How can communities, social Scientists and technologists leverage AI and Human Rights-based approaches?  How can the African Union’s Maputo Protocol be leveraged to help create the environment for a more human rights based AI? This conversation dives deeper into how human Rights frameworks can be the starting point for the creation of new tech & innovation.

The Maputo Protocol is now 20 years old. Through its visionary 32 articles, it encompasses significant demands for the rights of women in Africa. By revisiting its four dual approaches: the elimination of harmful practices, the right to participation in decision making processes, education and training, and positive cultural contexts – and bringing them to the heart of the contemporary digital context – projects may be able to guide today’s tech to be free from bias and discrimination. 

With Angella Ndaka (Centre for African Epistemic Justice); Winston Ojenge (African Centre for Technology Studies, ACTS, Kenya) and Mitchel Ondili (Gender At Work & Women At The Table) | Moderator: Amina Soulimani