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Explore a collection of perspectives on responsible AI, featuring innovations, policy developments, and real-world stories. The blog highlights how responsible AI is addressing challenges and creating opportunities across the Global South.
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The Collapse of Koko Networks: Lessons for Climate Innovation and Regulatory Reform in Africa
AI4D Research and Innovation for Climate HubThe closure of Koko Networks highlights the fragile intersection of climate innovation, carbon finance, and regulatory uncertainty in Africa. Despite serving over a million Kenyan households with clean cooking fuel, the company’s collapse reveals how unclear approval processes, carbon market dependence, and policy risks can undermine promising climate enterprises.
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Why Local Innovators Are Key To The Future Of AI in Healthcare in Africa
Scaling and Sustaining AI Solutions to Improve Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (HASH 2.0)Africa’s healthcare challenges demand locally built AI solutions grounded in context. From data and infrastructure to policy and education, supporting local innovators is key to creating trusted, scalable systems. By investing in homegrown talent and enabling environments, the continent can reduce reliance on foreign technologies and build resilient, people-centered health systems for the future.
Photo Credit: HASH Project
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What does it take to achieve integration of gender equality and inclusion (GEI) in AI4D research
The power of artificial intelligence (AI) seems to promise easy solutions to many intractable problems faced by organizations in the global South, whether their focus is medicine, public health, education, agriculture and food systems, or business. While AI is a compelling tool for research, the reality of implementing AI fairly and equitably is more challenging…. <a class="view-article" href="https://ai4d.ai/blog/what-does-it-take-to-achieve-integration-of-gender-equality-and-inclusion-gei-in-ai4d-research/">View Article</a>
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Revolutionizing Maternal Healthcare with AI
In Kenya, accessing timely and quality maternal healthcare has long been a challenge for millions of women. Jacaranda Health, a nonprofit organization, is transforming the maternal healthcare landscape through innovative digital solutions. Among its pioneering initiatives is PROMPTS, a digital health tool powered by AI, which has empowered nearly three million Kenyan mothers with life-saving information via SMS.
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Gender and health data on the Venezuelan migrant population in Colombia
In this blog post, Sandra Patricia Martínez-Cabezas reflects on her research in the COLEV project, which focused on using responsible AI and data science to address COVID-19 challenges in Colombia. She recounts how her research team used health records of Venezuelan migrant populations crossing into Colombia to capture their health issues in national responses. In applying a… <a class="view-article" href="https://ai4d.ai/blog/gender-and-health-data-on-the-venezuelan-migrant-population-in-colombia/">View Article</a>
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Apr 1, 2026
The value of inclusion of African Languages in AI
Mar 24, 2026
Why Local Innovators Are Key To The Future Of AI in Healthcare in Africa
Feb 27, 2026
The Collapse of Koko Networks: Lessons for Climate Innovation and Regulatory Reform in Africa
Feb 16, 2026
AI4D at the India AI Impact Summit 2026: Driving responsible AI for global impact
Feb 12, 2026
AI4D Network Experts Appointed to UN’s First Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence
Jan 29, 2026
Where AI Interventions Succeed or Fail
Nov 13, 2025
WEBINAR: How AI Can Accelerate Africa’s Scientific Breakthroughs Event
Nov 12, 2025
Launch of the African Hub on AI Safety, Peace and Security
Oct 14, 2025
Evaluating AI for Social Impact in Africa and Asia
Oct 13, 2025
AI4D Voices Lead Critical Discussions at AI for Africa Conference 2025
Aug 19, 2025
How should Africa respond to the growing power of artificial intelligence (AI)?
Jul 23, 2025
AfriAILab Showcases Responsible AI Innovation During Ministerial Visit
Jul 11, 2025
Resonance Lab at Addis Ababa University to Advance Ethical AI for Sustainable Development in Ethiopia
Jul 4, 2025
East African AI Policy Hub Launched to Advance Ethical AI Governance Across the Region
Mar 25, 2025
Ghana’s RAIL lab: Where AI talent grows
Mar 12, 2025
AI Sovereignty in Africa
Jan 30, 2025
Driving Responsible AI Innovation: RAIL’s Impact Under AI4D
Jan 30, 2025
Revolutionizing Maternal Healthcare with AI
Nov 11, 2024
Showcasing Responsible AI in Action: Real-World Impact Across Health, Education, Agriculture, and Human Rights
Aug 23, 2024
Facilitators go on journeys, too!
