Events

Jul 083:00 pm - 4:00 pm

AI & Equality Community Open Studio

SafeHER with Hazel Biana

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SafeHER is an app designed for women transit users in Manila, the Philippines, based on their lived experiences and needs. It provides tools such as SOS alert, live location sharing, scream detection, and a buddy system to enhance their safety on public transport.

Jul 022:00 pm - 5:00 pm

AI & Equality Summer School

We’re excited to bring you our free Human Rights Toolbox course, available for the first time as a fully accompanied learning experience.

• Duration: 4 weeks    
• 3 Hours of Study   
• 100% Online   
• Live tutoring and  directed learning
• Weekly check-ins+troubleshooting  with tutors and peers

More information here

Jun 252:30 pm - 4:00 pm

f< A+I >r Global Wrap Up

Networks, Papers, Prototypes & Pilots

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This wrap-up conversation brings together the F< A+I >r  network Hub Leaders from LAC, MENA and Asia in conversation with two of their regional projects which have been part of the f<a+i>r Feminist AI Research Network, ​featuring new movement, new alliances, new prototypes & new methods for a more accountable, gender responsive and responsible AI. 

• Soraj Hogladarom, Asia Hub leader in conversation with Hazel Biana on SafeHer and Paula Banerjee on ASEAN Trafficking.
• Nagla Rizk, MENA Hub leader in conversation with Marwa Soudi on AI Tutoring in Upper Egypt Community Schools, and Laila Sakr on Feminist Arab NLP.
• Paola Ricaurte Quijano, LAC Hub leader in conversation with Beatriz Busaniche on E.D.I.A. – a democratizing debiasing NLP tool, and Ivana Feldfeber on AymurAI.

Moderated by Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, <A+> Alliance Co-Founder, Global F<A+I>r network

Jun 243:00 pm

AI & Equality Community Ambassador Book Talk

The Good Robot:Why Technology Needs Feminism

with Kerry McInerney (Anthology Editor)

On the A&Equality Circle Community

What is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists.

Jun 133:00 pm - 4:30 pm

f< A+I >r Global Webinar

NLP Language & Locality

Join us with f<A+I>r researchers exploring NLP in Thai, Latin American Spanish, Aramaic and Arabic

Join us: bit.ly/GlobalWebinar2024_3

Jun 104:00 pm - 5:00 pm

AI & Equality Ambassador Book Talk: Gender Reboot

Gender Reboot: Reprogramming Gender Rights in the Age of AI, By Eleonore Fornier-Tombs

Our first AI & Equality Circle Community Ambassador Book Talk. 

Ambassador Book Talks are conversations with authors of recently published books that wrestle with our themes of AI & Equality in all its forms.

Jun 05 - Jun 06All Day

Technology & Innovation for Gender Equality Action Coalition Retreat

2024 Retreat – Istanbul

Jun 033:00 pm - 4:30 pm

fA+Ir Global Webinar

Incubating Feminist AI Prototypes

Featuring new movements, new alliances, new prototypes & new methods from the f<a+i>r Feminist AI Research Network.

Featuring:
– Prototyping AI Tutoring Systems in Upper Egypt, Water Resource Management with Indigenous Yaqui Community in Mexico
– Piloting with SafeHer in Manila, SOF + IA in Santiago, and E.D.I.A. and AymurAI in Buenos Aires.

Join us: bit.ly/GlobalWebinar2024_9

May 311:00 pm - 1:45 pm

AI4Good

AI to Bridge Gender Gap

SDG Stage, Centre International de Conférences Genève, Rue de Varembé 17, 1202 Genève, Switzerland

Opening Remarks: Ms. Doreen Bogdan – Martin, ITU Secretary General.

Panel:  

• Helene Molinier: Senior Advisor on Digital Cooperation and the Thematic Lead for the GEF Action Coalition on Innovation and Technology at UN Women.
• Caitlin Kraft Buchman: CEO/Founder of Women at the Table, and Co-Founder of the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms.
• Laura Turkington: Heads the EY Global Corporate Responsibility Commercial and Innovation team, leading EY’s global social impact portfolio.
• Aileen Black: A highly respected IT industry executive and general manager with a dynamic record of driving exponential growth results in public sector organizations.
• Sharmista Appaya: Global Lead, AI and Data Innovation at the World Bank Group.
• Mia Shah-Dand: a social entrepreneur, technologist, and educator who advises large organizations on the responsible adoption of new and emerging technologies.

Moderator: Ms. Sylvia Poll, Head, Digital Society Division, BDT, ITU.

The session will be livestreamed on the AI for Good Neural Network to over 25k users and recorded.

May 2910:00 am - 11:00 am

WSIS. World Benchmarking Alliance panel