MERL TECH News

• Design is Dead; Long Live Design: How Designers in International Development are thinking about AI

  by Isabelle Amazon-Brown on April 8, 2026

• How to Participate in the AEA/MTI Virtual Hackathon 2.0

  by Zach Tilton on April 3, 2026

• Event: Evaluating the Climate & Socio-Environmental Impact of Data Centers

  by Cathy Richards on April 2, 2026

• Event Recap: Turning principles into actions – Made in Africa AI in MERL with Rebecca Mbaya and Dr. Mario Marais

  by Varaidzo Matimba on March 30, 2026

• Event: What are the resources we need to navigate AI, gender and MERL?

  by Guest Post on February 25, 2026

• Event recap: The Humanitarian AI Countdown and humanitarian knowledge production with Kristin Sandvik

  by Quito T. on February 20, 2026

• Research Digest 2: State of AI Adoption and Competencies for Evaluators for Made in Africa AI in MERL 

  by Varaidzo Matimba on February 10, 2026

• Bias in, bias out? How we’re understanding more about gender bias in LLMs

  by Savita Bailur on February 9, 2026

• Event: Turning principles into actions – Made in Africa AI in MERL 

  by Varaidzo Matimba on February 6, 2026

• Event: A conversation about AI in MERL in Asia, with Valentine Gandhi 

  by Bárbara Paes on February 5, 2026

• Designing Responsible AI tools: Launching the UX Design of AI Learning Group

  by Isabelle Amazon-Brown on February 3, 2026

• Research Digest 1: Made in Africa AI Principles and Enhancement of Evaluation Practice in Africa

  by Varaidzo Matimba on January 21, 2026

• The Humanitarian AI Countdown: How will AI change the way humanitarians produce knowledge with Kristin Sandvik

  by Quito T. on January 5, 2026

• From hype to pragmatism: building critical AI literacy for sexual and reproductive health professionals in Kenya

  by Isabelle Amazon-Brown on December 15, 2025

• Agentic AI: Governance, risks, and responsible deployment in the social sector

  by Linda Raftree on December 11, 2025

• Sharing our CoP Year in Review for 2025

  by Bárbara Paes on December 10, 2025

• It’s the end of 2025: where are we with GenAI and MERL?

  by Linda Raftree on December 9, 2025

• We learn in community: announcing more teaching by MTI!

  by Savita Bailur on December 3, 2025

• Join our End-of-Year CoP Meeting on December 10!

  by Bárbara Paes on December 2, 2025

• Tips and tensions: What does it look like to design organizational AI policies (Part 2)

  by Linda Raftree on December 1, 2025

• Event recap: The Humanitarian AI Countdown and operationalising responsible AI with Shivaang Sharma

  by Quito T. on November 24, 2025

• Tips and tensions: What does it look like to design organizational AI policies (Part 1)

  by Bárbara Paes on November 18, 2025

• Event recap: Evaluating LLMs for accuracy and inclusion

  by Savita Bailur on November 17, 2025