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>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Good morning. I hope you all slept well. Poncelet Ileleji moderating this session, NRI session, National Regional Internet Governance Initiative Session focused on local data governance for global public good.
Extreme right for brief intro, we have North African IGF, we have Chelsea Horne US IGF.
Ahmed Fraag, chair of North Africa Canal IGF.
And also have Una Wang, Singapore IGF.
Beatriz Costa Barbosa from IGF.
We will come to this session. Look forward to a very interactive session. We are going to have all of our speakers speaking for four minutes on areas of intervention, and at the end of that four minutes, going to go to the reflective and takeaways from the panel.
To the audience, I know a lot of people are tired. Last day of the IGF. We hope data is very key, as we all say, new oil. Data done for the public good. Will start off with Ahmed to discuss about in terms of regulatory frameworks and how it looks. Over to you.
>> AHMED FRAAG: Thank you all for attending this session. Really, I'm proud to be part of this important discussion. I think we all agree that governance priority as we witness growing influence of artifical intelligence and emerging technology, demand of this transferring and news of data is greater than ever.
This technology relies heavily on amount of data, massive amount of data, stronger data framework provide privacy, digital trust, government risk, digital divide, and enabling misuse of data in a way that can harm individuals and communities.
When we talk about data governance frameworks, we should not forget the importance of multistakeholders' cooperation efforts. Engaging governments, private sector service, civil society, and technology community is essential as well.
Concentration when dealing with emerging and complex issues such as AI regulation is important. Very important to share best practice of success stories digitally and globally exploring innovative approach and technology to enhance.
Confident responsible data governance is not about regulation. It's not just about data regulation. It is creating ecosystem where data service people empower community and support innovation. AI and digital technology continue to advance. We have to ensure that our governance framework evolves accordingly. Requires balanced approach flexible enough to encourage innovation and make use of data for public good. Strict enough to protect personal data and prevent misuse.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Last statement, to prevent data misuse is very key. Move to the second question. We have a lot of things to cover here. Over to Una, who will be talking about building multilingual system on how to navigate retention between data inclusion and data protection. Over to you.
>> UNA WANG: Thank you. Good morning. My name is Una Wang, cofounding member of Singapore Intergovernment Governance, founder CEO of Lingo AI. I'm the representative. Power sector here.
Yesterday attended three powerful workshops in languages in the digital age. One thing is very clear is each nation representative deeply care about their language not being left behind in the digital and AI.
Europe, there's a growing fairness that if language isn't represented in the digital system registry, disappearing entirely from future global conversations. So many of the world's languages are in danger of disappearing, and limitation of occurrence in speech recognition and general technology only ancillary to this trend.
Easier for people to access information and use devices in their preferred languages and collecting the audio data for sovereignty languages first a challenge because the language expressing speech data size covers 100 languages at most, so currently over 7 sovereign languages spoken around the world today represented in training data. Not represented high resource languages such as English. Lead to undesirable virus in model, sector perspective.
LingoAI is AI data economy platform designed to unlock value of language data. Building system communities are in control. Take a bottom‑up community‑driven approach to build the multiple lingual AI systems, one of our frameworks is something we called Language Now. Decentralized autonomous language organization for each language group.
Through this, language speakers can own, govern, and monetize their linguistic data. Each community decides what they have to share, how it's used, and under what conditions. It's not just about inclusion. It's about sovereignty. So the platform we support is based on the personal online data storage inspired by the decentralized technologies such as social and data protocol. This means these individuals in communities can store their data locally and even personal device, and has access to specific organizations.
Data remains owned by the people, not by the centralized supply forms. So ownership isn't enough. We should provide infrastructure and connections. We also make data liquid and useful helping communities connect with organizations that need diverse language data for AI, education assessment, and more. This way, turn data into accessibility, responsibly, and transparently, even monetization opportunity. Data linguistic learned to check box and conflict between data inclusion. Data protection is real. It's not unsolvable. We need community‑driven governance, open tools, and deep collaboration multistakeholders. That is my message. Thank you.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Thank you very much. Really rounded it up about the need for inclusion and need for it to be driven by community in terms of languages.
Without much ado, going to hand it over now to Chelsea from the USA IGF. She will be addressing the question on how can mechanisms be implemented to make it easier for people to understand and imagine the permissions, grant for the use of the data. Those permissions for the universe, their data is very key. So over to you.
>> CHELSEA HORNE: Thank you very much for this fantastic question. Thank you to the organizing committee for putting together this important panel with such esteemed colleagues.
I really love this question because it brings together so many of the critical issues of data governance in seemingly simple question or issue. These issues are responsible design, privacy and security, safety, trust, consent, control, and choice, all within one simple premise of design mechanisms.
Important to ensure that any mechanism do not force undue burden‑oriented email to manage only data security and privacy part of building privacy and security measures by design. From there, making data permissions understandable and manageable is key to empowering individuals.
There are several approaches to accomplish this. User‑friendly interfaces designing intuitive and visually engaging privacy dashboards and settings. Clear accessibility succinctly designed is important. As long as they address these few key details who is collecting what data and why, so that means for what purpose and how it will be used.
Privacy‑friendly choices and defaults are also important to address to be conscious to avoid what is now being called dark patterns. The persons, those are those deceptive and confusing structures that may nudge users toward choice they may not otherwise have made.
Some other options in user‑friendly‑facing mechanisms. Granular concept mechanisms, moving beyond this all‑or‑nothing consent framework to allow yourself to grant specific permissions for different types of data use. So for analytics, personalizes sharing with third‑parties. Challenge here with granular consent mechanisms is that while it offers more nuanced choice and control, comes the accost of information overload.
Then we have just‑in‑time notification providing contextual notifications at the point of data collection or use, explaining implications of granting or denying specific permission. Help with clarity, data collection, and create additional friction user navigate through interface.
Finally, another option to consider, standardized consent language and icons. Developing standardized easily‑recognizable icons, simplified language for common data permission like nutritional languages on food. Standard localized defaults help to reduce cognitive load and information overload aiming to empower people with information and choice. Design development and deployment of these mechanisms to empower people is a balancing act, responsibility trust, resilience, and safety. And it's critical that we get it right. Thank you.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Thank you very much. Chelsea spoke of a topic very interesting and very passionate. Everybody should take fact of that a lot, user of our data is physically fine print.
I think you have covered all the areas that people need to take note of in regarding use of their data need our permissions to seek.
Without much ado, move on Beatriz, colleague in IGF, speaking on how to develop and implement multi‑stakeholder data governance processing, quickly responsive to new technologies, challenges, of course, one of those technology challenges dealing with AI.
>> BEATRIZ COSTA BARBOSA: First one supposed to turn on. I didn't know. Thank you.
Good morning everyone. Thank you for the installation of Brazil IGF to be here. Member of steering committee organized Brazil IGF. Member of the board as one of the civil society representatives. And would like to share with you a little bit about longstanding tradition Brazil has in promoting public participation and debate across various policy areas regarding digital issues, tradition reflected in the multistakeholder model endorsed by our resident Internet Steering Committee. More than 30 years of work and which is recognized as a global reference of intergovernment governance.
Over the years, the name of our committee in Portuguese has contributed to key internet development process in the country including view connect to the brazil Civil Rights framework for the Internet Brazil General Data Protection Law, LGPD. Begins with public laws adopting participatory multistakeholder approach. Due to this long and collaborative process, our data protection law contains directly tailors the Brazil context important to highlight multistakeholder discussions promoted by the CGI such as private data protection. Seminar in Brazilian IGF held for over 15 years played significant role in shaping the discussions regarding the law.
Beyond the debates, IGF Brazil has provided space for the consolidation of national community engaged in this topic. Representatives from various multistakeholders inspired protection regulation. Providing structure enables ability in implementation to support the practical application law.
There is different context, the Brazilian data protection authority, governmental body, responsible for enforcing law, has been operating interpretive guidelines to help harmonize understanding and assist stakeholders implementing law.
In addition, Brazil app data protection include public participation. Each rule‑making and regulatory process include open calls for contributions and public consultations to capture society perspective on various topics under discussion. In the same, formally, authorities committed to considering more intergovernmental views in developmental personal data governance in Brazil.
Within national data protection authority structure, National Council for Personal Data Protection and Privacy worth mentioning. This constitutes shall support authority's work by conducting studies, organizing public hearings, and promoting data protections awareness.
It has a multistakeholder composition including representatives from government, civil society, technical, academic community. Awareness CGI itself, we have a seat on this council. Brazil also in the process of developing, as you mentioned before, developing regulatory framework for artifical intelligence regulation.
Proposed view currently under discussion in the parliament establish national system for AI regulation governance composed of the national data protection authority coordination, authority sector regulators.
System would include personal council for regulatory cooperation in AI responsible for dialogue with regulators in civil society. Also, committee of AI experts, scientists, creation of regulatory guidelines under system framework would be collaborative and cooperative, something or other, just various authority and stakeholders.
