I4ADA Institute
Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age
Frits Bussemaker, chair of I4ADA was recognized for his contribution to the development of Professionalism in ICT. He is the recipient of the ‘David O’Leary Award’ which was presented by Moira De Roche and Anthony Wong at the General Assembly of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
Michael Nelson, Senior Fellow Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Why is free sharing, open source and other access to information so important? Why then are certain organisations (public and private) behaving in the opposite way, and seem to commonly strive for control and blocking information sharing? In what ways is copyright law misused? Is such misuse not merely censorship? Do you think it blocks and otherwise avoid those people and organisations to be accountability? Is balance between copyright versus the right to copy possible? What other problems arise out of invoking copyright? Does copyright actually protect or otherwise empower artists, scientists and other creators? Is it even fit for the Digital Age? What are ways forward do you see? Is providing free copies a problem, or part of the solution? What other measures would help to avoid copyright (law) abuse? This Dialogue covers all these important queries.
Glyn Moody is an independent journalist who has been writing about computer technology for almost 40 years. He is the author of the book ‘Walled Culture’ in this podcast he discusses copyrights and the need to reevaluate its purpose. A free digital version of his book is here: https://walledculture.org/the-book
World Innovation Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) is the organizer of the World Conference on Innovation technology. September this year the conference was organized in Penang Malaysia (see WCIT2022). I4ADA was invited to lead the plenary panel discussion on the need for Accountability in the Digital Age.
How should accountable AI be governed, before it is procured and deployed? And how should AI be governed from and during deployment? How to embed and monitor the humanitarian dimension, by design? It that different from having a human-centric approach? What is the definition of the common principles such as: explainability, auditability, responsibility and trustworthiness? How to respect local, regional, cultural or other ethics in global context of AI? Can we use the various AI ethical frameworks and good practices for other emerging technology as well, such as quantum computing? Do governments, politicians and others understand the impact of AI? Do we need new, creative 21st solutions for the 21st century challenges related to AI? What would then be the role of traditional solutions, such as awaiting case law? This Dialogue with Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of AI & Machine Learning and Member of the Executive Committee World Economic Forum covers all these important queries She is also the world’s first Chief AI and Ethics officer.
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