WorldPop Project

worldpop-uos.bsky.social

20 October 2026 10:31

Great to see such enthusiasm for spatial statistics at the 2026 CISON Conference, Abuja. Dr Edson Utazi reflects on delivering a well-attended pre-conference workshop & discussing the future of data-driven decision-making in Nigeria. www.worldpop.org/blog/strengt... #Statistics #DataScience #GIS

Miriam Posner

miriamposner.com

20 October 2026 10:29

UC faculty, it seems like everyone on campus is talking about AI. But they aren’t talking to US. We need a chance to weigh in. So excited to be a part of this @ucfaculty.org town hall on AI, Overwork, and Shared Governance on Nov. 9. act.ucfaculty.org/ucfa-ai-town...

Karmactive

karmactive.bsky.social

20 October 2026 10:26

to the minimum annual domestic needs of 1.3B people in Sub-Saharan Africa. Basel Action Network: 8.6–13.1M metric tons of AI e-waste annually by 2030. MIT Sloan’s Sterman: faster economic growth may be the bigger climate risk. In 2026, NY paused large data center

Data Science for Social Impact

dsfsi.bsky.social

20 October 2026 10:09

🤟 Sign language AI across Africa: Kenya → Ghana DSFSI PhD student Thapelo Sindane, who builds translation tech for South African Sign Language (SASL), visited two African AI labs with AI4D Africa support. He wrote a two-part series. 🧵 1/

Tech Policy Press

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19 October 2026 10:17

“A handful of executives and officials are making high-stakes decisions” about AI “in backroom meetings and without any form of political accountability,” writes Mackenzie Austin, tech counsel in the AI for Democracy Action Lab at Protect Democracy. The window to change that “is closing quickly.”