New technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, big data, and networks are expected to revolutionize production processes, but they could also have a major impact on developing economies. finds that new technology risks widening the gap between rich and poor countries by shifting more investment to advanced economies where automation is already established.
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The - aims promotes and honours excellence in science and celebrates its role in the advance of sustainable development.
World Science Day for Peace and Development (10 November) highlights the important role of science in society and the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues. It also underlines the importance and relevance of science in our daily lives. At a time when the global COVID-19 pandemic further demonstrates the critical role of science in addressing global challenges, the focus of the World Science Day is on science for and with society. To celebrate the 2020 World Science Day, UNESCO organized on the theme of Science for and with society in dealing with COVID-19.
The annual observance of the International Week of Science and Peace is making an important contribution to the promotion of peace. The Week encourages greater academic exchanges on a subject of universal importance while also generating greater awareness of the relationship of science and peace among the general public. Based on observances of Science and Peace Week to date, participation each year is expected to increase, contributing to greater international understanding and opportunities for co-operation in the applications of science for the promotion of peace throughout the year.
Scientific discoveries and advances must be shared, according to the Declaration in favour of open science, science that is unhindered by barriers and frontiers, which was made jointly on 27 October by , and . The COVID-19 epidemic demonstrates the urgent need to strengthen scientific cooperation and to guarantee the fundamental right of universal access to scientific progress and its applications. The movement aims to make science more accessible, more transparent and ultimately more effective.
As the 51勛圖 marks its seventy-fifth anniversary and the world deploys data to face a common challenge, let us use World Statistics Day to spotlight the role of statistics in advancing sustainable development for all. With these words Secretary-General Antonio Guterres invites us to celebrate this years observance while highlighting the vital role of data in meeting the challenges of our time. This years theme reflects the importance of trust, authoritative data, innovation and the public good in national statistical systems.
Over 2,000 participants from the data user and producer communities will come together this month to discuss some of the greatest data challenges in our changing world.
submitted a draft recommendation on Open Science to its 193 Member States, a major step in facilitating international cooperation and universal access to scientific knowledge. The draft notes the potential of Open Science and highlights its importance in reducing the digital, technological, gender and knowledge divides that separate not only countries but people living in the same place. The successful transition to Open Science, outlined in the preliminary draft requires a change in scientific culture from competition to collaboration.
reports on how digital finance can be harnessed in ways that empower citizens as taxpayers and investors to better align peoples money with their needs, collectively expressed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the pandemic demonstrates the immediate benefits of digital finance, the disruptive potential of digitalization in transforming finance is immense. Mobile payment technologies have transformed mobile phones into financial tools for more than a billion people.
One of the most striking images of the coronavirus pandemic is the contrast between farmers dumping milk, smashing eggs, and ploughing vegetables back into the soil and consumers facing empty store shelves and long lines at food distribution centres. How is it possible to have over-abundance on one hand and scarcity on the other? The argues that the digital revolution can accelerate the shift towards a more sustainable food future by collecting, using, and analysing machine-readable data.
Crises have a way of urging people to develop new tools to help them resist disaster. -funded projects in north-eastern Brazil, carry on their work by using remote technical assistance to respond to participants questions and solve problems. Project staff also realized that the current situation presented an opportunity to gather some much-needed data: consistent data on project performance and the impacts of COVID-19. Due to the preventive measures, surveys were conducted using smartphones.
reports on human rights-centred recommendations, by a coalition of 50 cities worldwide, to guide leaders as they use digital technology in response to crises such as COVID 19.
Named after pioneer physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Marie Skodowska-Curie, the Programme aims to inspire and to encourage young women to pursue a career in nuclear sciences and technology and non-proliferation.
2020 began as a normal year for the Dr Fridtjof Nansen, the only marine research vessel to fly the UN flag. The Nansen was meant to sail along West Africa, collecting data off the coast and in the deep-seas for its research into the state of marine resources and the health of our oceans. As the COVID-19 outbreak turned into a pandemic and more and more borders closed to stop the spread of the virus, reports on the plan for the vessel and its crew to get back home to Norway.
While the digital era and new technologies have brought societies many benefits, we also face challenges such as growing digital divides, cyber threats, and human rights violations online. This report lays out a roadmap in which all stakeholders play a role in advancing a safer, more equitable digital world.