The UNESCO Information For All Programme (IFAP) Working Group on Information Accessibility (WGIA, is hosting its fifth online one-day conference on Saturday, September 28, 2024, 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, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), 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 themes and topics in a manner which makes the implications of AI (risks and opportunities) understandable and relatable to the widest cross-section of people. These include – Artificial Intelligence As a Tool for Access to Justice and preservation of human rights; The affordances of Generative AI, devaluation of truth and meaning of ‘vulnerability’ in the digital age; Generation Alpha, hyper-personalisation and the divides in information accessibility; Mind the Gap: How generative AI is bracketing power and reinventing the value of information, intellectual property and information accessibility; The Higher Dimensions of Human Creativity vs AI; Access Not Atrophy; Autonomy, Personhood and digital agency; ESports: A Tool for upskilling, empowerment, Inclusion and access to science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM); AI Technologies: Risks and  Opportunities for Disabling Disability; The paradox of Information Access and Carbon Footprint; and The intersection of AI and Neurotechnology.

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