Let's Get Litical
MozFest joined forces with Let’s Get Litical, a fortnightly politics and pop culture podcast hosted by Helen Femi Williams, to bring you this series of podcasts about the people and issues powering the Spaces at MozFest 2022. As we near the second virtual MozFest, this is an invitation to step away from the screen and listen to MozFest Wranglers share their stories, experiences, and expertise around Trustworthy AI.
Google Tell Me About Gender and AI
Google Tell Me About Gender and AI. Do the gender stereotypes offline replicate themselves online? Featuring wranglers from the Gender, Tech & Intersectionality Space.
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Is the Internet a human right?
This episode features Youth & Futures wranglers Joseph Thomas who has been a Mozfest Wrangler since 2018 and is currently a Software Engineer, and Soledad Magnone a sociologist Director at JAAKLAC initiative, an organisation that broadens participation in the governance of the digital ecosystem particularly for younger generations.
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Does AI have a seat in government?
This episode features Borhane Blili-Hamelin, an academic researcher, and Umut Pajaro Velasquez, a Black Latinx Caribbean queer researcher, on how we can expand, shift, and rethink power and how we engage with the intersection of power, and harms, values, rights and democracy in tech.
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Can biometric identities protect refugees?
This episode features two Mozilla Festival 2022 Wranglers from the Digital ID & Privacy space: Cybelle Oliveria, a board member of Casa Hacker and community member of Mozilla, and Lewis Munyi, a passionate software developer who builds developer communities fostering the growth of the African developer ecosystem.
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Decolonizing Artificial Intelligence
For this episode, Let's Get Litical host Helen Femi Williams interviewed two West African researchers, who were Wranglers at this year's MozFest: Gilles Hacheme is currently in the third year of his PhD in quantitative economics and Uffa Modey cofounder of digital roots and is the coordinator of the Nigerian Youth Internet Governance Forum. This is the LAST episode of this series and in this episode, we will be hearing from guests from two different spaces 'Decoloninsing AI' and 'Digitizing Lanaguages & Cultures.'
