K4C Tkaronto Hub: Imagining Otherwise
Event Summary
What might AI look like when guided by Indigenous knowledge systems and participatory frameworks?
Event Details
What might AI look like when guided by Indigenous knowledge systems and participatory frameworks?
Centering Indigenous, participatory, and anti-colonial perspectives, this webinar sparks imagination for how we might co-create technologies that are accountable to community, grounded in ethics, and guided by relationality.
Jennifer Wemigwans is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Pronouns She Her. She teaches Indigenous Knowledge Education courses in the Adult Education & Community Development Program. Dr. Wemigwans is from Wikwemikong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. She is a new media producer, writer and scholar specializing in the convergence between education, Indigenous Knowledge and new media technologies. Her book, A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online (2018) explores the prospects of Indigenous Knowledge education and digital projects in a networked world.
This webinar is hosted by the Knowledge 4 Change Tkaronto Hub (OCIC, The University of Toronto Scarborough Knowledge Equity Lab and the Toronto Centre of Learning and Development).
