A ‘global commitment for digital cooperation’ is a key advice by the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation. Today, digital applied sciences corresponding to knowledge pooling and AI are used to track and diagnose issues in agriculture, health, and the environment, or to perform daily tasks similar to navigating traffic or paying a invoice. They can be utilized to defend and train human rights – but they may additionally be used to violate them, for example, by monitoring our actions, purchases, conversations and behaviours. Governments and businesses more and more have the tools to mine and exploit knowledge for financial…