Siobhan Mackenzie Hall
@smhall97.bsky.social
🇿🇦 | Fairness in AI | University of Oxford | Deep Learning Indaba | Internships: Google DeepMind || Microsoft Research
Joy Victor sharing the scary reality of (the lack of) data protection on the continent - social security numbers sold for as little as 7c.
August 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Joy Victor sharing the scary reality of (the lack of) data protection on the continent - social security numbers sold for as little as 7c.
“A high profile individual’s social security number was sold for as little as 7c.
August 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“A high profile individual’s social security number was sold for as little as 7c.
⚡️⚡️AI Ethics
💡It's not enough to create data, we need to think about ethics. And for ethics we need to think about human understanding
💡Performance of the model is not enough. Also need interpretability.
💡It's not enough to create data, we need to think about ethics. And for ethics we need to think about human understanding
💡Performance of the model is not enough. Also need interpretability.
August 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
⚡️⚡️AI Ethics
💡It's not enough to create data, we need to think about ethics. And for ethics we need to think about human understanding
💡Performance of the model is not enough. Also need interpretability.
💡It's not enough to create data, we need to think about ethics. And for ethics we need to think about human understanding
💡Performance of the model is not enough. Also need interpretability.
Lightning talks continued
❓How do you crowdsource when there is no crowd?
We need to rethink the "conventions" on how we create data.
❓How do you crowdsource when there is no crowd?
We need to rethink the "conventions" on how we create data.
August 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lightning talks continued
❓How do you crowdsource when there is no crowd?
We need to rethink the "conventions" on how we create data.
❓How do you crowdsource when there is no crowd?
We need to rethink the "conventions" on how we create data.
💡 An appropriate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem."
John Wilder Tukey
John Wilder Tukey
August 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
💡 An appropriate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem."
John Wilder Tukey
John Wilder Tukey
Next up we have another amazing keynote from Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, PhD from Microsoft’s AI for Good lab presenting his talk “Problem-driven and data-centric AI for Africa”
August 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Next up we have another amazing keynote from Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, PhD from Microsoft’s AI for Good lab presenting his talk “Problem-driven and data-centric AI for Africa”
What an amazing community to be a part of
August 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
What an amazing community to be a part of
Next up we have our breakout sessions, where we look to our workshop attendees to share their insights across five prepared themes
⭐️ Data curation
⭐️ Who benefits from our data
⭐️ Beyond data
⭐️ Diversity
⭐️ Governance
⭐️ Data curation
⭐️ Who benefits from our data
⭐️ Beyond data
⭐️ Diversity
⭐️ Governance
August 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Next up we have our breakout sessions, where we look to our workshop attendees to share their insights across five prepared themes
⭐️ Data curation
⭐️ Who benefits from our data
⭐️ Beyond data
⭐️ Diversity
⭐️ Governance
⭐️ Data curation
⭐️ Who benefits from our data
⭐️ Beyond data
⭐️ Diversity
⭐️ Governance
Lyvia Lusiji: Data to Delivery: Designing LLMs for Maternal Health Impact in Low-Resource Settings
📣 Mums do not have access to the Internet
📣 Appointment reminders
📣 Q&A systems to support the pregnancy journey
📣 Triaging, with a human health desk when neededd
📣 Mums do not have access to the Internet
📣 Appointment reminders
📣 Q&A systems to support the pregnancy journey
📣 Triaging, with a human health desk when neededd
August 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Lyvia Lusiji: Data to Delivery: Designing LLMs for Maternal Health Impact in Low-Resource Settings
📣 Mums do not have access to the Internet
📣 Appointment reminders
📣 Q&A systems to support the pregnancy journey
📣 Triaging, with a human health desk when neededd
📣 Mums do not have access to the Internet
📣 Appointment reminders
📣 Q&A systems to support the pregnancy journey
📣 Triaging, with a human health desk when neededd
Lightning talks ⚡
Praise Amonye: Blood, Bytes & Borders: Rethinking Data Sovereignty in AI-Driven Malaria Diagnosis in Africa
📣 When our data becomes bytes who controls the data?
📣 Stop exporting our data, start centring our data
Praise Amonye: Blood, Bytes & Borders: Rethinking Data Sovereignty in AI-Driven Malaria Diagnosis in Africa
📣 When our data becomes bytes who controls the data?
