Resources

Innovative AI frameworks and models might consider:

• Embedding values that counteract the barriers women face at work into the AI tools we use in the workplace.
• Surfacing AI tools that enhance job opportunities, help more workers at scale to do their jobs better, and/or create more access to benefits in the workplace.
• Developing and scaling AI tools that alleviate tasks, which may give employees more time to manage competing priorities.
• Creating new applications of existing AI tools through use of participatory design practices, such as incorporating feedback from and addressing pain points of the workers using the tools.
• Upskilling so workers can better leverage AI in their jobs, as well as shape AI policies and deployment in the workplace.
• Ensuring that employees are part of the AI lifecycle at their workplace from beginning to end.

Delineating rural, nonrural, and other distinctions across community types in the U.S. is complex given that there are many definitions that could apply. Given this context, we are sharing several resources it may be helpful to refer to in choosing the definition of community type that most closely applies to an applicant’s proposed project area:

• Defining Rural at the U.S. Census Bureau
• Frontier and Remote Area Codes developed by USDA

Proposals from organizations operating in a range of stages will be encouraged to apply. From start-up or early-stage organizations with a new idea, to existing organizations and partnerships with strong proofs of concepts or proven solutions ready to scale.