On May 15, 2025, the AI in Africa MERL Working Group at the Natural Language Processing Community of Practice (NLP-CoP) hosted a powerful virtual meeting to reignite momentum and collaboration within the working group. Since then, we’ve been conducting a landscape study through continued conversations with members to better understand the needs, gaps, and priorities […]

This month, the Ethics and Governance Working Group (EGWG) at the Natural Language Processing Community of Practice (NLP-CoP) is hosting a meeting focused on the use of AI tools by research respondents. We’ll discuss how this impacts qualitative research, researchers themselves, but also acknowledging respondent agency, and long-standing issues with ‘authenticity’ and power within research relationships.