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Name :	VENUGOPAL, Gayathry
Date :	January 07, 2020
Organization :	United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Country :	Austria
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Contribution :	New and emerging telecommunications/ICTs will have dual uses and multiple outcomes. AI, for example, will be applied across industry and can have relevance for all the SDGs. The associated challenge is to make it affordable, scalable, and crucially, legal and ethical. We must place ethics and the rule-of-law at the heart of our work. We have seen tech impacting, both positively and negatively, upon democracy, freedom, privacy, human rights, crime, terrorism and State behaviour. Policy formulation has to involve a cross-section of expertise – and it must be responsive, quick and, ideally, predictive. Best Practice must show a proportionate, legally-valid, accountable and necessary understanding of the dual-use of any new technology. Ultimately, we must continue to work together, to challenge each other and to have the peaceful betterment of the human race as the core premise for our work.
Attachments :	UNODC inputs to the Open Consultation of the CWG-Internet.pdf