Abstract
Machine learning offers promising capabilities to improve administrative procedures. At the same time, adequate training of models using traditional learning techniques requires the collection and storage of enough training data in a central place. Unfortunately, due to legislative and jurisdictional constraints, data in a central place is scarce and training a model becomes unfeasible. Against this backdrop, federated machine learning, a technique to collaboratively train models without transferring data to a centralized location, has been recently proposed. With each government entity keeping their data private, new applications that previously were impossible now can be a reality. In this paper, we demonstrate that accountability for the federated machine learning process becomes paramount to fully overcoming legislative and jurisdictional constraints. In particular, it ensures that all government entities' data are adequately included in the model and that evidence on fairness and reproducibility is curated towards trustworthiness. We also present an analysis framework suitable for governmental scenarios and illustrate its exemplary application for online citizen participation scenarios. We discuss our findings in terms of engineering and management implications: feasibility evaluation, general architecture, involved actors as well as verifiable claims for trustworthy machine learning.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Electronic Participation - 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2021, Proceedings |
Editors | Noella Edelmann, Csaba Csáki, Sara Hofmann, Thomas J. Lampoltshammer, Laura Alcaide Muñoz, Peter Parycek, Gerhard Schwabe, Efthimios Tambouris |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
Pages | 125-138 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030828233 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2021 - Granada, Spain Duration: Sep 7 2021 → Sep 9 2021 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 12849 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2021 |
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Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Granada |
Period | 9/7/21 → 9/9/21 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
Keywords
- Accountability
- Federated learning
- Framework
- Verifiable claims