Hub Update 

Greetings friends and colleagues.

Susan and Michael would like to wish everyone a happy holiday season and a happy New Year! As we reflect on the past year, we’re grateful for your continued support and partnership, and we look forward to working together in the year ahead to advance our shared goals. 

The Hub is a 401c3 organization and funded by government, foundation, and individual funding. If you like our work, please consider a gift to the Hub. You can do so by sending a check to the Elliott School Gift Fund #180441. If you want to send funds by wire, please contact saaronso@gwu.edu and I can send the bank information. Thank you for your generosity.

As a reminder, we will pick up the Webinar Series again in January. Stay tuned!

Digital Trade and Data Governance News

-  Data Strategy Trends in 2025

Artificial Intelligence News

-  India released the Developer’s Playbook for Responsible AI 

-  The latest on chips and supply constraints

-  Greece released its Blueprint for AI Transformation 

-  OECD’s roadmap to substantive equality in AI ecosystems

-  Additions and Refinements to Controls for Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Items 

-  Collaborative AI Governance: A Policy Roadmap for Canada and the UK

-  Council of Europe Unveils AI Risk Assessment Framework for Human Rights Protection 

What We're Reading

-  What Impact Generative AI Will Have on Data Governance? 

-  Boston Review on AI and Trust 

-  The London AI and Humanity Project, in partnership with other stakeholders, developed a Philosophical Glossary of AI, providing an philosophically informed overview and list of AI concepts.

-  Algorithms are coming for Democracy

-  The AI Revolution is running out of data 

-  Using the power of the purse to govern AI 

-  GAO report on brain computer interfaces 

-  New report on standard setting

Calls for proposals

-  The Public Organization Review (POR) announced a Call for Proposals for a Special Issue on AI & Digital Governance. The submission deadline for proposals is January 15, 2025. Additional information: here

-  DGIQ West + EDW 2025 call for presentations is now open.

Opportunities to Comment 

-  NTIA, US Department of Commerce is seeking comments on researcher use of pervasive data.  

Other

-  The Hub is co-organizing a research and practice symposium on participatory AI with Connected by Data, Data and Society, Iswe Foundation and other groups. The symposium on February 8 aims to influence the discussions at the Paris AI Summit. For more information, see link.