[Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted with the author’s permission from the July-August 2024 edition of the “We Count Recount,” the bi-monthly newsletter of We Count. We Count is a project of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) at OCAD University in Toronto.
IDRC is “an open global community working together to proactively ensure that emerging systems and practices are designed inclusively.” We Count was created to address bias, discrimination and barriers to participation and employment for persons with disabilities within the field of data science and data-driven systems.
The author of this piece is Jutta Treviranus, the Director and Founder of the Inclusive Design Research Centre and the Principal Researcher of We Count. Jutta has been recognized by Women in AI with the 2022 AI for Good – DEI AI Leader of the Year award and by Women in AI Ethics as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics – 2024. She is also chair of the Canadian Government’s Accessible and Equitable Artificial Intelligence standards committee]
Jutta’s August 2024 message to the We Count Community
I know I have focused on AI to the exclusion of other important issues in my recent messages. My reason is that the [...]