Why is some data government framework already established such as guidelines in the, sorry, framework in the repeal, GDPR Brazil data protection law. Others are still under development so principles such as those in Sao Paulo guidelines, NetMundial+10 event.
Multistakeholder issue can essential supporting fair accountability, unresponsible implementation of such framework. The guidelines emphasize key elements such as ensuring balance access to information for informal decision‑making, respect for human rights, and the diversity in governance process, continuous stakeholder capacity‑building, corporate and oversight among government mechanics cooperation, focus on delivering tangible and applicable outcomes.
Happy to go further on this topic if you have time later on. Thank you very much.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Data protection covers a lot of aspects and way you go about it dealing with community.
Without much ado, our last panelist for this session before we go into the online questions from online to you, our audience here.
Nancy Kanasa from the Pacific IGF. How can the Pacific and Global South network develop resilience and inclusive data governance frameworks that uphold indigenous data sovereignty? Talking indigenous data sovereignty, also dealing with those people who are, in a way, sometimes feeling marginalized. Over to you.
>> NANCY KANASA: Good morning everyone. I'm Nancy Kanasa from the Pacific IGF. I work with the government of Papua, New Guinea. Take this opportunity to be speaking here not only as petitioner working on world data governance challenges in Papua, New Guinea, representative of government effort across the Pacific region.
I want to share common culture values, institutional landscape, and technology challenges which shape our collective approach to data governance.
My response reflects the Pacific context granted living experience and realities of government‑led initiative to support sustainable development amidst global technology shift, one of the significant challenges we face across Pacific fragmentation of data center.
This fragmentation, this silo exists between government agencies and civil society, academia, and communities limiting every factors ability to share technology, coordinate response, and make informed decisions, but it is not just silos themselves. Face a deeper issue, like strategy and structured process to address.
In many cases, data governance is reactive rather than proactive and without clear strategy. It's difficult to align institution across, create system resilience and inclusive.
In Papua, New Guinea, for example, lack of coordinated data system and strategic planning lead to delays in certificate basic but essential service. Without streamlined data sharing between departments, families face long wait time and administrative barriers. Similarly, in Fiji, system is supposed to gap digital inclusive citizens rural communities and those unfamiliar with these tools of them to struggle to access or use the system effectively.
This example like digital inclusion system areas can prevent citizens from accessing essential service, underscores greater need for public involvement and oversight in our digital system designing governance.
So I return to the question again. In our case, the Pacific developers resilient and inclusive data governance, involve indigenous data sovereignty. Breaking down silos require trust, collaboration, and cultural grounded approach that respect local knowledge systems while enabling interoperability and innovation.
Without coordination, trust and policies, respect of our Pacific values and indigenous knowledge system became difficult to create governance framework that is both inclusive and resilient. As global technology accelerates, important for Pacific nation to align with international standards, especially areas like data privacy, cybersecurity, digital inclusion, and now intelligent, wonder what key answer is. Global space. We can bring it back to be done in a way that is retail and contextualize local realities. Tools available must be adapted to fit culture, institution and context Pacific nations to truly face the issues we face in our countries. Government participation in global forums, such as internet governance, critical for you.
From my view of the governmental departmental mandated to create policies and technical implementation, IGF provides space for what we are doing and influence our Pacific voice be heard. Unique challenge can understood and priorities can be shaped as the global norm.
One key benefit often engage in that form ability to build partnership and resource developmental inclusive grounded government framework. Pacific is not just a technical goal. It is a social, cultural, and institution. Requires leadership, strategic thinking, and commitment to ensure that no one is left behind in the digital age.
Digital infrastructure exclude vulnerable groups, undermines principle of data as a global public good. Thank you.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: thank you very much Nancy. Good we have a speaker speaking from the government point of view for lessons and implementation framework focusing on indigenous data, sovereignty of Pacific IGF.
We are lucky and thank you speakers for keeping the time very good. We'll have good engagements with our audience here. I'm sure represents different and other practitioners.
Hand it over to Aicha moderating online session on questions online, and then we'll move over to the audience. And from the audience, if you are asking any question, please say your name and your representation and who you are addressing the question to. If you say general question, I will call on any of the distinguished speakers to answer it.
>> AICHA JERIDI: Good morning. So in terms of action, we didn't receive any comments yet. Only comment from Winnipeg. Thank you Chelsea, the interaction session is still on. We didn't receive other reactions or interventions. Over to you.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Thank you for that. Over to you, audience. Please let's get your questions coming in.
