By WIRED
Published on August 08, 2024
You may not have heard of the Global Digital Compact yet, but if you are interested in tech policy, you will have by September.
It’s one of three international agreements expected to be approved during this fall’s global Summit of The Future event at the UN. The two-day conference in New York is expected to include numerous government heads and be attended by 195 countries.
The summit has been developed and planned by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and his staff since 2020 and reflects widespread beliefs that humanity and the global systems are at a turning point, for three reasons:
First, existing international organizations, like U.N. agencies, lack the authority, resources and structure to deal with increasing global crises, such as the COVID pandemic or climate change.