 87. And now since built as an entrepreneur, a net worth north of $100 million. She also exercised her freedom to divorce more freely. So she had divorced her fourth husband at the age of 44 and has been single since. My family from her side lives in different parts of the United States. And as it happens, the third generation doesn't speak a word of Turkish. I was born in Istanbul on our side of the family and knew of my aunt, but didn't have a lot of interaction until I decided to move to the United States. So my parents told me that I should invest in my education. So I tried to do my best on that front. I got my MBA from Columbia Business School and undergrad from London School of Economics. And I came to New York this time, not for this reason to flee the country like my aunt, I came with choices. So decided a career at the New York Stock Exchange. I had other challenges than my aunt faced. So I had a college degree that was looking for role models, women who would inspire me. So my aunt and my mom kept on saying, if we did it so can you, and you better do much better because now you have more money, more education, more of everything. I don't know if it's familiar, sounds familiar to any one of you. In the U.S. I was seeking networks to learn from. You know, I was looking for career advice. So I went to Turkish American Networks, Columbia Business School Networks, finance networks, you name it. Until I found the Ted Conferences, a place where people shared the same values and a shared connection and the purpose to help ideas work spreading, I didn't feel at home. And I felt very much not 100% Turkish anymore, not 100% American. Planted in a place in floating. In spite of my Ted Conferences and by that playbook, I found the Turkish Women's International Network in 2010 in New York City to connect with women like me. We said we will network for change and as Lisa will put it, it's a global sisterhood for open-hearted and open-minded women but cultural family and professional ties to Turkey. And we are very inclusive not only to Turkish women, but Lisa could have been a member of our organization when she was living in Turkey. So it's about the connection to the homeland. And we meet together from 10 different countries. We're about 600 women and we have a combined network and we help each other through different programs but we also wanna get back together. So we wanna build a legacy and support a next generation of Turkish women. Our programs are fourfold mentoring and I will show you just to give you an idea of how the network works. In mentoring you go to a digital platform, pick a mentor and apply from any country. There's a digital place for events and networking so that we can learn from each other. We have created a speaker club to share our experiences and our goods and bads and ugliest to inspire and support other women. And then we said it's great to be together but what else can we do? How can we amplify this sense of inclusion and how can we have more women participate in the labor force? So then we pull together facts that I would like to share if we created a framework we hope it's gonna be helpful for you. For Turkey or any country to realize your potential as a country we need to mobilize and optimize the natural resources of women in use and World Economic Forum agrees and seconds this opinion. The growth is gonna come by including these agents. So we said okay, then we need to target our efforts to help women build the careers they love so they can participate in the workforce to give you a flavor of that. In Turkey the labor force participation is around 30%. So that is half of OECD's average. And if we increase the participation to 60% the GDP will increase by 20%. So this is so necessary. The second bit, jobs are changing. The new jobs are becoming different and a country's natural assets or its people and the best people go to where their talent is unlocked the most and it may not be in Turkey. So we said okay, then we can create give back recipes for the diaspora to support for this cause and we can provide them options to give back when they want it what they want and in Kingsley's terms everyone is game for a brain exchange. Then we said how are we gonna do that? So people learn from each other and find the jobs they love. It's about learning and the future of learning we are very much influenced by the theory of connectivism is about being social connected and it's distributed. You cannot be at the center of this if you wanna have a scalable model. So we built social networks where people can share career tips, exchange and a network with experts who could come from anywhere and we are including our diaspora along with the men of Turkey. And then we know that you can do so much with programs we need platforms to scale impact beyond advocacy to communicate ideas. We need to create a place for weak ties to network people to find each other in an open environment. So with these four pillars we created give back platforms for Turkish winners as a community to learn from each other. And we said we're gonna work with you and we'll empower them and create solutions with them. We're gonna be in digital and we're gonna be in together. And at Turkish win it's all about social intellectual capital for us. We created this English speaking platform where we can include Lisa or anybody with an interest in Turkey. And we have 600 members. It's a paid membership model and it's for women only where we bond and learn from each other in 2010. In 2012, we got the youth going and we said, if you see something, say something be the change, work with us if you wanna have a generous future. So we have 16 young female university students in our innovation lab working with us. Then we want to build a platform, Binyaprak, which is launched in 2015. It's Turkish, it's open, it's free, it's inclusive for men and women. Anybody to join now, it has about 20,000 members. This is where we bridge our social capital and they are linking social capital from the day first day onwards for projects that matter. I will show you how Binyaprak works. So this is a place where we share role model videos, career tips and blogs with our youth working shoulder to shoulder with us. And we have 20,000 members and reached 5 million people digitally. This is how it works. This is a digital platform and we cluster groups around topics, what we know about. It could be pharma, low global careers in UK or ASMOS from 18 to 35 for this age group. The Turkish women group gets experts. We look at who knows what in Europe, for instance, for a law, a US, Asia and Turkey. And these women get together to create a curriculum of social learning and working with the youth and be delivered to a lot more people. So how do we link the social capital? I'll share with you two examples and you can find a lot more at turkishwomen.com. In 2011, we introduced Maya to Kiva's first, to be Kiva's first local partner in Turkey. And through that connection, $1.2 million in funding was given in micro credit loans to women, to 3,000 women in Turkey. How did this happen? I happened to bump into Kiva's founder at a TED conference, looked up if there's a connection in Turkey and then put the two together and spend a year mirroring the program. I'll share a second example. Meet Yomran Baba. She was the GM of PepsiCo in different countries, including Asia and Europe. Then she moved to a DNI role in the United States and met with an NGO STEM connector in the United States and rolled out a STEM program for women and girls called Millenium Mentors. Our paths crossed and she wanted to bring the program to Turkey. We said, let's do it. This time, we were operational partner, along with our youth group, with US Chamber of Commerce, a local agency. Now we have about 120 companies committing to this program. It's one year old. The goal is to have 1 million mentoring connections for women and girls in STEM in the age of 15 to 25. And with this platform, there is a chance now to have, to pick your mentor. You see the same methodology applies as in Turkish men. Young girls can go to teams and they pick a mentor from overseas or in Turkey. So that shape-named Berkeley, an energy expert, could have a mentee, a zenith in Turkey. And we do this in partnership with a lot of different corporate members, along with our individual members. This is all bootstrapped. We didn't receive any public funding. And what are the lessons learned for us? We don't otherwise. We don't say these are the women in diaspora and these are the women in Turkey. We come together around our passion for our subjects, the gender equal future, along with our passion for our profession, law, pharma, technology, social business. We build digital networks to facilitate weak connection. We harvest stories and use storytelling for people to network. We make everyone a stakeholder. Our views are part of the solution as they are also our audience. We empower choice, connection and progress. This is very important. Let change makers choose when and how they wanna contribute by building flexibility to the system and be filled up on the ideas with young people along with amazing programs from overseas. Well, I will go to that in a minute, but I will show you how my aunt looks like today with my mom's and she is running strong and working and continuing her path. And much like my aunt, we hope you agree that Turkish men have built a record of impact that allows us to make our own choices on diaspora is diversity, inclusion and belonging. In a world where diasporas are communities of purpose for such movements, now it's our time to achieve our vision of scale in partnership with you. And Turkish men, we are building what you hopefully agree is a good solution on diaspora engagement for these movements. It can be applied to all involved in this journey, private sector foundation governments, universities and others. And we know we must keep innovating and improving too, but our commitment to entrepreneurship and independence just like my aunt allows us to do that. As for Turkish men, we are now working to adding AI capabilities with SDG AI Labs, a UNDP initiative and Solvoyo Tech Company by Turkish Americans to make our platforms smarter to achieve the NIH on that scale. We are looking to replicate our platform and tools for different countries. And as for me, my aunt made her mark by making $100 million. I would like to reach 100 million men and women to build a gender equal future. And as for you, my fellow changemaker, it visit us in Turkey, so can you. Thank you. Thank you so much, Ms. Polutkonak. What an inspirational keynote really. And I'm gonna sign up right now for Turkish win. Thank you so much. Next, we will learn from the remarks shared by Ms. Nudira Abdullahyeva, who is a lawyer and human rights activist from Tajikistan and a member of the Public Organization Human Rights Center. Ms. Abdullahyeva, it has implemented numerous projects to protect migrant