Italy assumed the presidency of the Group of Friends of Culture on September 1. The Group brings together numerous UN Member States with the aim of strengthening the role of culture on the United Nations agenda, recognizing it as a fundamental element in fostering peaceful societies, promoting sustainable development, and enhancing cultural industries and diversity.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew York also confirms Italy\u2019s leading role in multilateral cultural policies, rooted in its immense historical, artistic, and natural heritage, which is a source of great national and international pride and, at the same time, a fundamental resource for the country\u2019s economy and identity,\u201d said Italy\u2019s Permanent Representative, Ambassador Giorgio Marrapodi.<\/p>\n
Italy\u2019s assumption of the presidency, jointly with Mexico, was formalized during a high-level meeting of ambassadors of the member countries dedicated to the nexus between culture and artificial intelligence, attended by UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture Nayef Al-Fayez.<\/p>\n
On the occasion, Ambassador Marrapodi outlined the Italian Government\u2019s human-centered approach to artificial intelligence, highlighting through concrete examples – such as the Carabinieri\u2019s S.W.O.A.D.S. system and Ca\u2019 Foscari University\u2019s RePAIR Project, how artificial intelligence can have highly practical applications in the protection, documentation, conservation, and recovery of cultural heritage, as well as in combating illicit trafficking.<\/p>\n
Italy also played a key role in the adoption, today, September 4, of the resolution establishing the International Decade of Culture for Sustainable Development (2027\u20132036), promoted jointly with Vietnam and other States. The initiative builds on Italy\u2019s longstanding commitment to culture and sustainable development policies, which was reflected in the two Naples Conferences on UNESCO Heritage, held in 2023 and 2025, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy assumed the presidency of the Group of Friends of Culture on September 1. The Group brings together numerous UN Member States with the aim of strengthening the role of culture on the United Nations agenda, recognizing it as a fundamental element in fostering peaceful societies, promoting sustainable development, and enhancing cultural industries and diversity. […]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13733,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions\/13733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}