Case Studies of AI for Good and AI for Development
Today the Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance presents a series of Case Studies on AI for Good in Africa and the Global South. These grew out of our work on Text and Data Mining and our policy work in support of the Right to Research. Researchers in the Global South are responding to local and global challenges from health and education to language preservation and mitigation of climate change. In all these case computational methods and Artificial Intelligence (AI) play a leading role in finding and implementing solutions. A common thread that runs through all the cases is how intellectual property laws can support innovation and problem solving in the public interest, whilst protecting the interests of creators, communities and custodians of traditional knowledge. In addition several practitioners are looking at how to redress data imbalances, where large companies in the Global North have much greater access to works, for historical, legal and economic reasons. The cases include: Each of our case studies in written up in the form of a report, combined with a video exploration of the case study in the words of its leading practitioners.
