This seminar explores learnings from Africa’s Voices Foundation, a non-profit start-up spun out combined socio-political and technological research at Cambridge. From Nairobi and Cambridge, AVF works with partners such as UNICEF , Oxfam, the MasterCard Foundation and many others to help them “listen intelligently” to the citizens whom they serve with scale, depth and speed. This talk will explore how AI can be used to augment human capabilities for interpreting social evidence rather than to automate data-driven decision making, and to avoid commodifying citizens into mere research subjects.
