Applications are open through Feb 17 for PhD students and early career researchers from selected African countries for the Artificial Intelligence for Development scholarships from ACTS. These scholarships are for scholars to advance their skills in AI and machine learning research: acts-net.org/ai4d-scholarsh…

Here's a great #CfP by Weizenbaum-Institut for scholars and artists on "Practicing #sovereignty. Interventions for #open #digital futures"! Perhaps will hand in something myself🤔Submissions due 15 February. Read more: weizenbaum-conference.de/call-for-paper… Jan Krewer Daniel Brumund Nora Al-Badri Julia Kloiber @[email protected]

This is EU bubble humor at its finest! There’s a Spotify #DSA Playlist by no other than Thierry Breton (ok if we’re being honest his comms advisor Terence Zakka but still), with its titles lining up to a literal speech. I can’t. open.spotify.com/playlist/68ZMg…

Great #job opportunity with Holistic AI: Researcher #AI - Law, Regulations, Policy, and #Ethics (PhD required)👉holisticai.com/careers/ Ben Wagner | Mastodon: eupolicy.social/@benwagner do you know someone?

Happy to speak about #EthicalAI in int'l development at the #ICT4D Partnership Conference today and share some of the experiences and steps we at FAIR Forward GIZ made towards community-led #openAI. Tune in at 3:40 pm CET! lnkd.in/dMfVHgjF

In case you ever wondered about super intelligence 👇🏽

Incredible proud to see this kicking off! Almost 3 y ago we started to explore how to build an open corpus of Kinyarwanda voice data to develop speech technology 4 digital inclusion from it. And we did so with a hackathon! Mozilla @KellyJayDavis Josh Meyer Daniel Brumund Jan Krewer

Heute ist mein Geburtstag - und ich habe einen Wunsch: Bitte spendet an diese Gruppe, die fast täglich dringend notwendige Hilfstransporte bis an die ukrainische Grenze und sichere Überfahrten für Flüchtende organisiert: paypal.com/pools/c/8I3AqT… #SupportUkraine

This! @ABaerbock

🔊 it's here! finally sharing my WIP of an 'intersectional tech policy framework.' this has been in the works for a long time, mainly in my head. thanks to Seyi Akiwowo Carys Afoko and Serena Dokuaa Oduro for eyes + feedback (of which more is welcome, pls!) temilasade.com/blog/intersect…

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Ich freue mich sehr bei D64 Female Footprints heute Abend mit Lena M. Stork (no longer on X) und Anna Lob über meine Karriere in der digitalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zu sprechen #D4D und von Julia Kloiber @[email protected]‘s Erfahrungen zu hören. Come join us! d-64.org/d64-footprints…

"You can't be what you can't see" – Vielen Dank für einen wunderbaren ersten #D64Footprints Abend mit spannenden Gesprächen an unsere Hosts Julia Kloiber @[email protected] und Lea Gimpel und unsere tollen Gäste. Freuen uns auf viele weitere gemeinsame Netzwerktreffen mit euch! #d64hurra

Sunil Abraham Balaraman Ravindran Audrey Plonk Lea Gimpel @aubra_anthony Carnegie Technology and International Affairs 🔴Live: Lea Gimpel at #GlobalTechSummit: "If you look at LLMs, they might become like a foundational infrastructure other applications are building up on, like a downstream use of those foundational models, and I think it's important that these are as open as possible to inspire