The UNU Macau AI Conference 2024
The UNU Macau AI Conference 2024 offered a unique opportunity to convene the Global North and the Global South, as well as the cultural East and West. This Conference is also UNU’s Contribution to the United Nations Summit of the Future in 2024. Nearly 500 participants from governments, business, academia and civil society from more than 30 countries, including 30 Ministers of ICTs and senior officials from 20 countries, participated in the meeting and connected across diverse viewpoints on the AI.
The conference convened under the theme AI for All: Bridging Divides, Building a Sustainable Future, featuring 26 sessions in 3 thematic tracks. The plenary session launched the UNU Policy Guideline: Recommendations on the Use of Synthetic Data to Train AI Models. The UNU Global AI Network was officially launched under the witness of over 30 members
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2023 World Data Forum Macau Satellite Event
In April 2023, UNU Macau and its partners organised a Satellite Event of the United Nations World Data Forum. During the full-day conference “Dealing with data dilemmas: Risks and opportunities of a human-centred systems approach to data and digital technology development”, academics, members of government agencies, professionals in the private sector, civil society members and students discussed data dilemmas across a variety of themes, while reflecting on whether taking a human-centred systems approach can help solve these.
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United Nations World Data Forum – Macau Satellite Event (unwdf-macau.org)
30th Anniversary of UNU Macau
As the United Nations University Institute in Macau completed its 30th anniversary, we celebrated its people. Their passion, their expertise, their commitment to UN values, their humanity. And we did so by publishing a small, yet inspiring collection of stories, in printing and online.
You can read the online version of the book here:
