🧵"I have always believed that it represents what is good about the internet. My belief in GV’s legacy was reaffirmed during the #GVSummit2024 which inspired us to reflect about the power of community and collaboration."
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A so anticipated and wonderful gathering with some of the amazing people of @globalvoices.bsky.social in #Kathmandu celebrating GV's 20th birthday. 🎂
I'm leaving Nepal today with my heart full of joy and good memories of GV and this beautiful country and its peoples.
Namaste!
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I am back home after attending the exhilarating @globalvoices.bsky.social summit, onboard a 34 hours long bus journey from Kathmandu to Delhi to Dehradun. I am done with travels this year. Though I still have another academic conf to attend in Andhra Pradesh I might skip it. #GVsummit2024
I spoke my native lect for the first time in front of an audience in this session and it was fun! Thanks @ethanz.bsky.social for capturing the entire session so beautifully. #gvsummit2024
I am so happy that I could be here in Kathmandu for Global Voices 20 years celebration.. Happy Birthday @globalvoices.bsky.social #GVSummit2024
"20 language activists take the stage in #Nepal at the 2024 Global Voices Summit to talk about language promotion efforts." - @ethanz.bsky.social
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See also PoSR.org theory #gvsummit2024
I would argue that this is an ongoing issue and has been even before the Internet age. Culture and context matter. Hire Anthropologists. #gvsummit2024
📌We need to consider past evidence of AI misuse to mitigate the negative consequences of this technology. @older.bsky.social
📍Panel “Putting the “we” in AI. #GVSummit2024
These systems need to have respect, reciprocity and rationality - those are important to any efforts for indigenous technologies. And we need to feed models a “healthy data diet”, not necessarily the most material, but the right material, including place-based knowledge. #GVSummit2024
In the Media Dialogue workshop participants defined dialogue as Respect, Co-powering, Accountability, Intercultural Integration, Translation.
What does dialogue mean to you?
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They train models with majority languages. Nobody should left behind -- Dr. Tochi Precious.
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Making AI work for us would require shaping data sets to include minority languages. #GVSummit2024
In India 70% of the people are not internet users but their data was upload by the government. Now they have the right but not the access to digital information. Osama Manzar.
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If we’re not conscious, we are allowing the global “hyperscalar” companies to engage in similar acts of colonialism. #gvsummit2024
“We are still on theme to cut the negative consequences of the AI.” Genner Llanes Ortiz.
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Some of this data acquisition is highly unethical and generated in the Streeview model: get it before anyone realizes you are getting it. And so the data is dirty and problematic until companies are forced to clean it up. #GVSummit2024
Dr. Torchi Precious is using AI to create content, educational material and application to raise the language of her community.
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Osama Manzar’s view about AI:
📌Data is the power of AI.
📌AI is not an archive.
📌Anything positive about AI is marketing.
📌The technology of AI is in the hands of those in power extracting data from those connected and disconnected
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The consumer way of looking at AI is the most dangerous perspective. Not only do we become dependent on it, but we are less critical of the ways AI is going to be used to control us argues Osama Manzar at #GVSummit2024
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In #AI, there is hardly any data justice. Data is being taken from those who are connected and from those who are not connected… and those who are unconnected suffer the most from these systems: Osama Manzar, DEF, India #GVSummit2024
We need to understand when taking data is justifiable and consensual. Right now, there is hardly any data justice around AI. And data is being taken from those who are connected and those who are unconnected… and those who are unconnected suffer the most from these systems. #GVsummit2024
Dr. Genner Llanes-Ortiz raises the issue of data sovereignty in the context of AI. While he admires the systems Tochi describes, he is concerned that language data is being scraped and ingested, not always with the consent of indigenous people whose data is being used. #GVsummit2024
"Putting 'We' in #AI" - I'm attending #GVSummit2024 session moderated by @globalvoices.bsky.social ED Malka Older, Osama Manzar, Dr Tochi Precious & Genner Llanes-Ortiz.
Media Dialogue: we hear about ongoing projects such as Agéncia Mûral, journalism agency working with/from favelas (low-income) communities in São Paulo, Brazil: agenciamural.org.br
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All this leads to revitalization of threatened languages. She references Duolingo as an AI-powered app that is helping preserve marginalized languages. #GVsummit2024
Excited for a closing panel by our new executive director Malka Older on Putting the “we” in AI #GVSummit2024
