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Item Open Access Mapping policy and capacity for artificial intelligence for development in Africa(2024-08-01) Marivate, Vukosi; Maina, Ciira wa; Ndiaye, SeydinaItem Metadata only Starting to work with improvement science(2024) Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development (FIT-ED)Item Open Access A case of assessing the working and living conditions of data workers in India’s global artificial intelligence value chains(2024-10) Hung, Kai-HsinThis exploratory case study examines the working and living conditions of almost 100 data workers, who annotate data to build the necessary datasets for and to help train artificial intelligence (AI) models, in rural India employed at TechSolutionBPO, a data processing impact sourcing third-party vendor to major technology superstars, platforms and startups in North America, including Canada, Europe, China, and elsewhere. We present our initial assessment of these workers' working and living conditions embedded in India’s segment of global AI/data value chains. Two analytical frameworks were used to indicate where these data workers are on the continuum of acceptability in one’s working life as part of the assessment and accounting for making AI and its value chains more human-centred, rights-based and responsible. This research adopts the five principles of fair pay, conditions, contracts, management, and representation identified by the Fairwork Foundation. We complement these principles with the socio-legal diagnostic tool of the Multidimensional Model of Unacceptable Forms of Work (UFW). Through workshops, survey questionnaires, and in-depth interviews, we conclude that the data workers included in this case study are deemed as vulnerable workers along the continuum of the acceptability of one’s working life. The work conditions at the TechSolutionBPO were rated a 4.5 out of 10 score along the Fairwork Foundation’s criteria. We recommend that the distribution of the value created, data monetization, labour practices and protective institutions and strategies of various actors, outsourcing firms, clients, requestors, data workers, and intermediary platforms as part of new global AI/data value chains need more research and policy intervention. Based on this case, the scope for social, digital, and economic upgrading is uncertain for these data workers, yet it remains a possibility. The appropriate distributional and accountability mechanisms of the digital value created and the protection of working and living conditions embedded in the global AI/data value chains need more global cooperation and intervention in shaping a fairer set of rules and material outcomes for an inclusive global data economy for everyone.Item Open Access Low-cost Raspberry Pi based time domain reflectometer for fault detection in electric fences(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2024-01) Kiarie, Gabriel; Maina, Ciira wa; Nyachionjeka, KumbirayiItem Open Access Role of artificial intelligence in African education systems(2024) Nyakundi, Diana; Oginga, Arnold; Omar, Sumaiyah; Ideate Tech Policy Africa (ITPA)Item Open Access Unveiling privacy in the AI area : navigating surveillance, ethics, and equitable solutions(2024) Strathmore University, Center for Intellectual Property and Technology Law (CIPIT); Muthoka, Gloria; Abiero, Doreen; Wairegi, Angeline; Kutima, ValerieItem Open Access AI assistive technologies (ATs) for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Africa(2024) Strathmore University, Center for Intellectual Property and Technology Law (CIPIT); Kaaniru, JosephineItem Open Access Lacuna Fund learning and evaluation report(2023-09-22) Data Innovators; Chinyamakobvu, Mutsa; Govender, Jerusha; James, UnathiItem Open Access Lessons learned from Lacuna Fund's first year of funding(2021-10) Lacuna Fund; Burton, France; Blum, Seth; Miles, Jennifer PrattItem Open Access Guidance for dataset hosting and documentation(2023-02) Lacuna FundItem Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access The state of AI in Africa report 2023(2023) Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology LawAfrica is embracing Artificial Intelligence in ways unique to the continent and is by no means showing signs to slow down. This executive summary provides a brief overview of the report on the State of AI in Africa prepared by the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT). The report highlights the potential of AI technologies to transform various sectors in Africa, such as business operations, healthcare, education, legal and judicial services, and transportation. However, the report also identifies significant gaps in access to knowledge/information, data, education, training, and human resources necessary for AI development and adoption.Item Open Access The new wave of eHealth : AI and privacy concerns? A case study of Kenya(2023) Kitili, Joshua; Karanja, NatashaConsidering the sensitivity of the data that is used and the legal implications that arise, the following study looks towards assessing the rise of Kenyan AI eHealth platforms. Assessment here lies with interrogating whether there are privacy initiatives in place, if so, do the privacy initiatives adhere to the required national legal standards stipulated in strategic policies, acts of parliament and relevant international legal standards. In