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(NL) Summer Blog: The city of Ghent explores the potential of AI for human-centred public services

More and more cities are exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) can contribute to better public services. In this blog, you will read about several AI use cases from the City of Ghent.

• AI in Flanders

(NL) Summer Blog: Do you need to get away from Big Tech?

Facebook, Instagram, X... For years, they were the place to reach your audience as a cultural organisation. But do the values of those platforms (still) align with the values of your organisation? And can you get away from these Big Tech players?

• Ethics in practice

Summer Blog - Who’s Afraid of AI? Bias Confirmation on New Technology’s Energy Use

In this blog, Professor Marlen Komorowski analyses AI's energy impact. She argues that the environmental footprint of AI matters, but that guilt is often placed on individual users instead of addressing the systemic changes we need.

• Ethics in practice

(NL) Three-day training course "Responsibly innovating with AI"

Are you working with AI on a professional basis? Do you want to know how to pay attention to the ethical and legal aspects in your AI projects and organisation? The knowledge centre organises the training course “Responsibly innovating with AI”. Read more about it here.

• Ethics in practice
• AI Act and law

A new website highlighting key themes

With a fresh look and handy overview, visitors can now find information on the ethical, legal and social aspects of data and artificial intelligence even more easily.

Responsible AI begins here: getting started with ALLY

The online guide ALLY supports organisations to build a strategy around responsible AI. Find out what ALLY can offer you in this news item.

• Ethics in practice

Policy prototyping 2025: Call for Participants

The Knowledge Centre Data & Society is looking for AI providers and suppliers in the AI value chain, and legal experts who can both contribute to our new project.

• AI Act and law

5 years Knowledge Centre Data & Society: Key insights

On 28 January 2025, the Knowledge Centre Data & Society celebrated its fifth anniversary. We drafted a report with the key insights of the day.

• AI in Flanders

Panel on supervision on AI in Belgium

As part of the Knowledge Centre Data & Society’s fifth anniversary event, we organised a panel on the organisation of supervision under the AI Act.

• AI Act and law

(NL) How do you engage employees in data-driven innovations in the workplace? New training course in 2025

Read the interview with Ellen Van Grunderbeek (Manager Innovation Knowledge Centre at Acerta) about the training ‘AI in the workplace: how to create a win-win for all employees’.

• Workfloor

(NL) Innovating successfully with AI: an ‘innovation roadmap’ that gives employees a voice

The Knowledge Centre Data & Society designed a template to help work out the introduction of a data-driven or AI innovation in your organisation.

• Workfloor

Guestblog: In the pursuit of a greener GenAI

Is Generative AI (GenAI) an ally or an enemy in the fight against climate change? In this guest blog, Alexandra Papageourgiou delves into how GenAI impacts our environment and explores how the EU AI Act addresses sustainability.

• Ethics in practice
• AI Act and law