Resources

AI4D Resources

All African countries

April 30, 2025

Unscripted or the familiar strange: On Anthropology, Tech Failures and AI curiosities

Leah Junck

All African countries

November 3, 2022

Rapport technique n°1: Conception de projets de données sensibles au genre

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

April 1, 2022

Rapport technique n°4: Relier les données sur le genre à l’action

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

November 4, 2021

Rapport technique n°3 : L’implication des parties prenantes pour une recherche en santé sensible au genre

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

November 2, 2021

Nota técnica 3: Participación de las partes interesadas en la investigación en salud con sensibilidad de género

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

April 6, 2022

Nota técnica 4: Conectar los datos de género con la acción

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

August 5, 2021

Rapport technique n°2: Guide pour une recherche en santé plus sensible au genre

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

August 2, 2021

Nota técnica 2: Una guía para investigación en salud más sensible al género

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

May 1, 2021

Nota técnica 1: Diseño de proyectos de datos sensible al género

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

April 1, 2022

Technical Brief 4: Connecting Gender Data to Action

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

November 2, 2021

Technical Brief 3: Stakeholder engagement for gender-responsive health research

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

August 2, 2021

Technical Brief 2: A guide for more gender-responsive health research

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

August 5, 2021

Technical Brief 1: Designing gender-responsive data projects

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes

All African countries

May 23, 2023

What does it take to have gender-responsive AI-driven health research?

Lucía Mesa Vélez

All African countries

January 1, 2024

Learning Brief 4: Advancing women’s leadership in AI research and innovation

Lucía Mesa Vélez

Lorena Fuentes, Ladysmith

All African countries

December 1, 2022

Learning Brief 3: Key action areas for more gender-responsive AI

Alex Berryhill

Lucía Mesa Vélez, Ladysmith

All African countries

December 1, 2022

Learning Brief 2: What is gender-responsive AI, and why does it matter?

Alex Berryhill

Lucía Mesa Vélez, Ladysmith

All African countries

March 1, 2022

Learning Brief 1: 'Top 10' GEI priorities for AI4D Partners

Alex Berryhill

Lorena Fuentes, Ladysmith

Senegal

January 31, 2025

Artificial Intelligence and Religion: Investigating perceptions: ethics, practices and the role of religious actors in Senegal

Dr Rachid ID YASSINE

All African countries

December 16, 2024

Navigating Labor Protections in the Era of AI: Insights from the Global South

Fola Adeleke

Leah Junck

Nicolas Grossman

All African countries

September 30, 2024

AI and International Trade: Optimizing the Potential for Africa's AI Economy

Dr Fola Adeleke

All African countries

August 22, 2024

Africa Now Has a Continental AI Strategy: What Next?

Ayantola Alayande

Rachel Adams

All African countries

August 1, 2024

AI in Africa: The state and needs of the ecosystem - Diagnostic and solution set for skills

Not specified

All African countries

August 1, 2024

AI in Africa: The state and needs of the ecosystem - Diagnostic and solution set for data

Not specified

All African countries

South Africa

Kenya

Tunisia

Senegal

August 1, 2024

AI in Africa: The state and needs of the ecosystem - Diagnostic and solution set for compute

Not specified

All African countries

August 1, 2024

AI in Africa: The state and needs of the ecosystem - Executive Summary

Not specified

All African countries

July 19, 2024

African Observatory on Responsible AI Project Report 2021-2023

The African Observatory's Team

All African countries

March 31, 2024

Taking AI Ethics From Principles to Practice: A Guide to Implementing Responsible AI

Dr Samuel Segun

Nigeria

March 31, 2024

AI for Women’s Financial Inclusion: Analysis of Product Design and Policy Approaches in Nigeria

Dr Adekemi Omotubora

All African countries

March 31, 2024

Responsible AI Governance in Africa: Prospects for Outcomes Based Regulation

Dr Fola Adeleke

Funbi Akinwale

South Africa

March 31, 2024

AI and Exclusion in Public Digital Systems

Gabriella Razzano

Senegal

March 31, 2024

Intelligence Artificielle Et Religion Étude De Perceptions Éthique, Pratiques Et Rôle Des Acteurs Religieux Au Sénégal

