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I currently have the pleasure of working with our new cohort of Community Data Campaigns, five campaigns spanning health, housing, online harms, and care, all thinking about how their communities can be empowered through data. On the one hand, these are grassroots campaigns firmly rooted in the immediate needs of their communities, and on the other they are visionary in their thinking about systems change and shifting power to make data, and all that it impacts, more equitable for us all.
Hello, and welcome to our sweet sixteenth Data Policy Digest, bringing you all the latest data and AI policy developments. From April showers to a May data deluge - with details of Lords committee stage for the Data Protection Bill, more AI developments than you can shake a large language model at and much more besides.
Last December, India passed the baton of the G20 presidency to Brazil after reaching the first-ever multilateral consensus on digital public infrastructures (DPIs). The Brazilian presidency this year offers a unique opportunity for Brazil to share its world-renowned experiences on the matter with the world.
Opinion
Here we have a guest blog from June, a member of the People’s Panel on AI reflecting on her experience as part of the Panel and her engagement with AI since.
Here we have a guest blog from Margaret, a member of the People’s Panel on AI, with a plea following her experience and reflections.
Here we have a guest blog from Margaret, a member of the People’s Panel on AI, with words shared at the 2024 AI UK Conference.
Months ago I got a text from a dear friend who works in finance, with a video she had seen on Instagram of an investor reporting on some of the things he had heard at the Davos Forum about artificial intelligence. “Everytime I see something about AI I think of you”, she said, intending for it to sound nicer than how I interpreted it, as someone who is concerned about, a bit fed up with, the hype and solutionism around it.
It has been almost 18 months since I first joined CbD, and it is crazy to look back and see there was a whole different scenario going on around data and AI.
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