Rachel Adams

Rachel Adams is an Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge; a Research Associate of the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; and Research Associate at the Tayarisha: African Centre of Excellence for Digital Governance, University of Witwatersrand. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal on Human Rights. Rachel has published widely on issues relating to AI policy, decolonisation, gender and human rights, with a particular focus on the African region. She is the author of Transparency: New Trajectories in Law (2020), and the lead author of Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South African (2021). Her work has featured in, amongst others, the New York Times, The Guardian, Marie Clare and La Croix.

Publications

Technical Considerations for Designing, Developing, and Implementing AI Systems in Africa
Technical Considerations for Designing, Developing, and Implementing AI Systems in Africa
Getachew H. Mengesha, Elefelious Getachew Belay, Rachel Adams. © 2024. 19 pages.
This study explores technical considerations for designing, developing, adopting, and using AI-based systems in Africa. Africa did not benefit as intended from the first three...