>> AMAD ABDUL KONO: Thank you moderator. This Amad Abdul Kono, Bangladesh Internet Government Forum. My question is, given the limited adoption of comprehensive data protection laws in the Global South, how can we design contest government framework that applaud global standard of fairness and accountability respecting local values, infrastructure limitation and digital literacy levels especially in countries like Bangladesh.
PONCELET ILELEJI: Thank you for that question. Any other one? That question, I will let Beatriz from Brazil answer it. Really have a good process we can all learn from.
>> BEATRIZ COSTA BARBOSA: Thank you very much. I'm not pretty aware of the context of Bangladesh. I can share a little bit what is happening in Brazil during the process regarding data protection bill development.
In Brazil, as I mentioned before, we tried to foster other collaborative process because only if we were inspired by the European general data protection regulation at that time, it was necessarily to adopt the context and these global standards as you mentioned to our reality, our reality of country of 220 million people. Many of them that don't have digital literacy, that give our ID everywhere to have discount of price at supermarket and other sales in magazines, and then idea was to take advantage of the development of the view to raise awareness of people, importance of the topic, and right now, Brazil data protection law was approved in 2018.
We have 7 years of implementation of the law in Brazil. We still have many people that are not aware at all of their rights regarding personal data protection, but we are moving forward and one of the things that is important to bring this awareness to the population is the debate that we try to organize at the CGI Brazil authority has promoted some seminars and public hearing and consultations to involve the Brazilian population in this debate.
If we deal with this topic thinking that data protection topic is something for experts or for scientists or digital rights, civil society organizations, we're not going to achieve our goal that the Brazilian population feels that they have a right to that.
In that process, one of the things, one strategy Brazil civil society managed to put in place was to include the data protection right in the list of civil rights in our constitution, consequence of the effort approved in 2018.
Three years later, Brazilian parliamentarian connected to the civil society movement decided to propose amendment to the Brazilian Constitutional now decides that the protection law we have encrypts the Constitution that protects the right to every citizen, so it was necessary to give marvelous ability to this process in Brazil.
After that, the Brazilian population start worried, being worried and being alert all the time regarding their rights, but we still have long way to fulfill to goal is that every citizen knows that he has a right to protect, to have this person or data protected by not only by the government but also private companies engaging civil society all the time. This process is not only treating this as something that is related to government, has helped us to adapt global standards to our context and to deal with the daily problems that the Brazilian population suffers.
>>PONCELET ILELEJI: Thank you very much for that brilliant intervention. Call out to Aicha who wants to intervene.
>> AICHA JERIDI: We have intervention from the floor. Mr. Jamal wants to intervene. Reactivate your mic. The floor is yours.
>> JAMAL: Thank you all. Question to Una and Tijani. You spoke about the data by the users themselves, not by companies that are collecting our data, using them even without our consent. Can you speak about ownership and control of that data by the users? I think you are talking about three that project other people are working on currently in the previous session, three projects based on blockchain technology. Consumes very, very huge energy. How this project can be feasible if we don't solve this issue. Thank you.
>> AICHA JERIDI: The floor is yours.
>> UNA WANG: Thank you for the question. I think I have heard from the panel regarding one of my, of single internet governance form. A lot of people have the same concerns or the questions like the web story is about blockchain or crypto. So that is something that is wrong because it was already defined in 2006 called web of data.
They invented HTTP, already defined is web 3.0. Nothing related to blockchain or crypto. Blockchain like Bitcoin has the value of personal sovereignty of the finance or crypto. If thinking the web panel you should have data, decentralized protocol, and you have a website about the value, how you can monetize those personal data because we are talking about community‑driven empowerment is related to how we can let the community have the motivation to contribute and have fairness about how they can get their data back.
Now we are in the web 2.0. Web 2.0 means how websites, how the infrastructure built PCPIP and HTP, leads to the data flow to the centralized platform such as Meta or Trader.
Other people, we don't have our own data ownership. That means in the era of the AI, the ChatGPT has uses public data about, 3 trillion tokens for training the AI system and they're using our knowledge. They don't give our benefits and you don't have your address to know how the use of data.
So in the web 3.0, totally different because a lot people have already got actions on that such as Harry and I, and also the team. Lee invented social link data, which is decentralized protocol for all the users to own their data by the personal online pot.
That means you can deploy this pot on your local device, on your local PC, local phone, or choose the different, like the cloud host is your service like AWS or any other, but there is going to have the privacy preservation and you are going to control whether you want to also authorize organization or not.
