Aduuke

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[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

Day 13 demand:Every national AI strategy must include a mandatory gender impact assessment. No strategy should be adopted without a gender annex reviewed by women’s rights organisations.
There was the documented the harms. The told stories. The placed five safeguards on the table

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

For me 2026 IWD brought out the
15 days. One question. One demand.
What does Rights. Justice. Action. mean for African women in the age of AI?
For 15 days, we are naming the harms and demanding change.
#iwd26

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

Day 12 demand:

Every government AI procurement must include mandatory linguistic inclusion requirements. African language dataset development must be funded as public infrastructure.
#15DAYSAASWR

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

Day 11 demand:

Every company using AI to screen job applicants must be required to conduct and publish regular gender bias audits of their hiring tools. Bias in hiring is illegal. Hiding it inside an algorithm does not make it lawful
#15DAYSAASWR

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

Day 10 demand:

No facial recognition system should be deployed in any African public or private setting without mandatory accuracy testing on African population datasets disaggregated by gender and skin tone.
#15DAYSAASWR

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

Day 9 demand:

Every automated government decision must come with a mandatory human review pathway, a plain language explanation of why the decision was made, and an accessible appeal route that does not require a lawyer or an internet connection.
#15DAYSAASWR

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

Day 8 demand:

Every African government must enact specific legislation criminalising the creation and distribution of AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery with fast-track legal pathways for survivors and mandatory rapid removal obligations for platforms.
#15DAYSAASWR

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

Day 7 demand:

Every national AI advisory council, regulatory body, and standards committee across Africa must implement an enforceable minimum of 40% women in decision making roles. Substantive representation with authority to shape what gets built and how it gets governed

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

For 15 days, we are naming the harms and demanding change.

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

Our Day 6 demand:
Every electoral commission in Africa must establish gender-responsive protocols that specifically address AI-generated content during election periods. That means monitoring for it, naming it publicly when it happens, and having a process to act on it.

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

It's Day 6 of 15
AI and disinformation are increasingly used to silence women in politics across Africa. From deepfakes to coordinated online attacks, digital tools are weaponised to push women out of public conversations.
#IWD2026
#IWD2026campaign
#sheaiafrica

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

The same AI that is being weaponised against women can also be used to detect disinformation faster, flag coordinated attacks, and protect the integrity of electoral processes.

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

Social media algorithms reward outrage. That means targeted harassment of women in public life spreads faster and farther than the truth.

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

In Senegal’s 2024 election cycle, coordinated disinformation campaigns - fake audio, doctored images were designed to push women candidates out of the public conversation entirely.

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

In Ghana’s 2020 elections, deepfakes were used to smear female politicians. In Namibia’s 2024 elections, AI-generated content was weaponised to discredit women leaders.

[SHEAI Africa @sheaiafrica]

Our Day 6 demand:

Every electoral commission in Africa must establish gender-responsive protocols that specifically address AI-generated content - fake audio, doctored images, and coordinated disinformation during election periods.

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

Day 5 demand:

Every AI diagnostic tool entering African healthcare settings must be required to demonstrate accuracy on African population datasets before procurement.

Ministries of health must lead this gatekeeping not outsource it to the vendors selling the tools.

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

In partnership with @sheaiafrica on the 15-day campaign of Actions on AI Systems and Women's Rights in Africa, I will be actively advocating significant key cases that should be identified when it comes to women gender and AI.
Yesterday was Day 5 .
Today is Day 6 .
#IWD2026

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

AI built on African data could transform maternal health, rural diagnostics, and early detection of conditions that disproportionately affect women in low-resource settings. That future is worth building urgently.

But it must be built right.

[Aduuke @Aduuke1]

My latest story on InternationalWomensDay (March 8) captures the moments, voices, and the activities aimed at sustaining the conversation on women’s recognition and impact.
https://t.co/W1Y6Dv7gUs