Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law
Strathmore University's Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law runs several projects, including Mapping Policy and Capacity for AI Development in Africa, which investigates the intersections of AI and gender, climate, and development on the African continent.
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Thayù
Thayù is a multi-disciplinary artist who eagerly embraces both existing and emerging technologies and is particularly fascinated by the ever-evolving realm of AI. Thayù is also the founder of Creatives Garage, a multi-disciplinary arts organization that has provided support to more than 14,000 creatives since its inception. Thayù constantly explores new methods and tools to effectively share the rich and diverse African narrative. Creatives Garage is a 2024 Mozilla Africa Innovation Mradi Research Grants awardee.
Economic Justice Human Rights ActorDr. Luis Felipe R. Murillo
Dr. Luis Felipe R. Murillo is assistant professor in anthropology at University of Notre Dame. His work examines practices of collaboration in moral economies of computing. Across several research projects within and beyond the Global North, Dr. Murillo's work investigates how social movements and science and technology experts design and implement open technologies as responses to pressing social, political, and environmental issues.
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Cathy O'Neil
Cathy O'Neil has written extensively about problems with using AI in a criminal justice context, as with bail-setting algorithms used by the City of Philadelphia. Her book, "Weapons of Math Destruction," is an early and widely-cited source on these issues. O'Neil is CEO of O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing (ORCAA).
Americas ActorData for Black Lives
Data for Black Lives (D4BL) is "a movement of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people." Amongst its many projects, the nonprofit led efforts to pressure states to release COVID data broken out by race to better illustrate its impacts, and it maintains a list of that states wouldn't track.
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