Dear friends and colleagues,
Over the past months, we’ve seen how rapidly artificial intelligence is reshaping governance, public services, and influences human rights – more and more authorities, international organisations and researchers pay attention to this fact. Amongst the last interesting events – the International Criminal Court will co-host the event on AI !
At EADHC we believe these developments call for the attention on how can human rights principles be effectively embedded “by design” into AI systems, especially at the local and municipal level?
That’s why we are excited to announce that we are launching a new project at the intersection of AI and Law / Human Rights.
The exact shape is still taking form – it could become:
– a series of expert webinars and policy briefs,
– a comparative study of AI use in local governance across Council of Europe member states,
– practical guidelines for municipalities on human rights impact assessments under the EU AI Act,
– or even a collaborative mapping of best practices.
We are starting with an open call for ideas, partners, and contributors. If you have experience, cases, research, or simply strong views on how AI is (or should be) regulated to protect human rights in public administration – you are more than welcome to drop a comment at our LinkedIn, or send us an ‘old-fashined’ e-mail with:
– what topic or format would you find most valuable?
– are you interested in contributing (as speaker, author, reviewer)?
– do you know organisations / experts we should connect with?
Let’s shape this project together. Local self-government deserves to be part of the conversation.