seek your permission and respect your decisions regarding collection, use, access, transfer, and deletion of your data

pre-deployment and ongoing disparity testing and mitigation, and clear organizational oversight

ensuring accessibility for people with disabilities in design and development

roactive and continuous measures to protect individuals and communities from algorithmic discrimination and to use and design systems in an equitable way

pre-deployment testing, risk identification and mitigation, and ongoing monitoring

Independent evaluation and reporting

protected from inappropriate or irrelevant data use in the design, development, and deployment of automated systems, and from the compounded harm of its reuse

Automated systems should be developed with consultation from diverse communities, stakeholders, and domain experts to identify concerns, risks, and potential impacts of the system

this framework is accompanied by From Principles to Practice—a handbook for anyone seeking to incorporate these protections into policy and practice, including detailed steps toward actualizing these principles in the technological design process

five principles that should guide the design, use, and deployment of automated systems to protect the American public in the age of artificial intelligence. The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights is a guide for a society that protects all people from these threats—and uses technologies in ways that reinforce our highest values.

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factual evidence

Mexico continued to use spyware against activists

ICTs for the environment

option of telecommunications/ICTs and improving digital skills

Securing information and communication networks: Best practices for developing a culture of cybersecurity

e-health and e-education

Sustainable smart cities and communities

enable inclusive communication

tions/information and communication technologies for rural and remote areas

aspects of national telecommunications/ICTs1Statement

The use oftelecommunications/ICTsfor disaster risk reduction and management

tudy Group Questions

Fostering telecommunication/ICT-centric entrepreneurshipand digital innovation ecosystems for sustainable digital development

he ITU Partner2Connect Digital Coalition

Connecting every school to the Internet and every young person to information and communication technology services

ESOLUTION WGPLEN/1 (Kigali, 2022)Digitaltransformation for sustainable development

RESOLUTION 85(Rev. Kigali, 2022)Facilitating the Internet of Things and smart sustainable cities and communities for global development

RESOLUTION 76(Rev. Kigali, 2022)Promoting information and communication technologiesamong young women and men for socialand economic empowerment

RESOLUTION 67(Rev. Kigali, 2022)The role of the ITU Telecommunication Development Sector in child online protection

RESOLUTION66(Rev. Kigali, 2022)Information and communication technology, environment, climate change and circular economy

RESOLUTION 58(Rev. Kigali, 2022)Telecommunication/information and communication technology accessibility for persons with disabilities and persons with specific needs

promote efforts to enhance educational opportunities for women and girls in STEM and telecommunication/ICT skills and careers across their lifespan, with particular attention to women and girls in rural and underserved areas;11continue to assist developing countries to close the gender digital divide, including enhancing women's and girls' access to reliable connectivity, digital literacy and digital skills;12support the continuation of the Network of Women (NoW) advisory group, working on a voluntary basis, composed of two women representative coordinators per region designated in collaboration with the regional groups

promote educational programmes to protect women and girls from online forms of abuse and harassmentand to address their safety needs

evelop partnerships with other United Nations agencies to promote the use of telecommunications/ICTs in projects aimed at women and girls in line with ITU's mandate, with the aimof encouraging women and girls to connect to the Internet, increasing training for women and girls, and monitoring the telecommunication/ICT gender divide, including actively participating in and promotingEQUALS –The Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age

mobilize resources for gender-sensitive projects, including projects to ensure that women and girlscan use ICTs for their own empowerment and in daily personaland professional activities,and create services and develop applications that contribute to the equality and empowerment of all women and girls

design, implement and support projects and programmes in developing countries and countries with economies in transition that are either specifically targeted to women and girls or are gender sensitive, for the purpose of tackling the barriers that women and girls encounter in access to and use of ICTs in terms of digital literacy and skills, training in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, affordability, trustand confidence, at the international, regional and national levels, taking into account SDG target 5.b

continue to work to promote gender equality in the field of telecommunications/ICTs, recommending and supporting the implementation of actionsonpolicies and programmes at the international, regional and national level in order toimprove the socio-economic condition of women, with greater emphasis on developing countries

support gender mainstreaming in the Union's activities

shall continue to support the development of activities, projects and events aimed at closing the gender digital divide

