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October 14, 2025

Evaluating AI for Social Impact in Africa and Asia

October 13, 2025

AI4D Voices Lead Critical Discussions at AI for Africa Conference 2025

August 19, 2025

How should Africa respond to the growing power of artificial intelligence (AI)?

July 23, 2025

AfriAILab Showcases Responsible AI Innovation During Ministerial Visit

July 11, 2025

Resonance Lab at Addis Ababa University to Advance Ethical AI for Sustainable Development in Ethiopia

July 4, 2025

East African AI Policy Hub Launched to Advance Ethical AI Governance Across the Region

March 12, 2025

AI Sovereignty in Africa

January 30, 2025

Driving Responsible AI Innovation: RAIL’s Impact Under AI4D

January 30, 2025

Revolutionizing Maternal Healthcare with AI

November 11, 2024

Showcasing Responsible AI in Action: Real-World Impact Across Health, Education, Agriculture, and Human Rights

August 23, 2024

Facilitators go on journeys, too!

August 23, 2024

My Journey: a short reflection on my PLJ/GEI path

August 23, 2024

Putting Myself in the Shoes of Another

August 23, 2024

Integrating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in My AI4D Research Journey

August 22, 2024

I Felt A Light Shine On Me: My GEI AI4D Integration Journey

August 22, 2024

My journey integrating gender equality and social inclusion in the AI4D Research

August 6, 2024

Misconceptions and divides: My previous experience with GEI integration in research

July 26, 2024

What does it take to achieve integration of gender equality and inclusion (GEI) in AI4D research

February 20, 2024

Announcing the winners of the The Gender and Inclusive AI Research and Innovation Challenge!

February 13, 2024

2023 Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health and Rights Awardees – Lacuna Fund

January 30, 2024

Call For Papers: Building a Just AI Ecosystem in Africa

October 17, 2023

Révélation de la Stratégie IA du Sénégal : Une Vision pour un Avenir Prospère

August 29, 2023

The AI4D Gender Knowledge Synthesis Series

August 8, 2023

Advancing Openness and Responsibility: Reflections from the Africa AI Conference – Part Three

August 8, 2023

Advancing Openness and Responsibility: Reflections from the Africa AI Conference – Part Two

July 31, 2023

Advancing Openness and Responsibility: Reflections from the Africa AI Conference – Part One

July 28, 2023

Gender and health data on the Venezuelan migrant population in Colombia

July 28, 2023

Mes aventures avec la COVID-19 sous la lanterne de l’intersectionnalité

July 28, 2023

My adventures with COVID-19 under the lantern of intersectionality

July 28, 2023

Gender Marked Me: The Value of Gender Analysis in AI Research

July 28, 2023

Le genre m’a collé à la peau: Intérêt de l’analyse genre dans une recherche sur l’IA

July 28, 2023

No Differences, Only Sames: Finding Common Ground in Nairobi During the AI4COVID Gender Action Learning Writeshop

July 28, 2023

A Biostatistician’s Personal Journey through Gender Bias

July 28, 2023

Why are you talking to a blank screen?

July 28, 2023

Breaking Out of Your Silo

June 20, 2023

Cook, Clean, Plan: A case for more gender-responsive policymaking

June 20, 2023

Are women programmed to think less and do more?

June 20, 2023

Can AI Have Its Cake and Eat It? Reducing Bias in AI Models May Not Always Be Desirable

May 30, 2023

AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion AI Research

May 18, 2023

Ensuring Generative AI is Responsible AI: The Case For Allowing Time To Find The Evidence

April 24, 2023

Data Privacy in Africa’s Ed-Tech Platforms: Children’s Right to Privacy

April 11, 2023

Meet the 10 Sub Grantees Leading the Way to Securing Africa’s Food Systems

February 28, 2023

Meet The Teams Using Responsible AI to Advance Maternal, Sexual and Reproductive Health in Africa

April 28, 2022

Welcome the New Hub for Responsible AI for Maternal, Sexual and Reproductive Health

April 5, 2022

Call for Expression of Interest: AI for Agriculture & Food Systems (AI4AFS) in Africa Project

March 8, 2022

Introducing the New AI Hub for Gender and Inclusion Innovation Research in Africa

March 1, 2022

Designing a Rights-based Global Index on Responsible AI

February 21, 2022

EduAI Hub- Advancing Education Innovation Through Responsible AI

February 8, 2022

Artificial intelligence carries a huge upside. But potential harms need to be managed

November 30, 2021

Moving from Principles to Practice in Responsible AI around the world: Announcement of the new Global Index on Responsible AI

November 24, 2021

Call for Offers: Development of a Practitioner’s Guide for Kenyan AI Developers

November 18, 2021

Job Opening: Global Research Fellow (Data Trust), March 2022

November 18, 2021

Job Opening : Global Research Fellow (Data Justice), Jan 2022

November 16, 2021

CITADEL – The Francophone AI4D Africa Multidisciplinary Research Lab

October 28, 2021

Meet The New Hub for Responsible AI for Agriculture and Food Systems Innovation Research in Africa

