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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.