A+ Alliance

Feminist AI Research Network Global Webinars: tfGBV
2023-09-14 15:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
In the second installment of this series we’ll be delving into Technology facilitated Gender Based Violence & Access to Justice : new approaches from the Majority World with:
– AymurAI (pilot). Measuring gender based violence in Latin America
Data Género, Argentina
– SOF+ IA (prototype) A report-a-bot for tfGBV in Chile
Datos Protegidos (Protected Data) & ODEGI – Observatorio de Estadísticas de Género e Interseccionalidades
(Gender and Intersectionality Statistics Observatory), Chile
– SafeHER (prototype): AI (em)powered mobility
De La Salle University, Phillipines

The 8th ASIA Network Meeting
2023-09-18 20:00 - 21:30 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
Dr. Supavadee Aramvith will talk about inclusive algorithms and design for AI in the 8th ASIA Network Meeting organized by the Southeast Asian Hub of the Incubating Feminist AI Project.

Feminist AI Research Network Global Webinars: Compost Engineers
2023-09-25 15:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
The third installment of this series focuses on Compost engineers with Joana Varon (Coding Rights) and Lucía Egaña (Pluriversidad Nómada)

Conversatorios FAIR LAC: Género y Discapacidad en la Inteligencia Artificial
2023-10-11 08:30 - 10:30 (America/Chicago) | Conversatorios LAC Hub 2023-2024
Entre octubre de 2023 a febrero de 2024, el LAC Hub de la Red Feminista de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial – f<a+i>r promueve un nuevo ciclo de webinars en lo cual participantes de la red e invitadas compartirán sus perspectivas y convidarán a discusiones sobre los retos interseccionales de la IA feminista en América Latina y el Caribe.
El primer evento será “Perspectivas de Género y Discapacidad en la Inteligencia Artificial”, el día 11 de octubre, a las 08:30h, con las invitadas: Mariana Díaz Figueroa, Wanda Muñoz y Tatiana Revilla.

Feminist AI Research Network Global Webinars: Feminist AI Prototypes
2023-10-26 15:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
The fourth installment of the series will focus on Feminist AI Prototypes with:

La Independiente: Gender Perspectives in AI Crowdwork (PIT Policy Lab, Mexico)
E.D.I.A.: A tool to overcome technical barriers to bias assessment (Via Libre, Argentina)

Conversatorios FAIR LAC: Inteligencia artificial y pueblos originarios
2023-11-15 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Conversatorios LAC Hub 2023-2024
Conversatorios FAIR LAC: Inteligencia artificial y pueblos originarios
Entre octubre de 2023 a febrero de 2024, el LAC Hub de la Red Feminista de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial – f<a+i>r promueve un nuevo ciclo de webinars en lo cual participantes de la red e invitadas compartirán sus perspectivas y convidarán a discusiones sobre los retos interseccionales de la IA feminista en América Latina y el Caribe.
En breve actualizaremos este evento con más detalles.

Feminist AI Research Network Global Webinars: Feminist AI from the Majority World: New thinking, New systems
2023-11-23 16:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
The fifth installment of the series will focus on Feminist AI from the Majority World: New thinking, New systems featuring papers on:

Feminist NLP:An Annotated Corpus to Evaluate Sex Differences in Work Related Diseases in Chile
Community Perspectives of AI in Natural Resource Governance
Analyzing Public Procurement Anomalies in Ecuador with a Gender Perspective
Explainable AI-Based Tutoring System for Upper Egypt Community Schools
Reimagining Automated Violence Interventions through Participatory Technology Design
Child marriage in Indonesia: an exploration of how AI and a Digital Public Good for Gender Justice could contribute to better outcomes for girls

Discussion on the Gig economy in Southeast Asia
2023-12-07 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
We’re excited to invite you to an illuminating talk on the Gig Economy in Southeast Asia by Stephanie Santos. The talk will be on December 7th at 2pm UTC.

