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We are seeking an experienced technologist with expertise in chatbot systems to provide technical support in the design, development and/or optimization of a chatbot solution.
Through our support work at The Engine Room, we’ve been hearing growing questions from communities about AI, including its risks, opportunities, and how to use it responsibly. As part of our ongoing support for civil society organizations using the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT), we hosted a community call exploring practical and political approaches to AI safety from Global Majority perspectives.
Across the Majority World, communities, grassroots organizations, and non-profit actors are building AI systems to address climate justice. However, many remain overlooked or underrepresented in global conversations about AI and climate.
As part of our AI for Climate Action initiative, which explores how AI technologies can be re-imagined and re-directed by centering locally developed, and community-centered models in Majority World contexts, we will conduct research to explore AI adoption in the context of climate action.
As the climate crisis deepens, influenced by extractive Big Tech infrastructures, groups from the Majority World impacted by these technologies are developing small, resource-efficient, community-centered climate solutions to pressing environmental challenges. Over the next year, we will center those groups in a full-cycle initiative exploring how locally driven, climate resilient AI technologies are designed and developed, and how they can be adopted in care-based and responsible ways.
At The Engine Room, we work to build an ecosystem of digital tools that are values-aligned and reflect the needs of activists and targeted communities across the Global Majority. As part of this work, and as a service provider for OTF’s User Experience & Discovery (UXD) Lab, we conduct no-cost UX research projects to improve the usability and accessibility of open source, privacy-preserving internet freedom tools that provide protections against surveillance, censorship, and repression to those advancing social justice on the ground.
We are excited to welcome the Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT) to our 2026 Matchbox Program. IMPACT champions Indigenous rights and self-determination in Kenya.
