Ushahidi

Before building AI that claims to speak for communities, ask: who gets to challenge what it says?

If nobody in the community can, don't build it yet.

Our Executive Director, @AngieNicoleOD, made this point at #MozFest.

Tomorrow's the day, Oxford!

We're bringing the emerging Data Is Destiny framework on governing community-generated data in the age of AI to Green Templeton College for a public discussion.

Workshop findings, a panel and an open conversation about the questions still unresolved.

What does responsible platform design look like in practice?

On 21 August, we partnered with @UNESCO & @FECoMo_Kenya to bring Kenyan developers, designers and founders together to co-design a Human Rights Impact Assessment tool, focusing on algorithmic risks and data protection.

Who should govern community data when it is used to train AI? We explore this and more in Oxford on 6 Nov, with Hawi Rapudo, Florence Elizabeth Mugure, Lea Gimpel, Diana Rounce, E. M. Lewis Jong, and Angela Oduor Lungati.

Register to join us in Oxford: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/event/ushahidi…

In April, we tested five licensing models for community-generated data. None were fully acceptable.

On Nov 6, we're taking our draft Data Commons governance framework to Oxford for scrutiny before community validation in Nairobi.

Join us: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/event/ushahidi…