UNESCO IFAP Session: Launching IGF Dynamic Coalition on Measuring Digital inclusion: Advancing Digital Inclusion for building inclusive Knowledge Societies – Pre 02 2024

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17 June 2024 | 11:15 - 12:15 EEST | WS room 1 | Video recording
Consolidated programme 2024

Session teaser

Session description

In line with the implementation of IFAP Strategic Plan 2023-2029, the Information for All Programme (IFAP), jointly with Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (GDIP) and the newly founded IGF Dynamic Coalition (DC) on Measuring Digital Inclusion, will gather partner institutions such as the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the Regional Centre for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (CETIC), the United Nations University Group on Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV), and Tech and Global Affairs Innovation Hub.

The session, aims engage with European and international stakeholders and leaders for triggering policy discussion on how to join synergies and advance inclusive digital governance and create digital ecosystems that are accessible to everyone, including women and girls.

The discussion builds upon the insights derived from the IFAP Working Groups-organized events such as the AI for Accessibility (AI4IA) Conference and global brainstorming on implementing AI ethics recommendation of UNESCO. Therefore, the session sheds light on frontier technologies’ impact on advancing digital inclusion and knowledge societies, and how to apply evidence-based approaches and digital measurements frameworks to shape inclusive AI governance, regulation and policies through the newly founded Dynamic Coalition.

As highlighted in its new IFAP Strategic Plan 2023-2029, IFAP aims to mainstream principles and policies for inclusive, equitable, and sustainable Knowledge Societies into national development plans and digital transformation processes, including employing measurement frameworks to address digital inequalities between and within countries and communities.

IFAP promotes UNESCO’s digital measurements frameworks such as UNESCO’s Internet Universality ROAM-X Principles and indicators (human Rights-based, Open to all, Accessible by all, and Multi-stakeholder participation). The importance of contextualising and diagnosing the policy cycle is also highlighted in the IFAP publication Knowledge Societies Policy Handbook, and the implementation of 2019 Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER). IFAP also works extensively with partners and stakeholders to promote evidence based digital inclusion and share good practices such as “Meaningful Connectivity: measurement proposals and the portrait of the population in Brazil” by CETIC, and the UN E-Government Survey with UNDESA.

The session has three objectives:

  1. Delve into the application of evidence-based approaches such as the UNESCO’s Internet Universality ROAM-X Principles and indicators to advance inclusive digital governance. This includes employing measurement frameworks to address digital inequalities between and within countries and communities including women and girls’ empowerment in technology.
  2. Explore the multiple implications of frontier digital technologies such as AI including generative AI and quantum technology, on building digital inclusion and knowledge societies, with a focus on promoting monitoring mechanisms to inform evidence-based policymaking related to frontier digital technologies.
  3. Invite European stakeholders to join the Dynamic Coalition and discuss the strategy, actions, work plans and synergies among Coalition members. Shed light on the Coalition’s organisation awareness campaigns aimed at fostering multi-stakeholder dialogues, showcasing achievements, and conducting policy studies.

Format

Pre-events should give the opportunity to create synergies with 3 rd parties i.e. Dynamic Coalitions, Partners. No session principles apply. They are held on day zero in parallel to setting up the venue for EuroDIG. We provide limited technical support.

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Further reading

Background:

Established by UNESCO Member States in 2001, the Information for All Programme (IFAP) serves as a platform for fostering international collaboration and partnerships aimed at cultivating inclusive and sustainable Knowledge Societies. IFAP recognizes six priority areas: Information for Development, Information Literacy, Information Preservation, Information Ethics, Information Accessibility, and Multilingualism in cyberspace.

In line with IFAP Strategic Plan 2023-2029 and at the heart of IFAP’s mission lie its endeavours to mainstream principles and policies for inclusive, equitable and sustainable knowledge societies into national development plans and promote measurement frameworks designed to identify and address digital disparities both within and across nations and communities.

IFAP’s Dynamic Coalition on Measuring Digital Inclusion (DC-Digital Inclusion) is born out of the desire to establish principles and policies for inclusive, equitable, and sustainable knowledge societies through collaboration between IFAP and its partners. This IGF’s Dynamic Coalition sees the joint efforts of IFAP, Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (GDIP), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Regional Centre for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (CETIC), United Nations University Group on Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV), Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), and International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The Coalition aims to achieve the below objectives:

  1. Raise awareness of and advocating for monitoring mechanisms and frameworks that facilitate evidence-based policymaking of digital inclusion for closing digital gender inequalities.
  2. Exchange on methodologies, results and good practice on the implement of evidence-based approaches and measuring digital inclusion and the digital participation of women and girls at all stages, from STEM education to technology development and usage.
  3. Share and promote accurate data collection and analysis at global, regional, and national levels for advancing digital inclusion and gender equality.
  4. Understand frontier technologies, particularly AI, and update measurement tools to foster inclusiveness and empowerment of women and girls in digital age.
  5. Foster opportunities for women’s participation, entrepreneurship and leadership in digital transformation and shape gender-inclusive policies and capacity-building initiatives targeted at women and girls.

People

  • Moderator:
    • Ms. Xianhong Hu, UNESCO Programme Specialist, Secretariat of Information for All Programme (IFAP), Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO.
       
