Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

The report highlights the opportunities that green innovation – goods and services with smaller carbon footprints – offer developing countries to strengthen their economies and boost their technological capacities.

All around us we see exponential advances in technology, from artificial intelligence to virtual reality, social media and deep fakes. There is amazing potential, but also incredible risk. This talk share some principles to help navigate this rapidly changing world.

Based on interviews with key stakeholders and an analysis of national strategies and policies on AI, the report makes four recommendations, which offer different and complementary pathways towards gender inclusive AI development.

This paper explores the role of STI as key enablers of catalytic actions toward achieving universal access to safe water and sanitation

This publication is a compilation of 18 selected submissions from a global open call for proposals launched in 2021. The works featured cross disciplinary and geographical boundaries, and include the perspectives of academics, civil society representatives, and innovators to help shift the conversation on AI from what we do know and foresee to what we do not, the missing links.

On the occasion of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities 2022, this webinar provided a platform to exchange good practices, discuss challenges, and identify solutions in innovation and technology that support disability-inclusive development.

ITU and partners developed the “Toolkit on Digital Transformation for People-Oriented Cities and Communities” to strengthen the technical and institutional capacities of stakeholders in driving digital transformation in the urban domain.

The Book takes a look at the state of play of green technologies responding to some of the most critical challenges of climate change with special focus on agriculture and forestry, the water sector and cities.

How can AI and other technologies help provide clean energy in a more just and equitable way? Each year, the IBM Sustainability Accelerator selects new projects and organizations that use technologies such as AI to help communities tackle sustainability issues worldwide.

Predicting war, coups and riots has been a goal for a generation of social studies researchers. Advances in machine learning and newly available historical datasets and predictors have given momentum to the field. Our research focused on the feasibility of predicting conflict for anticipatory action.

A new global study of 3,000 CEOs revealed that sustainability is rising higher on corporate agendas, and decision makers recognize sustainability as a business imperative. Despite this, business leaders continue to face growing pressures from boards and investors, and a lack of reliable data insights hinders their ability to take action.

The conference examines the state of play and the future of AI, survey the potential risks and rewards of AI technologies for international peace and security, and explore the path to Responsible AI.

This report is part of UN-Habitat’s strategy for guiding local authorities in realizing a people-centered digital transformation process in their cities and settlements.

This AI for Good webinar looks at the latest AI and robotic technologies for space science that are taking humanity into the future of interplanetary exploration missions, while promising to help improve life on Earth.

This talk discusses key possibilities the law offers to tackle trust issues that facing AI.