update：September 24, 2020

The online seminar entitled “Data, AI Governance, and COVID -19: Medium and Long-Term Perspectives for Asia” will be held as a one of the results of the project "Building platform on ethics and governance of artificial intelligence” (Representative: Arisa EMA,D18-ST-0008).

• Date：2020.10.09（Fri.）
• Time：15:00-17:00
• Venue：Online seminar *The online meeting URL will be delivered by mail on the day before this event.
• Language：English (English-Japanese Simultaneous Interpretation: max 100 people)
• For details and registration: please click here.

In response to the coronavirus (hereafter referred to as COVID-19) pandemic of 2019-20, various IT/AI technologies such as tracking app, contact confirming app, and facial recognition systems that automatically recognize images of appropriate social distances and urge caution are being promoted. However, these technologies raise concern about the balance between public benefits and individual privacy, and whether such measures will lead to new discrimination and prejudice. In Asian countries where the first wave of infection surged prior to other regions, various technical attempts have been implemented from an early stage, and measures are being taken with a view of medium and long-term prospects during the pandemic and beyond. We are now living in and with the pandemic and we have to reconstruct our relationships between technologies and environment.
The webinar invites presenters from four countries, China, South Korea, Singapore and Japan who contributed to a report released in September 2019. The report introduces the response to the COVID-19 till around early summer 2020. However, pandemic is still ongoing. The webinar will focus on lessons learned from the responses to COVID-19 from each country and discuss the impact of COVID-19 in the context of the larger trend of data and AI ethics and governance discussions in recent years.