Session
Data Governance & Trust
Big Data Architecture, Usage and Governance
FSAB Consulting
Fadwa AlBawardi
Fadwa AlBawardi
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Targets: Building comprehensive digital strategies helps to improve the digital economy and economic growth, as well as enhance the digital infrastructure and supports innovation.
Presentation
The session will highlighten the main steps that are essential to build successful both Data and AI strategies. The session will also go through the main challenges faced by Data Management Offices and how to overcome them.
1) For the speaker/moderator, I (Fadwa AlBawardi) will be the main speaker and moderator, as 1 person. 2) I will prepare a MS Powerpoint presentation document and it will be available, for presenting, in either case: onsite or online. 3) To increase participation (in case of online sessions), I recommend use Zoom. However, I prefer to be an Onsite speaker.
Report
This report addresses the feedback that I have received from the participants during and after the session.
There is a strong link between Data Strategy, AI Strategy and AI Ethics. It was interesting that some participants (from the Education sector: Academy STEP Institute, Cambodia & Vietnam) requested a copy of my slides, in order to educate and share the knowledge with their students in one of the schools. These participants mentioned that found the slides to be enlightening and informative, since the slides contained clear concise steps on how to build successful data and AI strategies, and what questions need to be tackled and answered, during this process, including Data Governance, Data Quality and AI Ethics/Trust. I was more than glad to share the slides with the Academy, after the session by email, in order to facilitate the knowledge sharing and to be of help to the students in their learning stages.
Another interesting inquiry, from another participant, was on how we can create "data value" for OpenAI, which is an interesting thought, since data strategies need to have data management in place, and with big data, classification of the data might be difficult as well as aligning the data with strategic objectives may not be as clear. The answer that I gave was to prioritize the data for classification and define 1-2 "ethical" objectives to align with. In addition, it would be beneficial to do some research on how OpenAI developers, as the main stakeholders, use Data Strategy frameworks, during their development work, and to make sure that their AI is aligned with an efficient Data strategy, that is put in place.
Moreover, there was a third inquiry from two (2) schoolgirls who attended the session, and they wanted to get some training on how to use ChatGPT, since one of my slides contained an example for how to get valuable information from it. The 2 girls mentioned that their school in Hong Kong doesn't allow high school girls to use ChatGPT, for the risk of Plagiarism. The ethical use of AI in the Education sector is a fundamental concern, especially since there are no clear global regulations/policies in place or currently followed. Should Education allow ChatGPT or prohibit it.? It's a thought worth pondering. I truly believe that, in the education sector, research on the impact of using ChatGPT among students need to be pursued in further depth, by researchers. Some critical questions need to be answered such as: How does Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, affect the performance of learners? and what policies/regulations need to be put in place to make sure of the Ethical use of AI among both youngsters and scholars, in the Education sector?
Finally, I would like to thank UN IGF organizers and Japan for hosting this insightful forum, which provided perspective on many of the urging topics in the world today, related to Data Governance and AI. The discussions and speeches that were shared by all speakers were inspiring.
Thank you very much and I am looking forward to future co-operation with UN IGF and other UN entities for the pursuit of: AI for Humanity.
Best regards,
Fadwa AlBawardi
Saudi Arabia