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Reporting on Artificial Intelligence: A Handbook for Journalism Educators

Maarit Jaakkola (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 133 pp.

"[...] While many AI deployments serve public interest, journalists also need insight and expertise to alert about aspects like exclusions, unequal benefits, and violations of human rights. As part of its journalism education series, UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communic ... more

Online Content Moderation and Post Conflict Peacebuilding: A Review to the Regulatory Framework in Colombia

Juan Sebastián Salamanca Calle et al.

Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP); UNESCO (2023), 83 pp.

"This text is divided into four chapters. The first chapter describes the characteristics of online public debate in Colombia. It also presents the historical context and details the circumstances in which risky content for democracy and human rights content is published and disseminated in the coun ... more

ChatGTP and Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

Paris; Caracas: UNESCO; UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) (2023), 14 pp.

Readiness Assessment Methodology: A Tool of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 27 pp.

Ethical Impact Assessment: A Tool of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 51 pp.

Digital Platform Governance and the Challenges for Trust and Safety. Part 1: Why Lies and Hatred Proliferate on Digital Platforms

Research ICT Africa; UNESCO (2023), 21 pp.

"Online and platform content that may cause harm through the breach of human rights is sufficiently widespread to have raised concerns about the potentially severe implications for the future of trust, safety, democracy and sustainable development. A certain amount of this content is curbed by the d ... more

Digital Platform Governance and the Challenges for Trust and Safety. Part 3: Possible Regulatory Solutions to Address Concerns with the Platforms

Research ICT Africa; UNESCO (2023), 19 pp.

"Platform problems are linked to the fact that they are not self-governing according to agreed industry standards but mainly ‘solo-governing’ when it comes to content curation and moderation. Reaction to the failure of current platform efforts to regulate content includes the danger of over-regu ... more

Digital Platform Governance and the Challenges for Trust and Safety. Part 2: Platform's Own Policies and Practices: What Problems Need Changing?

Research ICT Africa; UNESCO (2023), 7 pp.

"Platform policies lack clarity about the relationship between them, and also about how policies should be applied at global and local levels. How platforms understand and identify harms is insufficiently mapped to human rights standards, and there is a gap in how policy elements should deal with di ... more

Data Sharing to Foster Information as a Public Good: The Case of Media Viability and Safety of Journalists in the Digital Ecosystem

Guy Berger

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 17 pp.

"Trends towards greater transparency of platforms, in the form of extending cooperation around data, offer benefit to the interests of all stakeholders. This policy brief considers the normative, institutional and technical mechanisms that support access to datasets that are not accessible generally ... more

Teaching Journalism Online: A Handbook for Journalism Educators

Susan Keith, Raluca Cozma (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 116 pp.

"Journalism education, being heavily focusing on experiential learning and face-to-face interaction, is particularly challenged when it comes to remote teaching and learning. This manual aims to provide journalism instructors the resources to improve their teaching in digital spaces. The subject mat ... more

The Role of Law Enforcement Agents: Strengthening Investigations Into Crimes Against Journalists

Sarah Dean Kelly

2023: UNESCO (2023), 17 pp.

"1. Consideration should be given at an early stage of an investigation whether there are connections between the victim’s journalistic activities and the crimes committed against them. 2. Investigators should be given specific training around the issues and challenges faced in investigating crime ... more

Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms: Safeguarding Freedom of Expression and Access to Information Through a Multi-Stakeholder Approach

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 58 pp.

"The Guidelines outline a set of duties, responsibilities and roles for States, digital platforms, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, media, academia, the technical community and other stakeholders to enable the environment where freedom of expression and information are in the core of ... more

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Revised Guidelines on the Inclusion of Learners with Disabilities in Open and Distance Learning (ODL)

Dianne Chambers, Zeynep Varoglu

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 39 pp.

"These Guidelines recognize the value of ODL as one of the most sustainable methods for overcoming the educational barriers faced by persons with disabilities. They also highlight and illustrate the facets of an ODL- facilitated education system using open educational resources (OER), free and open- ... more

Climate Change Communication and Education Country Profiles: Approaches to Greening Education Around the World

Paris: UNESCO; Global Education Monitoring Report (2023), 13 pp.

"An ongoing partnership between UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and the Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education (MECCE) Project, hosted by the Sustainability and Education Policy Network (SEPN), has developed 80 country profiles on CCE policies and practices ... more

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Technology in Disability-Inclusive Education

Paris: UNESCO; Global Education Monitoring Report Team (2023), 43 pp.

"This report outlines the actions driven towards inclusive education, including skill-based training, online learning and classroom settings, and low-tech to high-tech assistive technology (AT). Skill-based training, one of the most important skills for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), covers life ... more

Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in an Era of Generative AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Dhanya Lakshmi

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 29 pp.

"This report presents the results of deep dive experiments into the risks associated to the design, deployment and use of generative AI to facilitate gender-based violence. It assesses the possible impact posed by generative AI that enables the creation of more realistic ‘synthetic’ media, ‘ha ... more

Fighting Racism and Discrimination: A UNESCO Toolkit

Olena Hankivsky

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 52 pp.

"The Toolkit is built on a foundation of conceptual clarity, emphasizing the importance of clear definitions and context-specific understanding. It underscores the need for comprehensive disaggregated data that reveals the true extent of racial inequities and enables evidence-based policy-making. Th ... more

Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages
Key Guidance

Inspiring Practice

Genner Llanes-Ortiz et al.

Paris: UNESCO; Global Voices (2023), 193 pp.

"This toolkit has been co-designed in close partnership with both established and emerging networks of Indigenous digital practitioners, language advocates, and collaborators, within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032. The toolkit promotes the foundation of l ... more

2023 Synthesis of UNESCO Evaluations

Meenakshi Sankar et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 69 pp.

"The 2023 Synthesis of UNESCO evaluations draws on information contained in 36 evaluations – five corporate and 31 decentralized evaluations. The analysis shows that the Organization is making good progress in a range of areas including demonstrating a sharper focus on SDGs, developing fast as an ... more