BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//A+ Alliance - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:A+ Alliance X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://aplusalliance.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for A+ Alliance REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Moscow BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:MSK DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20250908T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20250908T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T145724 CREATED:20250828T080700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T093019Z UID:24918-1757347200-1757350800@aplusalliance.org SUMMARY:The African AI & Equality Toolbox Launch DESCRIPTION:The African AI & Equality Toolbox is a strategic initiative designed to empower African stakeholders—policymakers\, technologists\, civil society actors\, and communities—to shape Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that are contextually relevant\, inclusive\, and grounded in human rights. \nDeveloped in collaboration with Women at the Table and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, and adapted from the global Human Rights Toolbox Initiative in collaboration with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)\, this African iteration provides practical tools and methodologies to guide equitable AI development across the continent. \nThe Toolbox applies a Human Rights-based AI Lifecycle Framework\, integrating reflective questions and the Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) developed with the Alan Turing Institute. It emphasizes participatory\, multidisciplinary approaches and is rooted in feminist\, decolonial\, and Justice\, Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles and incorporates lessons from emerging digital rights challenges\, ensuring AI systems are designed with safety and dignity at their core. \nThis launch webinar will present the methodology and the process of development of the toolbox featuring the contributors and introduce the webinar series that focus on each stage of the lifecycle with the selected case studies. \n1PM GMT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT \nRegister here  URL:https://aplusalliance.org/event/the-african-ai-equality-toolbox-launch/ CATEGORIES:Eventos A+ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://aplusalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AI-EQ-Toolbox-black-w-gradient-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20250915T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20250915T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T145724 CREATED:20250828T081351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T093411Z UID:24925-1757952000-1757955600@aplusalliance.org SUMMARY:The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 1: Introduction & Stage 1 DESCRIPTION:Across African contexts\, development and technology projects are often driven by external actors with little grounding in local priorities. Solutions frequently arrive pre-packaged—built around assumed problems\, rather than those identified by communities themselves. This is particularly evident in AI deployments in agriculture\, education\, and public health\, where tools may miss the mark\, or worse\, exacerbate inequities. \nThis webinar serves to explore Stage 1 of AI Development which is fundamentally a participatory and grounded approach which is crucial for centering gender equity\, given that women often carry the brunt of labor in agriculture and caregiving\, yet remain underrepresented in AI design and governance. \nThe African AI & Equality Toolbox is a strategic initiative designed to empower African stakeholders—policymakers\, technologists\, civil society actors\, and communities—to shape Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that are contextually relevant\, inclusive\, and grounded in human rights. \nDeveloped by Women at the Table and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, and adapted from the global AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox Initiative in collaboration with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)\, this African iteration provides practical tools and methodologies to guide equitable AI development across the continent. \nThe Toolbox applies a Human Rights-based AI Lifecycle Framework\, integrating reflective questions and the Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) developed with the Alan Turing Institute. It emphasizes participatory\, multidisciplinary approaches and is rooted in feminist\, decolonial\, and Justice\, Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles and incorporates lessons from emerging digital rights challenges\, ensuring AI systems are designed with safety and dignity at their core. \n1PM GMT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT \nRegister here URL:https://aplusalliance.org/event/the-african-ai-equality-toolbox-webinar-1-introduction-stage-1/ CATEGORIES:Eventos A+ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://aplusalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AI-EQ-Toolbox-black-w-gradient-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251006T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251006T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T145724 CREATED:20250828T093812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T103135Z UID:24934-1759766400-1759770000@aplusalliance.org SUMMARY:The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 2: System Requirements DESCRIPTION:In many African AI deployments\, system requirements are defined by international technical partners or funders\, often without fully understanding the day-to-day realities of use. This leads to design choices—like requiring high-speed internet\, English-only interfaces\, or complex interfaces—that make tools ineffective or even harmful. \nThis webinar looks at how requirement setting should function as a bridge between vision and use: Aligning system features with cultural context\, infrastructure gaps\, and social expectations; Identifying constraints early on—connectivity\, literacy\, consent\, power dynamics—and building around them and making conscious trade-offs between speed\, scale\, and equity. \n  \nThe African AI & Equality Toolbox is a strategic initiative designed to empower African stakeholders—policymakers\, technologists\, civil society actors\, and communities—to shape Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that are contextually relevant\, inclusive\, and grounded in human rights. \nDeveloped by Women at the Table and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, and adapted from the global AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox Initiative in collaboration with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)\, this African iteration provides practical tools and methodologies to guide equitable AI development across the continent. \nThe Toolbox applies a Human Rights-based AI Lifecycle Framework\, integrating reflective questions and the Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) developed with the Alan Turing Institute. It emphasizes participatory\, multidisciplinary approaches and is rooted in feminist\, decolonial\, and Justice\, Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles and incorporates lessons from emerging digital rights challenges\, ensuring AI systems are designed with safety and dignity at their core. \n1PM GMT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT \nRegister here \n  \n  URL:https://aplusalliance.org/event/the-african-ai-equality-toolbox-webinar-2-system-requirements-2/ CATEGORIES:Eventos A+ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://aplusalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AI-EQ-Toolbox-black-w-gradient-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251016T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251016T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T145724 CREATED:20250828T101850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T102042Z UID:24945-1760626800-1760630400@aplusalliance.org SUMMARY:The Latin American AI & Equality Toolbox Introduction DESCRIPTION:AI & Equality partnered with the Chilean Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial\, CENIA\,  to co-construct a Latin American Spanish language version of the validated Toolbox\, with use cases relevant to the regional experience.