#HolidayIsHere....
Join Watoto Watch Network in Partnership with Inspire Her Stem, Amazing Grace Center and EduTab Africa
for an exciting 3-Day Workshop on Staying Safe Online!
🗓️ Dates: 4th-6th Aug 2025
📍 Location: RAMOGI INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, KISUMU COUNTY ALONG KISUMU-KAKAMEGA HIGHWAY
🕘 Time: 8am-3pm
What’s in store?
✔ Fun lessons on how to stay safe on the internet
✔ Tips for social media and gaming safety
✔ How to report and get help online
✔ Create and play Online Safety Awareness Games
✔ Interactive activities, challenges & certificates
ENTRY FREE! Snacks & Fun Included!
For Children: 10-14 years
👉 Register Now: https://t.co/gdS2H9YjWx
#ChildOnlineProtection
Partnership on AI
Inclusive data guidelines
"Right to reasonable inference"
Use least biased algorithms
Distinguish data types
Resistance tech (Nightshade)
Harmful data uses protected
Missing stakeholders: governments
Global discourse needed
#DataEthics#Bias#Regulation
Questions:
1. How will we protect youth participants exposed to sensitive counter-terrorism issues from public retaliation or targeting?
2. How can we ensure our counter-terrorism project doesn’t unintentionally help governments target minorities, like Muslims, more effectively?
“We are failing across many metrics of privacy. LLMs rely on proprietary and public data harvested by companies for years, raising serious ethics issues. We must protect vulnerable populations.” #Privacy#Ethics#AI#LLM
Focus on marginalized communities to include folks from underrepresented groups and regions. For example: the creation of the first LLM with a focus on Black history &culture
Policy vulnerability discussion:
Commitment to Safety from big companies such as @Meta or @AnthropicAI using Policy Vulnerability Testing (PVT) with external experts. Small startup don't have the resources compared to big companies
What is PVT? “A form of in-depth qualitative testing conducted in collaboration with external subject matter experts on a variety of policy topics covered under their Usage Policy.”
“Five elements of a healthy information system
◦Identity assurance
◦Information fidelity
◦Information quality
◦Fair distribution
◦Rights and accountability”
The roundtable discussed Search functionalities and AI: balancing #humanrights & #privacy, civil society's role, fact-checking in #elections, & environmental impacts. Ensuring multilingual info & #DigitalLiteracy, addressing misinformation, & cultural heritage. #AI#Privacy
🚨HAPPENING TODAY!
AI, Search, and Democracy
A Multistakeholder roundtable to delve into what #Ai powered #technologies functionalities could mean for #democracy? We are proud to organize this event with @hrcberkeley
More Infos ⏩ https://t.co/6MccOBnvpr