We're moving our RightsCon workshop online. Join us on Wednesday.

Like many others, we are disheartened by the sudden cancellation of the RightsCon conference, where we were planning on hosting the Co-developing responsible AI frameworks: an action-oriented workshop for human rights organisations workshop.

We were looking forward to the event not only for the connection with different teams and people, but also to take the important first step to co-develop responsible AI frameworks for human rights organisations. Because of the urgency of this work, we will continue to offer the session online at the scheduled date and time.

If there are any participants who were also already travelling to the event and therefore - like us - are in South Africa, we are prepared to host the session in-person in Cape Town as well. Please let us know via email: hello@tecer.digital.

Co-developing responsible AI frameworks: an action-oriented workshop for human rights organisations

Human rights organisations are being asked to make decisions about AI faster than most of us feel ready to make them. We are evaluating tools whose risks we do not fully understand, while the same technologies are being used against the communities we serve, the sources we protect, and the work we do. Most existing AI guidance is written for commercial contexts or at the level of abstract principle. Very little of it speaks to the operational reality of an under-resourced NGO trying to decide whether to use a consumer AI tool to draft a funding proposal, or of a frontline team noticing deepfakes circulating about their staff.

This session is a working session, not a presentation. In 60 minutes, participants will map the risks they are actually encountering in two directions: the risks of using AI within their work, and the risks of AI being used against them and the communities they serve. The outputs of the session will become the foundation for an open framework, codeveloped with a working group drawn from the room and published on the AI Literacy Lab with named co creators.

Who should join

People working in or with human rights organisations who are currently wrestling with practical AI decisions, in roles such as policy, programme, operations, digital security, communications, leadership and others.
No technical background is required, and the session is designed to work well for participants whose first language is not English.
If you are newer to AI, your questions will sharpen the framework. If you are already advising your organisation on AI, your experience will shape it.

What you will leave with

A clearer map of the risks in your own context, informed by peers from other regions and organisation types.
The option to be credited as a co-creator of the published framework.
An invitation to join the post-workshop working group, which will shape the draft over the following six weeks.
An open invitation to stay connected with the wider AI Literacy Lab community, with the possibility to have hands-on workshops based on your organisation's context.