\n\nThe partnership builds on the learnings from the workshop structure and outreach from the African Toolbox.\n\n\nTranslating and adapting tools like the Human Rights Toolbox can facilitate the co-creation of a common vocabulary and common understanding on the specific needs and challenges of each region of the world\, unlocking informed debates about their visions for data with purpose and collaboratively finding examples of regional use cases of AI. \n\n3PM ET | 10AM Santiago  \nRegister here  URL:https://aplusalliance.org/event/the-latin-american-ai-equality-toolbox-introduction/ CATEGORIES:Eventos A+ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://aplusalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Untitled-design-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251020T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251020T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T145724 CREATED:20250828T093502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T094547Z UID:24930-1760976000-1760979600@aplusalliance.org SUMMARY:The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 3: Data Discovery DESCRIPTION:In many African AI projects\, available datasets are either imported (trained on non-African populations) or incomplete (lacking local language\, gender\, or cultural nuance). This misalignment risks perpetuating systemic bias under the guise of neutrality.This webinar will offer a deep dive into the Essential Questions of Data Discovery including a case study on the requirement for building effective TFGBV prevention datasets that include African languages. \n  \nThe African AI & Equality Toolbox is a strategic initiative designed to empower African stakeholders—policymakers\, technologists\, civil society actors\, and communities—to shape Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that are contextually relevant\, inclusive\, and grounded in human rights. \nDeveloped by Women at the Table and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, and adapted from the global AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox Initiative in collaboration with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)\, this African iteration provides practical tools and methodologies to guide equitable AI development across the continent. \nThe Toolbox applies a Human Rights-based AI Lifecycle Framework\, integrating reflective questions and the Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) developed with the Alan Turing Institute. It emphasizes participatory\, multidisciplinary approaches and is rooted in feminist\, decolonial\, and Justice\, Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles and incorporates lessons from emerging digital rights challenges\, ensuring AI systems are designed with safety and dignity at their core. \n1PM GMT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT \nRegister here URL:https://aplusalliance.org/event/the-african-ai-equality-toolbox-webinar-2-system-requirements/ CATEGORIES:Eventos A+ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://aplusalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AI-EQ-Toolbox-black-w-gradient-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251105T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251105T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T145724 CREATED:20250828T093940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T103053Z UID:24937-1762358400-1762362000@aplusalliance.org SUMMARY:The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 4: Model Selection DESCRIPTION:Imported or generalized models often underperform—especially when they are trained on data that does not reflect local language\, environment\, or lived experience. For AI to be trustworthy\, accuracy alone is not enough. \nThis webinar dives into what inclusion and efficiency means ensuring the development or building of systems that don’t require technical expertise to interpret—ensuring that trust\, oversight\, and agency are accessible to all users. Whether a rural health worker\, a student\, or a community organizer\, each person should be able to understand what a system is doing and why. \nThe African AI & Equality Toolbox is a strategic initiative designed to empower African stakeholders—policymakers\, technologists\, civil society actors\, and communities—to shape Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that are contextually relevant\, inclusive\, and grounded in human rights. \nDeveloped by Women at the Table and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, and adapted from the global AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox Initiative in collaboration with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)\, this African iteration provides practical tools and methodologies to guide equitable AI development across the continent. \nThe Toolbox applies a Human Rights-based AI Lifecycle Framework\, integrating reflective questions and the Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) developed with the Alan Turing Institute. It emphasizes participatory\, multidisciplinary approaches and is rooted in feminist\, decolonial\, and Justice\, Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles and incorporates lessons from emerging digital rights challenges\, ensuring AI systems are designed with safety and dignity at their core. \n1PM GMT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT \nRegister here URL:https://aplusalliance.org/event/the-african-ai-equality-toolbox-webinar-4-model-selection/ CATEGORIES:Eventos A+ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://aplusalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AI-EQ-Toolbox-black-w-gradient-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251112T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T145724 CREATED:20250828T094050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T103014Z UID:24939-1762963200-1762966800@aplusalliance.org SUMMARY:The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 5: Model Interpretation DESCRIPTION:In African deployments\, there is often pressure to launch rapidly\, without thorough contextual testing. But skipping this step is where trust breaks down—and harm begins. Testing must happen with communities\, not just on them. \nThis stage