Aug 23, 2024
My Journey: a short reflection on my PLJ/GEI path
Aug 23, 2024
Putting Myself in the Shoes of Another
Aug 23, 2024
Integrating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in My AI4D Research Journey
Aug 22, 2024
I Felt A Light Shine On Me: My GEI AI4D Integration Journey
Aug 22, 2024
My journey integrating gender equality and social inclusion in the AI4D Research
Aug 6, 2024
Misconceptions and divides: My previous experience with GEI integration in research
Jul 26, 2024
What does it take to achieve integration of gender equality and inclusion (GEI) in AI4D research
Feb 20, 2024
Announcing the winners of the The Gender and Inclusive AI Research and Innovation Challenge!
Feb 13, 2024
2023 Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health and Rights Awardees – Lacuna Fund
Jan 30, 2024
Call For Papers: Building a Just AI Ecosystem in Africa
Oct 17, 2023
Révélation de la Stratégie IA du Sénégal : Une Vision pour un Avenir Prospère
Aug 29, 2023
The AI4D Gender Knowledge Synthesis Series
Aug 8, 2023
Advancing Openness and Responsibility: Reflections from the Africa AI Conference – Part Three
Aug 8, 2023
Advancing Openness and Responsibility: Reflections from the Africa AI Conference – Part Two
Jul 31, 2023
Advancing Openness and Responsibility: Reflections from the Africa AI Conference – Part One
Jul 28, 2023
Gender and health data on the Venezuelan migrant population in Colombia
Jul 28, 2023
Mes aventures avec la COVID-19 sous la lanterne de l’intersectionnalité
Jul 28, 2023
My adventures with COVID-19 under the lantern of intersectionality
Jul 28, 2023
Gender Marked Me: The Value of Gender Analysis in AI Research
Jul 28, 2023
Le genre m’a collé à la peau: Intérêt de l’analyse genre dans une recherche sur l’IA
Jul 28, 2023
No Differences, Only Sames: Finding Common Ground in Nairobi During the AI4COVID Gender Action Learning Writeshop
Jul 28, 2023
A Biostatistician’s Personal Journey through Gender Bias
Jul 28, 2023
Why are you talking to a blank screen?
Jul 28, 2023
Breaking Out of Your Silo
Jun 20, 2023
Cook, Clean, Plan: A case for more gender-responsive policymaking
Jun 20, 2023
Are women programmed to think less and do more?
Jun 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
Apr 24, 2023
Data Privacy in Africa’s Ed-Tech Platforms: Children’s Right to Privacy
Apr 11, 2023
Meet the 10 Sub Grantees Leading the Way to Securing Africa’s Food Systems
Feb 28, 2023
Meet The Teams Using Responsible AI to Advance Maternal, Sexual and Reproductive Health in Africa
Apr 28, 2022
Welcome the New Hub for Responsible AI for Maternal, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Apr 5, 2022
Call for Expression of Interest: AI for Agriculture & Food Systems (AI4AFS) in Africa Project
Mar 8, 2022
Introducing the New AI Hub for Gender and Inclusion Innovation Research in Africa
Mar 1, 2022
Designing a Rights-based Global Index on Responsible AI
Feb 21, 2022
EduAI Hub- Advancing Education Innovation Through Responsible AI
Feb 8, 2022
Artificial intelligence carries a huge upside. But potential harms need to be managed
Nov 30, 2021
Moving from Principles to Practice in Responsible AI around the world: Announcement of the new Global Index on Responsible AI
Nov 24, 2021
Call for Offers: Development of a Practitioner’s Guide for Kenyan AI Developers
Nov 18, 2021
Job Opening: Global Research Fellow (Data Trust), March 2022
Nov 18, 2021
Job Opening : Global Research Fellow (Data Justice), Jan 2022
Nov 16, 2021
CITADEL – The Francophone AI4D Africa Multidisciplinary Research Lab
Oct 28, 2021
Meet The New Hub for Responsible AI for Agriculture and Food Systems Innovation Research in Africa
Oct 13, 2021
Introducing AI4D Africa’s Anglophone Multidisciplinary Research Lab
Sep 20, 2021
Driving Africa’s Development using Artificial Intelligence
Aug 31, 2021
Meet the Innovations Selected by Villgro Africa to Harness the Power of AI For Africa’s Development
Jul 30, 2021
AI4D Africa Launch : Driving Inclusive AI Innovation in Africa
Apr 12, 2021
AI4D Africa Grant Recipients
Feb 12, 2021
Tejumade Afonja from AI Saturdays Lagos on AI and the importance of local communities
Jul 25, 2020
