Role of Artificial Intelligence in Creating New Opportunities for Sustainable Development in Central Asia

A/RES/79/322View PDF

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A document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 18 Sustainable development, published in 2025.

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Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 5	Information and communications technology and space applications	15

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Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 5	Information and communications technology and space applications	15	—

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Artificial Intelligence Central Asia Sustainable Development

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Encourages Member States, in particular developed countries and those developing countries in a position to do so, with the contribution of the relevant stakeholders, within their respective roles and responsibilities, to increase capacity-building cooperation, including policy exchanges, knowledge-sharing activities and the transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms, technical assistance, lifelong learning, personnel training, skilling of the workforce, international research cooperation, voluntary joint international research laboratories and artificial intelligence capacity-building centres, with full consideration of developing countries’ national needs, policies and priorities, and to hold training courses, seminars and workshops, among others, for sharing experiences and best practices;

Encourages Central Asian countries to develop appropriate metrics and mechanisms at the national and regional levels to support the deployment of responsible and inclusive artificial intelligence systems, and the evaluation of the impact of these systems in creating new opportunities for sustainable development in the region;

Encourages the development of international partnerships on artificial intelligence capacity-building to develop education and training programmes, increase access to resources including open artificial intelligence models and systems, open training data and compute, facilitate artificial intelligence model training and development, and promote the participation of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises in the digital economy, and notes the initiative on the establishment of a regional artificial intelligence centre in Dushanbe, to contribute, among other things, to the creation of new opportunities for sustainable development in Central Asia;

Notes the formulation of regional self-regulatory measures in Central Asia aimed at promoting safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence systems and ensuring a balance between regulation and innovation;

Invites United Nations agencies, programmes and funds, within their respective mandates, to collaborate in assisting Member States, including Central Asian countries, in designing artificial intelligence capacity-building programmes, at the national and regional levels, and to foster public-private partnerships to mobilize additional resources;

Supports the United Nations in playing a central and coordinating role in international development cooperation;

Calls upon the United Nations system to enhance action-oriented international cooperation on artificial intelligence capacity-building, including through voluntary and transparent cooperation frameworks or initiatives, which also promotes the meaningful participation of developing countries in artificial intelligence processes.

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