The "AI-Trans" project provided a free online course for everyone interested in learning what Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) are, what is possible (and not possible) with AI and IoT, and how it affects our lives – with no complicated math or engineering required. It was designed around the legal and social issues of privacy for consumers in three main areas: care robots and smart home gadgets, wearable medical devices, and toys; addressing the needs of both young people and adults. The curricula provides non-specialists and low-skilled and low-qualified citizens with modern understanding of the technology (incl. the digital competences required to deal with such technologies) and their effect on people’s lives, as well as and with knowledge and skills to protect their privacy and defend their rights. It develops critical thinking, strengthen their sense of initiative, empower them to take control over their privacy, and encourage them to connect with, express their opinions to and influence providers with digital services and interest groups in a consumer environment.
Objectives
The main purpose of the project proposal was to establish stable and useful innovative knowledge grounds via the exchange of best practices, lessons-learned, shared experience between different experts in their own fields – either public or private. In order to enhance the cooperation and develop any competences and abilities, the best way is through the establishment of international cooperation and relations.The supranationality of the EU plus the European integration has proven to be the engines of the future, not only in political or socioeconomic areas, but also touching over the everyday lives of people. The new Digital Single Market paves the way to new dimensions in exchange of big data flows.
The impacts of AI are everywhere and present opportunities as well as important challenges for the lives and futures of billions of people. It alarms unambiguously that lack of specific knowledge, skills and abilities for dealing with challenges of AI as well as IoT will become threats for social security, labour market and data subject's rights.
Implementation
Each partner contributed to the achievement of the project objectives and delivery of the planned results by ensuring the necessary experts required.
“Project management and implementation” aimed at providing a responsible team of experts that helped for the facilitation and implementation of the project by helping to improve the understanding and raise awareness on the matters. Based on the experience of past projects partners contributed to the further development of the methodology. In doing that insure that learning providers trough exchange of practices and sharing
the already laid ground base platform reached to more practical tools in delivery of non-formal digital learning in the field of AI and IoT in connection to privacy and personal data protection.
The online IoT courses represented a fundamental part of the project, they aim at arming the participants with the tools, knowledge and skills needed to face privacy issues in connection to AI. They were also provided in a more accessible form that lead to achieving the set objectives to
reach to a larger number of participants, provide transparency and spread awareness.
O5 helped ensuring the long lasting effect of the project by develop good practices and methodology.
Results
There is clear bunch of results of the completed project "AI-Trans: Increasing AI Transparency Through Digital Alternative Learning of Privacy Training" entirely in compliance with the Erasmus+ programme objectives.
There are 3 (three) Intellectual Outputs:
- Methodology for design and delivery of IoT training (O2);
- Online IoT courses (O3);
- Code of Best Practices for DPOs of Privacy-Minded Organizations Dealing with Emerging Technologies (Code of IoT DPOs) (O5).
They are contribution for achieving sustainability to the project efforts. All of them are innovative answers to the contemporary challenges in the modern digital era. Elaborated content allowed to updated the content of the e-OpenSpace platform.
Closer cooperation between national data protection authority, academic institutions as well as non-governmental organisations was achieved. It will result as further mutual assistance and project initiatives.
Along with Intellectual Outputs, 16 participants took part in 5 days short-term staff training event as well as 269 participants in multiplier events in 4 participating countries.
All originally approved objectives were met.
For more details see: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2019-1-BG01-KA204-062588