The Aula Fellowship is proud to join over 40 civil advocacy organizations in an open letter to the government of Canada. Let’s lead the world in crafting tech governance that works for all. Thank you to Alex Tveit of the Sustainable Impact Foundation for intellectual and operational leadership in this space.
Category: Topic: Social Movement
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Whose Identity Counts? / Keynote
Whose Identity Counts? explores how AI shapes whose voices are heard and whose are overlooked. Drawing on her research at the University of Cambridge, Hannah highlights the role of language and culture in building more inclusive technologies.
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Dataset: Curated database and methodology for Modern Slavery Context Analyses
This dataset is not yet available for collaborations. We expect to report on it in December, 2025. Please contact our research Director, Dr. Branislav Radeljic, Ph.D., for more information.
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AIMS Hackathon Against Modern Slavery
We are proud to announce that an Aula Team has joined the AIMS Hackathon 2025: AI Against Modern Slavery in Supply Chains. This is an issue that touches everyone on earth, and that everyone can take part in fixing.
We will be examining problems in this space and, among other things, an open data set of 15,000+ annual corporate reports and Walk Free’s Global Slavery Index, for ways to identify, mitigate, and eradicate modern slavery.
We are seeing what we can do to help. How do you see it? Want to check out the data and let us know? We’ll be sharing, returning, and building collaborations. Thank you and all honour to the Hackathon conveners, and director Adriana Eufrosina Bora:
Fundación Pasos Libres: project link https://lnkd.in/gdsczfKc
Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute: project link also includes links to all of the open data sets and studies done so far: https://lnkd.in/dAApAvqu
QUT (Queensland University of Technology) (QUT): https://lnkd.in/ehG66MXsThe business reports database on GitHub, built and hosted by The Future Society: https://lnkd.in/eUa6an9s
There’s a world-class group of trainers. Numerous other partners are providing support, including The Future Society, Walk Free, UNESCO, the International Committee of the Red Cross – ICRC, Australian Red Cross, and governments of Australia, Canada, the UK. And many more to come.
Get to the heart of the matter by hearing from survivors: Faith, Love, and Human Trafficking: The Story of Karola De la Cuesta. On Goodreads and available at most online retailers in EN and SP (ask your library): https://lnkd.in/eitSUk4c
If like us you are also working on these issues, we welcome your interest in potential collaborations. Check out “How to Get Involved”.
Infographic from Respect International: https://lnkd.in/exRb_NNA
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West Island Women’s Center
Presenting a workshop on navigating the hard and strange questions on AI in society and in our lives.
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Tech Tool: the Survivor’s Dashboard
A dashboard of curated information for survivor’s of modern slavery and the people who work to rescue others. This tool is available for collaborations. Please contact our Technical Director, François Pelletier, for more information.
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Shaping AI Justice Together: Join Canada’s First Black Consultation on Responsible AI Governance
Announcement by Jake Okechukwu Effoduh: “I’m convening 40 brilliant minds at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law to ensure Canada’s new AI governance framework centers racial equity, accountability, and justice.
Shaping AI Justice Together: Join Canada’s First Black Consultation on Responsible AI Governance
Calling all Black and racial justice experts working at the forefront of algorithmic fairness: this is your invitation to help define Canada’s AI future.
If you or someone you know is doing this critical work, step forward. Share widely, and be part of this historic conversation.
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Developing the Permanent Symposium on AI (poster): Presented at Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Poster Session
A multidisciplinary, reflective autoethnography by some of the people who are building the Permanent Symposium on AI. Includes the history of the project.
RQ 1: Challenges that unite AI policy & tech
RQ 2: How to design the PSAI?
RQ 3: What factors influence the adoption and scalability of the PSAI?
This is the Flagship project of the Aula Fellowship.
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Nature Opinion: The path for AI in poor nations does not need to be paved with billions
NATURE
Researchers in low- and middle-income countries show that home-grown artificial-intelligence technologies can be developed, even without large external investments.
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Presenting to the United Nations
Our Director, Tammy Mackenzie, was honoured to present our recommendations to the United Nations Committee on the Formation of a Scientific Panel on AI. We recommended that the committee include civil society in these works and that meetings should be held in countries where safe travel can be guaranteed for delegates. You can consult our recommendations here.
See the PDF of the Consultation here: Google Drive
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Pre-conference workshop: Université de l’Alberta Conférence Annuelle
We were pleased to sponsor the 2025 Campus St Jean Annual Conference of the University of Alberta. Two Aula Fellows were present, and offered a workshop for faculty. The event was well attended. As Fellows, we were happy to receive feedback that the workshop empowered faculty to continue conversations on the complexities of AI in society and at the University, outside the conference and into their fields of work. Some of the attendees have since joined us as Fellows.
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Université de l’Alberta Conférence Annuelle: Les leviers du pouvoir dans l’IA
Les leviers du pouvoir en IA
Conférencière : Tammy MacKenzie
Congrès du Campus Saint-Jean de l’Université de l’Alberta, le 25 avril 2025, Edmonton, AB (Canada).