So we are building that in this way, called web 3.0 called web of data, and people have the risk to either share all data to know who are going to use and how to use and whether you want to give the money to me because I share the data. I share the value to the organizations who want to use my data.
So we are using different like protocols. And also, we are, of course, we have to use blockchain because for the global payment, each country's people have the rest to digital, their currency. This is more complex when you're going to send money to different people, like the blockchain, like tokens of value, the backup data, you're going to know whether it's web 3.0 and what is web 3.
Web 3 is wrongly defined by Gavin Mood because he is in the blockchain. Blockchain and crypto defines himself as web server, father of web 3. Totally different. I think everyone should have the fairness, what is the real web 3.0 and we should get our data back in the AI Europe because in the future, if you want to have safe AI, personal agent, you have to get data back and you have to deploy a small language model on your local device compiled with your personal data size. Yeah. So hopefully, I answered your question. Thank you.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Thank you very much, Una. We'll try to keep it short. We have 20 minutes. I want you to use five minutes to take questions, then any question from the audience, then we go into last words especially focus on NRIs. And in those last words, I will start with Chelsea.
>> CHELSEA HORNE: Question from the floor from Mr. Chen. Start with the question.
Question to all the panelists, how can we design regional agreements to support cooperation without turning them into nontariff or technical barriers to trade. Question to all the panelists. Feel free to answer.
Bhutan used electronic identity system, online blockchain. React from the last intervention from the panelist, every Bhutanese own their data and data ownership. All from the floor. Now we move to the question that he asked. Thank you.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Who wants to take that question? I'll put you on the spot. Okay, I will hand the question over to Nancy.
>> NANCY KANASA: So one way I could think of is invest in infrastructure and digital literacy and create a, your probably regional data council for policy coordination and encourage across‑the‑board data‑sharing academic with safeguards.
Just to add something that after the Brazilian Data Protection Law was approved in 2018, many Brazilian parliamentarians improved in the process designing law, started traveling a lot in the region to talk to other parliamentary members or governments or authorities, regulators, even with civil society movement and organization to share what is happening in Brazil and mentions the parts about the process we have when designing the bill kind of not as a scholarship, some kind of promoting exchanging among the bodies and authorities and civil society members and representatives is interested to help building original context because in Brazil, I mean, Brazil has many different, regarding our neighbors, but many things that are quite similar.
For sure, I think that is the same in your region. Then we can take advantage of the mistakes and problems we face during the development of implementation of law that other countries may avoid if we share this experiences. I think that would be, I think, idea of having costs together, different countries, super interesting, even starting exchanging experience, and that geography is so important that we're exchanging experience here. This is IGF from all over the world. Important to help build this original constant regarding importance of the data protection.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Anybody from the audience? I'll go to five, four, okay.
>> BARBARA: Yeah. Hi. Barbara coming from national coordinator of IGF chat. I think this is a good question because decision talk about data governance. Really key. I think chat, we are thinking now how to work, because in chat, Data Protection Act is planning by the National Cybersecurity Agency Ministry Security, not ministry of ICT, because last year, IGF, we talk a lot. Don't know. I don't know we have this kind of act. Communicate more than that, I think. For this year, we need to see not many meetings, annual meetings, how to do folks on that local meeting, local village.
And some cities, mostly social media used by people of rural area because user satellites what we are seeing, so I've seen that we have Whatsapp group that started to know how to deal. Don't know Data Protection Act.
So I think that these kinds of things annualized, go close to them to marginalize them in rural area, talk to them. If you do bad things, you can be justice in the court. We need to tell them, I think that one of our focus this year, and they need to collaborate with us. Experience from that to impact our people. Thank you so much.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Thank you very much. From the chat IGF. I think some, a lot how we need to collaborate more in NRI field of data governance for local public good. Thank you.
>> KOSIN: From Benin. Translate. This is very good session. Personally very good session talking about data, local data. We don't have data center. Where put data? Where put it? We need data center first. Green data center. And now, process to assess to our data. Local very important. Let's talk to Meta, TikTok, all of them to come and bridge that in Africa. Put our data locally in our language.
Also, if it's possible, and let us check, use our data to turn our internet intelligence artificial process. Thank you.
>> MR. THAPELI TJABANE: thank you very much. Kosi said it all about localization of having data centers built into digital sovereignty.
