AI standards & governance: shaping the future responsibly

This course was organized by ITU in collaboration with NCA-F, Department of Telecommunications of India, Telecommunications Standards Development Society (TSDSI), Wadhwani AI and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi and with the generous support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan and the NCA-F.

This course provides a hands-on training on ITU’s ICT standardization activities focusing on AI, as part of the Bridging the Standardization Gap (BSG) programme and focuses on ethical, legal, governance and privacy aspects of AI for telecommunications and ICT. 

OBJECTIVES:

• Incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within their national ICT strategies, focusing on ethics, risks, governance, regulatory and legal aspects.

• Actively engage in ICT standards development, particularly with regard to AI topic areas, and identify and apply relevant ITU-T standards in national frameworks and enabling ecosystems.

• Evaluate and assess the value of AI-related initiatives as the basis for national engagement in ITU activities.  

CONTENT:

1. Introducing ITU and ITU-T

2. Standardization in ITU-T

3. Innovation Café on AI

4. Implementation of AI & Standards for Digital Transformation

5. Member Contributions – the Fuel for ITU-T’s Work

6. Building Trustworthy AI

7. Case Study (Prepared by NICF)

8. AI Ethics, Data, Privacy and IPR

9. Country Presentations (India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives)

10. Use Cases of AI in Telecom and ICT

11. Innovation Café on Future of AI in ICT & Telecom

12. Discussion on AI Assessment Conducted by ITU

Duration: 15 hours

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