29 November 2024
Bilbao Campus
On November 29, the Bilbao Social Innovation Lab, BBK Kuna, presented the project developed in coordination between the InteRed Foundation Delegation in the Basque Country and the Deusto Social Values Research Team of the University of Deusto, Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges for Gender Violence, as the winner of the Kuna-Co-Proiektuak 2024-2025 call for proposals. The event was moderated by María Silvestre, as well as Kristian Prieto, director of BBK Kuna; Silvia Felipe as InteRed Delegation Coordinator; and Ainhoa Izagirre and Lorea Romero from the University of Deusto.
With this initiative, BBK Kuna aims to promote Innovation Projects that seek solutions to challenges associated with the 2030 Agenda in the Basque Country in general and in Bizkaia in particular, and that, in turn, produce a change in the territory of Bizkaia.
These challenges respond to the challenges identified by BBK Kuna Institutoa, Think Tank. The winning project, “Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges for the fight against male violence”, has been coordinated between the InteRed Foundation Delegation in the Basque Country and the Deusto Social Values Research Team of the University of Deusto.
The initiative consists of a Chatbot designed to offer a self-assessment questionnaire on the risk of suffering gender violence in a relationship. Through this service, interested people will be able to save a phone number in their contacts that will allow them to start a conversation via WhatsApp. During this interaction developed by Artificial Intelligence, applicants will answer a series of questions focused on identifying and defining behaviors that, although they may be socially naturalized, could lead to situations of gender violence.
This chat has been initially tested with different women who have subsequently completed an assessment questionnaire. The tool offers the information in both Basque and Spanish, and one of the most recurrent suggestions in the questionnaire was to extend its availability to other languages in order to favor greater dissemination and accessibility.
FemBot has been designed with a specific focus on heterosexual couples, with the aim of questioning certain myths of romantic love that perpetuate sexist practices, often normalized and even presented as desirable in relationships. Thus, the project aims to offer a critical response to these forms of macho violence in an increasingly socially accepted context. BBK Kuna is the Social Innovation Lab. This pioneering laboratory with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as its roadmap, has a five-story building in the heart of Bilbao La Vieja to promote innovative projects that provide solutions to the challenges of the future.
At BBK Kuna, working together with all agents of society, networks and alliances are woven with the focus always on improving the future of the Territory without leaving anyone behind.
