Arda Gerkens is Vice-Chairman and member of the Senate. Before that she was a member of the House of Representatives with, among other things, ICT as a focus area. In 2013, she submitted a motion to the Senate that was broadly supported by the House of Representatives, which prompted the report of the Rathenau Institute ‘Opwaarden’ about the desirability of an ethics committee on the digitization of society.
Gerkens is also Director of the Online Child Abuse Expertise Agency (EOKM), which includes the Reporting Center for Child Pornography. For the handling and detection of images of sexual abuse of children, the EOKM is developing AI systems.