UNESCO Conference Highlights Need to Regulate Platforms | UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Next Chapter: Immersive Storytelling
UNESCO Conference Highlights Need to Regulate Platforms | UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Next Chapter: Immersive Storytelling
Interview with the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, UNESCO Internet for Trust Conference Highlights Need to Regulate Platforms
UN Headquarters in New York
World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, is in New York, at the negotiating table, to get the Treaty of the High Seas primed.
Get a taste of the interview with one of their leading policy officers, Jessica Battle to get up to speed on the conversation about why the ocean and biodiversity are central to addressing climate change.
The meeting started on the 20 February, at the highest political level, and has a very ambitious goal: the establishment of an international agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, or also known as the Treaty of the High Seas.
The process is convened under the auspices of the United Nations, with the EU steering it, and now the US also announced that will be pushing it to the top of the agenda.
Areas beyond national jurisdiction comprise more than two thirds of the ocean.
The treaty will address designated marine protected areas, human activities regulation, and protection of biodiversity in the High Seas.
WWF Report 2022 on the Role of Nature in Addressing Climate Change
Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
Immersive Storytelling to Support Diplomats and UN Officials
DPPA: Exploring Possibilities with Mixed Reality (AR/VR)
Listen my interview with Martin Waehlisch, from the Innovation Cell, at the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) in New York, where we discussed its first experiments creating virtual worlds to understand the Colombian peace process at the UN Security Council, how they are building the Metaverse to study conflict mediation, and what are its long-term goals.
We also spoke about some of the outcomes of their research with XR (Mixed Reality), AR/VR (Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality) for diplomacy so far, and how these tools are to be deployed not instead of — but in addition to — to the diplomats toolbox when evaluating crisis, intervening at the Security Council or the General Assembly, and defining policies.
UNESCO Internet for Trust Global Conference
A global conference organised by UNESCO took place in Paris, from Tuesday the 21 to Thursday 23 February. The goal was to advance the text for the Guidelines for Regulating Digital Platforms: A Multistakeholder Approach to Safeguarding Freedom of Expression and Access to Information.
More than 4.300 delegates attended, about 2.000 in-person and 2.300 online, to discuss how to regulate online platforms, among many other transversal topics.
To make your contribution click here:
Guidelines for regulating digital platforms: a multistakeholder approach to safeguarding freedom of expression and access to information is now available online.
Version 2.0 will be available for comments until March 8, 2023.
The UNESCO Internet for Trust conference was co-sponsored by the European Union, which this past week had a number of bills moving through the hands of MEPs, including the Digital Services Act, on the regulation of online platforms. Very Large Online Platforms now have to disclose the exact number of users that they serve. No approximation, called the EU Commission.
Here are the highlights, keep your eyes peeled of the interviews in the coming weeks:
