UN: The Project “International Data-Based Systems Agency IDA” WSIS Prize 2024 Champion!
The International Data-Based Systems Agency IDA, developed and initiated by Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, has been selected in a global online vote as the WSIS Prizes 2024 Champion of the UN's World Summit on the Information Society Prize out of over 1’000 submissions.
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is an UN-organized summit that provides a platform for exchange on issues related to information and communication technology for the promotion of sustainable development. The aim of WSIS is to build a people-centered, inclusive, and development-oriented information society in which everyone can create, access, use and share information.
The WSIS Prizes were developed as a global platform to identify and showcase success stories in the implementation of the WSIS action lines and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The International Data-Based Systems Agency IDA, developed and initiated by Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, was selected as WSIS Prizes 2024 Champion in the category "International and regional cooperation" (Action Line C11) in a global online vote. The award will be presented at the WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event from May 27-31, 2024.
International Data-Based Systems Agency IDA
The concrete proposals for an International Data-Based Systems Agency (IDA) and the associated concept of “Sustainable and Human Rights-Based Data-Based Systems” (HRBDS) are the results of a multi-year research project (started at Yale University and completed at the University of Lucerne) by Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger (Ethics-Professor and Director of the Institute for Social Ethics ISE at the University of Lucerne and Visiting Professor at the ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich).
The International Data-Based Systems Agency IDA is to be established at the UN as a platform for technical cooperation in the field of digital transformation and data-based systems to promote human rights, sustainability, security, and the peaceful use of data-based systems and to serve as a global supervisory and monitoring institution and regulatory authority in the area of data-based systems responsible for access to market approval.
Given the areas of convergence between data-based systems and nuclear technologies, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) model would seem the most appropriate one for responsible global AI governance as it represents an UN-agency with “teeth”.
Website of the International Data-Based Systems Agency IDA