Resources
Support your learning through our searchable research library and discover valuable resources about many topics in artificial intelligence and data analytics, such as AI ethics, bias and data tools.
Select the We Count at Large tag to view a selection of speaking engagements and presentations by IDRC team members. Many of these resources showcase the efforts of IDRC Director Jutta Treviranus, whose pioneering work and insights in AI and inclusive AI continue to inspire and lead the field.
Hiring Algorithms: An Ethnography of Fairness in Practice
- Expert
There is a discordant debate around the use of AI where one camp sees the technology as introducing fairness into the hiring system while the opposing camp sees it are reinforcing existing biases. But the authors question what becomes of ethical values once AI is deployed in the organization.
Holistic User Models for Cognitive Disabilities: Personalized Tools for Supporting People with Autism in the City
- Expert
The PIUMA (Personalized Interactive Urban Maps for Autism) project has the goal of developing a set of personalized solutions that account for the ASD individual's idiosyncrasies, helping them move across the city where they live and improving their autonomy when moving and managing everyday activities.
Hot Take: Can AI De-Bias Hiring?
- Intermediate
The University of Cambridge's Good Robot podcast has an episode on AI hiring tools and their impact on the hiring experience. Full episode transcripts are available on their website.
Hour of Code
- Beginner
An international effort to demystify and introduce beginners to computer science by providing resources to educators to run their Hour of Code events.
How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other
- Intermediate
In this Ted Talk, social technologist Divya Siddarth shares how a group of people helped retrain one of the world's most powerful AI models on a constitution they wrote and offers a vision of technology that aligns with the principles of democracy, rather than conflicting with them.
How AI Can Help Shatter Barriers to Equality
- Intermediate
In this TED Talk, Jamila Gordon shows how AI is helping refugees, migrants and those from disadvantaged backgrounds find jobs and develop the skills they need to work effectively and safely.
How AI Ethics Is Coming to the Fore with Generative AI
- Intermediate
Generative AI like ChatGPT is pushing ethical considerations to the forefront, including copyright issues and reducing harm. But the growing interest in this technology means that organizations developing AI need to take AI ethics more seriously.
How AI Is Helping Social Program Management to Be Accessible
- Intermediate
The IBM Social Program Management development team is using artificial intelligence to improve the experience of its products for users with disabilities by adopting AI to Social Program Management and using a browser plug-in tool to identify potential violations and get suggested solutions to fix them.
How AI Might Shape LGBTQIA+ Advocacy
- Intermediate
The new "AI Comes Out of the Closet" system leverages AI-generated dialogue and virtual characters in complex simulations to provide users with a way to experiment with and refine their approach to LGBTQ+ advocacy.
How Algorithm-Based Hiring Tools Can Increase Disability Discrimination
- Intermediate
With the proliferation of the use of hiring algorithms, the writer argues that it exacerbates the inequities faced by people with disability.