Digital Policy, Capacities & Inclusion

Digital transformation impacts every part of our lives - from the way we live to how we work and play.

Even as digital innovation continues to expand opportunities for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, there is an urgent need to look at how our rights are affected by emerging technologies and how to be empowered with tools to guard these rights.

UNESCO works to narrow the digital divide, strengthen digital governance and policies, build human and institutional capacities for digital transformation and lead reflections around pressing concerns related to the rapid technological development from a Human Rights and ethics perspective.

Highlights

Global MOOC on AI and the Rule of Law

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Digital Transformation and AI Competency Framework for Civil Servants

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Joint Report on Effects of AI on the Working Lives of Women

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Microlearning for Youth on AI and Human Rights

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Our Challenges

Ensuring Inclusion

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Building Capacities and Advising Policymakers

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Fostering partnerships

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Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law

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In Numbers

22%

Of professionals working in the AI field are women

(UNESCO Science Report)

90%

Of judicial operators surveyed

need legal training concerning AI systems (Judges’ Initiative)

80%

Of Member States requested policy advice for AI policy

(Africa AI needs)

7 minutes to understand AI What is Artificial Intelligence?

Episode 1: This episode gives a general introduction to AI and UNESCO’s ROAM-X principles

The animation series were created based on the UNESCO publication Steering AI and Advanced ICTs for Knowledge Societies – a Rights, Openness, Access, and Multi-stakeholder Perspective to promote a better understanding of guiding human-centred and ethical principles underpinning any development of AI. Each episode contains a key message illustrated from the publication.