From vinay at aapti.in Fri Nov 15 10:45:10 2024 From: vinay at aapti.in (Vinay Narayan) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:15:10 +0530 Subject: [globalsouthdata] Call for Papers (CFP): Participatory AI Governance Research & Practice Symposium in Paris, France Message-ID: Hi Everyone, I am reaching out regarding a Call for Papers that we are co-organising. Details of this are below: Call for Papers (CFP): Paris Participatory AI Governance - Research & Practice Symposium 2025 Symposium Dates: 30 January, 2025 ONLINE and 8 February, 2025 IN-PERSON Deadline for submissions: 8 December, 2024 Location: Virtually and at Science Politique, Paris, France Link to website: https://pairs25.notion.site/ This symposium is being organised to take place at the fringe of the Paris Artificial Intelligence Action Summit . The Summit?s focus on the public interest, trust, and governance acknowledges the importance of an effective feedback loop among AI developers, regulators and the broader public: necessitating more participatory approaches to AI development and governance. Scholars and policymakers have emphasised the importance of integrating diverse voices, particularly from marginalised and underrepresented communities, into AI decision-making processes to mitigate the bias, inequality, and ethical blind spots. A shift towards a participatory model challenges traditional, top-down and expert-driven approaches to AI governance and raises important questions about power, agency, representation, and accountability. Amid this incipient ?participatory turn? in both the development and governance of AI our goal is to showcase work that demonstrates what it looks like, how and why to do it, as well as what can go wrong. We invite short papers, posters, presentations, reports, and other formats for interactive presentation and discussions to take place on 8th February 2025 ahead of the 2025 AI Action Summit (Paris, Feb 10th/11th). Abstract submissions should respond to three key themes: - Participatory AI development - Participatory AI governance - Participation, power and resistance Submissions are also encouraged to consider one or more cross-cutting themes of (a) embedding practice (beyond pilots), (b) evaluation, evidence and impacts and/or (c) learning for policy and practice. We will convene researchers and practitioners of participatory methods in AI for the purpose of international community-building. Interested policy-makers, advocates, and civil society organisations are also invited. Through showcasing the state of current work and critique of participatory AI, this gathering will build a stronger international community of practice. It will also begin the work of formulating a shared vision for policy action. Submissions will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary panel. Selected applicants will be invited to present in-person in Paris on February 8 during symposium panels (short talks of 5-10 minutes, poster presentation, or roundtable contributions). Invited speakers who are unable to travel will be invited to speak at the online-only symposium on 31 January, 2025. The submission portal offers the option to indicate the submission should solely be considered for online presentation. We are open to submissions in a range of formats, aiming to bring together both academic and applied work. Call to close on 8 December, 2025, and notifications for in-person papers to be released on 13 December. Online-only acceptance notifications will be complete by 30 December. Please be advised, this event is being organised without access to funds to support travel: no funding, nor visa support is available, aside from a letter of invitation. Please submit abstracts or proposed contributions through this form . Questions? Please contact pairs at connectedbydata.org or vinay at aapti.in. Warmly, Vinay Narayan (He/Him) Senior Manager, Policy Check out Aapti's Newsletter While I may be sending this email outside my normal office hours, I have no expectation to receive a reply outside yours. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: