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في عام 1999 بدأت رحلة ريادة المستقبل التي استهلّها صاحب السمو الشيخ محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم عبر إطلاق مسيرة دبي للتحول الإلكتروني التي توالت إنجازاتها حتى إطلاق استراتيجية دبي الرقمية العام الماضي.. وحققنا إنجازات قياسية جعلتنا الموطن الأول للشركات المليارية العالمية في قطاع

Why did OpenAI use Scarlett Johansson's voice? As Jessa Lingel & I discuss in our journal article on AI agents, there's a long history of using white women's voices to “personalize” a technology to make it feel safe and non-threatening while it is capturing maximum data. 🧵

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming release of the book “BEYOND THE COLONIALITY OF INTERNATIONALISM: Reworlding the World from the Global South” by Prof Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Ga. Read more here bookshop.codesria.org/index.php/prod…

HUMA in collaboration with the #MPDProgram (Mellon Foundation Pipeline Development program) is hosting a postgraduate workshop on #AcademicSelfProfiling & Academic Presentation for PhD Candidates & MA students, encouraging participants to be intentional & approach it reflexively.

📢Call for applications!📢 The Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC) is providing support for 6 at-risk Sudanese PhD students 🇸🇩🇳🇴 👇For full details and to apply visit 👇cmi.no/projects/2942-… #KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan #Research @NorwayAmbSudan | UN Women Africa

USF using AI to help combat malaria in Africa usf.edu/news/2024/usf-…

اعتمدنا اليوم تعيين 22 رئيساً تنفيذياً للذكاء الاصطناعي في حكومة دبي.. ضمن رؤية مستقبلية محورها تعزيز الاستفادة من الذكاء الاصطناعي في تطوير العمل الحكومي، ودعم تجربة حكومة دبي في هذا المجال ونقلها إلى آفاق جديدة ترسخ ريادتها عالمياً في ابتكار الحلول القائمة على التكنولوجيا

If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation.

Learn about the dangers of facial recognition surveillance! Imagine being wrongfully accused of being a shoplifter and banned from a store and affiliates. This is a growing reality across the UK and other parts of the world. Check out crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-facial-…

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I will now attempt to explain what’s happening in Sudan so everyone can understand why we are saying to free them (a 🧵):

📢New Brief Many in #Sudan still deny that #DomesticViolence exists in the country, despite clear and extensive evidence. 🇸🇩 👇Read more on what is causing this denial 🔗 cmi.no/r/pxdhw #Africa #KeepEyesOnSudan @NorwayAmbSudan | UN Women Africa | Reem

Four #HUMATeam members, @DomSomda, Fanidh Sanogo, Amina Soulimani & Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed (joining virtually) are at the Digitalisation, AI & #FeministFutures Conference, organized by the Feminist Africa & IFJP in #Maputo, Mozambique Full conference program:drive.google.com/file/d/1vZsc6V…

I’ve been overwhelmed by the response to my forthcoming book The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality. For those of you asking about pre-orders, please use this link: politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo….

The #HUMATeam is currently at the first #DisobedienceWorkshop of the year with a main focus on Francis Nyamnjoh’s (HUMA Academic Board Chair) thinking around Incompleteness & conviviality.

Disobedience Workshops convene researchers working with theory to learn from each other. These fall within HUMA’s objectives to generate and establish #newknowledge & #epistemiccommunities through networks, interdisciplinary conversations and intergenerational transmissions.

Netsu and I wrote this short essay in loving Tizita of our dear Centime who we miss so very much. We thank African arguments for asking us to share our account of her as a mentor and an intellectual we look up to. Special thanks are due to @MakawiRaga

We celebrated today with joy, laughter, and a thought-provoking #discussion the launch of Carlos Lopes's book | The Self-Deception Trap: Exploring the Economic Dimensions of Charity Dependency within Africa-Europe: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

We concluded the #AI and the future of hospital care in Africa Workshop aiming to produce an edited collection by Taah Abongnelaa Divine Fuh & Fanny Chabrol on “Artificial Intelligence and Future Hospital Ethnographies.” Funded by: National Research Foundation of South Africa Wenner-Gren Foundation France in South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi Carnegie Corporation of New York & GRIP

The ASAA announces call for papers, panels, workshops, films etc for the #ASAA2025 biennial conference in #Cabo_Verde as-aa.org/index.php/in-t… Toussaint M. Murhula, S.J. Taah Abongnelaa Divine Fuh Mjiba Frehiwot💜💜💜💜💜 Kwesi B Akosua Adomako Ampofo #StopGalamseyNow