workers in Central Asia. Ms. Abdullahyeva, you have the floor for the next 10 minutes. Thank you. Thank you very much, dear colleagues. Dear colleagues, I wish you all the best. I am very happy to be here. Thank you, everyone. In this presentation, I would like to talk about the importance of the legal framework for the engagement that will include the application of the diaspora. I have to switch the translation. My presentation. In this presentation, I would like to concentrate on the importance of legal frameworks that tricky the diaspora's behavior, particularly when it comes to understanding the translation identities and how they are reflected in normative and policy frameworks, and the good news in terms of diaspora individuals. And the individuals in the diaspora. The sound of the intervention is unfortunately very bad and the interpreter will do what she can to translate it. Migrants retain cultural and economic benefits in addition to a country. The impact of these transnational identities must be taken into account for normative and policy frameworks. The protection and promotion of the rights of the individuals that belong to the diaspora community must reflect their multiple affiliations and their identity in the center of the legal identity, social security and rights. For their rights and their social security, they must engage with the country of origin or destination and the country of origin and the definition of their legislative framework. It is important to know that the diaspora can hamper effective diaspora engagement policies. To contribute to the engagement of the diaspora communities, IOM is undertaking an analysis of legal framework in the area of the diaspora and communities. IOM is a particular focus on regulation that is the role of the transnational identity in the diaspora and communities. It concerns communities and diasporas. I will highlight that you have really... We cannot see your screen, we can hear you badly. Is it okay? I'm sorry to interrupt you. I'm sorry to interrupt you. Just a minute. One moment. Is it good? Is it good like that? Perfect. Thank you very much. First, it's essential to mention some fundamental documents. It's essential for the government of migration and the conditions of migrants and diasporas. The agenda of the Central Government is also reflected in the global context for migration, which among the three subjects implies the role of a responsible, secure and in the right to correspond to the 19-year-old. The 19-year-old has achieved several priorities among which is to enhance institutional capacities for migrants and diasporas. This includes the integration of international capacity into development planning and sectoral... more regional, regional and global... ...regional and international, including the diaspora offices, diaspora policies, national and dedicated local points in diplomatic or consular missions. They are important in confronting political participation and in ensuring the contribution of the migrants in the diaspora and in the translation process in election and political processes. Other priorities also mention 19, but I want to emphasize particularly from paragraph 35, which is calling on governments to ensure the fact that the paragraph is transmitting flexible modalities to travel, work and invest with minimal administrative burdens and to revisit visa, residency and citizenship regulations. The definition always matters from a legal perspective. Therefore, we started to work on the report by analyzing the various legal and policy definitions attributed to diaspora within the international, regional and national frameworks. As you know, there is no legal definition of the diaspora in international law and we reviewed academic literature and other documentation and it's worth to mention that in studies the definition of diaspora even elaborated, it's still debated. If we summarize existing definitions elaborated by scholars, one can determine several common denominators. An integral characteristics of the diaspora is that the place of its residence is established in a country different from the country of origin. Therefore, diaspora communities are transnationally embedded at least at two locations. Second, diaspora build and support links between countries of origin and destination. It's important also to mention that in international level, the definition of diaspora, which elaborated by IOM is widely used. This definition was firstly developed in 24 and then elaborated and has evolved in its current definition. Migrants or dissidents of migrants whose identity and migration experience and background have shaped a sense of belonging. Using this term interchangeably allows for a more comprehensive approach and facilitates information and data collection. IOM refers to the diaspora as transnational communities because in a world of unprecedented global mobility, they compromise people who are connected to more than one country. The transnational nature of diaspora implies that these people are crucial when it comes to connecting countries and communities because they can call on multiple networks, relate to different identities and share a sense of belonging to more than one community. We also review the term of diaspora at the regional level. And for instance, African Union has elaborated its own definition. And this definition considers the continent's needs and characteristics. The European Commission Migration Home Affairs used a definition which was developed by IOM. And also we reviewed the definitions of the definition of diaspora, which elaborated by different intergovernmental and regional financial institutions. And they also elaborated these definitions based on their program and project aims. For instance, OECD definition of diaspora also consider child rights perspective. And we also looked at the definition of diaspora at the national legislation. And if we can look at this slide, then in Asia, the term of diaspora is rather used and instead many Asian governments use two main characteristics assigned to diaspora. First, previous ties to a homeland of a state of ethnicity. And second, the engagement of diaspora members in the country's development. Africa, several countries of Africa already established the definition of diaspora. For instance, Rwanda, Ghana and other states use different terminology, mainly citizens abroad. And in general, most of the countries here, they follow the definition which established in African Union. The term of diaspora in America is used in some countries and it's similar in some countries to IOM definitions. However, most of the states refer to nationals living abroad. In Europe, some countries use the term of diaspora. For instance, Ireland. And in many countries, there is different terms that is used. For instance, citizens abroad, comparison persons residing abroad, former comparison. And in some countries of Europe, there is already laws on diaspora like in Latvia and Serbia. Even if different terms are used where there are also common denominators. Usually the diaspora members are recognized as those who live abroad temporarily or permanently, maintaining the connection with the country of origin in different way. In Asia in America, definitions also specifically emphasize on the role of the diaspora in developing the country of origin. Thus, some jurisdictions have broader definitions and already reflect the aspects of transnational identity of diaspora. Members and other jurisdictions use narrow terms where transnational identity and legal rights are not yet reflected. From the perspective of regional cooperation and legal perspective, the lack of consistent definition may lead to the development of non-coherent policies. In practice, it may affect the comprehensive enjoyment of rights or restrictions of rights of diaspora members on countries of origin and destination. And here I want to say some words about our research. The following steps we are planning for the research to analyze the scopes of rights, political, social, and economic rights provided to individuals from the diaspora in their countries of origin, explicitly examining legal identity, documentations, and rights evolving from them. To analyze the good practices for diaspora engagement codified in national legal frameworks and give you consideration to the transnational identity and diaspora communities. The study will be a comparative legal analysis of selected jurisdictions, five countries of origin, and two countries of destination will be selected. And we will review laws, policies, official studies, official statements, and studies. And for the selection of the countries, we set up the following criteria. First, evolving policies that take into consideration the transnational identity. Second, policies, laws that consider the legal identity of diaspora and develop policy from the rights perspective. And the law and policy take into consideration gender mainstreaming. And also data availability and language accessibility will be an additional criteria. We hope that this study will enhance understanding on the transnational links, identities of diaspora communities and will provide a more nuanced understanding for the development of laws and policies that would take into consideration. Thank you for your attention. Thank you again so much, Ms. Abolaleva. I'm so sorry for the interruption of your great presentation. We just wanted to make sure we could see your full screen because the words really matter. There's some really interesting things you're doing in that research. Well, audience, now it's time to turn to questions. I hope that you'll make good use of the chat box. And I've put a couple of starter questions out there to pique your interest. But please feel free to address your questions to any of the speakers. In the session so far, we've traveled from the Americas to Anatolia, to Central Asia and to explore this idea of diversity, inclusion and belonging among diasporas. And I think themes that I heard across the sessions, I think first and foremost, even just starting with the last presentation words and definitions matter. The actual words and definitions of who is the diaspora and what it means to be peoplehood, whether that's diaspora, country of origin or this greater collective, these words matter because they define who's in and who's out. They truly shape the contours, I think, of collective action. So we need to be, I think, very careful how we put these words on paper, whether it be in a law, whether it be in any kind of research paper or any kind of platform. But to think very, very carefully about that if we're trying to strive for diversity, inclusion and belonging. We've also heard from different structural forms of creating diaspora inclusion and belonging and diversity from governments as well as private sector, as well as our citizen sector. These web of networks across sectors are really very critical, both in terms of countries of origin, residents and most importantly, I think, transnationally, holistically, collectively. The role of technology here is key. This transnational out of time and space really sense of belonging that Turkish wind, for example, creates could not be done as easily without really advanced platforms and technology and the work that the government of Mexico, for example, has been putting into place could not be done without the role of that as well. And I love Turkish winds phrase, give the diaspora, give back recipes. So they were not all recreating the wheel that we can readily plug in that political, social, economic capital into where it's most and readily needed. I love the idea of these recipes. So now let's turn to see what we might have in the chats. See if we have any questions that have come out. Oh, of course, Martin Russell is our first question. I was not surprised to see his question here in the chat box first. So he says he has a question for all of the speakers. It seems clear that issues of diversity, inclusion and belonging is emerging as a frame of consideration that can increase its visibility in the foundation and private sector spaces. Also as many major organizations in those sectors address these issues. Do our speakers have any reflections on how we can increase the visibility of diaspora engagement in those areas? How could it be linked to being more flexible in our definition? Any responses from our three speakers on Mr. Russell's question?  