EcosystemSUMMIT & RESEARCH
Research edition · Recorded claims, context and disagreements · About the collection ↗

Credible judgement requires methods and context appropriate to the question, with failure and missing voices visible.

The corpus contains studies, practitioner accounts, demonstrations, proposals and questions. These establish different things. Local knowledge and negative cases can reveal what a generic measure misses.

An interpretation of the recorded discussion. The passages below have different roles: support, illustration, qualification, challenge, proposed mechanism or open question.
qualifies · DAY 1 · 56:52

A small qualitative sample is used to explore literacy and skills, with an explicit warning against treating it as representative.

Sixty interviews are not a prevalence survey.

Speaker
Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
Unidentified speaker
Connected ≠ Ready: Getting to a Ground-Level View of AI Readiness for Women and Vulnerable PopulationsWatch passage →
qualifies · DAY 1 · 35:15

Faith partly disagrees: adding safety to minimum viable evaluation can make assurance practical without requiring a costly RCT.

Difference of emphasis with the preceding culture argument.

Speaker
Rachel ColdicuttFounder · Careful IndustriesLinkedIn ↗
Becky FaithSenior Research Fellow; Development Lecturer · FCDO; Institute of Development StudiesSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
Unidentified speaker
Responsible AI: Ethics, Governance and PracticeWatch passage →