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2022-05-

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12  BGBU APAC TF Meeting

186.00 UTC = 1122:00 PT = 14.00 ET = 20:00 CET = 23:30 IST      Zoom Meeting Link 7:00 CET = 10:30 IST = 17:00 Melbourne = 13:00 Thailand Zoom Meeting Link  https://zoom.us/j/9715989547895121109567?pwd=emFjbU8xdWs0dE5iaE0zeDVZREFYQT09 

Meeting Recording to come.

Attendees: 

Agenda

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MEETING RECORDING  

Notes from the APAC Meeting are recorded in the Table below in green text

Attendees: Nicky Hickman sankarshan Pyrou Chung, 

2022-05-09 SSI HARMS BGBU TF USA/EU TF Meeting

18.00 UTC = 11:00 PT = 14.00 ET = 20:00 CET = 23:30 IST      Zoom Meeting Link https://zoom.us/j/97159895478?pwd=emFjbU8xdWs0dE5iaE0zeDVZREFYQT09 

Meeting Recording to come.

Attendees: Phil WolffNicky HickmanChristine MartinJacques Bikoundou

Agenda

TimeItemLeadNotes
5 min
  • Welcome & antitrust notice

  • Agenda review
Nicky
  • Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.

10minsIntro's & UpdatesNicky


10minsKey insights from last APAC or USA meetingNicky or Sankarshan

Quick review of last couple of calls:

  • 1) Over-identification vs under-identification - Goldilocks Zone - Overton Window (political science construct - when something was taboo becomes defacto) - Law 2 Minimal Disclosure for Constrained Use
  • 2) Basics - speak to the link w/ legal identification & / or foundational ID
    • Naming - use of unique identifiers
    • Gender - example in Thailand range of # of genders that are recognized (fluidity vs box ticking) - consider outward signs that assert gender identity and create communities / recognize each other.
    • Home location -or if nomadic, see Domicile law - e.g. Aadhar = residency not citizenship - difficulty in changing attributes
    • Age - lots of people don't know how old they are, chinese count age differently, there are different dating systems in different parts of the world
  • Many of us don't have an 'is' relationship to identity, much more diffuse than this e.g. 'where are you from', preponderance of evidence rather than binary.  Establish the 'is' relationship w/government so we want to agree mutually what my 'is' is!

If you use SSI to make identifiers fluid even in application at legal identification layer, then to what extent can states deny it?

some formalized identity, collectivised and then asserted towards goverment - can states refuse to acknowledge. - about power, assertion of rights as a collective (trades union advantage), should be possible w/SSI but deeply linked within state systems (e.g. census,).  One particular challenge is that even if we make headway w/SSI, tech and solutions for SSI, the challenge is still are we able to negate the harms.

Bargaining power still difficult, still depend on utilities, still need blockchain.  _ different problem associated with connectivity / infrastructure

Example in Cambodia, facilitating meetings w/indigenous leaders, whole concept of interjecting technology into the mix the biggest challenge is getting them to understand the concepts and relationships w/their rights.

Disconnect between people who work in Human rights / indigenous rights - have idea of understanding international frameworks and conventions (drafted in 70's), these structural concepts of what hr/indigenous rights are - bright people are able to speak to these conventions this is the translation layer, so when you start shifting these narratives into local contexts - framing of conventions is to protect rights but they don't have them in the first place - so can't assert them.  

'What do you want?' - they don't know.  Layers of understanding / comprehension that need to be broken down.  Difficult to design the tech first - need governance, engagement, HX.  

Requirement to from the outset start with a co-creative/ participatory approach so that we are asking communities on the ground about the harms they perceive and their impacts.

e.g. Women in Identity - Aisha's story 

Pyrou will have some sessions w/indigenous leaders in Thailand, informal

Work through storyboard and updates in there

10minsIntro's & UpdatesNicky10minsKey insights from last APAC meetingNicky or Sankarshan

20minsStoryboardPhil

Continue on storyboard roundup from Slide 31. Sections: "Indirect Risk", "Approaches to responding to the risk of human harm", "Whose job is it?", "Thank you. What’s next?".. What’s next?".

