Policy Recommendation

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Advancing Sendai: Bringing Risks from Rapid Technological Change into Disaster Risk Reduction

Throughout 2022 and early 2023, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction underwent a period of review. During this time…

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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…

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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…

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Recommendations for the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and the Global Dialogue on AI Governance

February 26, 2025

In September 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted the Global Digital Compact (GDC), which mandated the creation of the Independent…

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

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

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Analysis of the First Revision of the Global Digital Compact: Implications for AI Governance

Following the release of the Zero Draft of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) on April 1, 2024, the co-facilitators of the process released a…

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Response to Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 5: A Global Digital Compact — an Open, Free and Secure Digital Future for All

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

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Response to the Interim Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence

January 02, 2024

On 26 October 2023, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched a High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (HLAB on AI…

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

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

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Response to the Zero Draft of the Global Digital Compact: What it Means for AI Governance

In September 2024, Member States of the United Nations are set to adopt the Global Digital Compact, an internationally negotiated text seeking to...

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SI at the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction

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…

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Submission to the Global Digital Compact on the Interpretability of AI Foundation Models

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

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The FAIR Framework - A Future-Proofing Methodology

Why future proofing? In the words of António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, “many of today’s multilateral frameworks are…

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Response to the Zero Draft of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and the Global Dialogue on AI Governance

The co-facilitators from Spain and Costa Rica have published the Zero Draft for the modalities of the Independent International Scientific…

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Response to the G77 proposal on the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI

Member States and other stakeholders have been invited to submit their responses to the Zero Draft for the modalities of the Independent…

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How Formal Should It Be? Outcome Formats for the Global Dialogue on AI Governance

Member States at the United Nations are currently negotiating the modalities of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance. The outcome document…

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Response to Revision 1 of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and the Global Dialogue on AI Governance

After multiple rounds of stakeholder consultations, the co-facilitators from Spain and Costa Rica have published Revision 1 for the…