International Center for Information Ethics
Artificial Intelligence 4 Information Accessibility (AI4IA)
Mon, Sep 28
|Zoom
IDUAI 2020 will focus on the right to information in times of crisis and on the advantages of having constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information to save lives, build trust and help the formulation of sustainable policies through and beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
Time & Location
Sep 28, 2020, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. MDT
Zoom
Guests
About the Event
The IFAP Working Group on Information Accessibility (WGIA), is hosting an online one-day conference on 28 September 2020. This event is hosted in collaboration with the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAS), University of Alberta, Canada, and the International Centre for Information Ethics (ICIE). It is 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 theme of the conference will be Inclusive AI with topics addressing information accessibility.
Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) in October 2019. The specific theme for the IDUAI 2020 is . The aim of the UNESCO IDUAI 2020 Commemoration is:“Saving Lives, Building Trust, Bringing Hope”
To advocate for the adoption and implementation of sound constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for…