UNESCO and The Innovation for Policy Foundation (i4Policy) are supporting policy makers with practical guidance on designing inclusive policy co-creation processes for  AI policymaking. To gather multi-stakeholder insights and inputs for the project, three 90-minute workshops have been organized on 28th – 29th September and 6th October 2021 to engage with thought leaders and national policy experts.

Within the framework of the celebrations of the International Day of Universal Access to Information 2021 the 1st Panel will look at trends of access to information laws in the 21 centuries.   The overall theme of the 2021 International Day for Universal Access to Information celebrations is « The Right to Know – Building Back Better with Access to Information ».      -Global trends: national access to information laws – numbers, new developments, persistent weaknesses -International trends: the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents -Adoption of access to information rules by intergovernmental organisations -Implementation challenges: political will, funding, assessing progress

Within the framework of the celebrations of the International Day of Universal Access to Information 2021, the 4th Panel will focus on building the effectiveness of Access to Information initiatives.  The overall theme of the 2021 International Day for Universal Access to Information celebrations is « The Right to Know – Building Back Better with Access to Information ».    How to ensure that Access to Information laws translate into effective outcomes?  How to make sure citizens are aware of all the possibilities open to them and how to encourage them to use them to their fullest?  What solutions work in building demand for information but also in supplying it? 

The webinar will highlight how Open Educational Resources (OER), copyright capacity building and policy development enhance access to information. It will raise awareness of copyrights and the importance of supporting countries and institutions to develop legal and policy frameworks that promote OER, in line with national and international obligations in this area.  

On 30 September, Marie Claire and the Marie Claire Think Tank "Agir pour l'Égalité" (Acting for Equality) of the Connecting Leaders Club are joining forces with UNESCO for a citizen event in favour of gender equality entitled “L'Appel pour l’Égalité” (The Call for Equality), to take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in Room I. Provisional programme of the event and registration link 

This High-level panel will be a side event in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and will address the opportunities and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in light of the upcoming UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI. The panel will be moderated by Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO.

The launch event is designed to inform Member States and partners about the project on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Futures of learning, elicit their views on the activities planned, map out ongoing initiatives and build partnerships and synergies around the project.

The 2021 Global Media and Information Literacy Youth Hackathon is an occasion for youth and youth organizations around the world to engage in the creation of innovative MIL learning in meaningful ways. Following the two first successful editions, the third Global Media and Information Literacy Youth Hackathon will be held during Global MIL Week 2021. UNESCO and partners call on youth worldwide to participate in this virtual hackathon to design innovative solutions to a defined set of social challenges.

Organised by UNESCO, with the financial support of the Government of Japan, this ad hoc sub-committee meeting brings together all Parties to the 1999 Second Protocol and relevant experts to dialogue on a united and collaborative approach to develop and submit proposals on the implementation of Article 27.1(c) of the 1999 Second Protocol and, inter alia, to elaborate a mechanism to improve the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict, especially in situations of extreme emergency.