GOAL 5: Gender Equality

How can we solve the problems of gender bias in AI? Experts weigh in.
6 May 2020

How can we solve the problems of gender bias in AI? Experts weigh in.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a bias problem. Actually, AI has many well-documented bias problems. Chief among these, arguably, is gender ...
Gender bias is a threat to future Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications: Opinion
17 September 2019

Gender bias is a threat to future Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications: Opinion

According to the latest World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report (2018), only 22 percent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) professionals globally ...
ITU digital gender champion becomes leading AI service provider
1 August 2019

ITU digital gender champion becomes leading AI service provider

Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest tickets in the ICT space right now – and the rapid proliferation of ...
How we can turn online advertising data into a powerful force for good: Opinion
24 April 2019

How we can turn online advertising data into a powerful force for good: Opinion

Online advertising is often viewed as a kind of “necessary evil” to pay for free services such as Google and ...
How ITU is trialing advanced software to track progress on gender parity at events
20 December 2018

How ITU is trialing advanced software to track progress on gender parity at events

ITU recently trialed an advanced software tool developed by the University of Southern California’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) to track and ...
How an AI chatbot aims to advance health and education for rural women in Pakistan
15 October 2018

How an AI chatbot aims to advance health and education for rural women in Pakistan

To mark the International Day of Rural Women ITU News looks at the work of a female entrepreneur using innovative technologies in ...
ITU celebrates World Telecommunication and Information Society Day with ‘AI-powered Moonshots’
17 May 2018

ITU celebrates World Telecommunication and Information Society Day with ‘AI-powered Moonshots’

ITU celebrated the annual World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) Thursday at the ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland with an impressive ...
Here’s how we can get more African women in machine learning and AI
16 May 2018

Here’s how we can get more African women in machine learning and AI

Organizations are increasingly reliant on Machine Learning (ML) models to weigh in on decisions to hire, grant loans, sentence criminals, ...