RESOLUTION55(Rev.Kigali, 2022)Mainstreaming a gender perspective1in ITU to enhance women's empowerment through telecommunications/ICTs

RESOLUTION 46(Rev.Kigali, 2022)Assistance toindigenouspeoples and communities through information and communication technologies

RESOLUTION45(Rev. Kigali, 2022)Mechanisms for enhancing cooperation on cybersecurity, including countering and combating spam

in order to

to maintain the Group on capacity-building initiatives(GCBI),composed of competent capacity-development experts familiar with the needs of their regions, to enhance the ability of ITU Member States, Sector Members, Associates, Academia, experienced and expert professionals and organizations with relevant expertise to assist ITU-D, and to contribute to the successful implementation of its capacity andskills-developmentactivities in an integrated manner in cooperation with the two ITU-D study groups and in accordance with adopted Kigali Action Planpriorities and regional initiatives, each according to its respective field of competence

RESOLUTION 40(Rev.Kigali, 2022)Group on capacity-building initiatives

RESOLUTION 37(Rev. Kigali, 2022)Bridging the digital divide

RESOLUTION 34(Rev. Kigali, 2022)The role of telecommunications/information and communication technology in disaster preparedness, early warning, rescue, mitigation, relief and response

RESOLUTION 15(Rev. Kigali, 2022)Applied research and transfer of technolo

RESOLUTION 11(Rev.Kigali, 2022)Telecommunication/information and communication technology services in rural, isolated and poorly served areas

RESOLUTION 5(Rev. Kigali, 2022)Enhanced participation by developing countries1in the activities of the Union

Resolutions

REGIONAL INITIATIVES

Implementation of ITU-D Priorities

Affordable Connectivity

WorldTelecommunicationDevelopmentConferencecallsuponthe ITUmembership and all development-oriented stakeholders,includingthosein theUnitedNations system,tocontribute activelytowardsthesuccessfulimplementationofthis Declaration

Promoting international cooperation and partnership among ITU membership and development-oriented stakeholders for achieving sustainable development using telecommunication/ICT-centric digital technologies.

Providing support to and cooperating with developing countries, LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS in addressingtheir constraints for accessing digital-centric new and emerging telecommunication/ICT technologies and services and for the integration thereof into different sectors, such as government services, agriculture, education, health, finance, transport, etc

implement evidence-based decision-making

Promoting sound, open, transparent, collaborative and future-proof policy and regulatory decisions with a view to facilitating digital transformation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We will implement innovative strategies and policy/regulatory initiatives to bridge the widening digital divides by enabling universal, secure and affordable broadband connectivity and promoting increased digital inclusion, while enhancing confidence and security in the use of telecommunication/ICT infrastructure and services. As such, we will develop and implement policy/regulatory frameworks to help ensure infrastructure resiliency, interoperability and protection of data, as well as increase broadband uptake. Besides, we will adopt effective plans to develop and enhance digital capacities and skills that are required in the online world, without which the digital divides will continue to widen

bold and innovative national plans and recovery strategies for ensuring governance, business, education and social-life continuity. This includes providing the necessary platforms and networks for essential activities such as teleworking, e-commerce, remote learning, telemedicine and digital financial services, while paying special attention to the needs of women and girls, persons with disabilities and persons with specific needs, the elderly and children, and at the same time preparing the ground for future developments in the post-COVID-19 era

We are also fully committed to tackling environmental and climate-change issues, notably in implementing telecommunication/ICT tools to mitigate the impact of climate change and addressing the impact of telecommunications/ICTs on the environment, in collaboration with users, the private sector, policy-makers and regulators

Accelerating the expansion and use of efficient and up-to-date digital infrastructures, services and applications for building and further developing the digital economy,including mobilization of financial resources for providing universal, secure and affordable broadband connectivity to the unconnected as soon as possible. This will also include promoting investments in broadband infrastructure deployment, adoption and acces

