Accountability in the Digital Age

A dialogue with James Hodson, CEO AI for Good Foundation.

When focusing on using emerging technologies as enablers for good; what does 'good' mean? How to engage academic and research communities to make emerging technologies work, for good? What are the benefits of using emerging technologies, such as the current generation of AI? What are the downsides? What collateral damage one needs to identity and avoid? How to achieve transparent and sustainable net benefits for people, society and planet? How to get those people and societal communities, generally non-technical, on board and interested? How can the various local, regional, international and global NGO and other initiatives find each other, complement each other while also keeping their own focus, sovereignty and accountability?

I4ADA Dialogue with David Jensen, Coordinator of the UNEP Digital Transformation Programme and Co-champion of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES)

A dialogue with Marielza Oliveira, Director division for digital inclusion, policies and information at UNESCO

What does ‘information as a public good’, and make those open and available in a trustworthy way mean? Why is it so important? How to lower (or even get rid of) exposure to harmful content, and both protect and empower people locally and worldwide? What other big threats and related accountability issues are created in this Digital Age? What policy instruments and actions need to be developed and deployed to address those? What are good respectively bad examples where policies including regulations are catching up with technological developments? How to help essential decision makers such as judges understanding digital (eco)systems, developments and their consequences to people and society? Regarding multi-stakeholder conversations, which stakeholders and networks should be at the table? What is the role of digital in SDGs, and achieving and sustaining those, before and after 2030? Where and how can the Institute for Accountability help facilitate with the mission of UNESCO? And, when is the next relevant event by UNESCO to discuss these and related important matters?

A dialogue with Jonathan Reichental, Author Data Governance for Dummies

An I4ADA dialogue with Guy de Felcourt on “DIGITAL and EXTRATERRITORIAL OUTREACH”

Where the one who commits or has committed an criminal act such as sexual assaults is the perpetrator, what's the role and responsibility of bystanders of these acts? How are bystanders that failed to protect the assaulted person while being in a position to do so, now criminalized in the State of Utah? How about the enablers? And, what about digital platform and other intermediaries in the Digital Age that accept and share those posts? Are they enablers as well? Said otherwise, who is who, in the Digital space? Where legislation generally is geographically specific, how to expand to digital, or otherwise include the digital ecosystems? What is the extent of harm that is caused by such bystanders to such survivor? How to assess the harm a sexual assault enabler causes?

A dialogue with Olivier Crochat, Center for Digital Trust. 

How to diligently organise balanced, global multi-stakeholders discussions? What are good practices, lessons learned, and success factors? In these discussions and topics, how should accountability in the Digital Age be taken in? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue with Latha Reddy is Co-Chairman at the Global Commission on Stability in Cyberspace. 

Jennifer Woodard is the co-founder and CEO of Insikt Intelligence, a deep-tech startup researching applying AI and Machine Learning to unearth hidden insights within large datasets for customers in the government sector for fighting online crime, disinformation and counterterrorism; as well as the co-founder of Dataietica, a non-profit institute created by AI practitioners and researchers in the Security industry who want to fully realise the potential of new technologies for public safety and policing, while addressing the implications such innovations have in terms of ethics, privacy and human rights.

Jennifer is a recognized expert in the application of AI for counterterrorism and a frequent speaker on the topic at high-level events. Most recently she addressed the UN Counterterrorism Week on the benefits and human rights implications of AI for counterterrorism. She is also frequently called upon to speak on the topic of ethical AI for security and policing in the EU, US and Israel.

Her spare time is spent mentoring future female leaders and contributing to the advancement of European technological research through her work as an external expert for the European Commission. She was tapped earlier this year by the UN to be a mentor in the United Nations Development Programme’s mentoring scheme for female entrepreneurs in the Arab region.

Is AI a threat, or an opportunity? Why? What are the benefits? What are the ethical implications to consider and take care of? Which stakeholders should be at the table to discuss this and make it work? How to get society, as a major stakeholder, at the table? What is the European (proposed) AI Act about? How do other regions (re)act to AI with policies? How should human in the loop work? What 21st solutions for the 21st century challenges related to AI can one consider? What kind of obstacles for accountability of design and use of AI are notable? What challenges will the metaverse bring or augment? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue.

A Dialogue with Michael Nelson, Senior Fellow Carnegie Endowment for International Peace