Policy Recommendation

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Elements Paper for the Declaration on Future Generations

September 13, 2022
Future generations are fundamentally disempowered: they will inherit the planet and society we leave for them, yet they have no say in how…

Advancing Sendai: Bringing Risks from Rapid Technological Change into Disaster Risk Reduction

June 30, 2023
Throughout 2022 and early 2023, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction underwent a period of review. During this time…

Input for High-Level Advisory Board Member Poonam Ghimire and the UN Foundation

August 26, 2022
In August 2022, SI was invited to contribute to two consultations held by the United Nations Foundation and High-Level Advisory Board member…

Response to Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 2: “Strengthening the International Response to Complex Global Shocks – An Emergency Platform”

March 21, 2023
The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

Response to Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 5: A Global Digital Compact — an Open, Free and Secure Digital Future for All

July 24, 2023
The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

Analysis of the First Revision of the Global Digital Compact: Implications for AI Governance

May 27, 2024
Following the release of the Zero Draft of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) on April 1, 2024, the co-facilitators of the process released a…

Response to the Interim Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence

January 02, 2024
On 26 October 2023, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched a High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (HLAB on AI…

Response to Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 1: “To Think and Act for Future Generations”

March 21, 2023
The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

Response to the Zero Draft of the Global Digital Compact: What it Means for AI Governance

April 05, 2024
In September 2024, Member States of the United Nations are set to adopt the Global Digital Compact, an internationally negotiated text seeking to...

SI at the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction

June 14, 2022
From May 23-28, SI’s CEO Maxime Stauffer attended the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) to speak on how the disaster risk…

Submission to the Global Digital Compact on the Interpretability of AI Foundation Models

April 26, 2023
As part of the UN’s Our Common Agenda, an intergovernmental process on digital governance has been put in place to produce the ‘Global…

The FAIR Framework - A Future-Proofing Methodology

April 26, 2023
Why future proofing? In the words of António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, “many of today’s multilateral frameworks are…