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# Turing Commons - Monthly (wider) meeting 

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## 6th July 2023

`In attendance:`

- Mishka 
- Clau
- Shakir
- Chris
- Harriet

### Agenda
1. Responsible AI bid (David L) - £500k to support:
    - Support TFs and other educators in embedding ethics into teaching (live workshops)
    - Commision courses to consolidate the RAI offering eg accountability, privacy & security missing 
    - Outside this funding request: plans for TC scale-up
        - slightly on hold until new Ethics fellows start work

2. CDT leadership sessions - insights 
    - needs analysis workshops on 6th and 7th of June with 33 contacts connected with existing and proposed CDTs 
    - Follow up info shared with group on 6th July.
3. Needs scoping for the TC platform - what's missing, what have you done well


## 18th May 2023


`In attendance:`

- Mishka 
- Clau
- Bridget
- Chris
- ...

### Agenda
1. Skills budget approval and Turing Commons spend priorities (think about OoB proposal?)
    - people resource
    - citizens' & practitioners' guide (developed with a few CDTs)
    - made a request from ASG legacy funding 
    - loop in Ayesha to help with the practitioners guide
3. Bridget's role in Turing Commons 
    - script for one of the modules is ready
    - Bridget's strenghts / interests: support / leading on uploading content to the platform, promotions, comms
    - community management on the radar but no structure / governance in place at the moment 
5. TC sits in PPP - co-led by TPS 
6. TC platform 

## 13th April 2023


`In attendance:`

- Mishka 
- Clau
- Bridget
- Chris

### Agenda

1. Explainability of AI - visualisation; think of ethics guide for SMEs / ethical AI by design. Maybe look at this from an angle of what we need funding for to develop, but for SMEs (AI adopters & AI developers)
2. RRI skills track 
3. CDT workshops
:::spoiler
### Notes
- BridgeAI / Innovate UK fronting money to support different orgs working in 4 sectors adopt AI best practices / data capabilities w/ delivery partners (such as Turing). 
    - Skills and Turing Way (TP Hub + AI Standards Hub) involved 
    - Ethical AI by design - potential funding to design guidance for facilitating workshops (SMEs) / similiarities w/ Camden? 
    - awaiting next steps / further visibility into the project 
- Facilitators guidance for facilitating RRI workshops 
    - Frutto (contractors) established user journey and subsequent steps/needs for onboarding, planning, delivery and evaluation 
    - guidance: training trainers, how to run successful workshops, general UI/UX project advice 
- Additional resource for TC via funding / resource 
    - Offer project ideas to Turing Research Fellows for additional resource / structured approach and user journey 
        - GitHub repo documentation 
        - modularising / rewriting skills modules 
        - facilitating workshops in their communities 
        - TRIC community manager to potentially spend resource 
- opportunity could arise: approaching ESPRC for additional resource to support CDTs 
- data deletion for TC attendees: keep org, region, background/profession
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## 2nd March 2023

`In attendance:`

- Mishka 
- Chris
- Clau
- Sarah
- Bridget

### Agenda

1. RRI course for the Online Learning Platform (OLP)
2. Skills workshop at AIUK
3. CDT workshops 

### Notes
:::spoiler
**1. Working towards RRI self-paced course**
    - skills tracks: formed of modules (fairness and explainability focus for now)
        - 2 x core module
        - 2 x optional module
- [ ]     Clau to share course structure so that we can find ways to set it up 
    - soft external launch at AIUK, full launch campaign mid-end of April
        - aim to have the RRI module for end of April
        - the entire skills track ready later in the year
        - Harriet is keen on testing the RRI course!
- [ ]     Sarah to share templates and other OLP resources
- recording: use Zoom (could use)
- add slide w/ Turing Commons faces 

**2. Skills workshop**
- [ ] Mishka to check if we can bring posters 

**3. CDT workshops**
- focus on health and environmental sciences
- aim to develop a framework for others to teach the course in their own communities 
    - IUX (?) person to help evaluate 
- second phase to include multiple CDTs (April - May)
    - other domains besides health and environment 
    - seek expressions of interest from other CDTs (about 5) to co-develop the case studies; people representing the CDTs would be workshop co-facilitators 
    - CDT in engineering and infrastructure
    - AI health CDT alternative?
- [ ] Mishka to send list of 5-10 CDTs who would be suited for the TtT ask
- [ ] Harriet to socialise the idea with CDTs
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### RRI Skills Track 

- 1. What is Responsible Research and Innovation (Core Module)
- 2. The Project Lifecycle Model (Core Module)
- 3. SAFE-D Modules:
    - 3a. Sustainability (Optional Module)
    - 3b. Accountability (Optional Module)
    - 3c. Fairness (Optional Module)
    - 3d. Explainability (Optional Module)
    - 3e. Data Stewardship (Optional Module)
- 4. Responsible Communication (Core Module)
![](https://i.imgur.com/soSjjRu.png)

:::info
**Additional Resources**

Each module is accompanied by a tailored activity.

A case study repository will also be available to anchor the content and activities in domain-specific examples.

A facilitator's guidebook will allow others to run our skills track, tailored to their own needs.

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## 2nd February 2023


`In attendance:`

- Mishka (Chair)
- Clau
- Shakir
- Jen
- Bridget
- Chris

### Agenda

1. Community management 
    - target groups
    - who should lead
    - end goal / timeline / platforms of engagement
2. Funding bodies to recognise the RRI course as *accredited* training
    - proposal on how the TC differ from other available offerings
3. Live events on the 3 modules - can we run again in the next 12 months?
4. Updates on upcoming RRI workshops on health and environmental studies
    - Edinburgh: fairness
    - Cambridge: explainability
6. Case study repository integration
7. Turing Commons residency on OLE




### Notes

:::spoiler
1. Community Management
    - Clau is currently the community manager, more support would be welcome 
    -    wait until we have the modulatised skills tracks
    -    website under re-construction
    -    think about solutions post March 2023
    -    bring the AI standards community into the Turing Commons
    -    are we capturing inbound interest? what info can we get from the Turing website and other individual microsites eg Turing Way netlify?
    -    GitHub engagement, workshop metrics
    -    identify suitable community event 
    -    facilitator guidebook under construction
    -    Alternatives to Google Analytics (rec'd by Bastian): https://matomo.org/ and https://plausible.io/ are the ones i’ve seen recommended quite often. Matomo used to be called Piwik and has been around for ages (and a long long time ago I actually used piwik)
2. Recognising the UKRI courses 
    - for info only
4. Live events
    - need new person to run the courses (RAM, Ethics fellow)
    - design slidedecks with detailed speaker notes etc to support self-directed learning 
    - transfer Turing Commons to Carpentries (?)
    - IUX developer soon to be approved
5. Case studies
    - access via API, web development required to integrate the case studies with all else
6. OLE 
    - for now, treat the OLE as the only engagement-tracking platform and not the TC website 

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