Internet Universality Indicators
The concept of Internet Universality summarizes UNESCO’s updated positions in the digital age, pointing to the four fundamental R.O.A.M principles, according to which the Internet should be human Rights-based, Open, Accessible to all and nurtured by Multi-stakeholder participation.
UNESCO works to encouraged interested Member States and all stakeholders to support and conduct national assessments of Internet development, on a voluntary basis, with the Internet Universality ROAM-X Indicators”.
The conduct of these assessments aim to:
- Develop a clear and substantive understanding of the national Internet environment and of Internet policies contributing to sustainable development;
- Assess such environment and policies in relation to the implementation of UNESCO’s R.O.A.M. principles;
- Formulate policy recommendations that can help improve Internet development in the country.
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AI and ROAM
This report is a contribution to the wider debate about the ethics and governance of AI. It is an attempt to ‘steer’ clear of both technological utopianism, and dystopian thinking. Instead of technological determinism and its implication of inevitability, UNESCO gives attention to the role of human agency and human-centred values in the development of AI and other advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs).
This study frames its assessment of AI through UNESCO’s Internet Universality ROAM framework agreed by our Member States in 2015.
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.
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