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Indigenous Protocols for AI
Country Centered Design
This participatory workshop shares the histories of AI and its development into contemporary practices. Through two-way learning, we explore data, algorithms, models, and the concepts and methodologies of programming rules, protocols, training, and learning methods within Machine Learning (ML).
Concurrently, we interrogate the cultural affordances and capacity of ML by investigating the differences between Indigenous automated systems and current ML to further engineering possibilities through cultural practice. Furthermore, we will guide participants through governance practices pertaining to Indigenous data sovereignty, and how to incorporate these principles into safe and responsible AI design.
Workshop participants will benefit from this conceptually technical and culturally focused explorative learning, centered on caring for Country and kin within artificially intelligent (AI) systems.
This workshop applies Country Centred Design to your problem statement, by that policy, program, place, or protocol. The learning experience can be used for initiative design, town planning, systems architecture, and data analytics. Bring your project or come to form relationships and apply your learnings to working relationships, projects, and or experiences that will benefit from Indigenous design principles and practices.
Workshop participants will benefit from how to engage with Elders and cultural protocols required to support equitiable working relationships, community engagement principles and practices, ecological and social relationships to Country, cultural connections and kinship responsibilities.