A/HRC/RES/57/12 (a) To implement adequate human rights safeguards, such as robust data protection and cybersecurity frameworks, and promote technical solutions to secure and protect the confidentiality of digital communications and transactions; (b) To ensure that data used in the training of algorithms for the delivery of public services, including those related to decision-making, are accurate, relevant and representative, gathered in a manner that respects human rights and audited against encoded bias; (c) To take effective measures to ensure that everyone has equal access, without discrimination of any kind, to public services provided by local governments, including by assessing the human rights impact of such schemes on public service delivery and appropriately addressing them in their design, development, deployment and use, as well as fostering, as appropriate, the digital literacy and skills of individuals necessary to take full advantage of these digitalized services; (d) To take measures, as appropriate, to provide relevant technical assistance and capacity-building for local government officials involved in such schemes, including on the relevant obligations of States under international human rights law and the human rights impacts of the development, deployment and use of digital technologies in the context of the digitalization of cities; 9. Encourages local governments, within their respective responsibilities and capacities under domestic legal frameworks, to promote the full, equal and meaningful participation of all relevant stakeholders in decisions related to the development and operation of schemes for the digitalization of cities, including smart city projects, and to strengthen related international cooperation and the sharing of best practices on the better utilization of new and emerging digital technologies to respect, protect and fulfil human rights in the context of the digitalization of cities; 10. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene a one-day panel discussion, in a hybrid format and fully accessible to persons with disabilities, prior to the sixtieth session of the Human Rights Council, to exchange and review the best practices of States, local governments and other relevant stakeholders in overcoming the various challenges that local governments face in promoting and protecting human rights, including those related to better coordination and cooperation between national and local governments, human rights education and capacity-building for local government officials and supporting better engagement of local governments in the work of United Nations human rights mechanisms, and invites States, local governments from all regional groups of the United Nations, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the United Nations Development Programme and other United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, civil society and city networks, as well as relevant international organizations, to actively contribute to the panel discussion; 11. Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report, including in an accessible and easy-to-read format, in which it compiles and analyses the best practices of States, local governments and other relevant stakeholders in overcoming the various challenges that local governments face in promoting and protecting human rights, including those related to better coordination and cooperation between national and local governments, human rights education and capacity-building for local government officials and supporting better engagement of local governments in the work of United Nations human rights mechanisms, identifying lessons learned and outlining concrete recommendations for States and local governments, taking into account the results of the panel discussion to be convened before the sixtieth session of the Human Rights Council, and to present the report to the Council at its sixty-third session; 12. Further requests the Office of the High Commissioner, when preparing the above-mentioned panel discussion and report, to seek input from States and local governments from all regional groups of the United Nations, relevant intergovernmental organizations, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, including the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and the United Nations Development Programme, relevant special procedures, the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, the treaty bodies, 5