MERL TECH News

• What does building a feminist AI look like? A conversation with Chayn

  by Bárbara Paes on July 17, 2025

• Made in Africa AI in MERL Landscape Study: Reflections from Preliminary Findings 

  by Varaidzo Matimba on July 15, 2025

• Join us on July 17 for the Climate + AI Working Group Kick-off Call

  by Cathy Richards on July 1, 2025

• What can we learn from emerging evidence of GenAI use in Social and Behaviour Change chatbots?

  by Isabelle Amazon-Brown on June 30, 2025

• The Hidden Cost of Our AI Habits: Choosing the right AI for the job – because not every task needs maximum power, and power takes a toll

  by Guest Post on June 25, 2025

• Does GenAI Accelerate Gender Equity or Automate Inequality? A Discussion on GenAI in Women’s Economic Empowerment, Healthcare, and TFGBV

  by Savita Bailur on June 19, 2025

• Qualitative researchers are not OK: adapting to the use of AI by research respondents

  by Isabelle Amazon-Brown on June 12, 2025

• Join Us on June 24 for the AI+Africa Working Group Meeting – Early findings from our landscape study

  by Varaidzo Matimba on June 10, 2025

• Event Recap: Framing Made in Africa AI Approaches to MERL

  by Varaidzo Matimba on June 5, 2025

• Event recap: “Should we be using AI right now?” A conversation about the ethical challenges of the current moment

  by Bárbara Paes on June 2, 2025

• New paper: Exploring Emerging AI as Subject and Object in Democracy-Focused Evaluation

  by Quito T. on May 29, 2025

• Podcast: Assessing evidence on the effectiveness of humanitarian AI use cases with Humanitarian AI Today

  by Bárbara Paes on May 29, 2025

• New brief: Artificial intelligence in the humanitarian sector

  by Quito T. on May 27, 2025

• REvaluation week podcast episode: “Does AI really save work in evaluation?”

  by Bárbara Paes on May 26, 2025

• What’s next for the Gender, AI and MERL Working Group? An event series built in partnership with you!

  by Savita Bailur on May 22, 2025

• Event: Gender, AI and MERL Working Group meeting focusing on gender inclusion and GenAI

  by Bárbara Paes on May 19, 2025

• “Hey ChatGPT, what is missing from our reports?”: A Generative AI Use Case for Public Sector MERL

  by Savita Bailur on May 8, 2025

• New resource: Tool for Assessing AI Vendors

  by Guest Post on May 6, 2025

• What does the data say? Join us for a roundtable on the emerging evidence on GenAI for Social & Behavioral Change

  by Isabelle Amazon-Brown on April 30, 2025

• Event: “Should we be using AI right now?” A conversation about the ethical challenges of the current moment

  by Linda Raftree on April 29, 2025

• Join us on May 15th for an AI+Africa Working Group Meeting: Shaping Our Priorities!

  by Varaidzo Matimba on April 24, 2025

• Event Recap: Tests of Large and Small Language Models on Common Evaluation Tasks

  by Guest Post on April 23, 2025

• Girl Effect Guidelines on Ethical AI-Powered Social & Behaviour Change Chatbots

  by Isabelle Amazon-Brown on April 21, 2025