Can the UN Roadmap on Digital Cooperation Improve our Digital future and Digital Interdependence?
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/01/2021
12:00 am - 2:30 pm
Location
Online Event
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On 9 January, UNA Warwick District will host a talk by Mr Toma Moran on the subject
Can the UN Roadmap on Digital Cooperation Improve our Digital future and Digital Interdependence?
Toma Moran is a postgraduate student at SOAS University of London currently completing his master’s Thesis at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy. Toma has a proven passion for Human Rights and Humanitarian aid work specialising in issues of migration and refugees in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). Since returning to London to complete his MA, he has been very active in UN75 conferences on behalf of Peace Child International contributing to UN75 Tallinn, the London ACUNS conference and most recently leading and moderating the Digital Security workshop as part of the WHATNEXT4UN Conference. Toma has been advocating for a multilateral consensus on Digital Human Rights dubbed “UDHR 2.0” which would see states reaffirm their commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Digital Age.
On Friday 23rd of October 2020 the Digital Security team held their online workshop as part of the WHATNEXT4UN Conference that began the Sunday prior and explored many different issues that the UN will face during its next 75 years. Our specialist panel reflected this diversity with voices from all over the world sharing their expertise on the matter and how technology has been affecting them in their particular areas of work. We sought to address three main areas of digital security to then issue several action points or recommendations on different levels which are available on our website: www.whatnext4un.org/digital
Throughout our workshop, one question came up repeatedly and with reason, one of our experts was Yu Ping Chan, a senior manager in the UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap on Digital Cooperation. The question is the one that we will discuss: What kind of role, if any, can the UN play in solving these most urgent issues? The answer is not a simple one. We first must understand why some of these issues need to be treated as urgent, we need to identify the impact they have on our lives and the extent to which they are shaping our future and finally we can look at what the current UN Secretary-General High-Level Panel has identified with regards to this and whether it can lead to the desired outcomes.
The UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation and the UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap on Digital Cooperation lays out the United Nation’s vision for how to engage on key issues such as digital connectivity, human rights and trust and security.
The roadmap lays out a series of concrete steps and potential mechanisms for global digital cooperation, including the establishment of several new coalitions and alliances. And it also clearly identifies some of the critical gaps in the way global technology governance is developed, including a lack of common metrics and definitions. The roadmap also sees the UN re-assert its normative power, because it recognizes the fundamental complexity of the digital landscape, and the consequent importance of creating a ‘common language’ for multiple stakeholders, including under-represented actors such as smaller and/or developing countries, civil society and non-for-profit organizations.
The event will be followed the the UNA Branch’s AGM.
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Meeting ID: 853 7469 2639
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