Grain, author on GRAIN

Webinar on Agritech and women: what AI guidelines for greater inclusion?

8 September 2025 par Grain

Gender and Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (GRAIN) is organising a webinar on Wednesday 10 September from 10.30am to 12 noon on the Zoom platform. On the theme of "Agritech and women: which AI orientations for better inclusion?", this virtual discussion aims to collectively reflect on the challenges and opportunities linked to the integration of ... Lire la suite

How Safety-by-Design tech can end technology-facilitated gender-based violence in Africa

21 August 2025 par Grain

Technology-facilitated gender-based violence isn't a side effect of digital growth. It's the price women pay for being online.' In early 2025, researchers tracking African elections uncovered a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos targeting women journalists and female candidates in Ghana, Senegal, and Namibia - synthetic clips designed to humiliate and discredit them, and drive them ... Lire la suite

AWiDH Launches Second Mentorship Cohort to Empower the Next Generation of African Women Leaders in Digital Health

4 August 2025 par Grain

The call for applications is looking for African women aged 20 to 35, who contribute to strengthening health systems or addressing public health challenges and are either: Founders and co-founders of health tech start-ups less than 3 years old, or Professionals with under 5 years of experience in digital health who aspire to lead and ... Lire la suite

GRAIN II call for proposals: EmpowerHerAI

11 July 202510 July 2025 par Grain

Support for the scaling-up of solutions integrating gender equality in the fields of agriculture, education and African languages As part of the second phase of GRAIN (Gender and Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network), the "EmpowerHerAI" project, led by the IPAR, CSEA and Sunbird AI consortium and funded by the ... Lire la suite

ADWIN, the world's 1st AI platform for empowering African women

20 June 2025 par Grain

On 5 and 6 June 2025 in Abidjan, under the patronage of First Lady Dominique Ouattara, ADWIN (African and African Descendant Women Impact Network) was inaugurated, the world's first artificial intelligence-based platform dedicated to empowering one million African and African descendant women by 2030. Much more than a traditional network, ADWIN ... Lire la suite

Women and AI: catching up to build an inclusive tech industry

18 June 202518 June 2025 par Grain

At VivaTech 2025, BDM attended a conference led by Leïla Grison, Executive Director of the Women's Forum For The Economy and Society. It was an opportunity to share ideas and discuss a crucial issue: inequalities in access to AI between men and women, and ways of reducing them. ... Lire la suite

Why should women be among the pioneers of artificial intelligence in Africa?

30 May 2025 par Grain

By Fauziya Ali If the future of AI in Africa is to be one of empowerment, inclusion and peace, it must be designed with women, from the outset, not as an afterthought. Recently, in a sun-drenched co-working space in Nairobi, I watched 23-year-old Claudine type lines of code ... Lire la suite

Message from the Secretary-General on the occasion of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day: "Gender equality in the digital transformation

19 May 2025 par Grain

This World Telecommunication and Information Society Day marks the 160th anniversary of the International Telecommunication Union. From the telegraph to radio, from the Internet to artificial intelligence, technology has transformed the way we live, work and communicate. But its benefits remain profoundly uneven. This year's focus on gender equality ... Lire la suite

The 2025 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition is Now Open!

9 May 2025 par Grain

The GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition is your chance to take your agrifood business to the next level. We are excited to announce that the competition is now open and will run until 10 June 2025. A total of US$160,000 will be awarded to young African entrepreneurs who have launched scalable, impact-driven businesses in the agrifood ... Lire la suite

GRAIN trains nearly a hundred people in Artificial Intelligence and Gender

6 March 2025 par Grain

On Friday 21 February 2025, around a hundred participants took part in the online training course on Artificial Intelligence and Gender organised by the GRAIN (Gender and Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network). As part of the Grain project, and in particular the organisation of its network, face-to-face and online training courses are ... Lire la suite