MERL TECH News

• 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

• Tech Salon recap: listen more and shift away from Western-centric framing to better address online violence against women and girls

  by Linda Raftree on April 8, 2025

• Savita Bailur joins MTI as a Core Collaborator

  by Linda Raftree on April 3, 2025

• Reviewing Mirca Madianou’s new book, “Technocolonialism: When Tech for Good is Harmful”

  by Quito T. on April 1, 2025

• Welcoming our new AI+Africa Lead for the NLP-CoP: Vari Matimba

  by Linda Raftree on March 28, 2025

• Do you see what I see? Insights from an inclusive approach to AI ethics governance.

  by Isabelle Amazon-Brown on March 27, 2025

• New guide: key questions to ask before using GenAI for research on violence against women

  by Linda Raftree on March 18, 2025

• RightsCon Recap – Assessing humanitarian AI: what M&E frameworks do humanitarians need in the face of emerging AI?

  by Quito T. on March 10, 2025