Well, what I find with these global organizations, for instance, I'll give the example of Pepsi and company. And for instance, Pepsi is running a program across different countries. And Pepsi is a global organization. Also has a lot of different diasporas. I used to work for Microsoft as a deputy GM and may have 100,000 people working in different countries. So you have Africans, you have Turks, you have Germans, et cetera. In different countries. So what I find, for instance, at Pepsi's work is a way for people to get to know each other around their passion areas. For instance, it's not only diaspora, I think diaspora is the recipient, but I think the STG causes are the vehicles. So in terms of putting this framework of inclusion, the company is trying to create a psychological safe space for employees where they can show what they want, what they're passionate about and they can express themselves. So if I can express myself around my ethnicity and what I would like to do and how I would like to give back. And my ethnicity is not sufficient. So it's a cause for education. It's a cause for gender equality. It's a cause for something else. So the inclusion part drives people to identify what they would like and the vehicles that the companies provide, whether it's rolling out million human mentors program in different countries so that they can also connect the people, the Turks working anywhere else in PepsiCo is a way to go. As long as companies have real psychological safety and real vehicles so that you can connect these different programs, it's again about recipes and employee cannot come up with something unless he or she is a CEO to roll something out. If there are programs where she can propose a program to be adopted, that's when the framework is deployed. Any other comments on that particular question from the floor? We're waiting for additional questions from our audience. Mr. Gutierrez, I wanted to ask you a question. Is it all right? Since I'm here in the United States and the work that I have read about the Mexican diaspora and the great diaspora here in this country, so much of what I have read revolves around the great work of hometown associations. Could you speak a little bit about what the government has been doing with your web of networks to try to link across those hometown associations to sort of raise the collective consciousness and collective action of the Mexican diaspora at sort of higher levels of analysis and engagement? So right now we are working in building the small networks around our consulates. For example, in this, from the sexual diversity, we are looking for organization from the social, the civil society as well, from college, universities or researchers that working in the defense of the rights of these people. So yeah, and well, the consulates are gonna organize these special meetings to share experience about the problems we have in the city. So we found this small network and right now we are building these small networks in all the consulates. Next step is to arrange a meeting with all these small networks to launch the big national network in terms of the diversity or in terms of helping native Mexicans, we use migrants that this is the next we will have this year. Recording in progress. And camaraderie and belongingness in diaspora, but also as sort of an agent of change as a group. Thank you. I had some technical problems. Can you please repeat the question? I'm sorry. I'm wondering if, no problem. I'm wondering if you could tell us a story of how you worked with migrant individuals in small networks to raise their awareness that they were part of a larger group to mobilize them for collective action. Thank you very much. It's a very interesting question. And of course here, if you are, am I correctly understood? Yeah, I refer to my personal experience. Am I correct? Yeah, I came from like sub-region Central Asia where migration and it's like migration is only in it's developing and it's corridors, you know, it's also developing. And the issue of engagement of migrants, it's kind of sensitive in our part of the world because in many cases, migrants from Central Asia to Jikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, they are, when they migrate to another country and they try to hold these links with this country of origin, it's mostly links to the political rights. And because of the political system of countries of Central Asia, it's become sensitive. And from this perspective, the migrants face a lot of problems and maybe you have heard a lot of European courts, human rights courts practice when migrants, they are engaged with political rights and try to affect the political situation in countries of their origin. And then they are like investigated under the trouble between these two countries like Russia and the Jikistan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan, et cetera. So from this perspective, from my personal experience, this issue are evolving and this issue, there is no clear understanding of how we can engage with migrants. Of course, there is some initiatives, they try to engage migrants to the economy, but in order to engage them to the economy, the countries, they need a right political system. Migrants need to be a willingness, they need to have willingness to contribute to the countries of their origin. So it's a quite complicated issue, but thank you that you asked this question. And I think someday we can also bring this lens to the subregions like where migration is like a kind of evolving issue. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I see Ms. Palukonak, you have your hand raised. Please go ahead. Yes, we can ask, what are the ways in which diaspora engagement can contribute to diversity, equity, inclusion in SDGs? So I want to get going on that front. Well, if I'm passionate, if I'm a business leader or an NGO leader, if I'm passionate about gender equity or climate change or any other SDG, I have an experience in the country where I am. I may be a Turkish person living in the US, Germany or somewhere else. And my experience is different than solving that problem in Turkey, but that even brings diversity of solutions, diversity of opinions, diversity of experiences. So if the governments or policymakers are pulling diaspora around certain SDG challenges, so it's very focused networking as opposed to a general question, very quickly you find the people who are mad about this problem and who are doing so much about it. So it doesn't take a very long time in each country to find the academic, the NGO leader, business leader who is passionate and is in the trenches of solving these problems. And if the network on such a defined subject then we can harvest the people and their knowledge from the diaspora. And if I'm passionate, if I live and breathe for it in my, wherever I am, I'm so happy to do the brain exchange. So I would really encourage for all of the SDGs to have different task forces and to map out the networks and to bring these people together because they will also love to meet each other. Not only about their ethnicity, but also around what they live for, for their sense of purpose. So that would be my two cents on that question. Thank you so much. Any other comments from our other panelists about how diasporas could contribute to diversity, inclusion and belonging related to the SDGs, Global Compact on Migration and other larger global initiatives? Any other comments on that from our other panelists? Yes, please, Mr. Gutierrez. In my presentation, I was talking about this program that we have launched at the level of consular of entrepreneurship for women in conjunction with the University of Arizona. And initially, we were looking to empower and support, especially in financial independence, to migrant women, single mothers, women victims of family violence from the most protected sectors of Mexican migration, especially from undocumented people in Arizona. From there, we have been inviting different communities in the United States. But suddenly, we began to see similar problems in other parts of the world, like in Europe, of Mexican women who migrated, married to different countries, and that due to the visa they have of wives, they can't work, and we faced many problems of violence, especially when they have children, that their children are European nations, women can't return to Mexico because they can't travel with their children, and they can't work. So we have been developing these tools to help them to become independent, to have enough money and to be able to stay in the country where their children live, and to stop depending on the violent male. So we have been identifying different needs of Mexican diasporas in the world, that have transversal issues and that coincide with the violence, the dependence, and the need for women empowerment in any part of the world. That's why we are launching a global call for this program of entrepreneurship, and the Arizona University and other organizations are supporting us. But there, for example, we have also been able to develop diaspora qualified in many of the consular institutions, especially in Mexico and the United States. We have the support of businessmen, Mexican migrants, organizations such as Spanish trade cameras in the United States, which are approaching to strengthen this program and they start giving us computers, they start offering micro-credits. We believe this is going to be a program with a lot of potential to support the migrant women in the world. Thank you. Thank you very much for that comment. Yes, I think you all have given excellent examples of how diaspora communities, diaspora leaders and governments can create structures, processes, and goals really that create more of a sense of identity and belonging within the diaspora. We have a great question here though in the chat box around what do you consider needs to be done from the diaspora's perspective to basically have diasporas advocate for a greater sense of belonging inclusion within countries of residence among the diaspora itself, but also within their country of residence. So how can diasporas work to create and advocate for more inclusion of their own within countries of residence? I will go with a philosophy. You are included or you're in the conversation if you are relevant, if you have something to say. So we have to be able to relevant and have something to say as the diaspora people in the country and find relevant places. So it's again, for instance, if you are passionate about technology being in technology circles and being relevant to the conversation there, just showing up and being who you are is not relevant anymore. We have to be relevant and strategic with the ways we represent our country because me being Turkish doesn't matter.  