Sharath delivers keynote at INDL-MEA 2 2025 Conference
The keynote, “Challenging the ‘thingness’ of AI from Eastern Africa”, was given at INDL-MEA, the International Network on Digital Labor Middle East and Africa 2025 conference.
The talk argued that AI is not a fixed technological object but a set of situated encounters shaped by labour, language, political imaginaries, and colonial presents.
Highlighting cases from Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zimbabwe, and Madagascar, the keynote demonstrated how Eastern Africa illuminates AI’s global contradictions—its extractive foundations, its under-determined possibilities, and its generative forms of agency. The presentation showcased the centre’s leadership in producing grounded, critical, and globally relevant AI scholarship.
The conference is a key regional forum for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners engaged in studying and shaping the future of digital labor, gig work, data work, content moderation, and AI-related jobs in the Middle East and Africa.
The invited lecture, 'Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war', was held by The Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
Albert was joined by architect and journalist Alison Killing at an event to mark the release of Move Slow and Update: The Power of Incremental Innovation.
The roundtable evaluated whether the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) remain fit for addressing current and emerging challenges.
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