December DFL Community Call: Alan Turing Institute
Anne Lee Steele and Jennifer Ding will present open, participatory approaches to data stewardship, drawing from their experiences working with projects like BigScience, BigCode, and The Turing Way.
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Watch previous events
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Community CallLuiz Neves: StopClub (Brazil)
StopClup is a Brazilian app that centers drivers' needs and labor rights by providing them with tools that enable them to make more informed decisions about what rides they accept.
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Community CallKasia Chmielinski, Matt Taylor & Sarah Newman: The Data Nutrition Project
The Data Nutrition Project aims to build labels that highlight the key ingredients in a dataset such as meta-data and populations, as well as unique or anomalous features regarding distributions, missing data, and comparisons to other ‘ground truth’ datasets.
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Community CallVía Libre: EDIA (Stereotypes and Discrimination in AI)
Researchers from Fundación Vía Libre (Argentina) presented EDIA, a project that allows social scientists and domain experts in Latin America to explore biases and discriminatory stereotypes present in word embeddings and language models.
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Community CallAnne Kim & Katherine Paseman: Secure AI Labs
SAIL helps patient advocacy groups gather, manage, and permission their patient data for ethical research. They presented SAIL's work, including their recent research and insights from working with "Super Patients" and their communities in social media.
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DFL ShowcaseRegina Opondo: Kounkuey Design Initiative (Kenya)
Presenting Living Data Hubs, a community-developed and owned Internet hotspot and data-collection tool providing internet services and digital literacy to the marginalized residents in the informal settlements in Kibera in Nairobi.
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DFL ShowcaseGilberto Vieira: Data Labe (Brazil)
Presenting Cocôzap / Poopoozap, a citizen-generated data, mapping, training and advocacy on basic sanitation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
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Community CallMaximilian Gahntz: Is that even legal? A guide for builders experimenting with data governance
Presenting "Is that even legal? A guide for builders experimenting with data governance." The series discusses practical research on regulations in the U.S., India, Germany, and Kenya, and explores alternative data management avenues.
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Mozfest 20232023 Prototype Fund Cohort: Co-Created A Better Tech Future
The 2023 Data Futures Lab Prototype Fund cohort held a discussion of their unique approaches to data donations in a range of sectors including healthcare, mobility, internet measurement, and content moderation.
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Mozfest 2023Centering Communities in the Data Economy
This panel will explore that spectrum through the lens of indigenous language data, while drawing on a broader range of examples from other fields. Guests: Kathleen Siminyu, Mozilla Common Voice Fellow; Keoni Mahelona, CTO, Te Hiku Media; Timnit Gebru, Founder and Executive Director, DAIR. Moderated by J. Bob Alotta, Mozilla Foundation.
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Community CallDenise McKenzie: PLACE Data Trust
Denise McKenzie, Community and Ethics Partner at PLACE, presents their work making high-resolution mapping images accessible under a public interest legal trust.