So we have to be relevant and strategic in our communication wherever we are and we have to engage the youth which has a lot more in common for the older people. And I think until Generation Z, we have a tough time. I think very difficult for us. Or for the Z generation and onwards, it's gonna be very different. They are coming very inclusive anyhow. So this is 20, 30 years we're gonna pass, we're gonna wait it out, then it's gonna, everything is gonna solve themselves because they come wired differently. Thank God. So until Generation Z comes to power, they come very inclusive and they don't otherwise the way our generations do. We are gonna keep the gates open, do the work and be relevant. Thank you. Any other comments from panelists on that? Yes, Mr. Gutierrez, please. Well, I also have to identify problems in communities and face them in the perspective of participation in all of them. For example, in the United States, we can't only talk about the Mexican migration. We have to talk about the, once the United States is residing, they stop being Mexicans and they are part of the Hispanic community of that country. Mexicans constitute 73% of the Hispanic community in the United States. If we don't face the problem in a group with governments, for example, of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, when the problems of the people in the United States are so similar, we won't be able to advance much. We won't be able to have dialogue with local authorities. An example of this during the pandemic, in which we were concerned about how we can access the vaccines for our migrants, it was precisely the approach with local authorities that opened the space for us to be able to have vaccines. But, on the other hand, the consulates in Mexico opened their doors so that any person of any nationality could have access to the vaccine. In our consulates, we had a constant flow of Latin American and Latin American and other nationalities. The community integration of Hispanics to the transversal level and attending all the problems in a group gives greater power to the voice and gives greater interlocution to the authorities. I think it's a step that we have to continue to strengthen together with the entire region in our country. Beautifully said, beautifully said, hand in hand. Any other comments on this before we turn to the next question? Mr. Duleva, please. Thank you. Just to maybe continue the conversation and what already Mellik mentioned, that it may be simple, but it's important that from the legal perspective, in order for providing the ground for the Aspera to engage with the locals, we need this legal framework. We need right definitions and definitions we need to consider how to elaborate these definitions to address all these needs and transitional identities and rights of migrants in countries of origin and destination. So it's simple, but it's the first step and I just wanted to note it again. Thank you. Well, we're coming close to the close, but we have had such a great fortune to learn from you as leaders in this movement. And I'm wondering if you could give us a two-minute sort of summary of recommendations that you have for diaspora leaders, particularly those of the younger generation. What recommendations, what experiences, what skills do you think the next generation of diaspora leaders need to successfully make progress on the goals we're talking about today? Diversity, inclusion, and belongingness. Ms. Abdul-Avis, since you're on screen, would you like to go first? Can I have a bit of time to reflect on the question? Sure. Anybody else ready to give recommendations? I'm ready. I'm ready. Yes, yes, yes. I'm feeling the work. Go ahead. Well, I think the next generation is ready. It's their time. We just need to set the foundations for them. They have the skills. They have the right attitude. They're inclusive. It's us not including the young people next generation in the solution set. They are usually in the problems that the way we approach the diaspora question or the frameworks. So I really think they have the skills. They have the platforms. And they know how to be inclusive. And we have to set the foundations and make sure we don't leave too much of a baggage for them to clean up. So we have to clean up after ourselves and give them a clean slate. I think this is what we can do. I fully trust them. I know they know how to communicate. It's going to be a different era of connectivity. And they will bring this global community as to feeling the community of one. So I'm very confident about that. So the way we have run this is we are trying to act like them and work with them, act like them and be inclusive. Be inclusive and listen and include anybody who wants to give an idea of resources or ways of doing things in a more networked way. Thank you. Any other comments? Yes, please, Mr. Gutierrez. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. any other comments about the next generation of leaders in diaspora and what they need. One of our commenters in the chat box had an interesting observation mentioning how difficult it is to do the work of diaspora being inclusive, being and creating a sense of belonging when so many diaspora workers that are forging ahead and advocating for this are doing so unpaid while they actually have other day jobs and life and family responsibilities. And I think it's very important to recognize that a lot of the very hard work that is done in this space is done out of true passion on that extra fuel. I always say Martin Russell and I were talking this morning about how the diaspora never sleeps. And in large part that is because of their very deep passion to make and build a different world for their children and for the next generation. Well, unfortunately, we've come to the close of this very captivating session. I wanna give my deep thanks to the government of Mexico for supporting this session. Thank you to Ms. Polutkanak as well for your inspiring keynote address and Ms. Abduleva for your insightful remarks. Most of all, thanks to our thoughtful audience for sharing your experiences and insights. May all of the sessions in this conference be as good as this one. I think our main takeaways here have been if we want to create belonging in the world, then we need as those advocating for diasporas and within diasporas, we need to be inclusive as well. Bringing the public, citizen and private sector together with multilateral organizations, leveraging technology and really drawing in that generation Z where hopefully the next generation with our efforts will create a very new world based on greater senses of belonging. Thank you all so much for joining us today.


Hello everybody and welcome to a Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous video, where today we're going to be talking about what was E750, and more importantly, why was E750? If you haven't seen it already, SPOILER WARNING for the rest of this video, as we're going to be talking about what E750 was, and of course by doing that we're going to go into other plot heavy story elements of Camp Cretaceous and because, you know, the third season just came out, I'm going to be talking about it. So you have been warned! So let's start with the most important question, shall we? And that is, what is E750? Well, if Dr. Wu's little blogs or anything to go about, E750 is the experiment possibly during the events of Jurassic World, even prior, from taking Indominus Rex and turning it into what Hoskins would say, a smaller, better version that could be used in military purposes. However, it didn't go very right, and for whatever reason, whether it was because they added Scorpion DNA, they ended up making the Scorpius Rex. That ended up being called Project or E750, and that's why we have C750 everywhere. In my personal opinion, I feel as though, even though it doesn't feel like Camp Cretaceous is at an end, because of the way it ended, you know, we'll probably get a season four, I feel as though we're at an end of a chapter in Camp Cretaceous' life. E750 was built up, I think, from the beginning of the first season. And throughout Camp Cretaceous, they've done very clever ways of building up E750, up until it's revealed in season three. Where it just sort of walks out of here. And for the first few episodes of season three, at the end of them, we see Scorpius Rex, or E750, killing off various dinosaurs, Ceratosaurus being one of them, Moranosaurus being another one, building up more of the suspense not being able to see it all. Until eventually, in like episode five, or God knows what it is, it kind of just walks out. Like all this suspense and buildup, like, oh, there it is. Okay, which is strange, because a couple of seconds afterwards, we get more of like, ooh, what does it look like kind of shots, but we've already just seen it, so anyway. But I think personally, the way it's revealed and built up is probably the strengths of E750, and Camp Cretaceous as a whole, this whole time we've been wondering what this is, and if the plethora of YouTube videos out there haven't told you already that this is, you know, something that the fans are really interested in, well, it is. And throughout season three, we find out that Scorpius Rex is poisonous, actually, and it needs anything that attacks, or it squeals, you know, like the scorpion tail almost. And if it's quills that goes into, it poisons. Now, it almost kills Sammy, and we see it poison a Sinoceratops, which makes it very aggressive.  