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Global VoicesGlobal Voices 20th anniversary. <a href="https://mstdn.social/@globalvoices" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@globalvoices</a> Our mission in 32 languages. Thanks to Gina Yauri for the video. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a>

Ecologia Digital<a href="https://mstdn.social/@globalvoices" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@globalvoices</a> Does <a href="https://mato.social/tags/GlobalVoices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalVoices</a> play a role in shaping a <a href="https://mato.social/tags/betterInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#betterInternet</a> for the future? Absolutely. As an <a href="https://mato.social/tags/institution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#institution</a>, it serves as a vital hub of knowledge, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges the Internet presents for the greater good. I believe <a href="https://mato.social/tags/GVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVO</a> should embrace <a href="https://mato.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a>, leveraging its potential to build and nurture a global community of internet activism. <a href="https://mato.social/tags/gvsummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gvsummit2024</a> <a href="https://social.coop/@ethanz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ethanz</a>

Ethan ZuckermanRather than having one artificial intelligence, we should have multiple different intelligences, contextually designed to the interests of different indigenous communities, argues Dr. Llanes-Ortiz. 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. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a>

Ethan ZuckermanDr Tochi talks about the problems with language models based on majority languages. A language like IsiZulu includes clicks - models to transcribe languages don’t know how to process the clicks because they’re mostly been trained on languages that don’t have that syllable. Making AI work for us would require shaping data sets to include minority languages. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a>

Ethan ZuckermanGenner notes that as someone who’s both an indigenous person and an anthropologist, it’s easy to see a colonialist logic in the ways data is being extracted by AI companies. Colonialism extracted written data and found ways to appropriate cultural material. If we’re not conscious, we are allowing the global “hyperscalar” companies to engage in similar acts of colonialism. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/gvsummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gvsummit2024</a>

Global Voices“Issue of digital sovereignty: how do we prevent scraping of our data?” Genner Lianes-Ortiz“Even the data of those unconnected [from the internet in India] is being taken. Everything’s being datafied…It’s dangerous in the hands of those who will use the data to control us.” Osama ManzarPutting the “we” in AI <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artificialintelligence</a>

Ethan ZuckermanAI is not new, Genner Llanes-Ortiz argues - it had a wave of interest from the 1950s - 1970s, and now has re-emerged as a topic of interest. What’s different now is massive models that are only as good as the data they feed on. 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. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a>

Global Voices“How do our communities deal with the wide range of AI technologies?” Malka Older“Positive side: AI has helped in transcription and translation of indigenous languages” Dr Tochi PreciousPutting the “we” in AI <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artificialintelligence</a>

Ethan ZuckermanThe 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 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a>‘

Ethan ZuckermanOsama Manzar points us to recent Indian headlines about AI: “An algorithm pronounced them dead, and they had to prove they were alive”. Unlike past tech, AI is highly extractive, and potentially highly harmful. 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. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GVsummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVsummit2024</a>

Ethan ZuckermanDr. 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. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GVsummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVsummit2024</a>

Ethan ZuckermanDr. Tochi Precious notes that there’s a strong positive for language activists in encountering AI: OpenAI’s Whisper has made it possible to process hours of audio from endangered language within minutes. Mozilla’s Common Voice uses AI to build data sets for speech recognition. All this leads to revitalization of threatened languages. She references Duolingo as an AI-powered app that is helping preserve marginalized languages. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GVsummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVsummit2024</a>

Ethan ZuckermanFilip Noubel notes that Chinese donations to European museums is erasing Tibetan and Mongolian history and replacing it with a Han chauvinist version… this is the history European children are learning and will shape their visions of the world going forward <a href="https://social.coop/tags/gvsummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gvsummit2024</a>

Global Voices“Disappointment in Central Europe when projects don’t happen. More positive in Central Asia where China is replacing Russia’s influence in the region.” Filip Noubel“In Congo, China’s works are threatening indigenous people in the forests. In Gabon and other countries, there is fear that China is involved in deforestation.” Desire NimubonaLooming large: China’s effects on the world <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateJustice</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a><a href="https://globalvoices.org/special/climate-justice-fellowship/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://globalvoices.org/special/climate-justice-fellowship/</a>

Global Voices📍Panel: What is Wikimedia? How it is powering language reclamation?🗨️ "Our Ekpeye project was created to claim our identity via Wikimedia commons" - Franca Umasoyae<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a>

Ethan ZuckermanChina has more than 10,000 companies working Cameroon, particularly in mines and forests. In Congo-Brazzaville, Chinese efforts have threatened indigenous people’s livelihoods, sending people deeper into the forest. In Gabon, there’s evidence that China is working with a coup government to commit deforestation. Desire Nimubona notes that he’s only about to cover China in Africa on a continental level, because the patterns of involvement become clear when you look at a broad scale. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/gvsummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gvsummit2024</a>

Ethan ZuckermanBYD, the Chinese electric car brand, has been wildly successful in Brazil… and the electric car market grew by 91% in Brazil last year. Lais Martins explains that BYD was smart enough to buy a product placement in Brazil’s biggest soap opera… and the brand is well enough liked that government attempts to put tariffs on Chinese vehicles are unpopular.. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a>

Ethan ZuckermanFilip Noubel argues that there’s a balance between “panda-hugging” (uncritically parroting the administrations) and Sinophobia. He notes that there are multiple Chinas as well, and that navigating these landscapes requires an enormous amount of knowledge… which is hard to get without becoming so close to China that you have a difficult time criticizing the government. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/gvsummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gvsummit2024</a>

Global Voices“For climate and environmental justice, China is a conundrum - seen as enabler but holding back local industry.” Lais Martins“In Nepal, positive perception generally but once its programs are visible there is widespread discussion.” Amish Ram MulmiLooming large: China’s effects on the world <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GVSummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVSummit2024</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateJustice</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a>

Ethan ZuckermanRoad building is a major issue in Nepal - Nepal badly needs a more robust road network. But roads are building fast and cheaply, and aren’t designed for climate resilience. Rainfall in Kathmandu flooded most homes last year - Nepal needs help building infrastructures that can survive the changing climate. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GVsummit2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GVsummit2024</a>

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