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SUMMARY:Living-in.EU Fair AI Workshop: Aligning European efforts for legal and ethical adoption of AI by public entities
DESCRIPTION:AI technologies offer significant potential to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public administrations and are key to achieving our Digital Decade ambitions. Ranging from chatbots to AI-powered local digital twins offering complex modelling capabilities for city planners\, AI and its potential uses are developing all the time. \nData governance\, access to high volumes of quality data\, and technical interoperability between platforms and systems are key areas of importance being addressed through Living-in.EU and other smart communities’ initiatives. However legal\, procurement and transparency tools are equally important as ways to foster update of AI by public authorities in a way that ensures a high degree of trust among citizens. Cities and communities in the EU are leading the way and offer use cases that can be scaled up through cooperation. \nThis workshop will outline three strands of work (see below) that are getting underway through Living-in.EU and its partner organisations Eurocities and OASC\, as well as broader developments supported by the European Commission in the context of public sector AI\, including new projects funded through the DIGITAL Programme. This workshop aims to presenting these with a view to making sure they are well aligned and complementary. It is also an open call to interested regions\, cities and communities to contribute to this work. Please join to share your experiences and ideas for collaboration! To attend\, please register here. \nProgramme\n14.00 Welcome by moderator\, Martin Brynskov\, OASC (Open and Agile Smart Cities)\n14.05 EU Policy Context including the AI Act and the Coordinated Plan on AI\, NN (tbc)\, DG CONNECT UNIT A2\, Artificial Intelligence\n14.20 Initiatives Carousel – series of short presentations on initiatives underway\n-Contract clauses for public procurement of AI\, NN (tbc)\, City of Amsterdam\n-Algorithm registries for transparent AI\, Lodewijk Noordzij\, Eurocities\, Living-in.EU Legal & Ethics Subgroup\n-MIM5 for Fair AI\, Michael Mulquin\, OASC\, Living.in.EU Tech Subgroup\n-AI Testing and Experimentation Facility for smart cities and communities\, NN\, DG CONNECT\, European Commission\n-Public Sector Open Data for AI\, Martino Maggio\, Engineering (tbc)\n-CommuniCity – AI responding to the needs of Cities and Communities\, NN\, University of Amsterdam\n15.05 Discussion\, including interdependencies between work\, Open floor format\, led by moderator\n15.50 Conclusions and next steps \nFurther information \n1. Model Contractual Clauses for the Procurement of AI\nAmsterdam developed a set of contractual clauses for the procurement of Artificial Intelligence\, to create a framework for the information that suppliers need to provide on algorithms used. The clauses build on the Ethics Guidelines developed by the European Commission’s (EC) High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and the city’s own strong digital ethics policy and work though the Cities Digital Rights Coalition. The contractual clauses are now being adapted as a template for other public administrations to reuse. DG GROW has held two webinars to date on the clauses. The first (June 2021) showcased Amsterdam’s approach to AI procurement and the second (May 2022) presented the adapted clauses\, partially aligned with the AI Act currently under negotiation. The draft clauses are now available on Living-in.EU for feedback. See here for more information. \nFrom early 2023\, DG GROW’s Digital Public Buyers Initiative and Living-in.EU will work with stakeholders to trial the adapted Amsterdam procurement clauses and to develop guidance material. When finalised\, these clauses will be a useful tool for public procurers at local\, regional and national level to procure ethical\, human-centric AI\, to boost uptake of AI and to increase citizen trust in its use. \n2. AI Algorithm Registries\nAn AI Algorithm Registry is an online tool or website that provides citizens with information on artificial intelligence systems used by public administrations in reaching decisions affecting them in a transparent and understandable manner. The Cities of Amsterdam and Helsinki are examples of existing Algorithm Registries. \nEurocities’ Digital Forum Lab is working with a group of cities to develop and pilot a common data schema for cities that wish to create their own interoperable local AI Registries\, drawing on the Amsterdam model contractual clauses\, the Dutch data model for algorithm registries\, the UK Algorithmic Transparency Standard and others. The data schema will not only serve cities that would use an external supplier to develop a solution for them\, but could also help those that would want to do it in-house or through open-source software. See here for more information. \n3. Fair AI Minimum Interoperability Mechanism (MIM 5)\nOASC\, which leads the Living-in.EU Technical Sub-group\, is beginning to work with cities to develop a Fair AI MIM\, also known as MIM 5 (Minimal Interoperability Mechanism)\, part of the MIMs Plus set of technical specifications. This technical tool will assist cities to automatically (i) check that AI service providers have supplied the appropriate information and safeguards in line with the transparency\nrequirements\, such as those set out in the standard contractual clauses\, and (ii) link this data to an AI registry on how AI was used in decisions affecting citizens.