  • Introduction remarks (10’)
    • video message of Mr. Pablo Miguel Medina Jimenez, Chair of the Intergovernmental Council of Information for All Program (IFAP) of UNESCO (5')
    • presentation of UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators by Ms. Tatevik Grigoryan, Associate Programme Specialist, Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO (5')
       
  • DC members and partners’ statements (28')
    • Ms. Sonia Jorge, Executive Director, Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (GDIP) (4')
    • Ms. Viktoriia Romaniuk, Chair of IFAP Working Group on Information Ethics, Deputy Director, Mohyla School of Journalism, Associate Professor, Lecturer at Mohyla School of Journalism (4')
    • Mr. Yves Poullet, Emeritus Professor at the University of Namur, Honorary Rector of UNamur and Associate Professor at UC Lille, member of the Royal Academy of Belgium and member of the Litigation Chamber of the Belgian authority of Data protection (4')
    • Mr. Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, EGOV Adviser (UNU-EGOV) (4')
    • Ms. Constance Bommelaer de Leusse, Executive Director, Tech and Global Affairs Innovation Hub, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po (4')
    • Mr. Diana Gianluca, responsible for Government Relations in the EMEA region, Lenovo (4')
    • Mr. Alexandre Barbosa, Head of Regional Center for the Development of Information Society - Cetic.br (4')
       
  • Q&A (22')
    • Open Floor and engage DC partners and stakeholders

Video record

https://youtu.be/QrWs9gzerSg

Transcript

Disclaimer: This is not an official record of the session but provided for convenience only. The following transcript is automatically generated by the zoom recording function. Timestamps were removed, else the text is presented in it’s original format, as provided by the zoom system (e.g. including any spelling mistakes). The accuracy of the transcript is not guaranteed.


Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Hello, so can I start now? So you stick them to me. Okay, I can talk when so you you told you tell me when I can start.
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Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: thank you. Thank you for your dig and thank you for the wonderful technical support. Welcome to everyone in the room, and also those online to this unesco session. On launching our new dynamic collision on measuring the digital inclusion. My name Hong. I'm a specialist
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: of programme at Unesco on the information for our program. Very warm greetings from beautiful city villanues here, where the Eurodig 2024 is being hosted today, we are having a very packed agenda. We'll start by introduction, remarks by the chair of, followed by a
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: presentation on Unesco's work on IUI, and then I will have a fantastic panel of 7 speakers to deliver their statement and share visions, and then I'm also ambitious to have maybe 20 min reserved for the interaction comments and question and aid with all the audiences. And please remember we are living in the
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: parallel universe of online offline. No such difference. Feel free to type in your comments and questions in the chat of Zoom. I'm also joining you remotely so from willingness to. So my colleague, Victoria and others are following your comments. We are trying to tackle all of them and allow for the session will be entirely interactive. Now, without further delay.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: I would like to invite our technical support to play the video message of the chair of the Intergovernmental Council of Information for all program. Unesco. Mr. Pablo Miguel Medina gymnas, please show us the video. Thank you.
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Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Yes, thank you. My apologies. Good morning, participants and colleagues, both here in person and joining us online.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: I am delighted to welcome you to this universal information for a program session at Eurodee 2,024,
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: where we will explore the opportunities to create digital ecosystems that are inclusive and accessible to everyone. To extend my gratitude to the organizers for making this meeting possible.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Today's agenda is especially exciting, as we are pleased to announce the establishment of the Internet Governance Forum's dynamic coalition on measuring digital inclusion. This dynamic collision formed by Ifab in cooperation with the global digital inclusion partnership
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: and distinguished partners, such as the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, the Regional Center for Studies on the development of the Information Society, the United Nations University group on electronic governance and the tech and global affairs. Innovation hub is dedicated to tackling the complex challenges of digital inclusion.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: I take this opportunity to invite European and international stakeholders to join us in this dynamic coalition together. I believe we can develop strategies, actions, and more plans that promote inclusive with some background information on the program and its areas of focus.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Unesco is an instrumental program which serves as a platform for international policy discussions over 2 decades and guidelines for actions within its 6 key priority areas, namely, information for development, information, preservation, information, ethics, information, accessibility and monotonism. Hyperspace
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: actively supports the development of ethical AI based systems to a multi stakeholder approach aligned with the unesco recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence contributing to the objectives of dynamic coalition, Ivan promotes Unesco's digital measurements, framework such as Unesco's Internet Room X principles.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: an indicator, human rights based open to all accessible by all and multi stakeholder participation. The importance of contextualizing and diagnose the policy cycle is also highlighted in the up publication, Knowledge Society's Policy Handbook and the implementation of 2,019 recommendation on open educational resources.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: I, Fab, also works extensively with partners and stakeholders to promote evidence-based digital inclusion and share with vertices such as meaningful connectivity
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: management proposals, and the portrait of the population in Brazil by city and the UN. Government survey with and to ensure, if remains, remains relevant and responsive to nowadays. It operates in alignment with the ifap strategy plan 2023, 2029.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: This plan sets the stage for post proactive engagement in reducing digital divides and enhancing digital inclusivity. Specifically, ifap initiatives aim to improve Internet connectivity in rural areas and enhance digital literacy programs that empower women and girls
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: with the necessary skills to participate fully in the digital world building. On this framework recent iphone funded projects have achieved sustainable results in bridging the digital divide and providing access to information and communication technologies to women and girls in India.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: One such project introduced mobile phone-based gadgets and developed the rural women entrepreneurship development program manual.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: This initiative enhanced the digital skills of 265 women and girls in rural areas enabling them to effectively express themselves in the digital world. Georgia, the business and technology trains. 60 women, including both Georgian citizens and Ukrainians, refugees helping them to master digital technology. The Islamic republic of Iran women participants, have significantly improved their proficiency
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: with the digital tools. To achieve our objectives almost raise awareness and advocate for monitoring mechanisms and frameworks that facilitate evidence-based policies.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: we need to exchange methodologies, results and good practices on measuring digital inclusion and the digital participation of women and girls. Accurate data collection and analysis at global regional and national levels are crucial
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: for advancing digital inclusion and gender equality. In conclusion, let us collaborate and leverage our expertise and resources to ensure that digital technology with inclusive, equitable and sustainable knowledge societies benefiting our people regardless of location or social economic status.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you all. And I look forward to a fruitful and engaging discussion.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for this video message for some participants in the room. You might not hear very clearly. Actually, the chair has basically mentioned that the new strategy plan of, and also the the program. I have some paper version of brochure. You are afraid to pick some from my table. Now, I I think, as the chair just mentioned, that this new dynamic collision
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: was created to promote the multistual approach to promote the evidence based approach and to advocate for all types of measuring and monitoring mechanism. But first, st I also like to recognise the support of Secretary, and also that's why Mr. Chandler is sitting with me on stage
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: really like to recognise that Igf, including the entire Eurodig and the National. Itf ecosystem, has created such an enabling environment for the actors to join into this strong dynamic collision, to read action on crucial digital issues like this one. We recently like to thank you for your
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: constant support on that idea. We won't be able to launch this collision, and, as just mentioned by the chair that Unesco has been a developer of a number of indicators, strong frameworks. I'm also very happy to have my colleague Tatovic here. She just convened a wonderful session before this one on the update of the unesco Internet indicators.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: So, tatika, would you please to give some update on where we are standing now to update this very unique set of Internet indicators. And how you think the UDD can help us. Thank you. Thank you so much. And congratulations on launching this dynamic coalition which promotes the very important work of unesco of this measurement instruments, and
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: is one of our key initiatives in Unesco which aims at breaching the digital divide and helping Member States to assess their Internet environment based on 303 indicators that we created following Unesco's governing body Member States endorsement of the
