Communicating in the Age of AI: Ethics, Voice & Visibility

📅 Date: Wednesday 27 August 2025
🕙 Time: 13:00 – 14:30 UTC. Check you timezone here.
📍 Venue: Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: Click here to register

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we communicate, organize, and advocate — often faster than our strategies can adapt. What does this mean for civil society? How can we use AI tools responsibly, safeguarding civic voices, combating misinformation, and ensuring our messages remain authentic and ethical?

Join our upcoming workshop on emerging technologies, AI and their impact on civil society communications. 

Key questions that will be addressed:

• How AI is reshaping public discourse, media, and advocacy.
• Ethical risks (bias, misinformation, surveillance) and how civil society can respond.
• Using AI tools for storytelling, translation, content creation — responsibly.
• Protecting civic voice in algorithm-driven spaces.

Speakers:

Mika Välitalo - Advisor, Innovation and Development at Fingo (Finland) : Mika is passionate about international development, technology, and climate action. He has built digital learning systems, led youth innovation projects in Uganda and Ethiopia, and prepared the Smartup Innovation Challenge on sexual and reproductive health. He will present Fingo's work around AI and the Equalizers of Digital Power initiative, an online course helping civil society understand digital power, harness opportunities, and work toward a fairer digital world.

Fernanda K. Martins - Directora de incidencia y estrategia – Fundación Multitudes: Fundación Multitudes strengthens democracy by supporting citizen participation and civil society. 

• Training citizens with tools to influence public policy.

• Monitoring laws through research, reports, and digital platforms.

• Advocating by connecting civil society with authorities to build alliances and shape decisions.

Discover the Forus communications clinic here!