Urban AI: Enabling Safe and Inclusive Cities in Africa - UN-Habitat - Mapping Urban AI Series

Описание: Africa is home to some of the fastest-growing cities in the world, and with this growth comes significant challenges in terms of housing, transportation, and access to essential services. At the same time, rapid advancements in AI technology are offering new possibilities for addressing these challenges and creating more just and equitable urban environments. This event aims to explore the intersection of AI and urban planning in Africa, highlighting innovative strategies and solutions for leveraging AI to promote social equity and create more sustainable, liveable cities. With Sophie Naue (Urban Innovation Specialist at UN Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities)

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This webinar series, called Mapping Urban AI, aims to highlight how cities design, use, and/or implement Urban Artificial Intelligence.

For a period of six weeks, we hosted representatives from global cities who will showcase their specific use cases and policies on how they implement urban AI.
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About the Organizers

Urban AI is a Think Tank dedicated to the emerging field of Urban Artificial Intelligence. It federates a global and multidisciplinary community of pionniers in Urban AI . Together, they propose ethical modes of governance and sustainable uses of Urban Artificial Intelligence.

CIDOB is an international affairs research centre that, through excellence and relevance, seeks to analyse the global issues that affect political, social and governance dynamics, from the international to the local. CIDOB’s Global Cities Programme analyses cities’ role in global governance, as well as their socioeconomic and environmental challenges and transformations.

The Global Observatory of Urban Artificial Intelligence (GOUAI) is a joint project of CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), and the cities of Barcelona, Amsterdam, and London with the support of UNHabitat. It falls within the frame of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, an international city network association that puts together more than 45 cities in the world committed to technological sovereignty and to the promotion of digital rights.