Today we embark on an exciting new chapter for Connected Women. In 2013, we identified a gap in safe online employment opportunities for women and founded the community with a mission to change this reality. Since then, Connected Women has grown to 180,000 members spanning across the Philippines, providing quality, in-demand ethical artificial intelligence (AI) data services across a range of industries.
Today we are once again seizing an opportunity to address a critical gap in the global race to develop AI. We believe that AI has the potential to unlock immense value for society, especially in areas such as health and education – but only if it is developed and deployed responsibly. This requires recognizing and addressing the inherent biases that exist in Large Language Models (LLMs), ensuring humans remain involved in regular reviews and critical decision-making, and relevant ISO standards and privacy policies are upheld in organizations’ governance practices.
In view of this mission, Connected Women AI will scale internationally and operate moving forward as Mettamatch. Since 2017, we have developed an extensive network of trained talent in AI annotation services and a proven track record as evidenced by the clients we have retained over the years. In addition to image, video and language annotation, Mettamatch offers bias mitigation assessments and customisable labeling services — tailored to clients’ business needs – and conducted in adherence to Fairwork standards. Mettamatch is also compliant with data protection rules including the EU’s GDPR, Singapore’s PDPA and the Philippines’ Data Protection Act.
The Philippines is one of the top destinations for outsourced data annotation services, and with good reason. Our strong command of the English language, digitally savvy workforce and reliable customer service makes us the ideal partner for organizations who need quick and quality-assured outputs.
We envision Mettamatch emerging as an AI services leader both in the Philippines and the Asia Pacific region. We will achieve this by scaling our operations sustainably while upholding our agile and quality-assured model and continuing to treat our annotator network with the respect they deserve.
Join us on our mission to scale ethical AI data services internationally and support our work in establishing the blueprint that ensures AI is both developed and deployed responsibly.