HOT Tech Talk — fAIr

Featured in HOT's Tech Talk series, this interview provided a behind-the-scenes account of the fAIr project at the midpoint of the Omdena-HOT AI innovation challenge. The conversation covered the origins of fAIr as an open-source, AI-assisted mapping tool, the collaborative process with Omdena's global community of data scientists, and the vision for ethical, transparent AI in humanitarian mapping.

Key themes included how AI predictions can support — rather than replace — volunteer mappers, the importance of community ownership of AI models, and the technical architecture that makes fAIr work within the OpenStreetMap ecosystem.