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ISKO SG Annual general meeting
& PANEL on TECHNOLOGY, DATA, ETHICS
Our Annual General Meeting for 2022 will be held virtually by Zoom Conferencing, in accordance with the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures)(Alternative Arrangements for Meetings for Registered Societies) Order 2020
Non-members are welcome to attend the pre-AGM panel session on Technology, Data and Ethics, with Charles Mok and Gavin Chait as well as the AGM itself. During the AGM only members will be allowed to vote. All attendees must register in advance of the session, and for voting purposes, all remotely attending ISKO Singapore members must verify their identity using a video link upon entering. Members are welcome to nominate a proxy for voting if they are not able to attend. Please inform us if you wish to appoint a proxy. The 2022 AGM is not an election AGM but we do have some expenditure proposals for the benefit of members in the coming year, so we hope as many members as possible will be able to attend and vote.
PRE-AGM PANEL SESSION: Technology infuses our lives more and more, and both government and private sector have accelerated the pace at which basic services are now technology mediated. This sets up tensions around digital access, digital exclusion, digital literacy, depersonalisation of "human out of the loop" services, security, and trust. At the same time, more and more aspects of our lives are being gathered and reflected in our data traces across platforms and systems, where governance is still opaque and often flawed. Security issues complexify the digital experience, and undermine trust in it.
In this panel we will hear from two pioneers in thinking about how to shape technology and data use for the public good. Each speaker will introduce themselves and their background, and share on the ethical and practical issues they see at stake.
Non-members are welcome to attend the pre-AGM panel session on Technology, Data and Ethics, with Charles Mok and Gavin Chait as well as the AGM itself. During the AGM only members will be allowed to vote. All attendees must register in advance of the session, and for voting purposes, all remotely attending ISKO Singapore members must verify their identity using a video link upon entering. Members are welcome to nominate a proxy for voting if they are not able to attend. Please inform us if you wish to appoint a proxy. The 2022 AGM is not an election AGM but we do have some expenditure proposals for the benefit of members in the coming year, so we hope as many members as possible will be able to attend and vote.
PRE-AGM PANEL SESSION: Technology infuses our lives more and more, and both government and private sector have accelerated the pace at which basic services are now technology mediated. This sets up tensions around digital access, digital exclusion, digital literacy, depersonalisation of "human out of the loop" services, security, and trust. At the same time, more and more aspects of our lives are being gathered and reflected in our data traces across platforms and systems, where governance is still opaque and often flawed. Security issues complexify the digital experience, and undermine trust in it.
In this panel we will hear from two pioneers in thinking about how to shape technology and data use for the public good. Each speaker will introduce themselves and their background, and share on the ethical and practical issues they see at stake.
- How should knowledge managers and teams working on digital transformation ensure that the application of new technologies leads to broad access, supports the public good, and protects against misuse and fraud?
- What roles should policy makers and regulators play?
- What kind of capacity building needs to be in place within organisations to ensure that the implementation of digitalisation is responsible, fair and effective?
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Panel Speaker: Charles Mok
Charles Mok was the Legislative Councilor representing the Information Technology Functional Constituency in Hong Kong from 2012 to 2020. He was the Honorary President of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation and the Founding Chairman of the Internet Society Hong Kong. He is also a founder and director of Tech for Good Asia, a regional initiative to bring tech players together for community wellbeing. Founded during the Covid-19 pandemic, Tech For Good Asia’s mission is to connect people for positive changes and to empower the IT industry for more fair, open, safe, and trusted implementation and usage of new technology. Its goal is to ensure that technology is a force for good for our society as it should be. Charles has served the information and communications technology industry for over 30 years, both in multinationals and startups, in Hong Kong and the United States. He co-founded HKNet in 1994, one of the earliest Internet service providers in Hong Kong, subsequently acquired by NTT Communications of Japan in 2000. He has been a strong advocate for the development of innovation and technology in Hong Kong, covering a wide array of technology and regulatory issues including fin-tech, entrepreneurship, open data, content moderation, privacy, competition, and Internet freedom. Charles is now a visiting scholar at the Global Digital Policy Incubator of the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford University. His research is focused on finding ways to protect the rights of the individuals, while governments all over the world are now implementing digital policies and regulations that may have far-reaching effects on the future of the free, open, safe and trusted Internet we hope to enjoy and protect. Panel Speaker: Gavin Chait
Gavin Chait is an economist, engineer, data scientist, sometime-traveller, and a novelist. He is Director of Open Data Consulting and Data Science at Whythawk, which offers integrated open data science consulting, data management and analytical software development, and technical data science training and research for open knowledge-based economic development and public health projects for governments and institutions. There, Gavin leads product development on data-driven software services, and conducts research on methodologies for improving data collection, analysis, release, and management. Gavin has previously held positions at the Open Knowledge Foundation, GE Healthcare, Frost & Sullivan, and Deloitte South Africa. Gavin has created and built interesting things, such as openLocal.uk (where he also serves as Chief Data Scientist), a quarterly-updated commercial location database, aggregating open data on vacancies, rental valuations, rates and ratepayers, into an integrated time-series database of individual business units, and qwyre.com, an ereader and collaborative publishing platform for creative fiction. Gavin is fascinated by the frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty, migration vs stasis. |
agenda
2.00pm Welcome and introduction from Eileen Tan, President of ISKO Singapore
2.10pm Panel session with Charles Mok and Gavin Chait on "Technology, Data, Ethics" followed by Q&A
3.30pm Commencement of Annual General Meeting (non members are welcome to attend but may not vote)
4.15pm Close of Annual General Meeting
2.10pm Panel session with Charles Mok and Gavin Chait on "Technology, Data, Ethics" followed by Q&A
3.30pm Commencement of Annual General Meeting (non members are welcome to attend but may not vote)
4.15pm Close of Annual General Meeting
event details
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Date/Time
Venue Type of Event Who should attend Fee |
Friday 21 October 2022, 2.00-4.15pm SGT (8.00am France, 7.00am UK, Thursday 20 October 11.00pm PDT)
This session will be facilitated via Zoom. Attendance is free but prior registration is required. Case Discussion | Networking | Panel | Site Visit | Talk & Discussion | Workshop * * Knowledge and information managers, intranet teams, IT teams, strategic planning and information governance teams, digital transformation teams, data management teams, change management and organisation development teams This session will be free to all participants. |
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