🎙️Panel Discussion: Towards an Inclusive Data Governance Policy for the use of AI in Africa
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My talk centered on the Provocation Statement: AI interventions in Africa present unique ethical issues and risks. Combined with Africa’s acute socioeconomic and political challenges, the volatile climate, disease outbreaks, food shortages, and civil unrest demonstrate the necessity for AI-enabled innovations. Despite this, AI development and implementation on the continent are not effectively overseen and regulated by formal mechanisms. In an ad hoc implementation, AI is difficult to govern, and innovations are implemented before the risks are fully understood. Africa’s vulnerabilities to a hasty AI adoption demand careful evaluations of trustworthiness, reliability, and equitable access. Our panel discussion centered on unveiling different nuances on these issues and reccommending potential solutions.
Sponsored by the Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), the proceeedings from this conference can be found here. Our findings from this collaboration are published thus:
U. E. Akpudo, J. O. Effoduh, J. D. Kong, and Y. Gao, “Unveiling AI Concerns for Sub-Saharan Africa and its Vulnerable Groups,” 2024 International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications (Vol. 2024, pp. 45–55). Society of Information Technologists and Engineers Ltd. https://doi.org/10.59200/iconic.2024.007,
J. O. Effoduh, U. E. Akpudo, and J. D. Kong, “Toward a trustworthy and inclusive data governance policy for the use of artificial intelligence in Africa,” Data & Policy, vol. 6, p. e34, 2024. doi:10.1017/dap.2024.26.
Kong, J.D., Akpudo, U.E., Effoduh, J.O. and Bragazzi, N.L., 2023, February. Leveraging responsible, explainable, and local artificial intelligence solutions for clinical public health in the global south. In Healthcare (Vol. 11, No. 4, p. 457). MDPI.
Effoduh, Jake Okechukwu and Akpudo, Ugochukwu Ejike and Kong, Jude Dzevela, Towards an Inclusive Data Governance Policy for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Africa (September 23, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4581619 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4581619.