Waste and Water Data Solutions for Reducing Environmental Impact
Womenvai & European Water Project
Session 123
Combining the Private and Public sector, Engineers and Economists, Women and Men in an interactive high-level dialogue. “The challenges of water, waste and climate change in cities” “Data Solutions a Key Issues from private and public sector”. We will present some of our actions and return from experiences, using the exponentially available data, to foster the sustainable management of water, wastewater, e-water and ecosystems, being aware that lack of water infrastructures, solid waste management and climate adaptation priorities. Particularly, European Water Project will present a concrete case example of how collaboratively contributed open data can be used to increase the use of tap water and eliminate the reliance on single-use plastic water bottles.
Project Manager, Suez Group, Co-founder and Vice-President of the NGO Womenvai, Lylian Coelho Ferreira leads the project team according to the SDG’s. These include reducing GHG emissions, promoting gender equality and sharing solutions to mobilize volunteers, entrepreneurs and communities to accelerate the transition toward a more circular, united and ecological economy. Joining INWES in 2008 as a speaker, she has since then organized several events such as ICWES, WEC, HultPrize ,TEDXCW, COP24 COP25.
Stuart Rapoport, President of European Water Project. Stuart received a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon. He worked for IBM as an electrical engineer developing computer circuits, and after obtaining an MBA from Colombia University, he led a 25-year career in finance in New York, London and Geneva.
Stephanie Rapoport, Vice President of European Water Project. Stéphanie has a Master’s degree in Communication from Hunter College (New York City) and has been a French book author for the past 20 years. She has been a UN representative for the NGO Make Mothers Matter and is an active board member of FerMUN (Modal United Nations Ferney-Voltaire).
Researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Department of Economics and Finance. She teaches Economic Evaluation of Investments, Transport Economics, and Economics of Transport Mobility in UG and PG courses. She is author of more than 80 publications. She is coordinator/component of several research projects groups at national and international levels. She is an active referee of several scientific journals. She has been a consultant of several Ministries and Local Authorities as a senior economist in the transport economics and sustainability fields. She is an independent scientific expert for the scientific evaluation of the Italian research (REPRISE) for the Italian Ministry of Education and Scientific Research (MIUR). She is also component of the Italian Evaluation Body (O.I.V.).
She is an renewable energy expert currently working for the German Development Corporation (GIZ GmbH) in Rwanda. She has experience in designing data solutions for policy makers and donor programs in the off-grid energy sector and has explored (digital) approaches for encouraging e-waste collection and recycling.
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