📣 Stop exporting our data, start centring our data
August 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Lightning talks ⚡
Praise Amonye: Blood, Bytes & Borders: Rethinking Data Sovereignty in AI-Driven Malaria Diagnosis in Africa
📣 When our data becomes bytes who controls the data?
📣 Stop exporting our data, start centring our data
Praise Amonye: Blood, Bytes & Borders: Rethinking Data Sovereignty in AI-Driven Malaria Diagnosis in Africa
📣 When our data becomes bytes who controls the data?
📣 Stop exporting our data, start centring our data
First up, we have the exceptional Joan Kinyua from the Data Labellers Association, an organisation advocating better rights for data workers ✊
August 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
First up, we have the exceptional Joan Kinyua from the Data Labellers Association, an organisation advocating better rights for data workers ✊
August 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I’m super excited to be here in Kigali @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social 2025. It’s also such a treat to be learning from Luis Serrano live!
#Indaba2025
#Indaba2025
August 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I’m super excited to be here in Kigali @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social 2025. It’s also such a treat to be learning from Luis Serrano live!
#Indaba2025
#Indaba2025
Who else is getting extremely amped for the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba? 🪘
August 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Who else is getting extremely amped for the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba? 🪘
📣DEADLINE EXTENSION: 4 July 2025📣
⚡The Centring Data in African AI workshop invites you to submit a Lightning Talk proposal! The WS examines data in African AI through both technical and socio-technical lenses.
Learn more & apply here 👉 centring-data-in-african-ai.github.io/workshop/lig...
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⚡The Centring Data in African AI workshop invites you to submit a Lightning Talk proposal! The WS examines data in African AI through both technical and socio-technical lenses.
Learn more & apply here 👉 centring-data-in-african-ai.github.io/workshop/lig...
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June 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
📣DEADLINE EXTENSION: 4 July 2025📣
⚡The Centring Data in African AI workshop invites you to submit a Lightning Talk proposal! The WS examines data in African AI through both technical and socio-technical lenses.
Learn more & apply here 👉 centring-data-in-african-ai.github.io/workshop/lig...
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⚡The Centring Data in African AI workshop invites you to submit a Lightning Talk proposal! The WS examines data in African AI through both technical and socio-technical lenses.
Learn more & apply here 👉 centring-data-in-african-ai.github.io/workshop/lig...
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Are you at #FAccT2025? Join the wonderful Shu in the Participatory AI session at 11:45 local time 🇬🇷 in presenting our work, 🌍🍲The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation🍲🌍
Read our paper here ➡️ dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Read our paper here ➡️ dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
June 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Are you at #FAccT2025? Join the wonderful Shu in the Participatory AI session at 11:45 local time 🇬🇷 in presenting our work, 🌍🍲The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation🍲🌍
Read our paper here ➡️ dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Read our paper here ➡️ dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
⚡The Centring Data in African AI workshop invites you to submit a proposal for a Lightning Talk! The WS examines data in African AI through both technical and socio-technical lenses.
Learn more & apply here 👉 centring-data-in-african-ai.github.io/workshop/lig...
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Learn more & apply here 👉 centring-data-in-african-ai.github.io/workshop/lig...
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June 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
⚡The Centring Data in African AI workshop invites you to submit a proposal for a Lightning Talk! The WS examines data in African AI through both technical and socio-technical lenses.
Learn more & apply here 👉 centring-data-in-african-ai.github.io/workshop/lig...
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Learn more & apply here 👉 centring-data-in-african-ai.github.io/workshop/lig...
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Today I would like to share a journey that started 18 months ago, and while it is still ongoing, I'd like to celebrate the team's achievement of successfully having our work accepted to #FAccT2025! 🎉
🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.09496
🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.09496
April 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Today I would like to share a journey that started 18 months ago, and while it is still ongoing, I'd like to celebrate the team's achievement of successfully having our work accepted to #FAccT2025! 🎉
🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.09496
🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.09496
I’ve been wanting to share these moving books for a while. Having seen upsetting stories on my timeline of people I respect being treated poorly while trying to make a “new” place home, I feel more motivated to share Americanah & Takeaway which detail “immigrant”/”expat” experiences in the UK & US.
January 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I’ve been wanting to share these moving books for a while. Having seen upsetting stories on my timeline of people I respect being treated poorly while trying to make a “new” place home, I feel more motivated to share Americanah & Takeaway which detail “immigrant”/”expat” experiences in the UK & US.