Strategy on New Technologies

September 2018

To define how the United Nations system will support the use of these technologies to accelerate the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and to facilitate their alignment with the values enshrined in the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the norms and standards of International Laws.

New and rapidly developing technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, material sciences, and robotics hold incredible promise for the advancement of human welfare. They also hold the potential to generate more inequality and more violence.