I will now call on Chelsea to give her closing remarks and ask NRI what we can do in our communities as NRI. This is NRI session, bottom of the ladder within the internet governance initiatives. I think this is a very important topic for all of us and I would like Chelsey to give closing comments.
>> CHELSEA HORNE: Thank you. A wonderful session from IGF USA. Exciting session because it gives lots of energy and ideas for our regional IGF later this year.
We're very excited to continue the dialogue and I think one of the most important things is the similar themes here to global IGF, which is multistakeholder dialogue to make sure that we are bringing members from all different elements of the multistakeholder community and having that meet meaningful stakeholder engagement crucial for fostering public trust and transparency towards these data governance advocate internet governance framework and making sure both are robust and legitimate. That's something we are going to be working in particular, having continuing hosting and promoting this multistakeholder dialogue. Thank you.
Nancy, closing remarks.
>> NANCY KANASA: From the Pacific IGF, I would say ethical and human‑centric government approach to digital information, and also safeguard against, coming from the Pacific Islands, you know, we are kind of left behind in most of the things that we think we are getting information. Thank you.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Beatriz?
>> BEATRIZ COSTA BARBOSA: We already had our Brazilian IGF this year before coming to Norway, and the topic of data governance and data protection present in the workshop that I propose for governance community in Brazil active and participatory. Face new challenge in Brazil. Topic many other countries Global South discusses has to do with the question that our colleague from Benin mentioned that has to do with digital sovereignty ‑‑ I'm sorry, we are fostering from the civil society perspective, discussion, and debating Brazil has to do with how do we control our data, how do we guarantee data treatment, and it's made in Brazil respecting human right in general, but also for our development.
So one of the things, final comment that our colleague said here, I would encourage you not only to invite TikTok or Meta to view data, build data centers in your country, your company, your companies, government, public, to build public infrastructure to deal with the data, important for your digital sovereignty. And in a world that we are only sharing our data with global companies in the future, that is not that far from us. Now we're going to face many, many big problems.
So we are fostering discussing Brazil. We have Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. Our work grew that works with data protection as well as I mentioned before, we had a seat in Brazilian Council for data protection to the Brazil authority. Keep moving on the discussion and happy to help always to share this with you. Thank you. Thank you.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Thank you. Totally agree with the panelists. So this is the first time I came to the IGF and Singapore Internet Governance quite new, just recognized by the IGF in January. So I attended different workshops and conferences. I saw the similar problems that encountered with previous, what we have been solving in outings, just raise questions they don't have the data centers. And that means centralized social media platform or any internet infrastructure cannot cover Global South people's data. And also, they don't have the right to share with the representative in this current AI era.
So we really encourage people from Global South to see the new protocols, that we don't have to learn from the current centralized platform. Like you're building your own data center. You're collecting the data in a centralized way. You can do something that is quite fascinating and use the frontier technologies to see you have the data ownership and you build your own data by owning protocol. That means no one can access unless you authorize, you consent. So you can help those AI companies to train based on your own data set and some other people also can do this in the similar way.
At the same time, you have your own data value and you have monetized your own data. That is the best way that can bring the wealth to the Global South. People using own local data and you can accumulate your own data set day by day. In the future, you are the one controlling data and building your own value in the future. Thank you.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Thank you. Closing word.
>> AHMED FRAAG: Thank you again. I think north IGF and recently many countries, North Africa, have started strategic value of the data governance. Egypt taken concrete steps to establish legal institutional foundation for data governance, and personal data protection law has been released in 2020 after public and community consultation. Also, national data strategy of Egypt includes strong components of data governance.
And I think my final words will be very important, to be ready and continue enhancing based on the updates on technology we saw every day, and then so we have to be flexible not to distract on the current framework. We have to be ready and continue our enhancements in this framework.
>> PONCELET ILELEJI: Thank you very much all my panelists. Before I close this session, as I say, this local data governance, global public, good session, organized NRI session, and was organized by NRIs. Took a lot of months of planning so I want to thank NRI who planned this. Singapore IGF, IGF USA, IGF Brazil, Zambia IGF, Guam IGF, Portugal IGF. Columbia, Youth IGF, Brazil IGF, I said before, Japan IGF, Lebanon IGF, Benin Youth IGF, Columbia IGF, brilliant panelists today end of the session. Please feel free to contact them, these experts in this field.
We had two government representatives, academic host from the USA IGF. Una just started in academia, Singapore IGF. We have new, we have old, and Brazil who we learn a lot from within what they are doing. Thank you very much for the online moderation. Round of applause for our panelists. Thank you.
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