Tag: artificial-intelligence
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AI Impact Summit 2026: India Leads Global AI Governance
From Action to Impact – A Curtain Raiser to the AI Impact Summit 2026 United Nations, New York, December 19, 2025 On December 16, 2025, the United Nations Headquarters in New York hosted a high-level event titled “From Action to Impact,” jointly organized by India and France. The event served as the official curtain raiser…
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UNESCO’s 43rd General Conference: A New Era in Samarkand
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UNESCO’s Samarkand Moment: A Global Conference at the Crossroads of Civilizations By CitiTimes Editorial Desk When UNESCO chose Samarkand, Uzbekistan, as the venue for its 43rd General Conference (October 30 – November 13, 2025), it wasn’t just a logistical decision—it was a symbolic one. For the first time in over four decades, the General Conference…
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Celebrating 100 Years of the WIPO Hague System
100 Years of Design Excellence: A Look at the WIPO Hague System The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs is celebrating its 100th anniversary, marking a century of streamlining global design protection. Established by treaty in The Hague in 1925, the system has evolved from a small…
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Airtel Partners with IBM to Boost Cloud Services in India
Bharti Airtel has announced a strategic partnership with IBM to enhance Airtel Cloud services. NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, and ARMONK, NY, October 28, 2025 — Bharti Airtel, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, has entered into a strategic partnership with IBM to enhance its recently launched Airtel Cloud. This collaboration aims to combine Airtel Cloud’s…
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UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week 2025: Rethinking AI in Education
Paris, France, September 15, 2025 — UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week 2025, which took place last week in Paris, examined the impact of artificial intelligence on education and its implications for learners, educators, and education systems around the globe. It raises important questions: Do we still need classrooms, teachers, administrators, and textbooks? The event challenged the…
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IBM Study: How AI is Transforming Sports Fan Experience
ARMONK, N.Y., August 28, 2025 — New global research commissioned by IBM shows that sports fans are increasingly engaging with dynamic digital content experiences, where AI, personalization, and real-time features play a central role. A study involving over 20,000 sports fans from 12 countries suggests that fans are increasingly viewing technology, particularly AI, as a…
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Future-Ready Regulations: World Economic Forum Launches GRIP Initiative
– The initiative will unite global industry experts to create adaptive strategies for rapidly evolving sectors such as AI, healthcare, and digital finance. – This platform will test innovative solutions and provide practical tools to help governments craft forward-thinking regulations suited for a fast-changing world. Geneva, Switzerland, August 10, 2025 – The World Economic Forum…
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Aligning India’s AI Competency Framework with UNESCO Standards
Paris, France, April 11, 2025 — As the world’s most populous country, India, with its 1.4 billion citizens, has a unique opportunity to harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve public service delivery. Recognizing this opportunity, the government has introduced the Competency Framework for AI. Dr. Tawfik Jelassi, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for…
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UNESCO and India Partner for AI Readiness Consultation
UNESCO, in collaboration with the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, will host the 3rd AI Readiness consultation in Hyderabad. New Delhi, India, April 7, 2025 — The UNESCO Regional Office for South Asia in New Delhi, together with the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Ikigai Law, which is the…
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UNESCO’s 2025 Focus: AI’s Role in Education
Paris, France, January 28, 2025 — The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has declared that UNESCO has dedicated the International Education Day 2025 (Friday, January 24) to exploring the opportunities and challenges associated with artificial intelligence. She has called upon the Member States of UNESCO to prioritize investments in training for educators and students regarding…
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Revolutionizing Education: Chandigarh University’s AI Hub in Uttar Pradesh
Chandigarh University in Lucknow aims to realize the vision of making India a global hub for AI. Chandigarh University’s Uttar Pradesh Campus will offer multidisciplinary, AI-augmented education across 43 programs starting from the 2025-26 academic session. This initiative at India’s first AI City in Lucknow’s SCR aims to revolutionize the country’s educational landscape. LUCKNOW, India,…
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2024 Nobel Prize in Physics: Hopfield and Hinton’s AI Breakthroughs
Stockholm, October 08, 2024 — The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024 to John J. Hopfield of Princeton University, NJ, USA, and Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto, Canada. The prize recognizes their groundbreaking discoveries and inventions that have paved the way for…
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