We are proud to announce that Fellows were published 3 times in Nature this year. So far! We are very proud to be connecting people to the conversation in these ways. Thanks for your work, Fellows Jake Okechukwu Effoduh and Peer Herholz!
Here are the works in question:
Nature: Opinion: The path for AI in poor nations does not need to be paved with billions
Nature: Scientific Data: A labeled clinical-MRI dataset of Nigerian brains
Aula Fellows contributed to the recent consultation on the government of Canada’s AI Strategy. Our principle recommendations are that the government needs to empower civil society inclusion in decision making and support small businesses. These will ensure not just social acceptability, but also fiscal and technical fit-to-purpose.
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.
We are very proud to announce Aula Fellow Jake Okechukwu Effoduh has been named a Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst Fellow for 2025-2026.
Read more: “Fighting for justice beyond borders: Jake Okechukwu Effoduh’s journey from grassroots advocacy to cyber law.“
We are proud to announce Aula Fellow’s Victoria Kuketz’s recent appointment as an Obama Fellow. Follow Victoria for news of her Fellowship this year, where she will be concentrating on inclusion and rational governance.
L’IA générative nous joue des tours, en manipulant notre perception de la vérité en tentant de devenir notre confident et en créant une relation de dépendance. Mais, on peut aussi à notre tour l’utiliser pour extraire des informations privilégiées mal sécurisées, en utilisant des tactiques adaptées de l’ingénierie sociale.
Le manque d’expérience autour de cette technologie et l’empressement à en mettre partout expose à de nouveaux risques.
Je te présente un survol des concepts de base en cybersécurité revisités pour l’IA générative, différents risques que posent ces algorithmes et différents conseils de prévention pour bien les intégrer dans nos systèmes informatiques et notre pratique professionnelle.
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/ehG66MXs
The 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
Proud and happy to see that our Fellow, cybersecurity specialist Temitope Banjo-CISM will be joining Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS)’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
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.
Quoting from the organizers: “In a moment that former President Barack Obama describes as a “political crisis of the sort that we haven’t seen before,” we are proud to welcome the 2025–2026 Obama Foundation Scholars to the TMU campus for a special in-person episode of our Democracy Dialogues series. With three Canadians among this year’s global cohort—Victoria Kuketz (TMU’s own), Khalid Hashi, and Michelle Cartier—this is a rare chance to meet inspiring leaders working across disciplines, borders, and systems to develop solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
Open to students, community members, and leaders from across all sectors, this event is an opportunity to engage with the Obama Scholars, and reflect on how each of us can respond to the crisis we are experiencing. Engage in meaningful discussion, connect with the next generation of global leaders, and consider the kind of world we want to build – now.
Be part of a conversation on transforming trust into action and participation into impact.
Learn more about the Obama Foundation Scholars here and the Democratic Engagement Exchange here.
About Democracy Dialogues:
Democracy Dialogues is a public conversation series hosted by the Democratic Engagement Exchange at TMU. Each episode brings together thought leaders and community voices to explore the challenges and possibilities of building a more inclusive and resilient democracy.”
See the event recording here: https://www.torontomu.ca/arts/news-events/2025/10/democracy-dialogues-lead-boldly–inspire-globally–meet-the-2025/
This is an Advancement Report for the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) project “Towards Real Diversity and Gender Equality in Artificial Intelligence: Evidence-Based Promising Practices and Recommendations.” It describes, at a high level, the strategy, approach, and progress of the project thus far in its efforts to provide governments and other stakeholders of the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem with recommendations, tools, and promising practices to integrate Diversity and Gender Equality (DGE) considerations into the AI life cycle and related policy-making. The report starts with an overview of the human rights perspective, which serves as the framework upon which this project is building. By acknowledging domains where AI systems can pose risks and harms to global populations, and further, where they pose disproportionate risks and harms to women and other marginalized populations due to a lack of consideration for these groups throughout the AI life cycle, the need to address such inequalities becomes clear.
La camaraderie Aula est fièr de commanditer la conférence annuel la faculté du campus Saint Jean de l’Université de l’Alberta. Notre directrice, Tammy Mackenzie, y présente les leviers du pouvoir dans l’IA dans la société albertaine et de la francopĥonie. Le tout dans le but de remmettre le pouvoir décisionnel dans les mains des gens qui sont impliqués: nous tous.
Pour en savoir plus, voir: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/campus-saint-jean/congress/index.html