Introducing the Data Labelers Association! 🎉 We’re here to advocate, empower, and support data labelers in Kenya. From fair wages to better working conditions, we’re building a stronger community for all AI annotation professionals. Join us in shaping the future of data work!
𝗙𝘂𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁:
The first "data labeling" for AI can be traced back to the 1960s when researchers manually labeled images of faces to train early facial recognition systems, long before computers could even process images in color! #AI #Datalabeling #DataAnnotation
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🎉 It’s Here!
After 10 years of youth-led disruption in governance and civic action, we’re proud to share the story behind the movement.
🎬 Watch the official Siasa Place documentary now:
👉 youtu.be/IpDpEkc0Pp8
This isn’t just a look back — it’s a celebration of young people inventing the future, on their own terms.
#SPat10 #ADecadeOfInventingTheFuture #SiasaPlace
Kenya’s High Court has ordered Worldcoin to delete all biometric data collected in the country. A win for data privacy—but what does it mean for the rest of us working in the AI pipeline?
#Worldcoin #DataPrivacy #DeleteMyData
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The Worldcoin ruling is a signal:
🛑 No more opaque data collection
🛑 No more exploitation of low-income workers
🛑 No more secret monitoring tools
We need enforceable standards for data ethics and labor protections in AI development.
#EthicalAI #FairWork
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To all AI firms, platforms, and policymakers:
🔍 Be transparent.
✍🏽 Get informed consent.
🧠 Respect digital labor.
🚫 Stop surveillance.
We, the Data Labelers Association, stand for dignity, consent, and accountability in AI.
👉 datalabelers.org
#Worldcoin
Ever wondered how human expertise complements AI automation in data annotation? 🤔 AI tools blaze through repetitive tasks, but human insight resolves edge cases and ensures top‑notch quality every time. #DataLabeling #AI
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Thrilled to see Simba AI breaking language barriers and creating fresh opportunities for data labelers in Kenya! #AI #Localization #DataLabeling
Empowering AI's future! @datalabelers champions upskilling for data labelers, turning unsung heroes into tech trailblazers. Fair pay + new skills = ethical AI revolution!
We were honored to join yesterday’s “AI Ni ya Who?” conversation at Nairobi’s Macmillan Library, where we explored how Kenyan labor sustains AI infrastructures under unfair conditions—and why time has come for workers to seize back their power. @untileverypod @siasaplace
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#LabourDay2025 Red salute to martyres of #MayDay
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At Macmillan Library for ‘AI Ni ya Who?’ to spotlight the invisible labour behind AI.
We heard powerful reflections on how Kenyan workers fuel global AI systems under exploitative conditions and why reclaiming worker power in the age of tech is urgent.
Happy #LabourDay2025 🇰🇪 Honouring the tea pluckers in our fields, boda-riders on our streets, teachers shaping young minds, construction crews raising our skyline—and data labelers training the AI powering our lives. Let’s make the invisible visible. #VisibleWorkforce #DLA
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The panel shed light on how digital labor, often invisible and undervalued, had fallen disproportionately on the shoulders of women—particularly from the global South—who faced informal working conditions, little recognition, and systemic exploitation in shaping the very platforms we all use.
Panelists underscored the urgency of building a feminist internet, one that bridged the digital divide and amplified the voices of marginalized women across race, class, sexuality, and disability, so they too could access, shape, and thrive within digital spaces.
The conversation pushed beyond critique, calling for a reimagining of digital power structures—where women could lead, be fairly compensated, and co-create inclusive, community-centered online spaces through feminist tech leadership and policy reform.
#DRIF2025
#Lusaka
#SafespacesKE
@ParadigmHQ @NawiCollective
Thank you @MercyMutemi for highlighting @DataLabelers on @NTVKenya’s #FixingTheNation! Data labelers power AI but face undervaluation. Your shout-out pushes for fair pay, mental health support, and dignity in tech labor. #EthicalAI
Full Video: youtube.com/watch?v=xAmDkGNI…
📍 Nairobi – Yesterday, the Data Labelers Association joined the UNI Global Union Content Moderators Forum 2025. We power the AI revolution, yet too often remain underpaid and unheard. #IWMD25
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This gathering is a major step toward global solidarity for digital workers, bringing the voices of African data labelers to the forefront. #GlobalSolidarity
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We are the foundation of AI—and we will be recognized. Join us in calling for accountability, dignity, and respect for every data labeler. #FairWork Join the association for free through datalabelers.org/registratio…





















