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Innovation and technology have an immense potential in addressing increasingly complex humanitarian crisis, allowing aid to reach the most vulnerable populations in a more efficient and effective way.

The 2024 ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum to take place on April 22-25 assumes added importance, as it is to inform the 4th International Conference for Financing for Development to be held in 2025.

Of all technologies, digital has been synonymous with innovation and transformation of our economies and societies. Even during the pandemic, the digital sector was proven to be resilient and became a new source of growth amidst economic contraction. Digitalization holds the potential of shaping a more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable world, bringing acceleration across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Media stakeout of H.E. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US Ambassador to the United Nations, on a historic step toward fostering safe, secure trustworthy AI systems.

The Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025 will convene for its seventh substantive session (4 - 8 March 2024) to continue its work on issues related to information security in the context of international security.

The Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025 will convene for its seventh substantive session (4 - 8 March 2024) to continue its work on issues related to information security in the context of international security.

The Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025 will convene for its seventh substantive session (4 - 8 March 2024) to continue its work on issues related to information security in the context of international security.

The Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025 will convene for its seventh substantive session (4 - 8 March 2024) to continue its work on issues related to information security in the context of international security.

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.

In accordance with General Assembly resolution 75/282 and the road map and mode of work approved at its first session, the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes, established by the General Assembly in its resolution 74/247, will hold its concluding session from 29 January to 9 February 2024 in New York.

In accordance with General Assembly resolution 75/282 and the road map and mode of work approved at its first session, the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes, established by the General Assembly in its resolution 74/247, will hold its concluding session from 29 January to 9 February 2024 in New York.

The ECOSOC will convene a special meeting of the Council on "The future of work: towards a productive, inclusive and sustainable global society to take place on 23-24 January 2024 at the Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.