Session
Internet Society of China, Civil Society
CNNIC, Technical Community
Chengqing HUANG, VP of the Internet Society of China, Director-general of China IGF
Xiao ZHANG, Deputy Director General of CNNIC, Member of IGF MAG, Executive Deputy Director of China IGF
Lin LIN, Director of the Department of User and Market Research, China Mobile Research Institute
Rui ZHONG, Internet Society of China
Rui ZHONG, Internet Society of China
Targets: The session will discuss how to leverage the new ICTs to empowering the aging group to improve and help to facilitate their easy use of smart technology in a safe online environment, which will greatly promote and raise the coverage of access to the information and digital society.
Presentation for 15 mins, and the rest of time for Q&A.
The development of ICTs is bringing the convenient life and unprecedented opportunitiesto the elderly and disabled groups. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, there are more than 1 billion people in the world that encounter inconvenience caused by disability, which means that one out of 7 people requires the help of barrier-free facilitation. As for the information barrier-free, the new emerging technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and big data are playing the important roles to empower the aging group so that they could enjoy the equal access and convenience. Meanwhile, we shall also address the security issue of the aging group when they using the Internet, such as how to help them solve the problems of AI fraud, personal data leaking etc. In this context, multi-stakeholders will be invited to share the policy and prectice best practice of using AI on empowering an inclusive digital society and as well as they could enjoy a safe online environment.
The speakers will be all onsite and keep interaction with remote participants through Q&A. We will have onsite and remote moderator to interact with participants, and leave more time for Q&A or online intervention. Zoom, and social networking tools will be used to promote the event and interaction.
Report
Using AI technologies as the dirving engine to build a more aging-friendly, secure and inclusive society, one of the important actions is to applying AI to various software to make them easy to use by the aging group, such as providing customized services, largering the font-size at the APPs' interface.
The government or the industry association should promote the formulation of aging-friendly related technical standards and urge the industry to adopt this technical solutions so as to create a better inclusive software environment.
As technology evolves, we are embracing a new age featuring AI techonologies coupled with stronger decision-making capability and more personalized service capability than digital technology. Meanwhile, the needs of the aging population are gradually upgrading, calling for higher-quality care solutions for the elderly. In this context, it is very importatn to offering diversified smart products and platform services to help the aging group for a safer and more convenient life. A multi-stakehoulder approach is needed to address this issue. The most important part is how to make this happen. Policy framework is the very foundation to guide the direction while the private sector and technical community are the leading roles to develp the market and promote the product innovation. The industry association should play the role as the coordinator between the market and the regulator to balance the industry's sustainable development. As for the AI technologies times, technical innovation is encouraged to using to promote the upgrading the services related to the aging group. And at the same time, we still need the policy to safeguard the technologies is benifitial to everyone.