<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone:<div><br></div><div>Greetings from Ithaca! I wanted to share some developments in the <a href="https://points.datasociety.net/ai-in-the-global-south-sites-and-vocabularies-e3b67d631508">project</a> on AI in/from the Global South that I have been working on since the beginning of 2021. </div><div><br></div><div>O<span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ver the last several months, my colleague </span><a href="https://datasociety.net/people/guzman-rigoberto-lara/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rigoberto Lara Guzmán</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and I have been discussing the role of storytelling in crafting good social science research. We began to wonder how the multiple entities and actors that make up the planetary AI ecosystem are interacting in/from the Global South. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We have just launched </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Parables of AI in/from the Global South</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, a two day storytelling workshop asking the question: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">What stories do we tell of a world that has increasingly come to rely on AI-based data-driven interventions to resolve social problems? </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would like to invite you to share our </span><a href="http://datasociety.net/?p=79916" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Call for Participation</b></span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with your community, networks, and collaborators. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>If you feel called to, please consider applying to the workshop as a </b></span><b><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">storyteller</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or as an </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">active listener</span></b><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>.</b> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div>Hope the summer is treating all of you very well and that you're all safe and healthy. I look forward to your <a href="https://data-society.typeform.com/to/EdShNXvT" target="_blank">applications</a> to our Parables workshop and continuing conversations of storytelling around AI in the forthcoming months. </div></span></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Cheers, <div><br><div>Ranjit Singh</div><div>Postdoctoral Scholar | AI on the Ground,</div><div>Data & Society</div><div><a href="http://ranjitsingh.me/" target="_blank">http://ranjitsingh.me/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>