Timeline

A Policy Brief from the UN Secretary-General was issued in May 2023.

Guiding questions:

1. How can we move from principles to practical measures that will help guide
   and lead the application of AI technologies in different contexts, and how can
   these be aligned?
2. How can regulators and innovators work together to promote the development
   and rollout of new emerging technologies while protecting human and
   planetary safety, human agency, and fundamental rights?
3. What measures can be taken to ensure that AI and other emerging
   technologies promote the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals?

Guiding questions:

1. Digital spaces and online platforms can be exploited by actors for financial,
   criminal, social, political, or malicious goals – to spread falsehood, violent and
   extreme content, perpetrate scams and other crimes, and manipulate online
   behaviors. Which collaborative measures undertaken by Governments, the
   private sector and civil society have proved effective in tackling such misuse
   so far? How can global digital cooperation strengthen their implementation?

2. Different jurisdictions apply different norms to online behaviors. Different
   online platforms apply different policies to similar online behaviors. How can
   Member States, the private sector and relevant stakeholders engage to define
   common frameworks to address the challenges to online safety?
3. Regarding mis/disinformation and online harm, what policies, frameworks
   and measures can be adopted by governments and companies to protect the
   integrity of public information and preserve civic spaces for public debate?
4. What digital cooperation measures, for example trust labels, audits, and
   certification schemes, can stakeholders consider promoting trust and safety for
   consumer products and services, including AI models? How can we enhance
   digital literacy skills and training so that people are empowered to protect
   themselves?

Guiding questions:

1. Digital technologies can greatly contribute to the protection of human rights. However, digital surveillance, censorship, algorithmic bias, online harassment, and other forms of abuse can suppress or violate human rights. How can women and girls, children, and persons in vulnerable situations such as persons with disabilities or persons belonging to linguistic minorities be supported in exercising their human rights online?
2. What are the gaps in terms of existing mechanisms for protection and promotion of human rights in the digital domain? How can accountability of digital platforms – public and private – be strengthened?
3. How can international organizations, Member States and other stakeholders work together to ensure human rights offline are protected online?

Guiding questions:

1. Art. 17 ICCPR recognizes the individual right to privacy. How can governments, data protection authorities’ private companies, the scientific community and civil society work together to ensure personal data is processed, stored, secured and protected against misuse?
2. What principles would support quality and interoperable data so that governments, international organizations, the private sector, civil society and individuals can contribute to and benefit from digital trade and economy and leave no one behind?
3. Data is a key enabler of innovation and research. How can stakeholders leverage tools such as (pseudo)anonymization,1 encryption, portability, etc. to drive innovation and interoperability while protecting personal data?

Guiding questions:

• Over the last twenty years the share of world’s population connected to the internet has more than quadrupled. New internet-based tools – from the smartphone to social media – have emerged and we are moving into an Internet of Things. How can we continue to ensure the unfragmented safe, global, secure, and inclusive internet?
• The 2005 Tunis Agenda endorsed a multi-stakeholder approach to the governance of the internet. How have we succeeded in realizing vision? How do the roles and functions of various multi-stakeholder forums such as ICANN, IETF and the IGF come together to support internet governance? And how can they be strengthened?
• How can governments, technical standard bodies, civil society, industry and all stakeholders work together for an open, indivisible, free, interoperable, global, secure, inclusive Internet?

Guiding questions:

1. How can governments, international organizations, private companies, and civil society work together to close the digital divide and improve access, skills, and meaningful connectivity for all?
2. What actions should be taken to enable digital inclusion for all?
3. What policies, frameworks and programs have proven to be most successful and should be scaled up and adapted to other contexts to foster digital inclusion?

See the recording of the consultations.