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Ahead of its ‘AI for Good’ Summit, Guarded Optimism but Sense of Urgency at the International Telecommunication Union

How realistic is it to expect that the development, by a few enormously powerful private companies, of what some of its own creators consider the most dangerous technology since the atomic bomb can be governed by multilateral organizations?

The Sustainability Transformation Needs a New Narrative

Imme Scholz | The UN’s Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 shows that achieving the agreed targets requires sweeping reforms, not incremental steps. To ensure broad-based support policymakers must develop new narratives and pursue an equitable and just transformation.

Why What Happened at Open AI Doesn't Bode Well for the UN Global Digital Compact

Set aside for a moment the insufferable habit of our contemporaneous zeitgeist to create cult-life figures out of tech entrepreneurs. Not easy, I admit, when for a couple of days, Sam Altman and the OpenAI saga seemed to be all that mattered, eclipsing wars—and, of course, climate change—from

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From ham radio to tackling AI, the new ITU chief moves with technology

Waking Up to the World's Water Crisis

Quentin Grafton, Joyeeta Gupta, and Aromar Revi | The UN 2023 Water Conference in March – the first such gathering in almost a half-century – must mark a turning point in our relationship with water and the water cycle.

#124 The G|O Briefing, January 26, 2023

A certification for Geneva school Swiss UMEF | Is the pandemic over? | Data comes to the SDGs' aid| Europe transformed

UN puts a price on media access

“The UN is telling us that only money can allow coverage of UN and UN agencies activities,” one reporter observes. “This runs completely against the UN General Assembly’s resolutions.”

#119 The G|O Briefing, November 24, 2022

Human rights defenders cheer UN vote | Stop bothering us, UN tells the press | Alaa Abd El-Fattah is still in jail. His sister talks to The G|O |

Lingering challenges for UN Geneva’s H Building one year on

Amongst issues with the SHP project, The Geneva Observer revealed in early 2020 a severe litigation opposing Implenia, the company mandated for the new construction, and one of its subcontractors.

Responding to events or setting the agenda? Behind the scenes with the UN spokespeople

From human rights to disarmament and development, UNIS crystallizes many of the UN’s key messages in Geneva thanks to its privileged location and extended network of UN bodies.

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