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Vint Cerf is Chief Evangelist with Google. He is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of “the fathers of the Internet“.

This year it’s the 50th anniversary of the Internet. What are key reflections on the Internet’s immense global impact? What are the origins computer-mediated communication? What role played TCP-IP? What are the main challenges and potential solutions? Can digital transformation drive positive change that are aligned with SDGs? How can we prevent misuse? What skills are required in building responsible, transparent and accountable systems? What are ethical concerns regarding chatbots and Large Language Models (LLMs)? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue.

The interview was originally done for ‘The Brand Called You‘. I4ADA has permission to reuse the recording.

Esther George is an Independent Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Specialist and Former Senior Prosecutor for the Crown (UK). In the I4ADA Dialogue she discusses her view on Cyber Crime:

While everybody seems to be aware of cybercrime, why are the amount of cybercrime prosecutions relatively modest? What is the problem with statistics? What are the roles of respectively media, victims and reporting? Would segmenting and otherwise nuancing this vast domain be beneficial? Do these fit in the current rule of law scope and definitions? Is there a difference between cybercrime and cyber-enabled crimes? What are the current key threats in cyber? How to address and counter those? How to make the conversation more diverse and inclusive, and get all at the table?

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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 (UN Environment Programme) Digital Transformation Programme and Co-champion of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES)

What is the UN environmental programme about? Where does digital transformation come in? How can efficient digital technologies help enable and facilitate? What climate footprint and other environmental implications does the technology industry create? How to come to climate-friendly and otherwise sustainable digital transformation capabilities? What to do about the increasing concentration of power with technologies companies? How to rebalance the growing imbalance of power, even towards the UN itself? What are governance and related accountability examples that redistribute power and benefits? How to make sure the voice of the world population is taken in? Which fora could facilitate the needed convening of multi-stakeholders, at large scale? How to engage these needed large amounts of people? How to correctly and usefully collect and process massive amounts of data and other input, while aiming to accelerate (data for) the SDGs and its targets? This Dialogue dives into these and related important matters.