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: principle of Internet universality which states that Internet should be based on human rights, open and accessible to all, and nurtured and governed by multistakeholder participation and addressing cross cutting issues, such as gender equality. And
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: as you are also focusing on gender inclusion and its promotion through this dynamic coalition, it's important to mention that we have 61 indicators on accessibility in general within this framework, and over 20 address, gender inclusion. And what is important
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: is this process of the assessment that countries undertake, through this framework, which informs their policies at the national level digital policies, and it helps Member States in general to navigate to see where the gaps are and where the areas are
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: this work. Unfortunately, I cannot show the map now due to technical difficulties, but not to take so much time. We have been implementing it in over 40 countries. And we've seen firsthand. Indeed, the importance and power of evidence based approach in digital policy making. But these indicators have been created
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: over 5 years ago, and the idea was to make sure that they remain relevant and they incorporate these new challenges in the digital environment. And so we undertook a revision process one year ago, following 5 year implementation of the framework, and we are in the process of consulting
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: stakeholders like yourselves, using important fora and platforms like Eurodig and other discussions around Internet governance to get input from all the stakeholders. And this has been truly a multi stakeholder process. Both the creation implementation and also the revision process. I have your input as to the revision process
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: of the indicators, so the revision aims to 1st of all, simplify the the process of the implementation of this framework, as we have 303 indicators, currently 109 are considered core. We aim to simplify the process while maintaining this multi-stakeholder advisory process and
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: multi stakeholder engagement to address current challenges emerging challenges in the digital environment. And, for example, in this new draft, second generation. I, Ui, we have identified themes such as new themes, such as, for example, environmental issues and
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: advanced digital technologies, for example, such as artificial intelligence
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: among those to to incorporate this or environmental issues I mentioned. So we, unfortunately, I cannot show it to you. But I'm happy to later on share my contact information to to be able to share this draft with you, to get. Yes, I was
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Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: And so these updated indicators, we will continue this consultation process, and we are aiming to launch it at global Igf in December. So where we hope to see many of you. So I think this is my time. My time is up. But
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: we also have, in addition to the dynamic coalition on digital inclusion, we have the dynamic coalition on Internet universality indicators which focus specifically on this measurement tool. So we are also happy to have you there and get engaged in this discussion, I'll stop here. Thank you so much, John Hong, for the invitation to join and thank you for your continued
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: work to continue supporting this instrument. Among other unesco instruments. Thank you. We heard you that hope your dig on all of you to follow this revision of universality indicators to have your input into our revised new indicators. And also
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: I also call upon European countries that you can also consider conducting this assessment in your country, because this instrument is designed to really apply to all the different national contexts, including in Europe. So please follow us on this initiative. Now, I would like to turn to our fantastic panel of members and partner
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: of this new dynamic collision on measuring digital inclusion. And you know the entire United Schools work the mission of If to support all the Member States and the stakeholders to develop inclusive sustainable information and knowledge societies. So this dynamic collision is created as a very timely moment. And first, st I'd like to introduce
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Ms. Onika Marakwah, the executive director of Global Digital Inclusion partnership, the the co-founding organization of this coalition to address a few remarks, and before that I also like to plead to all my speakers. Here, please limit your intervention to 4 min maximum.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: and to tackle questions. I mean from 2 aspects, either or both. One is on strategic question. What do you think? Those digital pioneering technologies, such as AI, such as metaverse, such as quantum, new emerging definitely how they are impacting the inclusive and
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: sustainable knowledge society, and also the digital inclusion issues. And a second question from you and your organisation's aspect. What are concrete projects, what concrete actions Europe taking to boost this digital inclusion as a contribution to the denial collection? What do you expect? The contribution can really
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: can really accelerate this digital inclusion, endeavor in a collective manner, and so onika. You have the floor.
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): Great. Thank you very much, and thanks for this opportunity to address you this morning. Good morning to everyone. I'm going to go ahead and get started quickly, because I only have just 4 min. You know, today, we stand at a pivotal moment in history where digital landscape holds quite immense potential to reshape our societies.
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): But, however, as we navigate this transformative area, it is imperative that we prioritize inclusive digital governance and foster an ecosystem that empowers everyone, including women and girls, more especially as we explore these profound implications of frontier digital technologies.
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): Such as artificial intelligence as you've mentioned and quantum technology as well. In in terms of shaping inclusive knowledge societies, it becomes even more clear that these technologies hold immense potential to drive progress and foster equitable development across the globe. However, as we embrace these advances, it's important that we ensure that
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): one is left behind, you know, building on the room ex principles. I'm going to just focus on, you know, dual focus on accessibility and ethical governance. Digital inclusion is not merely about access to technology. I think. Post COVID-19. We know that there is an emerging divide amongst those who are already connected.
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): It is about ensuring that everyone, regardless of gender or background, can actively participate and benefit from this digital revolution. So, firstly, we need to bridge the detailed divide by expanding access to affordable and meaningful connectivity, by raising the bar of how we measure access beyond basic connectivity.
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): but focusing on affordable high speed Internet that is available on a daily basis, if desired, with unlimited data and access to an affordable smart device as an entry level device raising the bar of how we measure a connected person and how we measure access is really going to be a game changer in terms of whether individuals are
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): able to even benefit or participate in this. You know, frontier technologies, such as artificial intelligence as well as generative AI, either as innovators or simply as consumers of what's happening in that space.
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): Secondly, we must address the demand side of connectivity by ensuring that everyone has the opposite digital skills and promoting digital literacy and skills, development, equipment and girls with knowledge and capabilities to not only use technology, but also to innovate and lead in the digital economy. So it's not only good enough that you know we are able to access.
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): It is about how we are utilizing the access in a way that is transformative. And so what is a detailed literary person? I think we need to continue to content with this question and be very clear on how we are defining that standard of skills. And, thirdly, we need to prioritize safety and security.
