Digital transformation and so-called “artificial intelligence” comprise of ethical
opportunities and risks and can be a powerful instrument for either fostering or violating human rights.
Therefore, it is necessary to identify both opportunities for promoting human rights and human rights risks at an early stage so we are able to benefit sustainably from the opportunities and to master or avoid the risks.

An International Data-Based Systems Agency (IDA) needs to be established at the UN as a platform for technical cooperation in the field of digital transformation and DS fostering human rights, safety, security, and peaceful uses of DS as well as a global supervisory and monitoring institution and regulatory authority around digital transformation and DS.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has also referenced human-rights-based DS and a coordinated global response towards an institutional solution in his most recent policy brief:

https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-gobal-digi-compact-en.pdf

Professor Dr Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Ethics-Professor and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE at the University of Lucerne, has established the website to promote the idea of IDA – see: www.idaonline.ch

I encourage you to visit the website and learn more about this exciting development. The website includes an option to support IDA. Please share this information with your human rights networks and with your media contacts.