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Is Requiring Informed Consent to GenAI Ethical in Humanitarian Response?

Is Requiring Informed Consent to GenAI Ethical in Humanitarian Response?

Published on: Dec 18 2024 by Guest Writer - 1 Comment
  Personally identifiable data in humanitarian contexts is like nuclear fuel – it has immense power to do good, enabling us to reach millions with life-saving...
Edutainment is Better Behavior Change with Radio and Mobile Phones

Edutainment is Better Behavior Change with Radio and Mobile Phones

Published on: Dec 11 2024 by Guest Writer - 2 Comments
Edutainment is powerful. Nollywood proves we can use edutainment for behavior change. Yet we don’t often use multi-channel communication to empower audiences...
Are You Harnessing Machine Learning for Diabetes Prediction in LMICs?

Are You Harnessing Machine Learning for Diabetes Prediction in LMICs?

Published on: Dec 03 2024 by Guest Writer - 1 Comment
Diabetes is a global issue. 537 million people have diabetes in the world – 24 million people on the African continent today and 55 million by 2045. Anywhere...
PRC Malign Influence Is Inspiring Ugandan Digital Authoritarianism

PRC Malign Influence Is Inspiring Ugandan Digital Authoritarianism

Published on: Nov 20 2024 by Guest Writer - Leave a Comment
Foreign Influence on Civic Space in Uganda by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) examines whether Uganda is drawing...
5 Key Million-Dollar Questions for Artificial Intelligence in Global Health

5 Key Million-Dollar Questions for Artificial Intelligence in Global Health

Published on: Nov 14 2024 by Guest Writer - Leave a Comment
Over the last year, the Audere team found multiple insights from our work deploying practical artificial intelligence solutions in low- and middle-income countries...
Nigeria vs Rwanda: Which National Artificial Intelligence Policy is Better?

Nigeria vs Rwanda: Which National Artificial Intelligence Policy is Better?

Published on: Nov 07 2024 by Guest Writer - 2 Comments
Nigeria, as the African continent’s most populous country, is singularly positioned to harness artificial intelligence’s transformative capacity to...
Mature Electronic Health Record Implementations Can Reduce Patient Mortality

Mature Electronic Health Record Implementations Can Reduce Patient Mortality

Published on: Nov 06 2024 by Guest Writer - Leave a Comment
In the past two decades, healthcare systems around the world have been on a transformative journey, marked by the increasing adoption of Electronic Medical Records...
AI4Health: A Masterclass in Wasting Money We Don’t Have

AI4Health: A Masterclass in Wasting Money We Don’t Have

Published on: Oct 17 2024 by Guest Writer - 3 Comments
What do tuberculosis and breast cancer have in common? We’ve spent decades paying for artificial intelligence-based solutions to solve both problems without any...
Is Bitcoin an Under-Appreciated Developmental Tool for Africa?

Is Bitcoin an Under-Appreciated Developmental Tool for Africa?

Published on: Oct 09 2024 by Guest Writer - 2 Comments
African countries have often trailed behind other regions in technological innovation. From the adoption of the telephone, electricity, and even the Internet, the...
Wow! More Than 1 Billion People Live in Electricity Energy Poverty

Wow! More Than 1 Billion People Live in Electricity Energy Poverty

Published on: Oct 04 2024 by Guest Writer - Leave a Comment
Since 2000, access to electricity has increased dramatically across the globe, jumping from 75% of the global population to 90% by 2020. According to official counts,...