The MENA AI landscape appears to be vibrant, with many entities catalyzing smart technologies for digital transformation.
Yet scarce amount of sources exist on what constitutes the AI MENA landscape. There have been efforts to bring together the pan-Arab AI community in conferences such as the Arab AI Summit hosted in Jordan in 2019, the Arab IOT and AI Challenge in Egypt. But details about key players and entities, policies and research, that revolve around AI are sparsely documented.
The networking event will give us the opportunity to build a community around mapping AI initiatives/entities in the MENA, spanning across sectors from government initiatives to startups and research institutions/think tanks. We hope to seed the ground for future mapping research that is more granular.
This is a networking session from the "AI IRL Hackathon - Building Trustworthy AI". Register here to attend: http://mzl.la/taihackathon
We aim for the session to be a starting point for a crowdsourced mapping of AI ecosystems in the MENA. We will be launching a website which will visualise and list all entities found in the research. We hope to build a small community around the project and allow for users to contribute entities and feedback (e.g. identifying a new CSO working on AI ethics in the MENA).
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:Participants will split in different groups according to their interests.
Program coordinator at the Jordan Open Source Association. Background in Human-Computer Interaction. I sometimes contribute to Wikipedia. I have an inkling for photojournalism.
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