Intergovernmental Meeting related to the draft Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

The Intergovernmental special committee meeting of technical and legal experts will be convened in April and June 2021 to examine the draft text of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The negotiated and approved text will be submitted to Member States for the adoption by the General Conference of UNESCO at its 41st session. If adopted, the Recommendation will be the first global normative instrument in this critically important field. At its 40th session in November 2019, UNESCO’s General Conference decided to develop an international standard-setting instrument on the ethics of AI, in the form of a recommendation. Since then, UNESCO has led a multidisciplinary, multicultural and pluralist effort to produce a preliminary report and a first draft of the Recommendation, shared with Member States in September 2020 for their comments.

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26 April 2021 Paris - France

Breaking borders and boundaries: UNESCO’s holistic framework of Internet Universality ROAM principles and indicators

The COVID-19 pandemic has once more reminded the world of the importance of the Internet as a window to education, access to information, health, culture and countless other aspects of daily life. UNESCO stands strongly for promoting Internet Universality ROAM principles of human Rights (R) to promote an Internet that is Open (O), Accessible to all (A) and nurtured by Multistakeholder participation (M) to combat digital divides especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ROAM principles serve as a holistic framework to preserving all human rights on the Internet as well as its openness and accessibility, in a spirit of multi-stakeholder participation in the development of norms, regulations and programmes that govern digital technologies.

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12 May 2021 Paris - France

2nd Memory of the World Global Policy Forum

We are pleased to inform you that the 2nd Memory of the World Global Policy Forum, which was postponed from October 2020 due to the evolving situation related to COVID-19, will take place from 21 to 22 September 2021 at UNESCO Headquarters.    UNESCO expects to organize the event as presence-based hybrid, incorporating physical and virtual participation. For details, please see the latest concept note. Online registration is reopened. We will keep you posted about any further developments. The Memory of the World Secretariat  Links:  Concept note Online registration

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21 September 2021 Paris - France