I would assume that it kills it, although it shreks things, because that's what it looked like it did to Sammy. It shrekt it. It looked like she was going to turn into Princess Fiona. And talking about E730, I have to talk also, also, about the length of season three. Now, season one and season two, I think have all been eight episodes. Season three has ten episodes. Now, the reason it seems quite obvious to me why it is two episodes extra is because at episode eight, it seems like it could end. However, due to Universal, possibly, or Colin Trevor, or somebody who is in the realm of being able to tell, you know, this story or have an influence on the Camp Cretaceous story, episode nine and ten are kind of a bit of a waste of time, in my opinion. They do set up a bit more like why, you know, E750 kind of exists with Doctor Who in spoilers of the game. Doctor Who coming back to the island and also linking in the timeline from Camp Cretaceous to Fallen Kingdom. Then it's not a waste of time, is it? So the kids were stranded in Jurassic World. Six months later, Doctor Who comes back to try and retrieve not the Indom... Well, they end up doing it anyway, the Indomnis Rex bones or samples. But the main reason it seems that Doctor Who comes back to Isla Nubla is to retrieve the data on his laptop. And he says this in the season somewhere in one of those two episodes, that he needs that laptop of the data of Scorpius Rex in order to make Indoraptor. And if he doesn't get it, what could take what, a couple of months, will end up taking years. And through those meddling kids, they end up like smashing the laptop and throwing in a hilarious like, oh look, I got hit, they're on Kalasaur. Hey, try and catch it. Anyway, it seems like Doctor Who isn't even going to be able to make Indomnis Rex, or sorry, Indoraptor, I should say, for Fallen Kingdom. But he does, because they managed to retrieve the Indomnis Rex DNA. And without that, you know, the skeleton at the start of Fallen Kingdom, we wouldn't be able to even have Indoraptor. So the main reason why E750 existed was to speed up the process of the Indoraptor. And if E750 didn't, then we may have not even had the events of Fallen Kingdom at all. Because that's set three years later after Jurassic World. And that's when Doctor Who realizes that after making Indoraptor from the remnants of Indomnis Rex, that it needs some sort of mother. And maybe that's the reason why E750 kind of goes a bit bonkers. We don't know. But that doesn't explain the scorpion quills that Scorpius Rex has, or that matter of fact, that there's frickin' two of them. And this brings me on to the question of, is this the last we're gonna see at E750? Possibly not? I really don't know. There are, now, I will speak to the contrary, that there is a chance that we will see Indo, or sorry, Scorpius Rex in a season four. So the kids have left the island and, you know, they managed to find a boat within the first couple of episodes. But the boat gets a hole in it. This is very strange, because we don't seem to know why it has a hole in it. I think we're led to assume that the rampaging Oranosaurs, and the rest of the dinosaurs that are sent on the rampage on the island because of the Scorpius Rexes, have kind of just whacked the boat in a territorial display and nobody noticed, and then, you know, the next chasing ensues in the foggy dock. But it could be a situation that there is something inside the boat. I remember when I was watching it, I thought that the damage from that boat, the hole, was done from the inside. So there could already be something in the boat. This kind of also doesn't make sense, because we have Kenji go inside the boat to get the captain's hat. So they've definitely been inside the boat, even though we haven't specifically really seen them in it. But, of course, by the end of the season, we get something trying the door, or there's some dinosaur noise coming from inside the boat. And that could be another E750, may perhaps a baby. So if Dr. Wu only made one Scorpius Rex, why are there two? Well, it's kind of explained that Scorpius Rex produces asexually. This meaning that there doesn't need to be two partners, that it can reproduce itself. It has both male and female needs, basically, to make a baby. So it could perhaps be a way that as soon as maybe Scorpius Rex left, or we don't really know the time events between when Scorpius Rex broke out and when the events of Jurassic Season 3 Camp Cretaceous happened, that Scorpius Rex ended up laying an egg, forgetting about it, because if Indorap is anything to go by, it doesn't really have any parental idea. In fact, I'm surprised it even didn't eat the egg. And maybe it did, and that's why there's only one. But another one managed to hatch. And as we've seen with Bumpy, dinosaurs in the Jurassic World franchise have very incredibly accelerated growth hormones. So it's not out of the realms of possibility that this could be a born, or one of them is a born E750, or Scorpius Rex. There was laid one Scorpius Rex, the original one got out and then hatched and grew up within the span of, I don't know, like a couple of weeks, even if that. We saw that Bumpy, you know, Bumpy was a baby, and then within six months, not even six months, within two, two months, two or three months, it's fully grown. By season two, Bumpy is huge, season one Bumpy small, in fact it's a baby, and within a couple of days it's, you know, it's that big, it's quite massive, it's quite amazing really, how Indorap is able to facilitate this kind of growth hormone. But anyway, it could be great in tomatoes. It is possible that E750, or a version of E750 is on the boat, and what's going to happen to them? Well, maybe it attacks them and then they end up like sailing off course, or we don't really know, they haven't really set up too much. It could, there's even a realm of possibility that it's a Spinosaur. Well, not in the boat, obviously, but there is a Spinosaur on the island. As we've seen in Jurassic Park 3, Spinosaur's like to attack boats, which I think was hinted at as to what killed the people with the tour boat company, Dinosaur, in Jurassic Park 3 was the Spinosaur possibly off the coast of Islesawna. And you know, Spinosaur doesn't like boats, and maybe it just attacked that one. Although it would be very strange that it was, it attacked the boat and then didn't attack anyone else, and it just kind of bugged off possibly. Could it be a case that the boat just banged against the side of the dock that didn't moor it properly, or God knows what. But in a fitting way, E750, again, ending the way it did, both of them, so they both end up dying, and I thought maybe one would survive, but it's not specifically stated that the dead, one of them could just be knocked out and then get out of the rubble later. It feels though, it's Ryan's course. Camp Cretaceous has served its purpose in filling in a few bits, however they did not go in that frigging kitchen, which is so ludicrous. And guess what? We're not going to look in that freezer. Just not going to look in it. Did that raptor die? I just wanted Ben to just go into the freezer for a second. Maybe, you know, have a homage to the slipping, and then we find out maybe the raptor's there frozen, or God knows what. It would have just been a nice little, like, oh, so that's what happened to. I mean, they had a chance. They basically copied a shot-for-shot the kitchen scene from Jurassic Park. Could they not have just told us they're giving us something of merit or a closure on that raptor? That being said, E-750 was created by Dr. Wu to try and make a smaller version of Indominus Rex. It did not go well. It kind of poisoned Dr. Wu, needing an antidote to be created. And without its research, without Dr. Wu, Dr. Wu really did try to get its data from, you know, his laptop. And with that, Fallen Kingdom, the events of Fallen Kingdom could have happened a lot more quickly, not only a couple of months, but because of what the kids did, breaking his laptop, it actually took Dr. Wu three years. And that's why, like I said, in Fallen Kingdom, it takes three years. The events of Fallen Kingdom take place three years after Jurassic World. So I think E-750, or Scorpius Rex as we can now call it, can I call it Scorpius Rex? Do you, Mattel the Universal? Am I allowed to say it without getting bollocks? Scorpius Rex actually served quite a big purpose in the overall canon, if you want to call it. And if this is even Classes canon, like kids managed to survive on the island for six months, probably beating Eric Kirby. Five, six kids managed to survive on Isle of Noobloff for six months without any of them dying. And they're fine. However, a single adult or whatever, whoever an adult is on the island, they always die within a couple of days, if not a day, if not the very next hour they seem to die. But anyway, leave your thoughts. What did you think of E-750 with the Scorpius Rex? What do you think of the design anyway? I will admit that I wasn't too sold and it kind of looked like a puggy thing. It was a Dormorphodon head. It was a Kanto head with Dormorphodon features squished. But it kind of lent itself to the weird, like, ooh, this thing doesn't look right. And the way it sort of roared in the night when you first kind of saw it and it sort of contorted its body. I quite like that. I wanted them to do more spooky, scary stuff. And they kind of did it where, I think it knocked out a couple of characters as soon as it attacked the base camp.  Oh, they're down as well. Oh, another one's down. There's only three left, you know what I mean? But they did what they could. I really would have loved. I mean, they couldn't have done too much because it's a kid's program at the end of the day. They don't want to scare kids too much. They kind of did it. But you know, maybe this is where Indoraptor got his spooky scariness from. Scorpius Rex. Because they both have similar things. Fallen Kingdom was at night and Indoraptor was doing his claw thing. And so did Eastern 50. However, it was never explained why Scorpius Rex liked fire. But it did. And really in the end, the fire was just a distraction. I thought maybe it would be like a moth and it would want to just go into the flames and burn alive. But no, no. It just died. It had rocks falling on it. It didn't like itself. It was destined to just die. Anyway, guys, that's going to wrap this video. If you've enjoyed it, leave a like. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Did you like Eastern 50? What did you think of its design? And will we see another Scorpius Rex in season four? All in the comments down below. I'm sure you guys are much wiser than me. Just me kind of ranting and putting my thoughts onto a video on YouTube. So, like I said, if you enjoyed the video, leave a like. And until next time, the world of season four comes out because it's gone. It's probably tomorrow. We'll probably get a trailer for season four tomorrow by the break that they've been going. There's no let up with them. But until next time, I'll see you later. Oh, bye-bye.


