Community Call – AI Series | Episode 1: Defining Innovation as a Global Maker Community

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In this session, we will explore what innovation means within the global maker community. Makers, known for their creativity and resourcefulness, push context and needs driven boundaries of traditional craftsmanship and technology. We will collectively map how diverse local infrastructures and needs; cultural perspectives and open collaboration are shaping the definition of innovation and how this impacts our engagements with AI. 

Kersti Ruth (Cultiva Lab) – Moderator

Kersti is the founder of Cultiva Lab, where she brings her twenty years of experience in working with participatory approaches to shape inclusive and sustainable digital transformation into dialogue with feminist ecology approaches.

Gilberto Vieira

Gilberto is the director and co-founder of data_labe (datalabe.org), a citizen-generated data laboratory about Brazilian favelas. Gilberto is also a Ph.D. student in Urban Studies and has been researching the centrality of urban peripheries in the era of data coloniality.

Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou

A Cameroonian scientist, holds a PhD in Public Communication from Laval University, Canada. With a theoretical grounding in decolonial studies and STS approaches, he is interested in the uses of responsible artificial intelligence in the service of the common good. Dr Thomas Mboa is currently Researcher in Residence at the International Centre of Expertise In Montreal on Artificial Intelligence (CEIMIA), where his main mission is to put in place mechanisms to ensure a better inclusion and representation of Africa in the international ecosystem of Artificial Intelligence. To his record, Thomas Mboa has several publications and keynotes.