Dr Rachid ID YASSINE

Dr Khalifa Diop

All African countries

South Africa

March 28, 2024

Submission to the UN on the UN Interim Report on Governing AI for Humanity

Kelly Stone

Fola Adeleke

Rachel Adams

South Africa

May 30, 2023

The Risks of AI-Cybersecurity Gaps to the Developmental State Project

Scott Timcke

Mark Gaffley

Mali

Senegal

May 5, 2023

Note d’analyse et de recommandation portant sur l’encadrement éthique nécessaire pour une intelligence artificielle responsable

Aissatou Toure

Tanzania

April 18, 2023

Multi-level association rule mining for the discovery of strong underrepresented patterns : the case study of small dairy farms in Tanzania

Glory C. Malamsha

Devotha G. Nyambo

All African countries

April 17, 2023

L’intelligence artificielle au service du processus d’élaboration des politiques

Ed Brown

Freda Yawson

Chux Daniels

Klaus Tilmes

Yvonne Nyake Ndelle

Kenya

October 18, 2022

The Impact of AI on Women's Job Loss in Africa Banking Industry - Focus on Kenya

Olayinka Oluwakemi Adeniyi

Margaret Zalo

Mauritius

Nigeria

Egypt

Kenya

October 18, 2022

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

Rachel Achieng' Odhiambo

Emmah Wakoli

Michelle Rodrot

Kenya

September 1, 2022

The Impact of Data Processing on the Development of Artificial Intelligence in African Countries

Cecil Abungu

All African countries

December 10, 2021

Road map for research on responsible artificial intelligence for development (AI4D) in African countries: The case study of agriculture

Arthur Gwagwa

Emre Kazim

Patti Kachidza

Airlie Hilliard

et al.

Nigeria

Kenya

September 22, 2021

AI in the Judicial System: Possible Uses and Ethical Considerations

Florence A. Ogonjo

All African countries

Kenya

May 27, 2021

AI in Africa: Framing AI through an African Lens

Angeline Wairegi

Melissa Omino

Isaac Rutenberg

All African countries

January 1, 2020

AI in Africa Policy Project - AI4D

Alison Gillwald

Araba Sey

Naila Govan-Vassen

Alex Comninos

et al.

All African countries

October 29, 2020

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

Araba Sey

Shamira Ahmed

South Africa

October 29, 2020

The public-private: a key legal nexus for South Africa's AI future

Gabriella Razzano

Ghana

South Africa

June 30, 2021

AI4D - Digital and Biometric Identity Systems

Gabriella Razzano

South Africa

Kenya

Nigeria

Ghana

June 21, 2021

A Gender perspective on the use of Artificial Intelligence in the African FinTech Ecosystem: Case studies from South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana

Shamira Ahmed

South Africa

July 9, 2021

Case Studies on AI Skills Capacity-building and AI in Workforce Development in Africa

Araba Sey

Oarabile Mudongo

Mauritius

South Africa

Seychelles

Kenya

Rwanda

March 29, 2021

Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Sub-Saharan Africa: Landscape and General State of Play

Arthur Gwagwa, University College London

Patti Kachidza, University College London

Kathleen Siminyu, AI4D Africa

Matthew Smith, International Development Research Centre

Nigeria

May 1, 2021

SautiLearn: Improving Online Learning Experience with Accent Translation

Tejumade Afonja

Clinton Mbataku

Olumide Okubadejo

Ademola Malomo

et al.

South Africa

Ethiopia

Nigeria

Kenya

Mauritius

March 29, 2021

Artificial Intelligence Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Neil Butcher

Merridy Wilson-Strydom

Mohini Balknath

South Africa

Nigeria

Namibia

November 6, 2020

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

Wilhelmina Nekoto

Vukosi Marivate

Tshinondiwa Matsila

Timi Fasubaa

et al.

