Humanitarian response / participatory AIcrisis misinformation responseParticipation documented
Report and Respond
Yaoundé, Cameroon
The project was built with Cameroon Red Cross volunteers to help them verify community rumours and respond appropriately via an SMS tool shaped through participatory AI methods.
humanitarian innovationlocalizationparticipatory designproblem formulationdata designmodel developmentevaluationdeployment planning
- Region
- Africa
- Lead organization
- Nesta Centre for Collective Intelligence Design; Cameroon Red Cross Society; IFRC Solferino Academy
- Organization type
- nonprofit consortium
- Technology group
- rumour classification / SMS guidance
- Activity status
- completed
- Start year
- 2021
- Last updated
- Mar 25, 2026
- Participation mode
- co-production with frontline volunteers and communities
- Participants
- Red Cross volunteers; community members; humanitarian practitioners
- Methods
- participatory design; field co-creation; prototype testing; iterative feedback
- AI lifecycle stages
- problem formulation; data design; model development; evaluation; deployment planning
- Evidence summary
- The project was built with Cameroon Red Cross volunteers to help them verify community rumours and respond appropriately via an SMS tool shaped through participatory AI methods.
- Atlas assessment
- Core · High confidence · evidence grade A
- Uncertainty
- Public evidence indicates that stakeholders directly shaped AI design, data, deployment, evaluation, or oversight; residual uncertainty concerns the exact degree of shared decision power rather than project existence.
- Participation group
- Co Production
- Technology description
- rumour classification / SMS guidance
- Funding
- Not documented
- Region of activity
- national
- Verification status
- Live Verified
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