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): strong data privacy to build trust in these digital platforms. We need to ensure robust regulatory frameworks and ethical standards that safeguards the rights of users, particularly vulnerable populations and directly addressing online violence against women and gender disinformation.
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): Ethical guide governance is essential in in this aspect. And and we hope that you know we will continue to to to work on this and establish robust monitoring mechanisms, to track the impact of digital technologies on society.
Onica N. Makwakwa (GDIP): I will pause there for now say that you know, please, do look at our research that we've done on the cost of exclusion that really highlights how much is being lost in economies by excluding women in the detail, economy.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you so much. Thank you, Onika. Thank you for your visionary statement and also strong leadership from Gdp on this dynamic collation, and also for your good time management. So I'm interested. Next Speaker Victoria Romanuk, the chair of Working Group on Information Ethics, the Deputy Director for Manila School of journalism in Ukraine. Victoria Floor is yours.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Hello, Hi, Professor, are you there?
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Oh, I'm sorry I this honest speaker is not yet connected. So now I'm moving to the next one, and Mr. Eva Clay, the amateur professor at the University of Namibia. He's also our former chair of the Alpha working group on Information ethics.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Sir Poulay. I heard your crystal clear. The floor is yours. Thank you.
POULLET: Thanks along, and, ladies and gentlemen, I will be very brief.
POULLET: and
POULLET: AI is everywhere throughout the world.
POULLET: but does not bring the same benefits to everybody.
POULLET: Definitively emerging technology, like AI, are raising questions about our individual liberties, especially
POULLET: freedom of expression and privacy.
POULLET: But beyond that there's a threat to our liberties. AI Development raised also crucial questions about discrimination
POULLET: and social justice
POULLET: vale
POULLET: between not only individuals, but also collectivities, and we have in mind not only the question of racial gender, social, economic Bs as underlined at by Unesco AI ethics recommendation, but also the fact
POULLET: that AI profiling application are more and more used for disseminating certain population in their access to housing, to financial service and to other essential services.
POULLET: More fundamentally.
POULLET: a recent Oecd report about large language model demonstrate. All this. New technologies from one part are imposing insidiously the North American culture
POULLET: simply by the fact
POULLET: that the big data used by AI system developers are on their large majority, coming from North American sources.
POULLET: but also
POULLET: the that fact
POULLET: make difficult for certain languages to be adequately represented in the outcomes of the generative AI application
POULLET: and put into question
POULLET: the multiculturality of our world.
POULLET: Societal issues, like enrollment, competition, respect of the rule of law, and more fundamentally
POULLET: or democratic functioning are endangered by our development.
POULLET: And finally, I would like to underline the dangerous link cut with the feature
POULLET: of human identity
POULLET: and the IC. And a I
POULLET: permit, apart from no, an increased man and genetic manipulation, with the risk
POULLET: of a 2 tire society.
POULLET: and that at a moment where else does not only concern
POULLET: curative
POULLET: care, but more and more ameliorative and well being paying medical intervention.
POULLET: that context all to solve the delicate balance between the principle of precaution. And what AI advocates are considering as the principle of innovation.
POULLET: my reflection of proposing certain possible solution. First, st while
POULLET: is definitely to consider the necessity of an ethical approach, not only in phoetics, but also pyrtics.
POULLET: This ethical approach is not to be viewed as a substitute to a legislative approach, but as a complimentary well.
POULLET: To be more precise, the legislation must refer
POULLET: to the need of a pragmatic, inclusive, and deliberative discussion, and imposed to the actors of AI developments an ethical assessment of the impacts of their application at a micro and
POULLET: micro level.
POULLET: This 1st statement leads to a second one visited on the previous environmental, regulatory model.
POULLET: The social responsibility of the companies and administration using AI system must be asserted.
POULLET: The obligation means the obligation for their developers or deployers to take preventive initiative to avoid, or at least to mitigate the risk.
POULLET: In that context, I would like to recall the fundamental rule of the States
POULLET: different aspects. 1st one
POULLET: to organize an open and multi-stakeholders. Dialogue on the major societal issues raised by the eye developments.
POULLET: Second, well.
POULLET: to regulate the very large platform.
POULLET: considerate as gatekeepers. I like this, this concept
POULLET: gatekeepers of our Information Society.
POULLET: Previously, the service offered by the Communications Service operator.
POULLET: We consider that certain service offered 2 billion of 2 billion of citizens
POULLET: offered by
POULLET: the this very large platform must be considered as universal services, and that justifies certain obligation, like the equal accessibility for everyone to their services, that compliance with data, protection, regulation, the transparency and diversity of the information provided respect of competition, regulation, and so on.
POULLET: To what extent does this universal service not just
POULLET: not justify
POULLET: the audit by an independent authority? Query as regard profiling
POULLET: and a recommendation system? I would like to
POULLET: to raise the question.
POULLET: The 3rd and not the last one, States have to ensure through education and by the enforcement of trusted party activities like academia, civil association, independent media, the condition of an individual and public, social and cultural masterships of our emerging technology, their use and the future
POULLET: AI must be good for everyone in the world. That is the strong commitment.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you.
POULLET: Infrared, quirky group we are taking.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you, Mr. Play. Thank you for so profound thinking. That's exactly that Diane Macalish is going to develop AI without leaving anyone behind such a new challenge to tackle through this our Dane regulation. Now I'd like to move to next Speaker, Mr. Morton, Mayor of Newson, the Advisor of United Nations University
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: ego. I already saw your information put in the chat. Thank you for advancing your presentation in writing form. It's so useful. Please go ahead with your vision and sharing.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Martin. You have the floor.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): Thank you very much, and thank you for for for the invitation. A couple of things related to to monitoring and measurement. First, st I think this this really an important discussion to be hit had here, not least in connection to to the rolex initiative, but also broader global developments related to wizz the sustainable development goals upcoming global digital compact.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): We did a study. And I've already shared this in in the chat a couple of years ago. And we were looking at the 10 global or key global indexes or approaches to measuring digital transformation in general.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): So a bit broader than than romics, and we found out of the 10 they had collectively about 300 indicators. Most were around access. So the supply and theoretical access to mobile or fixed line Internet.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): Then they looked at educational level, often not digital skills, but rather classical
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): educational attainment levels, such as reading, writing, math, and sometimes on stem, but rarely on the I and the E for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): Lastly, and in relation to inclusion, less than 10 indicators.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): we're focusing on user segments, either gender, geographical location, age, educational attainment levels or or income levels. So if we want to make proper policy to address exclusion.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): we need that type of segmentation.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): We also need to go down at a geographical level. So, rather than saying national first, st I would argue local, first, st and aggregate up
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): to national level
