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AI for Good: Accelerating progress towards the SDGs – Perspectives from the Global Summit 15-17 May 2018
Thu 07 Jun 2018, 3.00 pm — Wed 03 Feb 2021, 3.30 pm
Conference Room A, UNHQ
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Background
Co-organized by: The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations.
The 2nd AI for Good Global Summit was held from 15-17 May 2018 at the headquarters of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technology (ICT). The summit was organized by ITU in partnership with the XPRIZE Foundation, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and 32 sister United Nations agencies and bodies.
Recognizing that every government, every company, every academic institution, every civil society organization – every one of us – should consider how AI will affect our future, the 2017 summit sparked an inclusive global dialogue on AI. The action-oriented 2018 edition of the summit generated AI strategies and supporting projects to accelerate progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The summit was designed to connected AI innovators with public and private-sector decision-makers. The matchmaking exercise introduced problem owners to solution owners, building collaboration to take promising strategies forward.
Around 35 projects were pitched to the summit around the broad themes of aiming to build trust in AI, advancing global health and food security, meeting urban-development challenges with smart cities and communities, and the potential of AI to map poverty and aid with natural disasters using satellite imagery.
This side-event, co-organized by ITU and Mexico during the UN Science, Technology and Innovation Forum, brings together key stakeholders to share their experiences, perspectives and takeaways from the AI for Good Global Summit.
Panelists
- Malcolm Johnson, ITU Deputy Secretary-General
- H.E. Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, Vice-minister of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of Mexico
- Aleksandra (Saška) Mojsilović, IBM Fellow, IBM Research AI
- Eleonore Pauwels, Research Fellow on Emerging Cyber-technologies, UNU
- Ryan Budish, Assistant Research Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
- TBD, McKinsey