Generative AI Primer

This report highlights how geospatial technologies is being applied to all of the Sustainable Development Goals with case studies from across the UN.

If you have followed the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and the Summit of the Future (SoF) you have probably heard the buzz around the newly adopted Global Digital Compact. To give you an overview of everything there is to know about the GDC and answer your questions, the UN Digital Community hosted a learning session, following our UNGA & SoF Debrief of key digital insights.

Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for crowd monitoring can help law enforcement officers and related authorities identify threats to public safety more efficiently, support human operators in making quicker, more informed decisions, improve response times and reduce workload. Yet, AI-enhanced surveillance raises critical ethical, societal, and human rights considerations. The AI4citizens: Responsible AI for Citizen Safety in Future Smart Cities project, funded by the Research Council of Norway, brings together a multidisciplinary team to explore how an AI system for crowd monitoring and anomaly detection can be designed and deployed responsibly by anonymizing CCTV footage.

This webinar addresses the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in Egypt in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.