In the 50th version of the Working Group, Ricard Martínez said that these institutions manage a large volume of data and must be an example of quality data protection compliance.
Spanish university institutions are called upon to take on the strategic challenge of generating secure data ecosystems. It is enough to think that it administers research data, management data, academic data, mobility data, among other things.
In order to carry out this task, a number of requirements must be met. The first of these is to adopt a clear regulatory compliance approach. "We need a rigorous commitment from the university institution to set an example of quality in compliance with current data protection regulations," said Professor Ricard Martínez M. in the 50th edition of the RedIris Working Groups celebrated on April 27, 2022. At this event, Professor Martínez M., director of the Privacy and Digital Transformation Chair Microsoft - UV, participated in the round table "Data Analytics in academic and research institutions", together with Lluis Ariño, Emili Rubio, Ismael Caballero, Nuria Canal and Juan Camarillo.
A clear compliance approach especially refers to data protection and security frameworks. However, under current conditions within universities, "the situation is not sustainable," the academic said. "When data protection standards are applied, the security, quality and reliability of information is improved.”
The use of data for academic research requires an ethical paradigm shift. That is, when dealing with work on data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) you will be interacting with new realities about which there is no information. Therefore, in order to address this from an ethical point of view, future AI regulation needs a risk-centred approach.
"In the European Union, the OECD, Unesco, a specific methodology has been developed for ethical impact analysis for the use of artificial intelligence, the ALTAI methodology," Martínez explained.
However, university institutions must also take two further actions. The first is to identify internal talent within them in order to integrate and train them in the development of risk-focused strategies. The second is to strengthen the collective effort of academic institutions. "We must generate open data environments for society and its public and private institutions so that, with the proper intermediation, they can be used in research and entrepreneurship," the academic concluded.
RedIris
The Universitat de València is one of the 529 institutions attached to RedIRIS, an organisation dependent on the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
It is a Spanish academic and research network that provides advanced communications services to the national scientific and university community. It is managed by the public business entity Red.es.
Presentation
Note: Ricard Martínez's exhibition starts at 2h53'.
