Bugün İşbirliği Bölüm Başkanımız Maria Luisa Wyganowski, İstanbul’da düzenlenen 16. Türkiye Enerji Zirvesi’nin açılışında net bir mesaj verdi: elektrifikasyonu hızlandıralım, yatırım yapalım ve bağlantıları güçlendirelim. 🇪🇺🇹🇷

For Türkiye, financial sovereignty means resilience, not isolation: reliable domestic payments, global connectivity, and regulation that protects privacy and competition while tackling misconduct. Restricting technology will not remove the reasons people want to hold dollars. I had the pleasure of speaking at a documentary shoot for TRT (Turkish Radio and Television), filmed at Istanbul’s newly opened Darphane-i Amire museum complex. The setting is particularly fitting: the former Ottoman imperial mint in Topkapı Palace now preserves the machinery and industrial heritage of coin production. Discussing digital money where coins were once minted brings the central question into focus: as money technology changes, how does power distribution change with it?

The problem isn’t that AI is intelligent. It isn’t. The problem is that too many adults (but not all) are at once mechanistic, imitative, unimaginative, stupid, formulaic, influenceable, & gullible, arrogant beyond their skill set, & too expensive to maintain.

I am standing to be Secretary-General because I believe this is a moment to act with greater urgency: to act earlier, bring people together across difference, and drive the work forward until it produces concrete results. That is how we rebuild trust in the United Nations and ensure it delivers meaningful change for the people it exists to serve. My vision: lananusseibeh.org