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BC’s AI ecosystem is best understood as a dynamic network—like a mycorrhizal web—where diverse perspectives and open-source collaboration fuel creativity and resilience.
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The British Columbia Artificial Intelligence ecosystem isn't some massive corporate machine - it's more like a mycorrhizal network in the forest, you feel me? Small but mighty, connecting different species of thinkers: the academic deep divers, the creative edge-pushers, the environmental warriors.
We're all about that open source life, sharing nutrients and knowledge through the underground. When we honor all these different ways of knowing - from computational to cultural, from academic to ancestral - that's when we start seeing AI for what it could be: not just another extractive technology, but a tool for collective flourishing.
**** Supporting docs, RFPs, EOIs to support the projects and plans discussed etc can be provided by KK upon request.*
*BC + AI Ecosystem Association | Multi-modal, multi-cultural, radically local, and future-facing.*
The BC + AI Ecosystem Association is Canada’s first community-powered AI association. We help businesses, institutions, and citizens navigate artificial intelligence through education, advocacy, and collaboration.
Guided by principles of ethics, inclusivity, transparency, and sustainability, we champion AI that serves public good from climate resilience and healthcare equity to Indigenous language revitalization and creative expression.
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Phone: 778-898-3076