AI4D Africa focuses on AI for persons with disabilities
13 February 2024
Designing Artificial intelligence to help people with disabilities was a focus point at the Artificial Intelligence for Development in Africa (AI4D Africa) programme phase 2 workshop in Accra this month.
The workshop, hosted in Accra by the Responsible AI Lab(RAIL), centered on readiness to scale and responsible AI framework for Africa. They again delved into ways to strengthen research for policy change, language models as well as means to ensure effective collaboration.
Participants including AI stakeholders, funding agencies like GIZ, FCDO, USAID, IDRC, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Lacuna Fund, Mozilla Foundation, Google, documentary makers, and evaluators (Genesis Analytics) discussed plans for the future and the project’s next phase.
The discussions centered on readiness to scale and responsible AI framework for Africa. They again delved into ways to strengthen research for policy change, language models as well as means to ensure effective collaboration. Read more here