Digital Labor in the Middle East and Africa: Emerging Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

14:00 - 14:40 (40min)

Building Ethical AI from the Ground Up: Voices from Kenya’s Data Workforce

Ephantus Kanyugi, Data Labelers Association of Kenya (DLA) (Chair: Adio-Adet Dinika, Distributed AI Research Institute)

14:40 - 16:00 (1h20)

AI, Automation, and Labor Transformations

Chair: Manovosoa Rakotovao, ISCAM Business School

› Technologies avancées dans le marché du travail en Égypte et en Arabie Saoudite : dynamiques et défis. - Kawtar Tsouli, sciences économiques 14:40-14:55 (15min)

› The impact of using ChatGPT on internal audit quality: a case study of a subsidiary of an oil group in Morocco - Abdelmounim Bouziane, Université Chouaib Doukkali 14:55-15:10 (15min)

› Feminist Futures of Digital Labor and Democracy in Africa - Judith Gbagidi, ActionAid Nigeria 15:10-15:25 (15min)

› Flexibility or Precarity? A Sociological Inquiry into Platform Drivers in Morocco - Saadeddine Igamane, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Laboratory of Cultural and Social Research and Studies (LaRECS) 15:25-15:40 (15min)

16:00 - 16:10 (10min)

Break

16:10 - 16:50 (40min)

Women, AI and Work in the ME & Africa: Feminist Perspectives from the MENA Observatory

Nagla Rizk, American University of Cairo (Chair: Paola Tubaro, CNRS, DiPLab)

16:50 - 17:30 (40min)

Challenging the 'thingness’ of AI from Eastern Africa

Sharath Srinivasan, University of Cambridge (Chair: Antonio A. Casilli, IP Paris)

17:30 - 17:45 (15min)

Closing remarks

Myriam Raymond, Nagla Rizk