Steering Committee for New and Emerging Digital Technologies (CDNET)
The Steering Committee for New and Emerging Digital Technologies (CDNET) conducts and coordinates the intergovernmental work of the Council of Europe in the field of new and emerging technologies, ensuring that this work supports innovation, and give its legal and policy expertise to the Committee of Ministers on all questions within its field of competence. CDNET also serves as custodian of the Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (CETS No. 225) until the Conference of the Parties is established.
In line with the commitment of member States in Reykjavik to ensuring a leading role for the Council of Europe in developing standards in the digital era to safeguard human rights online and offline, a new Steering Committee for New and Emerging Digital Technologies (CDNET) was created.
The CDNET will carry on the work of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) in the field of artificial intelligence, in particular to promote the Framework Convention on AI and to develop the Huderia model further. It will also co-ordinate with other intergovernmental committees and Council of Europe entities addressing the implications of new and emerging digital technologies in their respective fields of activity.