IVOW is a platform for crowdsourcing cultural storytelling and strengthening machine learning algorithms
Our Business
We are multimedia storytellers and data scientists who merge the timeless principles of storytelling with innovative technologies. We leverage data for smart and culturally rich stories. IVOW stands for Voices of Wisdom and, a vow to train the next generation of artificial intelligence storytellers to be culturally conscious.
HOW we work
We collaborate with citizens, journalists, scholars, technologists, and machine learning experts in designing and building the next generation of consumer storytelling applications.
WHY AI?
The development of bots like Siri, Google, Alexa and more have put AI in the hands of nearly every smart phone user. These users come from a wide variety of backgrounds, histories, and cultures. But our robotic friends haven’t quite caught up. AI today does not recognize cultures and traditions of societies. We vow to change that.
Some 50 thought leaders from a variety of disciplines including representatives from the United Nations, the Australian government’s innovationXchange, AI experts, journalists, ethnographers, educators, and students joined an AI, Culture and Storytelling Symposium at Morgan State University on April 23, 2018. Watch an expert below:
As the daughter of an architect and a scholar, I grew up appreciating culture and history.
In my career as a journalist in public media for 25 years, most of those at NPR News, I designed stories anchored in multiculturalism and steeped in historical context. In 2015, my last position at NPR was senior producer of the Identity and Culture Unit. Looking ahead, I have come to realize there is a gaping hole in AI algorithms that will define our future stories -- the lack of creative and prolific content on cultures and heritage.
As we move into an era of automated intelligent storytelling as opposed to centralized platforms, we need to diversify data now. Effective fusion of AI with cultural storytelling will help diminish bias in algorithmic identification and train AI software to be much more inclusive."
Davar Ardalan, Founder of IVOW
In my career as a journalist in public media for 25 years, most of those at NPR News, I designed stories anchored in multiculturalism and steeped in historical context. In 2015, my last position at NPR was senior producer of the Identity and Culture Unit. Looking ahead, I have come to realize there is a gaping hole in AI algorithms that will define our future stories -- the lack of creative and prolific content on cultures and heritage.
As we move into an era of automated intelligent storytelling as opposed to centralized platforms, we need to diversify data now. Effective fusion of AI with cultural storytelling will help diminish bias in algorithmic identification and train AI software to be much more inclusive."
Davar Ardalan, Founder of IVOW