Multistakeholder cooperation

Digital inclusionis a necessity, and insufficient digital capacity and lack of digital skills are core barriers to digital transformation and the digital economy. The demand for digitally skilled workers will increase with the accelerated move towards digital transformation. While many jobs have been and will be lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation and the digital economy can nurture new ICT-centric jobs. Education and capacity building for youth, and their access to digital skills and tools, are essential for youth engagement in shaping the digital future

We recognize that available, affordable, dependable and accessible ICTs when leveraged through adequate digital skills can provide powerful drivers for development and are instrumental in timely, inclusive and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Capacity building/development in different ICT areas, including spectrum management, remains a challenge

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build confidence, trust and security in the use of telecommunications/ICTs

In the digital era, universal, secure and affordable broadband connectivity is indispensable and provides opportunities for boosting productivity and efficiency, ending poverty, improving livelihoods and ensuring that sustainable development becomes a reality for all.

Another first for WTDC-22 is the Network of Women (NoW)

The Kigali conference revised Resolution 55 on mainstreaming a gender perspective in ITU to enhance women’s empowerment through telecommunications/ICTs to encourage Member States to have gender parity in their delegations to ITU-D activities to help solve the issue of under representation of women

SeveralpledgesweremadedirectlyinsupportofITUprojects,including

Thefirst-everITUPartner2Connect (P2C) Digital DevelopmentRoundtablewas heldon7-9June2022asanintegralpartofWTDC-22.Atthetimeofthiswriting(13June2022),374pledges had been announced, representinganestimatedvalueofUSD24.5billion.Thedriveforuniversalandmeaningfulconnectivityrepresentedinthesepledgesisexpectedtobenefitbillionsofpeoplearoundtheworld,especiallyindevelopingcountries.

The digital divide continues to be a challenge, particularly for the LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS. In response to this challenge, in September 2021 at the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, ITU launched the Partner2Connect (P2C) Digital Coalition, a multistakeholder alliance to foster meaningful connectivity and digital transformation globally. Launched in close cooperation with the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, and in line withthe United Nations Secretary General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation, P2C provides a leadership platform to mobilize and announce new resources, partnerships and commitments around four focus areas:

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common sense is not one precise thing, and therefore cannot be easily defined by rules

Common sense is different from intelligence in that it is usually something innate and natural to humans that helps them navigate daily life, and cannot really be taught.

but research seems to show that combining synthetic data with real data gives statistically sound results

Synthetic data can give smaller players the opportunity to turn the tables.

it can reduce biased outcomes

it can protect privacy and copyright

he synthetic data comes perfectly labeled

it’s easier to collect way more of it

Synthetic data, however it is produced, offers a number of very concrete advantages over using real world data.

There are a couple of ways this synthetic data generation happens

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conceptual break with traditional human-centered understandings of the world and its politics.

but with the biogeochemical processes of the Earth itself.

do not care about our borders and political divisions

require processes and institutions that are inherently planetary in scale and scope.

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The experts also called attention to the radical impact of digital technologies on any humanitarian response. They highlighted the dependence on digital identity programs – particularly the collection of sensitive biometric data as a condition to access humanitarian aid – despite dangers to human rights as illustrated recently in breaches, data loss, and the exclusion of at-risk communities. They implored humanitarian actors to account for human rights impacts to ensure that digital solutions do not cause further harm to those most vulnerable.

a unique holistic view of technology and deep experience in multiple genres of research communities

researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory determined that the web of accounts—on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and five other social-media platforms—had been promoting pro-Western narratives, posting in Russian, Arabic and Farsi. The researchers characterise it as “the most extensive case of covert Western influence operations…analysed by open-source researchers to date.”

Governments in Latin America, Africa and South-East Asia have avoided condemning Russia not because they buy tales of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, but because they want Russia’s guns, oil and grain. Traditions of nonalignment and resentment towards the West exist independently of Russian propaganda.

