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On May 20, 2016 the United Nations held the first ID2020 summit in New York, which is now held annually. The United Nations recognizes "identity as a fundamental human right", and ID2020 is a strategic, global initiative launched in response to Sustainable Development Goal 16.9., with the aim "by 2030, provide legal identity to all, including birth registration" [1] "Together we will foster a global conversation and build a working coalition to identify and build the enabling conditions for the creation of a legal digital identity for all individuals at risk". The UN claims that one fifth of the worlds population is without a recognised legal ID which makes them "invisible to society and vulnerable to trafficking, prostitution, and child abuse." Then the ID2020 Alliance launched in 2017 as a global public-private partnership setting the future course of digital identity (ID), ensuring that digital identity is responsibly implemented and widely accessible, as they state no government, company or agency can solve this challenge alone. Its partners include Microsoft, the Rockefeller Foundation, Accenture, GAVI (a core partner of the WHO), UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank. [2, 3]

The International Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Consortium (ISARIC) was launched on December 16, 2011, and is a group of international organisations taking part in a new global consortium organized to prepare clinical research for future influenza pandemics or other rapidly emerging public health threats. Infectious outbreaks are not limited only to influenza outbreaks but are global phenomena that are occurring with increasing frequency. The standardized and open-access protocols developed during this consortium will allow researchers from all participating countries to work with, adapt and evolve common clinical case ascertainment. This will ensure that high-quality and comparable clinical research is practiced on a global scale. As part of The Global Health Network (TGHN) also funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ISARIC has "an overreaching ambition to change the way in which research is carried out during and between epidemics, ISARIC aims to address the social and ethical issues related to this paradigm change." The ISARIC is being launched by the Wellcome Trust, and the UK Medical Research Council, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Inserm, Li Ka Shing Oxford Global Health Programme and the Singapore Ministry of Health.

Established in 2003 the Gates founded the initiative Grand Challenges in Global Health and relaunched it on October 7, 2014 as the  Grand Challenges, where "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Grand Challenge Partners Commit to Innovation with New Investments in Breakthrough Science" The "original US$450 million research initiative was created to catalyze scientific and technological innovation to achieve major breakthroughs in global health."  This new initiative is to expand to "a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems." On launch day one initiative was to focus "on accelerating the translation of original and innovative concepts for vaccines, drugs and diagnostics into safe, effective, affordable and widely used interventions for diseases in the developing world." [5] Since then the Gates Foundation and other funders, such as the Zuckerberg foundation, continue to launch funding opportunities for new Grand Challenges initiatives, both independently and in partnerships."[4] On November 8, 2021, through this initiative the Gates Foundation launched Grand Challenges Global Call-to-Action initiative to "build on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and fund cutting-edge science projects that together advance high-priority global health objective." Gate's decides which projects gets the funding and thus plays a key role in..> READ MORE