Kenya

South Africa

Nigeria

July 23, 2020

African Language Dataset Challenge

Kathleen Siminyu

Sackey Freshia

Jade Abbott

Vukosi Marivate

All African countries

Kenya

May 1, 2021

The Artificial Intelligence Labour Gender Gap in Africa

Strathmore University

Kenya

Tunisia

Mauritius

South Africa

Ghana

May 21, 2019

Government Artificial Intelligence Readiness Index 2019

Hannah Miller

Richard Stirling

Nigeria

January 21, 2022

NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Sebastian Ruder

Ibrahim Said Ahmad

et al.

Kenya

June 9, 2020

Predicting and Analyzing Law-Making in Kenya

Oyinlola Babafemi

Adewale Akinfaderin

Kenya

October 5, 2020

Collecting Blood Pressure and Activity Data Using an Integrated Mobile and Smartwatch Application

Moses Thiga

Pamela Kimeto

Daisy Kiptoo

Nigeria

March 31, 2021

Locally-run Interpretable Breast Cancer diagnosis from Histology Images

Jeremiah O. Fadugba

Oluwatoyin Y. Sanni

Moshood O. Yekinni

Kenya

January 1, 2021

Use and Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

Isaac Rutenberg

Arthur Gwagwa

Melissa Omino

Cameroon

March 31, 2021

Computationally Accelerating Protein Ligand Docking for Neglected Tropical Diseases

Lo¨ıc Kwate Dassi

Hassan Kane

Ebenezer Nkwate

Kenya

Botswana

February 23, 2022

Utilising AI to Improve Efficiency of the Environment and Land Court in the Kenyan Judiciary

Florence Ogonjo

Joseph Theuri Gitonga

Dr. Angeline Wairegi

Dr. Isaac Rutenberg

External Resources

Human Sciences Research Council / Meta

Artificial Intelligence. African Insight.

A Research Summary of the Ethical and Human Rights Implications of AI in Africa

November 21, 2022

Mugurusi et al.

Article: Public Sector Procurement of AI

Human-centered artificial intelligence for the public sector: The gate keeping role of the public procurement professional

May 11, 2022

Policy Action Network

AI & Data Series 9: Financial Inclusion

AI and Data in South Africa’s Finance Sector: Toward Financial Inclusion

May 11, 2022

Policy Action Network

AI & Data Series 8: Media and Elections

The Politics of AI and Data: Media and Elections in South Africa

May 11, 2022

Policy Action Network

AI & Data Series 7: Digital Economy

South Africa’s Digital Economy: The Changing Nature of Competition and Data Regulation

May 11, 2022

Policy Action Network

AI & Data Series 6: Health

AI and Data in South Africa's Health Sector

May 11, 2022

Policy Action Network

AI & Data Series 5: Migration

AI, Biometrics and Securitisation in Migration Management: Policy Options for South Africa

May 11, 2022

Policy Action Network

AI & Data Series 4: Cities and towns

AI and Data in South Africa’s Cities and Towns: Centering the Citizen

May 11, 2022

HSRC

Report: Artificial Intelligence. African Insight

A Research Summary of the Ethical and Human Rights Implications of AI in Africa

May 11, 2022

Policy Action Network

AI & Data Series 3: Education

AI and data in education: Policy considerations for South Africa

May 6, 2022

Policy Action Network

AI & Data Series 2: Crime Prevention

Responsible use of artificial intelligence for crime prevention in South Africa

May 6, 2022

Policy Action Network

AI & Data Series 1: Introduction

Introducing the series: Can AI and data support a more inclusive and equitable South Africa

May 6, 2022

AI4D Resources

Unscripted or the familiar strange: On Anthropology, Tech Failures and AI curiosities

Rapport technique n°1: Conception de projets de données sensibles au genre

Rapport technique n°4: Relier les données sur le genre à l’action

Rapport technique n°3 : L’implication des parties prenantes pour une recherche en santé sensible au genre

Nota técnica 3: Participación de las partes interesadas en la investigación en salud con sensibilidad de género

Nota técnica 4: Conectar los datos de género con la acción

Rapport technique n°2: Guide pour une recherche en santé plus sensible au genre

Nota técnica 2: Una guía para investigación en salud más sensible al género

Nota técnica 1: Diseño de proyectos de datos sensible al género

Technical Brief 4: Connecting Gender Data to Action

Technical Brief 3: Stakeholder engagement for gender-responsive health research

Technical Brief 2: A guide for more gender-responsive health research

Technical Brief 1: Designing gender-responsive data projects

What does it take to have gender-responsive AI-driven health research?

