The Forum on Data-Driven High-quality Development of New Quality Software, a key part of the Global Digital Economy Conference 2024, was held in the Daxing district of Beijing on July 4.

The forum centered on cutting-edge digital technologies, such as software, big data and artificial intelligence, aiming to explore how the digital economy could facilitate the development of new quality productive forces. At the event, the Beijing Internet Court (BIC) unveiled a data compliance judge workstation, as one of the key innovative service platforms for the digital economy. Upon invitation, Jiang Ying, president of the BIC delivered a keynote speech at the forum and attended the unveiling ceremony.

In her speech, Jiang highlighted the BIC's measures in safeguarding high-quality development of the digital economy by detailing the features and adjudication concepts of cases involving data property rights and the BIC's coordination work with administrative departments in serving the data element industry. According to Jiang, the BIC has handled a series of gap-filling cases of extensive social significance, such as the copyright case involving AI-generated images and the country's first case concerning the validity of an intellectual property data registration certificate.

The court continuously reinforced the circuit trial mechanism for data-related rights and interests in order to promote the efficient circulation of data elements, and will strive to maximize its functional role in contributing to the development of the digital economy, she added.

The forum also held an unveiling ceremony for innovative service platform for the digital economy, with the BIC's data compliance judge workstation showcased as innovation demonstration project.

Hosted by the organizing committee of the Global Digital Economy Conference, the forum was jointly undertaken by related Beijing municipal government departments and Daxing district departments on information technology and cyberspace administration.

The forum gathered experts, scholars and industry representatives from the fields of science, technology and data.