Computing Community Consortium Blog

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


Posts Tagged ‘United Nations

 

AI for Good Global Summit – AI to Prevent Modern Slavery and Child Trafficking Webinar

February 4th, 2021 / in AI, conferences / by Khari Douglas

The AI for Good Global Summit, “an all-year digital event, featuring weekly programming across multiple formats, platforms and time-zones,” will hold the AI to Prevent Modern Slavery and Child Trafficking webinar on Wednesday, February 24th 4pm – 5:30 pm CET (10am – 11:30 am EST).  From the webinar webpage: “With Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals, all UN Member States committed to take “immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.” Understanding what […]