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WIPO Awards: Turning IP Into Market Power
SME's account for more than 90 percent of businesses globally and around half of all employment, yet many lack the resources or expertise to develop an…
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Tech for Good: Travis Kalanick is back—with $1.7 billion and robots to end mining dangers + ILO
The ethical case for mining robots to take over work that is brutally repetitive, degrading or foreseeably deadly. #TechForGood #AIForGood #Atoms…
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AI for Good for Real: China is Drawing One of the World’s Clearest Regulatory Lines Around AI Companions for Children | AI for Good Summit…
The European Union Office in San Francisco invites you to the latest #BrusselsToTheBay discussion on the future of social media
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The first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens with a universal promise, but the test is whether capacity-building becomes concrete
Human rights, transparency, and oversight on the agenda. Delivering on operability and electrification remains the top priority for governments.
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UNECE: Self-Driving Cars Get a Boost | UN Urges States to Recognize Discrimination and Unpaid Labour of Mothers as a Human Rights Crisis
Mothers remain largely invisible in policy and official data despite facing specific forms of economic, reproductive, physical and psychological harm.
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Vaticano: A Questão Moral da IA | Brasil: Entrevista com Embaixador Eugenio Vargas Garcia Sobre Soberania de Dados na Era da IA
Entrevista com Embaixador Eugenio Vargas Garcia sobre Cooperação Internacional em Tecnologia, Soberania e Dados, e Como a Região Norte de Brasil Pode…
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ILO: AI and the Future of Work
As delegates gather in Geneva for the 114th session of the International Labour Conference, the International Labour Organization latest report makes a…
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Vaticano: A Questão Moral da IA | Brasil: Entrevista com Embaixador Eugenio Vargas Garcia Sobre Soberania de Dados na Era da IA
Watch now | Entrevista com Embaixador Eugenio Vargas Garcia sobre Cooperação Internacional em Tecnologia, Soberania e Dados, e Como a Região Norte de…
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ITU: Cybersecurity Report | WHO: Transnational Emergency Response as Hantavirus Kills 3 in Cruise Ship
The virus is transmitted by mice droppings, urine, and saliva -- and some strains transmitted from human-to-human contact.
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Histoire de la Diplomatie
Entretien avec le Maire de Meudon Denis Larghero
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Week Ahead | World Wildlife Day 2026 | UN Sustainable Development Goals: Has Extreme Poverty Fallen? | AI to Protect the Amazon Rainforest
Has extreme poverty really plunged since the 1980s? | Bonus episode: Using AI to Protect Biodiversity in the Amazon Rainforest
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The Week in Review: Happy AI Valentine? | UN International Scientific Panel Poses Challenges: Some Say It Lacks Civil Society Representation
Photo credit: UN 2018, former Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, who has found his happily ever after with Kate Perry. Happy Valentine's Day!
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