Students of British Columbia University, Canada (UBC), are organizing a unique Global Crisis Simulation conference in Mumbai. Over 500 students from top universities across the world are expected to attend this from February 13 to 15.
Students of British Columbia University, Canada (UBC), are organizing a unique Global Crisis Simulation conference in Mumbai. Over 500 students from top universities across the world are expected to attend this from February 13 to 15.
While governments across the world are grappling with larger societal issues, several public-private partnerships have also failed to fill the gap and scholars have started debating about the best possible solutions before the future leaders.
A tri-sector approach with collaboration of government, private and social sectors, could be one of such solutions, feel UBC students, who believe the crisis could be handled well if leaders have skills in all three sectors.
To prove their point and also to prepare future leaders with the three different sets of skills, they are organizing a unique business and policy simulation conference in partnership with St. Xavier's College.
"The tri-sector leaders have been among the most influential people of their time. Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Mellon and George Schulz were all successful in one sector before they went on to make a substantial impact in another," say the organisers.
Hassan Bhatti, BSc student at BCU and secretary general of the conference, underlined the need of cross-sector collaboration for the large society like India. "Amidst the fast changing geopolitical, economic and ecological landscapes of the world, many of the grand challenges, like transportation infrastructure, natural resource stewardship, access to education, and the rising cost of healthcare increasingly require business, government and non-profit sectors to work together to create lasting solutions. But this is only possible if future leaders have these skills, and at the moment no conference addresses these challenges. The GCS aims to provide future leaders a platform to develop such skills."
In crisis simulations, only a short period of time is allotted to solve a pressing issue. This forces participants to think quickly on their feet to come up with a solution, which simulates what real policy-makers must do in order to make a decision. Throughout the conference, social venture proposals will be collected from participants and the authors of the winning proposal will receive a $7,000 grant to implement their project.
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