Join our June 5 gLocal session on Transforming Evaluation Practice with Artificial Intelligence

Join us on June 5, 2024 – 16:00 PM Africa/Johannesburg for an exciting gLocal event featuring several esteemed colleagues in the Tech-Enabled Development space for a conversation about transforming evaluation practice through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Register here to attend.

Event description

In an era characterized by unprecedented challenges such as climate change, inequality, and security threats, the call for transformational change is louder than ever. This 2-hour webinar experience explores the pivotal role of artificial intelligence (AI) in revolutionizing evaluation practice and enhancing the capacity of practitioners to contribute effectively to transformational change. Webinar presenters and participants will dive into AI’s potential to support evaluation practitioners, participants, and consumers of evaluation, including policy makers, in leveraging the disruptive technology of artificial intelligence in the evaluation field’s efforts to contribute to transformational change.

Specifically, the webinar will convene a diverse range of young and emerging evaluators with mid-career evaluators to discuss how they are using and supporting the integration of AI in strengthening individual evaluation capacity and organization evaluation functions. The webinar will be a mixture of discussions, demos, case studies, and discussions with participants on the perils and promises of AI’s role in supporting evaluation’s ambition with transformation change. With so much hype around AI, now more than ever there is a need to support evaluators as they develop the critical literacy to balance ambition and realism with what this disruptive technology can and cannot do for the field of transformational evaluation.

Participants will learn about the fundamentals of generative AI technology, emergent fairness, accountability, transparency, and equitable (FATE) frameworks for the responsible use and integration of AI in their evaluation practice, and discover basic to advanced use cases for this technology to support transformative change through through historical and potential applications of this technology in evaluation and using evidence for transformative policy making. Case studies will be presented along with some introduction to specific tools and procedures for integrating AI into evaluation practice.

Speakers:

• Zach Tilton, Evaluation Specialist at The MERL Tech Initiative and Co-Chair of the Sandbox Working Group of the Natural Language Processing Community of Practice
• Lydiane Mbia, Young and Emerging Evaluator with a master’s in public administration from the London University of Roehampton.
• Harsh Anuj, Data Scientist with the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group
• Chineme Anowai, Assistant MEAL Officer at Preston Associates
• Theophilus Courage Gbayou, Monitoring And Evaluation Officer at National Institute for Public Opinion
• Ngesa Maturu, Senior Partnerships Manager at Rural Senses
• Mutsa Chinyamakobvu, Associate Director at Data Innovators and Deputy Chair, South African M&E Associatin

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You’ll receive a Zoom link with a calendar invitation that you can download. We hope to see you there!

📌 For more conversations like this, join almost 700 evaluators, development and humanitarian practitioners, data scientists, tech developers and others in the Natural Language Processing Community of Practice (NLP-CoP) convened by The MERL Tech Initiative.