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On June 5, 2024, the Republic of India, a federal parliamentary constitutional republic, announced the results of its 18th Lok Sabhha general elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, secured 240 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s bicameral parliament. This outcome was described as surprising by Indian political observers, as the BJP lost about 20% of its previous parliamentary seats, necessitating the formation of a coalition government.
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This article explores the social impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and provides insights on managing its implications effectively. While AI holds potential for societal transformation, it also raises significant ethical, economic, and social concerns. This paper examines key considerations such as ethics, job displacement, privacy and data protection, algorithmic bias, social inequality, accountability and regulatory frameworks, transparency and comprehensibility, and human-centric design. By addressing these factors, policymakers, industry leaders, and stakeholders can steer the development and deployment of AI towards alignment with human values, contributing to a more inclusive and sustainable future.
This paper was prepared by Mushtariy Usmonova under the supervision of Shakhboz Akhmedov.
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Despite a number of existing structural and systemic problems in the activities of the United Nations, most of the key global problems related not only to military security and peacekeeping, but also to issues in the economic, social and cultural spheres are solved at its platforms. The UN is developing the concept of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Therefore, it is possible to consider OOH as a universal international organization, which has a high degree of legitimacy, which is not possessed by any other international organization.
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We studied the cost and financing of national immunization programs in lower and middle-income 28 countries: their immunization legislation, sorting them according to responsible parties for financing, stakeholders, functioning programs, covered vaccines, promotion, donor organization and implementation processes. Based on the analysis, 6 countries have been identified as optional best practices: Sri-Lanka, Bolivia, Costa-Rica, El-Salvador, Mongolia and Vietnam. Furthermore, several other lower and middle income emerging countries immunization programs have been studied, like Moldova, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Ghana, Armenia, Georgia and Indonesia. These countries immunization programs have covered almost all points: timeline, supply, storage, applying, prevention, monitoring, training of the staff, financing programs and circumstances of obeying the rules. In addition, the process of immunization financing is well defined in their national legislations.
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