Pitch structure

[Problem outline]

Framework for Virtual Courts

Identify Area of Interest?

How virtual courts can be operated?

Articulate the policy gap. Look at the policies that exist to justify the gap

Implementation Policy

Impact of the idea being proposed

Market sizing

Market Overview

Population that will be impacted

Community Networks

Community networks are a unique approach towards bridging the gap of internet for the
undeserved communities. Central to any community initiative are the principles of
cooperation, collective ownership, open design and active participation. Ordinarily these
networks are facilitated under through organized groups of community members in
partnership with cooperative or a community based or non-for-profit organization. These
networks seek to address digital exclusion barriers such as access to information availability,
affordability, and access to connectivity.

In the African context the community network should serve to build upon and preserve
existing traditional and cultural practices along with maintaining social cohesion. Th benefits
pf the networks extend in o far as providing employment and educational opportunities.
Additionally through access to information the community members are able to participate
and join the larger economy to create their own jobs and opportunities. The collective
ownership of the platform serves as a

With the community being the focal point of the network, it serves as an avenue for the self
determination over the prices and the services offered, with an emphasis on community
empowerment and investment, rather than in monetary profit, particularly when this profit is
extracted from a community. In light of this empowerment communities are able to actively
engage with the facilitators of the network along with building the technical capacity of the
community members.
In structuring a solution for promoting access to justice, the focal point of the services and
infrastructure through the community network should also start with the community. The
stakeholders should seek not seek to replace existing dispute resolution practices being
offered should start at the community level, but provide a framework through which these
existing practices will flourish.

approach to
connecting the unconnected. These networks are deployed, operated, and maintained by
organized groups of community members. At the core of these networks is a community,
mostly an organized group, for example, a cooperative or a community
based or non-for-profit organization coming together to address
digital exclusion barriers such as availability, affordability, and access to connectivity.

The problem of data, lack of new intuitions / lack of inclusive accessible global platform / sea
change in a way how public and media are now aware of data issues

[Solution]

WEDF - what we are, how we are unique

[Background + Impact]

Created when data ethics issues were a niche concern, defining the discourse

Impact: Our Cases (largest data scraping company, ethical contact tracing app, UK data
reform, UN)

[Relevance of the industry in question, how we see this company fitting + now ask about
them: to hear their take on data issues, what are the latest developments they’d like to
discuss, why they got interested in us, what questions they’d like to address]

[Address the relevance from what they told you and go to the format of WEDF2022]
- Inclusivity in all possible levels, mention local communities and experts, patron
scheme, warm support of the wide range of orgs
- Very diverse crowd
- Discussion in good faith

[What we can offer to our partners and sponsors]

- Creative cooperation - we take very limited number of sponsors because we dedicate
a lot of time and resources and work closely with them to ensure they get the
strongest possible platform
- Ongoing discussion - we warm up audience several months ahead of the event
- Warm diverse high profile crowd where they can showcase and explore
[Wrapping up]
- Offer to send them the brochure
- Plan when can we set up a second call
- Be warm, thank them for their time

Pitch deck structure (in process):

● Executive summary
● Our impact
● Market overview
● Why to Participate (short overview of the sector and its relevance to WEDF)
● Value Proposition (tailored for the company)
● WEDF 2022 (format etc)

Executive Summary

[1] Technological development has implicated every institution of importance — from capital
markets, banking, and business, through research, education, and the media, to medicine,
policing, jurisprudence, and the future of the democratic process itself.

[2] The World Ethical Data Forum has been created to bring together experts from around
the world to bear upon the whole range of interrelated issues around data and knowledge
technologies.

[3 - Timeline] Initially conceived in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the first WEDF
was launched In 2018 in Barcelona and was covered globally by the Daily Mail, The
Guardian, Business Insider, CNN, Wall Street Journal and many more.

We appeared when data ethics concerns were a niche interest and since then were central
in shaping this discussion. We are regularly taking part in global events around the world
(AfricaCom, London Tech Week, King's College London Tech Festival, GMIS, World AI
Summit and multiple United Nations panels) and since 2020 have been central in UN
working groups on issues from industrial safety and critical infrastructure, to sustainability
and cybersecurity and now are working on UK data reform.
Given the urgency of the issues around data and technology, especially in light of rapid
digitalization resulting from the Covid-19 Pandemic, we have complemented the conceptual
tools offered by the Forum with the development of practical solutions through the work of
the World Ethical Data Foundation.

