Get involved — volunteer, partner or support AAII

Most needed

Volunteer

Teach, translate, review a lesson, or facilitate a study group. From two hours a month.

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Most needed

Mentor

One hour a month with one learner. You need experience, not a teaching qualification.

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Organisations

Partner

Universities, employers, NGOs and companies. Compute, jobs, venues, accreditation.

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In progress

Support us

Equipment, bandwidth and hosting. Read the honest status of donations first.

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Volunteer roles

What we need, and how long it takes

Real time commitments, not "a few hours". If a role would take more of your week than you have, take a smaller one — a reliable two hours beats an enthusiastic ten that stops after a month.

Open volunteer roles at AAII
Role	What you would do	Time	Needed
Video editor	Cut recorded lessons, add captions and diagrams. This is the bottleneck between a finished script and a published subject.	4 h / week	Urgent
Technical reviewer	Read a lesson before publication and find what is wrong, unclear or out of date.	2 h / lesson	Urgent
Study group facilitator	Keep a group of twenty on schedule for six weeks. You do not teach — you host, and you ask the questions.	2 h / week	High
Mentor	Meet one learner for an hour a month for six months. Career and project guidance.	1 h / month	High
Exercise author	Write extra practice problems and worked solutions for a subject. Learners always want more than we have.	2 h / exercise set	High
Android developer	Build the offline-first learning app. Kotlin, and a strong opinion about doing a lot with 50 MB.	Project	Open
Data collector	Record thirty seconds of speech, photograph diseased leaves, or correct a scanned textbook page.	15 min, once	Anyone
Guest speaker	Talk for thirty minutes about what your engineering or research job is actually like.	1 h, once	Open

Volunteer with us No CV needed. Tell us what you can do and how much time you have.

Mentoring

You know more than you think you do

The most common reason people decline is that they do not feel senior enough. If you have two years of professional experience in software, data or research, you are already several years ahead of the learner who needs you — and you remember what was confusing, which someone with twenty years does not.

Mentoring here is deliberately light: one hour a month, six months, video call or voice only if bandwidth is tight. We match on language and field, we brief you first, and we check in with both of you at the halfway point. If it is not working, either side can end it without any awkwardness.

You do not teach the curriculum. The course does that.
You answer the questions a course cannot: what to learn next, whether this project is good enough, how to handle a rejection.
You never give money or immigration advice, and we ask you not to be asked for either.

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Partnerships

For organisations

We are looking for a small number of serious partners rather than a page of logos. Here is what is genuinely useful.

Universities

Recognise our courses as preparatory study, co-supervise student research on low-resource language technology, or open a lecture series to our learners.

Employers

Offer a paid internship, a remote junior role, or a mock interview afternoon. Even three interviews a year changes what learners believe is possible.

Cloud and compute providers

Credits for training runs, or hosting for the datasets. Modest amounts go a long way when the alternative is a free-tier notebook.

NGOs and development agencies

Bring us a real data problem from your programme. Our advanced learners solve it as a supervised project, and you keep the result.

Schools and training centres

Teach subjects 01 and 02 in your own classroom. The teacher's pack and slides are free, and we will train your teachers over a weekend.

Publishers and printers

Produce printed editions of the guides and workbooks for places where internet access, not ability, is the barrier.

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Donations

The honest position on money

We are not collecting public donations yet. Formal non-profit registration is still in progress, and until it completes we have no audited way to accept money and account for it properly. Asking for donations before that would be asking you to trust a promise instead of a record.

When registration completes we will publish the registration number, the bank details, and an itemised statement of every amount received and spent. Until then, the most useful things you can give are on this page above: hours, expertise, and equipment.

What money will be for, in this order

Laptops for learners who have none. The single biggest barrier we see. A refurbished machine ends the problem for one person permanently.
Data allowances. A few dollars a month keeps a learner online through the whole month rather than the first nine days.
Video production and editing. Volunteers carry this now, and it is the work that burns them out. Paying for it is what gets subjects published faster.
Compute for dataset work. Training a speech model needs GPU hours that free tiers do not cover.
Hosting and video bandwidth. Small, unavoidable, and it grows with our audience.

Nothing is spent on salaries for the founding team while we are volunteer-run. If that ever changes, it will be published before it happens, not after.