The Starmus International Festival is an international gathering focused on celebrating astronomy, space exploration, music, art, and allied sciences such as biology and chemistry. Starmus is going to Armenia to celebrate the 50th anniversary of MARS 3 and MARINER 9 missions and to promote the idea of peaceful cooperation on Earth and in Space. https://www.starmus.com/

Rural areas across much of Asia are undergoing profound economic, social and demographic changes. Not only goods and people, but ideas, values, and cultural practices, are moving, both physically and virtually, across multi-layered transport networks.

IEEE SS12: Age of Innovation 2018 is an international project competition and a maker fair to recognize the best social innovation. Working with UN, this competition would be an ideal platform for promoting regional connectivity and addressing some of the most pressing global challenges.