The 9th ASIA Network Meeting
2023-12-07 21:00 - 22:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Dr. Stephanie Santos will talk about inclusive algorithms and design for AI in the 9th ASIA Network Meeting organized by the Southeast Asian Hub of the Incubating Feminist AI Project.

Feminist AI Research Network Global Webinars: Global tfGBV: Solutions from across the globe
2023-12-14 16:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
In the last installment of the series for 2023, our focus will be on Global tfGBV: Feminist AI across the globe with research + experts across the f<a+i>r network hubs in LAC, MENA & SEA

Conversatorios FAIR LAC: IA, raza y género en el Caribe
2024-02-07 08:30 - 10:30 (America/Chicago) | Conversatorios LAC Hub 2023-2024
Entre octubre de 2023 a febrero de 2024, el LAC Hub de la Red Feminista de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial – f<a+i>r promueve un nuevo ciclo de webinars en lo cual participantes de la red e invitadas compartirán sus perspectivas y convidarán a discusiones sobre los retos interseccionales de la IA feminista en América Latina y el Caribe.
En breve actualizaremos este evento con más detalles.

AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox Workshop
2024-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
Intended Audience: Data scientists and related technical fields, also relevant for policy makers (to employ concepts, critical analysis, and a shared vocabulary).
Aim: Demonstrate the (positive or negative) social impact of AI, advocate for an approach to AI development that has human rights at its core. The goal is to communicate responsibilities and practices to a technical university generation, promoting an approach to the creation of AI systems that centers equality through human rights.
Method: Using real-world examples, technical language, and follow-along coding exercises, the workshop bridges between disciplines, enabling conversations on the concrete human rights aspects of developing and regulating AI technologies.

fr: The Future of (Gig) Work
2024-02-22 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
In a world increasingly turning to Gig Work, what does gig work even mean?
How are different regions and different sectors looking at the Future of (gig) Work?
With:
Stephanie Santos, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Wassim Maktabi, The Policy Initiative, Lebanon
Saiph Savage, Northeastern University, US & Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Conversatorios FAIR LAC: IA, género, raza y vigilancia en América Latina
2024-02-28 08:30 - 10:30 (America/Chicago) | Conversatorios LAC Hub 2023-2024

fr: Feminist AI - an exploration & celebration
2024-03-07 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
What is Feminist AI? And who are the Majority World players creating pro-social AI, designed with inclusion at the core, creating new opportunities & innovative correction of inequities? Join us as we explore concrete applications of these principles and celebrate Feminist AI in advance of International Women’s Day

Conversatorios FAIR LAC: Vigilancia, corporalidades y tecnofronteras
2024-03-20 08:30 - 10:30 (America/Chicago) | Conversatorios LAC Hub 2023-2024

Responsible AI: Empowering Women's Access to Justice in the Southeast Asia Region"
2024-03-20 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
Responsible AI: Empowering Women’s Access to Justice in the Southeast Asia Region”
Speaker: Siraprapa Chavanayarn
This talk delves into the complex challenges women in Southeast Asia face in their quest for access to justice. These challenges include societal barriers and individual barriers. The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents transformative opportunities for the justice system, especially in improving access to justice and ensuring fairness for women. AI has the potential to revolutionize legal proceedings by analyzing complex data, streamlining case processing, and providing predictive insights. However, integrating AI into the justice system also brings significant risks. Concerns such as algorithmic bias could exacerbate existing inequalities, impeding equitable access to justice. The central argument of this talk is the critical need for Responsible AI in the development and application of AI technologies in these regions. Responsible AI is essential for maintaining fairness, transparency, and accountability, particularly in AI applications within the justice sector. This approach is crucial to ensure that AI tools not only enhance access to justice for women but also uphold and support their rights.

