Professors Susan Perry and Claudia Roda had the pleasure to present the work of the UNESCO Chair in Artificial intelligence and Human Rights to Ambassador Jean Manes and her team at the US Mission to UNESCO. During the engaging discussion, Professors Roda and Perry provided a detailed overview of the […]
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Professor Claudia Roda was invited to speak at Navigate: Digital Policy Leadership Retreat for Public Policy Leaders-Only Day at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, organized in collaboration with the IAPP. With Dame Melanie Dawes, Executive Board Member and Chief Executive at OfCom, UK, and […]
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Professor Susan Perry presented the Chair’s draft Charter to members of AMICAL’s Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group led by Professor Rukhsana Zia. About 20 participants represented nine different institutions from countries including Pakistan, France, Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Kuwait, and Austria. The discussion focused on each one of the five […]
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In June 2025 we had the first complete running demo of the prototype for the Self Made Books for Disadvantaged Children project in the presence of Kyle Zimmer, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of First Book. Another demo followed with Inga Nichanian, Director of UNESCO’s Chairs Programme, Future of Learning and […]
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Professor Claudia Roda organized, with Jan Schallabock1, Michelle Chibba2, Jonathan Fox3, and Antonio Kung4, a workshop on How to shape the future of consumer protection: Privacy by design (ISO 31700) in the world of AI at the CPDP 2025 conference. The CPDP (Computers, Privacy and Data Protection) Conference is a […]
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Professor Susan Perry was the Guest of Honor at the conference Faces/Phases of Humanoids: Ethics of Digital Surveillance, Sustainable World Models and Privacy Rights organized by Professor Suhasini VINCENT (MCF-HDR), Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas. Professor Claudia Roda also contributed to the conference by opening the second day with a presentation co-authored with […]
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Professor Claudia Roda co-organized and co-chaired, with Micaela Parker, Founder and Executive Director the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA), the first International Data Science and AI Leadership Summit. The summit, hosted at The American University of Paris, focused on three aspects of resiliency in higher education for Data Science and […]
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In February 2025 Professor Claudia Roda gave a short presentation at UNESCO’s Working Session Priority Africa Flagship Programme 4: Harnessing new and emerging technologies for sustainable development in Africa, including through the implementation of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. A few points made during the talk Promising […]
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In February 2025 Professor Roda attended the UNESCO working session to discuss the first draft of UNESCO’s companion document to the “Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms” on artificial intelligence (AI). Related posts
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In October 2024 Professor Roda presented a position statement for the consultation by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report Office (HDRO) with UNESCO. The intervention, which focused on the impact of AI in higher education, is briefly summarized below. Position statement – Human Development Report Consultation on […]
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