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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Open Studio: Evaluation of SOF+IA in light of Data Feminism Principles | Daniela Moyano
2024-11-11 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
In this open studio, Daniela Moyano will speak about Sof+IA: a prototype chatbot designed to report and provide guidance on Digital Gender Violence (DGV) in Chile. This evaluation examines its development through Data Feminism principles, highlighting how it challenges power structures, prioritizes survivor needs, and integrates emotion into technology design. Despite challenges such as limited resources and inclusion gaps, Sof+IA centers survivors’ experiences and promotes pluralism. Continuous reflection and evaluation are essential for integrating feminist principles into AI development.
About Daniela MoyanoDaniela Moyano is an information designer and data visualization expert with a focus on gender data and feminist perspectives. With a B.A. in Design and an M.S.C. in Sociology, she has co-founded ODEGI, an observatory promoting critical gender data use. Daniela has led multiple research and design projects, including Sof+IA, a chatbot addressing digital gender violence. Her work blends technology, social justice, and feminist theory, advocating for more inclusive and ethical technological practices.

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Open Studio: AI & Health, thinking through maintenance, repair and response-ability | Amina Soulimani
2024-11-12 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
This open studio will focus on exploring the multiple ways through which we can understand the entanglement of repair and maintenance with visionary aspirations around smart hospitals. By revisiting earlier and contemporary Feminist STS texts, new materialism, phenomenology and leaning on insights from the field, Amina will share insights emerging from her ongoing PhD research. Presenting Morocco as a case study, this talk shall explore further the dimensions that waiting takes in environments that run through foreign software in local hospitals.
About Amina Soulimani: Amina Soulimani’s research investigates human-technology interactions in oncology care, and algorithmic infrastructures within hospitals in Morocco. Her work is guided primarily through interdisciplinary practice, decolonial scholarship, and critical realism when dreaming about dignified care futures. She is Doctoral Research Fellow at HUMA, The Institute for Humanities in Africa, and a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Open Studio: Much Distress and Little Relief | Jamie Fuller
2024-11-18 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Earlier this year, predictive optimization was introduced into South Africa’s social grant system to detect and counter fraud. As a result, thousands (and counting) of the country’s most financially vulnerable have been mistakenly excluded from receiving their grant payment. This open studio unpacks the case study, explaining what went wrong and reflecting on a more productive use of AI. It concludes that while AI may be most alluring in the resource-constrained realities of developing countries, it is precisely in such contexts that it poses the greatest threat.
About the speaker: Jamie Fuller is a junior researcher at Research ICT Africa, a Cape Town – based think tank committed to enabling universal and meaningful digital access across the continent. She holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and is especially passionate about everyday ethical dilemmas, including those associated with advanced data-driven technologies.

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Open Studio: Can Bias in LLMs Be Used for Good? | Francesca Lucchini Wortzman
2024-12-02 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
It is a well-known fact that LLMs express harmful biases in their predictions. The main source comes from the training datasets, which are too large and expensive to check thoroughly. In this open studio, Francesca Lucchini will explore how we can leverage the bias in LLMs and use them to examine massive datasets, discovering starting points for a data audit.
About the speaker: Francesca Lucchini Wortzman is a Tech Lead at CENIA, the National Artificial Intelligence Research Center. She has a computer science and masters degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, she specializes in machine learning applications related to urban analysis and computer vision. Francesca is passionate about gender equality and applied ethics in AI.

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The African AI & Equality Toolbox Launch
2025-09-08 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Moscow)
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.
Developed in collaboration with 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.
The 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.
This 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.
1PM GMT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT
Register here

The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 1: Introduction & Stage 1
2025-09-15 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Moscow)
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.
This 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.
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.
Developed 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.
The 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.
1PM GMT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT
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The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 2: System Requirements
2025-10-06 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Moscow)
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.
This 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.

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.
Developed 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.
The 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.
1PM GMT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT
Register here

The Latin American AI & Equality Toolbox Introduction
2025-10-16 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Moscow)
AI & Equality partnered with the Chilean Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial, CENIA, to co-construct a Latin American Spanish language version of the validated <AI & Equality> Toolbox, with use cases relevant to the regional experience.

The partnership builds on the learnings from the workshop structure and outreach from the African <AI & Equality> Toolbox.

Translating and adapting tools like the <AI & Equality> 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.

3PM ET | 10AM Santiago
Register here
