Global Diplomacy Lab

We are 160 members from 65 countries working for a more inclusive diplomacy and connecting local stakeholders to global ideas. On site we tackle policy challenges, creating ready-for-action solutions which are adaptable to our own environments. Together we seek answers to questions such as “What should diplomacy look like in the future?” and “What competences … Continued

The New Shape Process (NSP)

At a time when the threats posed by climate change and rising nuclear tensions have driven some stakeholders into denial and isolation, this project offers hope that multilateralism will prevail. The New Shape Process (NSP) empowers the international community to collectively tackle global catastrophic risks through governance innovation and leadership. Building on the success of … Continued

Towards the Protection of Civilians from the Effects of Armed Conflict: Protection of Medical Care

The protection of medical care in armed conflict is one of the greatest humanitarian challenges nowadays. In a number of ongoing armed conflicts, medical workers are kidnapped, injured or killed, medical facilities and transports are bombed, shelled or looted, fighting occurs within or near medical centers and access to medical care is obstructed. The majority … Continued

Civilian Harm Mitigation as a Global Standard

In order to effect change on a global scale, CIVIC aims to build an international consensus around a global standard of civilian protection in conflict through the systematic adoption and implementation of civilian harm mitigation tools, policies, and practices.

Facebook’s initiatives for election integrity

Following the 2016 US elections, Facebook committed to taking steps to increase the protection of elections from abuse and exploitation on its platform. As we’re working towards this goal, the past few months have been the occasion to develop innovative tools, using cutting-edge technology relying on machine learning, but also crafting new partnerships with expert … Continued

The EU Human Rights Defenders mechanism

Every year, the European Union Human Rights Defenders mechanism – ProtectDefenders.eu, offers life-saving support to hundreds of defenders and enables thousands to continue their human rights work with a higher level of security. In response to the aggravated risks defenders have faced worldwide in the context of Covid-19, ProtectDefenders.eu has delivered timely emergency responses to … Continued

AI & Ethics

The proposed project will showcase, in an interactive way, how FB builds AI in its products from ideation to deployment, in a privacy and ethically responsible manner. This project demystifies AI by providing specific examples of how Facebook AI features are built, reviewed and deployed. Through a series of interactive presentations and exercises, this project … Continued

Counterterrorism Online

This project will introduce Facebook’s counterterrorism efforts including: how internal company policies have developed; how machine learning and artificial intelligence can work in cooperation with human expertise, and how we can scale impact across different platforms). This presents an opportunity to share the development of shared industry counterterrorism efforts, most notably inter-company sharing of propaganda … Continued

Eye on Earth

Eye on Earth is a global collaborative that aims to enable policy makers in all tiers of Governance, as well as individual citizens as they go about their daily lives, to consciously contribute to global Peace and Security by ensuring they understand the consequences of their choices on the happiness of others, both near and … Continued

The Moon Village – A Multi-partners Open Concept

The project that is presented involves establishing a permanent presence on the surface of the moon, open to all Nations, able to accommodate multiple users for multiple uses, also known as the “Moon Village”: a Multi-Partners Open Concept. The Moon Village is envisioned to grow incrementally, through the synergies between robotic and automatic systems and … Continued