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Karya @ Skoll From 21–24 April, the Skoll World Forum convenes a global community working at the intersection of social innovation, technology, and systems change. Karya’s co-founders, Safiya Husain and Manu Chopra, will be attending the Forum. We are looking forward to engaging with peers and partners thinking deeply about how AI can be shaped by the contexts in which it is deployed, and how digital systems can create meaningful economic opportunity for communities often left out of their design. For us, these are not abstract considerations. They are central to how AI systems are built, evaluated, and used. If you are attending, we would value the opportunity to connect. Karya will also be part of a few exciting conversations during the Forum: Centering Ethics and Responsibility in AI Use: A Practical Workshop Hosted by Fast Forward April 22, 10:00–11:45 AM BST Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (Skoll pass required) The Trillion Dollar Question: To AI or Not To AI? Hosted by Elevate Prize Foundation April 23, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM BST Oxford Union Society A conversation on how AI is being applied across sectors and what it takes to build systems that are both effective and responsible. Karya Co-Founder, Manu Chopra, will present our latest work on using AI to bring accelerated earning and learning opportunities to low-income communities across the Global South. Register: https://luma.com/s2ctnl55 (Skoll pass not required) A conversation with Dr. Mittali Sethi, District Collector, Nandurbar and Safiya Husain, Co-Founder, Karya  April 22nd, 1 PM - 2 PM BST Invite Only | Sign up to join: https://lnkd.in/gm8Fiwtt In just 30 days, Karya worked with the district administration of Nandurbar, a tribal region in the Indian state of Maharashtra, to build and deploy an end-to-end AI pipeline in Bhili, a low-resource language largely absent from digital systems. Working with 400+ contributors from the district, our Bhili foundational model enabled local farmers to access digital services in their own language. This work shows how the AI economy can be redesigned from the ground up, with AI pipelines built quickly and effectively in collaboration with tribal communities. Dr Mittali Sethi, District Collector, Nandurbar, joins us at Skoll to share lessons on what AI for Good truly looks like. Skoll Foundation