Presentation given by Tamas Erkelens, City of Amsterdam, at Open & Agile Smart Cities' annual Connected Smart Cities & Communities Conference 2020 on 23 January in Brussels, Belgium

1. FAIR AI
democratic control over algorithms

2. Urgencies for cities to respond
 Concerns by Residencies; facial
recognition
 Market inefficiencies looming (lock ins
etc.)
 Legislative and policy developments
 Geopolitical ai world market
 AI certification battles

3. Digital Rights in Cities

4. What do we want?

5. What can cities do to get
Democratic control over ai
AI Registry
Contract conditions
Open source R&D
Open Control
Framework + review MIM’s + Digital RightsAmsterdam intelligence

6. Cross city Cooperation
 MIM’s
 Copy whatever works
 Technological sovereignity
 Partners: London, G5, Helsinki,
Barcelona, Ghent, OASC,
EUROCITES, Nesta
 NGI Policy Summit: 29-30 June

7. Fair ai
Democratic control
& oversight

8. What can cities do to get
Democratic control over ai
 AI Contract conditions with Pels Rijcken & VNG + other dutch
cities: Breda, Rotterdam, Den Haag
 Algorithmic registry: Saadot.ai & Helsinki, Espoo, others
 Open source Ai development; AI with impact R&D
Collaboration with univeristy. 25 research thesises annually
 Control framework + audit algorithms with KPMG
 International policy and harmonisation;
Cities coalition for digital rights & MIM
Next Generation Internet Congress 30 June