Social Innovation

Help for Disadvantaged Groups: What Can Be Done

Together we bring about positive impact to the community via social innovation and SDG17 goals.

The Centre for AI Innovation (CEAI) will be inviting our honorary advisors together with academicians, agencies, foundations and the private sector for a series of dialogues to seek out the most innovative digital technology towards building an inclusive society.

Based on the feedback, the CEAI will internally fund and undertake the development of an AI prototype as a solution to address the identified issues:

▪ Helping low-income groups gain access to more jobs or education opportunities.

▪ Helping the elderly and the disadvantaged groups such as people with disabilities, migrant workers and low-income families keep pace with the fast-changing society as technology advances.

Special Interviews with CEAI Honorary Advisors

Ayşe Kaşıkçı

Honorary Advisor, Centre for AI Innovation; Independent Investment and Co-Benefit Consultant; Mentor at World Petroleum Council

1. Your thoughts and views on the disadvantaged groups on employability issues and what can be done to help them.

“A structure should be created in which disadvantaged groups can establish a work-private life balance in terms of employment. In the short term, it should be ensured that more people have a job, with a fair wage distribution, by bringing them to initial/intermediate positions. In the medium term, they should be supported by sectoral and institutional trainings, and they should be given the opportunity to have competence and seniority. Also in the long term , as support to disadvantaged people other than themselves; they should be turn this cycle into social development culture and behavior.”

2. The types of schemes that could be considered and formulated by policy makers to help address employment and education issues.

“Policy makers, while making arrangements on various issues, over the parameters that affect the life of the society; should act in a way that will meet the expectations of the society and protect the social order. In order to address employment and education issues, policy makers should be with accurate information; It would be appropriate to do it by leaders who will consider social values, cultural approach and the common benefit.”

3. The role of technology like AI to help institutions perform their tasks to manage the disadvantaged groups across the value chain (upstream / downstream).

“Technologies such as artificial intelligence; it will enable disadvantaged groups to be more productive when the right parameters are determined in all processes along the value chain of institutions (upstream/downstream). If the technology used is structured to provide fair processes that protect universal values; with the gaining of the trust of the groups, the targets will be reached in a healthier way.”

4. What do you think will be the key success factors of using AI for this purpose?

“Ensuring positive developments in more people’s lives, quality of life; I think it will be the main / key success factor.”

5. What type of human-machine engagement model needs to be done ? How do you maintain the balance between machines and humans for this type of beneficiary evaluation and social impact assessment?

“Human-machine engagement; which is in the nature of humans; it should be structured and balanced in a way that does not lose basic needs such as nutrition-movement-communication.”