Okay, very good morning, Wednesday, 28th of April. Hope you're doing well. Gonna get you up to speed on a couple of things, to close on Wall Street. We had some aftermarket earnings for some of the tech giants like Microsoft and Alphabet. And we're also gonna get you up to speed on Australian data overnight. Some more tensions brewing in the Middle East, i.e. with Yemen and Saudi Arabia. There's been an update on the situation on the port strikes in Chile, which has led to a bit of a decrease in copper prices coming off their recent run up higher in the overnight session. And then things that are coming out today, namely that of the FMC, what can we expect from Drone Pau and his colleagues today, later on. And we've also got Biden's American family speech as well due today. But starting off with just generally what the charts look like for the open. And it's been, I would say relatively quiet, as we know, it's kind of mid and second half of the week where we start to get some more of the key kind of potential catalysts, i.e. the Fed, the GDP data, the Eurozone inflation growth data on Friday, as well as a batch of more large cap earnings still to come. But at the moment, if you were looking at these major currency pairs, range plays has definitely been the order of the last two sessions. You can see here, Cable just really respecting that between in the futures. 138.70 up to around the 139.22.30 area, kind of similar in the Euro as well. One currency that has seen the major dollar pairs, a bit of a breakout has been Dolly Yen. There was an area there of the course of the last several trading sessions that we were keeping on, which lined up respectively of around the R2 yesterday at around 108.50 in the futures. And that had a bit of a break out through then the latter part of yesterday's kind of post-European exit into the North American later trading hours. And that's just continued to push on up to finding some resistance from those previous highs that we saw back on the 16th. Just had a bit of profit taking in the Asia Pact session on the back of that and just came out to retest now as we go into the European morning. But quite a nice move materializing over the last couple of sessions in Dolly Yen there. In terms of the closing Wall Street last night, it's not really too much to comment on. The S&P and Dow are basically absolutely flat. The Nasdaq kind of sounds more sensational than it is. It was the first down day we've had in three sessions, but it was down only about half a percent. And actually, if you look at a lot of these U.S. indices, if we look at the S&P here, you can see on the right-hand side, again, respecting a range so far for the week, so consolidation at these record high levels. So still keeping an eye here for any more. Definitive break really of this area of around 41.85 and a quarter, which as you can see, the kind of pullbacks on the test of that level are getting more shallow, which might be then indicative of a push up. Again, catalysts could be forthcoming data or earnings releases. And then for the Nasdaq, obviously it's being constrained to a certain degree by this upside level around just over 14,050. That was the area that really capped last week's price activity. We had a bit of a test that came in the very early hours of yesterday's session. Drop off at the open yesterday, but we kind of recovered and we're in a short-term trading ban between 13,953 and 79 on the upside for the moment. But again, companies like Apple, Facebook, they're all reporting off the market today, who likely act as main catalysts there. Then oil prices had the JMMC yesterday. I think unsurprisingly, they're just kind of the expectations just rolling over on the current supply packs. So it keeps it in play for the moment. I don't think they can make any other choice given what's going on with COVID and the likes of India and other emerging economies at the moment with the risks that that carries for the demand side. So oil remains elevated and this comes irrespective of the fact that we had API inventories last night. Just very quickly look at those. We had a build of 4.319 million in the headline figure last night. That was actually much larger and anticipated draw of 200,000. Cushing builds 742 gasoline draw 1.288 million. If you actually look at the price of oil, we did come off a little bit during the overnight session. This is when the data came out was really when we were peaking in price up around 63.30. We dipped overnight in Asia, found some support at a relative technical area of interest, which was that previous low on the 19th. You can see tests on the 20th and also in yesterday's session. So a bit of technical relevance around 62, 67. And then we've had a bit of a bounce up and just keeping an eye back to that previous level as well that we were trading late in the US hours at 63.30. All right, well, I'm gonna run you through the news as per usual on the live stream that the senior traders will put on for the community from eight till 10 a.m. They will go through the charts from all technical perspectives as some of the trade setups of the day. The other final product, just to mention before I do look at the news is gold. To me, it looks more technical than anything else. We had a bit of a breakdown in price through the early part of the Asia session as we went through the low from the prior Asia session. And that's just taken out the weekly low that was seen around 1768. And so gold's seen a bit of volatility in generally lighter volumes and exacerbating some of that move during the Asia pack session. But we're keeping an eye on some of those downside levels. The dollar, the touch firmer this morning, actually, and the Dixie is coming up to retest up and around yesterday's high. The Dixie's currently trading up, just shy of two tenths of 1%. So I would be watching that because that could exert some downside pressure on some of these major currency pairs as well, which would be something to be keen to keep an eye on. All right, so quick wrap up of what was happening last night. And we had Microsoft earnings and I'm just gonna go over these in a very kind of top level fashion and just get you up to speed in terms of the aftermarket reaction. The EPS from Microsoft 203 against expected 178 revenues also slightly beat expectations of 41.7 million. Q3 sales were up 19% lifted by robust demand for cloud computing services that exceeded expectations 15.12 billion against around 14.86 billion expected on the street. They had their strongest quarterly jump in personal computer shipments, also decent beat on expectations, biggest jump they've seen there in more than two decades. So actually very good numbers from Microsoft, but nonetheless, their shares, as you can see here, actually traded down, well, down about 2.6% in aftermarket hours, but they were actually down in excess of three and a half at one point. I guess Microsoft's been a little bit of a victim here to its own success. The share price on the year before this earnings report has hit, they're up about 25% year to date, never mind pandemic. So I think this move is very much contained. The numbers were really quite positive of anything. So I think it's just the fact that on the revenue side, on the street, there were some looking for even better numbers. And I guess when you perform so well, just generally mark expectations are so hyped that it's almost inevitable you're gonna come off a little bit. But again, in context, even if we open on the NAISI and we're on the NASDAQ, we're down about 2.6%, we're still gonna be up about 22% on the year anyway. So generally positive, despite the aftermarket bump, Alphabet, Q1, EPS 2629 against expected, 1570, absolute blowout. Revenues 55.31 billion against expected 51.55 billion powered by an increase in digital ad spending by businesses looking to take advantage of the ongoing pandemic reopening. They also announced a $50 billion share repurchase program of their class C-Stock. Shares were, if I just quickly flip over, up in excess of 4%. The real outlier here on the upside, they really did firm up quite aggressively in post-market trade. AMD was another one, beat on the EPS and revenues. As it says here, they gave a bullish forecast. They raised their 2021 revenue outlook and they were also trading up just shy of 4%. And then Visa was another major, larger cap earnings report. They were up about 1% following their numbers. So looking out for today, pre-market, one of the bigger Dow components. You've got Boeing, Spotify, something quite watched in terms of those invoked names as well, pre-market and aftermarket. I'll go through these in a lot more detail in the Amphi community before the release, but you've got Apple, Facebook, Qualcomm, probably the big three to keep an eye on. Before I look at the calendar for the rest of the day, just a quick wrap up of some other things just so you're aware from the overnight session. I did briefly mention the Australian data overnight. I must stress that the Aussie weakened overnight and then quickly reversed those gains and we're trading pretty much at the highs in Aussie now. So very limited sustained reaction here after the headline Australian CPI overnight came in at 0.6% quarter on quarter. Expectations were at 0.9%. Core inflation decelerated the slowest pace on record as the government programs lowered costs in the economy, but wages growth remains subdued. Demand for things like services still recovering to their pre-pandemic levels. So yeah, the currency slid after the report, but it was taken back very quickly indeed. So I don't think it was a long lasting impact that would see on the back of this evident in the price that's already materialized so far. Now, the other thing just briefly to mention, Yemen's Houthis say they fired a drone at a Southern Saudi air base. What this is talking about is the city of Camus Meshait, which is in the Southwest. It's very close really to the Saudi Yemen border. That was claimed this drone trying to attack a military air base in the Saudi Arabian city from the Yemen's Houthi militants is what they're claiming. A bit of context, it's the fifth largest city in Saudi Arabia, definitely more synonymous with the air base that's situated there rather than anything to do with the Ramco, like oil, infrastructure, anything of that degree. So this hasn't really had too much of an effect.  