Semantic Enrichment Of Nigerian Pidgin English For Contextual Sentiment Classification – ICLR 2020
Jul 25, 2020
Low Resource Neural Machine Translation: A Benchmark for Five African Languages – ICLR 2020
Jul 25, 2020
Evaluating Amharic Machine Translation – ICLR 2020
Jul 25, 2020
Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator – ICLR 2020
Jul 25, 2020
A Computer vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction tool – ICLR 2020
Jul 25, 2020
Optimal transformer depth for low-resource language translation – ICLR 2020
Jul 22, 2020
Join AI4D, Mozilla, and GIZ’s FAIR Forward initiative for a webinar with the Lacuna Fund Secretariat
Jul 6, 2020
Towards Neural Machine Translation for Edoid Languages – ICLR 2020
Jul 6, 2020
Masakhane Machine Translation for Africa – ICLR 2020
Jul 6, 2020
Unsupervised Pidgin Text Generation by Pivoting English Data and Self – Training – ICLR 2020
Jun 26, 2020
New podcast by Wale Akinfaderin on AI used to make parliamentary documents more available to average Nigerians
Apr 20, 2020
Olubayo Adekanmbi from MTN and Data Science Nigeria on how AI ecosystems are created
Apr 20, 2020
Building a Medicinal Plant Database for Facilitating the Exploitation of Local Ethnopharmacological Knowledge
Apr 20, 2020
Preservation of Indigenous Languages
Apr 13, 2020
A Computer Vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction Tool
Apr 13, 2020
End-to-End Learning for Autonomous Driving on Unpaved Roads – A Study Towards Automated Wildlife Patrol
Apr 12, 2020
Arabic Speech-to-Moroccan Sign Language Translator: “Learning for Deaf”
Apr 9, 2020
Getting data: Creating a ground truth dataset for malaria diagnosis in Tanzania
Apr 3, 2020
Philip Apodo Oyier from Jomo Kenyatta, University of Agriculture and Technology on AI and common problems in Africa
Mar 29, 2020
Improving Pharmacovigilance Systems using Natural Language Processing on Electronic Medical Records
Mar 29, 2020
Building a Data Pipeline for a Real World Machine Learning Application
Mar 20, 2020
Extracting meta-data from Malawi Court Judgments
Feb 9, 2020
Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UNESCO Chair in Data Science and Analytics on developing AI solutions in Africa
Feb 4, 2020
December Review; AI4D- African Language Dataset Challenge // Bilan de decembre; Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines
Jan 23, 2020
Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes form UCL on how AI can deliver better medicines in Africa
Dec 23, 2019
November Review; AI4D- African Language Dataset Challenge // Bilan de novembre ; Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines
Dec 10, 2019
Vukosi Marivate from University of Pretoria on Africa’s position in AI
Nov 25, 2019
Benjamin Rosman from University of the Witwatersrand on AI and development
Nov 5, 2019
AI4D – African Language Dataset Challenge // Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines
Oct 11, 2019
Isaac Rutenberg, Strathmore University on development of AI in Africa
Sep 18, 2019
Kathleen Siminyu from Africa’s Talking on women in African AI
Sep 1, 2019
Prateek Sibal from UNESCO and policy in Artificial Intelligence
Aug 25, 2019
Announcing the AI4D Africa Innovation 2019 Winners
Aug 16, 2019
Moses Thiga from Kabarak University on Artificial Intelligence
Jul 26, 2019
Hussein Suleman from University of Cape Town on AI as a tool for development problems
Jul 25, 2019
UNESCO’s Dorothy Gordon: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on International Development
Jun 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
Apr 15, 2019
Naser Faruqui from IDRC discussing AI and its impact for development
Apr 7, 2019
Tejumade Afonja form AI Saturdays Lagos on Artificial Intelligence and the importance of local communities
Mar 30, 2019
Arthur Ernest Gwagwa, Strathmore University on why education in AI is important
Mar 27, 2019
Meet Kathleen Siminyu: One of Africa’s AI community women leaders
Mar 26, 2019
Deep Learning Indaba releases 2nd edition report
Mar 2, 2019
Fernando Perini, IDRC on what is needed to have an inclusive AI in the Global South
Nov 25, 2018
Positive feedback to Network idea in Morocco
Aug 27, 2018
New research on Global South emerging areas in Artificial Intelligence