As part of a series of meetings within the activities of the “Digital Fountains” initiative, the College of Computer and Information Systems held an intensive training course entitled: “Ethics of Using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence”.

The course, which targeted students of college graduation projects and those interested in the field of data ethics, was held on Monday, 8 February 2021 A.C., for a period of three days.

The course presenter was Ms. Alyaa Al-Harbi, an academic staff member at the College of Computer and Information Systems and an interested researcher in data ethics.

The course discussed several themes, including:

• Responsible ethical research.
• Data Governance.
• Digital rights.
• Data Ethics.
• Human-data interaction and problems arising from them.
• Practical applications that include demonstrating an applied understanding of some current ethical issues in data science.

Thanks and appreciation to all those who participated and attended this course.