It's ongoing, very frequent activity we're seeing this geographic region of this nature. So it's not particularly new, but does come into context with oil just tapping on the ceiling of that previous late U.S. session high at 63.30, so just to be aware of. And then the other thing in copper prices, as I mentioned, I did put this out on Twitter as well because I just happened to be sat on my computer as I do at 11.30 at night. And I saw the news break and it was that the Chile president, Panera, said last night he'd signed into law the opposition-led bill, allowing a third drawdown from pensions, and if you remember, it was poor workers in Chile that called for strikes on Monday in protests over the president's move to try and block that bill, which did actually contribute to some of this ongoing uptick that we've been seeing in copper. I mean, copper's rising on a variety of different things from China, to global reopening, to Biden's infrastructure plan, but it was an element that was helping. And I think when a price like an asset like copper, you don't need much in a reason to just book some profit after we've seen real acceleration in prices, particularly over the last couple of sessions. And so during the Asia PAC session, that's exactly really what's happened. We've just come off from, as you can see here, through 2 a.m. London time, we broke through what was yesterday's low point. And now in the copper future, just finding some resistance you can see here, right on that S1, which is a really nice technical resistance actually now. You can see you've got the S1, you've got the overnight respect on multiple tests on that resistance level, with back on that high from what we had on Monday and the resistance turned support on that session. So yeah, interesting to keep an eye there. Downside, obviously you've got to have a test on the range from the Asia session, 4, 41, 75, any breakdown through there be targeting around 4, 40, 60, which would encapsulate those areas from the beginning of the week for copper prices. And then the Fed, I guess it's the final thing to talk about, because the calendar is relatively quiet and so the Fed's coming out usual time, seven p.m. And this isn't really gonna take me too long to explain because really I'm not expecting a great deal. I think the Fed have gone to great pains to really stress the point that despite the kind of, the cause for more optimism or positive outlook given the state of some of the recent economic data points that we've had, that's really gonna be epitomized by the strength in the increasing growth picture, which we'll get with the Cuban Advanced GDP tomorrow in the US. The point being is the Fed aren't going to change anything just yet. Inevitably they will, they will have to, it's just not now. So as far as what we can expect from tonight, definitely no changes in policy. Perhaps there could be this hinting towards the TAPOR program as an outside risk, particularly given what happened with the Bank of Canada just a week ago. I do not think that that will materialize. I think the language that we've heard from all the Fed officials tells me that it's too early yet to make those type of noises irrespective of their fantastic consumer confidence yesterday and all the other figures that have been lining up, showing that the gross kind of story is now underway. So we'll be tuned in, we'll cover this live for the community, but not expecting any great surprises there. Also on the calendar, the final thing I wanted to just quickly comment on is there is a number of UK-European corporate earnings as well to be aware of. So head of the cash open later. Santander, Deutsche, Glaxo comes out normally at midday London, so during session if any FTSE traders. So not for the Sainsbury's as well, so quite a few there to also keep an eye on. But that is it, gonna leave it there. Let you guys get on with the day. Any questions at all, let me know and we will see you online for the Fed later. Thanks very much.


Hi, thanks for being here and we are at Moodle Mood Global 2023 with threat from blindside networks representing our certified integration big blue button virtual classroom that is embedded in Moodle Core. So hopefully a feature that helps a lot of users. Can you tell us a bit more about your view and how you are supporting this need that is in the community? Right, so the key thing is that a virtual classroom is not a meeting. The goal of the virtual classroom is not to meet, it is to learn. And for us, virtual learning is about empowering a teacher to effectively engage the students. A lot of classes today are taught with video conferencing systems, which you share your screen, you share your video and students like passively watch. Maybe you're kind of looking through the keyhole and seeing which students are sharing their webcams. Not the most effective. What we focus on is giving the teacher tools to engage the students live to get them applied themselves because when they actively do things they learn, live analytics come back to the teacher in terms of which students are applying themselves. The teacher can use those analytics to see who's struggling, give them feedback in the moment. Again, result is the students do more time applying themselves, getting feedback and learning and the teacher is not relying on webcams to see who's struggling to give feedback in the moment. Awesome. So another thing that we haven't mentioned is obviously big blue button is open source, just like Moodle. So very important and I know that we are integrating this feature that you can develop extensions to big blue button. So can you give us a bit more feedback on that? Right. So the integration for big blue button is built into the core of Moodle. We got built into Moodle 4.0. What we want to do is be able to let the community further extend the integration and instead of having to go into change the core code, we're going to support sub plugins. So other parts of Moodle already support this, like the quiz module. What it's going to let you do is if you want to change maybe the way the recordings are looking or how the activity completion is computed, over the next couple of releases we're going to extend the capability to support sub plugins so that you can actually add that capability without modifying the core. Awesome. Thanks so much. And what would you say are the main drivers when people say, okay, I'm going to stop it with, let's not name video conferences, that these very popular tools for the general meetings, but what are the drivers that make them say, okay, I need a pro tool for teaching, not just meeting room? Right. So if you are delivering virtual classes and you really care about what the students are doing to increase learning outcomes, a lot of times people do it with a video conferencing system and students will come, the teacher will talk, the classes occurred, but the real learning occurs when the students have to apply what they're doing. So the difference with us is we do video, we share your screen, but we do have tools built in that make it easier for the teacher to apply themselves, to have the students apply themselves. And as the students use these tools, it generates a live analytics and it tells the teacher, hey, there's maybe a student that is not applying themselves or participating and it gives them a chance to call that student or encourage the student. And the student will be like, what, the teacher is aware of me? Yes, because the teacher is not relying on the webcams that can actually see the activity of the student. So you take that focus on pedagogy, applied learning, feedback, you marry it with a deep integration with Moodle where we share analytics back and forth and now you have a solution that really complements Moodle, Moodle being the asynchronous part for the learning, big blue button being the asynchronous part and we build them together so they look like one complete application. Excellent. Well, thanks for that. So I think it's, as you say, it's very different to hear, to listen and to engage with the content and with the experience of the classroom. So that's surely a much better retention, a much better learning experience for the users. And I will add something more, Carlos, because so much is going about AI and AI is going to replace the teacher or it's going to replace learning for the student and no. So what we want to do is if you're learning at home and you're using, like, you know, artificial intelligence to help you learn, what does it mean for the value of the virtual classes? And I think the virtual classes, their value increases because that's when humans, when teachers and students come together live and the teacher can kind of flip the classroom a bit if the student's been spending time on their own, you spend more time in the class doing things and less time listening and so you get that human feedback from the teacher, you work with your peers, so there's a social constructivism that's going on and the teacher's there to like encourage and support and motivate the student and that is a really critical part of learning. So we want that virtual classroom experience to be the most positive experience for the student that pushes them and, you know, struggle a bit during the class because struggle is good, but it's a really important part of learning and we want to make it the best part for the online learning experience. Wonderful and how has this in-presence experience that will move globally been for you so far? It's good. The Moodle community is actually one of the strongest communities I've seen for open source. The ethos of the community is build something that empowers teachers to improve our world. It started 20 years ago, it is now two thirds of the higher education and it's because it's open source. So we share that ethos, we're open source as well, we've been at it for 14 years, Moodle's been at it for 20 years, but the Moodle community is everybody is here together to improve Moodle and as we work together it just multiplies across the entire world. So it feels really good to be with Moodle, it feels good to be supporting Moodle, it feels good to be part of Moodle, and I can't wait to see what we're gonna do in the next five years. Awesome, happy to see that as well. Thank you for it. Thanks, Carl.


and hold it over your plants to water them. Hello and welcome to Do Try This At Home, brought to you by the Institute of Physics. We're making these videos because we want to help parents and carers in the UK and Ireland to get their kids excited and curious about the world around them, even when you can't leave the house. My name's Melissa and welcome to my living room. Now, even with our famous British brain, sometimes my plants need a little bit of extra help, but I don't own a water sprinkler, so I've come up with an invention, the milk carton water sprinkler. To make your own water carton sprinkler, you'll need a piece of string, the length of the string is entirely up to you, an empty carton, it could be a milk or a juice carton, whatever you have to hand, a pair of scissors, and a bowl. Any type of bowl that you have will work just as well, be it a washing up bowl or even a bucket. So with this next part, be very careful when doing this with family members because we're going to be using our scissors as a stabbing tool to create our holes, coupled by the double wabby that we're going to get water absolutely everywhere. So I do recommend you carry out the experiment either in the kitchen or somewhere outdoors. What I did earlier was make a hole in the bottom left corner of each side of the carton like this. Next, at the top of your flap, create another hole, then get your string, thread it through the hole, and then tie a knot, and there you have it.  Pour the water in and watch it spin, and hold it over your plants to water them. So what's going on there and how can you explain it to your family? At the bottom where I've made my hole, the water is under pressure. The water above is pressing down on the water below, and this creates a force that pushes the water out of our holes, which is good for my plants. Now let's get to the bottom of why it spins. Looking at the milk carton from above with the string in the middle, when you make a hole, the water comes out here, which causes a pushing force on the opposite side of the carton here. Now it's important that the holes are in the corner, not the middle. If I push here and here, nothing happens. By making the pushing forces off-center, the carton spins around the string in the middle. There are four streams of water coming out of our carton in four different directions. The result is that there are four forces on our carton, pushing it around, which causes it to spin. If you're not completely sure about the science, don't worry. As always, test it out, have fun together, and then you can look it up together later on if you need to. Thanks for watching and see you next time.


