PPI attended the inaugural UN Virtual Worlds Day. A big thanks to our representative Carlos Polo and his colleagues at UNOG for attending the event on our behalf. The event was hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The event explored the transformative potential of the metaverse, from immersive VR experiences to discussions on spatial computing. They questioned how virtual technologies can foster international cooperation […]
PPI Attends The World Summit on the Information Society
PPI recently attended The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) +20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 from 27 to 31 May 2024. This is a UN summit held in Geneva. The current event marked the summit’s 20th anniversary. The WSIS aims to bridge the digital divide by increasing internet accessibility in developing countries. The event was co-organized by several United Nations organizations including ITU, UNESCO, […]
Pirates at the UNHQ Partnership Forum in NY
On January 30, 2024 PPI’s representatives Ohad Shem Tov and Ohad Bar Siman Tov attended the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the Partnership Forum of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The forum addressed the critical theme of “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient, and innovative solutions.” https://ecosoc.un.org/en/events/2024/ecosoc-partnership-forum The 2024 ECOSOC […]
2024 UNOG Participation
We are thrilled to share that Pirate Parties International has once again secured ground passes, allowing our representatives to participate at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland (UNOG). We also have a team on the ground at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and will be sharing a separate blog about their activities soon. Furthermore, we are working now on getting a team […]
Next Board Meeting Tuesday, Feb 13th at 14:00 UTC and United Nations Working Group Meeting
Ahoy Pirates, PPI’s next board meeting will take place on JTuesday, Feb 13th at 14:00 UTC. Everyone is welcome to attend. The meeting will take place on Jitsi: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board We also announce that we will have a UN Working Group Meeting (AKA SCUBA). This meeting will take place on Thursday, Feb. 8th at 20:00 UTC. We will also old the meeting in our PPI Jitsi: […]
PPI sends delegates to the UN’s Cybercrime Committee
From August 21 to 25, 2023, PPI’s representatives at the UN Headquarters in New York, Dr. Ohad Shem Tov and Dr. Keith Goldstein, participated as delegates in the Sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/cybercrime/ad_hoc_committee/ahc_sixth_session/main. The committee was attended primarily by national delegations, as well as […]
UNOG: PPI consultations on autonomous weapons systems, information society, and science at the UN
An Update on Numerous Recent Activities of PPI at the United Nations Office in Geneva! Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) PPI has been accepted to be one of the Civil Society representatives to contribute on the mandate of regulation of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). All the technological aspects of understanding the use of functions of this systems are clear for all actors, the main issues […]
Invitation to PPI‘s Standing Committee on UN Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA) on Sunday 23rd, 22:00 CEST, Followed by the Pirate Beer Social Event
On Sunday, April 23 at 22:00 CEST PPI will be holding a SCUBA meeting (Standing Committee on UN Bureaucratic Activities followed by the Pirate Beer social event. We will discuss an upcoming IGF call for proposals and other UN activities. Immediately after the meeting we will transition to our routine Pirate Beer social event. Earlier the same day we also have the board meeting. The […]
PPI Update on our Presence at the UN in Geneva in 2022
As an organisation with the observer status with the UN Economic and Social Council, PPI is involved in quite a lot UN meetings. Thanks to our active team in Geneva, Switzerland, headed by our board member Carlos Polo, we manage to maintain our presence at these meeting quite well. Below is just a few recent examples of our participation: WTO Forum 22 PPI was […]
New UN Convention on Countering the misuse of ICT for Criminal Purposes
Pirate Participation on the Work of the United Nations’ Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of ICT for Criminal Purposes This article is meant to inform you on the progress of creation of a new UN convention, whose goal it is to standardise member states’ approach to cybercrime and lay foundation to processes that will help fight forms […]
