Report of the UN Secretary General: Roadmap for Digital Cooperation

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, AI, LAWS, Converging Technologies and Peace Time Threats, Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, ICT4Peace Call to Governments to commit to refrain from Offensive Cyber Operations against civilian Critical Infrastructure, ICT4Peace proposal for an independent incident attribution mechanism

17. June 2020

ICT4Peace welcomes the release of Report of the UN Secretary General: Roadmap for Digital Cooperation 2020.

“Digital technology does not exist in a vacuum – it has enormous potential for positive change, but can also reinforce and magnify existing fault lines and worsen economic and other inequalities.”

The ICT4peace Foundation is proud to have been part of and contributed to the process leading to this important Report through a paper written for and giving input to the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation in 2018 as well as participating in and providing substantive inputs to three Digital Cooperation follow-up Roundtable Groups on Digital Trust and Security, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Human Rights.

On 15 June ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by The Office of the Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, working on Digital Cooperation to participate as a Discussant in the Dialogue on Implementation of the Roadmap: Artificial Intelligence, Global Digital Cooperation, Digital Trust and Security & Other Key Issues. Please find Daniel Stauffacher’s prepared speaking notes here.

ICT4Peace is a trusted partner and supporter of the United Nations in matters of ICTs since 2004 as a member of Kofi Annan’s UN ICT Task Force (United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force), and as a founding member and Co-Chair of UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID) launched during and in the aftermath of the UN World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).

Between 2008 and 2015 ICT4Peace helped the UN Secretary General to launch and implement the UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS) (A/65/491). Over the years ICT4Peace was invited to participate in numerous UN Expert Meetings on ICTs and Innovation for peace-keeping and peace-building. In 2016 ICT4Peace and UNCTED co-launched the Tech Against Terrorism Platform. And, since 2007 ICT4Peace called for and supported negotiations on peace in cyberspace and cybersecurity at the UN through the UN GGE and the UN Open Ended Working Group on Cybersecurity (OEWG).