A+ Alliance

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

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.

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.

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

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 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: 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: 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)

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: 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

Feminist AI Research Network Global Webinars
2023-08-21 15:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
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 throughout 2023-2024.
In our first session, we’ll be delving into Feminist AI Frameworks I : Towards a feminist framework for developing AI: from principles to practice with Derechos Digitales & friends

MENA Hub Third network meeting "Feminist Phenomenology and Applied AI examples in MENA”
2023-08-02 15:30 - 16:30 (Europe/Moscow)
Joining us in our webinar as a speaker is Aliah Yacoub, an AI and Philosophy scholar. She is currently the head of techQualia at Synapse Analytics. Her research interests include employing existential phenomenology to explore the dynamic entanglement of body and mind in consciousness, machine sentience, and artificial cognition.
In this webinar, Aliah will be discussing the connection of feminism, social justice, and AI in the region from a philosophical point of view. She will also provide examples of the challenges associated with the use of applied AI in the region and the role of feminist theoretical frameworks in promoting gender equality and mitigating discrimination and biases.
Registeration link: https://aucegypt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvf-qsqjwtHNOG7ccJjwPIUrgDFTzJuI82

La Independiente: Gender perspectives in AI crowd work
2023-07-27 10:00 - 13:00, 2023-07-26 10:00 - 2023-07-27 13:00 UTC
In order to function, algorithms require millions of labeled training data to learn, recognize and categorize information. This labeling is often done by crowd workers who are neglected in system designs and whose well being is seldom considered. Latin American and Caribbean workers have been identified as significant crowd work contributors depending on crowd work as a steady source of income. However most studies on crowd work center around Western women and fail to take into account the personal and professional advancement of Latin American women.
PIT Policy are holding a forum on feminist design with crowdworkers, platforms and experts discussing what needs to change and what can be done to improve the quality of experience for AI crowd workers in LAC and throughout the globe.
Crowd Work Platform Forum: Policy Perspectives Forum

Day One Wednesday 26th, July 2023, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Mexico City time

Day Two Thursday 27th, July 2023, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Mexico’s City time

Format: Online (Zoom)

To confirm your participation, please register here

Alliance @RightsCon
2023-06-05 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Costa Rica, Costa Rica
We’ll be attending RightsCon with much of our leadership, many of our colleagues, discussing Digital Rights issues and their intersection with Feminist AI…as well as celebrating with co-leaders of the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms – Tecnologico de Costa Rica !

AI Transparency Resolution Strategy Session
2023-06-04 15:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Costa Rica, Costa Rica
A strategy session with allies to discuss the proposed draft.
Resolution on Upholding the Human Right to Transparency in Algorithmic Decision-Making: Empowering Individuals to Know When Their Lives Are Impacted by Automated Systems.

Alliance Leadership Retreat
2023-06-01 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Chachagua, Costa Rica

AI4D: Gender & Climate Change
2023-05-25 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris)
Gender Justice / Climate Justice approaches. What mitigation and adaptation strategies and innovations are needed?

f< A+I >r Dinner with Subgrantees & Allies @RightsCon
2023-05-23 00:00 - 03:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Costa Rica, Costa Rica

7th ASIA Network Meting
2023-05-15 20:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
The upcoming ASIA Network Meeting will feature the winning team of the recently concluded Feminist AI Hackathon, which has held last March. The team, consisting of a recent Bachelor’s graduate in psychology from Chulalongkorn University and a high school student from Boston, Massachusetts, will talk about their project, “Eudaimonium”, an app that follows the feminist principles outlined in our Project.

The talk will take place on Monday, May 15, 2023, from 8 pm to 9 pm Thailand time (UTC +7) on Zoom. Details are available in the next poster:

Fair Webinar: Procurement
2023-05-04 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
What would open, inclusive and gender responsive AI procurement policies look like? And how could they help jumpstart a new innovation economy that finally might harness the intellectual capital of <50% of the population?

AI4D: Gender & Agriculture
2023-04-27 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris)
What are the problems? Where are the gaps? How can it help women and men in the field?

Meet our new f<a+i>r cohort of papers & prototypes
2023-04-13 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
Our newest f<a+i>r cohort of papers & prototypes from around the world have begun their work are ready to share their research questions and mission with you!

Feminist AI : Where have we been this year, what have we built, and how are we going forward - Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro
2023-03-22 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris) | Allies in Practice
https://pretalx.com/mozilla-festival-2023/talk/WGU3RP/

fr Prototypes: The Feminist AI Research Network Great Reveal - Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro
2023-03-22 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris) | Autonomy & Governance
https://pretalx.com/mozilla-festival-2023/talk/XZURXJ/

Decolonialism, Feminism & AI - Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro
2023-03-21 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
https://pretalx.com/mozilla-festival-2023/talk/T3PHNK/

AI4D: Gender, AI, and New STEM strategies
2023-03-16 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris)
From distance learning to gamification, what is the newest research on including girls in STEM, including Teacher Ed and Lifelong Kindergarten / Scratch for low resource environments.

