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13:00 Uhr
A Safe Passage? Language, AI and the Borders We Cannot See
2026|Dreaming New Worlds
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Online Online
- Sprache Englischer Sprache
- Preis Free Entry
- Teil der Reihe: Dreaming New Worlds
A Safe Passage? explores the borders that shape movement across Africa, not only the visible borders between states, but also the linguistic, digital and algorithmic borders that determine who can participate, communicate and be recognised.
Building on the A Safe Passage project, which examines the gap between formal commitments to African integration and people's lived experiences of movement, the workshop extends the project's concern with the movement of people, goods and data to ask a fourth question: what about the movement of language and meaning?
The workshop brings together African writing systems, language, artificial intelligence and governance to explore how borders are increasingly reproduced within digital systems.
Central Question
What happens when people are technically free to move, but their languages, identities and knowledge cannot move as easily through the systems they encounter?
Mpho Primus is a computational linguist, Co-Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence Systems (IAIS) at the University of Johannesburg, and Founder of Primus Tech Hub.
Her work spans artificial intelligence, African language technologies, data governance, and responsible digital transformation. Drawing on a background in both computer science and linguistics, her research focuses on developing AI systems that better represent African languages and their linguistic complexities. Working across academia, industry, and the public sector, she contributes to AI strategy, multilingual language models, data governance, and digital transformation initiatives.
Building on the A Safe Passage project, which examines the gap between formal commitments to African integration and people's lived experiences of movement, the workshop extends the project's concern with the movement of people, goods and data to ask a fourth question: what about the movement of language and meaning?
The workshop brings together African writing systems, language, artificial intelligence and governance to explore how borders are increasingly reproduced within digital systems.
Central Question
What happens when people are technically free to move, but their languages, identities and knowledge cannot move as easily through the systems they encounter?
Mpho Primus is a computational linguist, Co-Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence Systems (IAIS) at the University of Johannesburg, and Founder of Primus Tech Hub.
Her work spans artificial intelligence, African language technologies, data governance, and responsible digital transformation. Drawing on a background in both computer science and linguistics, her research focuses on developing AI systems that better represent African languages and their linguistic complexities. Working across academia, industry, and the public sector, she contributes to AI strategy, multilingual language models, data governance, and digital transformation initiatives.