Ivan Javier Dotu Rodriguez, Isabelle Tingzon, Utku Can Ozturk, UNICEF

Topic: Ethics and Biases in Giga's AI work

Giga is a UNICEF-ITU partnership that aims at connecting every school in the world by 2030. In this workshop we will briefly introduce Giga and its mission and present 2 different AI projects: School prediction from satellite imagery and planning and optimization of connecting schools. We will later have an open discussion on the biases that these 2 projects might suffer from and its implications. In the first case, where we use Machine Learning, we will explore biases in the training data, and in the later case, which is a Combinatorial Optimization problem, we will discuss biases in problem definitions.