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B Biira

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Amelia Doğan @ameliadogan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Excited to be organizing a #CSCW2026 workshop with many wonderful people on ⭐ Frontline communities, Environmental and Climate Justice, and CSCW research ⭐! Submit via tinyurl.com/CSCW-EJ-Submit by July 31 AoE. 🌱👥Learn more: ecjcscw2026workshop.netlify.app

Advertisement for Frontline Env/Climate Justice CSCW '26 Workshop on Oct 10. Includes text over a green background of field and trees. Includes information for a website: ejcscw2026workshop.netifly.app and deadline for sumibssion being July 31. Additional text reads connect with a global community of researchers working with frontline communities on critical and transformative approaches to sustainability, long-term participatory research, and place!

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Teanna Barrett @bound4nostar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Wow, really excited to have our paper highlighted by Alondra Nelson! I'll be presenting this paper at @facct.bsky.social next Thursday at 9am (local time) for anyone interested in learning more! A paper thread is soon to come 👀

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Proud to announce that my first FAccT @facct.bsky.social paper, “African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial AI” will be presented at the 8th annual ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency next week in Athens, Greece! programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/p...

A screenshot of the FAccT 2025 paper "African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial AI" co-authored by Teanna Barrett, Chinasa T. Okolo, B. Biira, Eman Sherif, Amy X. Zhang, Leilani Battle.

The abstract reads:
The shift towards pluralism in global data ethics acknowledges
the importance of including perspectives from the Global Majority
to develop responsible data science (RDS) practices that mitigate
systemic harms in the current data science ecosystem. Sub-Saharan
African (SSA) practitioners, in particular, are disseminating progressive data ethics principles and best practices for identifying
and navigating anti-blackness and data colonialism. To center SSA
voices in the global data ethics discourse, we present a framework
for African data ethics informed by the thematic analysis of an interdisciplinary corpus of 47 documents. Our framework features six
major principles: 1) Challenge Power Asymmetries, 2) Assert Data
Self-Determination, 3) Invest in Local Data Institutions & Infrastructures, 4) Utilize Communalist Practices, 5) Center Communities on
the Margins, and 6) Uphold Common Good. We compare our framework to seven particularist data ethics frameworks to find similar
conceptual coverage but diverging interpretations of shared values.
Finally, we discuss how African data ethics demonstrates the operational value of data ethics frameworks. Our framework highlights
Sub-Saharan Africa as a pivotal site for challenging anti-blackness
and data colonialism by promoting the practice of communalism,
self-determination, and cultural preservation in responsible data
science.

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Teanna Barrett @bound4nostar.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

NEW! ✨️African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science✨️ is a theorectical knowledge contribution that presents one of the first collations of African data ethics perspectives for the pluralistic AI ethics community.

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