In 2021, we ran our flagship event digitally with over 75 sessions and 80+ highly influential
experts of the likes of UN, UNICEF, the Law Society, EFF, GNOME, IBM, Twitter, PwC,
Kaspersky, ProtonMail and many more.

WEDF 2022 will continue to stand at the forefront of data ethics in the digital age. Building
upon past insights, next year’s Forum will expand and continue the ongoing discussion, with
an agenda which is reflective of the latest cultural, conceptual, and technological
developments.

Our Cases

Leading working groups for the largest policymakers - United Nations and UNIDO

From 2020 onward we are leading UN working groups on industrial safety, critical
infrastructure, sustainability and cybersecurity. WEDF is leading two projects — the
“Inclusive & Sustainable Industrial Performance Index” and the “Global Initiative for Future
Industrial Safety” — as a result of which we are now working together with leading experts
from UNIDO, the International Organization for Standardization, the European Commission's
Joint Research Centre, academics from the Innovation and Sustainable Development
Institute at Maastricht University, Kaspersky, BSI, and Lloyd's Register Foundation to
develop a dynamic index architecture to measure industrial, environmental, social and
corporate governance performance.

UK Cabinet Office - data reform

Our work with the UK Government as the Steering Group for UK data regulatory reform will
tackle the opportunities and problems that data reforms of such scale, covering every sector,
present. Designing policy in this space, balancing everything from government
communications strategy to data adequacy, privacy, data supply chains and federated
models, is a fascinating and historic opportunity.

Contact Tracing App

in health tech we have worked with organisations as they have designed compliant and
ethical COVID tracing systems, conducting technical and ethical audits and assisting with
their anonymity and cryptography solutions and general architecture, giving policy and
regulatory insight, and identifying where these technologies could be unambiguously used
for good.

Leading Data Collection Company

For a major web scraping company we have conducted full technical and ethical
audits of their technologies and business model, helping them identify what their
aspirations should be and to correct tensions between their aspirations and practice.
In light of this, we were asked to design an ethical oversight committee for them that
would properly integrate into their corporate culture, and be a model for others in
the industry. This is a task we’re especially proud of, as it has addressed a critical
need — not least because the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘ethics oversight’ are frequently
being used as marketing devices more than anything of operational consequence.
(This involved the solutions for self-transparency which you were interested in, so
that colleagues and users feel they have not only a voice in principle but that they
can and do directly contribute to the ethical health of the organisation by using that
voice).

Why to participate

The complexity of issues around data, such as privacy or bias, as well as issues such as the
trustworthiness of our media, corporations, and authorities, are no longer niche or academic
interests. With trust at an all time low, people are now more aware and more interested than
ever before in how the world’s institutions and companies, which we have previously had no
choice but to trust, are behaving.

As is now recognised, these questions cannot be addressed by simple promises or by

‘fostering trust’ in any customary sense. It requires all stakeholders to work to understand
and engage with these new problems, with informed critics, and with an increasingly
concerned public. The organisations which are ready to progress sincerely in this area —
demonstrating competency and trustworthiness through transparency — will be the ones to
lastingly build their reputation.

We therefore invite you to join us and affirm your position as a central voice in these crucial
discussions. By engaging openly and in good faith, WEDF offers your organisation the
opportunity to take a leading role in helping to shape the conceptual space around the use
and future of data and to help chart the way to a better, more ethical future.

Key Benefits

As a sponsor, we invite you to:

● Affirm your position as a central voice in the ethics of data and knowledge
technology;
● Engage creatively with WEDF and help curate the forum’s crucial discussions;
● Discussion and presentation opportunities ahead of the Forum to rightly situate,
contextualise and elaborate your organisation’s position and talk;
● Develop and strengthen understanding of these complex issues by considering a
vast range of voices in order to build inclusive and trustworthy technology;
● Opportunity to access and engage with our network of leading experts, fellows and
consultants;
 ● Opportunities to conduct joint initiatives, satellite events, studies and workshops;
● Showcase and explore your work, views, and strategic approaches in a supportive
and good faith environment informed by some of the world's very best minds;
● Promote your organisation to a network of highly skilled, diverse and multidisciplinary
communities;
● Gain visibility and coverage from influential broadcast outlets and online publications.

Market Overview (Depending on the sector: gaming, automotive,

consultancies, AI companies, marketing etc)

Value Proposition (tailored to the company)