| APrIGF 2022 Session Proposal Submission Form | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Part 1 - Lead Organizer | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Ms. Jhalak Kakkar | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University Delhi | |||||||||||||||||||
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| India | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Prateek Sibal, UNESCO, p.sibal@unesco.org | |||||||||||||||||||
| Part 2 - Session Proposal | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Building a research agenda to foster Global South engagement in global AI and data governance | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Roundtable | |||||||||||||||||||
| Where do you plan to organize your session? | |||||||||||||||||||
| Online only (with onsite facilitator who will help with questions or comments from the floor) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Specific Issues for Discussion | |||||||||||||||||||
| The use of AI and Big Data-based systems is challenging data protection and privacy principles, developed by high-income countries in the 1980s, that inform most data protection laws worldwide. The conversations around the development of norms for AI and data governance continue to be dominated by high-income countries. Data protection frameworks need to evolve to adapt to the challenges posed by AI systems. This provides the global community a unique opportunity to be inclusive of diverse perspectives by bringing the Asian and Pacific countries into the conversation around the framing of principles for AI and data governance. Since the impact of AI will likely be disproportionately felt by marginalised and vulnerable communities of the Global South, UNESCO and CCG have both through their work been seeking to make these conversations universal and informed by Global South perspectives. The objective of this roundtable is to build on this work and bring forth diverse voices - especially those from the Asian, Pacific and Indigenous peoples - and perspectives on AI and data governance, and consolidate these learnings to articulate a Global South focused research agenda for AI and data governance. We will encourage open conversations in a roundtable format to be able to learn about the most pressing issues in AI governance as identified by the stakeholders currently in the ecosystem. We hope that Global South communities/civil society/IGOs from the Asian regions can come together to develop research around this agenda to enable these communities to meaningfully represent their views at global norm development discussions around AI. Additionally, we hope that this workshop will give impetus to the development of an Asian Global South community that can work towards inclusive AI and data governance norm building. |
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| Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF | |||||||||||||||||||
| The use of artificial intelligence systems and big data analytics has affected all sectors of the economy, and many countries have started adopting laws and regulations to govern the use of such systems. Asian countries play an important, but often overlooked role in this particular ecosystem,by being home to some of the largest developing economies in the world, many of whom are in the process of developing their own norms surrounding the use of AI systems. The goal of this session is to consolidate thinking emerging from the Asian region around the governance of AI and Big Data. CCG and UNESCO will design the workshop to enable us to learn about the current and proposed responses/developments to the challenges of AI and data governance from workshop participants and enable a discussion on thinking emerging from Asia and the Global South that needs to be voiced and integrated into the discussions in global norm building. The session outcome will be (i) an “Agenda for research and evidence on the emerging practices, models and legal responses to the challenges of privacy online and data protection in the context of AI from the Global South”, (ii) building a collaborative community from Asia that can come together to articulate Global South concerns in the context of AI and Big Data and share these perspectives during global norm development processes. The roundtable will bring together organisations/researchers to form a community to build momentum towards sharing the Asian perspective at global processes. The discussion will enable us to articulate priority research areas for Asian and Global South communities to build around and leverage. AI and data governance are core focus areas for UNESCO and CCG, and insights from the session will inform ongoing/future research/policy work. Our learnings will be published as blogs on our website, and social media and we hope that the participants will be able to engage with and drive forward these outputs as well. |
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| Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The speakers have been chosen due to their active involvement and experience in the field. They are actively involved in the sector and showcase diverse ages, gender and experience and are therefore able to provide a more holistic perspective. Jhalak M. Kakkar is the Executive Director at the Centre for Communication Governance (CCG), National Law University Delhi, a research centre that works on information law and policy issues. She works extensively on AI regulation and data governance, providing policy comments to the Indian government and international organisations like OHCHR on the design of AI regulation and data governance. Jhalak is an Expert member of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) Multistakeholder Experts Group Plenary and member of the Working Group on Data Governance. She is also part of the Asian Dialogue on AI Governance (collaboration between Singapore Management University and Microsoft) and engages in discussions around principle and regulatory design around AI in countries like India, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, China and Australia. Jhalak has taught at various forums, summer schools and undertaken capacity building workshops around AI including the UNESCO MOOC on AI and Rule of Law for judges. Dr Bhanu Neupane works at UNESCO as a Programme Manager for ICT and Sciences and Open Access to Scientific Research. He is also working in the area of Open Data, essentially to improve and increase access to scientific data and information. Prateek Sibal works at UNESCO’s Digital Innovation and Transformation section in Paris as a specialist consultant. He is a technology policy researcher working to understand the impact of digital technologies, specially artificial intelligence (AI), on societies from a human rights, openness, inclusive access and multi-stakeholder governance perspective. His work involves providing policy advice to governments and developing programmes for reinforcing human and institutional capacities of policymakers and civil society organisations in developing countries. CCG and UNESCO are deeply embedded in the digital rights communities and can draw on this network to bring in workshop participants representing the many different Souths within the Global South (Latin America, Asia, Africa, indigenous communities and marginalised/vulnerable groups within the Global North) to share their perspectives. The workshop will have multiple regionally diverse civil society expert facilitators. Both CCG and UNESCO work on AI and data protection research stemming from the Global South. We hope to use this space to foster greater engagement by groups that are usually underrepresented in the global AI and Data Governance global norms processes. |
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| If you need assistance to find a suitable speaker to contribute to your session, or an onsite facilitator for your online-only session, please specify your request with details of what you are looking for. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Please declare if you have any potential conflict of interest with the Program Committee 2022. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Are you or other session contributors planning to apply for the APrIGF Fellowship Program 2022? | |||||||||||||||||||
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| APrIGF offers live transcript in English for all sessions. Do you need any other translation support or any disability related requests for your session? APrIGF makes every effort to be a fully inclusive and accessible event, and will do the best to fulfill your needs. | |||||||||||||||||||
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