On July 26, China IGF Seminar and Fuxi Institution Academic Salon was held online, which is jointly sponsored by China IGF, Fuxi Institution and the Internet Governance Research Center of Tsinghua University. The theme of the salon was “Data Governance and Digital Infrastructure”.

Professor Li Xiaodong, Vice President of the ISC, founder of Fuxi Institution, and Director of the Internet Governance Research Center of Tsinghua University, delivered a speech on “Data Governance and New Digital Infrastructure”, sharing the framework, challenges and policies of data governance. It mainly introduces the value function, architecture and application scenario of logical digital infrastructure - Data Interoperability System (DIS) from the technical point of view.

Dr Zhang Xiao, Deputy Director of the CNNIC and Deputy Director of China IGF gave a speech on “Digital Transformation and Digital Governance”, deconstructs the digital transformation from the technological side and the social side, systematically analyzes the problems and challenges in the process of digital transformation, and shares the ideas, principles and solutions for building a new governance framework.

Dr. Du Xiaoyong, professor of School of Information, Renmin University of China and Dean of Ming Li College, gave a speech on “Thinking and Exploration of Data Center Computing”, introduces the main challenges in the digital age, the evolution of computing platforms, and the logic, connotation and key research issues of digital center computing.

Dr. Huang Gang, professor of the School of Information Science and Technology of Peking University and Vice President of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, made a speech on “Digital Networking: Data-centered Digital Space Infrastructure”, explained the technical connotation and key properties of the cross-domain use of data, and focused on the development background and ideas, application model and architecture, technical system, application ecology and specific scenarios of “digital networking”.

Li Denggao, Chief Data Officer of Lianren Health Big Data Technology Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “Lianren Health”) gave a speech on “Exploration of AI in Medical Data Governance”, systematically introduced the hot spots of digital economy, the particularity of digital medical care, the challenges faced by medical data governance, and the practice and exploration of Lianren Health in the direction of data system construction.

Qiaowei, senior experts of Huawei Strategic Research Institute gave a speech on “Credible Circulation Infrastructure Construction Data and Huawei Practice”, sharing views from the domestic and foreign data management strategy, the challenge for the data flow, credible circulation industry opportunity space, data network infrastructure construction, Huawei practice scenario and case etc.

In the interactive session, participants and representatives discussed data policy trends, international cooperation in data governance, data standardization, data humanities and other issues. Nearly 60 representatives from China IGF and relevant universities, research institutions, industry organizations, enterprise attended the meeting.