AI4D: Innovation Challenge
2024-03-28 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Paris)
The AI4D Innovation Challenge:
The Gender and Inclusive AI Research and Innovation Challenge provides competitive funding for cutting edge, gender-responsive and inclusive research that expands new knowledge relating to gender, diversity, inclusion, and Artificial Intelligence in the African context. This work is conducted by hubs and labs participating in IDRC’s AI4D Africa Network program. The Challenge aims to develop and contribute to foundational knowledge to strengthen the growing field of applied gender-responsive and inclusive AI research.

fr: NLP, Language & Locality
2024-04-11 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
with f<a+i>r research cohorts & colleagues
currently exploring
NLP, Language & Locality in

Thai
Arabic
Aramaic
Latin American Spanish

In Person Workshop | Towards a Responsible AI Tool for SMEs with Dr. Marwa Soudi
2024-05-12 10:00 - 11:30 (Europe/Moscow) | the School of Business at the American University in Cairo ( AUC), AUC Tahrir Campus, Cairo, Egypt
As the Middle East and North Africa Hub of the Feminist AI Research Project (f<a+r>r Project), the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the School of Business at the American University in Cairo ( AUC) is hosting a workshop titled “Towards A Responsible AI Tool for SMEs” on May 12th 2024 at AUC Tahrir Campus at 10am.
Dr. Marwa Soudi will present a tool she developed together with her research team at Tallinn University, Estonia, that aims to assist companies, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in evaluating and adopting responsible artificial intelligence (AI) practices. The aim is to support SMEs in evaluating their AI systems from a responsible AI perspective.
The workshop serves as a practical resource that enables SMEs to identify areas of improvement and implement responsible AI practices within their organizations. The workshop will be held on May 12th at AUC Tahrir Campus from 10:00 am – 2:00pm.
Further information about the workshop:
The research team from Tallinn University, school of digital technologies, conducted a comprehensive review to identify the specific needs of SMEs in adopting responsible AI practices. The review highlighted a lack of assessment and educational tools tailored to SMEs, as well as the importance of involving SMEs in discussions and designs related to responsible AI.
To address these findings, the research team employed a participatory design approach to develop a tool that supports SMEs in their responsible AI adoption journey. The tool is built upon the framework provided by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for responsible AI adoption, as well as the guidelines outlined in the European Union’s AI Act.
By incorporating the OECD framework and the EU AI Act guidelines, the developed tool provides SMEs with a structured and comprehensive approach to assessing their AI adoption practices in terms of responsibility. This includes evaluating aspects such as transparency, fairness, bias, the environmental impact and ethical considerations in AI systems.

Global Student Series: Youth Perspectives in AI
2024-05-14 16:30 - 17:45 (Europe/Moscow)
Join us to hear from youth colleagues working with the f<A+I>r Feminist AI Research Network Hubs in Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa & SouthEast Asia.
07. 30 – 8. 45 Mexico City
16.30 – 17.45 Cairo
20.30 – 21.45 Bangkok
Join the conversation: https://bit.ly/YouthInAI

fA+Ir: Incubating Feminist AI Prototypes
2024-05-16 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
Featuring new movement, new alliances, new prototypes & new methods
from the f<a+i>r Feminist AI Research Network:

Explainable AI Tutors -Upper Egypt; and
Natural Resource Governance with Yaqui -Mexico

MENA fa+ir Webinar | Exploring Multidisciplinary at the Data Science Hub
2024-05-22 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Moscow)
Register for the webinar here

