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SUMMARY:Moving Beyond Big Tech: Blueprints for Community-Led Language AI with Claudia Pozo | AI & Equality Pub-Talk
DESCRIPTION:Paper: TBD (available in June) \nThe digital world suffers from a profound linguistic disparity\, particularly in Africa where a lack of local language content and traditional\, Global North-led language technology models fail to meet community needs\, often resulting in data extraction and inequitable solutions. In an 18-month research project\, in collaboration with the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)\, we highlight a powerful alternative: a growing grassroots movement of community-based language technology initiatives across Africa that adopt a bottoms-up approach\, prioritizing local needs and incorporating indigenous philosophies. This approach centers technology as an act of collective creation and community survival\, yet it faces significant challenges\, including a heavy reliance on Global North funding that can conflict with goals for self-determination and critical concerns around data governance and ownership in regions with underdeveloped legal frameworks. Ultimately\, the research advocates for a fundamental shift in technological practice to support these community-centered development models\, providing blueprints for the Global Majority to decolonize AI. \nAbout the speaker:\nClaudia Pozo is Language Justice Co-Lead at Whose Knowledge? She’s a South American brown feminist\, multifaceted activist\, researcher\, social scientist and strategist\, whose work is grounded in knowledge and language justice. She holds an MPhil in Development Studies and a BA in Communications. \n\n\nRegister here via our community on Circle
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