<AI & Equality> Inclusive Human Rights Frameworks for New Technologies
2023-03-09 14:30 - 16:00 UTC
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?

Algorithmic Decision Making: Call for Expressions of Interest
2023-02-14
Algorithmic Decision Making systems are being used around the globe. What are new models for delivering and deploying more effective social protection? How can AI with its big data capacity and new social science collaborate “to ensure a higher standard of living for the vulnerable and disadvantaged, to devise new ways of caring for those who have been left behind, and more effective techniques for addressing the needs of those who are struggling to enter or re-enter the labour market” ? Join us to hear about our Call.
This call focuses on Algorithmic Decision Making Systems (ADMs) in LAC, SEA and MENA for those whose municipalities and countries currently use ADMs and also for those whose municipalities and countries currently contemplate their use.
Led by the <A+> Alliance, a network of technologists, academics & activists working together to ensure new algorithmic systems do not embed already biased systems into our collective futures, our mission is to explore new models that reach beyond mitigation of bias and correct for historic inequity in order to help ensure a more fair, just and inclusive collective future for all.
DUE DATE FOR APPLICATIONS EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 14 2023! APPLY NOW!

Call for Expressions of Interest Papers:
Proof of Concept for NEW models of ADMs delivery that could address:

Social Service Allocation

Housing lotteries
School allocation
Aid to families with children
Pension allocation

Sector Specific Innovation

Health
Financial credit scoring
Energy sharing
Commons or collective models of governance

Call for Expression of Interest Policies:
Automated Decision Making Policy based on 21st century social science best practices:

Procurement processes
Government transparency laws
Algorithmic auditing
Open government and community based co-creation of ADMs,etc.

Call for Expression of Interest PROTOTYPES:
Prototypes: Past the proof of concept phase and ready to be built and deployed
These prototypes will provide a NEW model of ADMs delivery and have a strong interdisciplinary team inclusive of a social scientist, technologist, community organisers, and a collaboration with or proposed with a municipality to test the prototype.

The Call for Expressions of Interest is part of the f<a+i>r feminist AI research network, supported by IDRC, a three-year initiative (2021-2024) to research and create new algorithmic and social science models that enhance intersection with core public policy agendas in the Global South.

Fair Prototypes: The Feminist AI Research Network Great Reveal
2023-02-09 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
Meet, discuss, try, question, contribute to the three f<a+i>r Feminist AI Research Network Prototypes developed from papers in 2022 and now built and delivered in February 2023. Meet the activist teams and their practical, applied, and potentially world changing feminist creations. Help us improve, spread the word, iterate, replicate and share!
INSIDE:

Data Género’s AymurAI Automation Tools towards a Feminist Judiciary Reform in Argentina and Mexico
Via Libre’s tool to overcome and democratize technical barriers for bias assessment in human language technologies
Derechos Digitales’ Feminist framework for AI development: from principles to practice,

These are amazing projects built by 3 mighty Latin American NGOs.
For more info on the projects:
Explainers:
AymurAI http://e.google.com/file/d/1xxz5g562J_ZM3zecY0VmXfHfO53Tggaj/view
Via Libre https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OSjGBc7oFRhuVGPbk-U4sWnWGh432ZuT/view
Derechos Digitales https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5pMd6ys22yU
Original Papers:
Data Género https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VKeeSdJz6-8DoEbetQ8f1wTH1ORqvIXV/view?usp=sharing
Via Libre https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ppdf6K8p4rYv5U-MLUql4o7fwTpoKheW/view?usp=sharing
Derechos Digitales https://www.derechosdigitales.org/wp-content/uploads/Fair_Doc_Eng.pdf
Not only do we live and breathe this subject, but these three activist organizations are bringing some world changing ideas and feminist principles to the table. Socialising the idea of Feminist AI designed with inclusion at the core of the code, and building prototypes with concrete research that needs to be shared in order to be used, improved, iterated, replicated, and inspire the the inter-disciplinary, inter-regional inter-operative collaborations needed to bring the technology we need in order to leave no one behind.
We actively work daily with a large global multi disciplinary team ranging from Bangkok to Cairo, Geneva to Mexico City and San Jose with fellow travellers in Manila, Jakarta, Kampala, Dakar, Abuja, Cape Town, and Buenos Aires from computer science, machine learning, NLP, anthropology, economics, behavioural psychology, STS, social work, development and activists in indigenous rights, workers rights, and women’s rights.. We are social scientists, technologists, policy wonks, and activists.
