An African perspective on gender and artificial intelligence needs African data and research

Western literature has covered a wide range of topics demonstrating the reality and potential of AI for gender justice from historical and contemporary perspectives. However, very little of this type of research and reflection is emerging from African scholarship. Much of the available literature consists of commentaries on the potential of AI for national development in general. To lay a foundation for more research on gender and AI in Africa, Research ICT Africa has included a crosscutting gender component in its ongoing study of AI and socio-economic development in Africa, as part of the AI4D project.