SDG Digital GameChangers Award
The 2nd edition of the SDG Digital GameChangers Award honoured organizations that are working towards rescuing the Global Goals through digital. The award ceremony took place during SDG Digital on 20 September, 2024. Participants submitted their innovative solutions, demonstrated practical applications, and showed how digital could help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.



Find out more:

https://www.itu.int/initiatives/sdgdigital2024/award/about/



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GSR-24 INTERVIEWS: Mei Lin Fung, Chair, People Centered Internet
Interview with Mei Lin Fung, Chair, People Centered Internet, at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24), Kampala, Uganda, 1- 4 July 2024. Dr. Mei Lin Fung is Chair and Co-Founder of the People Centered Internet and convenes the Informal Network for Digital Collaboration and Diplomacy, chaired first by Vint Cerf and now by Dr. Nele Loesk, Estonia's Ambassador for Digital Affairs. Mei Lin is a Singaporean living in Silicon Valley who worked at Intel and then Oracle

For further information please visit:
http://www.itu.int/gsr

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Mapping the World’s Trees in Unprecedented Detail with AI
WRI’s Global Restoration Initiative and researchers from Land & Carbon Lab have partnered with Meta to develop a groundbreaking AI foundation model that we’ve used to produce the world’s first global map of tree canopy height at a 1-meter resolution, allowing the detection of single trees at a global scale.

This new high-resolution data sets a baseline for remotely monitoring changes at the level of individual trees, making it a critical advancement for measuring land use emissions and tracking progress on conservation and restoration projects, which are essential for achieving the world’s goals for climate, nature and people. While this initial data set has limitations, it demonstrates the power of foundation models — a type of AI model that can serve as the “foundation� for a variety of tasks — to pave a new path toward AI-driven earth monitoring.

Find out more in our blog: https://www.landcarbonlab.org/news-updates/mapping-trees-unprecedented-detail-ai

WSIS +20 FORUM HIGH-LEVEL EVENT 2024 INTERVIEW with Timothy Grosser
Timothy Grosser, Partner, International Development, EY interviewed at WSIS +20 FORUM HIGH-LEVEL EVENT 2024 n Geneva, Switzerland, discussion on Digital Public Goods. Digital public goods are public goods in the form of software, data sets, AI models, standards or content that are generally free cultural works and have an intention to contribute to sustainable national and international digital development.

The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event from 27 to 31 May 2024, commemorates two decades since the World Summit on the Information Society established a global framework for digital cooperation, aiming to build inclusive, people-centric information societies.

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WSIS +20 FORUM HIGH-LEVEL EVENT 2024 a message from UN Secretary-General Antó
UN Secretary-General António Guterres's message to WSIS +20 FORUM HIGH-LEVEL EVENT 2024.

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WSIS +20 FORUM HIGH-LEVEL EVENT 2024 - Day 1 - Highlights
Day 1 highlights of the WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event held from 27 to 31 May 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland.

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