Renata Avila

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Renata Avila (Guatemalan), CEO of Open Knowledge Foundation, is an international Human Rights lawyer specialising in the next wave of technological challenges to preserve and advance our rights and better understand the politics of data and their implications on trade, democracy and society. She is an Affiliate with the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS in France. She has been writing about Digital Colonialism since 2013 and was a fellow at the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). @avilarenata

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Governing and sustaining the AI Commons? Finding models to pass the pilot phase

Ramya Chandrasekhar, Renata Avila, Daniel Brumund, Solana Larsen

Big Tech’s “one-model-fits-all” approach to AI development deepens data and knowledge inequities, automates oppression of data workers, and fuels the climate crisis. Federated AI commons offer a sustainable and participative alternative. How can we make this alternate vision a reality?
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