At Gender at Work, we are committed to reflection as both a political and pedagogical act, using it to reveal insights, challenge assumptions, and adapt our practices. Our approach to learning is emergent: shaped by context, grounded in feminist values and open to the unknown. We see learning as both a method and a muscle: something strengthened through practice, vulnerability and shared reflection.
In the first blog in the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Amelia Taylor, a Senior Lecturer in AI at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences and researcher with the INSPIRE PEACH project under AI4COVID, raises the ethical dilemmas of trying to create unbiased and representative algorithms of women and men impacted by epidemics.
What does it take to generate more inclusive, safe, culturally relevant, locally needs-driven AI resources applicable to policies and programs? Marie-Kate Waller, PhD, Medical Anthropologist in Gender and Human Rights in Health, and Gender at Work Associate opens the AI4COVID blog series.
Natasha Harris-Harb, UNGEI’s youth engagement adviser and Aayushi Aggarwal, communications manager at Gender at Work speak with Lina Abou-Habib about the rupture between intergenerational conversations, especially in the Middle East and North Africa.
