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UN General Assembly Adopts Convention on Cybercrime The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) served as secretariat to the negotiations. The United Nations General Assembly adopted on
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Digital Regulators Discuss Benefits of Transformative Technologies for Societies Regulators at GSR-24 noted that equal, global access to existing digital services would help countries leverage transformative technologies. Regulators
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Transparency Will Build Trust in Artificial Intelligence: UN Expert The UN expert urged States to promote ethical practices to ensure transparency in AI to mitigate the risks. Transparency
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UN Tech Agency Forms Focus Group to Set Metaverse Standards The ITU focus group aims to develop a roadmap for setting technical standards to make metaverse services and
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UN Report Details Impact of Internet Shutdowns on Human Rights Shutdowns were also reported when governments carried out security operations, severely restricting human rights monitoring and reporting. The
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The Office of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have announced a new set of UN targets for universal and meaningful
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UN human rights experts have warned of increased patterns of closing of digital spaces amid the Covid-19 pandemic. UN Special Rapporteurs* attending the annual RightsCon conference on human rights
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Emerging digital technologies driven by big data and artificial intelligence (AI) are entrenching racial inequality, discrimination, and intolerance, a UN human rights expert said Wednesday (July 15), calling
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United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres says artificial intelligence (AI) brings the promise of improved access to health care, accelerated economic development and other gains. But, he adds,
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Enterprise Tech
The UN specialized agency for information and communication technologies, ITU, suggests that use cases of blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are emerging in sectors such as telecom,
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The renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has announced the United Nations’ launch of a new campaign enabling individuals the world over to unite in actions to battle climate
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced Thursday the launch of a global task force charged with recommending strategies to harness the potential of financial technology to advance the
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Europe
Delegates representing a broad range of interests — from Governments to technology companies — focused on efforts to promote “digital growth” while overcoming many of the abuses of
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More than 3,000 participants — including high-level Government officials, civil society leaders, private sector and Internet policy experts — will participate in Internet Governance Forum (IGF) taking place
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Enterprise Tech
Technological advances are happening “at a warp speed,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday in Lisbon, Portugal, as a major three-day Web Summit got underway. According
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