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BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Digital Future Society [ https://digitalfuturesociety.com/es/ ] and the City

Council of Barcelona jointly organize the event "Humanism in the digital age:

the urban contribution" this 15th of November in Barcelona; where experts and

opinion leaders will assess the impact of the current digital transformation in

an urban environment, and discuss how to build a more sustainable, equitable

and inclusive digital transition that strengthens human rights in the digital

age, placing people at the centre of  the technological deployment.

The various sessions of the day will explore and analyse some of the main

challenges arising from the digital transformation in cities, with a special

emphasis on two thematic blocks: ethics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and

digital rights. The program will host highly recognized international voices.

Likewise, the role of public administrations in front of the digital divides

will be a highlighted topic during the day. Digital exclusion will be addressed

and will explore projects, initiatives, and community approaches with the CTOs

of Barcelona, Michael Donaldson, New York, John Paul Farmer, and the UNU-EGOV

advisor, Morten Meyerhoff.

It will also seek to explore solutions about the fundamental challenges

associated with AI. For example, this technology, increasingly used by public

and private actors, cannot be adopted without considering the consequences of

gender or race discrimination that it may perpetuate. To do so, the panel

formed by Werner Stengg of the European Commission and Renata Ávila, CEO of the

Open Knowledge Foundation, will consider its use in an ethical manner and

explore how to guide it towards an effective regulation. In this area, the

keynote with Sonia Jorge, Executive Director of World Wide Web Foundation, is

also highlighted.

Within digital rights, the role of cities to approach an inclusive, secure, and

responsible digital transformation, will gain relevance with a panel moderated

by Barcelona's Deputy mayor, Laia Bonet, and joined by representatives of

municipal administrations such as Delphine Jamet (Bordeus); Roos Vermeij

(Rotterdam) and Arnaud Ngatcha (Paris). And lastly, facial recognition

technologies and the responsibility that their use entails will be another

spotlight of the sessions of this block, moderated by Melissa Heikkil, from

Politico Europe, with the presence of Sarah Chander, senior policy advisor of

European Digital Rights Initiative; Amos Toh, Senior researcher on AI at Human

Rights Watch, and Brando Benifei, European Parliament (MEP), Rapporteur on the

AI Act.

Contact: Emily Henley - ehenley@tinkle.es - + 34 (0) 661 267 495

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Source: Digital Future Society