{"id":4997,"date":"2023-04-27T22:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T22:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.edu\/epscor\/?p=4997"},"modified":"2023-04-27T22:50:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T22:50:26","slug":"uh-part-of-17m-grant-to-improve-ai-through-indigenous-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.edu\/epscor\/uh-part-of-17m-grant-to-improve-ai-through-indigenous-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"UH\u00a0part of $17M\u00a0grant to improve\u00a0AI\u00a0through Indigenous knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"UH part of $17M grant to improve AI through Indigenous knowledge\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0S3US52knuQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of\u00a0Hawai\u02bbi<\/a>\u00a0is part of an international group of researchers and Indigenous practitioners that has been awarded a $23-million (Canadian and approximately $17-million U.S.) grant from Canada\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca\/funding-financement\/nfrf-fnfr\/index-eng.aspx\">New Frontiers in Research Fund<\/a>\u00a0to work on improving artificial intelligence (AI) through Indigenous knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, \u201cAbundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems,\u201d is Indigenous-led and involves 37 co-investigators and collaborators from eight universities and 12 Indigenous community-based organizations from Canada, the United States and New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teams will coalesce in locally rooted \u201cpods\u201d to collaborate with Indigenous communities. In this way, each team will learn from, and alongside, Indigenous knowledge keepers to bring novel perspectives to transforming\u00a0AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe&nbsp;Hawai\u02bbi&nbsp;Pod will be a key site and significant resource for Abundant Intelligences.&nbsp;Hawai\u02bbi&nbsp;has one of the greatest concentrations of Indigenous technological talent in the world,\u201d said Concordia University Professor Jason Lewis, who is the principal investigator for the grant. \u201cIt has already played a key role in the Indigenous&nbsp;AI&nbsp;discussion by hosting the Indigenous Protocol and&nbsp;AI&nbsp;Workshops in 2019. These were grounded in part in the extensive and vibrant discussion within the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) community regarding the long history of kanaka innovation, and how that community has always developed and taken advantage of new technological tools and methods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Weaving a lei<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Hawai\u02bbi&nbsp;pod will be based at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/westoahu.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>&nbsp;West&nbsp;O\u02bbahu<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavaflow.info\/createx\">Create(x) digital emerging media lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou see in Create(x) there are a lot of flowers on the table to weave a lei from,\u201d said&nbsp;UH&nbsp;Director of Indigenous Innovation&nbsp;<strong>Kamuela Enos<\/strong>, who was a co-applicant for the grant. \u201cWhat\u2019s really important is that we will do it all in mindfulness of what is our responsibility as Hawaiians to protect our [intellectual property] and its use, which is always front of mind for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other&nbsp;UH&nbsp;co-applicants included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jason Leigh<\/strong>,&nbsp;UH&nbsp;M\u0101noa professor of information and computer sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bryan Kuwada<\/strong>,&nbsp;UH&nbsp;M\u0101noa assistant professor of Hawaiian studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Susan Crow<\/strong>,&nbsp;UH&nbsp;M\u0101noa assistant professor of natural resources and environmental management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Manulani Meyer<\/strong>,&nbsp;UH&nbsp;West&nbsp;O\u02bbahu&nbsp;konohiki (facilitator) of K\u016blana o Kapole\u200bi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Leigh, founding director of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavaflow.info\/createx\">Create(x)<\/a>&nbsp;and co-director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/datascience.hawaii.edu\/\">Hawai\u02bbi&nbsp;Data Science Institute<\/a>&nbsp;said, \u201cAI&nbsp;will impact every part of our lives in this decade and beyond. This project is an unprecedented opportunity to influence the future of&nbsp;AI&nbsp;to make it more inclusive in its use, development and evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Create(x)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"169\" width=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/system-indigenous-ai-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Person standing next to a glowing blue digital projection\" class=\"wp-image-176308 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Create(x) lab is located in the new Academy for Creative Media (ACM) building and features projection onto three walls and the floor for various virtual environments. The lab provides students access to immersive technologies where diverse projects\u2014designed to perpetuate Indigenous knowledge and narratives\u2014range from visualizing the first few lines of the&nbsp;<em>Kumulipo<\/em>&nbsp;(Hawaiian creation chant), teaching Hawaiian vocabulary of native species and environmental change, modern Hawaiian wayfinding and the retelling of famous&nbsp;mo\u02bbolelo&nbsp;(stories).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Create(x) co-director and&nbsp;Hawai\u02bbi&nbsp;Pod Coordinator Kari Noe said she is excited about the opportunity to discuss how the grant may translate to current and future projects and overall protocol and data management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[The grant] is giving us the capability, resources and time to think through and talk through a new way of interacting with technology that&nbsp;AI&nbsp;is providing us,\u201d Noe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The $37-million state-of-the-art&nbsp;ACM&nbsp;facility opened in 2021 as part of the&nbsp;UH&nbsp;ACM&nbsp;System, which supports 16 programs at all 10 campuses statewide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACM&nbsp;System Founder and Director&nbsp;<strong>Chris Lee<\/strong>&nbsp;added, \u201cThis extraordinary grant is exactly the kind of opportunity envisioned when including the specific space for Create(x) in the design for the&nbsp;ACM&nbsp;Student Production Facility at&nbsp;UH&nbsp;West&nbsp;O\u02bbahu. Congratulations to everyone at both campuses on the success of this first collaboration between&nbsp;ACM&nbsp;supported programs at&nbsp;UH&nbsp;M\u0101noa and&nbsp;UH&nbsp;West&nbsp;O\u02bbahu.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genealogy of a grant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Abundant Intelligences grant is for six years and includes funding to involve other community-based experts and for community engagement events.&nbsp;UH\u2019s share is approximately $850,000 Canadian or $637,500 U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enos pointed out that the grant also has a \u201cgenealogy.\u201d In 2019, Lewis co-organized with Leigh and others the series of workshops in&nbsp;Hawai\u02bbi&nbsp;on Indigenous&nbsp;AI, which resulted in a position paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.library.concordia.ca\/id\/eprint\/986506\/7\/Indigenous_Protocol_and_AI_2020.pdf\">Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence<\/a>\u201d (PDF) that was published in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014By Kelli Abe Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0University of\u00a0Hawai\u02bbi\u00a0is part of an international group of researchers and Indigenous practitioners that has been awarded a $23-million (Canadian and approximately $17-million U.S.) grant from Canada\u2019s\u00a0New Frontiers in Research Fund\u00a0to work on improving artificial intelligence (AI) through Indigenous knowledge. 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