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AI projects can have a positive impact on the lives of people.

AI tools

Three positive AI stories

Artificial intelligence is already changing our world. Here we present three out of seven AI projects that are having a positive impact on the lives of people in the Global South (Part I).

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by D+C / E+Z

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Online platforms offer new paths to entrepreneurship.

Digitalisation

How young Zambians build careers on social media

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by Derrick Silimina
Street markets in Senegal are huge and virtually unregulated: the young voters who elected the new government work predominantly in the informal sector.

West Africa

Senegal: An anchor of stability in a turbulent region

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by Jannis Düngemann
Funeral for the victims of a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation clinic in Kabul in March. According to UN sources, at least 143 civilians were killed in the attack.

Cross-border conflicts

Pakistan and Afghanistan: a war, not a development corridor

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by Katja Mielke
The Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, one of India’s largest e-waste dumps.

Recycling

How India aims to secure rare earth supply through e-waste

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by Roli Mahajan
Illustration of an Interview with AI

Artificial intelligence

ChatGPT, how would you conduct development policy?

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by D+C / E+Z
Tries to balance his country’s economic interests against those of foreign mining companies: Burundi’s President Évariste Ndayishimiye, pictured here in Addis Ababa in February when Burundi officially assumed the chairmanship of the African Union.

Mining economy

Burundi’s struggle for mining justice

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by Mireille Kanyange

Violence against women

Why marriage is reviving female genital mutilation in Egypt

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by Ahmed Dahaby
A mining site near Rubaya in eastern DRC.

Conflict and resources

Minerals for peace – or war over minerals in the DR Congo?

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by Ezra Moïse Amisi
by Bossissi Nkuba
The port of Lobito in Angola, which gave its name to the Lobito Corridor.

Africa

Economic infrastructure alone is not enough for growth

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by Georg Schäfer
Some AI projects have noble aims. But how useful are they really?

Sustainability and public interest

“The image of AI as a tool is far too simple”

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by Theresa Züger
by Jörg Döbereiner