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Prediction or policing? Can algorithms be racists?
By Elisa Maria Campos The global fight against racism started several centuries back, even before we were able to make a call to invite a colleague to go on protest. … Continue reading Prediction or policing? Can algorithms be racists?
Why should you care?
I have clear in my mind the images of that day I received my first salary in life. I was just an intern at a big Publishing House in Rio de Janeiro, it was not much money, but it was mine. I called then a friend and asked him if I could bring some food to a few families at “City of God”, a famous favela in Rio (that became a prized movie later with the same name and was visited even by Barack Obama)..
When we need Humans
Take 20 minutes to retake your life purposes watching this short documentary about lost children in the largest refugee camp in Myanmar, produced by the award-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel.
How to fight gender inequality through radio speech analysis
A team of researchers of the United Nations Global Pulse Lab uses of Artificial Intelligence to track topics regarding sexual and gender-based violence through automatised radio content analysis.