IGF 2024 Lightning Talk #7 AI for an Aging Friendly and Safe Digital Society

    Internet Society of China
    Internet Society of China, Civil Society
    CNNIC, Technical Community
    Huawei, Privat Sector

    Speakers

    Chengqing HUANG, Vice President, Internet Society of China
    Xiao ZHANG, Deputy Director General of CNNIC, Member of IGF MAG
    ZhengAn WANG, Deputy Director, Global Cyber Security and Privacy Officer, Huawei

    Onsite Moderator

    Rui ZHONG, Internet Society of China

    Rapporteur

    Rui ZHONG, Internet Society of China

    SDGs

    3.7


    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.

    Format

    Presentation for 15 mins, and the rest of time for Q&A.

    Duration (minutes)
    30
    Description

    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.