Welcoming our new AI+Africa Lead for the NLP-CoP: Vari Matimba
We’re thrilled to welcome Varaidzo Matimba to the role of AI+Africa Lead for the Natural Language Processing Community of Practice (NLP-CoP).
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- Do you see what I see? Insights from an inclusive approach to AI ethics governance.
- New guide: key questions to ask before using GenAI for research on violence against women
- RightsCon Recap – Assessing humanitarian AI: what M&E frameworks do humanitarians need in the face of emerging AI?
- Event recap: Humans in the machine – the impact of AI on workers
- Evidence and Learning in the Context of Climate Change: Invitation to Action
- Why gender inclusion in GenAI matters now more than ever
- Join us during CSW: we’re convening two Tech Salons about the rights of women’s and girls’ online, media and online violence
- Join us on March 12th: “Tests of Large and Small Language Models on common evaluation tasks”, a webinar with Gerard Atkinson
- Technocolonialism in the age of Humanitarian AI
- Meet us (virtually!) at RightsCon next week
- Getting Real About Artificial Intelligence: GenAI, Evaluation in International Development, and the Case for Caution
- Key takeaways from our first Gender, AI and MERL Working Group meeting
- What are the potential benefits, considerations, and risks of AI for Research Funding Organisations (RFOs)?
- We Need More Design Thinking in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning. Here’s how.
- We’re hiring: Join MTI as our new AI+Africa Lead for the NLP-CoP
- Welcoming our new NLP-CoP Community Manager: Bárbara Paes
- Join us for a special NLP-CoP members-only event with: Mirca Madianou, author of Technocolonialism
- Humans in the Machine: the Impact of AI on workers – Learn More on February 6th
- Join us for the Gender, MERL and AI Working Group meeting kick-off!
- The influence of Big Tech in 2025: 8 ways civil society can prepare for the incoming US administration
- We’ve (mostly) banned AI assistants from NLP Community of Practice events. Here’s why.
- Recap: NLP-CoP 2024 year in review meeting
- Join us on Dec 12th for an NLP-CoP year-end celebration!