Presentations in this session:

• Presentation by Bert Verdonck, CEO, Luxembourg National Data Service

Strategy, regulations and enablers - how to come to an integral approach for the fair and ethical reuse of public sector data on a country level. Luxembourg is taking comprehensive steps towards these goals, with an ambitious strategy for data, AI and quantum technologies, with an evolving legal landscape, and with a comprehensive set of enabling measures including services, infrastructure and capability building. This includes close collaborations in public-private partnerships. This assumes a strong horizontal and harmonized approach, in balance with a domain specific ecosystem approach. Deployment efforts include integration of capabilities into a Data Factory and an AI Factory. We're far from perfect, but we try to advance on all fronts in a concerted effort. In this presentation we will provide you with the overview of actions in progress and illustrated with some early examples with positive impact.

• Presentation by Malik Lakoubay, Outreach & Policy Director, RadicalxChange Foundation

Timely, local, and high-quality news and reporting is critical to tomorrow’s AI systems. At the same time, AI poses a long-term threat to the financial viability of journalism: published content is being exploited to create competing products without attribution, compensation, or control. Reversing news organizations’ weak bargaining position is critical for the future of the industry and for the public good. RadicalxChange Foundation and its partner OpenMined, a leading developer of privacy-focused data sharing tools have prototyped a custom tool enabling journalistic organizations or their sectoral-level representatives to manage third-parties’ permissions to train and fine-tune AI systems on proprietary news data. The idea of the presentation would be to (1) present this concrete sectoral data bargaining pilot, (2) collectively address technical and legal obstacles to establishing this open source digital interface for governing high-quality news data sets and (3) continue building a worldwide coalition of news media organizations, other data-holders, lawyers, regulators or funders. We are very excited: this pilot can become the definitive framework for AI access to protected content, setting a template for many industries to follow in order to retain lasting economic traction in the age of AI. But we have to move fast, we're competing with venture-backed startups that want to put these data behind a walled garden, and eventually get acquired by Big Tech. Success will require putting together major sectoral-scale partnerships that keep power in the hands of content providers, consumers, and other originators of important information.

The Data spaces and ecosystems track is hosted by Marko Turpeinen, 1001 Lakes.