addition, the study will assess the efficacy of the privacy policies, here factors such as the structure and design will be considered. This will involve evaluating the comprehension of the privacy policies from the viewpoint of an average Kenyan and the barriers that limit comprehension (e.g., legal jargon, length of the policies...etc.).Item Metadata only Conclusiones sobre el desempeño del plan nacional de vacunación (PNV) contra COVID-19 en Colombia(2023) Trujillo, Johanna; Velasco, Nubia; Herrera, Andrea; Amaya, Ciro; Herrrera, Estefania; González-Uribe, CatalinaItem Open Access Informe final - proyecto ARPHAI(2023-04) Xhardez, Verónica; De Marco, Celeste; Zanazzi, Leonardo; Porta, Fernando; Britto, Fabian; Pereira, Mariano; ARPHAIItem Open Access Educación y tecnología : el desafío de la sustentabilidad en América Latina(Fundación Ceibal, 2022) Folgar, Leandro; Ripani, María Florencia; Antoninis, Manos; Alonso, María Eugenia; Ripani, María FlorenciaItem Open Access Strengthening school leadership towards improving school resiliency : final technical report(Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development, Inc., 2023) Wolfenden, Freda; Walley, Paul; Agbaire, Jennifer; Hartley, JeanThis exploratory multi-country research adopted a realistic evaluation (RE) framework to explore the use of Improvement Science with groups of school leaders in three contrasting contexts. The multidisciplinary research team collaborated with in-country partners across three continents: Chile – SUMMA (Laboratory of Education Research and Innovation for Latin America and the Caribbean); Kenya – Worldreader; the Philippines – FIT-ED (Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development). Despite the constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic in each setting, school leaders were recruited and improvement communities were established and guided to engage with the IS methodology through carrying out “Plan-Do-Study-Act” (PDSA) cycles on local challenges. Data was gathered on the experiences of the school leaders through their improvement science journeys using a range of qualitative research instruments including records of the PDSA activities.Item Metadata only Meta-analysis of online learning, blended learning, the flipped classroom and classroom instruction for pre-service and in-service teachers(Elsevier Ltd., 2023-06-14) Schmid, Richard F.; Borokhovski, Eugene; Bernard, Robert M.; Pickup, David I.; Abrami, Phillip C.This is a study of two populations of learners/teachers: Pre-service teacher students (i.e., formal education for teaching certification) and In-service teachers (i.e., engaged in professional development), and involves an examination of their use of internet-based instructional applications. In these studies, the technologies are: a) Online Learning [OL]; b) Blended Learning [BL] and c) Flipped Classrooms [FC]. Treatments were compared to standard face-to-face classroom instruction (CI) on three dependent measures analysed separately to produce 77 achievement measures in the first meta-analysis, 21 attitude/satisfaction measures in the second, and 22 studies of self-efficacy in the third. Achievement data yielded a statistically significant, moderate effect size (i.e., g+= 0.44) in favor of the combined OL, BL and FC approaches versus CI, although OL showed only a small positive effect versus CI. Attitude yielded a non-significant effect size comparing CI with technology-supported strategies (g+= 0.12). Interestingly, self-efficacy produced a significant and moderate average random effect size of g+ = 0.45. Perhaps the most impactful finding of this analysis is related to improved performance of BL/FC when contrasted with OL, yielding significantly positive differences in all three measures. This confirms that improved outcomes are the result of better pedagogy, not the mere presence of technology. Finally, self-efficacy was found to be meaningfully improved when using BL/FC. This is the first meta-analysis with this target population implicating self-efficacy. These two outcomes offer important implications for institutions regarding the future design of instructional delivery for both pre- and in-service teachers.Item Open Access Governing digital personal data to strengthen reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services delivery in fragile settings in Palestine and Jordan : final technical report(2023-05-15) Sahay, Sundeep; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M; Khader, Yousef; Pirlot de Corbion, AlexandrineThis technical report covers a period from November 2019 to April 2023 funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The project is titled “Governing Digital Personal Data to Strengthen Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) Services Delivery in Fragile Settings in Palestine and Jordan”. The focus of this project has been to increase our understanding of the use of digital technologies for digital personal data DPD in the provision of RMNCH services in Palestine and Jordan and the opportunities and challenges associated with their application in relations to human rights and gender equality. The aim was to produce a body of evidence which could be used by other researchers to identify further research avenues, and for civil society organization to use to develop key recommendations and demands for a variety of stakeholders.