Christine Bukania

"The government plans to undertake a national disability survey to collect comprehensive and reliable data on disability."- Hon Florence Bore Kenya #DisabilityConference2023

Effective regional coordination is crucial in achieving objectives of the peaceful and resilient borderlands action #EU-AAP 2023. Held productive discussions with #GIZ on the role of #IGAD. Agreed to urgently co-create action document b4 end of July 2023 @EUinKenya, @UEaDjibouti

Honored to get a copy of the 2022 #IGAD Annual Report, highlighting progress in addressing complex regional challenges & the immense opportunities! When receiving the Report, the Executive Secretary @DrWorkneh expressed his gratitude to IGAD staff, member states & partners for their unwavering commitment in making a difference to the millions of the citizens of the region. The path towards peace, development & resilience is a collective effort, he said. #OneIGAD

First Regional Steering Committee Meeting of the Programme to Build Resilience for #Food & #Nutrition Security (BREFONS) underway In #Djibouti. The main outcomes include: (i) Increased agricultural (crops & #livestock) production (ii) Increased annual income per capita (iii) provide #pastoralists & farmers with access to innovative technologies & practices, (iv) pastoralists and farmers benefiting from extension by using digital advisory services under the program, (v) creating additional jobs for youth & women, (vi) Increased number of farmers - pastoralists using #climate services. The project is co-founded by @AfDB_Group & IGAD.

This @thecontinent_’s piece by @simonallison is the most realistic piece I have read on the AI narrative in Africa. He cuts through the ‘AI hype’ to highlight how these western AI technologies being deployed in Africa don’t reflect the needs of Africans, including languages, etc.

"The danger of AI is not that it's going to rebel against us, it's that it's going to do exactly what we ask it to do" But what happens when AI does exactly what we ask, yet not what we intend? Working with AI isn't like working with a human, more like working with a weird force of nature. ► Consider this: You task an AI with assembling a robot from a pile of parts. 🤖🦾🦾🦿🦿 The goal? Get from point A to point B. You'd expect the AI to build a robot with legs and walk, right? But what if the AI decides to assemble itself into a tower and simply falls over to reach point B? Technically, it did what you asked. But is it what you intended? The trick of working with AI becomes: How do we set up the problem so that it actually does what we want? It's easy to accidentally give AI the wrong problem to solve, and often we don't realize that until something has gone horribly wrong. ► Take Amazon's resume-sorting algorithm, for instance. It was trained on example resumes of people they had hired in the past. But what happened? The AI learned to avoid the resumes of people who had gone to women's colleges or who had the word "women" somewhere in their resume. The AI didn't know that it wasn't supposed to copy this particular thing that it had seen the humans do. And technically, it did what they asked it to do. They just accidentally asked it to do the wrong thing. So, what's the takeaway from all this? AI can be really destructive and not know it. It doesn't understand the consequences of its actions. It's up to us to avoid problems. We have to learn what AI is capable of doing and what it's not, and to understand that. AI doesn't really understand what we're trying to ask it to do. We must be prepared to work with the AI we have, not the super-competent, all-knowing AI of science fiction. So, the next time you interact with AI, remember: it's not just about what you ask, but how you ask it. After all, AI is only as smart as the tasks we give it. (h/t to @westwoodpro)

ℹ️ End of Day 1! Below are some of the highlights on the co-production sessions held by different sectors on the opening day of #GHACOF64. A thread ⬇️

Poisonous Sugar On Shelves? DCI investigating release of contaminated sugar by KEBS 5 million tonnes of sugar released from godown in Thika DCI, KEBS officers found consignment missing after seizure #JKLive @KoinangeJeff

Resilience is now acknowledged to be the most meaningful development paradigm ever designed, largely because it is predicated on optimizing and maximising the benefits of learning.