Name: The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 6: Deployment
Start: 2025-11-19T16:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-11-19T17:00:00+03:00

November 2024
Featured 12 November, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Open Studio: AI & Health, thinking through maintenance, repair and response-ability | Amina Soulimani

This open studio will focus on exploring the multiple ways through which we can understand the entanglement of repair and maintenance with visionary aspirations around smart hospitals. By revisiting earlier and contemporary Feminist STS texts, new materialism, phenomenology and leaning on insights from the field, Amina will share insights emerging from her ongoing PhD research. Presenting Morocco as a case study, this talk shall explore further the dimensions that waiting takes in environments that run through foreign software in local hospitals.
Featured 18 November, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Open Studio: Much Distress and Little Relief | Jamie Fuller

Earlier this year, predictive optimization was introduced into South Africa's social grant system to detect and counter fraud. As a result, thousands (and counting) of the country’s most financially vulnerable have been mistakenly excluded from receiving their grant payment. This open studio unpacks the case study, explaining what went wrong and reflecting on a more productive use of AI. While AI may be most alluring in the resource-constrained realities of developing countries, it is precisely in such contexts that it poses the greatest threat.
December 2024
Featured 2 December, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Open Studio: Can Bias in LLMs Be Used for Good? | Francesca Lucchini Wortzman

It is a well-known fact that LLMs express harmful biases in their predictions. The main source comes from the training datasets, which are too large and expensive to check thoroughly. In this open studio, Francesca Lucchini will explore how we can leverage the bias in LLMs and use them to examine massive datasets, discovering starting points for a data audit.
September 2025
September 8 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The African AI & Equality Toolbox Launch

This launch webinar will present the methodology and the process of development of the toolbox featuring the contributors and introduce the webinar series that focus on each stage of the lifecycle with the selected case studies.
September 15 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 1: Introduction & Stage 1

This webinar serves to explore Stage 1 of AI Development which is fundamentally a participatory and grounded approach which is crucial for centering gender equity, given that women often carry the brunt of labor in agriculture and caregiving, yet remain underrepresented in AI design and governance.
October 2025
October 6 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 2: System Requirements

This webinar looks at how requirement setting should function as a bridge between vision and use: Aligning system features with cultural context, infrastructure gaps, and social expectations; Identifying constraints early on—connectivity, literacy, consent, power dynamics—and building around them and making conscious trade-offs between speed, scale, and equity.
October 16 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

The Latin American AI & Equality Toolbox Introduction

AI & Equality partnered with the Chilean Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial, CENIA, to co-construct a Latin American Spanish language version of the validated Toolbox, with use cases relevant to the regional experience.
October 20 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 3: Data Discovery

This webinar will offer a deep dive into the Essential Questions of Data Discovery including a case study on the requirement for building effective TFGBV prevention datasets that include African languages.
November 2025
November 5 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 4: Model Selection

This webinar dives into what inclusion and efficiency means ensuring the development or building of systems that don’t require technical expertise to interpret—ensuring that trust, oversight, and agency are accessible to all users. Whether a rural health worker, a student, or a community organizer, each person should be able to understand what a system is doing and why.
November 12 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 5: Model Interpretation

This stage examines the opportunity to reflect on how power operates in AI: Who gets to say if it works? Who can question it? Who can stop it?
November 13 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

The Latin American AI & Equality Toolbox Launch

AI & Equality partnered with the Chilean Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial, CENIA, to co-construct a Latin American Spanish language version of the validated Toolbox, with use cases relevant to the regional experience.
November 19 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar 6: Deployment

In African contexts, post-deployment oversight is often underfunded or overlooked. Once a system is launched—especially by international actors—it can become invisible, even as its consequences grow. This final stage and webinar of The African AI & Equality Toolbox looks at what true accountability means: planning for ongoing monitoring, shared governance, and the possibility of “no.” The webinar will also explore what it means for systems to be responsive—not just to data—but to dignity.

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