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Public engagement, Uncategorized, Workshop

Looking forward to the UnBias Showcase! October 1st 2018, London

September 12, 2018 Helena Webb Leave a comment

OUR FUTURE INTERNET: FROM BIAS TO TRUST

DIGITAL CATAPULT: OCTOBER 1ST 10.30 AM TO 5.00 PM

On October 1^stthe UnBias project team will be showcasing the outcomes of our work. We are looking forward to welcoming an audience of 70 stakeholders from research, law, policy, education and industry.

In addition to reporting on our major findings we will also highlight key outputs such as policy guidelines and demonstrate our exciting fairness toolkit. This engaging and interactive event will also include presentations from external speakers and opportunities for networking. Furthermore, we will announce plans for our follow-on project, ReEnTrust, which will identify mechanisms to rebuild and enhance trust in algorithmic systems.

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Experiment, MetaMaps, Methods development, Public engagement, Workshop

UnBias Fairness Toolkit

September 6, 2018 Ansgar Koene Leave a comment

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The Fairness Toolkit has been developed for UnBias by Giles Lane and his team at Proboscis, with the input of young people and stakeholders. It is one of our project outputs aiming to promote awareness and stimulate a public civic dialogue about how algorithms shape online experiences and to reflect on possible changes to address issues of online unfairness. The tools are not just for critical thinking, but for civic thinking – supporting a more collective approach to imagining the future as a contrast to the individual atomising effect that such technologies often cause.

The toolkit contains the following elements:

1. Handbook
2. Awareness Cards
3. TrustScape
4. MetaMap
5. Value Perception Worksheets

All components of Toolkit are freely available to download and print from our site under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Download the complete UnBias Fairness Toolkit (zip archive 18Mb)

Demonstrations of the toolkit will be given at the V&A Digital Design weekend, London September 22nd.

More information is available on the Fairness Toolkit, and Trustscapes pages.

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Public engagement, Uncategorized, Workshop

Unbias Hackathon

August 15, 2018 Alan Davoust Leave a comment

On the week-end of June 30^thand July 1^st, the UnBias team hosted a two-day hackathon at Codebase in Edinburgh, with support from local outfit Product Forge, whose experience organizing such events is unrivalled in Scotland.

The hackathon challenge was formulated as follows:

“Artificial Intelligence shapes digital services that have become central to our everyday lives. Online platforms leverage the power of AI to monetize our attention, with often unethical side-effects: our privacy is routinely breached, our perception of the world is seriously distorted, and we are left with unhealthy addictions to our screens and devices. The deep asymmetry of power between users and service providers, the opacity and unaccountability of the algorithms driving these services, and their exploitation by trolls, bullies and propagandists are serious threats to our well-being in the digital era.

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Experiment, Uncategorized

UnBias Algorithmic Preference Survey

July 20, 2018 Ansgar Koene Leave a comment

We are conducting a survey on algorithm preferences for solving resource-allocation problems. The survey consists of two case studies with 5 options to determine the allocation algorithm. Completing this task should take between 10 – 20 minutes.

https://oxford.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/unbias-preference-survey

conference event, Public engagement, Uncategorized, Workshop

HELLO FROM MOZFEST!

October 30, 2017 Helen Creswick Leave a comment

HOW DO YOU TAKE CARE ON THE INTERNET?

Members of the UnBias team and the Digital Wildfire project from the Universities of Nottingham and Oxford were delighted to participate in Mozilla Festival (MozFest), which took place over the weekend of 28^th-29^th October 2017. The festival saw thousands of members of the general public, of all ages and nationalities, pass through the doors of Ravensbourne College to engage in a festival that aimed to promote a healthy internet and a web for all. Issues of digital inclusion, web literacy and privacy and security were some of the key topics that were discussed at the event.

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OUR FUTURE INTERNET: FROM BIAS TO TRUST

DIGITAL CATAPULT: OCTOBER 1ST 10.30 AM TO 5.00 PM

Download the complete UnBias Fairness Toolkit (zip archive 18Mb)

Emancipating Users Against Algorithmic Biases for a Trusted Digital Economy