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The IGC Secretariat cordially invites you to the IGC Lunch and Learn: Uploading Gender Equality on Monday, 1 December from 12:00 to 13:00 CET.
This ‘Lunch and Learn’ will explore the vital connection between standards development in artificial intelligence and gender equality.
A key principle of the Global Digital Compact, endorsed in 2024 by 93 member states, is that gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the digital space are essential to close the gender digital divide and advance sustainable development. However, the lack of standards and regulations surrounding AI has meant that gender bias has in many cases been encoded directly into the programming of new technologies. A 2021 study by Stanford University found that 44% of all AI systems demonstrated gender bias in their programming; in the years since, the rise of AI- powered image generation platforms- often lacking safeguards for women’s rights or privacy- has only intensified these issues.
With AI rapidly changing the digital landscape, closing the digital gender gap has never been more urgent. This Lunch and Learn event will discuss practical solutions to ensure that women’s rights are elevated on the international digital agenda, and disparities in both standard-setting and access to AI creation and development are meaningfully addressed. In advance of the International AI Standards Summit, the time is right to platform this discussion, and ensure that gender equality is core to the new digital agenda.
- Catherine Bischofberger, Editor of E-Tech at the International Electrotechnical Commission
- Sylvia Poll Ahrens, Senior Gender and Youth Advisor to the Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union
- Fabian Lütz, University of Lausanne
We will offer this event as a brown-bag lunch in a hybrid format. If you are available to attend in-person, please join us on the seventh floor of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). Please note that in-person attendance is limited to 25 participants and that spots will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. In-person participants are invited to bring their own lunch.
Kindly RSVP by Friday 28 November via the following link to let us know whether you will attend in-person or online.