AI for Digital Inclusive Development


Internet Society of China / Estrategia Latino-Americana de Inteligencia Artificial

Session 185

Thursday, 10 July 2025 11:00–11:45 (UTC+02:00) Physical (on-site) and Virtual (remote) participation Room L, Palexpo Real-time captioning Emerging Technologies Interactive Session 1 Image 3 Documents
Co-Host

The Role of New Technology in Fueling Accessible Innovation and Promoting Inclusive Environments / Bridging Knowledge Gaps - An AI Governance Tool for Global Information Societies

As algorithmic systems mediate ever more dimensions of daily life, interpretative asymmetries have emerged between technology creators and users—an issue that disproportionately affects marginalized and vulnerable populations in the Global South and around the world. Meanwhile, AI-driven innovations hold enormous promise for narrowing digital divides and accelerating the UN Sustainable Development Goals.


This joint session will:


1. Bridge Hermeneutic & Development Paradigms

Demonstrate how ELA-IA's proposed AI Risk 'Nutrition' Label functions as a digital governance instrument to reduce interpretative asymmetry, especially for end users with limited technical or algorithmic literacy, by translating complex AI risk factors into an intuitive, food‑label‑style format.


2. Share Best Practices

Present real‑world case studies—from ZTE’s SDG acceleration and HONOR’s AI subtitles for Hearing Impairments to China Mobile’s inclusive services—that illustrate how to design and deploy AI in ways that are both accessible and transparent.


3. Co‑Create Actionable Strategies

Explore integration of ISC’s standards expertise with ELA‑IA’s AI Risk Label framework to develop clear guidance for regulators, platforms, and civil‑society on labeling thresholds, and user education.


4. Foster South‑South Collaboration

Highlight the importance of shared hermeneutical resources, collective interpretation repositories, and cross‑regional partnerships in building a more inclusive information society.


Format:
  – Mr. Dai Wei (ISC): Remote opening remarks
  – Mr. Wang Xinhui (ZTE): “Accelerating SDGs with an AI‑Powered Paradigm”
  – Mr. Liu Xiaojun (HONOR): “AI Subtitles for Hearing Impairments”
  – Ms. Wang Ce (China Mobile): “AI for Elderly & Children’s Inclusive Services”
  – Ms. Flora Santana (ELA-IA): "ELA‑IA’s AI Governance Proposed Tool: AI Risk Label framework"
  – Ms. Cristina Ueche, General Coordinator of Digital Transformation, Brazilian government's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (CGTR/DECTI/SETAD): "ELA‑IA’s AI Governance Proposed Tool: AI Risk Label framework"
  – Q&A

Panellists
Ms. Flora Santana
Ms. Flora Santana Consultant and Advocacy in Tech, Law and Communication ELA-IA (Brazil) ELA-IA's speaker

Flora Santana is a legal advocate and researcher specializing in digital governance, platform accountability, and combating online disinformation. Currently serving as the Advocacy Coordinator at Sleeping Giants Brasil, she leads the organization's strategic legal and policy initiatives. Her work includes representing SGBR at major international forums like NETmundial+10 and the G20, and spearheading critical interventions before Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF), notably on landmark cases involving internet governance.

Her expertise is grounded in a unique interdisciplinary background. She holds a Bachelor's in Journalism (UFRJ) where her research focused on "Internet and Sovereignty," and is completing her LL.B. in Law (UFRJ) with a thesis examining the geopolitical conflict over the ".amazon" top-level domain. She further solidified her digital law credentials with a Postgraduate degree in Digital Law (ITS Rio/UERJ/CEPED).

Prior to her leadership role at Sleeping Giants Brasil, she built extensive experience through roles as a Legal Assistant and Research Analyst within the organization, focusing on producing legal instruments, monitoring legislation, and researching disinformation and online hate speech. Her background also includes significant academic research experience, including projects with UFRJ's NetLab and the Research Group on Political Economy of Information and Communication (PIBIC/UFRJ), investigating themes like internet cultural mediation, the creative economy, audience commodification, and telecommunications regulation.

Her work bridges legal practice, policy advocacy, civil society action, and deep academic research on the political economy and governance of digital spaces.


Ms. Cristina Akemi Shimoda Uechi
Ms. Cristina Akemi Shimoda Uechi Science & Technology Analyst - General Coordination of Digital Transformation at the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Brazil. Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Brazil.

Ms. Cristina has over 16 years of experience at Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, where she has worked on the development and implementation of national public policies to foster innovation and advance emerging and digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and microelectronics. She has also led initiatives to strengthen innovation ecosystems through designing innovation support programs, fostering the provision of technological services, managing innovation initiatives, and encouraging entrepreneurship.


Mr. Wei Dai
Mr. Wei Dai Deputy Secretary General Internet Society of China Remote Panellist

Mr. Xinhui Wang
Mr. Xinhui Wang Vice President ZTE

Ms. Ce Wang
Ms. Ce Wang Researcher China Mobile Research Institute

Topics
Artificial Intelligence Capacity Building Digital Divide Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Ethics Human Rights Machine Learning WSIS+20 Review
WSIS Action Lines
  • AL C1 logo C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C3 logo C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4 logo C4. Capacity building
  • AL C5 logo C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
  • AL C6 logo C6. Enabling environment
  • AL C10 logo C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society

Our goal is to present a tool linked to the role of governments, access information and knowledge, capacity building, building confidence, enabling environments and ethical dimensions. Enhancing digital literacy empowers users who rely on technology without understanding the associated risks. That is why our proposal approaches action lines C1, C3, C4, C5, C6 and C10.

Sustainable Development Goals
  • Goal 3 logo Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
  • Goal 12 logo Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
  • Goal 16 logo Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies

We are focusing on the safety and strength of our institutions, ensuring well-being and sustainable consumption. AI can be used to erode people's confidence in institutions, to promote pathological consumption and unhealthy behaviours. It also exploits vulnerabilities of people's minds and the coordination capacity to protect our institutions. In this regard, our session aims to regulate, not mitigate the impact, but to anticipate and avoid a negative impact before it damages communities, societies and individuals. 

GDC Objectives
  • Objective 2: Expand inclusion in and benefits from the digital economy for all
  • Objective 3: Foster an inclusive, open, safe and secure digital space that respects, protects and promotes human rights
  • Objective 5: Enhance international governance of artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity
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