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): as a national or regional policy maker, or even a local authority policy maker. In order to identify the communities or the locations these communities are in, we need segmented data. Yeah. Otherwise, we can't develop the policies that address those user segments. So what we see now, for instance, with the with all the good work that is happening. We see that data is collected on an annual basis for a national level.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): That means that we know that X percent of people are online or offline, but we don't know where the offline people are. We don't know their gender profile, their age, profile, their income level, their geographic location, which, as policy makers, means that we cannot develop appropriate policies.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): So again, here, there's a few indicators in that policy, together with Setic and Alexander, is on the panel. Later, we actually been developing a policy brief for the Brazilian.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: At.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): Host of T. 20, where we're looking at not only the supply of technology and services, but also the need to look at demand and usage indicators.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): So we're looking at, how do we actually ensure that? Not only do we address the demand and supply and and and then commit to that demand as policy makers, but we also follow up on the usage which help us identify whether or not there is a benefit of the policies that we're doing, and whether or not we're achieving our return on investments, etc.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): So here there's a policy brief coming up.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: So.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): So what I would say is, actually, we need to flip around the model a bit and say, we need to look at the local level 1st and aggregate it up. It also means that it samples like Rome X. And frameworks that allows us to pull, pull in some national frameworks and then disaggregated down and aggregate it up is, is a good, is a good initiative.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): Now that also allows us to tailor to our local context, because different countries have different priorities and different needs in this regard. So although this more than 300 indicators in Rome X. And it has a specific focus also on on rights and and freedoms.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): It's a good basis for you to start doing those type of mapping and sampling in in relation to your local, regional or national priorities.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): Just before I finish I want to pick up on something that was said early about rights.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): Yeah, we have rights. But with rights comes responsibilities. And I think one of the things that we often underestimate is the role of the critical consumption of technology and the critical consumption of information on technology. It is not enough to have rights and freedom of information, the compliance and people's
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): responsibility to be conscientious around what we consume online is key.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): and that has nothing to do with technology but about critical thinking and assessment skills that is is given to us through the formal educational system, through public discourse, etc. So I think there's a double edged sword here.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): or or 2 sides to the coin to be more positive that with these rights also comes responsibilities to us as individuals and as policy makers to ensure that people don't not only have the digital access.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): the the rights to access information, the ability to to access information, but that people have the tools to critically assess what it is that they're consuming online. Yeah, so that's just a little bit.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you.
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (UNU-EGOV): What we've been doing, and a little bit of what we see are some of the positives and the negatives coming out. Hope that contributes to the discourse later on.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Wow! Tha-! That's a fantastic Mister Morten, I think that what you had done extensive. But you you super, super, I mean the extensive. And so telling and on the use technology use issue. You also signal the value, and also also also also need for the collision to exchange to look at all the existing indicators to complement to each other. Thank you so much. I hope I can discuss more on that
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: from your contribution. And now I have to alter the speaker a little bit. I like to in- invite Mr. Diana Jane Luca, the responsible for government relations in the company, Lenovo, I mean, in the spirit of multi-stakeholder approach. We are also having a private sector speaker expert on board to contribute to this
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: collision, and also because he need to leave a bit earlier. As why, I'm sorry, Constance, I will give you a floor following this one. Thank you. Short case studies coming from actually Motorola
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Motorola is also a Eleanor company. So this project specific project is a joint project, Motorola, Eleanor Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Lenovo. And basically, what happened is that in back in 2021 the Lenovo Monterey research and development teams did find out that there was a a big gap in the representation of
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: indigenous languages in technology in the broader sense, and more specifically on mobile phones.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: And just to clarify in digital languages are those languages. They are originated in specific places and not brought from elsewhere. Like, for example, Mahori is an indigenous language spoken by the Mahori community, which is based in New Zealand, while an example of non indiginal languages, for example, English.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: when referred not to England, of course, in England, is in digital languages, but if referred to us, for example, is not an
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: indigenous language. So what we did with Lenovo. After this research foundation and motorola. After this research, after collecting data, starting like working with local communities and with a lot of linguistic and experts trying to. For now we, we start like working with 5 different local communities across the world. We started back in 2,021
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: in South America, in North America as well, and in India, and literally last week we also launched for the 1st time at 1st
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: language for Europe. In this case, Laddin. So basically, we work with specifically in this case with University of Bolzano, which is in South Tyrol, which is an area between Italy and Austria. It's Italy, but it's very close to Austrian borders, and where they speak Ladin Ladin is indeed an indigenous language which is
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: which is disappearing. Basically, there's a high risk of the language disappearing. So we work closely with them, with the university, with the linguistic experts. And we we come up with some setting for motorola phones specifically in Ladin. So basically, what we are doing both in in this case with Ladin, but also
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: with other languages in the past, is really trying to incorporate these languages which are disappearing, that we call life and induction in digital languages into motorola phones. So there's a very good case. Studies of how we make sure that also these communities, 1st of all, can have access to technology in the broader sense. Imagine, like this
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: community. For example, in India there's just this very local language. They cannot have access easily to Montreal. Our phones, for example, because they simply don't understand the the settings and all the all the apps. But this way is yeah. It's it's a way to facilitate inclusion for for these communities. And on top of that. It's also a way to
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: prevent the disappearing of these languages, and so preventing also the culture diversity.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: And one last thing that I just want to mention that we are also trying to team up with different stakeholders including government official. Also Unesco, actually, because together with the the. This specific Latin case studies. We also launched with Unesco a white paper which is somehow explaining the processes for digitizing languages. So basically.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: we explained this white paper with Unesco, the very step that we have taken to make this possible, and also, on the other hand, we try to make this information like available to everyone. And indeed, anyone can just check on Lenovo or Motorola website. And there's all the information