And while eyeballs may be a “necessary precondition” for effectiveness, “high engagement doesn’t necessarily translate into effectiveness,” notes Ms Grossman

In a poll of six African countries commissioned by The Economist earlier this year, support for Russia’s invasion was strongest in Mali and Ivory Coast.

“Russia is very effective at building on sentiments that already exist,”

The five permanent members (America, Britain, China, France and Russia) should wield their veto only in “rare, extraordinary situations”, Mr Biden said

On global health, Mr Biden pledged help to ensure the world is better prepared to confront the next pandemic

food security

The second part of the West’s strategy is to mitigate the repercussions of the war

First, Mr Biden softened his long-standing division of the world into rival camps of democracies against autocracies.

“Ukraine fatigue”,

“I have come to say that Africa has suffered enough of the burden of history; that it does not want to be the breeding ground of a new cold war,” said Macky Sall, the president of Senegal and current chairman of the African Union. Like others, he managed to bemoan the impact of the Ukraine war without mentioning Russia. He urged de-escalation, a ceasefire and a negotiated solution.

Eastern Europeans are keen on enlargement, but also want to keep the veto, particularly in matters of foreign policy, where they do not trust France or Germany

Hungary (along with Poland) is currently not receiving any of the pandemic cash, specifically because of its rule-of-law shortcomings

The Luxembourg Compromise protects against federalist overreach. The Reverse Luxembourg would protect Europe from diplomatic blackmail.

But because the proposal to move away from unanimity itself requires unanimity, it is unlikely to go anywhere.

threatening to kibosh Europe’s participation in a global corporate-tax deal.

This includes anything relating to defence and foreign policy, enlargement, taxation and policing.

But in several policy areas unanimity among member states is still needed

Most eu business now is agreed by a qualified majority of countries.

the notion of limited sovereignty, the conception of just war, the obligation of states to exercise self-restraint in the use of force, states’ obligation to protect human dignity and human rights, the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention, and the role and responsibility of the dominant states in the maintenance of international peace

to formulate a minimalist morality

it must at once acknowledge the plurality of moral ideals that are defining of the world’s cultures,

it is in clarifying the next phase of the discussion.

Relationality is ontologically more basic than individuality.

While new technologies and artificial intelligence can contribute to the emergence of a new geopolitical order, the human predicament today is fundamentally an ethical issue.

now need to “de-colonize” themselves from the forms of knowledge imposed upon them by the West

it also exerted a form of epistemic violence by imposing divisive ideas, particularly its ideas concerning nations, races, and gender.

mechanism of transformational harmony.

Zhao argues that the key to the Tianxia system lies in how, via its methods of “relational rationality” and “Confucian improvement,”14 it constitutes a world with no outsiders.

Today’s China is a sovereign state and not Tianxia

A looming Pax Sinica rivaling the Pax Americana, China is projecting its soft power and brandishing its culture around the world

China does not seek to forcefully impose its worldview onto others

It believes that each ethnic group and nation can have its own history, but just as in the end all streams return to the sea, ultimately all groups will submit willingly to a higher-order culture and its institutions

It advocates ‘transformation’ and thus works by winning over the hearts of others instead of subduing them by force.

First, Tianxia means the Earth under the sky, ‘all under heaven.’ Second, it refers to the general will of all peoples in the world, entailing a universal agreement. It involves the heart more than the mind, because the heart has feelings. And third, Tianxia is a universal system that is responsible for world order.

This strategic shift towards coexistence is rational because it continues to produce positive payoffs when copied by other players.

The ancient Chinese concept of Tianxia translates roughly as “all under heaven existing harmoniously.”

Tianxia begins from an ecological understanding of international relations that acknowledges the mutuality and interdependence of all economic and political activity.

The idea of Tianxia (天下) — conventionally translated as “all under heaven” — is a familiar term in everyday Chinese parlance that simply means “the world.” But Tianxiais also a geopolitical term found throughout canonical Chinese literature that has deeper philosophical and historical significance.

for rethinking global governance and rebuilding trust in humanity’s shared future.

a global consciousness — an awareness of our interdependence in addressing issues on a planetary scale

inadequacy of our modern state system to respond effectively to a global crisis.

