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Designing Responsible AI Systems with Indigenous Communities in Namibia
Windhoek, Namibia
Paper and university materials describe participatory design for responsible AI with Himba and San communities in Namibia.
participatory designcommunity governanceproblem formulationdesigngovernanceevaluation
- Region
- Africa
- Lead organization
- Aarhus University / Namibia University of Science and Technology
- Organization type
- community-university collaboration
- Technology group
- community governance around AI research and practice
- Activity status
- active
- Start year
- 2025
- Last updated
- Mar 25, 2026
- Participation mode
- community-led participatory design and governance
- Participants
- Himba communities; San communities; researchers
- Methods
- participatory design; community workshops; co-design
- AI lifecycle stages
- problem formulation; design; governance; evaluation
- Evidence summary
- Paper and university materials describe participatory design for responsible AI with Himba and San communities in Namibia.
- Atlas assessment
- Cautious · Medium confidence · evidence grade C
- Uncertainty
- Participatory design with Himba and San communities is explicit, though public evidence on longer-term deployment and governance arrangements remains limited.
- Participation group
- Community Led
- Technology description
- community governance around AI research and practice
- Funding
- Not documented
- Region of activity
- local
- Verification status
- Indirect Verified
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