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: wanted to, not just to raise awareness more broadly, but also make sure that others take example from Lenovo and start implementing this same kind of project included. Particularly, we are talking about the mobile phone sector because we are referring to mobile phone. But really, we, we hope that this will help this sort of initial
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: globally moving forward.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you. Thank you so much for storing this important linguistic inclusion of digital inclusion. That's also our coalition. Also aim to tackle, not to mention Unesco, you know, as Chair mentioned Unesco, I think we are promoting multilingualism in cyberspace, and also we are now commemorating the international decades of protecting indigenous languages, and that's so crucial. I hope that we can
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: have most energies with you. Witness with our partner and members of the Coalition. Once I have loaf on the coalition. They are literally promoting this multilingual linguism in the AI and also cyber space. Thank you so much for this sharing.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Now I'm happy to introduce Miss Constance Baumolik, the loose executive director of the Tech and Global Affairs innovation Hub of the Paris School of International Affairs at the Constance. Thank you for joining us from Paris. Yours.
Constance de Leusse: Thank you so much. Xiang Hong, and good morning, everyone. It's a pleasure to participate to this session, although remotely, I would have loved to be able to be with you today. Well, I think I'll start by emphasizing from my perspective really, the importance of the Internet universality concept.
Constance de Leusse: To start with. It was very useful to have the UN step up and unesco step up in that regard, providing a holistic vision when it comes to our approach to digital rights, to access to Internet critical resources and to basically a human centric approach to how we build the Internet. But also how we govern this this technology.
Constance de Leusse: and of course, having the indicators from my perspective, is the guarantee for us to measure progress and make sure we're adjusting the course of action. Whatever the roles and responsibilities of the different stakeholders who participate to
Constance de Leusse: implementing these indicators at the national level. For those countries who have embarked in the exercise of trying to implement these indicators in their countries.
Constance de Leusse: The second point I think I'd like to make is on the importance of having the academic community at the table.
Constance de Leusse: universities and research institutes are engaged in this process, I think in the same vein as we've seen the technical community and civil society step up and engage and contribute to these multilateral and multi-stakeholder processes around digital digital governance.
Constance de Leusse: It's very encouraging to see an increasing number of universities. And at the Sean Spoo University here in Paris. We're very happy to be part of Efap, to be part of the conversation.
Constance de Leusse: to engage with the wide range of actors that Efap provides whether it's business, civil society, governments, and igos. And from my perspective, the academics really really can come in with specific added value when it's a time to perhaps
Constance de Leusse: refine the methodology, to help also with the measurements, with potentially refining the indicators in a few years, but also because academics have their own networks and through their own circles and community they can help amplify the importance of a coordinated approach when it comes to
Constance de Leusse: internet universality and also working against these shared indicators. So it's a pleasure to be part of this
Constance de Leusse: this effort. And thank you, Xiang Hong, for all the work you're putting into this. And finally, I'd like to emphasize the importance of the Igf because the Igf.
Constance de Leusse: thanks to its wonderful team and and and Shanghai and and others.
Constance de Leusse: provide this space for us at the global level to bring our brains together and work towards these shared goals and the regional national Igfs provide a unique space for this conversation to happen. I realize that sometimes we hear that the model
Constance de Leusse: still needs to make progress, that things could be perfectable. But at the same time I can note, especially here in Europe and in France, that the Igf and the national Igf provides a space that otherwise would not exist, and allows people to come together without negotiating.
Constance de Leusse: sharing their perspective and and making progress. So I'm very happy to see this conversation about the dynamic coalition. And these shared indicators for Internet universality at Eurodig, and I'd love to see them at the franchise. Thank you so much.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you, Constance, that you know you're really talking about idf! At the Red so occasion I have the chunk of time next to me. And also I'd like to recognize the participation of the former chair of Itf. Mega and Riyadh. As to Hussein, also online, and also we have the strong. Igf supporter, the former chair of Fi for Dorothy Gordon, also another. Wonderful women leadership on this idea
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: so exactly without I-tf. I don't think we would have even have the unesco Internet universality indicator developed it literally through this multi stakeholder approach with other stakeholders. And without we wouldn't even have today's session to have this opportunity to liaise with so many stakeholders and come up with this new Democrat
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: to promote all the indicators and evidence.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: So really thank you, Ijf, for all for all your excellent work. Hope that continue so last, but not really the
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: I'm inviting my colleague. Actually, Mr. Alexandra Barbosa, the head of the regional centre for the development of infant society based in Brazil. To share your vision. Alexander, please take the floor. I also like to thank you for getting up so early, still very early in the morning for you. Thank you for making such a big effort on a strong
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: and strong support. Thank you.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: thank.
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): Thank you very much, Ashan Hong, and good morning, everyone. It's a real pleasure to be here with all of you, and to support this very important initiative within ifapap, this dynamic coalition is really of utmost importance. And please, Shan Hong, and chair of ifap count on our support from Satik
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): on the these activities. Let me just say, start by reinforce what my dear colleague Morten has already said in terms of importance of measurement and disaggregate data for policy making both from supply and demand side. And I would like to bring
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): 1 point in my key point on my on my talking to you today related to meaningful connectivity. You probably know that Brazil has the presidency of A. G. 20 this year, and we have elected the 4 key priorities within the digital economic working group, and one of them is exactly the meaningful connectivity
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): cause. Meaningful connectivity goes beyond having only connectivity to a more broad perspective in terms of how meaningful is the use of Internet? So we need a very good connectivity in terms of speed. No data, cap limit or but also include skills
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): save use of Internet, etc. So among the 4 priorities that Brazil has elected, we also have artificial intelligence, information, integrity and digital government. Sorry.
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): And meaningful connectivities is absolutely a key enabler for all those emerging technology. As already has pointed out by Professor Pulley in terms of artificial intelligence, and what I wanted to say is that we have working with the Brazilian government, and also with it, which is the knowledge partner for this specific like key priority area.
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): And we have this
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): designed and proposed for the G 20 guideline on how to measure meaningful connectivity. So we have selected 4 key dimensions with a very simple
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): existing indicators for most countries, and these dimensions are affordability access to different devices, the connectivity, connection, quality and usage environment as key enablers from info connectivity. But we also included another data analysis layer on the qualification and type of Internet user.
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): usage where we investigate digital skills on online activities. And as 3 pillars supporting this data analysis on critical enabling factors and qualification of Internet users usage. We have the return dimension, social demographical dimension and social economic dimension to better understand
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): the existing gaps in those different pillars. So this is my message. That
