[Birds-of-a-Feather] Operationalizing data sovereignty and open science: AI governance for the future of scholarly publishing
Location
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium (NAKA)
Start Date
4-6-2026 1:30 PM
End Date
4-6-2026 2:30 PM
Description
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into every facet of scholarly publishing (from discovery and authoring to peer review and assessment) intensifies a fundamental and urgent tension: the global imperative to advance open science against the legitimate and growing demands for digital sovereignty from nations, Indigenous communities, institutions, and individual researchers. Without deliberate and proactive governance, the very AI tools promising efficiency and innovation risk exacerbating global inequalities, eroding hard-won trust in research, and creating new forms of algorithmic bias and digital colonialism. This interactive unconference is designed to move the community from shared diagnosis to collaborative action. We will move beyond theoretical debates to explore how we can concretely operationalize emerging international policy frameworks and ethical principles, to build genuinely trustworthy, accountable, and equitable AI systems for the future of publishing. Guided by active work within bodies like FORCE11, CoARA, and CODATA, this session will serve as a dynamic workshop for the community. Participants will collaboratively tackle pressing implementation challenges through facilitated breakout discussions. Key questions include: How do we technically and legally translate ‘data sovereignty’ into practical repository access and control policies? What defines a ‘lawful’ AI tool across conflicting international jurisdictions and regulations? How can ‘purpose-driven’ design and rigorous ‘testing’ principles prevent bias in AI-assisted research assessment and peer review? The collective output, a synthesized set of community-generated guidelines, will directly contribute to ongoing international policy efforts, ensuring the scholarly ecosystem we build is both dynamically open for collaboration and rigorously sovereign in its ethics.
[Birds-of-a-Feather] Operationalizing data sovereignty and open science: AI governance for the future of scholarly publishing
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium (NAKA)
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into every facet of scholarly publishing (from discovery and authoring to peer review and assessment) intensifies a fundamental and urgent tension: the global imperative to advance open science against the legitimate and growing demands for digital sovereignty from nations, Indigenous communities, institutions, and individual researchers. Without deliberate and proactive governance, the very AI tools promising efficiency and innovation risk exacerbating global inequalities, eroding hard-won trust in research, and creating new forms of algorithmic bias and digital colonialism. This interactive unconference is designed to move the community from shared diagnosis to collaborative action. We will move beyond theoretical debates to explore how we can concretely operationalize emerging international policy frameworks and ethical principles, to build genuinely trustworthy, accountable, and equitable AI systems for the future of publishing. Guided by active work within bodies like FORCE11, CoARA, and CODATA, this session will serve as a dynamic workshop for the community. Participants will collaboratively tackle pressing implementation challenges through facilitated breakout discussions. Key questions include: How do we technically and legally translate ‘data sovereignty’ into practical repository access and control policies? What defines a ‘lawful’ AI tool across conflicting international jurisdictions and regulations? How can ‘purpose-driven’ design and rigorous ‘testing’ principles prevent bias in AI-assisted research assessment and peer review? The collective output, a synthesized set of community-generated guidelines, will directly contribute to ongoing international policy efforts, ensuring the scholarly ecosystem we build is both dynamically open for collaboration and rigorously sovereign in its ethics.