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ITU 2024 Priorities

The Common Agenda proposes a Global Digital Compact to be agreed at the Summit of the Future in September 2024 through a technology track involving all stakeholders: governments, the United Nations system, the private sector (including tech companies), civil society, grass-roots organizations, academia, and individuals, including youth.

Is artificial intelligence (AI) coming for our jobs, our purpose in life, our control over the future? Or is AI a tool that can be used to foster greater good? The United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, Amandeep Singh Gill, explores the costs, consequences and creative potential of AI in the context of global efforts to usher in a better future for humanity.

The international community has long been concerned by the narratives espoused and communicated by terrorist groups and the impact of these messages on recruitment, fundraising, and the planning and perpetration of terrorist acts. The Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) adopted the Comprehensive International Framework to Counter Terrorist Narratives.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

IGF: Press Conference on agenda of annual meeting in Kyoto in October

This panel offers expertise on the issue of online ungoverned spaces and grey-area content that present challenges to the current counterterrorism framework structure. When we know that there are illegal terrorist operated websites or online games, where can we work with industry to help them moderate this content or with law enforcement to find alternative avenues of removal, especially across jurisdictional differences.

Following the political declaration adopted at the occasion of the United Nations' 75th anniversary in September 2020, the Secretary-General in September 2021 released his report Our Common Agenda.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Video Message by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the 17th Internet Governance Forum

Press briefing by the Deputy Secretary-General, along with Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit Leonardo Garnier, and UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education Stefania Giannini on the Transforming Education Summit.