The National Intelligence Service (NIS, President Jong-seong Hwang) announced on the twenty third that it held a roundtable discussion on cooperation measures for establishing artificial intelligence (AI) governance in Africa as a side event of the ‘UN Summit of the Future’ held in Recent York.
This roundtable was held on the twenty first (local time) on the UN headquarters in Recent York, USA, jointly with the World Bank and the Rwandan Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINICT).
It was prepared to share the present status and problems with African AI governance by major African governments and to introduce the ‘Africa Continental AI Strategy’ announced by the African Union in July 2024 to discover efforts and difficulties in establishing African AI governance.
Around 50 high-ranking officials from the private and non-private sectors, including Kim Sang-bu, Vice President for Digital Transformation on the World Bank; Hwang Jong-seong, President of the National Institute of International Affairs; and Paula Ingabire, Rwandan Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, attended the event, together with the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, the UN Special Envoy for Technology, and Egypt’s Ministry of Information and Communications Technology.
NIA introduced ▲ digital policy ▲ experience in constructing infrastructure resembling government data centers ▲ cases of constructing data for AI learning, and proposed a sovereign AI development model just like domestic cases to cooperate in establishing AI governance in African countries. It also presented a cooperative project to support strengthening Africa’s AI and data utilization capabilities.
Reporter Park Soo-bin sbin08@aitimes.com
