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ITU annual global summit generates 35 pioneering AI for Good proposals

ITU annual global summit generates 35 pioneering AI for Good proposals

As announced by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency
for information and communication technology (ICT), its annual AI for Good Global Summit has successfully generated thirty-five
innovative project proposals leveraging the power of artificial intelligence
(AI) for good.

"Leveraging
the power of ICTs, including artificial intelligence, is imperative if we are
to improve the livelihoods of all people, everywhere, through achievement of
the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," said ITU
Secretary-General Mr Houlin Zhao.

“This year, we hope to spur action to ensure that artificial intelligence accelerates progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” Mr Zhao said in his welcoming remarks.

“Already, AI solutions are being developed to help increase crop yields, manage natural disasters, reduce road congestion, or diagnose heart, eye, and blood disorders.”

Mr Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General of the ITU (Credit: The International Telecommunication Union)

The summit gathered AI innovators with public and
private-sector decision-makers, creating collaboration opportunities to execute
the AI for Good project proposals in the near and medium terms. This
year’s event was organized by ITU in partnership with 32 sister United Nations
agencies, the XPRIZE
Foundation
and
the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The AI for Good community at the summit discussed the merits
of sharing AI tools and resources, datasets, and supporting knowledge and expertise
– a vision the summit's participants conceptualised as "AI and Data
Commons". This responds to growing recognition among stakeholders that
shared resources could spur new AI for Good projects, enable significant scale,
and create incentives to return new and improved resources to the community.

The pioneering proposals seek to deliver breakthroughs in:
(1) expanded and improved health care, (2) enhanced monitoring of agriculture
and biodiversity using satellite imagery, (3) smart urban development, and (4) trust
in AI.

(1)   
AI-improved healthcare

The
Summit saw the formulation of fifteen AI-project proposals that aim to improve
and expand healthcare in fields spanning primary care and service delivery, the
detection of impending vision loss and osteoarthritis, the integration and
analysis of medical data, the consideration afforded to AI by healthcare
policy, and responses to outbreaks of disease and other medical emergencies.

Participants
also discussed the creation of a new study platform that would be open to all
interested stakeholders and supported by ITU and the World Health Organisation
(WHO). This would help gather use cases of AI in healthcare and identify the
data formats and interoperability mechanisms required to amplify the impact of
such use cases.

(2)   
Monitoring agriculture and biodiversity
using satellite imagery

In enhancing monitoring of agriculture and biodiversity, three
projects propose the use of AI-powered satellite imagery analysis to predict
and prevent deforestation, track livestock with great accuracy, and provide
data analytics for micro-insurance to small-hold farmers. Another project
proposal provides enabling infrastructure and common capabilities – through a
'global service platform' – to support new satellite data projects in achieving
immediate scale.

(3)   
Smart urban development

In supporting smart urban development, seven project
proposals aim to support linguistic diversity within cities, combat gender
violence, and provide virtual testbeds for the simulation of smart city
projects. These projects included the targeted establishment of an 'Internet of
Cities', a global network able to share the data, knowledge and expertise
required to replicate successful smart city projects elsewhere in the world.

(4)   
Building trust in AI

A total of nine project proposals address three key
dimensions of trust in AI: (1) AI stakeholders' trust in AI developers; (2) trust
across national, cultural and organizational boundaries; and (3) trust in AI
systems themselves.

Other projects proposals seek to build trust in AI's
contribution to agriculture and mental health. They investigate strategies for
developing countries to maintain social stability as AI-driven automation
influences labour markets. They also explore how the concept of trust varies
across cultures, and they study how policymakers could encourage the
development of trustworthy AI systems and datasets free of bias.

These projects would be supported by a proposed incubator
for multidisciplinary collaboration in the interest of building trust in AI, trustfactory.ai.

PARTNER

Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private company, Qlik offers real-time data integration and analytics solutions, powered by Qlik Cloud, to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik serves more than 38,000 active customers in over 100 countries.

PARTNER

CTC Global Singapore, a premier end-to-end IT solutions provider, is a fully owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and ITOCHU Corporation.

Since 1972, CTC has established itself as one of the country’s top IT solutions providers. With 50 years of experience, headed by an experienced management team and staffed by over 200 qualified IT professionals, we support organizations with integrated IT solutions expertise in Autonomous IT, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure, Workplace Modernization and Professional Services.

Well-known for our strengths in system integration and consultation, CTC Global proves to be the preferred IT outsourcing destination for organizations all over Singapore today.

PARTNER

Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our solutions enable organizations to connect the business from ideas to impact, empowering companies to accelerate the achievement of what matters most. Planview’s full spectrum of Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions creates an organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empowers teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. The comprehensive Planview platform and enterprise success model enables customers to deliver innovative, competitive products, services, and customer experiences. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with locations around the world, Planview has more than 1,300 employees supporting 4,500 customers and 2.6 million users worldwide. For more information, visit www.planview.com.

SUPPORTING ORGANISATION

SIRIM is a premier industrial research and technology organisation in Malaysia, wholly-owned by the Minister​ of Finance Incorporated. With over forty years of experience and expertise, SIRIM is mandated as the machinery for research and technology development, and the national champion of quality. SIRIM has always played a major role in the development of the country’s private sector. By tapping into our expertise and knowledge base, we focus on developing new technologies and improvements in the manufacturing, technology and services sectors. We nurture Small Medium Enterprises (SME) growth with solutions for technology penetration and upgrading, making it an ideal technology partner for SMEs.

PARTNER

HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments, enabling enterprises to unlock a common cloud operating model to provision, secure, connect, and run any application on any infrastructure. HashiCorp tools allow organizations to deliver applications faster by helping enterprises transition from manual processes and ITIL practices to self-service automation and DevOps practices. 

PARTNER

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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