Tag: Accountable

Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa’s Public Sector, Volume I Ethical Compliance and Institutional Performance


Free Download Kemi Ogunyemi, "Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa’s Public Sector, Volume I: Ethical Compliance and Institutional Performance "
English | ISBN: 3030953939 | 2022 | 220 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is an excellent resource for academics and students interested in ethics and accountability in the public sector, as well as for practitioners, NGO workers and policymakers. Over the last decades, issues in ethical leadership have become central to the global call for higher moral standards on the part of corporate organisations and their leaders and managers. The book’s chapters investigate these concerns in Africa, where governance gaps often reflect poor leadership. Parenthetically, in 2001, a UNDP report found difficulties in applying anti-corruption laws and managing public institutions in the continent. Twenty years on, significant efforts have been made to improve the situation, yet extensive challenges still subsist. In this first volume, contributors discuss the practice of ethics, anti-corruption, and performance management, and propose solutions, some general to the continent and others country-specific.

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Accountable and Explainable Methods for Complex Reasoning over Text


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 303151517X | 217 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 45 MB
This thesis presents research that expands the collective knowledge in the areas of accountability and transparency of machine learning (ML) models developed for complex reasoning tasks over text. In particular, the presented results facilitate the analysis of the reasons behind the outputs of ML models and assist in detecting and correcting for potential harms. It presents two new methods for accountable ML models; advances the state of the art with methods generating textual explanations that are further improved to be fluent, easy to read, and to contain logically connected multi-chain arguments; and makes substantial contributions in the area of diagnostics for explainability approaches. All results are empirically tested on complex reasoning tasks over text, including fact checking, question answering, and natural language inference.

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Accountable The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed [Audiobook]


Free Download Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BK33DYFH | 2023 | 9 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Dashka Slater
Narrator: Ariel Blake

From the New York Times-bestselling author comes Accountable, a propulsive and thought-provoking new young adult narrative nonfiction book about the revelation of a racist social media account that changes everything for a group of high school students and begs the question: What does it mean to be held accountable for harm that takes place behind a screen? When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew.

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