UNU research provides guidance for navigating the changing geo-economic landscape while more effectively monitoring and evaluating economic progress and its social impacts. Our work in Africa, for example, is helping establish robust information systems to monitor and evaluate economic progress and its social impacts, thereby helping planners to transform skewed development into opportunities for sustainable livelihoods.
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AI & Global Governance: Developing Resilient Economies in the Age of AI
While AI can be good for growth, its benefits may not be evenly distributed.
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AI & Global Governance: How AI is Changing the Global Economy
The world's governments and corporations need to act - to prevent a concentration of resources and power.
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AI & Global Governance: The Role of Global Corporations in AI Ethics
Global corporations should take steps to ensure AI ethics are taken seriously - and with a sense of urgency.
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AI & Global Governance: Three Paths Towards a Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Identifying where globally-agreed norms and rules are needed.
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AI & Global Governance: Artificial Intelligence for All - A Call for Equity in the 4th Industrial Revolution
As we delegate more tasks and decisions to AI systems, how will humans minimise harm and maximize benefit?
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AI & Global Governance: AI for Mass Flourishing
Empowering "AI from the streets" to strengthen global connectivity, diversify knowledge, and secure shared digital futures.
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AI & Global Governance: Supporting the Ties that Bind
How will AI and robotic systems change human relationships?
Project
Defining the Resilient City
The application of resilience for urban environments in contexts of fragility.
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Conceptualizing City Fragility and Resilience
A preliminary analytical framework that re-conceptualizes fragility and resilience at the city level.
Media Coverage
Where Are the World's Most Fragile Cities?
Cities, not nation states, are defining the shape and character of security and development in the twenty first century.
Project
Meeting the Challenges of the 2030 Agenda: Alternative Forms of Development Cooperation and the United Nations
How development cooperation is rapidly evolving, emerging trends, and the role of the UN in development coordination.