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Submission to the Global Digital Compact on the interpretability of AI foundation models

April 26, 2023
As part of the UN’s Our Common Agenda, an intergovernmental process on digital governance has been put in place to produce the ‘Global…

Response to Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 1: “To Think and Act for Future Generations”

March 21, 2023
The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

Response to Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 2: “Strengthening the International Response to Complex Global Shocks – An Emergency Platform”

March 21, 2023
The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

Elements Paper for the Declaration on Future Generations

September 13, 2022
Future generations are fundamentally disempowered: they will inherit the planet and society we leave for them, yet they have no say in how…

Input for High-Level Advisory Board Member Poonam Ghimire and the UN Foundation

August 26, 2022
In August 2022, SI was invited to contribute to two consultations held by the United Nations Foundation and High-Level Advisory Board member…

SI's plans to support 'Our Common Agenda'

August 17, 2022
This post outlines SI’s strategic thinking around and current plan to engage with Our Common Agenda (OCA). The plan was developed in July…

SI at the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction

June 14, 2022
From May 23-28, SI’s CEO Maxime Stauffer attended the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) to speak on how the disaster risk…

Preparedness Exercises @ BWC Meeting of States Parties

November 25, 2021
The Geneva Science-Policy Interface (GSPI) and the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI) are pleased to invite you to explore the in-person table-top exercise Preparedness. Sessions will be held at the UN Library between November 25 and November 30, 2021.

Side event - BWC Meeting of Experts

September 06, 2021
This event already took place. You can read a recap of it on the blog of the Geneva Science-Policy Interface. Complementing the BWC Meeting…

2021 UN High-Level Political Forum

July 07, 2021
Together with the Geneva Science-Policy Interface, SI contributes “Behavioral Solutions for Evidence-based Decision-making” to the UN High…

United Nations for the future - a collection of key texts for long-term governance

July 01, 2021
With this collection, we highlight fertile ground for the refinement of a shared understanding of the long term, building on decades of diplomacy that have successfully made long-term flourishing a key motivation for international cooperation. It reminds us of the recency of international institutions, their hopeful vision and the work that remains to be done to secure long-term survival and flourishing.

Navigating complexity and information overload in decision-making

March 31, 2021
On April 1st at 2 pm CET, we co-hosted the event “Towards 2030: Navigating complexity and information overload in decision-making” as part…