AI and Analytics for Advocacy and Activism

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Who are we?

The Artificial Intelligence and Analytics for Advocacy and Activism (AAAA) initiative is a cross-disciplinary initiative focused on delivering community-based projects that enable a new lens on activism and advocacy using modern tools inspired by artificial intelligence and data analytics. The initiative also aims to democratize knowledge around AI and Analytics for advocacy and activism for an Arabic-speaking population.

Our Goals:

Emerging relations between technology and socio-political power require that we recreate our mechanisms for advocating for and working towards reform and reconstruction. As we live in an age that imposes new forms of information capture, the AAAA initiative aims to help the community at large learn how to harness the power of AI, Data Analytics, Graph Analytics, Knowledge Graphs, and Data visualization, for promoting intelligent advocacy and evidence-based activism in Lebanon, thereby re-engineering traditional mechanisms of political and social agency.

Our Methods:

The AAAA initiative adopts evidence-based, and community-based interventions that are driven by local and regional needs and adapted to suit the underlying socio-political context. Interventions can be fully-fledged community-based projects or content creation for unlocking state-of-the-art technologies and making them readily accessible to a wider community.

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Education Forum

Connecting over 40 educators across Lebanon in a full-day event to brainstorm and discuss various forms of public school empowerment.

Volunteering Day in Ras Baalbeck

SAIL representatives engaged with youths in Ras Baalbeck to encourage community-service and volunteering.

Gaming Academy Workshop

The Gaming Academy hosted its first hybrid workshop in iPark! Over 50 participants attended the session to learn about animation.

Mental Health Session in Mekse

In collaboration with Embrace, two sessions happened in parallel: one for children, and one for parents on coping mechanisms and ways to address bullying in schools. The event was organized by World...

Environment Day in Hermel

Ziad Abi Chaker presented to community in Hermel on ways to deal with waste. The day was organized by World Vision.

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Projects:

Building integrity and enhancing accountability in Lebanon

In this project, and together with a consortium of community-based experts and academics, we aim to develop, deploy, and evaluate, a community-driven, evidence-based framework for investigating the obstacles facing the implementation of anti-corruption and accountability mechanisms, and for developing and proposing preventive and corrective measures to break the current political stalemate. In essence, this project is an original interdisciplinary endeavor between the field of political science and computer science via the application of computer analyses and Artificial Intelligence tools (AI) to generate recommendations for better transparency, accountability and reforms in Lebanon.

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Our team

Dr. Fatima K. Abu Salem

Hiyam Ghannam

Our partners

Urban Analytica

Urban Analytica is a community-led knowledge producer dedicated to promoting a democratic and modern social order in the region. By leveraging qualitative and quantitative, evidence-based approaches, we advocate and act in accordance with secular and civil society values. Our interdisciplinary work integrates insights and technologies from social and political sciences, data science, artificial intelligence, graph analytics, and data visualization.

› Members:

Dr. Nabil El Khoury

Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Lebanese University