Clinic #2 Data Foundations for AI: Weak data, weak decisions

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This session will be held in English. Live interpretations in French and Spanish will be available.

This is the second session of the “AI Hub Clinic Series” organized by the AI Hub for Social Protection under the umbrella of the Digital Convergence Initiative. The series supports social protection institutions in building the foundations for responsible and effective AI use. By pairing country experiences, enabling cross‑context peer learning, and sharing practical tools, it helps participants assess their own systems and advance their AI journey in a risk‑aware way.

Overview

After exploring institutional readiness in our pilot clinic, we now turn to one of the most critical building blocks of any AI system: data. In this second session of the 6-part webinar series, we take a closer look at how social protection institutions manage large, often fragmented datasets and why strengthening these foundations is essential before deploying AI.

We will unpack what “data readiness” really means in practice, examining the quality, coverage, and completeness of administrative data, as well as the challenges of interoperability across systems. The session also addresses a key risk: how biases and gaps in existing data can translate into unfair or unreliable AI outcomes.

Topics include:

  • Data quality, coverage and completeness
  • Interoperability between systems
  • Bias and gaps in administrative data
  • How poor data leads to biased or unreliable AI results

Through real world examples and peer exchange, participants will reflect on how poor data quality can undermine even the most advanced AI tools and, importantly, how to mitigate these risks. The session will equip participants with practical tools, including a data readiness checklist and a data risk and quality assessment template, to support more responsible and effective AI use.

Moderator: Valentina Barca, Social Protection Expert

Speakers:

  • Felipe Leão, Executive Director of Innovation and Applied AI, Social Security Information and Technology Company (DATAPREV), Brazil
  • Dr. Ann-Kristin Kreutzmann, Senior Data Scientist and Unit Manager at the AI Lab​, German Federal Pension Insurance (DRV Bund), Germany

Clinic Series Timeline

  1. Are you ready to use AI in Social Protection? | April 14, 2026
  2. Data foundations for AI: Weak data, weak decisions | July 14, 2026 
  3. Responsible AI: Ethics, rights and minimum viable governance
  4. Beyond Efficiency: What AI can (and cannot) do in Social Protection
  5. Use-case Scoping: From ideas to responsible action
  6.  Applying the AI Hub Risk Framework

Learn more about the Series

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