examines the opportunity to reflect on how power operates in AI: Who gets to say if it works? Who can question it? Who can stop it? \nThe African AI & Equality Toolbox is a strategic initiative designed to empower African stakeholders—policymakers\, technologists\, civil society actors\, and communities—to shape Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that are contextually relevant\, inclusive\, and grounded in human rights. \nDeveloped by Women at the Table and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, and adapted from the global AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox Initiative in collaboration with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)\, this African iteration provides practical tools and methodologies to guide equitable AI development across the continent. \nThe Toolbox applies a Human Rights-based AI Lifecycle Framework\, integrating reflective questions and the Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) developed with the Alan Turing Institute. It emphasizes participatory\, multidisciplinary approaches and is rooted in feminist\, decolonial\, and Justice\, Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles and incorporates lessons from emerging digital rights challenges\, ensuring AI systems are designed with safety and dignity at their core. \n1PM GMT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT \nRegister here  \n  URL:https://aplusalliance.org/event/the-african-ai-equality-toolbox-webinar-5-model-interpretation/ CATEGORIES:Eventos A+ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://aplusalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AI-EQ-Toolbox-black-w-gradient-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251113T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251113T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T145724 CREATED:20250828T102243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T102316Z UID:24950-1763042400-1763046000@aplusalliance.org SUMMARY:The Latin American AI & Equality Toolbox Launch DESCRIPTION:AI & Equality partnered with the Chilean Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial\, CENIA\,  to co-construct a Latin American Spanish language version of the validated Toolbox\, with use cases relevant to the regional experience.\n\nThe partnership builds on the learnings from the workshop structure and outreach from the African Toolbox.\n\n\nTranslating and adapting tools like the Human Rights Toolbox can facilitate the co-creation of a common vocabulary and common understanding on the specific needs and challenges of each region of the world\, unlocking informed debates about their visions for data with purpose and collaboratively finding examples of regional use cases of AI. \n\n2PM ET | 10AM Santiago  \nRegister here  URL:https://aplusalliance.org/event/the-latin-american-ai-equality-toolbox-launch/ CATEGORIES:Eventos A+ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://aplusalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Untitled-design-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251119T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20251119T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T145724 CREATED:20250828T094149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T114758Z UID:24941-1763568000-1763571600@aplusalliance.org SUMMARY:The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 6: Deployment DESCRIPTION:In African contexts\, post-deployment oversight is often underfunded or overlooked. Once a system is launched—especially by international actors—it can become invisible\, even as its consequences grow. This final stage and webinar of The African AI & Equality Toolbox looks at what true accountability means: planning for ongoing monitoring\, shared governance\, and the possibility of “no.” The webinar will also explore what it means for systems to be responsive—not just to data—but to dignity. \nThe African AI & Equality Toolbox is a strategic initiative designed to empower African stakeholders—policymakers\, technologists\, civil society actors\, and communities—to shape Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that are contextually relevant\, inclusive\, and grounded in human rights. \nDeveloped by Women at the Table and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, and adapted from the global AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox Initiative in collaboration with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)\, this African iteration provides practical tools and methodologies to guide equitable AI development across the continent. \nThe Toolbox applies a Human Rights-based AI Lifecycle Framework\, integrating reflective questions and the Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) developed with the Alan Turing Institute. It emphasizes participatory\, multidisciplinary approaches and is rooted in feminist\, decolonial\, and Justice\, Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles and incorporates lessons from emerging digital rights challenges\, ensuring AI systems are designed with safety and dignity at their core. \n1PM GMT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT \nRegister here URL:https://aplusalliance.org/event/the-african-ai-equality-toolbox-webinar-6-deployment/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://aplusalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AI-EQ-Toolbox-black-w-gradient-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T145724 CREATED:20260303T134424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T134656Z UID:25155-1773246600-1773252000@aplusalliance.org SUMMARY:CSW70 | When Algorithms Discriminate: Gender Bias in Justice Systems DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, 11 March 2026 \n4:30 – 6:00 PM ET \nNGO CSW \n10th Floor\, Church Center of the United Nations \n777 United Nations Plaza\, New York \nAn In Depth Discussion: What happens when courts replace judges with computer algorithms? We are told these systems are “objective” and “fair”  but the evidence tells a different story. From bail decisions to sentencing\, algorithms are making life-changing choices about women based on biased data and male-centered assumptions. A woman seeking justice after assault may find her credibility automatically questioned. A mother may be flagged as “high risk” simply because of where she lives or her employment history. Meanwhile\, these same systems treat men’s violence as more predictable and less dangerous. \nThis is not science fiction\,  it is happening right now in courts worldwide. Join us to uncover how technology is creating new barriers to justice for women and girls\, and what policy solutions can effectively address it. \nLaura Nyirinkindi | UN Special Procedures Member\, Working Group on discrimination against women and girls\nAfrica Regional Vice President of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (Federación Internacional de Abogadas) \nFernanda K. Martins | Fundacion multitudes\, Director of Strategy and Advocacy \nCaitlin Kraft–Buchman | Women At The Table; CEO URL:https://aplusalliance.org/event/csw70-when-algorithms-discriminate-gender-bias-in-justice-systems/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://aplusalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Designing-AI-for-Human-Agency-29.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR