WSIS+20 Overall Review: UNGA Plenary Intervention

NAndini Chami at UNGA WSIS+20 Overall Review 17 December
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General Assembly: 68th Plenary meeting, 80th session

At the High-level Meeting on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit Information Society (WSIS+20), our Deputy Director, Nandini Chami, represented IT for Change to address the United Nations General Assembly: 68th Plenary meeting, 80th session in New York. 

In the intervention, Nandini urged for greater ambition:

  • another innovation paradigm – South-led decentralized, small, agentic. 
  • concrete actions for redistributive justice – contributions for digital infrastructure from major transaction levies on technology companies, respect for the right of all countries to tax cross-
  • border digital services, and reform of international trade.
  • a normative framework for AI – an international AI constitution predicated on global democracy, and a Global Technology Assessment Mechanism to govern all emerging technologies.

You can read the plenary submission here

You can watch Nandini's intervention here (16:19 to 19:18).

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