Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility Conference
The UNESCO Information For All Programme (IFAP) Working Group on Information Accessibility (WGIA) is hosting its sixth online one-day conference on Sunday, September 28, 2025, to commemorate the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI). This year’s event is hosted in collaboration with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Alberta, Canada; The Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS); and the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica, all under the auspices of the UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean and the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa.
The conference will explore a range of topics under a central theme, “AI Access In Focus,” making the implications of AI (risks and opportunities) understandable and relatable to the broadest cross-section of people and will tackle pressing questions around trust, communication, and the social nature of technical systems, offering a multidimensional view of AI’s role in our lives.
Three thematic tracks structure this year’s programme:
- AI and the Question of Trust
- GenAI and Information Integrity
- The Digital Media & Information Literacy Divide
- Intellectual Property Rights in the Age of GenAI
- AI Promoting Public Access to Government Information
- Enhancing AI Safety, Security & Ethics
- Breaking Accessibility Barriers in Communication
- Enhancing Communication: AI Applications in Speech Therapy
- How AI-Driven Neurotechnology Could Transform Media Experiences
- AI Solutions for Safeguarding Linguistic Diversity
- Unlocking Archives for All: AI-Driven Preservation of and Access to Historical Records & Documentary Heritage
- The Role, Responsibility, and Accountability of Platforms
- The Technical Is Social
- AI Systems as Social Systems
- The Future of Human Agency
- Sustainable Futures & Environmental Impact
- Algorithmic Coloniality: Tools & Strategies to Combat Race, Gender, Geography, Illiteracy & Poverty as Barriers to Access
- The Intersection of AI, Arts, and Human Creativity
Organizing Committee
Cordel Green, Samridhi Arora, Professor Geoffrey Rockwell, Dr Nicolàs Arnàez, Trisha Ray, Maria Dolores Souza, Andrea Millwood Hargrave, Dariia Opryshko.
- Co-opted members: Janine Sale, Sasha Harrison, Al Amin Yusuph
