The Role of Governments as a Provider of Data for AI

Objectives

Governments worldwide hold significant amounts of data. This invaluable resource could fuel responsible AI innovation, leading to breakthrough solutions for:

● Improving public service delivery
● Addressing societal challenges
● Promoting innovation and economic growth

However, sharing this data responsibly, in a way that protects fundamental rights, is crucial. Governments need to carefully navigate issues such as privacy, technical and institutional capacity, ethics, and public trust for such initiatives to be successful.

This project focuses on understanding how governments have gone about sharing data to derive key principles and develop a repeatable, actionable framework that governments can follow to help them responsibly navigate these challenges.

Supporting governments in enabling AI innovation through responsible data stewardship

The project team has developed a roadmap for responsible data sharing based on case studies, research of data sharing initiatives from around the world, and input from technical and legal experts with experience of working in public service delivery.

The roadmap takes the form of a checklist governments can follow, either in whole or in part, breaking the assessment to make data available down into discrete decision stages, each with a number of decision dimensions. Governments should be able to answer yes to each decision dimension before they can responsibly share data.

The roadmap was piloted with three governments (two national, one subnational) who covered a range of economic development and level of AI and digital adoption. Governments were taken through the roadmap and it was iterated on based on the learnings of the pilot projects.

What our partners have to say about the project

I'm proud to have represented Türkiye in this global effort, working alongside incredible experts to drive responsible AI innovation through government data. It was truly an inspiring experience, and I look forward to the opportunity to collaborate on impactful projects in the future with you and the great team!

Merve Ayyüce KIZRAK, Ph.D.

Government of Türkiye Digital Ministry

We learned a lot from this project and it definitely helped us to recalibrate our thinking in how Jigawa State can generate, share and use data for public purpose AI innovation.The Global South faces many challenges, and while AI can potentially help us leapfrog some technology challenges, there is still some fear. If data is not approached correctly, it could lead to transparency issues or bias. The pilot has helped us bring forward changes we were expecting to make next year to do them at the start, and we have now reconfigured our management structure to deliver the project in an open and transparent way. This means we can guarantee the long-term future of the initiative.

Rislan Kanya

Digital team, State Government of Jigawa, Nigeria

Resources

Team

Stephanie King

CEIMIA

Director of AI Initiatives

Ching-Yi Liu

National Taiwan University

GPAI expert and Project co-lead

Jhalak Kakkar

Centre for Communication Governance

GPAI expert and Project co-lead

Project Advisory Group

Kim McGrail

Andrea A. Jacobs

Christian Reimsbach

Bertrand Monthubert

Maja Bogataj

Collaborating with CEIMIA means contributing to the development of responsible AI solutions.

We welcome all GPAI member governments who are navigating these challenges who would be willing to participate in this project via offering applied case studies, by sharing their experiences and approaches as stewards of value data for AI.

Additionally, we welcome expert representatives from external organisations in this domain to join the team as members of the Project Advisory Group.

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