Stefaan G. Verhulst

Jun 6

The AI Localism Canvas: A Framework to Assess The Emergence of Governance of AI within Cities

Stefaan Verhulst, Andrew Young and Mona Sloane (Earlier version published as part of Künstliche Intelligenz — Zwischen Erwartungen und Unbehagen). The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continues to throw up challenges and opportunities for policymakers — particularly in cities.. As the world continues to urbanize, cities grow in their…

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The AI Localism Canvas: A Framework to Assess The Emergence of Governance of AI within Cities

Published in Data Stewards Network

·Oct 8, 2021

Data Stewardship Re-Imagined — Capacities and Competencies

Presentation to the United Nations World Data Forum 2021; Panel on “Where to start first? — Identifying the leverage points of effective capacity development,” organized by PARIS 21 In ways both large and small, COVID-19 has forced us to re-examine every aspect of our political…

Data Science

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Published in Participo

·Feb 19, 2021

How can stakeholder engagement and mini-publics better inform the use of data for pandemic response?

The New York City Data Assembly demonstrated the value and potential of deliberation — By Andrew Zahuranec, Andrew Young and Stefaan G. Verhulst “What does the public expect from data-driven responses to the COVID-19 pandemic? And under what conditions?” …

Data

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Published in Data Stewards Network

·Jan 19, 2021

Re-use of smart city data: The need to acquire a social license through data assemblies

Written Testimony by Stefaan G. Verhulst Co-Founder, The GovLab, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University Before the New York City Council Committee on Technology Oversight Hearing: Smart City, January 19, 2021 Chairman Holden and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for allowing me the privilege to appear virtually…

Smart Cities

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Re-use of smart city data: The need to acquire a social license through data assemblies

Published in The Startup

·Dec 4, 2020

The Emergence of AI Localism: Governing Artificial Intelligence at the Local and City Level

Last month, several experts and practitioners gathered on-line to reflect on the use of AI in managing pandemics as part of The Responsible AI Forum (Preview) — organized by the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (TUM, Munich), in close cooperation with the Global AI Ethics Consortium. I had the…

Artificial Intelligence

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Published in Data Stewards Network

·Oct 26, 2020

Data to Go: The Value of Data Portability as a Means to Data Liquidity

By Juliet McMurren and Stefaan G. Verhulst This article was originally published in Data & Policy, the peer-reviewed, open-access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges. If data is the “new oil,” why isn’t it flowing? For almost two decades, data management in fields…

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Data to Go: The Value of Data Portability as a Means to Data Liquidity

Published in Data Stewards Network

·Jun 18, 2020

Today’s Rembrandts in the Attic: Unlocking the Hidden Value of Data

A shorter version of the below appeared in The Harvard Business Review on May 15, 2020 Twenty years ago, Kevin Rivette and David Kline wrote a book about the hidden value contained within companies’ underutilized patents. These patents, Rivette and Kline argued, represented “Rembrandts in the Attic” (the title of…

Data Science

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Today’s Rembrandts in the Attic: Unlocking the Hidden Value of Data

Published in Open Data Policy Lab

·Apr 21, 2020

From Idea to Reality

Why We Need an Open Data Policy Lab The belief that we are living in a data age — one characterized by unprecedented amounts of data, with unprecedented potential — has become mainstream. …

Open Data

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Published in Data Stewards Network

·Feb 17, 2020

Realizing the Potential of AI Localism

With national innovation strategies focused primarily on achieving dominance in artificial intelligence, the problem of actually regulating AI applications has received less attention. Fortunately, cities and other local jurisdictions are picking up the baton and conducting policy experiments that will yield lessons for everyone. Stefaan G. Verhulst and Mona Sloane …

Artificial Intelligence

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Published in Data Stewards Network

·Sep 8, 2019

Raw data won’t solve our problems — asking the right questions will

To see the potential of data, we need to tap into the wisdom of bilinguals (Reposted from apolitical) “If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the questions, and only five minutes finding the answers,” is a famous aphorism attributed to Albert Einstein. Behind this quote is an important insight about human nature: Too often, we leap…

Data

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