Global VoicesAug 7, 2025

"I have always believed that GV represents what is good about the internet. My belief in GV’s legacy was reaffirmed during the #GVSummit2024 which inspired us to reflect about the power of community and collaboration."

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Global VoicesDec 11, 2024
Global Voices 20th anniversary. @globalvoices Our mission in 32 languages. Thanks to Gina Yauri for the video. #media #GVSummit2024
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Does #GlobalVoices play a role in shaping a #betterInternet for the future? Absolutely. As an #institution, it serves as a vital hub of knowledge, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges the Internet presents for the greater good. I believe #GVO should embrace #ActivityPub, leveraging its potential to build and nurture a global community of internet activism.
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Ethan ZuckermanDec 7, 2024
Rather than having one artificial intelligence, we should have multiple different intelligences, contextually designed to the interests of different indigenous communities, argues Dr. Llanes-Ortiz. These systems need to have respect, reciprocity and rationality - those are important to any efforts for indigenous technologies. And we need to feed models a “healthy data diet”, not necessarily the most material, but the right material, including place-based knowledge. #GVSummit2024
Ethan ZuckermanDec 7, 2024
Dr Tochi talks about the problems with language models based on majority languages. A language like IsiZulu includes clicks - models to transcribe languages don’t know how to process the clicks because they’re mostly been trained on languages that don’t have that syllable. Making AI work for us would require shaping data sets to include minority languages. #GVSummit2024
Ethan ZuckermanDec 7, 2024
Genner notes that as someone who’s both an indigenous person and an anthropologist, it’s easy to see a colonialist logic in the ways data is being extracted by AI companies. Colonialism extracted written data and found ways to appropriate cultural material. If we’re not conscious, we are allowing the global “hyperscalar” companies to engage in similar acts of colonialism. #gvsummit2024
Global VoicesDec 7, 2024

“Issue of digital sovereignty: how do we prevent scraping of our data?”
Genner Lianes-Ortiz

“Even the data of those unconnected [from the internet in India] is being taken. Everything’s being datafied…It’s dangerous in the hands of those who will use the data to control us.”
Osama Manzar

Putting the “we” in AI #GVSummit2024 #artificialintelligence

Ethan ZuckermanDec 7, 2024
AI is not new, Genner Llanes-Ortiz argues - it had a wave of interest from the 1950s - 1970s, and now has re-emerged as a topic of interest. What’s different now is massive models that are only as good as the data they feed on. Some of this data acquisition is highly unethical and generated in the Streeview model: get it before anyone realizes you are getting it. And so the data is dirty and problematic until companies are forced to clean it up. #GVSummit2024
Global VoicesDec 7, 2024

“How do our communities deal with the wide range of AI technologies?”
Malka Older

“Positive side: AI has helped in transcription and translation of indigenous languages”
Dr Tochi Precious

Putting the “we” in AI #GVSummit2024 #artificialintelligence

Ethan ZuckermanDec 7, 2024

The consumer way of looking at AI is the most dangerous perspective. Not only do we become dependent on it, but we are less critical of the ways AI is going to be used to control us argues Osama Manzar at #GVSummit2024

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