The OECD AI Principles are the first such principles signed by governments. The OECD has adopted the Principles on Artificial Intelligence that promote artificial intelligence (AI) that is innovative and trustworthy and that respects human rights and democratic values. They were adopted on 22 May 2019 by OECD member countries when they approved the OECD Council…
There are many VR companies that sprung up over the past few years dealing with VR. VR became a big deal when the ITU adopted it as part of the technology for good. Some initiatives are UN-based, and others are NGO initiatives to help the UN achieve those goals. For example, The very first one…
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019. Southern New Hampshire University students were Virtual Activism’s guests attending the conference. Themes This year, the conference centered around a priority theme and a review theme: Priority theme: Social protection…
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of human rights, Virtual Activism, in collaboration with Southern New Hampshire University’s Community Engagement Center, and the graphics design department organized a human rights day celebration. The graphic design students created posters in the graphic design class to celebrate the occasion. An exhibition of their posters was posted…
Background The World Summit on the Information Society forum began its annual Open Consultation Process on thematic aspects and innovations on the format of the WSIS Forum 2018. The process aimed at “ensuring a participatory and inclusive spirit of the Forum, scheduled to be held from 19-23 March at ITU in Geneva. This process actively…
Virtual Activism attended the 62nd session on women in NY, 2018. The Priority theme was: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls; The Review theme: Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an…
Virtual Activism organized a series of pioneering workshops for capacity building and training of nongovernmental organizations on the uses of IT in human rights and development. Our first Egypt workshops were in 2004. We organized a series of workshops over a period of ten years in which we trained NGOs on privacy and security issues, blogging,…
The 55th Session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD55), took place between 1-10 February 2017. The session’s theme was “Strategies for the eradication of poverty to achieve sustainable development for all”. Eradication of poverty an integral objective of all policies. But what will it take? Assistant Sec Gen António Guterres stated that inequality continues…