Your first life begins about 300,000 years ago in Africa.

“move fast and break things” approach

to place reasonable multilateral constraints

International treaties have long recognised that nations must have equitable access to the orbits and frequencies around Earth.

“carrying capacity” can help us assess how to best use the resource to benefit all.

LEO is a shared natural resource

the environmental footprint of each LEO constellation.

total mass of the LEO mega-constellations has been increasing at an alarming rate.

the light pollution caused by countless satellites may soon outnumber visible stars, interfering with optical and radio astronomy.

crisis of debris in space

a cascade of collisions,

the over-exploitation of limited space resources

Mega-constellations incorporating thousands, and soon tens of thousands, of satellites are crowding into low-Earth orbit, or LEO, and claiming the right to occupy it

Space is a shared resource which must remain available to all nations.

We need to be sure that the capacity to innovate — to be fully engaged in making the future — isn’t constrained by class, ethnicity or gender. That really would be disruptive.

We need innovation that is accessible and organic — that is owned by the communities to which it matters and that’s adapted to local cultures, rather than being the whim of iconoclasts

rather than recognize the dogged and meticulous hard work that makes for real innovation.

The marketization of expertise over the past few decades has also created a climate in which expertise is taken to be something that can be treated like just another commodity.

have had enough of experts,

experts — at least the visible ones — are easily dismissed as being in hock to special interests, too, even by other elites.

an image of expertise that we’ve inherited from the Victorians

Innovation really is the work of multitudes, not singularities.

Tesla failed

that successful innovation requires collective effort.

Russell’s Earthlings were Kuhnians to the aliens’ disruptive Popperians, we might say, and their example offers an antidote to our persistent habit of succumbing to Tesla Syndrome.

“Legwork” might be fiction, but I think there’s something very human about the way the humans’ triumph over the disruptive aliens is portrayed as the ultimate application of teamwork.

“Legwork” by the British writer Eric Frank Russell, a brilliant piece of post-war science fiction published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1956, serves as an exploration of the collective against the disruptive in fictional form.

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Popper’s problem, though — and the problem of tech disruptors, too — is that the experience of political disruptors shows us disruption generates chaos, not innovation.

Normal science was boring, and not really science at all, he argued.

Karl Popper,

Thomas Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” with its emphasis on the routines of consensual normal science, was very much a product of this post-war view of technoscientific innovation as a collective activity. Kuhn’s argument was that successful science depended on rule-following. Innovation was generated by going by the book. This was a philosophy of science that mirrored post-war consensus about progress and its requirements.

Much of this was driven by the spectre of the Cold War. During the 1980s and 1990s, Reaganism, Thatcherism and the end of the Cold War broke those connections.

The decades immediately following the Second World War were the decades of big government. They were also the decades of big science and big corporations.

Political institutions are seen as being there to serve their own interests rather than those of citizens. It’s that perception that makes the strident calls to “drain the swamp” that have become prevalent in USA politics since the 1980s appear so seductive.

The roots of disruption’s attraction in politicians lie in the long, slow decline of trust in post-war political institutions.

that disruption has gained a foothold outside of tech culture.

Why has it — and the notion of disruption it captures — acquired so much resonance now?

untrammelled by compromise

There he is held up as the epitome of the otherworldly maker of the future, an iconoclastic breaker of rules interested only in innovation for its own sake and doomed to failure because of his single-minded focus on invention.

in this ability to break with established routine.

The 19th-century inventors of the idea of progress imagined that the future would be produced through accumulation. Innovation would build on innovation. Built into the idea of disruption is the sense that successful innovation means abandoning the old entirely for the new.

the erosion of trust in institutions.

Why has the idea that the best innovators are disruptive gained such traction over the past decade or so, to the extent that it is now, paradoxically, orthodox to be heterodox?

why do we see disruption as a virtue?