October 13, 2021

Introducing AI4D Africa’s Anglophone Multidisciplinary Research Lab

September 20, 2021

Driving Africa’s Development using Artificial Intelligence

August 31, 2021

Meet the Innovations Selected by Villgro Africa to Harness the Power of AI For Africa’s Development

July 30, 2021

AI4D Africa Launch : Driving Inclusive AI Innovation in Africa

April 12, 2021

AI4D Africa Grant Recipients

February 12, 2021

Tejumade Afonja from AI Saturdays Lagos on AI and the importance of local communities

July 25, 2020

Semantic Enrichment Of Nigerian Pidgin English For Contextual Sentiment Classification – ICLR 2020

July 25, 2020

Low Resource Neural Machine Translation: A Benchmark for Five African Languages – ICLR 2020

July 25, 2020

Evaluating Amharic Machine Translation – ICLR 2020

July 25, 2020

Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator – ICLR 2020

July 25, 2020

A Computer vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction tool – ICLR 2020

July 25, 2020

Optimal transformer depth for low-resource language translation – ICLR 2020

July 22, 2020

Join AI4D, Mozilla, and GIZ’s FAIR Forward initiative for a webinar with the Lacuna Fund Secretariat

July 6, 2020

Towards Neural Machine Translation for Edoid Languages – ICLR 2020

July 6, 2020

Masakhane Machine Translation for Africa – ICLR 2020

July 6, 2020

Unsupervised Pidgin Text Generation by Pivoting English Data and Self – Training – ICLR 2020

June 26, 2020

New podcast by Wale Akinfaderin on AI used to make parliamentary documents more available to average Nigerians

April 20, 2020

Olubayo Adekanmbi from MTN and Data Science Nigeria on how AI ecosystems are created

April 20, 2020

Building a Medicinal Plant Database for Facilitating the Exploitation of Local Ethnopharmacological Knowledge

April 20, 2020

Preservation of Indigenous Languages

April 13, 2020

A Computer Vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction Tool

April 13, 2020

End-to-End Learning for Autonomous Driving on Unpaved Roads – A Study Towards Automated Wildlife Patrol

April 12, 2020

Arabic Speech-to-Moroccan Sign Language Translator: “Learning for Deaf”

April 9, 2020

Getting data: Creating a ground truth dataset for malaria diagnosis in Tanzania

April 3, 2020

Philip Apodo Oyier from Jomo Kenyatta, University of Agriculture and Technology on AI and common problems in Africa

March 29, 2020

Improving Pharmacovigilance Systems using Natural Language Processing on Electronic Medical Records

March 29, 2020

Building a Data Pipeline for a Real World Machine Learning Application

March 20, 2020

Extracting meta-data from Malawi Court Judgments

February 9, 2020

Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UNESCO Chair in Data Science and Analytics on developing AI solutions in Africa

February 4, 2020

December Review; AI4D- African Language Dataset Challenge // Bilan de decembre; Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines

January 23, 2020

Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes form UCL on how AI can deliver better medicines in Africa

December 23, 2019

November Review; AI4D- African Language Dataset Challenge // Bilan de novembre ; Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines

December 10, 2019

Vukosi Marivate from University of Pretoria on Africa’s position in AI

November 25, 2019

Benjamin Rosman from University of the Witwatersrand on AI and development

November 5, 2019

AI4D – African Language Dataset Challenge // Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines

October 11, 2019

Isaac Rutenberg, Strathmore University on development of AI in Africa

September 18, 2019

Kathleen Siminyu from Africa’s Talking on women in African AI

September 1, 2019

Prateek Sibal from UNESCO and policy in Artificial Intelligence

August 25, 2019

Announcing the AI4D Africa Innovation 2019 Winners

August 16, 2019

Moses Thiga from Kabarak University on Artificial Intelligence

July 26, 2019

Hussein Suleman from University of Cape Town on AI as a tool for development problems

July 25, 2019

UNESCO’s Dorothy Gordon: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on International Development

June 25, 2019

Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis from United Nations Global Pulse on how UN can help AI in Africa

May 23, 2019

Erik Bongcam Rudloff, SLU, on African bioinformatics and AI

May 22, 2019

Watch the Live AI4D Knowledge Webinar: Introducing the 2019 Government AI Readiness Index

May 21, 2019

The Government AI Readiness Index 2019: More Equal Implementation Needed to Close Global Inequalities

May 8, 2019

A roadmap for artificial intelligence for development in Africa

May 7, 2019

John Shawe-Taylor, University College London on the importance of a Network of Excellence in Africa

April 15, 2019

Naser Faruqui from IDRC discussing AI and its impact for development

April 7, 2019

Tejumade Afonja form AI Saturdays Lagos on Artificial Intelligence and the importance of local communities

March 30, 2019

Arthur Ernest Gwagwa, Strathmore University on why education in AI is important

March 27, 2019

Meet Kathleen Siminyu: One of Africa’s AI community women leaders

March 26, 2019

Deep Learning Indaba releases 2nd edition report

March 2, 2019

Fernando Perini, IDRC on what is needed to have an inclusive AI in the Global South

November 25, 2018

Positive feedback to Network idea in Morocco

August 27, 2018

New research on Global South emerging areas in Artificial Intelligence