Towards a Digital Ecosystem of Trust: Ethical, Legal and Societal Implications

Background information

The European Union’s vision of a digital ecosystem of trust focuses on fundamental values such as fairness, transparency, and accountability. Aside from the focus on innovation and novel technological solutions, this constitutes a relevant novelty in contrast with the corporate-regulated US model or the state-controlled technological landscape of China and Russia.

In the context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the need for a strong transnational and safe data processing environment has emerged with great clarity. The assessment of factors that shape the digital ecosystem of trust and dictate responsible data science is at the core of this first SoBigData++ White Paper.

The European Union’s willingness to propel technological development without compromising on legal and ethical standards (associated with the design, development, and implementation of new technologies) leads to a challenge: How are these two factors compatible? How can progress happen despite the barriers placed by the highest legal and ethical principles and requirements?

The SoBigData Research Infrastructure

SoBigData is a research infrastructure built with the aim to provide an integrated ecosystem for scientific discoveries and advanced applications of social data mining, promoting open-source methods and open, ethical datasets to support a new European approach to digital technologies.

The Humane AI Net project is also partner of this specific event

The event will be held online on March 9th, from 15 to 17,30.

If you are willing to join, you can easily register by following this link.

Speakers

Roberto Viola

Director General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT) - European Commission

Jeroen van den Hoven

Full professor of Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)

Brando Benifei

Member of the European Parliament, President of the Spinelli Group and Vice President of the European Movement International

Fosca Giannotti

Professor of Computer Science at Scuola Normale Superiore and Researcher at the Information Science and Technology Institute “A. Faedo” of the National Research Council - Pisa (Italy)

Giovanni Comandé

Full Professor in Comparative Private Law at Scuola Superiore S. Anna - Pisa (Italy)

Virginia Dignum

Professor in Social and Ethical AI at Umeå universitet - Umeå (Sweden)

Gry Hasselbalch

Senior Key AI Ethics Expert and Research Lead at INTouchAI.eu - Cofounder and Director of Research at DataEthics.eu

Maria Savona

Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Economics at LUISS University, Rome and Professor of Economics of innovation at SPRU, Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, UK.

Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Professor of Computer Science and ICREA-Acadèmia Researcher at Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain)

Francesca Pratesi

Research Member of the Information Science and Technology Institute of the Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR)- Pisa (Italy)