Global status in 2025
The UN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 highlights a 70 per cent increase in internet use since 2015 — reaching 68 per cent of the global population in 2024 — as one of the decade's transformative gains, while targets on research and development investment and sustainable industrial upgrading remain off track in most regions.
Source: United Nations, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025.
European and Albanian context
Digital connectivity is reshaping European labour markets, and artificial intelligence is entering recruitment workflows at speed. The innovation question for NOVARIC® is not whether to adopt such tools, but how to adopt them within enforceable governance that keeps humans accountable for consequential decisions.
NOVARIC® implementation commitments
- Operate a governed AI framework aligned with the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
- Require human oversight of all high-risk AI use, including any AI-assisted candidate assessment.
- Conduct bias testing on algorithmic tools before deployment and on a defined schedule thereafter.
- Invest in digital infrastructure that improves candidate access, transparency and data protection (ISO/IEC 27001-aligned).
Key performance indicators
Measured through the Manual's 90-indicator register (browse the full register):
- AI-01 AI systems registered and classified
- AI-03 Bias-test completion rate
- AI-05 Human-oversight coverage of high-risk systems
- GOV-11 Data-protection audit findings closed
Every AI system used within NOVARIC® is inventoried, classified against EU AI Act risk tiers and bias-tested before use. No candidate is rejected by an automated system without human review: the accountable decision-maker is always a named person, never a model.