Foundation Lectures

In a world increasingly shaped by AI, its rapid evolution brings both promise and peril. For the third session of the Generative AI Talk series, the GIZ Data Lab has teamed up with GIZ’s Corporate Development Department’s Strategic Foresight Team to discuss the impact of the EU AI Act and recent US elections on global AI regulation and trends.

AI, Global Tech and the Need for Feminist Arab and African Perspectives

We have you covered – in the short video below we have collected key insights from the keynote and the panel that summarise the main conversation points and provide a wonderful overview of the event.

The breakneck speed of advances in Generative AI over the last two years has taken the world by storm: In a short while, it has become clear that Generative AI has the power to shape not just the future of work, but also of all levels of society, due to its wide-reaching, varied impact affecting everybody.

We have you covered – in the short video below we have collected key insights from the interview that summarise the main conversation points and provide a wonderful overview of the variety of the topics covered.

This is not a fight between the good people and the bad people, the business people, the government people, the academic people. It is something that we need to address as humanity.

In the second Data Feminism event, the GIZ Data Lab and the Data Pop Alliance welcomed Papa Alioune Seck, Chief of Research and Data at UN Women, who delivered a keynote on Gender Data, the gaps in Gender Data and why they matter for our work. 

“Data feminism begins with a belief in gender equality, and a recognition that achieving equality for folks of all genders (and all races, and all sexual orientations, and all locations in the world) requires a commitment to examining the root cause of the inequalities that certain individuals and groups face today” – Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren Klein: Data Feminism