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Sept 30: MTI attends FIFAFRICA

MTI’s Core Collaborator Varaidzo Matimba will be at FIFAFRICA! The Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa, hosted by Collaboration on International ICT Policy For East And Southern Africa (CIPESA), is taking place in Mauritius from September 28 to October 1st. Vari is hosting a workshop entitled “Beyond Accuracy, Beyond Borrowed: AI Evaluation Metrics That Count […]

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Oct 05: An open conversation about disclosing the use of AI – How do we do it and what are the consequences?

Anthropic’s announcement in August that they would add an invisible digital watermark to any content and metadata generated by their AI sparked quite a bit of debate, including in the MERL sector. Would this solve any of the fake “AI slop” content issues? Would this mean that those who use AI would be judged or […]

Upcoming events


Oct 28-30: Exploring AI in Evaluation and Evaluation of AI at the 2026 European Evaluation Society (EES) Conference 

Join MTI and MERL Tech Community of Practice members at the European Evaluation Society Conference in Lille, France, from October 28-30.

Nov 04: Book Launch of “From Algorithms to Evidence: Using GenAI in Evaluation Practice”

The MERL Tech Community of Practice is proud to host the online launch of “From Algorithms to Evidence: Using GenAI in Evaluation Practice”, a new book edited by Kerry Bruce, Valentine J Gandhi, and Steffen Bohni Nielsen. Join us on November 04, at 12pm New York/5pm London.