At the partnership’s launch event, Philip Thiago, a UN High-Level Advisory Board Member on AI, expounded on AI’s immense potential to accelerate progress toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Thiago highlighted that the UN advisory board is spearheading initiatives to foster an inclusive AI agenda through its interim report ‘Governing AI for Humanity’. This guideline identifies key principles like inclusivity, public interest primacy, centralized data governance frameworks, and ensuring universal buy-in from nations and stakeholders to shape new global AI governance institutions. At the UN level, we aim to construct a multi-stakeholder, ecosystem-driven approach by addressing core enablers for safe, trusted, and inclusive AI ecosystems – with data governance being crucial,” Thiago remarked. Meanwhile, Next Step Foundation’s Executive Chairman Christopher Harrison underscored the organization’s unique capacity to facilitate high-quality annotated training data creation and bridge AI skills gaps across Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 17, 2024 08:14 UTC