Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-9-2025

Abstract

The trifecta of the Digital Global Compact (2024), the UN General Assembly Resolution on AI for Sustainable Development (2024) and the new Cyber Crime Convention (2025) come at a time of what seems to be an inexorable march of new technology. It is also at a time of transborder disruption caused by data breaches and cyber threats, that binding international norms can respond to global challenge. However, it must be emphasized that digital violence, developer bias, and data bias are not new phenomena, they have existed since the origins of the internet. Data that is used to train machine-learning algorithms have encoded inequities and reproduced historical patterns of discrimination, causing the algorithm to perpetuate inequitable treatment. These new and evolving historic normative frameworks are struggling to keep pace with the breakneck pace of technological development and the equally rapid pace of gendered forms of technology-facilitated discrimination and violence. This Article critically examines the role of gender in these burgeoning frameworks as pivotal elements in a rapidly changing digital ecosystem. While the current global normative foci overlook important aspects of gender equality, they also elide the rise of ChatGPT and other Generative AI and their impact on gender. In the final analysis, the primacy of gender equal participation in digital and cybersecurity governance should be a pillar of the new global digital order.

Keywords

international digital rules, international law, global cybercrimes treaty, UN General Assembly, Global Digital Compact, gender equality, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), digital divide

Publication Title

Washington Journal of Law, Technologyy & Arts

Publication Citation

20 Wash. J. L. Tech. & Arts 1 (2025)

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