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Artificial Intelligence

The Open Data Charter is excited to collaborate with Canada’s International Development Research Centre in this exploration of data needs for the use of AI in the global south. What open data is needed now and in the future by AI practitioners for their development initiatives?

We were invited to share approaches for improving government data supply for AI to solve development problems, with a focus on data needs assessment and gaps in knowledge and collaboration between data suppliers and AI practitioners.

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Our Implementation Working Group meeting held on 23 May 2023 focused on understanding the gaps and possibilities for Open Data and AI. We invited speakers from the Global Index for Responsible, The GovLab and ILDA. The video is available in two languages:

Data Rights

Finding the ‘Rights’ Balance – Part I

How access to public information and open data complement each other.

Finding the ‘Rights’ Balance – Part II

7 ideas to harmonize debates surrounding open data and privacy.

Open Data and the Right to Privacy in a global digital strategy

Following the political declaration adopted at the occasion of the United Nations’ 75th anniversary inSeptember 2020, the Secretary-General in September 2021 released, “Our CommonAgenda”. The Common Agenda proposes a Global Digital Compact to be agreed at the Summit of theFuture in September 2024.

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