I express my love for you, our beloved friends and fellow believers. I have admired your faith and courage during these past months as this worldwide pandemic has disrupted our lives and taken precious family members and dear friends. During this period of uncertainty, I have felt an unusual gratitude for my sure and certain knowledge that Jesus is the Christ. Have you felt that way?  While we endure a season of physically distancing ourselves from others, we need never endure a season of spiritually distancing ourselves from him who lovingly calls to us, come unto me. Like a guiding star in a clear, dark sky, Jesus Christ lights our way. He came to earth in a humble stable. He lived a perfect life. He healed the sick and raised the dead. He was a friend to the forgotten. He taught us to do good, to obey, and to love one another. He was crucified on a cross, rising majestically three days later, allowing us and those we love to live beyond the grave. With his incomparable mercy and grace, he took upon himself our sins and our suffering, bringing forgiveness as we repent and peace in the storms of life. We love him. We worship him. We follow him. He is the anchor of our souls. Interestingly, while this spiritual conviction is increasing within us, there are many on the earth who know very little of Jesus Christ. And in some parts of the world where his name has been proclaimed for centuries, faith in Jesus Christ is diminishing. The valiant saints in Europe have seen belief decline in their countries through the decades. Sadly, here in the United States, faith is also receding. A recent study revealed that in the last 10 years, 30 million people in the United States have stepped away from believing in the divinity of Jesus Christ. Looking worldwide, another study predicts that in the decades ahead, more than twice as many will leave Christianity than those who will embrace it. We, of course, revere the right of each to choose, yet our Heavenly Father declared, "'This is my beloved Son. Hear him.'" I witnessed that the day will come, that every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ. How are we to respond to our changing world? While some are neglecting their faith, others are searching for the truth. We have taken upon ourselves the name of the Savior. What more are we to do? Part of our answer may come as we remember how the Lord tutored President Russell M. Nelson in the months prior to his call as President of the Church. Speaking one year before his call, President Nelson invited us to more deeply study the 2,200 references of the name Jesus Christ listed in the topical guide. Three months later, in April General Conference, he spoke of how, even in his decades of devoted discipleship, this deeper study of Jesus Christ had greatly affected him. Sister Wendy Nelson asked him about its impact. He replied, I am a different man. He was a different man. At age 92, a different man, President Nelson explained, as we invest time in learning about the Savior and His atoning sacrifice, we are drawn to Him. Our focus becomes riveted on the Savior and His gospel. The Savior said, look unto me in every thought. In a world of work, worries, and worthy endeavors, we keep our heart, our mind, and our thoughts on Him who is our hope and salvation. If a renewed study of the Savior helped prepare President Nelson, could it not help prepare us as well? In emphasizing the name of the Church, President Nelson taught, if we are to have access to the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, to cleanse and heal us, to strengthen and magnify us, and ultimately to exalt us, we must clearly acknowledge Him as the source of that power. President Nelson taught us that consistently using the correct name of the Church, something that might seem like a small thing is not small at all and will shape the world's future. I promise you that as you prepare yourselves as President Nelson did, you too will be different. Thinking more about the Savior, speaking of Him more frequently and with less hesitation, as you come to know and love Him even more deeply, your words will flow more comfortably as they do when you speak of one of your children or of a dear friend. Those listening to you will feel less like debating or dismissing you and more like learning from you. You and I speak of Jesus Christ, but maybe we can do a little better. If the world is going to speak less of Him, who is going to speak more of Him? We are, along with other devoted Christians. Are there images of the Savior in our homes? Do we talk often to our children about the parables of Jesus? The stories of Jesus are like a rushing wind across the embers of faith in the hearts of our children. When your children ask you questions, consciously think about teaching what the Savior taught. For example, if your child asks, Daddy, why do we pray? You might respond, that's a great question. Do you remember when Jesus prayed? Let's talk about why He prayed and how He prayed. We talk of Christ. We rejoice in Christ. That our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins. This same scripture adds that we preach of Christ. In our worship services, let us focus on the Savior Jesus Christ and the gift of His atoning sacrifice. This does not mean we cannot tell an experience from our own life or share thoughts from others. While our subject might be about families or service or temples or a recent mission, everything in our worship should point to the Lord Jesus Christ. 30 years ago, President Dowan H. Oaks spoke of a letter he had received from a man who said he had attended a sacrament meeting and listened to 17 testimonies without hearing the Savior mentioned. President Oaks then noted, perhaps that description is exaggerated, but I quote it because it provides a vivid reminder for all of us. He then invited us to speak more of Jesus Christ in our talks and class discussions. I have observed that we are focusing more and more on Christ in our church meetings. Let's consciously continue with these very positive efforts. With those around us, let us be more open, more willing to talk of Christ. President Nelson said, true disciples of Jesus Christ are willing to stand out, speak up, and be different from the people of the world. Sometimes we think that a conversation with someone needs to result in them coming to church or seeing the missionaries. Let the Lord guide them as they are willing. While we think more about our responsibility to be a voice for him, thoughtful and open about our faith. Elder D. D. R. F. Uchtdorf has taught us that when someone asks us about our weekend, we should be willing to happily respond that we loved hearing the primary children sing, I'm trying to be like Jesus. Let us kindly witness our faith in Christ. If someone shares a problem he or she has in their personal life, we might say, John, Mary, you know that I believe in Jesus Christ. I have been thinking about something he said that might help you be more open on social media in talking about your trust in Christ. Most will respect your faith, but if someone is dismissive when you speak of the Savior, take courage in his promise. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you for my sake, for great is your reward in heaven. We care more about being his followers than being liked by our own followers. Peter counseled, be ready always to give an answer for the hope that is in you. Let us talk of Christ. The Book of Mormon is a powerful witness of Jesus Christ. Virtually every page testifies of the Savior and his divine mission. An understanding of his atonement and grace saturates its pages. As a companion to the New Testament, the Book of Mormon helps us better understand why the Savior came to rescue us and how we can more profoundly come unto him. Some of our fellow Christians are at times uncertain about our beliefs and motives. Let us genuinely rejoice with them in our shared faith in Jesus Christ and in the New Testament scriptures we all love. In the days ahead, those who believe in Jesus Christ will need the friendship and support of one another. As the world speaks less of Jesus Christ, let us speak more of him. As our true colors as his disciples are revealed, many around us will be prepared to listen. As we share the light we have received from him, his light and his transcendent saving power will shine on those willing to open their hearts. Jesus said, I come as a light into the world. Nothing lifts my desire to speak of Christ more than visualizing his return. While we do not know when he will come, the events of his return will be breathtaking. He will come in the clouds of heaven, in majesty and glory, with all his holy angels, not just a few angels, but all his holy angels. These are not the cherry-cheeked cherubim painted by Raphael found on our Valentine cards. These are the angels of the centuries. The angels sent to shut the mouths of lions, to open prison doors, to announce his long-awaited birth, to comfort him in Gethsemane, to assure his disciples at his ascension, and to open the glorious restoration of the gospel. Can you imagine being caught up to meet him, whether on this side or the other side of the veil? That is his promise to the righteous. This amazing experience will mark our souls forever. How grateful we are for our beloved prophet, President Russell M. Nelson, who has lifted our desire to love the Savior and proclaim his divinity. I am an eyewitness to the Lord's hand upon him and the gift of revelation that guides him. President Nelson, we eagerly await your counsel. My dear friends across the world, let us talk of Christ, anticipating his glorious promise. Whosoever shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father. I testify he is the Son of God in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.