Session
Organizer 1: Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Organizer 2: Technical Community, African Group
Organizer 3: Technical Community, African Group
Organizer 4: Intergovernmental Organization, Asia-Pacific Group
Organizer 2: Technical Community, African Group
Organizer 3: Technical Community, African Group
Organizer 4: Intergovernmental Organization, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 1: Mohamed Salah, Technical Community, African Group
Speaker 2: Herman Ramos, Technical Community, African Group
Speaker 3: Catherine Setiawan, Intergovernmental Organization, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 2: Herman Ramos, Technical Community, African Group
Speaker 3: Catherine Setiawan, Intergovernmental Organization, Asia-Pacific Group
Format
Roundtable
Duration (minutes): 90
Format description: The Break-out Group Discussions - Flexible Seating - 90 Min format is ideal for this session as it encourages active participation and fosters inclusive dialogue among diverse stakeholders. The flexible seating arrangement allows for dynamic interaction, enabling both onsite and online participants to engage in small-group discussions, share perspectives, and collaboratively explore solutions. This format is particularly effective for addressing complex topics that required diverse participation for nuanced, multistakeholder conversations.The 90-minute duration provides sufficient time for presentations, break-out discussions, and a plenary debrief, ensuring a balance between structured content and interactive engagement. By incorporating virtual breakout rooms and hybrid moderation, the format ensures that online participants are fully integrated into the discussions, promoting inclusivity and equal participation. This approach maximizes the session’s impact by fostering collaboration, generating actionable insights, and building connections among attendees.
Duration (minutes): 90
Format description: The Break-out Group Discussions - Flexible Seating - 90 Min format is ideal for this session as it encourages active participation and fosters inclusive dialogue among diverse stakeholders. The flexible seating arrangement allows for dynamic interaction, enabling both onsite and online participants to engage in small-group discussions, share perspectives, and collaboratively explore solutions. This format is particularly effective for addressing complex topics that required diverse participation for nuanced, multistakeholder conversations.The 90-minute duration provides sufficient time for presentations, break-out discussions, and a plenary debrief, ensuring a balance between structured content and interactive engagement. By incorporating virtual breakout rooms and hybrid moderation, the format ensures that online participants are fully integrated into the discussions, promoting inclusivity and equal participation. This approach maximizes the session’s impact by fostering collaboration, generating actionable insights, and building connections among attendees.
Policy Question(s)
A. Can AI indexes predict the future of global AI innovations and alignments with human rights?
B. Are these indexes simply a competition, or do they aim to encourage governments worldwide to formulate AI policies?
C. Are we rushing to regulate AI on a national level, particularly in smaller developing nations? Are developing nations simply sources of data for indexes that are created, managed, and shaped by handful tech elites? Are these indexes inclusive in their intentions?
What will participants gain from attending this session? The participants will understand the primary goals of AI metrics and whether it's a proper tool to foresee the future of global AI innovations and its adherence with human rights. The participants will compare various global indexes and compare their national standings, together with questioning the methodology and indicators used in these AI indexes. Most importantly, the participants will explore the gaps in AI development between the Global North and the South, while the workshop will initiate a narrative of closing this gap where “no one is left behind”.
SDGs
Description:
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to shape global economies and societies, the metrics used to measure its development must be fair, inclusive, and representative. This workshop will explore the role of global AI indexes, such as the Global Index for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (GIRAI), Government AI Readiness Index and the Stanford HAI Index, in shaping national AI policies and their implications for equitable development. While these indexes aim to provide insights into AI innovation, human rights adherence, and global rankings, they often overlook the unique cultural, economic, and regulatory contexts of developing nations. Through a diverse panel of expert researchers, policymakers, and civil society representatives, this session will decode the methodology behind AI indexes, assess their impacts on national policies, and propose solutions to make these metrics more inclusive and reflective of the realities and aspirations of all countries, particularly those in the Global South. This session aligns with the subthemes of “Building - Sustainable and Responsible Innovation” by addressing the need for equitable AI development and fostering dialogue on how global metrics can better serve diverse stakeholders. The panel will feature voices from academia, government, civil society, and the private sector, with a strong emphasis on representation from developing nations to provide a balanced view of the challenges and opportunities presented by global AI indexes. By the end of the session, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the strengths and limitations of AI indexes, practical recommendations for making them more inclusive, and a call to action for stakeholders to collaborate on frameworks that prioritize equity and sustainability in AI development.
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to shape global economies and societies, the metrics used to measure its development must be fair, inclusive, and representative. This workshop will explore the role of global AI indexes, such as the Global Index for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (GIRAI), Government AI Readiness Index and the Stanford HAI Index, in shaping national AI policies and their implications for equitable development. While these indexes aim to provide insights into AI innovation, human rights adherence, and global rankings, they often overlook the unique cultural, economic, and regulatory contexts of developing nations. Through a diverse panel of expert researchers, policymakers, and civil society representatives, this session will decode the methodology behind AI indexes, assess their impacts on national policies, and propose solutions to make these metrics more inclusive and reflective of the realities and aspirations of all countries, particularly those in the Global South. This session aligns with the subthemes of “Building - Sustainable and Responsible Innovation” by addressing the need for equitable AI development and fostering dialogue on how global metrics can better serve diverse stakeholders. The panel will feature voices from academia, government, civil society, and the private sector, with a strong emphasis on representation from developing nations to provide a balanced view of the challenges and opportunities presented by global AI indexes. By the end of the session, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the strengths and limitations of AI indexes, practical recommendations for making them more inclusive, and a call to action for stakeholders to collaborate on frameworks that prioritize equity and sustainability in AI development.
Expected Outcomes
At the end we want to compile a report of the outcome of this session and forward it to organizations like AI for Good, ITU, Global Index for Responsible AI and Stanford HAI. Similarly, we would like to do a follow up discussion on Asia Pacific IGF and Rights Con with people who lead these AI Indexes research.
Hybrid Format: The organizers are prepared to ensure the best possible experience for online and on-site attendees. The speakers were selected after an evaluation of their contribution to the topic of the session. The session is designed so that it can be an introduction, then the first part with a presentation or discussion by the speakers, and then an interaction or engagement discussion with the attendees. Then will proceed with the second part of the discussion and will finish with an interaction with all participants as this will allow us to explore the topic more deeply and engage all participants since every contribution is relevant.
The online and onsite moderators will make sure to encourage attendees to ask questions, share their experiences, and collaborate in the discussion.
Online Tool: Zoom
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