''Enabling the positive use of Artificial Intelligence for All'' is the theme selected by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for this year’s World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, held each year on 17 May.
Marking the occasion, ANACOM has organised a round table on ''The use of Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good'' with participation by representatives of some of the sector’s leading organisations, including representatives from FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology), MEO, NOS, Nowo and Vodafone, as well as from ANACOM, which will be represented by João Cadete de Matos, Chairman of the Board of Directors. Proceedings will be moderated by the President of APDC - Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das Comunicações (Portuguese Communications Development Association). The institutional session will be brought to a close by the Portuguese Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins.
The round table is being held at Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações (Portuguese Communications Foundation) in Lisbon, from 6 pm.
Further information:
- WTISD 2018: Message from ITU Secretary-General, Houlin Zhao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VmVLrDT6uM&list=PLpoIPNlF8P2OEqDNAtYjdQ--2QGZw9HtC&index=1
- 17 May 2018, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD 2018) https://www.itu.int/en/wtisd/2018/Pages/default.aspx
- FPC - Dia Mundial das Telecomunicações e da Sociedade de Informação 2018 http://www.fpc.pt/pt/?event=dia-mundial-das-telecomunicacoes-e-da-sociedade-de-informacao-2018&event_date=2018-05-17
