International Center for Information Ethics
2nd Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility (AI4IA) Conference
Sun, Sep 26
|Gather.town
The AI4IA Conference will ask “What We Know about Our Right to Know" and in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic, “The Right to Know- Building Back Better with Access to Information", and the role of inclusive Artificial Intelligence in information accessibility.
Time & Location
Sep 26, 2021, 1:00 a.m. UTC – Sep 28, 2021, 8:00 p.m. UTC
Gather.town
Guests
About the Event
The UNESCO Information For All Programme (IFAP) Working Group on Information Accessibility (WGIA), is hosting it's second online one-day conference on 28 September 2021. This event will be hosted in collaboration with the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAS) and AI for Society (AI4S), both at University of Alberta, Canada, the International Centre for Information Ethics (ICIE), Future Africa at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy (CNED) in ORF, India and the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica. It was organised under the auspices of the UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean, Kingston, Jamaica and the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe.
The conference is being organised to commemorate the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) 2021 under the global theme, “What We Know about Our Right to Know" and in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic, “The Right to…
Schedule
4 hours 45 minutesLive Salon Interaction with Speakers (Programme TBC)
Gather.town Pavillions
1 hour 30 minutesBroadcast of UNESCO Messages and Keynote Speeches
Main Conference Room