Learning Brief 4: Advancing women’s leadership in AI research and innovation

Learning Brief 3: Key action areas for more gender-responsive AI

Learning Brief 2: What is gender-responsive AI, and why does it matter?

Learning Brief 1: 'Top 10' GEI priorities for AI4D Partners

Artificial Intelligence and Religion: Investigating perceptions: ethics, practices and the role of religious actors in Senegal

Navigating Labor Protections in the Era of AI: Insights from the Global South

AI and International Trade: Optimizing the Potential for Africa's AI Economy

Africa Now Has a Continental AI Strategy: What Next?

AI in Africa: The state and needs of the ecosystem - Diagnostic and solution set for skills

AI in Africa: The state and needs of the ecosystem - Diagnostic and solution set for data

AI in Africa: The state and needs of the ecosystem - Diagnostic and solution set for compute

AI in Africa: The state and needs of the ecosystem - Executive Summary

African Observatory on Responsible AI Project Report 2021-2023

Taking AI Ethics From Principles to Practice: A Guide to Implementing Responsible AI

AI for Women’s Financial Inclusion: Analysis of Product Design and Policy Approaches in Nigeria

Responsible AI Governance in Africa: Prospects for Outcomes Based Regulation

AI and Exclusion in Public Digital Systems

Intelligence Artificielle Et Religion Étude De Perceptions Éthique, Pratiques Et Rôle Des Acteurs Religieux Au Sénégal

Submission to the UN on the UN Interim Report on Governing AI for Humanity

The Risks of AI-Cybersecurity Gaps to the Developmental State Project

Note d’analyse et de recommandation portant sur l’encadrement éthique nécessaire pour une intelligence artificielle responsable

Multi-level association rule mining for the discovery of strong underrepresented patterns : the case study of small dairy farms in Tanzania

L’intelligence artificielle au service du processus d’élaboration des politiques

The Impact of AI on Women's Job Loss in Africa Banking Industry - Focus on Kenya

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

The Impact of Data Processing on the Development of Artificial Intelligence in African Countries

Road map for research on responsible artificial intelligence for development (AI4D) in African countries: The case study of agriculture

AI in the Judicial System: Possible Uses and Ethical Considerations

AI in Africa: Framing AI through an African Lens

AI in Africa Policy Project - AI4D

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

The public-private: a key legal nexus for South Africa's AI future

AI4D - Digital and Biometric Identity Systems

A Gender perspective on the use of Artificial Intelligence in the African FinTech Ecosystem: Case studies from South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana

Case Studies on AI Skills Capacity-building and AI in Workforce Development in Africa

Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Sub-Saharan Africa: Landscape and General State of Play

SautiLearn: Improving Online Learning Experience with Accent Translation

Artificial Intelligence Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

African Language Dataset Challenge

The Artificial Intelligence Labour Gender Gap in Africa

Government Artificial Intelligence Readiness Index 2019

NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis

Predicting and Analyzing Law-Making in Kenya

Collecting Blood Pressure and Activity Data Using an Integrated Mobile and Smartwatch Application

Locally-run Interpretable Breast Cancer diagnosis from Histology Images

Use and Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

Computationally Accelerating Protein Ligand Docking for Neglected Tropical Diseases

Utilising AI to Improve Efficiency of the Environment and Land Court in the Kenyan Judiciary

External Resources

Artificial Intelligence. African Insight.

Article: Public Sector Procurement of AI

AI & Data Series 9: Financial Inclusion

AI & Data Series 8: Media and Elections

AI & Data Series 7: Digital Economy

AI & Data Series 6: Health

AI & Data Series 5: Migration

AI & Data Series 4: Cities and towns

Report: Artificial Intelligence. African Insight

AI & Data Series 3: Education

AI & Data Series 2: Crime Prevention

AI & Data Series 1: Introduction

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