Grain, author on GRAIN

How Safety-by-Design technology can put an end to technology-facilitated gender-based violence in Africa

31 October 202521 August 2025 by Grain

‘Technology-facilitated gender-based violence is not a side effect of digital growth. It is the price women pay for being online.’ In early 2025, researchers monitoring elections in Africa uncovered a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos targeting female journalists and female candidates in Ghana, Senegal and Namibia — synthetic clips designed to humiliate and discredit them, and drive them … Read more

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

4 August 2025 by Grain

The call for applications is seeking African women aged between 20 and 35 who are helping to strengthen health systems or tackle public health challenges, and who are either: founders or co-founders of health tech start-ups that are less than three years old, or professionals with under five years’ experience in digital health who aspire to lead and … Read more

GRAIN II Call for Proposals: EmpowerHerAI

11 July 202510 July 2025 by Grain

Support for the scaling up of solutions that incorporate 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 consortium comprising IPAR, CSEA and Sunbird AI and funded by … Read more

ADWIN, the world’s leading AI platform for the empowerment of African women

20 June 2025 by Grain

On 5 and 6 June 2025 in Abidjan, under the High Patronage of the First Lady, Dominique Ouattara, ADWIN (African and African Descendant Women Impact Network) was launched, the world’s first artificial intelligence-based platform dedicated to empowering one million African women and their descendants by 2030. Much more than a traditional network, ADWIN … Read more

Women and AI: a gap to bridge in order to build inclusive technology

18 June 202518 June 2025 by Grain

At VivaTech 2025, BDM attended a conference led by Leïla Grison, Chief Executive of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. It was an opportunity to discuss a crucial issue: inequalities in access to AI between men and women, as well as ways to reduce them. … Read more

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

30 May 2025 by 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 in mind from the outset, not as an afterthought. Recently, in a sun-drenched co-working space in Nairobi, I watched Claudine, aged 23, typing lines of code … Read more

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

19 May 2025 by 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 deeply unequal. This year’s focus on equality … Read more

The 2025 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition is now open!

9 May 2025 by Grain

The GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition is your chance to take your agri-food business to the next level. We are delighted 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 … Read more

GRAIN is training nearly a hundred people in Artificial Intelligence and Gender

6 March 2025 by Grain

On Friday 21 February 2025, around a hundred participants took part in the online training session on Artificial Intelligence and Gender organised by the GRAIN network (Gender and Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network). Indeed, as part of the GRAIN project and, in particular, the coordination of its network, face-to-face training sessions and … Read more

Online Training Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Gender

17 February 2025 by Grain

The GRAIN network (Gender and Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network) is organising a training session on Friday 21 February 2025, from 10.00 to 13.00 GMT on the Zoom platform, to build the capacity of stakeholders on the topic of artificial intelligence and gender. This virtual workshop will provide a platform to raise awareness and equip participants with the tools to … Read more