Bridging the digital divide: ensuring inclusive frontier technology for climate action

November 18, 2024, 9:00-10:00
Special Event Room – Shirvan, Area B
Partners: ITU, WMO and UNEP

From 2020 to 2024, ITU and WMO have served as partners (alongside UNEP) within the Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management. The Focus Group’s main objective was to lay the groundwork for international standards. However, an important component of the standard development was capacity-building work: holding a hands-on training session in India, organizing workshops and webinars, publishing open-access papers, and organizing hackathons/challenges. Fraunhofer HHI supported many of these efforts. Meanwhile, Climate Change AI (CCAI) is a non-profit that empowers a global community of innovators, practitioners, and decision-makers to accelerate responsible climate action through the use of AI, by addressing critical gaps in expertise, education, coordination, and research-to-deployment infrastructure.