It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D)’s upcoming webinar as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) hub of the F<a+i>r Hubs Network (Feminist AI Research Network).
‘Exploring Multidisciplinary at the Data Science Hub’.
Meet our speaker:
Dr. Nouri Sakr is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Operations Research at the American University in Cairo . She is also the founder of the Data Science Hub and a member of the Steering Committee for the Data Science undergraduate program at AUC. Dr. Sakr received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research with a focus on Data-Driven Optimization. As an undergrad, she double majored in Computer Science and Actuarial Science at AUC, then earned a Masters of Mathematics in Actuarial Science from the University of Waterloo with a focus on FinTech. Her research focuses on leveraging connections between data science and combinatorial optimization to design data-driven algorithms that efficiently tackle real-world optimization challenges with social impact. At Amazon and Microsoft, she worked on supply chain analytics, dynamic inventory allocation and cloud storage traffic problems.
During her Ph.D. journey and as an affiliate of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, she accumulated further experience on building fast machine learning frameworks and adaptive machine learning in cybersecurity through her collaborations with Google Brain and Sandia National Labs. She also built healthcare solutions for Columbia Medical Center. She briefly collaborated on foster care matching through her work at Graham Windham in NYC and designing ML algorithms for unemployment reduction through her collaboration with the J-PAL program and an Egyptian startup. In 2020, she founded the DataScience Hub as a collaboration platform for academics and industry professionals as well as research scholars from Egypt and abroad. The projects at the DSH apply data science techniques in interdisciplinary areas, such as in education, healthcare, fintech, system scheduling and economics. The DSH aims at using data science to solve problems that have an impact on social good.

AI4D: Human Rights & AI
2024-05-23 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
Human Rights & AI: Inclusive Human Rights Frameworks for New Technologies
How can Human Rights Frameworks be the starting point for the creation of new tech & innovation? What questions need to be asked and answered to harness the astounding capabilities of AI with its promises of dystopia or utopia? Can Human Rights Frameworks bring us to some middle ground?

fA+Ir: NLP, Language & Locality
2024-06-13 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Bringing together NLP researchers from 4 regions of the world. This webinar is part of our global F<A+I>R Feminist AI Research Network global series in which we collectively think about what is Feminist AI, and who are the Majority World players creating pro-social AI, designed with inclusion at the core, creating new opportunities & innovative correction of inequities.
Join us as we explore concrete applications of these principles!

Register: bit.ly/GlobalWebinar2024_3

AI4D | Francophone AI: Qu’est-ce que c’est?
2024-06-20 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
Ce webinar en français focalisera sur l’IA Francophone.

AI4D: Francophone AI
2024-06-20 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
Francophone AI: Qu’est-ce que c’est?

fa+ir | Wrap up Webinar
2024-06-25 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
In this webinar, we will be wrapping up the F<A+I>R Feminist AI Research Network of projects with the various members of our cohorts sharing on the journey of bringing their research to life.

Open Studio: Understanding Stakeholder Involvement for Responsible AI Development in Practice | Emma Kallina
2024-09-24 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
How can we better involve affected communities in the development process of AI systems – and what are blockers to this in practice? In this Open-Studio Session, Emma will provide an overview over her PhD research, including (1) why we have to involve affected communities during the development of AI systems, (2) the differences between such stakeholder involvement for responsible AI efforts vs the type of stakeholder involvement currently happening in practice, (3) the steps required for stakeholder involvement ensuring more responsible systems, as well as (4) contexts with potential exceptions to such rules.

About Emma Kallina: Emma Kallina believes that the people impacted by a technology should have substantial influence during the development of such technology. To push this forward, her research (third-year PhD student at the University of Cambridge) focuses on how the involvement of affected communities during the development of AI systems can support the development of more responsible systems in practice. Her background is in Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and UX Research. She is a visiting researcher / fellow at the Institute for Technology & Humanity and the Alan Turing Institute.

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Open Studio: AI & Climate Change, Community, Data & Feminism | Pyrou Chung
2024-10-29 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Based in Thailand, Pyrou Chung directs the East West Management Institute Programs on natural resources, land, and data initiatives in Southeast Asia under the Open Development Initiative.
Pyrou has over 20 years of experience in the development sector across Asia, Africa and Australia. As an ecologist and sustainable development expert, her work has been focused on the nexus between environmental governance, conservation and human rights, with an emphasis on digital technologies and artificial intelligence affecting environmental data justice issues. Through partnerships and participatory action research this work explores these intersections in order for Indigenous Peoples and environmental defenders to seek self-determination rights over lands and territories.
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