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B Biira
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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 👀
alondra.bsky.social Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jun 18
What are the African values and ethical theories that can inform responsible data science practices in Africa?...We conduct a thematic analysis [and]...derived an ethical framework consisting of six major principles rooted in the realities of data science work in Africa arxiv.org/html/2502.16...
African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science
arxiv.org
June 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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chinasa.bsky.social
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.
June 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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bound4nostar.bsky.social
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.
June 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM