Data privacy on the African continent: Opportunities, challenges and implications for learning analytics

P Prinsloo, R Kaliisa - British Journal of Educational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Whilst learning analytics is still nascent in most African higher education institutions, many
African higher education institutions use learning platforms and analytic services from …

Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid

E Aiken, S Bellue, D Karlan, C Udry, JE Blumenstock - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated many low-and middle-income countries, causing
widespread food insecurity and a sharp decline in living standards. In response to this crisis …

[HTML][HTML] How does energy modelling influence policymaking? Insights from low-and middle-income countries

JL Fuchs, M Tesfamichael, R Clube, J Tomei - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2024 - Elsevier
Energy system models are widely used to explore, analyse and plan energy futures and
sustainable transitions. These models, typically developed in high-income countries, have …

Retiring adult: New datasets for fair machine learning

F Ding, M Hardt, J Miller… - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Although the fairness community has recognized the importance of data, researchers in the
area primarily rely on UCI Adult when it comes to tabular data. Derived from a 1994 US …

The CARE principles and the reuse, sharing, and curation of indigenous data in Canadian archaeology

N Gupta, A Martindale, K Supernant… - Advances in …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Reuse and sharing of archaeological data are tied to ethics in data practice, research
design, and the rights of Indigenous peoples in decision-making about their heritage. In this …

Setting data free: The politics of open data for food and agriculture

M Fairbairn, Z Kish - new media & society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Open data is increasingly being promoted as a route to achieve food security and
agricultural development. This article critically examines the promotion of open agri-food …

Probing a Community-Based Conversational Storytelling Agent to Document Digital Stories of Housing Insecurity

BA Halperin, G Hsieh, E McElroy, J Pierce… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Despite the central role that stories play in social movement-building, they are difficult to
sustainably document for many reasons. To explore this challenge, this paper describes the …

Making AI explainable in the global south: A systematic review

CT Okolo, N Dell, A Vashistha - Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCAS …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are quickly becoming pervasive in ways
that impact the lives of all humans across the globe. In an effort to make otherwise” black …

DaLiF: a data lifecycle framework for data-driven governments

SIH Shah, V Peristeras, I Magnisalis - Journal of Big Data, 2021 - Springer
The public sector, private firms, business community, and civil society are generating data
that is high in volume, veracity, velocity and comes from a diversity of sources. This kind of …

[PDF][PDF] Responsible AI in Africa—Challenges and opportunities

CT Okolo, K Aruleba, G Obaido - Responsible AI in Africa …, 2023 - library.oapen.org
Since its inception, the development and integration of artificial intelligence have been
mostly concentrated within the Global North. This concentration of power has direct ties to …