About the event
This event will gather 30 teams from around the world to engage in a challenge using open spending data, development indicators, and the recently released web-based modelling app from the Policy Priority Inference research programme. The opening and closing sessions will be open to the public. During these sessions, our expert panellists will engage in insightful discussions on the role of artificial intelligence to advance open government and sustainable development.
A diverse expert panel will evaluate the different policy-prioritisation strategies towards the Sustainable Development Goals developed by the challengers, and the winning team will be awarded a trip to London (all costs covered) to visit The Alan Turing Institute at its main offices in the British Library in London (in March 2024). During the same visit, they will also be invited to the Institute's national data science and AI showcase, AI UK, and will also receive copies of the forthcoming book: Complexity Economics and Sustainable Development: A Computational Toolkit for Policy Priority Inference.
Speakers
Almudena Fernandez
Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean
United Nations Development Programme
Aura Martínez
Coordinator for Knowledge
Technical Assistance and Collaboration Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency
Kimberly Bolch
Economist and Special Assistant to the Global Director for Poverty and Equity
The World Bank
Lorena Rivero del Paso
Public Financial Management Advisor
International Monetary Fund
Louisa Nolan
Head of Data Science & Visiting Professor
Public Health Wales & University of South Wales
Rich Leyshon
Senior Data Scientist
Office for National Statistics Data Science Campus
Important dates
- Opening event: Monday 29 January 2024
- Challenge: Monday 29 January to Friday 2 February 2024
- Closing event: Friday 9 February 2024