URL:https://oascities.org/event/living-in-eu-fair-ai-workshop-aligning-european-efforts-for-legal-and-ethical-adoption-of-ai-by-public-entities/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20220914T140000
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SUMMARY:Online Services: Improving usability and trust
DESCRIPTION:The growth of online services over the last 15-20 years has been\, to say the least\, dramatic at every socio-economic level conceivable. Digital technology is changing people’s lives and the EU’s digital strategy aims to make this transformation work for people and businesses. A Europe fit for the digital age is one of the Commission’s six political priorities\, aiming to empower people with a new generation of technologies. \nHowever\, the widespread everyday dependency on the digital market has had some negative consequences. The usability and trustworthiness of online services and the Internet itself has been undermined by highly visible accounts of cyber-attacks and contraventions of individuals’ data protection and privacy rights. \nAt one extreme\, the constant intrusion of cookie and tracking requests heightens the sense of a surveillance society and\, at another\, popular myths and speculation surrounding the implications of the use AI are often seen as threatening. \nThe afternoon’s roundtable will start to address this broad range of topics that are relevant to both technical and non-technical audiences with a view to starting a conversation. \nRegister for free here! \n\n\n\nAgenda\n13.30 Arrival and coffee \n14.00 Welcome: \n\nMartin Friedrich Reinhardt\, Head of Unit\,  Affairs of the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and for Sports\, Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU\nAmardeo Sarma\, General Manager\, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH\n\n14.10 Roundtable discussion:  Online services: Improving usability and trust \nOpening speakers: \n\nFinn Myrstad\, Director of Digital Policy\, Norwegian Consumer Council\nSebastian Pape\, Security and Privacy Manager\, Continental AG\nDavid Goodman\, Senior Consultant\, Trust in Digital Life and Principal Consulting Analyst\, TechVision Research\n\nModerator: Amardeo Sarma\, General Manager\, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH \n16.00 Coffee \nRSVP by 14 September 2022 to TDL Roundtable Discussion
URL:https://oascities.org/event/online-services-improving-usability-and-trust/
LOCATION:The Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU rue Montoyer 21\, 1000 Brussels
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SUMMARY:What can Member States expect from their cybersecurity communities?
DESCRIPTION:With the setting up of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) in Bucharest well under way\, the other important dimension in the emerging European cybersecurity landscape are the National Coordination Centres (NCCs). Mirroring the initiatives and policies of the ECCC in the Member States\, a key role for each NCC is to build strong relationships with the existing and emerging stakeholder communities\, the experts and researchers in industry\, SMEs and knowledge institutes that are driving the work of securing European society’s institutions\, infrastructure and digital economy. \nUnderstanding the needs of local communities is a paramount task for the NCCs. \nParticipating in this evening’s panel are leading representatives from several NCCs as well as a representative from the ECCC who will together explore the perspectives of the NCCs and their expectations and plans with regards to collaborating with their respective stakeholder cybersecurity communities. \nRegister here \n\n\n\nAgenda\n18.30 Arrival of guests and welcome drinks \n19.00 Welcome: \n\nMartin Friedrich Reinhardt\, Head of Unit\,  Affairs of the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and for Sports\, Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU\nKai Rannenberg\, Goethe University Frankfurt\, CyberSec4Europe Co-ordinator\n\n19.10 Panel Discussion:  What can Member States expect from their cybersecurity communities? \nPanellists: \n\nKatarzyna Prusak-Górniak   Vice Chair\, Governing Board  ECCC\nChristian Hartlage Advisor\, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) GERMANY\nBertrand Lethoud Head of the Cybersecurity Competence Center (C3)\, SECURITYMADEIN.LU LUXEMBOURG\nAllard Kernkamp NCC-NL\, Netherlands Enterprise Agency NETHERLANDS\nKatarzyna Nowak NCC-PL\, Head of Unit\, Chancellery of the Prime Minister POLAND\n\nModerator:  Kai Rannenberg Goethe University Frankfurt\, CyberSec4Europe Co-ordinator \n20.30 Reception \nRSVP by 15 September 2022 to CyberSec4Europe Evening Event
URL:https://oascities.org/event/what-can-member-states-expect-from-their-cybersecurity-communities/
LOCATION:Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU rue Montoyer 21\, Brussels B-1000
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SUMMARY:AIOTI Signature Event 2022
DESCRIPTION:AIOTI invites you to its signature event IoT and Edge computing: Societal Impact and Opportunities for the Green Digital Twin Transition \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nThe Green Deal wants to decouple economic growth from resource use by 2050\, and transform ‘linear’ take-make-discard industrial value chains into virtuous models that design waste and pollution out of the process\, keeping products and materials in use for longer and helping to regenerate ecosystems. \nAt this event\, we will explore how\, exactly\, are digital solutions enabling sustainability gains? Are they contributing to the EU’s green growth now? And what more can be done to stimulate green growth through digitisation? How can IoT and Edge computing contribute achieving to Green Deal and digital twin transition objectives. \nFor more details\, please visit event webpage: https://aioti.eu/aioti-signature-event-2022/ \nRegister here
URL:https://oascities.org/event/aioti-signature-event-2022/
LOCATION:Brussels\, Belgium
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