Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Impact

Overview

Climate change, infectious diseases, disasters, air pollution, migration and poverty are among the most critical challenges the world faces today. This course looks at the role mobile technology, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence can play in drastically improving the effectiveness and efficiency of planning and responses to these challenges. It also considers the ways in which insight-driven decision-making can encourage the adoption and responsible use of mobile data analytics and artificial intelligence to accelerate progress in delivering the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Course Objectives

Discover what mobile data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) are and how mobile data is generated and transformed to create powerful insight-led products and services
Understand the importance of building scalable products and services with accompanying sustainable business models to unlock long-term benefits
Gain critical insights into current (and emerging) regulation and standards covering the responsible and ethical use of mobile data analytics and AI
Explore use cases that illustrate the ways in which mobile data analytics and AI can be leveraged for sustainable impact
Learn about the components needed to develop an enabling policy and regulatory environment for mobile data analytics and AI to flourish in your country

Course Enrolment Criteria

This course is open to:

Regulators
Policymakers
Representatives from academia and international organisations working on regulatory or policy issues

We cannot accept applications from individuals working in the private sector or those not involved in policy or regulation.

Course Completion Certificates

All of our courses are certified by the United Kingdom Telecoms Academy (UKTA) and can be used as evidence of professional development.

To qualify for a course completion certificate, you must attend all face-to-face sessions and complete the course survey.

If you have any special needs regarding this training course, please us let us know via our contact form so we can get in touch to discuss how your needs can be met.

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Duration: 18 hours

Start date: 26 September 2024

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Jo Gilbert

Jo Gilbert is a Technical Director at the GSMA with a career spanning 20 years, predominantly in product development, for the telecom sector. During this time, Jo has supported the communications ecosystem to harness new and emerging technologies such as identity, IoT, big data, artificial intelligence and 5G. She holds a Master of Informatics degree and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Moderator

Daniela Gutierrez-Torres

Training Manager, GSMA

Daniela works on the GSMA’s Capacity Building program and manages the delivery of training content to regulators and policymakers worldwide and leads capacity building partnerships with the World Bank, ITU, among others. Before joining GSMA, Daniela worked at the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. She designed and delivered training to African graduate students to develop leadership and critical skills and coordinated the Programme for African Leadership’s wide range of operational and developmental activities.

Daniela holds an MSc in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex. Her interests and expertise lie at the intersection between social innovation, economic and social rights, and social development.