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Khawla Ben Aicha

Policy Making and Advocacy on AI and Data Governance

About the work

Head of the IDIA (Initiative for the Development of Artificial Intelligence) project, Lead on the African Data Governance project (that combines a knowledge Hub on Data gov and an Opportunity Fund for projects promoting Data gov).

Impact

Pushing policy makers in West Africa to adopt policies, laws and regulations for a responsible, inclusive and ethical AI , creation of a network of parliamentarians for the promotion of AI, a knowledge Hub gathering researchers, start-ups, experts on data governance issues from all over the continent for funded projects on data governance in different fields.