Our Reflections

In this second blog in the “Keeping the light on: Reflections on GEI and AI in Africa” series, Joel Nwakaire, an Engineer, professor at ATPS and Project Officer of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture and Food Systems Innovation Research Network (AI4AFS), part of AI4D, reflects on his own biases about gender and abilities that he learned in childhood. He comes to realise that similar discrimination and inequities structure his own academic and research worlds such as few women in AI, and by extension, against women farmers and farmers living with disabilities. He shares his journey to valuing the knowledge of women farmers and PLWDs in co-creating AI tools for and with these farmers to champion more diverse workplaces in AI related fields.

In this first blog in the “Keeping the light on: Reflections on GEI and AI in Africa” series, Daisy Salifu, a biostatistician at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) Data Management, Modelling and Geo-information unit, reflects on her own “aha moments” finding meaning and relevance of GEI in her own AI work in the agriculture and food systems field, implementing inclusion-by-design with women farmers and people living with disabilities in Uganda and Nigeria.

G@W Senior Associate Michal Friedman reflects on the benefits of peer learning, action learning, emergent learning approach for organisations

G@W Senior Associate David Kelleher reflects on his work with IDRC to advance gender equality in development research.

In this final blogpost of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Carol Miller and Marie-Katherine (Kate) Waller reflect on the key threads of this blog series that emerged from Gender at Work and research grantees’ collaboration in an 18-month gender action learning process in the AI4COVID program. They also highlight how researcher journeys, and the GAL process demonstrated the importance of creating safe spaces for learning and the value of multidisciplinary collaboration in supporting social transformation.

G@W Senior Associate David Kelleher reflects on his changing understanding of having and being a mentor.

In the tenth blogpost of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, 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.

Dans le neuvième blog de la série Recherche sur l’IA et COVID : voyages vers l’égalité des genres et l’inclusion), Hélène Diéne partage son expérience de la pandémie, où elle travaillait dans une clinique COVID-19 comme assistante de recherche et tombe elle-même malade par la suite.

In the ninth blogpost of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Hélène Agnès Diéne shares her experiences during the pandemic, working in a COVID-19 clinic and later falling ill herself.

G@W Associate Nina Benjamin reflects on her role in the facilitation team for the project with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to support science granting councils (SGCs) across the African continent to advance gender transformation in relation to science, technology and innovation (STI).

G@W Associate Khanysa E. Mabyeka reflects on her role in the facilitation team for the project with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to support science granting councils (SGCs) across the African continent to advance gender transformation in relation to science, technology and innovation (STI).

In early 2020, Gender at Work (G@W) was invited by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), to partner in a project to support science granting councils (SGCs) across the African continent, to advance gender transformation in relation to science, technology and innovation (STI).