Session
Community-facilitated Networking Break: The Global South and the AI (Regulatory) Race
Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet (LAPIN)
This session aims to gather scholars and representatives from civil society as well as any other interested stakeholders to share their views on the impacts of artificial intelligence in their respective regions and regulatory initiatives on this technology. Regulatory efforts on artificial intelligence will be a focal point during the discussion, considering their relevance for the coordination of policymaking in the field.
The debate will focus on how the Global South is dealing with this issue, especially in places such as Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. In this sense, stakeholders from these regions are especially welcome to join the session. The session is intended to promote a dynamic environment for the exchange of information about the current state of artificial intelligence governance in the Global South. To achieve this goal, the session will have a highly interactive format, using an online board in order to gather inputs from attendees and provide a clear visual panorama on what are the suggested AI impacts and which actions should national strategies in the region prioritise.
The introduction of the session will be conducted from members of the Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet (LAPIN), a Brazilian think tank, which will provide attendees with a brief description on how the country’s government has been dealing with the issue of AI governance. At the beginning of the meeting, a contact list will be shared for any attendee who wishes to keep in contact with other peers.
Following this exposition, other participants will be invited to share their experiences and ideas with regards to their specific countries and regions by feeding an online collaborative board in two thematic rounds, the first dedicated to understanding the specific impacts that artificial intelligence has over each of the participants’ countries or regions and the second dedicated to what actions and guidelines should national strategies of the Global South prioritise.
During the two time-bound thematics rounds, attendees will be asked to feed the collective boards with their perspectives. After each sprint, the session’s organizers will bring similarities and disparities to the group’s discussion in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas.