The conference is a leading interdisciplinary space for researchers from technical and social science backgrounds to share research on digital technologies in international development efforts, including the use of smartphones, information platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture, education, healthcare, disaster relief, climate change adaptation and advocacy. The conference is hosted at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and the Chief Guest is the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary of ICT and Digital Economy, Dr Margaret Nyambura.
As part of this 3-day event, and together with colleagues from Makerere University Uganda, the University of Cape Town South Africa, Asikana Network Zambia, and the SPIDER programme in Sweden, Dorothea Kleine and Chisenga Moyoya (Asikana Network co-founder and a final year PhD student at ºù«Ӱҵ) will also host workshops on Gender Equality in digital transformation. As part of the workshops they will be presenting work from the Ge-JuSTA project (Gender Justice in STEM in Africa – ) where each of them co-lead a work package as Co-Investigators. The GeJuSTA project (2022-2024, CND 1.4m) is funded by IDRC, the Canadian government’s International Development Research Centre.