Our Reflections

Dans le huitième blog de la série Recherche sur l’IA et COVID : voyages vers l’égalité des genres et l’inclusion), Tidiane Ndoye explique comment ses expériences ont nourri sa passion pour les questions de genre dans le domaine de la santé et son rôle en tant qu’expert principal en matière de genre dans le projet de recherche AI4COVID, Utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle pour lutter contre le COVID-19 au Sénégal et au Mali.

In the the eighth blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Tidiane Ndoye shares how his experiences nurtured his passion for gender issues in health, and his role as a lead gender expert in the AI4COVID research project, Using artificial intelligence to combat COVID-19 in Senegal and Mali.

In the seventh blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Ethan Gilsdorf reflects on the way he feels most engaged and enriched when visiting places that are least like his native land.

In the sixth blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Sylvia Kiwuwa Muyingo reflects on her early fieldwork collecting health information from HIV-affected communities in Uganda and how this experience motivates her focus on vulnerable communities and appreciation of women’s unpaid caregiving roles.

In the fifth blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Mahlet Hailemariam shares her experiences of juggling online work, challenged by unreliable internet connection and power blackouts while caring for her mother.

In the fourth blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Jim Todd questions his own positionality as a white privileged male academic who becomes a mentor to a younger female academic of colour.

In the third blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Michelle Mbuthia discusses her personal experience of gender inequality and unfair distribution of domestic labor during the Christmas season in Kenya, and the need for candid discussions and collective efforts to challenge and change traditional gender norms and create a more equal society.

In the second blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Meghan Malaatjie reflects on the gender norms she learned in childhood, her personal experiences with these norms, and the impact on her career, and aspirations to address gender inequalities as a public health professional.

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.

Neuroqueer nonbinary transfemme and research and communications intern at Gender at Work, Atlas C. Portal offers their reflections on the Transgender Day of Visibility