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): approaching visual inclusion by discussing meaningful connectivity is a bit is critical to this new dynamic coalition, and please and Hong do count on us. Not only in this particular
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): dimension of measurement of the Internet connectivity, but in measurement initiatives as a whole which are critical to all activities that Ifap is developing. Thank you so very much, and congratulations. Thank you.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Possible to ask him, where, where can we read about this misunder? Methodology?
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Yes, yes, Alexandra. Alexandra. The the audiences in the room, want to know where they can access your methodology and the reports as you just mentioned. Maybe you can share it in the chat. Please.
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): I have I have already shared. I will send it.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Okay.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: so I also, yeah.
Alexandre Barbosa (Cetic.br | NIC.br): Available, you know, for the for download. Yeah.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Okay, actually, I encourage all the participants in a room. He also connects through Zoom because a very vibrant discussion share on the on the website. Okay. Now, actually, I ha- I I seen that our former speaker. Miss Victoria, Romanuk, you are online. You are connecting. Now, could you please.
Viktoriia Romaniuk Viktoriia Romaniuk: Hello
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Yes, Florence, yours. Please give a short intervention. Thank you.
Viktoriia Romaniuk Viktoriia Romaniuk: So my name is Victoria Romanuk, and I'm deputy director of Mohilla School of Journalism. And also I've head of working group of information. Essex. Ifap information, Essex, and of course, artificial intelligence, if develop and applied ethically and responsibly, can become a crucial tool for national and digital development.
Viktoriia Romaniuk Viktoriia Romaniuk: However, these processes are accompanied by certain challenges, data gap in even distribution or access in artificial intelligence models. Artificial intelligence must be understandable for everyone, and this will be achieved by raising public awareness, knowledge and understanding of AR technology.
Viktoriia Romaniuk Viktoriia Romaniuk: including the benefit risk and terminology. Of course, political challenges, data, protection and data openership. And of course, the problem of disinformation and misinformation, deep fake and the operation of contact generation algorithm, social media create obstacle to equal access to trustful and
Viktoriia Romaniuk Viktoriia Romaniuk: relevant information. And of course, monitor mechanism are crucial to ensure that AR is developed and deployed ethically. And this includes preventing bias in AR system and ensuring that these technologies don't worse existing inequality.
Viktoriia Romaniuk Viktoriia Romaniuk: And of course, I think our groups, if working group of information ethics, we can do a lot foster partnerships with government, private sector, academy and civil society and leverage, diverse experience, and including different resources. And of course, we can provide
Viktoriia Romaniuk Viktoriia Romaniuk: different different events and workshop and training program. And for us it's a great opportunity to help you in this coalition to help to achieve a real, real, effective goal.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you. Thank you, Victoria, for your excellent remarks and strong support. So I think we have now only 5 min. Thank you for being so generous with unesco and dynamic collision. Before I give floor to Chengatai for a few final words, I'd like to open the floor to everybody in room and online. Do you have any urgent questions, comments? Please
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: hesitate to raise your hand, and, on the other hand, since we are a collation, we will have a newsletter. You can. I already share a link? You can join us. We can keep the information shared and pushed to you in the following process. We are going to have this collision gathering at ITF at different parts of the world, and with different events. So
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: so don't hesitate to to join us just by filling a form. I already shared a link. So anyone who wants to ask a question or share some comments and don't be don't be scared. We only have 5 min, you know. You can still talk a lot with with 3 min.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Who's who's crying online.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: i i i think, Tana, you are. You deserve to say a few words with that expression, please. You can. Do you want to share a few words, and introduce yourself.
Talant Sultanov: Hi, my name is talent Sultana. I'm from Central Asia, part of the global digital inclusion partnership. And this is a really important topic that you guys are discussing. And I agree with your comments. Shared that in 5 min we can really express a lot. So this was my 30 seconds of faith. Thank you.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: Thank you for joining us from Central Asia. That's also another inclusion dimension. I want to stress that it's really for every part of the world, no matter where you are and anybody from the room. You are laughing here we are not crying.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: and if we don't have any further questions now I'd like to give floor to our long term supporter and friend, and also you've been also been a very, very long time supporter, and we've had a
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: a very, very fruitful collaboration be between between us individually and as well as institutionally with vp Geneska and the Igf just a few words is that we're very happy and proud that you could use our platform for this, that the dynamic coalition
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: evidence based approach to policy making is really really important, and only way you can do that is to have indicators and measurement. And also the way that you're doing the measurements and indicators in the multi stakeholder model is also very, very important. Instead of a top down. That's how you can build really strong
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: instruments when you have people who who can come in with from their various viewpoints and comments on the process and give advice and suggestions. And that's also very, very important. And lastly, I just like to say as well is that the Idf is a community, and the strengths in the Idf
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: is in the community itself. We're just a secretariat, and we're very happy to serve the community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Sounds really music to me exactly. We are all here. I think it family. I thinkf your much more than a conference is a community is an ecosystem, and with this process we are able to
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: come up with this kind of actionable approach to advice, to inform our States and stakeholders for governing the new technology so important, we can really continue this endeavour. And for this economic collection I also like to make a little point, because, as you said, this
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: vulnerable approach is so important for itf, so itf is no longer just a talk show. We are really having the tools, providing you with concrete solutions to tackle the the technologies. That's why we in the past, when we were working on the Iui, we have a dedicated dynamic collision to promote this indicator per se.
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: It's really, for I really encourage all the countries to join this on the Iui, because really, if you are interested to deliver this assessment of Iui, also, we are having a new updated indicator. Iui. Please join the collation. We can provide you all the capacity building or the awareness or the assistance. And my colleague Tatwik, is still following up today the new
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: collision on measuring digital inclusion as a broader collision
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: to tackle all the indicators we would need for measuring the faster evolving digital technology. I believe the no
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: any single indicator can matter everything we are tackling now we are having AI, we are having quantum. We are having all the complex issues involving. That's why today we will hear so many strategic inputs. We also hear many concrete solutions out. We are here the need for new inclusion, dimension to be considered, such as languages such as use. So there's so much takeaway from this session. I hope that
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: for all of you, no matter your strategic interest, or you have concrete action on a national, regional or local personal level, and you are welcome to join us in Stanley. We will continue this discussion in the future. Thank you thank you for giving us more time, and also let us give a round of applause
Host, EuroDIG 2024, WS 1: for this choreographer.

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