On July 14, 2026, at 11am ET / 4pm BST / 5pm CAT / 6pm EAT, the Africa AI Learning Group at the Natural Language Processing Community of Practice (NLP-CoP) will convene a special World Café working session

Data center proposals worth $64 billion have been blocked or delayed by strident civil society organizing across the United States in 2026. But the AI infrastructure boom is showing no signs of slowing down. So if not in the US, where are Big Tech companies taking this vital piece of the AI supply chain? Northeast […]

This 2-day free in-person workshop will equip participants to think critically about AI, evaluate where it genuinely adds value to MERL workflows, and apply it responsibly. We will cover two key aspects: 1) how to apply AI to support tasks along the MERL lifecycle, and 2) how to conduct MERL of AI-enabled efforts (such as chatbots in health or agriculture).