Event Announcement - IPIE to Host Official Event for the UN's Summit of the Future Action Days
Event:
Truth, Trust, and Hope in the Global Information Environment: Putting Principles into Practice
Date & Time:
Saturday, 21 September, 2024 - 11:15am-12:30pm
Location:
Conference Room 3, UN Headquarters, New York City, U.S.
About the Event:
The Secretary-General of the United Nations is convening the Summit of the Future Action Days on 20 and 21 September 2024 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. In parallel to the Action Days, a limited number of high-level side events will take place. The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), together with UN Member States Brazil, Canada, Chile, Finland, and Switzerland and the UN Department of Global Communications, UN Department of Peace Operations, and UNDP’s Human Development Reports Office, will host one of these official side events.
The event will seek to enact the vision of the UN Pact for the Future and its Global Digital Compact and put into practice the UN Global Principles for Information Integrity. The IPIE and partners will discuss global trends in artificial intelligence and social media, and how to advance human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with information integrity. The event will feature fresh new findings from the IPIE on how information integrity is a necessary condition for advancing digital accountability, human rights, and the SDGs, with content on (a) setting global standards for AI auditing and (b) improving information integrity about climate science. After a review of IPIE findings, a small panel of experts from industry and civil society will offer remarks, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Event Co-Chairs:
- Dr. Anna Sjöström Douagi, Acting CEO of the Nobel Foundation and IPIE Trustee
- Ms. Melissa Fleming, UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications
Presenters:
- Professor Wendy Chun, IPIE Chair of Scientific Panel on Scientific Panel on Global Standards for AI Audits
- Professor Phil Howard, IPIE President
- Professor Klaus Bruhn Jensen, IPIE Chair of Scientific Panel on Information Integrity about Climate Science
Featured Speakers:
- Mr. João Brant, Secretary of Digital Policies at the Communication Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil
- Mr. John Momoh, Chairman and CEO of Channels TV and IPIE Trustee
- Dr. Selcan Kaynak, IPIE Chair of Scientific Panel on Child Protection and Social Media
- Dr. David Spergel, President of the Simons Foundation
How to Attend:
To access the UN headquarters for this event and other UN Action Days side events, you will need either a) a pre-existing UN grounds pass or b) to register for a Special Event Ticket to the Summit of the Future Action Days (https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future/action-days).
The event will also be broadcast on UN WebTV at this link.