12. Rania Wazir: On AI4Good and how to shape future AI regulations

Summary

Rania has a background in theoretical mathematics and has focused her work in recent years as a Data Scientists on natural language understanding and social media monitoring.

Today on the show she will share her experience of organising Data4Good, an NGO organisation that is bringing together DataScientists and other NGO's on a voluntary bases in order to support different social projects.

During the second part of the interview, Rania will describe the ongoing efforts by women in AI Austria, to discuss and improve future European AI regulations. She describes what options individual and small organisations have to change international regulations on topics of AI and digitalisation in order to build a better future.

References

• Rania Wazir :  https://www.linkedin.com/in/raniawazir/ , rania.wazir@vdsg.at
• Data4good : https://vdsg.at/data4good/
• Women in AI Discussion Group : https://www.meetup.com/es/Women-in-AI-Austria/
• Access now (defend digital rights online) : https://www.accessnow.org/
• European digital rights : https://edri.org/
• Algorithm Watchers : https://algorithmwatch.org/de/
• European data protection supervisor : https://edps.europa.eu/_en
• Regulatory frame for AI by the European parliament : https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai
• Coded Bias (Movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11394170/