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Deaf-Led AI Assurance September 11, 2026

Ninety-Two Percent of What: Robotic signing hands in Kenyan classrooms, and the evidence a public education buyer should expect before scale

On 9 September 2026, Agence France-Presse carried a report from a Nairobi secondary school for Deaf students on…

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Lived Experience September 6, 2026

My Life as a Cyborg: 2026

A 2026 Rewriting Heather M. Grizzle Originally written in 2010. Rewritten in 2026 to say what I now…

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Deaf-Led AI Assurance September 5, 2026

The Object of Assurance

What the new AI assurance market measures, and what it still leaves to the buyer Heather M. Grizzle…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI September 5, 2026

Delaware Keeps Its Deaf School Inside One Local District, and No Public Document Says What It Costs

What the Delaware state file in the National Deaf Education Data Index found… Delaware was supposed to be…

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AI Governance & Digital Risk August 30, 2026

The Procurement File Is the Governance System

Artificial intelligence governance is increasingly expressed through policies, committees, principles, inventories, and risk classifications. Those structures matter. But…

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AI Governance & Digital Risk August 25, 2026

When Local Government Automates an Accusation

What a disputed red-light-camera citation reveals about AI governance, private vendors, public data, and institutional accountability Novara Consulting…

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Deaf Led AI Governance August 23, 2026

The Coordinates of Trust

NOVARA CONSULTING GROUP  ·  NCG SPECIAL ARTICLE The Coordinates of Trust A governance reading of Google DeepMind’s SL2T…

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Deaf Led AI Governance August 17, 2026

AI Can Translate. But Who Translates the Risk?

Every AI deployment moves risk onto someone. In most cases it lands on the person with the least…

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Deaf Led AI Governance August 15, 2026

The Demo Is Not the Evidence: What Google DeepMind’s Sign Language AI Must Prove Next

On August 12, Google DeepMind announced SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model, and began shipping it in consumer products…

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