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🕘 Tuesday March 7th, 09:00 GMT (10:00 GMT+1) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eKZ-XDQD Join us tomorrow at 09:00 GMT for a policy dialogue between young leaders and international policymakers and researchers on challenges and best practices in the world of AI. #YouthEmpowerment #AI4CommonGood

On Monday, IRCAI hosted a meeting with three Slovenian ministers on continuing cooperation with the Slovenian government: Ms. Fajon Tanja (Deputy Prime Minister & Minister at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Slovenia), Dr. Igor Papič (Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology) and Dr. Emilija Stojmenova Duh (Minister at Ministrstvo za digitalno preobrazbo / Ministry of Digital Transformation). The focus of the meeting was on finding ways to improve inter-ministerial cooperation and involve more Slovenian stakeholders. 🎥: Simon Marolt

As part of the panel, Mihajela Črnko (CCO at IRCAI) showcased various examples of African-based AI innovations featured in IRCAI’s Global Top 100 cohort, to demonstrate what they have to offer the continent. Missed DG INTPA's InfoPoint conference on AI investments for entrepreneurship? Rewatch it here: https://lnkd.in/e-DGa72Z

Our colleagues from the Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI) are organising this year's Web Intelligence Competition for Eurostat. The first round challenge will be about deduplicating online job advertisements. Register by the 1st of March 2023 - and win up to €10k for the Accuracy award, €3k for the AccuracyPlus award and €10k for the Reproducibility award. 👉 Stay tuned: https://lnkd.in/giAV69yc #euwebintelligenceawards

This Monday (December 12th), we took part in the 2nd high-level event of the Digital for Development (D4D) Hub. It has been exactly one year since the EU-LAC digital dialogue platform has been launched - the EU’s platform that aims to step up the dialogue and engagement on digital issues with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Based on what we have been able to learn from this past year, we discussed how this digital cooperation can be improved.   The first roundtable session - featuring our very own John Shawe-Taylor (Director at International Research Center on Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO) - addressed how the digital partnership between the two continents can truly foster a more human-centred and inclusive digitalisation: What does it take for digital technologies like AI to be truly inclusive? How should we address the digital divide? How do regulatory frameworks help strengthen the digital dialogue between the two regions?   The second roundtable session focused more specifically on the recently announced Global Gateway digital investment package for LAC. Speakers sought to answer the following questions: Which challenges does the LAC private sector face in advancing the digital economy in the region? Which instruments could be used to better connect SMEs on both sides of the ocean? Which investments should be prioritised?   #EU #LAC #GlobalGateway #HumanCentricDigitalisation #InclusiveDigitalisation #D4DHub   The recording of the event is available here: https://lnkd.in/eeYFnxRn

Still thinking of submitting your project proposal for this year’s Global Top 100 call? Highly worth it if you ask us! Not only will your project gain global visibility. You’ll also gain access to mentoring sessions with experts from various fields of expertise (AI & Education, AI & Health, AI & Circular Economy, AI & Climate Change, AI & Assistive Technologies, AI & Ethics). #GlobalTop100 #AI4SDGs Submit your project proposal here: https://lnkd.in/eqgB45i

Short reminder for everyone interested in being part of this year’s Global Top 100 list of AI projects solving problems related to the UN SDGs: We are still accepting project proposal submissions! Here’s the link (and let us know if you have any questions): https://lnkd.in/eqgB45i

Earlier this month, IRCAI and the British Council facilitated an online dialogue with a focus group composed of students from Greece, Cyprus, Hungary and Germany. The guiding question of the event was “How can AI be used for the common good?”.   In the first half of the event, three speakers were invited to share a couple of words on #AI4Sustainability from their own respective perspectives: Vanessa Nurock addressed the ethics of AI: How can AI be a social good? What should we look for when adopting AI technology? Are there cases where we should refrain from using AI? Veronika Stabej explained how policy makers can play their part: What can policymakers do to enable more equitable development, adoption, and use of AI? What do governments and international organisations do with the insights they receive from industry and academia? Joao Pita Costa presented his own AI-based SDG observatory, which can be used to identify the latest trends for the SDGs. A particular focus of the presentation was on SDG6 and how the tool can identify the latest news in this area, assess media sentiment on various water topics, and help policymakers gain data-driven insights that support evidence-based decision making.   In the second half of the event, it was the young participants’ turn to share their own perspectives. Using an online whiteboard, the participants shared their hopes and fears about AI. While one group reflected on how AI can help us mitigate climate change, the other group thought about how AI can be used to address social inequalities, but also how it can exacerbate them at the same time.   This online dialogue marked only the starting point of a whole programme that has been composed by IRCAI and the British Council. Called “Stronger Together: Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good”, the programme will include another dialogue along these lines in November 2022, as well as a series of face-to-face hackathons… and a final dialogue in December 2022 (where our young participants will address some high-level policymakers in the field of #AI4SDGs).   Interested in taking part in the upcoming events of this programme? Stay tuned - we’ll be sharing more soon.

“IRCAI’s focus is to connect the technical underpinnings of AI with both its practical application and its ethical and humanistic ramifications, in order to ensure that the technology is used as effectively as possible in promoting the good of humanity – in terms of human rights as well as the advancement of all the SDGs.” #AI4SDGs #GlobalTop100 How does your AI project implement ethics in its design? Let us know in your project proposal. Submit it now at: https://lnkd.in/eqgB45i (Deadline: October 31st)