Co-led by Women at the Table and Code for Africa, the Alliance supports women’s rights organizations, researchers, technologists, and affected communities to move from critique to creation: shaping AI systems, tools, evidence, and governance models that advance gender equality and democratic participation.
advancing inclusive algorithms, human rights-based AI, and community-led technology innovation.
What we do
We support a global community of researchers, technologists, activists, and institutions developing feminist approaches to AI and algorithmic systems.
Through our paper → prototype → pilot methodology, we help women’s rights organizations and interdisciplinary teams move from community-defined problems to responsible AI solutions.
We produce research, methods, case studies, and practical tools that help governments, funders, civil society, and technology actors build more accountable and inclusive AI systems.
Current Initiatives:
AI systems increasingly shape access to services, information, opportunity, safety, and rights. Yet the people most affected by these systems are too often excluded from their design, testing, governance, and ownership.
The A+ Alliance exists to change that.
We work from the principle that women’s rights organizations and affected communities should not only be consulted about AI. They should have the tools, infrastructure, knowledge, and authority to shape it.
Women at the Table brings feminist governance, human rights, multilateral policy, and methodological leadership, including the Alliance’s foundational work on inclusive algorithms and gender-transformative AI.
Code for Africa brings civic technology, data, technical infrastructure, and implementation capacity across African contexts.
Together, the co-leads combine policy imagination, community-rooted methodology, and technical capacity to support a new model of AI innovation led by women’s rights organizations and affected communities.
The A+ Alliance began with a single argument made at Women in Data Science Zürich in 2019: that algorithmic systems should actively correct inequity, not merely avoid encoding it. The Affirmative Action for Algorithms declaration that followed catalysed the Alliance. Since then:
Join us on the journey and help build a digital future where everyone thrives. Help create true gender equality and democracy for both women and men, now.