Science & Technology

How Nuclear Techniques Help Feed China

With 19% of the world’s population but only 7% of its arable land, China is in a bind: how to feed its growing and increasingly affluent...

When neuroscience meets AI: What does the future of learning look like?

Meet Dr. Nandini Chatterjee Singh, a cognitive neuroscientist at UNESCO MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development) where she has been...

Shared, automated… and electric?

Authors: George Kamiya and Jacob Teter* Automated driving and shared mobility could dramatically reshape road transport over the coming decades, with major implications for vehicle electrification and...

What is the Copyright Directive about?

Digital technologies have transformed the way creative content is produced, distributed and accessed. The new Directive brings the copyright rules up to date with those changes...

Huawei case: The HiFi Geostrategic Gambit

In a general, comprehensive, strategic outline of the global scenario we can see that China is being harassed on several fronts by the US: commercial pressures, diplomatic...

Youth in the Global South Must Join Forces for Their Future of Work

I believe that the developing world is full of opportunities for young people because many of us have the energy and eagerness to make...

Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Societies: A ROAM Approach – Open Data and AI

The session “Open Data and AI” organized within the framework of “Principles for AI: Towards a Humanistic Approach?” on 5 March 2019 requested UNESCO to continue leveraging...

Rebecca Enonchong: A Heavyweight in African Tech

Named in 2017 as one of the  100 Most Influential Africans in SCIENCE, TECH & INNOVATION  by the New African Magazine and Jeune Afrique’s 50 Most...

Artificial Intelligence and Disinformation: Examining challenges and solutions

An array of experts has contributed deep insight into how artificial intelligence is impacting on the way information is being produced, disseminated and consumed, thus reshaping the...

CENTURY: An AI-powered teaching and learning platform

Priya Lakhani is the Founder CEO of CENTURY Tech (link is external), an award-winning teaching and learning platform for teachers and students, and co-founder of the Institute...

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