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Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Dimensions of the Virtual World
virtualDear colleagues, You are warmly invited to an online dialogue on "Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Dimensions of the Virtual World" during a side event for the Commission on Social Development, hosted by the Bahá’í International Community’s United Nations Office, the United Arab Emirates and NGO Committee on Social Development. The details for the event are: The growing influence
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Youth-led Action Research (YAR) on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalised Youth in 9 Countries in the Asia Pacific
worldwide/virtualThe Asia Pacific region is home to more than 700 million young people. About 85 million come from marginalized backgrounds, living in extreme poverty, having little to no access to education, employment, health care, and social protection, and facing barriers to meaningful opportunities to engage in decision-making processes that affect their lives. Disconnected from their
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Digital and Financial Inclusion: Pathways to promote an inclusive Post-COVID-19 socio-economic recovery
worldwide/virtualVirtual side event during the 2021 ECOSOC FfD Forum on Financing for Development Date & time: April 12 from 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm EST Register in advance for this meeting (by 5:00pm EST on April 11): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpcOGopj4tE9OFujGTOC3FTT_-z2aMJ0Sr World Bank data (September 2020) indicates that 212 countries have planned, introduced, or put in place 1179
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