NEW (Google Slides): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y404nJpSOkJFK5pc2aYUmJtrXtCkwcx-eIMC9ZMC0DU/edit?usp=sharing

OLD (pptx format):,  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KoWjJx8LMwqNHKhAs-gK1uLdDL6zniIR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102748924597224658467&rtpof=true&sd=true


5minsActions
  •  Nicky to change meeting time to 11am Pacific and name to SSI Harms _BGBU
  •  Nicky to try again to get the Me2B Alliance Harms Dictionary in xls format for analysis
  •  Nicky to see if there is a different cadence or timing for APAC meetings

2022-04-28  BGBU APAC TF Meeting

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TimeItemLeadNotes
5 min
  • Welcome & antitrust notice

  • Agenda review
Nicky
  • Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.

10minsIntro's & UpdatesNicky

N/A HXWG - Expert sessions forthcoming in May (link to HXWG webinars)

Good podcast ref exclusion in Aadhar - Christine Martinto get Reference - 

Potential Women in Identity ref their exclusion research as expert for Q&A

10minsKey insights from last APAC meetingNicky or Sankarshan

2 clear harms to get started with

  • 1) Over-identification vs under-identification - Goldilocks Zone - Overton Window (political science construct - when something was taboo becomes defacto) - Law 2 Minimal Disclosure for Constrained Use
  • 2) Basics - speak to the link w/ legal identification & / or foundational ID
    • Naming - use of unique identifiers
    • Gender - example in Thailand range of # of genders that are recognized (fluidity vs box ticking) - consider outward signs that assert gender identity and create communities / recognize each other.
    • Home location -or if nomadic, see Domicile law - e.g. Aadhar = residency not citizenship - difficulty in changing attributes
    • Age - lots of people don't know how old they are, chinese count age differently, there are different dating systems in different parts of the world
  • Many of us don't have an 'is' relationship to identity, much more diffuse than this e.g. 'where are you from', preponderance of evidence rather than binary.  Establish the 'is' relationship w/government so we want to agree mutually what my 'is' is!

Requirement to from the outset start with a co-creative/ participatory approach so that we are asking communities on the ground about the harms they perceive and their impacts.

e.g. Women in Identity - Aisha's story 

45minsStoryboardPhil

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KoWjJx8LMwqNHKhAs-gK1uLdDL6zniIR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102748924597224658467&rtpof=true&sd=true

  • Reviewed to Slide 31`- notes in slides

Discussion

  • Balance between individual rights or objectives vs collective rights e.g. covid vaccine example 
  • 2 stories: - 1 related to electric vehicle standards / data in India, 1 related to surveillance at Grand Mosque (company using AI realising the world of Minority Report) - being proactive (predictive analytics)
  • Covid has highlighted this argument - is there a special case in the pandemic vs 'normal' times.
  • See https://www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/ai-colonialism-supertopic is a good series recommended by sankarshan
  • Consider 'medical vector' as a means of asserting power 
  • AI more deployed into affluent areas, if you don't fit in then you are suspect
  • Facial recognition - Chinese dataset doesn't really work outside Asia.  (see Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present” <-- highly recommended by sankarshan)
  • “When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity” recommended by sankarshan
  • Aadhar reports that highlight the unintended consequences and outcomes that have arised.  Using Aadhar-like systems are more harmful than helpful because starting from a bad base.  
  • No playbook that identifies the problems associated with legal identification systems. In a normal world systems are hardened through testing, but national systems are often on a wing and a prayer.  focus too much on MVP and think about things e.g. guardianship, different name formats, different genders other than M & F.

Problem w/SSI - in an effort to pursue

5minsActions
  •  Nicky to change meeting time to 11am Pacific and name to SSI Harms _BGBU

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